Chapter 47 As expected, what you said about liking me is...

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"His Majesty has agreed to set up a school, the funding has been allocated, and His Majesty has also agreed to my proposals for guaranteed job placement." Lin Baige sat down very slowly. Before sitting down, the eunuch who followed him put cushions on the table first.

Lord Zhang saw at a glance what method Lin Baige used to convince the emperor. He didn't expect that he could go to such lengths for the people's education. In the past, Lin Baige seduced the emperor to do bad things, but now he seduces the emperor to do good things. He was embarrassed to preach to Lin Baige.

"One of your senior brothers won the first place in this exam. Let your senior brother get involved and take charge of the Ministry of Education." Lord Zhang said and asked the servant beside him to call his senior brother in.

This senior brother, like Lin Baige, also has the surname Lin. He is in his thirties, has a goatee, is not tall, but is very knowledgeable.

Lord Zhang used to think that it was unreasonable to select officials based on appearance. He proposed to the emperor that this time the exam should rely entirely on talent, and the emperor agreed.

He suspected that His Majesty was worried that Lin Baige would enter the officialdom and work with a group of handsome colleagues, and would be seduced by other men, so His Majesty did not care about appearance when selecting officials.

It is indeed convenient now. If the Senior Brother Lin today was a handsome man, I am afraid that tomorrow His Majesty would know that Lin Baige and Senior Brother Lin are running the Ministry of Education together, and he would have to be on guard against Senior Brother Lin. If Senior Brother Lin looks at Lin Baige, he will chop this Senior Brother Lin to death.

Senior Brother Lin also hated the demon concubine before, but later he followed Lord Zhang to see the salt wells with his own eyes and ate the salt mined from the salt wells. During this period, the salt produced by their salt wells was also sold to two other countries, which earned him a lot of foreign exchange. He then looked at Lin Baige with admiration.

No wonder the emperor liked him. How could he not like him with such ability? He even thought that the story the emperor had made up about Lin Baige being an undercover agent for Lin Xing was true.

Now that I am using the paper made using the method Lin Baige gave me, I admire Lin Baige even more.

Lin Baige was a little uncomfortable seeing his elder brother looking at him with admiration. Last time when he went to court, he was scolded as a witch concubine by a group of ministers. Now he met an official who didn't scold him, and he was really a little uncomfortable.

"Madam, I saw your method of making paper and I really admire you. How did you come up with this method?" Senior Brother Lin asked him excitedly.

"Why call me Empress? Don't call me Empress. I would rather you call me Demon Concubine." Lin Baige said fearfully. He had finally managed to get Fu Jiangyu to order all the palace maids and eunuchs not to call him Empress. How come he was called Empress as soon as he left the palace?

"I misunderstood you before. I was short-sighted. I didn't know you had done so much for our Jin State. You were willing to bear so much criticism in order to rectify the officialdom. This alone is not something that everyone can do." Senior Brother Lin bowed to apologize to him.

"That's not what I meant. What I meant was that it wasn't my intention to enter the palace as a concubine. I don't like the title of 'Empress'. You can just call me by my name, or call me Junior Brother." Lin Baige explained anxiously. He really didn't want everyone to call him 'Empress' when they saw him in the future.

Senior Brother Lin turned to look at Master Zhang. Master Zhang nodded to him. Only then did he dare to call Lin Baige, "Junior Brother."

Lin Baige breathed a sigh of relief. "That's right. From now on, I hope to publicly announce that I am Master Zhang's disciple, not the Imperial Concubine. For example, when people ask who proposed the papermaking and free school, just say it was Master Zhang's disciple, Lin Baige, and don't mention the Imperial Concubine."

No one knows the name of the evil concubine, and people usually mention her by her title. When he goes out, he wants to use another identity, the identity of Lord Zhang's disciple, so that others can tell that he is a good person.

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Every word Lin Baige said today was recorded and handed to Fu Jiangyu. When Fu Jiangyu saw that Lin Baige said that entering the palace as a concubine was not his original intention, his eyes darkened: "Sure enough, you were lying to me when you said you loved me."