Gu Yuanbai's temples fluttered together, almost cursing the word "wanton" right now.
What was even more incredible was that he had heard education in Xue Yuan's tone?
What a piece of shit!
Gu Yuanbai said in a cold voice, "Let go of your hand for me."
The soft flesh of the little emperor was deep within his palm, and it was comfortable to touch through his clothes. Xue Yuan obediently let go of his hand, not forgetting to prove his innocence, pointing to the wasp not far away and said, "Your Holiness, I am afraid that the wasp will sting you."
Gu Yuanbai's face slowed down a little, "This will not happen again."
Half an hour later, this ridiculous and hilarious situation calmed down. The people who were stung by the wasps all traveled to the Imperial Hospital, and among the guards, Gu Yuanbai had originally thought that they were all tall and strong, so there was nothing wrong with being stung, but the one who reacted the most was his loyal chief of guards.
Gu Yuanbai directly gave the head guard a vacation and told him to rest at ease. When he was better, he would be on duty again. In this way, the only person who was close by Gu Yuanbai's side was Xue Yuan, the one who came through the back door.
But as long as Xue Yuan does what he's told, he's just unbelievably good.
And right now, Xue Yuan was really happy to listen to Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai said that he would starve the King of Qi for three days, so he really starved the King of Qi for three days. In the past few days at court, there were already courtiers hinting at Gu Yuanbai, implicitly asking how the King of Qi was doing now.
One of the most anxious, and the one who has to be the most patient not to make inquiries, is naturally the Imperial Household Secretary.
The Imperial Palace of Justice, a carrot, want to go in the person's origin and experience should also have a great deal to talk about after going in to talk about simmering.
The longer you stay in it, the more people participate in it, the more you are a clear stream. The Imperial Palace of Justice is like a pool of bottomless muddy water, calm on the surface, but in fact, the mixed inside are stirring up the mud.
This is still the central supervisory body of the country, but Gu Yuanbai can't insert his hands and feet in the supervisory body, what's the point of having it?
The Imperial Historian was getting old and it was time to retire, Gu Yuanbai had planned to do something with this, but now, Gu Yuanbai had a better choice.
In the court, there were still some clansmen who were worried and alarmed by the Emperor's ruthlessness, and they spent a lot of money to ask some officials to ask how the King of Qi was doing.
It's a very lucrative business, it's just a question, it's not taboo, so why not accept the money?
Therefore, when they were in the courtroom, these officials who dared to ask about the matter of the King of Qi exited before realizing that none of the people in the entire courtroom spoke out except for the medium-sized officials who, like them, had received money.
Each eye watched as if they hadn't heard them.
It was only at this point that these officials, who were not too high or too low in rank, and not too good or too low in intelligence, realized that something was wrong.
Why did none of the big officials come forward? With the tactics of those clansmen, they should be able to enlist big officials very easily, right?
It's very wrong.
When they asked the words about King Qi, His Holiness was still smiling and even said a few words in a warm voice. But when they got off the court, their peers who were usually close to them shunned them.
They were the only ones left dazed and confused as to what was going on.
Sometimes, one is not afraid of being stupid or greedy for money, but one is afraid of being insensitive to the political winds. If you are not keen, just don't say anything!
The youngest son of the family of the Prince of Qi has had a good reputation since childhood, the name of the siege of the Prince of Qi to fight is "clear the rebels", the result is that you stupidly asked the Holy Spirit in the court of these cleared of the rebels are okay? When will they be released? How are they eating and sleeping? A lot of people are concerned about the rebels, but please let the rebels go earlier with the kindness of the Holy Spirit?
Get the fuck outta here. Go, go, go. Don't get us involved!
*
And in the Hall of Declared Government, Gu Yuanbai welcomed General Cheng and his vice general duo.
The forbidden army cooperated with the minister's house, and found a lot of scouts who had been buried by Lu Feng. These scouts are men and women, some of them were originally the family servants in these homes, just because of the Lu Feng's bribe, it became Lu Feng's people.
One by one, these people have been unearthed, and now, the "gift" has been, the Royal Palace of Justice has been, only Chu Wei father Chu Xun back.
As long as Chu Xun did not return, Gu Yuanbai had to wait calmly.
After the report, General Cheng couldn't help but ask, "Your Holiness, since there is a possibility that the matter of the King of Qi is related to the Midshipman of the Royal Historian's Office, why didn't you order his capture?"
Gu Yuanbai said, "I have other plans."
General Cheng couldn't get his head around it, but he stopped asking and chose to trust His Holiness with all his power.
Gu Yuanbai was in no hurry, and the forbidden army followed the Emperor's lead. Just following the orders of the Emperor, they pressed those scouts caught in the royal residences of the patriarchs and ministers into prison, some of these people were resentful, some were desperate, and more were crying and kneeling down, begging the Emperor to spare their lives.
But how to beg for mercy, Gu Yuanbai would not be soft.
They won't be transported now, there is still a period of opportunity to live. All in all, His Holiness said that everything will be discussed when Chu Xun returns.
But the king of Qi and can not not eat the meal until Chu Xun back. In fact, on the second day of starvation, the king of Qi, who was already in his prime and had never encountered such a dilemma, was already starving to the point of having no strength left.
And his sumptuous, meat-and-vegetable, delicious meal was rewarded by Gu Yuanbai to the jailer, who devoured it and smelled so good that his mouth was full of oil, and the King of Qi felt even worse as he watched him eat it.
On the third day, the King of Qi succumbed to the agony of hunger, and with a stern face and a weak voice he ordered his jailer, "Bring the rice to the king."
Why make things difficult for Gu Yuanbai with his own body?
Gu Yuanbai is ruthless, and the King of Qi is a bit timid of Gu Yuanbai now, but the King of Qi, are two jailers no match for him?
Gu Yuanbai had locked them up for such a long time, so he should have gotten over it, right?
King Qi didn't know, but he was scared, and when which fear was less, the high and mighty mentality that had been cultivated by more than forty years of pampering stood out again.
However, the jailer who heard the Qi King's words didn't pay any attention to him at all and continued to eat the meat with a big mouthful of oil.
And as the King of Qi had already decided to go on a hunger strike, what could the King of Qi's sons do but accompany him?
The king of Qi on a small small dozen or so men watched the jailers eat with gusto, only to feel hungry, wait until the third day of the night, finally someone can not stand it. They took over the meal belonging to their own, behind the back of the King of Qi, hiding in the corner devouring their own meal, even if someone next to them is being tortured, but also can not stop them from gulping down the meal.
With that appearance of being like a pig without any manners, a few sons of the King of Qi who were older than the saint ate their meals while tears flowed out of their eyes.
Most of them had been dragged down by their ambitious father, and not daring to complain to His Holiness at this time, they wondered uncontrollably, Why?
Why can't King Qi be a good boy and be a peaceful prince?
They didn't have big ambitions and just wanted to live a life of wealth and prosperity. And now, the youngest son of the King of Qi, who was the most favored and wanted to push up to the throne, stayed in the royal mansion and was well fed, while they had to suffer from imprisonment, on what grounds?
The aroma of food was carried out in the middle of the prison, and King Qi's weak eyes widened as he used the last of his strength to move to the door of the cell and shouted angrily, "What are you all eating?!"
But his son had no one to answer him back.
Resentment planted its roots in the heart, and the stomach that had been hungry for two and a half whole days was the drum that sounded, for having seen their father's stupidity, these descendants of the King of Qi would be more conscious of what not to do.
If you do, you won't be able to eat.
*
After Gu Yuanbai finished dealing with the political affairs, the Capital Prefect handed up the news that the Chengbao Temple on the outskirts of the capital had returned many of its temple fields to the imperial court, and at the same time, there were 1,005,000 monks who had returned to secularism, and the information was being registered at the Yamen.
This kind of small matter usually do not need to submit to the saint, just Chengbao Temple is a royal temple, the prefect is a little uncertain.
When he learned of this news, Gu Yuanbai raised his lips and smiled, throwing the zhang folders onto the table with great ease and joy, humming an off-key tune in his mouth, saying, "The abbot of Chengbao Temple is quite good at reading people's eyes."
Xue Yuan looked at his smiling face from the sidelines, and thought to himself that the old man has even fucking started to look at your eyes, not to mention a monk. Who made you look good.
The saint took the goat's white jade from the table and played with it, his face was dyed with a little bit of redness, his happy look was so infectious that the people around him already couldn't help but follow and curved the corners of their mouths.
Gu Yuanbai stood up and walked out from behind the table, loosening his muscles and wrists in the middle of the hall and said, "Those who return to secularism then let them return to secularism, I will have a place to use these people soon. As for the temple fields, let the prefect return them."
Then someone went down to do things, Gu Yuanbai stretched out his hand, wide sleeve from the small arm slowly fall, revealing a small section of white wrist bone and bright yellow lining inside. He rubbed his wrists, thought Chu adults ah, now just missing you this excuse.
You're here, and the rest can begin.
*
Chengbao Temple had just returned the temple fields to the court, and before they could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard that the court had refused to accept them.
The abbot of Chengbao Temple's two eyes glazed over, barely maintaining his high monk's demeanor, "Lord Prefect, why don't you take these temple fields?"
The prefect himself couldn't figure it out, so he smiled and politely invited the abbot of Chengbao Temple out the door.
This smirk without a word took the abbot of Chengbao Temple by surprise.
Chengbao Temple as a royal temple, the whole mountain is the temple fields of Chengbao Temple, these fields do not need to be taxed, and the monks in the temple do not need to pay all kinds of money to the imperial court, such a life is too rich. But it is because of such affluence that the abbot feels shivering when he thinks of the destruction of Buddha by Sanwu.
The people who come and go to Chengbao Temple are all clansmen and dignitaries, and those clansmen come to Chengbao Temple even more frequently to worship Buddha and seek peace of mind because they are frightened by Gu Yuanbai.
From the mouths of these patriarchal powers, the abbot also knew a few things.
The emperor is able to take action against the relatives, not to mention these monks. Now the court does not want his temple field, the abbot is extremely fearful, the day after returning to the Chengbao Temple, and then counted the temple in the temple field, sent a hard, leaving only enough monks in the temple to eat with the acres, the rest of the ninety percent of the whole to the court!
And Ran's second homage was rejected by the Emperor.
Once again, the abbot of Chengbao Temple who walked out of the Yamen's office had his eyes go from dull to grave, and when he returned all the way back to the temple, he commanded in a deep voice, "Bring a pen and paper."
The little shaman brought a pen and paper, and the abbot took a deep breath, steadied his shaking hand, and wrote.
At the beginning, he praised His Holiness for his benevolence, and under the guidance of the Buddha, Chengbao Temple requested His Holiness to accept 90% of the temple fields offered by Chengbao Temple, so that these temple fields could also do their part for the world's living beings, so as to fulfill the mercy of our Buddha. After writing these words, the abbot's hands trembled even more, and with a hard heart, he continued to write the last paragraph.
Seongbulsa Temple calls upon all temples in the world that are compassionate to join in donating the temple fields in the middle of the temple.
The abbot had this article sent down the mountain almost in tears.
He could almost imagine how many people would gnash their teeth and curse him to death when this article was seen by the temples of the world.
How much the people of the world praised him, how much the temple, moved to profit and under the oppression of public opinion, hated him.
The only one who got the benefit and didn't attract attention was probably the court.
*
When the third time Chengbao Temple sent Terada over, Gu Yuanbai looked at the letter that was sent along with it, opened it, and was dumbfounded.
The man who came to inform him asked, "Your Holiness, is this still a refusal?"
"Since ancient times it has been three resignations and three concessions," Gu Yuanbai shook his head and lost his smile, "I have no intention of doing anything yet, but the abbot of this Chengbao Temple himself has disorganized himself."
Many dynasties used Buddhism to rule the minds of the people, and the existence of temples and Buddhism had many benefits, so Gu Yuanbai would not go too far even if he redundantly monks, not to mention the fact that Chengbao Temple was a royal temple that was sealed by the late emperor, so how could Gu Yuanbai be unreasonable to it?
Let's just say that this is all the abbot of Seongbulsa scaring himself.
Continuing to let people ramble on again, this is all a bit bad. Gu Yuanbai said, "Speak to the abbot privately, and say that I'm very satisfied with the article he wrote."
With those words, even if Terada is returned again this time, I'm sure Naruhoji will be able to settle his heart.
Compared to the hundred thousand acres of temple fields, Gu Yuanbai was now more concerned about the matter of white cotton.
A few days ago, Kong Yilin offered the seeds of cotton, Gu Yuanbai did not plant this thing, will Kong Yilin from the Hanlin Academy, with the Ministry of Public Works officials to study this small seed.
I vaguely remember that cotton seems to be planted in March and April, the specific Gu Yuanbai does not understand, and now although it is a little late, but it is possible to catch up.
If cotton can really be planted this year, people's livelihoods, military, how many lives can be saved with this material.
Gu Yuanbai was lost in thought for a moment, and Tian Fusheng added tea to his cup and said, "Your Holiness, just now the people from the stables came with news that Hong Yun kicked and injured another person."
Gu Yuanbai returned to his senses and smiled bitterly when he heard this, "This thing came into the palace just to consume me."
"Go, go see it."
The group headed to the stables. In the middle of the stables, Gu Yuanbai saw the little mouse holding the fruit and gnawing on the side, he was amused in his heart, he didn't expect Xue Yuan to really bring this little mouse to Hong Yun to play.
It's just that Red Cloud doesn't seem to have much interest in rats.
The sweat-blooded horse was well taken care of, except that it didn't want to be harnessed and only had a halter on it, and as soon as Gu Yuanbai walked in, the slightly humane horse hissed at him.
The red hair was brilliant, Gu Yuanbai was mesmerized and turned towards Xue Yuan on the spot, "Take me for a ride."
Xue Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Holiness, have you recovered from your injuries?"
Gu Yuanbai: "Just listen to me."
Xue Yuan then listened to him. He brought out the horse, and without stirrups, Gu Yuanbai couldn't roll over and get on. The palace guards around him wanted to move a stool, but Xue Yuan was too troublesome and directly embraced the waist of the little emperor and propped him up on the horse.
When Gu Yuanbai got on his horse, Xue Yuan rolled over and sat behind him, his hands grasping the reins, "Your Holiness, I'm driving the horse?"
Gu Yuanbai leaned back and said comfortably, "Let's go."
The horse whip was raised, and the thousand-mile horse ran out like the wind.
Gu Yuanbai's robes and hair fluttered, Xue Yuan glanced down at him, the corner of his lips hooked, his sharp eyebrows exposed in the blistering wind, he led the little emperor to steer his horse for some time before thoughtfully slowing down.
"What does His Holiness think?"
Gu Yuanbai let out a "hiss" and said, "Cool."
It's just that my body is so weak that the inside of my thighs are still a little on fire.
Xue Yuan heard his neigh and raised his hand to tighten his horse. Although he had thought that the little emperor might be injured, after actually seeing it, he was still in a somewhat delicate mood.
How can you be so tender?
Xue Yuan found a shaded area where no one was around and asked Gu Yuanbai to dismount. Before getting on the horse, Tian Fusheng had handed Xue Yuan a bottle of ointment, lest His Holiness get hurt.
"Your Holiness," Xue Yuan knelt down on one knee in front of the seated Gu Yuanbai, spreading Gu Yuanbai's legs apart, "I have to give you a medicine."
Gu Yuanbai looked at him amusedly, "Servant Xue, are you going to personally medicate me?"
Xue Yuan slowly said, "Your Holiness, I brought you out to run the horses, and when you were injured, I naturally felt trepidation in my heart."
Gu Yuanbai snorted, not believing that he would really be so well-behaved, so with a lift of his robe, he said, "Apply the medicine."