Chapter 776

The sun shone in the imperial garden and was full of colorful flowers.

Female officials and bodyguards shuttle between them. Among the flowers, enchanting girls are quite seen.

Since Li Qing came to power, eunuchs have been unpopular. Fewer and fewer eunuchs have entered the palace, and more and more female officials. Even among the bodyguards, more and more women practice martial arts.

Sitting in the waterside pavilion near the lake, Su Lu was thinking about how to increase the cards available in his hand.

Li Qing took several female officials into the waterside pavilion, and Changning presented a memorial in his hand.

"This is the fold of Zhang Mo, the third law division. Qian Qianyi, the Minister of rites, was sent to prison. The charges played by Zhang mo before are the same."

Li Qing said with some loss in his tone.

Su Lu took Changning's fold, glanced at it and put it aside.

"All the old ministers in the past are gone. Have you thought about it? Who will take over the ceremony department?"

Li Qing sat down in the waterside pavilion and said casually:

"I want Cao Hua to take charge of the ceremony department. She is your disciple, loyal and reliable, and her ability is also excellent."

Sulu shook his head:

"Cao Hua is not suitable. For the purpose of restricting, Cao Hua can not be allowed to take charge of the ceremonial department. She is one of the two Shangshu of the military department. It is already the limit. The generals of the first Department of the lecture hall are all over the army. If Cao Hua is the only Shangshu, it is not a good thing to be king and minister."

Li Qing sighed and asked Su Lu instead of talking about Li Qing:

"The matter of exploring special gold veins has been arranged. All prefectures, counties and armies have been summoned. The reward is so important. I know you have your consideration. However, if you find too many veins, will the reward be too heavy?"

In the eyes of many courtiers, searching for ore veins is only the work of coolie miners. How can it be rewarded by the imperial court.

The miners in Liaoxi mine also feel that this is their own work to survive. How to deserve a heavy reward from the imperial court, a thousand silver, is already a heavy enough reward.

Su Lu looked at the flowers in the imperial garden and said lightly:

"If you think you can't do it, it's just a reward."

Li Qing was delighted at the speech:

"Seriously?"

"Of course."

Su Lu said casually:

"Anyway, this country is your li Qing's. After corruption, it is also your li Qing's country."

Li Qingwen was stunned. Knowing that Su Lu had said something ironic, she sighed helplessly:

"I'm not trying to refute what you said, but the courtiers opposed it very much. Among the clans, the clans headed by Li Li also came to me many times to talk about the harm of this matter“

"So you flinched and thought I might be wrong."

Su Lu turned his head and looked at Li Qing. In his tone, he reprimanded without hesitation.

Li Qingku smiled and sat down depressed, his cheeks full of embarrassment.

Su Ge glanced at the female officials and guards around him, and waved his hand on his side. The female officials quickly withdrew, and the guards widened the protection circle and stayed away from the waterside pavilion.

Su Lu got up, looked around, sighed and said:

"Civil servants complain to you, and the imperial clan complains to you, but have you heard the generals complain to you?"

"In my dynasty, people who have titles always attach importance to titles. No matter whether they have duties or not, it can be seen that officials do not kneel and the king does not kneel. They enjoy a certain number of fields and mu, and their children have the right to enter the Imperial College of the martial arts school."

"Civil servants have no hope of being knighted for their non military achievements. If they want to be knighted, they will not be knighted unless they fight before entering the army. This knighthood, breaking the previous practice, naturally makes all civil servants and lords jealous."

"If you can't get it yourself, naturally you should try every means to make others can't get it. These sons are Wen chenxun's relatives, and their hearts can be punished."

Li Qingwen Yan's face is a little ugly. These days she is annoyed by the ministers. She thinks it's not a great thing if she can take back this unreasonable will.

But Su Lu's words made her see and think clearly.

"That's it. Whoever gets the vein will be rewarded and rewarded."

……

Rouran grassland, far north.

Here, the grass gradually thins out and the moss gradually increases.

There are fewer cattle and sheep grazing, and sparse ice and snow can be seen from the north.

A team of horses came slowly from the north, led by a gray Qingkou, carrying several sacks with mouth tied on the horse's back, followed by more than a dozen gray horses, also carrying such sacks.

The man driving the horse team was a little tired and walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

I don't know how far the horse team went. It came to a camp. The camp was at the end of the official road. The gate was facing the official road. On the high gate tower, several grassland men with bows patrolled back and forth.

The gate of the camp was wide open and the horse team was let in. However, a moment later, the horse team came out of the camp again. The horses had been replaced with brown horses, but the people driving the horses were still the original people.

Returning along the original road, the horse team walked for more than an hour, and jagged stones began to appear along the road. There were more and more stones, and the terrain became more and more uneven.

The snow began to appear, stepped on it, and there was a creaking sound.

The wind came with the sound of jingling. The horse team turned a ridge and suddenly saw a basin. In the basin, there were black open-pit coal mines. Countless civilian men squatted on the coal mine and tinkled with axes and chisels.

When the horse team entered the basin, naturally someone came to deliver, gave the horse water and grass, and then put the bag full of coal on the horse's back. Everything began to become lively.

"Pa"

A miner who was digging coal gangue was whipped, and his cotton clothes were pulled away, revealing black cotton and bloody back.

"Let your dog chew your tongue."

"Pop pop"

The supervisor's whip waved sharply, beating the miners, holding their heads and rolling on the ground, whining and screaming.

A moment later, the supervisor was tired and spat:

"Dog day, let you go this time. Next time, I'll kill you."

Swearing, the supervisor went aside.

The supervisor walked away, and then some miners dared to come and pick up the beaten miners.

"Wang gaoqiu, why did you provoke the living king of hell again?"

The miner who picked up the beaten miner asked carefully.

Wang gaoqiu spit bloody saliva and scolded:

"I didn't provoke him because I was a fellow countryman. In my hometown, my brother was a general in the army. My family had some cards in the village. He Huoyan was often bullied by my Lao Wang family. This is to take it out on me."

The fellow miners sniffed at him:

"Wang gaoqiu, just pull it. If someone in your family is a general of the guard, he will come to this place where birds don't shit to dig."

Wang gaoqiu's face darkened:

"I was cheated."

The miners were busy and waited until it was dark and they couldn't see the axe and chisel clearly. Then the supervisor drove them back.

Inevitably, Wang gaoqiu was whipped by Huo Yan again, with more whip marks on his body and more cotton exposed on his cotton clothes.

After queuing up for the meeting, Wang gaoqiu took a pot of rice like clear soup and two hard nest heads like stones. He casually explored a windproof place and squatted down to eat the only meal of the day.

The companions who hit the rice came one after another, squatted near Wang gaoqiu and said what they had seen and heard all day.

The civilian men in charge of escorting the horse team are the lightest and most knowledgeable. They can often hear some foreign news from the camp ahead, surrounded by gnawing miners.

"The imperial court has issued a decree. It has something to do with our miners."

The miner with the new news was very angry and said what he had heard in the camp.

The miners around were excited:

"But I want to kill these black coal kilns."

"How is it possible that these people have an official background, otherwise they can open coal here."

"Han San, come on, what's the news about us?"

Han San chewed a hard Wotou, took a breath of air conditioning, spit out the Wotou and picked out a tooth from the middle.

"Grandma, this Wotou is hard enough. My teeth have fallen out again."

"The imperial court decreed that anyone who can find a vein of special gold can be knighted."

Han San said proudly.