Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

"I fuck you, uncle"

In the tense and solemn court, suddenly a yellowish-brown straw sandal with a fresh smell of soil flew into the hall and hit the back of the head of the prime minister standing in the front row, followed by a strong voice.

Everyone was stunned by this sudden scene and turned around to look.

I saw a man carrying a hoe, wearing a patched and mud-stained gauze short coat that only the lower-class farmers would wear, and gray trousers covered with mud, with the trouser legs rolled up to the knees. He had a big, dry, cracked foot with countless old scars, and was wearing the same straw sandals as the one that had accurately hit the back of the Prime Minister's head. The other foot was bare. There was no need to ask where the straw sandals were, as all the civil and military officials in the court could see them with their eyes.

The Prime Minister was so angry that he was shaking. He pointed at the Seventh Uncle who had no dignity as a royal family member, and kept saying "you you" for a long time without being able to utter a complete sentence.

"You, you, you are a piece of shit. You are old and don't want to retire and go home to enjoy your old age. Instead, you keep on coveting power and shouting nonsense in the court."

The Seventh Prince Uncle had no sense of being a member of the royal family at all, and looked like a gangster, carrying a hoe in one hand and resting his other hand on his waist. When the Prime Minister was so angry that he couldn't utter a complete sentence, he opened his mouth and retorted until he almost vomited blood.

"Your Majesty, the Seventh Uncle has disregarded etiquette and teachings, and openly defied Your Majesty. Please punish him."

"Please ask the emperor to punish the seventh uncle."

"The minister reconsiders."

"The minister reconsiders."

The civil and military officials who had always competed with each other for interests now knelt on the ground and requested the emperor to punish the Seventh Uncle.

The emperor's expression was as indifferent as snow. He sat motionless on the dragon throne, just looking at them coldly.

"Oh, punish me, come on, let's have a good talk in front of the emperor and see whether the emperor will punish me or you."

"Prime Minister, you should come first. A year ago, you repeatedly blocked the Ministry of Revenue from allocating funds to the border soldiers, causing the border soldiers to lose 30,000 elite soldiers when the enemy invaded.

Within a month, you proposed to build the Imperial Academy, ostensibly to train scholars for the court, but in reality the Imperial Academy was built and demolished, demolished and rebuilt. It has been a year now, and the piece of land you marked out is still empty, with only a few rammed earth stones on it. The grass has grown so tall that it is almost taller than a person, the foundation has not been compacted yet, and there are few workers working on the land.

I just want to ask, where did the money you took out from the Ministry of Revenue for the construction of the museum go? Don’t let this old man embezzle it.”

Everyone changed color when they heard the news. That war had indeed caused many casualties among the border soldiers, which made the emperor very angry in the court. He removed the then Minister of Revenue and promoted a waiter from the lower level to take the position of Minister.

Those who originally intended to move up in position were caught off guard by the emperor and were beaten to pieces, leaving him with nothing.

The Prime Minister knew that he was in the wrong in that matter and had no way to defend himself. He could only let the Seventh Prince hold the handle on him and keep firing.

After criticizing the Prime Minister, the Seventh Uncle turned his target and fired at the Censorate, "As a Censor, it is your duty to investigate cases, impeach officials, know the affairs of the government, and judge the miscellaneous affairs of the Censorate. You impeach others every day, why don't you impeach yourself? There is a fire in the backyard, you favor concubines and ignore your wife, and you don't distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children. You can't even handle the mess in your own family, and you are reaching out to the royal family. You are really audacious."

The face of the Imperial Censor who was hit by the Seventh Imperial Uncle turned from red to black, and then from black to white. He was hit hard by the Seventh Imperial Uncle's words. He did favor some concubines and neglected his wife, but he did not go so far as to not distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children, and favor concubines over his wife. The Seventh Imperial Uncle was simply slandering him.

He saw the Imperial Censor kneeling heavily before the emperor on the high platform, begging the emperor to give him justice.

The Seventh Prince did not intend to give him a chance to confuse right and wrong. In front of all the officials, he told him directly that his wife was almost forced to hang herself by her concubine, but was fortunately rescued by her personal maid in time. Now the daughter of the Imperial Censor was kneeling in the hall of Shuntian Prefecture, humbly begging the prefect to send people to arrest all the suspects.

The Imperial Censor was so angry when his fig leaf was pulled off in public that his face turned blue and white, and finally his eyes turned black and he fainted from anger.

Next is the Imperial Observatory. "You said that your main duties as the director of the Imperial Observatory are to observe celestial phenomena, compile solar terms, and calculate the calendar. But there is a drought in the west and floods in the east. Not only did your Imperial Observatory fail to warn in advance through the changes in celestial phenomena, but you also spread the rumor that the emperor is not favored by heaven, making the people dissatisfied with the emperor and demanding that the emperor issue an edict of guilt. What do you want to do? Who do you want to usurp the throne?"

The Seventh Prince's uncle announced the information his men had found out to the public in the court, which was tantamount to publicly executing the Director of the Imperial Observatory under the eyes of everyone.

Damn it, I asked you to slander the emperor, you idiot.

The late emperor had bestowed great honor on the officials of the Imperial Observatory, "even if the officials of the Imperial Observatory committed a crime, they would be given a light sentence."

But this director of the Imperial Observatory was like a donkey with a brain kicked by him. Instead of enjoying his privileges, he kept trying to take on more tasks for himself, jumping back and forth between exterminating the entire clan and exiling three thousand miles away. He was simply seriously ill.

The director of the Imperial Observatory felt dizzy and almost fainted from anger.

As he fell, the officials around him exclaimed, "Seventh Uncle, how did you make the Supervisor faint from anger? We are officials in the same dynasty, aren't you trying to kill him by talking like this?"

Everyone seemed to have caught something wrong and blamed the Seventh Uncle.

The Seventh Prince shook his beard and started to mock and criticize people without using any dirty words, which made the officials so angry that they jumped to their feet.

But a few of the smart ones were afraid that the Seventh Prince would catch them and expose their shortcomings, so they quickly shrank behind the crowd and dared not show their heads, for fear that the Seventh Prince would open fire at full force and shoot indiscriminately.

A smile flashed in the emperor's eyes. As expected, only the Seventh Uncle, who had fought on the battlefield with swords and blood-stained robes, could severely intimidate these arrogant and greedy officials.

Unfortunately, before the emperor could show his pride, the next moment, the seventh uncle pointed his spearhead directly at the emperor above him.

"How can you be an emperor? You are worse than a rich idler like me. Do you look like an emperor? You are skinny and listless, while the court officials are all fat and bloated.

The national treasury is empty, and you still don't want to find a way to investigate these people, raid their homes, and exterminate their clans. I guarantee that the gold and silver you find will be more than what's in the national treasury."

Everyone: ...So poisonous.

The emperor was originally feeling aggrieved when he was reprimanded by his seventh uncle in front of all the civil and military officials. But before he could feel uncomfortable, his seventh uncle changed the subject and frightened him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Hey, who said that "since ancient times, there have been no fathers and sons in the royal family, and emperors have always had few brothers?" In him, he not only has a father who loves him, but also a seventh uncle who feels sorry for him and helps him scold the court officials.

Seventh Uncle: ...The emperor's silly smile while sitting on the dragon throne is exactly the same as when he was a child. Don't think that he didn't see it because of his old eyesight, you little brat.