Xue Yuan was honest and not crazy anymore, and was easily calmed down by Gu Yuanbai, who was a bit surprised himself.
He roasted the fire for a while, thinking about what Xue Yuan had said, which was like a thorn in his heart. Not only him, for all the border generals, the inaction of the imperial court was a deep thorn.
The nomads had to be fought, and they had to be scared of them, keeping their territory for their own use, and people captured to be free labor. But before the fight, Daheng's cavalry had to be practiced first.
If you want cavalry to be practiced, you need lots and lots of horses.
Nomads ride ferociously, and cavalry has always been the natural enemy of infantry, and without cultivating a large number of cavalry, you can't conquer the nomads throughout the grasslands.
The court is now not enough cavalry, transportation is not developed, temporarily can not hit the nomadic territory, can only first send people in the commercial road before the construction of a hard beat them, give them a lesson, let them know to obey. The government for Zhang's commercial road escort, provide force support, can not rectify the entire grassland scattered troops, but also can make an example of them to obediently accept the border market.
The firelight wavered on Gu Yuanbai's face, and Xue Yuan, who was on the side, suddenly snapped back from his out-of-body state as he abruptly rushed out of the cave.
It was still pouring outside the cave.
Gu Yuanbai: "...... "Xue Yuan is seriously sick.
Xue Yuan, who had been told by His Holiness that he was sick, got drenched in rainwater and felt that the water should be able to wash away the water in his head. He wiped his face and felt that he was awake and rational, so he turned around and went back to the cave, and the first thing he saw was Gu Yuanbai in the middle of the crowd.
The young emperor heard the footsteps and lifted his eyelids to look at him, mo about Xue Yuan was too much of a mess, he was a little surprised, then his lips hooked up in a smile.
Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai fixedly, and something seemed to flash in his eyes, but when Gu Yuanbai tried to catch the feeling, Xue Yuan withdrew his eyes and walked towards him with large strides.
His clothes were soaked through, clinging to his tall and strong body, and the wet marks from the rain followed him all the way. Xue Yuan walked straight to Gu Yuanbai's side, and Gu Yuanbai endured a smile as he looked at him, "Servant Xue, have you drenched your head?"
The speed at which Xue Yuan's heart was beating disturbed him as he looked at Gu Yuanbai's pale colored lips, "Your Majesty, it seems like there's something wrong with my minister."
Gu Yuanbai's robes were spread out and he stood at attention, "Where is it wrong?"
"I ...... "My heart thumps when I see you," Xue Yuan mused, "I always want to ...... "pick up your pants I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.
It's not right in any way.
Xue Yuan glanced towards Squire Zhang Xu and asked himself if he wanted to pick his pants, and after only a moment's thought, he blushed and was so disgusted that he was about to vomit.
After being disgusted, Xue Yuan thought to himself, it looks like it is not the problem of the old man, the old man still does not like men.
Then why does it jump around at Gu Yuanbai and want to pick his pants?
Why is it that by now ...... all that is in his heart and mind is Gu Yuanbai.
Xue Yuan was confused.
After a long time, he leaned down and caged Gu Yuanbai, whispering generously in his ear, "I want to see if you're pink there or not."
The tone of voice, the tone of voice as if it were probing for a polarizing answer.
Irrespective of all the miscellaneous stuff, Xue Yuan just wanted to know if he was going to be able to restore his original form just by looking at it.
Gu Yuanbai was puzzled, "Where?"
Xue Yuan's nostrils sizzled and he said frankly, "Zi Sun Root."
The guards sitting in a circle around the fire were talking in low voices in twos and threes, when they heard a "bang" sound coming from the side, they turned their heads to look, and they saw that the Marquis of Yu was kicked by their saint to the root of the descendants.
His Holiness' face was ugly and he sneered. Xue Yuan had already fallen to his knees, painfully bending over to feel the sore and cool sensation. The guards looked at Xue Yuan's expression like this, they had all felt his pain and could not help but tremble with a chill.
Gu Yuanbai's foot had put down a vicious force, but fortunately Xue Yuan took a step back in time to unload the force, or else he would have been really wasted and become the first eunuch of the Xue family.
But unloading the force still hurt, Xue Yuan arched his back in pain, and when Gu Yuanbai saw him do so, the expression on his face was finally relieved.
He stepped forward and let out a "Heh", "Still know it hurts?"
Xue Yuan was sweating profusely as he looked up at Gu Yuanbai, his heart starting to beat erratically again. He followed his heart and reached out to hold on to Gu Yuanbai's ankle, his cold breath pouring out in pain as he said, "Your Holiness, don't kick and hurt yourself."
The moment the torrential rain fell from the sky, the heart of the Chinaman went cold.
But at this moment no one cares whether their hearts are cold or not, the palace guards and forbidden troops are busy, constantly going to pick up the princes and ministers who are out hunting one by one to take shelter from the rain. But the most anxious and important saint, but has not been found.
The emperor has let Chintian monitor the weather many times, it is because now in the critical period of anti-corruption action, Gu Yuanbai is the backbone, if he is sick, then in the period of recuperation, without the emperor as a backer, anti-corruption people will be shrunken, will be those who are the groundlings to snatch away the initiative.
But it was such an important day that the Chintian Supervisor failed to figure out that there was rain!
Palace guards and forbidden army anxious mouth ruffled bubbles, for fear that the saint got wet, but also for fear that the saint did not wear enough clothes. Prince He was escorted back by his own guards drenched in wet, then learned the news that the saint has not returned.
The Prince of Harmony stood for a while, and after waking up with a sudden shock he turned around and left towards the outside with a big stride, letting his personal guards prepare straw raincoats, and leading his horse to prepare to go deeper into the rain, to find that unconscious emperor.
The personal guards advised, "Your Highness, the forbidden soldiers have already gone out to search. If we all go, it will only be a drop in the bucket."
"A drop in the bucket, then," the Prince of Harmony rolled onto his horse, the raindrops hitting his straw raincoat and sliding down underneath him, "hurry up."
The guards had no choice but to put on their straw raincoats and follow. The horses had difficulty traveling in the pouring rain, several times skidding several times because of the rain, the Prince of Harmony shouted at the top of his voice for a few moments, and when his patience finally ran out, he shouted, "Gu Convergence--"
Gu Convergence was the name of His Holiness, and his character Yuan Bai, which means "beginning and root" and "white" means "pure and virtuous", exactly corresponded to the character Convergence. When the late emperor died, the saint was not yet crowned, and before he died, he left these two characters as the characters of Gu Yuanbai.
The Prince of Harmony had already gotten used to calling Gu Yuanbai's name, and when he pulled his voice at this point, the guards around him abruptly changed their faces and stopped him, "Your Highness! You may not call out the holy name!"
The Prince of Harmony wiped his face, and a trace of bitterness flashed across his face as he muttered, "I can't believe that this king forgot ......"
He was out of his mind for a split second, came back to his senses, and continued to shout with his subordinates, "Your Holiness--"
In the middle of the cave, the saint who was being anxiously searched for by the crowd was leisurely roasting a fire, and Xue Yuan, who was still smiling after being kicked by him, was again burning the fire for him in high spirits. Gu Yuanbai's face was expressionless, and he still didn't have a good look for him.
Xue Yuan is usually not a man of many words, but when he looked at the expressionless little emperor, his mouth began to not stop for a moment, and his face smiled continuously, teasing the saint wanting him to show a smile.
The side of his body facing the fire had been dried by the fire, and his dark hair was still knotted together in the back. I couldn't tell if he looked handsome or ugly, but he had quite a talent for amusing people.
"Your Holiness," Xue Yuan said with a smile, "I'll tell you an interesting story."
He picked a scholar to teach in the countryside, but did not know the story of grain hard to pretend to know. The contradiction between the military and the literati was innate; the literati disliked the rudeness of the military, and the military disliked the posturing of the literati. Therefore, once Xue Yuan finished this story, the low-key ones among the guards just curved their mouths, and there were quite a few who directly laughed out loud.
Gu Yuanbai glanced at Xue Yuan, and although he still wanted to crush him Gil one more time, he also listened to the story.
At first it sounds funny, but on reflection, it feels doubly hopeless and hateful.
Some of the scholars in the Daheng Dynasty had indeed never been to the ground, and had never known where the grains in the bowl came from in their lives. There are also a lot of scholars who lived a hard life before joining the civil service, but after joining the civil service, they were corrupt and made the local people not to live in peace. Such things are not endless, taking public money to eat, drink and play extravagantly, Gu Yuanbai deep in his memory remembers most clearly a person, is the author of "Compassionate Farming" Li Shen, because the contrast is too large, as a child almost was impacted by the three views.1
He sighed and began to fret about his hair and longevity, and when the great road would be long.
Xue Yuan saw that everyone laughed, but only the young emperor sighed. He was a bit at a loss for words, and took out the courage to lead an army into battle and said in a deep voice, "If Your Majesty doesn't like this story, I have several more here."
As soon as his words fell, the people in the cave heard the sound of "Your Majesty" being shouted outside. The guards who were close to the cave door hurriedly got up, cautiously looked outside, and reported back, "Your Majesty, it's the Prince of Harmony who has brought people here!"
"What are they doing here?" Gu Yuanbai looked at the rain outside the cave that hadn't abated, "With such heavy rain, even if they find me, I won't be able to go back with them."
It wasn't that Gu Yuanbai was afraid of getting wet, but Gu Yuanbai's body was tied to the fate of this country, and he couldn't risk himself.
The guard hesitated, "I'll let the Prince of Peace go back?"
"Let them come in as well," Gu Yuanbai said, "roast the fire and wait for the rain to stop before we go together."
The guards then ran to the front of the cave and tried their best to call out to the Prince of Harmony who was not far away. After a few moments, the straw raincoat-clad Prince He and his guards walked into the cave. They took off the straw raincoat that had absorbed all the water on their bodies, and the Prince of Harmony raised his eyes and saw that Gu Yuanbai's face was fine, so he also breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are those Qin Tian Supervisors for," Prince He frowned as he walked over to Gu Yuanbai and sat down next to him, reaching out to roast the fire, "They can't even calculate such an important day. If you hadn't been able to find a cave, I'm afraid a group of people would have had to suffer some wind chill."
Gu Yuanbai nodded, agreeing, "It should indeed be punished."
The Prince of Harmony couldn't help but laugh and looked at him again, unable to help but say, "How long has His Holiness been roasting over the fire? The face is all red."
"Yes?" Gu Yuanbai was also a bit thirsty, and he was about to ask Zhang Xu to bring him over water when a water bladder was handed over to his right, none other than Xue Yuan.
Gu Yuanbai took a sip and smiled, "Prince He, how is the situation outside?"
The Prince of Harmony spoke with him, and looking at the way Gu Yuanbai listened attentively, his expression softened for a moment before stiffening violently. His tone also gradually became hard, "...... The ministers are very concerned about His Majesty, and no one is injured or ill."
Gu Yuanbai nodded, "Not bad."
The Prince of Peace gazed into the fire and began to fall silent.
The jumping fire looked like it was sizzling him on the fire even as it was agonizing under his eyes.
Or rather, it was because Gu Yuanbai was by his side, and he was so close to Gu Yuanbai, that he was in so much pain.