Chapter 420 The death of Emperor Chu and the War of Xia
Cang's attack on Dongyi and Yu-Wu's marriage, these things are indeed shocking to the world, and their impact on the world is not small!
However, compared with what happened next, it pales into insignificance.
Han Xiang, the emperor of the Chu Dynasty, passed away. The old man was already over seventy years old. There was absolutely no problem with his death. He would have died by this time.
At this age, in the ancient context, no matter which class you are in, you are considered to have lived a long life.
Han Xiang has lived for such a long time, and his son has already started to grow gray hair. If he had not died yet, his son would be the one who suffered the most.
The old emperor has passed away, but the problem is that in today's general environment, the turmoil and power changes caused by the death of the old emperor are not as great as those in peaceful times.
At least, the Da Chu Dynasty did not have the confidence to continue fighting with the Da Xia Dynasty.
These two dynasties have been at odds with each other for several years. Of course, they cannot be at war all the time in the past two years, but they have also fought several big wars from time to time.
In the early days, the Chu Dynasty took a huge advantage.
But after the Great Xia Dynasty began to stabilize, the Great Chu Dynasty and the Great Xia Dynasty began to compete with each other.
The national power of the Great Xia Dynasty was originally the strongest among the seven dynasties. Although it faced two dynasties at the same time this time, the Great Wei Dynasty was here for water skiing. On the surface, it looked powerful, but internally it was even tricked by its own people.
own people.
In the Great Xia Dynasty, there were many good ministers and powerful generals from generation to generation, and a large number of heroes from the system were implanted into the Great Xia Dynasty.
When Da Chu and Da Wei were facing many problems, Da Xia still persisted until now even if they were one against two!
But when the Emperor of Chu died and the prince succeeded to the throne, there was no trouble during the transfer of power!
The prince has been assisting the government for many years, and many local officials have been promoted. He himself has a large number of supporters. Especially when the Emperor of Chu was in power, he visited the country many times. Each trip lasted as little as a year, and as much as two or three years.
years of time.
During this period of time, the prince was in charge of central power.
In the entire Chu Dynasty, apart from the Emperor of Chu, this prince was originally the most powerful person.
However, although the new emperor ascended the throne successfully, the new emperor's accession itself was a hidden danger for the Chu Dynasty.
It is not a secret that the new emperor is in poor health. When he was the prince, he had already started to work hard. When he became the emperor, he had been in power diligently for so many years. He had to do the prince's affairs and the emperor's affairs.
Doing the emperor's work as a prince is even more troublesome and tiring than doing it in person.
After so many years, the prince's body has actually collapsed!
I am indeed long-lived, but that is not necessarily the case for the new emperor as his son. Of course, even the new emperor is already in his early 50s. This lifespan is not considered short in the ancient environment.
Moreover, the new emperor's body is only one problem, and his character is another problem.
If the new emperor is to be said to have poor abilities, then this evaluation is definitely biased. The former emperor of Chu was so playful and visited the world several times over the years, and the new emperor, who was once the prince, managed the capital in an orderly manner for so many years.
No matter how prosperous the situation was, at least it was a slow and steady upward trend and did not let this huge dynasty go downhill.
Moreover, most of the officials in the court and local governments were promoted by the prince, and the prince even presided over many imperial examinations in succession. In theory, the officials selected by these imperial examinations all had a close relationship with the prince, which can be said to be a good relationship.
He is a disciple of the prince. It is precisely because of this that the prince himself possesses huge political capital, which allowed him to smoothly realize the transition of power.
However, the prince may be strong in ability, but his character does have a weak side, lacking the inherent ruthlessness and decisiveness of the emperor. In the past, at least the late emperor was there, and there was someone who was there to keep him informed, but what about the future?
In fact, if such a person were placed in a peaceful and prosperous age, it would indeed not be a problem, and he might even be unable to make some achievements. But in this period of chaos between dynasties, such a character may not be able to go far in the long run.
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Therefore, when the Great Chu Dynasty changed its power, some people in the Great Xia Dynasty just watched it with cold eyes and did not think about taking this opportunity to do anything to the Great Chu Dynasty.
When the power changed, it was certainly a time when the Great Chu Dynasty began to weaken and reveal its flaws, but many truly wise men saw the flaws of the new emperor, and therefore were not so obsessed with the flaws that were now revealed.
Although Chu has retreated, Wei is still there!
Although the Wei Dynasty, which had many internal conflicts, was not taken seriously by Daxia.
However, in Daxia, their internal problems have not yet been resolved!
The external enemies are about to retreat, and the people within Daxia are about to sharpen their swords against each other!
After years of fighting, the Great Xia Dynasty went all out to deal with the Wei Dynasty and the Great Chu Dynasty, and the four great clans also went all out. But in the past few years, have the four great clans suffered the most?
No, of course not!
Those who have suffered the greatest losses have always been the Long family as the imperial family of Great Xia.
The civil strife in Daxia has always caused the greatest loss to the power of the royal family.
Although the four great clans were deeply involved, and they were the promoters of it, they all pushed out members of the royal family to serve as their shields. The civil strife in Daxia was also the struggle of the Long family themselves.
In the three-dynasty war, although the four great clans went all out, could the Long family be able to stay behind? They were the ones who wanted to go all out, and they had to go all out.
Therefore, the once extremely noble Long family was not the most troublesome enemy of the emperor clan leader Di Zhiling at this time. The enemy that Emperor Zhiling paid most attention to was the Li clan, who was also one of the four great clans.
Among the four great clans, the Li clan, the Cao clan, and the Dugu clan, although there are differences in strength between these three clans, in general, they are still at the same level. Even if there is some gap, they are not too different from each other.
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However, among the three families, the Li Clan has a better future.
The development potential of a family largely depends on the next generation. Once you see their next generation clearly, you can probably figure out whether they will prosper or decline.
This generation of the Li family includes Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Ji, Li Siyuan, Li Cunxu, Li Chen, Li Xinan, Li Haotian... There are endless generations of outstanding family members.
The next generation of the Li family has almost clearly seen the bright future of the Li clan.