Chapter 16: Choking the Throat
Nangong Jia, who was walking around in a hurry in the study, saw Xiaoyu coming in, and hurriedly stepped forward to help people sit down, Nangong Jiao is the youngest daughter born to her mother and father, and she has been pampered and grown up since she was a child, and the most dazzling pearl of the Duke of Qi was ruined by the old and lustful Emperor Rongli, and her father will not give up, and the Nangong family is afraid that it will revolt.
"Is the eldest brother worried about this, in the eyes of the younger brother, this may not be all bad for you?"
Picking up the teacup in his hand and taking a sip, the tingling and itching feeling from the wound made Xiaoyu sigh softly, the effect of the girl's wound medicine was too good, but in just two days, he felt that new flesh was growing again, and the wound was healing rapidly.
Nangong Jia is just a concubine in the Duke of Qi, and his biological mother is dead, and he is suppressed by his mother and brother everywhere, if he is in ordinary peaceful years, such an identity is destined to either live a low-key and endure for a lifetime, or split up and go out to enter the imperial examination, maybe he can fight for his future, but Xiaoyu is not optimistic about such a future.
People who take the road of official career do not have the support of the family behind them, and it is difficult to go far by relying on one person alone, and the big tree of the Duke of Qi can bring unexpected convenience to Nangong Jia, although it is only a humble concubine, it is still much better than those poor scholars who are from poor families.
"Brother Yu, what do you mean?" Nangong Jia looked at the good brother who grew up together in disbelief, "Are you in favor of your father?" ”
"Heroes emerge in troubled times, and a person as an all-round man like my eldest brother should take advantage of the heroes to seek a bright future for himself."
The dragon chair under Emperor Rongli's buttocks, I don't know how many people are thinking about it day and night, Qi Guogong, who started with military exploits, never thought of taking advantage of this troubled era to plan for the family to splash the sky, Xiaoyu bet that Nangong Ming, who guards the northwest, cannot be as calm and loyal as he shows, but he is just waiting for a more suitable time.
Right now, the mediocre and lascivious old emperor took the initiative to send the handle to the Duke of Qi Guogong, and Nangong had no reason not to rebel. The momentum of the world will be divided for a long time, and the Great Rong Dynasty has ruled thousands of miles for hundreds of years, and in the hands of Emperor Rongli, there are many kinds of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people are miserable.
In addition, natural disasters continued, starvation was everywhere, countless rebels rose up from various places, bandits and soldiers burned everywhere to rob and rob, and the people of Li lived in dire straits, and they had long had a deep grudge against the old emperor.
The throne was in jeopardy, and Emperor Rongli not only did not cultivate his self-cultivation, reduce taxes, and open a warehouse for disaster relief, but intensified his efforts to select beautiful women to enter the palace, recruited people to build luxurious palaces, increased taxes on the people again and again, and pursued the ultimate extravagant enjoyment of the wine pond meat forest.
If Heaven wants it to perish, it must first make it crazy, and the old emperor seems to have a premonition that the destiny of Heaven is not long, and he is more and more unscrupulous in beauty.
The royal envoys who boldly admonished were all pushed out of the noon gate and beheaded, and the generals who led the troops to quell the rebellion outside raised the anti-flag one after another, and Emperor Rongli waved his hand and simply handed over the matter of counterinsurgency to several princes in the court, saying that whoever exterminated the rebels first would pass the throne to whom.
"What Brother Yu said is exactly what my brother thinks in his heart, if my father really raises the banner of rebellion, my brother will swear to follow him." Nangong Jia excitedly raised the teacup in his hand and drank it with Xiao Yu, in fact, he had received a secret letter from his father, but how to reply, he had not yet made up his mind, Xiao Yu helped him make a final decision.
"Once the Nangong family raises the banner of the uprising, there will inevitably be a lot of people coming to defect, the eldest brother can think about how to settle it, Qingchengzhou, as the fiefdom of the Duke of Qi and the ancestral home of the Nangong family, will inevitably become the most reliable and solid backing for the rebel army, so we must take control of Qingchengzhou before the grandfather of the country moves."
Another very important thing is to take their family out of Kyoto, the old emperor left the family of the Duke of Qi in Shangjing, and he already had the intention of supervising and restricting Nangong Luo, and now the prince of the country wants to seize the world, once Emperor Rongli finds out, even his mother will also suffer the sin.
"Qingchengzhou Assassin Shi Huang Wu is a person on the side of the Great Prince, I'm afraid we can't win it over, and we can only kill if necessary."
The eldest prince has long been eyeing the military power of the Duke of Qi, and has tried many times to pull the Nangong family onto his warship, and for this reason, he also intends to ask His Majesty to marry Nangong Jiao as a side concubine.
"My father has ordered the dead soldiers of the family to secretly escort the family members of the Guogong Mansion to flee from Kyoto, and my brother wants to take down Huangwu in Qingchengzhou, and the matter of picking up people can only be handed over to Brother Yu."
Inserting his own people to Qingchengzhou as a thorn in history, the eldest prince found out His Majesty's intentions, and learned that the emperor did not want to see the power of the Duke of Qi too strong, so he sent Huang Wu here, obviously to win over the Duke of Qi, but in fact, he privately monitored every move of the Nangong family in the fiefdom.
"Xiao Yu received the order, and will protect the female dependents and children to return to the fiefdom safely," Xiao Yu was very concerned about her mother's safety, and had no objection to Nangong Jia's arrangement, "In addition to Qingchengzhou, the eldest brother should also pay special attention to Wanghaizhou, which is adjacent to Qingchengzhou and close to the sea, there is a port for ships to dock, it has always been a battleground for soldiers, if we can, we had better take Wanghaizhou at the same time in one fell swoop." ”
"Brother Yu, although you can leave with confidence, pay attention to the wound on the road, and the big brother will deal with the matter of Wanghaizhou carefully."
Unlike Qingchengzhou, Wanghaizhou is a notoriously wealthy place because of the prosperous port trade, and Emperor Rongli gave it to the most beloved three princes as fiefs.
However, the three princes, Zong Zhengquan, did not go to the fiefdom to become a feudal domain, and the ancestral system of the Daiei Dynasty, as long as the crown prince was not established for a day, all the princes could continue to stay in Kyoto even if they were adults.
Emperor Rongli is lustful and lewd, with countless favorite concubines, but there are only five adult princes, and there are too many women, and the harem battle is more tragic and bloody than ever.
The old emperor is impermanent, he spoils this today, sleeps that tomorrow, and as for whether the women he has pampered are dead or alive, he doesn't have time to care at all.
Nangong Jia is worried about more than one Wanghai Continent, the western Anbao Continent, the northern Yangfeng Continent, the eastern Huiya Continent, and the southern Luoping Continent all border Qingcheng Continent, and the news of the rebel rebellion has been reported one after another in these continents and counties, especially the Red Turban Army from Anbao Continent is the most powerful.
The only thing that is gratifying is that Qingchengzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, in addition to the closest distance from Wanghaizhou in the southeast, the transportation is convenient, and the frequent exchanges, and the rest of the counties are not close because of the dangerous mountain roads.
This means that as long as they successfully take Qingcheng and Wanghai, the Nangong family will be able to firmly hold the southeast of the Darong Dynasty in their own hands, and find a place to live without worries in the chaotic times filled with war and gunpowder.
The capture of Wanghaizhou choked the throat of the southeastern part of the empire, and he was bound to win such a key military location.
With the words of the eldest brother, the younger brother is relieved. Time is urgent, so I'll leave at once, and I'll be back safe and sound. As soon as he said go, Xiaoyu immediately rushed to Nangong Jia and strode away with a fist.