Chapter 017: Excavation

As the saying goes, there is nothing you can get if you think about it, and any miracle can happen when you meet a fairy. It is not surprising that Zhao Yu has gained some superpowers because of this, so that he can cover up his exposed feet, and also find an excuse for continuing to display in the future, win a group of 'believers', and even gain a certain right to speak and gain power.

As for Liu Huang, Zhao Hao thought that he had always been skeptical at first, and when he put on the 'four endgames of chess' recognized by later generations, he was a little moved, at least on the surface to believe in his adventure. As for how much he believed, Zhao Hao was not sure, because such a complex chess game was not something that a beginner could easily crack, and even a genius had to have a learning process.

But regardless of whether Liu Huang believes it or not, Zhao Yu thought that he had become his own person at the moment when he swore to the sky to keep it a secret. Because he thinks that Liu Huang is not a stupid person, otherwise the sea has been up and down for so many years, and he would not have been demoted several times and reinstated, and not all loyal and righteous people in history can die well, and what they get is often mourning after death. This shows that he is not pedantic and can judge the situation......

In fact, Zhao Yu is still tender, and Liu Huang thinks much more far-reaching than him.

Chinese intellectuals have a tradition of 'scholars' since ancient times, and in a society of imperial autocracy, the rulers put education on the track of the imperial examination, which not only fixed the scholars on this track, but also became the value scale recognized by the whole society, so that entering the political class and becoming a bureaucrat was the ultimate goal, which was not only the inevitable choice of scholars to protect themselves, but also the only way out for those commoners who wanted to improve their status, forming the so-called tradition of 'learning to become a scholar and martial arts, and goods and the emperor's family'.

The scholars entered the ranks and the first, and the officials became officials, and they suddenly thought that they could raise their eyebrows, and the wind and clouds would meet, and the dragon and tiger leaped. In fact, they all face different problems and dilemmas. Between ideals and reality, conscience and interests, spirit and desire, dignity and submission, the scholar class, which once had a traditional code of conduct, has become disoriented, confused and helpless.

Liu Huang's road of loyalty to the country was even more difficult, and his entry into the officialdom was when the Mongols destroyed Jin and went south, the court was demonic, the loyalty was degraded, and politics was the darkest. His impeachment of the traitorous minister and his advice to the emperor to govern the country with diligence and not to lose his mind were not accepted, but instead offended the ministers, were ostracized and belittled, and were recalled several years later.

The new emperor ascended the throne, Jia Rudao was demoted, and the imperial court summoned Liu Huang to participate in political affairs, but he did not go in the name of Ding Wei. However, when the city of Lin'an was broken and the imperial court surrendered, he resolutely left home and went to the country, came to Fuzhou to seek to save the country, took up the post of governor, participated in the establishment of a new dynasty, supported the new emperor, and hoped to restore the country.

Many bereaved ministers discussed the establishment of a new dynasty, supported the emperor's eldest son Zhao Yu as the emperor, respected Yang Shufei as the queen mother, and named the emperor's third son Zhao Yu as the king of Wei; Welcome Chen Yizhong as the left prime minister; Li Tingzhi, who was in Yangzhou, was the right prime minister; Chen Wenlong and Liu Hao are participating in political affairs; After the arrival of Wen Tianxiang, the Shaozhuang anti-Yuan faction, he served as the privy envoy and the governor of Zhulu military horses; Zhang Shijie is the deputy privy envoy, and Lu Xiufu is the member of the Privy Council; Jiang Wanzai was the commander of the forbidden army in front of the palace, and Su Liuyi was the deputy commander of the army in front of the palace.

The leadership team was successfully set up, and the queen mother lowered the curtain to listen to the government, and still ordered the old minister Jiang Wanzai to secretly take charge of the march and coordinate everything according to Xie Daoqing's instructions; In the open, a cabinet headed by Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu was formed to reorganize and revitalize the government. At the same time, exiles from all over the country came to vote, and the vassals who refused to surrender also swore allegiance to the new monarch, which gave the new government a slight boost.

Liu Huang did his best for the new court, but he soon found that the establishment of the Fuzhou regime was the hope of revival for the Southern Song Dynasty, but he found that the hope was very slim. Although there were loyal ministers like Jiang Wanzai, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu in the DPRK and China, who tried their best to turn the tide of the tide, more of them were immoral and incompetent, and after a little stability, a new round of struggle began.

The emperor was young, and the queen mother had no political ambitions and desires; Chen Yizhong, the prime minister of the left, lacks decisiveness and popularity; The right prime minister Li Tingzhi is far away in Yangzhou; The deputy privy envoy Zhang Shijie was already busy with military affairs alone; The privy envoy Wen Tianxiang had almost no actual authority in his hands, and in order not to tell the truth, he no longer went to the palace to go to court. However, Jiang Wanzai, another person in power, was hindered by the ancestral system of emphasizing civil affairs over military force, and could not interfere too much in the affairs of the civilian government, and in fact there was no person with overwhelming authority and prestige who could command the imperial court.

In the face of the increasingly chaotic situation, Liu Huang was also in a hurry, and with the escalation of the infighting, the situation became worse. Yang Liangjie, a relative, is proud of his uncle and holds power in the middle, and Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong disagree; Wen Tianxiang was also expelled from the court because of disagreements with Chen Yizhong; The show king of the clan, Zhao Youhua and Yang Zhen, the commander of the horses, were successively driven out of the small court in exile by Chen Yizhong, and Su Liuyi was suppressed and depressed; And Lu Xiufu is even more ambitious, and he is squeezed out by Chen Yizhong everywhere.

There are all kinds of signs that it is impossible for the exiled court to do anything big, although Liu Huang is helpless, he still struggles to maintain and do his duty as a courtier. In November, the Yuan army attacked Fuzhou, and Jiang Wanzai, Zhang Shijie and others led 170,000 officers and troops with 300,000 people to escort the little emperor Zhao Yu and Zhao Yu into the sea and sail to Quanzhou. In Quanzhou, because of Zhang Shijie's mishandling, Pu Shougeng rebelled, and the imperial court hurriedly moved to the sea to start a fleeing journey.

And Liu Huang worked hard day after day, and suddenly changed dramatically, and was infected with the epidemic and sent to the quarantine ship in a hurry, as his illness worsened, he felt that his days were numbered. Liu Huang is not afraid of death, the moment he set foot on the trip to Fuzhou, he put life and death aside, but at this moment he is very unwilling, he reads poetry and books hard is thinking that one day he can save the people from fire and water, Kuang Sheji is about to fall, and show his ambitions, but at this critical moment he did nothing, only endless regrets!

Just when Liu Huang was extremely depressed, King Wei unexpectedly appeared, he not only cured himself and the patients on the ship, but also broke the dead air that shrouded the ship with his miraculous performance. As the contact increased, Liu Huang found that he was more extraordinary, not only because of his brilliant intelligence, but also because of his calmness and maturity that was different from other children.

Liu Huang was even more impressed by the performance of King Wei when he encountered the enemy ship, and he quickly stabilized the chaotic scene in a few words, uniting everyone to fight the enemy. What's even more incredible is that he is familiar with astronomy and geography, understands the structure of ships, and uses what he knows to calmly dispatch out of the current predicament and save the entire fleet again.

Just when Liu Huang was full of suspicion, King Wei seemed to have seen what was on his mind and took the initiative to tell him about meeting immortals. But His Highness's seemingly childless move seemed to him to be more like a game of chess, a game of overall situation related to the rise and fall of the world, and he seemed to be just one of them.

After listening to the words relayed by His Royal Highness, Liu Huang suddenly woke up to the fact that Thousands of Miles Alone, Seven Star Gong Dou, Guan Bao Fen Ma and Ruler Worm Descending Dragon are secretly combining four games of chess, but what does it mean, he still can't understand it for a while, but the people who can lay out the mind are meticulous, and the depth of the city is already able to peek into the leopard from the chess game. And if it really came from the hands of His Highness, he still couldn't believe it, so he had to suspect that there was someone else behind him to help.

But whether it is true or not, Liu Huang knows that since His Royal Highness has already confessed to him at this moment, he has expressed his attitude, one of them has shown favor to him and expressed his trust in him; The second is to test your attitude. But he thinks it's a little ridiculous to put his net worth and the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty on a young child, even if he is a prodigy with noble blood......

A sleepless night, when the sun rises in the early morning, the wind stops and the rain stops, Zhao Yu walks on the deck accompanied by Liu Huang and Ni Liang, the sea under his feet is calm, countless seabirds are flying around the island, and the three isolation boats moored in the shallow bay have safely survived the stormy night.

The enemy ship stranded at the mouth of the island is still there, but it is already skewed on the sea, like a stranded giant whale rising and falling with the tide. The enemy ships moored on the sea were not so lucky, they had long been blown away by the storm and disappeared, and it was estimated that they were also more than lucky.

"Your Highness, my subordinates sent a clipper to inspect the next morning, and no enemy ships were found around, but there were many broken ship boards, which were destroyed in the storm." The commander Zhou Xiang saw them coming out and hurriedly greeted them, smiling and saluting.

"Well, Zhou Jun's envoy has worked hard, do we have any losses?" Liu Huang nodded and asked.

"Your Excellency, my subordinates have sent people to the other two ships to ask, and the ships are safe and sound, but a few people have accidentally fallen and injured themselves." Zhou Xiang hurriedly replied.

"What are the two strong men Zhao and Zheng leading people to do?" Zhao Yu saw Zhao Da and Zheng Hu rowing towards Haikou with several small boats, and hurriedly asked.

"Your Highness, they are worried that there are still remnants of the enemy on the capsized enemy ship that will be unfavorable to Your Highness, and they are ready to board the ship to inspect it, and then see if there is anything available." Zhou Xiang replied immediately, but his expression was more respectful. I don't know how others are, he really believes that His Highness has the ability to exorcise gods and control ghosts, and the enemy army has more than 20 warships, but His Highness is talking and laughing and causing a strong wind to make them scatter.

"Very good, the Zhou army is not chaotic in the face of danger, and the dispatch is appropriate, he is really a general!" Zhao Hao said approvingly, he understood that he didn't have a hammer in his pocket now, and he didn't get a reward if he wanted to, anyway, he didn't need money to praise people, just spend some spit, of course he wouldn't be stingy.

"Your Highness praises, where do your subordinates dare to be, this time it is all up to His Highness...... If Lord Liu commands to get out of danger, how can he have the slightest merit of his subordinates. Zhou Xiang's deep bow said, his mouth was humble, ridiculous more like a flower, but with his dark big cake face, it only made people feel that it was a half-dried cow that had been smashed and bloomed......