Chapter 498: Vicissitudes of Life III

Although Ji Qinglu tried her best to protect Zhu Qiuxi, she didn't like her very much, so she said: "If you want to teach her by hand, I don't have any opinion, only one point, don't let her get close to His Royal Highness King Yue." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

She has always felt that Zhu Qiuxi could not leak a drop of water when she was young, and all the benefits were taken. Judging from his conduct in the world, he is not at all like a high-spirited young man, but like an old and sophisticated person, perfect to the point of almost falsehood. Such a person must be very scheming, and he is also extremely selfish and indifferent in his bones.

Zhu Qiuxi has a ruthlessness, which can always force her to go up, but people are inert, and the ladder up is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

If you are a civil official, you are trembling, and you dare not make the slightest mistake, and you may be found fault at any time. Even so, if you put in the effort, you may not be able to rise;

If you are a military general, you must practice martial arts hard, put on armor and go into battle, fight with the enemy, and you may die at any time;

If you win the heart of His Royal Highness King Yue, give him a side concubine and try to give birth to several sons. The next day, if His Royal Highness King Yue ascended the throne, the mother of the world may not be impossible. You must know that His Royal Highness King Yue is in his early twenties and does not have any concubines yet. Whether it is to be his first woman or the mother of his first child, there are countless benefits.

Ji Qinglu didn't have to think about it to know that Zhu Qiuxi would definitely choose the third one, because this is a road that can be seen and touched, and it looks the simplest.

This is where the contradiction in the human heart lies.

Ji Qinglu and Song Shuyu felt that no matter how good Xie Yu was to Zhu Qiuxi, people died like lights going out, and it was too much for the Xie family to force Zhu Qiuxi to be martyred. Zhu Qiuxi is young, and if he remarries someone else, he can still live a good life. Even if you don't get married, you can work hard to live this life, and if your husband dies, your life will be ruined. On the other hand, he felt that if Zhu Qiuxi really wanted to climb up to His Royal Highness King Yue, it would be a pity to die.

Thinking of this, Ji Qinglu laughed at herself and didn't say anything more.

In this world, there is no natural distinction between high and low, and how can there be any peace and restlessness? People live for a lifetime, and of course they want to go up. Besides, the rules are made by people, if Your Majesty didn't value her so much, she would have been a green Buddha for a lifetime, where would she have today's powerful position?

Not only her, but also Song Shuyu, but the most typical is not them, but Yan Linge. Who would have thought that a pianist in the past could affect the hearts of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military forces today?

Why did Qin Wan summon Song Shuyu to Beijing, Ji Qinglu naturally knew in his heart - Yan Linge did not have a good time when he was young, and later damaged his heart, although he has been carefully recuperated over the years, he has lost his foundation, how can he easily repair it?

It is also a shame that His Majesty is ruthless, a few years ago, Yan Linge had several serious illnesses in a row, and she did not summon His Royal Highness King Yue back. This also made the magnates of Chang'an accustomed to the days when Yan Linge was about to get sick every three or five days, and he had to sigh behind his back.

It's just that......

This time, I'm afraid it's going to be real.

If not, His Majesty would not have taken the opportunity of Song Shuyu to return to Beijing to report on his work, and ordered His Royal Highness King Yue to secretly enter Beijing.

Song Shuyu had such a major mission, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and His Royal Highness the King of Yue was also like an arrow, and the group arrived in Chang'an seven days earlier than the original time.

I don't know, since His Royal Highness King Yue has returned, will he go back?

If you don't go back......

The former Duke of Xing Guo, and now the King of Liangjun are in the northwest; The much-talked-about princess of Wannian is also the Yan King of Great Xia in the Northeast. If His Royal Highness King Yue stays in Chang'an, these two ...... What should be the idea?

These thoughts of turning a thousand times not only lingered in the hearts of those who could be counted with one hand, but also made the Yue King Qin Zhao's mood very heavy.

is completely different from what others think, although Qin Zhao does not want to leave his seriously ill father and lonely mother, he does not like Chang'an, which is prosperous and splendid everywhere, singing and dancing.

Qin Zhao grew up in the palace until he was thirteen years old, and he was carried out of the palace by Qin Wan and kicked to Lingnan. Although there are people from Lijingmen accompanying them to protect them, Chang'an and Yuedi are not only thousands of times different?

In the imperial palace, Qin Zhao was the pampered and favored king of Linchuan County; When he arrived in Lingnan, he was just a prodigal ranger who admired the army. And the status of this kind of person has always been at the bottom of the society, despised by others, and they are considered to be powerful eagle dogs, bullying the people all day long, not doing their jobs, and destroying social stability.

The sad grievances along the way, needless to mention. can't reveal his identity, he can only rely on himself, and of course he will not suffer less. But he gradually got used to this kind of day, and felt that his horizons were much broader.

If he hadn't offended people, others would not have been able to kill him, so they simply bought off the entire team he led and led him into the deep mountains and forests, wanting to take the opportunity to kill him. When Annan Daduhu, Guangzhou Assassin Shi and others saw that he was lost, they were about to go crazy, and mobilized the main army to search the mountains overnight, and his identity would not be exposed. Of course, people can't survive either.

At the moment when he was betrayed and was on the verge of death, Qin Zhao was full of puzzlement.

He doesn't understand that he is not good to his subordinates? He never withheld the military salary of these people, shared weal and woe with them on weekdays, and rewarded his subordinates generously when he had spare money. It is not an exaggeration to say that a chief like him is unique, why do these people still harm him?

After the resentment, he gradually understood.

In the eyes of everyone, he is just a guy who has no backing, and has a bit of luck, and has been appreciated by big people. Even if you become a general, it doesn't matter. Even if he died, the big man would not investigate deeply, would not offend the local big clan for him, and no one would avenge him. And his enemies are different, they are deeply rooted and powerful in the local area, and they have taken control of his family members.

No matter how guilty his subordinates are, they can only betray him for the lives of the whole family. Afterwards, I will secretly pay tribute, so that my conscience will be a little better.

Of course, these so-called big families are as vulnerable as chickens and dogs in front of the imperial power. The family that dared to do something to him had already been arrested and taken out of prison as early as the moment he lost it. When the emperor's dictation arrived, not only the family, but also all the in-laws of the family, as well as the huge connections they had accumulated over generations, were all wiped out, as if they had never existed.

Qin Zhao witnessed this scene with his own eyes, only to find out that those so-called "troubles" were not troubles in front of the imperial power. As long as you want to solve it, everything is easy, but why was it so difficult before?

Because of the interests.

If it weren't for the fact that he provoked the prince, it was a matter of life and death, no one would dare to get involved in this disaster of raiding the family and destroying the clan, and they would have cleared up the relationship. Lingnan officials protect each other, and the situation of collusion between officials and families and heroes is not so easy to break.

If this is the case in Lingnan, how can other places be exceptional?

Only then did Qin Zhao understand why His Majesty wanted him to come to Lingnan in such a humble capacity, and he couldn't bear to see him suffer so much.

When he was in Chang'an and Daming Palace, he was full of flattery. No one dares to be disrespectful to him, what he sees and learns on weekdays, the world sings and dances, and the four seas sing praises of merit.

Only when he walked out of Chang'an, changed his identity, took root in a place, and started from scratch, he could see many things clearly.

Those who sing the "words of the sage" and are sanctimonious Confucians, all of them are local clans, and they don't count the exploitation of the people on weekdays. Once there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, they jump up and down in the court, asking the Son of Heaven to "sin himself", and even criticize the Son of Heaven Si Chen, and on the other hand, they make a fortune and buy good land and slaves at extremely low prices. He refused to pay even the taxes of his slaves and maids, and hid them and made them do the hardest and most tiring work, and within a few years they died.

Of course, Qin Zhao was also taught by Confucianism and grew up listening to the words of the sage. His qualifications are not as good as those of his brothers and sisters, he does not draw inferences like them, and even has doubts about the classics. Qin Zhao is quite a bit of a teacher, he believes whatever the teacher says, and the books are all good, so Qin Wan has to throw him out early to prevent him from being taught crookedly.

Life is the best teacher, Qin Zhao didn't understand why Qin Wan repeatedly went on a killing spree, but now he really understands Qin Wan's good intentions.

Deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone is of course beneficial to the rule, but it is not good for the whole society.

Qilu Confucianism is the most prosperous, what kind of virtue are those big families, and how difficult the people are, Qin Zhao has already witnessed it with his own eyes, but isn't the entire academic community still full of praise? That's a descendant of the Confucian sage, how can he not be a sage? If the people can't live, it's because their lives are not good. Why do you want to make trouble, it must be all the people, or the emperor is not good, what does it have to do with us noble scholars?

It is no wonder that Xu Ran, the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, must restore the atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought, although Xu Ran died early, his efforts are useful. Although Baijia has been attacked, there is no voice to speak in the mainstream academic circles, but in the borderlands, they still stubbornly survived.

The whole world cannot be a hall of words of a certain family. If this is the case, the world will become the world of this school, and the emperor will be nothing more than a statue on a shrine.

Fortunately, all this is slowly getting better.

The martial arts are thriving, the soldiers are rising again, and the Legalists and Mohists are also faintly showing signs of resurgence.

Whether it is the influence of Wufu on Confucianism or the revival of a hundred schools, it is very unfavorable to Confucianism. Therefore, they jumped up and down, scolding Qin Wan more and more ruthlessly, and Qin Wan cleaned more and more people every time.

Qin Zhao originally didn't understand this kind of killing behavior, but now, he also agreed with his mother's point of view.

Among the Confucian scholars, although there are one or two outstanding people who are dedicated to the country and the people, more of them are officials who are dedicated to being officials and do not care about the life and death of the people.

If such a person takes office, he will harm one party; Being in the center will delay the social welfare of the family and the country.

Confucianism misled the country, and this is true.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Xu Ran once had the behavior of reviving a hundred schools, although later the rise of the family, the wind of a hundred schools was overshadowed by Buddhism, Taoism, and Xuan, but in the end left a fire. Otherwise, in a few hundred or thousands of years, even if you want to pull the "Yan Shenggong" off the altar, it will be impossible.

Qin Zhao didn't want to stay in Chang'an, listening to others sing praises to him, and wasting his little time on intrigue.

He knew that staying in Chang'an was like sitting in the clouds, and he couldn't see what was going on below. If you use scheming means, you can naturally do it, but that means the courtiers are constantly attacking. Even so, on a certain level, the interests of these scholars were aligned.

So, he didn't want to.