I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

More than a dozen students were selected from Taixue and Guozixue. Naturally, they did not follow Gu Yuanbai, but followed far behind, and were taken by the eunuch to see the rice in the field.

The five grains in the five grains generally refer to rice, millet, millet, wheat, and bean.In ancient China, the status of Ji was very high, and Ji was millet, which was the length of a hundred grains. The word Sheji in Jiangshan Sheji refers to this.

But as time went by, rice has gradually become the most productive grain in Daheng, and millet needs less water, so it is gradually planted in high dry fields.

Naturally, the output of rice today is no match for future generations.And Gu Yuanbai didn't have the ability to research hybrid rice, he didn't have the strength, and he didn't have the conditions.

On the narrow road in the field, Gu Yuanbai walked leisurely, his eyes swept from both sides from time to time, looked at the newly sown fields, and nodded slightly.

It seems that he does whatever he wants, but in fact, he has raised his vigilance in the dark.

The people who protected Gu Yuanbai were all tensed up in the open and in the dark, and they were fully prepared.The chief guard's expression was even more serious. He was usually so calm, so he didn't attract attention at this time.

But Xue Yuanlang's keen nerves had already swept past the chief guard suspiciously over and over again.

The whole body was tense, ready to attack at any time, Xue Yuan squinted his eyes, scanned the guards, and found that many people were also in this state.

Thoughtful, he smiled unexpectedly.

Suddenly someone approached on Gu Yuanbai's back, he looked sideways, Xue Yuan smiled sinisterly at him and said, "Your Majesty, can you not compare to Master Zhang, the chief guard?"

These words were inexplicable, Gu Yuanbai said casually: "Why did Guard Xue say such things?"

Xue Yuandao: "Your Majesty, a minister with a heart of loyalty to the emperor can learn from the world."

So what did he hide from him?

Gu Yuanbai was overjoyed. For some reason, although Xue Yuan seemed more loyal these days, every time he heard his words of loyalty, he wanted to laugh.

And his smile immediately made Xue Yuan laugh so confusedly.

A group of people walked out of the field.The students at the rear saw that the Holy Master was far away, and hurriedly wanted to follow, "Elder-in-law, let's go too."

The eunuch stopped them with a smile, and said slowly: "Young masters, don't worry, why don't you take a closer look at the rice?"

The students could only suppress their anxious hearts, and began to wonder what was different about the rice.

And Gu Yuanbai had already led the people into the green forest beside the field.

The guards found a place for Gu Yuanbai to sit down, followed by the last guards leading the horse, tied the horse to a tree, and went to get some water to cleanse the face of the saint.

Tian Fusheng wiped the fine sweat off His Majesty's head, and whispered, "Can Your Majesty still bear it?"

Gu Yuanbai looked up at the sun in the sky from among the whirling leaves, nodded and said, "Although it's hot in the countryside, there's nothing wrong with it."

Tian Fusheng replied and said nothing more.

The guards should be very busy, surrounding the Holy Majesty without any trace, waiting for the enemy assassin to make a move, and do their tricks as soon as they come.

In such an atmosphere, there seems to be turbulent waves hidden under the calm.

Suddenly, Xue Yuan's eyelids twitched, and he quickly drew his sword and turned around.

Suddenly, several assassins with big knives and fierce expressions rushed out of the forest, and they all rushed towards Gu Yuanbai recklessly.Gu Yuanbai's complexion remained unchanged, he held the crossbow in his cuffs, and was still in the mood to drink the herbal tea in the water bag.

Tian Fusheng shouted: "Escort!"

Among the guards, those who had already received the news had already protected Gu Yuanbai behind him, and they responded very quickly to greet him without mercy.Swords, lights and swords, chaos abounded, Xue Yuan's heart was pounding, he took a big knife to cut a bloody road to Gu Yuanbai, but the moment he looked up and saw Gu Yuanbai, he saw an assassin who was about to raise his hand to attack Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuan stabbed away.

Xue Yuan's heart stopped suddenly, and his eyes were bloodshot. He raised his hand and threw out the big knife. The long knife flashed coldly, and knocked down the knife in the assassin's hand.

The assassin was dumbfounded.

Gu Yuanbai, who arranged for an assassin to assassinate himself in order to pretend to be injured and do his tricks, was also dumbfounded.

The moment they looked at each other, Xue Yuan had already rushed over, he didn't have a knife, and many assassins took advantage of the fire to attack him, but he blocked them all with his bare hands.In an instant, his body was covered with blood, Xue Yuan's face was ugly, he randomly picked up a big knife from the ground, slashed the person behind him with his backhand, stretched out his iron arm, and hugged Gu Yuanbai in his arms.

After hugging Gu Yuanbai, he took the little emperor and ran towards the bloody horse.

It wasn't until Gu Yuanbai was turned on the horse by Xue Yuan that he said in a low voice: "Xue Yuan—"

That fucking is my man!

Xue Yuan was covered in blood, he palmed Gu Yuanbai's waist, tightened his arms, and said with a full of hostility: "Don't talk."

With a flick of the reins, the hooves of the sweaty and bloody horse were raised, and the Maxima galloped out quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it stepped out of this chaotic forest like the wind.

The assassin who was still dealing with the guards said "No", and the leader said hoarsely: "Let the arrows—"

Hundreds of arrows came after him, and the guards rushed forward to kill the assassin.Xue Yuan on the horse heard the sound of piercing through the air, and even slapped the BMW vigorously, turned over and took the knife to chop off the arrows.

The horse ran away, but the leader of the assassins gritted his teeth. He was too hasty. No one knew whether Emperor Dog had been hurt. Now he could only wait for news from the court. He sternly said, "Withdraw!"

Tian Fusheng was completely bewildered by Xue Yuan's words. He didn't have time to think about it. When he heard that the assassins were about to retreat, he sneered and said loudly, "Master Zhang! I'll leave it to you!"

The Holy Majesty said, for this group of people who came to assassinate him, it is enough to save the lives of a dozen people for the purpose of passing the news.

The chief guard Zhang Xu responded in a deep voice, still flustered.The woodland at the edge of the field is so vast, and various dangers emerge one after another, what if something happens?

He sighed one after another, regretting that he hadn't secretly reminded Xue Yuan.

Not only Zhang Xu's guard panicked, but also other people who had already memorized the plan panicked, and the person who pretended to be fish in troubled waters to assassinate the Holy Majesty who was almost hacked to death by Xue Yuan also panicked.

Tian Fusheng was even more flustered.But after dealing with the group of assassins, he still had to follow the instructions of the Holy Majesty, and hurried back to the palace with his people. The carriage speeded up, and everyone looked sad. After returning to the palace, he immediately summoned a large number of imperial doctors to come. Bedroom diagnosis and treatment.All the servants in the palace looked solemn, as if there were still basins of blood coming out of the palace.

In less than half a day, the news that Sheng went to the countryside to be assassinated and injured spread within a certain range.

No one is allowed in the palace to visit the palace, but this time, it is not to arouse the panic among the officials of the court, so Tian Fusheng sent people from door to door to appease the emperor. Minor injuries, don't worry.

At the same time, people from the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council came out, and the counselors and privy envoys took over the current state affairs in the hands of the Holy Majesty with a smile. big rock.

As the Holy Majesty's confidantes and the two governments that manage government affairs and military affairs, as well as the Supervision Office and Dongling Guard, they naturally know what the Holy Majesty is going to do.According to the instructions of the Holy One, they suppressed the panic before it even arose, and everything went smoothly and calmly.

But in the eyes of Jiashenhui people, this kind of tranquility is just whitewashing the peace.

Hundreds of people attacked, and only a dozen survived in the end.This assassination achieved an extremely disastrous result, a disastrous result that no one expected.The assassin leader was already in despair, but after hearing the news from the court, this despair turned into ecstasy.

The emperor is injured!

They spent a lot of money to inquire about the news in the palace, and when they found out that the faces of the people in the palace were solemn, the imperial doctor looked uneasy, and blood came out of the palace from time to time, they almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Where is this minor injury? !

This is obviously a serious injury that will shake the government!

The leader of the assassins laughed loudly: "The Emperor Dog must have been shot by our arrows while he was being protected and escaped!"

The others were also extremely excited: "The archery brothers were all killed by the emperor's lackeys! My lord, we must avenge them!"

"This revenge must be avenged," the assassin leader smiled fiercely, "Since the dog emperor is injured, he has no energy to manage Jingnan and Jiangnan. Maybe they will all die. We have to hurry back and report to the general. Take this opportunity to completely turn these two places into the territory of our Jiashen Association!"

Gu Yuan had a pale face, his black hair was wrapped back by the wind, and Xue Yuan's bloody smell was mixed with the murderous aura and determination created by swords, lights and swords.

After a while, Gu Yuanbai resigned to his fate, he could only secretly pray that the plan would go ahead as he wished, and he spoke first, "Are you injured?"

Xue Yuan, who was always paying attention to the movement in all directions, said with a bloody breath: "It's nothing."

After making sure that there was no one following behind him, Xue Yuan slowly grabbed the reins and held back the jubilant Hongyun who was running.

As soon as the horse stopped, he raised his head and roared. Xue Yuan got off the horse and led the horse to the tree.

There were bloodstains all over his body, but he didn't know if it was the blood of other people or his blood. His voice was hoarse, and he didn't know if it was because he had killed too many people.Surrounded by a murderous atmosphere, the whole person is like a ghost crawling out of hell, gloomy and oppressive.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the several cuts on his body that were cut by swords, and the small wounds on his sleeves that were scratched by arrows, with complex expressions in his eyes.

Gu Yuanbai did not expect Xue Yuan to come to rescue him so madly.

When Xue Yuan ran towards him, his expression was terrifying, it could be called ferocious.He didn't even have a weapon in his hand, but he didn't hesitate in his steps.

Gu Yuanbai couldn't forget that look full of blood, and it was clearly written in that look: whoever dares to touch Gu Yuanbai will die.

The heavy killing intent was suppressed, and the ferocity of countless battlefields, this look stunned the "assassin" who assassinated Gu Yuanbai.Gu Yuanbai also noticed Xue Yuan's expression, so angry that he seemed to be able to burn everything, but he couldn't help being stunned.

After being stunned, Xue Yuan carried him to the horse.

Why did you try so hard to save him?

Gu Yuanbai thought in his heart, could it be true that what Xue Yuan said about loyalty to the emperor is true?

…It’s hard not to doubt, but the facts are there.

Thousands of calculations have been made, but Xue Yuan did not expect such a performance.

Gu Yuanbai sighed silently.Xue Yuan tied the reins of the horse to the tree, he moved his whole shoulders, the muscles on his back protruded and then retracted, his whole person was still gloomy, like the most vicious bandit leader on the bandit mountain, without the slightest appearance of an official.

Xue Yuan turned around and stretched out his hand towards Gu Yuanbai, Gu Yuanbai said: "I can go down by myself."

Xue Yuan stepped forward silently, as if treating a lost treasure that was almost recovered, he hugged Gu Yuanbai down.

He didn't let go of Gu Yuanbai's hug, and some wet blood was rubbed onto Gu Yuanbai's body.Gu Yuanbai said: "Let me down."

Xue Yuan's brows were gloomy, and his face was sullen and he didn't say a word.

Gu Yuanbai said one last time: "Xue Jiuyao."

"Your Majesty," Xue Yuan opened his lips, skin was already sticking to his lips, his voice was hoarse and dry, "Didn't you notice? You scared the minister."

Gu Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, then said in silence for a moment, "Why is this so?"

Xue Yuan wanted to laugh, so he did.

Why so?

Who the hell would know.

Xue Yuan put Gu Yuanbai on a clean stone and sat down, and went to check the things brought in hastily on the horse.He had a broadsword with him, and a dagger, and a water-sack on his horse, but nothing else.

Gu Yuanbai stood up and looked around. In the deep forest, the trees covered the sky, and the sound of birds and insects could be heard everywhere.He looked around, spotted an old tree, stepped forward and tore off the pineapple clinging to it.

Xue Yuan followed, raised his eyelids and took a look, "What is this?"

"Usnea," Gu Yuanbai said in a calm tone, continuing to pick Usnea, "it can stop bleeding and detoxify, it's a good thing."

There are only two people here, and it is self-evident who they will use.Xue Yuan's tense body relaxed slightly. He looked at Gu Yuanbai's side face, and his mind was still filled with the image of that big knife attacking Gu Yuanbai just now.

The sword was sharp and was about to hit Gu Yuanbai's body.

A piercing sound sounded next to his ear, and Gu Yuanbai looked along, and it turned out that Xue Yuan's hand was unconsciously pressing on the handle of the knife, and the handle rubbed against the scabbard, and the sharp sound continued.

"Xue Yuan?"

Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai in a daze, but didn't hear him.

Gu Yuanbai pulled his hand away from the handle of the knife.

Xue Yuan came back to his senses, and took off his blood-stained coat. Blood was still dripping from several knife wounds. Gu Yuanbai put Usnea on his wounds, and the blood stained the pale green Usnea red. Xue Yuan Without saying a word, Gu Yuanbai finished applying medicine to the conspicuous wounds on his body, and asked, "Where else is there?"

Xue Yuan lifted his underwear, and there was a bloody wound on the side of his waist.

Compared with him, Gu Yuanbai's body was only stained with some blood from Xue Yuan's body.

Gu Yuanbai personally administered medicine to Xue Yuan, sighing inwardly.

The villain army sent people to assassinate, and he could not tell Xue Yuan about the fact that he used the assassination as a trick.

No one else can know except the cronies.

Because behind this assassination, it was because Gu Yuanbai wanted to force those people to rebel, and wanted them to attack the powerful.

The Jiashen Society is in a state of disarray right now. They have few soldiers and horses and little food. The leader Xu Xiongyuan is a man who is not resourceful but arrogant. Although he can pretend to be a corporal, but the greed in his nature is not enough. Still put interests above everything else.

The reason why he followed Lu Feng was because Lu Feng gave him a lot of gold and silver. Now, as long as he has money and food, he also dares to conquer the powerful for these.

In ancient times, there was a word called military disaster.

A military disaster is a disaster like locusts.This is still a kind of disaster brought up by Liu Bang. When Liu Bang conquered the world, he was extremely poor. His peasant rebel army was a group of hooligans. In order to obtain military pay and rewards for the soldiers in his hands, he would indulge himself every time he captured a city. The soldiers went to plunder the whole city.

Powerful fields, food, gold and silver, women and food from ordinary people, plundering wealth and raping women, some soldiers will kill ordinary people to vent their anger because they are jealous of killing.

This is military disaster.

In order to have strict discipline in the army, soldiers in ancient times could only rely on their salaries to form a complete discipline and cultivate an elite army.But if there is no military pay, why do other soldiers work hard for you?

The Jiashenhui, which is also unpaid, will do the same.Jingnan is in chaos. Haoqiang has never been the target of their cooperation. They will directly steal everything from Haoqiang. They are about to rebel. I don’t care about the emperor anymore, but I still care about you?Steal the money of the powerful, and then continue to fight the world with soldiers and horses, and strengthen one city after another. It is best to walk all the powerful, so that the new country will be clean, and it will not be as bad as Liu Bang. How good is it to be coerced by powerful nobles?

The officers and soldiers of the imperial court are the teachers of the king, the teachers of benevolence and righteousness. They can't do the robbery like the rebel army. For some things, they need to borrow swords to kill people.

And if Jiashen will not rebel, then Haoqiang will become a boss one by one.They enslave the tenants in their fields, pay taxes for their own use, control the government, and domesticate small countries privately. Over time, the court weakens and the country fails to become a country. What's more, Daheng still has enemy countries spying on it.

Gu Yuanbai has been the emperor for three and a half years, and he has been in power for half a year. He can clearly see the shortcomings of the Daheng Dynasty. He really wants to be a good emperor, and he really wants to create a peaceful and prosperous world.

But here is the problem.

Is it better to promote the rebellion of the villain army now, and let the people of the two provinces fall into military disasters, so as to start to pull out the head of the tyrants and curb their momentum, or is it better to let the entire Daheng land fall into war in 30 or [-] years?

Neither is good.

Gu Yuanbai didn't know how to choose between the controllable disasters in two provinces and the war in Daheng in the next 30 years. Anyway, he chose to secretly promote the development of the rebel army.Before he made this kind of decision, he also had doubts and hesitation, feeling that he was too cruel and ruthless, but being indecisive was not in Gu Yuanbai's character.

It was decided half a year ago, so now he will do his best and make the most detailed layout to protect the people in these two provinces, but that's all he can do.

The national conditions of the country cannot tolerate the indecision of an emperor, and the conscience of a modern person must be lowered to the conscience of an ancient emperor at this time.

Perhaps the protagonist Gong Shou in the original text also made the same choice as him.

And this kind of thing cannot be said to a courtier.No matter whether Xue Yuan is truly loyal to the emperor or not, no matter whether Xue Yuan will be loyal to Gu Yuanbai in the future, Gu Yuanbai will never tell him such things.

After a while, the bleeding stopped, Gu Yuanbai felt a little heavy, he sat casually aside, Xue Yuan came over after putting on his clothes, and said in a hoarse voice, "Uncomfortable?"

Gu Yuanbai said casually, "No."

Xue Yuan moved his face closer and smiled softly, "I don't believe it."

Gu Yuanbai glanced at him lightly, Xue Yuan sat next to Gu Yuanbai, and said, "Since Your Majesty is not happy, then I will tell you an interesting story."

He himself was wounded and wanted to amuse Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai himself felt that he was bullying his subjects. He rubbed his nose and said with a helpless smile, "You should take care of yourself."

Seeing him smile, Xue Yuan said: "My lord, the sun is moving westward, and now it will be dark on the way back. It is extremely unsafe to ride horses in the forest at night. If you want to find a cave, you can spend the night here first."

Gu Yuanbai nodded, stood up and said, "Let's go."

The two of them were lucky. After driving for a while, they found a dry cave not far from a stream.There is also a grass bed and a dirty quilt in the cave, which should be a cave where hunters occasionally inhabit.

Xue Yuan went to find some firewood, looked at the stream flowing not far away, and suddenly felt a movement in his heart, "My lord, do you want to wash your face?"

Gu Yuanbai said: "No."

Don't worry about anything else, he said: "Guard Xue is injured, so don't go wash it."

Xue Yuan said honestly: "Yes."

After tidying up the cave, Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan wandered through the jungle to find some edible wild fruits.Gu Yuanbai saw a lot of snakeberries, picked some of them, and when he looked up, he saw Xue Yuan jumping from a tall tree, holding a bunch of wild fruits in his arms.Gu Yuanbai glanced casually from the corner of his eye, then suddenly stopped solemnly, and said sharply, "Don't move!"

Xue Yuan stopped immediately, he frowned, and said calmly, "Snake?"

A slender snake poked its head out from the branch behind him, staring at Xue Yuan's neck.

The tail is short and thin, the body has colorful patterns, and the snake head is in the shape of a triangle. It is also a poisonous snake!

Gu Yuanbai threw down the snakeberry in his hand, took out a small crossbow from his cuff, loaded the arrow, and raised his arm to aim at the poisonous snake.

Xue Yuan still had a leisurely smile and said: "Your Majesty, don't beat me up."

"Shut up," Gu Yuanbai approached slowly with sharp eyebrows, "don't talk."

The sound of breaking through the air will startle the poisonous snake. It is best to get closer and kill it with one blow before it can react in time.Gu Yuanbai squinted his eyes, and aimed the three short arrows at the snake's head, seven inches and tail.

Xue Yuan seemed to be relaxed, but in fact his whole body muscles were already tensed. He moved one hand to the dagger. Just as the two of them held their breath and concentrated, a rabbit suddenly ran over in the grass!

Gu Yuanbai said badly, and almost immediately activated the crossbow in the next second, and three arrows pierced the air to attack the poisonous snake, but the poisonous snake was startled by the rabbit's movement, and rushed towards Xue Yuan's neck fiercely.

Almost at the same time, Xue Yuan turned around and slashed with the dagger. The moment the arrow hit the poisonous snake, he also chopped the poisonous snake in half.

The poisonous snake twitched on the ground and died completely. Gu Yuanbai heaved a sigh of relief, his eyebrows stretched, and he asked, "Is there any injury?"

Xue Yuan looked down at his forearm and sighed.

Gu Yuanbai's eyelids twitched suddenly when he had already walked to his side.

"My lord, I was bitten," Xue Yuan said, "I tore my clothes."

The veins on the top of Gu Yuanbai's head bulged, he held back, couldn't hold back, and shouted angrily: "Then why the fuck can't you say it earlier?"