Hai time, Yuxiu Palace.

Lin Miaoyi stood on the bank of the lotus pond and looked up at the starry sky, the expression on her face was sometimes nervous, sometimes panicked, and sometimes expectant, which was very complicated.

"Knock, knock!" "Knock, knock!"

"Haiyan River is clear! Singing and dancing~"

Listening to the shouts of the watchmen in the palace, a woman in a red palace dress behind Lin Miaoyi spoke: "Sister, it's the second watch, do you think the emperor will summon us today." ”

Lin Miaoyi lowered her head, turned to look at the woman with an elegant posture and said, "How can we guess the emperor's thoughts. ”

Looking around, seeing the eunuchs who were not patrolling passing by, the woman in palace clothes leaned over to Lin Miaoyi's ear and whispered: "I see that the emperor's expression is very interesting when he sees his sister today, I guess the emperor will definitely summon my sister to bed." ”

Lin Miaoyi shook her head: "Hugh has to talk nonsense, beware of being listened to, don't dare to criticize the emperor." ”

"Yes~" The woman in the palace costume responded, but soon said worriedly: "Sister, if the emperor doesn't like us...... What will happen to us? ”

Lin Miaoyi shook her head and replied, "Don't think about it so much, just wait with peace of mind." ”

Lin Miaoyi couldn't help but sigh in her heart after speaking, remembering the emperor's eyes when he looked at her in the afternoon, there was appreciation in it, but there was no desire, just like a handsome son who admired a piece of beautiful jade.

If it were usual, Lin Miaoyi would like this kind of gaze very much, she likes this feeling, but now she is not qualified to expect such feelings, if the emperor doesn't like them, the results they will face may be very terrible.

Worried, Lin Miaoyi looked at the bright starry sky again, wanting to let this beautiful night suppress the uneasiness in her heart.

On the other side, in the meditation hall, Jiang Beiran was sitting on a dragon chair flipping through a book of "Xin Ci Book".

Jiang Beiran likes to read books when he has nothing to do, but he generally reads books such as formations, medical scriptures, and literature, and he is not very interested in history or ruling studies, of course, books related to the latter are generally not found.

But now in this meditation hall, these two types of books that he usually does not read account for the vast majority, and he was still a little lacking in interest at first, but after looking through a few books, the table of contents alone made him feel that this kind of book was actually quite interesting.

For example, the book of Xin Ci in his hand was written by a prime minister named Xin Ci, but he was not the prime minister of Shengguo, but a dynasty that had passed away.

In this book, he wrote a lot of his theories about "controlling the people", some of which made Jiang Beiran feel quite amazing, and some of which made him very disdainful.

For example, in the article "Weak People", it is written that there is a method of controlling the people called "Weak to Strong, and Traitorous to Control the Good".

To put it simply, if the king attacks the weak with the strong people, then in the end the rest of the country will be the strong people, but if the weak people attack the strong people, then the strong people will be destroyed.

And what Xin Ci advocates is to use the weak people to attack and govern the strong people, because if the strong people are allowed to attack the weak people, the strong people left behind in the end will make the rulers difficult to deal with, but will show that the court is weak.

Therefore, it is better to mobilize the weak people to get rid of the strong people, then the rest is a group of dwarfs, and the court is naturally easy to deal with them.

Killing the heroes, keeping the foolish people, and winning the inferior with the best and the inferior are indeed convenient for the ruler to manage, but the country has become a pool of stagnant water.

If the [Weak People] article only goes to [Weak to Strong], then Jiang Beiran can still think that this is a choice for the king, but the later [Controlling the Good with Treachery] is really disgusting.

It is described that if the good people rule the traitors, the country will be chaotic, and if the traitors rule the good people, the country will prosper.

The reason is also very simple, let the bully who represents the traitor dominate one side, and the common people, if the people can be trained to endure even such a bully, then they will naturally be more able to endure the rule of the imperial power.

Therefore, the hooligan ruffian is the first line of defense for the full-time imperial power.

'Damn, this Xin Cisheng son definitely doesn't have an asshole......

Holding his breath, Jiang Beiran saw this "Book of Xin Ci" to the end, after all, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles, if you want to change a country, you must first understand how this country became like this.

"Hoo ......"

put the book down, and a sentence suddenly popped out of Jiang Beiran's mind.

Open the history and check, this history has no age, crooked and slanted on each page is written "benevolence, righteousness and morality" four words, but I can't sleep horizontally, carefully read it for half the night, only to see the words from the cracks, the book is full of two words are 'cannibalism'! ”

This ruling science is really full of darkness and oppression, which makes Jiang Beiran want to vomit a little.

Putting the book down, Jiang Beiran rubbed the bridge of his nose, and a feeling of successor came to his heart.

"Jiang ...... No, the Emperor...... Emperor. ”

Just when Jiang Beiran closed his eyes and recuperated, Mu Yao next to him suddenly spoke.

"What?" Jiang Beiran asked with his eyes closed.

"Can you send me something to do, I don't want to waste my time like this."

In the words, Jiang Beiran could hear that Mu Yao's temperament had been smoothed out a lot, although there was still some personality in the words, and he didn't want to call himself a slave, but Jiang Beiran didn't plan to force her to this point at once, after all, although her father gave her a privilege, but the bullying was too bad, I don't know if this privilege is good or not.

So Jiang Beiran opened his eyes and asked, "Have you ever studied in a private school?" ”

"Naturally, I read it." Mu Yao replied.

"Have you studied eight general studies?"

The status of these eight general studies is similar to that of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they have a significant and far-reaching impact on ideology, scholarship, and culture, and are required books for students.

But Mu Yao is a cultivator, and the so-called reading of cultivators is really just to recognize words, in order to understand those peerless martial arts and mysterious mental methods, as for these scriptures, they are not interested.

That's why Jiang Beiran wants to ask such a sentence.

"I've learned it, and I've also read it in other famous studies, Tongli, and Wenrong."

"Oh?" Jiang Beiran was a little surprised after hearing this, and his opinion of Mu Yao changed a little.

So he beckoned to Mu Yao and said, "Come here." ”

At this time, Jiang Beiran was sitting on the dragon chair in the emperor's robe, and this was his bedroom, this beckoning, between words, made Mu Yao instinctively want to raise his hand to protect his chest.

'No...... Wrong! I'm afraid of what he's doing! It's just a matter of practicing qi, if he really dares to come nonsense, see if I don't break his hand! Right! I agreed to him to prove that I was not afraid of him. ’

Convincing herself in her heart, Mu Yao took steps and came to Jiang Beiran.

Pushing the candlestick forward, illuminating Mu Yao's face with the candlelight, Jiang Beiran asked, "Why did you learn this?" ”

"I can learn whatever I want." Mu Yao replied.

"Oh, that's right." Jiang Beiran said and moved the candlestick back, "Then you continue to go back and stand." ”

“？？？”

Mu Yao, who was full of doubts in her heart, instinctively stretched out her hand to pull the candlestick back, but saw Jiang Beiran's gaze glancing at her.

Mu Yao, who was glanced at, immediately stopped her hand, and even her body froze.

Why does he have such momentum...... It's ...... It's like Big Daddy. ’

Thinking of the previous sentence "If you dare to commit a crime again, I will make you remember it for a long time", Mu Yao immediately withdrew her hand and stood up straight.

'I'...... I'm not going to suffer a loss, huh! Don't suffer the immediate loss! ’

Taking a deep breath, Mu Yao looked at Jiang Beiran, who had rearranged the candlestick, and said, "Emperor...... Your Majesty, did I say something wrong? ”

Jiang Beiran picked up a book again and replied, "I don't like to listen to nonsense. ”

"I, I know, I'll answer it well next time."

But after Mu Yao finished speaking, she found that Jiang Beiran had already opened the book and read it, and she didn't want to continue to ask her.

This made Mu Yao anxious, she had been standing stupidly next to her for a whole day, she didn't want to waste her time like this anymore.

But in the face of Jiang Beiran, she didn't dare to attack at all.

'I'm not afraid of him, I'm afraid of Big Daddy!' ’

Convincing himself in his heart again, Mu Yao rubbed his hands vigorously and said, "Emperor...... Your Majesty, what should I do, you can give me another chance. ”

Jiang Beiran put down the book, looked at Mu Yao and said, "When you ask for someone, you have to say please." ”

Rubbing her hands harder, Mu Yao said with all her strength, "Please...... Please give me another chance, I will answer this time. ”

Jiang Beiran nodded with satisfaction, pushed the candlestick back in front of Mu Yao and said, "Say it." ”

"Big Daddy taught me...... He said that even if you do hundreds of good deeds, you can't change the way of the world, and only by truly understanding the truth of this world can you save all people from fire and water. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Beiran found that Yin Jianghong didn't just mess up by shoehorning this stupid girl into the palace, and at the same time understood why Yin Jianghong had to tell him Mu Yao's life experience before.

"You have ideals, so you want to use your knowledge after the Demon Sect takes control of Shengguo?"

"I, I didn't think about it......" Halfway through the words, Mu Yao changed her words again: "Well, that's what I thought." ”

"Very good, then this opportunity has come in advance, and this palace is the best place for you to display your talents."

After hearing this, Mu Yao muttered, "Daddy just asked me to be a female official...... What can you learn......

Jiang Beiran smiled after hearing this: "Do you know the name of the prime minister?" ”

Seeing that Mu Yao's expression was a little confused, Jiang Beiran shouted to the eunuch next to him: "Pen and ink are waiting." ”

"Yes."

The eunuch was very neat with his hands and feet, and instantly put the four treasures of the study on the desk and sharpened the ink.

Jiang Beiran sniffed and said, "I don't like to use oil smoke ink in my writing, so I will change it for pine smoke ink." ”

The eunuch was frightened and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The little one doesn't know Your Majesty's preferences, the small one should be damned, the little one should be damned." ”

Seeing that the eunuch was so frightened that his soul flew away, Jiang Beiran didn't know if he was acting terrible, or if the previous Deng Bo left a deep psychological shadow on them.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, just write it down, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! The small ones are going to get the pine smoke ink. ”

After the eunuch finished speaking, he kowtowed and retreated.

Mu Yao glanced at the eunuch, thinking that serving the emperor was really a terrible thing.

But thinking about herself, although she was not as humble as the eunuch, she was pitiful enough compared to when she met a decent disciple on weekdays.

'Big Daddy is really punished so hard this time...... But I also blame myself for committing such a big mistake, if it wasn't for Daddy coming to save me at that time, I would definitely have affected Daddy's great cause, then I would really be a sinner for eternity. ’

But when she thought of that incident, Mu Yao couldn't help but think of what Daddy said afterwards.

'There was someone else who saved me, but Daddy didn't know who he was...... But this can't be, I couldn't even find my dad at that time, is there anyone in this Fengzhou who can be more powerful than my daddy? Well...... No matter how I think about it, Big Daddy lied to me, but why did he lie to me......

While Mu Yao was thinking, the eunuch had already helped Jiang Beiran polish the ink again.

Rolling up his wide sleeves, Jiang Beiran dipped a brush in ink and wrote four big characters on rice paper.

At the same time, Mu Yao, who had already come back to her senses, immediately looked at the paper.

'His handwriting seems to look better than last time......

Looking at the word "women" on the rice paper, Mu Yao couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the last time we went to investigate the Huang Gang together, she had seen how beautiful Jiang Beiran's words were on the way, and now that only half a year has passed, he has actually improved again.

Even the eunuchs on the side couldn't help but pat themselves and said: "Your Majesty, your word is really the best in the world, what kind of book saint, book maniac, is not worth a sigh in front of you." ”

Jiang Beiran didn't pay attention to it, and wrote down the four words of the prime minister in one breath.

"This is what I just said about the prime minister, can you understand what it means?" Jiang Beiran put the pen back on the pen holder and asked.

Mu Yao was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Can you understand, where is this word?" ”

"In a book you haven't read."

"It's because I'm shallow, may I ask who this prime minister is describing?"

When she saw these four words, a hot current surged in Mu Yao's chest for no reason, and it can be said that she liked these four words very much from the bottom of her heart.

"Shangguan Wan'er, her position is the female official you disdained just now."

"Lady!?" Mu Yao exclaimed, "But I've never heard of her name." ”

"There are many things you don't know, this Shangguan Wan'er is not only in charge of the imperial court, but also shines in the literary world, if you perform well enough, I can bring you the book that records her legend."

"I'm going to behave well, I'm going to behave well."

Mu Yao blurted out that she really wanted to know this strange woman.

"Well, so don't look down on female officials, there are many things that the court officials can't do, but female officials do."

After Jiang Beiran finished speaking, he suddenly felt a little hungry, so he said to the eunuch next to him, "Do you have food?" ”

"Naturally, whatever Your Majesty wants to eat, the servant immediately asked the imperial dining room to do it."

"Make some red bean soup, if it'......"

"Bang!"

As soon as Jiang Beiran's words fell, a crisp crash suddenly came from the second floor, as if something had hit.

When the eunuch heard this, he hurriedly shouted: "Escort! Escort !! ”

Jiang Beiran shouted: "What kind of escort, go out and let those guards not come in." ”

"Yes! The minions deserve to die, and the minions obey. As soon as the eunuch heard Jiang Beiran's unhappy tone, he immediately ran out.

After all, even if the guards in the palace are just ordinary people, they are not enough for Mu Yao to kill alone, and this escort is simply meaningless.

And when the "bang" sounded, Jiang Beiran sensed it with his spiritual power, and couldn't help but show a crying and laughing expression.

(End of chapter)