Chapter 26: Sleep
At dawn, the rain stopped. If it weren't for the green branches broken by the wind on the road from time to time, and the rain rushing in the ravine beside the road from time to time, anyone would have forgotten that Yingdu experienced a violent storm last night.
Gong Yin Dao got up very early, and last night, Zhu Guan, a guest of Chun Shenjun, hurriedly came to see him, and discussed with him the so-called 'countermeasures' all night, the purpose of which was, of course, to prevent the king from letting Wang Zijing preside over the manufacture of the waterwheel. Prince Jing can build a waterwheel for 300 yuan, and he can build a mansion for 300 yuan - 300 yuan is definitely not enough, but in order to compete for the position of the prince, there is no way to advance money into it.
The wealth of Chu is rich in the feudal monarchs, ministers, and officials at all levels, and more than 10,000 gold needs to be advanced to build 100,000 waterwheels, which is equivalent to more than half of the country's annual agricultural tax. But there is no way to have a lot of money, if you really want Wang Zijing to build a waterwheel of 300 yuan, everyone will wait to lose their officials. The old husbands of Zuotu Zhaoxiao, and the poor landless feudal monarchs of Ji Lingjun, will definitely instigate the prince Jing who succeeded to the throne to take away everyone's benefits, and if he doesn't pay now, he won't have a chance to pay in the future.
The car drove slowly, Gong Yin Dao was a little impatient for the court, he felt that today he would definitely be able to repay the favor of Shenjun in the spring of that year, so that Zhao Huang and others completely miscalculated. However, when he arrived at the Maomen court, he suddenly found that something was very wrong: Zuotu Zhaoxiao, who had always arrived early, was not there, Zimo and Nao Cun, as well as Chun Shenjun and the old minister Song Yu......, these people were completely gone.
Isn't the king early today? The courtiers who were waiting for the opening of the dynasty also found a problem, they look at me, I look at you, I don't know why. Gong Yin Dao had no choice but to muttered in his heart alone, and then looked at what was written on the jade wat a few times: three hundred and fifty yuan for a single waterwheel, four hundred and twenty yuan for a double waterwheel, and six hundred and fifteen yuan for a cow-pulled waterwheel. This is the price that was urgently calculated and negotiated last night, and it is also the price reported to the king to prevent Wang Zijing from being responsible for the manufacture of the waterwheel, and it is also the price of a waterwheel that asks everyone to advance more than 1,000 yuan.
"When the time comes, enter the court!" The door had been opened, and the maid's tone was unusually long. The important ministers were not there, and the first to enter the court were Gong Yin Dao, Taifu Bonan, and Sihui Shiyi, and then the feudal doctor on the right side of Maomen.
"Where is Ling Yin?" In the court, while everyone had not yet stood up as scheduled, Shi Yan asked in a low voice.
The Sihui is the chief accountant of the national finances, and the Taifu is the opposite of the Gao Mansion under the inner court of the King of Chu, and is the general warehouse manager of the national materials under the Yin Mansion, and their importance is not as important as Gong Yin Gao. Gong Yin is the chief of the country's hundred workers, but Gong Yin's status is not because of the management of hundreds of workers, but because Gong Yin wants to go out with the army, Gong Yin Dao takes his post as his surname, and many of his ancestors died on the battlefield.
"Zuo Tu and Sima are not here, there must be something big in the palace." Gong Yin Dao didn't want to be okay, and was startled when he thought about it: Is the king ......
"The king looks at the court?" Taifu Bonan looked at the door, his eyes were a little glazed.
"I don't know." Gong Yin Dao was absent-minded. If the king is really killed, then who will be the crown prince? How will Zi Xie respond? How do you deal with it?
The more people gathered in the court, the more and more people gathered, and Gong Yin Dao felt colder and colder. Finally waited for the sun to come out, this was the time for the king to see the dynasty, the maid of the gate was surprisingly silent, and after waiting for a while, everyone finally panicked - something big must have happened in the palace.
Zheng Chao began to panic, but Yan Chao inside the road gate was quiet.
Zuo Tu Zhaoxiao, Zhen Yin Zimo, Da Sima Nao Cunning, Taibu Guanji, Dazai Shen Yinyu, Zuo Yin Meng Zhengyu, Lao Chen Song Yu, and Fu Guanzi of Prince Jing...... All the important ministers of the court knelt on the table. It's just that the king who should be sitting in the middle of the Yan Dynasty is gone, and Ling Yin Huangxie, who should be sitting at the bottom left of the king, is also nowhere to be seen.
There's nothing to worry about. Last night, the king was in a hurry, and the people in the palace called each other in three sections, and Zhao Huang and Zi Mo trembled, worried about the fall of the king. The prince has not been established, at this time, there may really be a rebellion of the first five princes said by the crown of the crown, fortunately the king survived the second half of the night under the blessing of the gods, when the wind and rain will stop, he fell asleep, just now, and summoned Yin Huang to sleep.
In addition to Taibu Guanji and Zuo Yin Mengzhengyu, all of them are Jing Dang, it doesn't matter what the king and Huang Xie say, the important thing is that the king is still alive, the king is still alive, and only on his own side can he calmly build a momentum, and it is only a matter of time before Prince Jing ascends the throne.
Zhao Huang's gaze and Yu Guanzi's gaze met in the air, although the two had the same thoughts, they didn't want to communicate too much with each other, and their eyes avoided when they touched it. Zi Mo smiled at the crown, as if he was apologizing for what happened last night.
"Summon—Zuo Tu, Da Sima, and Doctor Song go to bed." The voice of the servant Jiang came from the east bedroom, and the servant here immediately told Zhao Huang and the others, "The king summons three nobles, please." ”
"Hmm." Zhao Huang snorted, got up and stroked the crown, and touched the Peiyu on the left - Jun Zai is not wearing jade, not to untie the Peiyu on the belt, but to tie the Peiyu on the left, and then walked to the bedroom with the big Sima Nao and the old minister Song Yu.
The bedroom was dim, and the red mats on the floor were a little black. After walking through several curtains, Zhao Huang Fang saw the king of Chu leaning on the bed, and his body was half covered with a yellow silk coat with dragon and phoenix patterns. On one side of the bed stood the chief servant Jiang who was bowing; On the other side, there is Xiong Jing who is dressed in a silk coat and has a blank look. Ling Yin Huangxi knelt in front of the bed with a solemn expression.
"Chen Zhaoxiao, Nao Cunning, and Song Yu pay a visit to the king." Zhao Huang, Nao Cunning, and Song Yu bowed in unison, which seemed to be the king's last support.
"No courtesy." Xiong Yuan's voice was small and tired, but clear.
"The widow wants to make Jing'er the eldest son... cough ......" Xiong Yuan looked at Zhao Huang and Nao Cunning, as if he was in too much of a hurry, and immediately coughed, but fortunately, he adjusted his breathing and exhaled before he continued: "If you want to take Doctor Song as your master and wait for you as a guarantee, can you?" ”
"Minister...... Respectfully. Zhao Huang glanced at Huang Xie and saw that he was still solemn, and bowed down.
"Respectfully obeyed." Song Yu and Nao Wei didn't have as many worries as Zhao Huang, and bowed down while receiving orders.
"Good." Seeing that the three of them received the order, Xiong Yuan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. "The wood of the widow's tomb is alive. In the past, I loved Concubine Li and wanted to establish a strong child, but my Chu country was withering and the external troubles were becoming more and more intense, and the strong child was naïve, and he could not be the king of a country, and he could not become the lord of the society. Jing'er is smart and knowledgeable, and has his own strategy for governing the country in his chest, and the widow cherishes his youth, so he invites Zixie, Song Dafu, and Yu Guanzi to be his fu, and asks Er, Xun Qing to protect his ......"
Xiong Yuan spoke very slowly, but fortunately he spoke clearly. Nao is cunning and doesn't care who is the prince and who is the prince, but Zhao Huang is thinking about the candidates for the prince and the prince. Huang Xie is not strange as Ling Yin and the prince, and the third old minister Song Yu is very knowledgeable and can also be a Fu, but with Xun Qing as the prince to protect the ......, I am afraid it is Huang Xie's idea.
After the first Hui king, all the nations changed their words. The essence of the change is nothing more than weakening the power of the feudal monarch and reducing the power of the ministers to strengthen the monarch. Zhao Huang didn't care how the law changed and what the result would be, but a former disciple of the Zhao family summed up a rule: that is, the people who presided over the change of the law were all foreign ministers:
Li Yan, a patriot, changed the law in Wei;
Wu Qi, a patriot, changed the law in the state of Chu;
Shang Ying, a patriot, changed the law in the Qin State;
Shen Bu harm, Zheng Guoren, changed the law in South Korea;
Zou Ji, a native of the country, changed the law in the country of Qi;
Le Yi, a native of Zhongshan, changed the law in Yanguo;
How so? Could it be that there are no talents in the countries who can change the law? No, it's not that there are no people in the countries who change the law, but that the scholars of the countries are difficult to kill the nobles of their own countries; And the monarch also needs a foreign minister to shirk his responsibility, and afterwards with the anger of the people, the Qin State, which has changed the law the most, is not it the Che Split Shang Yang to vent the anger of everyone?
The crown prince Fu Baozhong, whether it is the crown prince or Xun Qing, they are all Zhao people, and they all want to implement the law change in the Chu State and show their ambitions. Whether they will be expelled in the future or they will be torn apart is unknown, that is a later thing, what Zhao Huang is really worried about is that the Chu State clan is afraid that it will be difficult for Wu Qi again, is it, the only way not to be destroyed by the Qin State is to become another Qin State?
Thinking about it, Xiong Yuan's slow words, Zhao Huang felt worried, but he was not the only thing he was worried about. I only heard the king of Chu say slowly: "Before the eldest son was crowned, the Yin Mansion was put in charge by Zixie...... Gaofu is still entrusted to Zixiao. ”
According to the practice of the Chu State, it takes twenty years old to be crowned, that is, Huang Xie has to do more than ten years of Ling Yin. More than ten years later, Huang Xie is already 100 years old, will he be able to live to that time? And is this Huang Xie's condition for agreeing to Prince Lijing as the crown prince?
"O king, if anyone commits anything unrighteous, what if?" Zhao Huang was blunt, everyone's faces tightened, Huang Xie deliberately glanced at Zhao Huang, and then turned his head back.
"Huh...... Ahem..."Xiong Yuan smiled. "Zi Mo Yan Jing'er was born to know it, and few people believe it. Jing'er said yesterday that the day of King Qin's crowning was the time of the rebellion of Marquis Changxin. Chang Yu and Qin were exempted, the king of Qin was in charge alone, and the state of Zhao was ...... Ahem...... The death of Zhao Guo is only a dozen years old. ”
Born to know that it is Zi Mo's exaggeration, even if it is Zhaoxiao, it may not be taken seriously, but the king believes it. At this time, Zhao Huang, Nao Cunning, and Song Yu all looked at Xiong Jing, and Huang Xie also looked at Xiong Jing. King Qin's crowning was last month, and it took more than a month for the news to come, that is, it would be known whether this statement was true or false after more than ten days.
Is that really the case? Is there really a person who is born to know? Is it really that the Holy King descended to the State of Chu and the Great Chu will prosper?
The four important ministers looked at him, and Xiong Jing was still calm.
Things came in a hurry, and he was made the crown prince overnight, and he was crowned king after a year at most.
Although he used to deduce the vertical and horizontal strategy of the Chu State with Yu Guanzi, it was just a temple calculation, and it was not true to talk about it on paper. Now, become the king of an 800-year-old kingdom, shoulder the honor and disgrace of the long-standing Xiong clan, and control the fate of more than 3 million people......
However, the trick is that he had forgotten that the monarch of this era needs to be crowned an adult before he can govern; The trick is that although he knows some of the skins of modern hot weapon warfare, he is now fighting the largest cold weapon war in the world; The trick is that he wants to lead this weak country to resist the strong Qin who is good at war, barbarism, and gathers the strength of the world.