A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

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Before Gu Qing could say anything, the other party saluted first.

Chapter 52 Queen's entrustment

Somewhat surprised, Gu Qing still replied, "I've seen the queen."

"Xiang'er has disturbed Lord Gu for a while." She continued to salute.

Gu Qing still saluted, "Don't bother, he's quite sensible."

The queen gave another salute.

"Can you stop saluting? I'm so tired." Gu Qing said unconsciously.

"Okay, okay." Empress Changsun interrupted the embarrassing atmosphere, "Gu Qing, why don't you have the time to come and see us today?"

"It's just that I'm too idle, so I just want to come and walk around when I have nothing to do." Gu Qing nodded and said.

Empress Changsun sat aside and said: "Your Majesty and I both know about the children, but the Goguryeo envoys took them away. Your Majesty is still wondering? What kind of person are you, Gu Qing, to make them so easy?" Did you pick him up?"

Waiting for Li Er to speak, unexpectedly Empress Changsun spoke first, Gu Qing thought about it and said without any concealment: "Does Your Majesty want to know?"

"I'm getting old." Li Er sighed, "There are some things I don't need to know. What do you young people have to do with me as an old man, but you can also talk about it. I just listen to the excitement."

Listen to what you want, Li Er still looks reluctant, and Gu Qing has no choice but to say: "The thing is like this, the envoys sent by Goguryeo this time are not good-looking, they are quite eloquent. Once they took the person away, but they also had to promise me three conditions."

"Tell me about the three conditions." Li Er looked at Gu Qing.

"The first condition is that the bank enters Goguryeo, the second condition is to let go of Liaodong City, and the third condition is that the most important minister of the King Goguryeo stays in Datang for my use." Gu Qing nodded and added : "It's not a very important condition, I agreed without even thinking about it."

After listening to Gu Qing's words, Li Er pondered for a while and said: "Put the money bank in Goguryeo, and plan it properly. If you Gu Qing wants to control Goguryeo's money, if you get Liaodong City, then Goguryeo will always have a knife around its neck. Dao, Gu Qing, this is not an unimportant condition, I also know the location of Liaodong City, and it’s not that I don’t know the importance of Liaodong City, did you really agree without even thinking about it?”

After being completely dismantled by Li Er, Gu Qing bitterly laughed and said: "My father-in-law really has clear eyes like pearls. In fact, he didn't agree to me at first, but I just tested it a little. How would I know?" No matter what people think about it, I just need to know how much they can pay."

"So you just ask for benefits step by step?" For some reason, Li Er began to feel that Gu Qing was not pleasing to the eye again. Would Li Zhi and Li Xiang learn from Gu Qing and make trouble?

"Call for a high price, and wait for others to bargain." Gu Qing said casually to Li Er, "For example, a piece of cloth in my hand was originally worth only [-] guan, and I asked for [-] guan, so the envoy of Goguryeo It is my customers, and I wait for them to come to bargain, during which they know that the piece of cloth they need is only available to me, and after I tried it, I found that they are in urgent need."

"So the younger brother of King Goguryeo is that piece of cloth?" Queen Changsun asked.

"That's what it means, but it's just a metaphor." Gu Qing said again: "Understanding the above points, only I have the cloth they urgently need, and no one can sell it except me. From this point, I will take it all. I had an advantage, so I called a high price and waited for them to bargain, who knew that these guys would not bargain with Ben, so I nodded and agreed, which is quite boring to say."

"Hehe." Li Er sneered for a while, "So you, Gu Qing, are such a good-looking person who takes advantage of it."

"Where is it?" Gu Qing said again: "I'm still waiting for them to bargain."

"Then I'll ask you again, why did you let the national teacher stay in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Er continued to ask.

"For Goguryeo, the people of Tang Dynasty are foreigners. If Qianzhuang wants to enter Goguryeo in a real sense, it needs to get along with the Goguryeo people. At this time, we need someone to help us build momentum. Then this national teacher is a minister under the king of Goguryeo. Goguryeo has some reputation, it’s a pity not to use it, I can’t forcefully coerce Goguryeo people to come to my bank to deposit money, so what’s the difference between me and bandits.”

"It hurts the most to kill people and cut their flesh with soft knives." Li Er nodded involuntarily, "Gu Qing, your methods are still as vicious as ever."

"Your Majesty, thank you." Gu Qing smiled and poured another glass of wine for Li Er.

It was still drizzling outside, Gu Qing sat in Li Er's house for a long time before preparing to leave, Li Xiang's mother, who is now Li Chengqian's queen, followed after leaving.

"Master Gu, please stay."

Gu Qing turned to look at her, "What is the queen's order?"

"Mr. Gu can become Xiang'er's teacher. I am very grateful to Mr. Gu. It's just that Mr. Gu doesn't care about other things, just treat Xiang'er as an ordinary child."

Standing still and looking at the queen bowing to him, Gu Qing whispered, "What kind of person does the queen hope he will become in the future?"

"I don't understand what Master Gu means." The queen said in a low voice.

"Then let me make it clear." Gu Qing lowered his voice and said in a tone that only two people could hear: "Do you want your son to become the future emperor?"

She couldn't answer this question for a long time.

"Then let me put it another way." Gu Qing said to her again: "How many people in the palace hope that your son will never be able to enter the palace. Li Chengqian has many concubines, and Li Chengqian's child is not the only one. You know what I mean. "

"Is Lord Hou bargaining with me now?" Empress Su stood in the rain and clenched her fists.

Gu Qing turned to smile and said: "You are the queen, how dare I? Can you decide who your son will become in the future?"

"I..." Faced with this sentence, she was a little speechless for a while.

Gu Qing handed her the umbrella, "You take it."

She took the umbrella and looked at Gu Qing suspiciously.

"What kind of person your son will be in the future, I will not decide him, it is he who has to decide. If he wants to be the emperor, I will not help him, but he has to work hard on his own. If he does not want to be the emperor, I will There is no guarantee that someone in the palace will persecute him in the future, but as my disciple, don't worry! I will keep him safe for the rest of his life."

After Gu Qing finished speaking and left, she stood there holding the umbrella in her hand, with mixed feelings in her heart, the darkness in the palace was indifferent, Xiang'er was the prince, the opponent of all Li Chengqian's sons, I would keep him safe for the rest of his life, if Gu Qing was to protect him for the rest of his life , that elephant can only grow up.

Making up her mind, she followed in Gu Qing's footsteps again, "Master Gu, please stay a little longer."

Chapter 53 Freedom

Gu Qing did not stop, and walked farther and farther step by step. Empress Su chased after two steps but had to stand in the rain and watch Gu Qing walk into the rain curtain, leaning against the door powerlessly, feeling completely lost in her heart.

Wang Qin came to her side and said, "Gu Qing is a very unpredictable person."

Su Huangwei nodded slightly.

"Actually, His Majesty is also the same. Sometimes he can't see through Gu Qing. Everyone has something to ask for. Back then, His Majesty tried to test Gu Qing several times. He only dealt with the official position he gave him perfunctorily. He would rather abandon the power given to him. It is impossible for a person to have nothing else, and it is impossible to be so pure-minded, Gu Qing hates power, hates the court, he does not have the slightest ambition for power."

"Then what does Gu Qing want?" Queen Su looked at Wang Qin in confusion.

"Sometimes I really can't figure out what Gu Qing wants. Does Gu Qing want money? Do you like money? From Gu Qing's various behaviors, it can be seen that Gu Qing likes money, but when I think about it, Gu Qing is not alone. A person who uses money for everything, on the contrary, Gu Qing often does it easily." Wang Qin said in a low voice.

"So he doesn't want money?" Queen Su asked again.

"The money is just for the process he wants to achieve." Empress Changsun came to Su Shi and said, "Go in, you will catch cold in the rain."

"Mother, I don't understand."

"Indeed, I don't understand, right?" Empress Changsun took her back into the house, "What Gu Qing wants is just what he has now, he has everything a layman wants, and what he wants for money is nothing more than money." In order to achieve what he wants, it is not so much that he is rich as the enemy, it is better to say that he wants to do whatever he wants, what he likes is a freedom, an unfettered life, he is different from most people."

"Your Majesty has many ministers around him. Some people want to be famous, and some people want to make achievements, but Gu Qing doesn't like them. He is a person with no ambitions. We have watched him grow up since he was a child. He is If you want to be a common man, don't think too much about him, otherwise you will only see disappointment."

"Unfettered?" Queen Su wondered.

"Maybe that's the case." Empress Changsun nodded and said, "Over the years, I have seen Gu Qing's various deeds in the face of many things. There are times when Gu Qing and His Majesty are tearing each other up. It's a trade-off, a kind of exchange, from when Gu Qing was a kid, he was just a brat, but when he grows up, he can turn against His Majesty for the people around him."

"What Gu Qing wants is neither power nor fame. Instead, he doesn't want these things." Empress Changsun whispered, "What he wants is only the family he wants to protect, and his family. In the unfettered days, the royal family does not want anything Gu Qing wants, and the relationship between His Majesty and Gu Qing is more of a transaction, Gu Qing gets what he wants, and His Majesty gets what His Majesty wants."

"So the relationship between our royal family and the Gu family has always been very complicated. Gu Qing has never put on an appearance of obeying His Majesty's words. Things are what Gu Qing wants to do, not what His Majesty wants Gu Qing to do. It is not so much a kind of dislike. Being bound, it might be better to say that what Gu Qing wants is freedom."