Chapter 787: Issuing a gag order

Zhao Mingqiao almost broke his defense.

That sentence, "He is a top scholar; what are you?", was too fierce for a scholar, and he couldn't handle it, almost choking to death.

He retorted, but it wasn't very powerful, "I am also a Jinshi from both lists!"

"It's enough to be an official, but if you want to stir up wind and rain, you are still lacking in heat. If you want to decide the world in one word, become a trendsetter of the era, and influence the world's situation, you are simply not qualified. I am not belittling you; I am just telling the truth. For the sake of our friendship of many years, I will tell you the truth. If you can't listen, then forget it."

Chen Guanlou felt a bit disheartened at this moment, his mood was cold.

It is hard to change one's nature, and at this moment, he had the most intuitive feeling. He felt a bit powerless! In the end, it was lacking in heat. The Youth Society could grow big, but if it wanted to be strong, it was afraid it wasn't qualified. He was afraid the Youth Society wouldn't reach the height he expected.

It was truly disappointing.

Yet, all of this was the scene that the big shots in the court hoped to see; they didn't suppress the Youth Society, but they also didn't hope for the Youth Society to be strong enough to influence the court's situation.

Therefore, they tolerated Zhao Mingqiao.

They couldn't find a second person more suitable to be the leader of the Youth Society than Zhao Mingqiao.

Hey! This is like starting a business. Some people are suitable for running a company with a scale of less than 500 people, doing it very well, and their ability is best reflected. Once the company scale exceeds 500 people, reaching 1,000 or several thousand, it won't work; it's a mess, the company collapses, and finally, it goes bankrupt and closes down.

Many middle-sized company bosses who were successful in their early careers died on the road of expansion. Was it the reason for the market, the reason for the era, or the reason for the policy? Perhaps there is a little bit of everything.

The root cause is that their ability can only handle a company with a scale of less than 500 people; the most glorious moment is the peak performance of their ability. Once the scale is exceeded, the methods that worked in the past either fail, become less efficient, or lead to various problems. They quickly go downhill from the peak, and it gets out of control.

Zhao Mingqiao ultimately had limitations.

After so many years, he had breakthroughs, but the breakthroughs were limited. Trapped by education, vision, pattern... hey, in short, he was only worthy of managing a medium-sized organization, belonging to the people who follow the trend and drink meat soup in the industry; he couldn't be the industry leader and couldn't lead the trend of the era.

There was a slight regret in his heart, but his anger decreased, and he became a bit more tolerant.

Chen Guanlou said: "If you want to oppose, then oppose; you have your insights, and the court has the court's direction. You have always been going against the wind, it doesn't matter!"

"You support me?" Zhao Mingqiao became spirited instantly, looking very excited. Being able to get Brother Chen's support felt like he had already succeeded halfway.

"I don't support it, but I understand."

Zhao Mingqiao's good mood vanished instantly, and he sighed, "In this era, there always needs to be someone going against the wind."

"That's right. But I hope you can go against the wind in the right direction. If the road is wrong, no matter how brave you are, it will be in vain in the end. Brother Zhao, ask yourself, what do you really want? Are your methods really feasible? Do you want to consider changing a way to achieve your goal?"

"Are you trying to make me live in humiliation? If your idea is like this, don't say any more. It is impossible for me to live in humiliation in this life. I live, I want to live uprightly. If one day I must die, I want to die uprightly."

"Fine! As long as you are happy!"

Chen Guanlou gave up persuading and ordered the prison guards to take good care of him. A person who has been in three times might have a fourth or fifth time in the future, and since he is his brother, the prison guards of the Jia-sized prison should be more polite.

Just entering summer, the capital had heavy rain for several days.

The capital's underground pipes were maintained very well, and the engineering quality was excellent. Worthy of being the underground engineering architecture left by the Great Yu Dynasty, there was no phenomenon of waterlogging in the inner and outer cities of the capital, including the slums, and the drainage was very smooth.

Such a powerful Great Yu Dynasty, even the underground pipes were built so solidly that they could still be used normally hundreds of years later, only needing a little money to maintain. It was actually destroyed in one fell swoop; it was truly incredible.

The capital was fine, but something big happened outside the capital.

The Imperial Mausoleum under construction, because of several days of heavy rain, water soaking and scouring, caused the soil to loosen, and a mudslide occurred in the middle of the night last night.

Fortunately, it was in the middle of the night, there was no one on the construction site, and the worker sheds were at a distance from the construction site, so there were no casualties.

However...

Mudslide, the auspicious soil was destroyed, great ominous!

The news reached the palace, and Emperor Jian Shi was so angry that his face turned blue, and he wanted to kill the officials of the Imperial Observatory on the spot. The auspicious soil was determined by the Imperial Observatory, yet a mudslide happened. Doesn't that mean that a hundred years later, when the emperor is buried inside, he will have to be scoured by the mudslide?

With this level, they still dare to choose auspicious soil for the Son of Heaven.

If it weren't for the court officials persuading him to stop, the head of the Imperial Observatory would have already moved house.

Death penalty can be avoided, but living crime is hard to escape; all were thrown into prison.

On the construction site, the Ministry of Works officials responsible for supervising the construction of the Imperial Mausoleum, one by one, were all caught and thrown into the big prison.

The Heavenly Prison was lively again.

The Marquis Prefecture's heir, Chen Guanfu, even ran to the Heavenly Prison to visit the imprisoned Ministry of Works officials, instructing Chen Guanlou to take good care of them.

"Don't worry, I will definitely take care of them. However, they should be dead this time, destined to eat the executioner's meal."

"Even if I have to eat the executioner's meal, I cannot avoid seeing them. As the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, how can I hide?" Chen Guanfu was righteous and appeared particularly just.

Chen Guanlou asked curiously, "Even the Imperial Mausoleum can have a mudslide; is the Imperial Observatory at this level? Not even as good as the underground pipes of the previous dynasty."

"Things are not as you think. At the beginning of His Majesty's ascension, the Imperial Observatory and the Ministry of Works together determined three auspicious soils. The one that had the accident now was originally ranked last, belonging to the worst choice. However, His Majesty thought the eight characters were compatible and very prosperous, so he personally determined the auspicious soil."

"In the end, it is still the Imperial Observatory's level that is limited. Since they knew it was the worst choice, they shouldn't have put it on the backup list. Since it was on the backup list, it should have been able to withstand the test of time and various extreme weather."

"You don't understand!"

"I don't understand. Could it be that the Imperial Observatory's determination was fine, but the construction side had problems?" Chen Guanlou guessed boldly.

Mudslide, nothing more than two situations: one is loose soil, which already had the risk of mudslide collapse. One is that the construction side constructed improperly, destroying the local ecology and soil quality, artificially causing the mudslide.

Former or latter, there must be a messy account here, I am afraid no one dares to lift the lid. Whoever dares to lift the lid is the target of public criticism.

I don't know if the Embroidered Uniform Guard has this courage.

Chen Guanfu's mouth twitched, finding that he couldn't say more.

The more he said, the easier it was to leak the news, so he decisively got up and left.

A moment later, when the office was quiet, Chen Quan walked in quietly and said quietly, "Report to the Lord, the Marquis Heir has issued a gag order to all the Ministry of Works prisoners." ===== CHAPTER 788 =====