Imprisonment
"Mr. Yang, 'What is the gain from this invasion? What is gained by invasion is a moderate gain.' 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 profound and profound."
After being sent to prison, Lu Chaoyang himself was not decadent, but instead worked harder and harder. He knew that he had not read much, so he studied harder in prison.
Many of the Jinyiwei officials on duty in the imperial edict were Lu Chaoyang's subordinates. Even though Lu Chaoyang is now in prison, they still serve as superior officials and do everything they ask of Lu Chaoyang. Because they knew that as long as King Qi did not fall, Lu Chaoyang might be reinstated 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, "Probably half a year."
Lu Chaoyang, the chief military minister 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 Mansion and Prince Han's Mansion has reached a fever pitch. If Prince Qi wins, Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong will both be released from prison, and they may rise to the top and be promoted several levels. If the king of Han wins, Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong will be directly convicted and will die without a burial place.
Yang Rong asked: "The fate of both of us depends on Prince Qi, is Mr. Lu not worried at all?"
"What do I have to worry about?" Lu Chaoyang said lightly, "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 born."
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!
…
[Choose simulation, Zhu Zaijing’s emperor’s life. 】
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 Zhu Di became more and more angry when he saw the recent simulations of several generations of emperors.
Especially Jiajing, he is not unintelligent, but to say that he is 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 defeated 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 to the Ming Dynasty if the country dies? Anyway, I am happy!"
It’s so irritating!
[You were born. You are the son of Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong, but you are not the eldest son, but the third son. If the succession was originally arranged, it would not be your turn. But I didn't expect that your two brothers died inexplicably after they were established as princes. 】
[Emperor Jiajing believed 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. But because of the emperor's indifference to you, powerful ministers such as Yan Song dared to bully you. 】
[You behave accordingly, lest you make the wrong move 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 really 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 starting 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. 】
[You are lying on the kang and crying bitterly, not because you are crying that you have no father, but because you are crying for 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 discover 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 trick 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 doesn't leave any edict to pass on the throne!
[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. 】
[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. They competed for power non-stop, and you were ignored in an instant. 】
[You, the newly enthroned emperor, have actually become a mascot! How can we cultivate? How can we bear this? 】
【Can bear it. 】
[You have messed up, do whatever you want. Anyway, you don’t want to take care of it. From Emperor Baozong... Emperor Yingzong to Emperor Jiajing, there are too many messes left by the ancestors. You just look at it. It just feels like a big headache. The country spends pages and pages of deficits every year, indemnities to Southwest every year...military expenses to Jiubian 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 can’t even touch a penny of the treasury’s money. Okay, you endure it. 】
[You have a conflict with the Queen and live in separate houses. The ministers begin to scold you in domineering manners. Okay, you endure it. 】
[The ministers asked you for power, but you gave it to them, and then someone came to scold you. Okay, you endure 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 government affairs and handed over all the 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. How can you become a Saint King without doing anything? 】
[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 you are a little poorer now, after three more years of mending, you will finally 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 distracted. It’s okay to fool themselves and create something like Longqing Zhongxing. Now they still want to get involved in the affairs of Southwest. It’s easy to get involved. If you accidentally force King Qi to rebel, what to 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 Mingmen 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 probably 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 conquest of 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 his son. . 】
[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 the Southwest Army (because it is really unbeatable), nor do they want to continue paying compensation. 】
[Well, that’s a pretty idea. 】
(End of chapter)
