Jian Ruonan was talking with Dantai Mo, while Emperor Deyuan was talking with the ministers.
Shi Fan, the Minister of Rites, said, "Your Majesty, why not appoint Wealthy Gentleman Jian directly as the Anti-Gambling Imperial Commissioner?!"
Treat their Little Treasure as a human weapon and deploy her straight into the three princes' fiefs. Wouldn't she wipe all three out in minutes?!
Why go round in circles and make them stick their necks out instead?!
Unlike their little confiscation sweetheart, they didn't have Great-Grandma protecting them!
The other ministers thought, It's not that His Majesty doesn't want to. Our sweetheart can't endure that hardship. Besides, she has such a large family. If any of them die or get hurt, what happens when Great-Grandma comes to claim our lives?
His Majesty certainly didn't want his obituary to read "aged forty-eight."
If you're so brave, you tell her!
His Majesty certainly won't volunteer.
Emperor Deyuan: "..."
Emperor Deyuan said, "Minister Shi, Wealthy Gentleman Jian has held office for less than half a year. She hasn't even learned many of the ins and outs of officialdom. How could she be qualified to serve as the Anti-Gambling Imperial Commissioner?"
It's not that I cling to life and fear death. Appointing our sweetheart as the Anti-Gambling Imperial Commissioner simply defies all reason.
Shi Fan, you're a first-rank minister and a Grand Academician of the Hall of Literary Glory, yet you want a seventh-rank Yuanwailang to serve as the Anti-Gambling Imperial Commissioner?
Isn't that absurd?
Shi Fan said, "That's easily solved. Your Majesty need only promote Wealthy Gentleman Jian."
Emperor Deyuan: "..."
Promote her straight from Subordinate Seventh Rank to second or third rank?
What would future historians write about me?!
Especially those unofficial histories. Who knows how they'd smear me and our sweetheart behind our backs?