Kyoto, Great Wei.
Dawn.
It was just after dawn and the whole of Great Wei Kyoto was already bustling with activity.
There were also long queues outside the doors of the major academies.
Most of them were scholars, but there were also many people.
Since the advent of the Great Wei Literary Gazette, it has broken the unchanging life in Great Wei Kyoto.
People are looking forward to the second issue of the newspaper.
However the second issue of the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper has to wait for another day.
But this Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper has attracted the curiosity of the entire population of Kyoto.
After all, there was the Great Wei Wenshang newspaper in the first place, so naturally people were looking forward to the second issue.
The same type of thing did not attract the people’s disgust.
It was only when someone told them about the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper that the people began to swear.
The people of Kyoto all knew that the Great Wei Wen Wei newspaper was created by Xu Qingnian, but they never thought that from the mouth of the Great Wei Wen Palace it would turn out to be Xu Qingnian’s idea of copying the Great Wei Wen Palace?
The most disgusting thing about this is that the great scholars of the Palace even demanded that Xu Qingnian return the Great Wei Wen Wei newspaper to the Palace.
This is really outrageous.
I’ve seen shameless people, but never such shameless people.
For a while, the people cursed angrily, but when the Wen Palace readers publicised the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper, many things changed.
Many of the readers ran around informing the world that the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper was different from the Great Wei Wen Wei Newspaper in that the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper did not only contain the affairs of the world and the state, but more importantly, the great scholars of the Great Wei Wen Palace would also write down their own words of perception.
How could these words not attract the world’s readers? And the people?
Although they support Xu Qingnian, the question is, who doesn’t have a child in their family?
The great scholar’s enlightenment was something that could not even be bought outside, so naturally, for the sake of their children, they had to hold back their disgust.
So it was just after dawn.
All the major schools were already in full swing.
Many people, both readers and citizens, were already queuing up to buy them.
The first issue was also twenty wen a copy, and did not come down in price straight away.
The Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper was prepared for many things, such as printing, and was at least much better prepared than the Great Wei Wen newspaper.
Having learned from the past, there was no room for error.
However, when the crowd bought the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper, many people’s faces changed.
The front page of Xu Qingnian’s Great Wei Wengsheng newspaper contained the matter of the ‘Six Ministries’.
However, the front page headline of the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper of the Great Wei Wen Palace read ‘The arrogance of a child’.
Just by reading this headline, the people and readers of Kyoto froze in their tracks.
Who didn’t know that the Great Wei Palace of Literature had a grudge against Xu Qingnian?
And this child’s arrogance was clearly a humiliation of Xu Qingnian.
The Great Wei Palace described Xu Qingnian as a child, which was really riding on Xu Qingnian’s face and cursing him.
People instantly realised that the Great Wei Palace of Literature was clearly going to fight Xu Qingnian to the end this time.
This fight will definitely be divided into winners and losers.
However, the content of the show was a little better, but many people’s eyes fell directly on the ‘Wen Gong Confucian Talks’.
This is what everyone wanted to see.
The insights of a great scholar.
This great scholar was Zhang Ning, who had given various presentations in the court yesterday.
And the title was ‘Childish Hubris’.
Zhang Ning’s insights are simple, starting with character.
The first half of the piece is about the importance of respecting the saints, which is fundamental to being a scholar.
The first half of the book is very well written, and the seriousness with which it talks about these insights is quite rewarding.
But the second half is a different story.
In the second half, Zhang Ning gives an example of a time when he went to visit a good friend who was teaching.
There were two children, one who respected his elders and the saints, but had average qualifications and was a child of a poor family.
The other, on the other hand, was uncaring and arrogant, but had excellent qualifications and was very intelligent, and his family was rich and wore gold and silver.
Zhang Ning’s friend asked him at the time, “Who do you think will become a great talent in the future?
Zhang Ning replied straight away, the child of a poor family.
Zhang Ning’s friend was very curious about the poor family’s child, who had average qualifications, and how others could comprehend reading after just one reading, as if this rich child could understand it after just one reading.
Why did he think that this child from a poor family would become a great talent when he grew up?
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ning stated what he had in mind. He believed that a person who reads needs character, as well as virtue, respect for elders, respect for saints, and a humble heart at all times.
Although he was now of average qualifications, he respected the saints and would gradually come to understand their meaning, whereas this rich boy, although now gifted and intelligent, was arrogant and disrespected his parents, with his clothes in his hand and his mouth open.
He has no respect for the saints and no respect for other people, and sooner or later he will pay the price for his arrogance.
At the end of the story, ten years later, the child of a poor family becomes a top student and achieves success in the examinations, while the rich boy, whose family has fallen on hard times, reads for a few years, but is so arrogant that he even becomes addicted to gambling, and his family is broken and his wife is scattered.
It is impossible to argue with this story, whether it is true or not, but many readers instantly understood what Zhang Ning was actually saying again with this tale.
He was satirising Xu Qingnian’s arrogance.
He was letting the world know that Xu Qingnian’s arrogance was only a moment of prestige, but sooner or later his family would be broken and his wife scattered, a sad fate.
But the feeling that should be there is still there, this is just dark sarcasm.
And so it was, two hours later.
The Great Wei Palace of Literature.
A line of figures entered the Palace, all with smiles that could not be concealed.
“Good news, good news! The four great academies have sold out of 800,000 copies of the Great Wei Literary Sage! Sold out!”
“Good news, good news! Kyoto North Street, thirteen academies, 130,000 copies of the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper sold out!”
“Glad tidings! Good news!”
Voices rang out within the Great Wei Wen Palace, instantly drawing the attention of countless great scholars and Confucians.
How could they not be surprised that hundreds of thousands of copies of the newspaper were sold out at every turn?
How could they not be surprised? It had only been two hours, but so many had been sold?
In the middle of the Palace of Literature, Yan Lei sat in his room, listening to the happy news that kept ringing out, his face full of smiles.
The few great scholars in the room were also full of smiles.
“Teacher, in two hours, the 1.5 million copies of the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper have all been sold out, there are still a large number of readers and people who have not yet bought them, they want the Wen Palace to print more, teacher should we continue to print more?”
A Confucian student opened his mouth to ask, this was a student under Yan Lei, and his face was also full of joy.
“No need!”
“One and a half million copies will be enough, we are not people like Xu Qingnian, thinking of earning silver from the people.”
“These will be enough.”
Yan Lei slowly spoke, but there was a smile on his face that he couldn’t hide.
“Yes!”
The latter nodded and left the room immediately afterwards.
At this moment, Yan Lei, Zhang Ning and the two great scholars of the Zhu Sheng lineage were left in the study.
“Congratulations to Yan Ru, congratulations to Yan Ru, Peng Ru really did not choose the wrong person, let you be the main author, this day sold a million and a half copies.”
“If it weren’t for Yan Ru’s unwillingness to enrich himself with Xu Qingnian’s little boy, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be too much to sell two million copies today.”
Zhang Ning opened his mouth and smiled towards Yan Lei with an arch of his hand.
Yan Lei had already been deprived of his Confucian position, but his status was still here, and the person behind him was Peng Ru, so people would still more or less call out to Yan Ru.
The people behind him are the Peng Confucius, so everyone would still call out to Yan Ru.
When he heard Zhang Ning’s complimentary words, Yan Lei could not help but smile.
“The main thing is that Zhang Ru’s article is well written. Yesterday, I read it back and forth more than ten times, and it is really wonderful.”
“If it wasn’t for Zhang Ru’s article, I’m afraid that the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper would only have sold 500,000 copies at most.”
Yan Lei bragged about the latter, while Zhang Ning was also full of pleasure.
Today was an excellent start anyway, one and a half million copies, completely surpa*sing the first day’s sales of the Great Wei Wen sage newspaper.
That was enough.
“Yan Ru has spoken too much, too much, but Yan Ru, what your student said just now, I think it is good, this Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper, it is not impossible to continue to print more copies, the time is still early, it is perfectly possible to print some more copies.”
Zhang Ru spoke out, he was a bit curious, two hours, a million and a half copies had been sold, another half million copies could still be printed, why stop here?
He was curious.
Instead, Yan Lei smiled faintly and said, “Let’s leave the first issue like this first, let’s talk about it later, let’s talk about it later.”
Yan Lei gave a harrumph and did not explain.
However, his thoughts were very simple, generally speaking, the first few issues would naturally sell best, especially with the signboard of the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
People would naturally compete to buy it first, and if one wanted to sit in this position, the first few issues, one would have to knuckle down, in case one sold too many in one breath, and the next sold less, wouldn’t it be a disgrace?
Of course there is another most important factor.
Who wants others to be good? Who doesn’t want the insights they write to be seen by the world?
If Zhang Ning’s article had not been a satire on Xu Qingnian, would he have had a turn to be the first to report it?
At that very moment, suddenly, a cry of alarm rang out.
“Yan Ru, Zhang Ru, come out and take a look, come out and take a look, there is an auspicious omen, an auspicious omen.”
“Yan Ru, Zhang Ru, there are auspicious omens outside.”
“An auspicious omen has come, an auspicious omen has come, an auspicious omen has come for my Great Wei Palace of Literature.”
As a voice rang out, the four great scholars in the study instantly became somewhat curious as they hurriedly got up and headed outside.
As soon as they soon stepped out of the study, the two of them could not help but be surprised.
They only saw the dome of the sky above.
An incomparably thick public opinion had turned into a cloud of auspiciousness, among which were clouds of talent, gathering above the vault of heaven.
One, ten, eighty-nine.
There were eighty-nine in total, which were continuously coalescing.
“This! This! This!”
“This is public opinion, this is talent.”
A great scholar spoke up, pointing to the vault of heaven with auspicious signs, full of astonishment.
“How can this be so? Can it be that someone in the Great Wei Palace of Literature is about to become a great scholar?”
“How could such an auspicious omen appear for no good reason?”
In the Great Wei Wen Palace, many Confucians were curious, and they looked at the dome of the sky, honestly not knowing what was happening.
But at that very moment, the voice of Peng Confucian rang out, spreading throughout the entire Great Wei Wen Palace.
“The Great Wei Literary Saint has been rewarded with the people’s approval, and Zhang Ning’s enlightenment has been recognised by the Holy Will, with its own cloud of talent and public opinion.”
“When this cloud gathers one hundred and eight, it will fall into the Palace of Literature, and Zhang Ning will go even further, hopefully achieving the status of Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth.”
“Yan Lei will resume his position as a great scholar.”
“This is an auspicious omen for the Palace of Literature, Yan Lei and Zhang Ning, you must thank the Holy Graces and remember them in your hearts, and act impartially for the people of the world.
As the voice of Peng Ru rang out.
All at once, the people of the Great Wei Palace of Literature were shocked.
But the happiest of all were Zhang Ning and Yan Lei.
Zhang Ning stared blankly at the dome of the sky, and the next moment, he cried tears of joy.
He was already very old and had half a foot in his coffin, so it was impossible for him to reach the realm of the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth in his lifetime.
But what he did not expect was that he had only published an epiphany, yet he had received such a benefit and was expected to become a great scholar of heaven and earth.
If he became a great scholar of heaven and earth, it would not be enough to renew his life for twenty years, but more importantly, his name would be known for thousands of years.
This is a supreme honour for a scholar.
Naturally, he was excited and extremely thrilled, and his face was so red that he did not know what to say.
As for Yan Lei, he was even more excited inside, his face red with excitement.
It was a great shame that he had been deprived of his Confucian status by Xu Qingnian, and he honestly didn’t know if he would ever have the chance to return to the realm of the Great Confucian.
That’s why he did everything he could to get back at Xu Qingnian, to disgust him, even if he was shameless, even if he had to die, he would still bite off a piece of flesh from Xu Qingnian’s body.
But what I didn’t expect was that today I saw hope, the hope of returning to the Great Confucian.
This is simply unbelievable.
It was almost impossible for a great scholar to return to the realm of great scholars after he had been abolished, but now that he had satirised Xu Qingnian, there was such an advantage.
How could he not be excited? How could he not be excited?
Xu Qingnian, Xu Qingnian!
I copied your work.
I deliberately chose an article that insulted and ridiculed you.
But to my surprise, I got so much out of it.
The sages are with us!
You are destined to be nothing more than a mad student.
In the face of the Great Wei Palace of Literature, you are nothing more than a clown after all.
Yan Lei walked inside the study, he was so invigorated that he began to continue selecting articles for the next issue, he still wanted to select the kind of articles that ridiculed at abusing Xu Qingnian.
He wanted to make Xu Qingnian disgusted, to make Xu Qingnian feel uncomfortable, to make Xu Qingnian feel powerless.
This kind of feeling simply made him feel good from beginning to end.
However, the coloured clouds in this sky were still slowly coalescing, and at this rate, they would need to wait until tomorrow had pa*sed before they could coalesce into one hundred and eight auspicious clouds.
As for the rest of the great scholars and Confucian students in the Great Wei Palace of Literature, after seeing this scene, there were inexplicably many thoughts in their hearts.
There was envy, displeasure, excitement, and so on.
Some envied Yan Lei for becoming the main author, while others envied Zhang Ning for being the first to publish an article.
Some were unhappy, thinking that Yan Lei did not deserve it, and that Zhang Ning had been chosen because he had sarcastically criticised Xu Qingnian, and that he had been given so much credit for doing so, and they were indeed unhappy and very unconvinced.
More of the great scholars and Confucian students, on the other hand, were uplifted and excited.
Because they saw the potential of the Great Wei Wen Sheng Daily and understood what it could bring them.
And at the same time.
Great Wei Kyoto.
Shouren Academy.
Chen Xinghe’s voice kept ringing out.
“Shameless! Shameless! Shameless!”
“Dog thief! Dog thief! Dog thieves!”
“This Yan Lei and Zhang Ning, they are really dog thieves!”
Chen Xinghe’s curses were extremely loud, he was rather arrogant in nature, usually even if he was a bit annoyed, he would not be like this.
But today he really couldn’t help it.
When the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper was released, he couldn’t resist his curiosity and bought a copy.
But when he took a look at it, he was a bit furious.
The state affairs piece is not to mention, but this Wen Gong Confucian talk is completely humiliating and sarcastic to Xu Qingnian.
The first thing he did was to call Xu Qingnian a child, a child who was arrogant.
Therefore, he first found Xu Qingnian and informed her of this matter.
However, in the study.
When Xu Qingnian saw the article, he was not angry at all, but seemed calm.
There was no other reason than that, copying someone else’s stuff and saying that they had copied their own.
What else is there to say when you’ve come this far? People don’t attack themselves and praise themselves?
And using something so subtle to bash yourself is already considered very dignified, and Xu Qingnian wasn’t even surprised when he came across a hardened one who cursed directly on top.
The fact is that the government has asked Yan Lei to handle this matter, so he must have other purposes and plans.
It was just that he did not know about it for the time being, and even Chen Zhengru did not know about it either.
Since he understood that people had a purpose, then no matter what they did, Xu Qingnian didn’t care, just put his mind at ease.
“Senior brother, you’re not angry even at this?”
Chen Xinghe was a little dumbfounded, he had expected Xu Qingnian to be thunderously angry, but he did not expect that Xu Qingnian would continue writing after reading it.
“Senior brother, let them make a scene, just scold them twice.”
“It’s not like we don’t have to scold them? The big deal is just to scold them back tomorrow.”
Xu Qingnian put his pen down, then picked up this Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper and looked at it carefully again.
I have to say, a great Confucian is still a great Confucian.
The text was concise, and the words were well-written, and the best part was that they were used in such a way to satirise themselves.
With the use of fables, warnings to the world, and all sorts of rhetoric, it seems to be telling the world that one needs to be respectful in reading, to respect one’s elders, and to respect the saints.
With this intention in mind, it can basically be said that there is no solution.
After all, who parent would want their children to disrespect themselves? Who parent does not want their children to be filial?
And no one wants their children to be arrogant and arrogant.
The most brilliant tactic is that these great scholars know how to win the hearts of the people and deliberately use the children of the poor to compare themselves with the children of the rich.
There are definitely more poor people than rich people in this world.
Even in Great Wei Kyoto, the poor are 90% of the population, but of course this poverty does not refer to the amount of wealth, but rather to the comparison of other people’s wealth.
This was a trick that Zhang Ning had played quite well.
As for whether it was true or not.
Who is Zhang Ning? Ten years ago he was also a great Confucian, so what was his friend? Would it be an ordinary person?
Not to say a great scholar, but a Confucian scholar, right? How could a student of a Confucian scholar be so poor?
It was at this moment.
Zhang Ruhui’s voice rang out.
“It’s not good, it’s not good.”
“Xiandi, Xiandi.”
Zhang Ruhui ran all the way to Xu Qingnian and spoke in a loud voice, he was also holding a copy of the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper in his hand.
“What’s wrong?”
Xu Qingnian spoke in a calm tone, subconsciously thinking that Zhang Ruhui was just like his senior brother.
But the next thing Zhang Ruhui said caused Xu Qingnian and Chen Xinghe’s faces to change.
“Sage Brother, it’s not good, this Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper has sold one and a half million copies, attracting auspicious clouds of public opinion and auspicious clouds of talent.”
“It is gathering on top of the Great Wei Wen Palace, and news has spread that when the auspicious clouds have completely finished coalescing, Yan Lei is expected to resume his position as a great Confucian, while that Zhang Ning, I heard, is expected to step into the realm of the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth.”
Zhang Ruhui said with a not-so-great face.
When this was said, Chen Xinghe’s face changed as he was filled with shock.
While Xu Qingnian’s face changed, he was curious.
“Public opinion auspicious clouds? Talented auspicious clouds?”
Xu Qingnian was indeed curious, he didn’t care about talent, but he cared about public opinion.
“Yes, Xiandi, come out and take a look, look to the east.”
Zhang Ruhui dragged Xu Qingnian out of the room and pointed to the east.
Sure enough, to the east of Wei’s capital, auspicious clouds coalesced, really the clouds of public opinion.
“So this is what the newspaper does.”
Looking at the auspicious clouds in the east, Xu Qingnian could not help but murmur to himself.
In fact, Xu Qingnian had also thought of writing some fables in it, only that it was not quite suitable at the moment, but he did not expect that the Great Wei Wen Palace had coalesced public opinion by mistake.
This was a good thing for himself.
What he lacked now was public opinion.
“Xiandi, what should we do? If Yan Lei is reinstated as a great Confucian again, and also if that Zhang Ning becomes a great Confucian of Heaven and Earth, I am afraid that it will only be a bad thing for you.”
Zhang Ruhui said this.
Once this was said.
Xu Qingnian fell silent.
Zhang Ruhui was absolutely right, Yan Lei was already determined to find himself in trouble.
If he had only scolded him, Xu Qingnian would not have cared.
It was not like he had never scolded Yan Lei before.
But if Yan Lei scolded himself, how could he still gain public opinion and talent?
Then Xu Qingnian would not be convinced.
“If I’ve abolished his Confucian position once, I can abolish him twice.”
Xu Qingnian spoke indifferently.
Once he said this, he turned around and returned to his room, putting pen to paper.
Originally, Xu Qingnian had planned to let Zhang Ruhui find some random person to write something to disgust him back.
But now he couldn’t.
He wanted to personally fight back, and not just fight back, he wanted to abolish Yan Lei’s position as a Confucian again, and cut off Yan Lei’s thoughts of returning to being a great Confucian.
The first thing he wanted to do was to cut off the idea of Yan Lei’s return to the rank of great scholar.
As Xu Qingnian walked into the study, Zhang Ruhui and Chen Xinghe did not go in outside, as they were afraid of disturbing Xu Qingnian.
And at this moment.
The matter of the Palace of Literature had already spread throughout the entire capital, and it was impossible not to pay attention to such a big movement.
The Ministry of Justice.
Chen Zhengru looked at the vision of the Great Wei Palace of Literature and could not help but frown.
“This way, Yan Lei will be the main author, and the rest of the great scholars will have to scramble to satirise Xu Qingnian if they want to gain public opinion.”
“It may seem like gaining public opinion, but in the long run, it will collapse the hearts of Confucians, and sooner or later, something will happen.”
“Pengru, Pengru, what the hell are you thinking, and what the hell are you up to!”
Chen Zhengru muttered, he saw the future, and more importantly, he was still curious as to what Peng Ru was up to.
What exactly was the Great Wei Wen Gong trying to do again.
As Prime Minister of Great Wei, he had actually been expelled from the core from the moment he became Prime Minister, because he was an official of Great Wei.
The Great Wei Wen Gong, in turn, is the Great Wei Wen Gong, and there is a fundamental difference between the two.
The Ministry of Penalty.
Zhang Jing and Gu Yan both looked at the auspicious clouds of the Palace of Literature and could not help but frown.
And there on their table was the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper.
“Ridiculing Shouren, to get public opinion? The Wen Palace’s tactics are truly remarkable, using this way to satirise Xu Shouren and at the same time whitewash it so beautifully, it is truly a literary man who puts pen to paper, life and death is said.”
Gu Yan opened his mouth in this way, and to be honest his heart was also a little upset.
“Lord Gu, after today, I’m afraid that all the writings of the great scholars will be directed at Shouren.
Zhang Jing also spoke out, he could also see what the next situation of the Great Wei Palace of Literature would be.
“This matter, Shouren should have a solution, otherwise, he would have come to us, we are old, let Shouren do it himself, how can we grow if we don’t go through the storm?”
Gu Yan did not say much more, he wanted to help Xu Qingnian at first, but after thinking about it what could he do to help Xu Qingnian?
What could he do to help Xu Qingnian? Would it be useful? If I may say something disrespectful, does the Great Wei Palace have His Majesty in its sights?
Ministry of Works.
Li Yanlong is training artisans, the waterwheel project has been thoroughly implemented and most of the places are up and running.
Where is the time to bother with such matters.
Ministry of Rites.
Wang Xinzhi was frowning and silent, while in front of him, stood a man.
It was Hua Xinyun.
Wang Xinzhi was torn and kept silent.
Hua Xinyun didn’t say anything either, just waited quietly.
After a long time, Wang Xinzhi slowly exhaled a breath and said.
“Tell Pengru that I am old and about to retire, so I don’t want to stir up trouble.”
Once this was said, Hua Xinyun made a slight bow and left immediately afterwards.
Not a single word was spoken.
After Hua Xinyun had left, Wang Xinzhi’s five fingers clenched his fist and his tiger’s mouth turned white, looking unusually angry, while his gaze fell on the auspicious clouds in the east.
The Ministry of War.
“D*mn it, these dogs, insulting Shouren like this, and yet they still manage to gain public opinion?”
“Shouren, ah Shouren, if you don’t fight back properly, from now on, I’ll look down on you.”
Inside the Shang Shu Room, the curses of Zhou Yan, the Minister of War, continued to ring out.
He was a member of the military family, it was normal for him to be hot-tempered, and it was also normal for him to be unstoppable in his mouth.
The Minister of War, the highest ranking minister, what could he do with a few curses? Even if he scolded a great scholar in the room, what could he do?
What would you fear from a group of scholars?
As for the major state dukes’ and lords’ residences, there were also curses.
The fact is that the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper is so disgusted with Xu Qingnian, and even brought out something like childish arrogance to satirize Xu Qingnian.
How could they have imagined that it would have rallied public opinion?
How could this not make them angry?
There was something really disgusting about it.
But they were still cursing.
The auspicious clouds above the Great Wei Palace of Literature continued to gather again and again.
One after another.
Ninety clouds have now formed, and only the last nine are needed.
At that time, Yan Lei might be able to regain his Confucian status.
All that Xu Qingnian had done would have been in vain.
In the Imperial Palace of the Great Wei.
Inside the Hall of the Nurtured Heart.
The empress sat on the dragon chair, her expression looking a little cold.
In front of her sits a man, Li Guangxiao.
However, the Empress’s cold expression was not because of the Great Wei Wen Sheng Newspaper, but another matter.
In front of Li Guangxiao, a pile of zhengzhi appeared like a small mountain.
Some of them were sent from all over the world, while others were secret reports collected by the Secretary of State for Rites.
It must be said that most of the secret reports sent from all over the world were ambiguous, but the secret reports collected by the Secretary of State for Rites were incomparably meticulous.
At this moment, she felt the power of this killing sword, but the information collected by the Secretary of State was not a good thing.
Li Guangxiao finished reading these zhenqi quickly, and eventually his face became a little unpleasant.
After Li Guangxiao had finished reading them, the empress spoke out.
“Since the end of the birthday ceremony, many foreign states, and the barbarians in the north, have been coming and going closely, even to the extent that the Minister of Rites has paid hundreds of lives in exchange for important information.”
“The sudden evil dynasty and the first Yuan dynasty, with the help of the northwestern clan kings, transported huge amounts of grain and silver.”
“Teacher, what do you think of this matter?”
The empress spoke out, her expression indifferent as she said this.
Once this was said.
Li Guangxiao was silent.
But after a while, Li Guangxiao could not help but speak.
“Does Your Majesty mean to say that the barbarians are going to invade my Great Wei again?”
He spoke thus and asked thus.
“There is this possibility!”
The empress answered directly, without any hesitation.
At that moment, Li Guangxiao shook his head and said.
“It is almost impossible.”
“The late emperor’s seven northern expeditions did not end in victory, but they did beat the barbarians badly. Now Great Wei is in unparalleled decline, but the barbarians are also in unparalleled decline.”
“They do not have fertile land, nor do they have enough ability to recover, and it would not be wise for them to dare to offend our Great Wei again.”
“This group of barbarians, although not as intelligent as my people of Great Wei, are not stupid either, and if they really come to attack, the king of the barbarians, will not agree!”
“Moreover, I have learned that a few years ago, the king of the barbarians, who has suffered a recurrence of his old wounds, may not last long, and his son is eyeing the kingdom, and the barbarian master also covets the throne.”
“It would be extremely detrimental to them if they were to commit a crime against Wei!”
“Your Majesty, I am afraid that such information is wrong.”
Li Guangxiao spoke up.
He explained very clearly.
It was not that he did not believe the empress, but that he did not believe this information.
The seven northern expeditions had emptied Wei’s treasury, but the problem was that the barbarians had also emptied their treasury.
It is impossible that the seven northern expeditions were just to run over and show their faces, right?
So Li Guangxiao did not think that the barbarians in the north would dare to invade Great Wei.
“No!”
“I don’t think the intelligence is wrong, the sudden evil dynasty and the first Yuan dynasty, so much aid for food, this is a precursor to the march of the army.”
“Furthermore, the va*sal kings are indeed foolish, and the Wen Gong has also been acting suspiciously recently.”
“All these things together, I, I can’t sleep or eat!”
The empress directly denied Li Guangxiao’s suspicions.
If, indeed, it was only such information, she would not feel that the barbarians in the north would dare to invade Great Wei again.
Right now, everyone was recovering from each other’s injuries, and whoever recovered first would strike first, this was perfectly fine.
But the question is, now that everyone has not recovered from their injuries, or even that this has only just stopped bleeding, you want to fight?
What is the purpose?
After the fight, what are you left with? Don’t you want the land of Great Wei?
After the fight, do you think you can eat Wei? Will the Chu Yuan Dynasty and the Tusi Dynasty allow it?
I’m sure they won’t allow it.
But there’s movement in the Great Wei Palace, movement in the va*sal kingdoms, movement in the surrounding foreign states, movement in the barbarians in the north, movement in the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty.
If everyone is moving, then there is nothing impossible.
It was just that I didn’t know what they were actually conspiring about.
“Then what does Your Majesty mean?”
Li Guangxiao continued to ask.
“On the surface, press on, but secretly have the Ministry of War prepare and be ready to meet the battle at any time.”
The empress said with extreme dominance.
“May …….”
“The matter of the army, no matter what, cannot escape the eyes of the world, and if Your Majesty does this, she is only afraid that it will lead to another dispute over the Northern Expedition.”
“Not to mention how the military generals will look at this matter, any person who comes to start a rumor will make the people of Great Wei panic.”
“Wei is now on the road to prosperity, but if we suddenly go to war, it would be very unfavourable for us now.”
Li Guangxiao seriously analysed.
He did not persuade the empress, but analysed things, and left it up to the empress to decide what exactly to do.
Only at this moment, the Empress was silent.
Because what Li Guangxiao said was exactly right.
Don’t look at the military generals yelling about fighting every day.
If they really fought, it was not her who could not pa*s the first hurdle, but the people of the world.
The people were really afraid.
They are really afraid.
If they fought any longer, they were afraid that the people’s hearts would be completely broken.
In the end, she was silent, sitting on the dragon chair, not saying a word.
After a long time, the empress spoke out.
“Let’s leave it like this for now, I will send someone to continue surveying the situation.”
“If there is a real war, Great Wei has to fight, and must not fail to fight.”
The Empress agreed with Li Guangxiao’s words.
But she also took a stand.
If the barbarians in the north really dared to invade, she, as the Empress of Great Wei, would never retreat.
“Long live my emperor.”
Li Guangxiao breathed a sigh of relief as he agreed with the Empress’s words that the enemy would never retreat if they were fighting.
However, the reason for not dispatching the elite army of Great Wei now was to stabilise the hearts of the people.
“By the way, Your Majesty, have you read today’s Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper, Your Majesty?”
Li Guangxiao asked.
“Read it.”
“The behavior of the Wen Palace is extremely odd, and I have sent someone to secretly investigate.”
The Empress replied.
Hearing these words, Li Guangxiao did not say anything more and directly excused himself.
And at the same time.
In the capital of Great Wei.
Night had fallen.
All the major taverns were talking about the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper.
The people all looked very angry.
They felt that the Great Wei Palace of Literature had been shameless to such an extent that if you had talked about Confucianism, you could have said something about your feelings and people would have supported it.
But this Confucian talk was actually a sarcastic comment on Xu Qingnian!
This is really abominable.
However, too few people understood, most of them, at that time, did not see the other side’s meaning, after all, the whole text revolved around ‘character’.
It was a good thing for children.
So the first thing they did was to teach their own children, but after they had done so, they gradually realised that something was wrong.
Only in retrospect did they realise that this was not just humiliating Xu Qingnian?
How could the people not be angry?
But what could they do if they were angry? If they had taught their children these truths, they would generate public opinion, and the public opinion they generated could not be taken back.
After all, you have taught them to your children, and unless you explain the situation to them, perhaps public opinion will be taken back.
But the problem is that these are things that they don’t want their children to know either.
It was just that the more the people thought about it, the angrier they became.
They had always revered Xu Qingnian, but what they didn’t expect was to pay for a literary newspaper that scolded Xu Qingnian.
How could this not make them feel stifled?
In the tavern, there were curses.
“Lord Xu is so dedicated to the people, but these Confucian ministers, even if they are making all sorts of mistakes, insist on saying that Lord Xu is practising a different art, and as a result, Lord Xu has been recognised by the sages, but I never thought that this Zhang Ning would call Lord Xu arrogant! How shameless!”
“Arrogant? Lord Xu is so young, twenty years old, a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, a minister of the Da Lisi Temple, a count, and a new saint of Wei, so why shouldn’t he be arrogant? Besides, where is Lord Xu’s arrogance? If it weren’t for the people, Lord Xu wouldn’t be targeted like this at all.”
“This group of Confucians from the Great Wei Palace of Literature are really hateful.”
The curses of the people were extremely unpleasant.
But there was nothing they could do, they could only watch as public opinion coalesced, and perhaps Yan Lei would really be restored to his position as a great Confucian.
And that was when the people’s curses were heard.
There are also many among the reading public who feel uncomfortable.
The first issue of the newspaper, which was mixed with some dark sarcasm, was purely disgusting.
Of course, there are some readers who don’t think this way, but instead say that it’s the crowd who think too much and have to substitute themselves into it.
There was a lot of controversy between the two sides and the inevitable bickering ensued.
However, the crowd knew that Xu Qingnian’s character was such that there was no way he would sit back and wait for death.
Everyone was looking forward to how Xu Qingnian would fight back.
This quarrel lasted for a long time.
It went on until midnight, and the people went back to each other.
The readers also extinguished their anger for the time being and did not continue their tirade.
But everyone knew that today Xu Qingnian’s Great Wei Literary Report was coming out, and they were all inexplicably looking forward to it.
In the Great Wei Wen Palace, Yan Lei and Zhang Ning were picking their lamps at night.
The two of them are now like chicken blood, Yan Lei and Zhang Ning are picking out their articles respectively.
But anything that did not satirise Xu Qingnian was not wanted.
If the satire was not on point, they did not want it either.
This was repeated.
It was not until the ugly hour that they selected an article that they were quite satisfied with.
At the same time, they looked outside at the sky.
There were already one hundred and three auspicious clouds.
It was estimated that in a few more hours at most, the work would be finished.
They waited until the third hour of the ugly hour.
“Xu Qingnian, Xu Qingnian! I would like to see how you can fight against the old me.”
The lights in every house in Kyoto suddenly came on!
Many of the people woke up early and went straight to the bookstore to queue up and prepare to buy the literary newspaper.
When they woke up, however, they found that outside the bookstore, there was already a sea of people.
“Old Zhang, good man, you said you were going back to rest, but you didn’t sleep all night to queue up?”
“Old Li, you guy, you actually got up so early? Did you not sleep at all?”
The people instantly shouted, making an unbearable noise.
But they waited until dawn.
At last, the Great Wei Wen newspaper went on sale.
“I want a copy!”
“I want one too.”
“I’ll take one.”
In a flash, the people once again began to rush.
Perhaps it was because they had bought the Great Wei Wen Sheng newspaper that many of the people felt uncomfortable in their hearts and felt that they owed Xu Qingnian something.
So they stayed up all night to buy it.
Not only the people, but many scholars, including some powerful people, also sent people over to buy it.
And when the crowds got the second issue of the Great Wei Literary Gazette.
The faces of the people changed.
The headline of the second issue of the Great Wei Literary Gazette was extremely eye-catching.
[Doves and Magpies, Old but Not Dead]
As these eight words appeared, the crowd froze.
The first four words they did not understand what they meant.
But these last four words.
But these last four words made the crowd understand exactly what they meant.
Old but not dead.
Isn’t this another scolding of …… The first four words they understood were the last four words.
Xu Qingnian.
It’s really ……. fierce enough ah.
And at the same time.
Above the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
One hundred and six auspicious clouds had already been gathered.
Only the last two were missing.
Only, with the emergence of the Great Wei Wen Report, the coalescence speed inexplicably became extremely slow.
