The news of Xiao Yu's counterattack against Darong suddenly spread like a big foot in Daqi, and everyone suddenly became excited as if they were injected with chicken blood.
That's Xiao Yu, that's His Highness, since the prince wants to fight, he must be sure.
Now that the yamen has been opened, the cabinet suddenly quarreled, making various decisions for border wars every day, and then being obstructed by various reasons.
For example, when it comes to the current issue of collecting grain, three of the six people in the cabinet opposed the transfer of grain from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
"Last year's Dragon Boat Festival Flood, 60% of the areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were flooded. The original food storage was very tight. The spring seedlings have not been planted yet, and the people have no food in their hands. What if there is a peach blossom flood, will the people still live?
By then, the prince of the border will still be fine, and the inside will be in chaos again."
"Just, during the Dragon Boat Festival last year, ten of the 18 dikes were destroyed. How much is your Ministry of Works here? Your Highness won't pursue it anymore. Do you really think this matter has been exposed?
Besides, the cabinet gave you a large sum of money to build aqueducts and dams in the second half of last year. If there is still an accident in this year's Peach Blossom Flood, what face should your Ministry of Works use to face the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"
"We are just considering the people. Besides, even if there is no flood, what if there is a drought? You haven't forgotten the drought of the previous year! The Ministry of Revenue is in a state of trouble at that time, but it's not my own business."
"What's for the people, not for your hometown!"
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Listening to the other people's arguments, I kept quarreling, Xie Yuncang couldn't help but pinch his eyebrows, showing a little irritable expression.
"Gei, what do you think about this?"
Xie Yuncang raised his head and found that the person who asked him was Fang Congwen. In terms of seniority, he was the last one to enter the cabinet and was also at the last one. However, Fang Congwen had a good relationship with the old master of the Xie family. Strictly speaking, he was still his elder.
Of course, Xie Yuncang would not be proud of him, but now he is talking about things that concern the people of the world, so Xie Yuncang doesn't have that much thought about what is related to etiquette.
"Put all the opinions of everyone into a book and I report them to Your Highness."
Hearing this, everyone stopped arguing and looked at him in surprise.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Xie Yuncang was already responsible for decision-making. From what he meant, he actually planned to be a melody?
Then they heard Xie Yuncang say, "Everyone write down his opinion, remember to sign it, and our cabinet will personally take it to the East Palace to meet His Highness."
The person who was arguing in the middle just now couldn't help but say, "Gei Xie, you just go with everyone's ideas, aren't you afraid of Your Highness being held accountable?"
Xie Yuncang looked up at him lightly, "If you are afraid, don't do it? Since it's me, I will be the ones who are held accountable. What are you afraid of?"
After saying this, his eyes suddenly became cold, "I heard all the words of my colleagues just now. You all made sense. I think your highness will feel this way. Please don't hide your weaknesses. Write down any ideas if you have any!"
Fang Congwen quickly understood what Xie Yuncang meant. Although he was a little surprised, he was also a little excited.
After the court was over, he asked Xie Yuncang to go shopping on the calligraphy and painting street.
Xie Yuncang looked at him, "Mr. Fang, the affairs of the court are so tense now. As members of the cabinet, you and I still have the leisure to stroll around. Will this seem to be a bit unreasonable?"
Fang Congwen smiled, "This is called being tight and relaxed. One day is tighter than the other day. You are always tighter. When can you last?
Think about your father, look at me again. Although I am not much as he, I have entered the cabinet. Even if I am many years late, the most important thing is that I am still alive!”
When Xie Yuncang heard his father say that he used this tone again, he couldn't help but frown, revealing a few emotions that rarely appear in front of others.
Fang Congwen laughed and patted Xie Yuncang on the shoulder, "That's it! How old are you, frowning all day long, and looking at it makes people worry. Let's go around, I will pay for whatever good things you like today."
While Xie Yuncang raised his eyebrows, he immediately added, "But it can't exceed one hundred taels. This is my private money, only so much."
Xie Yuncang couldn't help but be amused by him, and he was in a much better mood. "Then I can choose at this price."
The place where the two of them talked was next to Dan Bi outside the inner yamen, so this conversation could not be hidden from the ears of those who were interested.
The prince stood beside the carp pond, looking at the koi carp that were still swimming at the bottom of the water in such a cold weather, and said lightly: "I understand."
"Then... the note presented by Mr. Xie..."
The prince glanced at the eunuch below, then threw the fish food in his hand into the water, "I will ask him to come to the East Palace to see me."
At this time, Xie Yuncang had indeed followed Fang Congwen to the most sacred calligraphy and painting street in the capital.
When I saw that one of the calligraphy and painting shops had already hanged out several of the dou squares he wrote in his early years, I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Fang Congwen seemed very interested and gave a few words to two of them.
I walked along the way and asked a few pictures, but both of them thought the offer was too much. After most of the day, I found nothing. I was tired of walking and had to sit down and rest in the teahouse next to the road.
"Mr. Fang, are you deliberately taking the opportunity to ask me to come out and walk around, is it?"
Fang Congwen laughed loudly and picked up the teapot to pour a cup of tea for the person opposite him, "In this cold weather, it's always a good thing to sweat when you walk! Your daughter is a doctor, so you won't even understand the principles of health preservation, right?"
Xie Yuncang just chuckled, then took a sip of tea, and indeed felt comfortable and calm, so he just smiled and didn't say anything.
After a while, Fang Congwen said a few words about calligraphy and paintings, then he said, "Do you think the prince is sure this time?"
Xie Yuncang's eyes turned from the menu made of bamboo slips to Fang Congwen's face opposite. After a while, he sighed and shook his head gently, "To be honest, before that, my nephew and I had already demonstrated too much back to the room on the sand table. I really don't know why the prince made such a choice."
Fang Congwen twisted his fingers, as if he was hesitating whether to speak something.
Xie Yuncang seemed to have not seen it, and ordered a plate of braised peanuts and a stack of goose palms, and then handed the bamboo slips to the person opposite him, "Look at what you want to eat, but you didn't buy the calligraphy and paintings you said to give me. It's always okay to treat me to this tea."
Fang Congwen shook his head as soon as he saw it, "You really don't know how to enjoy it at all. Where can I drink tea and use this salty little bit?"
"I'm sorry, I don't like desserts."
Fang Congwen shook his head again, then he scattered it and ordered a table of beautiful and sweet refreshments.
After the two of them ate their own orders, Fang Congwencai said: "Your Majesty is giving the capital a chance!"
Xie Yuncang paused for a moment when eating peanuts, and then responded in a muffled voice.
Fang Congwen smiled, "Your father was so hard to speak back then, but I didn't expect that you would have such a refreshing personality."
Xie Yuncang then looked up at the person opposite, then sighed heavily, "Young man is not easy to talk to, but a helpless choice. Just this step... I have come out after all. I hope my father is in the spirit of heaven, don't blame me for being reckless."
"Isn't it all for the world if you are not reckless?" Fang Congwen laughed even more and more thief.