Wei Shouyi immediately bowed and replied, "Your Majesty, rest assured, entrust the man to me, I will definitely train him well."
As he spoke, he smiled at Zheng Feng, thinking he was being friendly, revealing a set of bright white teeth.
Having experienced the harsh realities of human relationships, the once carefree and spoiled Zheng Feng has become very composed. He quickly and respectfully bowed to his new superior.
[Master, does General Wei think he has a handsome smile?]
"No, he probably thinks his smile is very 'nuclear'."
Wei Shouyi: I have mixed feelings. It seems that both the Divine Artifact Master and the Little Immortal Lord remember him, Wei Shouyi, but... does he really look unattractive and unfriendly when he smiles?
These two ancestors didn't realize that compared to the killers in his army, Wei Shouyi was at least a 'handsome man'!
[Do you think if you gave your military training methods to this madman Zheng, could he train an army as strong as the Xia Kingdom's army on Earth?]
The strongest army on earth—although they didn't quite understand it, the mere thought of it being Little Immortal Lord's training method made the eyes of everyone in the Ministry of War, from Huo Ying down to Generals like Wei Shouyi, light up like searchlights.
Huo Ying: Is this wealth finally going to fall to me, Minister of War?
Wei Shouyi dared not look at Yue Fuguang, and could only stare at the back of Zheng Feng's head. He wished he could wash up his new subordinate, tie him with a bow, and send him to Yue Fuguang.
Emperor Mingxi and Wei Ping smiled at each other. The Little Immortal Lord's method of training troops? If they could obtain it, their performance this morning would not have been in vain.
"It's unlikely. An army without faith can't forge an iron will. But even so, it's definitely stronger than the most capable army that Dayan currently has."
"Want to have some fun? Life's been so boring, it'd be good to find some entertainment."
The four members of the Zheng family, father and sons, stared wide-eyed. If it really was this little girl speaking, why wasn't she opening her mouth?
The father and sons hadn't noticed while kneeling, but now that they looked up, they realized that the voices were ringing in their ears, though no one in the hall was speaking.
Apart from His Majesty and Lord Wei, who gestured for them to be quiet, everyone else lowered their heads, seemingly oblivious to the two voices.
However, when he saw Minister Huo's clenched fists, he knew that he, like his son Zheng Feng, was not at peace.
Instead of guessing at the inner thoughts of the four men, the father and his three sons thought about the bizarre supernatural beings.
Even so, even if it were a ghost or a god, Zheng Feng would wish to prostrate himself before her and beg her to bestow upon him the method of training troops.
His father was a civil official, and his family had always followed the path of civil officials. Without family tradition, if he wanted to make a living as a military officer, he had to rely on himself to observe, think, and learn more.
As for the things he couldn't understand, he believed that as long as the other party was willing to tell him, he would definitely remember them carefully.
"Let's see. Do you think the emperor, that poor wretch, can afford to maintain an army, especially the strongest army you mentioned?"
After the New Year, I'll discuss a business deal with the Crown Prince to make some money so we can support ourselves. I just don't know if the Emperor will agree.
What if he suspects I'm interested in that lousy chair he's sitting on?
[If he dares to doubt, we'll let his dream come true! If you don't want to sit, you can just grab it and give it to someone who does!]
"No, no, no, I won't do it, and I don't plan to steal it. If he doesn't agree, we won't do it. We can go out to sea and play after the Great Yan is gone."
The Zheng family father and son: Is this the kind of thing we can hear while we're alive?
Look at His Majesty, and then look at his colleagues, they are all quite calm! What have they gone through to develop such composure in the face of honor and disgrace?
It seems that after not returning for several years, the father and son still have much to learn.
Emperor Mingxi: Alright, alright, stop talking. I'll really be rich right away!
After Emperor Mingxi had used the Robin Hood tactic twice, he was quite adept at it and even secretly considered establishing a department specifically responsible for collecting confiscated property.
However, thinking about the obstacles he might encounter, he quietly put away his little thought.
Silently complaining to the moon, "If you want to build it, then build it. What's it to me?"
Emperor Mingxi is currently in a very comfortable position. As long as it doesn't cost him his life or his throne, he can consider anything else.
Unbeknownst to Yue Fuguang, she had inadvertently cultivated Emperor Mingxi's good habit of 'making quick money.' In the years that followed, he was remarkably efficient in this area, requiring no effort from her whatsoever.
"As for your eldest and second sons, I heard they are both successful candidates in the imperial examinations. Let them both study at the Imperial Academy."
Emperor Mingxi then encouraged Zheng Feng's two elder brothers, saying, "Study hard, for you will be useful talents for our Great Yan in the future."
The father and his three sons once again kowtowed to thank His Majesty the Wise Emperor.
[Master, is this...it's over? The real mastermind hasn't even been found and it's already the grand finale?]
"Didn't they already kill a group of people and exile another group a few years ago? Is there some other mastermind behind this?"
There's someone behind it all? The emperor and his ministers of the Dayan Dynasty were all shocked when they heard this. Whenever it came to cheating in the imperial examinations, how many people didn't die or get exiled?
There's a mastermind behind this; could this implicate a whole string of people? Were those who were beheaded before just a mistake?
Not only Emperor Mingxi, but also the officials of the Court of Judicial Review, the Censorate, and the Ministry of Justice felt uneasy.
Faces appeared before their eyes, hiss!
Of course, there were also behind-the-scenes manipulators. In fact, the imperial examination cheating case involved two groups. One group killed everyone who was supposed to be killed, but we won't go into that.
Another group, connected to Zheng Zicheng's group, included Chen Pingliang, who was unjustly killed among those previously beheaded.
As expected, the wrong person was executed, and the hearts of the emperor and his ministers finally died of anxiety!
"Tell me the details! How did a case of cheating in the imperial examinations end up with two groups of people? The innocent people who died were just too tragic."
The first group was led by Cai Yi, the former Minister of Rites and Zhang Zhongping's predecessor. He was the chief examiner at the time. Most of the officials involved in the case, whether high or low, were either executed or exiled, and most of them were fine.
There's another group involved with Zheng Zicheng, Chen Pingliang, and Zhao Xu. Zheng Zicheng was wrongfully exiled, Chen Pingliang died unjustly, Zhao Xu was promoted and made a fortune, and the mastermind behind it all remains at large.
Zheng Zicheng felt a pang of sympathy. Although the past few years had been tough for him and his three sons, they had at least managed to stay alive.
And Brother Chen...
[Back then, Cai Yi accepted bribes and leaked some exam questions. This was later attributed to Zheng Zicheng's poor supervision and the theft of the templates during the trial.]
This resulted in the two cases being combined into one case for handling.
However, Chen Pingliang, one of the examiners, was too upright when grading papers and discovered problems with Yu Dayin's grading process. Ironically, after the cheating scandal broke, Chen Pingliang became Yu Dayin's scapegoat.
Is this related to Yu Dayin, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy? Chen Pingliang was also a scholar of the Hanlin Academy before his incident, and Yu Dayin succeeded him after his death!
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