Chapter 105: Thinking Nine Deaths Without Regret

That night, all civil affairs officials above the fourth rank and border army generals in the Qing Shui Camp of Ling Zhou assembled in the lobby of the camp fortress and knelt in the direction of the capital to listen to the imperial edicts.

“…… Shaanxi are, cloth, according to the three divisions of the following officials, only the system, all listen to the constraints of the commission. Qin this QinZhongZhong.” Su Yan rolled up the holy decree, “all adults, all hear clearly?”

The officials snapped out of their shock and looked at each other with horror in their hearts.

Instead of being appalled that Su Yan had become the uncrowned king of Shaanxi with a single imperial decree, it was more like being incredulous that the Emperor had favored and trusted a newcomer brat so much that he had given him an unprecedented level of authority.

With it came a surge of all sorts of emotions – antipathy, disbelief, contempt, cynicism, and extremely unpleasant speculations about the relationship between the ruler and his ministers, born out of the appearance of the young royal historian.

Thinking about it, but on the face is half dare not show it, bowed his head and answered in unison: “Your Majesty is wise.”

Su Yan snorted, “I know what is in the hearts of each and every one of you, nothing more than being unconvinced. No matter, I only need the orders I give to be carried out without fail, as for whether you guys are convinced or not, I don’t care.”

“Rise, my lords.” He tucked the imperial decree into his bosom, slowly pacing over a line of scarlet and green fowl patches, “You may disobey me. Those of you who feel like you have a fish in your throat and don’t want to spit it out can also chew my tongue behind my back, although I have the Brocade Guards by my side, I won’t waste my energy on spying on your shady business. Only one thing I absolutely do not allow, that is disobedience to orders, or Yang FengYinYin.”

Su Yan’s voice is clear, not too loud, not too slow, the tone is relaxed, with his footsteps, as if every step is on the heartstrings of the crowd. His voice and appearance still has a youthful air, but in the two worlds of the soul under the support of the gradual fading of youthfulness, began to show by the power of the majestic temperament.

The officials peered at each other’s faces, as if searching for allies under the new pressure, and many began to whisper.

A civil official in his sixties, relying on his seniority, was the first to speak, “Royal Historian Su is young, so he is too powerful, and must know that the water is full–“

“–If any of the lords bullied me for being young,” Su Yan interrupted without mercy, “only thinking that the new official is on fire, thinking that splashing a pot of cold water will be good enough; or thinking that I am colorful, thinking that joining hands behind my back to boycott, then you can tell me to have no one to use and make it difficult for orders to be carried out, then you might as well listen to what happened to the so-called ‘Iron-blooded Royal Historian’ Lu An Gao Gao Lu Taoshi.”

Su Yan stopped in front of Yan Chengxue and smiled, “Yan Temple Secretary is well-informed, do you know how Lord Lu is doing now?”

Yan Chengxue’s face was iron blue, and in his heart, he was extremely unwilling to pass fire and light a whip to Su Yan and become the other party’s aid in knocking down the officials.

But Su Yan stared at him and did not let go, as if he would not leave until he got a satisfactory answer, he could only bite his teeth and said, “Lu An Gao was dismissed by the Su Royal Historian and cut down his registration, where can he still afford the word ‘lord’, now the Ministry of Criminal Affairs is pursuing him for the crime of killing the people.”

Su Yan nodded, “Adults should not learn from him. Just keep your displeasure in your heart, don’t be a strong prick, and watch out for the gun hitting the head.

“Two pieces of advice for you: first, since you pay lip service to ‘His Majesty’s Sacredness,’ you must believe in His Sacred Majesty and in his vision of employing people.

“Secondly, remember well, what is your original intention of becoming an official. Self-confessed is for the country for the people, then on my decree if there are objections, you can come to discuss and refute, refute me, listen to your also no harm. If it is for the power for the money, then quickly shut up and do things, at least to keep the head of that even Guanzhong and Yanzi can not compare to him, that is really shameless to the extreme.

And to be able to shoot this kind of shameless to the extreme of the horse’s ass Li Siqing, in a sense, is also a kind of “talent” ah! This is just like the director of the program group invited the child, sitting in the audience in the front row, need to cry on the cry, need to laugh on the laugh, the key moment to rely on him to applaud, drive to drive the atmosphere of the scene, and so on the program recording is over, send a lunch box to let him get out, very affordable.

Su Yan smiled and threw an encouraging look at Li Rong, saying, “Lord Li’s false praise is too much, making this official sweat and sweat.”

Yan and Li had made their stance clear, and at least Lingzhou Senator Huo would also be on Su Yan’s side. The other officials of the various divisions had to start re-calculating, what was the likelihood of them profiting if they too were to be a handsome man who knew what was going on?

Although this Su twelve have the suspicion of luck into, but the holy favor is the holy favor, Lu An Gao’s previous experience there, why not wait and see whether His Majesty can really allow him to play, and then decide the attitude after.

Everyone had their own thoughts, and Su Yan was impatient to say more, so the first meeting between the disciplinary inspectors and the magistrates broke up.

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“People, don’t suffer from poverty but suffer from unevenness, no matter ancient or modern, everywhere is this reason.” Su Yan lamented, while taking off the imperial historian’s regular clothes and handing them over to Su Xiaojing, Su Xiao Bei brought up a freshly stewed ice-sugar pear soup to moisten his throat.

The two boys were still red and swollen because they had cried a lot due to the surprise of being reunited with their master earlier, and their eyes were still a little excited to see Su Yan at this moment.

Jing Hongchou hugged his sword and seemed to be in deep thought, frowning slightly.

Su Yan at the moment ready to bathe, because the house are very close to their own people, conscious of nothing to avoid, they casually removed the hair bun, wearing only white silk in the single, waiting for the two boys to pour the hot water to fill the tub.

Seeing Jing Hongchou’s look of wanting to speak, he laughed, “If Ah Zhui has something to say, just say it, are you still being outgoing with me?”

Jing Hong chased this only opened his mouth: “My subordinate does not understand, this all the way, Lingwu Supervision, Qingpingyuan, including in this clear water camp to see, the two temples up and down what virtue, that Yan Chengxue and Li Rong and what the stuff, adults are all clear, why still lift them up, accept Yan Li two people defection?”

Su Yan knew he was bound to ask this question.

Although A Zhui has no interest in the affairs of state and politics, and used to be a killer who recognizes money but not people, now he only recognizes …… well, shamelessly say one sentence, only recognizes “Su adults”. He seems to be cold and aloof, but in fact, chivalry still exists, will not be used to today’s scene in the hall.

Su Yan walked to the bath tub, reached out to probe the water temperature, and said to Xiao Bei Xiao Jing, “Almost …… don’t sprinkle the fragrant dew! Petals also don’t! Soap is just fine …… line, the towel is put here, I wash myself without serving, you guys go to rest it …… shivering what, small children’s family, late to sleep when the heart grows not high.”

Kohoku Kyo was shooed twice by him and had no choice but to put down his bath towel and soap and exit the room.

Su Xiaobei glared at Jing Hongchou before leaving, signaling him to follow him out as well. Jing Hongchu did not want to ignore him, but he turned his head and saw that behind the screen, Su Yan had already begun to undress. The candlelight reflected the youthful and handsome silhouette on the translucent mica screen, rippling with shadows.

Jing Hong chased the blood boiling in an instant, his throat was as dry and thirsty as the river desert outside the Great Wall, in his heart he ordered himself over and over again to avert his gaze from the screen, but his eyes were completely disobedient, and imprisoned that silhouette to death.

He suppressed his rapid breathing, the hilt of his sword pinched to the point of sinking into his palm, finally recapturing some of his sanity, and like a defeated army, he bowed his head and said arduously, “Subordinate, first, farewell.”

“Wait,” came Suyan’s voice from behind the screen, mingling with the sound of the clattering water as he stepped into the tub, “you don’t want to know the answer?”

Jing Hong chased after him and clenched his fists, “Think ……”

Wanted Lord Sue.

Hungry and thirsty to think, burning with fire to think, nine deaths without regret to think. But he did not dare, afraid of one step wrong, fell into the abyss of ten thousand fathoms, and then even the qualification of following and the opportunity to sneak attention are completely lost.

“Sit down if you want to, and let me tell you properly.”

Jing Hong retreated after him to the door as if he had stumbled, holding onto the corner of the table and slowly sitting down, the shadows on the screen burned his eyes, but he couldn’t afford to blink his eyelids more than once.

“I do intend to elevate the two temples, but the elevation is the position, not the person. The two temples from top to bottom, indeed all have to be properly cleaned once again, what should be withdrawn should be withdrawn, what should be demoted should be demoted, what should be replaced should be replaced, including that Yan Chengxue. He is a talent, but unfortunately not allowed to do his job, when a poisonous strategist can still barely be tempered, when the civil affairs officer is completely harming the people. During his term of office, because of dereliction of duty caused by the abolition of horse politics, must be held accountable, but not at the moment.

“The horse market will open tomorrow, these eight days, Ling Zhou Qing Shui Camp is a huge trading ground, foreigners, Central Plains people, officials, traders, border troops, Tunmin …… will be pouring in from all directions, when the dragons and snakes are hard to distinguish, the situation is complicated, if there are fewer officials like Huo and Yan Chengxue, who are extremely familiar with the local area sitting in on the town, I’m afraid something will go wrong.”

“Considering the security and stability work during the g20 summit–” Su Yan snapped his voice and opened his drowsy eyes, a little embarrassed, “Stringing scripts sorry, used to write more official documents …… In short, for the sake of border stability during the horse market in Qing Shuiying, this group of officials, no matter how greedy and poisonous they are, have to be suppressed and pacified first, and everything has to wait until after the horse market.”

“And, I’ve planned an after-party for the event.” He turned to lie on the rim of the barrel and laughed towards the vague silhouettes outside the screen, “Chase still remembers what I said, that if I could get back the imperial decree, I would open a gambling game that was a sure win and had no capital, and that I would sit at the bank, and let all the officials of the Shaanxi Department, large and small, be the idlers in this game? At that time, the fifteen hundred taels of silver that were given to you to buy the sword will fall here.”

Jing Hongchou can almost imagine Su Yan’s smile with a bit of smugness in his cunning at this moment, imagining the mood of the water droplets rolling down from his bare and naked shoulders and neck in surplus, the green silk like satin drifting on the water surface, half-hiding the …… of …… below the fog.

He jerked around and covered the base of his leg with his scabbard.

“Hey, did you turn around and go over to snicker?” Su Yan asked in dissatisfaction, “Think I’m painting you a big picture?”

“No, nothing!” Jinghong chased gruffly, “I have a sore …… throat and the weather is too dry.”

“Indeed, it’s almost fall, the ground in Spirit State is dry and windy. By the way, Xiao Bei’s Ice Sugar Snow Pear stewed too much, I can’t finish it, there’s still a bowl on the desktop, you drink it.”

Jing Hongchu pressed the scabbard with one hand, picked up the bowl with the other, and drank it down in pain as if pouring medicine.

Putting the bowl down, he gasped, “Subordinate will leave, your honor have a good rest.” After saying that, he left the room without looking back, closing the door tightly with his backhand.

The night breeze blew by, carrying the dry heat that could not be dissipated in the remnants of summer, Jing Hongchou looked down at the crotch that was high up on the roof, gritting his teeth and cursing in a low voice, “Sinful animal!”