Chapter 444: The Emperor's Road (15)
Last year, a southwestern tribe paid tribute to a golden parrot, the empress loved it very much, and the word "parrot" has the homonym "Wu", which represents the Wu family.
Soon, the king of Luling returned to Beijing, and the contradictions between the Wu and Li families became extremely intense, and Wu Chu was also cutting off the old ministers of Li and Tang in the court, as well as after the old ministers. At this time, Silla happened to be in the name of auspiciousness, and offered a tanuki with a tuft of golden hair on its forehead. Immediately, the empress had a thought, because there is a homonym "Li" in the tanuki, which represents the Li family.
So, she ordered the palace people to domesticate the tanuki and the parrot in cages together, she wanted to make the Wu and Li families peaceful, so she wanted to see if the parrot and the tanuki could be domesticated as she wanted, so as to live in peace.
Today, parrots and tanuki have been domesticated for two months, and the empress is in a good mood for these two days, so she puts them in Lichun Terrace to tease.
At this time, Wu Zheng was silently eating delicious food, although the hall was peaceful, accompanied by silk and bamboo, he still felt a cold. Is this the life of a high-ranking person? This is the life of an emperor?
Although he had a thousand thoughts about the life of the emperor and experienced countless fantasies, when he calmed down and experienced it several times in this palace, he deeply understood why most emperors were so lustful and absurd. In fact, in this huge palace, there is only one person who can understand you, and this person is only yourself.
On your shoulders is the imperial court, the heavy responsibility of the Central Plains Empire to prosperity, and you must be vigilant, and you must always nip a rebellion in the bud. As an emperor, you also have to consider whether your successor is qualified.
And so on, Emperor. It's really a lonely person. It is nothing more than that the ancient emperors always called themselves "lonely" and called themselves "widows".
Wu Shui was upset, and the empress ate some warm morom. I had a plan in mind.
Today's empress often recalls the time when she was with Gaozong Li Zhi, although she was not as powerful as she is today, but at that time she felt energetic and felt that she had infinite passion to complete her own planning or design step by step.
So sad, so remembered, the empress finally made up her mind. That is, to make her and Gaozong Li Zhi's children kings for generations.
Wu Zheng was eating and drinking, and after a while, the dishes on the dining table were almost swept away. In his previous life, he was a dick. And I was hungry when I was a child, so I hated wasting food. Because of Wu Zheng, there is very little waste of food in the entire Wei Palace. Moreover, in this day and age, food really cannot be wasted.
"Emperor, is it enough?" The Empress asked.
Wu Chuan was about to answer. Then I heard the parrot suddenly cry out, "Holy man." Sage...... Yes...... Yikes! ”
There was a tearing roar and shouting, Wu Chu looked up, only to see that the tanuki rushed out of the cage at some point, and did not know how to open the parrot's cage, at this time, it pressed one of its front paws against the parrot's petite body, and then opened its small mouth and went down. Bites on the neck of the parrot. Parrot wings flapped and golden feathers flew wildly. The screams were endless, but in a moment, the parrot was lifeless.
Wu Chu was about to ask a question, but the empress suddenly stood up and said angrily, "Who opened the cat cage?" ”
At this time, a little palace maid ran in, immediately knelt on the ground, and cried: "The saint spares his life, the saint let the slave and maid domesticate the royal cat, and ordered the royal cat to only have one meal a day, at this time it is the time for the royal cat to eat, the slave and the maid saw the saint and His Royal Highness the prince eating, so they did not dare to enter the palace to ask, causing the royal cat to be hungry and broke free from the cat cage and bit the parrot." Ask the saint to spare his life......"
The empress was furious and said, "Someone is coming, pull it out, and give me the staff to die!" ”
The palace maid's face was like earth, and she sat on the ground, and she didn't dare to beg for mercy anymore, but kept crying. After a while, the palace guard came and was about to take the little palace maid.
"Wait!" Wu Zheng finally couldn't help but stand up.
The empress was stunned for a moment, and looked at the tanuki who was eating the parrot, and the tanuki felt that someone was looking at it, and it raised its head, revealing its blood-stained mouth, and then "meowed". She asked slowly, "What's the matter with the emperor?" ”
Wu Chu kept looking at the palace maid, her petite and thin figure, as if she could be blown down by a gust of wind, she sat on the ground, not daring to cry loudly, so she sobbed lowly. It can be seen from this that the empress treats the palace maids very coldly. Once it is not satisfactory, it will be directly roded to death, that is, beaten to death.
Wu Chu bowed and said: "Saint, a saint is a saint, then he should have a heart that embraces the world, and he should not be angry because of any thing, let alone damage his life. Today, the saint executed a palace maid because an animal was bitten to death, and the palace maid still did not dare to cry loudly. It can be seen the weight of the majesty of the saint. Today, the minister advised the Holy Majesty that life is a lifelong thing, and death is only a moment. A saint teaches all the people and educates all things, so that he can become a saint with merit and become famous through the ages. The palace maid has served the saint for many years, but she was executed because of a beast, does it seem too cold. Think twice! ”
After saying that, Wu Zheng bowed deeply.
For a long time, the empress stared at Wu Zheng and did not speak.
Suddenly, she laughed and said, "If my son is enthroned, he should be a merciful king." Okay, I will spare this palace maid today. The emperor was right, if all the ministers were like the emperor, I would not have made so many mistakes. ”
Immediately, she said, "Someone is coming, send this slave to the court." ”
Wu Chu sighed in his heart, the palace maid is exempt from death, but the empress is still the empress, she will not follow your train of thought, nor will she change much because of you, the palace maid is sent to the court, if she can survive it, it will be fateful. This is a strong woman!
In this way, Wu Chu had no choice but to leave, and there were still many things to discuss with the prime minister in the afternoon, so he had no choice but to retreat.
After the palace maid was escorted down and Wu Chu left, the empress looked at the tanuki who had finished eating the parrot and was licking her mouth, looking unsatisfied.
The empress was furious, picked up the inkstone on the imperial case, and threw it towards the tanuki, the tanuki saw that something was wrong, "meowed", and her body scurried, only to see a figure flash, and jumped out of Lichuntai.
"Click!" With a bang, one of the best Tao inkstones was shattered.
The empress's face was blue and white. Suddenly covered his chest, screamed, and said, "Hurt me!" Suddenly, it was dark in front of him, and he passed out in the circle chair.
Suddenly, the palace maid hurriedly called for help.
After discussion, the auction of the fertile land of King Wu of Wei was publicly auctioned by the Luoyang County Government ten days later, totaling 5,200 hectares of fertile land. As for the specific steps of the auction that have been finalized, Su Peng, a science official, and Tang Shao, the commander of Luozhou County, are in charge of the auction, and Wu Yu will not care, during this time, he has asked Wu Yuer to send someone to inform those grange tenants to stay willingly, and let Wu Yuer watch and do some specific things.
The auction of land is only the first thing, and the next thing is the major event of recruiting troops, which is a major event related to whether the Khitan rebellion can be quelled as soon as possible. Therefore, after the prime ministers finished eating the prime minister's meal from the official kitchen, they began a heated discussion.
Fortunately, the recruitment system had already been recruited once as early as when the Great Zhou Martial Arts Academy was built, and with the case in hand, it was naturally much easier. Therefore, the discussion of the ministers focused on the question of whether the recruited soldiers should be subordinate to the imperial court or to the emperor.
Subordinate to the imperial court, then it will be in charge of the prime minister, so it is very likely to overthrow the emperor. But being subordinate to the emperor may make the emperor use his arms. This point is mainly aimed at the future emperor Wu Zhuang, after all, Wu Chuan has been fighting at the border for many years, and if he is very happy, he is very likely to use the army to fight the army, resulting in the emptiness of the treasury and the people's misery.
So, the question focused on these two points from the beginning. Originally, the Great Zhou inherited the military system of the Tang Dynasty, and was divided into the Northern Ya Forbidden Army and the Southern Ya Forbidden Army. Beiya belonged to the emperor, had four guards, and was stationed in the palace. Nanya belongs to the imperial court, there are 12 guards, and there are regular formations of the government armies. However, the strength of the permanent division of the Southern Ya in Beijing was much smaller than that of the Northern Ya in case of rebellion.
The north and south government restrain each other, but after all, all the transfer of troops must have the emperor's holy decree, so the transfer of troops and generals is almost the emperor's final say.
Seeing this, according to Wu Zheng's plan, it is to attribute the army to the emperor, which is conducive to strengthening management and can give soldiers a sense of honor. Moreover, in the course of his future life, he will have to do several great things, and it will be a very painful thing if the soldier cannot be controlled by himself, or if he is hindered at every turn.
Therefore, seeing that the prime ministers were arguing with each other, and the momentum was getting louder and louder, Wu Chu pulled out his long sword, cut off the book case with a sword, and then said angrily: "Okay, no need to discuss it anymore!" ”
Seeing the fire from His Royal Highness the Prince, the prime ministers suddenly remembered that the person in front of them was known as the "butcher", and immediately, the hall was completely silent and silent.
Wu Chuan put his sword into the sheath, and then said: "Your dispute is just a struggle for power and interests, among you, have any of you ever thought about the true meaning of an army? What is the value of the army? Why does an empire need a strong army? ”
Immediately, he roared like a roar: "You, who can sue me? Can anyone give me an explanation? ”
The ministers bowed their heads, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did say what they thought in their hearts, but none of them could think like this, and no one could think in this way. The army, isn't it just those five big and three rough men? What else could there be but the use of force?
Seeing the ministers bow their heads one by one, Wu Chu took a deep breath, and he decided that for the rest of the time, he would transmit some ideas to these prime ministers, so that they could understand his ideas on governing the country, the army, and the people, and let them follow in their own footsteps, instead of spending too much energy on mutual suspicion and exploitation.
Wu Chu said slowly: "Since none of you have thought about these problems, then this king will give you a good explanation, so that you can understand my thoughts on governing the country, the army, and the people." Don't be suspicious of each other for petty profits and trivial things. If such a person is the case, this king does not need it! ”
Suddenly, a eunuch trotted into the Wucheng Palace, and then came to Wu Zheng's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the Holy Lord is sorry, and the imperial servant asked the slave to inform you." ”
Wu Chu was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand to let the eunuch retreat, he thought in his heart, lunch was fine, why did he feel sick? But Wei Tuan'er let people tell herself, and it was obvious that this time she was feeling extraordinary. (To be continued......)