Of course, Luo Xianzhi's rebellion will not stop here, for most kings, it is enough to just make the two of them suspicious, but after all, Yan Guo once had Murong Ke to leave behind, so it is suspected that with the high merit of the master, Yan Guo has slipped into an irreversible abyss, Luo Xianzhi wants to speed up this progress, then he needs to add another fire to the Emperor of Yan State.

And the people who add fire are too easy to find, there are as many people who support Murong Trai as there are people who hate Murong Trai in the Yan Kingdom, these people are quite easy to buy, as long as they say something next to the emperor, they are better than thousands of soldiers.

Xie Daoyun had witnessed Luo Xianzhi's actions throughout the whole process, and she asked with some curiosity: "Husband, why did you let people advise the Emperor of Yan State not to doubt Murong Chui's loyalty?" It doesn't seem like something you should be doing. ”

Oh, yes.

did not continue to slander, but laboriously explained to Murong Chui, this is not what Luo Xianzhi should do.

Luo Xianzhi put down the book in his hand, pondered for a while, and asked: "Madam, if you want to destroy a person, the worst way is to directly offer slander, that is a direct confrontation, everyone knows that you have spoken ill, if you fail to get rid of your enemy, then the next thing will be the strongest blow, and others will also be vigilant against you."

No one likes a person who speaks ill of people behind his back, this is an immoral behavior, this is an ungentlemanly behavior, only a villain would do such a thing.

If the emperor is wise enough, this method of slander will not have much effect, or it will make the emperor subconsciously produce a slight resistance psychology, although the emperor of Yan is only a middle-aged person, he himself is not a person who kills indiscriminately, and he is not the kind of person who is extremely paranoid, so now there is no complete tear between him and Murong Chui, this is the reason.

Emperor Yan was already very suspicious of Murong Chui, but because the person who spoke at the beginning was too naked to slander, this made Emperor Yan subconsciously a little vigilant, will there be some misunderstanding.

So what do you do now?

Since the head-on confrontation is not enough, then you have to stab you in the back, and if you want to stab you in the back, you have to get the emperor's subconscious approval, what is this recognition?

Even the person who is slanderous cannot be hostile to Murong Trai, and if even someone who is not hostile to Murong Trai agrees, this kind of credibility is quite high.

It can be said that one is the slander of a villain, and the other is the words of a loyal and righteous country, you can call it a loyal minister who uses his credibility to slander Murong Chui. ”

Xie Daoyun is good at words and other things, of course she doesn't understand this kind of political struggle, she understands a little, but more places are more puzzled: "Since you still want to slander Murong Chui in the end, why do you want to excuse him again?" ”

Luo Xianzhi said with a smile: "Of course, the reason for exculpation is very simple, only by exculpating him can it be proved that he is biased towards Murong Chui, leaving this subconscious in the heart of Emperor Yan.

Then he praised Murong Trai's merits, said that he was loyal, said that he had talent, said that he was simply Wang Mang alive, said that he had the talent of Emperor Wu of Wei, in short, said all the points that worried the emperor, praised these, said that the people of the entire Yan Kingdom recognized these, and then said to the emperor Don't worry, what does Madam think will happen? ”

Even if Xie Daoyun doesn't understand it anymore, he understands it now, what else can he do, if the Emperor of Yan can still bear it, then it will either be a holy monarch or a turtle.

Luo Xianzhi began to read again, the sunlight outside the window sprinkled on his body, his knuckles were white, he really deserved to be a gentleman praised by Jiangzuo people, upright and deserved.

……

Jicheng.

Ever since those rumors intensified, Emperor Yan had been very worried.

Seeing this, his close ministers knew that the opportunity had come, so they said: "Your Majesty, the ministers think that you really don't need to worry so much, how can King Yong rebel?" ”

This is the first time that the emperor has heard someone say so categorically that Murong Trai will not rebel, and he asked in disbelief: "You said that Murong Trai will not rebel, why?" ”

The minister knelt directly on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, although the minister does not know much about King Yong, he has also heard that the people in the country praise him for his loyalty, and in the mouth of the people, his reputation is very great, and a person may be prejudiced, but if the people praise him more, it should not be wrong."

The minister believed that the state should not doubt those who had talents, King Yong had outstanding talents, and the people and officials recognized that if there was no King Yong, then the country might not be the opponent of the Liang State. ”

Emperor Yan had already begun to frown, and he shouted angrily: "What did you say? The people praise each other? Why don't I know? It's all Diao people! ”

The ministers knew that there was an effect, and they were overjoyed, and fanned the flames and said: "Your Majesty, the people always like those legendary stories, King Yong pacified Guanzhong alone, so the people in the country praised him, and a loyal minister was praised, this is where the folk customs of my Dayan lie, this is Your Majesty's great achievements." ”

Emperor Yan roared: "Enough, what loyalty, if he is really loyal, he should not stay in Guanzhong now, but should come to Jicheng, the so-called loyalty, but because the cost of his betrayal is too high, and there is still fear of the army in my hands."

No, I can't sit still. ”

As if shocked by the emperor's words, the ministers were shocked and said, "Your Majesty, do you really doubt the loyalty of a sect king?

King Yong has noble character, outstanding talent, high prestige, and the noble blood inherited from Emperor Wu, such a noble person, do you doubt his loyalty? ”

Noble character!

Outstanding talent!

High prestige!

Noble bloodline!

These words are all rooted in the emperor's heart, and the courtiers described by these words can really be regarded as courtiers?

He is the great sect of the Murong clan, and he should be the emperor, not me!

Emperor Yan asked gloomily: "King Yong is really excellent to the extreme, several times in the entire clan, no one can compare to him, in the clan, there should be a lot of people who like King Yong, alas, this is my negligence." ”

The close minister followed the emperor's words and said: "Yes, King Yong is the pride of the clan, and the minister knows that Zongzheng once said that if the Murong clan is all people like King Yong, then my Dayan can unify the world and become a celestial clan." ”

The Emperor of Yan was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "I know, I should reward King Yong and obey the will of the people. ”

His voice was as cold as the ice of ten thousand years, without the slightest temperature.

……

A decree was sent from the palace, and a large number of guards rushed out, what they had to do was very simple, that is, to arrest Murong Chui's comrades, the emperor had determined that there were many people who were conspiring against him, especially the clan, and they wanted to change the emperor.

The emperor also believed that there were scholars such as the Bohai Gao clan who were also in contact with Murong Trai, and he launched a search to eliminate the opposition, and began to rummage through the mansions of these powerful people for possible correspondence with Murong Trai, as well as suspicious objects.

There are also those things that can prove that they are trying to be unfavorable to the emperor, these things are quite free and proven, especially from those records, as long as the emperor sees criticism of himself, he thinks that this is cooperating with Liang and Murong Chui to suppress his prestige, but in fact, criticism of the emperor is very normal, since ancient times, as long as those tyrants and faint monarchs, courtiers are not allowed to criticize themselves.

Because in the ancient Bang Zhou era, this truth has been very clear, as a king, will be blinded, most people have asked the king, so they will compliment the king and say good things, if a person only listens to good words, do not listen to those contrary ears, then will fall into a place of no return.

This is especially true of kings, so it is permissible for the courtiers to criticize, even if it is wrong or selfish, because if those who have ulterior motives are not allowed to speak, then those who really have sincere words cannot speak.

People who don't let people speak, in the history of Bang Zhou, there is an allusion to "the road is the eye", and was finally killed by Luo Xuangong and others, which can be said to be a stench for 10,000 years.

But now the Emperor of Yan is doing this, although his history is not very good, he still knows the allusion of the road to the eye, but Luo Xianzhi hit his heart again and again, so that his string called reason has been completely broken.

Now he is a king who thinks that he will lose everything at any time, his state of mind is probably not understood by many people, but the feeling of losing things should be understandable for most of the time, the feeling of being deducted money is probably understandable, and the state of the emperor is ten thousand times more serious than this.

……

Those scholars are the most incapable of resisting, the scholars led by the Bohai Gao clan were slaughtered, the entire Jizhou scholars and the scholars in Youzhou have undergone a purge, about 300 people died in this turmoil, especially the main branch, there are really a lot of killings.

The centralization of the Yan State has been very deep, and those who used to have high power have gradually weakened, and in this turmoil, those clansmen who were closer to Murong Chui were all killed by the emperor, and there were more than a dozen people, including the magnates who were attached to these clansmen.

This sudden disaster shocked almost everyone, and no one knew why the emperor suddenly decided to go on a killing spree and forcefully change the political landscape in Jicheng.

Many of the soldiers who had fought against the Liang State withdrew to the north bank of the Yellow River, and Hedong began to increase its military strength to defend against Murong Chui, and the whole world changed greatly in an instant.

This change was all due to an order of the emperor.

What happened in Yan Guozhong quickly spread to Guanzhong and Liang Guozhong, and when Murong Chui saw the incident that happened in Jicheng, it was like being struck by lightning, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

"The Emperor is crazy?"

This was the first thing Murong Chui said after seeing these things, he didn't understand how the emperor dared to do these things, didn't he know that he was still in Guanzhong?

Why did he dare to slaughter his mother's people?

Why did he dare to kill his friends and so on?

Wang Meng and Yang Cheng glanced at each other, and immediately knew that something must have happened in Jicheng that they didn't know, and this incident prompted the emperor to make the current choice, which was probably the handiwork of that Liang Guoluo Xianzhi.

But even if they could guess, the two of them just silently kept this matter in their hearts, and were a little wary of Luo Xianzhiduo, and would not tell Murong Chui about it.

Because in the eyes of the two, this is clearly a good opportunity for Guanzhong.

If the emperor is unkind, he cannot blame the courtiers for being unjust.

This is what Meng Sheng once said, the emperor did this kind of thing, even if Murong Trai rebelled, would anyone be able to say anything, and even Murong Trai could directly crusade against the emperor in the name of eliminating harm to the country.

No matter what the result, Murong Chui can get rid of the shackles of the courtiers of the Yan Kingdom on his body, and Guanzhong has been preparing for so long, and he can finally go east and become the lord of the Yan Kingdom.

On this day, both Wang Meng and Yang Cheng have been waiting for a long, long time, just becoming a courtier of the palace is not the ambition of these two people, they want to become a courtier who follows the Son of Heaven and makes contributions.

Murong Chui has always been reluctant to fall out with Yan Guo, and in the eyes of Wang Meng and Yang Cheng, they are very pedantic.

Although they knew that the war with the imperial court would benefit the Liang State, it was not important in the eyes of the two, the Southern Dynasty did not have cavalry, it was impossible to capture the Northern Dynasty, at most it could only be fought with the Northern Dynasty in Heluo, and wait until Guanzhong pacified the Guandong, and then pacified the Southern Dynasty at that time.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has pointed the knife in his hand in front of your forehead, the cold blade has already made people shudder, if you don't resist now, can you wait until we all die in the hands of the emperor?"

Murong Trai was in a trance, he didn't understand why things had suddenly come to this point, he only felt that he hadn't done anything, and the emperor who was more normal as his brother said suddenly went crazy, and he had to fight to the death with himself.

Of course, Murong Trai could not sit still, especially the appearance of some people made him completely determined, that is, the people who escaped from Jizhou, there were people in the Murong clan who were closer to him, and there were people in the Gao clan who were closer to him, these people knelt in front of Murong Trai, crying about the emperor's cruelty, which made Murong Trai completely determined.

A decree from Guanzhong vibrated the entire Guanzhong and the world, in which Murong Chui told about the emperor's sins, such as killing relatives, such as indiscriminate killing of innocents, such as unkindness and injustice, as a descendant of the Murong clan, he would obey the righteousness of the world and pacify the disaster of the country.

Fengtian is difficult!

His inscription soon spread throughout the Guanzhong, and the scholars and officers in the entire Guanzhong recited that Murong Chui established himself as the Emperor of Yan and deposed the position of the original Emperor of Yan, and suddenly there were two emperors in Yan State, and a war that was completely impossible to prevent would break out between the east and west north of the Yellow River.

In the face of Murong Chui's brazen counterattack, the Emperor of Yan slashed indiscriminately with his sword in the palace, and laughed wildly: "I know, I know, how can he be a loyal minister, look, isn't he showing his fox tail now, isn't it revealing his wolf ambition now, can't he wait to rebel now?"

I know that it was right to kill those people, and now it is time to put down his rebellion, can a mere king compete with my Dayan court? ”

His close ministers all praised him, and many of them had happy smiles on their faces, and they could finally kill Murong Chui.

Could Murong Chui be the opponent of the imperial court?

In their opinion, of course not, how can it be compared to Hedong plus Prefecture plus Youzhou plus Jizhou plus half of the grassland, when Bang Zhou was a Jin State pressed the Qin State to fight, the current imperial court is equivalent to at least two or three Jin States.

Isn't it easy to hit a level?

……

Xiao Yan, who has been a little depressed since Xiao Tong's death, finally burst out laughing, his left and right are full of courtiers, Luo Xianzhi naturally sits first on the left hand, Xiao Yan raised the information in his hand, and laughed loudly: "Yan civil war, Yan civil war, this is my Liang's luck, this matter, thanks to Shang Shuling, he alone is more important than thousands of troops."

Lingxiu has been serving as Shangshuling for so many years, and I now think it's time for Lingxiu to become the real prime minister. ”

The real Prime Minister!

Gold Seal Purple Ribbon!

The distant system of three princes and nine kings, the prime minister at that time was really half an emperor with unlimited power, and even the other three princes and imperial doctors were the prime minister's deputies.

But later, these names were abolished, leaving only a few times such as Sansi and Taiwei, and they still had to add Shangshushi, which was still not as good as the original prime minister, and now Luo Xianzhi is going to become the real prime minister.

There is no longer a need for honors such as the so-called opening ceremony and the three divisions, because the three divisions are not as good as him, because he could have opened a mansion and opened a prime minister's mansion, and all the officials in it worked for him.

This is the power of the prime minister!

Luo Xianzhi actually doesn't care about the promotion of these positions, he is the title of Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, and the three divisions, which is enough for him to command hundreds of officials, and then add up to them are just some honors.

But all the courtiers looked at him with envy, there were countless gate valves in the Southern Dynasty, but most people knew that even if they were real families, they could not enter the "family" column in the history books.

For most people in this world, it is a very high dream to be able to make their name in the history books, if they can be passed on together, it is quite remarkable, if they can be a single biography, it will take luck, not only ability, but also luck.

But that's for the poor.

For most families, making their family's history book lintel a family is the ultimate dream.

In the current Southern Dynasty, only a very small number of families can meet, among which the Gusu County Gong family is one of them, and now Luo Xianzhi has become the prime minister with real power, and the first gate of Jiangzuo is firmly attached to their bodies, and they can no longer be taken off.

Luo Xianzhi thanked Emperor Xie for his grace, and then said: "Your Majesty, now is the time to seize the land of Qingzhou, and after seizing Qingzhou, my Liang will be all south of the Yellow River, and then you can take advantage of the civil strife in the Northern Dynasty to take the opportunity to go north to seize the land of Jizhou and Youzhou." ”

If Qingzhou is captured, the surface strength of Liang State will become the first, of course, it is only the surface, in a short period of time, it is not possible to sort out the problems of Liang Guozhong, whether it is Shuzhong or Huaibei, as well as Heluo and Qingzhou, they have not joined Liang State for a long time, and they have not yet completely returned to their hearts, and there are still many problems.

When Xiao Yan heard this, he said: "Lingxiu, you can't attack yet, if I lead a large army to attack, then who will be left in the country to guard it?" ”

Who's going to keep watch?

This is a problem, in the past, although it was actually Luo Xianzhi's guard, but nominally the prince was in charge of the country, if the emperor really had an accident on the front line, then let the prince succeed to the throne, and now there is no prince, so what about letting the prince supervise the country?

If Xiao Yan had an accident outside, what should he do?

The atmosphere in the palace suddenly became a little tense, which was actually asking the question of who to appoint as the crown prince.

However, Luo Xianzhi didn't think this was a problem, he thought, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you don't need to lead your troops to attack anymore, just send a general to capture Qingzhou, the current Emperor of Yan has no intention of guarding Qingzhou at all, as long as we don't rush across the Yellow River, he just wants to compete with Murong Chui in the north." ”

As long as the emperor doesn't go out.

This is Luo Xianzhi's method, let the emperor go out or not, it is determined by the situation.

Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, asked the courtiers to leave, leaving only Luo Xian, and asked hesitantly: "Lingxiu, I want to establish an heir, choose one of the children of the former prince to be the grandson." ”

"Yes."

Luo Xianzhi said without hesitation: "The minister agrees." ”

As long as you don't appoint the emperor and other stupid sons, it's fine.

Xiao Yan set up Xiao Tong's child, thinking that he knew that his other sons were not very good, and he felt guilty about Xiao Tong, he thought that Xiao Tong's death was inseparable from himself, if it wasn't for the witch case, Xiao Tong might not have a heart disease, so he wanted to compensate Xiao Tong's child and make himself feel better.

Hearing Luo Xianzhi's approval, Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and sighed: "Since the death of the crown prince, I have often had nightmares, and I can only sleep by listening to the Dharma.

But now the only thing I have doubts about is that I don't know who to give it to, I plan to give both of them the title of king first, and tell everyone that the grandson will choose from the two of them, but my other sons, I don't want to treat them badly, so I will give them the title of king, let them leave Jianye, so as not to have any thoughts that they shouldn't have. ”

Luo Xianyi was directly numb when he heard this, originally Xiao Yan wanted to establish a grandson, which is a good thing, even if he establishes a not very outstanding grandson, then it is still possible to change it in the future, and it may not bring disaster to the country and the people.

But according to Xiao Yan's method, then Liang Guo will really be finished.

As soon as Xiao Yan finished speaking, Luo Xianzhi said directly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this kind of idea of yours is absolutely impossible, you announce to everyone that both of you are qualified to obtain the grandson, this is to let the two fight, which is not good for the country."

If you give other princes the title of king, you have to seal it, which will be a lot of destruction, unless you are willing to seal the princes to Jiaozhou, to Yizhou, to Qiongzhou, or to the southwest, or to Lingnan.

Nachen didn't have an opinion. ”

Of the several places mentioned by Luo Xianzhi, Lingnan is probably the most prosperous, and after at least a few hundred years of development, there are enough people to support a large kingdom, and there is a real Zhuxia culture there.

As for the 100,000 mountains in Qiongzhou and Yizhou and Southwest Yi, there are still a large number of barbarians in it, and going there is simply a wasteland, and I don't know if I can come back alive, anyway, the people who are exiled to Qiongzhou are basically not one in ten.

Not to mention the 100,000 mountains, which are still the place where Liang Guozhong talked about until now, even the army of the imperial court generally takes a detour, so you can know how terrible it is.

Xiao Yan said dumbly: "Lingxiu, don't be joking. ”

Luo Xianzhi said seriously: "Your Majesty, the minister is not joking. ”

Xiao Yan was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Only exiles will go there, and it is impossible for me to exile my son." ”

Luo Xianzhi said with emotion: "The division is an exile, more than 1,400 years ago, the ancestor of the minister, King Su, exiled countless brothers, nephews, relatives and heroes to the now barren Kanto.

There is now a world of flowers, since His Majesty wants to divide it, it is naturally so. ”

Xiao Yan opened his mouth, and then said in a dull voice: "At this time and that time, Emperor Han Gao divided the meritorious heroes, and did not let their sons and meritorious heroes go to that distant wasteland, I want to make my sons rich, is it wrong?" ”

Luo Xianzhi said softly: "Your Majesty, the ministers are on your side, if you want to make the princes rich, then it is enough to reward them with goods."

Emperor Han Gao let King Zong out of the town because the world had just been pacified, and he was worried that someone would rebel, so he gave land to the heroes in order to reward them for their contribution to the founding of the country.

Does Your Majesty have these two concerns?

I thought there was none.

In this case, why divide the power of the center, the infighting in the court should be as small as possible, and not let it become more fierce by himself, which is not what a wise king would do. ”

Xiao Yan, who had always been obedient to Luo Xian's words, was a little stubborn about this matter: "I have already attacked those sect kings, and now let my son go out of the town to prevent those scholars from making trouble, which is quite reasonable."

Lingxiu, you don't need to persuade me anymore, I believe that there is nothing wrong with this matter, as long as the strength of the imperial court is strong enough, no one will have thoughts that they shouldn't have.

Lingxiu, you have always told me that you should not use the possibility of the future to prevent the present, why do you make this mistake now? ”

Luo Xianyi knew that Xiao Yan was already unshakable when he heard it, he only felt a little helpless, these were two different things, there was an essential difference, but he didn't say more, but sighed: "Since Your Majesty has decided, the minister can only comply." ”

In his heart, he secretly thought to himself, when Xiao Yan died, he would raise all these vassal kings, Xiao Yan was so old, how many years could he support?

Xiao Yan naturally didn't know what he was thinking, he was very happy when he heard it, he thought it would take a lot of speech, stretched out his hand and patted Luo Xianzhi on the shoulder and said, "I will also add two thousand households to you to increase your glory." ”

(End of chapter)