"The emperor has to promise to listen to it, and he can't punish me, and he can't settle accounts after autumn."

The emperor narrowed his eyes, nodded slowly and said, "Okay, I will answer you,"

Gu Jingyun lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "Uncle has never commented on you, but he always talks about various things with His Majesty with the minister, in case the minister has a way to deal with it when he enters the palace to face the saint."

The emperor nodded to express his understanding. When he taught the prince, he would also tell him what a certain minister was like. After giving an example, he made an assertion that the prince would either reuse him or be wary of the other party.

This method of teaching is still used by Taifu, that is, Qin Xinfang's grandfather used to teach him. As his grandson, Qin Xinfang taught children in this way, and the emperor said that it was not novel at all.

Because Qin Xinfang was the emperor, he didn't dare to judge him in front of the children, which benefited the emperor slightly, so he looked at Gu Jingyun with great interest, wanting to hear how he thought of him through these examples.

"Your Majesty, I have never met His Majesty, but I have heard a lot of things that His Majesty has done. Apart from my uncle, I can also get a glimpse of one or two from the mansion newspaper and the people's comments. In my cognition, Your Majesty can barely be regarded as one. A benevolent gentleman."

The emperor frowned, "Barely?"

"Yes," Gu Jingyun said solemnly: "You are tolerant of your subjects. Since you became the throne, except for killing a few ministers when my uncle purged the government, you have almost never taken the initiative to kill ministers, so it can barely be regarded as a word of 'benevolence'."

"The reason for your reluctance is that your Majesty only tolerates the hearts of the ministers, but forgets the sufferings of the people. Although you are tolerant, to the people of the world, this is close to connivance. Conniving officials to display their ambitions and make achievements is also condoning corruption. Breaking the law and oppressing the people." Gu Jingyun said: "People have many desires, and those who want to be famous in history may be able to support themselves, but more people pursue glory and wealth, so there are many corrupt officials in this dynasty and few honest officials. Corruption, even if the emperor is tolerant, there are flaws."

The emperor was still a little annoyed, but now he was only thinking.

"Your Majesty is a man of temperament, and he misses old love," Gu Jingyun continued to comment: "I didn't want to throw away the things I played with when I was young, so I kept them in one place. My uncle laughed and said that he had this bad habit on His Majesty. I have seen it, but when my uncle turned himself in for rebellion, His Majesty still only sentenced him to exile instead of beheading him, so it can be seen that His Majesty misses the past very much."

It's just a pity that his personality is too bad, his desire for love makes him live, and his desire for hatred makes him die. He is extremely extreme, otherwise the prince would not be defeated again and again.

Gu Jingyun reckoned for a while, felt that he had already mentioned his advantages and disadvantages, and if he continued to talk about it, he would not be able to draw out the advantages, so he meditated, "Your Majesty promised that I will not blame the offender."

The emperor felt a lot more relieved. Hearing the words, he glanced at him and said, "Is this the kind of person with a small belly? If I agree with you, I agree with you. I won't break my promise."

Seeing that Gu Jingyun was still kneeling on the ground, he waved his sleeves and said, "Get up, I heard that you were born prematurely and have been in poor health?"

Gu Jingyun stood up, "Yes, I gave birth prematurely before eight months."

The emperor sighed, "I heard that Qiongzhou lacks medical care and medicine, and it is God's mercy that you can grow up."

"Returning to the emperor, it is not because of the mercy of God that I am alive, but because of the former imperial doctor Li Bo, who was also exiled to Qiongzhou. When my mother was in difficult labor, it was he and your lady who helped deliver the baby, and then helped me take care of my body. Otherwise, His Majesty may lose a good talent."

"How dare you say it, you are so arrogant," the emperor scolded him with a smile, thought for a while and said, "Li Bo? This name is a bit familiar."

"He used to be the envoy of the left courtyard of the imperial hospital, but he was exiled because he misdiagnosed that the concubines of Concubine Zhao were evildoers."

The emperor's smiling face fell, and he remembered that there was only one evil event in the palace, that is, when the sixth prince was born, Concubine Zhao gave birth for three days and three nights but did not give birth to the child. Someone reported to him that Concubine Zhao was pregnant. It is a deformed child, born as a monster.

People of insight naturally know that deformed children are caused by abnormal development, but ignorant people regard them as evildoers, and there are obviously more ignorant people in the world, and these people often connect this with fate.

If an ordinary family has a deformity, it means that the family has done something harmful to nature, and God will punish them; and if the royal family has a deformity, it is almost the same as destroying the country in the eyes of the common people.

Because all the imperial physicians said so, the emperor hesitated whether to give Concubine Zhao a glass of poisoned wine before the child was born.

It was Li Bo who withstood the pressure and insisted on delivering Zhao Concubine. After the baby was born, he braved the frost and carried the baby to him to show him that it was not a monster.

This is how the sixth prince survived.

And the emperor also knew that the previous farce was all instigated by Concubine Lan Gui, and he was very angry.

The emperor thought of this for a while, but at that time he was only angry for a few days, and then he forgave Concubine Lan for some reason.

Concubine Lan also promised not to hurt Concubine Zhao and the sixth prince, so he naturally had to take a step back and turn a blind eye to Concubine Lan's exile of Li Bo.

The emperor was told that he was not strict, but now Gu Jingyun slapped him in the face again, and couldn't help frowning, "You are nostalgic, are you here to intercede for Li Bo?"

"Back to the emperor, I married Li Yuyi's granddaughter. Our Li family is now in-laws. If we intercede, we will miss the old love, but the present." Gu Jingyun raised his head, his eyes were reddish. : "Your Majesty, Imperial Doctor Li and his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law died at sea ten years ago. What remains in Qiongzhou is only his blood. You can't imagine how miserable Qiongzhou is. What ordinary people want is I have enough to eat, and the sinners there want to be able to pay taxes. My wife grew up with me, and we have a deep friendship. I really don’t want to see the only bloodline left in her family be cut off.”

The emperor was stunned and fell silent for a while. He had already forgotten about Li Bo. If he really tried to think back, there was only a vague shadow in his mind kneeling in front of him with a baby in his arms. Compared to Li Bo, he was pregnant The swaddling clothes are more eye-catching.

Gu Jingyun had knelt down again, slightly raised his head and looked at him expectantly.

The emperor sighed, he felt that Gu Jingyun was always right, he was just soft-hearted and tolerant.

"Li Bo's crimes are well established. If you want to reverse the case for him, you might as well go to Concubine Zhao and the sixth prince. As long as they come forward to clarify what happened back then, Li Bo was not the one who was misdiagnosed, and the descendants of the Li family will naturally come back."

Gu Jingyun kowtowed gratefully, "Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En."

A cold light flashed in his lowered eyes, it seems that the emperor doesn't care much about Concubine Lan and the fourth prince now, otherwise, this matter would not be able to go on from the very beginning, let alone this opportunity.

The emperor consciously finished one matter, and pulled Gu Jingyun to gossip again, "You said that Qiongzhou is poor, so what does your uncle do for a living in Qiongzhou?"

Gu Jingyun told the truth, "My uncle has a good friend named Chen. Every year, he would find a way to send us a little money. We used it to pay taxes, and then cultivated two or three acres of land by ourselves. It was enough for daily use. Over the years, we have saved some money. Money, the previous rush exam and this rush exam are all used in previous savings."

"Last time? Qiongzhou's college exam was taken in Guangzhou?"

"Exactly."

"So after the exam, come to the capital for a stroll?"

Gu Jingyun raised his head to look at the emperor, and said: "It's not a coincidence. At that time, I only knew that my father's family was the Zhongyonghou Mansion in the capital. My uncle seldom talked about them with me, and my mother kept her mouth shut. I couldn't help being curious. After the academy exam, I dragged my wife to Beijing."

The emperor nodded slightly, which was consistent with what he knew about Qin Xinfang.

Qin Xinfang is a gentleman, and a gentleman does not know right and wrong. Although Qin Wenyin is a woman, but under the influence of her elder brother, it is normal not to speak ill of her ex-husband in front of her son.

It is more normal for children to be interested in their biological father and have desires.

But what he wants to know is not this, what he wants to know is whether Gu Jingyun has anything to do with the grandson.

The time was too short, he only knew that these two people came to Beijing around the same time last year, and that Gu Jingyun was injured at that time, but he couldn't find out more.

What really made the emperor suspicious was that the small courtyard he lived in was bought by a third party for Gu Jingyun, but the emperor had not yet found out who the third party was and who instructed him.

The emperor was thinking about it, but Gu Jingyun said directly: "...I didn't expect that the road would be so dangerous. Fortunately, I brought my wife with me, otherwise Your Majesty may lose a good talent again."

The emperor twitched his lips, "What danger did you encounter?"

Gu Jingyun talked about the danger in the deserted temple vividly. His eloquence has never been bad, and he deliberately described the scene as extremely thrilling. Of course, the focus is on him and Li Baolu. The few strokes also shocked the emperor. It turned out that his grandson was almost killed by his fourth son.

The emperor stared at Gu Jingyun closely, and asked, "Then do you know who is the person you escorted into Beijing?"

"I know, it's the grandson."

The emperor said coldly: "He told you?"

"No, I guessed it," Gu Jingyun said arrogantly: "They did not act properly and called Peng Ziqing by name. Although I am far away in Qiongzhou, I also know that Peng Yu is the son of Peng Dan, and he accompanied the grandson to read."

"There are many people with the same name and surname in the world."

"And there are very few people with the same name and surname, and there are even fewer people who are as arrogant and proud as Peng Yu."

"Peng Ziqing is proud?" The emperor laughed and said, "Can he still be as proud as you?"

"Your Majesty, I am proud of my own intelligence, while Peng Yu is proud of his background and his father." Gu Jingyun said disdainfully: "There are many coincidences in this world, but so many coincidences can't help but come together." People don't think deeply, so I guess he is the grandson."

"So you escorted him to Beijing?"

Gu Jingyun nodded.

The emperor asked with a half-smile, "What did you ask him for?"

"The minister asked for a promise."

The emperor's eyes were slightly cold.

Gu Jingyun said: "I asked him to worship me as a teacher when I was admitted to the top three, and he has already agreed."

The emperor was stunned, "Why do you want to be the grandson's teacher?"

Of course, Gu Jingyun would not say that he wants to be the emperor's teacher, but said: "Your Majesty, my uncle is a guilty minister, and my father's family has or does not exist, and it may hinder me. There is only a disadvantage for me to come to Beijing." I have no advantage, so I naturally want to find a name that can bluff people. Even if I am the number one scholar in high school, I can only worship the sixth-rank editor of Hanlin at most. I like to be a teacher, and after much deliberation, there is no better way than being a teacher of Taisun."

The emperor laughed angrily, "Your ambition is small. Since you are good at being a teacher, why don't you want to be a teacher to the emperor?"

"I also thought about it, but your majesty is my great-grandfather's student, and the prince is my uncle's student. If I become the teacher of your majesty or the prince, won't our family's seniority be messed up? What's more, I saved the grandson, the prince. Sun cannot be the master of His Majesty and the Crown Prince." Gu Jingyun said seriously: "So I can only settle for the second best."

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