Chapter 35: There are times when officials are helpless
Palace, Da Nei.
Zhao Kuangyin knelt on the ground and served Empress Dowager Du diligently.
After the Chinese New Year, Empress Dowager Du's health was one day short, and maybe it would be gone in the past two years. He shouldn't have done this job, even if it was out of filial piety, he could use his daughter-in-law, but Zhao Kuangyin insisted on doing it in person.
Having an old lady who can serve her own hands is not suffering, but a blessing. If you serve her for one more day, you will earn a day.
Old Empress Du was also a little unhappy. She ate a bowl of ginseng tea under Zhao Kuangyin's service and got a little tired again, but she asked, "Where are the old and young people? Why didn't you come here to pay your respects today?"
Zhao Kuangyin's face turned dark and said hatefully: "The third brother was playing wild outside. He was drunk last night and slept at the homes of the people outside. He even forgot to pay his respects to his mother. It's simply outrageous. When he comes back, I must beat him up, and I will not learn it!"
The old lady raised her hand and slapped Zhao Kuangyin in the head, and said angrily: "I'll know how to beat you, a twelve-year-old man, what's wrong with drinking? You're so ruthless that he's so ruthless that he's been in charge of the Chinese New Year. You're already an official family, so you can't make your brother feel happy? You don't even have enough money to spend. You're a big brother, you're also cruel enough."
Zhao Kuangyin was blown up as soon as he heard this and said, "Mom, have you given him money again?"
Empress Dowager Du knew that she had made a mistake, and smiled awkwardly, saying, "I gave me some New Year's money, just a little New Year's money."
Zhao Kuangyin said anxiously: "Mom, it's only less than a year, and he has spent nearly 100,000 yuan. How can he spend money like this? 100,000 yuan is enough for me to raise a battalion of soldiers. You can't spoil him so much. A kind mother will defeat her son."
Old Empress Du was furious and cursed: "Are you teaching your mother a lesson?"
Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly knelt down again and said, "I dare not, I am wrong, I am not the case."
Old Empress Du breathed a sigh of relief, and said a little calmer: "Son, you are all in the official family now, and the world belongs to ours. What's wrong with your brother spending some money?"
"Mom~, today, the people are in poverty, and many people cannot even eat enough. As the saying goes, the upper and lower powers are not effective. Our royal family does not respect simple and hate extravagant. If the officials below follow the example, the people will be miserable. What's more, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it's difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Now it is the beginning of the founding of the country. Descendants are looking at us. If they don't set rules for future generations, they will only become more extravagant in the future. This is not a matter of ten thousand yuan!"
The old lady angrily beat him and said, "It's enough for all people to be an official, you are the one who is an official, what's the same with your brother? He is different from you two brothers. He is not a big deal. He is happy and happy all his life. It's enough. If you don't care about your old body, you have no money. You'll send some money here later."
Zhao Kuangyin widened his eyes and said, "You have no money? Mom, how much are you giving him?"
"What do you give him more? If you don't want to spend money on your own? If you give it or not, you will say whether you give it or not."
Zhao Kuangyin held it in for a long time. He knew that he would go to Zhao Guangmei at the end, but if you want him to say no, he can't say it!
So, after returning to the bedroom, Zhao Da was so depressed that he couldn't swallow his anger.
He took out his slingshot and killed more than ten birds. The anger finally subsided. He summoned Zhao Guangmei's guards and asked, "Is the third brother still a special lady back?"
The guard had no choice but to kneel on the ground tremblingly. What could he do? He was also very desperate!
"What he said last night, learn it for me."
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"Um?"
"The official family, the three kings got drunk last night and said nothing in detail."
Zhao Kuangyin was furious: "I said the truth after drinking. What did he say? Did he criticize me? I ordered you to say that if I dare to say a little false statement, I will chop you up."
The guard had no choice but to repeat the words that Zhao Guangmei had been drunk last night after she was drunk.
The more Zhao Kuangyin heard, his face became darker. This was so angry that he was so angry that he was chiseling the table with a jade axe.
"It's so unreasonable, it's so unreasonable! He doesn't know the mercy! He still wants to buy a house? He still wants to live out? With his money-spending spirit, is it okay if he goes out? Without his mother protecting him, he will have to cry for two months! He also said I'm strict? You said, do I care about him? Are you strict?"
The guard lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. The more aggrieved you feel, the more aggrieved you are. That's your brother, why are you angry with me?
After a long time, Zhao Kuangyin sighed and said, "Dejun, do you think I'm going to take care of him?"
Zhang Dejun, who was later famous Wang Jien, was still just a little eunuch serving Zhao Kuangyin. He smiled and said, "Yeah, I, a slave, dare not say this."
"If you ask me to say it, you will say it, this is my family, and you are a member of our family. What do you dare not say?"
"So, then I'll tell you, I think it's not a question of whether the strictness of the management is strict or not. The three kings are young and naughty, and have been used to being smooth sailing. It's inevitable that they will be a little simple to think about problems and do things. The officials are probably not very conscious of the feelings of him. Moreover, he has never lacked money since he was a child, and he doesn't know how hard it is to do this thing. He is also a bit unlucky. Such a child, who has just got his own idea and has been a bit rebellious since he was a child, is a bit rebellious. It's also true that ordinary people are like this. If the old lady is spoiled by him, he will naturally not accept the discipline."
Zhao Kuangyin sighed helplessly when he heard this. This was a dead end to him. He could find a way to solve any person or thing in the world, but this younger brother really had no choice.
Back then, there were many powerful people in the old lady. She was kicked out of the house at the age of sixteen to make a living. She was so hungry that she didn't starve to death outside. But when she put it on her youngest son, she was really afraid of melting when she held it in her mouth, and she was afraid of breaking it when she held it in her hand. Her hair was so painful that she felt her heart was so sharp that she disciplined Zhao Guangmei. Disciplined Zhao Guangmei was equivalent to disobeying the old lady. At such an old lady, she lived one day or one day less. Can he make the old lady unhappy?
So Zhao Kuangyin had no tricks except sighing again.
Zhang Dejun smiled and said, "I think the situation of the three kings must be followed by the guidance and discipline. I have to find someone who can speak and listen to him."
When Zhao Kuangyin thought about it, it seemed to make some sense and asked, "The third brother is still at the family of the prodigy, father and son? He has a good relationship with that prodigy?"
"Uh...it should be, he told the young people that Mr. Sun is his brother of life and death."
"You send me a letter to the father and son, and I will ask them to help me discipline the child, not ask him how much he can achieve, but just ask him to spend less money and cause less trouble, and don't do things like forcing a robbery of a private girl."
The guard said in confusion: "But the three kings don't seem to want the young man to know his identity, this..."
Zhao Kuangyin sneered and said, "That father and son are more energetic than monkeys. Can the third brother hide the scheming? People know that he is the third king coaxing him to play. Tell them that if they can help me with the third brother, I will start a new class this year. Forget it, don't go, I will ask the second brother to go to his father and say."
Chapter completed!