Is Your Majesty jealous today?

Xichi had lived in a simple guest room before, but this was the first time that it was this simple.Although Zhong Ye's arm was not comfortable on a soft feather pillow, it was much more comfortable than the wooden pillow on the bed.

In the middle of the night, Xi Chi turned over once, and was pulled in by someone in a haze, and hugged him into a warm embrace.

When he woke up the next day, the sky was bright, and there was nothing around Chichi. Sleeping in the early morning was much better than at night, and now Chichi didn’t feel uncomfortable. He pushed the pillow away and turned over to continue sleeping.

The imperial guards passed the food box to Zhong Ye through the wooden fence. They still don't know what the emperor's plan is. They don't deal with so many political affairs of the court, and they are here to accompany a young man to play a show.

Zhong Ye opened the food box and took a look. The light porridge and two vegetarian dishes fit his current status.

In autumn, there should be sweet-scented osmanthus. There are no sweet-scented osmanthus in Qing County. Zhong Ye’s residence only planted a few chrysanthemums. The autumn chrysanthemums did not bloom well. It rained so much yesterday and today the petals were damaged a lot.

Xi Chi came out from the room, he pressed the well water to wash himself, he didn't wear his coat, the snow-white coat outlined his thin figure, Xi Weixia's whole body was covered with a layer of light.

Zhong Ye stood by the window and watched him.

Xi Chi took out the pottery pot containing the flowers, replaced it with fresh well water, and sprinkled some drops of water on the slender snow-white petals.

After breakfast, the two played chess by the window.

Government affairs are the favorite topic of these scholars, and Xi Chi himself doesn’t like this. His biggest wish is to be free and easy while he is young, and when he has enough leisure, he will return to Crane Yi Academy to be a teacher.

Heyi Academy set up Liuzhai, Wenshizhai, Wubeizhai, Jingshizhai, Yinengzhai, Lixuezhai, Tietuozhai, and Xichi felt that he could teach anything.

Zhong Ye said casually: "I heard that you have a lot of contacts with the Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom, without you secretly helping him, it would be very difficult for him to obtain the position of Crown Prince, so he has been looking for you for the past two years."

Xichi asked Heizi: "Brother Yi, you don't study hard and always ask about these weird things. No wonder you didn't pass the Jinshi exam last year."

Zhong Ye raised his eyes: "The mouth is quite poisonous."

Xi Chi said: "You are not a person with small measures, so I will tell the truth."

"Is the matter about Qi Kingdom true?" Zhong Ye asked, "You plotted against his two brothers?"

Xi Chi nodded: "It's just a transaction. You know I've been short of money all year round. Qin Dai gave me 50 taels of silver, so I helped him. Now that I think about it, it's a bit of a loss. The 50 taels will be spent in a year." Yes, I should ask him for 100 million taels at that time."

Zhong Ye said: "Why did you choose Qin Dai? As far as I know, his two brothers are also very generous."

"Qin Dai doesn't do things like rabbits and dogs." Xi Chi pinched the black stone with his fingertips, and the black stone made his fingers extraordinarily thin and white, so white that it was dazzling, "I didn't want to die without knowing it."

Zhong Ye had a half-smile: "What do you think of the emperor of this dynasty?"

Xi Chi thought for a moment: "I can't tell."

Zhong Ye raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

Xi Chi said to Zhong Ye: "The current Emperor's ability to endure dormancy in the Empress Dowager and Sheng's family for many years is enough to show that his city is deeper than the old fox Sheng Taishi."

Zhong Ye smiled: "What do you think he will do next?"

"The first thing - of course, is to rectify the administration of officials." Xi Chi seriously analyzed, "The ethos of forming cliques in the court for personal gain is too strong, officials and officials protect each other and deceive the saints, and the emperor stays in a small palace, so he can't see clearly the vast country. If he wants to know the situation of the whole country, he must select a group of officials who are loyal, reliable and accurate in conveying the news."

Xi Chi's words just hit Zhong Ye's heart.

Zhong Ye said: "How should he do it?"

"How to do it? Isn't the emperor already doing it?" Xi Chi said, "The Sheng family has done a lot of evil. Mr. Yin begged for mercy for Sheng Yue, a heinous sinner. The emperor arrested him in a rage, but in the end he let him go instead of killing him." Going back is enough to show that the emperor cherishes the virtuous and virtuous, and there will be more scholars willing to serve him in the future. Moreover, last year's imperial examination was the only year in which the examination questions were not leaked, the emperor values ​​the imperial examination, and the scholars will be loyal to him."

Nobody doesn't like compliments.

Xi Chi's words fell right on Zhong Ye's heart.

The two had never met before, had never seen each other, and there was a big river between them, but Xi Chi guessed his heart.

Zhong Ye said again: "What do you think he will do now?"

"Reform the cabinet and the six ministries, especially the six ministries, there are too many moths in them, and the localities need to be rectified," Xichi said. "Some emperors don't know the people's sufferings and say why they don't eat minced meat. Today's emperor doesn't know it. He will definitely visit him in person. Look at the local government corruption situation."

Zhong Ye asked, "Where will he go?"

Xi Chi smiled slightly: "Linan Province and Weili Province."

Zhong Ye's eyes became darker and darker.

Xi Chi's ability to figure out the situation is stronger than he imagined.At this moment, Zhong Ye really wanted to kill him.

No emperor wants his thoughts to be guessed.

Right now Zhong Ye and Xi Chi are in Qing County, Changling Prefecture, Weili Province.If Zhong Ye hadn't met Xi Chi, he would have gone south to Linan.

Zhong Ye dropped a white piece: "The emperor took power not long ago, and every inch of land in these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains belongs to him. It is understandable to want to go out to see your own mountains and rivers. Yao Xi, I am really curious, how did you deduce all this?" ?”

Xi Chi tilted his head: "Is it hard to deduce? I was thinking, if I were the emperor, I would probably do this."

Chi Chi never thought he was a fool, he thought he was very smart.The emperor is also a smart person, and of course the two will make the same decision.

"What else?" Zhong Ye said in a low voice, "Xiao Xi, what else do you think he will do?"

Xichi said: "Yingzhou is not stable. General Du is very likely to rebel. The emperor wants to kill him. Several powerful ministers support the emperor. They are old and cunning and have evil intentions. The degree of danger is no less than that of the Sheng family. They must be killed. Of course. , the Xi family will not be killed, King Cheng is very smart."

The pawn in Zhong Ye's hand was almost cracked by him.

Xi Chi knows all the difficulties he is facing now and everything he will do in the future.

Zhong Ye simply suspected that Xi Chi could read minds and be able to read the thoughts in his mind.

In other words, Xi Chi is a bone extracted from his body, which was originally an object in his body, otherwise why is he so clear about himself?

Zhong Ye was completely distracted.

He was absent-minded, and he didn't know how the chess pieces fell.

Xi Chi's eyes lit up: "Brother Yi, you lost."

"Yes, I lost." Zhong Ye had a dark smile on his lips, "Prince Qi Kingdom spent 50 yuan to invite you to help him obtain the position of crown prince. How much money does Emperor Xuanchao spend to invite you?"

Xi Chi said: "Do you know where the 50 silver that the prince of Qi Kingdom gave me was spent?"

"where?"

"Part of it was built bridges and roads for the people of the Xuan Dynasty, and part of it was donated to the people in the disaster area." Xi Chi said, "He doesn't need to ask me, I will naturally do my best to help the country among the people. The country belongs to the emperor. It also belongs to everyone. If you are really a wise king today, who can rectify the imperial court and let the people live and work in peace, it would be meaningless if you don’t invite me.”

Many people have inquired about Yao Xi's life experience. Many people said that Yao Xi was born in a poor family, and some people speculated that Yao Xi was the grandson of the Yao family in Linan.

Zhong Ye naturally investigated Yao Xi, but found no results.It is naturally impossible to come from a poor background, because Yao Xi was entrusted to study with the dean of Heyi Academy when he was very young, so his family background must be not bad.

All the grandchildren of the Yao family have names and surnames, and none of them entered the academy, nor did any other branches.There are so many people with the surname Yao in Linan, this possibility is unlikely.

Zhong Ye said, "Why do you think so?"

Xi Chi couldn't tell.

The government has been controlled by the Sheng family for more than 20 years, and the people of Xuan Dynasty are not living peacefully.

When Xi Chi was a child, he sat in a luxurious carriage and went to the temple to burn incense with his grandmother. His grandmother donated 5000 taels of sesame oil to the temple. Xi Chi saw that other officials' wives also donated several thousand taels.

When I came back, Xichi was not feeling well. In this case, the doctor said that the child had eaten too finely, and a few meals would be enough if he was hungry.

He opened the curtain of the carriage and saw a group of yellow and emaciated children begging for food. These were hungry people from other provinces.

Xichi bought each of them a steamed bun, which costs one penny, one tael of silver can buy a thousand steamed buns, and 5000 taels of silver can buy five million steamed buns.

Xi Chi asked his grandmother why everyone would rather cast golden bodies for Buddha statues than give steamed buns to hungry people.

Grandma didn't raise her eyes, she just said that the people's affairs belonged to the imperial court, and all the money from the national treasury was used to build the palace for the current Empress Dowager Sheng, and the imperial court had no money for disaster relief, so they could only starve.

There are tens of thousands of victims, and the imperial court has not done anything. The Yao family will never be able to provide relief. They simply do not provide relief. Everyone has their own life, and starving to death is their fate.

This is the first time the young Xi Chi saw the cruelty in the world.It was also the first time Xichi discovered how close the relationship between the imperial court and the monarch was with the people.

Later, when meeting Shengyue, even though Shengyue's appearance and temperament did not displease Xichi, Xichi still kept him at a respectful distance. A large number of victims.

Xi Chi said: "Stop talking about that, let's continue playing chess."

There was still a rough porcelain tea bowl on the table, Xi Chi took a sip of tea, Zhong Ye also took a sip.Xi Chi always felt that there was something weird about it. Although he was used to informality, it was the first time to drink tea from the same bowl with others. Did this exceed some bottom line?

But Zhong Ye didn't care, and he had nothing to care about.

Zhong Ye is a very clean and refreshing man.

The general flew in from the outside, and it flapped its wings to drink the same bowl of water as Xi Chi.

Xi Chi quickly slapped the general away.

He is happy to drink the same bowl as a human, but adding another animal will definitely not work.

The general yelled "Wah-wah" at Zhong Ye twice,

Zhong Ye liked the general at first, and if he didn't like it, he wouldn't make this bird a general. Even a bird conferred by the emperor himself has an official position. Now Zhong Ye has decided to dismiss the general.

Just call it Jiaojiao.