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Chapter 198 Governing a big country is like... managing a small couch (Happy June [-]st)

Ouyang Rongfeng's devious words left Xie Lingjiang at a loss for what to say.

I just feel a sweet heart.

Xie Lingjiang actually didn't dislike the people from the Su Mansion next door contacting the elder brother.

Even a little tacit approval.

Otherwise, why did she often bring Ouyang Rong to Su's residence intentionally or unintentionally?

However, the moment Xie Lingjiang first heard that the elder brother called out Su Gu'er in an unusual manner, a certain kind of small emotion that seemed to be his daughter's family suddenly became uncontrollable.

"It turned out to be not as generous as I thought."

Xie Lingjiang murmured in his heart.

Sometimes people are like this, some things, before they happen before their eyes, it is a thought, after it appears, it is another thought.

But now found.

"Are you just talking about government affairs with the senior brother? The younger sister of the Su family is quick to act and has a clear purpose. It is estimated that the senior brother is a little confused about her purpose.

"So... the two of you are really just a friendship between gentlemen and a relationship like water.

"This...is normal, senior brother is like a bright pearl, maybe it wasn't obvious when he first came to Longcheng County, but now, who has brought such big changes to Longcheng after taking office for a few months, who else would dare to despise him?

"Brother, being a county magistrate of the seventh rank is obviously a lack of talent, and in the eyes of some people, he is naturally brilliant and talented.

"The younger sister of the Su family's attitude towards him has also changed from contempt to sideways glances, from arrogance to respect, but I never expected that during the days when I was away, the younger sister of the Su family would take the initiative to make friends with the elder brother.

"It seems that this younger sister of the Su family is not just a tough and arrogant person. She also knows how to judge the situation, and also sleeps to seek talents. For this reason, she can even let go of her proud daughter's face. Surprisingly, this younger sister of the Su family...

"It's like getting to know her again. Father is right. To judge a person, one must not only judge his words, but also his actions."

Looking at the man in front of him who talks eloquently and has a very different attitude towards relatives and estrangements.

Xie Lingjiang lowered his brows and bit his lips, feeling a little embarrassed by his wild thoughts not long ago.

Tasting Tieguanyin's back sweetness and rhyme in her mouth, a slight smile appeared on her cheeks.

"What is little junior sister laughing at?" Ouyang Rong asked curiously.

"fine."

Xie Lingjiang shook his head, looked at him again, and said softly:
"It's just a sigh, the elder brother is too steady and calm, with such a strict tone, and the distinction between the inside and the outside is so clear. When I think of the younger sister of the Su family every time I think of the appearance of the Su family's sister being embarrassed and boring in front of the elder brother, I feel a little... …some……"

"Some what?"

Xie Lingjiang couldn't help laughing, but didn't speak.

"Wait, big brother."

Xie Lingjiang got up suddenly, glanced at the petite figure in the room who was still making the quilt and making the bed, and then resumed the posture of Xie Zhilan, a gentleman of the academy, and said politely:
"Miss Weilai, the tea is getting cold."

"Tan Lang, thank you little lady, my slave is going to make a new pot of tea, you two can talk slowly."

Ye Weilai was not an idiot, she immediately put down her buddy, exited the door, closed the door with a "squeak" and left.

It is estimated that this pot of tea will take a long time to boil.

There was only one pair of brothers and sisters left in the house.

The two looked at each other.

The atmosphere is slightly quieter.

Seeing that Ouyang Rong was about to speak, Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned around and went to the bed in the back room.

Ouyang Rong couldn't help asking:
"Junior sister, what are you doing? Sleeping... sleep?"

In the back room, Xie Lingjiang looked left and right, as if he was quite curious about the senior brother's private residence, his face was full of interest, and he said casually:
"Accidentally sent your caring little maid away, and delayed the cleaning of the senior brother's room. It happened to be fine, so the junior sister came to try and help the senior brother tidy up."

She learned how to bend down, straightened the bed, continued what Ye Weilai hadn't finished, turned her back to Ouyang Rong, and said without raising her head:

"Brother, you said it, you continue, I can hear you."

Ouyang Rong was speechless.

"Little junior sister has made the bed?"

"Not yet, but if there is one, let's see if the maids have sorted it out."

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips, and went straight forward, snatching the job from this cute little junior sister who wanted to try everything.

"Move, I'll come."

"Brother, what are you doing, you are also a maid, don't look down on me..." Xie Lingjiang suddenly stopped talking.

Ouyang Rong, who was too lazy to explain, folded the bedding in a clever way.

Old tofu block, don't ask, asking is the soul of the postgraduate entrance examination.

Then, Ouyang Rong started tidying the bed sheets, just like handling official business, with a swift and resolute manner.

Xie Lingjiang stood by the bed, staring blankly at the senior brother's skillful operation, and couldn't help but say:
"Eldest brother is so powerful, why do you need servants to clean up? Slowly."

Ouyang Rong kept moving, thought for a while, turned his head and said solemnly:

"You have to find something for the little girl to do. Otherwise, if you are idle, you will be idle. No one will be embarrassed to eat, and it will be easy to gain weight."

"..." Xie Lingjiang.

Are you doing this for charity?
It seemed as if she had digested the elder brother's routine in her heart for a while, she tilted her head slightly, and sighed:

"So the senior brother asked the junior sister to investigate the outstanding case, and he also found something for her to do. In fact, the senior senior brother can solve it faster, but the junior sister is also idle when she is idle?"

The corner of Ouyang Rong's mouth twitched.

"Official affairs are different from private affairs. Junior sister is not an idler, so don't think about it."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and stroked the crumpled corner of the bed.

Just when Xie Lingjiang, who was behind him, looked at it for a long time and felt that he was ready to go forward, Ouyang Rong suddenly said:

"The current situation in Dazhou is like this bed sheet. It looks messy, but as long as you hold the four corners and other clever places, and pull it back hard, it will be neat and clean in an instant."

Xie Lingjiang was startled for a moment, then frowned and stared at the back of Ouyang Rong who was busy tidying up the private couch.

The man's cold voice came:
"You ask me, what do you think of the Wei family and the Baoli sect who are secretly confronting each other in the court hall of Luoyang, the capital of God? Who has a better chance of winning?

"Actually, if Junior Sister could find and easily arrange the bed neatly, she wouldn't ask this question, at least she wouldn't ask this question, because it's not a simple question of the east wind overpowering the west wind."

Xie Lingjiang couldn't help asking: "Then, did you find the big brother? Then what's the problem?"

Ouyang Rong turned a deaf ear and said calmly:
"It doesn't matter whether I find it or not, the important thing is that the current Holy Majesty must, must, and will eventually find it.

"It's not a question of Weiss winning or the Pauli faction winning.

"This is a question of how the Holy Majesty wins today.

"Big win, medium win, or small win."

Xie Lingjiang listened well at first, but when he heard the elder brother suddenly change the subject, he smiled lightly at her, which seemed to be something she couldn't understand.

"The question of how Empress Wei won?"

Xie Lingjiang frowned. Unlike Ouyang Rong, who was an official of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who called her Holy Majesty, she always called Empress Wei directly, and she didn't know if she learned from her father Xie Xun.

However, this is also the courage of the children of the five surnames such as the Xie family in Chen Jun.

A dynasty of flowing water, a family of iron.

Anyway, he didn't choose to be an official in the court, and he didn't pursue power. It was enough to save face by calling Empress Wei, otherwise, he would call her by the name Wei Zhao?It's not impossible...

Ouyang Rong didn't correct the title of Junior Sister, pointing to the bed sheet under him and said:
"In the eyes of the current Holy Majesty, the court situation is like this bed sheet, which seems to be chaotic at the moment, but it has begun to become more and more violent, crumpled and inextricable.

"But she will find a clever way, just like making a small couch, hold the four corners and gently pull, and it will be another clean and tidy bed sheet for her to continue to sleep soundly."

Xie Lingjiang looked at the gradually tidy bed sheets, thoughtful in his eyes:
"Eldest Brother, what you mean is that in Empress Wei's heart, no matter whether it's giving the throne to His Royal Highness Xiang Wang or to Wei's two nephews, the princes, it must be in her best interest to facilitate it?"

She lowered her head and thought for a while, with a pretty face:
"Eldest brother, are you talking nonsense? Now both factions are trying to gain the trust of Empress Wei, and they are both courting and serving Empress Wei, just to gain her favor in the battle for the heir.

"Even if the two sides know that Empress Wei is using this to balance the two factions, to balance the court, to use the technique of the emperor, to balance politics, and to let the government and the public look up to her, but there is no way."

It seems that Xie Lingjiang, who has been influenced by his ears and eyes since he was a child, is taught by words and family education, and doesn't talk much about government affairs. At this moment, his views on the government situation are quite mature, even better than many middle and low-level officials in Dazhou.

Her beautiful black eyebrows are slightly gathered:

"The question now is, isn't this Empress Wei not afraid? She is still playing the imperial technique, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight. As a result, the Baoli faction and the Wei family are fighting more and more fiercely. The grievances and resentments are accumulated like fire and water. Finally, wait for her for a hundred years. Afterwards, when either party came to power, would they kill the other party?

"Still, Empress Wei doesn't care, she cares about her own flesh and blood, or her mother's family. If she is slaughtered, she will be slaughtered. After death, she will be flooded."

Ouyang Rong calmly said without looking back:

"Who says it's nonsense? Asking this is to make you think about it. If you were Empress Wei, what would you do? Some things are just human nature. If you don't put yourself in your shoes, you can't figure it out."

Xie Lingjiang frowned and shook his head, "If it was me, anyway, I wouldn't do what she is doing now. The intensification of factionalism is definitely not a good thing for Sheji."

Ouyang Rong held the four corners of the bed sheet, tidied the bed sheet, got off the bed, turned and walked to the desk, he said calmly all the way:

"That's why I said, Junior Sister didn't find the ingenuity to easily tidy up the sheets."

"But senior brother, even Master Di may not be able to guess what Empress Wei is thinking. The Sacred Heart is unpredictable." Xie Lingjiang thought for a long time, but he was still puzzled:
"Well, senior brother, can you stop using metaphors? How about telling me directly, which side do you think is more likely to win, the Baoli faction or the Wei family? Junior sister also talk about your own guesses and exchange views."

"If it's just this question, is there still a need to exchange views?"

Ouyang Rong laughed and shook his head.

Xie Lingjiang half-jokingly said: "Let's exchange views and see if our teachers come from the same sect, if we want to go together, if not, we have different opinions, senior brother, please don't arrest me."

Ouyang Rong nodded: "Just don't step on my shoes when the time comes."

"..." Xie Lingjiang.

"I'm not kidding anymore." She shook her head, her expression restrained, she looked at Ouyang Rong's eyes and said seriously:

"Eldest brother, the Wei family can't win, and those two princes can no longer compete for the throne!"

"Why." Ouyang Rong answered.

"Because of...the chaos in Yingzhou."

Ouyang Rong at the desk raised his eyebrows, reached out his hand and took out a copy of the court newspaper that he had flipped through several times, and threw it to the desk.

"this?"

The girl from the Xie family, who has often received letters from her father recently, wanted to be unpredictable, but was taken aback.

She looked down at the imperial palace newspaper on the table, which was similar to a newspaper sent to the local area by the Central Committee of the Great Zhou Dynasty, recording some battle reports and auspicious news, or the achievements of Empress Wei.

The current imperial palace report just records a huge rebellion that occurred in the Northland in the past two years, which is also called the "Yingzhou Rebellion" by the world.

This rebellion originated from the Dongyi Protectorate. Foreigners who had surrendered to Dazhou, because they were dissatisfied with the oppression of Dazhou local officials, broke out the rebellion, captured and occupied Yingzhou, tens of thousands of soldiers on the [-]th, The state is getting bigger and bigger.

The situation has spread for two years, and the counter-insurgency of the Da Zhou army is also stumbling, which has exposed many problems of the frontier army.

Not long ago, before Yunmengze flooded, the last court report from Jiangzhou reported that the rebels had been suppressed.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes flickered, "Eldest brother also pays attention to the chaos in Yingzhou?"

Ouyang Rong nodded, pointed at it and said:

"It's very interesting to flip through it casually." It looks familiar.

He didn't say the latter sentence.Didn't tell my junior sister that he had seen a similar trajectory in his previous life when he was studying history...

Xie Lingjiang smiled softly:
"The rebellion in Yingzhou was not serious at the beginning. Empress Wei wanted to give Wei's children a chance to accumulate prestige. In the end, it was the rebels themselves who broke up in civil strife and were suppressed by the counter-insurgency champion.

"Da Zhou, who is full of martial virtues, has lost his face, and is still here to promote the victory of counter-insurgency."

Xie Lingjiang sneered, his eyes were bright again, and he said clearly:
"Eldest brother, after this incident, Empress Wei can no longer hand over the position of heir to Wei, otherwise the people of the world will not accept it, but she is getting old and needs a group of pillar ministers around her, including Mrs. Di." , dealing with political affairs, His Royal Highness Xiangwang's family who have lived in the deep palace for a long time, are also respectful and filial, and cautious about Du Wei..."

Ouyang Rong nodded and continued:

"So, Junior Sister thinks His Royal Highness Xiang Wang wins?"

Xie Lingjiang nodded:
"That's right, the Wei family has essentially lost the battle for the emperor's heir. It's just that the fire was too hot and no one dared to water it for a while. Now the situation is undercurrent, but His Royal Highness has stabilized."

Ouyang Rong didn't answer, but suddenly said: "Didn't you say that there are two remaining princes here, and there is one more?"

Xie Lingjiang looked sideways at him:
"The other prince is the Xunyang King's family. They have been exiled from the capital, and then demoted to the common people, losing the throne... This family has been away from the capital for more than ten years, and all the ministers in the court support the relatives in the palace. His Royal Highness Wang’s family, and the remaining clans scattered all over the world are also headed by His Royal Highness Xiang Wang.”

She suddenly realized: "Eldest brother, what do you mean that there will be accidents? For example, if the Wei family takes a desperate risk, something will happen to His Royal Highness, and then..."

Ouyang Rong shook his head and smiled lightly:
"The battle for the emperor's heir, you can't win even what you said." He said leisurely: "Prince Wei can't win, and His Royal Highness Xiangwang..."

At this moment, a girl's panicked voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Thank you, young lady! Where are you? My master and wife came to you and said that there is something urgent to discuss. There is something urgent! Please go back quickly!"

In front of the desk, Xie Lingjiang and Ouyang Rong stood and sat, turning their heads together.

"Master Ouyang...you...are you awake?" Caishou said in surprise, but then turned her face anxiously: "Miss Xie, go back and have a look."

Xie Lingjiang glanced at Ouyang Rong, who nodded. She hurriedly said goodbye and went out with a colorful ribbon.

Inside the room, Ouyang Rong looked down at the newspaper and sat silently.

"I'm leaving right away. Do you want to tell my junior sister about those similar historical traces and help her family..."

Someone hesitated for a moment.

　Happy Children's Day! (or the fourth day of rebooting)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)