Candidates in the late winter will gather in the capital, the following year in the spring is presided over by the Ministry of Rites will be the test, Chu Wei since he wants to participate in this test, then his father must be avoided.
These days of the morning court are also talking about the early March session of the examination, Gu Yuanbai and the ministers to set the tone of the examination, to determine the proportion of the examination of the scriptures, the doctrine, arithmetic, poetry, law and miscellaneous essays, the examination of the examination of the examination of the examination of the first three vice, by the first and second grade officers, with the same examiners eighteen, the Ministry of Rites submitted a list of names, the candidates were selected by Gu Yuanbai.
After the morning court, Gu Yuanbai got the list, he must choose a good person as soon as possible, three days later, these candidates will be followed by the forbidden army, into the tribute court lock courtyard.
The matter of the point of view of people also have learning, now although it is the son of God's disciples, but the township examination, the examiner of the examination ultimately have "a division" of the name, the examination is also a matter of face, pay attention to is the scholar's origin, the emperor's trust, Gu Yuanbai is willing to let who is further, is willing to solidify the hand and foot of who, here can also do the article.
When he had ordered the people, the Imperial Catering Room also delivered the food, since he had ordered a bowl of fried noodles last time, the Imperial Catering Room seemed to have discovered a hundred uses for different sauces, and they tossed out a meat sauce that was fresh and flavorful, and just relying on that was extremely good for dinner.
Gu Yuanbai's appetite is not very good these days, the people in the imperial kitchen put in more effort, he only moved a few chopsticks and then put down his chopsticks. After ordering the people to remove the food, Gu Yuanbai washed up and prepared to take a nap.
Instructing Tian Fusheng to wake him up after an hour, Gu Yuanbai fell into a deep sleep, but he didn't expect to be awakened by violent shaking just as he fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Tian Fusheng's face filled with tears, his voice trembling as he said, "Your Holiness, Mrs. Wan is seriously ill."
*
A manor house on the outskirts of the capital.
Gu Yuanbai walked out of the house filled with the smell of medicine and looked at a lone dead tree in the compound, his eyes a little dry.
Beside him, Tian Fusheng and his palace attendant had already covered their faces and cried, and the imperial physician followed the saint's left side, whispering the diagnosis.
Mrs. Wan, a concubine of the late Emperor during his lifetime.
Also the sister of Gu Yuanbai's birth mother.
Gu Yuanbai's birth mother died early, the mother clan in order to maintain Gu Yuanbai, let Wan Tai Fei into the palace, Wan Tai Fei in order to make their own can Gu Yuanbai as if it were their own son, personally took the absolute child medicine, since then, all life, are only for Gu Yuanbai paved the way.
Gu Yuanbai's birth mother died strangely, but also Wan Tai Fei in the harem step by step to find out the truth, she held the mother revenge for him, whether it is the previous small emperor, or now Gu Yuanbai, will be the Wan Tai Fei as the birth mother generally regarded.
After the collapse of the late emperor, Gu Yuanbai originally wanted to serve in the palace, but Mrs. Wan decided to go out of the palace, she did not want to even die in the inner sanctum.
Gu Yuanbai moved her to this Zhuang Buyuan, but the careful provision still couldn't withstand the passage of time.
Mrs. Wan is old and has no heart, she wants to die.
Gu Yuanbai looked at the gray sky, his heart seemed to be clenched by an invisible hand, the tip of his nose was sore, but his eyes were dry.
"Go."
The carriage bumped and undulated on the uneven road, and as the Buyeo Village gradually moved away, Tian Fusheng had already wiped away his face full of tears and was worried and careful as he waited on Gu Yuanbai in the carriage.
Gu Yuanbai leaned on top of the soft collapse, looking at the scenery outside the carriage and fuming until the carriage drove into the capital, then he called a halt, got off the carriage, and personally headed towards the palace on foot.
The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, prosperous and populous, there are a few children holding up sugar figures laughing and running past, Gu Yuanbai stopped and looked at these children.
Men in rough linen clothes were doing street-side work, women were hard at work on household chores, men and women, young and old, were all busy trying to make a good living.
However, more, it is three or two groups of readers, the bookstore teahouse, everywhere is the exciting text to participate in the examination of the lifts, they are either excited or apprehensive, talking loudly about the upcoming examination.
Gu Yuanbai didn't know what he was thinking, and the guards protecting him behind him as well as the palace people didn't know what he was thinking either.
They simply followed the young tenno in silence, alert to everything around them.
The capital was full of dignitaries, and Gu Yuanbai and his party did not attract much attention. Gu Yuanbai withdrew his mind and his feet continued to walk forward, however, two steps had just been taken when a flake of snow suddenly drifted down from in front of his eyes.
"Ah! It's snowing daddy!"
"It's snowing!"
A cry of delight from children rang out around them, Gu Yuanbai lost his smile and shook his head, Tian Fusheng hurriedly draped the fox fur over him, "Master, get on the carriage, right?"
"Walk a little longer," Gu Yuanbai said, "I haven't seen snow in the capital for a long time either."
The snow in February in the capital is like goose feathers, the head of the guards held up the umbrella for the saint, the snow white snowflakes slid down from the edge of the umbrella, and some of them were blown by the wind onto the saint's green silk that was hanging down to his waist.
They walked past the tavern and teahouse, and upstairs on the Scholar's House, Xue Yuan was next to the window shaking a bottle of wine, and as soon as he looked down, he saw this line of people.
His Holiness's face was hidden under an umbrella, but the faces of Tian Fusheng and the head of the guards were familiar, and Xue Yuan shook his drink, stuck his hand out of the window, and loosened his five fingers one by one as he waited for the party to pass his window.
"Ka-ching-"
The wine bottle shattered and fell not far behind Gu Yuanbai, and the guards instantly tensed their bodies and looked menacingly towards the upper floors.
Gu Yuanbai pushed away the umbrella, his sight was not blocked, when he looked upwards, there was a hand resting casually at the second floor window, without much thought, Gu Yuanbai knew that it was the owner of this hand who threw down the bottle of wine that almost hit him.
The corners of Gu Yuanbai's lips hooked up, but his voice was as cold as a snowflake, "Bring him down."
A few moments later, Xue Yuan, who was full of the smell of wine, was brought down from the Scholarship House by the guards, the snowflakes fluttered and flew even more, and the umbrella didn't have much more use, Gu Yuanbai had already asked the head of the guards to put away the useless umbrella, and after standing alone in the cold wind for a while, a lot of white snow had already accumulated on his body.
Xue Yuan was brought to Gu Yuanbai's side, and when Gu Yuanbai saw it was him, he continued to smile, "So it's the son of General Xue's family."
Tian Fusheng said, "Master, should we send Mr. Xue back to General Xue's residence?"
While they were talking, Xue Yuan burped and stretched his face to look at Gu Yuanbai for a moment before saying, "Your Holiness?!"
Gu Yuanbai quietly looked at him, flakes of snow were hanging down from his hair, fox fur, and even his eyelashes, and these flakes fell on his body surprisingly didn't melt away immediately. Compared to him, Xue Yuan's body was clean and dry, and those snowflakes had already been vaporized into water by the heat from his body before they even fell.
Seeing this, Gu Yuanbai was in an even worse mood.
No emperor would be in a good mood in the presence of someone who would take over his power in the future and who was a hundred times healthier than he was.
Xue Yuan is a dog that bites at the sight of others, usually not barking, but vicious and fierce, with a very low sense of morality and only desire and power in his eyes. He is a good hand at leading troops, but such a minister is like a sharp blade without a hilt, if others want to use him, they have to be prepared to have one of their hands cut off.
Chu Wei Gu Yuanbai dares to fool around, Xue Yuan can not.
Gu Yuanbai looked toward the wine bottles shattered all over the ground, "What's going on here?"
Xue Yuan grinned, the smell of alcohol washing over him as he followed towards the debris on the floor, feigning a trance, "What's my drink doing here?"
Tian Fusheng covered his nose and pinched his throat, "Master, Mr. Xue should be drunk."
Gu Yuanbai suddenly smiled, he walked to stand next to the porcelain tiles, the person who was escorting Xue Yuan also brought Xue Yuan over, Xue Yuan's expression was relaxed, his legs walked slowly, looking at it this way, those guards didn't look like they were crushing people, but like they were serving them.
The snowflakes drifted down to his nose, just as an itch rose, and Gu Yuanbai coughed lowly a few times and said in a mute voice, "Kneel down."
The guards who pressed down on Xue Yuan's arms exerted force, solidly pressing Xue Yuan's knees onto the sharp porcelain tiles that shattered to the ground.
Large pieces of broken porcelain pierced into the flesh, and blood instantly spread over his pants and onto the ground, snowflakes drifted onto this blood and were quickly melted into water, allowing the blood to spread even faster on the ground.
The perfunctory look on Xue Yuan's face abruptly withdrew, and he looked up at Gu Yuanbai in a gloomy and uncertain manner.
Gu Yuanbai smiled softly at him and suddenly reached out and tugged on his hair, he lowered his head and said word for word in Xue Yuan's ear, "I'm in a very bad mood today, Little Sir Xue, don't give me the chance to be able to break your mother's heart, do you hear me?"
Xue Yuan was forced to lift his chin, his jaw tensed into an arc ready to rise, his scalp was tugged to the point of numbness, and when the word "mother" reached his ears, he smiled sadly and sneered, "Yuan knows."
Gu Yuanbai: "Very well."
He let go of his hand, Xue Yuan slightly sideways, watching the little emperor's lips pale with a smile as he backed away from his ear, the pain in his knee gradually receded, but Xue Yuan's whole body was already on fire.
He looked down at the injury on his knee and grinned a grim smile away. Only when the Saint and his party were gone did Xue Yuan brace himself on the ground and stand up, limping towards the Xue Mansion.
*
The first thing Gu Yuanbai did after entering the palace was to explain that the people in the Inspection Office took advantage of the Xue House's recruitment to send more people inside.
As he expected, after Xue Yuan returned to the house, he carried out a major purge of the people in the house, sold all the subordinates who might be the emperor's eyes, and then bought some people with a clean background to enter the house.
Xue Yuan and Chu Wei two protagonists are naturally the place to let Gu Yuanbai pay more attention to, the manpower lurking in Xue's mansion has twelve people, this time was cleaned up seven, there are still five people stayed, perhaps can take this opportunity to take root and grow into a big tree.
Gu Yuanbai was still quite satisfied with the result.
Walking all the way back to the palace in the middle of the snowy sky, his shoes were already wet when he returned to the palace, Tian Fusheng couldn't help but chant as he removed Gu Yuanbai's shoes and socks, "Your Holiness, take care of your dragon body."
Gu Yuanbai glanced down at his boots and laughed, "It's wet."
Tian Fusheng with the eunuchs and palace maidens busy, and so finally the saint to get clean without a bit of coldness, before they all breathed a sigh of relief.
His Holiness sat on the edge of the bed, the eunuchs brought away the moxa water for soaking the feet, the sky outside the window was already dim, and the lamps in the bedchamber were as bright as day.
"Mrs. Wan's health is not good anymore," Gu Yuanbai sighed softly, "The imperial physician told me that he is afraid that he won't be able to last past the summer."
Tian Fusheng pressed the shoulders of the saint, "Your Majesty, Mrs. Wan does not want you to be sad."
"I know," Gu Yuanbai, "she's afraid I'll be worried."
"Precisely this reasoning, Your Holiness, Mrs. Wan can only be happy in her old man's heart when she sees that you can pull yourself together."
Gu Yuanbai stopped talking, and after his shoulders relaxed, he let Tian Fusheng lead the people to retreat, he wanted to be alone.
He was also just getting started, just getting the court under his control.
There are still a lot of things in the world that have not been done, and there are still a lot of things that take three to five years or even decades that need to be verified.
Consort Wan was worried about him because she was worried that he would complain about his body.
But in fact, for this plainly extra life, Gu Yuanbai is grateful, not to mention that this life has taken him to appreciate the scenery that he has never seen before.
Before going to sleep, Gu Yuanbai thought of Xue Yuan and Chu Wei.
He did not have the idea of targeting these two protagonists, without Xue Yuan, there will also be Wang Yuan Li Yuan ...... The only reason that can cause unrest itself is that the emperor himself did not do a good enough job.
His life has been limited, but whether it's Xue Yuan or Chu Wei, they, as the main characters in the text, can surely develop Daheng well. Perhaps they can carry on his legacy and do what he wanted to do again.
However, Xue Yuan was too much of a lout, and Gu Yuanbai still needed to think of a way to tame this mad dog.
How can we get him to listen?
Punch him so hard he knows it hurts?
The author has something to say: 【Tackle threw the bottle is intentionally test, the specific reasons for the latter article have to say, attack why the reason why the madness of the latter article also have, don't be anxious, the reasons for a breath of explanation out of the too raw】.
Let him be afraid because the little emperor is not well, let him ache because of the little emperor.
Gu Yuanbai: Good, you've successfully aroused my desire to conquer :)