The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Magistrate Dong's expression was quite strange and he said: "In order to discuss your merits and rewards, today in the Jinluan Palace, hundreds of officials started arguing from the morning meeting at 7:30 until it ended an hour ago. During this period, even Grand Scholar Li No one can get the news, let alone us.”

"A whole day?" Fang Yun asked.

Magistrate Dong smiled helplessly and said: "Don't mention it. People on both sides were so angry that they refused to leave the court to eat. The guards couldn't stop them when they entered the palace. The Queen Mother couldn't watch all the officials go hungry, so the Queen Mother I had lunch with the monarch and his ministers in the Jinluan Hall, and argued while eating. "

Fang Yun blinked and said with a smile: "That scene must be very unique, I can't imagine it."

"Yeah, I really can't imagine it. In my memory, there was indeed a day of quarrels in the court, but at noon, they went to the side hall to eat, and the ministers quarreled while eating in the Jinluan Hall. This kind of thing is really unprecedented. This The matter will definitely be reported to the media and become a joke among the ten countries," said Magistrate Dong.

Fang Yun laughed secretly and asked, "Is it another dispute between the Prime Minister Wen and the Left Prime Minister?"

"Of course. Prime Minister Wen wants to give you the hereditary title of fifth-grade Zhou Bo, so that you can recruit powerful private soldiers and have the ability to protect yourself. Prime Minister Zuo refused to give in, and the Queen Mother has been silent. As for the monarch, he eats and sleeps. , and even peed on the dragon chair once.”

"How did you solve it in the end?"

"In the evening, the Queen Mother suddenly became furious. She first accused the Minister of Literature and then the Prime Minister of the Left. She scolded all the officials until they were beaten to death. Then she said that she supported the Prime Minister of the Left. She would not give you a fifth-rank prefectural uncle, but only a sixth-rank county uncle. That's it. In the Zuoxiang system, I think When she won, the Empress Dowager changed the subject and said that you had made great contributions. She decided on the sixteen words of "pillar of the country, role model for students, role model for scholars, and role model for scholars". Then she asked the Minister of Rites to draft an imperial edict, and finally left with the monarch in her arms, saying it was time to change diapers. "

Fang Yun tried hard to imagine the scene and squeezed out a sentence: "Isn't the monarch three years old? Why do you still need to use diapers?"

"Three empty years. However, you are right. Maybe the dragon body is not in good condition."

Fang Yun discovered that Magistrate Dong mentioned the monarch as if he were a superior official.

"The Minister of Rites is a good man, I know that. However, the imperial decree is of great importance to the fate of the country and needs to be approved by the cabinet. The left prime minister is the head of the cabinet. How come he agreed so quickly?"

"The Prime Minister Zuo is well versed in power. Since the Empress Dowager has said so, he must compromise. If he does not compromise this time, he will risk the Empress Dowager overturning the table. The key is that the wealthy and powerful families of Jingguo are all helping you. Today, the general trend It's up to you." Magistrate Dong said.

Fang Yun nodded.

"Beyond that, I'm afraid it's because Prime Minister Zuo has completed his military deployment, so there's no need to fall out at this time. But I didn't expect that the Queen Mother used the temple to convey the imperial edict and official seal. I'm afraid it's to reassure you." Magistrate Dong said.

Fang Yun knows that the Holy Temple can deliver small items, but it will consume a huge amount of talent. Generally speaking, the gain outweighs the loss, and even the Holy Temple is rarely willing to do so.

"If there is an opportunity in the future, I must personally thank the Queen Mother." Fang Yun said.

"It's good that you have such a heart. The Queen Mother is really kind to you. The title is just a basic reward. After a while, rewards from the capital will appear. This time there may be cultural treasures. Okay, I have to leave." Dong The prefect said.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Sit down for a while and wait until the rain stops." Fang Yun politely persuaded him to stay.

"No, Governor Zhang is gone. Governor Lu is about to take office. It's not peaceful in Yuhai City." Magistrate Dong said goodbye and left.

Fang escorted Magistrate Dong away and went back to his house to study.

Nunu was also tired of playing, so he entered Fang Yun's study, shook lightly, all the water on his body flew away, then lay on the ground, squinted, and listened to Fang Yun's recitation of the classics of the saints.

Although Fang Yun is preparing for the state examination, because he has mastered the classics and policy theory, he no longer performs high-intensity exercises. He only writes one article each day and asks Pang Juren next door to correct him.

In view of the need to complete the martial arts exercise of talents, Fang Yun does not read other books at the moment, only the art of war.

When you get tired of reading, practice a paragraph of Chinese characters, then close your eyes and think about how to complete Cai Qi Yan Wu.

Fang Yun attaches great importance to this "concealing the truth", not only because this strategy is very useful, but also because this is the first time that talent has performed martial arts. Once it fails, it will inevitably leave a psychological shadow, and the effect of "Thirty-six Stratagems" will be greatly reduced. .

If you complete all thirty-six times of the thirty-six strategies of talent and martial arts, it not only means that you can master these strategies, but also means that the entire military book is integrated into the holy way of wisdom, and its power can be continuously enhanced.

Fang Yun decided to study and think for three days before entering Cai Qi Yanwu.

The next day, Fang Yun studied the art of war as usual, but starting from the morning, countless people sent congratulatory gifts, including almost all the prominent people in Yuhai City.

Some would give a small item worth one tael of silver, and some would simply give a hundred taels of silver or a gift worth hundreds of taels.

If it were just a family born and raised in Yuhai City, it would be nothing.

Yuhai City is the commercial center of Jingguo. There are shops opened by major families in Jingguo since its establishment. Businessmen or shops from other families have also sent congratulatory gifts.

There were so many people giving gifts that the street in front of Fang Yun's house was blocked, and everyone had to slowly clear it.

Thousands of gifts of various sizes had to be placed in the yard because there were so many, making four more hills appear in the yard.

The concierge keeps a record of these people. Favors need to be exchanged. Once the person who gives the gift has something happy, the Fang Mansion will definitely return the gift.

Fang Yun had a headache looking at the traffic at the door. If he had to deal with it himself, a whole day would not be enough, so he simply locked himself in the room and studied.

At night, Yang Yuhuan and others estimated the total value of the gifts, which was more than 30,000 taels of silver. A famous family could not earn so much in a year, and this family could not use it at all. The porcelain alone could fill a study.

Fang Yun didn't care, and continued to study the art of war and think about how to complete the talent show.

After three days, Fang Yun felt that the time was ripe, and he spread a new page of white paper and wrote slowly.

When he wrote the last period of the trick to deceive the world, Fang Yun's eyes went dark again.

Fang Yun opened his eyes, and the same scene as the first talent show, he became a seriously injured general, and he couldn't even use his talent. He had to come up with a trick to deceive the barbarians, making them think that their troops were strong and the food was sufficient, so that the barbarians dared not pursue, and finally retreated calmly.

Because it was the second time to enter, Fang Yun knew the entire military camp very well, but he didn't take it lightly. He asked the soldiers again and got the same test: use the trick to conceal the fact that the Jing army had no food and low morale.

After Fang Yun learned that nothing had changed, he immediately issued orders, and he was extremely detailed, almost hand-in-hand with the officers.

The first step was to make the barbarians think that the Jing army had enough food and grass.

The barbarian eagle demon will fly in the sky and can see part of the situation in Fang Yun's camp, and the Jing army's camp will immediately send eagle demons to fight.

There are ten large granaries in this camp, and there are also armored ox carts for transporting food outside the granaries, and many soldiers are seen entering the granaries.

The granaries are extremely empty, with only very little food, but after these soldiers enter the granaries, they use tools to dig the soil under the granaries, put the soil into cloth bags, and finally sprinkle some food on the cloth bags, so that people think the whole bag is full of food.

The first batch of people transported the fake food out one after another, and occasionally deliberately leaked some food on the ground, but no one cared.

The enemy's eagle demon in the sky saw everything.

After those people transported the fake food to the armored ox cart, they returned to the granary.

Unlike the last time when the bags were full of mud, this time two people carried out bags full of grain.

The two people carried grain for the second time. At the beginning, it was no different from the previous time, but after walking a few steps, the two people "suddenly slipped" and a whole bag of millet suddenly fell, and the yellow millet was scattered all over the ground.

The two people cleaned up casually, leaving the rice grains all over the ground, and carried most of the bag of millet away, as if they didn't care about the losses at all.

During the transportation process, the grain escort officer used chips to calculate the amount of grain, and soon accumulated a very high number, enough for the army to eat for five days.

Various deliberate wastes and carelessness in the process of transporting grain all showed that there was enough military rations in the barracks.

During this process, the eagle demon of the Jing army flew out from time to time to prevent the other eagle demon from investigating, just like usual.

When all the grain was transported, an enemy eagle demon in the sky returned to the barbarian camp.

Fang Yun smiled slightly. This method originated from the "singing and measuring sand" of the famous general Tan Daoji. However, the singing and measuring process was at night and was to deceive the enemy spies. Fang Yun's "using soil instead of rice" had to be carried out in the daytime and in front of the eagle demon, which was more difficult.

In the process of faking food, Fang Yun also picked some stronger soldiers, asked them to eat more in the tent, and then dressed in heavy armor, constantly walked around the barracks, responsible for maintaining order.

Some soldiers gathered in some places for training, sweating all over

Other soldiers also received orders to pretend to be strong as much as possible.

In this way, in the eyes of the enemy eagle demon, the army of Jingguo not only had food and grass, but also had very high morale, and was not in a hurry to retreat, and was not afraid of the barbarians at all.

The plan of hiding the truth from the sky and the sea seems simple, but in fact, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the details. Any problem with any detail may be seen by the enemy's anti-race literati. Especially in the battlefield between the human race and the monster barbarians, this strategy itself is not difficult, but the execution process and precautions are very difficult.

So, in the confrontation between Fang Yun and the soldiers, Jing Jun packed up and left the barracks. Before leaving, he burned everything, not caring at all, but in fact he was covering up the traces of digging sand and soil.

The way the team retreated was very ordinary, neither fast nor slow, so the barbarians sent a team to follow.

Near noon, the scout team and the eagle demon in the sky finally became impatient and retreated.

Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. The whole process can make a strong army pretend to be a weak army, or a weak army pretend to be a strong army. As long as you can deceive the opponent and achieve your desired goal, it is a plan to deceive the sky and the sea.

Fang Yun thought that the talent martial arts performance would end after the retreat, but nothing changed. He was carried forward by his personal soldiers.

"The talent martial arts performance has not been tested yet? This is not right. Is this strategy too unique, so it needs to be tested? Or is the talent martial arts performance much more difficult than previously thought?"

Fang Yun was puzzled, but there was nothing he could do at this time, so he had to follow the team in the car.

Soon it was noon, and Fang Yun was in even more trouble, because there was not much food left, and the soldiers might mutiny.

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Three o'clock.