After the emperor took the throne, he no longer paid attention to the affairs of the court, no matter how big or small, it was decided by the saint himself, and he was cultivating in the palace. Get up every morning to play a set of health boxing, and then practice calligraphy and painting, or else it is to raise flowers, life is very freehand, and the face is not known to look many times better than when he was in power before.

As for Zhang Xiang's holy oracle or the first time he interfered in political affairs after ascending the throne in the saint, this is the first time Zhang Xiang has asked for it, Zhang Xiang has been with him for so many years, he can't refuse, and in his opinion, this is just a trivial matter. Second, this matter is not trivial, and if the saint does not handle it properly, it is easy to lose the loyalty of his courtiers.

When the saint came up, the emperor was playing with his favorite potted plant, and when he heard the footsteps, the saint didn't even need to raise his head to know that the saint was coming.

"The son has seen his father. "The Holy One gave the Emperor a salute.

"The emperor is here, come and see the masterpiece of my father. After the Emperor waited for the saint to finish his salute, he summoned him to his side and showed the saint his precious potted plants.

The saint took a closer look at the potted plants on the table, although the saint didn't like playthings, but appreciation was one of the subjects that all princes must learn. The bonsai on the table is one of the tributes paid by the small island nation, the potted plant is called the 10,000-year-old green pine, which is a pot of five-needle pine, half a meter high, with a beautiful body and umbrella-shaped branches and leaves, intertwined roots, which was cultivated by a master of the small island country for ten years.

Of course, the tribute was handed over to the Holy Emperor as soon as possible, but the Holy Lord was not very interested in these playthings, and it happened that the Emperor Taishang began to be interested in raising flowers, so he handed it over to the Emperor Taishang. With a wave of his hand, the saint sent the potted plant to the Emperor Taishang, but he didn't expect to see it again today.

"It's good, it looks like it's full of life. The saint couldn't think of any other words to describe this potted plant, so he could only say this.

"Haha, I know you're going to say that, you kid just don't appreciate these things. The Emperor laughed, his son is capable and filial to him, but unfortunately he is too serious.

"Father, my sons and daughters are busy with political affairs now, where do I have time to pay attention to these elegant things. ”

"No matter how busy the political affairs are, time can be squeezed out, it depends on whether you want the emperor or not, and it makes sense to do things in one go. The Emperor said, but he could only shake his head when he saw that the saint looked disapproving. "Forget it, everyone has a different way of living, and my father doesn't care about you." “

The Emperor Taishang once again focused his attention on the potted plant, and then asked indifferently, "What happened to the demon monk and demon Dao?"

"The official document of sea fishing has been issued, and there should be news in a short time. After answering, the saint looked at the emperor.

"What's wrong? "The Emperor Taishang didn't care much when he heard that the matter had been done, he had already abdicated, and he shouldn't interfere more in political affairs. However, the Holy Lord's eyes were fixed on him, so that he could not concentrate on pruning the potted plants.

"Father, son-in-law need to know why?" Shengshan was very puzzled by the emperor's command: "The target of those two demons is the family, and neither party is a good person, so just let them kill each other, why does the father want the son to arrest those two demons?"

The Emperor did not immediately answer the question of the saint, he continued to prune the potted plants with scissors in his hand, and the saint was not impatient, he knew that his father was different from himself, the emperor did things slowly, and he himself was in a hurry to see the results immediately.

"Does the Emperor know how a bonsai is cultivated?" the Emperor shook his head, and the Emperor seemed to anticipate this answer.

"A good bonsai needs to be cultivated from a young age, with tools to hold the shoots in place to make it the shape the gardener wants, during which the excess branches must be constantly cut off, pruned day after day, and taken care of year after year, until the end becomes like this. “

The Emperor Taishang explained with great interest, and after speaking, he also looked at the saint: "Sounds simple, doesn't it? But you have to keep repeating pruning and taking care of it every day, and keep waiting every day, don't think that waiting is easy." You must know that potted saplings do grow slower than anything else, and some even grow a finger a year. “

"If you accidentally cut the wrong branches, or if the bonsai doesn't grow the way you thought it would, the bonsai will be wasted. The Emperor stopped when he said this: "Does the emperor still think this is still very simple?"

"It turns out that this small potted plant has such a great knowledge, and the son has been taught. "The Holy Lord naturally won't sweep the Emperor's Yaxing.

"The emperor still doesn't understand, doesn't the emperor think that this potted plant is very similar to the entire court?"

"The world is as diverse as a bonsai, and if there is no one to guide it, both will become messy. And the king of a country is the role of a gardener, if you want to change the world into what you want, you can't just cut off the branches and leaves, which will only hurt the whole tree. If you want it to look like it, you need to fix it with a tool before the branch is formed. “

The saint listened thoughtfully, indeed the two have something in common, he has never done anything to the family because the family is too powerful, if he is too anxious, it will cause the family's resistance, and then the world will be in chaos. It is true that although Jia Yu's method of opening up the people's wisdom is a little slow, as an insurance policy, and with the assistance of Zhang Xiang, things are going on in an orderly manner.

"No matter how much the gardener fiddles with it and prunes the branches and leaves, as long as it doesn't hurt the tree, the bonsai can survive. But what is the bonsai most afraid of, do you know?" Before the saint could organize his thoughts, he was asked by the emperor.

"The most feared thing about bonsai is insect infestation. If the branches are crooked, they can be fixed and shaped, and if they can't, they can be cut off. However, some insect infestations are invisible, and they spread to the whole tree without you noticing, and by the time you realize it, it is too late. Then the tree will be finished, and the hard work of several years or even more than ten years will be gone. “

"Father shouldn't say that those two demons are insect infestations. The saint asked disapprovingly.

"Yes, the insect pest that my father refers to is them, and it is the kind of insect pest that will destroy the entire court silently. The Emperor Taishang said very seriously.

"Father, how could two demons ruin the entire imperial court, is this a bit alarmist?" The Holy Lord still didn't believe it, in his opinion, what could the two wandering Taoist monks do except deceive people, but he forgot for a moment that these two were not ordinary monks and Taoists, but strangers who were related to the misfortunes of dozens of families.