"Everyone is doing this for Your Majesty's benefit."
Tang An'an was slightly stunned when he heard what Yan Rongna, a scholar-bureaucrat, wanted to force Li Xia to remonstrate with Ruliu, and reminded him in a low voice: "It's okay for my sister to say this to me, but don't let others hear it."
"I heard it when I heard it, who else should I be afraid of?"
Yan Rong has never been afraid to speculate on the scholar-bureaucrats with the greatest malice, and she will say whatever comes to her mind. If her words were spread, she would probably offend the officials of the New Tang Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty, and she would be called a "witch concubine".
Speaking of which, she herself was born into a family of officials and gentry. She was very familiar with the intrigues between the emperor and the civil servants and always stood on the side of the emperor. She had no good impression of the scholar-bureaucrats. Although Tang Anan was born in poverty, she had a well-behaved personality and loved poetry, calligraphy and painting.
I better understand the practices of scholar-bureaucrats.
No one is right or wrong in these things, it's just a matter of different angles of thinking about the problem, and the difference between a strong and a strong character.
At this time, Tang An'an looked at Yan Rong like an obedient student in school looking at those naughty people. He felt that it was out of the ordinary and a little strange. He was about to give some more advice when Miao Lan ran over.
Because she was not familiar with the Jiangling Mansion Office, Miao Lan ran around and walked into several wrong courtyards one after another. She was so anxious that she even cried.
"Concubine Ning, they can't find Your Majesty."
"What's wrong? Don't worry about crying, tell me what's wrong, Your Majesty?"
"This slave is not crying. She was crying because she couldn't find a way out. Nothing else. There are a few civil servants at the front office asking to see Your Majesty, but the guards didn't tell them where Your Majesty went."
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Zhao Jin stood in the house and saw Yan Rong and Tang Anan hurriedly leaving with others outside. He secretly wondered what the meaning of these people who were focused on surrounding Li Fanfan all day long.
She turned back to the couch and lay down again, wanting to sleep for a while, but as soon as she closed her eyes, the tragic scene in the city she saw when she entered the city last night came to mind again.
So she called Wang Cui and asked, "I want to go for a walk in the city, is that okay?"
Zhao Jin just asked casually, but he didn't expect Wang Cui to agree, because Yan Rong did not restrict her from going out, she only needed to take a guard with her. The original words were, "I will never make you worse than when Jia Sidao looked at her."
free".
I left the office through the back door and walked for a while. I saw that the corpses in Jiangling City had been cleaned up in just one night. Even the blood stains on the road had been washed away, and it seemed that calm had returned.
But the traces of fire and axes left by a battle are still there, and the smell of blood in the air has not dissipated.
There were not many pedestrians on the streets, but from time to time, soldiers from the Tang Dynasty patrolling the streets could be seen.
Most of the shops were closed, but there were also those selling firewood, rice, oil, salt, and incense and candle shops that were open.
A few soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were coming out of a shop in front of them, and they were still saying, "I have said that order has been restored, and you can go about your business with peace of mind. The emperor is here, what are you afraid of... the sword?"
Although she had brought her bodyguard, Wang Cui was still a little uneasy. She turned around and saw a few men in plainclothes coming out of the front door of the office. She recognized them as Li Xia's servants and deliberately led Zhao Jin to follow them in the same direction.
, to ensure the neighborhood is safe.
Unexpectedly, these people turned into a remote and dirty alley and stopped in front of a dilapidated house.
Zhao Jin was a little absent-minded and was led by Wang Cui aimlessly. He didn't realize that Wang Cui was following someone else until he stopped at the entrance of the alley. When he turned around, he saw that there were already more than a dozen people standing there.
The strange thing is that these people remained quiet and no one spoke.
"What are they doing?" Zhao Jin asked Wang Cui in a low voice.
The door of the broken house was pushed open, and Li Xia walked out.
He was wearing a black cloak and his face looked very stern. Without saying a word, he left behind him and more than ten people followed him.
Zhao Jin at the entrance of the alley stepped aside and lowered his head.
She didn't know whether he saw her or not, until the dozen figures walked away, the group of people ignored them.
There was no formal appearance and no formal arrangements. If he hadn't recognized his appearance, who would have known that this was Li Xia, who had just rebelled against the Song Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor.
Zhao Jin turned around and looked at the broken house again, wondering what Li Xia could do if he stayed out all night and came here.
This situation inevitably makes people speculate that maybe he has occupied a certain civilian girl in Jiangling City.
Out of curiosity, she walked over there, and when she arrived in front of the broken house, she heard an old voice inside: "Fu'er? Where did my son go?"
"Mom, are you awake? Brother Fu is blessed. He is favored by a high official and wants to go to Chang'an to work. He will be given firewood every month. This is the rice and noodles given first."
In the evening, Zhao Jin returned to the backyard of the office. Yan Rong was already waiting in her room. When he saw her, he scolded her a lot.
Zhao Jin listened absently, then interrupted her and asked, "Do you know where Li Ni went last night?"
"Don't ask about His Majesty's whereabouts. Even I don't need to know when and where he went." Yan Rong agreed casually, and immediately continued, "Compared to the miserable situation in Sichuan and Sichuan, Jiangling City is still nothing.
Of course people in Sichuan and Shu think differently from people living in Lin'an..."
Zhao Jin didn't listen, thinking that even Yan Rong didn't know, so the fact that Li Ni went to be the son of the old woman who had lost her son for one night had really not spread.
Then again, that really doesn't seem like something an emperor would do.
At least her father wouldn't.
"I'm talking to you." Yan Rong suddenly got angry, turned around and asked, "Do you remember Wang Yinglin?"
"I don't really remember."
"Isn't he your enlightenment sir?"
Zhao Jin really couldn't remember it.
That was when she was very young. Concubine Jia was still there and Yan Rong had not yet entered the palace. Zhao Yun heard that a courtier Wang Yinglin had written the "Three Character Classic" which was quite interesting, so he asked someone to carry the little princess to the Xuande Hall and follow her.
He made a paragraph and said with a smile that Wang Yinglin was Mr. Enlightenment.
But it is obviously not a formal master-disciple relationship.
If it comes to it, Wang Yinglin must not recognize it. Many of his disciples are well-educated people like Wen Yunsun. As for the little princess Zhao Jin, there is no ink in her stomach, so she plays Cuju and fights with crickets all day long...
"Don't you know me yet? I get a headache when I read the book." Zhao Jin is also self-aware.
Thinking back to the old events in Lin'an, it suddenly seemed as distant as a dream.
Yan Rong laughed when he heard this. Although Song Dynasty allowed the woman to study, she still had a headache when she saw the book.
After that, she didn't say much about this matter. She just mentioned it because Li Xia was meeting Wang Yinglin at the moment.
Li Xia felt that recruiting famous scholars was sometimes like pursuing a woman. For example, when dealing with Li Ye, he had to spend a lot of time coaxing him at first. After getting along for a long time, the monarch and his ministers had a tacit understanding, so they were able to avoid the pretentious behavior of these polite and virtuous corporals.
Facing Wang Yinglin at this time, a famous scholar like Zhou Mi did the same, but he was much more hypocritical.
It is said that he has admired their articles and poems for a long time, but in fact, Li Xia only just read through their works today.
He read "Jade Sea" written by Wang Yinglin and knew that it was the imperial examination textbook of the time. Almost all the imperial examination scholars had read it, which shows Wang Yinglin's reputation.
As for Zhou Mi's Ci, he was as famous as he was at that time. People at the time called him "a man of flowing beauty and love, the spring melts in the snow, and he is regarded as a talented doctor"... But in Li Xia's eyes, he only felt that he was not as good as Li Bai and Su Dongpo.
Of course, this is because he does not understand the words, not because the careful words are really average.
The same is true for Li Xia when it comes to these scholar-bureaucrats. He can't understand the merits of these famous scholars who are admired by the world. It's like a country man who sees a pot of priceless tea and knows that it is precious, but drinking it down only quenches his thirst.
He needs to quench his thirst.
Having just proclaimed himself emperor, Li Xia needed Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi's reputation among the scholars.
"Yesterday there was a tragic military disaster in Jiangling. The ignorant students in the city lost their sense of proportion because of the death of their relatives and friends, and made rude remarks. Please don't blame the Emperor of Tang Dynasty."
After seeing the gift, Zhou Mi quickly made a request.
Shi Jun heard what those young and inexperienced scholars said in the government school, and he had no choice but to hide it from the eyes and ears of the Public Opinion Department. He had no choice but to intercede on their behalf.
This was also the reason why he and Wang Yinglin had to come to see Li Xia.
Li Xia said: "I failed to protect the people of Jiangling. I will definitely not care about a few slanders. You two gentlemen can rest assured."
In fact, there is nothing to be pretentious about. It is just a matter of admitting that it is one's own fault that the people of Jiangling have suffered.
"The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was magnanimous and magnanimous. Foreign ministers expressed their gratitude to Jiangling students and the people." Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi quickly thanked him.
"Why should we call him 'foreign minister' again?" Li Xia said straightforwardly: "Guanzhong has been under the rule of the Hulu for a long time, and academics have declined. I would like to ask Duke Shen Ning to lead the Imperial Academy and edit the National History Museum for me, so as to benefit the learning in Guanzhong. I don't know.
How about Shen Ning’s general will?”
Wang Yinglin hurriedly bowed again and said politely: "I would like to thank the Emperor of Tang for his love. However, I have been favored by the Song Dynasty for a long time and I dare not live up to it."
If we still use the analogy of pursuing a woman, Li Xia was obviously not patient enough when he recruited these two people. Not long after they first met, he gave each other a gift and then made a straightforward statement.
I asked Zhou Mi again later, but was still rejected.
Li Xia realized that he was impatient, so he assumed the posture of a courteous corporal, smiled warmly, and said: "In that case, I have just ascended the throne for the first time, and I would like to ask Duke Shen Ning and Duke Cao Chuang for advice on how to govern the country. I don't know.
Is that possible?"
Rather than using high-ranking officials and generous salaries to attract others, talking about the philosophy of governing the country is the right way to communicate with these scholars who have the world in mind.
Real talents want more opportunities to use their talents to benefit the world and the people.
This time, their attitudes were different. They saluted and said, "The foreign minister must tell you everything he knows."
However, the next moment, a servant hurriedly came forward and reported to Li Xia in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, General Lu is back and says he has urgent military information to report."
Li Xia did not hesitate and said to Wang Yinglin carefully: "I have military affairs to deal with temporarily, so I will not bother you two gentlemen another day."
Compared to these two famous scholars, what he cared more about was indeed military affairs.
And by using the word "Nao Nuo", I thought I was being very courteous and virtuous.
"The foreign minister resigns."
Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi were led out of the office and walked far away. Zhou Mi looked around and shook his head.
"Shi Zipang called him a benevolent king. What did Duke Shen Ning think?"
Wang Yinglin sighed and said: "Jiangling suffered a tragic military disaster, with countless casualties. In exchange for him saying, 'I failed to protect the people of Jiangling,' it was an understatement, an understatement... In this world, how many people, who are kings and kings, have sympathy for the people?"