DWGL _ Chapter - 14

Xinan Wang, Don't Panic, Lord Wen, He's Gone to Shu

The next morning, after discussing the affairs of the country, a group of senior officials knelt in front of the hall again. Looking at the folders delivered to him, he knew the contents even before he opened them, and Chu Yuan's head began to ache again.

"Your Majesty, this time we really can't delay any longer." Lord Wang was full of emotion and his attitude was sincere.

"What is it that cannot be delayed?" Chu Yuan asked, knowingly.

"Naturally, it is the recruitment of beauty queens from all over the world to the palace." Lord Wang replied.

"As I said before, the war in the northwest has not yet subsided, so this matter will be discussed later." Chu Yuan frowned.

"Your Majesty." Lord Wang bowed to the ground with his head. "During the reign of the late emperor, he sent the great general Shi Huyan to fight the war more than ten times. It took more than twenty years to quell the chaos, but it has not been completely eradicated. The tribes in the north of the desert are still eyeing our Chu, so it would be inappropriate if we were to continue to do so."

"Wen Liu Nian." Chu Yuan rubbed his brow.

The rest of the people looked at each other from below.

Lord Wang was also puzzled, what did he mean by Wen Liu Nian?

"The humble is here to see Your Majesty." Wen Liu Nian came forward and bowed.

It was only then that the crowd realized that behind the queue of civil officials, there had been an additional person standing at some point.

"What do you think of this?" Chu Yuan asked.

Wen Liu Nian wanted to scratch his face unconsciously, but then he thought that the occasion was not right, so he hurriedly put his hand back. Previously, the emperor only said that he wanted to discuss the matter in the early dynasty, but he did not explain what it was. He thought it was at least the expansion of the Jiangnan Canal or the layout of the Northwest War, but he didn't expect it to be a matter of choosing a concubine.

"Why don't you say something?" Seeing that he had been silent, Chu Yuan's tone seemed displeased.

"Back to Your Majesty, according to my opinion, the war in the northwest will not last long." Wen Liu Nian cleared his throat and replied in a loud voice, "In less than three years, the rebels in the north of the desert will be driven back to the north of the Huta River and the people of the border will be restored to peace."

"Why?" Chu Yuan was intrigued.

Wen Liu Nian hurriedly said, "Naturally, it is because Your Majesty is so powerful in all the states."

The rest of the officials were impressed by this statement. It was natural for anyone to kiss ass, but it was rare to see such naked and unadorned ass.

The corner of Chu Yuan's mouth was ticked.

"It is also because, as your excellency has said, the late Emperor had spent twenty years before that in purging the rebels." Wen Liu Nian continued, "Although the northern tribes are brave and warlike, they are not as well-fed as our Chu. The reason why they have frequently invaded our borders in recent years is that they are ambitious, but also because after years of war, the whole grassland has become so frenzied that they have no time to stockpile food and grass.

So they have to take it by force, otherwise, they may not even survive the next winter."

"So what?" Lord Wang disdained, "The Mobei tribe has always lived by water and grass, and it's not just in the past two years."

“But the frequent defeats have only been in these two years." Wen Liu Nian said, “The soldiers of Mobei are indeed brave, but fighting depends not only on the physique but also strategy." During the reign of the first emperor, the leader of the Mobei tribe was Kanha, who was known as the desert jackal. Although this person was eventually beheaded by my Great Chu soldiers in Hu'erhe, he was an outstanding military strategist and not easy to deal with. But now all the tribes in the northern Desert are stragglers, and they have finally been barely unified by one of them some time ago. They have not yet formed a big climate, which is not the same as the scale of the year. But our soldiers are at a time when our army is strong, and after so many years, we already know how to fight in the desert. The great general, Shen Qian Fan, has a good command of the army and is invincible. Most importantly, my emperor is so wise and powerful, how can a mere bandit gang in the desert be a threat?"

"If it is not enough, then it is more important to consider the establishment of a queen and fill the harem with young girls." Lord Wang said forcefully, "Why should we wait?"

"The selection of a concubine is simple, but behind the scenes, there are tens of thousands of silver to be spent. In the past few years, when there were frequent floods in the south of the Yangtze River, the court spent a lot of silver to divert the canal. I don't know if your excellency has ever seen it yourself, but to this day, thousands of workers are still working day and night in the cold and heat, even if they are only a dozen miles away from home, they can hardly go back to their wives and children, just to finish the project before the flood season this year.

So that we can preserve the fertile land of a thousand miles of fish and rice." Wen Liu Nian said, "If we were to select a suitable concubine at this time, it would add to the already complicated work of the Jiangnan province, and I am afraid that the people would have a lot of complaints."

There was silence in the court.

"Your Majesty is at his wits' end, so he is really at his tethers and has his heart set on the world. If the late emperor had known, he would have been moved to tears and deeply relieved." Wen Liu Nian's tone was trembling and his words were so sad that he almost knelt down with tears streaming down his face.

"Do Aiqings  have anything to say?" Chu Yuan rubbed his chin.

No one answered.

"This is the examination paper for this year's examinations." Chu Yuan instructed Si Xi to bring it down and circulate it to the ministers, "Wen Aiqing was ill on the day of the examination and was unable to finish writing the essay, but it was so brilliant that Taifu took it upon himself to present it to me. This is not in accordance with the rules, so I would like to ask all of you whether I should give or not give this candidate."

The government's decision to give the candidate first prize was not a matter of course, and no one dared to say otherwise. So all the ministers nodded their heads and congratulated each other.

"Did you happen to be unwell on the day of the examination, or have you been suffering from an illness?" Lord Wang asked with a sidelong glance.

Wen Liu Nian scratched his face and said embarrassingly, "I couldn't resist eating two roast ducks the day before the examination, so my abdomen hurt like a twinge."

Chu Yuan laughed.

Lord Wang: "......"

"Zhang Aiqing." Chu Yuan said, "If you have finished reading this half of the test paper, leave it to Li Aiqing at the back. He has been looking at it on tiptoe for a long time."

The rest of the people laughed out loud, and Zhang Li, the minister of Industry, returned to his senses and bowed and said, "Although the article has only a few words, the water conservancy method mentioned in it is unique in insight, and the minister is really ashamed.”

“Who else Aiqing has doubts about, just speak up." Chu Yuan said, “I also want to see, if it weren't for Master Taifu's heart, what kind of talent those two roast ducks would make my Great Chu lose."

Wen Liu Nian wanted to scratch his face again.

Why did you mention roast duck again? In fact, it was all bones, and I didn't eat much.

There have been trials in the hall since ancient times, but there has never been a time when a group of ministers fought a battle of words like this one.

Wen Liu Nian's speed of speech was not tight or slow, and his voice was not loud, but he was very confident. If the person in front of him really wants to discuss one or two, his literary style is flying and gushing. If he encounters someone who deliberately clips a gun with a stick, his choking skills are also first-class. When the ministers finally dispersed, Wen Liu Nian patted his sleeves and said with a smile "Concede", his body was full of elegance and brilliance.

Chu Yuan's heart was overjoyed, and in fact, it was probably the happiest day for him in recent days.

The matter of the selection of concubines was again suppressed and will not be mentioned again in the near future. As Wen Liu Nian spurred his horse through the street, wearing a large red silk satin flower on his chest, there were people banging gongs and blowing suona along the way. The people crowded on both sides of the street to see him, saying that it was no wonder that the streets were full of flower seekers, he was so handsome.

Lord Liu Dajiong said with great anticipation, "Has Lord Wen ever gotten married?"

"Not yet, no." Wen Liu Nian smiled brightly and had small white teeth.

"Very good, very good." Liu Dajiong slapped his thigh with satisfaction and was still thinking about which niece he would marry, when Chu Yuan had already issued a decree, sending Wen Liu Nian to Yunlan City to become a seventh-ranked magistrate.

The ministers were all puzzled by this, as they looked so fond of him and thought he was going to stay to fill a vacancy in the court, but why did he go to Shu instead?

However, Chu Yuan had his own considerations. He originally wanted to keep him, but Wen Liu Nian offered to be a magistrate for a few years, so he agreed to go along with it and sent him to Yunlan City in Shu - the location of Shadow Chasing Palace. If he could convince Qin Shao Yu, the master of the Shadow Chasing Palace, to become an official in the court, it would also be a good thing.

Ten days later, Wen Liu Nian left Wang Cheng to take up his post in Shu. In the following few days, Xinan Mansion received secret messages from the palace, which read as follows: The Emperor had a long conversation with a talented man from Jiangnan. The scholar's name was Wen Liu Nian. He was a very good-looking man. The Emperor was very fond of him. The Emperor invited him to the palace every day, and even asked him to join him for meals, and even instructed the Imperial Kitchen to make roast ducks. Lord Liu Dajiong told him about marriage, but he was rejected by the emperor.

Just when Duan Bai Yue was in a bad mood and planned to rush to Wang Cheng overnight, another secret letter was sent eight hundred miles in an urgent manner-Lord Wen was sent to Yunlan City in Shu as the county magistrate and had already left.

……

Duan Bai Yue grimaced and bolted the horseback.

Duan Yao's back was pressed against the wall as he carefully moved towards his bedroom.

"Yaoer!" Duan Bai Yue said.

Duan Yao was frustrated that he had been found out.

"Where have you been again?" Duan Bai Yue frowned.

"In the woods at the back of the hill." Duan Yao was carrying two snakes in his hand, "I just caught them, do you want to eat them?"

Duan Bai Yue: "......"

"I'll leave now." Duan Yao took the opportunity to turn around.

"Come back!" Duan Bai Yue frowned.

Duan Yao: "......"

"Did you get into a fight with someone?" Duan Bai Yue pinched his ear.

"...... The tree branch scraped it." Duan Yao grunted.

"Who?" Duan Bai Yue's expression was dark. In Xinan Mansion, there was no one who dared to fight him.

Duan Yao said reluctantly, "I don't know."

Duan Bai Yue didn't say a word and stared at him.

Duan Yao: "......"

"Speak up!" Duan Bai Yue's voice suddenly became stronger.

Duan Yao crouched on the ground with his head in his hands, not even bothering to pick up the snakes, and admitted, "I went to the Forbidden Land."

Duan Bai Yue lifted his hand.

Duan Yao cried out in a loud voice.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Almost in the blink of an eye, someone came running in through the door.

"Aunt Jin." Duan Yao's cries became more and more violent.

"Wang Ye!" A woman of about forty rushed to protect Duan Yao in her arms, "Why are you hitting Xiao Wang Ye again?"

"Ask him where he's gone." Duan Bai Yue said in anger.

Duan Yao tried desperately to choke down a sob.

"Where else can you go, youth house?" Aunt Jin wiped his face, "You're already thirteen, so what's the point of going there, next time Aunt will accompany you."

Duan Bai Yue shook his head, not bothering to say anything else, and turned around to go to the back of the mountain to see what was going on.

Duan Yao wiped his nose with his sleeve.

It's just a place to hold prisoners, what's wrong with going there?

So fierce.

When Duan Bai Yue went to the back of the hill, he saw that the woodland to the east was full of wreckage, and it was obvious that someone had just fought.

Further in, a man with a full beard was sitting under a tree, taking a rest.

“The younger brother was young and rude, and he just offended the master." Duan Bai Yue stood still ten steps away from him.

The man opened his eyes when he heard the words and said impatiently: "Go and ask your father when he will be able to prepare the antidote and release Lao Tzu?"

—— ฅʕ•̫͡•ʔฅ ——ㄚ

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