Chapter 155 Play hard to get
Upon hearing this, Luo Hui stopped the doorman, took Zhao Xing to the main hall, and asked Zhao Xing to take a seat.
"Your Excellency Luo, please sit down too. I am the guest and cannot become the host." Zhao Xing said with a smile.
"Yes." Luo Hui responded and sat down at the lower left.
After a while, a middle-aged woman in her thirties came in with tea.
"Your Highness." Sanshui saw Zhao Xing picking up the teacup to drink and wanted to stop him.
Zhao Xing glared at him, took a sip, put down the teacup, looked at Luo Hui, and said with a smile: "I came here this time to ask Censor Luo why he impeached me at the court this morning?"
"I'm impeaching Your Highness only based on the facts, and I'm not targeting Your Highness. It's a good thing that Your Highness wants to measure the land, but it can't be done at this time. Now is the time when the people are in a period of famine. If officials and runners go down to measure the land, it will increase the burden on the people and trample on the crops." Luo Hui said.
Luo Hui had said all this at the morning court session, but Zhao Xing had different feelings when he listened to it.
At the morning court session, he felt that Luo Hui was using this high-sounding excuse just to stop him.
After learning about Luo Hui's experience, Zhao Xing knew that he was indeed thinking about the people.
"Of the two points mentioned by Censor Luo, I indeed neglected the latter, but the former was unavoidable. Censor Luo also said that clearing the land is a good thing, and I can't throw the baby out with the bathwater, can I?" Zhao Xing said.
"I am the censor. It is my duty to discover problems, but solving them is not within my scope of responsibility," said Luo Hui.
Zhao Xing: "..."
He suddenly had the urge to curse.
However, there was nothing wrong with what Luo Hui said. The censor was just finding fault. He knew that land clearing and measuring was a good thing, but when he saw the drawbacks of land clearing and measuring, he impeached him.
It really fits what he just said, don't be subjective to the person but to the matter.
Zhao Xing rubbed his brows and said, "You are wrong, Censor Luo. Since you said that clearing the land is a good thing, it proves that the policy I proposed is not wrong. And the two points you mentioned are problems that will occur during the implementation process. What you Censors should do is to supervise the impeachment execution process, not to prevent the policy from being issued in this way."
Luo Hui was stunned when he heard this, and remained silent for a long time. He stood up, bowed, and said, "Your Highness, what you said was my negligence."
In fact, what Zhao Xing said just now also had the meaning of shifting the subject.
Luo Hui impeached him, not because he did not support land clearance, but because there were drawbacks in it.
In other words, the policies proposed by Zhao Xing were not perfect and he did not think about how to deal with and solve these problems.
If he had perfected the plan and found ways to solve these drawbacks, Luo Hui would not have stopped him.
However, Zhao Xing emphasized that the censors were responsible for supervising the implementation of officials and court policies.
Let him supervise the implementation of policies and impeach the officials responsible for their implementation if any problems are found.
Luo Hui was an official with strong principles. He knew that Zhao Xing was trying to change the concept, but he thought it made sense and had no way to refute it.
This is just like when Zhao Xing said in the morning court that he threatened to resign and force the emperor to abdicate.
He obviously didn't mean that. He just felt that Zhao Xing's words were vulgar and he felt insulted, so he wanted to resign.
But his behavior can indeed be understood that way, which is why he was left speechless by Zhao Xing's retort.
"Haha, Censor Luo is exaggerating. You impeached me in the morning court. After I went back and thought about it carefully, I also found the drawbacks. When the land is surveyed, Censor Luo will be asked to pay more attention to supervision to ensure that no situation that harms the interests of the people occurs." Zhao Xing said with a smile.
Although they didn't communicate much, Zhao Xing had already roughly figured out Luo Hui's personality.
To put it nicely, people like Luo Hui are upright and incorruptible; to put it bluntly, they are stubborn and opinionated.
There has never been a shortage of such people in history. They are honest and incorruptible, and dare to confront even the emperor when they think something is wrong.
If the emperor doesn't listen, he will often resign from office or commit suicide.
The emperor was afraid of such people.
Because they don't care about fame or fortune, and they are not afraid of being demoted or executed.
To be honest, Zhao Xing admires such people very much, but he does not like them.
Many things are not simply a matter of right and wrong, black and white. But in the eyes of these people, everything is right and wrong, black and white.
He doesn't know how to adapt at all.
Or they understand, but are just unwilling to adapt.
Sometimes, this kind of person can be very useful.
But at some point, such people become a hindrance.
However, for Zhao Xing, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for the time being.
After chatting with Luo Hui for half an hour at Luo's house, Zhao Xing said goodbye and left.
After Luo Hui saw him off, Zhao Xing and his group walked out of the door. However, they declined Luo Hui's offer and walked out of the alley.
"Your Highness, why did you let Censor Luo continue to impeach you in the end?" Gu Tingye asked with some confusion.
Zhao Xing answered irrelevantly and asked, "How is your father?"
Ever since Xiao Qin was sent to the Shenjie Division, Gu Yankai has been recuperating at home on the pretext of illness.
"Thank you, Your Highness. My father is in good health." Gu Tingye said.
"It's good that you are not seriously injured. Lord Gu hasn't taught me martial arts and military tactics for some time." Zhao Xing smiled and said, "It is still useful to learn some military tactics. The move I just used is called playing hard to get."
"Playing hard to get what you want?" Gu Tingye didn't quite understand what Zhao Xing meant for a moment.
Zhao Xing had no intention of explaining, but sighed and said, "It's a pity that he didn't agree."
People like Luo Hui are like stones in a toilet, smelly and hard.
Zhao Xingneng changed the concept and made him agree that the next step would be to focus on supervising the land clearance situation in various counties of Kaifeng Prefecture.
But Zhao Xing's persuasion for a long time failed to persuade Luo Hui to continue to impeach him.
At the morning court today, he managed to escape temporarily by making a fuss.
But those people will not give up just like that, and they will definitely impeach him next.
Zhao Xing asked Luo Hui to impeach him, with the original intention of letting Luo Hui set the pace.
If those officials want to impeach him, the focus will definitely be on what he has done.
Zhao Xing wanted Luo Hui to shift the focus from the matter to the people.
Whether the land clearance can proceed depends on the emperor's will.
If they only deal with the matter and not the person, the emperor might see that the resistance is too great and ask him to stop.
But if those people focused on Zhao Xing when impeaching him, it would be different.
It's like when your own child makes a mistake outside, others come to your door and tell you what your son did.
When the father hears this, he will know that his child has done something wrong and will definitely want to educate his child.
But if the person who comes to your door not only says these things, but also says something about your child doing such a thing and what will happen to him in the future.
A father will be unhappy when he hears this. To put it simply, this kind of unhappiness is because he is protecting his child.
Of course, there are also some fathers who feel that their children have brought shame and embarrassment to them and go back to beat their children even harder.
But my father would not do that. First of all, he is the only son and he must be protective of him.
Secondly, he is the crown prince, and his father will support him in order to maintain the crown prince's dignity.
(End of this chapter)