Chapter 21 Verbal Criticism
"Brother Lin is here, Princess Sui, Miss Xue'er, His Royal Highness the Prince, Senior Brother Cui" The second prince smiled extremely gently, and greeted everyone next to each other, making people feel like a spring breeze.
"Meet His Royal Highness the Second Prince," everyone saluted back.
"Today I came here on behalf of my father," the second prince said.
He recited the holy decree again, which roughly meant that he wanted to send the generals of the former Lin family army in southern Xinjiang to come for training, and then said that the Fulong Martial Academy had been silent for so long, and he wanted to help Dean Jiang regain its glory and establish the status of the Fulong Martial Academy in the majestic wind.
There is another thing that makes Lin Tao even more surprised is that the Holy Emperor actually gave him the title of Sima in the Zhennan Lordship, because he was not rewarded for his military exploits in the past eight years, and the Holy Emperor rewarded and punished him clearly, and did not implicate Lin Tao with Lin Yue's crimes, so he was given the title, and this Sima position can be appointed when the time comes in the future.
The position of Sima is extremely powerful, and he has the right to supervise the mobilization of troops from all over the country.
It seems that the Holy Emperor is also the same as he thinks, and wants to use himself as bait and fish.
"On the court the day before yesterday, the Lin family also mentioned Brother Lin, but the words are not very good," the second prince looked at Lin Tao and said.
"Second Prince Xie told me, it's just that I have nothing to do with the Lin family, and what he says or does has nothing to do with me."
"Then I won't say much, the will has been sent to southern Xinjiang, and it is estimated that those captains and generals in southern Xinjiang should arrive in more than a month. I hope you'll be ready."
With a wave of his hand, the second prince sent thousands of taels of silver for the Fulong Martial Academy to repair the relevant sites and provide food and accommodation for the troops.
Then he sent dozens of precious pills, and gave Sui Xiang a demon king pill, which really made Sui Qian envious, he was also a prince, and he was not valued by his father in Silla, but he didn't expect that he was still not as valued as his sister in Xiongfeng.
Lin Tao and Jiang Fan received the holy decree and sent the second prince away.
The second prince, Tang Cong, said that he still had important business, he had to leave the sun, and he couldn't stay for a long time, and before leaving, he told Lin Tao about some recent movements in Kyoto, and the undercurrent was surging, so that Lin Tao should pay more attention.
After the second prince left, Su Mu Tuobaya's eyes when he looked at Lin Tao became different from before.
What surprised them was not that they could get the favor of the Holy Emperor, but because this Lin Tao turned out to be the son of Lin Yue, Lin Yue respected meritocracy, never regarded himself as a child of a family, and recommended many children of the poor family to join the ranks, and acted completely different from those children of the gate lords, and most of the people in the army admired this general like Langyue very much.
And Lin Tao went to the battlefield of the Demon Domain with his father at the age of ten, and he was also a hero, and most people actually heard the story of Lin Tao's spontaneous combustion of the soul to kill the master of the Holy Realm, so they were extremely admired in their hearts.
Su Mu bowed deeply to Lin Tao, and Lin Tao hurriedly returned the salute.
"I didn't expect that! I didn't expect Senior Brother Lin to have such an experience, it really made Senior Brother ashamed" Su Mu smiled bitterly, "I just came here and thought you were a child of a family, I didn't like it, I didn't expect Senior Brother to go on the battlefield of anti-demon for eight years, it is really a tiger of the gate, Senior Brother admires!" ”
"You are now cultivating your physique, is it because you can't practice because of your spontaneous combustion spirit," Su Mu asked with concern.
Lin Tao nodded and didn't say anything
"It is extremely difficult for the spontaneous combustion soul to live until now, and to be able to rebuild his body to reach such a state, I think Senior Brother Lin must have experienced unimaginable pain for ordinary people." Su Mu looked at Lin Tao seriously and said, because he knew that physical cultivation was extremely painful, let alone for a person who spontaneously combusted the foundation of cultivation.
"Senior brother is serious, it's over," Lin Tao said with a wry smile.
"Yes, it's all over, let's rest assured to stay in the Fulong Martial Arts Academy in the future, what is the title of the prince of Laoshi, don't care about it, although the Fulong Martial Arts Academy is small, as long as the master is there, the Holy Emperor can't control me and wait."
Tuoba Ye smiled heartily, he also truly recognized this junior brother.
"Also, I didn't expect Sui Xiang'er to be the princess of Silla, and I actually have a princess sister, hahaha"
Tuoba Ye looked at Sui Xiang and Sui Qian who walked in, and said with a smile.
"Senior brother, and me, I'm also a prince anyway, why do you all ignore my existence so much" Sui Qian was extremely unhappy, the Holy Emperor's reward didn't have his share.
"Yes, junior brother prince, but your cultivation is too weak in the Fulong Martial Academy, practice hard, otherwise the senior brother will still punish you!" Su Mu teased with a smile.
Liyang City, the lanterns are on, and the wine shops on both sides of the river in the city are extremely lively.
Hayashi Ei and a richly dressed man drank on the boat of the river, and the noble man was flanked by the famous Oiran Yanagi Ruyana in Kyoto.
Although Lin Rong was also accompanied by a beautiful woman, he didn't look relaxed, but a little nervous.
"Lin Rong, I can't do anything well, how can I trust you in the future?"
The luxurious son and Liu Ruyan crossed a cup, and the son bit Liu Ruyan's delicate lip by the way, which provoked Liu Ruyan to be shy, and glanced at Lin Rong with slanted eyes and said.
"Three...... Huang Gongzi, no one thought that that person Jing had a relationship with the Praetorian Guards, and it was really difficult for me to get involved."
Lin Rong hurriedly put down the wine glass in his hand and said seriously.
"Go down first"
The Huang Gongzi in Lin Tao's mouth is the third prince, at this time, the third prince waved his hand at the person serving, patted Liu Ruyan's warped * with his hand, and asked her to go out too, Liu Ruyan pouted and went out unhappily.
"Is this Ning Heng really that important?" Lin Rong asked.
"Ning Heng is not important, the heart of the scholar is important, do you understand" The third prince looked at Lin Rong and said, "Didn't Lingtang teach you this little thing?" ”
The third prince got up and walked to Lin Rong's side.
"The Xiongfeng Empire has always advocated martial arts cultivation, and the ancestors also relied on martial arts to fight everywhere and seize the world. Today's Xiongfeng Empire has been stable for a long time, and the governance of the country depends on the civil servants, these people are weak in cultivation, but a pen is no less than 100,000 soldiers, the right and wrong in the world are in the hands of these literati, and the cultivation can only defeat one person or a group of people, while the literati can change a generation, this is the terrible place. ”
When Lin Rong heard this, he almost understood, as if his grandfather had said this to his father, but he didn't care at all at that time, and he didn't think about it carefully.
"Ning Heng is famous for his style and bones in Shilin, and he is extremely talented, and he has a certain status in the hearts of the scribes in Liyang and even in various prefectures, if he can be subdued, he can gain the hearts of tens of millions of scribes, which will be of great help to me in the future."
After the third prince said this, he looked at Lin Rong's thoughtful expression, and was very satisfied, these were also what Chu Yuntian said to him in private.
"Now that he's gone to the Praetorian Guard, what are we going to do?"
"What to do? If you can't get him, you ruin him"
The third prince called Lin Rong over, and said a few words in his ear, and Lin Rong nodded again and again.
On the second day, an article written by Ning Heng before came out in Beijing, in which Ning Heng ridiculed the current government, satirized the Holy Emperor's favor and traitors, criticized the improper national policy, and expressed his intention to die rather than the powerful.
This article was only circulated in Shilin back then, and it was very well written, and Ning Heng was respected by the scholars of the world because of this article, and praised it for its iron bones.
And now, this article has been taken out again, and it has been widely circulated, and it has been read in all schools and libraries, and even circulated in the market, and the storyteller has even made it into a story, a young scribe who is upright, and he fights against the powerful.
"I was moved by this story, did you say that Ning Heng would be moved to tears when he heard it, he had to thank me, I was helping him become famous, but the pen and ink of you literati are really powerful, and the story is made up as if it was true" Lin Rong took two entourages to listen to the book in a library, while eating melon seeds, he heard it, and said to the person next to him with a smile, this person is Zheng Xingren.
"Childe has won the award" Zheng Xingren was very entangled in his heart, he already knew what Lin Rong was going to do, but he still couldn't let go of his classmates with Ning Heng, he knew that once this thing was done, Ning Heng might really have no future, "Childe, otherwise I will go to find Ning Heng again and persuade him to obey Childe!" ”
Lin Rong snorted coldly, didn't say anything, and was the first to applaud when he heard the highlights.
This Ning Heng was in the limelight for a while, and many people were looking for him, hoping to make friends with him and make a promise to him that he would not be in the limelight in this life.
Just when everyone couldn't find him, someone stood up again, saying that Ning Heng was a person who sold his reputation and reputation, and that he relied on this kind of showy article to make enough political capital for himself, and everyone was deceived.
Many people didn't believe it at first, but this person actually found out the household that bought Lin Tao's sister Chongxi back then and came out to testify, saying that the son of the Lin family paid 100 gold for Ning Tao to redeem his sister, and the person who came to receive the person at that time was Zheng Xingren, the current doorman of the Lin family, and this person was also Ning Tao's classmate back then, and the relationship between the two was very good.
A few days later, someone jumped out again, saying that their relatives were serving in the Praetorian Guard and saw Ning Heng.
How could a scribe be able to serve in the army and still be a Praetorian Guard, if it weren't for the family!
At this time, the whole Liyang found out that Ning Heng had really entered the office!
After three days, an article on Ning Heng appeared, saying that he was selling his reputation and stepping on the shoulders of all scribes to gain political capital, which was extremely shameless!
Ning Heng himself didn't know anything about the outside world at the moment, he had been in the barracks all the time, rarely went out, his mother and sister were in the Lin Mansion, he was also relieved, he knew that he had come to this barracks, even if it was a paperwork, he had to live with the soldiers.
He also did it, training with the soldiers every day, never shouting bitterness, but often fainting on the playground because of cultivation, but he also won the recognition of many soldiers, all of whom were commensurate with his brother.
Moreover, his character is upright and daring, and he is also in line with the temperament of these sergeants.
Today, Ning Heng finished writing some files from the camp of the Chinese army, and when he returned to the camp tent, he found that several people were talking about something around Commander Wu, and after seeing him come in, his eyes were a little strange.
"Brother Ning, here"
"What's wrong, all of you?" Ning Heng asked suspiciously
"Brother Ning, no matter what others say, I believe in your character!" Commander Wu spoke first, and he handed an article to Ning Heng by the way.