After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

They stayed in Yunzhou for two months. After the incident in Yunzhou, they went to Xizhou and Liangzhou to inspect everywhere.

When they were in Liangzhou, they also met General Wan and King Duan Rongyu.In the previous battle, both of them put in a lot of hard work, and even had a short period of time when they could only eat mustard because of being besieged.Therefore, in the restaurant, when General Wan saw the pickled radish coming up in front of his eyes, his face turned a little green.

General Wan obviously liked the Italian cannons sent by the emperor very much, and seeing them being included in the military arsenal, he was a little bit reluctant to part with them.After leaving Liangzhou, Zhou Xun and the others went south again. After arriving in Jiangzhou, the two walked around Jiangzhou City. Zhou Xun was annoyed by the emperor's more and more words, so he had to take him wander around.

The emperor said that he liked Jiangzhou very much and was very interested in Jiangzhou.

Zhou Xun felt that he was not very good at being a tour guide. He had never been able to say many beautiful words, so when talking about those places, he just followed the scriptures and recited the records related to those places of interest.But the emperor said to him: "You don't need to talk about those things, just say something simple."

Zhou Xun was a little hesitant: "Then... what are you talking about?"

"Tell me how old you were when you came here and what you did here. That's fine."

"...What kind of tourism is this?"

"Traveling, of course, is to go to the places you like and are interested in!" The emperor was full of enthusiasm.

Zhou Xun thought, the place that the emperor likes and is interested in is the place where he... used to grow up?

The emperor is always very calm, but he is always easy to make Zhou Xun can't help but want to blush.

It was much easier to tell about my own experience in a certain place.

Zhou Xun said: "I was in this temple, uh... When I was five years old, I was chased by a dog, and the dog kept running towards me, which frightened me."

Zhou Xun said: "I was bored in front of this stele, and secretly wrote orthographic characters on it with my fingers dipped in water."

Zhou Xun said: "I really like the... well, crystal buns in this well-known restaurant."

Gradually, he talked more and more, not only about the places of interest and must-see attractions for tourists, but more about the many small shops, many street trees that are nothing special in the eyes of others, "The rabbit meat noodles in this restaurant are delicious, but unfortunately, there is too little rabbit meat." Zhou Xun said, "There are only a few slices each time."

"Go!" The emperor patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go in and eat!

"

Saying so, the emperor went in and threw an ingot of gold on it: "Boss, kill ten rabbits and use them all to make noodles!"

……

"I like to visit this bookstore very much. There are often stray civet cats outside the bookstore. Every time I bring something to feed them." Zhou Xun said.

So the emperor and Zhou Xun waited on the stone bench at the door for a day, until the civet cat came in the evening.

……

"There are often jujubes on the trees here, but it's a pity that they are too high. When I was a child, it was difficult to pick them. I had to use a pole to hit them...heh." Zhou Xun stood on tiptoe and touched the branches, "Now I can pick them. arrive."

He took off a jujube and handed it to the emperor, but saw that the emperor looked depressed: "What's wrong?"

Emperor: "I just wanted you to ride on my neck to pick it off."

Zhou Xun: ...

Two people sat under a tree and ate dates.The emperor saw the academy next to him and said to Zhou Xun, "You were sent to study here when you were young?"

Zhou Xun: "Yes."

"There are indeed two trees here, one is a jujube tree and the other is a jujube tree." The emperor looked at the two jujube trees and murmured.

Zhou Xun couldn't help laughing: "My classmate's father did indeed buy him oranges every month."

"There is also a classmate who fights with a cat with a bamboo pole." The emperor said, and saw a civet cat galloping by not far away, with a piece of bacon in its mouth.A gentleman was blowing his beard and staring, holding up a bamboo pole and chasing and beating him.

"There are also students who play cards and write diaries every day." Zhou Xun said.

The two looked at each other and suddenly started laughing.It was the evening in Jiangzhou, and the twilight shone on the two of them. They sat under the tree, shoulders touching shoulders, smiling all the time, with gentle and happy expressions.

"It's amazing that you said those words by coincidence!" The emperor laughed loudly. "You know, you almost scared me to death. I thought I had offended some big brother from my hometown!"

Zhou Xun also felt that he was really lucky to be able to say those words because of a coincidence and with the same feelings in his heart.

When they came back from the academy in the countryside, the emperor donated some money to the academy and visited the watermelon fields near the academy——Tu Run was an official in another place, and when he retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he would definitely come back and become a teacher.

The two were walking on the streets of Jiangzhou, and Zhou Xun spoke slowly while walking.After a long time, the emperor said: "Hey, it really feels like..."

"Like what?"

"It's as if I grew up with you. I finally shared the memories of your youth in Jiangzhou." He said with an exclamation tone, "Well, speaking of it, if only I could be with you How wonderful it would be to grow up together! Bamboo horse, bamboo horse, childhood sweetheart... Hehe."

Zhou Xun was startled, and the corners of his eyes were a little red.When passing by a post station, Zhou Xun stopped again.

Seeing him stop, the emperor asked him, "Have you seen anything here?"

"I'm here, I met you on a rainy day." Zhou Xun said softly.

That rainy day, he held an umbrella and walked here slowly.He saw that his whole life was barren, hopeless and hopeless, and then, amid all the misty rain, he saw the emperor sitting here.

The emperor said that he felt that everyone wanted to stay in his happy life, and he was afraid that he... would not come back.

But the emperor didn't know that Zhou Xun's happiest days would be staying by his side.But now a year later, he walked by his side and exhausted the entire Jiangzhou that was cruel to him. Zhou Xun felt that his once gray youth had become happy and gentle.

It turns out that there are still so many small sugar-like past events hidden in his memories.

He thought that his life was really happy.

Before leaving Jiangzhou, Zhou Xun went to worship at Lin Yan's grave.

Today's tomb finally really buried Lin Yan's bones.Zhou Xun stood upright and burned three sticks of incense.

"As my mother, it's only natural for me to worship her." Zhou Xun said, "Although she never loved me, she gave me a name, and that's enough."

"I will not forgive her for those people who helped her in the past. All I can do is to use up my life to repay those people, so that in this world, there will be no next Lin Yan, and there will be no next one. A Lin family." Zhou Xun whispered, "I hope there will be a world where everyone can live happily."

With light smoke curling up, they left Jiangzhou.On the boat, the emperor grabbed Zhou Xun's hand, and he said firmly: "And we are heading towards such a world."

Zhou Xun nodded seriously.

He looked at the emperor's back and thought, as long as he followed him, he could go anywhere firmly.

……

The great victory over the Northern Wei Dynasty strengthened the confidence of the people.In the past, they paid tribute to the Northern Wei Dynasty every year, and there was already great dissatisfaction.But now, for the first time in decades, Jingguo is actually proud of the battle against the Northern Wei Dynasty!

The emperor also generously reduced or exempted this year's tax, and the people in the capital cheered for a while, and when the emperor returned to Beijing, they spontaneously took to the streets to greet him.The emperor was not in the capital for the past few months, and the prime ministers were responsible for everything. However, his prestige did not decrease but increased. When the carriage entered the Forbidden City, the people were still cheering outside the city wall.

however……

"Recently, the government and the public, especially among the literati, often criticize the emperor." The emperor's confidantes reported, "Most of the content is related to this war."

"Why?"

It's nothing more than the so-called "waste of money".However, their cleverness this time is that they took out the widows of several soldiers as rafts, and used a specific tragic image as an excuse to accuse the emperor.For such orphans and widowed mothers, scholars often easily sympathized with them, so much so that they complained about the emperor's refusal to pay tribute in order to seek peace.

What's more, he denounced the emperor as a "tyrant" and listed his actions such as building canals, building large-scale construction projects, and launching wars as evidence.

"It's clear that the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked us first. Damn, they must be sick!" The emperor was furious.

Zhou Xun asked in detail: "Have the widows' pensions been done well?"

Doing - naturally is done, just a bonus...

Self-explanatory.

The emperor was still muttering, Zhou Xun rubbed his head and said, "Then what do the common people think?"

People?

The people have no opinion on this.They were never just the silent majority.But in their eyes, the emperor who did not submit to the Northern Wei Dynasty, won the battle and made the people feel proud, and thus reduced taxes, even if he was a tyrant, was also a tyrant who made them happy.

As for dredging the canal?As for the big construction?The sewers in the capital are indeed less and less congested, and the appearance of the former slums has also taken on a new look, and the canal?Embankment?This... as long as the wages are sufficient, what's the problem?

What they are afraid of is forced labor, and they refuse to pay wages.Since you can get paid for working for the government, what do they care about those projects?

What's more... Since a section of the canal was dredged, the fleet transportation has become faster, and the prices of some vegetables, fruits, rice, noodles and meat have also dropped a lot.

People don't care about the morality of the monarch, they only care about whether they benefit from it.Now in their view, they have benefited.

"Damn it!" Zhou Xun was thinking, when he suddenly heard the emperor slapping the table, "Sending wages... printing money, I forgot about inflation!"

Zhou Xun:? ?

Emperor: "I really have to take it easy in the future!!"

Zhou Xun: ...

He reconsidered the matter of those widows, and asked his subordinates to carry out the work in several parts-one, to integrate the danger of the tribute incident into the storytelling story, and then write the passionate story of victory, and put it into drama or storytelling. Or draw some comic strips of generals fighting bravely on the wall.Second, among the scholars, find a way to explain this matter to them.three...

Find out who is behind these rumors.

Zhou Xun does not believe that public opinion will simply ferment in one direction.

and……

In his mind, there were already doubtful candidates.

The subordinates took orders to do it.

The first item went well.The second item was hindered, but with the voices of Prime Minister Lu, Xie Zhengqing and Li Miao, things became much easier.What Zhou Xun didn't expect was that Yan Jia also spoke out.It seems that Yan Jia has indeed grown a lot after what happened to Miss Yan.

He once met Yan Jia on the road.Yan Jia was shopping at that time, but his expression became much gentler than before, timid or indifferent.When he turned his head and saw Zhou Xun, he was startled for a while, then smiled at Zhou Xun.

"How are you doing recently?" He offered to ask.

There was no haze in his expression, but a gentleness like the sea and the sky.He told Zhou Xun that Yan Shangshu also accepted the fact that his daughter had eloped, and Miss Yan often sent letters home.Yan Shangshu finally chose the latter between his own face and his daughter's happiness. He often secretly read his daughter's letters at home and talked about her safety.He really wanted to apologize to Zhou Xun, but he couldn't save himself for the time being.

Zhou Xun smiled. Looking at Yan Jia now, he thought to himself that the days ahead are still very long.

They are all young people, and they still have decades to serve as officials in the same dynasty.Maybe one day, they will laugh at their youthful frivolity and become friends again.

He doesn't care when Yan Shangshu's face can be lowered, Yan Shangshu is getting old.Let the old man be stubborn, or let him one day, and finally become kind.

And Xie Zhengqing was silent a lot after Qing Ruo's "death", he became more and more like the head of the family, but declined to his father the marriage with Gu Dashi's granddaughter.He still often drank tea in that tea house, looking at the empty window opposite the misty rain.

There is no orchid on the window, and there is no peerless beauty inside the window.

But he was also much gentler to the poor.It is said that together with Li Miao who learned the story of his predecessor Li Zhiwei, he did many things for the poor.After all, he was still the kind-hearted Xie Zhengqing. There was a tombstone buried in his heart, but it didn't make him fall for it.

The head of the Xie family was a little dissatisfied with this, but he knew after all that he would grow old.The person who will succeed him is Xie Zhengqing, a new generation of young people.

As for the third item, the envoy is still investigating.

In addition, there is another piece of news - the Ye Family Patriarch finally couldn't bear the pressure of being in constant panic all day long, and went crazy.He bit off his own tongue and suffocated in terror.

So far, all the enemies of the Lin family, except Zhou Cai, have been wiped out.

Old man Shen often went to the Li family's cemetery to look for the tablet without writing to drink.He was never sad, his expression was full of happiness and relief.

Lu Xiandao's health gradually improved.Bai Yuxing often went to see him.One day, he suddenly asked Zhou Xun, if he wanted to give someone a gift, what should he give it?

what to give?

Zhou Xun saw Bai Yuxing's distressed look, and by the way saw Zhang Lingsu coming to take Lu Xiandao's pulse again - he saw Bai Yuxing immediately became a little nervous, but it was obviously not Zhang Lingsu who was nervous, but could not bear it all the time. Keep watching Lu Xiandao, to see if his gaze is on the girl.

Zhang Lingsu went out, and Xiao Wu was waiting for her outside.The two walked and talked.Xiao Wu said that if he had a daughter in the future, he would call her Orange.Zhang Lingsu refuted him, saying that if you want to call her Lan, she likes orchids, not oranges.

"Then... why do you always accept the oranges?"

The two walked away.

Here, Bai Yuxing was still eagerly waiting for Zhou Xun's answer.Zhou Xun looked at him, suddenly smiled slyly, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you see that? Lu Xiandao never liked Miss Zhang."

"Then who did he like?" Bai Yuxing subconsciously said it, and just as he said it, he felt a little annoyed and faintly anxious.Seeing Lu Xiandao looking out from the inside, Zhou Xun smiled and said, "Of course it's a gift prepared for him with heart."

"A gift from the heart..."

"Why did you give him a gift?"

"Here," Bai Yuxing was stunned for a moment, then he laughed loudly, "Humanitarian care, by the way, thank him for enlightening me about my lovelorn..."

Zhou Xun: ...

He patted him on the shoulder and went into the room.

Bai Yuxing took the blade of grass in his mouth and thought about it by himself.

Zhou Xun sat in front of Lu Xiandao's couch. Lu Xiandao had been quietly looking at Bai Yuxing outside, but when he saw him coming, he turned around and saluted him with difficulty.

Zhou Xun stopped him.

"...Man, did you find it?" Lu Xiandao whispered, and coughed twice while talking.

"I have found some traces of him in the past few days, but..." Zhou Xun thought about it, "the Northern Wei Dynasty, come here to ask for someone. Qin Liang is like the Northern Wei Emperor's father, and the Northern Wei Emperor would never allow him to die in Jingguo."

Lu Xiandao gave a low hum, his eyes were full of vengeance.