Devil’s Advent

On the second day after the court meeting, the weather was calm.

Each yamen performs its duties, and everything seems to have returned to the way it was before His Majesty did not go to the back garden.

The princelings are full of ambitions, among them the backbone, the corners of the mouth, can't restrain the smile, fully explaining what it means to be favored and always have nothing to fear.

The Liuye Party is like falling leaves in late autumn. This party with "young talents" as its backbone seems to have touched the helplessness above the court for the first time.

In the mansion of the two kings of the North and the South, it was still quiet.

The eldest prince went to drink with King Zhenbei again, as if he wanted to save face and fight again.

Lord Pingxi went to the Jingnan Palace every day, stayed for a while, and then came out. The Jingnan Palace continued to be as peaceful as people imagined.

And in Pingxihou Mansion,

San'er, Siniang, Fan Li, and Ah Ming would go out several times a day, and when they came back, they would gather together to simulate on a small sand table.

The fourth prince still led troops to garrison the imperial city, and continued to play his role as a stern gatekeeper.

Lord Zhenghou asked to enter the palace to return the sword of the emperor, but the emperor rejected it;

The 15,000 Northern Army cavalry continued to be stationed in three places in the city, and they were all peaceful.

Zheng Houye had to continue to hold the Tianzi Sword, and went to the three military camps to brush up his presence again.

On the second day, on the third day,

Lord Zheng Hou was already able to call out the names of these generals, and he was able to mingle with the group of soldiers.

He is an idol in the army, a role model for Guizhou's counterattack. In the past, there was a little gap between the two armies of the North and the South, but Lord Zheng Hou himself is from Beifeng County. If he puts down his airs a little, everyone can accept it. up.

Therefore, when I went again, I clearly felt the enthusiasm of the soldiers and generals for me.

But it is a pity that in such a short period of time, and within the capital, it is almost impossible to win people's hearts and really let them use for oneself.

However, I want to keep myself busy anyway, if I don't return this good-looking but useless Tianzi Sword, Master Zhenghou will have to be their nominal "leader brother" for a day.

The feeling of being blamed must be very bad, but what is even more uncomfortable is the process of waiting to be blamed.

If you go to the execution ground, it’s nothing more than a click. Before that, you should eat and drink, and just think about which farewell poem to copy in your mind before your execution;

But this scapegoat, you know it won't let you die, but it's destined to make you a little sick, it's really uncomfortable.

the most important is,

Holding the Tianzi Sword and wandering here for three days, it was not without gain. What Zheng Fan learned was that the real power and responsible generals of the three soldiers and horses were, in essence, really loyal to the palace.

These three soldiers and horses are not just used to suppress the situation, they must have other uses.

As the days went by, what Master Zheng Hou really cared about was still Ji Laoliu.

Whether it is victory or defeat, there must be a message.

If the prince really succeeds to the throne, he has to come up with the second charter, and even the things that his demon kings are planning for him now have to be put on hold.

It is reasonable to bring Ji Laoliu's family members together, because I have a vague premonition that if the prince succeeds, then it is not that I killed that person, but that I was directly smothered to death in the capital by that person. possible.

The end of the Iron Triangle is a doomed drama, the end of Dayan's magnificent era, but in that era, there are not only three members of the Iron Triangle, there is always afterglow.

Sun Ying once specifically asked Zheng Fan why he didn't take this opportunity to burn the prince's stove.

If the feudal town can give enough respect, the higher-ups will definitely consider and measure this when they are thinking about it. After all, the area in the east of Shanxi is extremely sensitive, and it can be called the key support of the land of the Three Jins;

Lord Zheng Hou refused without thinking,

In Sun Ying's eyes, the always wise Marquis of Pingxi gave him a reply so simple that Sun Ying, a native of Jin, found it a bit unbelievable:

I don't want to make Xiaoliuzi sad.

When Si Niang explained to Sun Ying,

When young couples quarrel, one will say, if you treat me badly again, I will find someone to live with so and so, and I will piss you off!

But yelling during an argument and actually doing it are completely different concepts.

Siniang thought that the explanation was very apt,

But in Sun Ying's ears, it seemed that the wind in Yanjing suddenly became familiar and noisy.

...

Royal study.

Emperor Yan sat in the first seat,

The prince stood in front of him.

The errand of the crown prince supervising the country has been relieved, after all, his father is back.

In the past few days, it seems that everything is going on as usual, and it seems that everything can't go back to the past.

Even Wei Zhonghe doesn't know how many days His Majesty has left to live,

But the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty have actually noticed that when His Majesty came back from the back garden this time, everything seemed to be very stable, but in fact, there was an impatience in the stability that could not be concealed.

Unlike the princelings who are almost "celebrating with the crown\

,"The prince himself has been in a low mood since the Great Court Meeting.

It is naturally the best thing for an ordinary son to be favored and favored by his own father.

But in the Tian family, as sons under the father's hands, except Xiao Qi who was young a few years ago, the rest of the princes, if they really want to be affectionate with you,

have to,

Don't be too busy to be happy,

You have to feel yourself first to see if there are any parts that your father values.

The son was born by the father, and the father watched the sons grow up, and naturally carried the label of a gentleman father, so he could ravage his own sons to death;

While the sons were eagerly toyed with by their own father, they slowly and gradually figured out some of their own father's temperament and habits in reverse;

Although the other princes couldn't do it like the sixth prince, who were roundworms to each other, they probably knew how to be like the old farmer, who could see the will of heaven by looking at the clouds in the sky.

At the great court meeting, the royal father's love for him made the prince lose a little weight in the past few days.

Emperor Yan, who was sitting on the throne, looked at his crown prince standing below.

I don't know when,

The eldest son, who was once plump and handsome, has always looked haggard.

He was very dissatisfied with this,

Because he knew that he, the eldest son, was not sick.

You have no sickness, no bad disease, but you do not eat well, do not sleep well, and trample your body,

And I...

What the emperor in his twilight years hated the most was that God did not give him enough time.

Even now, I was in the back garden, relying on non-stop taking pills to force myself to survive;

This is not begging for longevity, this is exchanging life for one's own life!

Look at my sixth son again,

As a dissolute prince when he was young, his body seemed to be a little short, but after returning to Beijing, he became fatter and fatter day by day.

The palace once applied to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for several children, and the amount of milk and goat milk that was sent daily was enough to feed ten children, and there was no need to think about who would eat the rest.

That kid's expense will never treat him badly, and the snuff bottle is also the best.

Let's not talk about anything else,

It was the reason why the boy was able to marry a girl from the He family,

Isn't it because after being sent to Nan'an County to be a head arrester, he still couldn't help but go to He's shop to buy pork head meat every now and then?

Comparing the two,

This prince,

It is indeed much more hypocritical.

It is not only your prince who has suffered,

Didn't he?

What you receive, he only receives more than you.

Why can he be able to hold on, but you are losing weight for me here?

you,

Who will lose weight?

The prince stood there,

Then he gradually noticed that the atmosphere in the imperial study room was not right and became more and more depressed. He raised his head, glanced at his father, and found that there was a faint emperor's anger circulating in the depths of his father's eyes.

The prince is a little baffled,

but,

Still knelt down.

Emperor Yan put down the booklet in his hand,

Opened the mouth and said:

"Know, where did you lose?"

lose,

Naturally, it refers to the Great Court Meeting.

Everyone knows that the prince lost, and the sixth prince won in a magical way, which can be said to be extremely beautiful, but the arbiter is His Majesty, and it is His Majesty who re-judgments, no, it redefines winning or losing.

"My son..."

As a prince, this question is really difficult to answer.

Your father is reviewing the game for you, teaching you what was wrong when you seized the heirloom?

But that's your father, your real purpose of seizing the throne is to wait for your father to pass away, so that you can take over smoothly.

If it's really a special favor, if it's a true father's kindness and filial piety, then there's no problem, but the crown prince knows that his own father is not that kind of father.

"All along, you have done a good job. In your position, you are the prince. In this world, the only one who can abolish you is me, because you, the prince, were established by me."

The prince continued to kneel on the ground.

"If you don't do anything, it's the best defense, because if you don't do anything, it means you have no openings, and anyone who wants to hit you, or pull you off the horse, because you have no openings, so they If you want to hit you, you have to come to me."

The prince is clear that what is said here is not to do anything, it doesn't mean to eat and wait to die, but to do what is one's own duty, instead of fighting, fighting, or robbing.

Because you have already got the best treasure, there is no need to snatch it anymore.

Furthermore, today's Dayan is different from other countries. It has the power of aristocrats, powerful families, and various interest groups that can force the imperial power to make concessions;

Other countries have it, but Dayan does not.

This is actually the most helpless thing for Ji Laoliu all the time. The prince has always been very stable. His biggest mistake may lie in some policies when he supervised the country, which did not achieve satisfactory results.

But whoever takes this position is the same, even Yanhuang, it is impossible to guarantee that every will of his will is perfect.

Therefore, if you use other methods to attack the prince, in the end, all the power will actually fall on Yanhuang.

Yan Huang's words, a will, and the seemingly turbulent offensive were instantly dissolved into nothingness.

But this time, the fundamental reason why he was able to get such a good opportunity to launch such a fierce offensive at the Great Court Meeting was that the crown prince made a move himself.

The prince couldn't bear it, and wanted to dig a hole by himself, wait for his sixth brother to jump in, and then completely bury his sixth brother.

If you make a move, it means that there is a flaw;

And Ji Laoliu caught this flaw in an instant, and at the fastest time and in the fastest way, he tore open the hole, and stabbed Donggong's heart.

If it were any other emperor with less power and authority than Emperor Yan, in fact, this matter could not have ended in the Golden Palace.

"For a king, if you move, you should overcome thorns and thorns; if you are still, you should not move like a mountain."

Emperor Yan's gaze became more and more majestic,

"You should, hold back."

"My son, I know I was wrong."

The prince admitted his mistake.

Now it seems that he should really continue to maintain his previous style.

Emperor Yan shook his head slightly,

It's not that he didn't give the eldest son a chance, in fact, he gave a lot.

And the successor he had chosen was forced to step down before he was about to leave this world. This was really not what he wanted to see.

Sitting in this position, don't look at him as the king of the world, the Ninth Five Supreme, but in fact, the danger of this position is beyond the predictability of outsiders, and it is difficult to empathize with him.

In particular, you want to be a wise emperor, not just want to be muddleheaded and just seek a beautiful posthumous title.

In your mind, what is hovering all the time is the future direction of the empire, your own position in the development of the empire, and the role you should play.

You will feel more and more that you can't make mistakes, and you can't mess up.

lonely,

It is not a vocabulary used for self-indulgence when admiring the moon, like a poet to add artistic conception to oneself;

but a solitude on the road,

Your subjects, your subjects, even, your sons,

It is impossible to really stand by your side and have the same vision as you;

Unless, you go down, your son, come up.

"The state of mind still needs to be polished." Yanhuang said.

"Yes, thank you father for teaching."

It is a kind of grace that the emperor can review the mistakes with you.

But in the prince's heart, he was not flattered, just as his father said, his position was established by his father, and only his father can abolish him.

Therefore, his position or not still depends on the state of mind of his father.

Look at him, the final choice.

unless,

At this moment, the father,

life,

It came to an abrupt end.

For a while, similar thoughts have actually appeared in the minds of different princes one after another.

Even Xiao Qi, his mother and concubine might also be thinking that before his death, His Majesty suddenly looked at his youngest son, softened his heart, and established the young master again.

The remaining,

When the boss was at home looking at his wife who was in a very good mood recently because of the friendly interaction between Yan and Man at the Great Court Meeting, he also felt a little hazy in his heart;

When the fourth child received the verbal order to be stationed at the gate of the palace, he screamed and roared silently in his heart.

The fifth child, he saw through it early, and ran out to be the "river god" early.

Emperor Yan, in the hearts of the people of Dayan, is the supreme emperor, but in the eyes of his sons, they are actually looking forward to his father leaving early.

compare to,

Winning or losing doesn't even matter.

At this time, Zhao Jiulang asked to see him.

Zaifu came, and what he brought was the herbs for rebuilding the Law of Dayan.

The prince was not allowed to leave, so he could only listen from the sidelines.

The new Dayan law does not refer to reform, but it will help the country consolidate its foundation, and it is also a major national event.

Emperor Yan sat there, listening quietly.

Subsequently,

Zaifu took out another item and explained it himself again. This is a tax reform, which covers all aspects.

This is actually the real basis for the future development of the empire. Taxation is related to the production and life of the people of the country. At the same time, it also directly affects whether the center is able to continue to maintain the huge cavalry corps configuration, and whether it is able to continue fighting The consumption of the national war.

There is another point here, that is, the wealth of the people and the country does not mean that the center is rich. The foundation of taxation is actually the trade-off of redistribution. Here, the best example is the dry country.

The wealth of the Qian State is several times that of Dayan, but even the horse administration is completely different.

The prince clearly felt that in this new law, there must be his sixth brother's thoughts.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the new law should be promoted through trial implementation, perfected step by step, accumulated step by step, and released step by step." Zhao Jiulang suggested.

"What do you think the prince wants?"

The prince hurriedly said, "My sons and ministers agree that governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. We should try it first, then check for omissions and make up for the gaps, and finally, slowly implement it all over the world."

Emperor Yan shook his head,

This emperor, who has only a short lifespan left, seems to have seen through something even more.

Opened the mouth and said:

"If there is no strong enemy from outside, there will be chaos at home. The new law must not be delayed. No matter how slow you are, some people will think that you are too fast. It should be comprehensively promoted, and then check for leaks and make up for gaps."

From Yanhuang's point of view, he stood on his side. He knew that once he was gone, the prestige of the country's center would inevitably drop.

When the next generation, and then the next generation, will continue to fall.

This kind of reform, step by step, can only be a drop in the bucket. It is better to take advantage of my own generation and the next generation to forcefully promote it with the power of thunder.

Who dares to oppose, who wants to oppose, who can oppose,

speak out,

It's just fine.

If you want people to spit out what they eat, don't expect them to be kind to you.

This is not the extreme of the emperor, but the overall consideration of the emperor.

He can guarantee that his successor son is excellent, because he personally chose it, but what about the emperor's grandson?

The eldest grandson of the emperor is still practicing calligraphy.

he,

Incapable of cultivating it by myself.

He would not expect too much that this big Yan would be a Ming monarch for generations. This dream was too beautiful and naive, and the Emperor Yan would not do it.

Therefore, the founding emperors throughout the ages hope to set all the rules for future generations, because they have experienced the difficulties of starting a business, so they naturally know better that it is difficult for their descendants to have their own height and ability.

Emperor Yan picked up the notebook again,

keep watching.

At this time,

Wei Zhonghe walked in,

report:

"Your Majesty, Fengxin Furen's Mansion will send someone into the palace to invite the imperial doctor into the mansion."

Emperor Yan didn't put down the notebook,

even,

I didn't even take my eyes off the notebook,

Just asked very calmly:

"But Mrs. Fengxin is ill?"

Nurse, you are indeed old.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is because His Royal Highness, the grandson of the emperor who was raised in Mrs. Fengxin's mansion, is ill."

heard that,

Emperor Yan put down the notebook,

corner of mouth,

There was a smile.