The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 252 Being tricked

Weining was very efficient. After buying the land in Nancheng, he started looking for craftsmen to build the academy.

In order to show his support for Weining, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used the craftsmen of Zongzheng Da Nong Mansion to build it.

Lu Chongguo thought Weining was stupid. Why did he do such a thankless thing? Isn't this just spending his own money?

You don't get any benefit yourself.

After Dong Zhongshu and Sang Hongyang heard what Lu Chongguo said, they scolded Lu Chongguo.

This is something that has lasted forever, and you actually said that the Marquis of Zhenbei was stupid?

Lu Chongguo now understood that Wei Ning was not stupid, he was really smart, because his actions had won the hearts of too many courtiers.

For example, Dong Zhongshu and Sang Hongyang were like this. They did not allow anyone to speak ill of Weining.

What could be more powerful than this? What he spent was money, but what he got was the political support of countless people in the DPRK. Isn't this enough?

Lu Chongguo felt that he really underestimated Weining.

……

Yan Zhongyuan hosted a banquet for a group of people in the past few days, and his face was glowing.

In the past few days, unpleasant words about the grateful and flattering Weining who clings to the powerful have been widely circulated in Chang'an.

They thought that Dade was not a gentleman for flattering the Marquis of Zhenbei so much that the Marquis of Zhenbei bought him an academy.

This is the benefit you get from flattering Weining! This Dade is really shameless.

All these sounds fell into Dade's ears, and Dade turned a deaf ear to them.

He truly behaves like a gentleman who is unknown to others and does not care about the outside world's evaluation of his reputation.

Huo Qubing found Weining angrily.

"Cousin, do you know how people scold Dade outside?"

Wei Ning said calmly: "I know."

Huo Qubing: "?"

"No, isn't Dade yours?"

Wei Ning said: "No, I just asked him to teach. He is from the imperial court and has nothing to do with me."

"But others say so. If you don't give him a vent, others will look down on you."

"Let me tell you, the instigator is Yan Zhongyuan, and I have found out for you."

Huo Qubing said angrily.

"You also bought his land."

"It was a wasteland."

"The same goes for that mountain."

Weining: "..."

"Shameless villain!"

Huo Qubing: "That's it?"

Wei Ning said: "Otherwise, I can't kill him, right?"

"What about a beating?"

Wei Ning said: "It's immoral, forget it, I choose to forgive."

Huo Qubing said: "You have changed."

Wei Ning sighed: "If I were a year ago, I might have beaten him up."

"The me half a year ago might have asked you to beat him up."

"Three months ago, I might have gone to him to argue."

"It doesn't matter now."

Huo Qubing: "..."

You are so good at pretending, and you perfectly interpret the growth of your state of mind in just one year, and also bring out the embarrassing situation of my heart and mind being crushed by you.

Are you so fucking disgusting?

"Let's go."

Weining said to Huo Qubing.

"where to?"

Wei Ning said: "Go to the south of the city and see what the situation is like on that piece of land and that mountain."

Huo Qubing yelled and followed Weining to the south of the city. At the foot of the mountain, Weining said to Huo Qubing, "Cousin, come and dig up the snow."

"Oh."

"Wait, what are you doing?"

Wei Ning said: "I will observe the situation."

Huo Qubing: "..."

He was speechless, but he still speeded up digging in the snow.

After digging out the mountain, Weining reached out and touched it, and said in surprise: "That's it."

Huo Qubing said: "It's bad luck! It's actually Yanshan. It's a huge loss."

Mineral salt can't be eaten, so why use it?

Wei Ning said: "It's not a loss." "Someone, go and call Mrs. Dedede."

"Here."

Not long after, Dai De came over, found Wei Ning, and said, "Marquis Wei called me here for something?"

Wei Ning nodded and said, "I heard that many people outside have been arranging for you recently."

Dade smiled and said: "When I was a teenager, I would find someone to fight back with words."

"In middle age I would find someone to reason with."

"It doesn't matter now."

Huo Qubing: "???"

Why don't you two both die!

It makes me look like a clown.

Wei Ning admired: "Dave Zi Gaoyi, how did you find the teacher?"

Dade said dejectedly: "There are very few people who are willing to teach me now. They all make close friends and help people all over the world."

"How many?" Weining asked.

"Five," said gratefully.

Weining nodded and said, "That's enough."

"You call them here and come together to dig the salt mountain."

Dade: "Ah? This is a mountain of salt? It's inedible, so what's the use of digging it out?"

Wei Ning said: "Although it can't be eaten, it can melt the snow."

"There is snow everywhere on Chang'an Avenue. Sprinkle this salt and the snow will melt quickly."

Dade said in confusion: "Seriously?"

"What's the point of this?"

Wei Ning thought for a while and said, "Gewu?"

This is a great meritorious deed. Let Dade lead the Confucian scholars to do it and gain fame.

Yan Zhongyuan is still plotting against Dade, but Dade is silently doing something practical for the people of Chang'an. A silent counterattack is the most deadly!

Huo Qubing was also a little confused and asked, "Can these salts really melt snow?"

No one had ever done anything like this before because it was so stupid.

Nowadays, table salt is so precious that if you drop it on the ground, you have to count the grains one by one. Who would be stupid enough to use table salt to conduct experiments on whether it can melt snow?

It's normal that they don't know.

Wei Ning said: "Give it a try. Anyway, it will only be a bit hard for you and a bit tiring."

Huo Qubing thought to himself that you have so many generals in your family, why don’t you let them do it?

These great scholars will be exhausted again.

Naturally, he didn't know Weining's painstaking efforts. If he had to do it, the merit would not be grateful.

Naturally, he didn't care if Yan Zhongyuan would call him a fool, but he also didn't want Dade's reputation to be tarnished.

Dade was silent for a moment and then said: "Okay, I'll go find my friend."

Weining nodded and said, "I'll lend you some young men for your use...forget it, I won't borrow them anymore. You can spend money to find some laborers."

Dade said shyly: "I am short of money."

Wei Ning said: "Then go and borrow money. Ask the court or the government office to borrow money."

Huo Qubing was shocked and thought, little cousin, you are not a stingy person, why don't you lend him money?

Wei Ning naturally knew what Huo Qubing was thinking. He put his arm around Huo Qubing's shoulders and left, smiling and saying, "I'm doing it for his own good."

"Isn't he short of money?"

"You are so poor, but you still think about all the people in the world. If this matter is known to others, how much of a sensation will it cause?"

"Using money from the government offices to do practical things for the people, do you think if the people knew about it, wouldn't the virtue of being grateful be invincible?"

"The court won't give him more salary?"

"Does the court have the nerve to ask him for the little money he borrowed?"

Huo Qubing thought for a moment and said, "That's not right!"

"The premise is that salt can melt snow. If not, wouldn't everything be in vain?"

Wei Ning looked at him in shock and said, "Do you know the biggest difference between Dade and you?"

Huo Qubing: "What?"

Wei Ning said: "He should think of using some salt to test whether what I said is true before doing these things."

Huo Qubing: "..."

"I feel like you are scolding me, but there is no evidence."

"Okay! Little brother, stop! A brother is like a father, let the father whip you to death!"

(End of this chapter)