The eldest son is fierce

Wang Anxiu was a little confused. What was the emperor and Tang Yi trying so hard to hide and protect?

Why were they making such a big fuss? Wasn't it just to get rid of the Fan faction and the princess? Wasn't it to restore order in the court?

"Lord, how long has it been since you left your residence? How long has it been since you went out to observe Kyoto?"

Seeing the confusion on Wang Anxiu's face, Kong Mingzhen stroked his short beard and said, "Let's take some time to go to South City. To be more precise, we should go to the refugee camp outside South City."

"Go to a refugee camp and you'll find the answer."

Wang Anxiu narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you saying that His Majesty and Tang Yi have been making such a big fuss lately, overwhelming Fan Dang and the Princess, just to protect the refugee camp?"

Wang Anxiu couldn't believe it. Wasn't the refugee camp just the refugees that the princess had gathered from all over the world? These refugees had now become Tang Yi's labor force. What was there to protect?

Kong Mingzhen took a quick look and saw that Qi Wendao and his ministers had already left. There were no more people around. He then said, "To be precise, it was to protect the scholars who were responsible for managing the refugees."

"Your Majesty and Tang Yi made such a big fuss, attracting attention from all sides, just to protect them."

Wang Anxiu was stunned.

After a moment of hesitation, his pupils suddenly widened, and he said in disbelief, "Your Majesty and Tang Yi want to send these people to the local authorities to fill the vacancies of officials involved in the Crown Prince and Fan Mingzhong cases?"

"This? This won't do! How can someone be sent to a local position without passing the imperial examination?"

Kong Mingzhen raised his hand and patted Wang Anxiu's shoulder, his face solemnly saying: "They have never experienced the imperial examination selection, but you forget that they have a good teacher!"

Wang Anxiu was stunned and said through gritted teeth: "Tang Yi?!"

Kong Mingzhen nodded and said, "Yes, it's Tang Yi. Every three days, Tang Yi teaches a class to the scholars in charge of disaster relief in Nancheng."

"But his classes didn't teach those scholars great principles. Instead, they taught them how to manage the economy, how to handle conflicts between the government and the people, and how to resolve disputes between the powerful and the people."

"Moreover, he never imposed his own subjective ideas on those scholars. Instead, he asked them to raise their own problems. Then, they would sit together and discuss solutions, and he would supplement any deficiencies."

"To be frank, Old Wang, among those scholars in Nanshan right now, any one with a bit of brains is definitely as capable as a provincial governor!"

"And Tang Yi has two thousand such people under his command."

"If two thousand of these people were deployed, what kind of scene would that be?"

Wang Anxiu stayed there.

When Tang Yi was providing disaster relief, he recruited scholars from all over the place and told them that they didn't need to take the imperial examinations and could be directly appointed as local officials. At the time, everyone thought it was a joke.

Now, Kong Mingzhen told him that Tang Yi was not bragging at the beginning, it was true, those scholars could really be arranged to serve as officials in the local areas.

And each of them is as capable as a provincial governor.

A provincial governor is a high-ranking official! In just a few months, Tang Yi has single-handedly trained thousands of these officials? What the hell is going on?!

"This is impossible, absolutely impossible?!" Wang Anxiu stared at Kong Mingzhen with red eyes.

He naturally knew what Kong Mingzhen meant by saying this to him. He was a member of the Prince's Party. Although the prince had fallen, the foundation of the Prince's Party was still there.

Kong Mingzhen wanted him to lead the prince's party to choose a new position!

"Impossible? Lao Wang, this is the truth."

Kong Mingzhen stared at Wang Anxiu and said, "Lord, there are nearly 200,000 refugees in Nancheng right now. 200,000 refugees, in a capital city that's full of people of all stripes, and yet there hasn't been any unrest in the past few months? Is that normal?"

"Fan Mingzhong sent 3,000 men to infiltrate the refugees, yet the Prince of Yan easily persuaded them to rebel? Do you think the Prince of Yan, with his martial prowess, has the ability to do this?"

"The people of Kyoto are extremely xenophobic, but now the people of Kyoto and the refugees love each other like a family. What is the reason for this? Have you ever thought about it?"

"What kind of person is Du Huaifang? He's known for being picky and unreasonable. Why is he going to such lengths to support Tang Yi after only being in Kyoto for a few days?"

"It's very simple, because the revitalization of Dayan lies in Dayan Military Academy, and the prosperity of Dayan lies in South City!"

"The Great Yan Military Academy is the military, and Nancheng is the government. Tang Yi and His Majesty, in their struggle with the civil and military officials, accomplished these two major events openly and in full view of the public."

Upon hearing this, Wang Anxiu took several steps back. He stared at Kong Mingzhen and shook his head, his face full of disbelief.

But he also knew that Kong Mingzhen had no reason to lie to him. What he said was definitely approved by Emperor Yanwen, and these things would soon be exposed to the public and would no longer be a secret.

But this is too fucking fantastical, right?!

When the Dayan Military Academy was established, everyone thought it was a makeshift team, but it turned out to be the place where Dayan trained soldiers.

Nancheng disaster relief, apart from the policy of using work instead of relief that made the officials shine, who else remembered the Nancheng disaster relief? It turned out that it was the place where Tang Yi and Emperor Yanwen secretly trained officials.

This, this...you guys are really good at playing, right?

"So, today's decisive battle between Tang Yi and the Northern Di Crown Prince is to inspect the achievements of the Great Yan Military Academy, right?"

Wang Anxiu stared at Kong Mingzhen and spoke word by word.

Kong Mingzhen spread his hands and said, "Otherwise, why do you think I would tell you so much? Today is to verify the results of more than a month of hard training at the Dayan Military Academy."

"Next, we will verify the three-month learning results of the group of scholars in South City."

"Let's go, let's go to Shilipu as well. You can think while you walk. You still have time to think now."

Kong Mingzhen pulled Wang Anxiu, turned around and walked towards the carriage not far away.

……

At the same time, in front of the imperial study.

Emperor Yanwen and Consort Xian had already changed into casual clothes. As soon as they came out of the imperial study, Chen Diaosi bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, this old servant has already passed the news to all the officials."

"Just as Your Majesty guessed, they knelt in front of the palace gate and scolded Your Majesty."

Emperor Yanwen snorted coldly and said, "Go ahead and scold them. The more fiercely you scold them, the more miserable they will cry later."

"Waiting for their Beidi father to come and save them? Humph, let's see if their Tang Yi grandfather and the emperor ancestor don't beat them to death first."

"Pass on my order to go to Shilipo. I... should also meet Fan Yong."

Emperor Yanwen's face was filled with sinisterness as he spoke with an unconcealable excitement, "A few months ago, Fan Yong and Xiao Ya left Kyoto to give me the opportunity to act rashly."

"Now it's time for me to hand in my homework. I want to ask Fan Yong if my jumping has satisfied him."

"If you are not satisfied, I will jump around again and completely destroy the Fan Party."