Chapter 790

Southward Journey is imminent, Wei Shen and Ling Yin have spent all their time in the army, while Da Wang only practices martial arts after court; by rights, the afternoon should be for reading and governing, but these past days, Xie Yuan has been too busy, so he has been quite carefree.

Who would have thought that going out for a stroll in the evening would bring about disaster?

Wei Shen, returning from the military camp, habitually goes to stroll around the Sui Fu Dian, and incidentally enjoys the autumn breeze; at his age, he can eat eight meals a day and still manage a late-night snack.

Who would have thought that upon entering today and taking a turn, he found no trace of any snacks, and Da Wang also looked as wilted as an eggplant struck by frost.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear the Fang Clan sent over the penalty silver? Made a fortune and still not happy?!" That matter is quite serious!

"The excitement over this sum of money has long passed; when the fine was imposed, I already entered this silver into my accounts in my heart! Do the Fang and Luo clans still dare not to pay? Then I won't even need to go and have a look at them..."

"Then what are you thinking about here, worrying about grain and fodder in hindsight?"

Da Wang shook his head, "More troublesome than that. Xie Yuan had no time to give lectures, so I was carefree for two days, just two days, and he outsourced me."

Wei Shen connected the context above and below, guessed what this 'outsourcing' meant, and nearly laughed himself off the roof.

"Fortunately I am a military officer." He was very relieved, his family never forced him to study.

"I am the same! I truly don't understand, in this world, is there any principle more useful than fists? If it weren't for my fists being hard enough, would I have ascended the throne?!" Da Wang lamented bitterly.

Wei Shen suppressed his laughter, stepped forward in defiance of propriety, and gently smoothed Da Wang's hair.

"The Xie clan, that sort of scholarly family steeped in literary tradition, cares more about elegant reputation than even your maternal grandfather's family. Xie Yuan serves as Grand Tutor, he fears his reputation in life and after death will be ruined by you~ Poor Old Xie, hahaha, his closed-door disciple is an illiterate……" Finally he couldn't hold back his laughter.

Da Wang looked very downcast, too lazy to lift his hand to tidy himself, only using his eyes to glare fiercely to express reproach.

"……Alright, he is also doing it for your own good. This has precedents, haven't you also read the historical writings left by Xia Zhou? Which emperor was unlearned and incompetent, which emperor did what absurd things, even after hundreds of years they are still dragged out and gossiped about with relish? You are an emperor, every word, every action, will be recorded! Xie Yuan also wants to cultivate you into a perfect emperor~ but, he also wants to have his heart blinded hahahaha……"

Da Wang shielded himself from his cousin's noisy laughter, "That's because their fists aren't hard enough! You fool, I won't use my fists to let the historiographers keep their foul mouths in check?!"

Wei Shen: ……

Da Wang's logic once again held consistent, he clapped his hands and the sky cleared.

Exactly! If he controls public opinion well, that's enough; as for studies and such, with no real learning pressure, perfunctory work is still not easy to perfunctorily do?

"Come here! Announce the Minister of Works and the Grand Historian!"

Wei Shen: ……Not my business, right?!

On the first day, Da Wang decided to give the forefather's descendants a taste of their own medicine, so when Xiao Jin and Wei Ni were vying to be the follower, he didn't stop them.

Yan Hao's previous range of activity was only Qian Chao Qian; this was his first time passing through Qian Chao Qian, crossing Da Hu to arrive at the splendid Lan Tai Dian, still immersed in the shock of the超时代 architecture, unable to extricate himself, when he was startled by the bear cake in the hall.

When it came to the real thing, the combat strength of bears and Rou could not be compared. Today Xiao Jin insisted on making his large frame into a small bird leaning on people, clinging to Da Wang's side, while Wei Ni was very much in the way, with no place to stand. So he good-naturedly withdrew from this smokeless war, silently spreading himself out in the middle of the hall as a bear cake.

After all, given his level of laziness, if he can lie down, why would he need to sit up?

Yan Hao relied on his cultivation of several decades, the aristocratic education as unshakable as Mount Tai collapsing before him without changing expression, to maintain his facial composure.

He took a step forward, and at the great gate he gave Da Wang a salute.

Da Wang warmly greeted him, exempting him from ritual, and let him directly go sit.

As a result, when Yan Hao raised his head, he discovered Da Wang in left embrace and right hold. On the left leaned against a huge furry thing, on the right half of the desk stood a tall carving.

Xiao Jin saw a strange old man enter, glared fiercely at him, and also snorted in dissatisfaction. Really annoying these two-legged beasts, don't you have a home, running in and out of my house every day.

Xiao Jin is a silly bear, when people come he is too lazy to even lift his head to take a look. But Xiao Jin is not just a fierce beast, he is a vicious beast, he is unwilling, the vicious beast pressure pervading the hall is not just that of fierce beasts, it is outright 'vicious beast threat'.

Anyway, this front-facing one person and two beasts looking over at the same time, Da Wang this emperor mixed in among them is simply overly affable and approachable, beloved by all. Yan Hao tried to keep his gaze unbiased, only looking at Da Wang.

"……In the past, when Xie Xiang gave lectures, was the hall also this lively?" Yan Hao also didn't stand on ceremony. If one with smaller courage were here, they would already have collapsed to the ground.

Da Wang innocently shook his head, "No~ today Bai Ze didn't come!"

Yan Hao: ……

Well, now that you know you're a troublemaker, Xie Yuan can't even control you.

Thinking of Xie Xiang's instruction to him to give more guidance to Da Wang in calligraphy, he walked up to Da Wang's desk. "Please Your Majesty, take out your past homework for me to examine." One must first look at the actual objects before giving guidance.

Da Wang continued to shake his head innocently, "Don't know~ haven't written in a long time. The last time I put pen to paper was when I wrote a family letter to my second son~ alas, mentioning this is such a pity! I used up all my lifetime learning just not to lose face in front of my second son, wrote it so neat and tidy! Too bad I forgot to give it to the teacher to look at, if he had seen it he would also feel proud for me~"

Yan Hao: ……

Quite good. This just discovered one advantage of the young emperor, self-confidence.

Yan Hao personally spread out a sheet of Xuan Ren Ren paper for him, placed it before Da Wang. "Then trouble Your Majesty to write a few characters for me to see."

Da Wang obediently took up the brush on the spot, moment by moment three large characters leapt onto the paper. Yan Hao took it over and glanced at it, his expression more solemn than when he was startled by the bear.

Three large characters in flying dragon and phoenix dancing clerical script: Hope for the end of class.

Glancing at Da Wang, this guy blinked his eyes, still acting cute.

"This…is also lifetime learning?"

Da Wang innocently nodded, "Mm-hmm!"

Yan Hao took a deep breath, "It seems Your Majesty's heart is not too calm today, then it's not suitable for practicing calligraphy, I will lecture you on the classics instead."

Upon hearing this, Da Wang was satisfied. Then he just needs to keep from falling asleep.

Thus, Yan Hao endured the glare of disdain from Rou who found him noisy, and firmly gave Da Wang a lecture on the classics for one hour. Da Wang also discovered one advantage of the great scholar Yan Hao, his homework is light.

Xie Yuan knew he was cutting corners, homework generally requires urgency. Anyway, leaving it aside doesn't necessarily mean he'd write it himself, even if he wrote it himself it would definitely not be enough, it wouldn't take too long.

So Old Xie will definitely look at yesterday's homework tomorrow, because if you don't urge Da Wang, he'll be even less urgent, and after a day he dares to feign forgetfulness.

This newcomer Yan Hao also left an essay, but gave him three days to complete it.

Wait for Da Wang to finish class, then Tong Chen will go block Xie Tu ahead, come up and hand him a small slip of paper. "His Majesty ordered to deliver to Xiao Xie Da Ren, this is the essay topic, word count unlimited. His Majesty said the new teacher is quite good, he actually gave three days! Xiao Xie Da Ren, this time you can also be granted a two-day extension~"

Xie Tu: ……

Why is the southward journey only at month's end? Can't it be tomorrow?!