Chapter 16: The King's Cultivation
Angry's face turned red, but when he asked her, he didn't say anything, and Zhuang Xun was stunned.
"It's too much to deceive, too much to deceive......" Xingyan stared at Zhuang Xun viciously.
"What's wrong, is it about me?" Zhuang Xun was furious by her vicious gaze.
"Forget it, Zhuang Lang, you shouldn't know ......" Li Ruxi also felt that her actions were inappropriate.
"Know what? Tell me. Zhuang Xun was stunned, so inexplicable.
"This is not Zhuang Lang, you should know." Li Ruxi looked at Zhuang Xun's inexplicable expression, and her anger weakened slightly.
"There's something I shouldn't know, I'm my future husband." When she said this, Zhuang Xun became even more curious.
"......" Li Ruxi was silent.
Tell Zhuang Xun that he is climbing a high branch? Although her behavior is somewhat similar, but when she says this, she will be embarrassed
In the end, Zhuang Xun didn't ask what the situation was.
On the way to Chengguo, I met two or three waves of generals, and the situation was similar, and they all gave Zhuang Xun blessings to the two of them.
Zhuang Xun didn't think there was anything, and He Jung's expression was no longer relaxed and natural.
All the way to the north, over the mountains, until the way is blocked by the big river, the river is very wide, you can't see the other side, like the ocean, if you can see the river flowing quietly, you will really mistake why the lake and the sea are big.
"Is this the Great River?" Zhuang Xun stood on the mountain, looking down at the mighty river, and couldn't see the end at a glance, which was much bigger than the Yangtze River and the Yellow River on the earth, and too wide, so big that people were afraid.
"That's right, the hundred-mile-wide river, this is a moat that ordinary people can't cross, and it also serves as the junction of the three kingdoms." He Jung, who was standing next to Zhuang Xun, said.
"I'm a little puzzled, you said that if Hebei Province is north of this river, then how can it establish effective rule." Zhuang Xun looked at the endless, clear river.
"Hebei Province is said to be Hebei Province, but in fact, the real Hebei part only accounts for half of the province, and it is relatively desolate, such as Daijun, where the benefactor wanted to establish a foundation at the beginning." Jungsan explained.
"Dai County, Yinshan County and other counties are backed by Yin Mountain, there are copper mines, pastures, and can be cultivated, but after Yin Mountain, it is a wild land, and the desert environment is mostly there, relying on Dai County and Yinshan County and other counties cannot establish a big country that is enough to fight against Cheng Yu and other counties, and there are wild Hu people harassing them, so they can only accept the rule of Yu State all the time." Jung's explanation was a little more understanding.
It is a situation where there is no way and has to be attached to, and it is true that the original election of the county was to see that he had a convenient and self-reliant geographical relationship.
Climbing the mountain and looking at the river, if such a flow of river water is flooded, it will be a really terrifying thing, but there are gods in this world, and the Dragon King Temple may be really useful.
"Let's go, Zhuang Lang, it used to be the country of Ji'er." Li Ruxi was full of nostalgia, looking at Zhuang Xun looking at the river in a daze, and she couldn't wait to cross the river, see her family, and let them meet Zhuang Xun.
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The quaint and quiet Taoist hall, sandalwood curling, middle-aged man in Taoist clothes, holding his breath and concentrating, sat cross-legged and hugged Dan.
It wasn't until there was a knock at the door that he opened his eyes and shouted in a long and weak tone: "Come in." ”
This person is the king of Cheng at this time, the monastic emperor of the country.
"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Yu Kingdom is here." The eunuch pushed open the door and said cautiously.
"I heard that the leader is Zhuang Xun, who is praised by the immortals?" The emperor's words were light and full of interest.
When it came to the word immortal, the eunuch didn't dare to slack off, and quickly explained: "This is indeed the case, the immortal said that it has the posture of a dragon and a phoenix, and the future is unlimited." ”
"Can immortals see the blessings and misfortunes of people?" The emperor said in disbelief.
"This is not something that only slaves can know, it's just that the generals are unanimous, and the same is true of the generals of the Yu State who have been detected." The eunuch knelt down in fear.
"Get up, I haven't seen a true immortal, I don't blame you, Prime Minister Xuan entered the palace." The emperor sat peacefully on the soft couch, his expression unchanged.
"Yes!" The eunuch agreed and withdrew.
Immortals, immortals.
Thinking of the Immortal Emperor, he couldn't help but feel a little more irritable in his heart.
Cultivating immortals has both political goals and personal factors, he does want to become an immortal, but the real immortal gate is hard to find, and it is only some scammers who do things in the rivers and lakes.
In terms of political purposes, the situation of Chengguo is better than that of Yu, but it is not much better.
It is also monopolized by the family, and the cultivation is a way for the emperor to pick money from the family, and the cultivation is also a way to avoid court disputes.
As long as he doesn't show up, these courtiers will continue to fight among themselves, and as long as he appears, these courtiers will be unanimous with the outside world.
simply handed over the power to the queen and the harem representing various forces, it seems that the various forces are fighting, but in fact, they are operating behind the scenes and slowly regaining power.
And the prime minister is the queen's father, and he is also the faction he secretly supports.
"Without the guidance of the immortals, rely on these charlatans to cultivate something." Hearing that there were immortals on the front line, he had already sent someone to invite him in an urgent manner, but in the end, it was still a step too late, and the immortal had already gone with his sword.
"Why aren't there immortals guarding Chengguo?" The emperor got out of bed and picked up the Taoist scriptures, but he couldn't read any of the words in them.
He had seen immortals, but the other party did not agree to his request to teach the immortal way, and reluctantly left a Taoist scripture saying that it was for cultivating the body and mind.
He asked, are all the national teachers in the world liars? The other party replied that Ge Guoshi of Yu Country was a master of Taoism.
If the immortals in the world are all high and high, and do not ask about the affairs of the world, then he may regret it, but he will not think much about it, after all, the main purpose of cultivation is to balance the situation in the court, and the secondary purpose is immortality.
However, the kind of waste monarch of Yu Country has the help of immortals, and he has such a strong willingness to cultivate, what is the difference, and the immortals are unwilling to help him.
Today's arrival of Zhuang Xun can be regarded as revisiting his memories again.
After all, compared to Zhuang Xun being praised by the immortals, the emperor's words to obtain the immortals were: "Your Majesty is not suitable for cultivating immortals, and there are still some kings' manners." ”
At that time, I didn't break his defense, I never forgot it, I was talented, in the end, it was not suitable for cultivation, this was not yet a cultivator, so who was suitable.
Even if he said that he was willing to give up being the emperor and go to cultivation, the other party also said: "Without this fate, Your Majesty should be a good man." ”
At that time, there was a problem with his mentality, and he always felt that the immortals were deliberately rejecting him, and then although he honestly studied the Taoist scriptures given by the immortals, he still recruited monks with Taoism in the world, but unfortunately he didn't find any true immortals today.
The most recent one was this time, and he also found nothing, and he was a little depressed.
Suppressing his irritability, studying the Taoist scriptures, reciting the scriptures, his irritable mood slowly became calm, thinking about the arrival of the envoys of the Yu State, considering the strategic location of the Jiannan and Hebei Provinces, as well as the promotion of the Chengguo, and the counterattack of the Youguo.
As the minutes passed, the emperor remained motionless like a statue, except for the occasional blinking eyelid indicating that the emperor was still alive.
The quiet courtyard and temple made a thumping sound again, and he came back to his senses from his thoughts.
"Come in." Picked up the Taoist scriptures, sat cross-legged on the soft couch, tidied up his clothes, and shouted to the door.
"Weichen Gao Guozhou, see Your Majesty." The prime minister, an old man in his fifties with a short beard, came in and bowed first.
"Don't be polite, sit, this time I asked you to come to let you receive the envoys of Yu State!" The emperor and the prime minister had a close relationship, and they spoke more casually.
"Wechen understands." The prime minister was half-sitting on the chair, although he was the emperor's father-in-law and the prime minister of the dynasty, but his cautious and cautious behavior of respecting the emperor was the reason why the emperor had always relied on him.
"This time, the Chengyu coalition defeated Youguo in Xishui, and the elite of Youguo was lost, and it no longer poses a threat to our country." The emperor opened the topic first.
"Hebei Province or Jiannan Province, Prime Minister, you see which one our country needs now, and Yu State can only accept the cession." The emperor cultivated the Tao but had a clear view of the situation in the country, unlike the outside world rumored that he didn't care about anything.
"It depends on whether Your Majesty's future policy is to go inside or outside first." The prime minister already has a draft, so he said unhurriedly.
"What about the inside, what about the outside." The emperor was interested.
"King Yu's life is not long in coming, and the princes of Yu will definitely fight for the throne, this is a big opportunity to encroach on Yu Kingdom.
Youguo is defeated, the elite is lost, Youwang is to kill his father and brother to ascend to the throne, this defeat, there will be domestic instability, there will be two situations, first, do your best to fight the domestic army, at least to take down Jiannandao, so as to stabilize the situation, the second is to overthrow Youwang by rebellion in various places, this is also a big opportunity, can eat away at Youguo. ”
The prime minister analyzed that the matter of taking Jiannan and taking Hebei has been discussed countless times.
"The junction of the three countries of Jiannan Road, the land of four wars, if Your Majesty has the heart to seize the two countries, you can take Jiannan Road."
"Internally, now General Li's tide water victory, the world's might, the country is frightened, the domestic reputation is rising, although it is the luck of the country but not the luck of His Majesty, this is a disaster, the soldiers of the King of Qinghe are well prepared, faint, waiting for the opportunity to move, this is the second trouble." Talking about the situation in the country, the prime minister observed the emperor's face.
"If you want to solve the domestic disaster, take Hebei Road, and then reduce the pressure of being attacked by the two fronts of Yu and Youguo, and look at each other across the river, thinking that it is a moat."
After speaking, the prime minister lowered his head and waited for the emperor's decision, which was also the policy that the emperor wanted to target.
Whether it is to solve the domestic disaster, or to calm the domestic contradictions through foreign wars, just like this time, King Qinghe, who was originally ready to move, is now very peaceful, and he is frightened by Li Pingyuan.
The "......" emperor was thinking, considering, weighing, and finally sighed.
"If you want Hebei Province, what if you cannibalize Yu Country and Youguo, the stability of the world will be spit out." This is the experience of these centuries of dynasties, in the face of the moat, the dominance will decline, and finally form an inherent territory.
This reflects the pathetic of an emperor who has no one to help, everyone else knows that he wants to fight for the dragon and is ready to unify the world, he is still thinking about looking at each other across the river with the old-fashioned thinking, and the chaos will calm down after a while, and he can't control the encroached land.
"General Li is sick?" The emperor's tone was strange.
"As soon as I came back, I said that I was sick, and it was difficult to treat the medicine." The prime minister didn't react, the old fox was in place, and his expression management was in place.
"He knows how to dodge." The emperor was noncommittal.
"General Li is a wise man, His Majesty went out of the city to greet him, and he understood, and the talismans were handed back." The prime minister did not praise Li Pingyuan's loyalty, so he praised Li Pingyuan's wisdom.
"It is indeed wise, what a great merit, the two armies of Chengyu defeated the Youguo Iron Cavalry, and the tide water battled, I am afraid that the world knows that there is a Li Pingyuan who is half crossed by the tide water." The emperor sneered.
The emperor likes the generals who have merit, and it is difficult to say that the generals who have too much merit have them, and there is a word called the meritorious and high shock master.
"At this time, General Li can't be moved, Your Majesty, King Qinghe still needs General Li's deterrence." The prime minister seems to be pleading, but in fact he is on fire.
"Then who is General Li to deter? Most of the generals of this country are old with him, is it that if he raises his arms and shouts, this country will change the sky. The emperor couldn't help but say.
As an emperor, who is not afraid, the kings always say that the mandate of heaven is in me, the mandate of heaven is in me, some of them believe in their own beliefs, blindly believe in the mandate of heaven, and finally the throne is gone, only to know that they have a fart destiny.
The emperor is not like this, he understands very well that Li Pingyuan's current influence, especially after the tide, no one in the country can suppress him, if it is planned well, it is also a very easy thing to change the dynasty.
"General Li is brave and loyal, and he will not make a usurpation, and the return of the talisman this time is proof of this." At this time, the prime minister said that Li Pingyuan was loyal, so it was better not to say it.
"Usurpation, he doesn't have this mind yet, but he can't stand the advocacy of others, he doesn't move once, and he doesn't move after that? What to do if his heart is touched once. "The emperor really felt the threat on his back, and even if Li Pingyuan complained about it, it couldn't be alleviated.
How wide the heart is to expect the loyalty of the courtiers, people's hearts are changeable, maybe the last moment is still one idea, the next moment is another idea, at the beginning Siqin Shengjing was also known for his loyalty, and later, he knew the face and did not know the heart.
"Your Majesty said yes, but now that General Li's reputation is growing, how to deal with it." The prime minister showed a headache and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Rebellion, you can only use the method of rebellion to eliminate him." The emperor's face was cold, and the emperor's traditional arts framed the general for rebellion.
"Your Majesty, what should I do if the other party's fish is dead and the net is broken, now in addition to the soldiers in the imperial city, how many people with armor can you directly command, this is not appropriate." It's arching the fire, but what he said is half the truth.
The common disease of the feudal country, recognize the generals, do not recognize the emperor, the Li family has been entrenched in the army for so many years, Li Pingyuan's subordinate generals, friends are all over the army, when the emperor announces the rebellion of the Li family, everyone listens to the emperor or listens to the general, who is right.
Especially Li Pingyuan has just fought a beautiful battle to destroy the country, to be his opponent, there is psychological pressure, do you call ordinary soldiers to obey the so-called emperor and feel that his fate is great, or obey the battle of Xishui to win the Youguo Li Pingyuan's fate, even if half of the emperor is listened to, not two-thirds of the emperor, with Li Pingyuan's ability, one-third of the army is two-thirds, is it difficult?
"Then Prime Minister, do you want me to endure until Li Pingyuan is really sick and dies of old age?" The emperor is becoming more and more uncomfortable, and many people may laugh at him for being stupid, but when you are faced with a general with the highest military achievements, and you don't have confidence in whether he will always be loyal, the result is only one word, kill.
"It's not easy to boil to death General Li, who has practiced qi and strength, Weichen means that to do this, hidden, but as fast as thunder, deterring everyone, deal with all the relevant personnel in a short time, at least one of the Li family members can't let them run out, otherwise the escaped Li family will collude with the generals on the edge of the town, and there will be endless troubles, and at the same time, we must guard against King Qinghe and others from making trouble on this kind of issue."
The prime minister's words have no feelings, and he is happiest when the Li family is dead, but he can't kill like the emperor said, so he doesn't know who killed whom.
"And what am I going to do?" The emperor's expression became anxious, and he could imagine what it would be like if he let the Li family go.
"First seal General Li, Mingsheng and secretly demote, let him quit the army, and then punish Li Chengzhi, who has caused trouble everywhere recently, and lower the vigilance of the Li family." The prime minister suggested that even if it was suggested, it felt that it was not appeased, but provoked.
So the emperor asked directly: "Are you sure that this will not anger Li Pingyuan?" ”
"It just happens to make General Li feel at ease, he is a smart person, I can't wait to fade out of Your Majesty's sight, that is, you have to grasp the degree well, and it is just right to do this, in fact, Weichen does not recommend that Your Majesty rush to kill them all, so it is good to arrange Your Majesty's people slowly, after all, General Li has great talents." The prime minister persuaded him, but his persuasion was no longer listened to.
"Arrange people, arrange people more than once, but as a result, the loyalty of these people cannot be guaranteed at all, and if you arrange them, I don't know how many people will listen to me in the future." When the emperor talked about this, it was a little difficult to control his emotions, and the person who arranged it, Li Pingyuan, was also recommended normally, and he couldn't tell whether it was his person or Li Pingyuan's person.
"That was when there was no position of general before, but now that I have been promoted to General Li, I can naturally choose an obedient person to take over this position, and it is not as good as General Li, and the successor can change it if he wants."
The prime minister grasped the crux of the problem, the former Li Pingyuan firmly grasped the position of the general, and naturally the appointment and dismissal of the generals of the army had to go through his hands, and now he was replaced by a new person, which was convenient to muddy the waters.
"Okay, let's do it, the next thing is how to deal with the Li family, in a short time, we will arrest all the Li family members at one time, Prime Minister, what plan do you have?"
"According to Weichen, General Li does have the intention of retiring, and there is also Concubine Li in the palace, Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much, besides, King Qinghe still wants General Li to be shocked, please think twice." The prime minister advised again.
The villain always said good things about the victim before he hurt people, so he secretly stabbed people in the back, and when he saw that the emperor couldn't persuade him, he said good things.
The emperor was really unwilling to deal with Li Pingyuan, so he had to persuade the emperor in turn that Li Pingyuan's threat was so big that he had to eradicate it in time to protect the throne.
"My mind has been decided." Sure enough, the emperor snorted coldly, he had already made a plan, and he did not plan to change it, this was the pride of the Supreme.
"Well, since Your Majesty wants this, there is indeed an opportunity to get the Li family together recently." The prime minister showed a helpless expression.
"What chance?" The emperor's expression perked up, and he said in a slightly anxious voice.
"It is also the arrival of the envoy of Yu State this time, with this opportunity, the envoy who led the team this time is named Zhuang Xun, who is only twenty-three years old, and is the inspector of Yu State, and the right envoy of Hebei Province, who leads Jiannan Road on behalf of the immortals, and is evaluated by the immortals as having the posture of a dragon and a phoenix." The prime minister said that Zhuang Xun's age and background.
"Not surnamed Tang?" The emperor was stunned, and then asked as a matter of course: "Is he the child of King Yu who is in exile among the people?" ”
"There are rumors that this is the case, but it has not been confirmed, the point is not this, but that he has an affair with the second lady of the Li family." The prime minister also thinks that the rumors are reliable, twenty-three years old, not the illegitimate son of the emperor, will arrange for you to come to Chengguo, seal the imperial history, and lead the Jiannan Road on your behalf?
"The one who killed the Tiger with three punches? Does this Zhuang Yushi have a personal relationship with her? "The emperor thinks about the huge tiger at that time, and the petite and pitiful Li Ruxi who was only fifteen years old, and now remembers it vividly.
"It's this woman, she hasn't married yet, if the two get married in Chengguo, the Li family will come to congratulate regardless of distance, and this time is the best opportunity to eradicate the Li family." The prime minister's tone was cold, and there was a cold light in his eyes under the wrinkles.
"Yes, yes, when the concubine gets married, the Li family will definitely come, and the prime minister is thoughtful." The emperor suddenly realized and praised the prime minister's meticulous and thoughtful thinking.
"As long as the Li family is here, you can use internal guards to surround the Li family, and arrest and execute them all at once." The emperor said excitedly.
"Now there's a small problem." The prime minister had to interrupt the emperor who wanted to execute the Li family.
"What's the problem?" The emperor frowned, isn't it that easy?
"This Zhuang Yushi already has a wife, and he wants to marry Miss Li Er as his wife!" Speaking and hearing the latest rumors, the prime minister smiled bitterly.
"I've heard of that." recalled the reason why the immortals praised Zhuang Xun, it seemed that it was because Zhuang Xun wanted to marry the second miss of the Li family as a concubine, and at that time, he only cared about the departure of the immortals, and what kind of person Zhuang Xun was, he could be called a dragon and phoenix, and he didn't think much about the second miss of the Li family to be a concubine for him, and smiled.
"The Li family will not easily agree to such a request, and they want to ask His Majesty for marriage." The prime minister pleaded.
"Marriage?" The emperor thought for a moment and looked embarrassed.
"It's okay if he doesn't have a wife, but now this Zhuang Yushi has a wife." remembered that in the rumors, it was impossible for Zhuang Xun to divorce his wife.
"That's why Your Majesty wants to raise the level of this wedding, otherwise the second lady of the family will marry someone else as a flat wife, and the Li family may not all be present, and then such an opportunity can only wait for Li Chengzhi to get married." The prime minister reminded that the opportunity to remind the emperor should not be missed.
"Okay, I will give marriage to the two, but I have recently cultivated the Taoist scriptures, and I can't do this to see it, and it is inconvenient for me to mobilize internal guards, so I will ask the prime minister to inform me when he visits the queen." The emperor promised to come down.
"Wechen takes orders." The prime minister knelt down and took the emperor's command.
Waiting for the prime minister to retire and leave, the emperor's expression quickly became cold, and he picked up the Taoist scriptures to study, and a Taoist robe really looked like a Taoist priest who studied the Taoist scriptures in the Taoist temple, without the majesty of the emperor.
"Sandpiper clam fights, sandpiper clam fights ......"
"Prime Minister, you're in a hurry."
6000 words, can you ask for a monthly pass
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