ebookland Chapter 389: Who is your pride for?
Chapter 389: Who is your pride for?
Chapter 389: Who are you showing your pride to?
The next day, Lu Yunting, General Zhang and others set off for the border. At the same time, General Feng led his troops to conquer the Eastern Turks.
Previously, the Eastern Turks had asked for peace with Daxia and sent a large amount of treasures because Khan Jie Li's son had joined forces with Qiu Jian to invade Daxia.
The Yuan Emperor ignored it, and the Eastern Turks openly invaded. If he just brushed the matter aside, where would the majesty of Daxia be?
In fact, as early as the third day after Qiu Jian surrendered, Emperor Yuan had decided to send troops to the Eastern Turks and appointed General Feng as the commander-in-chief.
These past few days, General Feng has been gathering troops and preparing food supplies. If it weren't for the New Year, he would have set out long ago.
In addition, Loge and his men also mixed in with the army and secretly returned to Nanzhao, bringing with them the troops of Daxia.
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In the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites stepped forward and asked Emperor Yuan whether he would continue to receive foreign envoys from Tubo, Silla and other countries.
Emperor Yuan said without hesitation that everything was business as usual. He wanted to let those people know that Daxia could not be invaded by anyone who wanted to!
In addition, if the country's borders were closed just because of a war, wouldn't those people think that Daxia had suffered a heavy blow and had become cowardly!
Afterwards, Emperor Yuan asked, "Guo Yuanzheng, how is your research on witchcraft going?"
Ever since the incident of Prince Yan being controlled by a poisonous insect, Emperor Yuan ordered everyone in the Imperial Hospital to study the art of poisoning.
The fact that poisonous insects can control people is so hard to guard against.
Guo Yuanzheng replied, "Your Majesty, there are not many medical books in the palace that record Gu techniques. I am currently sending people to search for relevant medical books."
"That means there's no progress."
"I am incompetent."
At this time, a civil servant stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, Miss Ling'er from Yaoling Valley seems to know something about Gu worms. Perhaps you could ask her for some advice."
Emperor Yuan looked at Guo Yuanzheng.
Guo Yuanzheng immediately bowed and said, "When Your Majesty ordered me to study Gu Shu, I had already consulted Miss Ling'er.
Miss Ling'er said that she only had a basic understanding of Gu magic and was not proficient in it. Furthermore, most Gu magic techniques hurt others and themselves, and if you are not careful, they will backfire on you, so learning them is not recommended.
"If you don't learn, how will you deal with this situation if it happens again in the future?" Emperor Yuan asked in a deep voice.
Guo Yuanzheng was unable to answer.
Emperor Yuan said again with a sullen face, "I don't need you to master this technique, just being able to remove the poison will be enough."
"Yes, I will do my best."
Afterwards, Emperor Yuan asked about spring plowing, the construction of the Supervisory Office, and the progress of ice making.
Jiang Yueyang lost interest after listening for a while and couldn't help but miss Lu Yunting who had just left.
When will A Yue come back?
I don’t know how the soldiers of the Lu family army will react after learning that the Lu family army belongs to the royal family. I hope there will be no more trouble.
Seeing her absent-minded appearance, the system asked with a playful smile: [Host, do you want to eat some melon?]
Jiang Yueyang's heart moved, and hesitantly said: [Isn't it a bit inappropriate to eat melons at this time? ]
[What's inappropriate about this? The bigwigs will take care of national affairs, so don't worry about it, host. You've already done enough.]
【Okay then, let’s eat some melon.】
When Emperor Yuan heard that Jiang Yueyang wanted to eat melon, he felt a little complicated. He didn't want to hear anything bad at this time.
The civil and military officials were not in high spirits either. After all, too many things had happened recently.
The system said: [Then let’s eat the melon of Master Guan from the Censorate today.]
Jiang Yueyang knew who the system was talking about, because that person often impeached people.
Lord Guan didn't expect that today's good luck would fall on him. He felt a little nervous and curious.
Those who had been impeached by Lord Guan were very excited, secretly thinking that this day had come for him. They also planned to use the same trick that Jiang Yueyang and the others had mentioned on him later, so that he would also have a taste of the feeling of having his salary fined.
The system said: [Master Guan began taking the imperial examinations at the age of sixteen, passed at the age of thirty-five, and entered the Imperial Censorate at the age of forty-five. His path to officialdom was one of immense hardship and difficulty.]
[Is passing the imperial examination at 35 not bad? I've heard that some scholars haven't passed the exam in their 50s or 60s.]
The civil and military officials nodded secretly. It was indeed not bad, but it was not very smart after all.
Emperor Yuan glanced at Lord Guan and thought to himself, "Xiaogua mentioned the imperial examination. Could it be cheating again?"
Officials from the Ministry of Rites also had this suspicion and secretly prayed that it would not happen again, as they could not bear it!
The system continued: [People who are still able to take the imperial examinations in their sixties and seventies must have a good family background.
But Master Guan came from a poor family, and the more than ten years of studying for the imperial examinations left him and his family with little food to eat.
Jiang Yueyang was puzzled. "Being an official doesn't make much money, so why work so hard?"
[Those who cannot make money are honest officials.]
Hearing this, Emperor Yuan straightened up slightly, and all the civil and military officials also became serious.
Lord Guan's face was tense as he looked at Emperor Yuan, trying hard to express something, but unfortunately he couldn't say anything now.
He silently defended himself, Your Majesty, I am an honest and upright person and have never engaged in corruption or accepted bribes.
Jiang Yueyang raised an eyebrow and said, "Little melon, you mean he's greedy."
"Huh? No, that's not what I meant."
Jiang Yueyang was quite speechless. [If it's not about corruption, then what exactly do you want to talk about?]
What I want to say is that his pedantry and pride led to the deaths of his three daughters.
When these words were spoken, everyone opened their eyes wide in slight surprise.
Lord Guan's expression changed, and his eyes darkened instantly.
Jiang Yueyang pressed on: [Master Guan forced his three daughters to death? How did he do it?]
[When he was 21 years old, his first daughter died because of a steamed bun.]
[Mantou?] Jiang Yueyang frowned in confusion.
Everyone frowned in confusion. They couldn't imagine how a steamed bun could cause a child's death.
Xiaogua said that he was forced to death, so it couldn't be homicide.
The system explained: [At that time, Lord Guan’s eldest daughter was only five years old, which was the age when she couldn’t control her mouth.
One day, a neighbor saw that Guan's daughter was so hungry that she was eating grass, so he gave her a steamed bun.
The host must also know that most intellectuals are proud and would rather starve to death than eat charity.
When Mr. Guan found out that his daughter had accepted the steamed buns given by the neighbors, he was very angry and his self-esteem was hurt. He scolded his daughter severely and did not give her anything to eat at night.
As a result, his daughter starved to death.
Jiang Yueyang was incredulous. [It's just a steamed bun, isn't it? His pride is too strong!]
After saying this, she couldn't help but look at her colleagues who were of scholarly backgrounds and continued, "Lord Zuo Xiang, wouldn't Kong Jijiu and Guo Yuanzheng be like this too?"
The left prime minister raised his eyelids slightly and clarified to himself that if he were in that situation, he could go out to beg on the street.
A scholar can be proud, but he should not be too aloof.
To put it bluntly, for someone who can't even afford to eat and wear clothes, to whom can he show his pride?
Kong Jijiu snorted in his heart, please don't compare him, a vain person, with me. I am proud, but I can also bend and stretch.
It's just a bun, so just accept it. A person with real character will repay it double instead of scolding his hungry daughter.
Besides, what's so shameful about accepting someone's kindness?
Guo Yuanzheng was trying his best to argue in his heart, saying that what he studied was the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, not the Four Books and Five Classics. He did not have much pride, but he was thick-skinned enough!
The system replied: [I don't know if they are the same as Master Guan. If you are curious, you can ask.]
"I won't ask. Just continue and tell me how the other two people were forced to death."