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◎Sigh, this is how you eat in the first month of the year.◎

Jia Min asked very directly.

After all, this was the first time that the fourth master came to their home after the Lin family returned to the capital and settled down. In

addition, the status of this fourth master was very special. He suddenly came to the house to hang out and eat. Everyone would be curious.

Jia Min was different from ordinary women in the family. She was not only concerned about household affairs, but also concerned about national affairs. She could even discuss with a master like Lin Ruhai. This level can be called a "female hero in history". Therefore, it was not surprising that she asked this question.

But even little Daiyu was sitting here listening attentively, which was too shocking - she was not even seven years old after the New Year. Although she was the first female protagonist in the book and was a fairy-like smart girl, it was too much for her to participate in such a serious discussion at this age.

But thinking about the fact that he had already gone out to work when he was not even five years old, Mo Yu felt relieved. This is really a world that makes people feel very urgent - writing poems at the age of three and writing at the age of five are no longer enough for them. Now they can be companions at the age of five and discuss political affairs at the age of six... It is

worthy of being a family of academic masters, it is really terrifying.

But once he accepted this setting, he felt that it was pretty good.

Lin Ruhai had already gotten used to it.

He even treated every member of his family, regardless of age or gender, as equals to discuss various issues.

This included the issue of "standing in line".

If you ask him why he is not afraid that the people from the sticking pole office will squat in their home and report everything they say when they chat to Master Kang?

Of course, it is because they communicate mainly through tacit understanding, and in fact, they don't talk about anything important.

If you listen to the literal meaning, their family is just chatting about daily life.

In addition, with Mo Yu's inner voice, everyone often relies on Mo Yu's inner voice to solve key and important things, and other things that are not related to pain can be discussed casually - for example, today the fourth master came to say that our family's library is very good, and he wandered around in it for half an hour.

To outsiders, this is just the fourth master who came to visit the Lin family's library when he was free.

With the current personality of the fourth master, this kind of thing is not very special.

Although he has a little social phobia, he is also famous for his love of books. Because he reads too much and forgets to eat and sleep, he has damaged his eyes. This is basically known to everyone.

Therefore, it is normal to go to someone's house to check out the books when hearing that someone's house has a richer collection of books.

But when Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu heard this, they knew that the Fourth Master had come to their house to keep in touch.

After all, the Fourth Master is the future emperor, and he would not just go to anyone's house casually, let alone stay for such a long time.

The mother and daughter first learned about this when Mo Yu's inner voice was released.

Since they knew about this, the mother and daughter did not discuss it - of course, because of Mo Yu's restriction on releasing his inner voice, they could not discuss it even if they wanted to, but the mother and daughter knew everything about this matter and the series of chain reactions related to it.

Since the Fourth Prince is the next emperor, you have to be more careful when dealing with him.

You can't be too careless and treat him as an ordinary prince - of course, this is the attitude of most people who don't see through him towards the Fourth Prince.

In history, the Fourth Prince has always been very low-key, known as "the world's number one idle man."

With such a title, you can see how low-key he is - basically a perfect interpretation of the early human behavior.

If he really has this kind of personality, then the Lin family would not have any concerns, and they could just treat each other as friends.

After all, their Lin family is also a scholarly family. Whether it is reading or any other elegant hobbies, there is no problem. You can discuss whatever you want to discuss, play whatever you want to play, and you don't even have to play well. As long as you like to play, we are good friends. It's

a pity that all this is acting.

Although it is said that the acting is so realistic, it is not real after all.

The fourth master seems to be low-key and Buddhist, but in fact there is a raging fire burning in his heart.

For this point, his father, Master Kang, sees it most clearly.

As the saying goes, "No one knows a son better than his father", Master Kang certainly knows his son's temperament very well.

Otherwise, he would not have given him a calligraphy of "Be patient and restrained" on New Year's Day - isn't this equivalent to telling him directly, Fourth Master, your temper is not good enough, your practice is not enough, you have to continue to hone it, you see, in order to let you remember this thing well, the emperor even wrote it down for you personally...

Well, it is not very harmful, but it is extremely insulting.

Fortunately, the four masters are very sensible, which is mainly due to one of his famous strategists, Wu Sidao - this Wu Sidao is a bit interesting. Because the world that Mo Yu traveled through is not the world of official history, many characters are not completely consistent with the personalities of real historical figures.

For example, this Mr. Wu Sidao, a collection of some deeds and personalities of another strategist named Dai Duo in history, became a spliced ​​character...

In fact, this kind of thing is very common in many literary and artistic works with a little historical background.

The original work of Red Mansions is no exception. Anyway, art always comes from life, isn't it normal to have a prototype?

In short, this Mr. Wu Sidao gives people the feeling that he is a bit "wise and close to a demon".

Even if you have never met Mr. Wu Sidao, you have always heard of his deeds. The most famous one is the story of him explaining the "Eight Great Kings" and "Big Turtle" to the Four Great Masters...

Unfortunately, this matter has been spoiled in advance by Mo Yu. Although he didn't know about it, the result has been made, and Mr. Wu Sidao's mythical story has been reduced.

But this does not affect the magic of Mr. Wu Sidao at all.

It is estimated that this visit to the Lin family was also suggested by Mr. Wu Sidao - with the social phobia and cautiousness of the Four Great Masters, he would not go to any minister's house to play if he had nothing to do. Even

if the officials have already confirmed their side, it is not allowed.

What if they are caught by others?

What if the emperor's suspicion is aroused?

I have been patient for so long, I must not

let my efforts go to waste. Especially when everyone already knows that I am the next heir to the throne, I cannot afford to make a single wrong step. I must be more cautious and guard against being stabbed in the back.

The fourth master has always been like this, so Jia Min was more and more surprised why he suddenly came to her house today.

But if it was Wu Sidao's idea, then there would be no problem.

Anyway, no matter how strange it seems, as long as it is the advice of this Mr. Wu Sidao, just listen to it with confidence, he knows everything in his mind.

So, Lin Ruhai brought a lot of information to Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu in just a few words.

Coupled with the fact that Mo Yu was checking the information pushed to him by System 006 in real time, he almost didn't need to say anything to understand the whole story of the Fourth Master's visit.

It was nothing more than acting again.

Because Wu Sidao only gave him two suggestions on how to seize the throne.

One is to pretend to be a good prince, and the other is to be a good subject.

It is easy to understand to be a good subject, because no matter when, doing things well is the first priority, and sincerity never goes out of style.

But pretending to be a good prince is a science.

Pretending means that you are not obedient, or at least not that obedient.

Especially for a socially phobic person like the Fourth Master, it seems difficult for him to become a flower of fortune.

But in order to succeed, in order to ascend to the throne in the end, you must challenge yourself.

In short, you have to maintain good relationships, whether it is with Master Kang, other princes, or ministers, but you must be careful to grasp a degree.

The relationship is good, but it cannot develop in the direction of forming a clique for personal gain.

Although it is not so sensitive to form a clique without personal gain, the best situation is of course not to form a clique at all.

If you have a good relationship with every brother and minister, it means you have a bad relationship with no one. So, if you come to the Lin family to visit the house and appreciate books and antiques today, you must change to another family tomorrow.

Although everyone knows that the Fourth Prince is a hidden person, he still goes his own way and perfectly maintains his own personality, so you can't help but be shaken.

Okay, even if he is the next emperor, so what?

You can't kill him now.

Apart from anything else, Master Kang is still there watching you.

No matter who the next emperor is, the current emperor is still Master Kang, so it is useless for them to make a fuss.

After all, their emperor father is not the type who can tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes.

Think about it, their long-lived emperor father will be in power for at least another twenty years, and all the princes are in trouble.

And at present, Master Kang is obviously paying attention to cultivating the younger princes.

Let's not talk about the thirteenth prince, who has always been one of his favorite sons. The reason why he is added as one of them is that we have to consider Master Kang's love for others and the number of his capable sons.

Really, I don't know if it's because of the high quality and large base number that so many capable ones can be selected, or because there are too many capable ones, so they want to have more children, so in the end they have more and more children.

Anyway, Master Kang is probably the emperor with the most sons and the best quality in ancient and modern times.

With so many sons, and they are all so capable, it would be strange if they don't fight.

By the way, I don't know what happened to the prince's "mother literature" last time. I have to go and have a close look at it again if I have the chance.

I always feel that he has been a little bit desperate recently.

This is not good. What if history is changed because of this, I don't know what kind of trouble will be caused.

If he is not deposed in the end, I don't know if this world will collapse?

Thinking of the prince, Mo Yu's mind began to wander again, and these chaotic thoughts began to fly away as if they had wings.

Then it became a clear broadcast, so that everyone in the whole room could hear it clearly.

Lin Ruhai, Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu had long been accustomed to this. While listening with relish, they did not stop talking at all, and were still discussing something - mainly to chat and kill time, so as not to want to take a nap immediately.

The Lin family's habit is the best at health preservation. They cannot take a nap immediately after a meal, for fear of food retention, and they are also afraid that sleeping too much and too deeply during the day will affect sleep at night and cause insomnia. Therefore, they usually gather in the warm room in the main room after a meal to drink some tea and chat.

Before drinking tea, you have to rinse your mouth and hands.

Unlike the Jia family, they use light salt water instead of tea to rinse their mouths.

The real noble families are not extravagant and wasteful. They use warm boiled water to rinse their mouths, add a little coarse salt grains to soak, take the clear part on the top, and mix it with warm water.

There is no need to rinse your mouth with tea.

Although the tea they drink is not as expensive as the Jia family's, it is fresh and elegant.

Therefore, it is clear at a glance what is a real scholarly family and what is a nouveau riche who changed his career halfway.

Drinking tea and chatting, half an hour passed quickly.

Seeing that everyone's faces were vaguely tired, Jia Min knew that the time was almost up, so she asked Lin Ruhai softly if they could go back to rest and take a nap.

Lin Ruhai nodded and got up to rest. This meant that he would stay in the main room with Jia Min.

Seeing Jia Min preparing to help Lin Ruhai change his clothes with a happy face, Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu were taken away by their respective nannies. To be honest, this was the time when they were most sleepy, and it was indeed time to go to bed.

However, halfway through the journey, Xiao Daiyu couldn't help but discuss with Mo Yu that the visit of the fourth master today still caused a great shock to her young mind.

Especially the way Lin Ruhai and Mo Yu responded, it was really exciting to think about it.

There were even calligraphy treasures left, so wouldn't it be a pen in the future?

On this point, Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu were in sync.

But unlike Mo Yu who was obsessed with money, Xiao Daiyu really thought that the calligraphy of the fourth master was very well written.

After all, she has been enlightened for several years, has more say than Mo Yu, and she is also very talented in calligraphy, so she can't help but have a good impression of the four masters with beautiful calligraphy.

Because Mo Yu did not die of illness at the age of three as the plot said, but finally lived to the age of five, so Xiao Daiyu's personality is more cheerful and lively than before, and even a little bit like Shi Xiangyun. She

is not as carefree as Shi Xiangyun, but she is indeed a lot more cheerful.

Specifically, she dares to joke with Mo Yu more and more.

Seeing that there is no one around today, she quietly leaned over to Mo Yu's ear and said, "Brother Mo, do you know that someone proposed marriage to you yesterday?"

Mo Yu said, is it true? Thank you very much.

Don't say, he really believed it.

After all, this has happened several times before. He has even begun to accept this setting - as a child in ancient times, there is actually no childhood to speak of.

If arranged marriages can become a fashion, then what else is impossible?

The fertilized egg cannot escape, not to mention that he is already five years old.

Yes, it's already the New Year. He is five years old, and he has lived two more years. It's really cause for celebration.

I always feel that we should do something to celebrate, but what should we do?

Mo Yu chatted with little Daiyu casually, while thinking about whether he could find something interesting to kill time.

To be honest, since the Chinese New Year, Mo Yu couldn't help but let System 006 get out all the historical materials related to the Qing Dynasty and read them over, of course, limited to the parts about Master Kang and the Four Great Masters.

As for Little Four, that's another story. After all, he hasn't been born yet, so even if he wants to do something, he can't do anything.

He really couldn't help but sigh, whether it was Master Kang or the Four Great Masters, they were all the type of emperors who worked hard to govern the country.

Of course, the directions of working hard to govern the country were somewhat different.

Master Kang liked to take the route of dominating, sometimes he would go on a tour, sometimes he would go out to fight a war, anyway, he liked any activities that could witness his splendid rivers and mountains with his own eyes.

And the Four Great Masters were much simpler.

He liked money.

Even after he took the throne, he still worked hard, got up early and went to bed late, often read late into the night and chatted with scholars, just to fill the treasury.

After all, Master Kang's efforts to govern the country were too expensive. Whether it was a tour or a war, it was extremely expensive.

He was in office for a long time, and his tours took even longer. The money spent was not ordinary.

In addition to touring, he often fought wars - it even made people wonder whether he liked fighting, but this was actually an unanswerable question.

Rebellion must be dealt with, but there are actually many ways to achieve peace. It's just that

many times, you can't compromise even if you want to. This is the case with Junggar. It's true that if you don't obey after being beaten once, you still won't obey after the second time. There is definitely no other way except to beat them directly. So he was on tour while fighting wars, and he exempted the victims in the disaster area from taxes... I have to say that Master Kang was really a good emperor, but each of these things cost too much money. The worst thing was that while Master Kang was spending money on the country, there were still people here who were corrupt, like termites, who directly emptied the treasury. When the four masters came to power, they were handed over such a mess. It was hard for him to have thundering means and a bodhisattva's heart to make this rotten deck of cards good. So, how did they come up with the method of equalizing taxes? You know, in every dynasty and generation before, scholars did not have to pay taxes. That's why there is the saying "Everything is inferior, only reading is high". Because you can really make money after reading - saving taxes means you make money. As for rectifying the officialdom, they used harsh means to catch corrupt officials - they would chop off all of them once they caught one, and let others watch the beheading. This is really cool. And they also had to establish a "reporting system", which means keeping an eye on each other. There are rewards for successful reports, and severe punishment for false reports. These drastic reforms made the four great masters offend all the scholars. Let's talk about the equalization of taxes first, which was a method used by successive dynasties to control scholars. Only the Four Great Masters came up with the idea that "scholars have to pay taxes just like illiterate people" right from the start. Not to mention, judging from this point alone, the Four Great Masters' ideas are really a bit advanced - isn't this the principle of fairness in taxation? Well, they even want to make a personal income tax ladder based on the principle of more work and more pay, and more give and more. Isn't this really a suggestion given to you by other time travelers? At first glance, this fellow countryman of Schrödinger's who traveled through time is studying accounting and business, and he has learned tax law very well. But this really offended all the scholars in the world. It is said that after this incident, a province with a lot of academic masters directly withdrew from the exam that year. As the saying goes, "Ten years of hard study, just for one day to get a name on the list of successful candidates", in fact, if you get a name, you will directly achieve class leap. The most typical is "scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans". Even if a person from the scholar family is a waste, he is better than a capable businessman... Ah ah ah, I don't know why I thought of Aunt Xue and Baochai again, and I don't know how their family is doing now . By the way, there seems to be no "real and fake young master" in the original book, so this is a new plot. So is the "fake" Xue Pan returned or is he just using it? Have his family members been found? This makes Mo Yu very curious. It's a pity that no one has answered this question. Mo Yu originally thought that the matter was over, but he never expected that on the next day, he would have such a chance to observe the Xue family closely. Because Aunt Xue brought Xue Baochai, accompanied by the second elder of the Xue family and Xue Ke, to the capital to seek refuge with relatives. In fact, seeking refuge with relatives was just a matter of convenience. The real reason for going north was to participate in the selection of the princesses' companions. Yes, this paragraph was also mentioned in the original book. However , in many analytical articles, a considerable number of them said that with Baochai's background, she was not qualified to participate in the selection of the princesses' companions.

Because their Xue family is completely different from the Lin family. Not only do they have no official positions, but they also have a bad reputation. Once the matter of the real and fake young master is confirmed, they may be accused of "deceiving the emperor and deceiving superiors".

In fact, if the family background is strong, these are trivial matters, but their family has always been at the bottom of the list.

Judging from the fact that their family has always been at the bottom of the four major families, their family has not had any high-level officials since their ancestors.

The ancestor Xue Gong was a Ziwei Sheren. According to the current fashionable words, that is the emperor's secretary, who is in charge of drafting imperial edicts.

Of course, not everyone can do this kind of job. You must be born with a very smart mind.

Obviously, the first generation of Lord Xue did a very good job, otherwise he would not have used such a powerful relationship to let the Jia family capture a girl to marry into their family, forming the four major families with the other two families, the Wang family and the Shi family.

You know, the other three families all have titles.

Whether it is the titles of the two Dukes of the Jia family, the Duke of Rong and the Duke of Ning, or the titles of the two Marquises of the Shi family, the Marquis of Baoling and the Marquis of Zhongjing, they all have titles and can inherit them from generation to generation.

Even the Wang family is the commander of the county earl. Although

Wang Ziteng does not have a title now, it actually feels like a title - he is a second-rank official, the supervisor of nine provinces, and the commander-in-chief of the military region, but the real power is in his hands, and it is military power, not to mention how important this position is. It would be

a lie to say that he doesn't feel guilty.

It's like the buddies who went through thick and thin together all got promoted and made a fortune, and Mr. Xue became the secretary of the most successful one among them...

This kind of thing is really awkward no matter how you think about it.

So, it was the second elder of the Xue family and Xue Ke who escorted Aunt Xue and Baochai to the capital?

Without Xue Pan?

Was she really returned?

And this time Baochai also came to participate in the selection of the princess's attendant, could it be that she actually meets the qualifications for the attendant?

Ah, so many questions, I really want to know why.

And this is the second surprise that Xiao Daiyu wants to tell Mo Yu:

"Madam told me yesterday that the Xue family came to the capital last month and will be here in a day or two. She also asked us to go to the guest house for dinner."

Dinner?

What good food can there be with the Xue family? They are not real relatives, and they are not even impatient to deal with them.

Mo Yu was puzzled, but fortunately, Xiao Daiyu was someone who liked to confide in him, and she quickly told him all the twists and turns:

"Hey, Mo Ge, it's been so many times, haven't you figured it out? They must be here to propose marriage again. Either to you or to me."

Seeing Xiao Daiyu's indifferent expression, Mo Yu became even more speechless: "Why do I feel that my sister seems to be very happy?"

Xiao Daiyu smiled and said, "Of course I'm happy. It's rare to see such an explosive scene. It's so interesting."

So you are waiting to see the excitement. Is

this a case of joining if you can't beat them... No, it's inevitable,

so just treat it as a game? Okay, it's quite interesting to think about it this way.

Mo Yu started yawning while chatting with Xiao Daiyu. Fortunately, his room was right around the corner, so he took the opportunity to say goodbye to Little Daiyu, went back to his room and fell asleep, not even having dinner, since he wasn't hungry anyway.

The next day, he woke up early again. After Mo Yu and Little Daiyu met at the gate of her small courtyard, they went through the usual routine of paying respects to the main room and accompanying her for breakfast

. Then, Jia Min announced, "A few letters have been sent from the Rong government, saying that the Xue family will come to the capital today, and they specially invite our whole family to accompany them. Although the Xue family is not a legitimate aunt's cousin of our family, we have to show our appreciation. I wonder what you think, sir?"

[Author's words]

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