Sheng Shi Merciful Light

After the two brothers of the Tian family finished their meal affectionately, Emperor Deguang had a great sense of responsibility as an elder brother, and asked solemnly, "Ninth Brother, you really like the Prince of Beihai County. I will give you an order to let him go back, okay?"

It fully embodies the typical way of thinking and action of the Mu family royal family, who would rather others cry than make their own children cry.

Mu Ci shook her head: "Forget it, I can't force myself to come, besides, where will I be short of people around me?"

Emperor Deguang nodded: "That's true. Some palace ladies trained in the palace are good. Can you take a few back?" He persuaded as an elder brother and someone who had come here, "How can a man be as soft as a woman? He can't pass on the family line. "

Mu Ci still shook her head: "Farewell, I was born with a different liking from you."

Emperor Deguang raised his eyebrows: "Stupid words, let's just play around, how can you really not touch women? After the new year, you are seventeen, and it's time to get married. The emperor is not here, so I, the elder brother, will take care of it for you." Get up..." He asked again with a smile, "Did the royal father appoint a young lady from Prime Minister Wang's family for you? I see that it was mentioned in the daily life record of the royal father..."

When the new emperor takes office, one of the most important things is to check the life records of the first emperor, and then sort out the high-ranking part, form a biography, and record it in the annals of history.Therefore, although Wang Youlun hadn't mentioned it to Emperor Deguang, Emperor Deguang still knew about it.

Mu Ci looked at Emperor Deguang with a slightly cold gaze: "Don't worry too much! Let me tell you, I won't marry a woman and go home."

Emperor Deguang smiled: "You are shy, what will you do when you get married?"

Mu Ci patted the table: "Don't laugh! I rejected Emperor Father, but he didn't have time to take care of it later. That little girl is my cousin, and I can't harm her for the rest of my life. I only have two family members, you and the Wang family. Don't worry." It made me and my uncle, aunt, and relatives unable to do it."

Emperor Deguang saw Mu Ci's seriousness, so he stopped laughing, and felt soft and distressed at what the ninth brother said, "there are only two relatives in total", and said fondly, "Okay, okay, let's talk about this later...you are too cheeky." too thin."

Mu Ci: "..."

Mou Yu: "..." Is this referring to Mu Ci?Thin-skinned or something... Is it because I didn't wake up today that I have auditory hallucinations?

"Don't interfere!" Mu Ci solemnly urged, and changed the subject, "Third brother, you have recently ascended the throne, and you are going to hold an Enke, do you have a charter?"

"Shang Shusheng is already planning, and we have to wait until the spring of next year, between March and April, what do you think?"

Fortunately, the imperial examination system is to hold the township, general examination, and palace examination every three years, which are the official examinations.In case of a grand celebration of the imperial court, such as the enthronement of the new emperor, a special imperial examination will be held, called "Enke", which will be tested by the emperor himself.

However, this exam is not open to the whole country. Students from all over the country recommend candidates and Imperial College students to take the exam, and they usually pass.

Mu Ci wanted to take this bus, and said, "I would like to ask my third brother to restore the old rules and increase Mingfa and Mingshu subjects. There will also be a small subject, which will focus on miscellaneous studies, common subjects, business affairs, etc. The examination papers will be determined by me." It was stipulated that those recruited would become subordinate officials of the Prince of Chu's Mansion and local yamen. If the selected talents are outstanding, the small department can also be fixed in the future and become a way to select officials in the government office.

It is the real civil service exam.

In addition to people from the imperial examination or Enmeng's background as supervisors in various local government offices, there will be many deputy chiefs, called "official officials", who deal with specific affairs.In fact, officials are very important, but Daxing didn't pay much attention to them, and he didn't have the awareness of selecting professionals to take on the responsibility. Generally, the family members of officials were the officials.

Emperor Deguang thought for a moment, then nodded immediately, and then showed Mu Ci the latest Mansion Bao Xianbao that had not yet been issued.

Mu Ci asked: "Can it be printed and distributed?"

"Not yet, this is just made by the Ministry of Education, but it has not passed the review of the Privy Council."

"It's right not to pass." Mu Ci crossed out the news of the military exercise. "In the future, the government will report to the residence and inform the whole country. Military information must be kept secret, and a separate volume will be published as a military newspaper, and the secret channel of the Night Walking Guard will be used to distribute it to the ranks." Relatively high generals, avoid being detected by other countries."

Emperor Deguang knew whether it was good or bad, and immediately ordered Zhongshu Province to change it.

Then, Emperor Deguang asked cautiously, "I heard that Uncle Changshan Wang ordered the frontier army to strictly investigate smuggling, and it was actually your order."

"Yes!" Mu Ci readily admitted, and asked, "Who filed a complaint with you?"

Emperor Deguang: "..." In the spirit of "brother control", he reported several powerful families in Tianjing City, and the highest rank among them was Princess Ningguo.Emperor Deguang said with a bitter face: "The eldest aunt almost smashed the teacup on my forehead..."

Yes, it's really smashed, and the head is good. Emperor Deguang dangled his neck, and the teacup flew over his scalp and touched the tea on his head and body. Fortunately, it was not hot, otherwise it would be disfigured.Of course, Princess Ningguo didn't bully Emperor Deguang Chenghou. In fact, Emperor Tianshou dared to provoke her, so she beat her directly.

Princess Ningguo is extremely tough, and the other clan girls in front of her...cough, they can all be called ladies.

Mu Ci had actually heard about it, so he didn't pretend to be stupid at the moment, looked at Emperor Deguang with a shallow smile, stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder: "I'm tired."

Emperor Deguang grabbed Jiudi's shoulder-patting hand, held it tightly, and said with a little coquettishness: "Good Jiudi, tell me, what do you want to do? Don't explode suddenly. I didn't catch it here. Isn't it bad for you?"

Mu Ci entered the palace today to solve many things, including this one, so he said frankly: "I want to reopen the border trade."

Emperor Deguang widened his eyes: "And Beirong, Xiliang, Nanli and Gaofan?"

"Well, the ban on border trade is these four countries."

Emperor Deguang frowned: "You strictly investigated the smuggling, I thought..." He always thought that the most capricious of the ninth brother was just to start the war, but he never thought that the ninth brother would do the opposite and intend to reopen the war. border trade.

Ask if you don't understand, Emperor Deguang asked: "Then why are you still spending your energy on cracking down on smuggling?"

"Reopening the border trade, there are a lot of things to pay attention to here." Emperor Mucirad went to the desk, took a brush and drew a simple border map, and said, "For the reopening of the border trade, the demand of the four countries is higher than ours. They have already proposed Yes, but we didn't pay attention to it before and left them alone, which is very correct."

Emperor Deguang was praised, and he touched his nose in embarrassment. He didn't mean to hang others on purpose at all-it was because the two kings' military exercises made too much noise, and he didn't care about it.

It was unintentional.

"I believe that the Four Kingdoms will bring it up again, and the third brother should pay attention to a few points: First, we must not show that we intend to reopen, otherwise we will not be able to occupy a favorable position during negotiations. I asked Uncle Changshan to make great efforts to crack down on smuggling. Take the initiative; second, how to open border trade and which country to talk to first is also particular. I don’t plan to start the four countries at the same time. ', can create conflicts among the four countries and avoid the re-alliance of the four countries; third... this is what our two brothers said in private, you can't say it to the outside world..."

Emperor Deguang nodded quickly.

Mu Ci took out the survey data of Xihe Plain and the real situation of horse production, and said: "Horses! They are our scarce supplies. This is strategic and very important! But the burden on Xihe Plain is too heavy, so... I reopened The biggest purpose of the border trade is for the horses of the four countries!"

Emperor Deguang raised his eyebrows: "There are horses in Beirong and Xiliang that are not willing to sell, right? Gaofan and Nanli's horses are not good."

"Gaofan's horses are good. Although they are not that tall, they are cold-resistant, hunger-resistant and disease-resistant, and they are easy to serve; Nanli's pony horses are suitable for fighting in the forest... Besides Nanli, we have many wild areas in the south that will sooner or later need to be taken care of. And Pony horses can carry heavy loads, and can also plow land, which has many advantages and is suitable for domestication."

Emperor Deguang nodded again and again, and the two brothers discussed the details of reopening the border trade. Since they were both young people and not conservatives, and horses were indeed very important to Daxing, Emperor Deguang also had the intention of reopening.

The question is how to operate and how to face the voices of opposition.

"I already have a plan for the specific operation, and the third brother can leave it to me. You just cooperate with me, and then wait for the horses to be sufficient and the treasury to increase revenue. Last time you promised to issue additional dedication awards for the precise law, and you supported the military exercise. Support my various measures, I will always remember the love of the third brother, and you will not suffer." Mu Ci narrowed her eyes and smiled at Emperor Deguang.A sly soft light shone in Mu Ci's beautiful eyes, not to mention how cute they are.

Emperor Deguang felt: It is not beneficial to reopen the border trade, but for the happy smile of the ninth brother, it is worth doing it under pressure.

"Ninth brother, be careful, don't act too hastily, don't carry it alone if you have difficulties, brother is here." Emperor Deguang couldn't help but nodded Mu Ci's nose.

Mu Ci rubbed his nose with a pleasant expression: "It's okay. I never thought that the whole world would agree with me when I did anything. There must be voices of opposition. We should also pay attention to it and find something worthy of vigilance and reference from it. But don't worry, I will The pressure will not be too great, and some people will show full sincerity."

"Whose sincerity?"

Mu Ci looked at Emperor Deguang and smiled meaningfully: "Ye Xingwei will follow up, and you will soon see that the envoys sent by the Four Kingdoms to celebrate your first New Year's Day on the throne are already on their way. Li Chao, Dongyingzhou, Maji Island and other large and small countries have all sent envoys here."

"Oh, every New Year, they will come." Emperor Deguang said.

Mu Ci said indifferently: "In the past, they were just ordinary envoys who submitted their credentials. This time, the envoys are very important. They are all famous dignitaries and high-ranking officials in the four countries. The specific list will be in the confidential file, so I will not list them one by one. I said it. They actually came here to reopen the border trade, and they all want to benefit from our country in their hearts. Third brother, you don’t have to be angry, just know what you are doing. If they mention it during the Chinese New Year, just ignore it, no matter how noble and glamorous you are.”

When Emperor Deguang heard the word "noble and glamorous", he couldn't stop laughing, and silently lit a row of wax for the person Mu Ci was targeting.

……

What Mu Ci is eyeing is not only the doctor censor and the neighboring countries.

After Mu Ci returned to the palace, she stayed in the study, holding a few bookmarks from Princess Yongjia's mansion in her hand, groaning silently.

Le Shu said: "I have asked someone to check the handwriting, and it is confirmed that the person who wrote the letter to Meng Zhi is undoubtedly Princess Yongjia."

"En." Mu Ci responded lightly.

"How to deal with it?"

"Don't care about her, it's a waste of time." Mu Ci talked about other things, "If Qi Feng's cousin, Qi Yan, is really familiar with everything in the capital, if he is a local snake, he can try the position of the right chief of the palace."

Le Shu is the chief official of the left, so he has a sense of crisis, and his smile is a bit forced: "Master, it's good to have someone to help me share things."

Mu Ci has sharp eyes, and because he doesn't want people around him to feel uncomfortable, he will explain when necessary: ​​"You have done a good job, but you focus on paperwork. Although you are familiar with Tianjing's human relationship network, the bottom-level You have never dealt with three teachings and nine streams, and I don't want to ask you to put down your body and go into muddy water. And I pay attention to the right person to do the right thing. With your appearance and talent, you have that spare time, why don't you write more articles and poems? This anthology has been handed down from generation to generation. So I need someone to take care of the miscellaneous affairs of the palace. Although brother is familiar with all kinds of situations in Tianjing City, he is too busy with things to be distracted. So Qi Yan is the right candidate. Because of Qi Feng If he is willing to make a guarantee, he can be trusted."

Le Shu really can't do the job of dealing with the three religions and the nine streams like a gangster.Although he was born as a sin slave, he has never experienced hardship. He has a grandmother from a wealthy family who protected him and raised him as a child of a noble family. Otherwise, he would not be able to cultivate the noble and elegant temperament of Le Shu.

His grandmother was from the Lanling Gao family, a real millennium family, a descendant of the Northern Dynasty royal family.Although Daxing is not as prominent as before, the foundation still exists.When the great-great-grandmother was young, she was good friends with Jing and Princess Dachang, and she often visited her.Although Grandmother Gao's husband and son were both accused, no one made things difficult for Grandmother Gao and Le Shu.

The Gao family has experienced ups and downs in four dynasties, and now there are family rules admonishing their children to "not take the imperial examination and not be an official". Therefore, the Gao family's children are less engaged and more pure. They have worked hard on literary education and have given a lot of important education. writers, great writers, calligraphers and musicians.Moreover, Gao's gene is good, temperament is good, there are many beauties and handsome men, all of them are romantic figures who lead the coquettish.

But the Gao clan is relatively low-key, utilitarian, and not too conspicuous.

Mu Ci was willing to explain, but Le Shu was so moved, his eyes were rippling, and he looked at Mu Ci tenderly.Mu Ci just patted his shoulder, then Liu Shui turned his face away unintentionally, and looked at Mou Yu: "Yongjia just stares, there is nothing to do, my third brother knows it well. Mu Yi has already been sent to guard the tomb, if I touch Yongjia again , what do you think?"

"Understood." Mou Yu understood: Others would think that Mu Ci bullied his brothers and sisters and ruled out dissidents, and his heart would be punishable.

"I pressed on every step of the way, and it's hard to guarantee that no one will provoke me. Today I deliberately let Yongjia go, and I didn't pursue it to the end." Mu Ci mercilessly threw the bookmark in his hand into the charcoal basin.

When he came back from the palace, it snowed lightly, the weather turned cold again, and a charcoal basin was born in Bilan Pond.

Mu Ci looked indifferently at the bookmark being swallowed by the flames, and slowly said: "Sometimes... a step back seems to be a disadvantage, but in fact... this is called 'retreating to advance'."

Mou Yu understood, and the transparent Le Shu also understood, but he didn't think Mu Ci's intentions were scary.

Didn't Emperor Deguang see whose handwriting on that broken letter belonged to?No, he could see that when he was young, Yongjia was favored and domineering. He bullied the honest and honest Emperor Deguang since he was a child. Juanxiu's handwriting is no secret, it is even better than Yongjia himself.

Emperor Deguang was the person most familiar with Yongjia's handwriting, but he pretended to be stupid and kept silent, which shows that he wanted to protect Yongjia.Mu Ci also understands that no matter how domineering Yongjia is, she is also the same mother and sister of Emperor Deguang. Although he bullied Emperor Deguang since childhood, Yongjia was also the first to help his younger brother beat him back when he was bullied. The two siblings have some affection .

Mu Ci complied with Emperor Deguang's wish and did not pursue it.He spread out the official documents and said to Mou Yu and Le Shu: "Sometimes I sympathize with the third brother. He is really not easy. One end is my sister and the other end is me...so I don't bother to care about small things, so as not to let him It's a dilemma."

Mou Yu understands that Mu Ci truly understands the emperor.

Although Mu Ci has outstanding intelligence, indifferent and cold, but he is actually a sincere and sincere person. If you like it, you will like it, if you dislike it, you will hate it, if you dislike it, you will hate it, and if you ignore it, you will not care at all... Since he intends to be of one mind with the Deguang Emperor brothers, he will really put his heart on it. People should be brothers, instead of talking nicely but doing the same thing behind the back, or even stabbing a knife or something.

This is the most commendable thing about Mu Ci - he always exchanges his sincerity with sincerity.

If Emperor Deguang could understand Mu Ci's heart, he would be more grateful and caring towards Mu Ci, and he would be a true brotherhood.

……

Royal Palace

Emperor Deguang confirmed Yongjia's handwriting, and when he heard that Yongjia had entered the palace again, he angrily ran to the Ciming Hall to question him.

Yongjia sneered: "I did it, how?"

"Second Sister, do you think the Ninth Brother doesn't know? Do you know the consequences of the princess interfering in politics? Fortunately, the Ninth Brother understands righteousness, and I didn't pursue it for my face..."

"Call him here, anyway, he has sent the fifth younger brother to guard the imperial mausoleum, tell him to beat me to death too!" Yongjia pointed to Emperor Deguang's nose, "The most unlucky thing in my life is to have someone like you Brother, I can't protect my siblings, so I'm called a little bastard..."

Emperor Deguang rushed forward to cover Yongjia's mouth, and his palm was immediately bitten.

"I just want to say, what is he, isn't he just more beautiful?" Yongjia has already found a chance to look at Mu Ci from afar, and has to admit that the beauty of that young man has surpassed the limit, it is simply thrilling, and it makes her feel She forgot to breathe for a moment... When she came back to her senses, jealous venom filled her heart, and she spewed vicious words, "He is a goblin who seduces people with his face and body. Father... and now I'm here to confuse you again..."

"Shut up!" Emperor Deguang slapped Yongjia across the face, "You dare to slander your father, do you really want to die?"

After all, he is the emperor, and he is quite imposing when he is angry, and the crime of slandering the late emperor is not small, Yongjia just covered his face and dared not speak.

Concubine Xie didn't understand it yet. Seeing that her daughter was hurt by the beating, she pulled Mu Zhan and asked, "Why are you beating your sister? What are you arguing about?"

"Yongjia interfered in the government and ordered the censor Meng Zhi to impeach the ninth younger brother." Emperor Deguang took the crumbled letter to Concubine Xie for a look.

Concubine Xie naturally recognized her daughter's handwriting, and hurriedly asked, "Does the King of Chu know?"

"Well, I already know."

"What did he say?"

"Ninth brother told me not to check, he doesn't care about it." Seeing Concubine Xie's obviously relieved expression, Emperor Deguang thought that this was a good opportunity to persuade him, so he persuaded him earnestly, "Mother Concubine, please see that Ninth Brother is more considerate of me. , How deeply understand the righteousness. You don't want to target him, whether it's public or private, I can't be separated from my ninth brother, I can't live without his support."

"What do you plan to do with Meng Zhi?" Concubine Xie had a lot of troubles after all, and she had a certain degree of political sensitivity.

"I have already demoted Meng Zhi to Yahai, and replaced Su Yan as the imperial censor."

"You're stupid." Concubine Xie took her son and patted her again, "Your sister did this for you, why didn't you follow Meng Zhi's impeachment and bite the King of Chu to death? Let go of such a great opportunity for nothing. You even broke your own arm... Do you know that Su Yan once had a half-teacher friendship with the King of Chu, why are you so stupid?"

Emperor Deguang: "..."

Why is it still like this?

Suddenly exhaustion and sadness welled up in his heart, and he felt that it was useless to say anything, no matter how hard he tried, he could not change his mother and sister.His heart was empty, except for a piece of charred fly ash, there was nothing left.

Why can't the relatives he cares about coexist with his ninth brother?

No, the ninth brother is generally tolerant, sympathetic and fair-hearted. It should be said...why, why can't his mother, siblings, tolerate such a respectable and lovely ninth brother?

Seeing his mother standing by his side, Yongjia immediately jumped up and pointed at Mu Zan's nose and scolded: "Mother, he was given ecstasy soup by that goblin. I heard that they even took a bath together. It must be that goblin who seduced him and made him fascinated." Upside down, the six relatives do not recognize."

Concubine Xie also looked at Mu Zhan suspiciously, and she also felt puzzled - her son really obeyed the King Chu's words, as if he had taken the ecstasy drug, could it be that he was seduced by the King Chu?

Emperor Deguang looked at the two of them, and suddenly felt that everything was so ridiculous... so ridiculous... He laughed at himself and desolately: "Hehe...you are my closest relatives, I don't even know, I am also in your heart This kind of person would insult a brother."

Concubine Xie and Yongjia didn't reflect on it, they were still suspicious.

"I don't care if you believe it or not, I only have brotherhood with my ninth brother, and it's not as dirty as you think." Emperor Deguang smiled, and looked at Concubine Xie with stern eyes, "Mother, I can protect you when you are in the palace. You, tell Second Sister to take care of herself... Ninth Brother can bear it once, but can't bear it a second time. If there is another time, I won't be able to keep Second Sister."

Then Emperor Deguang didn't care how Princess Yongjia yelled at him.

Walked away in a daze...