I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 118
After the martial arts competition, several good talents emerged. Gu Yuanbai threw these people into the land division and navy division, and were trained by the generals.
This year’s Wu champion is a young man named Suning. His father and brother have been farmers for three generations. It is not easy for a farming family to raise such a proud son. Gu Yuanbai sent someone to inquire and found out that Suning was the beloved disciple and son-in-law of the doctor of the Ministry of War. No wonder that in this martial arts competition, the doctor of the Ministry of War said that he would be sick in the future, so it turned out that he was trying to avoid suspicion.
Half a month after the martial arts competition, people who went to control drugs along the coast sent a drug addict to Beijing.
That day, Gu Yuanbai took all the imperial doctors and close ministers from the Imperial Hospital to see the addict’s progress in drug addiction.
People who have always felt that the Holy Spirit is making a fuss out of a molehill, after seeing with their own eyes the crazy reaction of drug addicts when they are drugged, a chill runs down their spines. This chill reaches from their limbs to their internal organs, as if they are in the cold winter.
He was irrational and as ferocious as a wild beast. He was no longer a human being, but a ghost who still had energy left.
It wasn’t until the addict finally fainted and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, that everyone felt a heavy burden lifted from their hearts and could breathe again.
“Heart palpitations, complexion pale or sallow,” Gu Yuanbai said lightly, “retching and nausea. I have been like this a few days ago. My hands and feet are weak, and my heartbeat is too fast.”
The ministers all looked at the Holy One in shock.
The doctors from the Imperial Hospital knelt down one by one, and several of them, the white-haired old doctors, were choking with sobs: “Your Majesty, I am guilty.”
“It’s hard for you to not see it,” Gu Yuanbai looked at the addict who had fainted on the ground, with a heavy look in his eyes, “I have only been taking it for more than ten days, and the daily dose is very small. I just overreacted. No. Blame you.”
Gu Yuanbai dismissed the imperial doctor and led the ministers back to the Xuanzheng Hall. Only then did the ministers, who had seen the appearance of drug addicts, understand why the Holy Lord was so strong in the past few days and even refused to listen to the advice. After issuing the order, it was a pity that not only did they do nothing at that time, but they almost hindered His Majesty the Emperor.
The intimate ministers were silent in twos and threes, speechless. Gu Yuanbai saw what they were thinking, and tapped the corner of the table with his finger, “I called you here, not to ask you to stand here and be a fool to me, but cheer up one by one, and do some useful things for me.” idea.”
The ministers cheered up and accompanied the Holy Admiral to sort out the reasons one by one.
This conversation turned directly to dinner. After Gu Yuanbai left them to finish their meal, he let the minister go back. Later, Kong Yilin came to see him. After explaining what the Supervision Office had investigated in Xixia, he said in a complicated way: “Once you investigate this matter, you will find that it is so intricate that one person can involve several high-ranking officials and powerful people. At a glance, , no one can be uninvolved in this matter.”
“Because people who have nothing to do with this matter are either dead or have been imprisoned in the Xixia Emperor’s prison,” Gu Yuanbai handed him an envelope, “Smart people know that if they keep their mouths shut, they will be worried. People have learned that words without actions are useless. Take it and see.”
Kong Yilin took it and looked at it, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Gu Yuanbai leaned back and leaned on the back of his chair, thinking carefully about the time of Kong Yilin’s rebellion in the original text.
According to the extent to which the Emperor of Xixia smoked the national incense, he would not live long as long as the incense was broken. Even if he didn’t die, he still didn’t have the momentum to accompany Kong Yilin and send troops towards Daheng.
That should be the next successor.
Xixia’s next successor should be very ambitious and value talents. He understood Kong Yilin and the value of the cotton in his hands, so he gave Kong Yilin what he couldn’t get in Daheng – power and status.
Looking at it this way, he at least has an open-minded mind that does not care about the origin of talents. Or perhaps, this successor is extremely lacking in talents to serve him, so he is so eager for talents that he does not care about whether this person has the blood of Daheng.
He also knows how to assess the situation and be able to bend and stretch. In the original text, the war between Daheng and Xixia was the battle between Xue Yuan and Yang Wei. After knowing that he could not defeat Daheng, Xixia’s attitude of admitting defeat was very straightforward.
The next successor of Xixia is a figure. Is such a figure really not aware of the harm of national fragrance, and will he really let the national fragrance spread wildly?
Gu Yuanbai exhaled a breath and suddenly asked: “Do you know the second prince of Xixia?”
“The second prince of Xixia,” Kong Yilin was startled, then recalled, “I only got to know the second prince of Xixia after he came to the capital. I am very unfamiliar with him and don’t know much about him. I heard that his reputation is not great and his ability is mediocre. Yu Ming has no place to talk about.”
Gu Yuanbai smiled and thought to himself, isn’t it enough to have a hard life?
He did not say anything more about the matter, but instead joked: “Kong Qing, I heard that Mr. Shi Mi, the imperial censor of the Procuratorate, wants to marry the youngest daughter of his family to you. Is this true or false?”
Kong Yilin’s face heated up, “Your Majesty, Lord Mi has no such intention.”
“Oh?” Gu Yuanbai curled his lips, “I heard that in the past two months, Kong Qing would run towards the temple eagerly as soon as he took a rest. Fortunately, he would meet him every time. The little daughter of Mr. Mi’s family.”
Kong Yilin leaned over directly, bowed and left.
But when he was about to step out of the palace gate, he inadvertently glanced back from the corner of his eye and saw Lord Xue Yuan leaning over and whispering in the ear of the Holy Emperor. Kong Yilin calmly withdrew his eyes, and Tongtian Fusheng smiled and walked quickly away from the palace.
*
Xue Yuan said in His Majesty’s ear: “Your Majesty, on the next holiday, why don’t you go to the temple to offer incense?”
In the past month, Xue Yuan had never done anything to go beyond the limits of Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and asks him to take the water with disheveled hair. Occasionally, the warm water slips from the corner of his lips. When Gu Yuanbai thinks that Xue Yuan will lean over to suck it, Xue Yuan does not move, not even daring to lift a finger. Lift up and touch him.
The person who dared to hold him down for an hour that day and kept secretly trying to gain advantage seemed to suddenly change, becoming so restrained that he almost became a different person. When Gu Yuanbai came out of the spring pool, the water droplets on his hair dripped all over the ground, forming intermittent beads, sliding from his neck to the feet of his robe, but Xue Yuan would rather close his eyes and lower his head than go to the saint. Take a look at him.
Boring.
In the past few days, Gu Yuanbai was upset when he saw him. He thought to himself, could it be that the second move after seduction was just playing hard to get?
Is it possible that Xue Jiuyao plans to use all of these tactics on him?
He didn’t want to talk and continued to deal with the memorial with a cold face. Xue Yuan didn’t move and persuaded in a low voice: “Your Majesty, it’s time for you to rest. You’re worried that your body won’t be able to bear it.”
For some reason, his voice also became mute for a month.
“Go away,” Gu Yuanbai frowned and said, “I have a pure heart and few desires, and I rest every day.”
There was a smile in Xue Yuan’s eyes, “Your Majesty, how can this be considered a rest? It is spring now, which is a good time for neither cold nor hot. Your Majesty does not need to take Tian Fusheng with you, just take me with you. , I will take good care of you.”
When Tian Fusheng heard this, he became anxious and wanted to rush forward and fight Xue Yuan, “Master Xue, I don’t like hearing what you are saying. Your Majesty cannot leave the palace without taking your little one with you. It would be a big inconvenience if you don’t take him with you.”
Gu Yuanbai turned over a page of the memorial and said, “Can’t you visit my imperial garden?”
“That’s different,” Tian Fusheng also advised him, “Your Majesty, you really should go out for a walk.”
Gu Yuanbai originally wanted to relax and relax his tense nerves. He originally planned to go out for an outing on the next holiday.
At this time, he raised his eyes and looked at the captain of the guard, “Do you also think it’s time for me to go out and see the spring scenery?”
The captain of the guard was flattered, and after saluting, he said seriously: “I, Lord Xue, and Manager Tian have the same thoughts, and I think so too.”
Gu Yuanbai glanced at Xue Yuan out of the corner of his eye. As expected, the smile on the latter’s face changed. He was looking at Zhang Xu with a smile that made people laugh. He sneered and said with a smile: “Then go ahead.”
*
On holiday, Jingchen Temple.
Gu Yuanbai was dressed in ordinary clothes, and there was a young novice monk leading the way, and he went to visit the Buddha in each temple one by one.
The late emperor liked Buddha, and he did not just kneel down to worship gods and Buddhas sincerely. Gu Yuanbai is a materialist, but after experiencing time travel, whether he believes it or not, when he sees gods and Buddhas, he will also think about whether there are ghosts and gods in this world.
He stood in the center of the Buddhist temple, with his hands behind his back. He was dressed in green clothes as slender as bamboo, looking directly at the golden Buddha in the temple without avoiding it.
The golden Buddha was wiped spotless, its eyes were piercing, and it seemed to be looking at Gu Yuanbai. The corners of its lips under its thick ears were slightly raised, showing deep kindness.
Gu Yuanbai looked at it for a while, and his heart moved, but Xue Yuan suddenly grabbed Gu Yuanbai’s wrist with a serious face: “Stop looking.”
Gu Yuanbai’s thoughts were interrupted. He looked down at the hand he was holding, sneered a few times, and quickly shook it off.
Isn’t it just playing hard to get? Then don’t fucking touch me.
As soon as he shook off his hand, Gu Yuanbai immediately felt refreshed. With a smile on his lips, he looked at the scenery in the temple with the novice in a happy mood. He did not worship the Buddha, but he did not stop the people around him from doing so. After receiving permission from the palace attendants and guards, they lit incense and went in to worship formally every time they passed a temple with a Buddha statue.
After seeing everything that needed to be seen, the group took a vegetarian meal in the temple.
The scent of sandalwood in the temple is the most hypnotic. After the meal, Gu Yuanbai felt a little sleepy, so he took a nap in the side room. After waking up, he heard lightning and thunder in his ears, and the pounding sound of heavy rain could be clearly heard. He stood up and looked outside. It was clearly just past noon, but the sky was gloomy, with a hint of coldness and wind. It was indeed raining.
“Someone’s coming.”
The palace attendant entered the door and waited for the Holy Lord to get up. Gu Yuanbai looked around, frowned and said, “Why are there so many people missing?”
Before he finished speaking, several soaked people came running to this place in the rain. It was Xue Yuan and a few guards who were missing. They ran all the way under the corridor, and the wet rain wet the dry ground. The fine water spilled and splashed everywhere.
