chsdbacks Chapter 24: If the Empress is sensible, it is not a bad idea for me to help you
Chapter 24: If the Empress is sensible, it is not a bad idea for me to help you
Chapter 24: If the Empress is sensible, it is not a bad idea for me to help you
Wangfu.
Inner courtyard, under the pavilion.
The Empress's imperial edict arrived in the North early this morning.
After reading the imperial eunuch, he fled with a look of panic on his face.
I didn't even dare to drink a sip of tea.
"Yuan Nao."
Looking at the imperial edict spread out on the bluestone table, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you think the empress meant by this?"
The imperial court’s disaster relief grain was looted.
He also found out yesterday.
But what he didn't expect was that the empress would actually draw elite troops from him.
Go to Xingqing Prefecture to guard against thieves causing chaos.
"Go back to your lord."
Xu Shu smiled upon hearing this and said, "I guess the Empress has two purposes for transferring troops from the northern border."
"The first is that the Empress has no better choice than to mobilize troops from the prince's command. Most of the other princes have evil intentions and are ambitious. They are unlikely to obey orders."
“That’s the second one.”
When Xu Shu said this, his eyes narrowed slightly.
He said slowly: "The Empress should be planning to use the power of the prince to prevent those who are ready to make a move from acting rashly, thus delaying the process for a while."
Say it.
Xu Shu frowned again: "However, according to the news from Pei Kan, the Empress did not initiate the matter of transferring troops from the northern border. Instead, she only had this idea after Prime Minister Xiao Yanwen advised her against it."
"I just don't know what Xiao Yanwen's purpose is."
Xiao Yanwen was no simple character either. He came from a Confucian family and studied under the great scholar Ling Yunshu.
Later, after entering the Dawu court.
He then turned to studying Legalism and gradually ascended to his current position as Prime Minister.
He holds a high position of power and has numerous disciples.
In Jiang Xuan's opinion, this person is quite similar to Li Si, the famous prime minister of the Qin Dynasty.
Coming from the same Confucian background, he later delved into Legalism.
Also greedy for power.
"This person."
"It won't cause any big trouble, so don't worry too much about it." Jiang Xuan shook his head.
"Too."
Xu Shu nodded and said, "This prime minister is much worse than the one in the Qin Dynasty. The empress is not the second emperor of Qin, so she will not give him the opportunity to seize power."
Such a person is destined to be a subject.
It is also destined that only under the rule of a mediocre king can one make things happen at will.
But the Empress is clearly not.
"Have the incident in Xingqing Prefecture been investigated?" To be honest, Jiang Xuan was quite curious about who was responsible for this incident.
They robbed relief grain and killed 1,500 imperial soldiers.
This is quite courageous.
The plan must be no small one.
"Still checking."
Xu Shu replied, "The person who attacked was very cautious and did not leave many traces. Even the horse hoof prints were cleaned up completely. It will take a few days."
As soon as this happened.
Heibingtai immediately went to investigate, but was still a step too late.
Didn't get much information.
But it's not that nothing was found. At least the location where the batch of relief grain was hidden was roughly determined, and it won't take long to find it.
"Yuanzhi, who do you think will be the one who made the move?"
Jiang Xuan was not surprised to hear that the Black Ice Platform had not been found out yet.
After all, the members of Black Ice Platform are also human beings.
Even though he has been around for many years, he is still unable to secretly monitor the entire world.
You will know at the first sign of trouble.
Xu Shu paused for a moment after hearing this.
After a while.
Then he said, "Your Majesty, do you think it could be the King of Wu?"
Xingqing Prefecture was the fief of King Wu.
This is the King of Wu.
He is good at martial arts and has good skills in it.
He has many warriors under his command, is ruthless and ambitious, and has more than 200,000 elite soldiers under his command.
This batch of disaster relief grain.
For Xingqing Prefecture, it is undoubtedly of utmost importance.
It stands to reason.
No one would snatch food from a tiger's mouth at this critical moment and make a feud with this person. Moreover, the place where the disaster relief grain was robbed was outside Xingqing Prefecture.
But the distance is not far, only about a hundred miles.
At such a short distance, if it was really done by someone else, it is impossible that the King of Wu did not notice it at all.
"Is it embezzlement?"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said in a deep voice: "It's not impossible."
After all, in the eyes of the world.
The person least likely to snatch this batch of disaster relief grain was King Wu of Xingqing Prefecture.
But the reality is often the opposite.
The most unlikely truth is.
"If it is really the King of Wu."
Xu Shu frowned and looked towards Xingqing Mansion from afar.
He asked Jiang Xuan, "Then, Your Majesty, do we still need to dispatch troops to Xingqing Prefecture?"
Jiang Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard that.
“Why not adjust it?”
"Yuanzhi is worrying too much. Even if I give him some courage, he wouldn't dare to attack the elite troops of the Northern Territory." Jiang Xuan's tone was calm but extremely domineering.
Xu Shu was worried.
The only question is whether the King of Wu will do something secretly after the troops are dispatched.
But does he dare?
This is not arrogance, it is the truth.
"Besides."
"Compared to other vassal kings, I think the empress is pretty good."
Jiang Xuan's light words startled Xu Shu.
Somewhat shocked, he said, "Your Highness, are you planning to help the Empress secure the throne?"
"Haha."
Seeing Xu Shu's shocked expression.
Jiang Xuan laughed loudly and shook his head, saying, "I don't have any plans for the time being. I just said it casually. Why is Yuan Zhi so shocked?"
"I was just thinking, if Your Majesty really intends to help the Empress, the expressions of those princes would be very interesting." Seeing the prince shaking his head, Xu Shu couldn't help but laugh.
As you can imagine, it must be very twisted.
"Help or not."
Jiang Xuan said slowly: "It depends on how far the Empress can go. At least the current Empress is not worthy of my help."
Although he didn't care who would sit on the throne of the Dawu Dynasty.
But at the moment, Jiang Xuan does not think that other vassal kings are more suitable than the empress.
Prince Jin is suitable.
But he is old and has only a few years left to live.
Even if the rebellion succeeded and he ascended the throne, it would not take many years for the Dawu Dynasty to be in turmoil again.
The King of Zhou was a vicious person who would do anything to achieve his goals.
The King of Wu was ruthless and warlike.
Struggle with military force.
He is a perverse and violent person. If he were to sit on the throne, the Dawu Dynasty would not necessarily be in a good situation.
King Ning
This guy is barely suitable.
Unfortunately, his ambition was not to do this, but to become a great general and expand the territory.
Good at fighting, but not good at winning people's hearts.
It’s better not to mention the other vassal kings.
"Your Majesty."
"Well, I have something to say."
"I don't know whether I should say it." After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, Xu Shu suddenly thought of something, coughed dryly, and looked hesitant.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan was a little confused.
Waving his hands, he said, "Yuanzhi, this is not like you. Why should we be like this? Just say what you want to say. Can I blame you?"
After all, he was summoned into the world by the system.
Whether it is the Heibingtai, or Xu Shu, Xu Chu, A Qing, Huo Qubing and others.
Be 100% loyal to yourself.
There is no betrayal.
Whatever they do and plan will not harm him, so naturally he will not blame them.
"cough"
After hearing this, Xu Shu coughed again.
Then he said under Jiang Xuan's strange look: "Your Majesty, I have an immature idea."
(End of this chapter)