Chapter 12: Hokusai's Wishes

Two bowls of soy milk, three steamed buns, and five fried dough sticks. When he left, he asked for a big pancake, which was the amount of Wang Xiao's breakfast.

As a result of the improvement of physical fitness, the demand for energy intake is also rising.

Quality is conserved, and if there is consumption, there will naturally be demand.

After going back, Wang Xiao booked a train ticket, packed his luggage and went straight to the train station.

The mission world is actually very dangerous, and Wang Xiao does not have the strength to protect himself at this time. Maybe at some point you will encounter danger and not be able to come back.

Taking advantage of the fact that the new mission world has not opened, Wang Xiao wants to go home and spend more time with his parents.

Wang Xiao's parents were naturally very happy that he could come back, and they also made a table of good dishes for him to eat.

The only people in the world who can really be good to you are your parents. That will never change.

Wang Xiao, who returned to his hometown, continued to stay at home to browse film and television dramas, and practiced swords and martial arts by the way.

On this day, Wang Xiao was busy eating chicken, and his mother pushed the door in, gave him a WeChat account with a smile, and asked him to have a good chat with others.

There is no doubt that Wang Xiao has encountered a traditional routine.

Wang Xiao, who was not interested in this, added WeChat and directly posted a message: "No car, no house, no money, no job, four no personnel, if you want to see it, then come out for dinner." ”

After waiting for a long time and not responding, Wang Xiao sent a question mark suspiciously. but saw that he had been blocked.

"Hehe~~~"

Wang Xiao smiled and turned the page of this matter directly, will I tell you something systematic?

Putting aside this little episode, Wang Xiao was busy eating chicken with all his attention.

A few days later, the sound of the system sounded again.

"Hokusai of the world of embroidered spring knives made a wish to the heavens, praying that the heavens would bless the continuation of the Ming Dynasty. Do you accept this wish? ”

"Embroidered spring knife?"

Wang Xiao has seen two embroidered spring knives, and to be honest, they are not bad under the backdrop of many bad movies of the same type.

As for Hokusai, it's a beautiful big honey.

As for why Da Mi made this wish, it was because the person she liked was King Shin, who was about to become emperor. This is also an infatuated woman.

It's just that Hokusai's wish is too general, what is called the continuation of the country. Wang Xiao said he couldn't understand it.

The system made a rare explanation for him, as long as it can relieve the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, the task will be completed.

As soon as he said this, Wang Xiao understood.

The internal troubles must be the rogues, and the external troubles are the Tartars in the north.

Wang Xiao carefully read all the two embroidered spring knives, and then consulted a lot of information about the end of the Ming Dynasty. Even the recipe for gunpowder, flintlock pistol, earth-made steel, glass making and many other materials were memorized by rote.

However, even if Wang Xiao has 20 points of understanding and memory, so much information is still watching, he is dizzy, as if he has returned to his school days.

When everything was ready, Wang Xiao accepted the wish.

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"King Shin Chitose, are you going to the palace to visit Your Majesty now?"

Wang Xiao came back to his senses, and a slightly sharp voice came from beside him.

"King Shin?"

Wang Xiao looked down at the four-clawed python dragon robe on his body, but he didn't expect that the identity of this arrangement was actually King Xin.

"It's fine." Wang Xiao smiled, in this way, many things will become simpler.

"Your Highness will not be a king for a long time, the old slave congratulates Your Highness."

The eunuch who spoke next to him was Wang Chengen, the old man in the palace of King Xin, and perhaps the most loyal eunuch. Because seventeen years later, when Emperor Chongzhen was martyred in Coal Mountain, only this old eunuch was accompanied by him to martyr the country.

Wang Xiao waved his hand, "There is no need to mention this matter again, let Lu Wenzhao come over." ”

To tell the truth, the plot in the world of embroidered spring knives does not stand up to scrutiny at all.

The Ming Dynasty was very strict in the monitoring of the princes of the feudal domains, and Dongchang and Jinyiwei buried hidden lines in various palaces.

From Jingnan's reduction of the feudal domain to King Ning's rebellion, the care of the clan has always been strengthened, not reduced.

Under this strict management system, it was impossible for Shin to have the opportunity to build a force that could reach into the palace.

It's just that it's all here now, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse has already fallen into the water, and even the Linglu drink offered by Huo Weihua has been drunk for several months, and now he is lying in bed and can't afford to be sick. There's no point in anything else.

It didn't take much effort for Lu Wenzhao to go inside to meet him.

This is another thing worth complaining about.

The palace is in the capital, and it is theoretically the most tightly supervised palace in the world. But he was able to meet with the thousands of households of the Son of Heaven and the army in such a grand manner, and those who adhered to the official history would definitely laugh at the screenwriter for being uneducated.

Looking at the squad leader Shi with two mustaches in front of him, Wang Xiao wanted to laugh a little.

"Have you taken care of everything you did?"

Lu Wenzhao replied without raising his head, "There is still a little trouble, and Weichen will solve it soon." ”

Wang Xiao picked up the teacup, "You go and find Shen Lian and Hokusai, and wait for Gu to come back from the palace to see them." ”

Lu Wenzhao looked up in surprise, he didn't understand why King Xin gave up extinguishing his mouth.

Wang Xiao didn't explain to him, but changed the subject, "Lone knows what you hate in your heart, after the matter is completed, will you transfer to the military to take revenge, or stay in charge of the Jinyi Guard?" ”

Lu Wenzhao was a military officer eight years ago and participated in the Battle of Salhu. Witnessing the blind command of the waste civil officials and the tragic casualties caused by various malpractices, he was determined to reshape the Ming Dynasty and avenge the many Ming soldiers who died tragically in Salhu.

The reason why he followed Wang Xiao without hesitation, and even did not hesitate to commit the crime of extermination, was because Wang Xiao promised to eliminate the evils and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty.

There is no doubt that Lu Wenzhao is a loyal minister. Wang Xiao did not kill him because he had participated in the crime of killing the king.

As for Luo Yangxing, who was originally appointed as the commander of the Jinyi Guard in history. When Li Zicheng came, he surrendered to Li Zicheng, and when Dolgon came, he surrendered to Dolgon. Wang Xiao, such a three-surnamed domestic slave, didn't plan to give him a chance at all.

"Weichen doesn't ask for anything, everything is only obeyed by His Highness's orders."

Regarding this kind of uneventful response, Wang Xiao did not say anything more. After nodding, he got up, and under Wang Chengen's service, he entered the palace to visit the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who was already dying.

All the way to the palace, the guards and eunuchs all looked at Wang Xiao with warm eyes.

Everyone knows that if there is no heir today, if today's son is seriously ill, if there is no accident, it will be the king of faith who will inherit the throne.

At this time, everyone was frantically trying to get close to Wang Xiao, at least to make a good impression in front of him.

Before coming to the palace of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, a large group of eunuchs wearing brocade robes appeared in front of Wang Xiao.

The person at the head had a gloomy face, and his bearing was extraordinary.

Seeing Wang Xiao, this person wiped his face and replaced it with a flattering smile, and quickly stepped forward to salute.

"Old slave Wei Zhongxian, meet King Xin's Chitose."

This is the famous but very famous Wei Zhongxian, Father-in-law Wei.

Wei Zhongxian was a smart man, and he had never posed in front of King Xin. Before, it was because the Emperor of the Apocalypse valued King Xin, but now it is because King Xin is very likely to inherit the throne.

The Wei Zhongxian recorded in various books are all bad blanks, the kind that does all kinds of evil. It's just that Wang Xiao will not be so superficial in his determination that it is both black and white.

There is no doubt that Wei Zhongxian is a villain. But he was a wicked man who was useful to the imperial power.

There are many reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty. For example, the climate change during the Xiaoice River is impermanent, the clan is rampant, the people everywhere are not happy, and there are internal worries and external troubles.

But the real point is that the Ming Dynasty's preferential treatment of scholars led to serious land annexation.

When landless peasants encounter natural and man-made disasters, they either starve to death or join the army of displaced people to destroy everything.

This is also the reason why the army of displaced people can't kill it all, and even fight more and more, and finally crush the Ming Dynasty.

As for the external problems in the north, as long as there is no internal problem in the Ming Dynasty, it is just a disease of ringworm and scabies.

If you become a scholar, you can get tax-free land, and you can also protect more people from paying taxes. The direct consequence is that the imperial court cannot collect taxes.

Without money, nothing can be done.

And once the imperial court proposed to levy a commercial tax, those scholars who had done business in Nanyang would attack it in groups, hysterically shouting not to compete with the people for profit. The essence of this is nothing more than touching their interests.

The only person who could break this boundary in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was Wei Zhongxian.

"Grandpa Wei has worked hard."

Wang Xiao waved his hand and asked him to get up, "Wait for Gu to visit Your Majesty first." ”

Wei Zhongxian bowed to the end, retreated to the side, and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes." ”

Watching Wang Xiao's back disappear into the main hall, Wei Zhongxian's gaze became complicated.

King Shin's prestige among the court and the opposition was very high. It was rumored that King Shin would ban Jinyiwei and Dongchang after he ascended the throne, and the turbans cheered and chanted that King Shin was the king of the daimyo Zhongxing.

He didn't want to sit still, and the plan in his mind had already begun to be put into action.

Emperor of the Apocalypse, an emperor who is often overlooked in history books.

His evaluation has never been high, and when he mentions it, he almost always says that he is the carpenter emperor. Because the Emperor of the Apocalypse likes to do woodworking crafts.

In Wang Xiao's opinion, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is not as unbearable as recorded in the history books.

The Ming Dynasty after Wanli was actually terminally ill.

The literati and doctors were acting as officials of the imperial court, while lying on the imperial court and sucking blood. The Xiaoice River brought natural disasters, and land annexation brought man-made disasters.

There were the Jurchens in the north, the Mongols in the west, the Lu'an Rebellion in the south, and the flying Dutch in the east.

The so-called internal and external troubles are nothing more than that.

In such a difficult situation, the Emperor of the Apocalypse still encouraged and supported as much as possible to keep the Ming Dynasty, a leaky broken ship, from sinking.

In particular, he chose Wei Zhongxian to come forward as a villain to deal with those big turbans, and he hid in the palace and used his reputation as a carpenter to settle behind the scenes, which is very worth learning.

There are so many younger brothers under him, and the dirty work is done by the younger brother. There's no need to do everything yourself, that would lower your style.

"I, no."

The Emperor of the Apocalypse, whose face was flushed and breathing rapidly, looked at Wang Xiao and squeezed out a smile, "I, Da Ming, will be handed over to you in the future." ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse has no queen, so he left King Xin, who has shown his intelligence since childhood, in Beijing early and did not go to the domain. In order not to fall into chaos when there is an accident.

The alternation of imperial power is by no means as simple as it seems, and all kinds of undercurrents have not been recorded.

Needless to say, the three major cases of Wanli, King Fu and Concubine Zheng alone have never given up their desire for the throne.

In the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the throne was obtained by their father, son and brother after suffering for so many years, and it was impossible for anything to fall into the hands of King Fu, that bastard.

Wang Xiao stepped forward and solemnly spoke in the ear of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

"Brother Huang, please rest assured, the younger brother will shine the light of the sun and moon in every corner of the world, and the sun will never fall from the land of the Ming Dynasty!"