Chapter 311: Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine.
Since the founding of the Chu State, Shu Dao and Wen Dao have lagged behind the two countries. Although advocating literature and martial arts has been a national policy and supporting Wen Dao for many years, the gap has not diminished much.
Now the Emperor of Chu knew that the war would eventually come, and Zhou and Zhao would not give up this opportunity, but they still tried their best to extend this period.
If the war can come a day later, Chu will be able to accumulate more strength.
Naturally, the later the missions of the two countries return, the better. The later they return, the later the war will start.
In other words, even if the State of Zhao just made an excuse for being on an envoy and had no intention of playing chess with poetry, the Emperor of Chu would still have to force them to compete.
It will be beneficial to Chu State for these envoys to stay in Chu State for one more day.
Because according to the rules, even if the prince and princess in the Zhou State's mission were really assassinated, the State of Zhou must first let the State of Chu find out the murderer, and then bring back the credentials of the State of Chu to the State of Zhou and submit them to the Zhou State's court.
After completing this mission, the two sides can then start war.
This is the courtesy and rules that the Three Kingdoms have maintained for decades.
After Emperor Chu finished the task, the two elders resigned, but they did not let Xu Qing leave.
Xu Qing bowed and said, "Your Majesty, you have other things to do while you are here?"
Emperor Chu nodded and said: "During the cleansing banquet of the State of Zhou, many doctors from the Imperial Accounting Department were unable to solve the questions, but you easily solved them with a few random strokes. The envoys of the State of Zhou were also puzzled by your casual questions.
It turns out that you are very good at arithmetic."
"Our country of Chu lags behind the two countries in both calculation and literature. Success in literature does not happen overnight, but if you have a famous teacher in calculation and practice hard, you will soon make progress."
When Xu Qing heard this, he also understood: "Your Majesty, do you want me to teach you arithmetic skills so that I, the great Chu, can learn arithmetic?"
Emperor Chu nodded and said: "Yes, I know that you are usually lazy, but this is related to the future development of our country, so I plan to let you go to the Imperial College to teach arithmetic. You must not refuse. You can give me whatever reward you want."
Ask for it. By the way, ask for it, but don’t give it if you want more.”
Xu Qing's mouth twitched, "Okay, if you want more, you won't give it to me. If you can't afford it, don't play so big."
But Xu Qing still said: "In fact, His Majesty's National Business School has special training on arithmetic, and has formed a complete training process. In fact, if the talents cultivated by the National Business School during this period are included, plus
The abacus created by the Guo Shang Yuan may be better than that of the State of Chu, but not weaker than that of the State of Zhou."
Emperor Chu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he patted Xu Qing's shoulder: "Okay, brother Huang and I did not misjudge you. We actually learned to prepare for a rainy day. Not bad! Not bad!"
Xu Qing rubbed his sore shoulders from being patted by Emperor Chu. He still underestimated the strength of Emperor Chu's hands. He just said, as the brother of the wise king, how could he be as weak as he seemed on the surface.
The martial gene of the old Xiao family cannot be changed!
Xu Qingdao: "Actually, it's not a plan for a rainy day. The National Business School is exposed to a lot of numbers on a daily basis. As early as in Yongzhou, it started a series of talent training on arithmetic in order to cope with the increasing number of accounting offices of the National Business School."
Emperor Chu smiled and said: "It seems that the National Business Academy has done the right thing. It has not only made money for my country, but also added a group of talents to my country. Good!"
At this moment, Concubine Chen Hui walked in with a delicate small box in her hand and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine."
When Xu Qing heard this, he almost spat out a mouthful of phlegm.
Why does this sentence sound so familiar?
Is it a serious medicine?
Then Chen Huifei looked at Xu Qing and said, "Who is this?"
Xu Qing cupped his hands and said, "Xu Qing, the uncle of Anding County, has met the empress."
Concubine Chen Hui said: "It turns out that he is the uncle of Anding County. No wonder he can appear in His Majesty's Imperial Study Room at such a young age. The whole family of the uncle of Anding County is really very powerful."
Xu Qing clearly heard the cynicism in the last sentence.
It seems that this person is King Qi's biological mother. Apart from some disagreements with King Qi and the Chen family, King Qi has not offended anyone else.
However, Xu Qing could not fall out with Chen Huifei here, so he could only keep silent and selectively ignore it.
When Chen Huifei saw that Xu Qing was silent, she continued: "However, the Anding county uncle should discipline his wife well, and rely on some tricks to scare others. How can he look like a woman? How is it appropriate to do this?!"
Xu Qing's eyes froze when he heard this, and then he said calmly: "Whatever my wife likes to do, I don't need to worry about it."
Concubine Chen Hui immediately looked at Emperor Chu and said: "Your Majesty, is this the pillar of the country you mentioned? Looking at his tone, I kindly reminded Yu Anding County Uncle, but this Anding County Uncle was so ungrateful and looked at him so
How can one be of great use if he has no ruler or ministers?"
Emperor Chu also frowned. When Concubine Chen Hui saw Xu Qing, her tone was very wrong, which made Emperor Chu aware of Concubine Chen Hui's ulterior motives.
Even if you are the emperor, you can't say in front of others: Your wife should take care of it, it's really unseemly.
This is inappropriate!
Moreover, Xu Qing never said any excessive words from beginning to end, but she wanted to label her as a devout minister.
Do you really think he is deaf, blind, and ignorant?
Moreover, if the ministers are not useful enough, how can they get the harem to comment on them?
At this time, Eunuch Wei hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Your Majesty, it's better to use the medicine quickly, so as not to delay the effectiveness of the medicine."
Emperor Chu put aside his displeasure just now, nodded, took the medicine box in Chen Huifei's hand and opened it, and immediately a Hunyuan flowing elixir appeared in the box.
Concubine Chen Hui looked at Emperor Chu and said, "Your Majesty, this elixir was just refined by Taoist Master Qianyuan. I will send it to Your Majesty right away. If you take it at this time, it will definitely have the best effect."
Taoist Priest Qianyuan?
This name sounds a bit familiar.
Xu Qing was shocked when he recalled his memory. In Chunyang Taoist Temple, there was a tablet bearing the name of Taoist Master Qianyuan, who was the younger brother of Taoist Master Chunyang. How could another Taoist Master Qianyuan be born here?!
Was it because the name was accidentally raised, or was it a pretense and deception?!
Moreover, Tai Hospital has long ago calculated that most of the elixirs circulating on the market are fake, and most of them are even chronic poisons!
When the conclusion has been drawn, does the Emperor of Chu still dare to eat it?!
And looking at the dazzling appearance of the elixir, I'm afraid it contains some ginseng and heavy metals.
What a cruel family!
In the morning, my brother just drank a bottle of toilet water, and in the afternoon, my brother took heavy metal pills here?
Do you think there are too many numbers in the book of life and death?
So at the moment when Emperor Chu was about to take the medicine, Xu Qing said: "Your Majesty, no!"
Emperor Chu looked at Xu Qing and asked doubtfully: "Why not?"
Xu Qing shook his head and said: "This is not some fairy elixir."
Concubine Chen Hui immediately looked at Xu Qingdao with a sullen face: "Nonsense! Taoist Master Qianyuan is a famous immortal master in the Taoist sect! The younger brother of Taoist Master Chunyang, a real person in the Taoist sect, is the orthodox Taoist school! How can he be compared to those fraudsters who show off in the market?
!How dare you slander Taoist Qianyuan like this?!"
Xu Qing glanced at Chen Huifei, and it seemed that she was really a fake.