"At the time of selection, only one person should be selected, I think your brother's qualifications are indeed very good, so good that people can't choose between them, so they are all allowed to enter the palace to study, and hand over this headache to the palms and envoys." Xiao Jingning didn't care about Pu Yangying's attitude, and continued: "Because of this, your brother's assessment will be more stringent than others. But in either way, it can't stop you. So what to do about it? ”

"No one will say anything about the fact that you can only be promoted by one, because the selection system is very fair and just, at least it seems. If it is a big country like our Daliang, there is a great demand for talents, so you don't need to care about this, but you Yeqin is different, if you are allowed to become important ministers of the royal family at the same time, if you two join forces, your imperial court may not be able to suppress it. ”

"It's just because of that illusory possibility," Xiao Jingning's words still fell into Pu Yangying's ears word for word, in fact, he knew that what the queen said was just speculation, and even nonsense at all, but it was damn consistent with the facts he experienced, according to her statement, all this was explained, "Just because I don't know if it will happen, do you want to destroy a pillar of talent?"

"Isn't the Guru the most important thing to understand? No one cares what you're thinking right now, and no one cares if you're going to do anything you shouldn't. Xiao Jingning slowly spit out this sentence, his smile and voice were obviously much softer than usual, but they only made people feel a biting chill: "Why did the cabinet and the hundred officials suppress the Changlin Palace?" Bit height? Weight? Trusted by kings? None of these are these, aren't they afraid that in the future, I don't know how many years later, which heir of the Changlin Palace's Mansion will no longer be satisfied with the status quo and have ambitions for that position? They're just trying to prevent it from happening. ”

The fist clenched and loosened, Pu Yangying calmed down and asked, "Then you say, why did Ying leave and Ah Yi stayed?" ”

"Is this hard to understand?" Xiao Jingning's eyes showed doubts, "Since you are all excellent and on par with everything, then naturally you have to choose the person who poses little threat to them to stay." ”

"Little threat?" Pu Yangying only thought about it for a while, and then understood what Xiao Jingning meant, "Yes, Ah Yi's temperament is a little cowardly." ”

Xiao Jingning shook his head: "Brother Ling may not be cowardly, but his temperament is indisputable, even if someone hits him in the face, as long as he doesn't violate the bottom line, maybe he can still give a smile and ask if his hand hurts, and he doesn't hold a grudge in his heart." ”

"Isn't that cowardice?" Pu Yangying didn't understand, "Then what is cowardice?" ”

"Cowardice is called weakness and incompetence, and disposition is not the same thing. Let's take Changlin Wangfu as an example. Xiao Jingning kindly solved his doubts, "The Changlin Royal Mansion has been suppressed for so many years for no reason, but except for the counterattack after they have taken action against the military quartermasters, they have not made a move, are they cowardly?" ”

Pu Yangying was speechless, and Xiao Jingning continued: "Brother Ling is on par with you, and if you can successfully promote Ye Lingzi, how can you be an incompetent person?" The reason why the lama left was the nature of the heart. The monarch of the night Qin State and the palm of the country are both peaceful and content with the status quo, and the court situation is based on the king's wishes. And Guru, you are determined to forge ahead, and you will not be willing to be subordinate, if the monarch is eloquent and has the ambition to expand the territory, you need people like you. However, Ye Qin Guojun is not, an ambitious person like you, once you reach a high position, when you can't be promoted, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not covet something higher, and Ye Qin Guojun does not have the courage to control you. On the contrary, if the younger brother is so talented and has an indisputable temperament, it is very good, and it is easy to satisfy, and it is easier for the monarch and the minister to be suitable. As a result, the younger brother stays and the elder leaves. ”

"Actually, it's not like ruining a pillar of talent, even if you don't become a Ye Lingzi, your chances won't be too bad. If you leave the one who can accept the result peacefully, and not be angry because of a setback, you will not have a chance to climb to the top. Xiao Jingning got up and walked slowly in the prison: "However, I have already tasted the taste of standing on the peak, and in the blink of an eye I have returned to the bottom of the mountain, even if I have to climb higher than ordinary people, how many people can be calm?" used to be fellow palace students, some people stayed to become incomparably respected royal family guards, and some people silently left and repatriated to their original places, if they could never see each other, they would be fine. However, you are brothers, and even if you don't think about it, your family will mention it, and every time you mention it, you will cut another wound in your heart, and eventually the wound will not scab over, but will become more and more bloody and full of holes. ”

"Even if there is no epidemic that destroys the country, your brother will go down the road of turning against each other, of course, this is more likely to be unilateral to you, and with your brother's temperament, he will only tolerate you. But he doesn't know that his tolerance is more like a winner's sympathy and pity for the loser, which will only make you more resentful, he might as well have a happy and open fight with you, and beat you fiercely, so you will think in your heart, it turns out that your brother is really stronger than you, and it is normal for him to climb higher than you, maybe your heart will be calm. ”

Facing Pu Yangying with a light smile, Xiao Jingning looked at him gently, and what appeared in her eyes was the kind of tolerance she said that made people feel sympathy and pity, obviously so gentle, but it dragged people into the darkness and crushed into the dust.

"But the plague came."

This sound was like a sentence.

"Since ancient times, no matter how powerful a country is, it has been talking about epidemics, because epidemics are such things as can't be seen or touched, but they can quietly take away a large number of lives. This is a war where you can't see the enemy, there is no blood stained with spears, no sharp arrows hurt people, it doesn't care whether you are a prince or a minister, as long as you are targeted by it, you can only wait for the doctor to save your life. Xiao Jingning sighed slightly, and finally put away the seemingly gentle smile on his face, after all, the epidemic in Daliang ...... In fact, it is only at the end, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it is not a thing to be happy about: "If there is really absolute fairness in this world, then there is only this kind of thing, it is going to spread, does it matter who you are?" That's why Daliang didn't hesitate to block the road from Yeqin to Daliang, because if the epidemic spreads to Daliang, then maybe it's not just Yeqin who will lose the country. ”

Xiao Jingning suddenly asked Pu Yangying: "You blame Daliang for blocking the road so that Qin died in the night, so among those who fled towards Daliang, are there people from your royal family?" ”

Pu Yangying was silent, but she had an answer in her heart.

No..

This epidemic came too fast and too fiercely, and they were not big in Yeqin, and when they found out that the imperial court ordered the closure of Yeling City, it was already too late, and the epidemic had already spread throughout the country. The royal family and the hundred officials of the imperial court, no one walked out of Yeling City, if they wanted, then Yelingzi could do it with all his might to send them into Daliang before blocking the road, but they didn't. Puyang Ying actually didn't understand that the blame for the death of the country was on the Daliang royal family and the Changlin army, but it was just anger.