Back from the suburbs.

Along the way, Wu Mingkong, who was riding in the same carriage with Fang Xiu, was a little absent-minded, looking like he was traveling thousands of miles.

Seeing this, Fang Xiu thought that she was still immersed in the shock of seeing the steam locomotive, and stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her eyes.

As a result, nothing happened.

Wu Mingkong was still staring ahead, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Your Majesty?"

Fang Xiu was worried that she was not feeling well, so he called softly.

"Huh?"

Wu Mingkong looked at Fang Xiu with a blank expression.

Fang Xiu asked, "What is Your Majesty thinking?" ”

"I'm Thinking"

Wu Mingkong opened his mouth, and subconsciously wanted to answer, as soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that some words were too ugly, and such a thing as marriage was brought up by men, how could a woman rush to ask others to marry her, not to mention that she was a dignified empress!

As soon as she thought of this, she couldn't help but become arrogant, but in just a moment, the desire for marriage overwhelmed everything, making her sullen like a peacock who had lost in courtship.

"What do you think?"

Seeing that the little empress didn't speak, Fang Xiu looked puzzled and asked again.

"No, nothing."

Wu Mingkong's eyes were inexplicably a little weak at Shang Xiu's concern.

Fang Xiu looked at her and fell into thought.

After a while, he seemed to think of something, and said, "Your Majesty is thinking about Your Majesty's birthday, what congratulatory gifts will the hundred officials give?" ”

Hearing this question, Wu Mingkong was slightly stunned.

After being in a trance for a while, I suddenly remembered that it would be my birthday again half a month later!

I think of that early autumn night three years ago, and the brilliant fireworks in the sky.

Wu Mingkong's delicate pretty face showed a smile, as charming as a flower.

Immediately, there was another trance.

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

In the past three years, although Fang Xiu has bullied her from time to time, most of the time he has taken care of her like a husband, not to mention meticulous, but also considerate and meticulous.

Although there is no status as husband and wife, whether it is the queen mother and the royal family, or the civil and military officials, they all know in their hearts that the marriage between Fang Xiang and the Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty is just a means to cover up people's ears, in fact, Fang Xiang and our majesty are a couple.

Even the old foolish Ministry of Rites Shangshu, who had been writing to let His Majesty accept the harem, gradually came back to his senses and never mentioned the draft again, but he still wrote a book from time to time, so that His Majesty and Fang Xiang attached importance to the country.

The content is nothing more than that, Fang Xiang! Your Majesty! You are not young anymore, you should always have a child, the country cannot be without a prince for a day, someone must inherit our great country!

In the past, when Wu Mingkong saw such a concerto, he would only blush and scold the Ministry of Rites for being shameless.

But as I get older.

Wu Mingkong, who is now twenty-one years old, also began to think about Guoben.

After all, among the people, many women in their twenties and eights are pregnant with children.

And in a few years, she will have a peach and plum year.

As soon as he thought of this, a picture couldn't help but appear in Wu Mingkong's mind.

Outskirts.

Among the splendid flowers.

Two pink and cute half-grown children, playing and playing.

And she was wearing a long skirt and a hairpin on her head, standing not far away, looking at them with a smile, beside Fang Xiu holding the freshly skewered beef, while letting the children run slowly, while offering treasures to skewer in front of her, laughing and asking her to call her father.

For a Son of Heaven, especially the Son of Heaven of the now thriving Great Qian Empire, such a fantasy is undoubtedly a useless performance.

If you let the officials know, they will definitely talk about it behind their backs, they are blind-eyed, they have no ambitions, and they are not worthy of being a generation of heroes.

Wu Mingkong also often reminded herself that she is the king of a country, as long as she fights steadily, it won't take long for Daqian to be able to join the countries, how can she have these frustrating fantasies.

Can.

Even so, she still thinks about it often.

Perhaps, from the very beginning, she was not fit to sit in such a high position.

The fight for the throne may just be her obsession as the only daughter of her father and the emperor.

"I"

Thinking of this, Wu Mingkong was inexplicably panicked, wanting to say something, but there was no one to confide in.

Because she knew that Fang Xiu's ideal was to unify the countries and achieve hegemony.

Although as long as she asked Fang Xiu to marry her, Fang Xiu would definitely do so.

But that's not what Wu Mingkong wants.

She didn't want to be a stumbling block on Fang Xiu's way to realizing her ideals.

Therefore, in the carriage, in the face of Fang Xiu's concerned eyes, Wu Mingkong finally chose to remain silent.

And Fang Xiu seemed to have a sense and fell into deep thought.

Until the carriage stopped in front of the palace gate.

Fang Xiucai suddenly asked:

"Your Majesty, what congratulatory gifts will the minister give on His Majesty's birthday this year?"

Wu Mingkong didn't think much about it, just shook his head.

Fang Xiu saw that she seemed to be tired, so he didn't ask any more, but said, "If Your Majesty is tired, the minister will carry Your Majesty into the palace to rest." ”

"Don't!"

When Wu Mingkong heard this, his pretty face instantly turned red, and he said angrily: "You can think of it, I am the Son of Heaven, you are the prime minister, let the hundred officials see it, what kind of system will it be." ”

Fang Xiu looked unconcerned, and smiled: "If you see it, you can see it, it's not that they don't know the relationship between the minister and His Majesty." ”

"I am a monarch and a minister with you, what can I do?"

Wu Mingkong was still stiff-mouthed.

Fang Xiu said: "What the minister is talking about is the relationship between the monarch and the minister, what does Your Majesty think?" ”

[Mood +1000]

Wu Mingkong rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

In the end, under the strong resistance of the little empress.

Fang Xiu still couldn't succeed, and in the end, he just took Her Majesty the Empress's hand and returned to the palace.

After resting in the Heart Cultivation Hall for less than an hour, I saw Du Chenan and others hurrying over.

"Your Majesty, Fang Xiang, I just received the eight-hundred-mile expedited!"

Qian Haonan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Fang Xiu.

Fang Xiu stretched out his hand to take it and looked at it from top to bottom.

After a while, after reading the letter, he handed it to the little empress again, and said, "Your Majesty, the state of Wu sent 100,000 elites, carrying artillery, to march towards the south of our Daqian, and now it has crossed the border. ”

When Wu Mingkong heard this, his face became serious, and he said, "I didn't expect Wu Guo to move faster than he imagined. ”

Side.

Qin Xingyan said: "It's understandable, if the Wu people don't send troops again, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the entire Wu Kingdom will fall into turmoil because of the treasure money!" ”

Wu Mingkong nodded, looked at Fang Xiu, and asked, "Fang Xiu, what is the plan for now?" ”

Now she does not shy away from relying on other party repairs.

There are even times in her opinion, as long as there is Fang Xiu, everything is not a problem!

Fang Xiu said: "The Great Zhou Tiger Army has formed an alliance with some of the elites of the Shenji Battalion, and is now on standby in the southern state capitals, as long as that Majesty arrives in Huizhou, he can go south together and confront the Wu army!" ”

Wu Mingkong nodded and said, "I hope everything goes well." ”

Qian Haonan said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the Wu army is just a group of rabble, even if it has artillery, it is not the opponent of the coalition army!" ”

Seeing that Qian Haonan was so confident, Wu Mingkong felt a lot more calm, but he still said: "Don't take it lightly, you must know that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated." ”

Qian Haonan arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty taught you a lesson." ”

Wu Mingkong saw that a few people had no intention of leaving, and asked again: "What else is the matter?" ”

Du Chenan hesitated for a moment, stood up, and said, "Your Majesty, the Sixth Department is now in urgent need of officials who are proficient in arithmetic, I don't know if we can transfer some people from the Mingxiu Academy to serve in various departments to solve the urgent need." ”

Hearing this, Wu Mingkong was a little stunned, and said: "I have never heard you mention the shortage of manpower for so many years, why do you ask me important people at this time?" ”

Hearing this question, Qin Xingyan stood up, first saluted, and then explained: "Back to Your Majesty, in the past, the method of calculating commercial tax in the household department was very simple, and you didn't need to know too much arithmetic to deal with it, but now after the implementation of the new commercial tax, you must be proficient in arithmetic in order to be able to deal with related matters.

However, now that the business and trade of our Daqian are becoming more and more prosperous, and the commercial taxes collected are also increasing, even if they borrow from the Guozijian Prison, they are not enough, so they can only hope that the Mingxiu Academy can provide some people to act as officials. ”

Du Chen'an followed closely: "Your Majesty, not only the Ministry of Households, but also the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry now lack talents in arithmetic, and those tools newly developed by the Engineering Academy, as well as the newly developed methods for building buildings, require a lot of calculations, if there are no people who are proficient in arithmetic, many projects will not be able to continue." ”

When Wu Mingkong heard this, he couldn't help but think that just two years ago, when Fang Xiu wanted to establish Mingxiu Academy, a subject with arithmetic as the main subject, she also expressed her opposition.

It is believed that whether it is governing the country or the family, arithmetic is not of much use.

Who would have thought that in just two or three years, arithmetic would be transformed into a skill that officials must be proficient in.

"In this case, Fang Xiu actually expected it, is he still not human?"

At this moment, such a question appeared in Wu Mingkong's mind.

After being silent for a moment, the little empress said a little helplessly: "There are indeed people who are proficient in arithmetic in the Mingxiu Academy, but they have to teach students on weekdays, and they can't spare time to go to the six departments to be officials, and the number of people is not much, and the total number is less than ten, so it can't solve your urgent needs." ”

Hearing this, several important ministers were slightly stunned, and after looking at each other for a while, Du Chenan opened his mouth to explain: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks you have misunderstood. ”

Misunderstood?

What is the misunderstanding?

Wu Mingkong's brows furrowed slightly, and he waited quietly for him to continue.

"The ministers are not borrowing Mr. Arithmetic from Mingxiu Academy, but from Mingxiu Academy."

Hearing this, Wu Mingkong was a little stunned.

"A student of Mingxiu Academy? They have only been studying arithmetic for two years, and some of them have not yet learned what to do. ”

Side.

Fang Xiu raised his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty's words are wrong, the students recruited by the minister at the beginning are all smart people, and after studying for a year, even if they can't be proficient in arithmetic, they can get started, and for the household department and the Ministry of Industry, the introductory arithmetic can already solve most of the problems." ”

After a year or two of study, can you solve most problems with arithmetic?

How is this possible?

"Introductory arithmetic can solve the problem, so why not go to Guozijian to borrow those students taught by doctors of arithmetic?" Wu Mingkong expressed a little dissatisfaction with Fang Xiu's overconfidence.

Fang Xiu did not refute.

Du Chen'an and Qin Xingyan said in unison: "Your Majesty, the ministers are not the doctors who slander the Guozijian, but in the eyes of the ministers, the students of the Ming Xiu Academy are even better than those doctors!" ”

When Wu Mingkong heard this, he was stunned at first, and then his first reaction was that these Fang Party guys were afraid of saving Fang Xiu's face when they said this.

However, looking at the sincere expressions of a few people, it doesn't look like they are talking nonsense, and I don't know whether to believe it or not for a while.

This time.

Fang Xiu explained: "What the minister just said is not to praise the students of the Ming Xiu Academy, but to explain the fact that the students of the Ming Xiu Academy, except for those who paid the silver to come in, the rest are all geniuses from various states and prefectures, otherwise they are different from the diligence and hard work of ordinary people.

With the textbooks and teaching methods of Mingxiu Academy, they will be able to reach the level of a doctor of arithmetic in two years.

Guozijian is far superior to Mingxiu Academy in Confucianism, but in miscellaneous studies, compared with Mingxiu Academy, it is indeed too far behind! ”

The reason why he had the confidence to say this was because a few months ago, Fang Xiu had gone to Mingxiu Academy and tested the level of the students.

Most of them can reach the level of mathematics in the second year of junior high school, a small number can reach the third year of junior high school, and there are two or three children, after two years of study, they have been able to solve the problems of the first year of high school.

And Guozijian's doctor of arithmetic, in Fang Xiu's opinion, is the level of the second and third junior high schools.

Because of this, Du Chenan wanted to borrow a group of students from Mingxiu Academy.

Seeing that Fang Xiu didn't seem to be joking, Wu Mingkong finally believed this extremely absurd thing in her opinion, nodded and said, "Since that's the case, according to what you said, let the students of Ming Xiu Academy go to the Sixth Department to help." ”

As soon as the words fell.

Suddenly, a magnetic woman's voice came from outside the hall.

"The minister begs to see Your Majesty!"

In the entire imperial court, only Daji was the only one who was an official as a woman.

Therefore, as soon as he heard the voice, Wu Mingkong knew that it was Daji who came.

"Accurate!"

"See Your Majesty, see Fang Xiang!"

Daji, who was dressed in a scarlet robe, came to Wu Mingkong and Fang Xiu, first saluted, and then explained his intention.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Fang, I sincerely ask you to transfer some students from the Ming Xiu Academy to join the Royal Bank!"

As soon as these words came out, several people were all stunned.

Especially Wu Mingkong, he felt a little trance, thinking, why is there another important person? Are the students of Mingxiu Academy already so popular?

Seeing that everyone was silent, Da Ji explained the reason, which was no different from what Du Chenan and others said.

The little empress didn't expect that the Ming Xiu Academy had only been open for two years, and it would have a tendency to be comparable to the national eunuchs, and after approving the requests of several people, after they left, she looked at Fang Xiu and asked the question that had been buried in her heart for many years.

"Fang Xiu, can you tell me why you can always predict what will happen in the future?"

Wu Mingkong's watery peach blossom eyes looked at Fang Xiu seriously, and his tone was also very solemn.

If you talk about cement, commercial tax, glass. The invention of these novelties can be attributed to the fact that he accidentally obtained a certain miscellaneous ancient book.

Then, the various exquisite books used by the four major academies, including the Mingxiu Academy, could not have been obtained by accident in any case.

It can't be written by Fang Xiu himself.

Even if he is a peerless genius, Wenqu Xing has been thinking about these since his mother's womb.

It will never be possible!

It wasn't that she hadn't asked similar questions before, but Fang Xiu always avoided it, so she didn't get to the bottom of it.

This time, she hoped to get an answer from Fang Xiu.

Because, from the establishment of the four major academies, she felt indescribable unease.

This uneasiness comes from Fang Xiu's omniscient and omnipotent.

He. Is it really a fairy?

(End of chapter)