"Your Majesty, Prince An has the intention to rebel!"
The old minister stepped forward and accused King An.
The others couldn't help but curled their lips after hearing this.
Southern Sichuan was also hit by a disaster, but they just didn't push the victims out and ignore it. How could it be linked to rebellion?
"Your Majesty, I feel that King An is sharing your Majesty's worries. After all, if the victims are not appeased, it will easily arouse public anger and form a small group of bandits. I feel that Your Majesty can issue a decree to praise King An, and then send
Just send the imperial envoy to send the victims back to their hometowns."
"I second the proposal."
It would be best if King An is willing to use his own food for disaster relief.
Now it's just a mild praise, but King An actually spent a lot of food!
No matter how you calculate it, it all depends on the imperial court.
The emperor naturally knew that this was the best thing to do, but he couldn't help but feel so angry that he even suspected that everything King An had done before was just to deceive others!
This made him feel like he was being fooled. This feeling made him heartbroken. Not to mention praising King An, he even wanted to send someone to arrest King An and throw him directly into the sky prison in order to relieve his hatred.
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Therefore, when he heard that most of the courtiers asked him to praise King An, the emperor's face was so gloomy that he almost shed tears.
When the emperor's confidant Feng Zongjun saw this, he immediately stepped forward and said.
"To inform your majesty, whether King An has the intention to rebel or is sharing your majesty's worries, I think it will be clear at a glance if I send someone to take a look at southern Shu."
The emperor couldn't help but nodded after hearing this.
"Everything my dear friends say is reasonable, but we should really go to Shunan to see what King An means. Feng Qing will set off to Shunan as soon as possible to find out the situation."
Feng Zongjun didn't expect that this job would actually fall on him. He couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest expression of reluctance on his face.
"I accept the decree."
Soon Feng Zongjun left the capital with his troops. However, when leaving the capital, the emperor secretly invited him into the palace and ordered him to do something.
After hearing what the emperor had ordered, Feng Zongjun's hair, which was not thick at first, fell out a lot after he returned home.
However, if you want your minister to die, you can only blame King An for his own misfortune!
The actions in the capital over there quickly reached Zhou Tianci and Shi Jiang.
At this time, the entire southern Sichuan was almost entirely in the hands of Zhou Tianci because of the supply of food and money.
The original officials, even if there were some who were unwilling, were ignored and no news could be spread at all.
The secret guards sent again by the emperor were all silenced after being captured.
When Feng Zongjun comes this time, if he comes well and leaves obediently, nothing will happen.
If something goes wrong, let him never come back.
Shi Jiang had discussions with Zhou Tianci and Zhou Tianci's newly recruited counselors, and now all parts of the world are suffering from severe disasters.
The imperial court could not spend much money to provide disaster relief, which made the people very dissatisfied with the imperial court.
As the saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world.
Now if the emperor sends troops to fight, let alone whether it can be done, even if it can be done, the defense facilities built in southern Shu in those days are not decorations.
As long as they strictly guard against death, the imperial court will have to transport supplies after traveling all the way to southern Sichuan.
Once the war drags on, the soldiers will lose a lot of supplies.
When the time comes, the first person who won't agree will probably be the Minister of Household Affairs.
The treasury, which has no money to begin with, constantly spends money to fight such an uncertain battle, and resorts to militancy. The Minister of Tobe will definitely jump out and oppose it and continue the fight.
As long as they are given some more time, they can train the soldiers in their hands well.
Not to mention the common people now have enough to eat and warm clothes.
If the emperor sends troops to fight, it means saying goodbye to the good days.
Presumably, as long as Zhou Tianci ascends to the top and shouts, all the people will support him.
As expected, when Feng Zongjun arrived in southern Sichuan, he was very unhappy when he saw that the eldest son of Prince An came to entertain him.
When he said he wanted to see King An, but was told that King An was ill and could not see the guests, his unhappiness naturally reached its peak.
I was angry until the end, but I laughed.
Anyway, no matter whether Prince An is really ill or fake, he has to prove his charges to Prince An's Mansion.
Therefore, in front of Zhou Tianci, he threw the tea cup in his hand.
However, he originally thought that the troops he led did not follow his previous instructions and used the throwing of cups as a signal. When they heard the sound, they immediately came in and surrounded Prince An's mansion, capturing Prince An and his family.
Zhou Tianci looked at the broken teacup on the ground, smiled, and directly called out the person.
At this time, outside the living room where Feng Zongjun was originally received, countless guards with swords suddenly poured in.
But these guards are not Feng Zongjun's subordinates.
Feng Zongjun looked at the sharp sword and was so frightened that he lost his voice and then collapsed on the ground.
Over in the capital, they waited and waited, but a letter came from Prince An's Mansion. The letter said that before the imperial envoy entered southern Sichuan, he encountered bandits and all the people he brought with him were killed.
Even Feng Zongjun's body was sent back.
Seeing Feng Zongjun's messily chopped body, the emperor fainted in anger.
After waking up, he became furious and sent troops to capture Prince An's family and go to Beijing.
But the courtiers looked at each other, and no one dared to propose taking action on their own.
After all, following the example of Feng Zongjun, King An had the courage to kill an imperial envoy. Killing another court official who was trying to arrest him would probably be a matter of using his sword to kill him.
The Minister of War also shrank his neck and did not want to speak out. After all, he had not yet received the money he asked from the Ministry of Household to make equipment for the border soldiers!
When there is something to do, there is no beauty, and when there is nothing to do, it is summer and spring. How can such a good thing happen?
"Why, no one dares to go, dear friends?"
Seeing the silence below, the emperor clenched his fists tightly, and his nails dug out a crescent-shaped streak of blood in his palm.
It's always a bad idea if the emperor opens his mouth but doesn't reply.
Some courtiers then bit the bullet and persuaded the emperor that the specific situation in southern Shu was still unknown, so it was better to appease him.
After all, disasters are severe in various places now. If civil strife breaks out again, it may cause national unrest!
After hearing what these old-timers said, the emperor flicked his sleeves and withdrew angrily.
After returning to his palace, he smashed everything that could be moved in the palace.
After the fall, he secretly recruited Marquis Wu into the palace.
Marquis Wu Guo originally guarded the northern border. He had previously submitted a letter to his old age and handed over the tiger talisman to take care of himself.
In order to take back his military power, the emperor happily agreed to Wu Guohou and took back the tiger talisman.
Now, the emperor gave the tiger talisman to Wu Guohou again and asked him to lead troops to the south of Shu secretly to capture everyone in Prince An's palace.
Marquis Wu Guo did not agree with the emperor's order. However, he could only accept the emperor's order.