Liu Yu stared at Wang Zhi and finally came to the most critical question.
Liu Yu is not an impatient person, because he knows very well that Chen Mu is not a fool who wants to convince himself just by Wang Zhi's white teeth.
So he knew that Chen Mu would definitely give him an explanation.
Therefore, from the beginning, Liu Yu did not ask this question immediately, but wanted to first understand the current situation of the late emperor, King Chenliu, and his son Liu He, and what was the truth about their "deaths".
Now Wang Zhi has given him an answer, telling Liu Yu that by chance, the late emperor, King Chenliu, and Liu He were all "rescued" by the Military Intelligence Department.
As for how credible this so-called "rescue" is, that is naturally another matter.
Anyway, Liu Yu felt that judging from Chen Mu's current character, he probably wasn't that kind to save people, and was more likely to take advantage of the chaos and rob him.
But now is not the time to care about these things. He urgently hopes that all this is true. He hopes that the late Emperor Chenliu and his son are not dead, so that when he is dying, he will be worthy of Emperor Kang and worthy of his ancestors.
So he wants an answer.
So, what answer would Chen Mu give him?
Wang Zhi shook his head: "It can't be proved."
There is no answer.
Liu Yu's eyes quickly flashed with a trace of disappointment, a trace of loneliness, and a trace of sadness.
At the end, his eyes gradually became colder and glowed with coldness.
Chen Zigui, are you kidding me?
Isn't he afraid that he will lose everything and make everything he gained today public?
Although he had no evidence to prove that Chen Mu was threatening him, because Wang Zhi was obviously determined to die and would not hesitate to die to repay Liu Bei for Chen Mu's kindness.
But perhaps no evidence is needed.
Liu Yu believed that with the moral prestige he had accumulated for many years, he could immediately discredit Liu, Guan, Zhang and Chen without having to explain anything. He only needed to declare it to the world with an edict and be attacked by countless princes!
Even if this kind of thing is not what Liu Yu wants, because the cost of doing so is very high, forcing Liu Bei to rebel as a last resort, I am afraid that Jizhou, which has just been pacified, will be bloody again.
After all, the cost of losing everything is not being able to replace people, and it will also cause the country that has been somewhat calmed down to become fragmented again.
If the late emperor could be exchanged, what would happen if King Chenliu and his son Liu He gave up the throne to Liu Bei?
But the premise of all this is that what Wang Zhi said is true.
And if they were all false, compared to this, Liu Yu would definitely not be able to accept Chen Mu using lies and deception in exchange for the little power he had left.
However, Wang Zhi raised his head and said: "The Young Master said that no matter whether I show His Majesty the letters or personal belongings of the late Emperor Chen Liuwang and Liu Shizhong, His Majesty cannot be 100% convinced. So even if there is evidence, it is no different from not having it."
"Then what does Chen Zigui mean?"
Liu Yu was confused.
Could it be that you want me to drag my broken body to the Japanese slave country to verify it for myself?
Wang Zhi replied: "The young man said that if one day Zhi is ready to tell the truth, he should send someone to tell him that he has in his hand the imperial seal that the late emperor had hidden, and that King Chenliu carried the royal seal with him, and also sent someone to tell him.
There is Liu Shizhong's jade sword and, of course, their letters. He is willing to hand over these things to His Majesty."
"Um."
Liu Yu nodded, these things can indeed be used as part of the evidence.
Wang Zhi continued: "But in order to dispel His Majesty's doubts, he decided to ask an important minister whom Your Majesty trusted to go to the Wonu Kingdom in person. Only in this way can Your Majesty confirm the authenticity of the matter."
"Who does he want to go?"
"Whoever His Majesty wants can go."
"Whoever wants to go can go?"
Liu Yu pondered for a moment and said, "My old wife misses her child and often sheds tears. How about letting her go?"
Wang Zhi replied: "Of course you can, but the young master also guessed that your majesty might let the queen go, so the young master asked Zhi to remind your majesty that women are talkative. If this matter gets spread in the future, Liu Shijun will have a kind heart.
He doesn’t care, but he doesn’t.”
Liu Yu's eyelids suddenly jumped wildly. Chen Mu was really brave. He only threatened him to abdicate, but now he started to threaten him that he might kill his wife in the future.
In fact, the only person Liu Yu can trust 100% now is his wife. Although other important ministers such as Yang Biao, Zhao Wenshi, and Sun Rui can also do it, the matter is so important and people's hearts are unpredictable. He can't guarantee whether these people will.
Will lie for profit or other reasons.
Only his old wife has no problem. After all, they only have one son. If Chen Mu lies, Liu He is not in the Japanese slave country at all, and his old wife will never be threatened by Chen Mu. Anyway, the couple has no children.
, and there is nothing to worry about.
If Chen Mu lets his wife get hurt, Liu Yu won't mind fighting to the death with Liu Bei. Before he dies, he will make everything public. Chen Mu will not be allowed to succeed. At worst, no one in the Han Dynasty will be allowed to sit on the throne.
Compared with this country, Liu Yu actually valued his late emperor Chen Liuwang and his son more. Because there was no son to succeed him, the emperor's position was very light in his eyes and was not as important as his son at all. So deep in his heart, more
But he still has his duty as a loyal minister as Zongzheng and his love as a father.
For the sake of the late emperor and King Chenliu, he was willing to give up the throne. Not to mention his son Liu He. "Mencius" said: There are three unfilial piety, the greatest is not having an heir. Liu Yu's family is very clean, so he exchanged his only son for the throne.
It's like regaining something lost, it's a very cost-effective thing.
The throne should not be his in the first place, so what could be better than exchanging it for the safety of the two princes and his own son?
As for the throne, just give it away.
The first one was able to save the late emperor and King Chenliu, which was fulfilling his duty as a minister. The second one was able to save his son, so that he would not have no descendants, and fulfilled the responsibilities that a father should have. The third one gave up to Liu Bei, and the world was finally over.
It was still the Han Dynasty, and the emperor's surname was still Liu. Although he was not a descendant of Emperor Guangwu, it was still acceptable to everyone.
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But the premise of all this is that it is true!
If it's fake...
A fierce look flashed in Liu Yu's eyes. He coughed twice because of his excitement and said angrily: "Ahem, what does Chen Zigui mean? Should I just let him do what he wants?"
Wang Zhi said: "Of course not. The young master also said that the queen can go, but after His Majesty gives in, she will have to stay in the Japanese slave country in the future. The young master once said to the slave, the world is very big, and we will be able to calm down the present in the future.
After the chaos of the Han Dynasty, the Wonu Kingdom and the Korean Kingdom could all become fiefdoms of the late emperor, King Chenliu and Liu Shizhong. These places are not bitter cold places. The four seasons are like spring and the people are not yet civilized. It is not a bad thing to establish a state there.
.”
"Is he really willing to let the late Emperor Chenliu and my son be crowned kings and found the country?"
Liu Yu was surprised.
Whether it was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, some of the royal families of the previous dynasties were favored, and some of them were naturally killed.
Liu Yu thought that Liu Bian, Liu Xie, and Liu He would be lucky to be able to save their lives in the future and be imprisoned for the rest of their lives. Unexpectedly, Chen Mu would allow them to establish their own countries in the Wonu Kingdom and the Korean Kingdom.
Wang Zhi replied: "As long as your Majesty agrees to abdicate the throne to Liu Shijun, the Shaofu will come to Luoyang in person to discuss this matter with your Majesty, and will also bring personal letters from the late emperors Chen Liuwang and Liu Shizhong as well as personal identification documents.
, as long as everything is settled, the Young Mansion will send someone to send the Queen to the Wonu Kingdom to verify everything. Your Majesty, rest assured that Qingzhou has found an extremely safe channel with a large number of islands along the way. If everything goes well, the round trip will take less than a month."
"It took less than a month to go back and forth?"
Liu Yu was even more surprised. He didn't expect that the Japanese slave country, which he thought was thousands of miles away, was so close.
It is indeed a long way from ancient China to Japan, and the ocean is not a smooth place. Typhoons and bad weather often cause the sea route to be blocked, and ships are often destroyed and people capsized.
But don’t forget that the Korean Peninsula and Japan are very close. It is only a few dozen kilometers to take a boat from Qingdao, Shandong to the Korean Peninsula, and then from the Korean Peninsula to Tsushima Island in Japan. So in fact, according to the correct departure route, it is only one
More than a thousand kilometers away, it is not only safe but also very close.
For example, when Mongolia first attacked Japan, they started from Korea, easily crossed Tsushima Island, and occupied Fukuoka. However, the Yuan army was not good at mountain warfare and was pushed back by Japan's tenacious resistance at the time.
The ancients thought that going to Japan was far away because of their limited knowledge, but Chen Mu naturally knew how to go and when would be the best time to go.
Therefore, he was the first to develop shipping in Qingzhou. The first thing he opened was the waterway from Qingzhou to North Korea. After occupying the Samhan Peninsula, he sent people to Japan, arranged sentries on Tsushima Island, and observed the weather in all seasons to find the most suitable climate for landing in Japan.
Conditions, and finally after many years of operation, it officially landed on Kyushu Island, Japan.
Chen Mu stationed five thousand soldiers on Kyushu Island to occupy the entire Kyushu Island, and Liu Bian, Liu Xie, Liu and the other three are currently located in Fukuoka County.
At this time, Japan was still in the Bronze Age. The people were as skinny as monkeys. The so-called kings were basically tribal leaders. Their tribal civilization was even in a transitional period from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society, divided into countless tribes. Small countries are somewhat similar to those in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The king of Yamatai, Bimihu, is equivalent to the Zhou royal family, and the other small countries are equivalent to local princes.
It is worth mentioning that Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and the southwestern part of Honshu Island are currently the most prosperous places in Japan. The northeastern part of Honshu Island, which is the Tokyo area in later generations, is still a wilderness and inaccessible, no different from the primitive jungle.
On the contrary, Fukuoka Prefecture in later generations is now the capital of a country, the Japanese slave country that paid tribute to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and was awarded the "Golden Seal of the Han Japanese Nu King", so the Fukuoka area is a little more prosperous.
After the Qingzhou Army settled in, they occupied the entire country almost without a fight, and then extended to the entire Kyushu Island, under the rule of the Han Dynasty.
It was difficult for Mongolia to attack Japan back then. At any rate, Japan was moving from a primitive society to a feudal society. Relying on the mountainous terrain of Kyushu Island, it could barely repel the Mongolian army. But now, the feudal society is fighting the primitive society, just like the industrial civilization is fighting the farming civilization. , almost crushed, unable to form any resistance.
The southwest of Honshu Island, that is, the area around Kyoto and Osaka in Kansai, was ruled by Himiko of the Yamatai Kingdom. The two sides used Kitakyushu City in later generations as the dividing line, so there was no conflict between the two sides.
It's just that Himihu and many small tribe kings were afraid of the power of the Han Dynasty. From time to time they sent people to pay tribute, and even offered live prisoners as sacrifices and massacred them on the spot. Their barbaric behavior made the civilized officials from the academy who were sent to govern the area quite uncomfortable. .
However, at present, Chen Mu has no plans to fully develop Japan, so he only takes Kyushu Island as his base first, and areas with large plains such as Fukuoka and Saga as grain-producing areas. Geographically, these places are at the same latitude as the Huainan area. It is suitable for growing rice, so it is a very good grain-producing area.
And Liu Bian, Liu Xie, Liu and the others were placed here. It was very suitable for safety, food and clothing, and even the distance from North Korea. If Liu Yu sent people to Japan to confirm the authenticity of the matter, they could take a boat all the way to the Lijin outlet. , and then take a sea ship from Laizhou Bay to North Korea, and then transfer to Fukuoka.
Wang Zhi said: "Students from the School of Geography at Taishan Academy in Qingzhou traveled overseas many times and drew a large number of nautical charts and maps of North Korea and the Wonun Kingdom. They even went north deep into the bitter cold places. Countless people died for this, but there are still people One after another, the young master said that the reason why people don't know enough is because they can't see the wider world. The Japanese slave country is actually very close to me, the Han Dynasty, but it is blocked by the strait, so it makes people think it is far away."
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Liu Yu nodded slowly. He also admired Chen Mu's sharp and pioneering spirit and thoughts in his heart.
Wang Zhi continued: "Your Majesty, I only know so much. If your Majesty is willing to accept this matter, I will send someone to inform the young master, and he will come to Luoyang with some things to discuss with your majesty."
Although shipping has been opened up, the sea is fickle and 100% safety cannot be guaranteed. In recent years, many large ships have sunk in Qingzhou overseas. When just exploring the North American route, hundreds of thousands of sailors died at the bottom of the sea.
Therefore, in order to prevent navigation accidents, Qingzhou may have to use huge manpower and material resources to ensure safety for this trip.
Therefore, Chen Mu still had to come to Luoyang in person to discuss the specific matters with Liu Yu.
The premise for all this is Liu Yu's agreement.
The two parties are actually making a deal and leaving room for negotiation for the other party.
It was impossible for Chen Mu to come and tell Liu Yu about this in person. Although he knew that Liu Yu had no choice, who knew if he would immediately turn his back and choose to fight to the death?
Therefore, Chen Mu must find a dead man. Even if Liu Yu turns against him and the dead man dies, he will end up dead without evidence.
Even if Liu Yu chose the worst ending and issued an edict to make it clear to the world, at least there would be room for justification.
For example, it can be said that Wang Zhi is an undercover agent of the enemy, carrying out counterintuitive schemes and so on.
As long as no one gets the real handle and evidence, there will be room for maneuver. This is why Chen Mu asked Wang Zhi to choose a suitable time to show off his cards.
And now, it's time for Liu Yu to make a choice.
He looked at Wang Zhi.
After pondering for a long time, Lu Qiang looked at his confused eyes and said softly:
"Go and tell Chen Zigui. I will agree to this and let him come to Luoyang."