"Mr. Yang, 'What does this invasion mean? What is gained by invasion? It is appropriate to gain something.' I don't quite understand. What does this mean?"
With the help of the flickering candlelight, Lu Chaoyang held "Spring and Autumn" in his hand and asked Yang Rong beside him.
Yang Rong explained: "The word 'invade' records that Zheng Guo invaded Cai, and the word 'huo' records that Zheng Guo easily captured Cai Guo's son Xie, indicating that Cai Guo's defense was lax and vulnerable."
"That's it." Lu Chaoyang nodded slightly and couldn't help but admired, "The Spring and Autumn Annals are indeed profound. Just the words that record the use of troops include the words 'conquer', 'attack', 'encircle' and 'defeat'."
''Invasion'', ''annihilation'', ''defeat'', 'attack', 'annihilation', 'fall', 'capture'... are so broad and profound."
After being sent to prison, Lu Chaoyang himself did not become decadent, but instead worked harder and harder. He knew that he did not read much, so he worked harder in prison.
Many of the Jinyiwei officials on duty in the imperial prison were once subordinates of Lu Chaoyang. Even though Lu Chaoyang is in prison now, they still serve as superior officials and do everything they ask of Lu Chaoyang. Because they know that as long as King Qi does not fall, Lu Chaoyang will
Chaoyang may reinstate him at any time.
He was clearly a prisoner in the imperial prison, but Lu Chaoyang had a rather exquisite single room. He lived in the same room as Yang Rong and was tutored by Yang Rong in his studies.
"Master Lu, how long have I been waiting in this prison?" Yang Rong suddenly asked.
Lu Chaoyang thought for a while and said, "It will probably take half a year."
Lu Chaoyang, the chief military official of Prince Qi's palace, and Yang Rong, the chief civil servant, were framed and sent to prison. Although Luo Xiu, who framed them, is dead, these two adults are still in prison.
Their fate is tied to Prince Qi's Mansion, and it also reflects the fate of the court back then.
The battle between Prince Qi's Palace and Prince Han's Palace has reached a fever pitch. If Prince Qi wins, Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong will both be released from prison. Maybe they will rise to the top and be promoted several levels. If Prince Han wins, Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong will be convicted directly and die.
No burial place.
Yang Rong asked: "The fate of both of us depends on Prince Qi. Does Mr. Lu not worry at all?"
"What do I have to worry about?" Lu Chaoyang said calmly, "Since I followed Prince Qi, I have entrusted my life and property to him. If the prince wants me to die, I will die. If the prince wants me to live, I will
Then life will come."
Yang Rong really couldn't figure out what Lu Chaoyang was thinking.
What kind of charm does King Qi have that makes Lu Chaoyang worthy of working so hard?
Lu Chaoyang gave the answer: "I will die with the past, and the flowers will still bloom in the coming year."
Yang Rong was a little surprised: "Is this a poem written by Mr. Lu?"
Lu Chaoyang shook his head and said: "No, this is a poem written by the prince. I just heard it accidentally."
For King Qi, there was never any desperate situation.
The more desperate the situation, the more courageous you are to fight!
Apart from playing... and training his son, Zhu Di's favorite thing to do is to simulate the life of his descendants.
It's just that the recent simulations of several generations of emperors made Zhu Di more and more angry.
Jiajing in particular was not unintelligent, but to say he was a good emperor would be ridiculous.
This is really useless!
Jiajing, Jiajing, every house is clean.
The remaining family assets of the Ming Dynasty were completely destroyed by Jiajing!
Jiajing was still very confident: "What does it have to do with me whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not? I am the emperor just to enjoy it. After I die, what will happen if the Ming Dynasty dies? Anyway, I am happy!"
So irritating!
[You were born. You are the son of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong, but you are not the eldest son, but the third son. Originally, if you were to inherit the throne, you would not be your turn. But I didn’t expect that your two brothers were both being
After he was established as the prince, he died inexplicably.】
[Emperor Jiajing listened to the saying that "two dragons cannot meet each other", and soon he neither dared to establish a prince nor to see his son. ]
[Although you have been named King Yu, everyone knows that you are the heir to the throne in the future. However, because of the emperor's indifference towards you, powerful ministers such as Yan Song dare to bully you. 】
【You have to follow the rules, lest you make a wrong step and ruin your future.】
[Although the situation is dangerous, you are not panic at all. You know in your heart that there is no long-lived emperor in the Ming Dynasty. As long as you wait a few more years and your old father dies, it will be your turn to be the emperor. Your father is risking his life every day.
I’m afraid I won’t live long even if I take medicine.]
[But what you didn’t expect is that your biological father, the emperor, is actually alive! 】
[You have been looking forward to it year after year, but the flowers have withered, and your father is still in great health. Even you are beginning to waver. Could it be that your father has really refined the golden elixir to extend his life? 】
【In a certain year when you were feeling increasingly weak, the emperor passed away.】
[When you lie on the kang and cry bitterly, you are not crying that you have no father, but you are crying with joy because your father has finally become an immortal!]
[Emperor Jiajing almost accomplished the feat of killing three heirs. 】
[You have endured more than thirty years to endure the death of your biological father. Before you ascend the throne, you find out that your biological father has left behind a difficult matter. 】
[Before your father died, he did not leave any inheritance decree!
】
Zhu Di couldn't help coughing violently.
It has to be Jiajing!
Besides Jiajing, which emperor could do such a wicked thing?
No matter how stupid the emperor is, even if he is the king of the country, he can't imagine that Jiajing can do this!
Before you die, you have to cheat your own country!
Jiajing is really awesome, he really only cares about himself. When he is about to die, he doesn't even care who the next emperor will be, and he will leave all the inheritance edicts!
[Fortunately, Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, was smart and asked you to come to the palace to preside over the funeral. He also drafted a posthumous edict and announced it the next day.
"Restore", the most important content is to pass the throne to you.]
[In this way, you have just become the emperor, that is, the emperor is sitting in the Huangji Palace and announcing the change of Yuan Dynasty to Longqing.]
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! [You have been a prince all your life, today, you will be Emperor Longqing!]
[However, after becoming the emperor, you find that the profession of emperor is different from what you imagined. 】
[Without the suppression of Emperor Jiajing, the civil servants were completely liberated, fighting for power non-stop, and you will be ignored in an instant.]
[You, the newly enthroned emperor, have actually become a mascot! How can you repair this? Can you tolerate this! 】
【Can bear it.】
[You have messed up, do whatever you want, you don’t want to take care of it anyway. From Emperor Baozong... Emperor Yingzong to Emperor Jiajing, there are too many messes left by the ancestors. You just look at it.
I feel like my head is spinning. The country spends pages and pages of deficits every year, reparations to the Southwest every year...military expenses to the Nine Sides every year...taxes that cannot be collected every year...inexplicable expenditures every year...]
[You are still acting like a shitty emperor, you quit! 】
[I wanted to buy a piece of jewelry for the queen, but my father had lost all my money. I had no money, so I went to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for money. The Ministry of Revenue said: Your Majesty, you are thinking nonsense. You don’t even want to touch a penny of the treasury’s money. Okay.
, you endure it.]
[You have a conflict with the queen, live separately, and the ministers start to write domineering memorials and scold you. Okay, you can bear it. 】
[The ministers asked you for power, you gave it, and then someone came to scold you. Okay, you put up with it.]
[The cabinet is fighting for power, but you are silent in the court, so that some people often think that the emperor is mute.]
[After you became the emperor, you ignored the affairs of the government and handed over all power to the cabinet. Miraculously, the Ming Dynasty began to recover slightly during the Longqing Dynasty, and some people praised you as the Holy King of the Ming Dynasty.]
[You are confused. This prosperous world is so inexplicable. You didn’t do anything, how did you become a saint? 】
[Whatever, you don’t care about some bullshit saint. You just want to lie in the palace, wait for death, and live your life leisurely. Although your life is a little poorer, after three more years of mending, you will still be able to live a leisurely life.
It can be done.]
[At the end of the fifth year of Longqing, you accidentally heard the news: Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, planned to negotiate with King Qi. 】
[You were almost scared to death, what the hell is going on! 】
[These ministers are really crazy. It’s okay to forget about Longqing Zhongxing on their own. Now they still want to get involved in the affairs in the southwest. It’s easy to get involved. If they are not careful, they will force King Qi to rebel.
What should I do?]
[You don’t understand, but now that you are lying down, you are not in the mood to pay attention to these civil servants, so just let everything happen. 】
Zhu Di: "..."
Well, after the Cricket Emperor, the Emperor, the Mighty General, and the Taoist Emperor, the Ming Dynasty had another bad emperor.
After thirty years of hard work, he finally became emperor, just to show off?
Zhu Di felt that he was going to have a nightmare tonight. The dream was full of Taoist emperors, corrupt emperors, and the crumbling Ming Dynasty.
[You and the civil servants gathered together to discuss. To be precise, it was an internal discussion within the cabinet. You are just a mascot.]
[Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, believes that the Ming Dynasty pays too much compensation to King Qi every year, and this problem should be solved as soon as possible. 】
[You can't help but ask: "Can we... defeat King Qi?"]
[After blurting out this sentence, all the cabinet bachelors fell silent. Everyone was very embarrassed, not because you said the wrong thing, but because you told the truth - the imperial court really can't defeat King Qi of the Southwest! ]
[The tragedy of Jiajing's expedition to the southwest is still vivid in my mind. The imperial court's 300,000-strong army was wiped out. If King Qi had some arrogant thoughts back then, it is definitely not you who is sitting on the throne now, but King Qi or King Qi.
Crown Prince.】
[It’s not too much for King Qi to ask the court for compensation every year. After all, the court committed suicide and lost the war, so just pay some compensation. 】
[However, the cabinet does not seem to have the idea of continuing to conquer the southwest. Their meaning is very simple: they neither want to fight with the southwest army (because it is really unbeatable), nor do they want to continue to pay compensation. ]