I Am an Idle Minister

On the day the Regent Dayong returned to Beijing, 20,000 people knelt on Zhuque Street. Meng Xian also knelt down—strictly speaking, he was squatting. He was still holding half a piece of sesame seed cake in his hand, and was feeling distressed for the sesame seeds that fell on his knees. Then he looked up and saw the regent sitting on a tall horse. "Iron pillar?" With a shocking nickname, the air in the entire street froze on the spot. Everyone was waiting for Meng Xian's head to fall to the ground. But the regent just reined in his horse, looked at the half piece of sesame seed cake in his hand, and said something that made the civil and military officials in the court suspect that he was deaf - "Be polite, don't touch the sesame seed cake in his hand." Meng Yun, an idler in the market, named Xian, a time traveler, a pragmatist, and the number one "waste" in Dayong. His younger brother, Zhao Heng, whose nickname is... Forget it, let's call him Tiezhu. He was the regent of the late emperor Tuogu. He held the world's soldiers and horses, but he spent all day fighting wits and courage with the Queen Mother in the court. When the brothers reunited, Tiezhu asked: "Where have you been in the past two years? I have been looking for you for two whole years." Meng Xian scratched his head: "Just hanging around in the capital. I didn't know you were so promising. If I had known, I would have come to find you earlier." After reminiscing about old times, Tie Zhu handed over a copy of the palace's fake accounts. Meng Xian finished flipping through two cups of tea and raised three fingers: "Three thousand taels were lost. You asked me to check the account because you asked me to check the evidence." After the account was checked, the original purchase was taken away, and Meng Xian was naturally placed in the purchasing position. The whole capital thought that the regent had rewarded Fa Xiao with a morsel of food because of his old friendship - what kind of trouble could a loser squatting on the imperial master's chair chewing sesame seed cakes make? Not long after, an epidemic broke out in the capital. Pharmacies all over the city were robbed, and the hospital was helpless. Only