"Okay, very good! We destroyed the smuggling hub in one fell swoop, and we can also arrest some officials. He won't just sit back and watch, he won't..."
Capital City, Imperial Palace.
In the palace, Emperor Tianqi rolled up his silk quilt and said to himself excitedly with red eyes.
However, after the excitement faded, the pain from inside his body surged out, filling his limbs and causing him to bulge with veins and break out in cold sweat.
In the end, no matter how much time passed, Emperor Tianqi slowly stood up, his messy hair hanging around his eyes, and behind the ends of his hair was a pair of turbid eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.
The pain is getting worse every time, but it doesn't matter. As long as the matter is resolved and the reputation of the assistant minister is left, it can continue to be passed down stably.
Yes, that’s it, that’s it!
Thinking of this, Emperor Tianqi opened his mouth and shouted in his hoarse voice.
"Wang Daban, tell me..."
When the words came to his lips, Emperor Tianqi still didn't say anything. Did he really want to take action against his only biological brother? He remembered what the late emperor had told him before his sickbed.
"Rui'er, after I leave, you two brothers must not fight each other in the same room. Dayu's country cannot withstand such a torment."
Can Dayu’s country withstand such a torment?
Emperor Tianqi asked himself, before he could not understand why the sages and wise kings in ancient times always became dim when they reached old age. Now Emperor Tianqi finally understood.
He neither dared to bet that Dayu's country could withstand such a torment, nor could he be cruel enough to attack his own brothers.
The ruthless determination and tactics in his prime were no longer applicable at this moment. Emperor Tianqi knew very well that there was not much time left for him, but he still could not make this decision.
"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, what if he changes his mind? As long as he comes to the capital to reveal his heart to me, it's enough without any need to apologize."
In the empty palace, Emperor Dayu thought so.
In the squad room in the palace, several officials on duty spent the night in fear and uneasiness.
All the insiders in the capital were like this, except for one person in Jingzhou who didn't care about it.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
"The flying pigeons are sending the message, the capital is in great danger, and the court seems to be taking action against His Highness!"
The situation reported by his subordinates made the atmosphere in the garden tense. The palace people became nervous, but their master, the King of Chu, remained calm and composed.
"Well, I understand."
He waved his hand lightly until the atmosphere returned.
He knew his imperial brother too well. No matter how well he pretended to be after he ascended the throne, he was still the hesitant and kind-hearted person in his heart. Otherwise, he would not have taken action when he discovered him ten years ago, but would have delayed it until now.
.
How could such a person be an emperor? The King of Chu raised his head and remembered the old man's words before he died.
"Qi'er, I know what you're thinking. After I Bintian, you have to assist your brother well in order to become famous in the country, okay?"
"Okay, what a fart!"
The King of Chu groaned and opened the folding fan to fan the wind. When the old man died, the bastard who had agreed with him finally became brothers and gave birth to a son the next year.
Although he was not immediately established as the prince, he was not a fool. How could he not see that his brother was already Miao Miao?
He struggled until the eighth year of the Apocalypse before he finally couldn't help but make his son the prince, and drove himself out of the capital and sent him to Jingzhou.
"Brother Emperor, how long can you hold on? I'll wait, I'll just wait. I've waited for eighteen years, is it still an hour and a half short?"
King Chu said to himself, "It is impossible to force me to take action unless you can really make up your mind.
If that were the case, I would be willing to die, but unfortunately you are not that kind of person, not before or now!
"You have too many concerns..."
Beijing.
Chen Ping rushed to the Hanlin Academy to check in. After walking around for a while, Quan thought he was observing politics, found a chair, and started fishing.
And he still fished according to the order.
He read the information Cheng Yuanjian gave him. There were very few names, and most of them were speculations about people at the prefecture level. However, this was enough for Chen Ping to determine which people in the court were at the prefecture level.
In the two days after they raided the Cheng family, the officials didn't make a move, as if they really had nothing to do with the Cheng family.
This made Chen Ping suspicious. Could it be that the King of Chu had made up his mind to abandon Renji, which he had managed for many years?
"A strong man cuts off his arm? Throws away his car to save his car?"
If this is the case, if the emperor follows the clues and eliminates the Chu king's party members in the court, won't the other party become a fish in the net or a turtle in the urn?
Or does King Chu have any other plans?
Various questions intertwined in his mind, and finally converged into a sense of helplessness. He still knew too little. The battle and layout between the emperor and the king of Chu began many years ago. Although he has entered the game now and has mastered a lot of information, it is also
A drop in the ocean.
A morning passed quickly. The Hanlin Academy is indeed a noble yamen. There is basically nothing to do in leisure time. The three most busy departments at the moment are the Inspectorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple.
When Chen Ping came to the East Palace, the prince had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Mr. Chen, come on, come on!"
Ever since Chen Ping took out the map of the world, the prince's long-dormant desire to learn seemed to be throbbing, and he would listen to Chen Ping's lectures every day until evening.
Fortunately, the colleagues in the East Palace were very kind, or they were relieved. The young master of the prince even directly pushed all the tasks of teaching the prince to Chen Ping. After all, the situation he taught the prince was very painful for him and the prince, and Chen Ping
Ping is quite different.
"Your Highness, have you ever thought about why the dynasties in each dynasty were founded with governance, then prosperous, and then seemed to be cursed, unable to escape the fate of decline and destruction?"
"Well...the destiny of heaven is permanent. This is because those who have subjugated their countries are unscrupulous kings. They act against the will and make the people resentful, so they bring about their own destruction."
Chen Ping shook his head, this is just an appearance.
"What Your Highness said is too simple. The reason is that the country always went through wars when it was first founded. At that time, there were few people and a lot of land. The people did not have to pay heavy taxes and heavy labor. They only needed a little farming to support their families. As time went by, the number of acres did not increase.
However, the population keeps increasing, and finally there are more people and less land, and the court's control over the local area is gradually reduced. Is there no reason for destruction?"
Chen Ping briefly explained the reason why feudal dynasties could not escape the fate of destruction, and told it to the prince. This statement was too direct for Daiyu, who has an orderly destiny.
So much so that the values that had been instilled in the prince were shaken, and he asked with a confused look.
"Really, is this really the case?"
"Excuse me sir, how should we solve this matter? I, I also want to have a great reputation that will last for thousands of years..."