Chapter 707 If the Empress Has No Confidence

The sun is shining brightly today, which is suitable for drying books.

So during the day, Yang Shanchang asked someone to take out all his books and put them away one by one.

As the night deepened, all the books were put back into the study.

Yang Shanchang sat on a chair. As he was old, he could still do the task of collecting books at first, but after sitting for a while his legs and feet became inconvenient, so he had to hand it over to Yang Guofu.

Sitting on the chair, Yang Shanchang looked at a book he picked up casually, which was a book of pure words and miscellaneous books specifically talking about the way to behave in the world.

Yang Shanchang remembered that he read this book when he was young. Because he was not good at dealing with people and was a blockhead, he bought this kind of miscellaneous books.

There are many wise words in the book. Although they may seem ridiculous now, if you taste them carefully, they are actually true, such as "one is too lazy to look back at the beautiful women" and "a hero should stand firm in times of storm."

Yang Guofu was only wearing underwear, mainly because it was too hot and he was too fat, but he was still sweating all over. After wiping the sweat off with a gauze scarf, Yang Guofu looked at his father and said, "Dad, I'll help you with the rest tomorrow. I'm taking a day off tomorrow anyway."

Yang Shanchang glanced at the remaining half of the book and nodded: "Have someone keep it for later."

Books should be classified, otherwise it will be messy.

Moreover, it had to be placed in a place that Yang Shanchang was familiar with, otherwise he would not be able to find it when he wanted to read it. Not only Yang Shanchang, but other readers also had this problem.

For example, in Su Wenqing's study, only Su Liu was allowed to clean it every time, otherwise others would make a mess.

Whenever Yang Shanchang sorted books in the past, there would be either Yan Jingqing or Zhao Yulang present, plus Yang Guofu, making a total of three people, so it wasn't tiring. But now only Yang Guofu is left, so naturally he's slower.

Yang Guofu nodded, walked to his father, took the book next to Yang Shanchang and put it in a box, then looked at his father and couldn't help but said, "Dad, it's not appropriate for me to go to Zong Ze's welcoming party today. Why don't you go? I have a good relationship with Zong Ze. In the past few years, we..."

At this point, Yang Guofu paused, then changed his words: "A few years ago, his food and grass were withheld by Li Nishang, and you openly opposed Li Nishang to make up for it. And he killed so many people, and it was you who suppressed them in the capital."

Yang Shanchang didn't say anything, just looked at the books in front of him: "Different."

Upon hearing this, Yang Guofu hesitated to speak and finally chose not to say anything.

Now, they, father and son, have no "friends" at all in the capital. Their house used to be deserted, but now it is deserted.

Yang Guofu would not have been able to bear this in the past.

But now he has to endure it. But as time went on, Yang Guofu found it was pretty good. He didn't have to deal with anyone and it saved him a lot of trouble. He just did it by himself at home. Now he has developed the habit of reading more books and practicing calligraphy.

Yang Shanchang looked at Yang Guofu with hazy eyes: "Do everything I asked you to do."

Yang Guofu nodded: "We have sent someone back, but the girl will probably make trouble again. But we can't let her do that. It's more important for us to save our lives."

Yang Shanchang nodded: "The country needs to fight, and needs military pay and food. It seems that we have got a lot of money from the Ouyang family, but such a big family needs money everywhere, and we don't know if there will be floods and droughts this year, so we still have to take out what we should take."

Yang Guofu didn't nod this time, but asked: "Dad, I wanted to ask you this before. We are fine now, why do you still want to give us money? This is all we have left. If we give you money this time, we will really have nothing. At most, we can only rely on those shops to support us."

Now that he had spoken, Yang Guofu continued, "And why did you let that silly boy and sister go to our old house in the countryside? Could it be that His Majesty wants to take action against us?"

Yang Shanchang stood up.

Yang Guofu hurried to support him.

Yang Shanchang walked outside, and when he reached the door, he looked up at Mingyue and said, "Guofu, we haven't been back to our hometown for a long time."

Yang Guofu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what his father was saying, but he guessed the obvious meaning, so he said: "Dad, should we both resign? We are still somewhat useful as officials, but if we resign, we will be nothing."

Yang Guofu was actually very scared, because after he resigned from his official position, his enemies would come at any time. Now that he was an official, he felt safe.

Yang Shanchang glanced at Yang Guofu, smiled, and then looked up at the moon in the sky, which was as bright as a jade plate: "What are the first two sentences of the 23rd chapter of the Tao Te Ching?"

Yang Guofu was stunned for a moment and then blurted out: "So the wind does not last all morning, and the rain does not last all day. Who is responsible for this? Heaven and earth."

A strong wind will not last for a morning, and a heavy rain will not last for a day or a night. Who is causing the wind and rain? The heaven and earth!

Who is heaven and earth!

Empress!

Yang Guofu understood the logic and immediately knew why his father asked him to say this.

Whether the matter is over or not is up to the emperor, not him.

Yang Shanchang said: "Be a good official. If the day comes when you can no longer be an official, let's go back home."

Yang Guofu looked at his father and always felt that something was wrong.

Because dad has been like this since he knew Zong Ze was coming back, especially after the Zoroastrianism incident, things became more and more abnormal with dad.

Yang Guofu wondered if His Majesty was going to take action against them.

Although there were people in the court who impeached them father and son, His Majesty just ignored them and did not look like he was going to take any action. Even Su Wenqing, Mu Xu, Li Jiulang and others talked and laughed when they saw him, as if all the matter was in the past.

Yang Shanchang looked at Yang Guofu, who had a worried look on his face, and smiled. "Nothing. Just do your job well. After the world meeting is over, all matters in that area will be handed over to Jingzhao Prefecture. Don't mess it up."

Yang Guofu nodded.

However, seeing that Yang Shanchang was tired from standing, Yang Guofu immediately brought a chair over.

After Yang Shanchang sat down, he looked at the bright moon and starry sky: "It looks like we have taken it down. It turns out that your majesty has a hidden trick in the army that no one knows about."

It was during the time when Yan was attacking Goguryeo and Joseon. How could they hold a banquet if they hadn't conquered them?

Yang Shanchang looked calm, even a little happy.

The only thing missing was the surprise that should have been there.

On the other hand, Yang Guofu was puzzled. Did they take it down?

But immediately, he stood up from the stool he had been sitting next to his father and said, "Dad, are you saying that you conquered Goguryeo and Joseon? That's impossible. It would be normal if they won the battle, but it's impossible to conquer them. It's only been a short time."

Yang Shanchang did not go to see Yang Guofu. In the past, he would have taught his son.

But now, there is nothing to teach, so I just asked: "Why do you think His Majesty ordered the destruction of Goguryeo and Joseon at this time?"

Yang Shanchang didn't finish his sentence.

But in fact, the whole sentence is missing two words: "confidence".

Confidence is often related to the back-up plan.

If a woman had no confidence and no backup plan, how could she be so smart as to order the destruction of two countries at this time?

Yang Guofu thought of this and looked at Yang Shanchang in shock.

What confidence do they have to destroy two countries in such a short time!

…

When the imperial court officially announced the next day that there were no more Goguryeo and Korea in the world, many people had the same expression as Yang Guofu.

even

Be more exaggerated.

After all, it took less than a month to destroy two countries, which is really outrageous!

How can this not be exaggerated!

(End of this chapter)