I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

A few days after the palace examination, news spread that Li Bao's youngest son, Li Huan, had contracted the disease of willow.

Everyone who heard about this incident was in an uproar, and they couldn't understand why Li Bao was such a great Confucian, why the youngest son in his family would contract such a disease.Li Bao was also extremely ashamed, he closed the door of the mansion early and stopped accepting guests.

A few days ago, Li Bao was highly praised, not only literati, but even great Confucian scholars who lived in seclusion in various places in Daheng wrote articles praising Li Bao for presenting punctuation marks, and letters flew to Li's residence like snowflakes.Such a grand occasion made Li Bao feel a little elated. He seemed to be ten years younger all of a sudden, with a ruddy complexion and a brisk walk.

The literati all over the world respect him so much, and with the three generations of glory promised by the Holy Majesty behind him, Li Bao has long forgotten the fear he felt when he promised the Holy Majesty to be the first bird, and he just felt as if he had been reborn.

But as soon as the news about Li Huan got out, Li Bao felt as if he had been slapped resoundingly.

He has been cautious all his life, and the two stains were all because of Li Huan.Li Bao's face turned red, he glared angrily at the youngest son on the bed, and kept saying, "Shame on you, shame on you!"

His eldest son was anxious at the side: "Father, if my younger brother's illness is criticized by others, how can I be an official? My face is shameless, and I only make others laugh. I feel ashamed when I hear it."

"What do people in the world think of us? The Holy Majesty has already said that he will keep the Li family alive for three generations, but if this happens to the Holy Majesty who wants to support me, what will the Holy Majesty think of me? My future cannot be ruined."

Li Bao shouted angrily: "Shut up!"

Li Huan's face turned blue, his lips trembled, and his handsome face had now become neither human nor ghost, and he was extremely embarrassed.Li Bao usually favors his youngest son because of his quick-wittedness and intelligence. The youngest son is good-looking and will please others, but since the last time he dared to break into the palace alone, Li Bao has become cold towards him.

How can a son who has no fame be more important than a whole family?

He was suppressed by the Holy Master because of his youngest son, who knows that good and bad will depend on each other, how can he know that Li Huan will cause trouble again with the prosperity of the past few days.

When Li Bao thought that those literati and Confucians would talk about him behind his back, he felt a sudden fire, so he went out of the room alone with a sullen face.

On the bed, Li Huan was sweating profusely, his consciousness was fuzzy, but he also heard the words "flower and willow disease".

Since meeting the Holy Majesty's startling glimpse three years ago, Li Huan's love interest has changed from a delicate woman to a beautiful man.Li Huan spends his days and nights, but no matter how beautiful these men are, they just hope for plums to quench their thirst.He was thinking of His Majesty in his heart, and he always remembered His Majesty's angry appearance, side face and blushing ears, and he really wanted to take another look.

But before meeting the Holy Majesty, he actually contracted such a dirty disease.

Li Huan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.Few people suffering from Hualiu disease can survive well. Thinking of this, Li Huan couldn't help but feel unwilling, and stretched out his weak fingers to his waist, and came across an exquisite sachet.

Someone suddenly asked, "What is this?"

Li Huan subconsciously said: "This is a baby."

"Honey," the man murmured, "that must be a good thing."

Li Huan suddenly felt that this person's voice was extremely strange, and he was startled, but the next second, he felt a pain in the back of his neck and fell into the deep darkness.

Xue Yuan's subordinates delivered the sachet to Xue Yuan.

Xue Yuan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and said casually, "Is it clean?"

"Don't worry, my lord, I have cleaned up the sachet," said the subordinate, "there will be no trace of sickness left."

Xue Yuan nodded, and slowly opened the sachet through the handkerchief.A strand of hair in the sachet slipped from it, and it was clearly defined on the light sachet.

Xue Yuan looked at this strand of hair, frowning slightly.

Twirling the black silk with fingertips, she walked slowly outside the door to face the scorching sun, the blue silk seemed to be coated with gold, beautiful and translucent in the brilliance.

Xue Yuan's expression changed suddenly, he turned around and took out the jade box hidden in the depths from the wooden box. Inside the white jade box were neatly arranged strands of hair. Look, it's exactly the same as the one in Li Huan's sachet.

As if carved in gold, it is rich and noble from beginning to end.

His face darkened.

Li Huan is really daring and deserves death.

Gu Yuanbai was busy with the imperial examination, and was busy counting the number of people from Xixia participating in the imperial examination. He never noticed that the youngest son of Li Bao's mansion fell ill.

After the palace examination, the household registration statistics of Jingnan and Jiangnan were completed, and the results were finally presented to Gu Yuanbai's desk.The previous situation of concealing and missing households was really serious. After the officials personally came to count the population, there were more than 60 more farmers in Jinghu Lake alone.

This living labor force has been concealed until now.

Gu Yuanbai had known for a long time that there would be an astonishing result after counting household registration and taxation. This project lasted for two to three years to ensure that people as small as villages would be counted by the government. There are more than 60 peasant households. How many acres of food do you plant?

According to the new statistics, the population of Jiangnan is 20 more than that of Jingnan.

Although Gu Yuanbai had expected it, he still felt annoyed.In the little emperor's memory, being the first emperor was tiring and hard work, and a large part of the reason was because of the leakage of hidden land.

So in the early morning, he lost his temper in three parts of truth and seven parts of falsehood.

Hundreds of officials were also shocked by this result. After Gu Yuanbai got angry, the capital issued orders to go in all directions, asking all provincial governments to follow up with counting the number of household registrations. Now there are the number of missing households in Jingnan and Jiangnan. If those provinces It can't be found out that hundreds of thousands are all fraudulent.

Before mining, Jinghu Lake was so poor that it had 60 people. Based on these two provinces, it is estimated that tens of millions of people in the whole country are not recorded in the official books.

As soon as the sage lost his temper, the local government tightened its skin and began to count the household registration from bottom to top.

In addition to the matter of household registration, Gu Yuanbai specially asked them to set up schools in various places, fearing that it would take a few years for the matter of student registration to be completed subtly.

And these things take time.

When the court area was busy, Gu Yuanbai packed up his things, and led his people into Xue Yuan's village on the holiday.

Xue Yuan's Zhuangzi has nothing special, only a dug pond and sweet-leaved grasses all over the mountains and plains.He wanted to bring Gu Yuanbai water, Gu Yuanbai looked at the sky, and changed into a thin shirt at noon.

The pond occupies the best spring scene in the village, once the courtyard walls are locked and the servants leave, there are only Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan in the courtyard.

Xue Yuan's hands were loosely resting on Gu Yuanbai's waist. He didn't even wear a thin shirt, but only wore boxer underwear that Gu Yuanbai sent someone to sew for him. I will teach you."

Gu Yuanbai, "I will."

Xue Yuan showed surprise, and then smiled, "The sage came up to teach the ministers, and the ministers don't know much about it."

Gu Yuanbai said sincerely: "Xue Yuan, your skin is really getting thicker."

When entering the water, Gu Yuanbai thought that even in the scorching sun, the water should be a little cool, but when he touched it with his finger, he was surprised to find that the water in the pool was actually hot.

I couldn't help but look back at Xue Yuan. At this moment, I suddenly felt, "The supervisor told me that you kept feasting and drinking in Huainan day and night, and big fish and big meat became ordinary things. I thought you would grow some meat, why did you take it off?" Looking at the clothes, it doesn't look like any flesh has grown?"

Xue Yuan said nonsense without changing his face: "I can't get fat if I eat anything."

In fact, he was afraid that Gu Yuanbai would not like it if he grew fleshy, so he spent a long time every day to keep his figure as handsome as before.

Gu Yuanbai believed it was true, and dived into the water from the edge of the pool.Xue Yuan was startled, and suddenly followed, the holy sage in the water jumped far away as soon as he moved his legs, Xue Yuan murmured: "I really know how to swim..."

He coughed, put his arm on the edge of the pool, and said loudly: "The sage came to save me. I haven't been in the water for a long time, and I forgot how to swim!"

Gu Yuanbai turned around to look, the black hair fell around and was lifted up by the surface of the water in the mist.Xue Yuan was so dazed, he forgot what he said just now, buried himself in the water and chased after Gu Yuanbai.

Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows, and the water droplets on his face jumped into the clear pool, "Master Xue, are you going to compare yourself with me?"

Xue Yuan stretched out his hand to grab his ankle, but when Gu Yuanbai dodged, the water created waves, Xue Yuan asked in a hoarse voice, "Compared to what?"

"As soon as I entered your Zhuangzi, I saw sweet-leaved grass all over the mountains and plains," Gu Yuanbai snorted, "A good Zhuangzi, don't plant some famous flowers and famous grasses to plant cheap weeds all over Zhuangzi, brother Xue, you are really Rustic."

Xue Yuan continued to approach him, "The Holy One likes sweet leaf grass."

Gu Yuanbai, "Huh?"

"The Holy Majesty tasted it when he was away from the summer palace, but forgot?" Xue Yuan said patiently, "The small grass leaves on the ground, when the people have no money and are greedy, they will pick some sweet grass to eat. You still say it is sweet at that time."

Gu Yuanbai said slowly: "I remember."

Xue Yuan smiled, "There are so many sweet-leaved grasses, if the Holy Majesty wants to take a look at them later, you can pick a few leaves with me and taste them."

"Okay," Gu Yuanbai said suddenly, "Xue Qing, call me by my name."

Xue Yuan immediately changed his words, "Yuan Bai."

"Good boy," Gu Yuanbai was satisfied, "If I win the competition with you, all your sweet leaf grasses will be mine."

"Then if I win..." Xue Yuan said slowly, "I am two years older than you, you should be called Brother Xue."

Gu Yuanbai turned around and walked forward, "Whoever gets to the other side first wins."

He's confident, skilled and long-legged.Now that he has robbed Xue Yuan so much, he can't believe that he can lose to him.But he didn't expect how persistent Xue Yuan was to the word "Brother Xue". in front of.

"My lord," urged, "you have lost."

Gu Yuanbai looked at him with an uncertain expression, and was so shocked that he couldn't believe it.Before he passed by, Xue Yuan had already fucking come back?

Xue Yuan circled Gu Yuanbai, and the water circle swayed in waves, "It's hard to follow a gentleman's words."

Originally, this word was nothing, elder brother was elder brother, it is nothing in modern times, Gu Yuanbai has been called father by many people.But now he is being stared at by Xue Yuan's scorching eyes, coaxed and urged by anxious voices, and he doesn't want to say it so simply.

He watched Xue Yuan's impatience with relish, and when Xue Yuan finally stood up anxiously, he said slowly: "Brother Xue, let's go and eat sweet grass."

However, Xue Yuan plunged headfirst into the water, bringing with it a stream of rushing water, and occasional roars of excitement.

Gu Yuanbai watched him scurrying about in the pool with a smile, shaking his hands and feet, feeling the warmth just in the pool, and then looked up at the clear sky, every cloud was beautiful.

What a day.

While relaxing, Gu Yuanbai suddenly felt as if he had forgotten something.His thoughts were slowed down by the water, and he closed his eyes and basked in the sun for a while, only to realize that he originally planned to take advantage of the rest to find a few children with good conduct for Gu Ran to read as companions.

Gu Yuanbai turned around in his mind, and a face of a young adult emerged - Chu Wei's fourth uncle, Chu Yi.