The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

I didn't expect it to be true.

The saint also has a son who lives among the people. This is really a surprise and a shock!

"I sent Song Yuan to investigate for a long time, and almost all the human traffickers were wiped out, but we still haven't found the mother and son..."

It was obvious that the saint was very sad.

Cui Renjie understood very well. His first wife passed away some time ago and he felt he couldn't live anymore.

The emotions of youth are the purest and most sincere.

Most worth cherishing.

When Cui Renjie was assigned to be Zhao Zhen's teacher, he was only eight years old.

Many teachers had been driven away by this incident. As he was the youngest legitimate son and had lost his mother's protection at such a young age, the late emperor spoiled him very much.

In the end, the sage had no choice but to hand over the young son to Cui Renjie, the Hanlin scholar and vice-chancellor at the time.

Cui Renjie's achievement of this position was actually a preparation for taking over as prime minister.

He was busy with government affairs and also had to help the emperor take care of the baby. The baby was a troublemaker and once made Cui Renjie very troubled.

But later on, he increasingly discovered that Zhao Zhen was a spoiled brat.

In fact, he is very kind at heart, and he cares about the country and the people.

Compared with his three older brothers: Prince of Ning Zhao Yuan, Prince of Ping Zhao Heng, and Prince of Kang Zhao Li, Prince of Duan Zhao Zhen is actually the one who is most suitable to be emperor.

He is ambitious, capable, and courageous, and when he gets ruthless, he can be really ruthless.

I remember one time, he burned a traitorous servant to death.

But Cui Renjie was so scared that he wanted to quit his job.

It took the late emperor much persuasion before Cui Renjie reluctantly agreed to stay and continue teaching him.

Since then, Cui Renjie changed his strategy and focused on comforting Zhao Zhen with family affection.

He was afraid that if he was too strict, Zhao Zhen would take revenge on him later.

Even if you are a prince, you cannot be so cruel.

However, Zhao Zhen perfectly inherited the Zhao family's inherent character flaws such as timidity, suspicion, and double-crossing.

Cui Renjie really has very conflicting and complicated feelings towards this apprentice.

He felt that if the Zhao family could endure hardships and grow up in an ordinary family, they would still be good children.

Unfortunately, he was born into an imperial family and has been accustomed to the dangers of the world since childhood, so it is inevitable that he will be infected with some sinister thoughts.

Looking at the young man sitting and drinking in front of him, Cui Renjie even hoped that the saint could not find his son.

However, if the emperor has no offspring, there will inevitably be a stir in the government and the country, and the immediate successor will be changed, and sometimes there will be bloodshed.

What's more, if the emperor has no son, the bloodlines of other emperors Taizu and Taizong will also jump out to compete for the throne.

When that time really comes, many people will die.

Cui Renjie has devoted his heart and soul to the cause for decades and really doesn't want a situation like this to happen.

Although he and the saint jointly fanned the flames of this incident, those clowns all jumped out voluntarily.

If they were not greedy and selfish, how could they have fallen into the trap?

After talking with Cui Renjie, the saint went to see Ning Xuanmo again.

Xuan Mo is a typical young talent. He is only fifteen years old, but he has an upright figure and an elegant appearance, and you can already tell that he has the appearance of a genius.

Of course Shengren and Xuan Mo would put on airs and would not sit down and chat like they did with Cui Renjie.

But just sitting there doing nothing was not a good idea, so Zhao Zhen proposed to play chess with Xuan Mo.

The sage is good at this. He has also figured out many techniques of controlling people from playing chess, and can also see a person's character from his chess style.

Xuanmo’s chess skills are average, but he’s okay at playing poker.

So the two of them changed to playing poker, but at first the Saint was not very good at this game.

As a result, after I learned it, I became addicted and couldn't stop.

He came to the prison every day to play cards with Xuan Mo, and even didn't want to see Master Cui anymore.

Xuan Mo thought that he must not let the saint learn to play mahjong, otherwise he would really get addicted.

There was a lot of noise inside the court, but the prison was a very quiet place.

Apart from playing cards with the Saint, Xuan Mo has been reading.

In order to get Xuan Mo to play cards with him, the saint promised to bring him a book.

The richness of the palace's collection of books is naturally incomparable to that of ordinary people.

Xuan Mo remembered what Zhou Yue had said before. He wanted to reprint all the existing books so that all the children in Dahui would have books to read.

When playing cards with the saint, he pretended to bring up the matter unintentionally.

Unexpectedly, the saint was very interested.

The next time he came, he brought Xuanmo the wooden board, chisel, saw and other tools that he had always wanted.

And three days later, when the card game was over, he received a piece of movable type from Xuan Mo.

The saint thought this was very interesting and hurriedly took it back to the palace to play.

This plate is engraved with the simplest "Hundred Family Surnames", and there is no order to such an article.

The sage printed various versions of the Hundred Family Surnames and showed them to court officials during grand court meetings.

Everyone watched and talked about it, wondering how this was done.

When the saint demonstrated it to everyone, everyone thought it was actually very simple, and wondered why they hadn't thought of it before.

In fact, it’s not that no one has thought of it, but that many aristocratic families do not want such technological advances to challenge their monopoly on knowledge.

This time, the saint thought it was an opportunity.

Cui Xiang has been thinking about how to break this deadlock.

Now the opportunity has come. It is much better to break it from the inside rather than from the outside.

The sage overcame all objections and gained the support of some knowledgeable people in the court.

He decided to set up a national printing house, starting with printing Confucian classics.

Someone from the Ministry of Revenue was the first to object, saying there was no money.

Having no money is a big problem. In the past, once the Ministry of Revenue said it had no money, things often couldn't be done.

This time the saint did not indulge them. He immediately took out the money from his own private treasury and said that he would pay for it first and then return it to them when the Ministry of Revenue had money or the printing house made money.

The Minister of Revenue was shocked. When did the saint become rich?

What they didn't know was that the saint and the queen both had their own businesses.

The interest paid now is not too much, but if we add it together, we can still set up the printing house.

It happened that the imperial examination was about to start, so the printing house first printed some introductory books and excellent answer sheets from previous imperial examinations.

Enlightenment books can enable poor families to afford books and enlighten their children so that even if they cannot take the imperial examinations, they can learn to read.

And excellent answer sheets are prepared for those students.

In the past, all the excellent answer sheets were copied and passed down by each big family. Everyone was very secretive about them, and it was difficult to get one.

Now it’s better. It’s printed by the imperial court, and everyone can afford it, read it, and learn it. It’s a little bit fairer.

Under the saint's tough measures, movable type printing was promoted.

Three days before the imperial examination in Beijing was to begin, Qing Mo and his group returned.

Song Yuan was found and their relationship improved.

The case of Master Cui was also settled. The Dali Temple arrested a lot of people, and Cui Renjie and others were released without charge.