The emperor sat behind the desk, picked up a book, opened it and looked at it. These books were all written by Ning Weimo.
It can be seen that each book has been read carefully, because there are some thoughts written by Ning Weimo on every page.
The waiter came forward, lit the incense powder, put the lid on, and the smoke floated up in a straight line.
"saint."
Gu Xiujin came in from outside, leaned over and said, "People brought it."
Emperor Yu nodded, and Gu Xiujin immediately turned around: "The saint calls in."
Outside the door, a man in prison uniform came in and fell to his knees as soon as he entered.
"I, the guilty minister, Ning Weimo, would like to pay my respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty."
"Get up, you."
The emperor glanced at him and asked, "Do you feel aggrieved?"
Ning Weimo replied: "I'm just here to do this. I don't feel aggrieved. Your Majesty entrusts me with such a big matter. I'm afraid I won't be able to do it well. How can I care whether I feel aggrieved or not?"
The emperor smiled and said: "Do you know why I chose you in the first place?"
Ning Weimo replied: "Your Majesty has the ability to recognize people, his eyes are as sharp as a torch, and he knows that his ministers are loyal, so he chose him."
The emperor said: "This is the first, and there is another. Can you guess the reason?"
Ning Weimo said: "I am stupid and I don't know."
The emperor said: "I chose you to come to Yunzhou. Firstly, because you are loyal. I can only leave some things to you. No one else can do it as well as you. Secondly, because you are a good flatterer. What I said in those two sentences just now,
I am very satisfied.”
Ning Weimo also laughed.
The emperor pointed to the opposite side, and Ning Weimo sat down with his body bent.
"I just read the excerpt and reflections you made."
The Emperor said: "There are tens of millions of scholars in the world, but there are not many who can actually read."
Ning Weimo said: "I thank your Majesty for the compliment. Your Majesty saw it correctly, and I deserve it."
The emperor laughed.
He smiled and said: "I was having a headache at the time about the Yunzhou matter. I was thinking about who could pick up this mess and turn this dead situation around. After much thought, it was you."
He stood up, changed seats, and sat down in front of Ning Weimo.
"Gu Xiujin, let's go and exchange tea. Mr. Ning is from the south of the Yangtze River and doesn't like the scented tea from the north."
Gu Xiujin hurriedly went to change the tea, but Ning Weimo stood up and said: "No, no, I'm used to drinking this scented tea in Yunzhou. When I first drank it, it tasted bitter but not sweet. After drinking it for a long time, I can also drink it."
Get some flavor."
The emperor smiled and said: "You are really studying and drinking tea."
He asked: "Are you willing to let you go to Guzhu in a while?"
Ning Weimo seemed stunned. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head: "I actually don't want to go, but I will go if Your Majesty asks me to go."
The emperor asked: "Why don't you want to go? Wouldn't it be better to go to Guzhu and become a feudal official? The sky is high and the emperor is far away. I can't control you, who can control you? You can do whatever you want. Isn't that comfortable?"
Ning Weimo said: "Back to Your Majesty, it would be good for me to go to Guzhu to serve as a border official. I can also manage the newly developed area for Your Majesty. But if I really go, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to see Your Majesty again. No matter how hard it is, it will be difficult for me to see Your Majesty again."
Listen to His Majesty’s teachings in person..."
Emperor: "The drama is over."
Ning Weimo: "I'll take it back."
The emperor smiled and said: "You must be so beautiful in your heart that you wish you could go now."
Ning Weimo: "I can still bear it for a while. It happens to be the time of cat winter, so it doesn't hurt to bear it for a while."
The emperor laughed again.
In this civil and military dynasty, there were not many people who could make the emperor laugh. Gu Xiujin was one, and Ning Weimo was one.
The emperor took a sip of tea and asked: "The place of Lone Bamboo is close to the sea on one side and the mountain on the other. It can't be said to be very wealthy. I waited until today to try to conquer it. It's also because the oil and water are not that big. If I let you go, what would you do?"
What do you think we can do to make me feel that it’s not a waste to send troops?”
Ning Weimo replied: "The size of the world is not that of the countries drawn on the map, but the size of the world is fixed and will not increase by another point. Your Majesty's territory map is different and can increase." He said:
"It is said that from Lone Bamboo to the northeast, after crossing the sea, several countries coexisted, with prosperous people and prosperity."
He said: "As big as the jade is, there is no place to build a shipyard or a navy, which can be as big as Guzhu."
"Ha ha ha ha."
The emperor laughed.
He stood up and said: "In the civil and military dynasties, if you want to say that you have more eyes than you, no one can do it better than you."
Ning Weimo smiled and said: "I think your Majesty's previous words are golden rules and irrefutable, but your Majesty's words today, I have to refute."
The emperor asked: "Where can I refute this?"
Ning Weimo said: "If you want to talk about being smart, I think that Lin Ye is even more smart than I am. He is only sixteen years old. In two years, I won't be as smart as him."
The emperor smiled and nodded: "He does have a lot of good intentions. Fortunately, I feel that his good intentions are all used in the right place."
The emperor walked to one side, and there was a giant map hanging on the wall.
Gu Xiujin quickly picked up the candle and walked to the map to illuminate it for the emperor.
The emperor's eyes fell on Dongbo Dongjiang.
"Look."
His finger pointed at Xixia Pass.
“Where would a person with a small heart go?!”
The emperor returned to his seat, picked up the tea cup, and put it down again.
"I thought that among the people in the world who could guess my thoughts accurately, one was you, one was Xiaogu, and the other half was Lu Gang."
The emperor sighed softly.
"It's a pity that Lu Gang died. He misunderstood my meaning, so he can only be regarded as half-loyal minister, not a good minister."
The Emperor said: "Now it seems that Lin Ye is one of them. He took Wu Lingwei's thousands of people and deceived 20,000 cavalry from various tribes all the way to Xixia Pass. He really guessed what I was thinking."
Ning Weimo smiled and said: "Your Majesty, these four words are used appropriately."
Cheating and cheating.
Ning Weimo continued: "I would like to add that this is deception, abduction and robbery."
The emperor asked: "Then do you think Lin Yeruo can guarantee the chance of victory if he leads the troops to attack Guzhu?"
Ning Weimo thought carefully for a long time, and finally shook his head: "Chen, I'm not sure."
I'm not sure, just because I don't have that much trust and confidence in Lin Ye's abilities.
In other words, he didn't think that Lin Ye's troops could successfully destroy Lone Bamboo. Even if Lone Bamboo's hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered together with all his national strength, they could not defeat Dayu's 50,000 elite soldiers.
The emperor smiled and said: "In your capacity and as a minister, you cannot believe that he is right when speaking about this matter."
Ning Weimo asked: "Why does Your Majesty think that young man can do it?"
The emperor did not answer, but asked: "Actually, you want to ask, why do I want to use him? There are so many generals in Dayu who can conquer and fight well, why should I use an inexperienced young man like him?"
Ning Weimo leaned over and said, "I dare not speculate on the holy will."
"fart."
The emperor rolled his eyes at him: "I just said that the people who always speculate on my thoughts when they have nothing to do are you and Xiaogu."
Gu Xiujin said quickly: "I am different from Master Ning. I am specialized in doing this, but Master Ning is free..."
Emperor: "You are the only one who talks a lot."
Gu Xiujin hurriedly leaned over, with a smile on his lips.
The Emperor said: "Not only are you curious, many people are curious, why should I reuse Lin Ye when I don't know much about him?"
"Some people say that I want to use Lin Ye to contain Tuoba, but they really underestimate Tuoba and also underestimate me."
The emperor said: "I reuse him because he is Liu Jigong's only relative."
Ning Weimo asked curiously: "Your Majesty, I heard that Liu Jigong's widow adopted many children. If you calculate it that way, Lin Ye is not the only one who is related to General Liu Jigong."
The emperor said: "Have I told you that he is an adopted son?"
Ning Weimo's eyes widened: "Isn't he an adopted son? Could it be that he is..."
The emperor said: "Don't make random assumptions. That is disrespectful to Mrs. Liu."
He picked up the tea cup and smelled it. It seemed that he not only liked the aroma of the tea, but also liked the feeling of the hot air hitting his face.
The Emperor said: "You only need to know that the relationship between Lin Ye and Liu Jigong is not just that of an adopted son, he is the closest person to Liu Jigong who is still in the world."
"Because of this, I support him and reuse him, which can be regarded as comforting Liu Jigong's spirit in heaven."
When the emperor said this, he looked back at Gu Xiujin: "You are not allowed to tell that guy about the next words."
Gu Xiujin said quickly: "I don't dare to talk nonsense."
The emperor said to Ning Weimo: "There is another reason why I reuse Lin Ye. The young master of Shangyang Palace, Xin Yanque, likes him. He has told me countless times that he thinks Lin Ye is a material that can be made."
When the emperor said this, Ning Weimo had to ask a question that he was more curious about.
But he didn't dare ask.
He really wanted to know what kind of witchcraft that little real person Xin Yanque used to make His Majesty love him so much.
At such a young age, he is already the second-largest person in Shangyang Palace. It is certain that he will become the headmaster of Shangyang Palace in the future.
Many people say that it is because Xin Yanque looks so much like His Majesty's younger brother, the youngest child of the late Emperor.
But Ning Weimo felt keenly that this matter was not that simple.
But he just didn't dare to ask.
Ning Weimo even thought that if anyone dared to ask His Majesty about this in person, he would be willing to exchange it with something, including his family property.
After all, he doesn't have much wealth.
Ning Weimo is a very low-key person. He doesn't eat or drink extravagantly in his daily life, and he doesn't even make extra clothes.
He rarely socializes. If someone invites him to drink, he will go. He never invites others to drink.
Therefore, he couldn't use his monthly salary. Part of it was used to buy books and part of it was spent on Juyangtang.
Juyangtang is a charity he started in his first year as an official, and it has never stopped after so many years.
He used part of his salary to adopt orphans, the elderly and the weak.
Some people say that he is just acting to make the emperor praise him, but a good deed has been done for so many years, let alone that it cannot be an act, so what if it is an act?
"Don't talk about him anymore."
The Emperor said: "After you go back, make a good statement. I want to know carefully what you think about Guzhu."
After hearing this, Ning Weimo stood up quickly: "I obey the order. After I go back, I have to ask Eunuch Gu to send some pen and ink."
The emperor looked at his prison uniform: "You haven't worn enough? Do you still want to go back to prison?"
Ning Weimo said: "I'd better keep wearing it. If you don't wear it, it won't end well."
The emperor hummed.
Isn't what Ning Weimo did in Yunzhou just to put on prison uniform at this suitable opportunity?
Because of this seemingly inconspicuous thing, the emperor investigated him.
Only arranging material supplies for the general, but not arranging material supplies for General Lin, is it forming a clique for personal gain?
Your Majesty is angry and of course he wants to investigate.
This is Ning Weimo's main errand. He comes to Yunzhou to do nothing, just like he is a guest, just because he is waiting for this moment, he only needs to do this one thing well.
Even if Lin Ye doesn't go to Xixiaguan, it doesn't matter. There are still Hongwuding's 30,000 border troops, and Ning Weimo didn't send supplies there.
Of course the emperor would not really do anything to him, because it would be impossible to find out that Ning Weimo and Tuoba Lie formed a clique for personal gain.
But many people can detect it. If they can't find it, just press it on the head.
Soon after, Ning Weimo will be demoted from the second rank to the fourth rank.
The will has been prepared.
He demoted Ning Weimo and promoted him to the fourth rank of Northeast Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Management. This official position was originally created for him.
Even after hearing about this official position, who would have thought that His Majesty was going to let him go to Lone Bamboo to be a feudal official?
Ning Weimo resigned and left. Not long after he left, Gu Xiujin reminded the emperor.
"Saint, she is here."
The emperor's shoulders seemed to tremble slightly, and then he turned around: "I'm going to see her."