The night was silent…
In the middle of the night, Yuan Ye was woken up. With a sleepy body and secretly cursing that he was feudal and did not understand human rights, he was groggily served by two young maidservants. He washed up, put on his court clothes, and went out with Yuan Wu.
It had to be said that Yuan Yi and Yuan Wu had a very good relationship.
Knowing to take care of the little one, he handed the night watch to Yuan Si and the task of accompanying Yuan Ye to the palace to Yuan Wu.
These two tasks were the easiest. Although they had to wake up early, they did not have to do heavy work.
The night watch only needed to be responsible for patrolling for a while. At night, when someone knocked on the door, they would be responsible for opening the door and asking for reports.
Accompanying Yuan Ye to the Imperial Palace was just a matter of hurrying along.
Then, she waited for Yuan Ye to come back together.
It was basically time for lunch when they reached home.
After that, he was fine for the entire afternoon.
He left his home and walked on the dark street toward the palace.
The road was silent, but a carriage would pass by from time to time without stopping.
These were all officials who were far away and were rushing to court.
Yuan Ye looked at it with envy, thinking that he would also have a carriage in the future.
This way, he wouldn't have to travel all the way to the palace, and he could even take a nap in the carriage.
Although the carriage was bumpy, as long as he was tired, he could rest.
Yuan Wu walked in front of Yuan Ye without saying a word, holding a lamp to illuminate Yuan Ye.
Just like that, the two of them kept walking. From time to time, a carriage would pass by and disappear into the night with Yuan Ye's envious gaze.
"D * mn, just you wait. I'm well-educated and have mind-reading skills. When the time comes, I'll definitely become a sycophantic official with a high position and wealth that can rival a country.”
Yuan Ye looked at the carriages that passed by him one after another and recalled his miserable days in the past three years.
He could not help but swear in his heart.
Although Yuan Ye had transmigrated for three years and obtained a lot of good things from the system, he did not have any money.
He had been treated coldly and tasted the coldness of human relations.
For the past three years, Yuan Ye had always wanted to be a sycophantic official like He Shen.
Although he was greedy, he was a person who stuck to his bottom line.
……
With this thought in mind, he arrived at the Imperial Palace. At this moment, many officials had already gathered outside the Imperial Palace.
Everyone was waiting for the palace gate to open and enter.
Not long after Yuan Ye arrived, it was time for the palace doors to open.
As the palace doors opened, the ministers and Yuan Ye filed in.
As for the servants and carriages that followed, they were not qualified to enter.
During this period, Yuan Ye kept checking the officials, but he didn't recognize any of them.
Even Bangwan and Tanhua weren't present because their positions weren't enough for them to attend the morning court.
The minimum standard for attending the morning court was a fifth-grade official, and they had to be core officials, such as officials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Justice, and the other six departments.
Jia Zheng of the Jia family was in the crowd. He was the Minister of Works, but Yuan Ye did not know him and had never seen him before.
However, Yuan Ye was troubled by the fact that in the past, after the top scorer was appointed by the emperor and was given an official position, there would be many officials trying to get close to him. There would even be high-ranking officials who married their daughters off. This was because the top scorer appointed by the emperor would definitely have a meteoric rise in his career as long as he did not do anything stupid.
But when it came to him, there was nothing.
It was as if all the officials were intentionally or unintentionally maintaining a relationship with him.
What Yuan Ye didn't know was that the top scorer had already been decided internally by the most outstanding disciples of the Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue families.
They had worked their way through to the court examinations and wanted their disciples to be the top scorer, but in the end, Yuan Ye took advantage of the loophole.
And that person was only given a second place in order to appease the four great clans.
Therefore, Yuan Ye had unintentionally offended the four great clans.
Other than this, a large part of the reason was because of Yuan Ye's official position as a censor.
The job of the censor was to impeach all officials.
He was the most hated official among all the officials. It could be said that he was as disgusting as a fly.
Moreover, he had offended someone.
……
"His Majesty has arrived!"
When they arrived at the palace and waited in the side hall, the group of officials chatted in groups of three to five, directly treating Yuan Ye as an invisible person.
They ignored Yuan Ye, and Yuan Ye naturally wouldn't stick his warm face to a cold butt.
He was alone.
When they finally entered Taiji Palace, Yuan Ye stood at the back.
After about twenty minutes, Taikang Emperor's personal eunuch finally came out and stood beside the throne, shouting that the emperor had arrived.
"Welcome, Your Majesty!"
All the officials cupped their hands and saluted in unison, as if they had rehearsed it thousands of times.
Then, Emperor Taikang slowly walked out and sat on the dragon throne.
After Emperor Taikang sat down, he glanced around and said,"Everyone, please rise."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
With Emperor Taikang's permission, the officials stood up straight.
"If there's nothing else, I'll withdraw!"
Emperor Taikang's personal eunuch, Steward Liu, shouted again.
This was a custom, a way for the ministers to report.
It could also be said to be used to break the awkward silence.
He couldn't let the emperor say this, nor could he say that the ministers would jump out and say it first. Because that would be rude.
Moreover, there would be an additional charge of disrespecting the emperor and deceiving the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report!"
As soon as Steward Liu finished speaking, Minister of War Wang Jianying stood out and said to Emperor Taikang.
"Please speak, dear minister!"
Emperor Taikang saw Wang Jianying's brows unconsciously furrow.
He frowned not because he was unhappy with Wang Jianying, but because Emperor Taikang already knew the contents of Wang Jianying's memorial.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, the six rebel kings have gathered 100,000 armored soldiers in Bian Province to rebel. They have already taken over half of Luoyang, the eastern capital, with a great momentum, while Commander Zhao Tianhao is constantly retreating.
The war is urgent. Please bring Zhao Tianhao back for questioning.”
Wang Jianying reported to Emperor Taikang forcefully.
Hearing Wang Jianying's report, all the officials in the hall began to suck in a breath of cold air.
The six kings had taken down half of Luoyang, the eastern capital. Didn't that mean that as long as they took down Luoyang, there would be no more obstacles for them to directly march into Jingdou?
As expected, Emperor Taikang frowned when he heard Wang Jianying's words.
His expression was also extremely ugly.
"In that case, who do you think will be the commander-in-chief?”
Emperor Taikang asked after a long time.
Hearing Emperor Taikang's words, the hall fell silent.
The military officials were also silent.
To put it bluntly, most of the military officials here were distinguished people who relied on the shadow of their ancestors to rise up.
He had been a good-for-nothing since he was young.
If he didn't have any ability, he would be courting death if he went.
They did not want to give up their wealth and glory to die on the battlefield.
Just as everyone was silent and didn't answer, Yuan Ye activated his mind-reading technique and targeted Emperor Taikang.
Then, an ethereal voice entered Yuan Ye's mind.
"Humph! A bunch of good-for-nothings, vermin of the country. One day, I will get rid of all of you.”
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