Chapter 1 Parting

At the exciting part, Yuan Buyi coughed heavily.

Looking at Yuan Buyi, who was hunched over from coughing, Jiang Chen understood that Yuan Buyi's request to resign was probably due to his failing health.

While summoning the imperial physician, Jiang Chen approved Yuan Buyi's resignation.

The next morning, Jiang Chen uncharacteristically skipped the morning court session and instead saw Yuan Buyi off outside the city.

Yuan Buyi's health had deteriorated after the weather turned cold this year. Therefore, after resigning, he did not go to his old home in the west, but planned to go to the south to recuperate.

Jiang Chen's personal farewell touched Yuan Buyi deeply.

After expressing his gratitude, Yuan Buyi said, "Your Majesty should return to deal with state affairs as soon as possible. This old minister is a piece of decaying wood and not worthy of Your Majesty's concern!"

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Grand Tutor is a pillar of our Great Wei, having devoted his life to it. What's the harm in朕 (zhen, I, the emperor) coming to see you off?"

After finishing, Jiang Chen asked again, "What are Grand Tutor's plans for the future?"

Grand Tutor Yuan said, "This old minister has already thought about it. If my health improves, I will open a school in the place where I live and teach a few students for Great Wei."

Jiang Chen nodded, making no comment on this plan, and instead said, "Grand Tutor doesn't want to do something on a larger scale?"

A larger scale?

Yuan Buyi looked at Jiang Chen in surprise, somewhat confused by the meaning of his words.

"I mean, is it too limiting to only teach a few students?"

Jiang Chen said with a smile, "Does Grand Tutor want to make a name for himself in history?"

The words "make a name for himself in history" made Yuan Buyi's eyes light up.

Who wouldn't want that?

"What does Your Majesty mean?" Yuan Buyi asked hastily.

Jiang Chen took out a piece of paper with several addresses written on it and said, "Grand Tutor, these are the addresses of those students involved in the cheating scandal."

Yuan Buyi was even more confused.

What did making a name for himself in history have to do with these students?

"What 朕 (zhen, I, the emperor) wants Grand Tutor to do is to compile all the literature and classics of our Great Wei, including various miscellaneous books and stories, in a certain order!"

Yuan Buyi's body trembled.

Just listening to Jiang Chen, he realized how great this undertaking was.

This was definitely a great and unprecedented initiative!

Yuan Buyi instantly understood Jiang Chen's purpose in having him find those students.

Such an earth-shattering event could not be accomplished by him alone.

Those students had no hope for official careers, but they were truly talented.

If this matter was placed before them, they would surely join!

Once the compilation was completed, they would all make a name for themselves in history!

Thinking of this, Yuan Buyi said excitedly, "Your Majesty, rest assured, this old minister will spare no effort to complete this series of books!"

"It can't be like that."

Jiang Chen laughed and said, "Grand Tutor's health is still very important."

Yuan Buyi couldn't restrain himself any longer, wishing he could immediately find these people and start working together.

He said, "Your Majesty, what is the name of this series of books?"

Jiang Chen had already thought of the name and said solemnly, "Yongsheng Canon!"

Yuan Buyi's body trembled, and he couldn't help but feel his blood boil.

Yongsheng was the current reign title.

Canon meant the vastness of this series of books.

Yongsheng Canon was most appropriate!

Seeing that Yuan Buyi was already impatient, Jiang Chen didn't stay any longer and said, "Grand Tutor, have a smooth journey."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Yuan Buyi boarded the carriage and headed south.

Watching the carriage leave, Jiang Chen smiled slightly.

His purpose in seeing Yuan Buyi off, besides saying goodbye, was to tell him about the idea of the Yongsheng Canon.

Now that Yuan Buyi was in charge of this matter, he could rest assured.

Jiang Chen turned around and returned to the city with Shi Ping.

As they passed the city gate, Jiang Chen heard a commotion.

Following the direction of the sound, Jiang Chen saw a group of people gathered there, unable to see what was happening inside.

Shi Ping, with his eyes and ears everywhere, saw that Jiang Chen seemed a little interested, and said, "Your Majesty, this subordinate will go and take a look first."

Jiang Chen nodded and waited for less than two minutes before Shi Ping quickly returned.

"Your Majesty, two beggars wanted to enter the city, but were stopped by the city gate soldiers. The two beggars are now rolling around on the ground."

"Beggars rolling around?"

Jiang Chen found these words a bit strange.

Beggars were not hooligans. When rejected, they usually just left. Why would they roll around on the ground?

Besides, when did the capital have a rule against beggars entering the city? How could he, the Emperor of Great Wei, not know about it?

Thinking this, Jiang Chen walked towards the crowd.

Shi Ping was startled and quickly said, "Your Majesty, should this subordinate tell the soldiers guarding the city to let them in?"

Jiang Chen waved his hand and walked straight over.

When he saw the two beggars, Jiang Chen felt even stranger.

Although these two looked like beggars, if one looked closely, one could see that they were definitely not beggars.

Unlike those zombie-like beggars, these two had bright eyes, clearly not beggars.

More importantly, the accents of these two people were thick Zhong Province accents.

Zhong Province was more than a thousand miles away from the capital. If they were really beggars, how could these two possibly travel all the way here?

There must be a problem!

"Bring them to see 朕 (zhen, I, the emperor)."

Jiang Chen instructed Shi Ping and walked to a tea stall not far away.

Shi Ping quickly brought the two beggars over.

Shi Ping said, "The young master who is going to give you money is here."

The two reluctantly said, "Thank you, young master."

They were forcibly dragged over by Shi Ping. Besides, their real purpose was not to beg.

Jiang Chen took a sip of tea and smiled faintly.

Just looking at the reactions of these two, Jiang Chen knew that his judgment was correct.

These two were definitely not ordinary beggars.

Jiang Chen casually took out a silver ingot and said, "I can give you the money, but I want to hear your stories."

The eyes of the two people widened when they saw the ten-tael silver ingot that Jiang Chen casually took out.

They thought that the money Shi Ping mentioned was just a few coins, at most a few dozen, but they didn't expect it to be ten taels!

The slightly younger one said, "We are from Zhong Province..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the older one's expression changed. He elbowed the other one hard and glared at him.

The one who spoke quickly stopped and gave a sheepish smile.

The older one then said, "We don't have any stories, we are just poor and want to enter the city to beg for food."

As he spoke, the man's right hand unconsciously stroked the place where he was carrying something in his arms.

Jiang Chen smiled and, without saying much, threw the ten taels of silver into the older man's hand, got up, and left.

The two were extremely surprised.

They didn't expect to get ten taels of silver with this excuse.

This made them wonder if the silver ingot was real.

Just as they were huddled together to study whether it was real silver, someone bumped into them.