The first thousand two hundred and seventy-ninth chapters: the cold tide people turned into princes
Three years later.
Wu Yi sent four ferocious beasts into the Daji Dynasty to stir up conflicts and drive a wedge between the upper and lower parties. However, the Daji Dynasty did not become bloody as Wu Yi expected. Even many sharp conflicts did not cause much change.
After the waves, there was silence.
The fate of the country continues, and the general trend remains unchanged. Today, the emperor has been in power for nearly sixty years. He has great power and has unprecedented control over the local area. Many premeditated plans have never been implemented and have become premeditated forever.
At present, it can really be said that Emperor Daji has single-handedly stabilized this expanding ancient empire. In recent years, the harvests in various places have generally been poor. The cold wave continues to move southward. The vast northern land has almost become a desperate situation and is no longer suitable for it.
live.
The northern tribes no longer want to go back and want to live permanently in the south. However, there is not enough food and there is not much undeveloped land. To build water conservancy projects, they have built a lot of water conservancy projects in the past few years, but they cannot continue to build them.
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Starting with the food issue, various problems almost broke out in a concentrated manner. Emperor Daji was able to suppress all these conflicts. It must be said that he was worthy of being the emperor with the highest popularity in hundreds of years.
In the eyes of the people, the empire was in good health and the people's livelihood was peaceful, but those high-ranking officials who were close to the emperor were more worried about one thing, and that was the issue of the emperor's longevity.
Today's emperor has always been known for his diligent administration. He visits the court every day and reviews hundreds of memorials. In fact, every emperor who holds great power must be diligent in his administration. If many things are left to his subordinates, it will inevitably lead to a downward shift in power.
However, three years ago, the emperor had already changed to visit the court once every three days. By January, it had been changed to the court once every five days. On weekdays, the memorials of hundreds of officials began to be read by others instead of reviewing them personally.
Because I can no longer see clearly.
This real dragon in the world is already old, as the laws of heaven and earth dictate. Who will become the next real dragon in the world?
Although the four princes who had failed under the election system had legally lost the right to inherit, it was not absolute, because the only bloodline heir left today, Prince Zhi'er, who was raised in the palace, did not
If you have no experience abroad, you cannot be recommended, so how can you be qualified to inherit?
Although the four of them were defeated in the army and the people resented it, and they lost their qualifications to inherit, at least they had experience outside. Their many years of experience in hiding gave them a lot of energy in both the government and the public.
Therefore, seeing that his father was hesitant and that the world was about to collapse, he activated his own energy and prepared to seize power.
But the emperor obviously had no intention of letting his four incompetent sons succeed him. On the contrary, Prince Zhi'er was so smart that the emperor held a coronation ceremony for Prince Zhi'er in advance a few years ago, and Prince Zhi'er was only thirteen.
Years old, far from reaching the age of crowning.
Being crowned means coming of age, and coming of age means being able to inherit the throne. In addition, the emperor mentioned earlier asked others to read memorials beside him, and this person was Prince Zhi'er.
In fact, now the palace no longer calls him Prince Zhi'er. Prince Zhi'er has his own name, called Jiang Qi, whose name is Yuque. Qi means beautiful jade, and jade means there are flaws in jade.
When the emperor chose this name for Prince Zhi'er, he just hoped that the prince would always have a dissatisfied heart and know how to be content and make progress. However, in the interpretation of outsiders, it became that the emperor believed that the child was not qualified enough to inherit the throne.
meaning.
There is no need to say more about who spread this rumor. The emperor asked the prince Jiang Qi to be by his side and read the memorial for him. Even the common people understood this meaning. He was obviously training a successor, okay?
Many "Emperor's Arts" were passed down orally and heart-to-heart like this.
The four princes tried to change the emperor's mind, but this idea was destined to be in vain.
Just like this, another half year passed and winter arrived again. The cold wave from the north crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and blew all the way to the southernmost tip of the continent. It snowed for the first time in the southernmost tip of the continent. Many crops were frozen to death, and houses in the south were frozen.
It is not used to protect against cold. No one expected the cold wave to be so fierce. Many people died from this natural disaster.
This is true in the southernmost part, but the results in the north are even more tragic. Disaster victims are everywhere. This is not as simple as one place or one village, but a large-scale and universal disaster victim.
After the victims have eaten up the food in one place, they then move to another place, just like locusts, or even more powerful than locusts. The food shortage spreads like a plague, and the treasuries of various places are smashed open, and the food they get is no more than
Used for several days.
Flying snow was falling one after another, covering the ground with a depth of one meter, making it impossible for people and horses to pass. The transmission of information from various places was also forced to stop. It was already half a month after the chaos of the victims in many places reached Zhongdu City, and the dispatches from various places
The soldiers and horses were suppressed because the journey was difficult and dangerous, and the gains outweighed the losses.
The transmission of information is cut off or slowed down, and the emperor in Zhongdu City loses his eyes and ears, so his decision-making cannot be as perfect as before.
The blockade of information has caused uneasiness among the people, and rumors have spread in various places. It has even been said that the emperor has collapsed, which is really treasonous.
However, there is one thing that everyone in the government and the public has a relatively unified view on, and that is that heaven and man sensed that such a disaster must have occurred because they must have done something wrong.
The theory of telepathy between heaven and man can curb the unlimited expansion of imperial power, but it can also be used by people with ulterior motives as an excuse to attack current affairs.
In fact, because of this incident, many people pointed the finger at the next emperor appointed by the emperor, that is, Prince Zhi'er. How could he be the emperor without being elected? This has not happened since the second emperor Ruixuan. Scholars
People were talking a lot.
There are natural disasters outside, succession disputes inside, news is cut off from each other due to violent storms, conspiracies are brewing, and wars are brewing. This cold wave destroys the peaceful appearance that the emperor has worked so hard to maintain, and the biggest chaos in thousands of years occurs.
At this critical moment, Prince Zhi'er, now Prince Jiang Qi, resolutely asked the emperor for orders to personally rescue the disaster and save the people from the suffering.
Everyone thinks that this prince is crazy. If you go out to provide disaster relief at this time, the victims will eat you alive. They don't care whether you are a prince or not. They only have food in their eyes, but do you have it in your hands?
There is another statement that is not suitable for public disclosure. Once Prince Jiang Qi leaves Zhongdu City and reaches the local area, he will be killed by the civil uprising. If the other princes ambush the swordsmen and join the ranks of the victims, this is not natural.
Take destruction?
To everyone's surprise, the emperor agreed to this request and allocated 30,000 imperial troops to Prince Jiang Qi for him to command, and his trip brought half of the dynasty's treasury with him.
If you want to achieve great status, you must have great merit!