Chapter 60 The Northern King is so bold! ! ……

After listening to Shen Zhiwei's instructions, Wen Tao adjusted the focus of her work and began to prepare for the imperial examination.

Building a commercial street and a school is not a particularly difficult task. We have already had a lot of experience in both of these. Now we just need to call people over and start work. The biggest problem may be that the weather is getting colder and colder. If it is not completed before winter, it will be troublesome.

Fortunately, Wen Tao had already prepared a foundation before. Now that the construction of the residential area has been stopped, he can focus on one thing at a very fast speed and it won't take too long.

The news of the imperial examination had just reached Biandi when the commercial street was almost completed. Since there was no need to consider other things, there were many inns on the commercial street. This way, at least the students going to Jingchang this winter would have a place to stay.

The small houses outside the city have also been cleaned up. Those poor families with little money can stay outside the city temporarily. If anyone is unwilling, please leave. Those poor and particular people are not the kind of talents Shen Zhiwei wants.

When Gui Yang heard the news about the imperial examination, her first reaction was that she had heard it wrong. After careful inquiry, she found out that the king really did intend to madly expand the recruitment of officials.

He thought of the position of Prime Minister.

He had always wanted to be the Prime Minister, but the King probably felt that he was not capable enough, so he did not give him the position. Instead, he was assigned to Yongming City as the prefect.

Now the king has started to recruit officials on a large scale, is it because the king thinks Wen Tao has the ability to become the prime minister?

After realizing this, Gui Yang was silent for a long time. He was wondering, how was he worse than Wen Tao?

Why did the king choose Wen Tao instead of him? Is it because he doesn’t have a father who is a tutor?

Finally, Gui Yang felt that it might be because he had no master. Wen Tao's teacher Changzi could rebuild the academy in Jingchang and invite students from all over the world, but he could do nothing. At most, he knew a group of wanderers. Everyone knew that wanderers were a group of people who were not presentable. Nobles who truly cherished their reputation would rather avoid wanderers.

Of course, there are some knights who are loyal to their country, but there are too few of them. Most of the knights are lawbreakers who commit all kinds of evil deeds such as theft, robbery, arson, etc.

But Gui Yang believed that the knights he knew were not bad people. Those knights helped him spread the news and even angered An Gongshou to death. How could they be regarded as bad people?

Therefore, he is not much different from Wen Tao. In terms of loyalty to the king and ability to serve the king, he is not bad either!

Gui Yang thought about it and felt that he couldn't give up so easily, so he found Hu Youan and talked about the matter of making meritorious service again.

"Your Majesty is planning to recruit talented individuals from all over the world in Jingchang. If this news reaches the ears of other monarchs, it will surely arouse their vigilance. Many talented individuals who expressed their desire to serve in Jingchang have been detained and forced to stay and serve by their respective monarchs. General, we are already disrespectful in being away from His Majesty. We should be loyal to Him from afar."

Hu Youan listened to Gui Yang's words, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Tea is also a drink that has only become popular in the palace this year. It doesn't taste like much, but Shen Zhiwei likes it, so the subordinates also drink it.

Sometimes Shen Zhiwei put milk and sugar in it, and the people below would drink it too. It didn’t matter whether they liked it or not, the important thing was to please the king.

"If the county magistrate has something to say, why not speak directly?"

Before, Hu Youan would be fooled by Gui Yang's words and send troops to attack the small country.

At that time, Hu Youan was not completely deceived by Gui Yang. He was also angry in his heart and just used it as an excuse to vent.

So when Hu Youan was later reprimanded for the troop mobilization, she never blamed Gui Yang. Similarly, she would not think that Gui Yang appeared in front of her again and told her all these nonsense out of kindness.

"General, as a fellow minister of the king, everything Yang does is for the king, and he has no ulterior motives." Gui Yang repeatedly emphasized his loyalty, fearing that Hu Youan would doubt him and choose not to join forces with him.

Hu Youan nodded slightly, without saying whether he believed it or not.

Seeing this, Gui Yang could only assume that she believed it and continued, "It's one thing to be detained, but if ten or a hundred people are detained, I wonder how many talented people Your Majesty will miss out on. Moreover, those talented people will plot for the enemy, which is also a threat to Your Majesty. Why not collect talented people from all over the world for Your Majesty and send them to Jingchang?"

Hu Youan paused while sipping her tea, swallowed it with a rolling motion in her throat, and asked in surprise, "Robbery?"

"How can this be called robbery? The king will hold the winter selection exams and the spring imperial examinations. Such a grand event, who wouldn't want to participate? And those kings, for their own selfish reasons, are detaining those who sincerely wish to serve the king. Such evil deeds must be stopped. Those who are willing to serve the king must be sent to Jingchang."

Changzi can command the support of hundreds of people, and so can he. If someone is a real talent, his rangers can quickly collect targets for him.

Then steal whatever you can.

Killing is not necessary. If he were to be killed just for not being loyal to the king, then who knows how people in the world would curse the king as a tyrant. He would never let the king bear such an infamy.

After Hu Youan figured it out, her expression didn't look much better. She felt that kidnapping someone wasn't as noble as Gui Yang said.

Moreover, if you don't kill people but just rob them, can your reputation improve?

Although I am a military general, I am not a fool. You are probably lying to me!

Hu Youan felt that Gui Yang was unreliable and was reluctant to help until something happened.

Yunzi, one of the great scholars in the world who was personally invited by Changzi, was detained when passing through the Northern Kingdom. Not only was he detained, but all five students he brought with him were also detained.

This immediately made the princes' eyes light up. It was obvious that the Northern Kingdom felt that Jingchang had been making too much noise recently and was deliberately looking for trouble.

Jingchang was indeed too high-profile. Ever since the conquest of Bian State a few years ago, we could hear about Jingchang every few months. Whether it was Jingchang's harvest, the construction of the market town, or the establishment of a lecture hall to enlighten the people, it was all news about Jingchang.

This year, Jingchang took advantage of the fact that Anbei and Anbei were fighting each other to seize several small countries and beat up Yunning and Yunling at the same time.

Too arrogant! I have never seen such an arrogant emperor!

The emperor who ruled the world in the past only treated foreigners like this, but now this young emperor treats them all as foreigners.

Of course they were unhappy, and they also wanted to try and see how powerful Jingchang was now, whether it could withstand the pressure from the princes of the world and grow up, and whether it could take back the world lost by the previous king.

The North Country was the first to lose patience and take action. They were all waiting for this result.

When Shen Zhiwei knew about this, his first reaction was what a shameless trick!

What kind of skill is it to detain someone? Can you detain the soul by detaining the body? He doesn't have the ability to make people pledge allegiance, so he prevents others from doing so. This petty-minded person is actually the king of a country. She used to think that he was one of the potential stocks to become the First Emperor.

Oh my god, she has a cyber criminal record!

Fortunately, this world is not connected to the Internet, and no one knows about this case at present.

Wen Tao was so angry that she was too busy to forget to go to the palace to complain. Yunzi was a good friend of her teacher and had a half-master-disciple relationship with her, not to mention that he was willing to come all the way here just for the sake of their master-disciple relationship. But now he was detained. How could she not be angry!

"Your Majesty, the Northern Kingdom's actions are extremely foolish. They are like those of a child, and their methods are clumsy. But I have to say, they are indeed effective."

After Wen Tao calmed down, she cursed the King of the Northern Kingdom and then praised him for being shameless.

As a monarch, what you should do is to benefit the country, not to save face and be a saint, so what King Yue of the North did is really nothing.

At most, talented people in the world think that King Yue of the North is wholeheartedly considering the Northern Kingdom and sometimes uses extreme means. This is not a particularly bad reputation. As long as King Yue of the North does not kill the great Confucian scholars, he will never fall into a moral trough.

"As expected of someone who could kill his brother to ascend to power, without morals, no one can ever morally blackmail him." Shen Zhiwei sighed as well. Bei Wangyue was a man of character, but his actions were too unmanly. "But what is he afraid of? He's already the king of the Northern Kingdom, so why is he still so timid?"

That's right. In Shen Zhiwei's opinion, this action was not a provocation to Jingchang, but more like a fear of Jingchang. Because he was afraid that Jingchang would continue to become stronger, he panicked and used a not-so-clever trick.

The trick worked, but for the Northern King, it did more harm than good.

Shen Zhiwei did not wait for Wen Tao to give her an answer, because Wen Tao obviously did not realize that the King of the North was cowardly in this matter.

The Northern King dared to blatantly detain people. How could he be timid? He was very brave!

Shen Zhiwei tilted his head and thought for a moment, going over the news he had heard about the Northern Kingdom this year in his mind, and came up with an answer: "It seems that the Northern Kingdom is very unstable internally, and something big is going to happen. He is deliberately trying to provoke a war. He really has benefited from the war."

"What good can come of war? Did King Beiyue get kicked in the head by a donkey?" Wen Tao couldn't help but imitate Shen Zhiwei's usual way of speaking and complained harshly.

Shen Zhiwei was stunned when she heard this, then burst into laughter. She laughed for a long time and barely stopped, then said with a smile that could not be concealed: "My Prime Minister is right. I think he really has been kicked in the head by a donkey. He is drinking poison to quench thirst and seeking his own death. Ah Tao, do you still remember the poem you gave to An Gongshou before? Why not write one and give it to Bei Wangyue?"

When Wen Tao heard this, she was immediately inspired. She asked Shen Zhiwei for paper and pen, and wrote down a long string of gorgeous words. Shen Zhiwei felt dizzy watching her.

Shen Zhiwei discovered that Wen Tao was very talented in cursing people, and was especially good at cursing people in articles. There was not a single dirty word in the whole article, but the curse was very dirty, and he could completely deny a person from personality to life.

The key is that the language is gorgeous and it is really difficult to understand without some cultural knowledge.

I heard that the Northern Kingdom does not attach importance to cultural level. They even had a monarch who could not recognize all the characters. Their situation is similar to hers, but they are far worse than hers. She still knows how to study, while those guys seem to be born unable to study. They are illiterate when they become monarchs and remain illiterate until their death.

Even government affairs had to be read to him by the waiter beside him, which shows that there was really no literary atmosphere at all.

I wonder if Bei Wangyue can understand the insulting poem written by Wen Tao for him?

Shen Zhiwei was a little bit looking forward to it.