Right in front of the palace hall, between the palace gate and the main hall, there is a high platform called Yutai.
The jade platform will only be used when grand ceremonies are held, such as the coronation of the emperor.
At this moment, the emperor stood under the jade platform, looking up to the heights.
He once walked up to the jade platform step by step and stood there to accept the worship of powerful ministers. He also knelt there to accept the coronation of Zhentian.
If there was anything in Zhenyuan Palace, it shocked the emperor for the first time.
That was the jade platform, because when he stood there, he saw tens of thousands of people kneeling on the ground.
At that moment, there was only one thing in the emperor's mind.
He even forgot that he was undergoing a coronation ceremony.
What he thought was that this world is really strange. The country is so big and there are so many people, but one person decides the rise and fall of the people in the country.
Hundreds of millions of people in Dayu have just handed over their destiny to a person who climbed onto this jade platform.
As the emperor, his words and deeds can change the color of the country and make the people sad and happy.
At that time, the emperor had a sentence in his heart, which was floating back and forth in his mind.
If I can't do it well, then wouldn't I be fucked?
Yes, it is such a sentence, a bit vulgar.
The emperor withdrew his gaze from the jade platform and looked at the young man standing beside him, who was also looking up at the jade platform.
"When I walked up there, I pretended to be scared. But when I walked up, I realized that I didn't need to pretend. I was really scared. Especially when I walked down, my legs were shaking.
"
Lin Ye understood.
Because when you walked up, the emperor was not the emperor yet, but when you walked down, the people of the country, country, country, and people were all pressing on the shoulders of the emperor.
too heavy.
"When will you return to Yunzhou?"
The emperor asked.
Lin Ye replied: "I can leave at any time."
The emperor asked again: "Is there any place in Geling City that I haven't seen yet? There's no need to be so anxious about returning to Yunzhou. It doesn't matter if it's a few days late. If you haven't been there, you can go and have a look."
Lin Ye said: "If you haven't been there before, it's better not to go."
The emperor thought for a while and asked: "Qingyu River?"
Lin Ye nodded.
The emperor laughed.
He asked: "If you don't go, do you dare not go, don't want to go, or is it because of something else? For example...who are you afraid of?"
Lin Ye replied in a particularly serious tone: "Because I really can't think of anything interesting in that place."
He said: "I have been there before when I was young, so I know that the place is really different from what you mentioned. It is very fun."
Lin Ye: "..."
The emperor smiled and said: "I'm not married yet, and I don't have a woman, so when it's time to go and have fun, just go and have fun."
Lin Ye said: "Let's wait until later. There should be opportunities in the future."
The Emperor said: "You really overestimate yourself, and you really underestimate women."
Lin Ye: "..."
The emperor turned around and walked back, and Lin Ye quickly followed.
As he walked, the emperor smiled and said: "I have had this thought before, and I also feel that life is so long, and if I don't enjoy it now, I will definitely have the opportunity in the future."
Lin Ye said: "My lord, I still can't imagine what good things could be."
The emperor said: "Do you know why you can't imagine it?"
Lin Ye shook his head: "I don't know."
The Emperor said: "Because that is not something that can be imagined at all. Just like when you eat meat, before you eat meat, can you imagine the taste of meat to be the same as when you actually eat meat?"
Lin Ye asked: "What does it taste like?"
The emperor stopped and looked sideways at Lin Ye. The meaning in his eyes was... I am the fucking emperor, and I am still responsible for teaching you this?
Even if you consider yourself a fool, you still have to respect my profession.
Lin Ye quickly lowered his head.
The emperor sighed softly and continued walking forward.
He asked Lin Yedao: "What is the first thing you plan to do after returning to Yunzhou?"
Lin Ye replied: "By the time I arrived in Yunzhou, I had already missed the spring plowing. I planned to walk around. Yunzhou is better. Dongbo and Guzhu have just experienced great chaos. If the reclamation is delayed any longer, there will be more disasters in the coming year."
big."
The emperor hummed.
As he walked, he said: "I leave everything to you in the three places because I think you can handle everything, but I don't want to tire you to death."
Lin Ye leaned over and said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty."
The Emperor said: "I know that you are actually the person who knows how to delegate power best. You are young, but there are not many people who know this better than you."
Lin Ye said: "I understand what your Majesty means. I will allocate the personnel well, everything will be in order, and I won't really die from exhaustion."
The emperor said: "I asked Shi Jintang to follow you to Yunzhou. Do you have any ideas?"
Lin Ye: "Can I resist the decree?"
The emperor looked at Lin Ye again, his eyes narrowed: "Huh?"
Lin Ye said: "Then I don't have any ideas anymore."
The Emperor said: "I asked Shi Jintang to follow you for the reason that I must follow you. In the future, you will probably understand that your mind, city, character, and talent in martial arts are all better than others, but you have to deal with
Not one person who is not as good as you, but many, many people who are not as good as you."
Lin Ye's heart moved.
"A smart person can definitely plot against a fool, but a hundred smart people will definitely lose to a hundred fools."
The emperor looked at Lin Ye: "I won't say any more about these words. After all, you have your own plans in mind... I want to ask you if there is anything else you want me to do before returning to Yunzhou.
?”
Lin Ye raised his head to look at the emperor, but lowered his head again after a moment.
"I haven't."
The emperor sighed.
He said: "When I was young, I often had fights with a little maid of similar age in the palace."
He spoke as he walked, his tone was quite calm, and if you listened carefully, you could tell there was a touch of regret in it.
The emperor said: "Then one day, the late emperor asked me if you like that little girl. If you do, let her go to the East Palace to accompany you."
"I said, Father, what are you talking about? I am a man, how can I like girls?"
Speaking of this, he looked at Lin Ye: "I was still young at the time. I was both shy and aggressive. I felt that it would be embarrassing if people knew that I like to play with girls. But who knew that I would never have another chance in the future."
From the emperor's tone, Lin Ye judged that the little maid might...not be alive.
So for a moment, Lin Ye felt a little sad in his heart.
The emperor stopped and looked at the white clouds floating in the sky: "I didn't expect that after only a year and a half, the late emperor would include her in the harem."
Lin Ye: "..."
He immediately lowered his head, not daring to let the emperor see the expression on his face.
The emperor glanced at him and just smiled, without saying anything more on this boring-sounding topic.
"That place in Yunzhou..."
The emperor continues to move forward.
He said: "With your ability to govern Yunzhou, I will not doubt whether you can do a good job."
"But in this place, Yunzhou, no matter who goes there to be the chief official, I will not be satisfied if you just manage Yunzhou well."
"Yunzhou is a door. Even if Dayu now has nearly half of Dongbo's territory and the entire Guzhu territory, Yunzhou is still Dayu's door."
"Close this door. No matter what knocks on it, this door must remain closed."
"Open this door. Whenever Dayu's soldiers want to go out, they can open this door as they please."
"What's a winter moor, and what's a lonely bamboo."
The Emperor said: "I have spent more than twenty years making Dayu more powerful, not just to win in such a small place."
Lin Ye leaned over: "I will remember your Majesty's words. I will guard Dayu's door and open Dayu's door well."
The emperor nodded: "There is one more thing... I want to tell you a few words."
He looked at Lin Ye: "Wanyu Tower is still closed in Yunzhou."
Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat.
The emperor asked: "What do you think should be done?"
Lin Ye answered without any hesitation: "I will let him spend the rest of his life in Yunzhou, and try to live as many years as possible without any disease or disaster. I also know the appropriateness. If you don't give preferential treatment, you will be treated kindly, and if you don't punish, you will be treated benevolently."
The emperor laughed.
What he asked Lin Ye just now... Wanyu Tower is still closed in Yunzhou. When he asked this question, Lin Ye could answer like this.
If you ask Ning Weimo, Ning Weimo will go through thousands of twists and turns in his head, and eventually he will think of a way to make Wanyulou's death less ugly.
If this question was asked of Xumi Pianruo, and the emperor asked it today, the people sent by Xumi Pianruo to Yunzhou would set off early tomorrow morning.
"very good."
The emperor said: "I promised the concubine, and I cannot break my promise. No matter what, he is the concubine's father. I will not make an exception because of what I want to do, but I will definitely make an exception because of what the concubine wants to do."
He smiled when he said this and said self-deprecatingly: "With my temper, it stands to reason that I should be a fool."
How could Lin Ye dare to answer the question? What should he answer? How accurate is your majesty in reading people?
As they walked, the monarch and his ministers came to the side of Zhenyuan Palace. Here was an orchard. In March, the peach blossoms were in bloom.
It has been more than 200 years since Dayu was founded. Before the emperor, no emperor would plant peach trees, apricot trees, pear trees, or various fruit trees in Zhenyuan Palace.
These trees can exist, but they should not be in the solemn and majestic Zhenyuan Palace.
Just because Concubine Wan Gui likes it.
The emperor stood next to the peach tree, and the servants here quickly knelt down and saluted.
The emperor waved his hand casually, and those people stood up and left quickly.
"When I first planted this peach tree, it was just because the imperial concubine liked it. Later I realized that there is so much fun in planting this peach tree."
He turned back to look at Lin Ye: "Every year when the peaches come down, I will let people pick some and give them to the ministers who have made merit. I said, these are the peach trees I planted with my own hands, and I picked the peaches with my own hands. I specially asked people to send them to them."
.....They will all be very moved, save money, and gain face.”
Lin Ye immediately lowered his head again. Just now when the emperor said who thought that the late emperor would include her in the harem within a year and a half, Lin Ye could hardly hold back.
As for the peach tree, Lin Ye almost couldn't hold it back.
The emperor smiled.
He didn't know if Lin Ye understood it or if it was just a joke.
These words all make sense.
The first few sentences were intended to persuade Lin Ye and give this young man a warning, but the last few sentences were actually about the art of controlling people.
The emperor was silent for a moment, as if he had exhausted his interest in conversation.
He looked at the peach blossoms in front of him and said, "I'm going to enjoy them here for a while. If nothing happens, you can go back. It's time to pack up and get ready to go to Yunzhou."
Lin Ye took a deep breath and leaned over.
"My lord, I do have two things to ask for your Majesty's permission."
The emperor said: "Say."
Lin Ye said: "I would like to ask Your Majesty to give me this peach tree. I would like to take it to Yunzhou to plant it."
The emperor raised his lips and asked, "What about the other thing?"
Lin Ye said: "I met the eldest princess yesterday. The eldest princess mentioned that she missed Yunzhou..."
Before he finished speaking, the emperor nodded.
"It's all right."
After saying that, he waved his hand: "Let's go, now it seems that you have more things to pack."
Lin Ye leaned over and saluted: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty..."
He paused for a moment, straightened up, lifted his robe and knelt down again: "I bid farewell to Your Majesty, I..."
The emperor did not look back at him, but still looked at the beautiful peach blossoms in front of him.