A dozen or so scholars were selected from the talents of the Imperial College and the State Zi Academy, and they naturally did not follow Gu Yuanbai around, but were far behind, being led by the eunuchs to look at the rice in the fields.
The five grains in the five grains, generally refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat, beans and peas. In ancient China, Jik has a very high status, Jik is corn, is the longest of all grains, Jiangshan social grain in the word, Jik is to refer to this.
But as time lengthened, rice had gradually become the most productive grain in Daheng, and millet, which required less water, was gradually planted in the higher dryland fields.
Naturally, today's rice production, how can not compare to the later generations. And Gu Yuanbai doesn't have the ability to research hybrid rice out, he doesn't have that strength, nor does he have that condition.
On the thin, narrow road between the fields, Gu Yuanbai's footsteps were leisurely, his gaze sweeping from both sides from time to time, looking at the newly sown fields with a slight nod.
Seemingly at will, but in secret, vigilance has risen.
The people who were protecting Gu Yuanbai were all tensed up explicitly and implicitly, and were completely prepared. The chief of the guards had an even more serious expression, so he was usually such a calm and collected person, and at this time, he didn't draw attention to himself.
But Xue Yuan's wolf-like keen nerves had already swept suspiciously over the Squire three times.
With his entire body tense and ready to attack at any time, Xue Yuan narrowed his eyes and scanned around the group of guards, finding quite a few people in the same state.
He pulled a smile as he thought about it, somewhat unsettlingly.
Someone was steeply close to Gu Yuanbai's back, and when he glanced sideways, Xue Yuan smiled grimly at him, "Your Holiness, am I still no match for the head of the guards, Senior Zhang?"
This was inexplicably said, and Gu Yuanbai said carelessly, "Why did Servant Xue say that?"
Xue Yuan said, "Your Holiness, a loyal heart of my minister can be judged by heaven and earth."
So what is it that you're not telling him?
Gu Yuanbai was happy, for some reason, although Xue Yuan appeared more and more loyal day by day these days, he wanted to laugh every time he heard his words of loyalty.
And with this smile, he immediately confused Xue Yuan.
A group of people walked out of the field. The scholars in the back saw that His Holiness was already far away and hurriedly tried to follow, "Eunuch, let's go quickly as well."
The eunuch, however, smiled and stopped them in their tracks, slowly saying, "Gentlemen, don't be in a hurry, why don't you take a good look at the rice again?"
The scholars could only press their anxious hearts and begin to wonder again what was so different about the rice.
And Gu Yuanbai had already led the way into the green forest next to the field.
The guards found a place for Gu Yuanbai to sit down, and the guards who followed at the end took the horses and tied them to a tree before going to get some fresh water to purify His Holiness' face.
Tian Fusheng wiped away the fine sweat on the head of the saint and whispered, "Can the saint still stand it?"
Gu Yuanbai raised his head to look at the sun in the sky from between the leaves of the whirling trees and nodded, "The countryside is hot, but it's nothing."
Tian Fusheng answered and said no more.
The guards should be busy busy busy, without any trace of the Holy Spirit surrounded tightly, just waiting for the enemy assassin to strike, to come to a trick.
Such an atmosphere seems to harbor rough waves underneath the calmness.
Suddenly, Xue Yuan's eyelids snapped as he abruptly drew his greatsword and turned back.
Only to see several fierce assassins with large swords emerge from the forest, all of them pounced towards Gu Yuanbai recklessly and swiftly. Gu Yuanbai's face remained unchanged, gripping the crossbow in his sleeve, and in the mood to take a sip of the herbal tea in his water bag.
Tian Fusheng shouted, "Protect the driver!"
Those among the guards who had already gotten the news had already protected Gu Yuanbai behind them and reacted extremely quickly to meet them, striking without mercy. Blade light and sword shadow, chaos, Xue Yuan's heart pounding, he took the big sword to kill a bloody path leading to Gu Yuanbai, but the moment he looked up and saw Gu Yuanbai, he saw one of the assassins was about to raise his hand to stab at Gu Yuanbai.
Xue Yuan's heart stopped abruptly, the blood in his eyes rose instantly, he raised his hand and threw out his large knife with great vigor, the long knife flashed with cold light, and straightly knocked down the knife in the assassin's hand.
The assassin was confused.
Gu Yuanbai, who had arranged for assassins to assassinate him in order to feign injury so that he could take advantage of the scheme, was also confused.
In the instant they looked at each other, Xue Yuan had already rushed in with a fierce aura, he was without his sword, many assassins took advantage of the fire and attacked him, but they were all blocked back by his bare hands. In an instant, his body was already stained with blood, Xue Yuan's face was unsightly, he picked up a random large knife from the ground, and after backhanding the person behind him, his iron arm stretched out, and held Gu Yuanbai in his arms.
After hugging Gu Yuanbai, he was the one who brought the little emperor towards the Sweatblood BMW.
It wasn't until Gu Yuanbai was led by Xue Yuan to roll onto his horse that he pressed his voice and said, "Xue Yuan--"
That fucking is my man!
Xue Yuan was covered in blood as he palmed Gu Yuanbai's waist, his arm tightened, and he said with hostility, "Don't speak."
The reins were raised, the hooves of the sweat-blooded BMW were raised, and the Thousand Mile Horse galloped out in a hurry, and in the twinkling of an eye, it stepped out of this chaotic forest like the wind.
The assassins who were still dealing with the guards let out a "no good" and the leader hissed, "Release the arrows--"
Hundreds of arrows came after them, and the guards were busy pouncing on them to cut down the assassins. Xue Yuan on his horse heard a cracking sound coming from the air and pumped his BMW even harder, turning over and taking his sword to cut down these arrows.
The horses ran away, the assassin leader gritted his teeth, it was too hasty, who knows if the dog emperor was hurt, now we can only wait to hear the news from the court, he snapped, "Retreat!"
Tian Fusheng was thoroughly confused by Xue Yuan's stunt, and had no time to think about it in detail, when he heard the assassins preparing to retreat, he immediately let out a cold smile and said in a loud voice, "Lord Zhang! Over to you!"
His Majesty said, this batch of people who came to assassinate him, leave the lives of ten or so people as a message to pass on on the line, the rest, dare to be disrespectful to His Majesty, take the life to pay it back!
Squire Zhang Xu answered in a deep voice, his heart still panicked. In the middle of the Tianbian woodland, which was so vast, all kinds of dangers appeared endlessly, what if something happened?
He sighed one after another, regretting that he hadn't secretly warned Xue Yuan about it.
Not only was Squire Zhang Xu panicked, but other people who had long memorized the plan also panicked, and the people who had been nearly killed by Xue Yuan's knife for pretending to assassinate His Majesty by muddling through the water also panicked.
Tian Fusheng's heart was even more panicked. But after dealing with the group of assassins, he still had to first follow the command of the saint, led the people back to the palace in a hurry, the carriage accelerated, everyone looked sad, after returning to the palace, immediately called a large number of imperial doctors to come to the bedchamber to diagnose and treat. The palace guards in the bedchamber everyone's face is gloomy, there seems to be a basin of blood and water from the palace to move out.
In less than half a day's work, the news that His Holiness had been assassinated and wounded in the countryside spread within a certain range.
The palace forbids anyone to enter the palace to pay their respects, but this time the smooth water, the trick is not to cause panic of the court officials, so Tian Fusheng sent people, door to door to appease, the emperor is fine, just suffered some shock and minor injuries, do not worry.
At the same time, the Hall of Government and the Privy Council came out, the Councillor and the Privy Councilor smilingly took over the state affairs of the present day in the hands of the saint, and it was the calmness and composure of these two houses that calmed down the two boulders that had made the officials of the court.
As His Majesty's close confidants and the two houses that managed the two handles of government and military affairs, as well as the Inspection Office and the Dong Lingwei, they naturally knew what His Majesty was preparing to do. They followed the Holy Lord's orders and suppressed the panic before it even rose, and everything was in order and calm.
But this calmness looks like a whitewash in the eyes of the Koshin Society.
Hundreds of people came to attack, and in the end only a dozen survived. This assassination achieved an incomparably disastrous result, a disastrous result that no one expected. The leader of the assassins originally had despair in his heart, but when he heard the news from the court, this despair turned into ecstasy.
The Emperor is wounded!
They spent a large amount of silver wealth to probe the palace, and after arriving at the conclusion that the faces of the people in the bedchamber were stony, the imperial physicians looked uneasy, and every now and then blood and water moved out from the palace, they almost couldn't help but let out a loud laugh.
Where is this a minor injury?
This is clearly a serious injury that will shake the dynasty to its core!
The assassin leader let out a loud laugh, "The dog emperor must have been hit by our arrows when he was escorted to escape!"
The others were also excited beyond words and said, "The brothers who shot arrows were all killed off by that group of the Emperor's lackeys! My lord, we must avenge them!"
"This revenge must be avenged," the assassin leader smiled fiercely, "Since the dog emperor is injured, he won't have the energy to take care of Jinghu South and Jiangnan. Maybe they'll all be dead, we have to hurry back and report to the general, we have to take this opportunity to completely turn these two places into our A-Shen Society's territory!"
Gu Yuanbai had a wooden face, his black hair wrapped backward by the wind, and Xue Yuan was full of the smell of blood, mixed with the murderous aura and sharpness spelled out between swords.
After a while, Gu Yuanbai resigned himself to his fate and could only secretly pray that the plan would go as he wished, taking the lead and saying, "Are you injured?"
Xue Yuan, who was keeping an eye on the movements of the eight directions at all times, said with a mouthful of bloody breath, "Nothing."
Only after making sure that no one was following behind him anymore did Xue Yuan slowly tug on the reins, pulling on the running Red Cloud.
As soon as the horse stopped and threw back his head and hissed, Xue Yuan rolled over and dismounted, leading the horse toward the tree.
His body was covered with blood, just not sure if it was the blood of the bystanders or his, his voice was hoarse, not sure if it was because he had killed too many people. A solemn and murderous aura surrounded him, and his entire person was as if he was an evil spirit crawling out of hell, gloomy and depressing.
Gu Yuanbai looked at the several cracks on his body that had been cut by swords and knives, as well as the small wounds next to his sleeves that had been scratched by arrows, his eyes complex.
Gu Yuanbai didn't expect Xue Yuan to be so crazy as to come to his rescue.
Xue Yuan's expression was horrifyingly hideous as he ran towards him. He didn't even have a weapon in his hand, and his steps were righteous.
That blood-filled look, which Gu Yuanbai could not forget at a glance, was written clearly in that look: whoever dares to touch Gu Yuanbai will die.
A heavy, heavy killing intent pressed down, the ferocity of countless battlefield killings, this look will assassinate Gu Yuanbai's "assassin" was scared dumbfounded. Gu Yuanbai also noticed Xue Yuan's expression, that angry to hideous, anger seems to be able to burn everything, but he could not help but froze.
In this daze, he was carried to the horse by Xue Yuan.
Why did you fight so hard to save him?
Gu Yuanbai thought to himself, Is it possible that what Xue Yuan usually said about loyalty to the king is true?
...... It's hard not to be skeptical, but the facts are there.
After counting a thousand times, I didn't calculate that Xue Yuan would actually behave like this.
Gu Yuanbai sighed silently. Xue Yuan tied the reins of his horse to a tree, he moved his entire shoulders, the muscles in his back protruded and retracted, his entire person was still gloomy, as if he was the fiercest bandit leader on the bandit mountain, not half as much as an official.
Xue Yuan turned toward Gu Yuanbai and extended his hand, and Gu Yuanbai said, "I can go down by myself."
Xue Yuan, however, silently stepped forward, as if he was treating a nearly lost and found treasure, and went up to carry Gu Yuanbai down.
He wouldn't let go of Gu Yuanbai when he hugged him, and some of the undried blood on his body was rubbed onto Gu Yuanbai's body. Gu Yuanbai said, "Put me down."
Xue Yuan's brows were clouded and he sank his face without saying a word.
Gu Yuanbai said one last time, "Xue Jiuyao."
"Your Holiness," Xue Yuan opened his lips, which were already sticky with skin, his voice hoarse and dry, "Don't you realize? You have frightened the minister."
Gu Yuanbai froze and said in a moment of silence, "Why bother."
Xue Yuan wanted to laugh, and he did.
Why bother?
Who the fuck can know.
Xue Yuan placed Gu Yuanbai onto a clean rock and sat down, and Woody went to check the things he had hastily brought on his horse. He had a large sword on him, and a dagger, and the horse carried a bag of water pouches, other than that there was nothing else.
Gu Yuanbai stood up and looked around, in the deep forest, the trees covered the sky, and everywhere there were sounds of birds crying and insects chirping. He looked around for a bit, and after looking at an old tree, he walked up and ripped off the pine roses that were climbing on it.
Xue Yuan followed and lifted his eyelids to look, "What's this?"
"Pineapple," Gu Yuanbai's tone was light as he continued picking pineapples, "can stop bleeding and detoxify, it's a good thing."
There were only two people here, and it was self-evident who they were for. Xue Yuan's tense body slightly soothed as he looked at the side of Gu Yuanbai's face, his mind still full of the image of that big knife that just came towards Gu Yuanbai.
The sword was sharp and was about to cut into Gu Yuanbai's body.
A piercing sound rang in his ears, and Gu Yuanbai looked along, but it turned out to be Xue Yuan's hand unconsciously pressing down on top of the hilt of the knife, and the hilt and sheath of the knife rubbed together with a sharp sound.
"Xue Yuan?"
Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai out of his mind and didn't hear him.
Gu Yuanbai plucked his hand away from the hilt of the knife.
Xue Yuan came back to his senses and took off his blood-stained tunic, a few stab wounds were still retaining blood, Gu Yuanbai placed the pine roses on top of his wounds, the blood stained the light green pine roses red, Xue Yuan didn't say a word, after Gu Yuanbai finished applying medicine to a few of the conspicuous wounds on his body, he asked, "Where else?"
Xue Yuan lifted up his lingerie, and there was a wound on the side of his waist that turned over with blood.
Compared to him, Gu Yuanbai was only stained with some of the blood that had rubbed off on Xue Yuan.
Gu Yuanbai personally put medicine on Xue Yuan and sighed in his heart.
The villainous army sent an assassination, and he couldn't tell Xue Yuan about the fact that he used the assassination as a ruse.
No one else can know about it except close friends.
Because the reason behind this assassination was because Gu Yuanbai wanted to force those people to revolt and wanted them to take on the powerful.
The A-Shen Association is now in a sorry state, they have fewer soldiers and horses, less food, the leader Xu Xiong Yuan is a man who is not wise enough but also very arrogant, although he can now pretend to show the appearance of courtesy, but the greed in his nature, still valuing profit above all else.
The reason why he followed Lu Feng was because Lu Feng gave him a lot of gold and silver, and now, as long as there is money and food, he dares to step on the powerful for these as well.
In ancient times there was a word for a military disaster.
The plague of soldiers is a kind of disaster like locusts. It is still a kind of disaster brought up by Liu Bang, who was so poor when he fought for the world that his peasant insurgents were a bunch of hooligans, and in order to obtain military pay and to give rewards to the soldiers in his hands, he would indulge his soldiers in forcibly seizing the whole city every time he captured it.
The fields, food, gold and silver of the powerful, the women and food of the common people, plundering the wealth and raping the women, and some soldiers would go on to kill the common people to vent their anger because they were mad at them.
This is a military disaster.
To have a well-disciplined army, the ancient soldiers could only rely on their pay to form a complete discipline to raise an elite army. But without pay, why would the soldiers fight for you?
The same no soldiers pay A Shen will, they will also do so to do. Jinghu South is a chaotic place, the magnates are never the object of their cooperation, they will directly rob the magnates of everything, are going to rebel, the emperor I don't care about, I still care about you? After robbing the money and wealth of the powerful, then take the soldiers and horses to continue to fight the world, strong city after city, it is best to trample all the powerful, so that the new Jiangshan will be clean, and will not be subjected to the hostage of the powerful and scholarly clans like Liu Bang, so how good is this?
The imperial court officials and soldiers are the king's division, the benevolent division, can not do the rebel army so robber barbarians, there are some things, you need to kill with a borrowed knife.
And if the Koshin Society did not rebel, then the magnates became one and all the landlords. They enslaved the tenants in their fields, collected taxes for their own use, controlled the government, and privately tamed the small country, and over time, the court weakened, the country became a country, and then the country was broken, and riots and uprisings rose everywhere, and more importantly, Daheng was still being watched by enemy countries.
Gu Yuanbai had been the emperor for three and a half years, and had been in power for half a year, he could see the shortcomings of the Daheng Dynasty clearly, he really wanted to be a good emperor, and he did want to create a peaceful and prosperous world.
But here's the problem.
Is it better to promote the rebel army to start a rebellion now, so that the people of the two provinces will be plunged into a military disaster, in order to start pulling out the heads of the powerful and stifle their momentum, or is it better to let the whole country of Daheng be plunged into war after twenty or thirty years?
Which is not good.
Between a controllable disaster in two provinces, and the war in the entire Daheng in the next twenty to thirty years, Gu Yuanbai didn't know how others would choose, but anyway, he chose to secretly promote the rebel army. He had doubted and hesitated before making such a decision, feeling that he was too cold and ruthless, but indecisiveness was not Gu Yuanbai's character.
Having decided to do so half a year ago, then he would now do his best and most exhaustive layout to protect the people of these two provinces, but that was as far as it would go.
The state of the nation does not allow an emperor to be indecisive, and the conscience of a modern man must, at this time, be lowered to that of an ancient emperor.
Perhaps the protagonist offense in the original article made the same choice as he did.
And this kind of thing couldn't be told to a courtier. Whether or not Xue Yuan was truly loyal to the king, whether or not Xue Yuan would be loyal to Gu Yuanbai in the future, Gu Yuanbai would definitely not inform him of such things.
After a while, the bleeding stopped, Gu Yuanbai's mood was a bit heavy, he casually sat on the side, Xue Yuan put his clothes on and then came over, muffled, "Uncomfortable?"
Gu Yuanbai casually said, "No."
Xue Yuan brought his face over and laughed lowly, "I don't believe it."
Gu Yuanbai lightly glanced at him, and Xue Yuan sat down next to Gu Yuanbai and said, "Since Your Majesty is unhappy, then I will tell Your Majesty an interesting story."
He himself was carrying injuries, but he still had to come and amuse Gu Yuanbai, who himself felt like he was oppressing his subjects; he rubbed his nose and laughed helplessly, "You'd better take care of yourself."
Seeing that he smiled, Xue Yuan said, "Your Holiness, the sun is moving west, and I'm afraid it's going to be dark for the return trip now. It is extremely unsafe to steer a horse in the forest at night, so it would be better to find out the cave and spend the night here first."
Gu Yuanbai nodded and stood up, "Let's go."
The two men were lucky, and after a few moments on horseback they found a dry cave not far from a stream. There was also a straw bed and a dirty quilt in the cave, which should be a hunter's occasional cave.
Xue Yuan went to find some firewood and looked at the stream flowing not far away, his heart suddenly moved, "Your Holiness, do you want to go wash your face?"
Gu Yuanbai said, "No."
Anything not counting this will be, he said, "Servant Xue has been injured, and there is no need to go to the wash."
Xue Yuan honestly said, "Yes."
After tidying up the cave, Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan strolled through the jungle again to look for some edible wild fruits. Gu Yuanbai saw quite a few snake berries and picked some fewer of them, when he looked up and saw Xue Yuan jumping down from a tall tree, his arms holding a bunch of wild fruits. Gu Yuanbai's afterglow glanced inadvertently and suddenly stared and paused, sternly saying, "Don't move!"
Xue Yuan immediately stopped his feet, he furrowed his brows and spoke in a calm tone, "Snake?"
A slender snake was poking its head out of the tree branch behind him, leering at Xue Yuan's neck.
The tail is short and thin, the body has colorful patterns, the snake's head is in the shape of a triangle, or a poisonous snake!
Gu Yuanbai threw down the snake berries in his hand, took out the compact crossbow from within his sleeve, loaded the arrow, and raised his arm to aim at the viper.
Xue Yuan still had the leisure to smile and said, "Your Holiness, don't hit the minister."
"Shut up," Gu Yuanbai's brows sharpened as he slowly stepped closer, "Don't talk."
The sound of breaking air would startle the viper, so it was best to get closer and kill it with a single blow before it could react. Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed as the three short vectors were aimed at the viper's head, seven inches and tail.
Xue Yuan appeared to be relaxed, but in fact, the muscles of his entire body had tensed up, one of his hands moved to his dagger, and just as the two were holding their breath, a rabbit suddenly scurried past in the midst of the grass!
Gu Yuanbai let out a bad cry and activated his crossbow in almost the next second, three rounds of arrows broke through the air and attacked the viper, but the viper was startled by the rabbit's movements and violently lunged towards Xue Yuan's neck.
Xue Yuan almost simultaneously turned around and hacked away with his dagger, and the moment the arrow hit the viper, he had also hacked the viper in half.
The viper twitched on the ground and died completely, Gu Yuanbai breathed a sigh of relief, his brows stretching as he asked, "Are there any injuries?"
Xue Yuan looked down at his small arm and sighed.
The eyelids of Gu Yuanbai, who had already walked to his side, suddenly jumped.
"Your Holiness, I have been bitten on," Xue Yuan said, "and have bitten through my clothes."
The veins on the top of Gu Yuanbai's head rippled as he held back, failed to hold back, and shouted angrily, "Then you couldn't have fucking said it earlier?"