Chapter 173: Love and Hatred in the Rivers and Lakes - Feather Becomes an Immortal
Didn't my father hate himself? Then let him under Jiuquan see what the country will become after the son he chooses takes the throne.
The more chaotic the country became, the more he felt the thrill of revenge.
After taking over by myself in the future, I will have a greater sense of accomplishment when I develop it.
The eldest nephew only pretended to go to the morning court for a month, and then began to spoil the beauties all day long, having fun, fighting, and squandering.
The new emperor even forcibly spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the treasury for a certain concubine he liked.
After the eldest nephew came to power, he did several major things, but none of them benefited the country and the people.
The new emperor spent two million taels to build a summer resort covering an area of thousands of acres.
Later, he said that the palace looked too old and had to be cleaned up, and it cost hundreds of thousands of taels to renovate it.
Later, in order to please a certain beauty, he paved her bedroom with jade, and spent 500,000 taels, enough for half a year's salary for 100,000 troops.
And so on and so forth... A lot of pieces.
And these things that cost the people and money, he openly opposes and secretly supports them.
In the eyes of the new emperor, the state's money is inexhaustible. A huge country only feeds tens of thousands of people in the palace, and it doesn't matter if you squander more.
Within a few years, the already full treasury ran out of money.
The officials of the imperial court and the loyal ministers cried and begged every day, begging the emperor to reduce expenses, begging the emperor to think about the country, and stop being so ridiculous.
But the words were contrary to the ear, and after a few more persuasions, the little emperor was directly angry, and there were still people who dared to make noise in front of the emperor, which was really looking for death.
Some treacherous men began to lose no time in impeaching loyal ministers who really thought about the country.
The two sides fought fiercely.
Of course, the last winners were all traitorous ministers, most of the loyal ministers were killed, and some of the lucky ones were dismissed.
General Qiu was a victim of that struggle, and some people looked down on the army in his hands and accused him of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.
After General Qiu was beheaded by the whole family, the newly appointed general was, of course, his own people.
The new emperor continued to spend extravagantly, and the traitorous ministers also followed suit, and the corrupt officials were even more unscrupulous, and they became more energetic in collecting the people's fat and ointment.
In just a dozen years, the whole country has reached the brink of storms.
The Great Power Kingdom in the north began to threaten, saying that it was going to wave its army south.
And those so-called armies guarding the frontier are vulnerable in front of them.
Even some generals made an agreement with them, they gave benefits to those generals, and then the generals did not resist at all and moved their troops away.
In the name of beauty, preserve strength, and then let it burn, kill, rob and abuse the people.
The whole country claims to be a million-strong army, but in fact, it is just a name.
The salaries were not settled, and all the soldiers were already hungry to the bones, and they didn't even have the strength to fight.
I heard that some soldiers were so hungry that they began to rob the people.
The people could no longer live, and even began to eat grass roots and tree bark.
I heard that there is a phenomenon of cannibalism in some places.
And those corrupt officials eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, wear silk and satin, and hold their wives and concubines.
The country is like this, the emperor is still living in a mess, and he still lets traitors go to the people to find beautiful women for him to have fun.
And he continued to flatter his eldest nephew, the emperor, and instigated him to do all kinds of ridiculous things.
When the country becomes like this, he will actually suffer, and when he dreams back at midnight, he is also afraid that this situation will not end.
Sometimes he would have nightmares, dreaming that the ancestors of the Yu family scolded him, scolded him for being selfish and insidious, disregarding the overall situation, and brought his eldest nephew badly.
But if it doesn't turn out like this, he has no reason to snatch the throne from his nephew.
The more chaotic he is now, the more outstanding his achievements will be after he wins the throne in the future, and the more the common people will sing praises to him.
The country is becoming more and more chaotic, but the Jianghu sects are becoming more and more powerful, and the state's control over them is getting weaker and weaker.
The officers and soldiers did not dare to come to the territory of the martial arts sect to spread wilderness, let alone collect their taxes.
Some hungry people began to flock to the territory of the martial arts sect one after another, even if they could not learn martial arts, it was better to rent their land to grow crops in their territory.
In their lands, they can avoid the excesses of their taxes, and they collect much more gentle rent, so that they will always have some food left, so that they will not starve to death.
In some places, because too many people died of starvation, many people also migrated, and there was a phenomenon of thousands of miles of uninhabited.
The officials couldn't find a target to exploit.
Taxes are getting smaller and smaller, and the eldest nephew is still squandering.
However, in the territories under the jurisdiction of some martial arts sects, there is a trend of becoming more and more prosperous.
Only by letting the people who came without the protection of the martial arts sect will they obediently return to the place where they should stay, farm the land well, pay rent and taxes well.
Therefore, the relationship between the imperial court and the martial arts sect is already completely opposite.
The imperial court has been trying to uproot the martial arts sect in one fell swoop for a long time.
Today is the biggest opportunity.
As long as he takes Huaishan, has a large number of weapons, a large amount of silver, and kills a few traitorous ministers who control the government, he can more smoothly drive the absurd nephew from power.
When he sits on the throne, he must put this chaotic country in order.
We must make every effort to make the country prosperous, work diligently and love the country.
We must make sure that the people of the whole country are grateful for their goodness.
However, it seems that such a grand ideal of his own is about to fail, and tonight, it may be difficult for him to even retreat with his whole body.
A wry smile appeared on King Yuan's cold face, "If you let this king go, the court will not blame the past, otherwise, you will be dealt with by the conspiracy." ”
There are still 50,000 soldiers and horses at the foot of Huai Mountain, and it is not considered that the whole army has been wiped out, so he comforted himself like this, and when they relax their vigilance, it is the best policy to fight again.
Stay in the green mountains, even if there is no firewood, he is gambling, and the Huaishan faction will not dare to kill even the prince.
He didn't know that the 50,000 military horses under the mountain had been almost wiped out.
"Hahaha!" A man let out bursts of wild laughter, because the laughter was so loud that everyone's eardrums were buzzing, and after the laughter, the man said in a loud voice: "Rebellion? Do you think we will still be afraid to bear this charge?
Today, you all came to the door, and you all wanted to annihilate the entire martial arts sect in one fell swoop, why can't we resist? ”
A certain head of the sect on another tree also chimed in: "That is, the court and the martial arts sect did not interfere with the river water, and the court did not think about dealing with foreign enemies, but only knew that the nest was horizontal."
I still want to kill all the martial arts sects.
Why can't we rebel? ”
"You, you dare, it's really a big rebellion!" The eunuch Gonggong Qin, who was standing with King Yuan, glared at Xiao Doudou and shouted: "Some recklessness, how big waves can you make?"
When I see the prince, I don't kneel! ”
The eunuch's words were met with a circle of rolling eyes.
Kneel, that's the habit of eunuchs!
Mei Mantian's eyes were faint, noncommittal, and she still stood majestically at the top of the tree, as if the whole person was floating, and there was a feeling of becoming an immortal.
For the aura of the strong, King Yuan is very sensitive, and he will not be Mei Mantian's opponent.
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