In Changle Palace, Li Mu quietly watched the queen paint.
At this time, the Queen was the most serious, just like when she was pruning those flowers and plants.
She painted the same landscape as Li Mu, and used the same brush and ink as Li Mu. The mountains she painted had energy, the water had charm, and the charm was vivid, instead of the empty mountains and stagnant water in Li Mu's paintings.
What depresses Li Mu the most is that the two paintings look similar at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they are completely different.
After the queen painted the last stroke, she put down the brush and said softly: "The sage of painting once said that there are three realms of painting. Painting mountains is like mountains, painting water is like water; painting mountains is not mountains, painting water is not water; painting mountains is still mountains, painting is still mountains.
Water is still water, you are just entering the first level now, you can barely draw the shape of mountains and rivers, but you cannot draw the meaning of mountains and rivers."
Li Mu asked: "How can we draw the meaning of landscape?"
The Queen said leisurely: "Read more and draw more. When you have accumulated enough, you will naturally be able to draw the meaning of landscapes. I will teach you the basic techniques first. If you don't understand anything, ask me again..."
Li Mu asked again: "How long will it take for me to reach the second level?"
Zhou Wu said lightly: "It can take as little as two or three years, or as long as twenty or thirty years. It depends on your understanding..."
The improvement of painting skills cannot be achieved in a day, and now Li Mu can only learn slowly from the Queen.
The Queen would give pointers to Li Mu every day. In addition to basic exercises, Li Mu would also immerse himself in the original works of the painting saints and gain serious insights. He would make considerable progress every day.
These days, what surprises Li Mu is that the Queen is so artistic.
In the past, Li Mu's knowledge of her was limited to being beautiful, a genius in cultivation, a strong person in the seventh realm, who likes tinkering with flowers and plants, is stingy and simple, and appears to be a domineering queen but is actually silly and sweet. Even if the queen doesn't tell her, Li Mu doesn't even know her.
He is also a master painter.
Later, after asking around, I found out that before entering the palace, Zhou Wu of the Zhou family was famous in the divine capital for her talent in cultivation and painting skills.
Li Mu had been getting along with the Queen for such a long time. Based on his understanding of her, Zhou Wu as a girl might have only wanted to have a flower garden of her own in the future, so that she could grow flowers and grass, and paint when she was interested...
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And after she became an adult, these things became farther and farther away from her.
Lord Mei and Li Mu were walking in the palace. She breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on her face, and said: "Since you came to the palace, everything has changed. Your Majesty could only go to the Imperial Garden after the morning court.
Look, I don’t even have time to paint. Sometimes I patrol until late at night, and I can still see His Majesty sitting on the top of the palace..."
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Li Mubai glanced at her and said: "It's not because your Majesty is supposed to do things, but I have done them all these days. Otherwise, where would your Majesty have so much leisure and elegance..."
Master Mei smiled and said: "So, it would be better if you entered the palace three years earlier. If you entered the palace three years earlier, Your Majesty would not have to suffer these three years..."
Three years ago, Li Mu was not Li Mu, so there was no such possibility.
For the current Li Mu, he would be upset if he was asked to deal with memorials every day. It would be more exciting to help the Queen complete her great cause earlier, and then retire to the countryside to plant vegetables and flowers.
In the past year, the public sentiment in the 16 counties on Wednesday has almost doubled compared to previous years.
In terms of Wen Zhi, among the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty, only Emperor Wen could compare with the Empress.
If we maintain the current policy and let the people recuperate for ten years, it will not be difficult to surpass Emperor Wen.
In the past ten years, the mental power of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty should gradually stabilize and not increase much. In this way, the breeding of imperial energy will be far away.
The only way to speed up the birth of imperial power and liberate the Queen as soon as possible is to greatly improve the hearts and minds of the people in each county.
Once the public sentiment enters a stable period, internal factors alone will no longer be able to stimulate the people. At this time, some external stimulation is needed.
For example, conquering the ghost realm of the demon kingdom, eradicating the demon sect, or unifying the ancestral state, these things can greatly stimulate the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, allowing their support for the queen to reach its peak, and there is no need to worry about the people's mental strength.
But none of these things is easy to accomplish, and it is easy to waste all your efforts.
Once it is invaded by the demon kingdom or ghost realm, or if the demon sect causes chaos in various counties, causing great turmoil in the Zhou Dynasty, all the efforts he and the queen have made over the past year will be in vain.
Of course, the Zhou Dynasty can still check and balance these forces. The only troublesome ones are the southern countries.
For a long time, the southern countries were vassals of the Great Zhou. They paid tribute every year, year after year. The countries paid tribute to the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou provided them with protection. At that time, the Great Zhou was the undoubted overlord of the ancestral continent.
However, within a few decades, the succession of two foolish kings caused the national power of the Great Zhou Dynasty to decline rapidly, and also caused dissent among many vassal countries in the south.
In the past few decades, tribute from various countries has changed from once a year, to once every two years, to once every three years, and until the late emperor's reign, it became once every five years.
Nowadays, the Xiao royal family has even lost control of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The huge empire has fallen into the hands of a woman, and the thoughts of the various countries have become more vivid.
This time, envoys from various countries gathered in the divine capital to pay tribute. They had communicated with each other and seemed to have reached some kind of tacit agreement on completely breaking away from the Zhou Dynasty and canceling tribute.
Although this did not cause any real losses to the Zhou Dynasty, it had a huge impact on the people's hearts.
Once upon a time, the Great Zhou Dynasty was the supreme kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and all the surrounding countries were subject to it. If during the Queen's reign, all the countries broke away from the Great Zhou Dynasty, it would be a great mistake that the Queen could not make up for with any achievements.
Although this is the mess left by the first two emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they are already dead, and the people will only blame the queen.
Li Mu thought for a moment, then looked at Master Mei and asked, "Is it true that all the countries want to break away from the Zhou Dynasty?"
Speaking of this matter, Mr. Mei's face became solemn, nodded, and said: "It is indeed true. In the past few decades, the countries have become more and more dissatisfied with the Zhou Dynasty. The last time the countries paid tribute, it was because of the fatuousness of the late emperor.
This caused the imperial court to lose all face in front of the envoys from various countries, and also made them feel disloyal. In the past five years, from the death of the late emperor to the Zhou family seizing the emperor's power and the queen's accession to the throne, the Great Week was in turmoil. Their ambitions were in turmoil.
Finally I couldn’t hide it anymore…”
Li Mu said calmly: "This is also normal. Who is willing to be a vassal of others forever? For them, I am afraid they would rather hope that the Great Zhou Dynasty will be destroyed. They will take advantage of the chaos to carve up the Great Zhou Dynasty..."
Master Mei said angrily: "A bunch of unfed wolf cubs, I'm afraid they have long forgotten who helped them defend themselves against the enemies of Yanzhou and Changzhou. Without Dazhou, they would have been annexed by others, and they would have eaten nothing."
There’s nothing left…”
Li Mu shook his head and said: "Calm down, one moment and another, this is no longer the period of the late emperor. Even if they really have second thoughts, I'm afraid they don't have the courage..."
Honglu Temple.
The place where envoys from various countries live.
In a courtyard, a middle-aged man wearing a long gown and a young man beside him stood quietly in the courtyard, looking in the direction of the palace, with golden light in his eyes.
At the end of their sight, on a certain side of the sky, there were thousands of golden lights.
After a while, the golden light in their eyes disappeared, and the sky returned to its original color.
The young man asked doubtfully: "Sir, didn't you say that the spirit of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been exhausted, and the people are alienated from the court, but why is there still so much telepathy in the ancestral temple of the Great Zhou Dynasty?"
The middle-aged man said in a deep voice: "The Great Zhou Dynasty at this time is no longer the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time. I originally thought that the Zhou family replaced the Xiao family, which was the last period of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I didn't expect that it was only five years, no, only one year.
, Dazhou will return to its century-old peak..."
The young man asked: "Then do we still want to leave Dazhou?"
The middle-aged man said softly: "Let's take a look first."
There was a strange light in his eyes, and he said meaningfully: "Li Mu..."
There was emotion in the young man's eyes and he said: "That Li Muke is so powerful, he can actually restore the morale of a country. If I, Dayong, have such a person, the national power will be even greater. A hundred years later, we may not be able to unify the ancestral state..."
In Changle Palace, Zhou Wu raised the corners of her mouth and said disdainfully: "Dreaming..."
Li Mu, who was painting, raised his head and asked doubtfully: "What did your Majesty just say?"
Zhou Wu's face returned to calmness and she said: "It's nothing, you can continue painting, don't be distracted..."
