see the gentleman

It was quiet in the car.

Bai Chen seemed to be frozen and unable to move, but those pitch-black eyes were still looking at him, looking at him deeply.

"Really, Feng Lang never dreamed of me?"

The voice seemed calm, but there was something restless about that calm.It's like a turbulent current in still water.

Ji Yun couldn't help but began to feel that maybe it shouldn't be so heartless.

Why bother to hurt other people's hearts just to deceive yourself.

He opened his mouth to say something.

Bai Chen said, "Don't dream about me."

As if after being forced to stand still, he was finally able to move again. He leaned towards Ji Yun and touched Ji Yun's with his lips.Those lips were actually cold.

"Feng Lang, you should never dream of me."

"……why?"

"Don't dream about me. I'm here now. I'm real." Bai Chen's cold lips touched him, causing him to shiver slightly, "The me in the dream is fake."

Two days later, at noon on the third day, dark clouds pressed down on the sky for more than half a month, tearing the corners and leaking a few rays of sunlight.

It rained in the afternoon, gradually falling, pattering, and at sunset, there was not a single drop of rain falling.

The sunset glow that I haven't seen for a long time stretches from the sky to the end of my eyes.

The rainbow of seven colors hangs upside down in the sky.

It's like someone put a spell in their mouth, and after spitting it out, the world changed.

In the eyes of the common people, Ji Yun is probably the one with the spell in his mouth.

He has been king for decades, but Ji Yun has never felt that he is worshiped and loved by his people wholeheartedly.

As if to respect him like a god.

Although I couldn't help but feel guilty, I still accepted it lightly.

I also feel that being a wise king really gives people a kind of responsibility and honor.

Ji Yun asked Fan Ye to leave most of the people in Zhuolu, and brought only a dozen of them back to Liyang.

On the day of arrival, Gu Huan led a group of ministers to greet him in person at the pier. Soldiers blocked the perimeter and even surrounded a group of common people.

Most commoners are ignorant and only care about what is within their reach.And in their lives of poverty and being treated unkindly, to be valued by the emperor for such a time is enough to make them grateful for the rest of their lives.

Ji Yun's contempt towards them was natural and irreversible. Their stupidity, vulgarity and vulgarity all made him impatient.

But beyond that, he still felt the greatness of being a king.

Ji Yun got off the boat, and Bai Chen followed behind him.

Gu Huan was dressed in a general's uniform, his slightly curly hair was neatly tied up, and he put on a sapphire crown. He didn't wear a cap, revealing two flying sword eyebrows, which went straight to the temples. Under the eyebrows, a pair of green eyes watched Ji Yun look at him. As he came, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly without a trace.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Bai Chen again.

Slightly narrowing his eyes, Gu Huan came up, cupped his hands to Ji Yun and said, "Your Majesty, this trip has been hard."

Ji Yun supported him with both hands, and smiled: "It's very hard for Qing to sit in Liyang on my behalf."

Gu Huan followed the strength of his hand and stood up.

Stand and talk for a while, then move to the palace.

Although the rain has stopped, there are still many funeral affairs to be resolved.

The first is how to deal with dereliction of duty officials.

"Wang Zhen, the governor of Zhuolu County, neglected his duty, despised the emperor, violated the emperor's order, and should be executed according to the law." Ji Yun glanced down the stage, and said slowly, "Do you have any objections?"

All the ministers looked at each other and then at Gu Huan, not daring to answer easily.

Gu Huan's brother-in-law, Lang Rong, also neglected his duties and despised the emperor, and he is still locked up in Li Yang's prison.If Wang Zhen was dealt with mercilessly, how could he open his mouth to keep Lang Rong.

Ji Yun also looked at Gu Huan and said, "Gu Qing, do you have any objections?"

Gu Huan took a step forward, bowed his head slightly, and said, "I have objections, sir."

"Oh?" Ji Yun heard his voice that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and said with a cold breath, "What objection does the general have?"

His great general stood under the throne, tall and majestic, standing with hands folded, with a righteous and confident aura.

Gu Huan said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that in the "Twelve Laws of the Grand Ceremony" promulgated by the Judicial and Criminal Department, if a major disaster occurs in a place, officials who fail to respond to the disaster in time will be fined from three months to three years; Officials who report the disaster situation late, resulting in delays in disaster relief, will be demoted and dismissed; officials who fail to effectively control the disaster situation due to personal disaster relief efforts will be punished with dismissal, criminal detention, or even emigration.”

"First, on the day of the heavy rain, Wang Zhen wrote a letter to plead guilty, and he never delayed or even concealed the report. Second, since the flood, Wang Zhen has successively set up security points in the city and dispatched people from various counties to release the flood. He has not slacked off at all. Third, Your Majesty has just returned from Zhuolu, so you know better than your servants that with His Majesty in charge, the flood will not stop."

"Yes, I dare to ask Your Majesty," Gu Huan said in his usual coercive and oppressive manner, "If this is the case, why did you want to impose such a punishment? It chills the hearts of scholars all over the world ?”

It felt like he was making sense, almost convincing.

Ji Yun was almost speechless for a moment.

He stared at the top of Gu Huan's head, a feeling of depression and anger welled up in his chest, mixed with a feeling similar to disappointment and sadness.

This person, this person who would help him avoid the Tai Tuo and sneak out of the palace to play around when he was young, is not the same as himself after all.Even if they once walked together for a while, when they reached the fork, they finally had to turn their backs.

After reliving the whole life, Gu Huan is still the same Gu Huan.He first needs to make the spine of his Gu family.

Broke up unhappily.

Ji Yun went back to the inner room with a sullen face, just remembering that Gu Huan in the hall was soft and hard, and his stone-like face was confronting him tit for tat, his temples twitched, his brain ached from anger.

Gu Huan died early in his previous life, he almost forgot that this kid had the ability to piss him off.

What is the use of this broken emperor.

If you find someone you like, you can be stabbed to death, and the courtiers who grew up with you always have to trip yourself up.Every day you go to bed late and get up early, you are exhausted like a dead dog, and there are still a bunch of admonishers scolding you for nothing.If natural disasters have nothing to do with him, he should be blamed on him, and he will be chased all day long to condemn himself, otherwise he will be scolded bloody again.

What's the use of rebirth, the aristocratic family is still above the imperial power, he is bound in the net, in prison, and has nowhere to break through.And because he was two points more sober than the previous life, he was unwilling to reconcile, and he felt suffocated after a little struggle.

Ji Yun's belly was filled with aroused resentment and resentment, and he threw the tea that Li Chengnian carefully brought to the ground heavily.

There was a crackling sound.

It just so happened that Mr. Xiao Lang opened the curtain and entered at this moment, seeing his attack, he paused slightly.

Ji Yun still froze slightly amidst her rage.

He is actually a very good-tempered emperor, it is rare for Long Yan to get angry, even if he does, he will not show it in front of Bai Chen.He always joked and laughed at Yan Yan in front of Bai Chen. In his last life, he gave up his face and pretended to be stupid to make Bai Chen happy. In this life, for the sake of the lessons of his previous life, he couldn't help trying to make himself look more dignified and stable. Jiao Xiaolang thinks that he flirts with Meng Lang too lightly.Although the two of them are expressing affection to each other now, he always harbors a trace of worry, thinking that perhaps Bai Chen has not yet recognized his true face, and he is a young man with an unstable temperament, and how can his passion last long.

So he covered the fox's skin even more tightly, not daring to let others discover his sternness and inwardness.

He didn't show any wavering expression on his face, but he was deciding in his heart what tone he should use to flip the page over as if nothing had happened.

Fortunately, Bai Chen didn't make him too difficult, he walked over and bent down to look at him: "What's the matter, is Feng Lang in a bad mood?"

He took his hand again and pinched it in the palm of his hand, gently kneading his finger bones and palm.Bai Chen seems to be particularly interested in such animal-like intimacy. Recently, when the two of them are alone, it seems that they can't help it, and they always want to touch each other.

Heart pressed because of this intimacy, Ji Yun looked down and saw the obvious look of concern on the other person's face, and the hidden worry in his heart could temporarily dormant for a while.

He held each other back, for a moment, and said: "I am weak and incompetent as a king, I am restrained by others, and I am ashamed of my ancestors in the temple."

Ji Yun is the second king.I've been fatuous all my life, and at the same time abandoned myself, it's completely absurd.The Second Emperor didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, but he was already in trouble.A good beginning and a good end are rare in the world, let alone set things right and make a perfect circle?

Emperor Jing practiced the Dharma, but it was not a true detachment. People in the world seek fate and Dharma, and what they seek is nothing more than meditation and peace, so as to blind their eyes and ears, and to survive with stability.He can't stand the suffering, can't stand the grind.His state of mind was raised very low by the pampered upbringing, and his status was exalted by the superior, he had ambitions before he encountered a situation, and if he couldn't solve it immediately, he thought about retreating.

He also comforted himself seemingly comprehensibly, that’s all, everything has its own fate, and let’s go with the fate.

In fact, he knows very well that he does not have the talent and ability to rule the world and control people's hearts. Whenever he encounters setbacks, he really wants to take his hand and travel all over the mountains, rivers, and ancient plains with wealth and leisure.But that burst of negativity and slack passed, after all, he was not willing to let go easily.The word power refers to the whole world. If anyone really holds it in his hands, how can he not be intoxicated and become obsessed with it?

This kind of worry struggled, and after being reborn, it became more and more entangled with him, and he was almost unable to breathe under the shadow of Gu Huan.

He held Bai Chen harder and harder, Bai Chen glanced at him, did not say anything, but pinched his fingers comfortingly, and said, "Feng Lang didn't think about how to deal with Mr. Lang?"

Ji Yun didn't answer.After a while, he hummed with an unhappy expression.

"What did the general say?"

Hearing that he asked Gu Huan directly, Ji Yun understood that Bai Chen knew about the joints. He was not surprised that Bai Chen, a young man in white clothes, was so clear about the situation in the court. What's more, let alone this young gentleman.

He frowned, snorted angrily, and said, "The relationship between Lang Rong and Gu Huan is just like the relationship between me and Gu Huan. What can he say?"

What's more, he may not be comparable to Lang Rong's status in Gu Huan's heart.

"Most of the officials involved in the case are related to the Gu family. Mr. Lang and General Gu are even more in-laws. If you pull out a carrot and bring out mud, the general must not just sit idly by. Fenglang cares about the general, so he can't make a decision. Yeah?"

Bai Chen made the point in a few words, and Ji Yun's face became more and more ugly.

Seeing his expression, Bai Chen suddenly stretched out his hand, and pressed his thumbs on the arch of his eyebrows.

Ji Yun was stunned for a moment, then looked at Bai Chen, the young man looked at him softly, his lips curved slightly in a gentle arc, he didn't say anything, but there was a heart-wrenching feeling for no reason.

The heartbeat caused a tremor in his body, Ji Yun couldn't bear the gaze, he turned his eyes away, and pretended to be serious: "If Chen Lang is in my predicament, what should you do?"

"The general is the important weapon of the country, the important minister of the court, and the head of the nobles. The nobles in the capital all look up to him. Feng Lang grew up with the general since he was a child, and the friendship is extraordinary. Feng Lang takes into account the thoughts of some generals. It makes sense."

When Bai Chen said these things, his expression was very pale, and when he mentioned the general, there seemed to be a shadow in his eyes, but it disappeared in a flash, and Ji Yun didn't notice it at all.

"Just blindly caring about it will inevitably become connivance. The general is tall and important, and he is a minister of your majesty after all. Feng Lang takes care of the general, but the general may not take your majesty seriously. Since Feng Lang is a king, he should have Decisiveness. Sometimes, you can’t compromise blindly, even if you compromise, you need to master your attitude and measure, and don’t teach others to completely control you.”

Ji Yun is kind-hearted, and specializes in studying Buddhism. He often goes to the temple to fast. The long-standing law of torture and interrogation has also abolished the late emperor's secret agency to control the private conversations of officials. A chicken was sentenced to death... It was because of this that he gained the reputation of a benevolent emperor in his last life, and he also brought up the atmosphere of worshiping Buddha among the whole people.

It's just that people have inertia, once they are inclined to something, they will fall in that direction even more.Ji Yun was used to being a coquettish, benevolent and fatuous emperor, so naturally he lacked the courage to fight against powerful officials.

The reason why Gu Huan was able to cover the sky with one hand was probably because he, Ji Yun, stepped back and gave way.

It's just that it's subtle, let alone the authorities, and bystanders may not be able to see it clearly.Everyone only thinks that Gu Huan's meritorious deeds are so great that he can overwhelm the world, and the east wind naturally overwhelms the west wind. How could they have noticed that the west wind will fall when it is overwhelmed, and it can't help being overwhelmed?Moreover, even if someone sees clearly, they may not dare to speak out.

When Ji Yun heard this argument at first, he felt strange and strange at first, and then he was enlightened.Taizu was originally supported by the nobles of the major families. Taizu himself was also from the nobles of the previous dynasty, so he naturally relied on the same class as himself.The pattern of aristocratic rule of the world was clearly established by law at the beginning of the dynasty. After a hundred years, the major families are flourishing and intertwined, firmly occupying the court and seizing the power of the world.The aristocratic family is the cornerstone of the country, and Ji Yun was taught how to win over the aristocrats since he was born.It's just that once people rely too much on the tools in their hands, they will inevitably not be trapped by them, but will instead develop dependence and fear on them.A hundred years ago, the Taizu probably didn't expect that he worked so hard to gather all the great families around the surname Ji and create a peaceful and prosperous world, which would actually affect future generations.

Wang Zhen, governor of Zhuolu County, despised the might of the sky, disregarded the edict of the emperor, sat by and watched the flood happen, and disturbed the people. His crime is unforgivable.However, forgive him for his earnest repentance and speed of remedial action. He was exempted from three clans together, sentenced to beheading, and his house was confiscated.

As for Si Tianjian's point of view, Lang Rong, because of his slack and neglect of duty, failed to analyze the dream entrusted by the gods to the emperor, so that he could not issue flood prevention warnings in advance, it is really not suitable to be the head of Si Tianjian, and he will be dismissed immediately. , to avoid its shade.

Relevant officials also fined their salaries and demoted their officials, and those who were dismissed and displaced, need not be mentioned.

It took only a few sentences to draft the decree, but the whole debate lasted for more than half a month.

At first the argument was still stuck with Wang Zhen, from whether he should die to whether he should kill his family, the meeting hall was full of quarrels all day long, blushing and thick neck.After the daily debate was over, the courtiers were looking for shoes, those who were holding up the crown, and after leaving the door neatly dressed, they bowed their hands and invited the elegant literati who went first.

This is because Ji Yun hates the censors at Yushitai who speak poisonously like knives and can write a memorial to scold people so that they can't return to their mother's womb. Most of the censors stayed in Beijing and did not participate. result.

From how to convict Wang Zhen, to the specific provisions of the newly promulgated decree, and then to the concept of politics, the direction of the debate is like a wild horse, completely lost direction, and runs forward unrestrainedly. run farther.

Every day Ji Yun would be so angry that his stomach would swell, and when he came back from the meeting, he would drink two sips of herbal tea to calm himself down before talking to Bai Chen.

Unavoidably mentioning the process of today's debate, Bai Chen was pinching the white pottery teacup, rubbed the belly of the cup with his thumb, pressed Ji Yun's with the other hand, and smiled soothingly: "Feng Lang I've been arguing with them for the past few days, but haven't there been any results yet?"

Ji Yun was covered by warm palms, and the temperature between the two of them gradually blended with each other as their skin touched, no matter how big the fire was, they couldn't get angry anymore.He still frowned, pursed his lips, and resisted the cold snort: "Today, I was involved in practicing Buddhism and governing with benevolence. It was because Wang Zhen was unconscious for a while and made a small mistake. It’s not intentional, everyone in the world who doesn’t make mistakes can still forgive one or two——I build Buddhist temples extensively, and pray to Buddha. Is it to exonerate them? Everything is kind and can be forgiven. When they are not ambitious enough, they climb to my head Come up, if you want to take me and replace me, will I let them!"

Unable to bear it any longer, he let out a heavy breath, and said with a sneer, "I'm afraid that if I want to forgive at that time, there will be no need for that."

The fingers rubbing the belly of the cup paused slightly, Bai Chen's face seemed to turn pale, he lowered his eyes, looked at the green tea soup in the cup, and said for a moment, "What exactly does Feng Lang want to do with it?"

"Wang Zhen bears the most important responsibility for this case. How to deal with him basically determines how to deal with the next people. If Feng Lang wants to kill the aristocrats, he can ransack his family and exterminate his family. Rong's handling will not be too light, and he can use this to beat the increasingly powerful General Gu, but Fenglang still needs to rely heavily on General Gu to suppress the vassal king and block the back beam. Too many benefits... what does Feng Lang think?"

In the past few days of debate, Ji Yun faced each other in front of the hall alone. Bai Chen had no official position and was unable to listen to the government, so he only listened to Ji Yun's complaints every day, and comforted him in a timely manner before he was about to explode, and did not express himself much. Views.

"It doesn't matter whether Wang Zhen lives or dies. The left and right are just used to cover the bag. I can't do anything with Gu Huan, so I have to kill chickens and monkeys. They are good, and even Wang Zhen wants to protect." Ji Yun was full of resentment, and then paused After a while, he said to Bai Chen in surprise, "Didn't you say that my attitude should be tougher, don't let them hold it?"

"Feng Lang should be tough, so that people don't misunderstand Feng Lang's attitude and think that they are in control of Feng Lang. Since the situation does not allow people to be tough, they should make appropriate compromises, and you can't make people see that you are doing something wrong. Compromise. Wang Zhen's contempt for the authority of the emperor is a crime of disobedience, heinous, and unforgivable." The teacup that had been caressing for a long time finally touched his lips, and Bai Chen took a sip and said with a smile, "It's just that Feng Lang still remembers, Fenglang Jinkou said a word before, as long as Wang Zhen is able to rescue the disaster, his relatives will be freed from the crime."

Wang Zhen's guilt was determined in this way.

Wang Zhen's charges are established, and it will be easier for others.Especially Lang Rong, who was only dismissed from his post, was considered to have given Gu Huan a lot of face. All the nobles felt relieved and congratulated General Gu one after another.

With a stiff face, Gu Huan bowed his hands to the congratulators without a smile, seeing Ji Yun left the throne and was about to go back to the inner room.Raising his hand, he waved the person in front of him away, and followed that person in big strides.