However, whether this matter can be done or not, the emperor made a wise choice and did not require Huang Qiong to do it. And if the emperor doesn't ask, Huang Qiong will naturally not ask for trouble, and it will be unpleasant to rush to find him. Both of them chose to avoid this matter and the possible results.
Just when Huang Qiong thought that things were over for the day, she was about to run away to her mother. However, the emperor took out two small boxes from a cabinet behind his imperial case. After opening them with his personal key, he took out several memorials and threw them to Huang Qiong and said: "These are secret documents sent from Zhengzhou and Ruzhou. You take a look first.”
After receiving several secret documents thrown by the emperor, Huang Qiong, who didn't know what the emperor was thinking about today, couldn't help but was a little stunned and said: "Father, this is a bit inappropriate. Even the prince has the right to see these secret documents. , wouldn’t my son be even less qualified? Besides, these secret secrets involve state affairs, so you are violating the ancestral system by letting your son read them.”
"Don't be so verbose, I'll just let you see. I'm not dead yet, you're nothing to worry about. I'm writing ink on your skin carefully." The emperor was not in a good mood today, and he was obviously not thinking. Here I am chatting with Huang Qiong. Seeing Huang Qiong using the ancestral system to suppress him again, he was very dissatisfied and even uttered vulgar words.
After hearing what he said, he saw Huang Qiong who was very embarrassed when he looked at the memorial that he had forced into his hand. The emperor wanted to scold this person for always playing tricks on him, but in fact, his sophistication in handling things was always inconsistent with his age. And he always looks for something to do for himself, which can easily arouse his anger. In the end, he finds out that he is still the son who is being led by the nose.
It just suddenly occurred to him that he was so angry last time, also in this imperial study room, and the emperor's intention to curse suddenly disappeared. He also couldn't figure out whether it was because his son always refused to accept his temptations, or because it was for other reasons that it was always so easy for him to throw away the ancient adage that a gentleman should not be angry and assert himself.
Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't help but smile secretly. More than ten years ago, when I was fighting with this son's mother, I was always calm in front of others, but could easily get angry. As a result, after getting angry, he found that he was being led by his ex-wife in the end.
Looking at the face in front of him that was very similar to his own, the emperor couldn't help but raise a big question mark in his heart. Is this his fate? Will he always be defeated by his ex-wife? No, at least in some aspects, such as squeezing out how much stuff is in this son's head, I am still a winner at least for now.
In fact, some blindly confident emperors didn't even know that Huang Qiong was so bold as to act cunning in front of him, the king of a country. But he would never dare to play any tricks in front of his ex-wife. It had been ten years since his ex-wife knew how much stuff his son had in his head.
The two of them just don't want to play with him. The emperor, who was far from aware of this, no longer had much confidence in his ex-wife. At this moment, when facing his son, he is extremely confident. Because at least in his mind, he is not only his king, but also his father. My son wants to fight with me, but he is really a little too young.
Since this son is extremely talented, if he, as a father, does not squeeze out anything, then he will be sorry for being made furious by him time and time again, and even more sorry for his mother's painstaking efforts for more than ten years, right? Thinking of this, the emperor's face, which had been gloomy today, couldn't help but reveal a smile.
Seeing the sudden smile on the corner of the emperor's mouth that looked like a sinister smile, and roughly identifying himself as the emperor, Huang Qiong, who had a certain temperament, immediately felt a chill running down his spine, and he immediately had a very bad idea in his heart. He had a premonition that it was the emperor who was digging a hole for him again this time.
I remembered that the last time the emperor also acted openly in this Wende Hall. Huang Qiong, who dug a big hole for himself and forced himself to jump into it, immediately decided that these memorials must not be read. Are you kidding me? If the things mentioned in the secret book were reported as auspicious and good things, the emperor could have a gloomy face since he came in today?
Huang Qiong, who decided to fight to the death, looked at the emperor in front of him, swallowed the saliva in his mouth and said: "Father, although you are not joking, this secret matter is of great importance. If the courtiers find out, what will happen again?" There will be a lot of disputes. The prince is the crown prince of the country, and he has no obligation to share his father's worries. My son still thinks that it would be better to bring the prince to discuss it together."
The emperor, who was deep in thought, heard Huang Qiong mention the prince again, but he sneered disdainfully: "He has the time to help me deal with this matter. What free time does he have? It's too late to win over these clans. ." At this point, he glared at Huang Qiong and said, "Sit there and watch me honestly, and don't play tricks on me."
I tried all kinds of reasons, but in the end I couldn't shirk it. Seeing the emperor's gloomy expression once again, Huang Qiong, who was already quite lacking in skills, could only follow the emperor's wishes and open the two memorials and read them carefully. But the more he read these two memorials, the more frightened he became. What is written here is more serious than what those old men said.
Not only did the secret report go up, but the two kings scraped three feet of the land within the fiefdom, using unscrupulous means and clever tricks to make almost 60% of the land in the two states their own. The extortionate expropriation and massive accumulation of money in the two states caused a large number of refugees in the two states. They are still secretly building weapons and recruiting exiles to raise private soldiers.
Thinking of Jia Quan's evaluation of these two kings, Huang Qiong already knew the intentions behind the move of King Duan and King Jing. What Huang Qiong didn't understand was that these two kings were extorting money and expropriating money in the fiefdom, which made the people miserable. If they want to rebel at this time, can the people support them?
Even if the people are coerced into joining the army, what is the difference between such an army and a pile of sand? Maybe, as soon as they start to rebel here, there will be chaos behind them. Even if the emperor issued a pardon, their rebels would immediately fall apart. Even if some of the Guards participated in the rebellion, would the already corrupted Guards still have fighting power?
If the second king's move was really as he judged, then Huang Qiong really didn't know how to describe the second king's move other than stupidity. What's more, there are more than 100,000 troops inside and outside Daqi's capital city, and they are all elite divisions that rotate with the border troops every five years.
Moreover, military power has always been firmly in the hands of the emperor. Not to mention the second king, even the prince probably wouldn't be able to reach out. No matter how desperate these two kings are, no matter how many exiles they recruit, they can raise an army of hundreds of thousands at once. But firstly, there are no qualified officers to command, and secondly, there is no good training. Where can these rabbles be the opponents of a warrior who has fought a hundred battles?
If these two kings really have the idea of rebellion, they can only be said to be completely stupid. But are these two kings really that stupid? When Jia Quan first commented on the princes, apart from their tiger and wolf nature, there was no such thing as stupidity. If I say this, let alone the emperor who is his father, I am afraid that even someone who has never met these two kings will not believe it.
Could it be that the two kings did this with ulterior motives and wanted to show something? Or is there something wrong with the secret itself? You know, whether it is Zhengzhou or Ruzhou, it is not far from Jingzhao Mansion. Regardless of what the emperor had in mind when he sealed the two kings within a stone's throw of the capital.
But if the two kings build a private army, it is absolutely impossible to hide it from the emperor's eyes. If you can't find a private soldier hiding in a place close to the capital, how can you, the emperor, be able to secure the throne for so many years? The key is that if the North and South Zhenfu Divisions can't find this problem, wouldn't they just be raising a bunch of useless people?
Is it possible that a spy agency cannot even collect information related to the security of the capital? After putting these two memorials together, Huang Qiong finally understood why the emperor asked him if he was in the secret room one day and whether the King of Shu had discussed the prince privately. After working on it for a long time, these two secret documents made the emperor not only suspicious of King Duan and King Jing.
Even the King of Shu may be a little worried. Moreover, whether the king of Shu and the prince were fighting openly or secretly in private, I am afraid the emperor would also be able to eliminate it. Otherwise, the one who came to confront him today would not be him but the King of Shu. It is estimated that at this time, I, the emperor, have decided that these are all for the prince.
Thinking about this, Huang Qiong realized that no matter what choice he made, he was already involved in a whirlpool. And from the moment he left the palace, he was involved in the vortex of fighting for the throne. Regardless of whether you take the initiative or not, you have become a pawn in someone else's scheme.
However, Huang Qiong couldn't tell what the hidden meanings of these two secret documents were at the moment. He could see that there were obviously big problems in these two memorials. What the two kings did in the fiefdom was definitely not something that happened in a day or two. And judging from these two secret documents, I, the emperor, also have spies around the two kings, or in the fiefdom.
But he couldn't get up early or get up late at night, but not long after he abducted the emperor to a refugee settlement, two secrets that could cause the royal family to fall apart appeared. There are a lot of things in between. Huang Qiong knew very well what consequences would occur once these two memorials were made public.
Huang Qiong did not reply immediately, but when the emperor over there saw him closing the memorial, he sighed: "I gave birth to two good sons. They are really good sons." There was a hint of emotion in the tone of his words. It contains countless desolations. It can be seen that the emperor was very sad at this time.
"These two people who wrote secret records should be killed." Huang Qiong did not comfort the emperor who was very sad at this time. He knew that no matter what he said now, his suspicious father would easily think it had ulterior motives. My identity is sensitive, so what I say at this time will not only involve the overt and covert fighting between the princes.
It might even be brought online by Shangzuna, which would involve the grudge between the mother and Nakamiya, who was lying on the bed with only one breath left. Therefore, Huang Qiong feels that every time he speaks a word now, he must think twice before acting and be cautious. Huang Qiong, who knew that he could not comfort the emperor now, thought it might be a good idea to divert the emperor's attention.
