Chapter XXIV: The Emperor
The Emperor let out a weak laugh, then stretched out his hand: "Come, show it to me." ”
The chief eunuch hurriedly bowed down to the emperor's side, carefully put the waist card in the emperor's hand, and then took two steps back and knelt respectfully.
On the hospital bed, the emperor just looked at the front of the waist card, and his face was a little unsightly. Then, he quickly flipped the token over, and when his gaze touched the line of text and portrait on the back of the waist card, the Great Xia Juggernaut, who had been bedridden for more than half a year, immediately sat up, his eyes flashing.
The chief eunuch was frightened, and he couldn't wait for the emperor to condemn him, so he first slammed his head three times: "Your Majesty is angry." The old slave deserves death!"
The Emperor ignored him, but continued to stare at the plaque, his hands tenderly stroking the portrait on it. He was very excited. No one in the world knows anything about Jingshan, the founding emperor's south gate, but as the heir of the royal family, he knows very well what happened nine hundred and twenty-eight years ago. Each emperor dictates the history of the past to the next emperor. Including, there is one thing that only every emperor has except the jade seal - the waist card of Jingshan in the South Gate!
That's right, as one of the thirteen dragon descending guards that year, Nanmen Jingshan also has this waist card!
Then, inside the curtain, the emperor trembled and took out the waist card of Jingshan in the south gate, which had inherited the hands of twenty-six emperors. The comparison of the two waist cards, regardless of size, thickness is exactly the same. Even the texture on it is not bad at all!
He knew very well that although more than 900 years had passed, at least three of the thirteen Grand Dukes of that year were still alive now. For more than 900 years, what kind of realm will their internal strength be cultivated? He even looked forward to the reappearance of the ancestor of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military officials, Nanmen Jingshan, who had been temporarily on the throne for two years but had never been dressed in a yellow robe and had never been in the early dynasty for a day, but who had made the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty awe-inspiring to the bones.
The emperor's mental state was never more uplifted. For the first time in nine hundred and twenty-eight years, someone came to face the saint with a duke's waist card! He stepped off the hospital bed and glanced at the chief eunuch lying on the ground, and the corner of the emperor's mouth raised an expectant smile: "Where is the person?"
"Wait outside the Imperial Pavilion. The old eunuch lowered his head, and accompanied the king like a tiger, not to mention that this tiger had been lying on the hospital bed for more than half a year, who knows if he is in a good mood when he wakes up now?
The emperor said: "I said, Duke Li went to the imperial study to wait for me." ”
The chief eunuch immediately got up from the ground, and just as his feet crossed the threshold of the palace, the emperor's voice came from behind him: "You come back to change my clothes, and let Tu go to deliver the decree." ”
"More ...... Changing clothes?" The old eunuch's thinking was a little difficult to keep up, but he reacted immediately, immediately agreed, trotted out to convey the emperor's will to the chief guard waiting outside the door, and then trotted all the way back to change the emperor's clothes.
The emperor closed his eyes: "What time is it?"
"A moment in the hour. The old eunuch replied carefully.
Dressed neatly, the emperor walked out of the dormitory with a step, and a group of personal guards immediately protected the emperor in the middle. The emperor strode out of the Imperial Pavilion, and the old eunuch shouted: "Get up, the imperial study!"
Immediately, eight little eunuchs ran over carrying Luan Yu. The emperor walked directly through Luan Yu and waved his hand: "No need, I will go over." You go, Xuanwen and Wu hundred officials enter the palace, go to the court at four o'clock in the morning, those who can come and those who can't come must come, and those who are really sick and can't get up will be carried by me. ”
The old eunuch was sweating profusely and immediately went to announce the decree.
At this time, in the imperial study. Li Mu carefully looked at the place where the emperor reviewed and folded, in addition to the dragon case, the dragon chair also had three bookshelves and a screen. Other than that, it's empty, not even decorative. Liu Luo seemed to see through Li Mu's thoughts, and explained: "Today, the saint is working hard, and all the expenses of the royal family have been reduced to a minimum. It's just that...... The traitors inside and outside the government and the opposition are in charge, hey. ”
Li Mu looked at Liu Luo with a smile and said, "Second brother, I really haven't seen it, you still have the potential to be an official in the court." ”
Liu Luo glared at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense, stand up quickly, the saint will be here soon." ”
Li Mu didn't care, and walked around the imperial study with his hands behind his back, looking east and west. Finally, he stopped at the unfinished reading of the dragon case. And at this moment, the door of the imperial study was pushed open with a creak.
Li Mu looked at the emperor in a dragon robe who appeared at the door, and was stunned...... This guy doesn't look any different from the emperor in the TV in his dreams.
The emperor also looked blankly at the young duke in front of him, who seemed to be about the same age as the crown prince. It's just that the emperor can feel at a glance that this guy knows his details.
To say that the most normal of the three people in the imperial study is Liu Luo, he knelt down the moment he saw the emperor. It's just that he waited for a long time without a sound, so he quietly raised his head, and as a result, he found that the emperor and Li Muzheng were looking at each other......
Scared the baby to death!
Liu Luo prayed that the emperor would look at the face of the hereditary duke's waist card and let them go.
Then, the emperor took a deep breath, walked quickly past the dragon case, and sat on the dragon chair one by one. His eyes fell on the two people. Li Mu quickly jumped down from the dragon case and bent down to salute. After finishing his work, he secretly looked up at the emperor, but found that the emperor's gaze was still on his body, just watching, and not speaking, Li Mu didn't want to look at it.
Silence shrouded the imperial study silently, the three men in the imperial study did not speak, Liu Luo knelt quietly on the ground, and buried his head deep in the carpet. Li Mu continued to bend over after saluting, while the emperor sat on the dragon chair, staring at the two people below.
I don't know how long it took, but the voice of the old eunuch came from outside: "Your Majesty, the hour has arrived at four o'clock, and the Qing family is kneeling outside the Yamato Palace." ”
Finally. The emperor retracted his gaze and said, "Calm down." ”
"Your Majesty, Emperor. Li Mu straightened his waist, but this time he didn't dare to look at the emperor again. How long did it take to bend over like that? An hour? It must be more than that! If I did it again, my waist would have to break.
Slowly, a smile crept up on the emperor's face, and he withdrew Liu Luo, only then did he ask Li Mu with a smile: "Where did Duke Li come from?
Li Mu didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly bent down, and replied: "Back to the emperor, Weichen is from Huaixi County in Hai'an Mansion. The ancestor had to be canonized as a duke by the first emperor, and he came to kneel down to thank Longen. ”
That's what he said, but he didn't mean to really kneel. What he meant by this was to tell the emperor, I came to see you because my ancestor was canonized by the founding emperor, but he didn't get the corresponding fief.
After listening to this, the emperor was thinking, and after thinking for a long time, he remembered the place of Hai'an Mansion...... It was forgotten by the imperial court many years ago, and it is no exaggeration to say that the most barren place in the entire Great Xia Empire was there. Moreover, the current Hai'an Mansion does not seem to belong to Great Xia for a long time, and the emperor doesn't know who the three divisions there are.
The emperor closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then suddenly asked, "How can you prove that Li Zhan Trench is your ancestor?"
As soon as he asked, the emperor kicked the ball back to Li Mu again. Do you want a fief? Yes. But how do you prove that you are qualified to ask for a fief?
Prove?
Li Mudao: "When the ancestors set sail, the emperor asked Grand Duke Ji Boming to send the ancestors all the way overseas...... Well, Wechen really can't prove it. ”
Li Mu really didn't like the emperor's way of speaking, he didn't know what to say, so he wanted to beat around the bush and make people confused. Kick the ball? Keep kicking. Maybe Brother will move the old emperor of Miyagi out for you to see if this truth can be the last straw that crushes Great Xia. If there is really a group of heroes, one day, Brother will go to dig out the batch of gold and silver in Xinye Prefecture, and also get a few legions. If the power of any prince is strong, he will press him to death, and he will not let him die completely, and he will be pressed to death when he recovers. It's really not good, hum, my brother set sail and went to find the old emperor of Miyagi as a companion.
However, what happened next surprised Li Mu. The man sitting on the dragon chair in front of him stood up, walked slowly in front of Li Mu, took his hand, as if looking at his sweetheart, his eyes stayed on his face gently.
"Come with me. The emperor took Li Mu's wrist and came to the dragon case to release it, and he went to the bookshelf to get a map back and spread it on the dragon case. He pointed to the Bizhou Mansion on the map and said, "I plan to assign the entire Bizhou Mansion to you as a fief. ”
Bizhou Mansion is a famous land of fish and rice!
Looking at the entire Great Xia Empire, in addition to the richest Dongsheng Mansion, followed by Bizhou Mansion!
Li Mu looked at him with wide eyes, and the emperor's next words directly made him petrified: "The imperial power is unstable, and it will change the sky in Beijing after a while." I want to carve out a fief in your name, and during this time I will mobilize all my forces to make this fief strong, and the crown prince will re-establish power in this fief. ”
Li Mu understood what the old emperor meant, he was leaving a way out for himself. Moreover, no matter how you look at his complexion, it doesn't look like he has just stepped out of a hospital bed. This guy must have sensed the instability of imperial power, so he hid and pretended to be sick and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.
However, after talking about it for a long time, you have even thought about the way out, what good is my brother?
What kind of person is the emperor? Li Mu's careful thinking has long been guessed through by him. So he pointed to Qingjian County in Bizhou Mansion and said, "Here are your troops." If, one day, there is really a change, you directly wave your troops south from here, and it will not take three days to occupy the entire Hai'an Mansion. ”
From the map, Hai'an Mansion and Bizhou Mansion are adjacent to each other in the north and south. Qingjian County is in the southernmost part of Bizhou Mansion, and Changde County is in the northernmost part of Hai'an Mansion, and the two county seats are close together. If it is really as the emperor said, starting from Qingjian County and using Changde County as a springboard, in the case of Hai'an Mansion being completely defenseless, it will not even take three days for the cavalry to level the entire Hai'an Mansion.
Moreover, the most important thing is: if there is really chaos, Bizhou Mansion and Hai'an Mansion will just become corners, and they are adjacent to Ningzhou Mansion at the same time. No matter how chaotic the world is, at most it can only be chaotic to Ningzhou Mansion!
No matter which Ningzhou Mansion sends troops to, the other government can immediately turn into a sharp knife and directly insert it into the heart of Ningzhou Mansion.
Wily!