Chapter 1855 You are not worthless except for the throne
Although he was extremely frightened inside, it was the emperor who was sitting there after all. After a brief panic, he quickly calmed down. The fear in his heart did not show up, but he looked at Lan Nuo expressionlessly until Lan Nuo spoke.
He said: "There is no need to look at me like this. I already know all the useful information about you."
The fact that the voice coming out of his mouth was exactly the same as the emperor's own voice finally moved the little emperor sitting on the chair.
"Don't be so surprised. It's not just your voice, your habits in daily life, and your likes and dislikes of every minister in the court. Who are the party members and cronies you secretly cultivate? I am now
I already know it in my heart, and I know you don’t believe it. In order to make you give up, I’ll first give you a detailed list of your secrets that no one dares to tell.”
At that moment, Lan Nuo began to detail a series of little secrets about the little emperor. The emperor's young age itself was actually one of the major instability factors of the dynasty. There were always ministers who believed that the younger emperor was relatively easier to control. In this way,
If you come, you can take advantage of this to achieve the same effect as holding the emperor hostage to control the princes.
Obviously, this man is not completely in power. In order to stabilize the power in his hands, he has been secretly promoting some of his cronies and establishing a force that is completely his own. It has to be said that this little emperor still has some skills. If
If nothing unexpected happens, if you give him a year or two, he will be as powerful as his father and truly become the undisputed master of this country.
But these can only be realized after the success of his secret plans. Not only did he not tell any ministers about these plans, but even his cronies knew nothing about them, even to ensure that his sleep talk would not
It was revealed that the young man, who was in his prime of life, did not even let his concubines sleep with him. At most, he would kick them out after finishing the work, which was considered extremely cautious.
And just like that, his plan, including every detail in it, was all revealed by the guy in front of her who looked exactly like her. This finally made her start to feel frightened from the bottom of her heart.
Peeping into the secrets of people's hearts is no longer something a mortal can do, and this person can transform into his own appearance. Could it be that he is a demon who steals the country?
Isn't it said that the royal family has the emperor's dragon spirit, and the monsters don't dare to covet it? If the monsters didn't have such rich means, the throne would have collapsed long ago.
The information that Lan Nuo knew was naturally obtained from this person through coaxing or threatening methods before. Logically speaking, the most important thing he should do now is to silence the little emperor and kill him.
Then find a way to hide the body, and your identity will be seamless.
But under certain conditions, Lan Nuo's own moral level is still relatively high, especially during the communication process, he found that this guy has clear logic and quick thinking. Under normal circumstances, he can grow into a generation of heroes, and he may not be unable to grow in the future.
To be an outstanding politician or engineer, talents are really rare these days. During the period of farming civilization, few people could read and write. Lan Nuo estimated that he would only have 90 years at most, so he could only train three or four generations.
People, the starting stage of the first generation is the most critical, and no talent can be wasted.
"I know you are already scared." Lan Nuo took out a richly decorated ivory dagger, which was a self-defense weapon placed by the little emperor beside the bed, but at this time, the dagger originally used to protect himself was pressed against him.
on the throat.
"I'm going to take off the gag on your mouth now. Don't even think about shouting. I can guarantee that I can cut your throat before you shout. If you cooperate well, I can give you a chance to live. Even
After I go to court for you, I can also tell you what has happened these days.
In fact, it doesn't matter even if you really scream, I just need to kill you on the spot, and then tell the people who come in that you are the little thief who assassinated me. They have to believe it or not, just like on the way to seek enlightenment, no matter you survive,
Regardless of whether it’s the Great Sage or the six-eared macaque, the four masters and disciples are still indispensable for their senior brother.”
The little emperor may not understand the last metaphor, but after the stuffed Bu Tuan was taken out, he did not scream or even speak.
"Very good. It seems that you are a smart man. Since you are willing to cooperate, I am happy to keep you alive. I will go to court for you tomorrow and you will govern this country. As for you and I, we will temporarily lock you in the basement without thinking about it.
If you are trying to escape, don't think about breaking away from the rope, because I can guarantee that you will never be able to break free, and blindly struggling will only hurt yourself.
Every day after I come back, I will take some time to tell you what happened in the court, and you will have a quarter of an hour to ask me questions, but other than that, I will make sure you don't make any sound."
The little emperor was completely confused this time: "Why don't you kill me? You have my appearance, my voice, and even know everything about me, so what use do I have?"
Hearing this, Lan Nuo looked at him with some pity in his eyes. He smiled and stretched out his hand, touched the little emperor's head and said: "All of what you said can be summed up in two words, that is the throne. From the beginning, you
In the end, I feel that my own value is equal to the throne, and I have never thought about it. Apart from being the emperor, do you have any value? When you think about this problem, you will understand that the throne is just for me.
A tool, and what I want cannot be limited to a mere throne."
As the king of a country, the little emperor in charge of an empire, this was the first time he heard the term "just a throne". He wanted to angrily scold the man in front of him for not knowing the heights of the world, but he quickly choked on what he wanted to say.
Back home, the other party's magical powers were so great that he could enter the palace without being discovered by anyone, and he could investigate all his secrets without even being aware of it. With such ability, the throne was indeed within easy reach for him.
"Okay, just think about it slowly. In order to relieve your boredom, I have left you a few books. They are all written by people from this dynasty. They are quite interesting. Please read more if you have nothing to do."
Lan Nuo carried the parking space into the basement, and the books were piled just within reach of his feet. Although he couldn't break free, he could barely turn the pages with his feet. The little emperor only felt that this was a great shame and humiliation.
But his mouth had been gagged again, and Lan Nuo had turned around and left. No matter how angry he was, he could not change the predicament in front of him.
And Lan Nuo also came to the chaotic court for the first time in this world. Although they have never been emperors, they have served as leaders of a group more than once. Although the political system of each dynasty is different,
After all, different paths lead to the same goal. It is nothing more than controlling the distribution of power layer by layer, thereby establishing a more or less efficient state machine to achieve governance. The state machine in the feudal era must be low and limited by productivity. No matter how high it is,
Spending time talking about it is like carving patterns on firewood.
The little emperor may have been a heroic figure in the original history, but the plans he made were ultimately small, and the so-called power struggle was ultimately limited to the court.
Lan Nuo was different. He was ready to play without the original vested interests on the spot. Thanks to the little emperor's previous management, he was able to mobilize a considerable part of his power in the court.
As a result, the Ministry of Industry among the six ministries, a department that was not particularly valued at first, gained unprecedented power. The emperor was actually prepared to personally guide them in the construction of several large-scale projects, and used all the strength accumulated over the years to
It was smashed in, so that in the eyes of a group of people who originally supported the little emperor, the originally wise and mighty little emperor suddenly went crazy, and inexplicably ruined the good situation. Those who were originally in key positions were transferred here.
The irrelevant Ministry of Works was just nonsense. But they had no time to stop it.
Lan Nuo knew that his time was tight, so after leaving the court that day, he directly asked the people he recruited to stay and personally explained to them the projects he would build next and the acceptance time he would set for them.
People in the industrial age will definitely realize the importance of these construction projects when they see them. However, in the eyes of other ministers in the court, the emperor's temperament suddenly changed. It is obvious that he is not doing his job properly and is playing with things.
However, these projects that Lan Nuo personally supervised and promoted will explode with energy far beyond their imagination in the future, including the transformation of coal mines and iron mines, iron and steel making, manure accumulation, casting, and salt drying.
Boiling sugar, glass, and a series of basic chemical projects.
Time is everything. Lan Nuo has no time to play power struggles with the people in the court. He borrows the power he can mobilize now to build a coal and iron industrial complex and develop the process of making three acids and two alkali by local methods.
In this era, the military can experience the art of explosion as the fastest way to solve all problems.
And when he returned to the basement of the palace and told the little emperor what he had done today, who had been reading here all day, he immediately became furious on the spot, without caring about his status as a prisoner, and his face turned red.
He cursed angrily: "Are you crazy? You have destroyed all the power that I have managed with great difficulty. Several good young people who have the hope of taking over the territory of Yizhou have all been forced by you to become craftsmen, you!
You! You locked me up for a lifetime. It would be better to let me die in this basement. Even if you let me go back now, I can't save the situation. Do you really not know how dangerous the struggle in the palace is?
?Is it because I don’t know how many people are staring at the throne under my butt?”
Anger has made the little emperor somewhat coherent, and even his personal pronouns began to become confusing for a while.
"Why are you so excited? Do you know? If you had made a louder voice just now, I would have strangled your throat directly? You only have a quarter of an hour to ask questions. Pointless venting is just a waste of your own time and also
It will only lower my opinion of you."
The angry little emperor finally calmed down again and started to think seriously. If Lan Nuo was really a guy who could only do nonsense, then he probably wouldn't have been able to plan so carefully. He pretended to be himself instead of his own identity, becoming
The emperor did not arouse any suspicion.
If you think about it this way, there may indeed be some tricks in those projects.
"Okay, anyway, you are the emperor now, so you can do whatever you want. These workshops you set up will definitely make a lot of profits, but have you ever thought about it, that the interests require sufficient force to protect them?
If you don't control the army, you are just a piece of fat in other people's mouths."
"Well, if you can think of this, you are already stronger than most people in this era. You can realize that force is used to obtain benefits, and benefits are used to further expand your force.
But under the previous state system, both the efficiency of plundering interests from the bottom and the efficiency of converting these interests into power in one's own hands were too low.
You are right. If the factories I build are just factories, they will indeed become a big piece of fat. But what if I tell the workers in the factories that they who have finally lived a good life will be robbed by bureaucrats?
, will become a slave-like existence again, losing their current life and everything created by their labor. Then do you think they will be willing to become my soldiers?
Do you think the workers who have to obey the strict rules and regulations in various factories every day and enforce the laws and prohibitions are more effective, or the retired nobles who are supported by off-the-job farmers and have practiced martial arts for many years, are more effective?
Not just the workers in the factory, when excellent products enter the market, a larger interest group will naturally be established. These interest groups rely on the high-quality goods that only we can produce. You said that in the struggle in the palace, they
Will you choose to stand on my side or on the side of conservative and backward forces?"
"Ha! Naive!" The little emperor seemed to disagree with Lan Nuo's idea at all, but after he lost his identity as emperor, he was also thinking about what the basis of his rule was during this period, and why a man who looked exactly like himself
People can easily deprive themselves of their status. What does the throne actually mean? These questions can only be understood from an objective perspective, and they also allowed him to understand many things that are usually difficult to understand.
The days went by in a busy way, and Lan Nuo worked hard to teach all the knowledge in his mind. After all, people are human beings, not wild animals. Everyone who can hold high positions is also a human spirit. The concept may be
They are backward, but their brains are definitely good. They may not be able to accept new theories, but this does not hinder their practical application.
And with Lan Nuo personally coming to the site to provide guidance, the efficiency of each department also improved rapidly. Soon, snow-white salt and sugar-red molten steel, as well as a large number of substances they had never seen before, were produced.
