Yu Guozhen will not stop and wait for those who are falling behind, so those who are falling behind must work tenfold to catch up again.

This is the case with Huo Yan.

He is only forty years old, but from the outside, he looks like he is fifty or sixty years old. In the twenty years that he has become a negative textbook, the pressure he has endured is absolutely unimaginable to outsiders.

A mistake that took him twenty years to make up.

Standing in front of the Grand Communal Hall, he stopped for a long time, and many people who participated in this joint meeting walked in, but he still stopped.

After twenty years of chasing, here it is, finally ...... You can pause for a moment and look around.

"Huh?"

A familiar voice came from behind him, Huo Yan turned his face, looked at Gu Jiaming with a suspicious face, and smiled.

"I haven't seen it in twenty years, and it's completely ...... Don't you know me? ”

Gu Jiaming has not changed much, so Huo Yan can recognize him at a glance, and Huo Yan's back is familiar to Gu Jiaming, but after turning his face, he is completely unfamiliar.

Gu Jiaming couldn't associate the person in front of him who was almost like his father's generation with Huo Yan, who was high-spirited at the beginning. However, Huo Yan's voice has not changed, and it still carries arrogance, but this arrogance is no longer the frivolity of his youth, but the kind of self-confidence that naturally arises after countless things.

Over the years, Huo Yan has built roads, built houses, dug ponds, built dams, and after determining that he had no chance of returning to the army, he used all his talents to specialize in civil engineering, especially dam water conservancy.

There are many torrential rains in that part of Annam, and when the rain is great, there are many floods. It is also the big granary of China, which supplies three-fifths of China's rice every year, as well as other important food resources such as fruits, so the construction of water conservancy embankments has become a top priority. Huo Yansheng has made achievements in this industry, and his name has once again entered Yu Guozhen's field of vision.

Therefore, he was appointed as an advisor to the Joint Conference and was able to participate in this meeting.

"Huo ......"

"Huo Gaizhi." Huo Yan stretched out his hand to Gu Jiaming.

He changed his name because the name Huo Yan was so famous that in order to avoid some trouble, he had to change his name to "change it".

"Change it, change it!"

The meaning of this name, Gu Jiaming immediately understood.

No wonder he didn't know Huo Yan's news since then, it turned out that he had changed his name

"Anyway, haha, it's a pleasure to see you here." Gu Jiaming came up and patted him on the shoulder.

The two hugged warmly, just as they had when they were together in the academy.

"What are you still delaying here, the meeting will start soon, do you want Your Majesty to wait for you?"

At this moment, Ye Wuya's voice sounded, both of them had served in Ye Wuya's subordinates, although now Gu Jiaming's position was not lower than Ye Wuya's, but hearing his voice, the two of them still looked solemn.

Ye Wuya's face was gloomy, and he walked over from the two of them, but he paused in front of Huo Yan for a moment, nodded, and showed that his face twitched in recognition of Huo Yan's appearance.

After he left, Gu Jiaming patted his forehead: "No, am I too tired to have a delusion recently, just ...... Ye Crow actually laughed? ”

"If that's a laugh......

The two of them walked into the grand hall side by side, and quickly found their seats to take their seats, the two of them were far apart, but they felt that they had never been so close.

For a common goal, the heavens are apart, and there are neighbors.

Just as Gu Jiaming was pondering whether to go and say a few more words to Huo Yan, there was suddenly a commotion behind him, Gu Jiaming turned his face away, and saw more than ten women walking in.

The first was the queen Fang Ziyi, and after Fang Ziyi, it was Song Siyi dressed as a Taoist aunt, but after Song Siyi, Gu Jiaming's eyes widened.

It was his wife, Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying is now the deputy director of the Ministry of Medical and Health, which is equivalent to the squire in the past, and this position is not low at all. But her appearance here still surprised Gu Jiaming: I had never heard that she would come here.

Could it be ......

A thought floated in his heart, and Gu Jiaming couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous.

Even though the status of women in the Chinese Dynasty has been greatly improved, the traditional concept of male superiority and inferiority of women is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In addition to Zhao Ying, there are many women, but only Fang Ziyi is related to Yu Guozhen. Fang Ziyi led these women and slowly walked into a corner of this venue, where a screen separated them from the surroundings, and at this time, the first to arrive suddenly realized.

"This ...... What's going on, women and women are also in government affairs? ”

Behind Gu Jiaming, someone asked in surprise.

Gu Jiaming looked back and didn't know this person who was dressed as a Confucian in the past. Without waiting for Gu Jiaming to say anything, someone smiled and said, "Even the old Confucian scholars who oppose the present can come here, why can't these women and women come."

Not to mention the queen phoenix, that is, the more than ten women who followed behind her, which one is not outstanding and has great merits for the country and the people? Speaking of which...... What merit do you have to dare to receive incense here? ”

The one who can say such things is none other than Tian Boguang, Gu Jiaming got up and wanted to greet him, but saw Tian Boguang wave his hand and signal not to be polite.

"This ...... This ......" The Confucian scholar blushed, and then muttered: "Mr. Fang Mizhi didn't come by himself, so he recommended me ......"

"Ah, then you must be Wang Ernong, sure enough, if you are Wang Ernong, you are qualified to come here, haha, the Confucian sects in the world must be grateful to Fang Mizhi and you."

Wang Ernong is Wang Fuzhi, over the years he has been as Fang Yizhi's assistant, helping him sort out a hundred school classics, the Confucian Taoist system from the time of Confucius to Zhou Yi, and with Zhou Yi as the source, export the social ethics of Confucius, the legal system of Legalism, the natural science of Taoism, the mechanics of Mohistism, the logic of famous scholars and other hundred disciplines, expound their relationship with the "Yi", and finally synthesize the hundred schools of thought into practical learning. In other words, Fang Yizhi and Wang Fuzhi were theorizing the lessons of the Chinese Dynasty, which made the policies of the Chinese Dynasty easier to implement, and at the same time made the differentiation of the old Confucian scholars very intense, and the vast majority of the old Confucian scholars began to shift their attention from the Four Books and Five Classics to the works of other Zhuzi Hundred Schools, and even appeared "the first hundred schools" and "the last hundred schools" - the first hundred schools were naturally the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the latter hundred schools of thought are now emerging scholars of various schools.

The great emancipation of the mind has promoted the great progress of society, so even for such a thing as women and women participating in the joint conference, except for a few conservatives like Wang Fuzhi, the rest of the people feel that it is right. These women can sit in the big hall of the big hall, and the hard work they have put in and the feats they have established are enough to overshadow the vast majority of men in the world!

Fang Ziyi's early arrival means that Yu Guozhen will also be here. Soon after the women took their seats, Yu Guozhen really appeared at the gate, and with his arrival, everyone stood up, or saluted, or bowed, Yu Guozhen waved all the way and saluted, and walked straight to the front of the conference stage.

Looking at Yu Guozhen's still young face, Tian Boguang sighed twice: "I don't understand how Your Majesty maintains it, why are they in their forties, but they are still in their twenties, which makes people envious, jealous and hateful. ”

Up to now, Tian Boguang still hasn't married a wife, he has a very high position, and the people who act as matchmakers for him don't know how many are Fang Ziyi, and they have personally inquired about this matter, but Tian Boguang didn't care, and they all refused one by one.

Even Yu Guozhen has no way to deal with him on this issue.

"Lao Tian, you have a big mouth again, beware that I will sue you." Gu Jiaming joked: "At that time, Your Majesty is only afraid that he will give you an order, Tian Boguang will order you to find a wife to marry within a year, otherwise you will cut your job and let you go to the Yanjing Forbidden City as an assistant to the director!" ”

The director of the Yanjing Forbidden City is not Zhu Youzhen, and his assistant is naturally inseparable from the loyal eunuch Wang Chengen. Wang Chengen is probably the only person who still calls Zhu Youzhen "Long Live Lord", and some people also made a small report to Yu Guozhen, and Yu Guozhen sent the person who made the small report directly to Toadzhou to raise the newly introduced alpaca beast.

"Jiaming, if you have the courage, I will go to your daughter-in-law and say that you went to the Qinglou with me." Tian Boguang sneered: "The blade in your daughter-in-law's hand is not just a man's appendix, hahahaha." ”

Gu Jiaming shook his head, fighting with this, he was still a little behind.

However, when Yu Guozhen sat on the front seat and stretched out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, Gu Jiaming and Tian Boguang sat up according to the most standard military posture, waiting for Yu Guozhen's speech.

Looking at the more than 700 participants below, Yu Guozhen felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

When the first joint conference was held eight years ago, it was thought to be a stopgap measure for him, but eight years later, the joint conference every four years proved that he was going to stick to the system.

And starting this year, this system will be truly perfected: how to confirm the identity of all the advisers of the joint meeting is a key issue this time.

So the first thing he did was talk about that.

Everyone present, whether they are old and old, or rookies in their early twenties, men and women, whether they are moral, or even whether they support me or oppose me, have made many meritorious contributions to my Chinese people and country. Therefore, I invite you to come here to discuss the country's affairs, in the hope that your strength and mine will be one, so that our China can be more prosperous! ”

"For all these years, I've been wondering what the road to statecraft is. When the conference building was completed this year, when I was asked what the name was, I thought of the name of the 'Grand Public'. ”

"It's a cliché, but today I want to say something different." Yu Guozhen smiled slightly: "Some people will say in their hearts, you Yu said that the world is for the public, but the most profitable business in the world is in the hands of you Yu, why don't you make it enrich the public treasury?" I am here today to announce that our Yu family's first profitable industry, Huaxia Iron and Steel, will be gradually handed over to the public treasury! ”

As soon as these words came out, the originally quiet venue suddenly became a small commotion. (To be continued)