Chapter 65: Heaven Bless Our Great Yan

The birth of Lin Yuan made Emperor Liu Shi seem like a completely different person.

He even became much more enthusiastic about attending court.

After all, before the birth of Lin Yuan,

Emperor Liu Shi once doubted whether he could ever father a son.

In the future, no matter how unwilling he was, the throne of the emperor would eventually fall into the hands of someone else.

Although this person would definitely be adopted under his name, and would also be his descendant, serving and supporting him like a biological father,

but not being his own biological son, it always felt a bit strange.

As a result, Liu Shi lacked any motivation to handle state affairs.

What was the use of working so hard now?

In the future, wouldn't this realm still end up in someone else's hands?

But now,

everything has changed.

He, Liu Shi, has fathered a son.

He has fathered a son capable of inheriting everything he owns.

Furthermore, this son's physique and innate bones were so powerful that even when Liu Shi inspected him afterward, he found it unimaginable.

With such innate bones and physique, he could probably tear tigers and leopards apart barehanded by the age of two or three.

Of course,

although Liu Shi was overjoyed by this, he also understood that relying solely on martial might was useless when it came to being a good emperor.

More importantly, political management and methods were also required.

The current world was divided into the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains.

And Great Yan was merely a Dynasty located in the southern part of the Central Plains,

belonging to one of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms.

It could not be considered the weakest, but it had nothing to do with being the strongest either.

Especially in this generation, the failure to cultivate a Divine Weapon Envoy—the most important foundation of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains—

made Liu Shi even more overwhelmed and frantic.

Without a Divine Weapon Envoy holding down the fort, Great Yan would always stand a head shorter when facing other countries.

Of course, given the foundation of Great Yan,

even without a Soldier Envoy in the short term, no major problems would arise.

In the plan of Emperor Liu Shi,

during his generation, he would do his utmost to cultivate a Soldier Envoy for Great Yan.

By the time the imperial throne was passed into the hands of Lin Yuan, the Great Yan Dynasty would be a nation stable both internally and externally.

By then, Lin Yuan would be able to fully display all his political ambitions.

Whether it was reform,

or institutional changes,

everything would be decided by Lin Yuan.

But all of this had the prerequisite that Lin Yuan must know how to be an emperor.

If he understood nothing and acted purely based on personal preference, wouldn't he, Liu Shi, be handing Great Yan over to a foolish ruler?

Therefore,

as early as when Lin Yuan had just turned five,

he was established as the Crown Prince.

He began to be nurtured in the status of the heir apparent.

Lin Yuan did not disappoint the expectations of Liu Shi either; by three or four years old, he had already started learning to read and recognize words.

By the age of six, he had argued the Grand Tutor carefully selected for him by Emperor Liu Shi into complete speechlessness.

You must know that Lin Yuan's Grand Tutor was immensely learned, not only being a top scholar by background, but his backing Family was also a famous literary influential Family in the Great Yan Dynasty.

Such a person, no matter in which Dynasty, would be a figure capable of laying the foundation for literary fortune and leaving his name in history.

As a result, he was left completely dumbfounded by a five-year-old toddler like Lin Yuan, unable to react for a long time.

If this were to spread, it would definitely shock the group of scholars outside who revered the Grand Tutor as their master.

Inside Chengtian Hall,

the Grand Tutor poured out his grievances to Emperor Liu Shi with a face full of helplessness.

"Your Majesty, this subject truly has no way to teach him anymore," the Grand Tutor looked at Emperor Liu Shi sitting upright on the dragon throne, and could not help saying.

"What happened? Did Yuan'er make you, Grand Tutor, generate Life Qi again?"

Emperor Liu Shi immediately asked with concern.

In order to invite the Grand Tutor to teach Lin Yuan, Liu Shi had truly exerted a tremendous amount of effort.

After all, for literati, threatening them with their lives was certainly of no use.

After all, for most literati,

they intensely pursued being granted death by the emperor, because that way, at least they could leave their name in history.

And the emperor would probably have to carry some infamy.

Coupled with the fact that standing behind the Grand Tutor was more than half of the scholars of the Great Yan Dynasty,

moving him would affect the whole body.

Since the hard approach didn't work, they could only resort to the soft approach.

Through various promises and empty pipe dreams made by Emperor Liu Shi, the Grand Tutor finally agreed to teach Lin Yuan.

Only, Emperor Liu Shi never expected that not even a year had passed, and the Grand Tutor was already planning to quit?

"If it were just making this subject generate Life Qi, then it wouldn't be anything major."

The Grand Tutor sighed softly; having lived for decades, what kind of students had he not encountered?

His mindset was already incomparably peaceful, and even if he encountered the most unruly students, he had the confidence to correct them.

But Lin Yuan happened to possess not a shred of unruliness; not only was he not unruly, but he could also be described as brilliantly talented.

All the concepts taught by the Grand Tutor, when they reached Lin Yuan, would not produce a single shred of doubt whatsoever.

This actually left the Grand Tutor, who had initially waited for Lin Yuan to raise his own questions, stunned for a long time.

"I only said it once and you understood?"

"Then what do you need me for?"

At the beginning, the Grand Tutor even thought Lin Yuan was pretending to understand when he didn't.

Thus, he carefully prepared several questions with the sole purpose of exposing Lin Yuan.

But what the Grand Tutor did not anticipate was that Lin Yuan not only explained his questions back to him,

but also drew inferences from one instance, detailing many aspects that even he had never thought of.

And for the Grand Tutor, the nightmare had just begun.

In the subsequent tutoring sessions, the Grand Tutor completely turned into a tool person.

He only needed to be responsible for reading out the contents within those classics; as for the specific understanding, there was no need for him to speak at all.

Lin Yuan knew what it meant after just listening to it once.

Besides that, Lin Yuan would sometimes perceive the Grand Tutor's doubts and re-interpret the more obscure contents inside.

Upon hearing these interpretations, the Grand Tutor felt even more enlightened, feeling as though the books he had read over the past decades were read in vain.

Thus, an extremely bizarre scene appeared.

In front of the desk, the elderly Grand Tutor instead looked like a student, spending most of his time listening respectfully.

While Lin Yuan, who was only a few years old, was there mastering ancient and modern knowledge and talking eloquently.

The most crucial part was that the Grand Tutor actually felt what Lin Yuan said made a lot of sense.

Countless scriptures of sages from past to present unexpectedly displayed numerous unknown facets in Lin Yuan's mouth.

Although the Grand Tutor was very obsessed with this feeling, he immediately realized that things could not go on like this.

If he continued to stay with Lin Yuan, he was afraid he would not be able to help taking the other party as his master.

Even if he restrained this thought, what would other passing palace maids and eunuchs think?

Was he teaching Lin Yuan, or was Lin Yuan teaching him?

It was precisely because of this that the Grand Tutor came early in the morning to resign to Emperor Liu Shi.

He truly had no face to continue any longer.

"Then what do you mean, Grand Tutor?"

Emperor Liu Shi sat upright on the dragon throne and carefully looked over the Grand Tutor.

At first, he thought the Grand Tutor had come here to complain, or wanted to raise his stakes a bit.

But after observing for a long time now, he found that the bitterness and helplessness on the Grand Tutor's face were not feigned, but came from the bottom of his heart.

This made Emperor Liu Shi very curious: what on earth did that son of his do to cause such a literary giant like the Grand Tutor to wear this kind of expression?

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince's grasp of the situation and his methods of handling major events are far above this old subject."

"What qualifications do ordinary mortals like us have to teach him?"

The Grand Tutor said bitterly.

"Far above you?"

Emperor Liu Shi blinked his eyes.

To be praised so highly by a literary giant like the Grand Tutor—replaced by anyone else, they would probably be overjoyed.

But for Liu Shi,

talking about his son who had just turned six?

Could you be a bit more reliable when praising someone?

Emperor Liu Shi suddenly felt whether this Grand Tutor was toying with him.

"If the Grand Tutor wants to propose other conditions, just state them outright, why…"

Emperor Liu Shi furrowed his brows slightly and said with some dissatisfaction.

Hearing these words, the Grand Tutor smiled with difficulty.

If he hadn't experienced it firsthand, he himself would have thought he was taking advantage of the opportunity to raise conditions.

But it really wasn't.

The Grand Tutor let out a light sigh.

Then he said solemnly:

"With my virtue, I am no longer worthy to teach the Crown Prince."

In order to make Emperor Liu Shi believe what he said, the Grand Tutor had already begun to abandon his pride, directly admitting that he was inferior to Lin Yuan.

"These words spoken by the Grand Tutor…"

Emperor Liu Shi was slightly startled in his heart.

You must know that among scholars, what they valued most was their reputation, fighting not for a single lifetime but for generations, especially literary giants like the Grand Tutor.

Even if he were even more unwilling to teach Lin Yuan, it was impossible for him to say that he was inferior to Lin Yuan.

After all, Lin Yuan at present was merely a six-year-old naughty child.

Admitting inferiority to such a naughty child was a huge blow to the reputation of any literatus.

Especially to a literary titan like the Grand Tutor.

Even if he were to die, he would not admit it.

In literature there is no first, in martial arts there is no second.

This wasn't a question of who was stronger or weaker.

"What does the Grand Tutor mean?"

Emperor Liu Shi was silent for a moment, and finally asked.

"Our Great Yan Dynasty…"

Speaking up to this point, the Grand Tutor paused for a moment, and inexplicably sighed with emotion: "will usher in a holy monarch."

"A holy monarch?"

Emperor Liu Shi found it somewhat hard to believe.

Since ancient times, the highest evaluation for an emperor was a holy monarch.

Emperor Liu Shi did not expect the Grand Tutor's evaluation of Lin Yuan to be so high; before even becoming emperor, he concluded that he would be a holy monarch of a generation.

"Your Majesty, this old subject will take his leave first."

Seeing Emperor Liu Shi not speaking, the Grand Tutor bowed and tendered his resignation.

Liu Shi did not stop him, but silently watched the departing back of the Grand Tutor.

Once the Grand Tutor completely walked out of Chengtian Hall, Emperor Liu Shi waved his hand, signaling the palace maids and eunuchs beside him to withdraw.

As for himself, he sat alone inside Chengtian Hall, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long while, a burst of unbridled loud laughter resounded from within Chengtian Hall.

"Hahaha hahaha?!"

"The son of I, Liu Shi, will be a holy monarch?!!"

"Hahahaha hahahaha!!!"

"Blessing of the ancestors! Blessing of the ancestors!!"

"I, Liu Shi, will also have a holy monarch son?!!"

"Heaven bless our Great Yan! Heaven bless our Great Yan!!!"

"Hahahaha hahahaha hahaha hahaha!!!"

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