see the gentleman

Since Gu Huan firmly insisted that Ji Heng was not with him, Ji Yun couldn't say that he deliberately detained the prince and forcibly searched him, so he simply ignored him in a fit of anger, regardless of whether Gu Huan loved him or not.

After the new year, the new land law and tax system law began to be tried and implemented around Gyeonggi.Before that, all the thorns, big and small, were cut off. Now the general has gone to guard the border again. The nobles in Beijing lost a big backer, and they became more honest immediately. a cup of soup.

A group of people headed by Bai Chen, because they actively promoted the political reform, and succeeded the emperor to all the officials, became the upstarts in the court and China, and were very sought-after.

For the reason of reform, the imperial court set up another Inspectorate under the Six Ministries. Bai Chen temporarily took over the post of Chief Inspector of the Inspectorate. The official position itself is not big, but because of the convenience of exercising power in a special period, the position of Chief Inspector has become very important.

At least for the court meeting, it is not necessary for Ji Yun to favor promotion, and Bai Chen has to stand at the front so that he can report on his work in time.

The reason why the implementation of the new law was relatively smooth was due to Bai Chen's contribution.Those who have always advocated reform are easily hated by conservatives, but Bai Chen did not know where he learned the method of dealing with the nobles, and he continued to explain some opponents, even standing on his side at the court meeting .And even if some people are dissatisfied with the reform and offend their own interests, they still treat Bai Chen kindly and maintain friendly exchanges on the surface.As for the remaining diehards, there are two extremes: one is to see Bai Chen and sigh repeatedly, with regret on his face, as if Bai Chen has gone astray and is heartbroken by it; the other is to hear Bai Chen With just two words, he burst into anger, accusing him of abandoning his ancestors and forgetting his roots, with bad intentions, and ruining the glory of the Bai family for a hundred years.

Whether the glory of the Bai family has been ruined, naturally, no outsiders can be allowed to comment.Therefore, Bai Chen acted as before, calming the former and pissing off the latter at the court meeting, skillfully and calmly.

After coming down to court, Ji Yun left Bai Chen to continue the discussion with several other officials.Although the aristocrats in Beijing are the most powerful, they are also the most aware of current affairs. After being beaten to death, the aristocrats temporarily calmed down, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, so the implementation of the law in Beijing seemed to be going smoothly.

But it is obvious that the prosperous dynasty is not only the capital city, but more than a dozen prefectures, dozens of counties, and hundreds of counties other than the capital city, forming a vast territory of China.The good news of the emperor's marriage and amnesty to the world, it may take three months to arrive in the backcountry, don't talk about these incomprehensible land tax laws, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, who cares if you are in a hundred and eighty thousand What kind of smelly fart was released in the palace thousands of miles away.

Moreover, the vassal kings are entrenched in the states and counties, and they have the right to govern the counties and counties under their jurisdiction. After the emperor orders the vassal kings to entrust the land, the better ones will be shelved and worshiped from time to time, and the almost ones will be left behind and ignored. Pay attention, when there is no toilet paper, you can tear it to wipe your ass.

What Ji Yun meant was that it would be better to take advantage of this opportunity, and if the kings dared to resist, they would beat them all up once, and they could also gather some of the imperial power that had been scattered.

The voice of opposition is already a cliché: the kings are frontier barriers, defending the capital, how can they destroy the city wall by themselves, and Ji Yun in the capital has not yet smoothed it out, so how can he have the military and financial resources to deal with them.

The reason for support is also similar, but it is the opposite of the above: the kings have insufficient heart, and now they have become the tendency to swallow tigers, not to mention defending the capital, I am afraid they will commit chaos like Ji Zhun.Moreover, the reforms in Beijing are progressing smoothly, and the previous rebellions, large and small, have been easily suppressed. It can be seen that Tianwei is mighty, so how can it not be accepted by the world?

Everyone has been arguing about this issue for several days. After the general meeting, the small meeting quarreled, and the small meeting had no result. Ji Yun and Bai Chen continued to quarrel.

With a mentality that ordinary people can't understand, Ji Yun almost paranoidly wants to cut down the vassal.Bai Chen analyzed each and every one of the reasons and said no, the timing was not good.

The two quarreled for several days, and finally turned their faces today.

Bai Chen's face showed an expression of trying to endure, he breathed steadily and vigorously, but even so, he could still clearly see the bulging veins on his neck.

"Are you out of your mind?!"

Bai Chen finally couldn't hold back, and outrageously insulted His Majesty the Son of Heaven.

Ji Yun seemed a little dazed by his scolding, and it took a moment for him to realize that he was about to get angry. He frowned and shouted in a low voice: "Bai Chen, who do you think you are talking to!"

Bai Chen took a deep breath, obviously knowing that he had offended him too much, and said: "I was impatient for a while, and my words were unscrupulous, Your Majesty forgive me."

But still with an unyielding expression, he insisted: "Your Majesty's power has been left behind for a long time, and the power must be taken step by step, not overnight. Although the nobles in the capital have not made any moves for the time being, half of them are waiting to find out His Majesty's mistakes. At this time, Your Majesty Turning heads with the vassal kings, wouldn't it be a fire at both ends, and eventually it will inevitably hurt yourself—and has your majesty forgotten why the general rushed to Qiaozhou?"

Ji Yun actually wanted to go back: Of course Gu Huan hid in Qiaozhou because he was afraid of being caught in my shoes.

But he also understood that if Gu Huan hadn't made some private deal with Bai Chen outside the car that time, how could Gu Huan change his mind in a blink of an eye, not only gave up coercing him, but also took him away without saying a word. Qiaozhou.

It's just that there is a lingering anger in her heart, Ji Yun is extremely anxious: "The timing, Bai Qing always asks to wait for the timing, so tell me when is the best timing!"

However, Bai Chen's mouth seemed to have been sawed off for a moment. He opened his lips a few times, and it looked like he had a lot to say, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Ji Yun sneered impatiently: "Bai Chen, there is no such thing as the best time, the best time is right now and now."

The prince's departure made a loose string in his heart begin to tighten. He will inevitably think of the last life, Gu Huan's death, and then the chaos of the kings.

Recently, there has been an indescribable sense of anxiety and urgency pressing on him. He also knows that he is a little impatient, but he will never wait until after the vassal king makes trouble, and then deal with it in a hurry, and he will never allow himself to wander back to his previous life. Internal and external difficulties, isolated and helpless situation.

Now when he sees Bai Chen, occasionally there will be shadows in his heart like the aftermath.

Ji Yun insisted on going his own way, even if Bai Chen had a brilliant tongue, he still couldn't impress him in the end.

The atmosphere between the two of them has been rather delicate lately. Apart from discussing business matters, the air between the two has almost stagnated.

Not long ago, Bai Chen had a bad complexion, and Ji Yun's heart was about to thump, wishing to show his heart to coax him to smile, but now even if they confronted each other face to face all day long, Ji Yun felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

The two held their own opinions and refused to give an inch. When they quarreled fiercely, they almost wanted to scratch each other's paws in the face.Bai Chen has a three-inch tongue, and he keeps firing at him like a cannonball. Ji Yun finally experienced for himself what it's like for Bai Xiaolang, who is known as a celebrity, to spray someone. Come down and think about it,

There was an indescribable feeling in my heart, like gratification, but also like a sense of loss. It turned out that being a pair of monarchs and ministers with this person is like this.

He thought, that's actually pretty good.

In the end, within a few days, Xinling found Ji Yun with a circle of portraits of beauties in his hand.

"It stands to reason that I shouldn't be in charge of this." Xinling pursed his lips and smiled, "It's just that Bai Xiaolang is away from home, and there are no elders in Beijing to take care of him. The good young man is in his early twenties, and there is no one around him. There is no one to accompany her, and she is alone all day long. With Bai Xiaolang's good looks and family background, there is no shortage of marriage candidates. Even the handkerchiefs I handed over, they asked me to look after their daughters... "

Ji Yun listened to Xinling's babbling in shock, and then looked at the beauties in front of him, and felt his heart skip a beat, causing him to be stuck by himself, unable to move up or down.

He had never thought of this possibility before, one day, Bai Chen will get married, he will marry another person, a couple, and form a brand new family that does not allow others to interfere.

"...These young ladies are rare, well-educated, gentle and beautiful, especially their fathers, who are more than enough to be worthy of a prince." Xinling still kept talking, looking at him with a smile, "So I Take it and let His Majesty take a look at it first, pick out a few good ones, and I will go to Xiao Langjun to find out what he means."

Ji Yun came back from the trance where she was lost, and in a flash of thought, she somewhat understood the little Jiujiu in Xinling's heart.

As Xinling said, these women from aristocratic families are of noble origin, even if they are worthy of a prince, even if Bai Chen has been in the limelight recently, after all, he is young and his family has no roots in the court, so why is it worth them swarming up?

Presumably they consciously condescended to marry Bai Chen, who was the leader of the reform, and tied Bai Chen to their own boat, becoming continuous relatives. Would they still be so shameless?

Ji Yun had some confidence in his mind, so he smiled and sneered at Xinling: "It's hard for you to think about these and other things all day long, and you have no serious business to do."

Xinling looked serious, and said disapprovingly: "What are you talking about, Your Majesty, isn't marriage the most important serious matter?"

"It's said that a family and a business can only be established when a family is established. Bai Xiaolang is already in his early twenties. Let alone marriage, he has never even seen a concubine in the mansion. What do others think of this?" After a pause, he said, "Your Majesty has always been in close contact with Bai Xiaolang and behaved intimately. Naturally, I won't think about it, but Your Majesty is not worried that other people's talkativeness will ruin Bai Xiaolang's reputation for nothing?"

At the beginning of these words, Xinling seemed to be desperate, and continued in one breath: "Even now, there are some voices saying that Bai Xiaolang served the emperor with sex, slandering him, and he got his current status."

Ji Yun's complexion immediately changed drastically, as if he was guilty of guilt or angry from embarrassment, he blushed and scolded angrily: "It's all those gossips who chew their tongues, aren't they afraid that someone will pull out their tongues at night?!"

Xinling seemed to agree, nodded and said: "Who says it's not? There is always no wind and waves in this world. If you don't pay more attention, how can you prevent the rumors?"

Ji Yun knows that people's words are scary. In the previous life, Bai Chen really became his confinement, and the jokes and jokes never stopped. Later, Bai Chen stood up and tried his best to turn the tide. Those rumors nailed to him did not weaken. On the contrary, it is even more powerful, as if he was able to defeat the enemy only by relying on his ability in that area.Later, Bai Chen entered the court hall, not to mention after the next court, even at the court meeting, Ji Yun could occasionally hear some particularly harsh ridicule.

That seemed to be the shame engraved on Bai Chen's body, but Ji Yun didn't expect that in this life, he carefully kept a distance from Bai Chen, but he still couldn't escape those deliberate probing eyes.

Ji Yun tossed and turned for a few days, not only hated Bai Chen being wronged again because of herself, but also couldn't bear to give him to someone else, both sides were reluctant, always unable to make up his mind, but his heart burned so badly that he couldn't sleep peacefully at night .

After some debating, Bai Chen was summoned in the end, and he didn't beat around the bush, he said for a while, "Xinling came to me a few days ago and said he wanted to introduce you to a marriage."

As if unexpectedly, Bai Chen opened his eyes slightly, but looked at him silently.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but I always feel that the other party's wet and dark eyes are sad like being abandoned.

Ji Yun originally made a weak determination, but was affected by the other party's sadness that he imagined, and that determination was greatly affected. He paused, and then said: "After all, it's your own marriage. It's not good to make decisions for you, if you don't want to, then..."

"No," Bai Chen interrupted him, his face was slightly tense, but he said, "There is nothing you don't want to do. Your Majesty has not forgotten to care about the important things in your life in the midst of your busy schedule. It is too late for you to be grateful. How could you not want to."

"..." The half-baked words were blocked and unable to speak, Ji Yun suffocated, her face flushed a little, she still didn't know how to speak, so she choked out a sentence, "Do you really want to?" ?”

Bai Chen twitched the corners of his mouth, the smile didn't reach his eyes, instead he looked a little defeated, he laughed at himself: "Since your majesty wants to draw a line with me, why bother to humiliate me and ask me Really?"

Ji Yun was speechless for a moment.

An unspeakable sourness emerged in his heart, he knew that he was vacillating, still unable to make up his mind, reluctant to let go, and did not dare to hold on tighter, so he pretended to test him with words.

He said that he wanted to introduce Bai Chen to his marriage, but in fact he didn't even think about how to persuade him.All he thought was that as long as Bai Chen frowned and said he didn't want to, he would be able to go down the slope again and block back for him.

Then they pretended nothing happened, and the two continued to mix in this way, neither salty nor dull, neither up nor down.

But who wants to be hung like this immortal?

Since Bai Chen is not stupid, he is obviously much more sober than himself in the previous life. He gave up his useless attachments, and no longer suffers from not getting what he wants, so he decided to let go.

His lips were slightly pale, as if he was still weak after a serious illness, but he finally felt relieved.

"Your Majesty wants me to marry whoever you want," he said, "Your Majesty can marry whoever you want."