Without giving her son and his young companion another chance to shrug it off, Princess Shio turned around with an expectant look on her face, ran behind the palace gates of the southern third, hid behind the wall and peeked her head out, "Is this okay?"
This is great, the uneducated rebel cub will be forced to make a fool of himself in front of the mother consort.
Xue Yao secretly squinted to see Lu Qian's expression, and found that Lu Qian's gaze was also fixed on himself.
Xue Yao took this gaze as proof that Lu Qian was still attached to him. When he was young, when His Highness had been naughty with someone and lost the battle, he would also look at Xue Yao helplessly like this.
Xue Yao had to do something about this long-lost attachment, and although there was no way for him to replace the little fat cub to show Shi Fei his mesmerizing swordplay, he still turned on his toes and followed the little fat cub's needy gaze.
Lu Qian didn't put up a repulsive defense like he did two days ago, and when Xue Yao couldn't wait to come over, he raised his hand and grabbed Xue Yao's outstretched hand, leaning down to whisper in his ear, "Use that concealed weapon, wherever 爷our sword is pointed at, you're going to hit."
It turned out that he wanted him to fool Princess Shio with a concealed weapon in conjunction.
Xue Yao nodded once, grasping the delicate little copper pipe concealed weapon in his hand, and headed in the direction where Princess Shio was hiding.
Halfway back, he looked back at Lu Qian again, and found that Lu Qian turned his toes in his own direction, and watched helplessly as he walked away.
Xue Yao was summoned by Lu Qian's helpless eyes, so he turned around and walked back, raising his hand to pat the little chubby cub's head and coaxing, "Don't be afraid, Your Highness's sword skills weren't too bad before, so His Highness won't be able to tell what's going on."
Lu Qian saw him walking back and once again came to his ear to remind the little companion, "You can't shoot from a distance, just stand behind master."
Xue Yao: "......"
That's right, he should have thought the distance direction through, it was all because of the Rebel Pup's cold shoulder two days ago and the sudden warming up today that made him dizzy.
So Xue Yao stepped back towards the base of the wall and stood a dozen paces away from Lu Qian.
"Is it enough to stand this far away? It won't be misplaced, will it?" Old Six asked expectantly.
Xue Yao nodded, "His Highness said that he would be able to collect his sword qi."
"Then let's stand here and watch as well." Old Five turned to tell Shiofei the good news that the seventh brother was going to gather his strength.
So Shiofi walked back quickly as well, shielded by the three boys.
Lu Qian gripped the hilt of the longsword handed to him by the attendant and somewhat lazily slowly unsheathed it.
"Good! Good!" Pusher Five was the first to applaud and support!
"Beautiful!" Although Numbuh Six didn't notice anything wonderful about Seventh Brother drawing a sword, Fifth Brother must be right.
"???" Princess Shio clapped along with the two brothers with a bewildered look on her face.
Lu Qian moved lazily and danced a sword flower, "Watch this, mother consort," he raised his hand and pointed to a piece of Ruyi pattern relief on the opposite palace wall, facing him.
"Saw it! Saw it!" Princess Shio was looking forward to it.
Lu Qian danced a section of sword moves, and when he noticed in his afterglow that his mother consort's eyes had all been attracted to himself, he immediately gave his young companion a sharp wink.
Xue Yao alertly and quietly nodded his head, pointing the copper tube launching port, surreptitiously, towards the piece of relief that His Highness had just designated, ready to create the illusion of sword qi breaking the relief.
The moment Lu Qian's sword tip pointed at the relief, Xue Yao fired the stone projectile, the coordination was quite seamless.
His Highness referred to the relief was not damaged in the slightest, but another piece of relief three inches away from that piece of relief was cracked by the "sword qi." ......
Xue Yao misses with a hook!
The scene fell into a kind of unaccountable awkwardness.
Lu Qian still maintained the posture of the sword pointing to the nine heavens, hesitated only slightly, suddenly whirled around and withdrew the momentum, returned the sword to its sheath, and turned around to tell Mother Consort with an inscrutable gaze, "This sword technique is called Sounding the East and Striking the West."
Xue Yao, who had struck the wrong way, immediately stepped forward to remedy the mistake, bragging to Princess Shio, "This move is awesome, the opponent thought we were going to attack someone else and was unprepared, but the sword qi had already struck the opponent's vitals!"
"Wonderful!" Nuan Bao Lao Liu didn't hesitate to give Xue Yao's sophistry the benefit of the doubt!
"It's really a good thing that you're not a soldier." I'm afraid Old Five was really fooled.
"I thought you hit it crooked." Princess Shio muttered honestly, "Why don't you let me see the relief that's going to get hit?"
"How can that allow the Empress to realize the amazingness of this move!" Xue Yao stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Lu Qian, and said to Concubine Shih, "Your Highness wanted to let Your Highness see clearly, so you could only choose this less lethal stance, and if you don't have something amazing, how can Your Highness see your Highness's amazing growth over the past year or so?!"
Princess Shiori looked to her son in disbelief.
Lu Qian immediately pursed his lips and smiled profoundly, nodding his head in agreement with the young companion's words.
"Fine." Princess Shio said, "Next time, in a different place, this palace will sit on the castle tower and watch you perform your real skill."
Lu Qian avoided his gaze, lowered his head and perfunctorily said, "Well ...... next time next time."
Xue Yao smiled and nodded in agreement, "Next time next time ......"
We all know this next time afterward by heart.
With Princess Shio sitting in the middle of the room, Lu Qian didn't dare to ask for solitude to her face.
Xue Yao also took advantage of this opportunity to stay at the South Third Institute, staying by Lu Qian's side for one more moment.
Princess Shio had certainly noticed that her son was much more withdrawn than before, as if he had gone back to a long time ago when he was a child, before Xue Yao had appeared.
As a mother with no foundation in modern psychology, instead of thoughtfully and slowly digging into her son's knots, Princess Shio forcefully and bluntly demanded that his son explain why he had been avoiding everyone lately.
Lu Qian said he didn't hide.
Princess Shi said that even his elder brother had come to ask her to step in and inquire about the situation. Why did the son not even want to see his former closest little companion and big brother?
In fact, part of the reason was that Lu Jinan mentioned to Lu Qian about assuming the throne in accordance with the posthumous edict.
The brothers had a difference of opinion on this matter.
Lu Qian believes that the posthumous edict said that the temporary Crown Prince, in the case of the disappearance of the elder brother was established, now the elder brother is well in the palace, there is no reason to ask for his own that the emperor throne.
Lu Jinan is the father's dying advice on the grounds that the seventh brother is the father of the emperor's talent, and his own mistakes led to the Tong family to take advantage of the opportunity, and ultimately it is the seventh brother calmed the chaos, the court inside and outside of the praise, naturally, the seventh brother ascended to the throne is the most able to convince the public.
Lu Qian, who had been on the road for more than a year, never expected that after calming the civil unrest, his big brother would actually want to dump the pot on himself.
Hearing Lu Qian say these things, Consort Shi and Old Five and Old Six were surprised, no one expected that after the fall of the Tong family, the Crown Prince still refused to ascend to the throne.
And forcing the old seventh to succeed the throne, this is simply nonsense in the eyes of Princess Shih and the old fifth and sixth, what kind of situation would Lu Qian be as the emperor? Holding a pot of milk in his hand while listening to the minister's report during the court?
And the old seven this kid is very afraid of trouble, folding approval is not finished, it is likely to start playing dead, less than half a year, the accumulation of pending political affairs will be able to go around the palace ten laps ah!
In this regard, Xue Yao is not so pessimistic, after all, I have seen the Ning King's efficiency after ascending to the throne in his last life, and nowadays the little fat cub inexplicably has some of the Ning King's temperament, even if he really becomes the emperor, he shouldn't be so misguided.
Although the words were said, Xue Yao did not want the fat cub to become the emperor.
It's impossible to be a good emperor without hard work.
If the crown prince did not keep, can only let the little fat cub hard top, now the crown prince alive and kicking body times great, why also want his family little fat cub hard ah?
In short, the fat cub family, including old father Xue Yao, dislikes the throne, I'm afraid it is unprecedented.
For this reason, after dinner, Xue Yao said goodbye to her own cubs and ran off aggressively to find Lu Jinan to argue.
This throne cannot be lost to his cub! If you're a big brother, you should act like a big brother and take the initiative to carry the responsibility!
Lu Jinan had also begun to doubt life these days.
More than a year was spent fighting for power with the forces of the land behind the third brother.
Now the third brother's party has finally collapsed.
He tried to get the seventh brother to inherit the throne according to his father's wishes, and the seventh brother shrugged it off and refused to see him.
This is also even, now sitting on the throne of the second brother, but also no sense of crisis, and now every day to urge him as a big brother to take over the throne over, they have to go back to the essence of enlightenment, said it has been delayed for too long ......
What is this?
Is Qi's kingdom so disliked by your brothers?
Lu Jinan since his childhood to the Jiangshan mountains and grain as his own responsibility, the cabinet several cabinet ministers are his master, the staff are also magnificent love of the country.
He was often ordered to go out of the capital, traveled all over the world, and saw with his own eyes the suffering of the people and the ills of the dynasty. Therefore, the position of the Son of Heaven carries all his ideal ambitions.
The history of the Song Dynasty - Food and Goods Zhi has a cloud: "The peace has been a long time, the household increase. The number of soldiers was wider, and the number of officials was more numerous ......."
Speaking of the current state of affairs in Daqi.
Now Qi has been more than three hundred years of stability, the population than when Emperor Taizu quadrupled, the army and the court are a bunch of idlers eat public rice, the country seems to be singing and dancing, in fact, there has been a bloated twilight of the tail is not the beginning of the end of the Prince believes that the change of the law must be carried out.
But his father's deathbed discouragement prevented him from figuring out that if he ascended to the throne and had absolute power, it would be impossible to control his own hands and feet to fulfill his ambitions, so he also wanted to use the seventh brother's kind of bystander mentality of not caring about his own affairs to calm himself down, and let his younger brother use his real power to keep a watchful eye on the gateway, or to curb his own impulses.
Unexpectedly, even Xue Yao came running to him today to request that he not force the Seventh Brother to take the throne, on the grounds that the Seventh Brother was young and unprofessional.
How can the five feudal lords be persuaded to come to the capital to help if they don't do anything?
How can you secretly unite with ministers to falsely turn against them when you don't do anything more?
Lu Jinan talked to Lu Qian once two days ago, that is, he purposely took out his own manuscript of the change of law, so that his younger brother could give his opinion.
Lu Qian did not know at the time that his brother wanted to dump the pot of the throne on himself, so he read the manuscript very attentively and honestly told his elder brother, "This method is not feasible."
Fortunately, Lu Jinan had long been used to his brother's outspoken style of speaking, so he was not annoyed and patiently asked why it was not feasible.
Unexpectedly, my brother actually said a sentence similar to my father's dying words - never interfere with private transactions with power.
Lu Jinan said that the people are exploited by the rich households at high interest rates, which is an unfair trade, and in the event of natural disasters, they can only use the land to offset their debts and lose the basis of their livelihood.
Lu Qian, however, said, public or not fair for the moment, but this is a free trade, there is competition between the rich households, the farmers borrowed before counting the gains and losses, the two sides in the transaction at least equal protection of the King's law, the official and the businessman to fight or the official and the people to trade, fundamentally lost the right to equality.
Natural disasters are contingencies, and if one wants to mitigate the losses that accidents bring to farmers, the new law can designate policies related to special disasters, and in such contingencies, legislation can be enacted to protect farmers' fields, but it cannot replace the lending of money to farmers by wealthy households.
Lu Jinan asked, "You're afraid that the new law's warehouse department will not be supervised enough, and that officials will use their power to suppress wealthy households? This is something I've thought about before, this warehouse ministry is independent of all departments and is directly supervised by me, without the need to channel layers from local to higher levels."
Supervision is not useful, Lu Qian believes that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, it is too easy to falsify the accounts, and to take a step back, even if we can supervise a few officials, can we supervise the people?
In the folk wandering this year, Lu Qian found that corruption and fraud these shortcomings, and not only in the court, but also appeared among the people.
Most of the people of Daqi are accustomed to drilling holes in the doorway, a private school, the poor and rich are scrambling to sneak to the husband stuffed silver, want to let their own family members to take advantage of a little bit more than others do not have the cheapest.
Most people want unfairness in their bones, so who is going to monitor it? Is monitoring useful?
Lu Jinan frowned, so to speak, that corruption and fraud can never be eliminated.
Lu Qian said, can not be eliminated, but can be reduced, the granary real know manners, clothing and food enough to know honor and disgrace, if you can enhance the national strength, hide the wealth of the people, so that the king's law may be able to protect rather than oppression of the people who abide by the rules, the people's upbringing and the awareness of fairness and justice, will naturally improve.
The day's conversation did not result in a mutually agreeable conclusion, but it still made Lu Jinan look at his brother in a favorable light.
He thought Lu Qian was not as dumb as he appeared to be, at least he grasped the general direction correctly and was indeed able to act as a gatekeeper for him, so eventually he proposed to Lu Qian to assume the throne.
Then the younger brother used his light power to escape back to the southern third office so fast that his shoes flew off.
"Seventh Brother has the ability to do this, you're being mesmerized by his appearance." Lu Jinan dismissed Xue Yao's objections.
Xue Yao said anxiously, "Even if His Highness has the ability in this area, his character is not suitable to become a king, you know him, if the political affairs are busy ......"
"The Cabinet can share the ordinary political affairs for him." Lu Jinan gazed at Xue Yao irrefutably, "Besides, this is Father's wish."
Xue Yao returned to no avail, and without realizing it, he brazenly came to Nan San Shao again, ignoring the eunuch's obstruction, and went in to look for Little Fatty Pup.
Reason told him that he should remain in awe of the current Lu Qian, but his instincts made his brain go blank when he thought of the little chubby cub, and all he wanted to do was pinch the little chubby face to ease his anxiety.
Upon barging into the side hall like this without knowing what to do, Xue Yao realized that no one was there.
When I walked into the inner room, I saw a pile of traveling bags on the small eight-century table, and in one half-packed bag, the contents were revealed to be jars of honey and sweet cakes.
Xue Yao guessed the little fat cub's conspiracy in an instant.
This guy is definitely planning to "run away with honey". He doesn't want to be the emperor and wants to hide from the wind, so no wonder he won't let anyone in!
"Discovered?" Lu Qian's voice with a hint of teasing came from behind him.
With a jolt, Xue Yao turned around and saw Lu Qian gazing at him with slightly narrowed eyes.
Only the sound of Xue Yao's heartbeat remained in the quiet side hall.
With only a moment's hesitation, Xue Yao turned around in a pretense of calmness, walked over to the eight-century table, packed the parcel that the little fat cub hadn't packed, tied it in a delicate knot, and calmly looked up to ask Lu Qian, "Where are we going now?"
Xue Yao has been forced into Lu Qian's conspiracy and has no choice but to reveal or join in, and as a junior companion he decides to take the initiative.
Such a good attitude of defection Lu Qian should be appreciated, and accept the word "we", take him together to escape from the palace, to avoid the storm of the throne, and best of all to visit the Sword Sage to make his old man forgive the stimulated cub rebellion.
That's what Xue Yao meant when he wisely said, "Where are we going?"
Lu Qian also caught the point, and with a tilt of his head quizzically asked his young companion rhetorically, "We?"
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"We," of course, with the bald rabbit.