More than a dozen students were selected from the Taixue and Guozixue. Naturally, they did not follow Gu Yuanbai, but were far behind, and were taken by the eunuchs to see the rice in the fields.
The five grains in the five grains generally refer to rice, millet, millet, wheat, and glutinous rice. In ancient China, the status of Ji was very high. Ji is millet, and it is the longest of all grains.
However, with the extension of time, rice has gradually become the food with the highest yield in Daheng, and millet needs less water, so it is gradually planted in high dry land.
Naturally, the yield of rice today cannot be compared to later generations. And Gu Yuanbai didn't have the ability to research hybrid rice, he didn't have the strength, and he didn't have the conditions.
On the narrow road in the field, Gu Yuanbai's footsteps were leisurely, his eyes swept from both sides from time to time, looking at the newly planted fields, and nodded slightly.
It seems to be doing whatever he wants, but he has raised his vigilance in secret.
The people who were protecting Gu Yuanbai were all tense in secret, and were fully prepared. The head of the guard was even more serious, and he was so calm on weekdays that he didn't attract attention at this time.
But Xue Yuan's wolf-like sharpness had already swept over the chief guard over and over again with suspicion.
With his whole body tense and ready to attack at any time, Xue Yuan squinted his eyes, glanced around in the group of guards, and found that many people were in the same state.
He was thoughtful, and smiled a little uneasy.
Gu Yuanbai's back was suddenly approached, and he turned his head to look, Xue Yuan smiled gloomily at him: "Sir, is this minister still better than the captain of the bodyguard, Sir Zhang?"
These words were inexplicable, and Gu Yuanbai said casually: "Why did Xue Guard say this?"
Xue Yuandao said, "Your Majesty, this minister has a loyal heart, which can be learned from the world."
So what did you hide from him
Gu Yuan was happy. For some reason, although Xue Yuan seemed more loyal these days, every time he heard his words of loyalty, he wanted to laugh.
And his smile suddenly made Xue Yuan laugh in a daze.
The group walked out of the field. The students in the back saw that the saint was far away, and hurriedly wanted to keep up, "Father-in-law, let's go too."
The eunuch stopped them with a smile, and said slowly: "You gentlemen, don't be in a hurry, why don't you take a good look at this rice?"
The students could only suppress their anxiety and began to wonder what was different about the rice.
And Gu Yuanbai had already led people into the shaded forest next to the field.
The guards found a place for Gu Yuanbai to sit down, followed by the last guards leading the horses, tying the horses to the tree, and then going to get some clean water to wash the saint's face.
Tian Fusheng wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, and whispered, "Can you still stand it?"
Gu Yuanbai raised his head to look at the sun in the sky from the swirling leaves, nodded and said, "Although the countryside is hot, it's nothing."
Tian Fusheng responded and said nothing.
The guards should be busy and busy, without a trace of the holy besieged, just waiting for the enemy assassin to take action, and they will plan as soon as they come.
Such an atmosphere seems to hide turbulent waves under the calm and unwavering.
Suddenly, Xue Yuan's eyelids jumped, and he quickly pulled out his big knife and turned around.
I saw several assassins holding big swords with fierce expressions in the forest, and they all rushed towards Gu Yuanbai desperately. Gu Yuanbai's expression remained unchanged, he held the crossbow in his cuff, and in the mood to drink the herbal tea in the water bag.
Tian Fusheng shouted: "Guard!"
Those of the guards who had already received the news had already protected Gu Yuanbai behind him, reacted extremely quickly to greet him, and attacked mercilessly. Swords, lights, swords, shadows, chaos, Xue Yuan's heart was pounding, he took a big sword and cut a bloody road to Gu Yuanbai, but the moment he looked up and saw Gu Yuanbai, he saw that an assassin was about to raise his hand towards Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai stabbed away.
Xue Yuan suddenly stopped in his heart, bloodshot in his eyes instantly, he raised his hand and threw out the big knife, the long knife flashed a cold light, and straightly knocked down the knife in the assassin's hand.
The assassin was stunned.
Gu Yuanbai, who arranged for the assassin to assassinate himself in order to pretend to be injured, was also stunned.
At the moment when they looked at each other, Xue Yuan had already rushed over with suffocation. He had no knife, and many assassins took advantage of the fire to attack him, but they were all blocked by his bare hands. In an instant, his body was stained with blood, and Xue Yuan's face was ugly. He picked up a large knife from the ground at random, and slashed the person behind him with his backhand. He stretched out his iron arms and hugged Gu Yuanbai in his arms.
After hugging Gu Yuanbai, he ran towards the sweaty BMW with the little emperor.
It wasn't until Gu Yuanbai was turned over by Xue Yuan that he pressed his voice: "Xue Yuan—"
That fucking is mine!
Xue Yuan was covered in blood, he held Gu Yuanbai's waist, his arms tightened, and he said in a savage manner, "Don't talk."
As soon as the reins were raised, the hoofs of the sweaty horses were raised, and the Maxima galloped out quickly, stepping out of this chaotic forest like the wind.
The assassin who was still dealing with the guards said "no good", and the leader said hoarsely: "Let the arrow—"
Hundreds of arrows chased after them, and the guards rushed to kill the assassin. Xue Yuan, who was on the horse, heard the sound of breaking the air, and even more forcefully pumped the BMW, turned over and took the knife to chop off the arrows.
The horses ran far away, and the assassin leader gritted his teeth. It was too hasty. No one knew whether the Emperor Dog was injured. Now he can only wait to hear the news from the court.
Tian Fusheng was completely bewildered by Xue Yuan's actions. He didn't have time to think about it. Hearing that the assassins were about to retreat, he sneered and said loudly, "Master Zhang! It's over to you!"
The sage said that for this group of people who came to assassinate him, it is enough to leave the lives of a dozen or so people for the purpose of passing the news.
Zhang Xu, the chief guard, responded in a deep voice, still flustered in his heart. The vastness of the Tanabe woodlands is full of dangers. What should I do if something goes wrong
He sighed one after another, regretting that he didn't remind Xue Yuan secretly.
Not only Zhang Xu's bodyguards panicked, but also other people who had already memorized the plan by heart, as well as those who were pretending to be stabbed in troubled waters by Xue Yuan who was almost hacked to death.
Tian Fusheng was even more panicked. But after dealing with the group of assassins, he still had to follow the Holy Master's instructions and hurried back to the palace with people. The carriage speeded up, and everyone looked sad. After returning to the palace, he immediately summoned a large number of imperial doctors to come. Bedroom diagnosis and treatment. The palace attendants in the bedroom all looked solemn, and it seemed that there were still basins of blood and water removed from the palace.
In less than half a day, the news that Sheng Shangxiang was assassinated and injured spread within a certain range.
In the palace, no one is allowed to enter the palace to meet, but this time, the plan is not to cause panic among the officials of the court, so Tian Fusheng sent people to go door to door to appease the sage. Minor injury, don't worry.
At the same time, the people from the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council came out. The Senator Political Affairs and the Privy Councilman took over the current state affairs in the hands of the Holy Master with a smile. The calmness and composure of these two governments were the two things that calmed the officials of the court. big boulder.
As the sage's cronies and the two governments in charge of the government and military aircraft, as well as the Supervision Office and Donglingwei, they naturally knew what the sage was going to do. According to the instructions of the Holy Master, they suppressed the panic before it rose, and everything was done step by step and calm.
But in the eyes of the Jiashen Society, this kind of calm is just whitewashing the peace.
Hundreds of people attacked, and in the end only a dozen people survived. This assassination achieved an extremely disastrous result, a disastrous result that no one expected. The Assassin leader was already despairing, but when he heard the news from the court, this despair turned into ecstasy.
The emperor is hurt!
They spent a lot of money to find out the news in the palace, and they found that everyone in the palace looked solemn, the imperial doctor looked uneasy, and when blood was removed from the palace from time to time, they could hardly help laughing.
Where is this minor injury? !
This is obviously a serious injury that will shake the government!
The assassin leader burst out laughing: "It must have been the Emperor Dog who was shot by our arrows when he was fleeing!"
Others were also very excited: "The brothers who shoot arrows have all been killed by 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 will not have the energy to take care of Jingnan and Jiangnan. Maybe they will die. We have to go back and report to the general. Take this opportunity to completely turn these two places into the territory of our Jiashen Association!"
Gu Yuanbai's face was wooden, his black hair was wrapped back in the wind, and the smell of blood on Xue Yuan's body was mixed with the murderous aura and determination that were spelled out between swords, lights, swords and shadows.
After a while, Gu Yuanbai accepted his fate and could only secretly pray that the plan would go ahead as he wished, and he was the first to say, "Are you injured?"
Xue Yuan, who was always watching the movements in all directions, said with a bloody breath, "It's nothing."
After making sure that no one was following him, Xue Yuan slowly grabbed the reins and pulled the jubilant Red Cloud running.
As soon as the horses stopped, they raised their heads and roared, Xue Yuan got off the horse and led the horses down the tree.
There were bloodstains all over his body, but he didn't know if it was someone else's blood or his own. His voice was hoarse, and he didn't know if it was because he killed too many people. Surrounded by a chilling air, the whole person is gloomy and depressed like a ghost crawling out of hell.
Gu Yuanbai looked at the cracks on his body that were slashed by swords, and the small wounds next to his sleeves that were scratched by arrows, with a complicated expression in his eyes.
Gu Yuanbai didn't expect Xue Yuan to be so mad to save him.
When Xue Yuan ran towards him, his expression was terrifying, which could be called hideous. He didn't even have a weapon in his hand, but his steps didn't turn back.
The bloody look in Gu Yuanbai's eyes was unforgettable at a glance, and it was written clearly in his eyes: Whoever dares to touch Gu Yuanbai will die.
The heavy killing intent was suppressed, the fierceness of countless battlefields, and this look stunned the "assassin" who assassinated Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai also noticed Xue Yuan's expression, such an expression of anger that was so ferocious that it seemed that anger could burn everything, but it made him stunned for a moment.
After being stunned, Xue Yuan carried him to the horse.
Why are you trying so hard to save him
Gu Yuanbai thought to himself, could it be true that what Xue Yuan usually said about the loyalty to the monarch was true
… It’s hard not to doubt, but the facts are there.
After all the calculations, Xue Yuan could not have such a performance.
Gu Yuanbai sighed silently. Xue Yuan tied the reins of his horse to the tree. He moved his entire shoulders, and the muscles in his back protruded and converged. His whole person was still gloomy, like the most vicious bandit leader on Bandit Mountain, without the slightest look of an official.
Xue Yuan turned around and stretched out his hand towards Gu Yuanbai, Gu Yuanbai said, "I can go down by myself."
However, Xue Yuan stepped forward silently, as if he was dealing with a treasure that was almost lost and found, he started to hug Gu Yuanbai down.
He held Gu Yuanbai and didn't let go, and some of the wet blood on his body was also rubbed onto Gu Yuanbai's body. Gu Yuanbai said, "Put me down."
Xue Yuan's eyes were gloomy, and he didn't say a word with a sullen face.
Gu Yuanbai said one last time: "Xue Jiuyao."
"Your Majesty," Xue Yuan opened his lips, which were already sticky with skin, his voice was hoarse and dry, "Didn't you find it? You scared the minister."
Gu Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, then said silently for a moment, "Why is this so."
Xue Yuan wanted to laugh, but he laughed too.
Why so
Who the hell would know.
Xue Yuan put Gu Yuanbai on a clean stone and sat down, and went to check the things that the horses brought in a hurry. He had a large knife on him, a dagger, a water bag on his horse, and nothing else.
Gu Yuanbai stood up and looked around. In the deep forest, the trees covered the sky and the sun, and the sound of birds and insects could be heard everywhere. He looked around, spotted an old tree, stepped forward and tore off the Usnea clinging to it.
Xue Yuan followed, raised his eyelids and glanced, "What is this?"
"Usnea," Gu Yuanbai's tone was light, and he continued to pick up Usnea, "It can stop bleeding and detoxify, it's a good thing."
There are only two people here, and it is self-evident who is used for it. Xue Yuan's tense body was slightly relieved. He looked at Gu Yuanbai's profile, and his mind was still full of the image of the big knife attacking Gu Yuanbai just now.
The sword was sharp, and it was about to slash at Gu Yuanbai.
There was a harsh sound in his ear, and Gu Yuanbai followed, and it turned out that Xue Yuan's hand unconsciously pressed the knife handle, the knife handle and the scabbard rubbed, and the sharp sound continued.
"Xue Yuan?"
Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai in a trance and didn't hear it.
Gu Yuanbai pulled his hand away from the handle of the knife.
Xue Yuan came back to his senses and took off the blood-stained coat. There were still blood from several knife wounds. Gu Yuanbai placed Usnea on his wound, and the blood stained the pale green Usnea. Xue Yuan Without saying a word, Gu Yuanbai asked, "Where else?"
Xue Yuan lifted his tunic, and there was a wound on his waist that turned flesh and blood.
Compared with him, Gu Yuanbai's body was only stained with some blood from Xue Yuan's body.
Gu Yuanbai gave Xue Yuan the medicine himself and sighed in his heart.
The villain army sent someone to assassinate, and he used the assassination to make a plan, so he couldn't tell Xue Yuan.
No one else can know except the cronies.
Because behind this assassination, Gu Yuanbai wanted to force those people to rebel, and wanted them to attack the tyrants.
The inside of the Jiashen Society is extremely embarrassed. They have few soldiers and horses, and less food. The leader Xu Xiongyuan is a man who is not resourceful but is very arrogant. Although he can pretend to show the appearance of a corporal, but the greed in his nature, Or put interests above everything else.
The reason why he followed Lu Feng is because Lu Feng gave him a lot of gold and silver. Now, as long as he has money and food, he also dares to beat the tyrants for these.
In ancient times, there was a word called the disaster of war.
The disaster of war is a disaster like a locust. This is still a kind of disaster brought by Liu Bang. When Liu Bang conquered the world, he was very poor. His peasant rebels were a group of hooligans. In order to obtain military pay and rewards for the soldiers in his hands, he would indulge himself every time he conquered a city. soldiers to rob the entire city.
The tyrannical fields, grain, gold and silver, the women and grain of ordinary people, robbed wealth and raped women, and some soldiers would kill ordinary people to vent their anger because of their jealousy.
This is the disaster.
In order to have strict discipline in the army, the ancient soldiers could only rely on their pay to form a complete discipline and to develop an elite army. But if there is no soldier's pay, why should other soldiers work hard for you
The Jiashen Association, which also has no soldiers, will do the same. The whole area of Jinghu is chaotic. The tyrants have never been the targets of their cooperation. They will directly snatch everything from the tyrants, and they will rebel. I don't care about the emperor anymore, and I still care about you? Grab the money of the tyrants, and then continue to conquer the world with troops and horses, and strengthen one city after another, it is best to travel all the tyrants, so that the new country will be clean, and it will not suffer like Liu Bang. How good is it for the tyrannical gentry to be held hostage
The officers and soldiers of the imperial court are the teachers of the king, the teachers of benevolence and righteousness.
And if Jiashen would not rebel, then Haoqiang would become a local snake. They enslave the tenants in their fields, collect taxes for their own use, control the government, and tame a small country privately. Over time, the court will weaken, and the country will not become a country. When the time comes, the country will be destroyed, and riots and uprisings will rise everywhere. More important The thing is, Daheng still has enemy countries watching.
Gu Yuanbai had been the emperor for three and a half years and had been in power for half a year. He could see clearly the drawbacks of the Daheng Dynasty. He really wanted to be a good emperor, and he really wanted to create a peaceful and prosperous world.
But here comes the problem.
Is it better to promote the rebel army to set off a major rebellion and let the people of the two provinces fall into a military disaster, so as to start pulling out the head of the tyrants and curb their momentum, or is it better to let the entire country of Daheng fall into war in 20 or 30 years
Neither is good.
The disasters that were controllable in the two provinces, and the war in Daheng in the next 20 to 30 years, Gu Yuanbai didn't know how others would choose. Anyway, he chose to secretly promote the development of the rebel army. Before making such a decision, he had doubts and hesitations, feeling that he was too cold and ruthless, but indecision was not Gu Yuanbai's character.
It was decided half a year ago, so now he will do his best and make the most detailed layout to protect the people of these two provinces, but that's all he can do.
The national conditions of the country cannot tolerate the indecision of an emperor, and the conscience of a modern person. At this time, the conscience of an ancient emperor must also be suppressed.
Perhaps the protagonist in the original text also made the same choice as him.
And this kind of thing can't be said to a minister. Regardless of whether Xue Yuan is truly loyal to the king or not, whether Xue Yuan will be loyal to Gu Yuanbai in the future, Gu Yuanbai will never tell him about such a thing.
After a while, the bleeding stopped, Gu Yuanbai felt a little heavy, he sat on the side at will, Xue Yuan came over after putting on his clothes, and said hoarsely, "Uncomfortable?"
Gu Yuanbai said casually, "No."
Xue Yuan brought his face closer and smiled lowly, "I don't believe it."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him lightly, Xue Yuan sat next to Gu Yuanbai and said, "Since the sage is not happy, then this minister will tell the sage an interesting story."
He had injuries on his body, and he wanted to amuse Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai felt that he was bullying his officials. He touched his nose and smiled helplessly: "You should take care of yourself."
Seeing him smiling, Xue Yuan said, "Sir, the sun is moving westward, and now it will be dark for the return journey. It is extremely unsafe to ride a horse in the forest at night. If you find a cave, you will spend the night here."
Gu Yuanbai nodded, stood up and said, "Let's go."
The luck of the two was good, and after riding for a while, they found a dry cave not far from a stream. There is also a grass bed and a dirty quilt in the cave, which should be a cave where hunters occasionally inhabit.
Xue Yuan went to find some firewood, looked at the stream flowing not far away, and suddenly moved in his heart, "Sir, are you going to wash your face?"
Gu Yuanbai said, "No."
Don't care about anything, he said: "Xue Guard is injured, so don't go to the bathroom."
Xue Yuan said honestly: "Yes."
After finishing the cave, Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan strolled through the jungle to find some edible wild fruits. Gu Yuanbai saw a lot of snake berries and picked a few. As soon as he looked up, he saw Xue Yuan was jumping from a tall tree, holding a bunch of wild fruits in his arms. Gu Yuanbai glanced inadvertently from the corner of his eye, suddenly stopped dignifiedly, and said sharply, "Don't move!"
Xue Yuan stopped immediately, he frowned and said calmly, "Snake?"
There was a slender snake sticking its head out from the tree branch behind him, staring at Xue Yuan's neck.
The tail is short and thin, the body has colorful patterns, and the snake's head is in the shape of a triangle. It is still a poisonous snake!
Gu Yuanbai dropped the snakeberry in his hand, took out a small crossbow from his cuff, loaded the arrow, and raised his arm to aim at the poisonous snake.
Xue Yuan still smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't beat your ministers."
"Shut up," Gu Yuanbai slowly approached with sharp eyebrows and eyes, "Don't talk."
The sound of breaking the air will alarm the viper, and it is best to get close to it and kill it before it can react as well as the previous one. Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed, and the three short arrows were aimed at the head, seven inches and tail of the poisonous snake.
Xue Yuan seemed to be relaxed, but in fact his whole body muscles were tensed. One of his hands moved to the dagger. Just as the two of them held their breaths, a rabbit suddenly ran over in the grass!
Gu Yuanbai thought badly, almost the next second, he activated the crossbow, and three arrows pierced the air to attack the poisonous snake, but the poisonous snake was alarmed by the rabbit's movement, and rushed towards Xue Yuan's neck.
Almost at the same time, Xue Yuan slashed with the dagger, and the moment the arrow hit the poisonous snake, he also cut the poisonous snake in half.
The poisonous snake twitched on the ground and died completely, Gu Yuanbai breathed a sigh of relief, his brows stretched, and he asked, "Are you hurt?"
Xue Yuan glanced down at his forearm and sighed.
Gu Yuanbai's eyelids, who had already walked up to him, suddenly jumped.
"Your Highness, this minister was bitten," Xue Yuandao said, "biting his clothes."
The blue veins on the top of Gu Yuanbai's head burst out, he endured it, couldn't hold it back, and shouted angrily, "Then why the hell couldn't you say it earlier?"