I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

Juzi will gather in the capital at the end of winter, and in the spring of the following year there will be an examination hosted by the Ministry of Rites. Since Chu Wei wants to participate in this examination, his father must avoid it.

In the past few days, the morning court was also talking about the general examination in early March. Gu Yuanbai and the ministers set the tone of the general examination, and determined the proportion of classics, strategies, arithmetic, poems, laws and essays in the general examination. The chief examiner of the general examination has one official and three assistants, who are senior members of the first and second grades, and there are 18 examiners. The Ministry of Rites submitted a list of candidates, and the candidates were selected by Gu Yuanbai.

After the early court, Gu Yuanbai got the list, and he had to choose candidates as soon as possible. After three days, these candidates would be followed by the Imperial Army and enter the Gongyuan lock courtyard.

There is also learning in the matter of appointing people. Although they are said to be the disciples of the emperor, the chief examiners of the township examinations and general examinations will eventually have the title of "a teacher". Who Gu Yuanbai is willing to let go further, who is willing to hold hands and feet, can also make a fuss here.

After he finished ordering, the imperial dining room also brought food. Since he ordered a bowl of noodles with fried sauce last time, the imperial dining room seems to have discovered a hundred ways to use different sauces. The meat sauce they tossed out is delicious. , relying on this alone is extremely satisfying.

Gu Yuanbai's appetite has not been very good these days, no matter how much the people in the imperial dining room put in, he only moved his chopsticks a few times before putting down his chopsticks.After ordering people to remove the meals, Gu Yuanbai prepared to take a nap after washing up.

Instructing Tian Fusheng to wake him up after an hour, Gu Yuanbai fell into a deep sleep, but he didn't expect that he would be awakened by violent shaking just after falling asleep.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Tian Fusheng's face was full of tears, and he said in a trembling voice, "My lord, Concubine Wan is seriously ill."

Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the capital.

Gu Yuanbai walked out of the house that smelled of medicine, looked at a lonely dead tree in the courtyard, his eyes were a little dry.

Tian Fusheng and his palace servants beside him covered their faces and wept. The imperial doctor followed on the left side of the Holy Majesty, whispering the diagnosis results.

Concubine Wan was the late emperor's concubine.

She is also the younger sister of Gu Yuanbai's biological mother.

Gu Yuanbai's biological mother passed away early. In order to protect Gu Yuanbai, the mother family let Concubine Wan enter the palace. Concubine Wan took the medicine to make her treat Gu Yuanbai as her own. They only paved the way for Gu Yuanbai.

The strangeness of the death of Gu Yuanbai's biological mother is that Concubine Wan found out the truth step by step in the harem. She held his mother's feud for him. Whether it was the former little emperor or the current Gu Yuanbai, all of them would kill Concubine Wan. Treat it like a birth mother.

After the death of the first emperor, Gu Yuanbai originally wanted to take good care of Concubine Wan in the palace, but Concubine Wan decided to leave the palace, she didn't want to die in the palace.

Gu Yuanbai moved her to this villa, but the careful support was still not worth the passage of time.

Concubine Wan is old and loses her spirit. She wants to die.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the gray sky, his heart seemed to be clenched by an invisible hand, the tip of his nose was sore, but his eyes were dry.

"Let's go."

The carriage bumped up and down on the uneven road, and the Biezhuang gradually went away. Tian Fusheng had already wiped away the tears all over his face, and he worriedly and carefully waited on Gu Yuanbai in the carriage.

Gu Yuanbai leaned on the soft bed, looked at the scenery outside the carriage in a daze, until the carriage drove into the capital, he stopped, got out of the carriage, and walked towards the palace in person.

The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, a bustling city with a large population. A few children were laughing and running past with sugar figurines. Gu Yuanbai stopped and looked at these children.

Men in coarse sackcloth are working on the street, women are doing housework hard, men and women, old and young, are all busy to live a good life.

However, there are more scholars in groups of threes and twos, libraries and teahouses, and there are people who come to participate in the exam with passionate writing everywhere. They are either excited or nervous, talking loudly about the upcoming exam.

Gu Yuanbai didn't know what he was thinking, and neither did the guards and palace people who were protecting him behind him.

They just followed the young emperor silently, wary of everything around them.

There are so many dignitaries in the capital that Gu Yuanbai and his party did not attract much attention.Gu Yuanbai withdrew his mind, and continued to walk forward, but just after taking two steps, a snowflake suddenly fell from his eyes.

"Ah! It's snowing, Daddy!"

"Snowing!"

There were children's cries of joy one after another, Gu Yuanbai shook his head with a broken smile, Tian Fusheng quickly put on the fox fur for him, "Master, can you get in the carriage?"

"Let's go for a while," Gu Yuanbai said, "I haven't seen the snow scene in the capital for a long time."

The flying snow in the capital in February fluttered like goose feathers. The chief guard held up an umbrella for the Holy One, and the snowflakes slipped from the edge of the umbrella, and some of them were blown by the wind onto the black hair hanging down to the waist of the Holy One.

They walked past the restaurant and teahouse, on the top floor of the Zhuangyuan, Xue Yuan was shaking the wine bottle by the window, and saw this group of people as soon as he lowered his head.

The face of the Holy Majesty was hidden under the umbrella, but the faces of Tian Fusheng and the chief guard were very familiar. Xue Yuan shook the drink, stretched his hand out of the window, and when a group of people passed by his window, he let go of his five fingers one by one.

"Crack-"

The wine bottle shattered not far behind Gu Yuanbai, and the guards immediately tensed up and looked fiercely upstairs.

Gu Yuanbai pushed open the umbrella, and his sight was unobstructed. When he looked upwards, a hand was casually put on the window on the second floor. Without thinking too much, Gu Yuanbai knew that the owner of this hand dropped it. The bottle nearly hit his wine.

The corners of Gu Yuanbai's lips curled up, but his voice was as cold as snowflakes, "Bring him down."

After a while, Xue Yuan, who smelled like alcohol, was taken down the Zhuangyuan building by the guards. The snowflakes fluttered and fluttered even more fiercely, and the umbrella was useless. Gu Yuanbai had already asked the chief guard to put away the useless umbrella. I stood alone in the cold wind for a while, and a lot of snow had accumulated on my body.

Xue Yuan was brought to Gu Yuanbai's side. When Gu Yuanbai saw that it was him, he continued to smile: "It turns out that he is the son of General Xue's family."

Tian Fusheng said: "Master, do you want to send Mr. Xue back to General Xue's residence?"

While they were talking, Xue Yuan hiccupped, stretched out his face to look at Gu Yuanbai for a while, and then said, "Your Majesty?!"

Gu Yuanbai looked at him quietly, there were snowflakes hanging from his hair, fox fur, and even eyelashes, and these snowflakes did not melt immediately after falling on his body.Compared to him, Xue Yuan's body was clean, and the snowflakes had been evaporated by the heat from his body and turned into water before they fell.

Seeing this, Gu Yuanbai's mood became even worse.

No emperor is ever in a good mood before a man a hundred times healthier than himself who will seize his power in the future.

Xue Yuan is a dog that bites anyone he sees. He doesn't usually bark, but he is fierce and ferocious. He has a very low sense of morality and only has desire and power in his eyes.He is a good leader of soldiers, but such a courtier is like a sharp blade without a handle. If others want to use him, they have to be prepared to have one of their hands cut off.

Chu Wei and Gu Yuanbai dare to fool around, but Xue Yuan can't.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the shattered wine bottles on the ground, "What's going on?"

Xue Yuan grinned, reeking of alcohol, he looked at the fragments on the ground, pretending to be in a daze, "Why is my wine here?"

Tian Fusheng covered his nose and squeezed his throat and said, "Master, Mr. Xue must be drunk."

Gu Yuanbai smiled suddenly, he walked to the side of the tiles and stood still, and the person who was escorting Xue Yuan also brought Xue Yuan over. Xue Yuan looked relaxed and walked slowly with his legs. Looking at it like this, those guards did not look like It is pressing people, but it seems to be serving people.

Snowflakes fell to the tip of his nose, just when an itch arose, Gu Yuanbai coughed a few times, and said in a hoarse voice, "Kneel down."

The guard who was pressing down on Xue Yuan put his arms firmly on Xue Yuan's knees on the sharp porcelain pieces that fell to the ground.

A large piece of broken porcelain pierced into the flesh, and the blood instantly flowed over the pants to the ground. Snowflakes floated on the blood and were quickly melted into water, making the blood spread faster on the ground.

The perfunctory look on Xue Yuan's face quickly disappeared, and he looked up at Gu Yuanbai gloomyly.

Gu Yuanbai smiled softly at him, and suddenly stretched out his hand to grab his hair. He lowered his head, and whispered into Xue Yuan's ear, "I'm in a bad mood today, Young Master Xue, don't let me let you go!" Mother's heartbroken chance, do you understand?"

Xue Yuan was forced to lift his chin, the jaw was tensed into an arc that would pop up at any time, his scalp was pulled numb, when the word "mother" came to his ears, he sneered and said, "Yuan knew."

Gu Yuanbai: "Very good."

He let go of his hand, Xue Yuan tilted his head slightly, watching the little emperor walk away from his ear with pale lips and a smile, the pain in his knee gradually receded, but Xue Yuan's whole body was already hot.

He looked down at the wound on his knee, and grinned sullenly.After the whole group had disappeared, Xue Yuan stood up and limped towards Xue's mansion.

The first thing Gu Yuanbai did after entering the palace was to tell the people from the Supervision Office to take advantage of the opportunity of the Xue Mansion to recruit people to send people inside.

Sure enough, as he expected, after Xue Yuan returned to the mansion, he cleaned up the people in the mansion, sold all the servants who might be the emperor's eyeliner, and bought some clean people into the mansion.

The two protagonists, Xue Yuan and Chu Wei, naturally attracted Gu Yuanbai's attention. There were 12 people lurking in Xue's mansion. Seven people were cleared this time, and five people remained. Maybe we can take this opportunity Take root and sprout and grow into a towering tree.

Gu Yuanbai was quite satisfied with the result.

Walking all the way back to the palace in the snow, the shoes were already wet when he returned to the palace, Tian Fusheng couldn't help but muttered when he took off the shoes and socks for Gu Yuanbai: "My lord, take care of the dragon body."

Gu Yuanbai looked down at the boots and said with a smile, "It's wet."

Tian Fusheng and the eunuchs and maids got busy, and they all breathed a sigh of relief after they finally made the Holy Majesty clean.

The Holy Majesty sat by the bed, and the eunuch took away the wormwood water for soaking his feet, the sky outside the window was already dark, and the lights in the bedroom were as bright as day.

"Concubine Wan's health is not good," Gu Yuanbai sighed softly, "The imperial doctor told me that I'm afraid she won't be able to survive the summer."

Tian Fusheng pressed His Majesty's shoulders, "My Majesty, Concubine Wan does not want you to be sad."

"I know," Gu Yuanbai said, "she is afraid that I will worry."

"It is for this reason, Your Majesty, that Concubine Wan will be happy when she sees you cheering up."

Gu Yuanbai stopped talking, and after relaxing his shoulders, he asked Tian Fusheng to lead the people back down, he wanted to be alone and quiet.

He has only just started, and he has just controlled the court in the palm of his hand.

There are still many things in the world that have not been done, and there are still many things that need to be verified in three to five years or even decades.

Concubine Wan is worried about him, because she is worried that he will complain about her body.

But in fact, Gu Yuanbai is grateful for this extra life, not to mention that this life has brought him a taste of scenery that he has never seen before.

Before going to bed, Gu Yuanbai thought of Xue Yuan and Chu Wei.

He has no idea about these two protagonists, without Xue Yuan, there will be Wang Yuan and Li Yuan... The only reason that can cause the turmoil itself is that the emperor himself is not doing well enough.

His life has been limited, but whether it is Xue Yuan or Chu Wei, as the protagonists in the novel, they will definitely be able to develop Daheng very well.Maybe he can inherit his will and continue to do what he wants to do.

But Xue Yuan is too rude, Gu Yuanbai still needs to find a way to tame this mad dog.

How can I make him obedient?

To scare him and let him know the pain?

The author has something to say: [Gong threw the wine bottle as a deliberate attempt. The specific reasons will be explained later in the article, and the reasons why Gong is so crazy will also be explained later in the article. Don’t worry, the reason is too blunt to explain in one go]

Let him feel scared because of the poor health of the little emperor, and let him feel pain because of the little emperor.

Gu Yuanbai: Very good, you successfully aroused my desire to conquer :)