: Leading the sword to achieve success, and finally living up to it

Author: Mu Yunfeng

: Leading the sword to achieve success, and finally living up to it

Fang Xiaoru looked at the short gun in Yao Guangxiao's hand with a very difficult expression...

He knew the latter was taking advantage of him.

He's not stupid.

Even the whole plan itself was the famous demon monk under King Yan who was using them.

In other words, the entire vassal king group is using their King Guangze group and King Guangze's ambition to seize the throne to support King Guangze in causing trouble in exchange for the latter's accession to the throne to give the vassal kings more power instead of

Like Zhu Yunxi, they were cutting down the vassal. But they were also using the vassal kings' group. They needed the military force in the hands of the vassal kings. Otherwise, how could they push King Guangze to the throne with just a group of Confucian scholars?

By popular support?

If people's will is really effective, why use magic weapons?

Besides, they have no popular support!

No matter how good King Guangze is at acting, it can't change the fact that his younger brother is the heir chosen by his grandfather, so as long as he rebels and seizes the throne, the image he previously maintained through acting will collapse.

Virtuous?

Stealing the throne from his younger brother?

Renxiao?

My grandfather snatched the throne from his younger brother before his body was cold.

Running away is pitiable, but grabbing the throne is despised.

After all, he has no soldiers and no power, so he relies on a virtuous persona. Once his persona collapses, he really has nothing. He is still trying to grab the throne. Even if he is killed, no one will sympathize with him.

So as Yao Guangxiao said, the only possibility is that his brother died. The way of death is not important. He fell into the water, was killed by the rebels, or died of a sudden illness! In short, it doesn't matter. What is important is death.

Then he can justifiably say that his nephew is too young and he needs to take responsibility in this kind of national crisis. Anyway, there will be a great scholar to explain afterwards, and he has no shortage of great scholars. But the key is how to make his brother die suddenly

Now, his younger brother is in good health, even healthier than him. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to say who will live longer than the other, so it can only be an abnormal situation. It is impossible to die suddenly from a sudden illness, whether it is the imperial guards or the eunuchs and maids.

His younger brother has a firm grasp on it, and it is also impossible to fall into the water. His younger brother is very good at swimming, and even swam across the Yangtze River with Yang Feng...

Ambassador Yang often took him on trips along the Yangtze River.

After all, the Ming Dynasty emperors are easily soluble in water, so it is always good to exercise in advance.

Then the only possibility left is to be killed by the rebels!

so……

A traitor is needed.

We need a traitor who will still be infamy for thousands of years even if Zhu Yunwen ascends the throne, a traitor who will kill his entire family even if Zhu Yunwen ascends the throne, and a traitor who will be despised even according to Confucian moral standards.

"Mr. Zhengxue, you are a disciple of a sage and a well-known Confucian in the country. You should be very clear that when this Confucian orthodoxy is in danger of survival, someone must stand up and be a martyr.

Your Majesty does not want Confucian scholars.

He is a student of Yang Feng, and Yang Feng and I have known each other for many years.

The future Ming Dynasty he designed for His Majesty will not have a place for you. In fact, he himself admires Legalism. Now it is just that he cannot completely abandon Confucianism for the time being, so he has made a stopgap measure. Once the construction of their new school is completed

, when the Ming Dynasty was full of new schools, Confucianism could be kicked out. It is estimated that it will not take more than ten years. Now there are nine new schools in the capital. The first batch of students have already completed their studies. They will take part in the next imperial examination, and then

Become a Jinshi from those miscellaneous subjects.

His Majesty will arrange for them to go to various places to take charge of academic affairs and build more new schools.

Cultivate more new students.

These new students will continue to take the imperial examination and continue to become Jinshi.

Ten years later, the court was filled with newly educated scholars.

At that time, if you wanted to kick out the Confucian scholars, all you needed was an imperial edict."

Yao Guangxiao smiled and picked up the short gun, then put it into Fang Xiaoru's hand...

"Mr. Zhengxue, pull the trigger. As long as you pull the trigger on him, you Confucians will be saved, and you will regain a glorious and prosperous age of saints and ministers.

The Bahuang Xiange flourished."

Under Fang Xiaoru's numb eyes, he grabbed his hand and held a short gun, pointing in the direction of the palace...

"boom!"

he said.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Then he let go of his hand and walked to the back with a proud smile, leaving Fang Xiaoru alone there holding a short gun.

"Master, what will he do?"

A man dressed as a business traveler greeted Yao Guangxiao and asked.

"If he doesn't do it, doesn't it mean he's killing the three clans? King Guangze might be grateful to him if he seizes the throne, and it's also to reassure his subordinates. When he arrests the three clans, he might deliberately let some of them go, and his clan has overshadowed the limelight.

After all, he can still prosper. But if he doesn't do it, when His Majesty kills his three clans, he won't leave any one behind. Not one of his descendants, or his brothers, will be able to escape by then. He himself will either brag or kill ten clans.

So what, then maybe His Majesty will really do what he wishes and punish his ten tribes, so this person really can’t brag, for if he brags too much, it will lead to disaster."

Yao Guangxiao sneered.

Indeed, people like Fang Xiaoru who were already on the emperor's blacklist had no other choice.

Either fight to the death or wait to be wiped out.

"But he is a Confucian scholar. Even if you give him a short blunderbuss, I'm afraid he won't be able to kill His Majesty. It's not like you don't know how capable these guys are. He can't even aim the blunderbuss."

The man said.

This is no joke. Fang Daru is not a light gun at this time!

"Liu Baihu, do you think I would be stupid enough to rely on a corrupt scholar to assassinate the emperor?"

Yao Guangxiao looked at him speechlessly.

"Uh, little idiot."

Liu Baihu said quickly.

This is Liu Rong, Yanshan Guard Baihu, Guang Ningbo in history. He defeated Yang Wen with a partial force, but mainly because Yang Wen's men did not want to fight in the first place.

"All I want is for him to assassinate His Majesty. With His Majesty's temperament, as long as he is not killed, he will start a war with the Confucian scholars in the world."

Yao Guangxiao said with a smile like that of a conspirator.

At this moment, a monk came over in a hurry.

"Master, the Jinyi Guards are searching nearby. They say they are searching for Fang Xiaoru. Someone saw him entering the city and coming to this area. It is estimated that they will search here in a quarter of an hour."

he said.

"Thank you, senior brother."

Yao Guangxiao said.

Then he took out a gold ingot and handed it to the monk.

The latter quickly put his hands together with a smile on his face, took the gold ingot and left quickly.

"You, take him away, but it's best to attract the attention of Jin Yiwei, but after leaving the city, lead Jin Yiwei to Lishui to defect to Qitai. Qinantang is hidden deep enough, and he almost deceived me. In this case, let him not continue

Now that he has stayed out of the matter, it is up to him to figure out how to assassinate His Majesty. Fang Xiaoru is a corrupt scholar, but Qinantang is not..."

Yao Guangxiao sneered.

Liu Rong immediately nodded and prepared to leave.

"Liu Baihu, if you are caught by Jin Yiwei..."

Yao Guangxiao was about to speak but stopped.

"Master, it's just death. For the sake of the king, why not die?"

Liu Rong said.

Yao Guangxiao nodded.

Then he put on a kind-hearted attitude and went to chant sutras calmly.

Liu Rong went directly to find Fang Xiaoru, who was still struggling, and quickly led Fang Daru out of the back door of the temple with more than a dozen of his dead men. He was actually sent by Zhu Gaochi, using his identity as a merchant as a cover to serve as Yao Guangxiao's assistant here.

Most of the young generals among the thugs and Zhu Di's bodyguard are not interested in going to the Western Regions. In fact, it is indeed difficult to be interested. They would rather push Zhu Di to ascend the throne.

In the end, even if Zhu Di played with the fief system, it would be meaningless for them to go to the Western Regions and get a piece of fief each person.

No matter how good it is, can it be as good as the capital?

Is being a small lord comparable to being the Ming Emperor's subordinate?
To be continued...