Chapter 1337 A shot of adrenaline for Cui Shao!
Perhaps the battle with Pei Zhixiu last night was too intense, causing Ye Mingsheng to fall asleep due to exhaustion. When he woke up slowly, he saw that the sun was already high in the sky. Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng was a little surprised and subconsciously asked outside:
"What time is it now?"

Hearing Ye Mingsheng's question, the palace maid waiting outside immediately came into the room and said:

"Your Majesty, it is already three quarters past four in the morning!"

Hearing that it was already three quarters past the hour, Ye Mingsheng was speechless.

He had originally planned to go have breakfast with Ye Cui with An Miaoyi this morning, but now it seems that he is undoubtedly late. It is already 9 o'clock and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law must have finished breakfast!
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng felt a little helpless. His biological clock used to be quite punctual, and he would wake up naturally on time around the morning. But he didn't expect that it would malfunction today, and he slept until now.

After putting on his clothes, Ye Mingsheng saw the mess in the room. Ye Mingsheng shook his head with a wry smile on his face. Pei Zhixiu's birthday was in a few days. Ye Mingsheng had planned to tell Pei Zhixiu about his birthday gift of letting her serve as a guest scholar in the medical school at that time to give Pei Zhixiu a birthday surprise.

But last night, Ye Mingsheng was so deeply in love that he didn't keep his mouth shut and told Pei Zhixiu in advance!

Pei Zhixiu, who was already very bored staying in the deep palace, was very happy after hearing the news, so she seemed a little excited in the fight between the two, and behaved very strongly and proactively, almost making Ye Mingsheng return in defeat.

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng casually asked:
"Where is your queen?"

"The queen went to the flower garden..."

Upon hearing the news, Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly. Since Pei Zhixiu stopped going to Changshan Medical Clinic, in order to relieve the boredom in the palace, she first raised a cat and a dog, and opened a small garden. She originally wanted to grow some medicinal herbs, but due to some rumors, Pei Zhixiu changed to growing flowers.

In the flower garden, Pei Zhixiu always does everything herself and never asks others to do it for her. Although the flowers she grows are not rare varieties, they give people a fresh and unique feeling.

"Tell your queen that I will come to see her in a few days!"

"Yes!"

After saying this, Ye Mingsheng left Pei Zhixiu's courtyard under the gaze of the palace maid.

The Imperial Household Department has already filled his schedule for today. In the morning, he will deal with memorials submitted by the Ministry of Justice and the Liaoyang Provincial Government. As for noon, Ye Mingsheng will have a private dinner with Cui Shao. There are some things Ye Mingsheng wants to have a heart-to-heart talk with Cui Shao.

And now, because Ye Mingsheng woke up late, in order to avoid delaying these things, Ye Mingsheng must hurry up.

Half an incense stick later, Ye Mingsheng came to his imperial study, and Ye Cheng had already been waiting for his arrival in the study.

Because he hadn't had time to eat breakfast yet, Ye Mingsheng was also feeling hungry, so he first instructed the palace maid beside him:
"Ask the imperial kitchen to prepare something for me to eat. Soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, porridge, cakes, whatever is fine! Send it over quickly!"

"Yes!"

After giving the order, Ye Mingsheng looked at Ye Cheng. Under Ye Mingsheng's gaze, Ye Cheng took the memorials that Ye Mingsheng needed to deal with and introduced them to Ye Mingsheng one by one:
"Your Majesty, this is the investigation report submitted by the Ministry of Justice on the case of Liu Zhen and others being tortured."

"This is also a phased investigation report submitted by the Ministry of Justice on the Hu Ming case!"

"This is a report sent by the Liaoyang Provincial Government regarding the drought in some areas of Liaoyang..."

Listening to Ye Cheng's introduction, Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly. Just as he was about to start working, Ye Cheng hesitated and said:
"Your Majesty, there is another breaking news!"

Seeing Ye Cheng's hesitant expression, Ye Mingsheng said without hesitation:
"What happened?"

Facing Ye Mingsheng's question, Ye Cheng also said everything:

"Yesterday, Gu Shangshu's wife, Wang, went crazy. It was said that she had disheveled hair and kept talking nonsense!"

Ye Mingsheng was a little surprised to hear the news. He had met Gu Sansi's wife Wang before in Liaoyang. Although they had only met once, Wang left a deep impression on Ye Mingsheng.

Although Wang's appearance is not as good as that of a graceful beauty like Chen Wanting, she is definitely not ugly. She is an ordinary person with a relatively good-looking appearance. She is a typical rural woman, hardworking and capable, and good at both housework and outside of it. However, her behavior is rather vulgar, and she has no brains and all her likes and dislikes are shown on her face.

The reason why she left a deep impression on Ye Mingsheng was because Gu Sansi was a gentle and refined Confucian scholar, so the two of them standing together formed a strong contrast, which made people have to be impressed by this, and it was obvious that the two were not a good match.

Gu San wanted romance, the resonance of the two souls, playing the piano and writing poetry, while Wang was thinking about the daily necessities of life and what to eat tonight.

The two people were not on the same channel at all. They were brought together by fate by chance.

Because of this, although Wang gave birth to a son and a daughter for Gu Sansi and also supported his elderly father, Gu Sansi always looked down on Wang.

After following his success, although Gu Sansi kept sending money to his family, allowing the whole family to enjoy wealth and glory, he was still unwilling to continue to get along with Wang...

After meeting Chen Wanting, Gu Sansi lived happily with Chen Wanting in Yijing and never brought Wang and others to Yijing.

Some rumors also arose about this, and some people accused Gu Sansi of being fickle, favoring concubines and despising his wife, and being morally corrupt in front of Ye Mingsheng.

However, these things are trivial matters in Ye Mingsheng's view, and they are also Gu Sansi's family affairs!

As the saying goes, it is difficult for an honest judge to judge family affairs. Even if we take a step back, no one is perfect. Moreover, the property in Liaoyang that he gave to Gu Sansi was handed over to Wang Shi to manage. The property was enough to make Wang Shi and her family rich and prosperous. This was enough to prove that Gu Sansi was not as bad as they said. So Ye Mingsheng suppressed the matter and did not let it continue to ferment!
I don't know how Gu Sansi suddenly figured it out not long ago, and brought all his sons, daughters and old father, including Wang, to Yijing. This in itself is a good thing as the family is reunited, but I heard that Wang is a jealous woman, and she has caused unrest in the Gu family.

However, this was Gu Sansi's family affair, so Ye Mingsheng didn't pay much attention to it. He never expected to hear the news that Wang had gone crazy!
After a pause, Ye Mingsheng asked:

"Did the imperial physician from the medical school see him?"

Ye Cheng nodded and said:

“After the Queen received the news, she immediately sent the imperial physician over. The physician said that Wang was indeed crazy. He prescribed several doses of medicine for Wang and suggested that she return to a familiar environment to recuperate…”

"Rest in a familiar environment? What does that mean?"

Ye Cheng hesitated for a moment and said:
"This is what the imperial physician said. I don't know what it means. Maybe he wants Wang to return to her hometown in Liaoyang to recuperate?"

After hearing Ye Cheng's words, Ye Mingsheng felt more and more that something was wrong, but in the end Ye Mingsheng didn't say anything.

Regardless of whether it was what he thought or not, this was Gu Sansi's family affair. Although he was the emperor, as long as Gu Sansi didn't cause any big trouble, it would be better for him not to interfere in the bed affairs of his ministers.

At this time, the palace maid also brought Ye Mingsheng a bowl of soy milk and a tray of dumplings. After satisfying his stomach with them, Ye Mingsheng went into work mode and began to deal with the memorials in front of him.

In fact, these memorials submitted in the morning were basically nothing serious. Although Ye Mingsheng felt a little sorry for Liu Zhen, the law was not merciful after all. When Liu Zhen and others did something wrong and accepted ill-gotten gains, they should have thought that the Daqian law would punish them.

As for the issue of Hu Ming, although Ye Mingsheng had long known that this guy who was good at networking must be not clean, but from the report from the Ministry of Justice, he definitely underestimated him. This guy had not been in Yijing for a long time, but he had already used money and beauty to weave a network of power and relationship.

And this network of relationships is corroding Daqian’s laws and destroying the fairness and justice of Daqian SH, so Ye Mingsheng must not keep him···················

Of course, although Hu Ming must be killed, the appeasement work in Jiangnan still needs to be done well. The enthusiasm of those Jiangnan wealthy businessmen to return to Daqian to invest cannot be affected by killing Hu Ming.

As for the drought in Liaoyang, from the current perspective it should affect the output of autumn grain harvest, but if there is rainfall in the short term, the impact will not be great. However, if there is still no rainfall, then the court may need disaster relief.

Ye Mingsheng was somewhat helpless about this. Daqian was an agricultural country. As the saying goes, food is the first necessity of the people. As long as the people have food and drink and can meet basic living conditions, the people can maintain stability.

So in order to increase grain production over the years, he thought of many ways, such as popularizing agricultural tools and oxen, developing and popularizing simplified chemical fertilizers, providing farmers with low-interest loans, and building canals and reservoirs. These measures also had a positive impact on Daqian's grain production.

But in general, Daqian's agriculture still depends on God. If God gives him the right amount of rain, it will be a good year.

But if God is not kind to us and it rains too little or too much, or if there is a disaster like a locust plague, then it will be over and the harvest will be poor.

Ye Mingsheng didn't have any good solution for this. All he could do was to ask the Ministry of Revenue and Liaoyang Provincial Government to make emergency plans. If the drought became serious, they would activate the plan as soon as possible to open the granaries and release grain for disaster relief, so as to help the people get through this difficult time...

According to traditional concepts, these natural disasters meant that violence had occurred on earth, so God was angry and punished the world. In addition, Ye Mingsheng had been promoting reforms in recent years, which had affected the interests of many people and offended many people.

So in order to retaliate against Ye Mingsheng, this group of people began to spread rumors, saying that Ye Mingsheng's reforms caused the wrath of God, so these droughts, floods, and locust plagues occurred. As long as Ye Mingsheng gave up the reforms, these natural disasters would disappear and peace would return to the world.

To be honest, Ye Mingsheng was speechless about this idea, but there were still many people who held this idea. Whenever such natural disasters occurred, someone would submit a memorial to persuade them to give up reform.

There were even people who threatened him, saying that if he didn't give up reform, he would be abandoned by both humans and gods, as if heaven and earth would strike Ye Mingsheng down with thunder if he didn't listen to them.

Ye Mingsheng is not the kind of person who cannot listen to opposing opinions. If it is normal advice, Ye Mingsheng can understand that his thinking and cognition are limited by the influence of the times, so he will just laugh it off and not take it seriously.

But Ye Mingsheng did not tolerate this kind of threat. He just gave him a beating and let him go home to retire.

Therefore, guiding public opinion and popularizing knowledge is also a very important task. If he can make these people understand that these natural disasters have nothing to do with ZZ during his lifetime, Ye Mingsheng also feels that this is also an achievement of his own.

Ye Mingsheng has been a leader for a long time, and he is already very familiar with handling these matters. He quickly handled all the tasks...

After resolving these issues, Ye Mingsheng began to prepare for his most important task of the day - a dinner with Cui Shao.

The reason why Ye Mingsheng chose the format of a dinner party instead of a more formal conversation was that he hoped to get closer to Cui Shao and have a chat about their inner thoughts.

During this period, Ye Mingsheng could feel more and more that since Cui Zibo's death, Cui Shao had gradually lost his spirit.

When Cui Zibo was still around, Cui Shao was very motivated. It was obvious that he wanted to make a difference in his career and write a new chapter in his career, leaving his name in history and being remembered and admired by future generations.
However, with the death of Cui Zibo, although Cui Shao did not give up in the Ministry of Revenue, he gave people a feeling of just getting by and was not as motivated as before.

Ye Mingsheng could understand him for this. After all, losing a son in old age is indeed a huge blow!
However, Ye Mingsheng still hopes that Cui Shao can cheer up. After all, although there is some fresh blood in the Daqian court, and some of them are eye-catching, Cui Shao is still the indispensable one in general, and no one can replace him.

Moreover, now that the reform has reached this stage, Ye Mingsheng sometimes feels a little bit exhausted. He also hopes that Cui Shao can stop waiting and stand up to lead the reform and make Daqian better!
It was this kind of idea that led to today's dinner. Ye Mingsheng prepared a shot of adrenaline for Cui Shao today!

Ye Mingsheng hopes that this shot of cardiac stimulant will allow Cui Shao to regain motivation...
(End of this chapter)