Rebirth of the Great Power

"Brother Mo Yan, what about me?" Tian Yuan pulled Mo Yan and asked.

Mo Yan smiled brightly: "Of course I also want to invite Tian Yuan, but if you don't talk twice, you will become a drunk cat."

"It's not impossible." Tian Yuan smiled and said, "Tian Yuan will also prepare a big gift for Brother Moyan."

"Okay, I'm looking forward to it."

After reading the letter, Mu Yuan raised his head and looked at Ji Jin: "Father said that the Holy Majesty asked him to recover and summoned him to sacrifice wine for the Imperial College. Father is going to come to Beijing with his family and let me set up the house in advance."

Ji Jin picked up the teacup and took a sip, but smiled and said nothing.

Mu Yuan: "Brother Ji already knew about it?"

Ji Jin put down his teacup and smiled slightly: "The former Guozijian Zheng Jijiu is old and has long wanted to retire and return home, but he has not been able to find a successor, so His Majesty has been delaying. Before I came back from Beijing, I met with Your Majesty. When I mentioned you while chatting, I also thought of my father. Your father was the school secretary in the middle of the capital. He wrote excellent articles, and his knowledge and character were also very outstanding. However, Ding You never returned to the court after returning to his hometown. Now there is a shortage of people in the court. Naturally, he couldn't be allowed to stay idle, so His Majesty issued an imperial decree to call him back. Qiantang is far away, and it is not easy for the whole family to come to Beijing. His Majesty specially approved the new sacrificial wine to take office in autumn. It is the end of summer now, Brother Mu There are about three more months to prepare."

"Three months," Mu Yuan murmured, "It's not long, it's not short, but I'm not familiar with housing prices in central Beijing, so I'm afraid it will take a little more work."

Ji Jin reminded with a smile: "If you are familiar with everything in Beijing, there is just one person here, why should Brother Mu look far away."

Mu Yuan looked at Mo Yan suddenly, and asked with a smile, "I wonder if Mo Yan is free recently?"

Mo Yan chuckled: "Master Mu's business, you have to be free if you have to. Whether you want to rent the house or buy it directly, the size, location, price, and any other requirements, Master Mu will do as you please. "

Mu Yuan thought for a while: "In addition to father and mother, there is also a second brother, a younger sister, and an aunt. There should be no more than a dozen servants, and my father should leave some loyal servants in his hometown in Qiantang. The size of the house is based on the population of central Beijing. It’s a similar house. The location, it’s better to be closer to the Imperial College, so it’s convenient for my father to go back and forth in the future. As for leasing, I’d better buy it... When I left home, my father prepared a thousand taels of silver notes for me. I haven’t used them yet. It is enough to rent. But if there is a suitable house for sale, it can also be discussed. My father said in the letter that he entrusted the escort to send me some silver."

Mo Yan responded: "Okay, Mo Yan has written it down. Don't worry, Master Mu, within a month's work, I will definitely give you a letter."

Mu Yuan: "I'm tired of the inkstone."

After arranging the family affairs, Mu Yuan and Ji Jin chatted casually.Mo Yan was also pulled by Tian Yuan to verify his recent progress in chess.Of course, the main reason is that when the two masters are together, they don't really need someone to wait on them.Mo Yan and Tian Yuan have developed such a tacit understanding long ago.

Ji Jin picked up the chess piece and suddenly said: "Recently, His Majesty may want to see Brother Mu."

Hearing this, Mu Yuan looked up at him with some doubts.

Ji Jin smiled: "Actually, His Majesty wanted to see you a long time ago, but he just couldn't find an excuse. During this period of time, Brother Mu made a lot of noise in the backup, and it had already reached His Majesty's ears. He just took the opportunity to meet you." meet you."

Mu Yuan thought for a while, and said, "Your Majesty wants to see me, is it because of Brother Ji?"

Ji Jin said: "It should have been before, but now it's probably more than that." As he spoke, he smiled teasingly, "After all, he is also very curious about what kind of chess player, who has only been in the selection office for a month, has changed the entire selection The atmosphere."

Mu Yuan smiled, Gu Zi shook his head, and said, "Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

Ji Jin shook his head slowly: "But there is no need. Your Majesty is a man of true temperament, and you should be able to get along."

Ji Jin's eyes turned to the distance, through the shadow of the whirling trees outside the window, falling into the dust of time.

Mu Yuan looked at him silently, pretending to be ready to listen.

After a while, Ji Jin withdrew his gaze, looked at Mu Yuan, and slowly said: "Your Majesty and I grew up together, spent more than [-] years together, experienced the trough, and reached the peak together. To put it bluntly Disrespectful words, in my heart, he is not only a king, I am several months older than him, and I have always regarded myself as an elder brother. Until he ascended the throne, our relationship seemed not as close as before, and it became sometimes disputed. I used to think that it was He ascended the throne as the emperor, our identities changed, so we got along with each other also changed. It was only later that I found out that he hadn't changed, but me.

"The Ji family and the Xue family have formed a deep bond since the founding of the country. The Xue family promised that the Ji family will always maintain the throne of the king and will never be replaced by hereditary; the Ji family also promised to be loyal to the Xue family for generations and never betray each other. In order to deepen this bond, each generation of Prince Xin will grow up with the future prince. If there is more than one outstanding prince, the prince of Xin may even decide the final prince candidate. Everyone in the world thinks that the Dao Ji family is powerful However, as everyone knows, to the Ji family, Xin Wang is not only an honor, but also a shackle. Except for the Xin Wang, no one in the Ji family can hold important positions in the court and have real power. No matter how colorless my Ji family's children are, they are useless in the country .

"Even so, each generation of King Xin is tied to the present. Whenever the government changes and a new emperor ascends the throne, the previous King Xin will step down from his title, regardless of whether he is in his prime or not, and his successor will inherit it. If the current emperor leaves, the title will be vacant, and the title will only be accepted when the new emperor succeeds. King Xin can only be a pure minister, and the only thing he can rely on is the current trust. If you can't gain trust..."

Ji Jin sighed: "The first emperor had a lot of suspicions about his father, which caused his father to be depressed all his life, and passed away in his prime. The mother and concubine also left early with her father because of excessive grief. Even because of the late emperor's respect for Xin Wang Suspicion has caused many twists and turns in your Majesty's journey to heaven. However, I heard from my father that they were very close when they were young, but everything changed after the first emperor ascended the throne. Perhaps deep down in my heart, I have resentment towards the late emperor, so that I have some doubts about your majesty. I may have been worried that the relationship between me and your majesty will be like that between the late emperor and my father. So after your majesty ascended the throne, I unconsciously He began to gradually alienate him and even be wary of him. But His Majesty still treats me with sincerity, and does not notice my renunciation at all, but still feels my alienation. Once, after he was drunk, he took my hand and asked Why do I treat him differently than before, and whether he has done something wrong?

"For the country and the people, I have done my duty, and I have a clear conscience; but for His Majesty, I feel a little ashamed. I once felt a little confused, whether I should keep a distance rationally, or choose to believe by instinct. Until later, I met a person." Ji Jin looked at Mu Yuan and smiled, "He let me know that the world after thousands of years will be so brilliant, so mysterious and wonderful, so incredible. I suddenly figured out Yes. Maybe we are just a speck of dust in the long flow of history, but so what? This is our era, this is our world. Your Majesty and I have never forgotten that our goal is The old are supported, the young are supported, people live and work in peace and contentment, the world is peaceful, and all nations come to court. Your Majesty will be a wise king, and I will be a good minister, and we will definitely be able to create a prosperous world that belongs to us."

The confidence in Ji Jin's eyes shines brightly, shining with stars all over the sky.

It was the first time for Mu Yuan to hear everything about King Xin and the present from the person involved, and it was also the first time he knew about Ji Jin's emotional ups and downs.Or there are many unanswered words, he seems to understand.Ji Jin has mentioned more than once that this will be a good era.So, is he worried that he won't be able to adapt, or like it here?

So Mu Yuan also smiled, and said sincerely: "I wish I could do my best for this prosperous world."

Ji Jin's eyes brightened up.

Sure enough, after two days, a verbal order came from the imperial study, His Majesty wanted to see the alternative chess and wait for Mu Yunzhi.

The little Huangmen who came to lead Mu Yuan was the fairly familiar Jiang Size, and he whispered on the way: "Don't worry about Mu Beixuan, His Majesty has heard about your achievements in the Beixuan Office and wants to meet you. The Shangshu is also in the imperial study at the moment."

Mu Yuan nodded to express his thanks.

In the imperial study room, apart from Yan Shangshu, there is King Xin and several other ministers.Mu Yuan didn't recognize the others, but judging by the color of their clothes, they were of high grade.

This is the first time Mu Yuan has seen the current Holy Majesty, although Ji Jin has heard it countless times.

The young man sitting in the front seat was wearing a robe embroidered with nine golden dragons, with a bright smile on his handsome face.Ji Jin sat on the left side with his eyes downcast, and when Mu Yuan came in, he raised his eyes and glanced slightly.Several other ministers sat down separately.

After Mu Yuan saluted, Xue Chang quickly motioned for him to get up.

Xue Chang took a closer look at Mu Yuan, then smiled in Yan Que's direction, "Yan Aiqing, is this the person you recommended?"

Yan Que immediately got up and saluted, "Exactly. Mr. Mu is Yan Yu's new teacher."

Xue Chang blinked secretly at Ji Jin, and then said to Yan Que: "So that's the case, you don't avoid suspicion."

Yan Que chuckled twice: "The minister is just making internal moves and not avoiding relatives. Mr. Mu is indeed very good at chess."

Xue Chang smiled and said: "If this statement was made a month ago, many people would probably be dissatisfied; but now it seems that it is true. Mu Yunzhi, I heard that you have completely defeated the best players in the alternative for more than a month, and even Even the two waiting edicts of the Zhengxuan Institute are not your opponents. Is there such a thing?"

Mu Yuan said bluntly, "I'm just doing my best to be a little better."

"It's a good 'do your best' and 'slightly better', if it's one or two, four rounds or five rounds is enough, a dozen good players, undefeated in one round, I'm afraid it's more than that." Xue Chang didn't let anyone Answer, and directly changed the subject, "Since you have such chess skills, why didn't you win the leader of Yangzhou Lunping? But that person's chess skills are even better?"

Xue Chang glanced at Ji Jin with the end of his eyes, looking at Mu Yuan with a narrow smile.

Ji Jin looked at his nose, nose and heart, as if unmoved.

Mu Yuan felt a little speechless for asking this question knowingly. He never thought that when the world is still so naughty today, the "innocent heart" that Ji Jin said really does not deceive me.