Chapter 492: Ordinary Dad Boast

Emperor Mingpei asked, "Hmm?"

Brother Xiaowu said, "Yeah, I'm not standing idly by. I just think that Zheng Xuan is a little inappropriate, so it's better to replace him."

Emperor Mingpei hummed.

He continued, "Daddy once said that it's not shameful not to know, but it's shameful to pretend to know when you don't."

Brother Xiaoliu continued, "So if we don't understand something, we should ask. Once we have asked clearly, we will understand. But Zheng Xuan, not only does he pretend to understand, but after he reveals that he doesn't understand, he gets angry and feels embarrassed when others tell him. This is very bad."

Brother Xiaowu said, "It's always like this. My grandson started learning late and was slow in his studies. He was the one who learned all the lessons. He often interrupted us and the teacher scolded him a few times. Later, the teacher said that if you had a solid academic record, you would be fine with your remarks, but you are wrong five times out of ten. How can you say anything? He was unhappy at lunch that day and kept smashing the bowl."

Brother Six said, "It's the same now. He can't see the advantages of others and thinks that no one is that great. But he doesn't have the ability to stand out from the crowd, and he doesn't learn with an open mind. Whenever he's not happy, he'll humiliate others. This is not good."

Brother Xiaowu said: "But the worst thing is to speak rudely to other people's fathers."

Emperor Mingpei said calmly: "He is so bad, why don't you tell your parents?"

Little Brother Wu said as a matter of course: "We are eight years old. How can we still be like children and let our parents take care of everything?"

Emperor Mingpei: “…”

Brother Xiaowu sincerely believed this, and said, "Besides, he just has a bad temper, but he is not a real bad person. No one's life is smooth sailing. Meeting a few bad-tempered people can also temper yourself."

Brother Xiaoliu added: "Be careful not to make the same mistake."

Emperor Mingpei found it both amusing and moving; a child of this age seemed to be quite disillusioned with the world.

In front of other people, Emperor Mingpei didn't say much, just said: "Go down."

Madam Lin said, "You guys, go to your hall and have your meal."

Several people bowed and left.

Emperor Mingpei watched them retreat with a smile on his face. It was true that other people's children were as useless as his own children were.

Emperor Mingpei smiled and said to Tuanzi: "Your father..."

He smiled and shook his head and said nothing more.

However, Tuanzi understood immediately and said, "My dad is good in everything. He is also very good at teaching children. Zheng Xuan's dad must be so envious that he is crying!"

Emperor Mingpei laughed out loud, and several people laughed too.

Emperor Mingpei teased Xinbao: "Daddy taught me well, did you teach Xinbao well?"

Xinbao said: "It's not bad either."

"Oh?" Emperor Mingpei asked, "What's good about it?"

Xinbao waved his hands modestly: "Xinbao doesn't have any advantages, he's just an ordinary dad bragging!"

Emperor Mingpei couldn't stop laughing. Who did he learn this set of poems from?

Several people had dinner together. Yuan Shenjue came back with his men to report. Because Emperor Mingpei gave him a shadow guard to be responsible for Xinbao's safety, he also went to the interrogation.

Emperor Mingpei did not summon them until after dinner, when Madam Lin took Xinbao downstairs to sleep and then called them in.

Zhou Hongting confessed.

She is from the Jingchu tribe and has been learning martial arts from the wizard of the tribe.

Later he went out to make a living, got injured, and was rescued by someone.

The man who saved her was named Yun, with the given name Yu, and the courtesy name Biyi. He called himself Huan Tian Dao Ren. He was a blind man, but he knew many mysterious skills. He could carve wooden talismans. People would practice martial arts by wearing his talismans. Their internal and external skills would improve by leaps and bounds. Therefore, there seemed to be a lot of people from the martial arts world around him, and Zhou Hongting had seen several of them.

But according to her, she was the only one who was close to Yun Biyi.

Yun Biyi said that the world has lost its balance now, because the capital is in the north and there is no secondary capital, so the world's luck is in the north. If this continues, it will inevitably collapse, so he "has to" draw the luck of the north to supplement the south, and now the situation is getting more serious, so he has to start drawing the luck of people...

Emperor Mingpei laughed when he heard this.

It's really serious nonsense.

Setting the capital in Beijing means "the emperor guarding the national gate". It is for the convenience of dispatch and command, to guard against foreign invasions, and to prevent nomadic peoples in the northwest from invading the border.

This is due to political considerations.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

According to this Taoist, shouldn't there be a capital in each of the east, west, south, north and center to achieve balance? But hasn't the Tang Dynasty with five capitals collapsed now?

Besides, a secondary capital is not the capital after all. Even if it is established, won’t the destiny still be in the capital?

And from the perspective of Emperor Mingpei, if he sets up a secondary capital in the south one day, it must be because the south is powerful. In order to balance and appease the southern forces and facilitate control, I will set up a secondary capital for you. This is a delaying tactic.

Now our country is rich and strong, the sea is peaceful and the river is clear, the capital is stable, and the southern part is obedient, hardworking and useful. I set up a secondary capital? ? Add a small court to divide my power? Am I stupid? ?

So this statement is totally untenable, but it does sound very serious.

Yuan Shenjue continued, "But the important thing is that he doesn't seem to need to do any investigation, just deduction, he can find out that there is a person with prosperous luck in a place, and then deduce the other person's birth date."

Emperor Mingpei frowned.

Normally, the birth dates of all royal families and aristocratic families are kept secret, because most of the mysterious methods can only be designed after obtaining the birth dates.

But he was able to figure out the birth date out of thin air, so this ability was really amazing.

Yuan Shenjue said: "I don't know the details of Zhou Hongting, but according to her, it seems that it is not something that can be collected at will. She told me some scattered information, and I combined them and made my own guess. I think the situation is probably that if this person with good fortune has another person with good fortune by his side, that is to say, if he gets into trouble, the other person will be able to notice it, and it seems that he can't take action."

"But for example, in my case, no one cares if I live or die, so he can exploit me without restraint. For another example, when the Crown Prince was among the common people, although his family was all blessed with good fortune, they had no connection with other people outside of their family, so their 'family' was like an isolated boat, and they could be defeated one by one without restraint... On the contrary, there needs to be a medium, internal and external cooperation, etc."

Emperor Mingpei nodded: "So, he is also afraid of the way of heaven."

Yuan Shenjue nodded: "It should be. Another point is that this person is known as..." He frowned in disgust: "Complementary to Xinbao's fate."

He repeated what he said, and then said, "But listening to Zhou Hongting's retelling, he was clearly trying to induce Zhou Hongting to kill, so the mutual assistance was false, and the mutual restraint was true! He is a daring thief, and Xinbao is the guardian deity of the emperor and Dayan. If Xinbao is good, he will not be good!"

Emperor Mingpei nodded: "That's right! That's why he deliberately planned to attack Xinbao!"

Yan Qingshan had been listening quietly, and interjected, "I think he has realized that the reason we were not affected by bad luck is because of Xinbao."

"Yes," Yan Shirong also said, "In fact, this also proves a very important point! He can't do anything to Xinbao! So he can only rely on 'external forces'!!"

Even Emperor Mingpei couldn't help but nod: "Rong'er is really smart and his mind works quickly."

(End of this chapter)