Chapter 104: The Cheapness of the King (I)
The crown prince and Fan Xian are brothers by blood, and there is no irresolvable hatred between the two, those are the affairs of the elders after all. The prince also expressed his willingness to reconcile to Fan Xian, but Fan Xian couldn't believe it, the most important thing is that Fan Xian knew that the prince didn't have enough strength and a strong mind to defeat him.
So Fan Xian's actions in the past six months, the biggest target is actually the eldest princess, I didn't expect the emperor to just confin her in the end, but to abolish the prince in front, this fact made Fan Xian ponder for a long time, and always felt that there were some problems in the order, with the emperor Lao Tzu who had been immersed in the gladiatorial arena of the world for many years, he should not make this kind of mistake.
Regardless of whether there is a mistake in the order, the matter of abolishing the reserve has been vigorously unfolded in the government and opposition of Qingguo after all. The word vigorous may not be used accurately, the so-called wind rises at the end of Ping, and any major event in history, at the beginning, may be just some inconspicuous rumors in the officialdom.
A few months ago, there was a fire in the East Palace. The crown prince went to the south. This is already the rumor.
And when the eight places of the supervision institute threw out some old stories, Taili Temple suddenly became interested in re-investigating the matter of the winter land of the Northern Army. Tobe began to cooperate in researching where the silver had gone...... The wind grew louder.
Last spring and Jingming. In order to crack down on Fan Xian, the two factions of the crown prince and the second prince once investigated the household department. In the end, the biggest loophole found was the problem of the winter jacket of the Northern Army. But the prince didn't expect that this matter would be found on his head in the end. Fortunately, His Majesty later withdrew. The crown prince avoided a disgraceful end.
But now that the court has brought up this old matter again, the courtiers in the court have smelled a different taste. The crown prince has long since lost too many loyalist roles. Who is Your Majesty going to let the crown prince throw out to atone for his sins?
Even at this time, no minister still thought that His Majesty would directly let the crown prince bear the responsibility. So when the Dali Temple and the Supervision Yuan put Xin Qiwu in prison. I thought that this matter was over for the time being.
Unexpectedly, Xin Qiwu was imprisoned for only three days, and he was released again, this henchman of the East Palace. The prince's close ministers, because of their good relationship with Fan Xian, did not suffer any torture in the supervision court, and did not give the prince out.
Rao is so. The Supervision Yuan and Dali Temple still bit the prince. Present the tantric recitals in the imperial study. In another meeting of the imperial study, the book was presented under the door. The six Shangshu are in front of those who are the center of power in Qingguo.
Shu Wu and Hu interceded on behalf of the prince. even made a guarantee to let the emperor dissipate the disguised anger. But after the dispersal of the dynasty, when the two scholars got together again to drink, they couldn't help but sigh.
His Majesty is truly determined to abolish the reserve. But the two of them are scholars of Chinese scholars. The crown prince must be protected. It's not about factions. It's just that they, as pure ministers, have to show their attitude. The crown prince is the prince for one day. They will be treated as half emperors. The emperor will not be harsh on this.
The most critical thing is. The ministers of the DPRK and China, represented by Hu Shu and the others, all thought that the crown prince might have been ridiculous and confused. But in the past two years, there has been a lot of progress. In order to avoid the turmoil caused by the struggle for imperial power between the DPRK and China. In order to prevent Fan Xian, who was far away in Jiangnan, from participating in these things in advance. They really hope that His Majesty can settle his heart and set the distant future of Qingguo in the future.
No matter how you look at it. Today's princes are the best choice for Qingguo. It not only avoids the internal friction of Qingguo, but also prevents the supervision Yuan...... The young man was the only one.
Emperor Qingguo is not a faint monarch, knowing that the checks and balances between monarchs and ministers will bring benefits to Qingguo, and he also expected that the matter of abolishing the prince will definitely cause great opposition, so he chose to remain silent for the time being. It seems that after the first storm. It seems that after the first turmoil, his idea of scrapping the reserve was dispelled.
However, the scholars of Hu Shu and all the ministers knew it very well. His Majesty is a man who does not make decisions easily. But once he made his choice, it didn't matter what difficulties he faced. He'll stay the course.
Sure enough, within a few days, the governor of Jiangnan Road, Lord Xue Qing, was sent to the palace. Above the court meeting, the words and sentences implied the East Palace, and the hidden meaning was known to everyone.
Shu Wu was furious, although he knew that this situation was against the odds and could not return, he still came out and scolded Xue Qing for being unsubordinate, and was full of nonsense.
The emperor took pity on Shuwu's old age and infirmity, and ordered him to return to his home to recuperate for three months, without the slightest punishment.
The other six governors came and went, and their tones were heavy or light, bright or dark, but they all expressed their attitudes implicitly.
At this time, the situation has gradually become clear, the emperor has the intention to abolish the reserve, and the governor of the Seven Roads is forced to write a letter to Shengwei, only the ministers of Shangshu Zhengqing in the court are sandwiched in the middle, they just want to oppose it, and they also feel that there is a sky cover, and there are thorns below, and the whole body is not uncomfortable.
However, although Shu Wu was invited back to the house, the Zhongshu of the Men still played the role of Emperor Qingguo allowing them to play the role of the right stream, and the ministers of the central region of the court boldly considered the words at the court meeting, expressed their opposing opinions, and timidly remained silent...... None of the ministers, under the hint of the emperor, bravely wrote to His Majesty to save it.
Yes, even if you like to pat yourself on the back, it is difficult to do this kind of thing, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, the people of Kyoto are looking at these officials, the prince did not make any big mistakes, but he wants to be deposed, it is really unreasonable, and it will not be explained in the history books in the future.
After the dissolution of this court meeting, several representatives of Wenchen came to Shufu. Cautiously solicited the opinions of Shu University, anyway, His Majesty knew these things, and they were not afraid that someone would play their own party.
Shu Wu was wearing a cloth robe. After being silent for a long time, he said with a smile: "Everything in the world." There is always a reason to pay attention to, especially the matter of the prince. It involves the will of heaven and the people. If it doesn't make sense, then it can't be ...... Fan Xian once said. The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy. This is a state affair, not a family affair of the Son of Heaven, Shu Wu, as a courtier, wants to relieve His Majesty's worries, and he wants to remove his worries for Qingguo. ”
Your Majesty has made up your mind, what can you do?
Shu Wu grabbed his beard under his chin. He grinned as he usually did, and said, "Sir once said." The king has a chaotic life, and the minister can't bear it. ”
Mr. in his mouth. Naturally, it is the Zhuang Mohan family who has passed away for two years. Wenchen went home separately and was silent.
In fact, if the emperor wanted to hint at the courtiers, there were many ways. It's easy to find the spokespeople of the DPRK, but it's amazing. But what is wonderful is that since the turmoil, except for Fan Jian, the head of the household. The emperor has never summoned any minister to the palace alone, so the courtiers are also wondering if His Majesty's mind has not yet been decided-they are not the role of His Majesty's land slaves like the Governor of the Seven Roads. I don't dare to read books indiscriminately.
The court fell into an awkward silent confrontation. And in the East Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is at the center of the incident. But it is still gentle and quiet. I don't seem to have taken this matter to heart. There were no powerful people in his faction at all, but this time he had won the support of so many civil servants. It can be said to be a kind of windfall. But it's also a ...... Surprise.
So the prince was secretly grateful. Growing silent.
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And in this waste storage turmoil. There are two young people who stay out of the matter, and they attract the attention of the ministers the most. These two young magnates have some similar temperaments. And the relationship with the crown prince is complicated. To this day, their performance is quite unexpected.
The first one is naturally Fan Xian, and now in the eyes of people, he is an authentic Three Princes. And he is the illegitimate son of His Majesty, and his identity is too sensitive. However, before and after the Governor of the Seven Roads wrote the book, he remained as silent as death in Jiangnan. The daily post of entering the palace does not mention this matter at all. It's just a matter of going around the daily affairs of the inner library and the surrounding area. And although the Supervision Yuan found the East Palace from the Ministry of Households. But the intensity was obviously not as strong as the ministers imagined, and everyone could see it clearly. The actions of the Supervisory Yuan in Kyoto have nothing to do with Fan Xian.
So much so that people suddenly thought of a tsubaki thing. Your Majesty threw Fan Xian to Jiangnan, did he also have the idea of separating him from the Supervision Yuan? Why don't you take this opportunity to beat the water dogs?
The second is the second prince. Before Fan Xian entered Beijing, the second prince had always been favored by His Majesty. He was the first of His Majesty's sons to be crowned king. In the middle of the court, Zhou accepted a large number of ministers to accompany him, and later everyone knew that the eldest princess was the prince of Mingli Baodi, and he was the one who secretly protected the land...... This second prince is not simple, faintly fighting against the prince, the so-called seizure of the prince, in fact, he was the first to refer to.
But in the past six months, there have been many major events in Kyoto, but they don't seem to have anything to do with the second prince, after the eldest princess was imprisoned, the second prince didn't have anything to do, but the prince was exiled by His Majesty.
Now that the crown prince is deposed, it stands to reason that the second prince should be the one who benefits the most, and he should take action. Even if he kept silent in order to avoid suspicion and to please His Majesty, he kept silent all the time, but he actually ...... personally wrote to defend the crown prince for the case of the expedition to the Northern Army Dongyi, and even secretly mobilized the faction officials in the middle and land, standing on the opposite side of the emperor's mind.
Of course, his power in the central region of the DPRK has basically been beaten by Fan Xiandi's two battles, but after so many years of operation, there is always some talking, and the most important thing is that after he married Ye Ling'er, he waited for half of the master of the Ye family, and he did have some effect when he spoke for the prince.
The Prince's two brothers, the two greatest enemies, showed their support in different ways when the Prince was most in danger, and this was a wonderful and wonderful situation.
Presumably, Emperor Qingguo must have a very complicated mood at this time.
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And when the matter of the abolition of the reserve has not yet entered the climax, on one of the three most dangerous borders in the world, there has already been a climax, which makes the already panicked courtiers of Qingguo become excited.
The three most dangerous borders are the border between the Northern Qi and the Northern Barbarians and the border between the Western Hu, as well as ...... The border between Nanqing and Northern Qi.
The extreme north has been snowing heavily for three consecutive years, and the frozen northern barbarian cattle have died, so the whole clan has to migrate around the heavenly veins. After thousands of miles of hard work, he finally went around from the north of Northern Qi to the west of Nanqing, but he paid a tragic price for the entire population.
This is a major event in history, for the present day. It has had a profound impact. The first is that the Northern Qi people no longer have to worry about the barbarians of the Savage High Earth Wasteland behind them, they can finally free up their hands to deal with the Qing people in the south-that hand. Naturally, it is a generation of famous Uesugi tigers.
And Xihu spent two years digesting the Northern Barbarians to join the tribe. The strength has increased dramatically. Because although there are few people who survive in the Beiban, the clansmen who can survive thousands of miles and have no food or medicine are all elite young men and women who are one in a thousand.
Qingguo was attacked by the enemy on his abdomen and back, and the pressure increased sharply.
Only then did the Dingzhou Ye family rush to the western front, and Li Hongcheng, the son of King Jing, was playing hide and seek with those Hu people in the west at this time.
Northern Yan Xiaoyi also returned to the camp ahead of schedule, using strong military power to suppress the strategy of the Shangshan Tiger and the bad ideas of the Northern Qi people.
And this time the border line climaxed. It was the outbreak on the northern front. Between Yan Xiaoyi, the governor of the northern capital, and a generation of famous generals Uesugi Tiger.
When the Uesugi Tiger led the army to retreat, leaving Yan Xiaoyi space and time to think and prepare, Yan Xiaoyi didn't think about his back road in Qingguo at all. went to prepare for the arrest of Emperor Qingguo, and directly waved his troops north. With 20,000 elites, there is a line along the middle of Cangzhou Yanjing. Assault on the North Battalion!
The soldiers are not tired of deceit, and the troops are as fast as a hurricane, Yan Xiaoyi perfectly implemented this purpose. There was no Privy Council to ask for instructions, and there was no time to wait for the will of Emperor Qingguo, so he personally led the army. The killing will pass.
At this time, the Shanhu who had always had no last resort on the battlefield obviously didn't expect that Yan Xiaoyi would still have the heart to send troops to fight when he was unable to protect himself.
At that time, the Northern Qi army was slowly retreating for more than 50 miles, and the camp was unstable, and it was suddenly attacked by night and suffered heavy losses. The Nanqing army, on the other hand, only paid 5,000 lives in total.
It is a great victory for Cangzhou.
In people's minds, this seems to be the first time that Uesugi Tiger has suffered defeat.
When the news came back to Kyoto. Whether it was the scholar Shu who was ordered to recuperate, or the people who sold alcohol on the street, they were all excited, and the belligerence and enthusiasm for expanding the borders, which were buried deep in the blood of the Qingguo people, were mobilized to the top by this "shameless" victory.
The dark clouds that had been floating over Kyoto no longer seemed to be so dazzling, and people were thinking that with such good news, His Majesty would not have to insist on his own absurdity, and do the opposite of people's emotions, it was really not a good choice.
With the advent of the war report, the official letter of the Northern Qi Emperor came immediately, in which the Northern Qi Emperor was angry and scolded, saying that the two countries were friendly, but how they waited were very shameless.
After receiving the credentials, Emperor Qingguo just smiled and handed over the matter to Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites to deal with. In today's world, the division of national borders is always so blurred, who entered whose land, it is always a difficult thing to say clearly, if it is really a misunderstanding, it is good to apologize in a few days, anyway, it is impossible to come back to life after killing the people.
The emperor smiled and said to Gonggong Hong beside him: "Yan Xiaoyi is good, he knows the right way to explain the meaning of his existence to me. "Sound, yes, people who don't have the meaning of existence, then they shouldn't exist anymore.
For example, the crown prince.
Therefore, Dali Temple continued to interrogate the case of the winter jacket, and the Supervision Yuan continued to dig out all the wrong things that the prince had done, the most shameless were the eight, and it seemed that he was going to write a memoir about the prince's molestion with the palace maid when he was a child. sound
The matter of abolishing the prince was not interrupted by Yan Xiaoyi's great victory, but he rested for a while, and then slowly and undoubtedly carried out under the disappointed gaze of the ministers.
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None of this has anything to do with Fan Xian.
He was on a civilian ship at this time, looking at the courtyard newspaper in his hand in a daze, thinking that the emperor Lao Tzu was really more shameless than himself, it seems that in a few days, the sacrifice to the sky that Xue Qing once mentioned will begin, I don't know what the quiet Qing Temple in Kyoto will look like at that time.
Find the prince has a reason to be abolished, and then sacrifice to heaven to ask for an oracle - the emperor is the son of heaven, and the prince is naturally the grandson of heaven, if God thinks that this grandson is not well-behaved, then God's son has no choice but to do it.
This will be written, and it will be much more beautiful in the history books.
It's really shameless.
Fan Xian shook his head and put down the newspaper. Since Xue Qing began to write, he fled from Suzhou, did not return to Hangzhou, did not go to Wuzhou, but just disguised himself and turned into a citizen and boarded a civilian ship, subconsciously thinking that the farther away from this political whirlpool the better.
He also knew about the second prince's book to protect the prince, and thought that the second prince's heart was really ruthless.
He thought of the victory in Cangzhou again, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, he had never known anything about military affairs, but he always felt that a terrifying character like the Uesugi Tiger could suffer such a big loss at the hands of Yan Xiaoyi? The most important thing is that it is a big crime to start a war lightly, the courtiers and the people can be as happy as watching a play, how can the emperor be as happy as an idiot?