Chapter 199: Monarch and Minister
"The King's Disease...... Minister, minister is really ......"
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King Qi wrapped a white silk handkerchief on his forehead, lying weakly, his eyes were full of despair, in fact, just now, he was fed a medicinal soup by the queen herself, but just like the hundreds of pills he drank before, this bitter medicine could not make him rejuvenate. The king of Qi could only nun his mouth, and let Hou Sheng, who was familiar with his temper, stuff a fragrant pill into his mouth and swallow it, and by now, he was terminally ill and incurable, and only the "elixir" of the magician could make him lift his spirits and maintain a slightly better demeanor than dying.
Although he also knew that this was actually fueled by the seedlings, the more pills he ate, the faster he would die.
"Quack, get out!"
King Qi, who had re-extracted a trace of strength from his body, waved his hand and drove out all the outsiders, including the healer and Hou Sheng, leaving only the queen and queen.
"The widow knows that the end of the day has come." King Qi coughed and gasped, and clenched his wife's hand.
"The king......" The queen has tears in her eyes.
"But the widow doesn't want to die yet!"
"The widow still wants to grow old with the queen, the widow still wants to watch Jian'er grow up, and the widow still wants to watch the country of Qi and truly revive the ......" King Qi's old eyes were also filled with tears, which was the reluctance of the dying man to the world.
There are many things that he can't let go of, but what he worries most about is a person, a person who he tried to knock down, surpass, and obliterate with all his strength in the second half of his life, but finally had to be hastily driven away.
Tian Dan, the king of Qi and his name are Junchen, in fact, in Tian Fazhang's heart, Tian Dan is his biggest enemy and nightmare in this life!
He has always buried this matter in his heart, except for the queen, no one can know that the powerful King of Qi would be afraid of a courtier to such an extent.
"Since the first king ran away from the dust, the widow was entrusted by the courtiers, the army and the people, and practiced this great position. Conscientious, deeply afraid of the fall...... However, no matter how hard the widow tries, the people of the world still only know Tian Dan, and they don't know that there is a King of Qi......"
This is natural, Tian singled out the relationship between King Yan Hui and Le Yi, so that King Yan chased Le Yi, killed and robbed with fire ox arrays, broke the Yan army, restored the Qi country, and then broke Liaocheng, attacked Di and many other achievements, he almost made the Qi country recover in one fell swoop, and won the love of the Qi people.
In contrast, Qi Wang Tian Fazhang was in exile, when Qi was lost, he not only did not raise his arms and stand up, but became a gardener's servant, and made a living secretly, making little contribution to the restoration of Qi State, and finally when everyone thought that Tian Dan would stand himself as the king, he was indifferent to the throne and Yingtian Fazhang was the king.
Everyone felt that the throne of King Qi was simply picked up for nothing.
"Nonsense! The widow is the first prince, and the widow is the righteous, legal, and authentic King of Tian's Qi! β
Tian Fazhang's anger did not dare to show it at the beginning, because although Tian Dan did not have the heart to abuse power at that time, the people who respected him and worshiped him filled the court, and the king of Qi was also afraid that Tian Dan would regret it and drive him away from the throne.
King Qi still remembers that the time when he was most afraid was when they patrolled the surroundings of Linzi together and crossed the Zishui River. Tian Dan saw an old man crossing the water, couldn't stand the cold, and after coming out of the water, he couldn't walk and sat on the beach. Tian Dan saw the old man curled up and trembling, so he took off his coat and put it on the old man.
King Qi saw this in his eyes, and when he returned to the palace, he was very unhappy, and thought in his heart: "Tian Dan is kind to the people, the people regard him as his parents, and the scholars return to him like flowing water. β
At that time, the Qi Yan War had ended, and the King of Qi began a secret battle with Tian Dan in the domestic government and the opposition, and he wanted to compete with Tian Dan to compete for the hearts of the Qi people!
For example, for the matter of Tian Dan's undressing, King Qi summoned him, treated him politely in the court, worked hard, and gave Tian Dan cattle and wine to reward his behavior. At the same time, an order was issued to shelter the hungry and cold people and provide for them. He also sent people to Lilu to listen to the people's discussions, so the Qi people's perception of the Qi king changed, and they all said: "Tiandan loves the people!" Wow, it's the king's teaching! β
King Qi's suspicion of Tian Dan comes from the insecurity of the monarch, when Han Zhaohou's minister Shen Bu said that "the king is like the body, the minister is like the hand", sometimes the hand will not listen to the command of the body, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the minister killed the king, causing a habit. Reality tells the king of Qi that now that the state of Qi has been decided, his main threat as the king of the people is not from the people or the enemy country; It's from the minister, from Tiandan!
The army and the people's hearts, these two "killing handles", are still biased towards Tiandan, and the subordinates are the most unstable.
In this way, King Qi spent a whole ten years, while secretly weakening Tian Dan's wings, he was also supporting his cronies to ascend to the throne, constantly buying people's hearts, and finally reversed the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and finally reached the "monarch and the minister"!
At this time, he also tore the skin of harmony with Tian Dan's monarchs and ministers, and under the planning of the nine favored ministers, he designed to frame Tian Dan, wanting to cut off his power in one fell swoop!
The reason why he is so anxious is because King Qi's health is not as good as day by day, and he feels that he may die early. Isn't it easy to seek power and usurp the throne? He didn't dare to imagine that what he had spent ten years and couldn't do without being left to his son!
However, that incident triggered a huge backlash, and the court that King Qi thought was in his hands jumped back, and the ministers rushed in to stop it. King Qi thought that his prestige had surpassed that of Tian Dan's people, and ninety percent of the people were upset with Tian Dan. For a time, Linzi seemed to be at the end of the world, the army was in turmoil, the rangers gathered, and the market was closed. King Qi was busy under the persuasion of Mink Bo, dispelled the idea of harming Tian Dan, and was forced to kill the nine favored ministers and increase Tian Dan's fiefdom, but the resentment in his heart can be imagined.
"A jealous wife is not a difficult family, and a rebellious minister is not difficult to break the country. If one wife is a husband, all wives are disordered; A minister is a tyrant, and all the ministers are covered! β
In the eyes of King Qi, Tian Dan, a guy who says that he has no intention of arbitrarily exercising power, but in fact has been admired and protected by everyone, is the most hateful minister!
After that incident, King Qi's heart was already cold, he understood that he couldn't surpass Tiandan in his life, Tiandan is a big mountain, he can dig out its corners, but if you want to overturn him in one fell swoop, even if you are the king of Qi, you have reached the power of saying nothing in the court, but you still can't do it.
Since it can't be dug down, it can only be removed......
It just so happened that in order to form an alliance with Qi, Zhao asked Qi to be a minister, and the king of Qi borrowed a donkey from the slope and sent Tian Dan to Zhao as a minister.
When Tian Dan left, King Qi still looked reluctant, but in fact, King Qi didn't want him to come back!
After sending Tian Dan to Zhao Guo, a big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and after losing this opponent, he couldn't breathe after hanging for a long time, and his condition became worse day by day, and it had reached the point where the medicine stone was hopeless. Seeing that the deadline was approaching, King Qi could only hold his wife's hand and confide in the future.
"This time, although Jian'er, as a supervisor, has made meritorious contributions and has a little prestige in the government and the opposition, he is naΓ―ve and does not consider the consequences. After the widow leaves, in the government, you will still be the main ruler, and the regent will supervise the country until he is enough to take on the great responsibility......"
The king of Qi also tirelessly peddled to the queen the "technique of the south of the human monarch" that he had summarized in the past ten years.
"The reason why the king is respectable, the order is also, and the order is not good, is that there is no king, so the king is cautious."
"Being a monarch is the great benefit of the world, and everyone wants to replace it. Therefore, the ministers are not credible, you have to use the quiet and inaction of Taoism externally, but you must use the arbitrariness of Legalism inside, and you must firmly control the power of life and death in your own hands, and you must not lose power! β
The queen bowed her head and memorized these things firmly, and finally saw that King Qi was so weak that she was about to fall asleep, so she asked again: "King, how can you control Anpingjun?" β
As soon as he heard this name that had entangled him for more than ten years, King Qi's eyes widened suddenly, he took a few deep breaths and said, "Don't return!" β
After a long while, when the king of Qi lost his mind again after the queen, he suddenly said like a dream: "Tian Dan is a submarine dragon, a talent that is rare in a hundred years, the widow can't use it, and he can't be used by the Zhao State, otherwise, it will be a great disaster for the Qi country!" β
"How?"
"Respect the position of his son Tian Hu, be crowned as a feudal king, and be surrounded by grace. As for his daughter, hadn't the widow made her a princess before? King Qi closed his eyes and spat out a few words from his mouth.
"This time to cut Yan, Kuang Liang has made a great contribution, and when the widow makes a decree, he will marry Tian Jia to Kuang's wife, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, which not only rewards Kuang Liang's merits, but also makes Tian Jia never want to leave the Qi country!"
Like a return to the light, King Qi cheered up and laughed, what about the high merit of the master, how about the popular people, Tian Dan, he is destined to be lonely and old in a foreign country, and he can't enjoy the happy old age of his children and grandchildren!
He Tian Fazhang has lost all his life, and it seems that he is going to achieve the final victory in this war with his courtier Tian Dan!
"Firmly tie up Tian Dan's son and daughter, let him cast a mouse trap, let him be old in Zhao Guokong, and can't say a word and offer a strategy!"
At dusk the next day, in the palace of King Qi, Tian Jia, who had fallen asleep in a daze after the feast, was woken up by a panicked footsteps, and then heard the long-awaited bell ringing in the city......
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