Chapter 85: Two Embarrassed People

With Xu Jing's narration, everyone in the hall gradually became excited. After Liu Bei fell ill, Xu Jing and Wu Yi teamed up with Empress Dowager Wu to conceal Liu Bei's illness, and took this opportunity to gradually control the government and control the defenders of Chengdu.

A large number of officials and generals who did not deal with them were belittled and replaced by people close to them. During this period, they had been issuing orders in Liu Bei's name, and since the jade seal was under their control, even if the decrees they issued were unreasonable, they were regarded as Liu Bei's intentions, and those who were loyal to Liu Bei had to follow the orders even if they were unwilling.

After Liu Bei's illness lasted for several months, he finally couldn't survive it and went west. At this time, they didn't even mourn, pretending to be that Liu Bei continued to be sick in bed, so as to continue to control the government. In the end, Empress Dowager Wu finally couldn't help it, and she asked Xu Jing to concoct a testament and pass the throne to her son.

Xu Jing believes that if the outside world knows that the news of Liu Bei's death will definitely cause political turmoil, and the legal heir is the crown prince, if the throne is passed on in the form of a testament, it may not be convincing. He mentioned yì, it is better to continue to pretend that Liu Bei is not dead, and give Liu Li the Zen position on the grounds that he is seriously ill and cannot take care of things.

In this way, Liu Bei's prestige can be used to suppress those who have dissent. Some people are like this, if Liu Bei is still there, even if he has been bedridden for a long time, they don't dare or won't have different intentions, but once they know that Liu Bei is not there, they will have no scruples.

I have to say that Xu Jing's method is very appropriate in that situation, using the way of Zen, the regime in Chengdu was really able to transition smoothly, and some ministers who were dissatisfied with Xu Jing, Wu Yi and others had nothing to say, because they had been kept in the dark, thinking that this was really what Liu Bei meant.

Although they have not been able to meet Liu Bei in person, the jade seal in the edict is not fake, and Xu Jing and his henchmen have been acting, pretending that they often enter the palace to face the saints, so that those who can't see Liu Bei still think that they have been snubbed by the emperor.

It was not until Xu Jing cleared all the rebel forces out of the court and completely controlled the government, and Wu Yi also firmly controlled the army in Chengdu, that Xu Jing announced Liu Bei's death, began to handle the funeral affairs for Liu Bei, and named Wu Yuan the queen mother.

Since then, it has ended the stage when the emperor is sick in bed and cannot hold a court meeting, and has begun a new situation in which the Empress Dowager Wu lowered the curtain to listen to the government when she was in the last dynasty, and in fact, Xu Jing and others controlled the government.

However, at this time, Liu Hou had already raised troops in Jingzhou and marched to Chengdu. They never thought that Liu Hou's speed would be so fast, and the Hong army had just arrived in Jingzhou and rushed to Chengdu non-stop.

They didn't expect that Wei and Wu could not contain Liu Hou's forces, and even Liu Feng, who had high hopes, could not stop Liu Hou's army for many days. Therefore, the Hong army has been killed outside Chengdu for a few days, and they still don't know anything, and they are taken advantage of by others because of their negligence.

After Xu Jing finished speaking, Liu Hou had a question, why were Wei and Wu so kind and willing to spend so much effort to help Xu Jing and them seize power?

Although Liu Hou has been outstanding in recent years, they may not want a capable person to be their future opponent, and it is in their interests to change a weaker little emperor to be their opponent, but is it worth it for Liu Hou to spend so much money to get rid of it?

For a long time, the opponents of Wei and Wu on the frontal battlefield were Zhang Fei's group army in Hanzhong and Guan Yu's group army in Jingzhou, and Liu Hou's Hong army just appeared in front of the world as a surprise army. Is he worth it for both countries to mobilize a large army in exchange?

You must know that Wei and Wu each sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Shu, and the time lasted for more than a year, which was not only as simple as killing a few people, but also cost countless weapons, armor, grain, grass, and silver, such a large-scale war almost hollowed out the national strength of the two countries.

Cao Pihe and Sun Quan are equivalent to making a big gamble on the fate and future of their own country, so the stakes involved must be huge, as the saying goes, no profit is not early, the two countries have invested so much, it must be in order to obtain greater benefits.

So what kind of huge gains are worth the big risk and such a big bet for the two countries? At least Liu Hou believes that he is not worth that price, although he is a traverser and has a sense of superiority that most people in this era do not have, but he is not narcissistic enough to think that he is worth the price of hundreds of thousands of armies and the treasury of the two countries.

Liu Hou raised his questions, Xu Jing pondered for a long time, and finally told a story that made Liu Hou even more frightened.

It turned out that Wei and Wu's offer to help Liu Li ascend to the throne was not unconditional, and their conditions were not many, only one: the secret of exchanging firearms. Xu Jing and the others saw that the conditions proposed by Wei and Wu were neither land cederations nor compensation, let alone tribute, but just the strange # lewd tricks concocted by the crown prince Liu Chan, so they agreed without hesitation.

In their eyes, these things are insignificant, and they give them when they give them, so they take away Dong Yun, who Liu Hou left to guard the "Ministry of Industry", and send people to take over and control the entire "Ministry of Industry". After Liu Li successfully ascended the throne, they got some craftsmen from the firearms manufacturing factory and sent a few to Wei and Wu.

"What!" "Bang! Liu Hou's eyes were about to crack when he heard this, and he slapped the case in front of him in anger, and the furnishings on the case were shocked by a "bang" and jumped half a foot high.

Fortunately, this Zhang Tiao case is a high-end product, which is a big tree as thick as the three of them hugging each other, and a tabletop made of a half-foot thick wooden board was intercepted, so under Liu Hou's full effort, he did not smash the case as described in the martial arts movie, but it was shot with a loud bang.

"You, you, you bastard......" Liu Hou was really angry, his face turned red from anger, and he pointed at Xu Jing and scolded.

"Do you know how ignorant you are, how bastard you are, you will bring endless disasters to Shu, because of your stupid behavior, thousands of more people will die in Shu. You, you, you, you're mad at me. ”

Liu Houlao was ashamed and angry, and because of the slap of the slap, he used his fist to hammer the case with a loud bang. Seeing the emperor's angry appearance, Xu Jing, who was relieved, was so frightened that he trembled like chaff, his knees weakened, and he also knelt down with a bang, and then continued to kowtow and ask for guilt: "The old minister's crime deserves death, please forgive your majesty." ”

Liu Hou now regrets pardoning him for capital crimes, and regrets that he made a plan to deal with him before he found out how many crimes he had committed. He was really angry and annoyed now, and even ...... I'm a little scared.

He can forgive Xu Jing for excluding dissidents, he can forgive him for controlling the government, he can forgive him for concealing Liu Bei's illness and death, and he can even forgive him for launching a coup d'état to seize his throne.

Because he thinks that these things cannot be changed in the face of his great strength, as long as he comes out, he can quickly correct these things and eliminate the impact, which is based on his strong confidence or superiority.

It's like a father who won't really get angry at some of his children's nonsense, whatever you want, when you've jumped enough, Lao Tzu waved his hand, and everything will return to its original place, and Lao Tzu still has the final say.

However, this time was different, Xu Jing gave the secret of the firearm to Wei and Wu, and it was really difficult for Liu Hou to forgive him. How bad the impact of this incident is, and how many consequences there are, Liu Hou knows best.

Firearms are his hegemony in this world, and it can even be said that the greatest reliance on survival, if Wei and Wu know the secret of firearms, his previous advantage of being invincible and invincible will be gone, and the combat power of the three countries will be pulled to the same level.

And the difficulty for him to unify the world will increase more than tenfold, and even lose the opportunity to unify the world from now on, even if he is eliminated by the other party in turn.

What's even more terrifying is that on the land of Shenzhou, the warlord melee will last longer, and it will be a melee with higher killing efficiency, the Han people will suffer more casualties, the vitality of the Han people will be further weakened, and the alien race will have more opportunities.

If thermal weapons and their manufacturing techniques are diffused and spread to civilians, even to foreign races, the consequences will be even harsher and more people will die. At that time, even he, the emperor, would be threatened with firearms, because with firearms, assassination would be easy and effective, how could he not be afraid?

Xu Jing's stupid move is tantamount to opening a Pandora's box, which is equivalent to bundling the Ebola virus, the SARS virus and the avian flu virus together and spreading them, or to put it bluntly, opening the gates of hell.

He seemed to see the scene of gunsmoke everywhere in the land of China, as if he saw the scene of corpses all over the field and blood flowing, as if he saw the picture of white bones and ten rooms and nine emptiness. The more Liu Hou thought about it, the more worried he felt, the more he thought about it, the more he felt fearful, the uneasiness in his heart grew, and his chest began to feel stuffy, as if there was a thousand catties of boulders pressed on his chest.

He had never been so angry, he was panting now, blood poured into his pupils, and his hands were still smashing the case loudly, until his hands were swollen without knowing it, he roared and cursed, and the whole person was like crazy, in a state of loss of control.

The ministers were secretly surprised when they looked at him, they had never seen the new emperor look so angry, even Guo Youzhi and Zhang Bao, who had been following Liu Hou for a long time, had never seen him lose his temper like this.

Xu Jing was also very scared, he didn't understand why the emperor was angry about such a small thing, so he had to kowtow vigorously to ask for guilt, and his forehead was already red and swollen and he still didn't dare to stop. Both of them are swollen today, Liu Hou's hand is red and swollen, and Xu Jing's forehead is red and swollen, both of them are embarrassed.

Zhao Tong, as the commander of the Guards Battalion, was standing next to Liu Hou, and when he saw that Liu Hou's appearance was very abnormal, he hurriedly stepped forward, and he persuaded in his mouth: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger." He put his arm around his shoulders and tried to hold him.

"You old horseman, I'll stone you to death!" Liu Hou was so angry that he forgot to say that he called himself "I" who had finally gotten used to it, so he picked up a paperweight on the case and threw it at Xu Jing.