Chapter 33 The Emperor's Mind
"yes. Shen Leshan, the father of Shen Suhang, was the previous Honglu Siqing, who visited many countries, and once led a delegation to lobby and visit when the Dayue State intended to go to war, and finally lived up to expectations and turned the tide and stifled the germ of a war. ”
Shen Leshan's legendary deeds, Xiao He had heard of it before.
"I really can't imagine that there are such people in the DPRK and China who have no foundation and are indifferent to fame and fortune, which is really rare and valuable. Someone like me Xiao can't do it. Xiao He always remembered the image of a greedy and wealthy man he had pretended to be in front of Duan Heng before, and shook his head guiltily as he spoke, looking very regretful.
Duan Heng watched him perform with all his might, but he didn't break it. Pretend, pretend, pretend that when the fox's tail is revealed, I will naturally know what you Xiao He wants to do. He reached out and picked up an orange, and picked up Xiao He's words while peeling it.
"But Zhou Nanjia is really confused. His father Zhou Yuanwei and the general guarded the border passes, and the emperor was reluctant to let his only son have any accidents on the battlefield, so he recruited to the imperial capital to come to the front, quite a care. Unexpectedly, this meritless Sanpin general didn't even have half of his father's eyesight. ”
Duan Heng had already revealed too much information in his words, and Xiao He was also clear, and nodded approvingly.
The border pass is thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, the emperor is far away, and the generals are not subject to military orders abroad, and once the generals with heavy troops rebel, no one can stop them. Mu Churan has always done a good job of planning, so he naturally cares, and he takes the only son of the family to the imperial capital to take care of his life, and the discerning person knows that it is just a restricted chess piece at a glance.
It's just that strictly speaking, Zhou Nanjia and Shen Suhang also received their father's meritorious service to get their current positions. However, it is not yet known whether one has talent and virtue, and the other has already taken on the task of envoy to various countries; One is used to make proton chess, and the other is rootless and rootless to win the emperor's trust. There is no need to make a judgment on which is superior and which is inferior, and which is more important.
Therefore, it is important for the father to be meritorious in the court, but it is not too important after all. This stack of bonuses only works when you're capable of doing something, and not at other times.
Now His Majesty is still giving Zhou Nanjia three points of thin noodles, not towards Shen Suhang, one is to stabilize General Zhou Yuan, who is far away at the border, and the other is also the Shen family's diplomatic family, who is good at seeing moves and dismantling moves, and does not care about it.
Xiao He thought like this, Mu Churan's skill of controlling people as an emperor is really quite a complicated knowledge. If you fail to see the situation clearly on the chessboard one day, you may become a cannon fodder, meaninglessly sacrificed for whom, who cares what you carry?
Or take advantage of the moment to make a few more clear-headed friends, and at a critical moment, maybe you can save your life. Naturally, it's just like Zhou Nanjia's level.
In addition, it is necessary to act step by step, and never let yourself easily fall into a passive and dangerous situation. As long as the initiative is still in your own hands, it doesn't matter if you get hurt like you are now.
No matter how chaotic this game of chess is, you must always understand that you are here to play chess, not to become a pawn in the hands of others.
Also, on the dragon boat in Jiuzhou before, I thought that Shen Siqing was very interesting, and now that I have heard such a legend, I must make friends another day......
Duan Heng didn't blink his eyes when he saw Xiao He eating an orange, and said in his heart that he was going out of a god, so he didn't bother, just quietly peeled oranges for him.
The shoulder blade is injured, so it's better to move less.
A few days ago, the huge southern tour has just ended.
Recently, Abi looked at her princess with a worried look on her face.
The purpose of the trip to the south was mainly to choose a good place outside the palace for the princess to have a different birthday, but she didn't expect that there were many dangers, and some people even dared to assassinate Her Majesty at the princess's birthday banquet.
Fortunately, the courtiers are loyal and courageous, and protect their princess and His Majesty well, I heard that only the princess on the tip of the heart of Lord Xiao was injured twice, and now he is still recuperating in the house.
originally thought that such a dangerous trip would scare her own rude and willful princess Wan'er, which made Abi worry for a while.
But what I didn't expect was that the princess was very calm since she returned to the palace, and she had a special temperament all over her body, as if something was different. I can't tell where Ah Bi is, the feeling is like a princess who has been squeamish and willful for more than ten years, a little ...... Grew up.
The people who used to be angry and thought about it either took the palace maids to pick flowers, or often fluttered butterflies in the imperial garden. Nowadays, he often sits quietly and reads books, especially travelogues, myths, and biographies of the nations.
Although Abi herself is a good female worker, because Da Yin often believes that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", she does not know many words in the book, so she cannot understand many truths. Princess Wan'er sometimes reads with interest, and likes to tell them new and interesting things to feast their ears.
Different from what Abi himself heard from outside the palace, what was written in the book seemed to be more strange, like the Buzhou Mountain on the edge of the sky, when it fell, half of the sky would fall, and thousands of stars in the starry sky would fall rapidly to the earth.
There is also a "Four Seasons Feelings" written by a Shen Lord of the Dynasty, Fengguo Water Town, Dayue Country is a little barbaric...... The countries around Dayin are so interesting.
The princess in front of her was sitting in front of the kumquat potted plant and reading quietly, the small, delicate and yellow kumquat reflected the princess's eyes, and the shadow of the setting sun circled at her feet.
By the time Abi came back slowly with the palace lantern, Mu Qingwan had already thrown the book in his hand and picked up the flute that had been on the table for a few days to play with.
Ah Bi recognized it at a glance, and the flute was brought by the princess from Shen Siqing two days before Nanyou returned. Ah Bi thought of that Lord Shen at this time, it was really extraordinary.
Coincidentally, Abi has been serving by Mu Qingxuan's side, and these legendary ministers in the court have also been seen by everyone. First of all, the princess put the princess on the tip of her heart, Lord Xiao, is very good-looking, and her eyebrows are a little more beautiful than that of girls.
Although His Majesty's heavy Lord Ji is a military general, Ah Bi has also seen it at the banquet, and when he is not angry, he is gentle like a private school gentleman, once he pulls out his sword, the whole person is a sword trained in the military camp, and he has a hidden edge in Su Ri.
There is also this Lord Shen, who has a romantic attitude on his face, but this romance is not the same as the princess's cousin, Duan Heng Shizi of King An's Mansion.
a somewhat handsome, thin peak that suddenly appears like a cloud of mist; One is a little sassy, like an ambiguous lantern in the night market of the imperial capital. These adults really have their own characteristics.
Mu Qingwan saw that Ah Bi was holding the lamp in his hand, but he stood there for a long time without moving, so he joked and said, "Ah Bi, what do you think, carefully drip the lamp oil." Abi came back from her imagination and stepped forward to turn on the light for the princess with a red face.
Under the faint lights, the begonia-colored curtains in the palace were slightly lifted by the wind, lining the infinite crimson on Abi's face. Mu Qingjuan has read a lot of books in recent days, and inexplicably remembers a sentence called "For the infinite beauty of the cloud screen", I forgot what it meant at the moment, and I didn't bother to spend effort to understand it for a while, but I felt that Abi responded to this sentence at this time, and she was playful for a while.
"Why is Abi's face so red? Don't you think about who is a young man? ”
Ah Bi is Mu Qingxuan's personal maid, naturally not a few years older than her, and when she heard her princess suddenly say such a thing, she was so ashamed that she didn't know where to hide for a while.
When Mu Qingwan saw her like this, she was sure that she had guessed right, but she tilted her head slightly and thought, who would Abi like? Thinking about it, there is no one else in this palace in recent days, could it be that Abi likes the royal brother? The little girl didn't think much about it, and blurted out.
"Abi, don't you like the royal brother?" Without waiting for Ah Bi to answer, he continued to himself, "Brother Huang is good, but he has no plans to expand the harem recently." I don't know what kind of woman can make him set this precedent......"
When Abi heard her princess guess this, she was stupid. Your Majesty's celestial demeanor, how dare you have half a delusion. Without thinking, she knelt down in front of the princess with a "poof" and begged the princess to stop teasing herself.
Mu Qingwan saw that she was so anxious that she was about to shed tears, and felt that she had really gone too far, so she hurriedly helped the person in front of her to comfort her. It wasn't until Abi's mood stabilized that the princess spoke a little distractedly.
"I was too lazy to read books before, and I only knew how to have fun and be my own worry-free princess. In the past few days, I have started to study, and I have only realized a lot of truths. ”
She raised a pair of clear eyes and looked at Abi, looking very serious and a little sorry.
"Abi, I can't keep you by my side for the rest of my life. Although you are a few years older than me, it is more than enough for me to help you find a good family for the princess. However, the words of the royal brother are really a little difficult. ”
Abi was very moved when she heard this, and she didn't know how to deal with it when she heard the latter sentence. In any case, it turned out that her princess had thought about planning for herself. If the Lord is like this, he will surely die without regrets in the future.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, Abi wants to see you raise your eyebrows, your children and grandchildren are full, and Abi is willing to serve you for the rest of your life."
This time it was Mu Qingwan's turn to blush. In the princess's mansion, the master and servant laughed again.
Abi was only moved by the princess's words, but did not delve into why her princess suddenly mentioned this. Probably even Mu Qingwan herself didn't notice that her girlish heart was completely different from the season when the imperial capital was about to be depressed, just like the sprouts that had just sprouted in early spring, growing in her heart little by little. It's just that the figure in my heart is not clear and clear.
In the distance, I seemed to hear a singing voice floating from the high-rise buildings on the riverside outside the house: "I have lovesickness that cannot be said, like sugar filling a small pear vortex."