Following Ding Daquan's question, there was a chill in his eyes, and coupled with his blue face, he seemed to be an evil ghost who could see through people's hearts.
However, Li Xia met his gaze calmly and said: "I only want to join the army in Shu and stay away from the disputes in Lin'an Mansion. Naturally, I will not sneak around Prime Minister Ding to find any trouble."
Ding Daquan looked Li Xia up and down, not knowing whether he believed it or not. Finally, he sneered and said with a smile: "Join the army? Only fools want to be military attachés. The real commanders of the army in the Song Dynasty were all civilian officials."
Li Xia said: "I don't know how to write stereotypes, and I don't like reading."
"You saw that Cheng Shenfu was a rotten scholar, and he asked you to study at Taixue?"
When Li Xia heard this, he knew that "Shen Fu" was probably Cheng Yuanfeng's character, and responded: "Yes."
"I'm not Cheng Shenfu. I follow some shabby rules." Ding Daquan said calmly.
His tone seemed to look down on Cheng Yuanfeng very much, and he said casually: "Since you want to go to Shu and make meritorious service, I will arrange this and find you a good official position."
"Thank you, Prime Minister Ding." Li Xia cupped his hand.
This surrender may also represent a stain on his official career.
In comparison, Cheng Yuanfeng's arrangements at that time were really considering him.
Ding Daquan agreed readily, not because he was more sincere than Cheng Yuanfeng, but because he had no bottom line at all.
However, Li Xia, following Ding Daquan, broke the rules and was promoted to an official position, so he was bound to be scolded as a treacherous official, and he would be criticized by thousands of people.
Although he didn't care about this at all, he never thought about who he wanted to be a 'subordinate' to. It was up to others to think of treacherous ministers or loyal ministers.
Ding Daquan asked again: "Everyone in the world calls me treacherous. Are you not afraid of ruining your reputation by joining me?"
Li Xia said: "It's better than being slandered as a 'mongolian' and being accused and executed."
"that's all?"
"yes."
"You should flatter me more."
"Just telling the truth." Li Xia said.
Ding Daquan looked around and glanced at Li Xia's straight back.
Turning his eyes again, he saw the eyes that were neither humble nor overbearing, and the calmness in his eyes.
Ding Daquan condensed slightly.
When the world looked at his blue face, there was more or less disgust, fear, and avoidance in his eyes... and they regarded him as a monster.
The kind of avoidance and suspicion that "you must be a ghost if you look like this", no matter how subtle it is, he can feel it keenly.
However, Li Xia didn't.
It was almost the first time in Ding Daquan's life that he encountered such a calm look.
He suddenly felt a little emotional, walked a few steps, stood in front of the window with his hands behind his hands, and sighed.
"Ever since I rose to the top, I have been surrounded by snakes, insects, rats, and ants. In many years, I haven't seen anyone as outstanding as you come to serve."
Li Xia knew that he was not talking about appearance, but posture.
"Prime Minister Ding is overly praised."
"Snake, insect, rat, ant..." Ding Daquan turned his back to Li Xia and murmured, then suddenly sighed.
"Everyone in the world says that I am evil, but they hate me, and I also hate them. They are just sanctimonious people and corrupt scholars. In the early years, I served as the governor of Ningde County, Fujian Road. The land is remote and mountainous, and the roads are inconvenient. The people travel there.
, trapped in the dangerous walls of fog and the poison of snakes and insects. I traveled against the journey and took Ningde as a warning. But I defied all opinions and was not afraid of difficulties. I opened up Baihe Ridge, passed through Luoyuan and stacked rocks, went straight to Fuzhou, and benefited the two counties of Ningluo.
People, do you think what I did is right or wrong?"
Li Xia said: "If it can benefit one party, it should be right."
"Do you know how the corrupt scholars impeached me?"
"I don't know."
"Impeaching me on the grounds that 'Qingluan has changed and morale is low' has ruined the local feng shui."
Li Xia said: "I don't understand."
"They said that Ling Road, which runs directly into the county seat, would hurt the cultural fortunes."
Li Xia was still a little confused and said, "I still don't understand."
Doctor Ding said: "The local scholar-bureaucrats who study here do not like the roads to be open. If the roads are open, the style of writing will be strong, and if the style of writing is strong, there will be fewer places for examinations in prefectures and counties. This is said to 'hurt the literary fortune'. I open up roads, and those who are bad are not the only ones." People's literary destiny... At that time, I was just a master, and I had never attached myself to the eunuchs, so I was still scolded as a traitor."
Li Xia was speechless.
Ding Daquan turned around, walked up to Li Xia, and brought the blue face closer.
"People say that I am like a ghost, but I see the world as a ghost. People say that I am vicious, greedy, and cruel, but can I be more poisonous than the human heart in the world?"
He actually seemed a little lonely at this moment.
He looked down on both the villains around him and the gentlemen who pointed at him and scolded him.
Li Xia didn't say anything. He could no longer tell which words these high-ranking temple officials said were true and which were false.
Maybe Ding Daquan is just showing off and trying to win people's hearts.
There's really nothing to say.
Ding Daquan sighed: "I fell in love with you, and I have said a lot today, a lot... In short, from now on, you can follow me in doing things, and you don't have to pay attention to the slander of the world."
"yes."
Ding Daquan then patted Li Xia on the shoulder and walked out.
However, he still left an instruction.
"Wu Yan, discuss the specific details with Li Xia... don't belittle him. Remember, I regard Li Xia as my nephew..."
"Yes, I would like to follow Duke Ding's instructions..."
Gui Hepu rushed into the hall and saw that Jia Sidao had returned home from the court and was leaning on a recliner to take a nap.
"Alang, Prime Minister Ding has indeed gone to Xinglifang Guanchao Villa. He must have reached an agreement with Li Xia."
"Yeah." Jia Sijia responded vaguely, opened his eyes and said, "He should have gained Ding Qingpi's trust."
Gui Hepu couldn't help but ask: "I really don't understand why A Lang let Li Xia go?"
"What he said is right. Even if he overthrows Xie Cheng, he will only be the same as Ding Qingpi. What's the difference between now and then?" Jia Sidao murmured: "The saying 'it's better to take a broad view' is really good. Vision.”
"But in this case, if Prime Minister Ding knew that Alang sent people to his side, wouldn't he offend him?"
"Otherwise, can Ding Qingpi think that I am easy to get along with?" Jia Sidao said casually: "It was because Li Xia said so directly that Ding Qingpi thought that I was nothing more than that, that there was no one around him that I had arranged for him, so he relaxed instead. alert."
Gui Hepu understood and couldn't help but smile.
"In this way, all the people A Lang placed around Prime Minister Ding will no longer be suspicious?"
"Ah."
"Alang, that's wonderful. Li Xia insists on rescuing Nie, Lin, and Liu, and won't let go, so let him save him himself. Alang doesn't have to do anything, but he can get a piece of information and a piece of credit. And this time he got it The prime minister on the left, leaving the prime minister on the right to fight with Ding Shu, and then set up a few secret chess pieces. It's a clever calculation."
Jia Sidao smiled, kicked him lightly, and cursed: "It's time to practice if you can't flatter me enough."
"Yes, yes...haven't I not understood everything yet? What if Li Xia really surrenders to Ding Shuxiang?"
"Won't."
Gui Hepu said: "Yes, yes, he has met Alang, how can he fall in love with Prime Minister Ding Shu again? One day he is an immortal, and the next he is a ghost. This villain is really worried. It's ridiculous that Prime Minister Ding Shu is so young. Alang and Li Xia are both great together, but they were fooled around."
"It sounded." Jia Sidao murmured, "But it didn't sound either."
"I'm not just trying to flatter you, I really mean it."
Jia Sidao shook his head and murmured to himself: "Do you really think I did this just because of the failure of the phase? The situation in the southwest is raging, I am incompetent, and the danger of national destruction is imminent. It is a top priority to thank Uncle Fang for the phase and replace the commander of Shu.
No room for hesitation.”
Gui Hepu was stunned, unable to tell whether Alang was joking or deceiving himself? Or was he trying to flatter himself in an extraordinary way this time?
Is it possible that Alang really thinks this way?
Gui Hepu was confused, and the flattering words that came to his lips could not be uttered for a moment...