How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

When Xie Chengze returned to Chenghuan Palace, he saw Xie Jinyu in the courtyard. He hurried over and asked with a smile, "Why is Jinyu here? Have you finished reviewing the memorials so early?"

Xie Jinyu looked at his flushed cheeks and smelled a faint scent of alcohol on him. She couldn't help but frowned slightly, "Did you drink?"

"A little bit~" Xie Chengze quickly took off the small wine bottle from his waist and handed it over as if asking for credit, "I brought it for you too~"

Xie Jinyu's frown finally relaxed slightly. He reached out to take the small wine bottle, summoned a palace servant, and ordered, "Go get the imperial physician."

"No need for that." Xie Chengze was frightened when he heard the word "imperial physician". "I really only drank a little."

"Drinking alcohol will affect the efficacy of the medicine." Xie Jinyu disagreed, and then coaxed, "Don't let the imperial physician give you more medicine, just check your pulse."

"That's fine~" Xie Chengze turned around and sat on the wooden chair, waiting for the imperial physician to come. He put his hands on his legs, looked down at his feet, and shook his toes, "Jin Yu..."

Xie Jinyu raised her eyes and looked at him, "Yeah."

"If my second brother dies one day, I don't mean running away from home, I mean dying." Xie Chengze raised his head and smiled, "Can you listen to Shen Yuan and be a good emperor?"

Xie Jinyu lowered his eyes, with unclear emotions surging in his eyes, "Did Second Brother sneak into the Jiantian Division and see things he shouldn't have seen?"

Xie Chengze's eyes suddenly wandered with guilt, "What are you not supposed to see? Second brother didn't have any."

Then he quickly reacted, "Wait? Is there anything that the Heavenly Supervisor shouldn't see?"

Xie Jinyu asked this, has he ever seen Tianyu?

Xie Jinyu slowly raised his eyelids. Without saying a word, he looked at the expression on Xie Chengze's face for a long time before saying, "Nothing."

"Brother, you must live well and live longer." The cuffs of his dragon robe tightened slightly, and Xie Jinyu raised a cruel smile, "If brother dies before he is forty, I will kill Shen Yuan's entire family."

Xie Chengze's eyes suddenly widened.

You could just kill Shen Yuan, why did you kill Shen Yuan's entire family?

What did Shen Yuan's family do wrong?

"Did you hear that, brother?" Xie Jinyu stood up and squatted in front of Xie Chengze's wooden chair. She put her arms around his waist and buried her head in his arms. She said in a deep voice, "If Shen Yuan comes to discuss state affairs with you, you will kick him out."

"..." Xie Chengze thought, it seems that Xie Jinyu did see Tianyu.

Otherwise he wouldn't have lowered his requirements so low that he only hoped he could live to forty years old.

He saw the content of the last oracle clearly.

His Highness Cheng Huan was born, and the lucky star descended from heaven. Hui Qi, the common people, spent their lifespans, and returned to the dream of reincarnation without doubt.

The prophecy said that he would only live to the age of forty.

Xie Chengze calculated that it might be the time when he woke up from his coma after the doctor finished the rescue.

He could only stay with them for another twenty years.

Twenty years...

Xie Chengze touched Xie Jinyu's head in his arms and couldn't help feeling sad: It seemed that he couldn't marry and have children here.

Otherwise it would just waste the girl's time.

……

When the imperial physician arrived, he saw Xie Jinyu leaning on Xie Chengze, and did not dare to look at him any more. He took his pulse tremblingly and said, "Master Imperial Master is in good health. Just don't overwork yourself, eat light meals, and drink a little wine occasionally."

Xie Jinyu then felt relieved and waved his hand to signal the imperial physician that he could leave.

He returned to the imperial study before he finished reviewing the memorials, and did not let Xie Chengze accompany him, for he was worried that Xie Chengze would be too bored in the imperial study and would not be able to resist reading the memorials, and then start to overwork himself because of worrying too much.

After Xie Jinyu left, Xie Chengze began to prepare for Xie Shoujun's birthday gift.

Ten birthday gifts, this was a piece of cake for Xie Chengze. He was also a boy, so he naturally knew what boys liked. Therefore, he stayed in the Ministry of Works every day, following Gu Lao and asking him to help him prepare birthday gifts.

Gu Lao was very annoyed and said, "Go ask Su Qinghe to do it."

"He's been busy going to the Hanlin Academy to find a bachelor to teach him recently, so he's not available." Xie Chengze muttered, "Why would I look for you? You're old and your eyes are blurry, and I'm afraid you'll do something wrong for me."

ancient:???

Who is saying that his eyesight is blurry?

Gu Lao, who was very susceptible to provocation, began to prepare a birthday gift for Xie Chengze.

As for Xie Chengze, nobody knew what he was doing in the furnace every day. From time to time, he would bring back some shells, plants and other things from outside the palace, and grind, filter and burn them. When asked what he was doing, he just shook his head, looking mysterious.

until a certain day.

Xie Chengze handed him a completely transparent piece of glass.

Gu Lao’s eyes widened.

"what is this?!"

"Glass." Xie Chengze said proudly, "To be precise, it's myopia glasses."

He discovered that ancient people were nearsighted, and lenses were necessary for making astronomical telescopes, so he found some materials and made a pair of myopic glasses himself.

Of course, he didn't know the degree of these slightly sloppy myopia glasses.

Gu Lao took the lens in his hand, reluctant to let it go. He put it in front of his eyes and tried to look at distant objects. He felt a little dizzy. After pushing it away a short distance, he felt that the vision was much clearer.

"I don't know how to change the degree specifically." Xie Chengze is only responsible for creating problems, not solving them. "You can study the rest of the ancients yourself."

"Oh, of course, you have to prepare my birthday gift first."

"No problem." Gu Lao showed great interest in myopic glasses and agreed immediately. He then summoned officials from the Ministry of Industry to study the uses of the glass together.

Xie Chengze patted his butt and left.

The prophecy was actually quite accurate. If he wanted to boost Jian'an's industrial development, he would definitely have to think hard, and using his brain was much more tiring than using his physical strength. It would also make him weak easily, and his life span would naturally be shortened.

What if you stay up all night and don't pay attention to your diet?

In ancient times when there were no high-level hospitals, it was very normal to die of illness in your forties.

and so……

After knowing the prophecy, Xie Chengze decided to just give everyone a start, and let everyone explore and research the rest freely on their own. He would just give some "guidance" as appropriate. Of course, it was definitely not because he was not good at learning and did not know the specific research methods, cough cough cough.

This way, he should be able to live a few more years.

The days passed quietly.

Xie Jinyu finally sent Xie Shoujun to the Turks for negotiations. The negotiations failed, and the two armies had a brief battle. The last round of gunpowder frightened the other side, and the other side honestly ceded land and released the people.

But Xie Shoujun was not satisfied with this. He seemed to be committed to expanding Jian'an's territory, trying to tire Xie Jinyu to death with more local memorials. So he took his new recruits and generals and "wandered" around the Turkic territory.

The good news received in the past few days made Xie Jinyu so angry that veins popped out on his forehead and he cursed loudly in the Golden Palace.

The ministers thought that this was clearly a good thing and didn't understand why His Majesty was so unhappy.

In the end, it was Xie Chengze who wrote a letter that made Xie Shoujun calm down and reorganize his army to return to the capital.

During this period, the Imperial College also opened.