When he came out from behind the tree, the face of the general and marshal talent, Duke Xue, who had been in the limelight these past few days, already had a symmetrical deep red mark on one left and one right.
Xue Da Duke face smiling look, seems not this for shame, on the contrary, this is proud. The two slap marks clearly attracted attention, Tian Fusheng a crowd of surprised eyes cast over, also did not see this grand master expression the slightest embarrassment and shame.
Xue Yuan was frank and generous, treating his handsome face as a display, his long brows slightly spread, his hands behind his back as he leisurely followed Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai headed for the lake without changing his face, and there was a vague sense of pondering between his expressions.
Because of this vague wistfulness, he had forgotten to immediately go and punish Xue Yuan for his licentiousness.
Xue Yuan fell a little farther away, and the surrounding guards glanced at his face again and again. The head guard held his tongue for a moment, but couldn't hold back, "What's going on with you?"
Xue Yuan reached up and touched the side of his face, the tops of his cheeks rising, and suddenly smiled, secretly pleased, "Envious?"
Squire: "......"
Xue Yuan's heart was refreshed as he watched the others suffer, his footsteps were easy, his remaining light glanced over Gu Yuanbai who was walking in front of him, looking at him for a moment before he moved his eyes away and hooked his lips in a smile.
The Holy Spirit's clothes are sewn to fit the body, and new clothes are sent towards the palace every month, and the clothes Gu Yuanbai wears, whether it's regular clothes or a formal and incomparable dress, the emperor's complexity and seriousness has been revealed from this body's clothes.
Looking at only feel majestic, and do not let people dare to rise any blasphemy.
But between each step, the feet of the robe flicked up with each stride, as if giving another place to peer into.
Ah, the little emperor.
Xue Yuan tersely sighed, too much to his liking.
Waiting for this day to pass, the emperor after four days will start traveling to the summer palace thing, has been passed down.
The princes, ministers and royal clansmen had long been ready to depart at any time, and upon hearing the order, they immediately began to make their final preparations.
Most of them have their own residence outside the summer palace, the palace also has various offices of the government offices. Now half of July, the first half of the month, the hot brain is not clear to the ministers and relatives, the most eagerly awaited is the emperor is ready to move to the summer palace.
The summer palace is located in the west side of Beijing, Hebei, cool in summer, warm in winter, rainy season, is a real four seasons like spring scenery.
The people in the palace were also busy preparing the last things. On this day, the Minister of the Household Department came to pay a visit to Gu Yuanbai, and together with the Minister of the Household Department, they reported the total number of donations obtained from the previous extermination of the rebels and the donations to the Holy Spirit. The two of them were red-faced and couldn't stop smiling, and once the exact number was reported, Gu Yuanbai reacted for a moment before coming back to his senses.
Now Jiangnan and Jinghu South are firmly and solidly grasped in the hands of the emperor, Jiangnan, the land of fish and rice, blessed with flowing oil, the light stepped on the assets obtained by the group of powerful people, can be enough to fill a number of treasury, can be filled with the national grain silo meat silo to the full.
The total number of these magnates accumulated over a decade is staggeringly large.
Not to mention the donations pouring in from all directions to the capital, until now, these donations are still a steady stream of income from the capital, these two sources, so fierce that the Ministry of the household are smashed dizzy.
"Even when my dynasty was at its most prosperous, when the treasury was at its fullest," said the Minister of the Household with a toothless smile, modestly, "it was not one-tenth of what it is today."
Gu Yuanbai came back to his senses, his heart was also happy, but he was also still able to calm down, he joked, "Nowadays, you don't scream that I'm wasting my silver money?"
The Minister of the Household smiled sarcastically, "How could I dare."
Gu Yuanbai hummed, "I'll be generous in raising soldiers, building roads, and building ships in the future."
"Yes, what Your Holiness said today, I and Your Excellency are bound to keep it in mind at all times," the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue also smiled from the side, "Your Holiness, I and Your Excellency are here, in fact, for the matter of repairing the road."
In ancient China, every dynasty and every state and county would go to build official roads, which could be traveled on by anyone, but no one was allowed to take them for themselves.
The official roads of the various state capitals have actually been built almost, and now they are only repairing or patching up the traffic that has not been built up in the past, and the two lords have come here precisely to ask His Holiness whether or not he wants to spend more money on repairing the various roads to the counties and townships.
Ancient road repair, mostly earth, stone, brick, tile as the main character, the ancient level of road repair is actually better than Gu Yuanbai imagined, the Han Dynasty's stone road has been built smooth and flat, the Tang Dynasty retained until today's road is also very neat and clean.
In particular, the Qin Dynasty built the Great Qin Straight Road, from Xi'an all the way to Inner Mongolia, almost a straight line, when the mountain is dug up, there is a bridge over the water, the width of the road can be driven side by side with four or two horse-drawn carriages, even to the later generations, because this road is built too dense roadbed, there are still no trees can grow from it.1
In terms of building roads, there was already no need for Gu Yuanbai to bother more. When he heard this, he of course nodded, ''Building roads all the way to the townships, to their villages, to break their stagnation, this is my request, and also my goal during my reign. I don't ask for it to be done in one step, just take your time, the thick post points should be open to each other, so that transportation will not stop. Wherever the front of the army goes, the post follows, understand?"
After saying that, looking at the Minister of the Household and the Minister of the Household, Gu Yuanbai came to a realization, "Building roads is the Ministry of Public Works' business."
"You go and relay the words I said to the Minister of Public Works," Gu Yuanbai lost his smile, "Tang Qing, how come the Minister of Public Works didn't come with you?"
Lord Tang, the Minister of Revenue, laughed, "I'm not here to ask His Holiness about the geometry of the cost of repairing the road. If this were to be heard by Lord Wu, he would have to argue with me again."
After saying this matter, the two lords put the folders down and saluted and left.
The Ministry of households on the folding, collecting branches written clearly. Gu Yuanbai picked up and read it carefully, it is true that earning money will make people happy, he looked at it, unconsciously, his face brought out a smile.
When the noon hour arrived, Xue Yuan was even more punctual than Tian Fusheng, "Your Holiness, it's time to eat."
It was only then that Gu Yuanbai put down his zhang folds and took his lunch in a happy mood.
After the meal, the palace attendant changed the thin clothes for the saint to nap behind the screen, and Xue Yuan and the others were waiting outside. Over a while, the saint seems to suddenly remember something, tone lazy ringing, "Xue Qing, I will give the decree tomorrow, you have outstanding ability, extraordinary strength. Stay in my side is really aggrieved, such as today back, in the house waiting for the decree."
When Xue Yuan heard this, his face turned cold for a moment, his fingers clenched, "I don't feel hard work, how can I feel aggrieved when staying beside His Majesty?"
Surprisingly fast, is it because of what he said earlier?
Xue Yuan had long been prepared to usher in Gu Yuanbai's thunderous measures, any kind of punishment would do. Like he said, making him bleed was fine.
But then they waited for a paper transfer value issued so quickly by Gu Yuanbai.
Xue Yuan's expression was ugly, he would rather be punished than leave Gu Yuanbai's side.
Gu Yuanbai changed his clothes and took a handkerchief to clean his face, the sound of water resounded behind the screen as Xue Yuan patiently waited for his words. Only after a long time did Gu Yuanbai speak out, "It's all the reward you deserve."
It means it's non-tunable.
Xue Yuan immediately let out a cold laugh and respectfully said, "I will obey the decree."
Rewards should be quick and not slow, and after allowing all the meritorious ministers to rest for a day, the next day, the imperial decree of rewarding them for their merits came down.
As the main general Xue Yuan, who captured the main army of the rebel army, he was even promoted from the fifth rank of the Marquis of Du Yu, to the deputy commander of the infantry army. Transferred to the infantry battalion to lead the infantry, the official position rose, but the person was transferred out of the palace.
Xue House family are all joyful, Xue Yuan alone sullen face to receive the imperial decree, facing the eunuch who read out the imperial decree, revealing a smile are some expressionless flavor.
Looking at his ugly face, General Xue scolded him several times, but this time, Xue Yuan acted as if he didn't hear him, his face alone sinking horribly.
This is a bit serious.
It was unusual for Xue Jiuyao not to talk back when others scolded him.
General Xue closed his mouth and instructed others to leave him alone, so as to save anyone from directly angering this great madman of the Xue Mansion.
Xue's bedroom.
Xue Yuan here has three things from Gu Yuanbai.
The handkerchief picked up in the lake, the handkerchief Gu Yuanbai wiped his hands with in the palace, and the white jade cup.
Xue Yuan was now sitting at the table, looking at these three things on the table, his eyes obscure.
In the middle of the day, he called for his slave, "Go and move Eldest Xue over."
Second Duke Xue was beaten by Xue Yuan and broke his leg, breaking it in half from the bone. Nowadays, he can still only lie in bed, letting others wait on him for food and drink, unable to withstand the torment.
But Xue Yuan's words, Second Duke Xue didn't dare to disobey, he was carried by his slaves to Xue Yuan's door, and when he saw that Xue Yuan wouldn't even let him in, he had no choice but to lie down in the porch and shout at the top of his voice, "Big brother calling me?"
Xue Yuan's gloomy tone came from the door, "What did you want to say last time you looked for me?"
Second Duke Xue winced, he all regretted the last time he came to find Xue Yuan, his voice was getting smaller and smaller, "Marquis of Anle's World Son called me a cripple, he also encouraged me to hang myself from a beam and throw myself into a lake, I couldn't stand him, so I wanted to find big brother to teach him a lesson."
Xue Yuan didn't make a sound, the second son of Xue became more and more afraid, and in the end, he even shivered.
Only after a long time did Xue Yuan let out a cold laugh, "Lao Zi will go and teach you a lesson about the Anle Marquis' World Son, while you, think of something for Lao Zi."
He sounded like an evil spirit from the ground, so gloomy it was appalling, "Give the old man a big sickness."
Gu Yuanbai just put down the holy decree on merit yesterday, and the next day was Xue Yuan excused back.
He submitted a folding letter, which was about Second Duke Xue's serious illness, and his condition was raging. As an elder brother, Xue Yuan was incredibly worried about his younger brother, so he temporarily refused the appointment from the Emperor, wanting to stay in the residence and focus on taking care of the second son.
Otherwise, if you take the emperor's salary, but are too distracted to fulfill your duties, you will only end up failing His Majesty's trust.
Gu Yuanbai threw the folders onto the table and turned his head to ask Tian Fusheng, "What do you think?"
Tian Fusheng snapped and laughed twice, thinking that the legs of the second son of Xue were all broken by Lord Xue, and now saying something like this really chokes people to the point that they can not say anything.
"I'm sure Second Prince Xue is very ill," Tian Fusheng said euphemistically, "Look, Lord Xue is in a hurry."
Gu Yuanbai seemed to smile, "He is treating me like a fool."
But people this folding is well written, brother and friend, do brother wants to take care of his brother, who can not stop, the emperor can not.
Solely because Gu Yuanbai didn't care, he casually said, "Since that's the case, then let the imperial physician from the palace go to the Xue residence to take a look at it, and then dispense a few more medicinal herbs to bring over."
Tian Fusheng: "Yes, I will order it down."
"By the way, go and speak with Xue Yuan," Gu Yuanbai flipped open another zhangbiao and picked up his brush, saying carelessly, "I'm waiting for the day when he can be on duty."