girl, you're wrong

Chapter 669 The Art of Governing the Country
"Mother." Cheng Jinyang said in greeting.

"You still remember to come to see me." Xie Guyan said in surprise, "Why, are you tired of playing with them?"

Cheng Jinyang was almost speechless, but seeing the playful, strange and meaningful smiles of the ladies around his mother, he quickly remembered the business and said:
"I have to go back to Jiankang recently."

"Ready to do it?" Xie Guyan raised his eyebrows.

"The time is ripe." Cheng Jinyang nodded and said, "Everyone follow me back to Jiankang."

"That's natural." Xie Guyan didn't intend to keep Ah Zhi and the others. After all, they are all noble ladies. They have been in the north for so long, and they must go back to see the family. "Beidou, Zhiming, Mengzhang, and The others stayed, and the South doesn't need them to go back for the time being, so I happened to take them to Longyou."

"Well, I'll talk to them when I get back." Cheng Jinyang nodded.

Xie Guyan waved his hand and drove his son and daughter-in-law out of the Vientiane Shrine.

"How is the child?" After taking everyone out of the palace, Cheng Jinyang first asked about Teacher Li and Yunyun.

"My child is very healthy." Teacher Li said with a smile, pressing his hands on his lower abdomen.

"Speaking of this, I'm a little worried." Lu Qingyun said worriedly, "Since I was pregnant with the child, I feel that the demon living in my body has never spoken again."

"Uh." The girls were all speechless, "Here we go again."

"Yunyun, that can only mean that you have recovered from your illness." Qingqing said with the attitude of someone who has come here, "Don't just think about it without evidence."

"Then why is it better sooner or later, but this time is better?" Lu Qingyun nervously held Cheng Jinyang's hand, and said fearfully, "Jinyang, I'm worried that she will be transferred to our daughter's body..."

"Yunyun!" Sister Xiaopei interrupted her, and couldn't help but raise her voice, "Mother has checked, and your child is fine! You are just recovering from illness."

"Really?" Lu Qingyun still frowned, "But, the innate magic skills of monsters are all kinds of strange things. Will there be any monsters who can hide it from mother?"

"Mother is the first-rank emperor." Xing Yuanzhi reminded her, "If you have the ability to hide the first-rank emperor, why would such a terrifying monster parasitize you? Wouldn't it be better to go out and be free?"

"Maybe she can't get out?" Lu Qingyun continued to speculate, "Maybe she is just trapped in my body, and she wants to use my daughter's body to escape?"

"Yunyun, your imagination is too rich!" Cui Xiaoniang persuaded with a smile, "First of all, monsters don't need parasitism at all. They can be resurrected after death anyway. Why do they parasitize others to linger on their last days?"

"Secondly, although what you just said is possible, there is no clear evidence, right? I think it's better not to add unnecessary psychological burden to yourself..."

"I really have no evidence to prove that there are demons in my body." Lu Qingyun sighed, "But, there is no evidence to prove that there are no demons in my body!"

"This thing still needs to be proved?" Yang Wangshu blurted out, "Aren't we all parasitized by demons?"

"That's right." Cheng Jinyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Yunyun, I think you should not be too nervous, and you can relax after returning to Jiankang...Huh?"

He swept his eyes across the crowd and suddenly asked:

"Where's Miss Wang?"

"Oh, she should be reading in the imperial study!" Zheng Qiupei slapped his forehead, "We almost forgot about her."

Cheng Jinyang: ………………

"Go to the imperial study!" He waved his hand and said.

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When the eldest ladies of the gentry were flattering their mother-in-law, Wang Wanrou had completely escaped from these constraints.

She has been staying in the imperial study for the past few days, reading books that only the emperors of the Sima family could read a hundred years ago.

In the data age since Sima Zhongda, most information has been digitized.Those that can be preserved as physical books are often the most precious essence.

Therefore, when everyone arrived at the imperial study room, they saw Miss Wang leaning back on the office chair, reading leisurely with a book in her left hand, and eating cherries in the fruit bowl next to her with her right hand.

The sunlight shone through the window lattice of the study room, reflecting her delicate side face as if coated with a layer of holy gold.

"What are you looking at?" Cheng Jinyang stuck his head out from behind her chair with his hands behind his back.

Wang Wanrou didn't speak, but just revealed the cover of the book.

Everyone took a closer look and saw that the title of the book was "Golden Parachute——From Emperor Gaozu Xuan's Governance".

"What is this writing?" Cheng Jinyang asked curiously.

"Ah, I know that." Cui Xiaoniang said suddenly, "The golden parachute is the talent-seeking system that Sima Zhongda came up with."

"Because the imperial court's demand for talents became more and more prosperous at that time, but there was no good screening system, so in addition to the old investigation system, it also relied on people from the same village to recommend each other."

"For example, if there is a small official from Qinghe County, I will ask him to recommend other talents from Qinghe County."

"But for this recommender, if the recommended person joins him and gains power, his interests may be adversely affected, so he may not be actively recommending—especially those whose abilities are mediocre."

"That's why Sima Zhongda proposed the golden parachute contract, promising that those mediocre low-level bureaucrats, if they recommend talented and outstanding fellow villagers, they will be rewarded generously, or they will be replaced by more noble positions."

"In this way, the self-interest of the recommender will not be lost because of the recommended person, and he will naturally recommend enthusiastically."

"Of course, Sima Zhongda vigorously promoted the popularization of education later, and finally relied on the imperial examination system to replace the examination system, and the golden parachute was eliminated in due course."

"I see." Cheng Jinyang nodded and said emotionally, "Wanrou is worthy of being my brain truster. Is this learning how to govern the country for me?"

Wang Wanrou didn't answer, she just stood up and pointed to the bookshelf next to her:

"In this row of bookshelves, you have to read the books at the bottom as soon as possible. If you have a basic impression in your mind, you will be able to control them without hindrance."

"Go up one level, read it within three months after becoming emperor, and have a deep understanding, so that the administration will be smooth."

"Go up to the next level, read it within three years, practice it, and apply what you have learned, so that the temple will be united."

"Go up to the next level, finish reading within ten years, and integrate with practical experience, and you will have a stable society."

"The books on the top level can be read tens of thousands of times, and then passed on to descendants, so as to ensure that the empire will not be destroyed by the second generation."

Cheng Jinyang: ………………

Dare to let me learn!

(End of this chapter)