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"The gentlemen are also doing it for His Majesty's benefit."

Tang An'an was slightly stunned when he heard that the scholar-bureaucrat Yan Rong wanted to force Li Xia to follow his remonstrance, and reminded in a low voice: "It's okay for my sister to say that, but don't let others hear it."

"I hear it when I hear it, who am I afraid of?"

Yan Rong has never been afraid to speculate about scholar-bureaucrats with the greatest malice, and speak out whatever comes to his mind.If these words of hers are spread out, it is likely that the officials of the Manchu Dynasty in the new Tang Dynasty will be disgusted, and she will be given the title of "Demon Concubine".

Speaking of which, she herself was born in a family of officials and gentry, so she understood the intrigue between the emperor and civil servants very well, and she always stood on the side of the emperor, so she had no affection for the gentry. Understand the practice of scholar-bureaucrats better.

There is no one right or wrong in these matters, it is nothing more than the difference in the perspective of considering the problem, and the difference between strong or not.

At this time, Tang Anan looked at Yan Rong like an obedient student in a school looking at those stubborn people. He felt that it was out of line and a little strange. He was about to persuade him a few more words, but Miao Lan had already run over.

Because she was not familiar with the Jiangling government office, Miao Lan ran around and went to several wrong courtyards one after another, and she was so anxious that she even cried when she spoke.

"Concubine Ning, they can't find His Majesty."

"What's wrong? Don't worry about crying, tell me what's wrong with Your Majesty?"

"The maidservant didn't cry, it was because she couldn't find the way just now. It's nothing but a few civil servants in the front office begged to see His Majesty, but the guards didn't tell them where His Majesty went."

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Standing in the house, Zhao Jin saw Yan Rong and Tang An'an leading people away in a hurry outside, and wondered to himself what the point of these people's wholeheartedly surrounding Li Tuanhui all day long.

She turned around and went back to the couch and lay down again, wanting to sleep for a while, but when she closed her eyes, the tragic scene in the city she saw when she entered the city last night came back to her mind.

So she summoned Wang Cui and asked, "I want to go for a walk in the city, can I?"

Zhao Jin was just asking casually, but unexpectedly Wang Cui agreed, because Yan Rong didn't force her to go out, as long as she had a good guard. free".

He left the office through the back door, walked for a while, and saw that the corpses in Jiangling City had been cleaned up in just one night, and even the blood on the road had been washed away, as if calm had been restored.

But the traces of the burning axes left by a battle are still there, and the smell of blood in the air has not dissipated.

There are not many pedestrians on the streets, but from time to time you can see soldiers of the Tang army patrolling the law and order.

Most of the shops are closed, but there are also shops selling firewood, rice, oil, salt and incense and candles.

A few soldiers of the Tang army came out of a shop in front of them, and they were still saying, "I have said that order has been restored, and I can work hard to make a living with peace of mind. Your driver is here, what are you afraid of... knives."

Although she brought guards, Wang Cui was still a little uneasy. When she turned her head, she saw a few men in plain clothes coming out of the front gate of the government office. She recognized them as Li Xia's servants, so she deliberately led Zhao Jin to follow in the same direction. , to make sure the neighborhood is safe.

Unexpectedly, these people turned into a remote and dirty alley, and stopped in front of a certain dilapidated house.

Zhao Jin was a little distracted, led by Wang Cui aimlessly, and didn't realize that Wang Cui was following others, until he stopped at the entrance of the alley, and when he turned his head, he saw that there were already more than a dozen people standing there.

The strange thing is that these people kept quiet, and no one spoke.

"What are they doing?" Zhao Jin asked Wang Cui in a low voice.

The door of the dilapidated house was pushed open, and it was Li Xia who walked out from it.

He was wearing a black cloak, and his face looked very stern. He left without saying a word, and more than a dozen people followed him wholeheartedly.

At the entrance of the alley, Zhao Jin ducked to the side and lowered his head.

She didn't know if he saw her or not, until the dozen or so figures walked away, the group ignored them.

There is no ceremonial car, no ostentation, if they don't recognize his appearance, who would know that this is Li Xia who just rebelled against the Song Dynasty and made himself emperor.

Zhao Jin turned his head to look at the dilapidated house again, not knowing what Li Xia could do here after not returning all night.

This kind of situation inevitably makes people guess that maybe he has occupied a certain girl in Jiangling city.

Out of curiosity, she walked over there, and when she reached the dilapidated house, she heard an old voice inside: "Fu'er? Where did my son go?"

"Auntie is awake? Blessed is Brother Fu, who is favored by high officials and will follow him to work in Chang'an. There will be firewood every month. This is the rice and noodles given first."

In the evening, Zhao Jin returned to the backyard of the government office. Yan Rong had already been waiting in her room, and when he saw her, he scolded her a lot.

Zhao Jin listened absent-mindedly, and suddenly interrupted her, asking, "Do you know where Li Ni went last night?"

"You don't need to inquire about His Majesty's whereabouts, even I don't need to know where he went." Yan Rong responded casually, and immediately continued, "Compared to the tragic situation in Sichuan and Sichuan, Jiangling City is still nothing. Of course people in Sichuan and Shu think differently from people living in Lin'an..."

Zhao Jin wasn't listening, thinking that even Yan Rong didn't know about it, so the fact that Li Ni went to be the son of the old woman who lost her son for a night really didn't spread.

Again, that's not exactly what an emperor would do.

At least not her father.

"I'm talking to you." Yan Rong suddenly said angrily, then turned around and asked, "Do you remember Wang Yinglin?"

"I don't remember much."

"Isn't it your Mr. Enlightenment?"

Zhao Jin really couldn't remember it.

It was when she was very young, Concubine Jia Gui was still there, and Yan Rong had not yet entered the palace. Zhao Yun heard that it was quite interesting that a courtier Wang Yinglin wrote the "Three Character Classics", so he asked people to carry the little princess to Xuande Hall to recite it. After a while, he said with a smile that Wang Yinglin is Mr. Enlightenment.

But it is obviously not a formal master-student relationship.

If you talk about it, Wang Yinglin must also deny it. Most of his disciples are well-educated people like Wen Yunsun.As for the little princess Zhao Jin, she didn't have any ink in her stomach, and she spent all day doing Cuju and fighting crickets...

"You don't know me yet, you get a headache when you read the book." Zhao Jin also knew himself.

Thinking about the old things in Lin'an back then, it seemed as far away as a dream.

Yan Rong laughed when he heard the words, although Song allowed the girl to read, but she still had a headache when she saw the book.

Afterwards, she didn't say much about it, and it was just because Li Xia was seeing Wang Yinglin at this time, she brought it up when she thought of it.

Li Xia felt that recruiting famous Confucian scholars was sometimes like pursuing a woman.For example, when dealing with Li Ye, he also needed to coax him at the beginning, but after getting along for a long time, there was a tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers, so that he could avoid these polite and virtuous corporal attitudes.

At this time, it is the same when facing famous Confucians like Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi, but it is a lot of hypocrisy.

It is said that he has admired the articles and poems of the two for a long time, but in fact Li Xia roughly read the works of the two of them today.

He read "Jade Sea" written by Wang Yinglin, and knew that it was the current imperial examination textbook, and almost all imperial examination scholars had read it, which shows Wang Yinglin's reputation.

As for Zhou Mi's ci, it is as famous as it is in today's world, and people at that time called it "flowing in love, melting in the spring and snowing in the snow, and you can call it a talented doctor"... But in Li Xia's eyes, he just felt that it was not as good as Li Bai and Su Dongpo.

Of course, this is because he doesn't understand the words, not the really general thoughtful words.

The same is true for Li Xia when facing these scholar-bureaucrats. He can't understand what is so good about these famous scholars admired by the world.Just like a countryman saw a pot of priceless famous tea and knew it was expensive, but drinking it would only quench his thirst.

He needs to quench his thirst.

Having just proclaimed himself emperor, Li Xia needed the prestige of Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi among the scholars.

"Jiangling suffered a tragic military disaster yesterday. The students in the city were ignorant. Because of the death of their relatives and friends, they lost their sense of control and made rude remarks. Please don't blame the Tang Emperor."

After seeing the ceremony, Zhou Mi quickly made a request.

Shi Jun heard everything that those young and inexperienced scholars said in the government school, and he never tried to hide it from the eyes and ears of the Public Opinion Department.He had to intercede for them.

That's why he and Wang Yinglin had to come to see Li Xia.

Li Xia said: "It's because I failed to protect the people of Jiangling well, so I definitely won't care about a few words of slander, you two gentlemen can rest assured."

In fact, there is nothing to be hypocritical. It is his own fault to admit that the people of Jiangling have suffered.

"The emperor of Tang is magnanimous, and the ministers thanked Jiangling students and common people on behalf of them." Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi hurriedly thanked them.

"Why call it 'foreign minister' again?" Li Xia said bluntly: "Guanzhong has been under the rule of the Hulu for a long time, and its academics have withered. How about Shen Ning's public opinion?"

Wang Yinglin hastily saluted again, and said politely: "The foreign minister thanked the Tang Emperor for his kindness, but the foreign minister has received the great kindness of the Song Dynasty for a long time, and he dare not let it down."

If we still use the analogy of pursuing a woman, Li Xia was obviously not patient enough when he recruited these two people, and he gave the other party a gift and expressed his opinion bluntly not long after they first met.

After asking Zhou Mi again, she was also rejected.

Li Xia realized that he was impatient, so he put on a more polite and virtuous corporal attitude, smiled warmly, and said: "Since this is the case, I am a newcomer to the Great Treasure, and I want to ask Lord Shen Ning and Lord Cao Chuang for advice on how to govern the country. Can you?"

Compared with attracting each other with high-ranking officials and generous salaries, talking about the concept of governing the country is the right way to communicate with these scholars who have the world in mind.

What real talents want more is the opportunity to display their talents to help the world and the people.

This time the attitudes of the two were different, and they saluted and said: "The foreign minister must know everything."

However, at the next moment, a servant hurried forward and whispered a report to Li Xia.

"Your Majesty, General Lu has returned and said that there is an urgent military situation to report."

Without hesitation, Li Xia said to Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi: "I have military affairs to deal with temporarily, so I will disturb the two gentlemen some other day."

Compared with these two famous Confucian scholars, he really cared more about military affairs.

And he used the word "disturbing", thinking that he was very respectful and virtuous.

"The foreign minister retire."

Wang Yinglin and Zhou Mi were led out of the office, they walked a long way, Zhou Mi looked around, but shook his head.

"Shi Zipang calls him a benevolent monarch, what does Lord Shen Ning think?"

Wang Yinglin sighed, and said: "Jiangling suffered a tragic military disaster, causing countless casualties. In exchange for him saying, 'I failed to protect the people of Jiangling', it is an understatement, an understatement... In this world, the king is the king, how many people feel pity for the people?"