When I entered the palace, the lights on the Yangshan Temple were still brightly lit.
The young chamberlain could not help but lean on the pillar and doze quietly.
Emperor Da Sui, who was in his prime, had already grown his hair early.
Being an emperor can be the most leisurely profession in the world, or it can be the most tiring profession.
It all depends on the choice of the person sitting in that chair.
An elderly chamberlain quietly sent a secret note to the emperor.
The emperor held it in his hand, and after seeing that it was no more than three breaths away, he slammed it on the table, waking up the dozing little eunuch.
Fortunately, the emperor always treated his ministers tolerantly and favorably, and even if he saw it, he never took it out on the little eunuch.
"Wen Yuanxiang...how could this old thief change like this?"
The emperor then turned around and asked the old eunuch beside him: "Is it confirmed that the barbarians have not surrendered and everything is really Wen Yuanxiang's trick?"
The old eunuch lowered his head and whispered: "Although there is no concrete evidence, informants from all sides have reported that... it is indeed true!"
The emperor punched the chair hard.
"You old man! How dare you insult me like this?"
"Hurry up and order people, and put all the relatives and clan members of old man Nawen into the prison of the Ministry of Punishment."
But the old eunuch suddenly knelt down and kowtowed: "No saint! At this time, Dingxiang Hou, Longchang Bo, Yongding Hou, the Luo family in Hedong, the Bai family in Xijun, the Sun family and Liu family in Huyou, as well as many royal nobles, have conquered the barbarian tribes.
, memorials asking for merit from the saint have been sent to the Longevity Palace. If Your Majesty convicts old man Nawen and puts all his relatives in prison, then... these important ministers and nobles who also ask for merit from the saint, all parties
How should a famous family deal with themselves?"
When the emperor heard this, he seemed to be suddenly frozen.
All movements suddenly stopped, and even breathing became sluggish.
The emperor sits on the world and is rich all over the world. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers.
This is what he has thought of as 'reality' since he was a child.
When the late emperor first came to the throne, he was very high-spirited and wanted to reverse the decline of the country and return to the great evil.
It wasn't until Master Yuanshen of the Jingxian Sect visited the imperial city at night and hung a three-foot-long sword above the emperor's head that the emperor suddenly woke up and realized that this world was not really his.
The reason why he is the emperor of the world is just because those high-ranking monks who seek immortality and seek immortality have no intention of managing secular affairs.
In the dead of night, when everyone is quiet, ask yourself, he is like the leading sheep in the sheepfold.
Even though he has unique majesty among the sheep, in the eyes of shepherds and sheep-eaters, he is still just a sheep, there is no big difference.
Standing behind the princes, nobles, and wealthy families, are they not those sects of cultivating immortals that seem to be outside the world, but have hidden tentacles that penetrate into every aspect?
After all, cultivation requires a lot of resources, and the prosperity of the sect also requires excellent disciples.
These are real and ethereal. They need to go deep into the people, into a land, into the deepest part of a country, and then...continuously, like a parasitic plant, crazily absorbing nutrients.
Until the country was overwhelmed, until the people living here began to fully realize that something seemed to be wrong.
Then... with the game and support of those sects, a new country was born from the ruins of the old one.
The anger of the people will disappear with the collapse of the old dynasty.
A century-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family, and a ten thousand-year-old sect, this is the true reality of the world.
"Hahaha... What a Wen Yuanxiang. It's indeed Wen Yuanxiang. He really caught everyone's weakness." The emperor said angrily. If Lin Xi was in front of him at this moment, he would definitely be able to feast on the negative emotions from the emperor.
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"Where are the people from the Tianjian Division? Why don't they report it?" the emperor asked coldly. In fact, the answer is self-evident.
The officials of the Tianjian Division actually come from various major sects.
Nominally, they were responsible for guarding the imperial city, the emperor and the royal family.
In fact... their real role is to monitor the emperor... to monitor this evil "heaven".
For the sect, Wen Yuanxiang can open the trade route to the barbarian tribes and allow the stubborn barbarians to open up the treasures in the millions of barbarian mountains, which they are happy to see.
There are some things that people in the sect have always wanted to do, but have never been able to do.
The young monk had access to those millions of wild mountains. Not to mention the huge risks he took in one trip, the rewards could only be described as barely adequate.
But if the powerful and older monks enter the Million Barbarian Mountains, they will be as bright and conspicuous as the bright moon in the dark night. Those hidden and sleeping strong men among the barbarians will be awakened and beat them out of the Million Barbarian Mountains.
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The Tianjian Division may have learned the truth about Wen Yuanxiang (Lin Xi)'s so-called subjugation of the barbarian tribe from the beginning, but he was happy to see it happen, chose to conceal it, and watched the whole lie grow bigger and bigger, and finally enveloped the world.
Half of the country is haunted.
The emperor's question is destined to have no answer.
In a direction that the Emperor could not see, there were sarcastic expressions on the faces of several people.
They are officials of the Supervisory Tiansi... Of course, they are more willing and happy to just call each other Taoist friends. They are monks who are above the ordinary, and they are monks who transcend the ordinary.
Each of them has a bright future within the sect.
Coming to Da Sui as an official is nothing more than secular experience, or it is just a task issued by the sect.
They have never been integrated into this evil officialdom, and naturally they lack the necessary respect for the evil emperor.
"How many barbarians does he have on his hands at the moment?" The emperor slowly exhaled a long breath, but after all, he still did not delve into the issue of Supervisor Tiansi.
In the depressing atmosphere of the main hall, the temperature seemed to have warmed up slightly.
"Sage, according to the statistics a day ago, Mr. Wen already has more than 3,100 barbarians in his hands. Under his control, they are well-trained and enforce orders and prohibitions. The Liu family in Hedong provides them with armor, and the Qu family in Shangnao provides heavy weapons.
The weapons are all mounted on tigers and leopards that have become monsters in the mountains."
"It is rumored... that when the army numbered one thousand and five, the Jindan ancestor of the Qu family saw it and declared that within a month, this army would wreak havoc on the world." The old eunuch's forehead had already sprouted.
Cold sweat.
He didn't quite understand when the old man who had left the capital had the ability to tame all the wealthy families and serve him.
He can also take advantage of stubborn, savage and ferocious barbarians.
What a terrifying force these three thousand well-equipped barbarian cavalry are!
At this moment, the emperor was filled with jealousy.
His anger was superficial, but his jealousy almost drove him crazy.
If he had such a barbarian cavalry team in his hands, even if he could not compete with the sect, how could those sect disciples, those arrogant and wealthy families, despise this evil emperor like him so much?
"Send an order to reinstate Wen Yuanxiang as prime minister and make him the prince's adviser. In addition, he will be granted the title of Yongchang Bo. He will be granted a land of eight hundred miles in the wild mountains. He will quickly come to the capital to receive rewards and assume the power of the prime minister." After the emperor regained his composure,
, my mind can’t help but become alive.
He began to think about how to restrict Wen Yuanxiang.
At the same time, he thought of a way to take the barbarian cavalry in Wen Yuanxiang's hands into his own hands.
Now that something has happened, it cannot be changed.
Then it is better to work in a direction that is beneficial to you.
In the border town in the south of the mountain, Lin Xi is training a group of barbarians who have just come down from the mountain.
The emperor was curious as to why Lin Xi could control the barbarian team and gain support from wealthy families from all sides, seemingly without any suspicion or reservation.
In fact, the reason is very simple.
The emperor is the embodiment of feudal thought and a natural centralizer.
Even if there is a mountain pressing down on the sect above their heads, they still think about how to obtain the truly supreme authority.
But Lin Xi is not!
Lin Xi chose to let go of his existing rights and retain his own necessity and functionality.
He took the initiative to let the tentacles of wealthy families infiltrate into the barbarian cavalry team.
Take the initiative to let them 'hook up' and get in touch with the barbarian team, and even the barbarian tribe behind them.
At the same time, he also took the initiative to organize the major barbarian tribes and elect the commanders of the barbarian cavalry teams. He even supported and encouraged them and elected a barbarian cavalry commander that all tribes believed in.
This seemed to be of no benefit to Lin Xi, and made it even more selfless.
However, rights are not only in your hands when you hold them tightly.
But when he spread his palms, he fell into the palms of his hands.
The barbarian tribes each have their own hunting grounds, and it is common for them to invade each other during bitter cold weather.
It can be said that almost all major tribes have irresolvable blood feuds.
Perhaps the leader they both trust will eventually appear, but that will be many years later.
The final result of different forces infiltrating their tentacles into the barbarian team is that no one of them can take advantage.
If there is a dispute of interest or a conflict, you have to go to Linxi to seek a 'fair' ruling in the end.
Lin Xi seemed to have lost the barbarian cavalry that was the most brave of the entire Dazui, but in fact he gained more controllable rights and a higher and more secretive status.
The emperor's edict came very quickly.
It shows the emperor's impatience.
But Lin Xi did not reply.
He refused to return to Beijing because he was ill.
It's just that the words didn't mean anything, and it seemed to show a kind of 'resentment'.
This actually made the emperor happy.
So the emperor invited him once, then again, and three times.
For one month, the emperor's special envoy went to the border city in the south of the mountain nine times.
The nine recruitments were each time more intense, and the benefits and promises promised were also higher than the last.
By the ninth time, Lin Xi finally pretended to be helpless and could no longer refuse the emperor's invitation and the visit of overt and covert lobbyists from all sides.
Only then did he decide to leave the mountain, return to Yong'an, and take over the power of the Prime Minister again.
It is different from the abjection when I came.
Lin Xi returned to Yong'an and was escorted by barbarian cavalry.
Three hundred barbarian cavalry accompanied Linxi to the capital. This was also one of the privileges granted by the emperor, or... one of the conditions of compromise.
In addition to the three hundred barbarian cavalry, the accompanying monks, warriors, sergeants, servants, maids, etc. added up to no less than five thousand people.
The convoy was long, with more than a hundred giant carriages in total, pulled by armored elephants, driving heavily toward the capital city of Yong'an...