Chapter 257: [Emperor’s Story 9] Imperial Preceptor Jiang

Chapter 257: [Emperor’s Story 9] Imperial Preceptor Jiang

I heard that this Imperial Preceptor Jiang was a formidable person who even made the emperor lose face. Back then, when he claimed that he was going to retire, he really did retire, no matter how much the emperor urged him to stay. Hes resigned from his post of 20 years

Imperial Preceptor Jiang was the top graduate of the imperial examinations back then. He eventually became an imperial secretary at a very young age and worked as the imperial preceptor for the emperor, who was a crown prince at that time. I heard he wasnt only a fine scholar and well versed in military strategies, but he also has some knowledge in the fields of art and medicine.

Thats right. On his return to the capital, he presented a painting of the mountains and rivers, making the emperors face light up in joy. It was said that Imperial Preceptor Jiang spent over 10 years travelling the gigantus mountains and long rivers to draw it!

Do you know why Imperial Preceptor Jiang resigned from his post back then?

I know, I know. I heard that the year before Imperial Preceptor Jiang took the examinations, he already had a wife and a daughter back home. When he became the imperial secretary later on, gaining stability and power in the imperial court, he was planning on taking his wife and daughter into the city to start living comfortably. However, he didnt expect that the rapid floods would start happening everywhere in the Central Plains. The people he sent out as well as the corpses of his wife and daughter were nowhere to be found. Imperial Preceptor Jiang couldnt merely accept this and resigned his post to go personally look for himself, his search continuing on for 20 years

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Sigh, the gods sure are horrible However, the Imperial Preceptor was too obsessed. As someone who possessed fame and power, its not as if he cant get another wife and child

Do you think hes just like you unable to walk after seeing a beautiful palace maid!

Hey! If you say any more! Be careful, or Ill rip your mouth off!

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Chu Jiao did not have a single clue as to what had just happened inside the study, but under the reminder of the system, she discovered two young girls secretly hiding from not too far away.

Among them, one was Princess Jing Ya, who she often came across in Qiu Xi Palace, while the other was an unfamiliar girl, who had a delicate appearance and satiny skin. With just one glance, she could tell that she was a noble who had been raised with the utmost care.

It was this worlds female lead, Yun Wan.

Chu Jiao frowned. What did these two people come to the study for?

It wasnt that she thought too much about it, but every time the female lead appeared, something unexpected would happen, and she would often suffer even the slightest consequences.

T/N: Just wanted to share a little something. Huainanzi is a classical Chinese piece of text. Its different from modern Chinese because its like a riddle game where each character represents a word, and so a short little classical Chinese sentence, translated, becomes very very long. The translation process usually goes from Classical Chinese -> Modern Chinese -> English. Its like decoding some puzzle. I used to resent studying classical Chinese when I was in high school cuz it was very difficult but the more you consume classical Chinese, the more you gain an appreciation for it and how beautiful it is.

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For eg. the raw of Shi Qis reply is

Whereas the translated version is

The way in which what fashions and transforms us takes hold of things can be compared with the way in which the potter molds his clay. The earth that he has taken hold of and made into bowls and pots is no different from the earth before it had been taken from the ground. The earth that remains after he has made the vessels and then smashed them to pieces and thoroughly soaked them with water so that they return to their cause is no different from the earth that had been in the bowls and pots that had existed earlier. Now the people who live along the banks of a river draw water from it to irrigate their gardens, but the water in the river does not resent it. The families who live near filthy ponds break through their banks and drain them into the river, but the water from these ponds does not rejoice in this.

Hope you were able to appreciate this piece of literature!!

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