Chapter 369: Can You Still Go to This Capital?
"Childe, there is something wrong with your sitting posture, you should hold your chest and abdomen up.
That's right! It's like looking at him levelly, making people feel like you're looking at him, but also making people feel like you're not paying attention to him at all, so as to reflect the mysterious and looming sense of the emperor. ”
In the imperial city of Hue, Ye Kai sat on the side and hissed and inhaled like a toothache, in front of him, the old eunuch Li Dajian was teaching a young man with red lips and white teeth and a graceful demeanor to the royal family.
It's not too accurate to say that a teenager is in this era, seventeen years old is already an adult, if it weren't for Yan Zilu's daughter, who had a serious illness last year, and has not fully recovered until now, Ye Sheng would have been married at the end of last year.
Yes, the young man in front of him is Ye Kai's second brother Ye Sheng, Ye Fulai has a lot of children, and now it has broken through double digits, it seems that he has recently added a younger sister to Ye Kai.
But Ye Kai has no mother, and the other younger brothers and sisters are also very different in age from him, only this second son born to Ye Fulai's nyonya concubine is still a little closer to Ye Kai.
Eunuch Li's face was smiling like an unfolded chrysanthemum, he looked at Ye Kai, who already had the temperament of a male master, and then looked at Ye Sheng, who was five or six points similar to Ye Kai, and was like a fairy among the gods, and nodded with satisfaction.
Of course, what he was most satisfied with was not the appearance and temperament of Brother Ye Kai, which had nothing to do with him as a eunuch.
He was satisfied that Ye Kai had decided not to go to Beijing to pay tribute in person, but to use his second brother Ye Sheng as a stand-in.
In Eunuch Li's opinion, what to go to Beijing to pay tribute is not what an emperor should do at all!
The son of a daughter can't sit down, a dignified emperor, and taking risks in person means immaturity, unless it is in the case of a start-up and no way.
Now that King Ye has lost his way, Eunuch Li is very happy, which shows that King Ye is becoming more and more like an emperor.
But here in Ye Kai, there are indeed safety considerations when he doesn't go to Beijing, but it's even more because Ye Kai found that he doesn't have time to go to Beijing at all!
This era is not the era of high-speed rail planes, from Hanoi to Beijing, the special plane of the future will arrive in a few hours.
But at this time, the time spent on the road from Thang Long to Beijing alone was as long as six or seven months.
Historically, Nguyen Hue's envoys traveled for seven months, because the envoys of the vassal state did not go to Beijing with a few people.
Generally, you also need to carry a large amount of tribute, and you also have to bring some goods to sell to make some money, and when you pass by, the local officials of the Qing Dynasty also have to entertain one or two.
Not to mention that Ye Kai went as the king of Annan, and the journey took a lot of time, this time and again, it would take a year or even more just to go on the road.
If there is a slight delay in the city of Beijing, it will take at least a little more than a year and a half to go from Thang Long to Beijing.
This Annan foundation is start-up, can he go for a year and a half and then come back?
In a year and a half, industrialization is about to take shape, so Ye Kai calculated, he really can't go to Beijing at all, and he can't afford to delay it.
As for the way to take the sea route, which is faster than taking the land route, if it is okay for an ordinary envoy to enter Beijing, who would dare to let him take the sea route if a vassal king like Ye Kai enters Beijing?
In this era, the small wooden boats of more than 100 tons can be destroyed by the slightest wind and waves, and it is almost the season of hurricanes.
If the king of Annam was drowned in the sea, ten heads of the magistrate would not be enough to cut off, so it would definitely not work by sea.
"You say, you say, can Qianlong Lao'er believe that this is me?
Second child, I think you are more like Pan An, Wei Jie, or Ximen Qing, the founder of the world, will you be like this? ”
The more Ye Kai looked at it, the more embarrassed he became, handsome guy or something, the most special annoying.
"Returning to the king, the slave maid feels that although the appearance of the son is not as good as the king, he is also a dragon and phoenix among people.
What is lacking is just a little military spirit, isn't General Chen going to sweep around Hue, let General Chen take his son to polish for a few days, isn't it okay to get a little murderous? ”
"You're an old thing, you're going to be a sycophant!" Ye Kai smiled and kicked the old eunuch lightly.
"I always feel that it is not very reliable, if I let that Qianlong Lao'er see through, I am afraid that the second child will be worried about his life, or choose someone from the army to go over, right?"
"Brother! I'm not afraid, I'm going! Ye Sheng, who was practicing etiquette alone, suddenly turned around and said, his face was a young man's stubbornness.
When Ye Kai originally chose a stand-in, he didn't count this kid at all, but he didn't know where he heard the news, and he took a boat from Beifu to Thang Long to ask to go to Beijing.
The old eunuch shook his head, "The king is treating people with himself, you imagine the Qianlong Emperor of the Northern Dynasty as yourself, in fact, the Qianlong Emperor is not a male lord like the king who started from the end of the world and won the world in a bloody battle."
In fact, he is just an ordinary emperor raised in the deep palace, but he is stronger than many mediocre talents, but he is far from being called a Ming monarch! ”
Hey, what this old eunuch said is quite reasonable, Ye Kai glanced at Eunuch Li in surprise, raised his hand, and motioned for him to continue.
"The king's Li Daitao's stiff move, if it is used on ruthless people like Han Shizong and Tang Taizong who kill their brothers and sons, I am afraid that as soon as the envoys arrive, the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty will come to crusade.
But the current Qianlong Emperor of the Northern Dynasty never has such courage, if it was his grandfather Emperor Kangxi, he might be angry and raise troops, but Qianlong would not. ”
Ye Kaileng paused for a moment, and then remembered that the Han Shizong in the mouth of this old eunuch should be Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Moreover, Ye Kaimo rubbed his chin, who are the people around him? An old eunuch has also begun to evaluate the emperors of the past dynasties?
As if he hadn't seen Ye Kai's eyes, Eunuch Li continued to speak unhurriedly, with a special rhythm.
"Why did the Qianlong Emperor of the Northern Dynasty insist that the king go north? First, I am afraid that I will be deceived by the people below, and get a local king to go to Beijing City to pretend to be the king of Annan and fool him as a fool.
The second is that although this Qianlong Emperor can be regarded as an emperor at most, he wants to be an emperor through the ages?
If you want to talk about Wenzhi, you can barely count it if you are thick-skinned, but this martial art, then it is not something that can be done with a thick skin, you must have real merits.
And in these years, the north and the south have fought in the north, and there is no real merit in opening up the territory and expanding the territory at all, this Qianlong is already seventy and nine, how many springs and autumns can he live? Is there a hurry?
The king's enclosed invitation at this time is in his arms, if he can pull the thousand-year-old toe out of the Central Plains back to the Middle Earth territory, will this martial art be there soon? That's why he eagerly asked the king to enter Beijing in person. ”
Well! Ye Kai nodded, the analysis is reasonable, but in this way, if you use a stand-in, will the problem be bigger soon?
In the old slave's view, the Qianlong Emperor of the Northern Dynasty was eager for the king to go north and attach to Annan, which was far more urgent than the king's desire to absorb immigrants and seek benefits.
Gongzi is the younger brother of the king, and his appearance is like a celestial, as long as others don't say it, who dares to say that he is not the king of Annam?
Even if Qianlong suspected in his heart that Gongzi might be a stand-in, would he say it clearly? Wouldn't it be a slap in the face if he said it, where did his martial arts of opening up the territory come from?
And the matter has been broken, and if you lose such a big face, you will inevitably have to raise troops to fight, with the courage of the Great King's Revival Army, the Northern Dynasty is the army of the country, and it will not be pacified at all in five or eight years!
Will Qianlong send troops from all over the country to come because of this matter, is it boring to find himself?
Among the civil and military generals of the Northern Dynasty, who is willing to lead troops to Annam to fight a big battle that is likely to give away their heads?
The old slave guessed that even if all the civil and military generals of the Northern Dynasty knew that it was fake, they would not try to break it, and they would probably tacitly do it!
And it is precisely because it is Gongzi who enters Beijing that he will be as stable as Mount Tai, because there are kings and soldiers in the south, no one dares to debunk it, and no one dares to be unfavorable to Gongzi!
If it was really the king himself who entered Beijing and went here for more than a year, it would be really hard to say!
Moreover, did the king ever think that the Qianlong Emperor of the Northern Dynasty was already seventy and nine this year, and the king would have to arrive in Beijing in February and March next year, and only half a year was left before Qianlong's 80th birthday.
You said that even if the emperor of the Northern Dynasty had no bad intentions, the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Dynasty were very relieved that the king ruled Tiannan, but could they let you go?
Don't let you celebrate the 80th birthday of the Holy Monarch before leaving?
Even if everything goes well, when the king returns to Thang Long after his birthday, it will be almost three years later, and what will Thang Long look like at that time, the king will really not worry at all?
Since ancient times, the king of the vassal kingdom paid tribute in person, and he was not ready to go back, for example, in the sixth year of Yongle in the former Ming Dynasty, the mud king Mana Jaka, personally led the envoys to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, that is, he was ready to be buried in the Heavenly Empire and did not return to his hometown!
And he is not voluntary, without the water master of the Three Treasure Eunuchs, he would be willing to go through this experience? ”