Tangning looked at Tang Yaoyao's contemptuous eyes and simply chose to remain silent.
Anyway, his image in her mind can no longer be changed. Whether she eats Xiu'er or not, it won't change much.
The four of them said goodbye to everyone and set out on the road to Chu State the next day.
This was Tang Ning's second trip to Chu State, and she chose another path.
This time, without the official background of Chen State, they kept a low profile, but saw many things that they did not see last time they came to Chu State.
Chu State is a new generation powerful country. For a long time, it has been shrouded in the shadow of Chen State. It was not until a few years ago that it got rid of Chen State's control and was able to develop independently.
After walking through several state capitals, Tang Ning clearly noticed that Chu State had learned from Chen State in many systems, and those Chen State systems were only implemented and perfected by Tang Ning in the past two years.
In a certain state of Chu State, when a few people were bored and watched the county magistrate interrogate a case, they discovered that the magistrate was a woman.
In Tang Ning's impression, although there were female officials in the Chu State, they were limited to Li Tianlan's princess palace. The only way to select county magistrates was through the imperial examination. This shows that there are already women in the Chu State participating in the imperial examination. It is not a pretentious military examination conducted by Chen State, but through the imperial examination.
After passing the civil examination, you can enter the court as an official.
In this world, Xiaowan is the only one who possesses such advanced consciousness.
Before the unification of the Western Regions, Xiaowan could only be regarded as a small country in the eyes of Chu State. Chu State not only learned from Chen State, but was so crazy that it even wanted to learn from Xiaowan's system...
While Chu State continues to develop and become stronger, several princes of Chen State are still busy fighting and rebelling. Perhaps one day, the status of the two countries will be completely reversed.
Of course, this trip to Chu State was not all smooth sailing.
During this period, I also encountered mountain bandits and horse bandits twice. They wanted to rob and seek money, but the results were tragic as expected. I was almost saved by Old Zheng and sent to another world.
In addition, there were some other episodes that were not pleasant.
At this moment, more than ten feet in front of them, there were more than a hundred figures with weapons out of their sheaths, pointing at them from a distance.
A young man wearing Chinese clothes, with half his face obviously swollen, stood behind the crowd and looked at them with a malicious look on his face.
The cause of the matter is actually very simple. When Tang Ning and others passed by this place called Xianzhou, Xiao Xiao was spotted by a local dandy. The dandy chased and beat her at first, but he still maintained his grace.
After stalking for a long time and getting no response from Xiao Xiao, he revealed his true colors and uttered threatening words.
The result was that his face was swollen by the old beggar who never wanted to let his precious apprentice suffer, and several of the guards around him were instantly killed, leading him to flee.
However, what Tang Ning didn't expect was that this dandy young man seemed to have some real energy in Xianzhou. After they left the city today, they were surrounded by more than a hundred officers and soldiers.
The young man stood in the crowd, looked at the old beggar, Tang Ning and others, gritted his teeth and said, "Old guy, aren't you a good fighter? Today I want to see where you can run!"
He looked at the leader of the officers and soldiers and said: "Come along, don't hurt the girl, the rest of us don't care whether they live or die!"
Although the officers and soldiers were unwilling in their hearts, they still listened to the young man's words and approached Tang Ning and others.
The eighth elder raised his hand and threw something into the group of officers and soldiers.
The next moment, a plume of smoke appeared in the crowd.
Including the young man, more than a hundred officers and soldiers began to cough uncontrollably. They covered their throats and bent down, as if they wanted to cough out their lungs. How could they care about dealing with Tang Ning and others?
Tang Ning knew that the effect of the smoke would only make them uncomfortable for half an hour, but it would not be fatal. She would not kill these people just because of this small conflict. She just glanced at them and left with Xiaoxiao.
After less than half an hour, someone slowly got up from the ground and cursed: "Shameless, you actually use poison!"
After the young man was helped up, his face was extremely gloomy. He looked at the direction in which Tangning and others disappeared, but no one caught up with him in the end.
Not to mention that a long time has passed and it is difficult to catch up with them. Even if we catch up, are they going to do this again?
He turned around angrily and said in a low voice: "Go back!"
The group of people returned to Xianzhou City, the officers and soldiers returned to the Yamen, and the young man walked into a high-ranking mansion somewhere with an unlucky look on his face.
"Stop!" A middle-aged man looked at him at the door and asked with a stern face, "Where have you been?"
The young man waved his hand and said: "I'm going to drink..."
"Drinking?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly and said, "Liu Governor said that you led a hundred officers and soldiers out of the city, and you are becoming more and more lawless..."
"This is Xianzhou, not Kyoto, what are you afraid of?" The young man curled his lips, and his tone suddenly became colder, and said: "Don't let me meet those people from outside the state again, next time I will let them die without burial.
place!"
The middle-aged man looked at him and said seriously: "From now on, please be more honest and stop causing trouble outside!"
The young man was about to retaliate, but suddenly he seemed to realize something. He became energetic and asked, "Is that thing true?"
The middle-aged man nodded and said: "Compared with those losers, you have great hopes. Don't let the higher-ups hear negative news about you..."
"I understand..." The young man nodded repeatedly and said, "Big things come first, big things come first. From today on, I will not leave the palace..."
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"Besides Prince Jing, who else is qualified?"
"Prince Jing, Prince Jing oppresses the people in the fiefdom and does all kinds of evil. If he can be the heir apparent, is it really a joke, Mr. Wang?"
"I think Prince Wei is more suitable than Prince Jing..."
"Nonsense, Crown Prince Xian is the best candidate..."
Chu State, Kyoto.
The Emperor of Chu sat quietly on the dragon chair, with several ministers below him, arguing fiercely about something.
The throne of the current Chu Emperor came from the abdication of the previous emperor. Now the emperor is in his prime and wants to sit on the throne until his old age. It is impossible to pass the throne to his brothers. But he has no princes under his knees, so he can only get it from the kings.
Choose one and make him your prince.
The late emperor only had one prince, and no one would have expected that the one who would inherit the throne was not the prince, but King Xin.
For this reason, the children of the royal family who were enfeoffed outside the country never expected to be the emperor, so they simply took advantage of their royal status to lead a wanton and indulgent life, and many of them became dandy.
Now, what these ministers need to do is to select the least dandy among these dandies, and in the future, teach him to change his past mistakes, work hard to improve himself, and become a wise king.
However, the emperors of the Chu State had the habit of appointing princes early, which resulted in strict requirements for the princes. Most of those who had no hope of competing for the throne gave up on themselves and just wanted to live a happy life. Therefore, among the Chu royal family,
There are many dandies, so it is not easy to choose a qualified prince.
Emperor Chu was listening to the arguments among the people below. At a certain moment, he looked at an old man in the front and asked: "Prime Minister, who do you think is the most qualified for the position of crown prince?"
The old man thought for a while and said: "Several princes, whether in virtue or talent, cannot meet the requirements of the crown prince, but if we have to choose one with acceptable temperament, the only one is Prince Xian..."
