When Xu Ran entered the palace on the second day, he didn't meet the Emperor Chen in the former study room, but in the pavilion of the imperial garden. There was a beautiful woman sitting next to the Emperor Chen, and the third prince was sitting on the other side.

"Aiqing, you are here. This is Wen Yi." Emperor Chen introduced them, "Concubine Ai, this is my younger brother, Wang Yuanzhi. You are all people I value, so you should get along well."

Xu Ran was surprised, but didn't show it on his face. He bowed and saluted, "I have seen the imperial concubine and empress."

Concubine Wen stood up weakly, covered her heart and said softly, "My lord, there is no need to be too polite. I have long heard that Grand Tutor Feng'er is a learned, talented and suave person. Seeing you today, it is indeed so."

What she said was flattering the emperor, saying that the emperor had good eyesight, and said good things about Xu Ran, killing two birds with one stone.

The emperor's eyes were indeed much softer.

"Wen Yi and Li Wenfu, who framed you before, are aunts and nephews, and she was deceived and didn't know about it before."

When Xu Ran heard what the Emperor said, how dare he say that he didn't mind, the other party was always the Emperor.

Concubine Wen quickly left due to physical discomfort, leaving the third prince, Xu Ran and Emperor Chen in the pavilion.

Emperor Chen took a sip of West Lake Longjing, and slowly talked about the two foreigners, "Tomorrow those two people will be transported to the capital, and you two will be fully responsible at that time."

The third prince's eyes lit up, he had not received the Emperor's attention for a long time, this time the Emperor entrusted him with this task, which meant that he returned to the Emperor's vision again, how could he not be happy.

"My son will definitely do his best!"

The Emperor Chen said lightly, "Little San, you still have to learn a lot from Mr. Wang, and you should also ask him more about this matter. Let him prevail, understand?"

The third prince, who was happy just now, suddenly seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water. He replied stiffly, "Yes, father."

"Let's talk first, I still have a memorial that I haven't reviewed yet."

After Emperor Chen left, the third prince raised his head with a stiff smile on his face, with a cold light in his eyes, and said word by word, "Then please give me more advice, Lord Wang."

Xu Ran raised his eyebrows, looking at the other party's pale face, which was about to get angry and suppressed, it was very funny, "Third Prince, you are welcome, if there is nothing wrong, I will leave first."

Looking at the back of Xu Ran leaving gracefully, the third prince could no longer suppress his anger, and overturned the porcelain pot of flowers and plants next to him, and the pieces shattered all over the floor, "Wang Yuanzhi is nothing! How dare he do this in front of the hall?" Arrogant!"

Fortunately, they dismissed the maids while they were talking, otherwise the maids would see that the usually calm and reserved third prince now has a distorted face like an evil ghost.

Then the third prince straightened his sleeves and hurriedly left the Imperial Garden as if nothing had happened. Now he was in a hurry to discuss countermeasures with Concubine Wen.

Concubine Wen's return to honor quickly swept the entire harem like a storm, and no one was happy about it.

Concubine Wen herself was loved by the emperor, and she later won the alliance of the three princes who lost their mother. The three princes also had some influence in the court.

I thought that Concubine Wen Gui would completely fall out of favor after the last time, but who would have expected that she would regain the favor with only a little trickery, and the concubines were so angry that they tore a lot of handkerchiefs.

After Xu Ran left the palace, he received a letter from Wang Yue, saying that the students who went to school together chose different directions, and he was the only one who took part in this year's imperial examination. Hands, these are all voluntary, I hope Xu Ran can forgive their choice.

Xu Ran sighed, everyone has his own aspirations, not to mention that Wang Yue can go on unswervingly, he is already very happy.

*

The next day, Xu Ran rushed to the post station early in the morning, and the third prince also rushed over quickly.

They watched the dusty carriage approaching from a distance on the official road, surrounded by several officers and soldiers guarding them.

The guard at the head saw the two and quickly knelt down, "The villain has seen His Highness and Lord Wang."

Xu Ran's eyes stayed on the carriage behind him, "These are the two foreigners who were transported?"

"Returning to my lord, that's right. The villain was afraid that those two would be disobedient, so he took some medicine, and he must be still asleep now."

The third prince was afraid that Xu Ran would say anything more, so he quickly took over the conversation, "Then hurry up and transport him to the palace."

When Xu Ran officially saw the faces of the two people who were sleeping, he suddenly frowned.

The faces of these two people were really similar to the foreigners he saw in the zoo in modern times.

No more than ten people knew about the existence of these two people, and Emperor Chen came to the secret room secretly with the interpreter.

Seeing that the two were still sleeping, Eunuch Sun poured a bucket of cold water on it. The two opened their eyes in bewilderment, and shouted hastily after realizing that they were in a cage.

"*&#&%!"

"&#*&%&#!!!"

Emperor Chen frowned and looked at the two aliens, and asked the interpreter, "What did they say?"

The more the interpreter listened, the more confused he became. Hearing the emperor's question, he broke out in cold sweat, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and replied tremblingly, "What they said doesn't match the language I know so far."

This translator is over 70 years old, and he knows a lot of foreign languages ​​​​in the court. There is almost no language he doesn't know in the whole mainland, but now he actually tells the emperor that he doesn't understand!

Seeing them standing outside the cage, the two people inside had already started talking loudly, judging by their gestures and tone, they seemed to be cursing.

The emperor was furious, "Since you don't understand, what use are you for!"

"The emperor spares my life! The emperor spares my life, I have never heard such words before!"

The third prince quickly said, "Since Mr. Liu can't understand, why don't you ask other translators to try?"

Emperor Chen didn't want to make this matter public, otherwise he wouldn't be so cautious, so everyone who knew about it would have dealt with it.

At this time Xu Ran stood up, "Your Majesty, why don't you let me try."

The surprised eyes of all the people present focused on him, and the emperor said, "Do you understand?"

"I just have a guess." Xu Ran replied.

Emperor Chen had the mentality that it would be better to give it a try, "Then you can try it."

Xu Ran stepped forward and spit out the same language as the two people in the cage, but it was a little jerky, as if it was the first time he used it.

The third prince surrounded his hands mockingly, and waited coldly for Xu Ran to fail.

Strangely, after Xu Ran spoke, the movement of the man in the cage also stopped, as if he was listening carefully to Xu Ran's words.

Then they started talking briefly.

Emperor Chen, "???"

The third prince, "!!!"

Kneeling interpreter, "?!!!"

After a while, Xu Ran turned around and began to repeat what the two said, "They said they came from Yaguo and lived in Poppy Bay since they were young. Crowds watched, and then it was sent here. They asked who we were and where this is."

Emperor Chen asked suspiciously, "Bobby Bay? I have never heard of this place, and Yaguo has never heard of it."

Xu Ran turned around and talked to the two of them again, and continued, "They said that they have never seen people like us there, and there is no emperor there, only a democratically elected president, and we are very backward in their view. "

Emperor Chen, "!!!"

"This must be a lie!" The third prince said angrily, "Father, this must be a lie fabricated by him. None of us can understand what they say, so let him make it up!"

Although Emperor Chen believed in Xu Ran, he still had doubts in his heart.

"I don't even understand, how did you understand?" The interpreter also asked immediately.

They all wondered if this was Xu Ran's self-directed performance.

Xu Ran replied calmly, "I think you all know that I was a fool for five years. During those five years, as a fool, I also traveled to many places. I once heard someone say this in a remote place. They thought I was a fool, and taught me a few words in a funny way."

"I once heard them say that there are other countries overseas, but we don't know that. When I saw these two people today, I immediately recalled the incident at the time, so I said I would try it, because I was not sure. "

The third prince didn't believe it, but instead asked, "What about the person who taught you?"

"died."

"You..." The third prince wanted to say something, but was scolded by the emperor, "Enough!"

The third prince glared at Xu Ran unwillingly, and had no choice but to quiet down.

"Don't say anything about this matter. You all go down, I have something important to discuss with Wang Aiqing."

After the gloomy third prince and the interpreter who survived the catastrophe went down, Eunuch Sun carefully withdrew and closed the entrance to the secret room.

"What you said just now, is it true?" After a long time, Emperor Chen asked.

The Kingdom of Chen is the most powerful country on this continent. Emperor Chen never thought that an overseas country would suddenly appear, and they were completely unknown to this country.

"Brother, don't you believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just..." Emperor Chen was worried. At this juncture, they were just about to promote the reform of the cultural system, and they suddenly inserted an overseas country, which caused internal and external troubles. What should they do?

The Emperor believed that Xu Ran would not lie to him with such a thing, not to mention that he was the first to discover these two people, so he knew that it was impossible for Xu Ran to make such a bizarre story lifelike.

For the next period of time, Xu Ran and Emperor Chen communicated with those two people in the secret room every day.

The more Chendi communicated, the more frightened he became. It turned out that the Yaguo had been ahead of the Chenguo in the industry for nearly a hundred years, and the other side had begun to develop equipment capable of underwater diving and attacking, and even gradually replaced the handicraft industry with so-called machine production.

Regarding the development of Yaguo, Xu Ran even felt that it was very backward, but in the eyes of the even more backward emperor, the development of Yaguo was beyond his imagination.

In fact, it's not that the emperor did not have doubts about the existence of the overseas country, but because of the forbidden sea, he couldn't prove it, and he didn't dare to prove it, so now he sent it to his door.

The two people in the cage claimed to be fishermen, but in fact they were the so-called sons of the governor. When they went out to sea and had an accident, they encountered a storm, and then they made up a bunch of lies in an attempt to get Xu Ran to send them back.

They immediately fell in love with the rich Chen Kingdom. In their view, this is a territory occupied by barbarians. It is rich in resources and resources, and it is suitable for the new territory expansion of Ya Kingdom.

The two even made a solemn promise to Xu Ran that as long as Xu Ran agrees to be Ya Guo's undercover agent in Chen State, then Ya Guo will give Xu Ran a high-ranking official after occupying Chen State, and there will be countless beauties, gold and silver treasures, etc. with him.

Xu Ran turned his head and said to Emperor Chen, "They have evil intentions, if they are released at this time, it is tantamount to letting the tiger go back to the mountain."

"In your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

"During the conversation, I found that everyone in Yaguo seems to have to go to school to be enlightened. In this regard, Chenguo can learn from it. Although Yaguo is developing faster than Chenguo, it is a small place."

"The status of these two people is not low. If they disappear at sea, they may attract the attention of Yaguo. Therefore, we must thoroughly understand their culture before Yaguo finds us. Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we win a hundred battles."

Emperor Chen nodded, "Yes, what about the two of them?"

Xu Ran thought for a while, "To paralyze them, put them under house arrest first."

The two people in the cage thought that Xu Ran had surrendered to them, but when they heard Xu Ran say that they would treat them with delicious food and drink for a few days, the two who had never enjoyed it before were overjoyed, and immediately gave up their plan to go back, planning to enjoy themselves Then bring others to enjoy.

Xu Ran discussed with Emperor Chen, "It is urgent to expand the enlightenment school now. The people of Yaguo generally have corresponding cultures. What I fear most is not war, but cultural invasion."

"Once the people of Chen Kingdom agree with the culture of Yaguo from the bottom of their hearts, then the government of Chen Kingdom will be useless."

"Originally, it was slow, but if it expands rapidly now, I'm afraid it will be counterproductive." Emperor Chen said.

Xu Ran lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "Then we need an introduction."

"Brother, do you still remember the letter you received from the teachers of Shengcheng Enlightenment Academy a few days ago?"

Emperor Chen nodded, "Of course I remember that these people come from all over the world, and they speak different languages. After passing the children's examination, they only started to learn the capital dialect when they entered school, so they didn't understand the language when they first went to Shengcheng."

"Yes, that's it." Xu Ran continued, "Why don't we promote Mandarin throughout the country and reward people for enrolling in school. After passing the Mandarin at home, we can reduce or exempt taxes."

"Tax reduction or exemption?" Emperor Chen disagreed, "Taxes support the national treasury, how can it be easily reduced?"

Xu Ran asked, "Is taxation more important, or is the threat from the Asian country more important?"

"Your Majesty, Rong Chen dares to say, which official's family is not as rich as the national treasury?" Xu Ran's address changed when he said this.

Emperor Chen's expression changed, his face was livid, but he didn't refute, because he knew what Xu Ran said was true.However, some families in the court are deeply rooted and flourishing. Sometimes even if the emperor wants to take care of them, he has more than enough energy.

Xu Ran said again, "Brother, I think you already have someone in mind."

"Since the promotion of official language, how can we unify it?" Emperor Chen didn't answer his question, and frowned, "Even if all the officials are mobilized, the official language will not be decided in a short time."

Xu Ran was already prepared for this.

"Nowadays there are incomplete dictionaries, why don't we create a more complete, standardized and systematic dictionary?"

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