Chapter 403: Lifting the Knife and Independently Gu Bahuang 4/4
Yan Zhong is eighty-one years old, and he often said that he was dying thirty years ago, but this death was going to die, and it was delayed until thirty years later. He almost didn't care about anything anymore, and only the thought of being a hundred years old was left, but he still had to refuse such a thing as a king.
"Forget it, if I am crowned king, I will be beautiful, I'm afraid that Yanming won't be able to stand it later." Yan Zhong said: "Liu Yan, the son of heaven in the previous dynasty, what does Your Majesty plan to deal with?" ”
Chen Cheng said: "The Japanese island in the east has been developed very well, so let him go to Japan and continue to be the emperor." Before Liu Bei died, he wrote to me, saying that he hoped to read it for the sake of the old love and not to cut off Liu's sacrifice. Although Japan is small, it also has fertile fields, which is enough for Liu Ban to continue to be the emperor. ”
"Old love?" Yan Zhong snorted and said, "Liu Xuande just saw that His Majesty was soft-hearted, and he actually dared to make such an impudent request. ”
Chen Cheng said with a smile: "This is what I meant, even if Brother Liu Bei doesn't say it, I am also ready to transfer all the Liu clan to Japan." ”
Yan Zhong said: "Your Majesty does this, isn't he afraid that there will be trouble in the future?" If His Majesty is gone one day, the Liu family will definitely want to fight back. ”
Chen Cheng said: "A generation only cares about the affairs of one generation, and the things behind are naturally managed by the people behind them." If the descendants are incompetent, it is natural for the country to be taken back. ”
Yan Zhong sighed when he heard this: "Your Majesty is broad-minded, far better than me. In the 30 years since I was in power, I have always been good and evil, and I have made many enemies. I'm afraid that these things will fall on Yanming's head in the future. ”
Chen Cheng said: "Don't worry, even if things get bigger, it's a big deal to let Yan Xing go overseas to be the lord of a vassal country." ”
Yan Xing: "............"
Yan Zhong laughed out loud and said, "Yes, it's a big deal to go overseas and fight." When I met His Majesty, I was not much younger than he is now. By the way, Your Majesty is good at writing poems, and now that I'm dying, can you write me a poem? ”
Chen Cheng usually only writes to Liu Qian, Cai Yan, and Zi Jia'er in the boudoir, but since Yan Zhong opened his mouth, it is naturally inconvenient to refuse. But although his intelligence is very high now, he has never paid much attention to poetry, and the poems that used to be used for the pleasure of the boudoir are also copied, and it will take a lot of time for him to make a poem seriously.
But it doesn't matter if you can't do it, it's a big deal to be a copyist again. He stood up, pondered for a moment, and then read:
"The gold is wrong and the knife is white and jade, and the light shines through the window at night.
The husband has not made fifty achievements, and he is independent of the eight wildernesses.
Jinghua made friends with all the strange people, and lived and died together in the same period.
The thousand-year-old annals are nameless, and a piece of Dan is repaying the Son of Heaven.
Erlai came to the army in Hanbin, and the Nanshan Xiaoxue jade is rugged.
Alack! Although the three households of Chu can die in Qin, how can there be no one in China!
”
When Yan Zhong heard this, his eyes were so bright that he seemed to be about to shine, and he muttered to himself: "Good poetry, really good poetry." ”
Chen Cheng smiled: "Actually, I didn't write it. ”
Yan Zhong also laughed, "Could it be that Li Bai did it again?" ”
"Exactly!"
"When I was in Luoyang, I was fifty years old, and I thought that I would die in such obscurity for the rest of my life, how could I have expected that there would be those things later?" Yan Zhong closed his eyes and said softly, "Now that I think about it, all this seems to be destined." ”
Seeing that Yan Zhong was tired, Chen Cheng retreated, and he did not return to the palace, but stayed in Yan Zhong's mansion. This stay was three days, and after three days, Yan Zhong's body deteriorated sharply, and he died suddenly on the bed.
After Yan Zhong's death, Chen Cheng rarely appeared in front of everyone, and he stayed in the North Palace most of the time, or he took the guards to hunt everywhere. The government affairs were all handed over to the three of Shangshu Ling Zhuge Liang, Zhongshu Ling Fazheng, and Shizhong Ling Sima Yi.
After Chen Sheng became the prince of Wei for more than ten years, he was naturally made the crown prince, and Chen Cheng's other children also had their own rewards. These people have formed gangs and factions in the government and the opposition, fighting openly and secretly with each other, and creating a miasma. Then Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng made a move and pressed everyone down.
Fa Zheng only has Emperor Chen Cheng in his eyes, and he doesn't even care much about Empress Liu Qian. And Zhuge Liang's concept of governing the country is similar to Chen Cheng, which can be more lenient to the people, but it is more strict for the officials and powerful clans. At the time of Yan Zhong's Zhongshu Order, Zhongshu Province was the most powerful institution in the court, and Shangshu Province became a place that acted according to orders. But when Zhuge Liang became the Shangshu Order, all the big and small rights were taken back by the Shangshu Province, and the Zhongshu Province became a simple legislative body.
Fa Zheng doesn't care much about this, he is the president of the Academy of Sciences, and he is obsessed with the theoretical research and practical application research of various sciences on weekdays. However, he has a wide network in the army, and he is the emperor's favored minister, and after standing up, even the crown prince Chen Sheng can only retreat.
Fa Xiaozhi is not broad-minded, what he believes in is "the grace of a meal will be repaid, and the grievances of the eyes will be repaid". Zhuge Liang may also settle things for the sake of the overall situation, but Fa Zheng is unrelenting and throws all the people who make trouble to distant Australia. It was a place that was even more distant and worse than the Western Regions.
In the third year of Yongle, news came from India that Lu Bu's body had deteriorated rapidly in a month, and then he swallowed his last breath on the bed. In the fifth year of Yongle, when Guan Yu led his troops to attack Constantinople, he fell from his horse and broke his bones. Lying on a stretcher, he commanded his soldiers to blast open the gates of the city that did not fall with artillery, expanding the territory of Xinzhao to Europe.
In the tenth year of Yongle, the perfect city that lasted more than 20 years was built on the Tibetan Plateau. This majestic city was built by Shinrikyo priests at the cost of countless sums of money and countless deaths and injuries. Behind the City of Perfection, the Patriarchs of the Cult of God carved an entire mountain peak in the shape of an emperor in armor and holding a sword.
The peak is more than 300 meters high, and the completed statue is also more than 280 meters. Within ten miles, as long as you look up, you can see the emperor standing with a long sword.
In the twelfth year of Yongle, the first railway was completed, which shortened the distance between Luoyang and Yuzhou to three days. From Luoyang, thousands of troops and equipment could be transported to the Yangtze River in just three days. In addition to their military role, railways can also be used for civilian purposes.
Since then, the imperial court has invested a lot of money in the construction of railways every year, and the mileage of the railways built has increased year by year. There was even a proposal to build a super-railway through the continent, starting from Luoyang, heading west to Chang'an, and then continuing on, directly linking Asia and Europe.
But this proposal is too advanced, not to mention that there is no technology for the time being, and even if there is this technology, there is not so much money to spend on such a project where the income and investment are completely disproportionate. If you have that fund, wouldn't it be nice to use railways to connect all of China in series?
In the fifteenth year of Yongle, the round-the-world fleet returned to the military port of Sasebo, and after a month of repairs, it arrived in Qingdao. This circumnavigation journey proved that those places on the globe really existed, and brought back the news that there was a lot of gold on the continent on the other side of the sea occupied by the descendants of Yin Shang.
After the news spread, it immediately caused a sensation, and countless people flocked to the country of gold on the other side of the ocean. Many people made a fortune in the gold rush, but many more lost their pants and had to find some work on the American continent. It's impossible to work, it's impossible to work in this life, you can only survive by fighting natives and beasts in the wilderness with muskets and bombs.
In the eighteenth year of Yongle, the efficiency of the steamship finally surpassed that of the galley. The military port built by the imperial court on the large island under India was finally completed, and from then on the Nanyang Fleet could sail directly to Africa. However, the good days of the South Sea Fleet did not last long. Soon, the imperial court split the increasingly powerful Nanyang Fleet into two and established the Third Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet.
After the formation of the Indian Ocean Fleet, the princes of the Indian subcontinent became more submissive. They have eaten a lot of fat on this fertile land, and they have long lost the spirit of their ancestors when they came here to open up, and they have become mediocre. Shinrikyo took advantage of this opportunity to carry out another round of expansion, spreading the collation to Europe.
In the Indian subcontinent, Shinrikyo has been canonized as the state religion in the countries of Xinqin, Xinqi, Xinchu, Xinwei, Xinyan, Xinzhao, and Xinhan. The power of Shinrikyo is so great that even the kings of various countries have to give up three points. In addition to its enormous influence in the government and the opposition in various countries, the eight major factions of Shinrikyo merged into one after a long struggle, elected the Pope, and established a magnificent city of perfection on the top of a high mountain.
In the twentieth year of Yongle, the Pope took eighty-eight Xiliang dragoons to Luoyang to worship the emperor, returned to the City of Perfection, and then began to form twelve holy war legions, and called on believers to participate in the great expedition to distant Europe. The expedition lasted ten years, and the fanatical believers penetrated the entire continent and spread the glory of truth all the way to the distant British Isles.
In the course of the Great Expedition, countless ancient cultures were reduced to ashes in the flames. The battle priests declared that everything but the emperor was a false god, and those who refused to convert were tied to a pillar of fire. Zeus, Athena, and the like were all beaten as false gods, their temples were torn down, their sacrifices were slaughtered, and all the texts and frescoes that recorded the false gods were burned.
On the Indian continent, Hinduism and Buddhism have long since turned to dust, and only in extremely hidden places can a trace of the past be found. In front of the muskets and cannons, only the emperor was left on the mainland island. Although Chen Cheng never recognized himself as a god, the thousands of people who had witnessed miracles regarded this as the emperor's humble language.
In addition to the old land of China, there are devotees of the emperor everywhere. Even in China, there are many people who bow down at the feet of the emperor. More than ten years ago, when people talked about Chen Cheng, they would use the Yongle Emperor to call him, and by the twentieth year of Yongle, everyone used the term "emperor" as a synonym for the Yongle Emperor.