Chapter 100 The Smartest Man in the World
In the same month that the second prince was conferred the title of Crown Prince, he and his mother, Queen Chun, formulated a new policy called Charity Organization.
The institution takes in orphans from all over the world who have lost their families due to natural disasters, regardless of gender. They will be nurtured by the institution to develop their personal strengths and given the freedom to choose their own future when they grow up.
Women could use their talents to enter the palace and work in the four departments and six bureaus, or go to the folk embroidery workshops, handicraft factories, and private clinics opened by Empress Chun to work, earning money with their skills, and could choose to get married when they reached a certain age.
Men, on the other hand, focus on developing the four arts of civil, military, business, and medicine according to their personal talents. There are many choices, such as passing the liberal arts exams, joining the army to serve the country, doing business to revitalize the economy, or becoming doctors to save the world. There is always a place for them to be accepted and used.
When this new policy was proposed, the court was in an uproar and opinions were mixed.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince remained calm and composed in the face of opposition from a group of old ministers. In the end, he managed to get all the officials to vote unanimously in favor of the new policy, and they were willing to work together to implement it and cultivate talents for Dayong.
To be disrespectful, nowadays civil and military officials are more respectful to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince than to His Majesty.
Because the prince began to participate in morning court discussions at the age of seven and already had two years of experience in regulating the country.
Apart from returning to give birth to children, Your Majesty and Empress Chun spend half a year each year on incognito tours outside the palace.
The beautiful name is: understanding the people's feelings.
The poor empress dowager had to take charge of palace affairs at her old age and also had to look after a bunch of grandchildren. When Nanny Yi joked about her wishes in the past, she smiled bitterly and sighed, and did not forget to scold her son for forgetting his mother after getting a wife, and scolded her daughter-in-law for being immature and conscienceless.
Xuan Yao has reliable people arranged by his father to assist him, so he is able to control the government steadily. He can also find time to practice martial arts to strengthen his body and tutor his three younger brothers and two younger sisters.
His royal grandmother was so pleased that she burst into tears.
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In the eighteenth year of Emperor Wenzhen's reign, a plague broke out in Dayong and Zhou.
Doctors from charitable organizations played a role. They were dispatched by Empress Chun to Yuzhou to investigate the epidemic. It took less than two months to control the spread of the plague. There were very few casualties, and the whole country celebrated.
The penicillin developed by Empress Chun and Imperial Physician Duan Jingwen became a legendary medicine of Dayong.
At the end of the 20th year of Emperor Wenzhen's reign, Empress Chun and Xuanping Hou Chu Yunzhou developed black gunpowder.
At the beginning of the 22nd year of Wenzhen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the Third Prince Xuanfu and the Fourth Prince Xuanzhu, and accompanied by General Shen Zhuoran, personally led an expedition to the northern border. With the help of black gunpowder, they captured the entire Northern Di territory in two years and incorporated it into the territory of Dayong.
In the 25th year of Emperor Wenzhen's reign, he suddenly fell ill. Lamenting his advanced age and inability to perform his duties, he issued an abdication decree.
The only retired emperor in Dayong's history was born.
Three days later, the nineteen-year-old Crown Prince Yao ascended the throne and became Emperor Mingzhen.
Half a month later, Shen Qingjun, the daughter of General Shen Zhuoran, became the Empress of the Central Palace.
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Spring of the following year of Mingzhen.
The night is dark.
There were still candlelights in Jingming Palace.
Guyu quietly walked over with a small tray and put it down. When she saw the king looking up at her, she spoke softly.
"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager sent someone to bring you some soup, saying it's late and you should rest."
"Um."
The twenty-year-old new emperor sat behind the desk in a brocade yellow formal suit, looking handsome and heroic, with a steady gaze as he looked at the letter in his hand.
"Aunt, this is a letter from my father and mother."
Guyu smiled: "Although the Emperor and Empress Dowager are away, they send letters back to Your Majesty every month, which shows how much they care about you."
"I know."
Xuan Yao looked at the self-portrait that his mother brought with her, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
Just as the Empress Dowager said, my mother lives a free and easy life. Even though she is a grandmother, she is still as innocent and charming as the girl she was back then.
"Aunt, you have followed our mother for many years. What kind of person do you think she is?"
"Well, the queen is very smart, thoughtful and discerning. She can see subtle details in people and things that others don't notice, and can also express a set of novel opinions that are not used by others. She is very opinionated and sticks to her original intentions when doing things. She is very free and easy. She relaxes when she should relax and works when she should work..."
Guyu said with a smile: "I feel like I can't finish talking about the Majesty's merits even if I talk for days. I have little education and don't know how to describe it. I just think that the Majesty is the best and smartest person I have ever met."
"Aunt is right."
Xuan Yao flipped through the folk sketches drawn by his mother, his black eyes revealing deep admiration and attachment.
"The Queen Mother is indeed the smartest person in the world."
When he was still the crown prince, there were rumors that his mother, the queen mother, always accompanied his father on private visits out of the palace, violating the rules for women and girls, and he was very angry.
The Queen Mother smiled indifferently and said that no one is perfect. She is not made of gold and cannot make everyone like her. All she needs to do is to have a clear conscience.
But he was still angry and angrily scolded those meaningless people who gossiped in court.
They didn't know that the Queen Mother truly lived up to her virtuous role as a model for the nation.
The military strategies she wrote enabled Dayong to maintain victory in every battle for nearly twenty years.
The letters she sent back every month contained the real people's livelihood and conditions that the people in the capital could not see, as well as various suggestions for agricultural and military reforms, and various good strategies for governing the country that gave him inspiration.
They also didn't know how many new and wonderful things the Queen Mother had taught him since he was little, how she had taught him that this world was a sphere, how big the world outside was, how the sun, moon, and stars came into being, what the times were like a thousand years ago, and what the times would be like a thousand years from now...
Perhaps it is just as my father said, my mother is a fairy who came from heaven and came down to earth to bless all living beings.
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