Chen Ping, who just wanted to question Emperor Yongxing, couldn't help but become suspicious, and his keen intuition told him that there must be nothing good going on here.
Although he taught Emperor Yongxing for a few days in the East Palace, Emperor Yongxing, who was still the prince at that time, liked him very much. However, things are different now. Now that the prince has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the identities of both parties have changed. Emperor Yongxing alone
It can be seen from his behavior during this period that this guy has changed a lot.
Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and the emperor's family is the most ruthless.
Chen Ping left the Hanlin Academy in an uneasy mood. When he entered the palace, he found that Xie Zhiyuan was still guarding the city gate. It seemed that the little emperor had some thoughts and allowed the dragon crossbow to guard the palace gate. It showed that he knew what he was doing now.
Situation.
Maybe everything he did before was just the disguise of the little emperor?
Chen Ping thought this and came to the Qinzheng Hall with a little comfort in his heart.
"Master Chen is here? Come in quickly, His Majesty is waiting for you."
The eunuch waiting outside the palace immediately reminded Chen Ping when he saw him. Chen Ping nodded and entered the palace.
I saw the little emperor Yongxing sitting cross-legged in front of the case, gnashing his teeth and glaring at the memorial above, still cursing.
"The White Lotus cult, which deceives the people, is a crime worthy of death!"
"There are traitors inside and barbarians outside. How can I tolerate it when I bear the expectations of my ancestors? Something will happen..."
Before he finished speaking, Emperor Yongxing saw Chen Ping coming in, and immediately stopped and stood up to wave to Chen Ping.
"Mr. Chen, oh no, it's Chen Aiqing, come here! I have something important to discuss with you!"
Chen Ping swallowed, feeling that he was not very reliable. After bowing and saying yes, he came to the little emperor's side.
"I don't know, Your Majesty..."
"Do you think the White Lotus Thief is evil? Should he be destroyed?"
Chen Ping was stunned. How should he answer such a question? Can he still say no?
"Well, of course it's hateful, and of course it should be destroyed."
Emperor Yongxing nodded, with a proud look on his face: "I think so too. The White Lotus bandits appeared many years ago and have been disrupting Dayu and troubling all the late emperors. Now that I have ascended the throne, I must not let them continue like this. I must use heavy blows to eliminate them!"
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Hearing Emperor Yongxing's words, Chen Ping frowned, and an ominous premonition came to his mind. Of course the White Lotus Sect should be suppressed, but not now!
What's more, this kind of cult has existed since ancient times, and it is impossible to say it can be completely eradicated. It should be noted that even in later generations, there will still be countless people who are bewitched and harmed by the cult, but can it stop batch after batch of people from following it?
Chen Ping organized his language and prepared to have a discussion with Emperor Yongxing on the basic concepts of governing the country.
"Your Majesty, the thieves must be suppressed, but the most important thing right now is to stabilize the court. Moreover, fighting against the Northern Liao barbarians last year, the national treasury has spent a lot of money. Now we have to build the late emperor's mausoleum. This is another
An expense..."
No matter what you do, you have to use money. Without money, even the emperor will be tied up and unable to do much.
Chen Ping was born in a peasant family and experienced hardships since childhood, so he naturally knew the importance of money. However, Emperor Yongxing was a member of the royal family and was established as a prince when he was only a few years old. He had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, so he had no idea how important money was.
Opening your mouth is to kill the thief. It's easy to say it, but if you really want to do it, you have to spend a lot of money.
"I have asked people to raise the money for the construction of my father's mausoleum. Isn't the money in the treasury enough to kill a thief?"
"Besides, this year's taxes will be collected soon, and won't the national treasury be full by then?"
Emperor Yongxing's nonchalant answer left Chen Ping speechless, but his next words made Chen Ping stunned even more.
"Chen Aiqing, you are the same age as me, how come you are as hesitant as those old stubborns?"
Chen Ping:???
You've already told Su Chengli and the others, why are you asking me for it? It's just a waste of time to co-write with me?
"Ahem, since Mr. Su and others have explained it to Your Majesty, I will not show my shame."
"No, I didn't come to you to ask you to lecture me. The knowledge you taught me in the East Palace was very useful to me, so I decided to give you the task of suppressing the White Lotus bandits. I will immediately wait for the suppression of the bandits to be successful.
I’ll promote you!”
"Wait later..."
Chen Ping could no longer listen to what Emperor Yongxing said. All he could think about now was "So I...entrust the task of suppressing the White Lotus Bandits...to you." Good guy, this is repaying kindness with enmity!
If the White Lotus Thief was so easy to suppress, how come it has been spread to this day?
If you ask me to suppress thieves, you think too highly of me!
Now he can conclude that Emperor Yongxing is incomparable to his father. Emperor Tianqi is an old man who only does everything for himself. He is also good at balancing skills. Although there are a few pitfalls left in the end, as long as the successor is a
Normal people can operate according to Emperor Tianqi's plan and with the assistance of the royalist ministers in the court.
However, Emperor Yongxing was not an ordinary person. During the years when the Queen died of illness and Emperor Tianqi worked hard, Emperor Yongxing's mental state was absolutely terrible. No one knows what kind of mental state he is in now.
"I, I am afraid I am not capable of taking on this important responsibility..."
"No, I have already decided that it is you!"
Seeing Emperor Yongxing staring at him with a stern face, Chen Ping's tone was so firm that Chen Ping could no longer say no.
So when he left Qinzheng Hall and walked in the empty palace, his hands and feet were trembling slightly, which was because he was angry.
Damn it, let yourself, a scholar of six yuan, go to suppress thieves. Who has to be very smart to think of this?
The first is that suppressing thieves is dangerous and difficult, and the second is that leaving the capital cannot change the situation. These two difficulties gave Chen Ping a headache. He even suspected that this was secretly planned by the King of Chu, in order to expel him from the capital to facilitate the King of Chu. action.
After leaving the palace and returning to the Hanlin Academy in confusion, Chen Ping was a little tired. Why not just resign as soon as possible and return to his hometown in Qianzhou?
Who cares about this shit? Chen Ping is too lazy to take care of it anyway. Not only is he physically and mentally exhausted, but he is also stabbed in the back by his teammates. They also give him a thumbs-up saying "If you succeed in suppressing thieves, you will be promoted." Emperor Yongxing This kid has learned nothing else, but his skill in drawing pie is quite superb.
He almost believed it!
After spending another day fishing in the Hanlin Academy, as soon as I left the gate of the Hanlin Academy, I saw Xie Zhiyuan waiting for me at the tea shop on the opposite street.
"What? With a sad face, I heard from my subordinates that you have entered the palace now?"
"There is no good thing in entering the palace."
Chen Ping shook his head and did not tell Xie Zhiyuan about this.
"Cheng Cheng will finish his class later, let's get together."
"Don't wait for him, let him study the mind science on his own. He always goes to Beiyue Academy these days, don't you know?"
Chen Ping scratched his head. Although he and Cheng Cheng were both in the Hanlin Academy, one was working and the other was attending classes. They didn't have many opportunities to interact with each other, so they really didn't pay attention.
"Well, it seems that Senior Brother Cheng is really interested in this."
Cheng Cheng is relatively simple and careless, and he is an outsider. Even if something happens in the capital, it will not affect him. On the contrary, Xie Zhiyuan has now become the commander of Yulong Nuzhi, and he is also on the same front as him.< /p>
The two of them didn't go far before they went to a restaurant, ordered three or four plates of side dishes and a bottle of wine, and started chatting.
After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, Chen Ping simply poured out the depression in his heart and talked to Xie Zhiyuan about today's events.
"What? I want you to kill thieves?!"
"Well, keep your voice down. I won't be able to take care of it when I go to the capital. I won't be able to deal with what happens then. I can only resign myself to fate and drift with the tide. Alas!"
Chen Ping was filled with emotions, but Xie Zhiyuan leaned on his chin and started thinking. After a while, his eyes suddenly brightened.
"How can you be so sure this is a bad thing?"
"It's a blessing in disguise. Maybe this is a good opportunity for you to leave the capital and show your talents!"
How can you know that this is a blessing in disguise?
Chen Ping was awakened by Xie Zhiyuan's words. He was stunned for a moment, and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.
If he is the Tuogu minister left behind by Emperor Tianqi, then it would be okay to stay in the capital. The key is that he is not!
What's more, Emperor Yongxing didn't even listen to what Su Chengli and others said. Even he himself couldn't make any difference. He didn't take what Emperor Yongxing said during the day, "The knowledge you taught me in the East Palace is very useful to me" seriously. He has been deceived by Emperor Tianqi enough times, how can he still believe the lies of these superiors?
Although everyone looks glamorous and tolerant, in fact, behind the scenes are masters who cannibalize people without spitting out their bones. The separation between people's hearts is not just talk.
"It's been almost two hundred years since the founding of our Dayu Dynasty. None of the previous dynasties has lived past three hundred years. There will be troubled times around two hundred years ago."
"I think the current internal and external troubles are signs of troubled times!"
Xie Zhiyuan said this to Chen Ping in a low voice. Chen Ping's eyelids jumped wildly when he heard this, and he was a little undecided for a moment.
He worked hard to pass the 6-yuan exam, and now you tell me that troubled times are coming and scholars will be useless? Then he will definitely not be able to accept it.
It’s just that Chen Ping received the materialist education of later generations. After a little thought, it seems that this statement is not entirely unreasonable. In the 180 years since the founding of the country, there were many internal contradictions, and there were also two powerful enemies, Bei Liao and Xiliang, looking at them from the outside.
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If the position is passed safely, it may be able to last for another few decades, but the current situation is that while there are internal and external troubles, the top management of Dayu are fighting each other. This is a God-given opportunity for the Hulu in the north! Could it be that Dayu is really dying?
Chen Ping's heart was beating a little fast. He remembered the situation of Dayu's army he had seen in the Beida camp before. Even the elite guards of Dayu's capital had become lazy. You can imagine what the other troops were like.<
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He glanced at Xie Zhiyuan and asked in a low voice: "Aren't the soldiers in front of the palace also good?"
Xie Zhiyuan chuckled twice, picked up the wine cup and tsk-tutted: "I have been dead for a long time. Otherwise, how do you think I, a dandy with no military experience, got in? And I became a commander?"
Chen Ping frowned, Xie Zhiyuan was not an ordinary dude, he had something special about him, but this could not change the formality of the selection and assessment of the staff of the Front Office.
"It is said to be the Forbidden Army, but in fact it has long been a gilded place for the palace's nobles, officials, and eunuchs. I cannot rule out that there are strong men like me among them, but the number..."
Xie Zhiyuan smacked his lips with disdain on his face. This scene fell into Chen Ping's eyes and made his heartstrings flutter.
The troops of the Forbidden Army and the Peking Camp have reached this level. It is only a matter of time before an accident occurs. The Northern Army and the Western Army on the border should still maintain their combat strength. But once the enemy breaks through the border and enters the interior, do you expect the troops and horses in the interior to resist the enemy?<
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A storm suddenly rose in Chen Ping's mind, beating on his psychological defense like a turbulent wave.
"You are right, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise, and the world will be in chaos!"
Xie Zhiyuan smiled and grabbed Chen Ping's wrist, and said firmly: "Yes, this is a good time for us to make contributions!"
Chen Ping nodded when he heard this, but what he wanted was to seize this opportunity to transform from a chess piece to a chess player. At least he would not be able to have his destiny controlled by others. If he wanted to express his ideals and fulfill his ambitions, he could not be controlled by others.
What's more, since he entered the game at the beginning of the year, Chen Ping has been ordered to do hard work one after another, and his dissatisfaction has been accumulating until now.
How can we govern the country well with such idiots as Emperor Tianqi, King Chu, and Emperor Yongxing?
A seed that has been passed down among the Han people for thousands of years has been quietly planted in his heart.
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Chen Ping felt that he was born to be a hard worker.
Although his conversation with Xie Zhiyuan allowed him to see another side of thieves, Emperor Yongxing's eagerness caught Chen Ping off guard.
During the morning of the next morning, Chen Ping was brought out. In front of the civil and military officials of the court, Emperor Yongxing said impassionedly that the White Lotus bandit must be suppressed, and it will not work unless it is suppressed!
Then Chen Ping heard words that made his expression distort.
"Chen Ping, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy, has outstanding abilities, both civil and military skills. He is specially appointed as the deputy envoy to the southwest, with the title of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War. He is responsible for suppressing thieves. The officials in Zhongzhou, Jingzhou, Daozhou, Qianzhou, and Lingzhou must do their best.
Cooperate!"
Okay! Are you really not prepared at all and not given any time?
You just informed me yesterday that you have to drive me to suppress thieves today? No one in the production team would do that!
Chen Ping's face twitched twice, and he suddenly thought, Southwest is recruiting a deputy envoy? Does this mean that there is also a chief envoy?
"Lu Wei, the minister of Taichang Temple, has devoted himself to his duties and served the public. He was specially appointed as the envoy of the Southwest Recruitment, and was given the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of War to take charge of affairs!"
Lu, Lu Wei?
Chen Ping was stunned for a moment. Wasn't this the former magistrate of Qianzhou? He went to the capital to be the Minister of Taichang Temple?
In terms of official position, this is naturally a promotion, but in fact, compared with the prefect of a state, the minister of Taichang Temple is as good as heaven and earth.
This is simply a rise and a fall!
And now, Lu Wei has changed from his idle position as Minister of Taichang Temple to Deputy Envoy of Southwest Recruitment, with more power than he did as the prefect of Qianzhou.
Chen Ping felt a little relieved. Fortunately, he was an acquaintance, and Lu Wei was promoted from the prefect of Qianzhou to the minister of Taichang Temple. It was impossible to say that no one was behind this. In view of the fact that the prefect Lu had helped him a lot.
Nine times out of ten, this is the King of Chu’s method.
Thinking of this, Chen Ping rushed out of the queue first and cupped Lu Wei's hand. The two exchanged friendly looks and immediately glanced at the King of Chu.
Sure enough, he saw the cold eyes of King Chu, and he seemed to be dissatisfied with this, but he suppressed it and did not have an attack.
Obviously, King Chu really hoped that this annoying little bug like him would get out of the capital and go as far away as possible.
As for why he didn't take action to deal with him, Chen Ping thought it might be because his status as a sixth-level official was a bit sensitive, and because others spoke lightly, the King of Chu didn't bother to deal with him.
"If that's the case..."
Chen Ping thought to himself, the light in his eyes flickering slightly. Of course, it is more appropriate to use the word "let the tiger return to the mountain" to describe the King of Chu.
Suppressing thieves, a job that others refuse to do, is simply a rare blessing in Chen Ping's eyes.
Chaos and extermination of thieves, what a perfect combination. It would be even better if there was a small black-tech workshop manufacturing muskets near the White Lotus Thief.
Coincidentally, Chen Ping does have such a small black technology workshop. In addition, he also has a close network of connections in Qianzhou. The prefect of Lingzhou and Mulu Chieftain are also familiar with him.
Yes, everything is so logical, as if it comes naturally.
When Chen Ping was urged to leave the capital by Emperor Yongxing and the King of Chu, his heart was full of hope.
This journey is like a bird flying into the blue sky and a fish entering the sea, no longer unfettered!
He was committed to becoming an official in the imperial examination, and it was true that he would enrich the country and the people, but before that, he had to save his own life. Although he was used as an ox and horse messenger when Emperor Tianqi was alive, he was not in danger of his life.
As for the current little emperor Yongxing, Chen Ping really can't believe him.
What should you do if you encounter an Adou who can't hold himself up against the wall? Chen Ping's choice is simple. No matter what he does, at least he can't continue to wait for death on this sinking ship.
Of course, it would be better if you could bring a lifebuoy before jumping off the ship.
Suppressing the thieves, suppressing the White Lotus thieves, is the way to obtain the lifebuoy!