Chapter 493 Great Virtues and Great Evils

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Chapter 493 Great Virtues and Great Evils

"What does Duke Du think of this person, Marquis Yunyang?"

Lu Fang asked bluntly.

Du Ling was stunned for a moment, then asked: "What does the Heavenly Master think?"

Lu Fang was not afraid of being heard and said bluntly: "Anyone who does such a thing is either a great virtuous or a great evil!"

Du Ling smiled, looked at the endless flow of people downstairs, and continued to ask: "Does the Heavenly Master think Marquis Yunyang is a great sage or a great evil?"

At this time, Lu Fang also turned his attention to the crowd downstairs and said: "Does it matter whether the great virtuous or the great evil? Good and evil are just comments by scholars... they have nothing to do with the people!"

Du Ling nodded thoughtfully: "What the Heavenly Master said is true. It doesn't matter if you are a great virtuous or a great evil. As long as you can make the people rich and the country strong, you are my hero of the Xia Dynasty..."

Lu Fang slapped the table and laughed: "It seems that Mr. Du has an idea..."

As soon as Lu Fang finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!"

Lu Fang called out casually, and the shopkeeper led the servants into the room carrying food trays one by one.

Lu Fang and Du Ling saw that they were both eating food they had never seen before.

The food is all of great color and smell, and the mere sight of it makes one's mouth water.

"Du Gong, Heavenly Master, please use it slowly!"

The shopkeeper immediately left the room with the person and carefully closed the door when leaving.

After Lu Fang took a bite of the food, he ignored table manners and said to Du Ling:

"Duke Du, I have heard that Marquis Yunyang is vigorously promoting the breeding of fish, turtles, chickens and ducks. Is this true?"

Du Ling said: "Yes, this is true. As far as Ling knows, the Protector of the Western Regions is not only doing this, but is also planning a larger agricultural reform..."

"This round of Taifang City, Mani is also spending a lot of money to buy various crop seeds..."

Lu Fang nodded and said: "While introducing new foods, we will also introduce new crops and promote the breeding of various livestock... In this way, people's lives will be greatly changed in a few years!"

Du Ling seemed to have thought of something at this time, but suddenly fell silent after hearing this.

When Lu Fang saw this, he laughed and said, "Is Mr. Du worried about your majesty and Chang'an?"

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Just as the Western Regions were making great efforts to improve people's livelihood, the conflict between the emperor and General Huo Guang also intensified.

The reasons for the intensification of this conflict are firstly that Huo Guang rejected the emperor's edict during the last imperial meeting.

Second, the emperor wanted to appoint Liu Changle, the Guanglu doctor, as a guard and attendant, but was rejected by Prime Minister Yang Chang.

Although Yang Chang was responsible for Liu Changle's incident, the emperor still remembered it on Huo Guangtou.

As soon as these two incidents came out, the emperor placed more trust in virtuous literature and the people of Guandong.

The emperor is increasingly repelling people from Kansai, and even Bingji has a hard time meeting the emperor now.

Huang Menling was very worried about this. Huang Menling was an old man who stayed from the time of the previous emperor.

He knew very well the importance of the army to the imperial power, and the children of the six counties in Kansai were the ones the emperor should win over the most.

Now the emperor actually did the opposite. Instead of winning over the children of the six counties, he excluded them and got close to the powerful people of Guandong.

In Huangmenling's view, this was really an unwise move.

Seeing the emperor's actions becoming more and more biased, Huang Menling was also anxious.

On this day, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. After Xianliang Wenxue left, he finally tried to persuade him.

"Your Majesty, the good families of the six counties are the foundation of the Han Dynasty. Your Majesty should get closer to them!"

When the emperor heard this, he said bitterly: "The previous emperor indulged the good family members of the six counties too much, and that's why they became so kingless and fatherless!"

The emperor blurted out these words without any cover-up.

Huang Menling was shocked. He had just seen the guards outside the palace twitching in their eyes.

Most of the guards in the palace came from good families in the six counties.

Huang Menling said with a serious face: "Why did your Majesty say this? The children of the six counties have always been loyal to your Majesty and the great Han!"

"snort!"

The emperor snorted coldly, but now he also realized that what he just said was inappropriate, but as a young man and an emperor, how could he admit his mistakes easily.

He lowered his voice and said: "Han Feng is a child of Liu County, Fan Mingyou is a child of Six County, Yang Chang is a child of Six County, Tian Yannian is a child of Six County... Huo Guang..."

"Your Majesty, be careful!"

When the emperor mentioned Huo Guangzhi, Huang Menling was shocked. He didn't care about his superiority and inferiority, and immediately interrupted the emperor's words with a loud snort.

"Everyone stand down!"

Huang Menling couldn't care about anything else at this time and immediately ordered everyone to retreat.

The emperor also woke up at this time and ordered: "Everyone, please retreat!"

"promise!"

After everyone left, Huang Menling immediately knelt down and apologized to the emperor.

Then he spoke again: "Your Majesty, the children of the six counties are the foundation of the Han Dynasty, and your Majesty should help them!"

"Hou Han, the military governor of Liaodong, is not disloyal to the Han Dynasty or His Majesty..."

"Lu Bode, the military governor of Anxi, Zhao Chongguo, the military governor of Shuofang, and Han Zeng, the military governor of Shunan, are also loyal to His Majesty!"

"The hussar general is also your majesty's personal assistant. Your majesty must not dishearten your loyal ministers!"

"Those virtuous writers all have bad intentions. Before the emperor died, he said that this generation should never be given great power!"

Huang Menling's words were not listened to by the emperor, but instead he thought he was blaming himself.

He snorted coldly and said: "Huangmenlinger keeps saying that this generation is loyal to me, but why do you sit back and watch Huo Guang force your father!"

Huang Menling cried and said: "Your Majesty, it is the late emperor's decree that the general be the auxiliary minister... Besides, all the generals are outside... If he is a general..."

Before Huang Menling finished speaking, the emperor interrupted him.

"Outside, I ordered Lu Bode to lead troops into Chang'an, but why did he stand still!"

As soon as the emperor said this, Huangmenling was shocked and said: "When will your Majesty send a secret edict to Lu Bode?"

Huangmen ordered this man to have a look of deathly gray on his face.

The emperor looked at Huang Menling who was kneeling on the ground and said nothing.

Huang Menling felt sad at this moment, knowing that the emperor no longer trusted him.

But what makes him even more sad is that the emperor who was so smart when he was young has now become what he is today.

In fact, this is no wonder the emperor. Ever since the Wang family's conspiracy was exposed, the emperor has been under tremendous pressure from being questioned.

For a young man who has been under such tremendous psychological pressure, it is inevitable that his psychology will become distorted.

The emperor is in this situation now. Long-term psychological pressure has made his psychology distorted.

Although there seems to be no problem on the surface, his thinking has long been different from that of normal people.

Huang Menling tried his best to suppress his emotions and tried to finally persuade the emperor.

"Your Majesty, General Huo Guang has no intention of seizing the Han Dynasty...the generals will not agree to this either..."

The emperor snorted coldly, "Of course I know that Huo Guang does not dare to do this... and the people from Guandong support me..."

After hearing this, Huang Menling collapsed on the ground in disappointment: "He just hopes that what the emperor said today will not be spread out!"

But reason told him that this was impossible...
Chapter completed!