Aggrieved Fish Sprite: 317|The number of those who cherish their lives

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The Imperial City of Taijing.

The green smoke curls up, and the curtain hangs down.

Even in such a hot season, only a small window opened in the outer hall.

Once a person walks in, he will feel the heat instantly enveloping himself, and he can’t help but sweat like rain, and there are several incense burners in the hall with hot mist, it is just a small steamer.

Emperor Yongchen was suffering from chronic illnesses, and the imperial physicians were almost always stationed in the sleeping hall, working in shifts day and night.

Even the decoction was too bad to drink, so I switched to smoked medicated mist. Although the effect of this medicine is limited, it is better than spitting out the medicine, and the body of Emperor Yongchen can’t stand it. Strong medicine.

When Lu Xu was the prince, there were rumors in the imperial city that he was dying.

Since Lu Xu came to the throne, almost everyone in the inner and outer courts has changed. The Imperial Medical Office is no exception. The difference is that the imperial doctors are now very strict. No matter who comes to ask about Emperor Yongchen’s condition, they don’t just keep talking. , Is to use a bunch of pharmacology as a prevarication to make the foreign dynasty confused about the emperor’s condition.

Anyway, Lu Xu has been weak for many years and has hardly been healthy.

The emperor has no children, and it seems unlikely that he will have an heir.

Among his brothers, the second prince disappeared due to rebellion. The third prince and the sixth prince have not yet got married, so naturally they can’t talk about adopting the son to the eldest brother.

The courtiers stood in secretly, supporting the two princes separately, preparing for the next round of political games.

However, this battle has not formally reached the stage.

On the one hand, the interest of the two masters is lacking, and they can’t even hear others mentioning “After Emperor Yongchen’s collapse”. On the other hand, the court has been turbulent, the imperial examination fraud case occurred, Zhang Xiang’s party feather was accused, and Jiang Xiangchui was prosecuted. The old man, there is an obvious opportunity to enter the pavilion and worship the minister on the broad road, and whoever does the emperor’s affairs in the future will talk about it. The current matter is more important.

No matter how capable Emperor Yongchen is, but his health is not good, and he can’t reverse the status quo of the ruling and opposition parties in a short time.

In other words, even if he has a strong physique that reads memorials day and night, it will not help. It is difficult to clean out the officials. It is by no means a fact that can be changed by the complete collapse of Zhang Xiang’s fall. After all, it is something that is decomposing. .

“Cough cough.”

Lu Xi read Jin Yiwei’s secret report for a long time without making a sound. At this moment, he suddenly coughed, and everyone was startled.

The third prince and the sixth prince glared at Gong Jun, the latter could only keep his head silent.

“Brother Dahuang, your body is important, don’t be too sad…”

The sixth man, Lu De, wanted to persuade him to say a few words, but he swallowed it back in frustration halfway through his words. How tragic was that the Ning family died in battle? Regardless of whether the country is private, this is terrible news. How can a simple word of comfort work?

The sixth prince was still young, and he used to be like a hedgehog, with a paranoid temperament, who caught and pierced whom.

In the past few months after Lu Zhang’s death, he has grown up quickly. He no longer speaks, he has a vengeful posture, and he is not so angry and cynical. He even considers others thoughtfully. Of course, this is only limited in the end. In front of Emperor Yongchen.

“The old general Huaiyi served as an army throughout his life, attacking the barbarians in the north, and in the frontiers of Xizhen. He always regarded the people’s soldiers as brothers and feet, and he did not love glory or greedy wealth. He was a great hero. The court should do its own thing and add a posthumous name… …At the same time, troops were sent to the southwest to seek and suppress the Heavenly Grant King.”

Gong Jun bit his scalp and said that if he could, he wouldn’t want to disturb the Emperor Yongchen when he was hurt, but the army was like a fire, and a slight error would lead to even greater troubles.

Emperor Yongchen gently pushed away the younger brothers who tried to support him. He became thinner and thinner, and said weakly, “Xuanchuan Pass occupies the natural dangers. The Tianshou King has returned without success after several attacks, and the Ning family will not Neglecting the enemy, this defeat must be due to other reasons.”

“…According to the news, it seems that a Jianghu gang in Yizhou assisted Tianshou Wang.” Gong Jun felt a headache when he thought of Pilitang.

The six princes stood up straight, subconsciously wanting to ridicule Gong Jun, how can the mere gang of people break through the heavenly danger, is it possible that a super master like Meng Qi acted as an assassin? When the words came to his lips, he abruptly endured it, and said without a smile: “What did they do?”

Gong Jun lowered his head and said: “The details are not yet known, but your Majesty should have heard of the name of the gang of’Thunderbolt Hall’.”

“How could Brother Dahuang have heard of Jianghu Gang…”

When the Sixth Prince was halfway through speaking, he saw Emperor Yong Chen put down his palm to support his forehead, his eyes solemn and thoughtful.

At this time, the third prince mumbled and said: “Sixth brother, you pride yourself on being smarter, and reading is a hundred times better than me and your second brother. Why don’t you care about what you should know?”

“You!”

Seeing the two people fighting with each other, Emperor Yong Chen coughed, and the two of them just remembered where this is, and quickly looked away, pretending that nothing happened.

The corners of Gong Jun’s mouth twitched, and his heart was easy to change, and his nature was hard to change. After the prince became the throne, the two princes seemed to have become calm and capable overnight. In fact, they were just expressing themselves in front of Emperor Yongchen. Childish ghost.

If they were really fighting for succession to the throne, as the courtiers thought, it would be better. In fact, the two princes were most keen on giving eye medicine to the second prince Lu Min in front of Emperor Yongchen.

Lu Yan has changed his name and changed his surname. Following the investigation of the imperial examination fraud by the people of Jin Yiwei, his head seems to have become a little more alive, and he has gradually recovered. Gong Jun also muttered behind the Meng Guoshi tune. There is a good teaching method, Yong Chen. The emperor was also very pleased. Lu Yan will not be an emperor in the future, at least he can be a capable minister. It stands to reason that the three princes and the six princes should win over this second elder brother. Maybe in the future Jin Yiwei will still be controlled by Lu Yan. This is a big help. As a result, these two The popularity is broken, and it seems like a urchin in a private school doesn’t like to read. Suddenly he betrayed the little partner and worked hard to win the husband’s award. What is it that is not a naive ghost?

Gong Jun suppressed his abdomen, and explained: “The origin of the Pilitang is related to the original Chen Chao official system. The craftsman Lei Fu improved the formula of gunpowder and made more ingenious firearms, which made Chen Chao’s army. Swept Monan and stepped down on the Yin Mountain to destroy the barbarians. However, after the army was enlightened, the Emperor Chen Dynasty was in danger of firearms, and he could easily get rid of dozens of soldiers by a weak scholar without the power to bind a chicken, and he was even more afraid of rebellious officials and thieves in the future. When the Miyagi collapsed, and the foreign enemy was no longer in the climate, the firearm camp was simply removed, related drawings were burned, and manufacturing was forbidden. If military commanders fought hard for reasons, they were dismissed and taken away. Those craftsmen did not wait for the bounty but incurred the tragic disaster. “

This kind of perverse practice is endlessly troublesome.

The frontier army is particularly upset. They don’t need firearms, so they have to fight with flesh and blood again? The far-sighted civil servants lamented again and again, and they were almost never admonished.

In such a situation, there are many people who violate the power and the yin. Some people think that the family members of the craftsman are pitiful and let go. Anyway, it is some women and children, why bother to kill them all.

Among them, Lei Tong, the youngest son of the craftsman Lei Fu, had just turned ten years old and was born thin. He was given a border check for children under seven years of age.

“…No one thought that this Lei Tong was a rare talent, and he was able to make a variety of clever things at a young age. He met those dissatisfied veterans at the border, listen to them Describing the specific appearance of the firearm, it took several years to re-touch the key, and he just reproduced the destroyed blueprint with the firearm. Lei Tong studied hard and practiced hard, went into battle to kill the enemy and got rid of his slavery, and waited for the barbarians to detain again one day. And if the emperor who ordered his family to be executed died, he could regain his family…Unfortunately, someone secretly reported that he had illegally controlled prohibited objects. The old emperor was furious and ordered the related people to be guilty of the three clans. The frontier army was not upset. Lei Tong found a chance to escape. He took the fellow soldiers he had made for many years and fled. From then on, he wandered around to avoid investigation by the court and kept his name incognito. He didn’t settle down in Yizhou until he was old. These people are the original people of the Pilitang. .”

Gong Jun sighed, not only the six princes in the temple, but the third princes were no exception.

The three princes only knew a little bit earlier. Where is there such a detailed ins and outs? In addition, Gong Jun was originally from the rivers and lakes, and later entered the officialdom. He deliberately learned about this story, so he talked about it like a storyteller.

Especially when Gong Jun said these things, he did not shy away from the emperor’s authority. The civil servants who were replaced by the imperial examination background had to conceal the mistakes of the previous emperor in a vague manner. The few who dare to speak out are definitely a minority. They are all liked by emperors, especially Lu Zhang.

Emperor Yongchen doesn’t care about this, because they have a father who is hard to say, and the brothers have no respect for the emperor. What happened to the emperor, the emperor can’t make big mistakes? You shouldn’t die if you make a big mistake? Don’t let others say it yet?

Gong Jun discovered this early. He adjusted the line of “being a stable official and retaliating safely in the future”. Not only did he win the trust of Emperor Yongchen, but even the three princes and the six princes looked at him and felt that Gong Jun is more pleasing to the eye than others.

“Lei Tong suffered a lot of frustration throughout his life. It is said that his temperament was strange and extreme, but he was indeed an unworldly talent. He changed firearms into hidden weapons used by Jianghu people and secretly sold them to make a living. After his death, his children and grandchildren The disciples have relied on these old bottoms and have survived for several generations.”

Although there are outstanding Lei family children to improve, they are still not as good as their ancestors.

Otherwise, in the last years of the Chen Dynasty, when the heroes competed in the world, there would be a member of Pilitang.

In order to suppress the rebellion, Chen Chao started to make artillery again. The Chu Dynasty knew the benefits of artillery, and the Qi Dynasty afterwards continued these habits. The government was able to use a large amount of wrought iron to supervise the artillery construction, but Pilitang was too short of it. Now, they can only make some small things. They have been spinning around for so many years. They are not very promising, but this has saved them.

“There was a general in the Chu Dynasty who proposed to surrender Pilitang, thinking it was a hidden danger. Eventually, it was discovered that Pilitang was not a climate, and it was just a gang of Jianghu, so it was shelved.”

If there weren’t these records, Emperor Yongchen wouldn’t be able to be named Thunderbolt Hall.

He leaned against the pillow, coughed and gasped for a few times, and asked with difficulty: “So…they help the heavenly conferred king? The commander of the palace doesn’t know… Well, Xuanchuan Pass has not only the soldiers and horses of General Ning,” There are also some righteous warriors who are not inferior in martial arts. Even if Pilitang wants to bring gunpowder into Xuanchuan Pass, it is very difficult. Xuanchuan Pass occupies a natural danger and the terrain is extremely high. Whether it is blasting the surrounding cliffs or digging the river, it is very difficult. It cannot be breached.”

While speaking, he waved his hand and asked Mr. Chen to present the topographic map of Xuanchuan Pass.

“This…”

Gong Jun hesitated, staring at the map up and down.

This kind of picture is a military secret. Gong Jun hadn’t seen it before today, so I guessed it when I heard Pilitang, but I didn’t expect it to work.

Gong Jun thought about it, and decided to ask the names of the righteous scholars in Xuanchuan Pass. After all, he still had to judge whether his martial arts was high or not. For ordinary people, Jinyiwei was like a master, and In Gong Jun’s eyes, there were not many of them.

Emperor Yong Chen’s eyes were dim, as if he was thinking of something.

“Brother Dahuang?”

“Nothing…but it’s a long story.”

Emperor Yong Chen narrowed his eyes and said softly: “It’s a group of monks in Baoxiang Temple, including Master Yuan Zhi.”

Gong Jun was shocked. Monk Yuan Zhi was unknown in Jianghu. No one knew about it. But Gong Jun was the commander of Jin Yiwei. He knew all kinds of news. How could he miss a monk’s martial arts? Where’s the Buddhist temple?

The Baoxiang Temple is not like the famous Hengchang Temple on the rivers and lakes. It is a real Buddhist temple. It rarely participates in the battles between the rivers and lakes, but in the last years of the Chen Dynasty, it assisted a rebel army to rescue the people.

Wait, the rebel army seemed to be led by General Ning later?

How fast Gong Jun’s mind turned, he quickly thought of Emperor Yongchen’s same-brother who survived the catastrophe. It is said that he was taken to a Buddhist temple by the servants of the Ning family, so—the Ning family was killed in battle, could it? Is even the nameless prince dead?

“The next official will go to search for further information and try to find out what happened at Xuanchuan Pass that day.”

Gong Jun resigned after giving the ceremony, without asking how Emperor Yongchen should deal with the Tianshou King.

It was an errand for the Ministry of War, and it was something that the ministers of the Wenyuan Pavilion would worry about. He just mentioned it, and he didn’t care about the other things.

Stepping out of this dull sleeping hall, Gong Jun vaguely heard Emperor Yong Chen say to his two younger brothers: “…Doctor Mo said in the day that the country is like my illness, not only is it full of wounds, but also has been hurt long ago. If it’s not cured, you can’t leave it alone… The Heavenly Grant King must ask for it, otherwise… occupy the south of the Yangtze River, the general trend…”

Gong Jun walked farther and farther, looking up to see that the setting sun was about to sink into the sky.

The vast darkness swallowed the sky, leaving only the crimson glow of the setting sun.

In the old days, Lu Zhang was jealous of the Ning family. The prince was worried that he would die, and the Ning family would have no way to survive. They could only be forced to rebel. However, the people who were about to die today did not die, but instead wanted to send away those who shouldn’t die. desolate.

Gong Jun let out a long sigh, how similar is this sunset glow to Yongchen Emperor Lu Gu?

Even though the glory is radiant, it will fade away in the end.

But as Lu Xu said, Qi Dynasty shouldn’t die because the people shouldn’t die.

The government officials must be treated as bad as they are at the root, not to mention sitting back and watching the Tianshou King seize the south of the Yangtze River.

——Prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River, enough to nourish the Tianshou King and expedition to the north.