However, the emperor obviously didn't care about Xie Ji's words and found them very interesting, so he said with interest: "Please come in."

After a while, the consultant walked in with a hesitation face. Seeing Xie Ji was also here, sitting there leisurely, looking at him with a smile, bowing to him, without any desire to get up.

The thought made the consultant's face dark, and he thought in his heart that Xie Ji was really rude.

"I pay homage to your Majesty." The consultant first saluted the emperor.

He turned to Xie Ji again, and performed a lighter etiquette and said, "I have met the Prime Minister."

"Consultant, you can handle things."

The consultant felt a little confused. When he saw Xie Ji's smile again, he felt full of maliciousness towards him.

So he said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Master Zhao is sentenced to death for his crime of deceiving the king."

"Wasn't he going to be executed after the autumn, let him live a few more months? Then the officials will be unable to die if they get involved. Why not just be executed in three days?"

Although the emperor's tone was quite gentle, the tone in his words was not gentle.

But it scared the consultant and jumped straight.

"No." But the consultant said, "The emperor's order cannot be disobeyed."

"What should I do with the others?" the emperor continued to ask. Xie Ji said that the consultant was very interesting this time. What was the fun?

He wants to see.

"I have re-investigated the case. This matter has been implicated by many officials, and some officials have no idea about it, so..."

"Are you saying that they are innocent or that I am wrong?" The emperor was a little angry when he heard these words. I asked you to deal with it, and you can deal with it for me.

"Your Majesty, you have finished listening to me." The consultant said immediately, and when Xie Ji's smile became stronger, his heart turned dark.

But he continued: "Although they had no idea, their actions had obviously touched the law and must be severely punished. I thought that they could not be let go easily, so as to avoid the person who later committed the crime again, so I sorted out the judgment of the case on a piece of paper

Oh, please give your Majesty a look.”

The consultant smiled and took out a note from his arms. Then the emperor obviously saw that there was another piece of paper inside the consultant. The consultant immediately squeezed the paper in and took out the piece.

The emperor saw this blind operation and then saw Xie Ji again. Finally, he knew why Xie Ji was laughing.

This man actually prepared two verdicts. Judging from his expression, if he could speak a little, he would have taken out another one. He was angry and didn't expect to say such a trick in front of him.

Seeing his serious look, he was not panicked because of his own strategy, and he felt funny again.

I asked someone to take the paper up and see, the processing was OK this time.

The result of this handling is like this: Anyone who did not stand up actively in the court will be executed for the crime of deceiving the emperor. If he stands up actively, he will be exiled for one hundred miles and will not leave the exile for life.

land.

"Just follow this." The emperor said after seeing this.

The consultant breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt a little unbearable. This time they had been in trouble for eight lifetimes.

After the consultant went down, the emperor also chuckled and asked Xie Ji, "How did the Prime Minister know that this person would put two different results in his sleeve?"

Xie Ji smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this person values ​​feelings and cannot bear to be sentenced so seriously. Therefore, he intends to let it go. But this person values ​​himself more and loves himself more than his relatives, let alone others."

Xie Ji explained that he was an excuse for making up, and the real situation was the conclusion he got from the secret guards.

I didn't expect him to use this trick.

"So that's it." The emperor nodded. It was harmless and he would not pursue it.

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After the consultant returned to the Ministry of Justice, someone came over and asked, "Shangshu, how about it?"

The consultant said: "Master Zhao was executed three days later, more than 100 people were sentenced to hang. The remaining one hundred rods were exiled to Mobei and he would not leave Mobei for life."

Those who came to ask were surprised and a little unbelievable. This time, they were so heavy: "Is it helpless?"

"No more help."

The consultant said, let those people eat and drink well these days.

"Sir, there must be some rescue. If you go and ask the emperor, maybe there will be some rescue." The man begged that there must be some rescue. Some people were simply confused.

The consultant felt dark, and he resisted the urge to curse, but still maintained a close and gentle expression.

"Don't make me embarrassed. In the last few days, let your friends live a better life. This life won't work, and I hope there will be no such disaster in the next life."

"Can you change someone secretly? Only one, Your Majesty won't find it." Yes, substitution is a good way. There are so many people, and you won't find anyone else.

"Don't seek death by yourself." Don't involve me even if you seek death, the consultant doesn't want to pay attention to him. Do you think I don't want to? If I could be saved, I would have saved it long ago.

……………………

Yu Ce has already drawn up the renovation route outside the city. Once he is ready, he is ready to start construction. Since the Ministry of Works has been vacant, it is a bit difficult to tell things.

The rest are either timid or ignorant. Since there are a lot of positions left, I have to add a few positions from the bottom to the top, which makes the people below happy.

I didn't expect that half of the people would have such good things.

Even so, I only added two or three positions. If I can't do it well, I will directly replace them.

"Fan Ye, you temporarily take charge of the position of Director Zhao and manage the construction affairs in Chang'an City." Yu Ce said that there was no one on hand now, which really made him a little upset.

Although half of the people are missing and many others are still there, some people are simply unable to use them, which means they are worried about letting them take charge of the business. Many of them just have a name, a white-collar salary, and they know nothing about doing things.

"Thank you, Shangshu." Fan Ye said, feeling happy. This time it was so good. I originally planned to waste my life in my position, but I didn't expect that I would give myself a chance this time, and this time I performed well.

opportunity.

Therefore, the construction of Chang'an City began again.

The roads, road conditions, and materials used outside the city have been decided. After discussion, the document was reported.

This is where refugees use road construction, and in the future, it is best to attract more and more places.

The projects outside the city were repaired in one place and replaced with another place. There were no less than a hundred roads in total, one by one. For refugees, Xie Ji gave a condition that he would pay a certain salary every day, about ten cents.

Money is made up for two meals. People over 60 years old and children under 16 years old and disabled people who cannot work can drink porridge for free, but they do not have a salary.

When those refugees heard that they still had money and had food to eat, they were grateful. They could only eat tree bark, but now they still had money to take, so how could they not be grateful? In order to make good use of the labor force, Xie Ji stipulated that female refugees would be granted.

We also go to build roads, after all, we can't let them eat for nothing but do it. What's more, that's also a labor force, although we don't do much.

Is this considered squeezing labor?

If we look at it now, we will definitely be a vicious capitalist, but in ancient times it really didn't count. Even if Xie Ji didn't give money, he would ask them to do it just for food, but he still gave money, and

Many, naturally, those people will not have any complaints.

The ancient times cannot be measured by modern standards.

Xie Ji saw that Yu had planned many roads to build, and this time he would need to make thorough rectifications. Not only the roads on the flat ground, but also the mountains and some country roads, all of which were stipulated. There were dozens of large ones and dozens of small ones.

Hundreds of roads.

Originally, according to Yu Ce's idea, it would be enough to just have a few items, but when he thought that the Ministry of Works could not be idle, it would be useless to be idle, so he was willing to do it, after all, he had his own contribution. And this time all the money was

The treasury pays, so all the roads that can be repaired are marked out.

If you miss this time, you have to wait until when? Usually, there are famines and you have to practice before you can practice it.

Moreover, in the past, the treasury would not pay enough for the fees. Some people had to pay for the repairs themselves. After all, the officials of the treasury embezzled a lot, and they had to pay for the repairs themselves. If they didn't pay for the money, they would be tofu projects.

This time, I didn’t expect that Xie Ji had dealt with so many corrupt officials, and the corruption behavior would not be serious afterwards.

Moreover, in order to deal with corruption, Xie Ji not only set up some matters of money handover, but also asked the supervision department to supervise. Once there is any corruption, he will be severely punished.

It forced those officials to be careful and didn't even dare to say anything.

Xie Ji saw these hundreds of roads, the small ones arrived at the village, the large ones had the main roads, and they all had to be built spaciously, and the materials used were also excellent. He nodded, but he was satisfied this time, but the money he spent was not

Not many.

Take your time little by little, and you can't hurry up.

Therefore, Xie Ji signed the document with his name, handed it to the emperor, and just stamped it with a jade seal.

When the emperor saw that the road outside Chang'an City had to be built several hundred times, it cost more than one million taels a year, he was shocked and immediately called Xie Ji.

"Prime Minister, these hundreds of roads..." Although this money seems to be small in other things, these hundreds of roads scared him. Are there so many hundreds of roads?

"Your Majesty, it is difficult for people to travel, there are not many official roads, local news is blinded, the sky is high, the emperor is far away. These hundreds of roads seem to be many, but once they are completed, it will be beneficial to the future. Now the treasury is full, and at this time it is not

If you spend the money, don’t you just wait for the officials to embezzle them.”

"Life is only a hundred years long. When I come to build it later, I may not have such passion."

The emperor did not expect Xie Ji to say this, yes, life is only a hundred years, and when he was in office, there will be a lot of money in history books in the future. He is rich and willful now, and he willful, and has done all these things.

A hundred years later, things in the future will have nothing to do with him.

When I was out of money, I couldn’t blame him for it. That was the business of future generations.

Thinking about it this way, your mood will be much better.

"Since that's the case, why not repair all the roads in the world. If they can be opened in remote places, they will be opened." The emperor suddenly had ambitions. If he repaired all the roads in the world, it would be a big event.

"Your Majesty, I and Shangshu Yu have already started to do it. These are some of the routes that have been drawn up." Xie Ji spread out a map and presented it to the emperor.
To be continued...