Chapter 1130: Teaching

Little Bear heaved a sigh of relief and felt that the smart Little An was only so-so.

Mu Yangling, who had just come back with Qi Haoran with a bouquet of flowers, only heard the conclusion at the end. With her eyebrows raised, she looked back and forth between her sons before leaving meaningfully.

Blushing, Little Bear muttered with his mouth open, “Mother, it’s not what you think…”

Mu Yangling placed the vase of wildflowers she had picked on the tablecloth while Qi Haoran led his sons back to the carriage to retrieve the prepared ingredients.

Since it was a picnic, barbecue was naturally a popular choice. However, considering the four children’s young age, Mu Yangling was worried that eating too much barbecued food would not be good for their stomachs. So, she specially went to the kitchen to chop some large bones and scoop some ingredients. Since the soup had been simmering since they arrived this morning, the pot was emitting a rich fragrance at this moment.

Drooling by the pot, Little Leopard and Baozhu shouted at their father incoherently, “Eat meat meat, eat meat meat.”

Qi Haoran nodded and hurriedly opened the lid of the pot to add more ingredients.

When Mu Yangling arranged the ingredients, Little Bear had already set up the grill with his two younger brothers and excitedly went to get the meat skewers to roast.

Tiger Head and Little Lion felt a little regretful when they saw so much delicious food. “It’s a pity that Little An and Little Fu have to stay at home to entertain their maternal grandfather’s family…”

“You guys can just bring back some roast meat for them,” Little Bear comforted the two of them.

Little Madam Xia’s father had to return to the capital to report his work. In addition, considering Fan Zijin might be promoted, the Xia family had also come to the capital. Coincidentally, they arrived today. As their house had yet to be cleaned up, they stayed in the Duke’s Residence first.

On the other hand, Qi Haoran created a mess in the Imperial Court and ran away. Qi Xiuyuan was afraid that he would muddy the waters that had finally calmed down, so he strictly ordered him to stay at home and not run around. Of course, he was also not allowed to attend the morning court session.

Qi Haoran couldn’t ask for more. The next day, he patted his butt and brought his family out for a picnic. He decided to go on an autumn trip today. Tomorrow, he would bring his three sons into the mountains to hunt and stay in the farm for a few days.

Because of this autumn trip, the relationship between parent-and-child warmed up quickly. Now that the sense of unfamiliarity from not seeing their parents for half a year had disappeared, the boy-girl twins followed behind their parents everywhere. Whatever their parents did, they imitated them.

Delighted, Qi Haoran discussed it with Mu Yangling. “Why don’t you follow us to hunt tomorrow? You carry Baozhu, I’ll carry Little Leopard, and we can also bring Tiger Head and Little Lion along. Since the two of them are already old enough to carry their small bows and arrows and run in the forest, we can just get Little Bear to keep an eye on them a little.”

Qi Haoran was full of confidence. “Considering the prey in autumn are fat, it’s an excellent time to hunt.”

Mu Yangling coughed lightly and gestured for him to look at the people waiting on the road ahead. “Let alone hunting, I’m afraid you won’t even be able to eat dinner with us.”

Qi Haoran followed her gaze and saw Eunuch Wan running towards Qi Haoran with a smile on his face. When he reached him, he was already panting. “Your Highness, His Majesty has something urgent to discuss with you in the palace.”

Qi Haoran felt it was a pity and could only bid farewell to Mu Yangling.

After Qi Xiuyuan discussed it with the ministers, they decided to permanently abolish the vassal system, and the princes were also allowed to enter the court and become officials. They could also wield power, but that would depend on their abilities.

There were two reasons why Qi Xiuyuan called his brother into the palace. The first was to confirm the royal title and issue an imperial edict. Previously, because Qi Haoran suddenly objected to the conferment of fief, Qi Xiuyuan didn’t go on to confer Fan Zijin as a Prince as intended. Now that the system had been confirmed, he naturally had to reward those that should be rewarded.

Due to Qi Haoran’s actions, Fan Zijin no longer had a fief and the county that Fan Zijin had conferred was also gone. Therefore, Qi Xiuyuan needed to reward them with some other things.

Qi Xiuyuan called the two of them into the palace to choose something from the national treasury.

Secondly, it was about the uproar over the past two days regarding the matter of equally prioritizing civil and military talents.

The people who supported the vassal system had a reason: the vassal kings could defend the vassal town on behalf of the Emperor to prevent the invasion of foreign races, like what had happened in the previous dynasty!

At that time, everyone was focused on the first half of Qi Haoran’s words and ignored the second half. However, Mu Yangling’s newspaper published Qi Haoran’s words after some refinement. Then, she focused on guiding everyone to think about equally prioritizing both civil and military matters.

Since they were afraid that they would not be able to defend the territories without vassal kings, they would promote advancement of both civil and military matters and develop the martial academies vigorously. This way, the civil officials would be able to govern the country while the military officials defended it, thus they wouldn’t have to fear foreign invaders.

As the civil officials were in support of the abolition of the vassal system, they couldn’t care less about this matter and agreed.

The generals had no reason to object.

On the other hand, the martial academy was not like literary studies and required people with great strength. Not only the people of the martial world, but even ordinary people now had an additional way out. Everyone naturally supported it.

For a moment, everyone in and out of the capital was talking about this.

Since Mu Yangling had stirred up public opinion, Qi Xiuyuan naturally had to take over. At this moment, he called Qi Haoran into the palace to discuss how to go about setting up the martial academy.

After Mu Yangling brought the children home, she went into the study. After a while, she found a medical book from the bookshelf and flipped to the Yin-Yang section. She folded those pages and wrote a note, then handed them to Spring. “Give this book and this note to Imperial Physician Wang.”

Spring took it in confusion and respectfully sent it to Imperial Physician Wang’s residence.

Imperial Physician Wang had just finished teaching his grandson a prescription. When he heard that the Princess Consort’s servant was here, he hurriedly put on his outer robe and came out to welcome her.

When he saw the contents of the note, Imperial Physician Wang was confused. When he opened the folded medical book, his expression immediately became interesting.

“Imperial Physician Wang?” Spring asked hesitantly, “What’s wrong?”

Imperial Physician Wang came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly. “I’m fine, I’m fine…”

The Princess Consort’s note asked him to teach the young masters, and the time of the lesson was written on the note. He was a little puzzled. Could it be that the Princess Consort wanted him to teach the young masters medical skills?

However, when he opened the medical book and took a look, he understood that the Princess Consort wanted him to teach the young masters the difference between yin and yang and the Dao of ethics. But shouldn’t the Princess Consort arrange for the young masters to be taught by the handmaids when it came to such matters?

Imperial Physician Wang took the medical book and shook his head before returning to his room in a daze.

He read the folded pages of the medical book repeatedly and recalled something that the Princess Consort often said: ‘When good fortune comes the mind works well’. Imperial Physician Wang immediately understood that the Princess Consort not only wanted him to teach the young masters the difference between Yin and Yang, but also how to take care of their bodies.

In the royal family, although the princes would only get married when they were 16 or 17 years old, palace maids were arranged to teach them about the birds and the bees when they were 13 or 14 years old. However, medically speaking, it was not a good thing to have sex so early since it would affect one’s health and lifespan.

On the other hand, in aristocratic families like the Wang family, the sons would only get married after the age of 18. Before the age of 17, they were forbidden from doing anything reckless. As for the girls, they would try their best to let them get married after the age of 16 or 17, at the very minimum. In Imperial Physician Wang’s instance, almost all his children got married only after they turned 18.

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