Chapter 294: Fulfilled Prophecy
The left prime minister stood there in a daze, not saying a word for a long time.
After going around in a circle, I came back again.
I thought that the man was a spy from another country, who wanted to use Liang to instigate a war between Daxia and Wei in order to profit from it.
But in the end, it was found that the strategist was actually from Daxia.
How could it be Daxia?
He vaguely felt that there seemed to be a huge net covering the court.
Zuo Xiang said solemnly: "Keep investigating. I want all the information about him from birth to now!"
Once we confirmed that the man's hometown was Daxia, it became much easier to investigate.
Several of his good friends in the Liang State delegation provided important clues to the Dali Temple. Dongfang Bo went to Liang State only after he failed the imperial examination in Daxia.
Compared with Daxia, the competition for imperial examinations in small countries is much smaller.
Students who failed the imperial examination in Daxia might even have a chance of becoming the top scholar in those small countries.
Some students from Daxia, if they feel that they cannot enter officialdom in Daxia, may settle for the next best thing and try to obtain the identities of these small countries and serve as officials in their countries.
More than ten years have passed since the imperial examination.
If it is a Jinshi of that year, it would be fine, because the resumes of all Jinshi can be found from the Ministry of Personnel.
But this person is a failed candidate, so it would take a lot of effort to find his information.
There will definitely be no results today. The left prime minister looked at the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and said, "After finding out the results, come to the Zhongshu Province as soon as possible to report."
The Shaoqing of Dali Temple nodded in agreement.
After a while, the left prime minister walked out of the court and left the Dali Temple.
At the same time, two other figures walked in from outside the Dali Temple.
The left prime minister paused, and the two figures walking towards him also stopped where they were.
Prince Chun was in a dilemma, he didn't know where to put his hands, he said awkwardly: "Uh..., Zuo Xiang, why are you here?"
When facing a great scholar at the fifth level, even he had to remain respectful and polite.
Zuo Xiang bowed to him and said, "Greetings, Your Highness."
Although he was talking to Prince Chun, his eyes were actually directed at Li Xuanjing who was beside Prince Chun.
The officials of the Dali Temple who saw the Left Prime Minister off also stood where they were, not daring to make a sound.
The grudge between the Left Prime Minister and the Lord Temple Minister cannot be explained in a few words.
They were once master and apprentice with a father-son relationship.
They are also irreconcilable enemies.
Many of the left prime minister's disciples died in that incident, and the one who reported them was the temple minister.
After that, the master and the disciple became enemies.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
After three breaths, the left prime minister shifted his gaze away from Li Xuanjing and walked out of the Dali Temple.
Li Xuanjing also didn't say a word and walked straight back to the yamen.
Everyone in the Dali Temple breathed a sigh of relief, and a moment later, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple walked into the yamen.
Li Xuanjing was looking through the files while Prince Chun was playing chess with himself in the corner. He first bowed to Prince Chun, then walked to the table and told Li Xuanjing in detail what had just happened.
"A strategist of the fourth realm, with a noble character, and a native of Daxia..." Li Xuanjing tapped the table lightly with his fingers a few times and said, "Got it."
The Junior Official of the Dali Temple did not say much, but bowed and said, "I will take my leave."
After he left, Prince Chun asked curiously, "How could such a person cultivate the noble spirit?"
Speaking of the great moral force, what he thought of were great scholars like the Zuo Xiang, the students in the academy who had read so much that they became stupid, and the censors in the Censorate who dared to say anything, rather than a murderer.
Li Xuanjing said softly: "Whether he can cultivate the noble spirit does not depend on what he has done, but on what he wants to do. If he does it for the greater good in his heart, rather than out of selfishness, even if he kills people or burns things, the noble spirit in his heart will not disappear."
Prince Chun sighed, "This is too terrible. If what he wants to do is wrong, then the higher his position, the greater the harm. People like the left and right prime ministers, if they raise their arms and call for action, I'm afraid most of the world will respond. If they rebel..."
Li Xuanjing said: "Even if they rebel, it's not for themselves..."
At this moment, in the Secretariat.
A look of worry also appeared on Zuo Xiang's face.
A fourth-level strategist is not to be feared.
A Confucian in the third realm is not scary.
The harm that a Confucian of the third realm who is also a diplomat of the fourth realm can cause to a country is not a simple addition of their effects.
He himself is a Confucian and understands Confucianism.
Once a Confucian disciple has identified the righteousness in his heart, in the worst case scenario, he may drag the entire country into the bottomless abyss in the name of righteousness...
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Li Mansion.
Li Nuo spent the entire afternoon with Mu'er and Ning'er.
Since I no longer live in the Song Mansion, I seldom see them.
Although Jia and Yiren would occasionally bring them here, it was impossible for them to live in the Li Mansion for a long time. Perhaps it was because their mistresses had failed to educate them. As for Mu'er and Ning'er, the Song family kept a tight grip on them.
After learning mathematics, the Song family hired teachers to teach them literature, music, and painting, obviously in an effort to train them in a more comprehensive direction.
For the entire afternoon, Mu'er and Ning'er complained to him that they had to attend various classes and practice martial arts every day, and they didn't even have time to play with him.
It seems that because they are one year older, the relationship between the two sisters is no longer as confrontational as before, and they finally look like real sisters.
On the contrary, the relationship between Jia and Yi, the sisters, is not as good as that between two seven-year-old children.
Although Yiren was not targeting her like she did at the beginning, the two of them were not very close. Yiren preferred to be with Fenghuang, while the relationship between Jia and An Ning was closer.
The only exception is Fenghuang. She has a good relationship with everyone. If she is not around, Li Nuo can't imagine how Yiren gets along with them on a daily basis.
The next day, Li Nuo came to the Honglu Temple again.
Although I had a day off yesterday, it was just like I didn't have a day off.
Working ten days and resting one day is really inhumane. When he has a say in the Secretariat in the future, he must write the law into working five days and resting two days.
The Secretariat was trustworthy. In the morning, a clerk came to the Honglu Temple and asked Li Nuo what official position he wanted to hold. He could choose any fifth-rank official position in the court.
There are many fifth-rank official positions to choose from.
The chief officials of each of the six ministries are all of the fifth rank.
There are also some minor official positions in the three provinces that can be chosen.
Li Nuo had already decided what official position he would hold.
If you want to cultivate your legalism, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple are both good places to go. All the case files in the country are gathered in these two ministries. Even if you don’t need to investigate specific cases, your cultivation will automatically increase by stamping them every day.
The Ministry of Justice has more files on prison sentences than the Dali Temple.
Imprisonment is the middlemost punishment among the five punishments. It is not too light, but not too heavy either. It also has the largest number of sentences. The final review authority lies with the Ministry of Justice.
If you choose the Dali Temple, it means you give up the files of this part of the sentence.
Li Nuo finally chose the position of Langzhong of the Ministry of Justice.
As for the former doctor of the Ministry of Justice, I believe the three provinces will give him better arrangements.
The next thing to do is to wait for the appointment from the three provinces.
The envoys' conference officially started yesterday, so the Honglu Temple is relatively quiet today.
The most troublesome thing is to receive and accommodate them. After the conference officially begins, the envoys of various countries will conduct diplomatic negotiations with the corresponding countries according to their needs, and these have nothing to do with the Honglu Temple.
At noon, Li Nuo went home for lunch as usual.
Something seems to be a little abnormal in the Li Mansion today.
When passing by the gatehouse, Li Nuo did not see Butler Wu and Old Huang, and there was no one at the gatehouse.
There were no servants in the house.
It was not until he passed through two doors that Li Nuo saw a group of servants gathered outside their courtyard gate. There were also shadowy figures inside the courtyard.
Li Nuo walked into the yard and found that his mother-in-law had come. Not only that, the old lady and several aunts from the Song family were also there. It was the first time he had seen such a big scene.
When Butler Wu saw him, his old face was full of smiles. He walked over quickly and said, "Congratulations, young master. Congratulations, young master..."
After hearing what Butler Wu said, Li Nuo stood there in a daze for a long time.
This morning, Jiaren felt unwell.
An Ning invited a female doctor from the palace, who diagnosed her and told them the good news.
The beauty is pregnant.
It just so happened that An Ning had been feeling a little unwell these past two days, so she asked the female doctor to take her pulse, and then she learned the second good news.
She is also pregnant.
After the news spread, the Song Mansion was completely alarmed. The old lady brought all the women of the Song family and rushed over, resulting in the scene that Li Nuo is seeing now.
Seeing Li Nuo running quickly into the room, a relieved smile appeared on Butler Wu's old face.
The Li family has been a single-line family for several generations, but now they have finally branched out.
The young lady and the princess were pregnant at the same time, and the female doctor said that the young lady was pregnant with twins.
twin?
Butler Wu seemed to remember something and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
He once spent twenty taels of silver to have two fortunes told for the young master on the street.
The old fortune teller said that the young lady would be pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl.
He also said that in addition to the young lady, the young master had several other destined marriages.
At that time, the young master and the young mistress had never even held hands, and the young mistress would never allow the young master to take a concubine. What the old man said sounded like a fairy tale.
But today, all his predictions have come true!
"hiss!"
He took a deep breath and ran out of Li's house.
(End of this chapter)
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