Qin Ming walked into the inner room. The inner room was very large, with a magnificent dragon bed in the middle, surrounded by silk curtains embroidered with gold and silver threads. Countless doctors were busy around the dragon bed.
He walked towards the dragon bed, and the imperial physician who was kneeling in front of the dragon bed quickly made room for him.
Qin Ming knelt on his knees, looking at the dying man on the dragon bed with an ashen complexion, and immediately began to brew emotions.
He secretly pinched himself, his nose was sore, and tears began to well up in his eyes. Qin Ming hurried over, held Emperor Dali's thin hand, and said with a lump in his throat: "Father, I'm late." …”
On the dragon bed, Emperor Yong'an slowly raised his eyelids, looked at Qin Ming, and let out a long breath.
Then he looked at Qin Ming with his cloudy eyes, opened his hoarse throat and murmured: "Are you here?"
"I...I'm afraid my time is running out."
"No, my father is in good health and recuperating." Qin Ming's emotions started to rise at this time, and his voice actually trembled, and he comforted Emperor Yong'an softly with a tearful voice, "You are descended from the world as a crape myrtle, and you are protected by a real dragon. You will definitely It will be fine.”
Emperor Yong'an was about to say something when a man walked in from outside. Qin Ming turned around and saw that it was King Qi Qin Muye. He was holding a box in his hand.
"Brother Emperor, this is the elixir from this batch. You will definitely recover after taking it." King Qi walked to the bed, knelt down and opened the jade box in his hand. Inside was a reddish-brown elixir the size of a fingernail.
Just by standing aside, Qin Ming could smell the pungent heavy metal smell of the pill.
"Uncle, don't worry. I'll feed my father. Uncle, please go out first. I want to whisper something to my father." Qin Ming reached out and took the jade box, completely ignoring King Qi's astonished eyes, and said something to drive him away.
King Qi looked at Emperor Yong'an on the bed, and Emperor Yong'an unexpectedly nodded.
After King Qi said hello, he turned around and went out. When he turned around, he gave Qin Ming a fierce look.
He couldn't understand why the weak prince who used to tremble when he saw him dared to say something to drive him away today?
After King Qi went out, Qin Ming took the jade box and looked at it carefully, and then asked: "When did your father start taking this elixir?"
Qin Ming seemed to understand why Emperor Yong'an was not old, and he was an emperor on horseback. He was in good health, but suddenly fell ill.
"A year ago." Emperor Yong'an said weakly.
"Father, don't take this elixir yet." Qin Ming didn't know how to explain to him that this elixir was actually heavy metal. He took it for more than a year before he became seriously ill, and his body was indeed strong.
"The pill... is poisonous?" Emperor Yong'an was not a fool. Qin Ming said this, so he could naturally relate to this aspect.
"It can't be said to be poisonous, but all pills are poisonous. Father, please don't take any more." Qin Ming put the jade box aside and held Emperor Yong'an's hand.
"This elixir...was donated by King Qi." Emperor Yong'an shook Qin Ming's hand hard. It was obvious that King Qi wanted to harm him!
"The King of Qi never became a vassal after he obtained the fiefdom." Qin Ming said, sometimes, there is no need to speak too fullly.
"My dynasty has always been established with benevolence and righteousness. Killing your brother is unkind." Emperor Yong'an sighed and said slowly.
Qin Ming didn't speak anymore. Instead, Emperor Yong'an seemed to have opened up the chatterbox and continued: "It seems that I won't survive this year. I just have to suffer from you and have to clean up such a big mess."
Having said this, Qin Ming suddenly raised his head. The chief eunuch serving next to him also had the eyesight and quickly dismissed all the imperial doctors and palace maids.
Now there are only three people in the inner room: the emperor, Qin Ming and the chief eunuch.
"You were very decisive outside today." Emperor Yong'an looked at Qin Ming with a look of relief. In the past, he would not have dared to do this kind of thing even if he had the courage to do so.
"But Dali's current situation cannot be solved by suppressing a... minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs." Emperor Yong'an said extremely weakly.
Qin Ming's heart sank. He knew that the emperor's real test for him had come.
The blame can only be blamed on the fact that the former prince was too good-for-nothing, which led to the current situation, and Emperor Yong'an still didn't trust him.
It can be said that from now on, his performance will directly determine his future destiny.
"Now Dali is a mess, with internal and external troubles, accumulated problems, and full of moths."
As soon as these words came out, the inner room suddenly became cold and silent. Emperor Yong'an's eyes were stern, and the eunuch serving next to him took a deep breath.
Qin Ming continued, combining the memories of his previous life and the examples of dynasty changes in history that he had seen before traveling, he talked to Emperor Yong'an: "The external dangers of the empire are that the barbarians such as Di Rong and Xianbei in the north are eyeing and wolfing. Gu Zhongyuan often harasses people at the border, and sometimes they intensify their efforts and go south to plunder."
"But in the south, there are Baiyue rebels. They cooperate with the local chieftains and use tough native wolf soldiers to establish themselves as kings and dominate the chaos in the poor mountains and rivers."
"The internal troubles in the empire were caused by Taizu's excessive enfeoffment and decentralization of power. The local vassals controlled the military, political and financial power alone. They were powerful and supported the army to govern themselves."
"There are factional disputes in the court, with aristocratic families fighting for power, nepotism, and cliques for personal gain. Officials are selected regardless of their ability, only those who agree with the party and those who are different."
"In local areas, corrupt officials are rampant, taxing and exorbitant, and colluding with local villages to prey on the common people, and the people are living in dire straits."
"Coupled with floods in the south and drought in the north, natural disasters occurred all over the place. People were displaced and revolted. Without families, the country would not be able to survive."
Every time Qin Ming finished speaking, the atmosphere in the inner room became colder. When he said the last four words, the eunuch listening next to him had already held his breath.
These words, for anyone to say, are treacherous.
Emperor Yong'an's face was as iron-faced as he asked slowly: "In your opinion, what should we do?"
"To fight against the outside world, we must first calm down the inside. The people are like a river. They can both carry a boat and overturn it. If you want long-term peace and stability, you must first calm the people, and then use strong medicine and quick fire to make the court cluttered, so that the chaos can be cut with a quick knife, and then That is to conquer Baiyue in the south, drive away the barbarians in the north, unify the four seas, and bring peace to the universe."
Emperor Yong'an's stern face suddenly relaxed after hearing this, and he even blushed because he was too happy.
The eunuch next to him also had a very wonderful expression. He had served the emperor for decades and had seen the prince since he was a child. I never expected that he would be able to say such brilliant words today.
"I knew I was right." Emperor Yong'an looked at Qin Ming with great joy, just like a real father.
"Zhang Yong, pass the order."
The great eunuch bowed and bowed, then took out the imperial edict that he had prepared long ago, walked out of the inner room, and read out loudly in front of all the civil and military ministers and members of the royal family: "The emperor has an edict!"
Everyone looked at each other with surprise and uncertainty in their eyes, but they still knelt down obediently to receive the order.
