Ji (picked up the cup and smelled the wine): Oh, good wine, really good wine!

He (smiling): It is indeed Ji Xiaolan. You can tell it is a good wine as soon as you smell it. To be honest, I brought this wine from the capital, and I have always been reluctant to drink it.

Ji (laughing): Forget it, Sir He. With such good wine, how can you not respect the emperor?

He (smiling and shaking his head): Mr. Ji, to be honest, this wine can only be enjoyed with close friends.

Ji (sneering slightly): Sir Tangtang, will your close friend be in jail?

He (holding up his wine glass and smiling): During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao was having a drink and discussing heroes. He said to Liu Bei: The only heroes in the world are your envoy and Cao Er. I feel the same way as someone tonight!

Ji (sneering): My lord, how can great evil and great kindness be compared? Sir, are you praising me or scolding me?

He (smiling helplessly): OK, OK, OK, you will be loyal and I will be traitorous, you will be honest and I will be greedy, you will be good and I will be evil, okay? You have taken all the good name in the world, and I have taken all the bad name in the world. In this case, shouldn't you and I have a drink?

(Ji Yuhe smiled and raised his glass to drink.)

Ji (put down the glass, with a steady expression): Mr. He, we still have to talk about something serious.

He: You said.

Ji (his face became more solemn and heavy): The officials of Yancheng Prefecture actually changed the disaster relief grain allocated by the emperor into bran and distributed it to the victims. Do you know this?

He (carelessly): Oh, I know.

Ji: Don’t you feel guilty, Sir?

He (smiling slightly): On the contrary, I feel very happy!

Ji (surprised) Why?

He (smiling): Mr. Ji didn’t know that one pound of grain can be exchanged for three pounds of bran. This also means that the food that could only save one person can now save three. personal.

Ji (slowly becoming angry): But bran is for livestock, not for humans!

He (impatiently) Oh, ons, are disaster victims considered human beings?

Ji (shocked): What did you say?

He (understatement): Don’t stare so wide. ...Do you know that people who are about to starve to death are no longer humans, they are livestock! When you're about to starve to death, why don't you worry about bran? That's a good thing! Grass roots, tree bark, and soil are all edible!

Ji (with great sadness): This is really shocking coming from the mouth of a dignitary and an adult.

He (quietly): Of course you are shocked. You are a scholar, and all you do is sit in your study, read books by sages, and scold those in power!

Ji (slapping the case angrily): Naturally, those in power must be scolded for being unfair!

He (helplessly): Why are you so angry...Come, come, drink, drink...stay calm...

(Ji and He also asked about having a drink . )

He (put down the wine glass, cautiously): Mr. Ji, have you ever seen anyone who died after eating Guanyin soil?

Ji (somewhat confused): What is Guanyin soil?

He (wry smile): Look, you don’t know... Also, have you ever seen the bark of all the trees in the thousands of miles of plains being eaten away?

Ji (surprised): Huh?

He (spreading his hands with a wry smile): This exchange of children for food... Oh, of course you have heard of this, it is just four words in the history books.

But I have seen it with my own eyes! ...If it were for the children to eat, it would be a pile of meat in the pot!

Ji (speechless): You...

He (sincerely): Do you think I am inhumane? You think I'm only interested in making money, don't you? ...I personally went to the disaster area, and when I saw it there, my heart dropped. Only then did I realize that no matter how much food the court allocated for disaster relief, it would never be enough! If I don't find a way to work around it, what Mr. Ji will see when he comes here is not the victims, but the bones!

Ji: This... the food for disaster relief is not enough. You can ask the court for some more Yinqiao poison tablets + bezoar poison tablets!

He (wry smile): The imperial court? Do you know how much money is left in the treasury? If you don’t know, you basically don’t know! ... After conquering Jinchuan and Jinchuan, and pacifying the Junggar tribe, the treasury is now an empty shell, you know?

Ji (impetuous) But the court still sent out disaster relief food! ...I looked at their account books and found that all officials, big and small, were embezzling the food funds for disaster relief!

He (gloomy): Save the people first, save the officials! If the officials can’t survive, how can we save the people!

Ji (angrily): Ridiculous, the door to my wild house is not a brick door!

He: This is a fact! ...Hey, let me ask you, among these tens of thousands of victims, should you distribute relief food, or should I? You can’t rely on those officials, big and small! Only after I feed them will they be willing to work for me!

Ji (sneering): This is really an ancient fallacy! Corruption and bribery actually make sense!

He (helpless): This is the great truth gained from decades of official life. This is the golden truth gained from countless bloody facts, Mr. Ji! ...Why don’t you understand!

Ji (annoyedly): I feed you with your salary and share your worries, every bit of it is the blessing of the people, sir! How can you bear to take another grain of food from the mouths of the victims!

He (helplessly): Here we go again, drinking and drinking...

(Ji and He drank again.)

He (Put down the glass): Mr. Ji, this official word has two mouths. Feed the top mouth first before feeding the bottom one!

Ji: There was Bao Gong in the Song Dynasty, Hai Rui in the Ming Dynasty, and Shi Gong in the Kangxi Dynasty. They were honest officials from generation to generation. I am ashamed of you!

He: Okay, then let me ask you, how many honest officials have there been, and how many corrupt officials have there been throughout the ages?

Discipline: Honest officials are as rare as phoenix feathers, and corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River.

He: Not yet! Then if I don’t rely on those corrupt officials, who should I rely on? As the Minister of Military and Aircraft, I would be nothing if not supported by those corrupt officials! ...Am I easy...