Chapter 37

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Gu Yuanbai didn't talk nonsense, Xue Yuan really made a big splash in the capital this time.

His three and a half days of banditry shocked many people, up and down do not know how many more eyes staring at the body of Xue Yuan, tea and dinner time to talk about all the fast and amazing banditry action.

Followed Xue Yuan together with the blood of the soldiers of the entire Wangtu Mountain, the day to kill crazy eyes when it is okay, a stream of gas are condensed together, only think of merit and kill. Waiting for the next day to sleep and get up, back to God, the people in the head are half vomited.

They had killed even more people than the team Qin Sheng had led, and were even crazier. Although it would be humiliating to throw up, there was already a primordial blade of fury in their bodies.

Xue Yuan was responsible for taking down these three bandit mountains. The rest of the follow-up would require Gu Yuanbai to do it.

Before arranging for their servitude, one thing has to be cleared up. What was the reason for so many bandits to fall into the grass? Where did they come from to be bandits, and what kind of heavenly problem did the local officials have to force so many people to leave their fields behind and become bandits that everyone spurned.

Gu Yuanbai arranged for people to find out, and after learning where these bandits came from, he arranged for the Inspection Office and the Imperial Household to go and investigate. The Supervision Department was in the shadows, the Royal Historical Bureau was in the open, and the two groups of people rushed to Lizhou to investigate the cause of the incident.

The Dongling Guards in the palace continued to rigorously sift through the soldiers who had followed the bandits this time around, and their eyes and senses had clearly distinguished themselves from those who hadn't killed anyone.

On this day, Gu Yuanbai got free and personally came to the screening site of the Dongling Guards, looking at the physical fitness test of one soldier after another.

After learning that His Holiness had come, these soldiers were all a bit excited, all standing straight with their heads held high, their roars suddenly amplified, roaring the brains of the examiners a bit dumbfounded.

Gu Yuanbai stood at the front with a smile on his face, watching them test one by one. His Holiness was standing right here, and the people he watched were as if they had been pumped up with chicken blood, but instead they played exceedingly well and broke the records at the front one by one.

Few of the people here have ever met His Holiness. But they knew that the food they ate and the clothes they wore were things given to them by His Holiness, and that their monthly pay was money put down by His Holiness.

Everyone in the forbidden army can be raised so robustly and eat so well at every meal, all because of His Holiness.

To be honest, it was better and fuller than eating at home.

Gu Yuanbai sat next to the various officials responsible for screening the Dong Lingwei, and behind him stood the guards and Xue Yuan.

Today, the sunlight wins very much, all the ministers and soldiers are full of sweat, the person who protects Gu Yuanbai's side is also equally hot and sweaty, but only Gu Yuanbai seems to come wrapped in coolness, fresh and clean.

Xue Yuan stood back and tugged on his collar when no one was looking, and it was only when the breeze blew down the knot of his throat and into his collar that he felt a few moments of comfort.

The chief guard at the side glanced at the two teeth marks on his neck that had become scars, frowned and whispered, "Lord Xue, how did you get the scars on your neck?"

There was a vague flavor of condemnation in his tone, and Xue Yuan's fingers ran over the two scars on his neck as he said in a pretty good mood, "None of your business."

The head guard's brow peaks furrowed, still insisting in a low voice, "How can one serve in front of His Majesty with such absurd disregard for his instrument?"

Xue Yuan glanced at him with a wry smile and said nastily, "What can I do then, when it comes to biting me I can still stop it from biting me?"

As far as the Holy Spirit's small teeth were concerned, he was on the verge of biting off two pieces of meat for Xue Yuan.

"His Holiness hasn't even said anything," Xue Yuan chilled his face, "What the hell are you talking about here?"

Squire Zhang Xu's face did not look good, "This will defile the eyes of His Majesty."

Xue Yuan narrowed his eyes and turned his head to look at the head of the guards, his sharp features were extremely appalling when his face was expressionless, the head of the guards stood straight and looked back equally straight.

Xue Yuan suddenly laughed, "According to you, has His Holiness never even seen the teeth marks on his neck before?"

As soon as he thought about it, he didn't hold back his laughter and glanced at Gu Yuan's white and raw neck, thinking, "No wonder he bit his neck. Such a tender person, not to mention biting it, being sucked on would have to be red, right?

Gu Yuanbai didn't notice the movement behind him, the palace attendant beside him took out a towel and handkerchief and wiped the corner of his forehead for him, Gu Yuanbai waved them off and asked, "Lords, have you found any good seedlings by now?"

General Cheng was here, he took the lead and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the selection of the Dong Ling Guards has been going on for two days, and more than a hundred elite soldiers have already been selected."

Saying that, General Cheng handed Gu Yuanbai a booklet, and Gu Yuanbai flipped it open and smiled, "General Cheng has learned the forms as well?"

General Cheng smiled twice in embarrassment, "I find the form extremely convenient to use here."

Gu Yuanbai nodded gently and agreed, "Indeed."

The booklet recorded the names and places of origin of these more than a hundred people, what wars or missions they had participated in, what military achievements they had, and the data detected by various tests, etc., all of which were recorded in detail in the booklet.

Each of these Dong Ling Wei candidates is a fierce man. Gu Yuan flipped through a few pages before praising General Cheng a few more times, and watched here until noon, when all the soldiers dispersed for lunch, before Gu Yuanbai left.

The weather is getting hot, stay in the palace boring, Gu Yuanbai passes by the lake, people will move the political affairs over, he wants to deal with political affairs in the pavilion next to the lake.

The palace guards took the light veil that can stop the insects and mosquitoes and surrounded the pavilion, and the pavilion was lit with the smoked incense that repels the insects and mosquitoes, and a gust of cool wind blew, and Gu Yuanbai felt a rare pleasure when he was dealing with the political affairs.

Fragrance ethereal scattered, birds chirping clear and pleasant, Gu Yuanbai down pen like a god, spent an hour after the approval of the political affairs, and then the capital government magistrate submitted the folding of the letter alone out.

The court under Gu Yuanbai's leadership was a wolf that could meet the wind when it smelled blood, and even though it was now busy with the Royal Historical Office, the Dong Lingwei and the upcoming anti-corruption campaign, it hadn't forgotten to use public opinion to oppress the other major temples.

The temples that were close to the abbot of Chengbao Temple all took the initiative to hand over a portion of a sizable portion of their temple fields after talking to the abbot of Chengbao Temple, and the monks in the temple were released, and even now monks returning from their temples can be seen from time to time on the streets of the capital.

The news that His Holiness was preparing for redundant monks was also slowly spreading from temple to temple.

Gu Yuanbai was satisfied with this situation, not using troops if he could, not using forceful tactics if he could, in this case, these temples gained a good reputation, and the imperial court gained a good reputation, which was a win-win result.

The new laws regarding the specifications of the various temples had yet to be studied by the Hall of Government, and Gu Yuanbai had deliberately slowed them down, giving these temples time to send them up of their own accord.

When the real law on temple specifications comes out, those temples that have not rushed to fight for this good name will have to passively hand over their temple fields and people.

"How many people were captured during the bandit suppression?" Gu Yuanbai suddenly remembered this matter.

Xue Yuan returned, "More than four thousand men."

Gu Yuanbai was surprised, "There are so many of them!"

Xue Yuan smiled, Xiguang Mountain people touch the dark down the mountain, when they were surrounded by them thought that the court officials and soldiers came a lot, and even did not resist directly surrendered, Xiguang Mountain more than two thousand people casualties are slight, but it is Wang Tushan and Songzi Mountain were killed a lot of people.

I heard that those remaining captives in Wangtusan cried tears of joy when they saw the imperial court come to bring them.

Gu Yuanbai mentally arranged the roles of these 4,000-odd people, and couldn't help but smile and curve the corners of his mouth, "Good!"

Xue Yuan looked at his smiling face, originally felt that the banditry this in his eyes is really not worth being proud of a small thing, but also steeply have still good results, he also followed the smile, and thought, old man how to live more and more past.

It was surprising that such a small feat could make him feel happy.

Fuckin' hell, it's really less of a battlefield.

Gu Yuanbai was in a happy mood, let the people will read the good folders sent to the Hall of Government. And walked around the lake with the wind blowing, and waited until he got out of the sweat, before driving back to the palace.

The palace had already made preparations to let His Holiness bathe, and after Gu Yuanbai walked in, he let everyone retreat.

The water was warm and hot, and bright light filtered in through the window, Gu Yuanbai took a long breath and leaned on the edge of the pool with his eyes closed, comfortably enjoying the feeling of the clear water brushing against him.

But when he waited a while, he opened his eyes and looked down, I think it was the heat, the man was parched, and his little brother raised his head along with him.

Daily Gu Yuanbai as soon as he saw this part of himself, his face was expressionless, but now there was some feeling, he raised his hand, and the five-fingered girl finally played a role for the first time in three years.

Outside, Tian Fusheng, who was guarding the palace gate, suddenly remembered something and asked, "Can tea be set out in the palace?"

"It's set up," the palace maid also froze for a moment and hesitantly said, "but it's the tea that was boiled before His Holiness bathed, and it should be cold by now."

"Go make another fresh pot of tea," Tian Fusheng urged, "hurry up."

The palace attendant hurriedly brewed another pot of new tea, Tian Fusheng was about to take it and send it into the palace, when he saw a pair of large hands reaching out of thin air, snatched the teapot, and said with a smile, "Chief Tian, I'll do it."

Xue Yuan didn't wait for them to react before he walked into the hall with big strides.

Royal paraphernalia is extremely luxurious, the floor is covered with blankets, and there is mist everywhere. Xue Yuan is not the first time to enter this hall, familiar left and right, was about to push the door and enter, suddenly heard a not very clear gasp.

Xue Yuan's hand gave a beat, however, he was unable to collect his strength, and the door was still pushed open by him by a crack.

The breathing was clearer.

Xue Yuan raised his eyes to look, and saw that His Holiness had his back to the wooden door, a head of black hair draped behind his shoulders, and did not move in the mist of water, which looked a bit odd.

What is this?

Xue Yuan intuited that going in now could scare people, he raised his steps and walked slowly to the window, casually pushing it open to look inside.

White fingers are fiddling with their own that thing, the appearance of that place was clearly seen by Xue Yuan, Xue Yuan originally roaming the line of sight must be, carrying a teapot hand abruptly clenched, from hand to head seems to run up a numb feeling.

White and clean, the color was tender and translucent with powder. It was amazing that any man could be that color - the same as jade.

How can ...... how can a person like Gu Yuanbai ......

How can someone who is obviously so ruthless be so tender?

Xue Yuan's eyes do not let go, over the body's tingling from the head to the bottom, with too much wine like all have a drunken feeling. He thought to himself, Gu Yuanbai's here can be so lovely.

It didn't match him personally at all, and when caught off guard, it was so cute that Xue Yuan felt a numbness in his head.