Chapter 6 Chapter 45 Rise in troubled times
Mu Qianmei's words made several other people frown, internal and external troubles, the country will not be a country, why are those two brothers still starting such a war for the position of an emperor?
As the emperor, Zhou Yunxi said with a little shame:
"In fact, when the emperor was still the crown prince, he also had many opportunities to suppress the second prince, but unfortunately the old emperor was still there at that time, and he also fantasized about being able to cooperate with the second prince, one inside the lord and one outside the lord, and united to govern the Xiyu Kingdom, so he did not take stronger measures to suppress it, which would lead to the continuous growth of the power of the second prince and the current situation."
"As an emperor, I failed to take precautions at that time and remind him of the truth of raising tigers, and I also had a mistake!"
Mu Qianmei shook her head and said:
"In fact, in the final analysis, it was caused by the old emperor's mishandling of this matter, he wanted the second prince to be the whetstone of the crown prince, so he let him develop his own power, such a practice, if he had dealt with it before he died, there would have been no such trouble, but unfortunately, he went in a bit of a hurry and did not get rid of the hidden dangers."
Zhou Yunxi replied in a helpless tone:
"It has been many years since the old emperor reached the tribulation period, he thought that he should be able to succeed in the tribulation, so he didn't think about what happened after his death, if he succeeded, the battle between the two princes would always be just a small fight, and he had absolute control over the situation."
Xiaobai said unceremoniously:
"In my opinion, the two princes are people who can't make a big deal, one is indecisive, the other is brave and resourceful, his eyes are only focused on one position, and he doesn't look at the overall situation of the whole world, knowing that the result of such consumption will inevitably lead to the road of ruin, but he still fights and does meaningless internal friction, the two of them, no matter who wins, it will be unfortunate for Xiyu Country."
After saying this, everyone couldn't help but look at him with an expression full of surprise, not to mention the emperor, he actually degraded the two of them to worthless, Zhou Yunxi reacted after a while, and he said softly:
"If it is a time of peace, the eldest prince has a talent for governing the country."
Xiaobai chuckled lightly and continued:
"Even in peacetime, how can an emperor who cannot fully control the external army ensure that he can stabilize the country, if the foreign enemy invades, without a strong army stationed on the frontier, it is easy to become a slave of the country, he fantasizes that the second prince will defend him against foreign enemies, he only needs to sit in the main hall to strategize, but he doesn't know that the second prince is his biggest enemy."
"From this point of view alone, even if he has resourcefulness, it is very limited, as the young landlord said, those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear, an emperor who does not know himself and his opponent, even who is the enemy and who is the friend can't tell the difference, how good can the vision be?"
Zhou Yunxi muttered:
"He pays attention to family affection and doesn't want to kill each other, so he will give in to the second prince again and again."
Xiaobai still hit the nail on the head and said:
"Royal affection? If there was really family affection, the old emperor would not let the second prince be the whetstone. ”
"From the moment the old emperor gave the second prince hope, the family affection between their brothers has been gone, if it is said that when he began to give him hope, it was just a seed, when he became more and more powerful and stronger, that seed had taken root and sprouted, and gradually grew, and became a towering tree."
"When the old emperor died, the two evenly matched princes were destined to fight only to solve the problem of who would inherit the emperor's throne, and at that time, the eldest prince would still have the illusion of a master and a master outside the two princes, isn't this very naïve?"
"After the formation of the two forces, not to mention that the second prince has no intention of dividing the world equally, even if he himself has such a mind, the people around him will not easily agree to him doing this, this is a contradiction between the two interest groups, especially the second prince's side, their name is not right, as long as the prince is still the emperor, he will never get real recognition, so, there is no other way to go, only to defeat the prince, he is the real emperor."
"And the people around the crown prince will not allow the second prince to succeed, so they naturally have to desperately defend his orthodox status, and they can only face the battle head-on, although they know that the attrition of the civil war is likely to lead to the invasion of foreign enemies, and even the Xiyu Kingdom may be destroyed because of this."
"The two people now are like two arrows that have left the Xuan, they have left the bow, how can they still take it back?"
Zhou Yunxi looked at Xiaobai with some doubts, he didn't quite understand, didn't this Jiao, who had just turned into a dragon, been hiding in the cave in the back mountain? Why do you understand the things of the world?
Seeing his puzzled eyes, Xiaobai immediately understood what he was thinking, so he explained:
"The young master may not know that when the master is alive, he often talks about national affairs with others, and he naturally understands the affairs of the world, of course, this is just my personal opinion, and a few of us are here to talk about it."
Zhou Yunxi is skeptical of this explanation, if you want to talk about the understanding of the master, is he, a junior, not as deep as a dragon?
However, in addition, he couldn't understand how a dragon could see through these things, maybe after following Mu Qianmei's side, he had also made great progress!
He didn't know that inside the body of this dragon was a dragon soul that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.
Mu Qianmei said at this time:
"Since we can't change anything, we can only wait and see, and if there is a real invasion of foreign enemies one day, we will join the war against foreign enemies no matter what."
Zhou Yunxi originally intended to mention it, to see if he could let Tingxuelou go out of the mountain and assist Wu Changhao to win the domestic war, and then consider protecting the family and defending the country.
But now it seems that Mu Qianmei has made up his mind not to participate in the civil war, so he will not mention this matter again.
Ji Yuanqiu asked puzzledly:
"At that point, how do we intervene?"
Mu Qianmei analyzed and said:
"This war will not end in the short term, and other countries will definitely wait patiently, because the longer the civil war lasts, the greater the consumption of both sides, and the greater the consumption, the more effort they will have, and it is best to lose both sides and the dragons will be leaderless, and they will be able to carve up the West Rain Country without spending a single soldier."
"Now the more people participate in the war, the greater the internal friction, the faster the consumption, during this time, we must pay more attention to the movements of other Jianghu forces, if other Jianghu forces can stand still, in the end there may still be a war, if they are all involved in the civil war, there will be no last new force."
"As for how to intervene, it depends on the situation at the time, in the current Xiyu Country, the Qingyun faction is the largest faction in the country, if it is invaded by foreign enemies, they can ascend to the heights, and we will naturally respond to the call and go to the war."
After the discussion was completed, they dispersed and returned to their respective posts, allowing both Tingxue Building and Tingxue Academy to enter a normal life of cultivation and study, as if this place had become a pure land independent of the world.
For a period of time after that, Mu Qianmei temporarily ignored the affairs of other branches and Tingxue Academy, but focused on helping Bai Qianqian to carry out the development affairs of Zhuque Hall.
Obtaining all kinds of information has always been Mu Qianmei's most concerned thing, this is her profound experience in her two lives, in the changing situation, the more real and effective information you get, the more you can make a correct judgment on the current situation.
It is impossible for Tingxue Lou to stay out of this battle, so it is necessary to have enough self-insurance capital and then develop rapidly.
With the help of Mu Qianmei, the Vermilion Bird Hall developed rapidly, first setting up a site in Yulan City, and then gradually expanding outward, and slowly setting up sub-stations in the surrounding areas where the war occurred, in just three months, Mu Qianmei Vermilion Hall's sub-stations were all over all the towns in Wu Changhao's sphere of influence, like a sophisticated spider web, and each site could collect a lot of useful and useless information every day.
Mu Qianmei is busy directing the people below to constantly improve and repair this big net every day, and then gather the collected information together, store it in different categories, and make judgments based on the collected information, and issue different orders in time, so that other industries in Tingxue Lou can also develop with the trend.
The second branch hall developed is the Treasure Hall, a gang, without income, it is impossible to support the expenses of the gang's development, there is experience in creating a beggar gang, plus there are rich spirit stones in the Peach Blossom Secret Realm as the foundation, Mu Qianmei soon created a lot of industries, such as restaurants, teahouses, dart boards, jewelry stores, cultural relics calligraphy and paintings, auction halls, etc., all of which are the signboards of Tingxue Lou Treasure Hall.
At the time of the outbreak of the civil war, many businessmen were cashing in the industry, and then transferring their property and hiding in a safe place, which provided an excellent opportunity for the development of Tingxuelou Jubaotang, many industries did not need to be created from scratch, but could be directly acquired, so that the development of Jubaotang was very fast, and many large merchants were transferred to Tingxuelou at a very fair and even relatively cheap price.
Mu Qianmei rarely even recruits people, and there are ready-made personnel available for transfer, so in just two months, Tingxue Tower's Treasure Hall has spread all of Wu Changhao's spheres of influence and has become the largest commercial group in Xiyu Country.
With the development of Suzaku Hall and Jubaotang as the foundation, Mu Qianmei's third step of development is the God of War Hall and Chunfeng Hall, and the development of the God of War Hall is mainly to create one martial arts hall after another, constantly send dart masters to the dart bureau of Jubaotang, and escort Jubaotang.
Chunfeng Hall is a war medical hall everywhere, and it is also all over Wu Changhao's sphere of influence.
In this troubled world, Tingxue Lou has developed and risen strongly with lightning speed, and its development speed has made many people jaw-dropping and unbelievable.
At the same time, many people are also full of doubts, others are avoiding the war and retreating, but Mu Qianmei is listening to the various industries of Xuelou in the development of major events, and what is it for?