People with free money to come together in the teahouse to order a pot of cheap tea and listen to the words of the storyteller, the outside of the free money of the man stood up ears to rub a rub. Everyone obviously can not do anything for the anti-corruption, but all in the extraordinary close attention to the anti-corruption matter.
Xue Yuan also never imagined that Gu Yuanbai would allow the people to know the progress of the anti-corruption efforts, and even record the money scavenged in a book for sale.
The Dahengguo Newspaper was run by Gu Yuanbai, who daily handed over letters sent by the Royal Historical Office and the Supervisory Office to Zhang, who organized and top-printed them.
Everyone in the capital was agitated by the excitement of the people everywhere, and angered by what the corrupt officials had done.
Unlike the usual walking corpses who plowed the fields, ate, and slept, after knowing exactly what this country was doing, and knowing the situation of the people everywhere, these busy people seemed to suddenly come to life.
Many old peasants, simple men, red-faced and rubbing their hands together came to the door of the yamen in the city where the Dahangguo Newspaper was being read, and pricked up their ears to listen to what the constable was reading.
They are not literate, they are not cultured, their ignorance has not been opened, and the people's wisdom has not been enlightened. Sometimes they don't even understand what's in the newspaper, let alone talk about all the corruption that's going on around them.
But also Gu Yuanbai asked, he daily let Zhang will "big Heng Guo Newspaper" sent to the various government offices, so that the capital prefects daily arranged for people to read through to the people at a specific time, using the content of the great vernacular, can be more grounded as much as possible to read to the people to listen to.
The capital prefects and petty officials don't see the use of this, and the people who are sometimes angry and sometimes joyful with the content of the newspapers don't know what use they can get out of knowing this.
But Gu Yuanbai insisted, and thought it was far more useful.
As an emperor, he had the responsibility to teach the people.
Everything needs to be subtle, but if you don't even make a start, you'll never wait for change.
Xue Yuan looked at this scene and felt something that he had never felt before, something that seemed to be called peace.
Something he had never felt at the border, and it was all brought about by Gu Yuanbai.
Xue Yuan's heart of loyalty began to thump again. He couldn't help but look down at Gu Yuanbai, and saw that Gu Yuanbai was about to drink the already cooled tea with a smile on his face. Xue Yuan's eyelids jumped as he took a cup and placed it under Gu Yuanbai's lips, saying, "Spit it out."
A mouthful of water clogged in his throat without going up, Gu Yuanbai looked at him strangely. Xue Yuan couldn't stand the sight of him like this, his whole body tingled as soon as he was looked at, his voice softened by an unknown amount all of a sudden, and he mumbled, "Your Holiness, the water is cold, spit it out."
Gu Yuanbai spat out the water and said, stating the facts, "I will also eat iced tea in the summer."
Iced tea is tea brewed with ice, Xue Yuan was skeptical, "You can eat it?"
Gu Yuanbai put the teacup down, and Tian Fusheng brought up a new pot of tea. Upon hearing this, Tian Fusheng smiled and said, "It's nothing for the saint to eat it once in a while, but I don't dare to let the saint use it more each time, for fear of cooling the body."
Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai who was looking at him again and again, looking at his face without two or two pounds of flesh and limp hands, it was hard to nod disapprovingly.
Gu Yuanbai helplessly smiled, Xue Yuan stayed around him for a long time, the brown general military gangsters were also assimilated by the surrounding people, Gu Yuanbai as what had what fragile porcelain in general, for fear that Gu Yuanbai out of a bad thing.
It's just that he was born bold, and while others didn't dare to come up and advise him, he dared to do it directly.
Below the storyteller has changed an article, talking about the anti-corruption process in another place, the same is the people consciously blocking the city gate, the whole city blocked in front of the door of the local officials, the hans rolled up their bedrolls and slept in front of the official government at night, and during the day they waited for their own mother-in-law to bring food in front of the official government, and have been waiting in this way until the arrival of the inspection officials.
Thanks to the help of these people and some officials, the arrest of corrupt officials was made much smoother.
Gu Yuanbai lamented, "Now that a number of corrupt officials have been pulled down, another batch of good officials with outstanding character have sprung up just in time."
Xue Yuan naturally said, "I also have credit."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him obliquely and smiled, "What credit do you have?"
Xue Yuan took it for granted, robber baron logic, "I will protect and preserve His Majesty, and as long as His Majesty is healthy, the fight against corruption will go smoothly."
Gu Yuanbai was happy, "Servant Xue can also say speculative things nowadays."
Xue Yuan thought, "Don't laugh.
Laughing at the old man's heart beating faster and faster.
Xue Yuan tucked in a heart that was beating chaotically and sighed, but his gaze was fixed on Gu Yuanbai's face with his mouth agape, and finally he followed suit by hooking his lips and smiling.
After drinking a bellyful of tea in the teahouse, Gu Yuanbai led the way to Zhang's bookstore. The preparations for building a commercial road need a lot, now Zhang's to build a commercial road for the emperor has been spread out, all over the merchants to ask Zhang's letters have been piled up into a small mountain, Zhang's family is busy, but also to restrain every disciple in the family, can not be out of order.
Therefore, the preparations for building a commercial road to the border would take more than a month.
Zhang Clan Chief apprehensively reported the process with Gu Yuanbai, but Gu Yuanbai said, "I have already thought about this. It's good that you guys can't move for the time being, but I still have one more thing to do before the merchant road is organized."
The saint's eyes sank as he slowly said, "I will send troops to fight the fearful group of nomads."
Xue Yuan's eyelids snapped, suddenly looking toward him, his eyes instantly lighting up with thousands of divine splendor.
Nomad, must be fought before the commercial roads are built.
Must fight!
The tragic situation of the soldiers and people at the border as described by Xue Yuan was a thorn in Gu Yuanbai's heart, and by then, he had already traveled to Daheng and become the emperor. However, the dynasty was held by Lu Feng, and the entire court was in chaos, the darkest time Gu Yuanbai had ever experienced.
It took him three years to pull down Lu Feng, and it had only been half a year since he had been pro-government, and he had worked his ass off to raise soldiers and cultivate the Inspection Service because Gu Yuanbai didn't want to go through dark moments like that again.
He knew how many people in the entire Daheng were suffering from the disaster, how many people had lost their lives while he, the emperor, was hibernating, the root system of the Daheng dynasty was rotten, Gu Yuanbai was an adult, he knew what disasters could result from the emperor's cowardice, but he couldn't do anything about it when he first arrived.
And now, with a strong army and horses, the road to the border should be ready to be built, so that once the road is established and complete, and transportation is easy, he can take charge of the nomadic areas.
Before the roads were built, the cattle, horses and sheep that wanted to nomadize had to be shown that they had to follow the rules of Daheng.
After Gu Yuanbai said "fight the nomads", Xue Yuan's eyes had been burning, and he gripped the great sword at his waist tightly, the emotions floating on his body were felt by the surrounding guards.
These guards still remembered the "two-legged sheep" he had spoken of during the spring hunt, and one of them couldn't help but ask out loud, "Xue Yuan, are the nomads good at fighting?"
Xue Yuan said forcefully, "Hard."
Squire: "......"
With a slight twist in their expression, they looked at Xue Yuan whose body's hot blood seemed to boil up, not understanding how he was in such a stupid state if it was difficult.
Gu Yuanbai also heard the word difficult, he let Xue Yuan step forward and gazed at him, "How so?"
Zhang's man said self-consciously, "Your Holiness, the disciples of the small nation have all gathered in the capital, do you still want to meet them?"
Gu Yuanbai smiled faintly, "I've heard that each of the disciples of the Zhang Clan in the western part of the capital is a man of honor, and since it's not easy for me to come out once, I naturally want to meet them."
Zhang's men retreated, and the palace attendant closed the door to the room; the dark light was so heavy that the dust could be seen floating in the midst of the light.
Gu Yuanbai took the lead and said, "Sit."
The people who should sit in the room all sat down on command, Xue Yuan sat in the posture of a big horse, bold and unrestrained, Gu Yuanbai let people give them up tea, after moistening his mouth, said: "Xue Yuan, it's hard to fight the nomads?"
As long as Xue Yuan needed to speak, he inexplicably glanced out at the color of the young emperor's lips again, and returned to his senses, "The nomads are fierce and brave, and their riding and shooting is a masterpiece. Daheng has been highly harassed and hasn't been able to fight back, so they have become even more arrogant."
"I am aware of this," Gu Yuanbai nodded slightly, "but it was such a hard fight, yet you still took many good horses from them."
The corner of Xue Yuan's mouth hooked, concealing a few sneers, "Your Holiness, although the nomads are tough and valiant, Daheng's constant concessions have fueled their self-confidence in themselves, and they have always believed that they are invincible in battle, whereas once Daheng puts up a tough stance, once they are defeated, it will be a complete and utter rout."
"As long as there is a tendency to rout, they will flee in panic and become a bunch of wimps. The nomads are divided into eight clans among them, and they will not gather together easily; now that the great chieftain of the last clan of the Khitans is old, and the chiefs of the eight clans are secretly in the wind, they are scattered all over the place, and they will not make an alliance. If we were to fight, this would be much easier."
Gu Yuanbai nodded thoughtfully.
The Daheng Dynasty is a bit of a mess.
Gu Yuanbai just came, completely confused by this big mess of the state of the country, crazy picking lamps night reading is also in order to give themselves a rationalization of the state of the country thoughts, this rationalization, but also the Tang after the memory of the history of the complete impact of the shattered.
The Daheng Dynasty had its own set of history, mixing up the neighboring countries of the various dynasties. The history of the early part of the dynasty did not change much, and Gu Yuanbai was integrated into the dynasty after that period of time spent reading at night.
Like the eight Khitans, he adapted well.
Xue Yuan continued, "When General Xue and I were stationed at the border, the border commanders that the imperial court had sent were all men of letters who had never led soldiers or generals before."
Gu Yuanbai froze and looked up at Xue Yuan, which should have been before he wore it.
"Those literati do not understand the military, familiar with a few books of war and then think that the commander-in-chief is good to be, they look down on the military, do not listen to the advice of the military, they are proud and noble, their hearts are higher than the sky," Xue Yuan tone light, "the defeat is also faster than the mountains fall."
Gu Yuanbai sniffed and didn't hold back his thoughts, who came up with the genius idea of letting the literati lead the army?
The real material is just, like this familiar with military books but not enough experience, can not help but remind him of Zhu Geliang is very optimistic about the successor Ma Su, Ma Su is a talk about the military affairs of the head of the people, but ultimately too little experience, they caused themselves to go to the end of the tearful chopping Ma Su this end. On the contrary, Wang Ping, who only knew the cross in his life, although he did not recognize words and could not read, but he was a talented person who led soldiers and generals.
Needless to say, it must be Lu Feng's suppression of Xue Yuan's family. The Xue family has been loyal for three generations, and Lu Feng, as a traitor, is afraid of this kind of loyalty.
Gu Yuanbai thought for a moment and casually said, "Then when the time comes, Servant Xue will lead the troops, I'm sure it's not a difficult task for you to suppress the nomads?"
As soon as Xue Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but say, "It will never disappoint His Holiness is all."
Gu Yuanbai nodded, and just as someone at the door came to announce that the Zhang Clan had arrived, Gu Yuanbai beckoned the person in to meet him.
Someone from the surrounding guards bumped into Xue Yuan, "Lord Xue, are you so happy to know that you can go to the border to fight the nomads?"
Xue Yuan was puzzled, "What?"
The guard wondered, "Even if you are happy, you don't have to smile so oozingly."
Xue Yuan froze, looked up and touched the corners of his mouth, without thinking about it, the corners of his mouth were raised.
Really happy because you can attack the Nomads?
That would be too much joy.
Xue Yuan frowned, trying hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that kept turning upwards, but as soon as he thought of the words Gu Yuanbai had just said to him to affirm his abilities, he couldn't help but want to grin widely.
He unconsciously glanced toward Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai seemed to be aware of this and also glanced towards him, and when he saw Xue Yuan's twisted expression of wanting to laugh but suppressing it, he couldn't hold back and was directly amused.
This time when he was happy, his pale lips curved up so that they seemed to turn pink as well.
Pink.
Xue Yuan completely couldn't help himself and couldn't suppress the curled up corners of his lips any longer.
Grass his mother, how can Gu Yuanbai ...... how can he smile so beautifully at him.
What do you mean?