Gu Yuanbai knew what Xue Yuan meant.
Because he was weak and because Xue Yuan liked him, whenever he was sick and he was uncomfortable, Xue Yuan would also be uncomfortable.
He calls this "bullying him."
How to hear it, how it sounds like a sentence with deep meaning and meaning of confession.
Xue Yuan was showing weakness and trying to get hold of it, how could Gu Yuanbai not see it.
Gu Yuanbai was irritable, and was irritated by Xue Yuan's deliberate temptation.
Every word and every behavior is tempting, tempting him again and again, what do you want to tempt him? What do you want to see from his attitude
Gu Yuanbai was so coughed that he could not speak. When he could speak and had the strength to stand up straight, Xue Yuan let go without saying that he knew how to step back.
Gu Yuanbai took the handkerchief and looked at him coldly, thinking to himself, he came again, and began to pretend to test him again.
"Let's go," Gu Yuanbai covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and coughed a few more times, "Go back to the palace."
Xue Yuan respectfully waited for the saint to leave. After the group of saints disappeared, he turned around and returned with the bird cage.
The sparrow in the bird cage suddenly hit the cage, Xue Yuan looked down and smiled, "What are you hitting, do you want to die so much?"
He glanced at the plaque in Chu's residence not far away, and suddenly realized, "Or did you like Mr. Chu?"
The sound of the sparrows grew louder and louder, Xue Yuan opened the cage, and the sparrows flew into the sky.
Xue Yuan retracted his gaze from the plaque in Chu Mansion, and hummed the little tune of the poem that San Yuyan wrote to him, in a happy mood.
A few days later, Kong Yilin and his party finally entered the west of Beijing.
The main force stayed outside the western part of Beijing, and Kong Yilin and the supervisory officials who had returned from Lizhou rushed to the Hebei Summer Palace to meet the emperor.
Gu Yuanbai had already received the news in advance. Qin Sheng and the Dongling Guards stayed in the same place to take care of the prisoners. The Dongling Guards of the Holy Sage were fully motivated and must not let these prisoners have an accident at their doorstep.
After these long-distance officials arrived, bath soup and meals were already prepared in the palace.
Kong Yilin and other officials were led to the soup. After bathing, everyone put on clean and tidy robes, and when they looked at each other, the tiredness and tiredness on each other's faces had disappeared.
Lord Censor Mi of the Procuratorate looked around, and a smile appeared on his solemn and solemn face: "When you look at it now, Lords, you finally have some energy."
Another adult laughed loudly and said, "I have been loved by the saints, the bath is comfortable, and there should be some refreshing things in it. Even the clothes fit perfectly. All the fatigue has been washed away, and now the lower official only feels extremely relieved. Comfortable."
Someone suddenly replied: "I'm just hungry."
The crowd laughed.
The eunuch stepped forward in time and led them to the place to eat.
Master Mi chatted with Kong Yilin, "Master Kong, the beard on your chin has grown."
Kong Yilin smiled bitterly, "I was born tall, and when the beard grows, it becomes even more savage. I just hope that I won't be surprised by the sage's eyes later."
"Why does the sage care about this?" Mr. Mi smiled and stroked his beard, "Our sage is the most lenient."
Kong Yilin smiled without saying a word, and there was a look of approval in his expression.
Gu Yuanbai felt sorry for this group of officials, and specially made great efforts in the imperial kitchen. When the officials were bathing, the dishes were already served, and the drinks were also available.
When the courtiers saw this delicious feast, they all roared in their stomachs, and the eunuch who led the way said with a smile: "The sage has said, let the adults eat first, and wait for a full meal. After you are full, please invite all the adults to discuss the matter together."
"The little ones are waiting outside the door. If the adults are short of drinks and tea, just give it a call."
All the eunuchs withdrew and waited for orders at the door. Without these palace attendants in the house, many people could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Mr. Mi was the first to take the seat, and it was rare to say lightly: "My lord, don't be restrained, this is the heart of the Holy One waiting for me. Raise your cups and chopsticks, and eat to your heart's content."
After taking a bath, it is delicious food. After the officials are full, they are all red, and the tiredness of rushing to the horse has disappeared.
Only then did Gu Yuanbai summon them.
The officials were in high spirits, and they saluted Gu Yuanbai, and Lord Censor Mi of the Procuratorate prostrated loudly: "My minister pays homage to the sage!"
"Get up," Gu Yuanbai smiled and said a few words in succession, "I am very pleased that you have found so many corrupt officials and worms of the common people. It is precisely because you are here. , I Daheng can become more and more prosperous, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.”
The officials quickly and humbly declined, and Mr. Mi stepped forward and told Gu Yuanbai about some things worthy of reporting on this trip.
Each of them submitted a certificate, and they also handed over the certificate of the local officials. This is also to prevent the anti-corruption from going too far. The censors in the capital used their power to bully others, but instead guarded and stole themselves.
Gu Yuanbai looked at Zhezi while listening to Master Mi's words. In fact, these words were written in the book, but Mr. Mi was afraid that the book was not detailed enough, so he said more.
After he finished speaking, Tian Fusheng personally offered a cup of tea, and Mr. Mi hurriedly thanked: "Thank you father-in-law."
"Master Mi has handled it very well," Gu Yuanbai nodded in agreement, "Whether it is the handling of the Lizhou bandits or the handling of the corrupt officials, it is in my heart."
"I'm ashamed," said Mr. Mi, "The Sage has already set a charter before the anti-corruption campaign. How much money you embezzle will be punished. I'll just follow the rules set by the Sage."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, then said a few words to them in a warm voice, and let them go to rest first.
Kong Yilin stayed alone.
He is tall and tall, and his back, which was somewhat hunched in the past, has been completely straightened after this long experience of up to two months. "
Tian Fusheng took his memorial, Gu Yuanbai opened it and smiled, "Kong Qing did a great job."
After confirming Kong Yilin's ability along the way, Gu Yuanbai asked people from the Supervision Office to contact him. After some testing, Kong Yilin was surprised at first, but he quickly calmed down and respectfully accepted the task that Gu Yuanbai gave him.
Kong Yilin bowed deeply, "I live up to my mission."
Gu Yuanbai asked him to do two things. One is to explore the folk customs along the way and find local valuable and developable resources. The second is to check the situation and level of education of people in various places where they have concealed their hukou.
Among the one million people in ancient times, only tens of thousands were literate. After Kong Yilin's investigation, he found some remote places, and there have never been any scholars for decades.
Every time the imperial court issued any decree or good policy, because of different roads and blockage of news, these remote places never received the information from the imperial court.
And the number of people has discovered a lot of hidden leaks.
After Jingnan and Jiangnan were held in Gu Yuanbai's hands, he immediately issued an order for the prefectures, prefectures, counties, towns and towns to sort out household registrations and servitude. Some places suffered military disasters and plunder by rebels, and Gu Yuanbai also exempted two years of taxation in places where the losses were severe.
To sort out the household registration, officials need to come to the door in person, go from house to house to count the number of people and check the appearance and age of the people, to see if it matches the information recorded in the official government.
This project is huge and the progress is slow, but as long as the approximate number of people missing in these two places is counted, the whole country can be roughly known.
Gu Yuanbai also wanted to take advantage of the anti-corruption enthusiasm to bring up the statistics of household registration and labor.
The sage slowly turned the memorial, and said casually: "Kong Qing should know that there is a supervision department in the dark."
Kong Yilin regained his spirits, held his breath and bowed deeply, "I do know."
Kong Yilin looked calm, but the sword of nature took a slant. After knowing the existence of the Supervision Department, he was almost in awe of Gu Yuanbai.
When the power fell and the traitorous officials were in power, it was possible to build such an organization. The emperor's temperament and temperament are so powerful.
Therefore, when he understood the role and significance of the Supervision Office, Kong Yilin accepted the secret decree of the Holy Master without much thought. The Supervision Department is a knife in the dark, and this feeling of being hidden in the dark is very attractive to Kong Yilin.
Gu Yuanbai smiled, put the finished book on the table, picked up the teacup, said nothing, and drank the tea leisurely.
After a long while, Kong Yilin smiled bitterly. He was the first to lose and bowed again, "I don't know if I have the ability to enter the Supervision Department of the Sage?"
"Does Kong Qing really want to go in?" Gu Yuanbai's face suddenly became serious, he sat up straight, and looked at Kong Yilin with dazzling eyes, "Kong Qing has great talents, and he has a lot of views on governing the country. If you enter After the Supervision Office, even if you have made merit for me, these things will not be known to others."
Kong Yilin smiled, "I have an official position, I would like to share the worries of the saint."
Gu Yuanbai smiled and wrote lightly: "What if I want to attack Xixia?"
Kong Yilin was attentive, he thought about it carefully, and after finishing the draft, what came out was the terrain of Xixia.
Where there is a lot of water, where there is a deep miasma in the forest, where the plank road has been in disrepair for a long time. Kong Yilin told what he had seen and heard when he went to Xixia, and finally stopped when his mouth was dry, "Sacred Lord, this minister has shallow knowledge and only knows this."
Gu Yuanbai pondered for a moment, "Give me tea."
Kong Yilin took the tea, but he was not in a hurry to drink it, but smiled slightly and said sincerely: "Sir, it was Daheng's water and soil that raised me. It was Daheng's knowledge that gave me fame. , is the Holy One."
He paused, then said, "If one day I will turn to Xixia in the war between Daheng and Xixia," Kong Yilin's eyes were slightly lost, "that must be a place where Daheng no longer has a place for ministers."
Because the emperor of Daheng has an extremely open and generous mind, that is why Kong Yilin dares to say these words.
It's just that accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger, and his words also have the element of gambling. Kong Yilin even gambled calmly, and he won the gamble.
Gu Yuanbai asked him to retire and have a good rest. Before he left, he did not forget to instruct him, "What Kong Qing said about Xixia just now will be handed to me in ten days."
Kong Yilin should say yes and quietly retreated.
Early the next morning, when he went to court, Gu Yuanbai announced that he would re-count the household registration and sort out the labor.
The tediousness and detail of this matter can be said to be overwhelming. It took two full hours in the early morning, and only after the ministers were all hungry, did they roughly discuss a specific process.
After the court, the majestic saint was still wearing court clothes, but his face was already pale.
The captain of the guard came up to the table with the saint on his back. The meal on the table had just been served, and it was still steaming. The palace maids and eunuchs stepped forward and took off the accessories and clothes worn by the saint in an orderly manner.
After all the things were removed, Gu Yuanbai supported himself, and after a dozen deep breaths, his eyes were not blackened.
The imperial doctor came in a hurry, five or six people stood aside, Gu Yuanbai glanced at them, his head was full of sweat, he stretched out his hand weakly, and put it on the table for them to check the pulse.
Among these imperial physicians, every one of them was very familiar with the saint's physical condition. They carefully observed the saint's complexion, and let the saint stick out their tongues to inquire about Tian Fusheng's symptoms today, and dared not let it go. The slightest reason.
Tired, hungry, hot.
Nothing more than these.
Gu Yuanbai cooperated every step of the way, even if there were five or six imperial doctors who needed to come forward to re-diagnose and treat them one by one, he also cooperated very well.
The imperial doctors gathered to discuss, Gu Yuanbai's breathing was a little heavy, Tian Fusheng put a bowl of white porridge for the saint, "sister, do you need to add some small ingredients?"
"No," Gu Yuanbai, "that's it."
After barely using up a bowl of porridge, my stomach finally felt better. The imperial physicians also discussed a method. After giving the prescription to Tian Fusheng, they said worriedly: "Sir, the prescription you are taking needs to be changed to a few tonics."
Gu Yuanbai held up a spoonful of porridge and said without changing his face, "Change it."
"It's still the same as before, hand over the prescription to the imperial hospital, and ask each imperial doctor to sign his name after reading it," Gu Yuanbai said, "If more than 90% agree, then change it, you don't have to come and tell me."
The imperial physicians hesitated: "...Yes. Please also take care of the dragon's body, don't get tired, don't get tired."
"Go." Gu Yuanbai said.
After the imperial physicians left, Gu Yuanbai remained silent and continued to drink white porridge.
There was silence in the palace.
"How is Concubine Wan's body?" Gu Yuanbai broke the silence and asked suddenly.
Tian Fusheng said cautiously: "Go back to the sage, because the weather has turned cold in the past few days, Concubine Wan has not been out of the palace gate for many days. But the palace attendant beside the concubine said that the concubine has a good appetite these days. "
Gu Yuanbai breathed a sigh of relief, "It's fine if it's good."
He was a little lost.
The saint is tall and slender, but a little thin. Layers of clothes can also show a little bit of health.
It's just that this health is manifested after all.
Tian Fusheng had a sour nose for a while, "Sir, you must take care of your health."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "That's natural."
After breakfast, Gu Yuanbai had no energy to deal with government affairs, so he lay back on the bed to rest. The people outside were guarding the hall, and Guard Zhang was worried, "Mr. Tian, this body of the sage..."
Tian Fusheng sighed, but the chief guard stopped talking.
"The Sage is here, it is a mountain that shakes everyone," Tian Fusheng whispered after a while, "As long as the Sage is here, no one in the Daheng Dynasty would dare to do anything out of the ordinary."
The head guard said, "Yes."
"More than that," Tian Fusheng laughed, "the small countries outside, as long as the saint is still there, they will not dare to take a step. People outside the Great Wall think about our food and good things every day. The Great Wall has been stopped, and we have to stop it by our saint. Didn’t we General Xue go to fight the nomads? When General Xue fights back hard, they will know how powerful it is.”
The captain of the guard couldn't help laughing, but these words need not be said, they all know.
For them, as long as the saint is still there, Daheng will be a day for Haiyan Heqing.
But it is also because of this that the Holy Spirit's body is much more worrying for them.