Chapter 222 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
Fang Yuan met Lin Shu when he was young. He often followed Lin Shu to the Lin family. He also learned a lot from Si Yuan together with Lin Shu. So it is not an exaggeration to say that Si Yuan is Fang Yuan's teacher. Fang Yuan can be said to have grown up under Si Yuan's care.
So Fang Yuan is relatively relaxed in front of Si Yuan.
Si Yuan also treated Fang Yuan, this half student, differently, so when he wanted to know what happened outside, the first thing he thought of was to call Fang Yuan to ask about the details.
It can be seen that Si Yuan and Lin Shu value and trust Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan looks like a silly fat guy, but actually he is very smart and has his own principles and persistence. He knows his limits and how to advance and retreat, so he is naturally very likable.
Lin Shu's coronation ceremony was held on the day of the second day of the second lunar month when the dragon raises its head.
As the emperor, Si Yuan naturally had to attend.
Looking at the grand coronation ceremony, looking at the leaders of other forces and the royal family of the previous dynasty crawling at Lin Shu's feet, Si Yuan had only a feeling of satisfaction that "my son has grown up".
After the coronation ceremony, Si Yuan moved into the palace with Lin Shu.
Lin Shu was the founding emperor, and Si Yuan was honored as the emperor emeritus.
Si Yuan chose a palace that provided a comfortable environment for retirement to live in. Lin Shu came to greet him every day with great concern, asking him if he was used to living there, acting like a filial son.
Si Yuan knew that Lin Shu was putting on an act. After all, the feudal dynasty ruled the world. If loyalty was the basis of the rule, it would not be very friendly to the founding monarch who rebelled and changed the dynasty. After all, if you were loyal to the monarch, why would you change the dynasty?
It is not easy to do such a thing as slapping oneself in the face, so the emperor can only rule the world with filial piety.
After all, being filial to elders is always right and a virtue.
As the emperor, Lin Shu only has an old father, so naturally he had to drag Si Yuan to perform the drama of loving father and filial son.
Si Yuan didn't mind. He knew that Lin Shu had always been a filial and good child. After all, no one could hide their true emotions in front of him. Si Yuan could tell whether someone was truly filial or just pretending.
It's just that Lin Shu's filial piety in the past was mostly kept in his heart. He would give any good things to Si Yuan and respect Si Yuan's suggestions when he was undecided. He was not a person who cared about the red tape of morning and evening visits.
But now he comes to visit his father every morning and evening, obviously because he just ascended the throne and wants to present the image of a filial son to outsiders.
Si Yuan was also very cooperative. When Lin Shu came to pay his respects, he took the opportunity to chat with him and taught Lin Shu how to handle government affairs and view the world from the perspective of the emperor after becoming emperor.
With a different identity and a different perspective, the way of dealing with things will naturally be different.
For example, after the success, the heroes who had followed him to conquer the world should be rewarded, right? How to bestow rewards so that everyone is convinced and yet not become complacent is also a science.
Lin Shu is very smart and has figured out his own way of doing things, but what Si Yuan taught him is the most appropriate method that Si Yuan has summarized over so many worlds, which is quite useful for reference to Lin Shu.
Lin Shu was a monarch who was not afraid of his meritorious officials who were too powerful to be trusted. After all, in terms of military achievements, even his great general Lin Wu was not as good as Lin Shu himself. In the beginning, the Lin family army was trained by Lin Shu himself, and it was Lin Shu who personally led the troops to fight at the beginning of the rebellion.
The founding monarch who held military power was so domineering. His prestige reached its peak in the new dynasty. It was impossible for anyone to be so powerful as to overthrow him.
After the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, some of the meritorious officials who followed him became corrupted by wealth and glory and committed mistakes, but Lin Shu would never show favoritism and would punish them if necessary. There was no such thing as offsetting merits and demerits for him.
Lin Shu cherishes every loyal minister who follows him. He hopes to punish them severely when they make small mistakes so that they can learn a lesson and not let small mistakes accumulate into big mistakes, forcing him to deal with them completely with tears and pain in the future.
Lin Shu did not play any tricks to guess the emperor's thoughts. After punishing the minister who made the mistake, he kept him and said to him frankly: "My dear minister, do you think I am making a big deal out of nothing?"
"I dare not." The minister who really felt this way knelt down hurriedly.
Lin Shu sighed and said, "I hope that we can have a good beginning and a good end. Have you forgotten the pain of being oppressed by corrupt officials after just a few days of good life? Don't become the kind of person you once hated the most. I punish you severely at this time in the hope that you will learn from it and never make mistakes again. If I indulge and protect you, sooner or later you will become more and more courageous, and the mistakes you make will become bigger and bigger. My tolerance for you will gradually dissipate until the day when I can no longer tolerate it, and the relationship between me and you as a monarch and a subject will end!"
Lin Shu said this, and the minister who had just been punished for a small mistake and had some complaints in his heart was immediately moved to tears and cried bitterly: "It is I who have failed your majesty's kindness! I will never dare to make the same mistake again. In the future, I will also control my family well and will not embarrass your majesty!"
The conversation between Lin Shu and the minister spread, and those ministers who had fought with Lin Shu to conquer the world and had a deep relationship with him all became nervous and tried their best to restrain their family members and not cause any trouble for Lin Shu.
They also knew that with His Majesty Lin Shu, there was no such thing as offsetting merits and demerits, or relying on merit to save one's life. If one made a mistake, he would be punished.
As for his past contributions, didn’t Lin Shu reward him with high positions and noble titles?
Merits must be rewarded and faults must be punished. This is Lin Shu's firm belief, and he emphasized it to his ministers many times and demonstrated it through practical actions.
Emperor Lin Shu's attitude was firm, so naturally few people dared to test the sharpness of the sword of this founding monarch.
After Si Yuan had comprehended the laws of heaven and earth in this world, he saw that the Great Xia Dynasty established by Lin Shu was also on the right track. Lin Shu had also married a queen and had a prince. There was someone to succeed him, and everything was developing in a good direction.
He also planned to leave this little world without any worries.
So Si Yuan deliberately made his body appear to be sick, and no matter how he was treated, he couldn't be cured. He gradually became terminally ill, so that Lin Shu could be mentally prepared, and then he officially left this world.
Before Si Yuan died, the middle-aged Lin Shu held his hand and cried like a baby, even though he had never cried like this in front of Si Yuan when he was young.
Lin Shu threw himself on Si Yuan's bed and choked up as he whispered, "Dad, I know you are not my father, but in my heart, you are my real dad!"
This was the moment before Si Yuan's soul was about to leave, and he clearly heard Lin Shu's words which were almost like a mosquito's whisper.
Si Yuan was stunned, and soon his mind flashed back to how Lin Shu had addressed him in the past.
It seemed that every time Lin Shu called him in person, he called him "Dad" and never called him "Father". And on the rare occasions when he called him "Father", he was referring to the father before he was nine years old.
So from such an early stage, Lin Shu realized that the father who ran back and took him away when he was nine years old was no longer the same father Lin?
Si Yuan thought that Lin Shu was easy to fool because he had not received much good education at a young age, and was taught by his original master to be particularly filial and obedient. He did not expect that the kid had noticed something was wrong so early and continued to recognize him as his father without saying a word.
Si Yuan almost sat up in shock from his dying illness. After all, the emotions he felt towards Lin Shu over the years were always positive emotions such as respect, admiration and worship. When Si Yuan first met Lin Shu at the age of nine, he did sense emotions such as panic and anxiety from Lin Shu, but at that time he felt that they were in a situation of fleeing everywhere, and it was normal for a child to be panicked, so he didn't think much about it.
Looking back now, I think Lin Shu must have been panicking at that time because his father was not his biological father.
But Si Yuan soon came to terms with it. It was impossible for Lin Shu's emotions to deceive his perception. Even though Lin Shu already knew that he was not his biological father, his filial piety and admiration for him over the years were not fake.
Moreover, through Lin Shu's attitude towards his father before he was nine years old, and towards Si Yuan himself afterwards, Si Yuan could also see that Lin Shu recognized him more instead of the stupid father who only knew how to brainwash his son to be a loyal servant every day.
Since they were all going to leave this little world, Si Yuan used the last bit of time to reach out and touch Lin Shu's hair, showing a loving smile and whispering, "Good Shu!"
Then Si Yuan completely left this small world.
When his soul was taken away by the system and left this world, the last thing he saw was Lin Shu, who threw himself on the corpse he left behind and burst into tears.
Si Yuan felt a little uncomfortable, so he asked the system to send him directly to the next small world and not return to Tiancang Realm.
Instead of spending a long time sorting out my feelings after returning to the Tiancang Realm, it would be better to immerse myself in the new world and divert my attention.
This time, as soon as Si Yuan crossed over, he saw a young man dressed as a servant standing in front of him, saying to him in panic, "Master, the eldest master fell into the pond and is...already gone!"
Si Yuan reacted quickly, stood up from his chair and said, "Lead the way!"
Si Yuan followed the servant's lead and came to the main courtyard where the original owner's wife should have lived. When he entered the house, he saw a beautiful woman crying in sorrow and pain, staring blankly at a small child lying on the bed. The child was already dead.
As Si Yuan walked along this path, he had already absorbed the original owner's memories and original plot.
The original owner is now over fifty years old. Apart from a fifteen-year-old daughter, he only has this four-year-old son.
It’s not that the original owner was incapable of giving birth, but that all her sons died after being born, or she became pregnant but could not give birth. Now her only four-year-old son is also gone.
The original owner had always suspected that his wife did not want the illegitimate son to inherit the title, so she attacked the pregnant women and children in the backyard, but this time it was the legitimate son who died.
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