After the martial arts examination, a few good seedlings did come out, and these people were thrown into the land and water divisions by Gu Yuanbai, and drilled by the generals with them.
This year's martial arts scholar is a young man named Su Ning, his father and brother counted up three generations are farmers, a farming family can raise out of such a proud son of God, is a very difficult thing. Gu Yuanbai sent people to inquire to know, it turned out that this Su Ning is the soldier's favorite apprentice plus son-in-law, no wonder the martial arts examination, the soldier said the future of the future, the original is in the avoidance of suspicion.
Another half month after the martial arts exam, the people who went to the coast to fight drugs sent a drug addict to the capital.
On that day, Gu Yuanbai took all the imperial physicians and ministers of the Imperial Hospital and went to see the addict's poisonous outburst together.
The people who had always felt that His Holiness was making a big deal out of it, after witnessing the addict's maniacal reaction when he was poisoned, they got a chill down their spine, a chill that reached from their limbs to their internal organs, as if they were in the middle of winter.
Senseless and hideous as a wild beast, this was no longer a man, it was a ghost with breath left in it.
It wasn't until the addict finally foamed at the mouth and fainted on the ground that the crowd felt a weight lift from their hearts and breathed again.
"Palpitations, pale or waxy face," Gu Yuanbai said faintly, "dry heaves, regurgitation. I was like this some days ago, with weakness in my hands and feet and a rapid heart rhythm."
The ministers looked at His Majesty in unison, stunned.
The imperial physicians of the Imperial Hospital knelt down one by one, and a few of them with gray hair and old eunuchs were already choking, "Your Holiness, I am guilty."
"It's hard for you guys not to see it," Gu Yuanbai looked towards the addict who had fainted on the ground, his eyes sullen, "I've only been taking it for a dozen days or so, and the dosage each day is minuscule, so I'm just overreacting a little bit, I don't blame you guys."
Gu Yuanbai waved away the imperial physician and led the ministers back to the Xuanzheng Hall, the ministers who had seen the addicted man in this manner realized at this time why His Holiness had been so forceful the other day, and even issued orders one by one without listening to persuasion, and hated the fact that they not only didn't do anything at that time, but also almost pulled His Majesty's hind legs.
The ministers of the heart are silent in two or three, dumbfounded. Gu Yuanbai saw what they thought in their hearts, flexed his fingers and knocked on the corner of the table, "I called you here, not to let you stand here to me as a log, one by one, get up the spirit, properly give me a few useful ideas."
The ministers pulled themselves together and accompanied His Majesty to rationalize the causes before and after one by one.
This talk, it directly talked about the dinner, Gu Yuanbai stayed after they finished dinner, then let the minister back. A little later, Kong Yilin came to see, reported the monitoring office in Western Xia after the content of the investigation, complex and said: "this incense a check, is the intertwined, a person will be able to involve a number of high-ranking officials and powerful, rough look, there is not a person who can not be implicated in this matter."
"Because the people who have nothing to do with this matter have either died or have been put into the Western Xia Emperor's prison," Gu Yuanbai handed him an envelope of paper, "Smart people know to keep their mouths shut, and those who are worried in their hearts already know that it's useless to just talk about it without doing anything. Take it, look."
Kong Yilin took a look and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath.
Gu Yuanbai leaned back, leaning on the back of the chair, thinking carefully about the time of Kong Yilin's rebellion in the original text.
According to this degree of the Western Xia Emperor's inhalation of the national incense, as long as the incense was broken, he would not be able to live for long. Even if he does not die, he did not come up with the soldiers and horses to accompany Kong Yilin towards Daheng to send troops in a big way.
That should be the next successor.
The next successor of Western Xia should be very ambitious and value talents, he understands the value of Kong Yilin and the cotton in his hands, so he gives Kong Yilin what he could not get in Daheng - power and status.
Looking at it this way, he at least had an open heart that wouldn't care about the origin of the talent, or perhaps, this successor was extremely short of talent to work for him, and that's why he thirsted for talent to the point that he didn't care if the person possessed Daheng's bloodline or not.
He also knows how to assess the situation, can bend and stretch. In the original text, the war between Daheng and Xixia is Xue Yuan's Yang Wei battle, after knowing that it can not beat Daheng, Xixia's attitude of admitting defeat can be described as very dry and sharp.
Western Xia's next successor is a character, such a character really do not realize the harm of the national incense, really will let the national incense spread?
Gu Yuanbai exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and suddenly asked, "Do you know the Second Prince of Western Xia?"
"The second prince of Western Xia," Kong Yilin was stunned, and then recalled, "I only knew of the second prince of Western Xia after he came to the capital, and I was unfamiliar with him, and did not know much about him. I heard that his reputation is not obvious, his ability is mediocre, only remaining life is hard a place to say."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, thinking, Isn't a hard life enough?
He did not say the matter again, and turned to flirt: "Kong Qing, I heard that the imperial inspector of the Palace of Justice, Mr. Mi wants to marry his youngest daughter in his house to you as his wife, is this matter true or false?"
Kong Yilin's face heated up, "Your Holiness, Lord Mi has no such intention."
"Oh?" Gu Yuanbai hooked the corners of his lips, "I did hear that in the past month or two, once the bath is closed, Kong Qing will be keen to run towards the temple, but coincidentally, every time, he can meet the youngest daughter of the family of the Mi Da family who comes to offer incense."
Kong Yilin directly bent down, saluted and retired.
However, when he was about to step out of the palace gate, his afterglow inadvertently glanced backward and saw the image of Lord Xue Yuan Xue bending down and whispering beside the ear of His Holiness. Kong Yilin retracted his eyes without moving, and after smiling with Tian Fusheng, he quickly walked away from the palace.
*
Xue Yuan whispered in His Majesty's ear, "Your Majesty, on the next rest day, why don't you go to the temple to offer incense as well as my servant?"
Over the past month, Xue Yuan has never gone overboard with Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai sometimes woke up in the middle of the night and asked him to fetch some water, but by chance the warm water slid down from the corner of his lips, and when Gu Yuanbai thought that Xue Yuan would lean over and suck it up, Xue Yuan didn't move, and he didn't dare to lift up a finger to touch him.
The person who dared to press his body for an hour that day and constantly mooched off him in secret seemed to have suddenly shifted and restrained himself so much that he almost became another person. When Gu Yuanbai came out of the spring pool, the water droplets on his hair dripped down all over the place, linking up into intermittent beads that slid down from his neck to the feet of his robes, but Xue Yuan preferred to keep his eyes closed and his head lowered, and did not look up at His Holiness.
No energy.
In the past few days, Gu Yuanbai was upset when she saw him, and thought, "The second move after seduction, is it possible that it's the desire to escape?
Xue Jiujiuyao's these art of war, is it hard to believe that he intends to use them on him in the same way?
He didn't want to talk, and coldly continued to deal with the zhangzhi. Xue Yuan did not move and advised in a low voice, "Your Holiness, you should also rest and take a break, I'm worried that your body won't be able to withstand it."
His voice followed suit for a month for some reason.
"Get lost," Gu Yuanbai pressed his brows and said, "I'm clearing my mind and resting day after day."
Xue Yuan had a smile in his eyes, ''Your Holiness, how can this be considered rest? It's already spring, it's a good time of year when it's not too cold and not too hot. Your Holiness also does not need to bring Tian Fusheng, just bring me, I will take care of you."
When Tian Fusheng heard this, he became anxious and could not wait to rush up and fight with Xue Yuan, "Lord Xue, your words are not to my liking. His Holiness can't go out of the palace without a little one, it's only a great inconvenience if you don't."
Gu Yuanbai turned over a page of zhangfu, "I can't stroll around my imperial garden?"
"That's different," Tian Fusheng urged along, "Your Holiness, you really should go out for a walk too."
Gu Yuanbai had wanted to relax his nerves for a long time, and he had planned to go out for a walk on the next vacation day.
At this time, he raised his eyes, but looked at the head of the guards, "Do you also think that I should go out to see some spring scenery?"
The head guard was flattered and saluted before saying seriously, "I am no different from what Lord Xue and Chief Tian are thinking, and I think the same way."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at Xue Yuan with his afterglow, and the latter's smile on his face had indeed changed, and he was looking at Zhang Xu with a grim, oozing smile, and he snorted before saying with a smile, "Then go ahead."
*
Jodoji on the day of rest.
Gu Yuanbai was dressed in his regular clothes, with a small shaman leading the way in front of him, one by one, he went forward to visit the Buddhas of the temples.
The first emperor was fond of Buddha, and was not confined to his knees, kneeling to worship the gods and Buddhas with sincerity. Gu Yuanbai is a materialist, but after experiencing the crossing of the matter, no matter believe it or not, see the gods and Buddhas, the heart will also think about the world whether the existence of ghosts and gods of the idea.
He stood in the center of the Buddhist temple, his hands behind his back, his green clothes as slender as bamboo, and was avoiding looking straight at the golden Buddha in the temple.
The golden Buddha was wiped spotless, its eyes gleaming, it seemed to be looking at Gu Yuanbai as well, the corners of its lips underneath its thick ears slightly raised, its goodwill sheepish.
Gu Yuanbai looked at it for a while, his heart stirred, but Xue Yuan suddenly sank his face and clutched Gu Yuanbai's wrist, "Don't look."
Gu Yuanbai's mind was interrupted, looking down at his hand holding his own, he sneered a few times and abruptly shook it off.
Isn't it a desire to get away? Then don't fucking touch me.
As soon as this hand was shaken off, Gu Yuanbai was immediately refreshed. With a smile on the corner of his lips, he happily looked at the scenery of the temple with Shamai, he did not worship Buddha, but he also did not stop the people around him from going to worship Buddha. When the palace guards and the guards got permission, they lit incense, and every time they passed by a temple with a statue of Buddha, they went in and paid a proper worship.
Once they had seen all that they needed to see, the group had a vegetarian meal in the middle of the temple.
The smell of sandalwood incense in the temple was the most hypnotic. After the meal, Gu Yuanbai was a little sleepy, he took a nap in the room. When he woke up, he heard thunder and lightning in his ears, and the sound of heavy rain was clear to his ears. He got up and looked outside, and it was only midday, but the sky was dusky, and the coldness and the wind were faint, so it was really raining.
"Come on man."
The palace attendant entered and waited for the saint to rise. Gu Yuanbai looked around and frowned, "Why are there a few people missing?"
Before his words fell, several drenched people ran towards this place in the rain, precisely the missing Xue Yuan and several guards. They ran all the way under the corridor, and the wet rain dampened the dry ground, spilling fine water and splashing everywhere.