Chapter 191

After Lu que left, Yu Yuanxu, the emperor of Qian, was dazed at the position he had sat before. He is a bright emperor, who can see and use people. He is willing to believe his ministers and that they can make the great empire prosperous. In fact, the Hongxi Dynasty was full of outstanding people. With the efforts of these people, the population endowment has surpassed the Xuandi Dynasty, and even the Wendi Dynasty, which was famous for its literary rule. In terms of martial arts, even without the current battle in southern Xinjiang, he thought that he was no worse than Daqian Wudi, who sent Bai Li Chengping to Zhengbei.

However, when it comes to the change of imperial power, there are only two people who can help him safely. One is Princess Chang Yu Chuqing, and the other is her husband Lu Chun, who once assisted him when he ascended the throne. Princess Chang lives in the Imperial Center, and Duke Wei controls 18 counties and three armies in Northern Xinjiang. These are two people who are in important positions, but will not be lost by the desire for power. It is the foundation laid by these two people in the early Hongxi dynasty that Daqian can have the rule of Hongxi.

In those years, Princess Yu Chuqing was in charge of the imperial court, stabilizing the imperial court, pacifying the people, and paying tribute to the imperial capital. It can be said that with the rights in the hands of the couple, it's a matter of a flick to change the day, and even within the Yu family, there won't be much opposition. But both of them chose to assist him when he was young. At that time, they were Optimus Prime that he could rely on.

Unfortunately, they also want to leave Daqian because of their own cultivation. When Princess Chang entered the palace a few days ago, she said that she wanted to find an auspicious day to crown Lu Que in advance, which means that they don't have much time to stay in Daqian. I can't even wait for him to become the crown prince.

However, the remaining courtiers in the Da Qian Dynasty could not completely reassure him, whether they were the five prime ministers in the cabinet, the three prime ministers in the military, the ministers of various ministries and the commanders of the town troops. Some of his teachers, such as Zhuge Xingzhi, the prime minister, some of his relatives, such as Yu Yuanpu, the king of Zhongyang, Yu Yuangao, the king of Heyang, some of them were outstanding people, such as PI Pai Wei and Ning Darong, Some of his potential officials were his best friends in the Academy, such as Bai Yi and Shen Zhang.

But he didn't dare to really hand over the power of assistant government to these people. The only unchangeable truth since ancient times is that time changes, mountains will be weathered and collapsed, rivers will be silted and diverted. Similarly, the pursuit of people's hearts and people is not immutable. Once the power of assistant government is handed over to these people, he can't guarantee whether these people will be confused by their power, Will you become a powerful minister.

Therefore, in the current Daqian, the only person he can really believe is Lu que, besides his eldest daughter Yu Tianxiang. He can see that Lu is really dismissive of rights, and even takes the rights that everyone craves as a kind of trouble to avoid. But the more he does, the more reassured he is and the more he wants to hand over the rights to him. The position of commander-in-chief and the right to deploy outside the cabinet are just the beginning.

He hoped that his daughter, Yu Tianxiang, would grow up to be like his elder sister, Yu Chuqing, who could shelter his younger brother from the wind and rain in the court hall. Lu que, like his father, blocked the prairie soldiers for the new emperor. Because he knew that these two people would not threaten the crown prince Yu Minghao's throne, and would not hinder his future administration. He was the best escort during the period of weak imperial power.

"Your Majesty." Just when Yu Yuanxu is thinking about something on his mind, a person suddenly comes out of the shadow of the bookshelf. It is the shadow Guard commander who should have left. "Why did your majesty say such a thing to Lu que?"

Commander Ying Wei was very surprised. In his eyes, the emperor was a man with benevolence and benevolence on the outside, but with strong opinions on the inside. He had never seen the emperor say that to any minister. What he said just now was not what a generation of emperors who held the land said to his ministers, nor was it what an uncle said to his nephew. Anyone can hear the expectation, even the prayer in the words.

Yu Yuanxu was silent for a while. He took the leader of Yingwei to sit down and said with a sigh, "Ninth younger brother, Lu que is different from others, even from everyone else. In his heart, the imperial power and the great Qianjiang mountain do not have much weight, and even the power of assistant Politics in the future, he is more dismissive."

"Your Majesty." The leader of the shadow guard, Wen Yan, quickly releases his breath to feel the surroundings. Seeing that the person nearest to them is also outside the library of the Academy, he is relieved. There are only two people who know the secret of his life experience. One is the Emperor himself, the other is Princess Yu Chuqing.

He was the ninth son left by Emperor Xuan. He was younger than Zhongyang king. Her mother, who was the lover of Emperor Xuan in the Academy, just because Emperor Ming, the father of Emperor Xuan, objected and found an excuse to send his grandfather's family to Wanli Shahai. They didn't get together. It took Xuandi more than ten years to find his mother after he ascended the throne. Then he found his mother in a small oasis in the sand sea and sent someone to take back Daqian secretly.

After more than ten years of wandering, his mother saw through the essence of imperial power, so she didn't go to the palace. Instead, she lived in the mansion that Emperor Xuan had arranged for her in the capital. After learning that she was pregnant, she left the capital and lived in seclusion in order not to let Emperor Xuan get the stigma of hiding in the outer room. When Emperor Xuan found their mother and son before he died, his mother was extremely ill, I didn't wait to return to the capital again, but I died.

When he was born, he didn't have the imperial records or the gold seal book, so he couldn't get the real prince status. However, his name was Yuanhuan according to the Royal genealogical ranking, but he couldn't add the word "Yu" in front of him in his life. However, as the two oldest children of Emperor Xuan, the eldest princess Yu Chuqing and Qianhuang Yu Yuanxu, both knew his real identity, This is also the reason why he can command one of the three royal guards, the shadow guard, who is mainly responsible for protecting the emperor.

"Jiudi, I've told you many times that when there is no one, you can call me the second brother. I really don't want to call you the imperial brother. Because of the Royal patriarchal clan system, I can't restore your royal identity, but we are really close relatives."?

Yuan Huan, the commander of the shadow guards, was silent for a moment, and his eyes were slightly moved. Whether the emperor in front of him or Yu Chuqing, the elder sister, told him more than once that they really took him as their younger brother. Even the most important shadow guards in the Royal three guards were handed over to her, which showed that they trusted him. But because of his self pity and his mother's premature death, even if he recognized them in his heart, he never really called his brother and sister.

"Brother." Yuan Huan hesitated for a long time before he whispered.

"OK, ha ha, OK. Today is the happiest day for me in all these years, except for my elder sister." Yu Yuanxu caresses his hands and laughs“ Let's go and have a drink. Let's call the elder sister. She will be very happy to hear that. "

"Brother Huang, I don't need to. I'm used to it secretly." Yuan Huan shook his head and said.

"Ah ~" Yu Yuanxu sighed. It's not that he didn't want to restore his younger brother's royal status. It's just that the patriarchal clan system is strict, and it's even more so when it comes to the royal family's descendants. Even if he is a emperor, he can't do it,

"Brother Huang, I have never thought about those things. The ancestral system is like this. Brother Huang and elder sister Chang are helpless. They all know about them." Then yuan Huan looked at Yu Yuanxu with some worry and said, "brother Huang, why is this so today?"

"Yuanhuan, there is no eternal imperial dynasty in the world. The Dayan Empire, which once unified Qingmu, was destroyed by the tide of beasts. The magnificent empire of Dayu was also submerged in the history books. Even the great Xuan, which was once very prosperous, collapsed because of the inheritance of the royal family. What do you think of our great leader?"

"Daqian will naturally stand in the East and last forever." Yuan Huan said without thinking about it, this is what he said in his heart. Although he has no royal status, he is a true descendant of the Yu family. Naturally, he hopes that Daqian can become a holy dynasty that has never existed in ancient and modern times.

"Forever." Yu Yuanxu shook his head and laughed. "In the long history of the human race, many people must have said these words to their emperors, but where is their country now? Their descendants do not all live under the rule of our great Qian and become the people and ministers of the great Qian."

"Why is brother Huang so depressed today?" Yuan Huan didn't understand why the news of success in southern Xinjiang was so frequent that the emperor's brother was worried.

"The ancients said that no one is far sighted, and there must be immediate worries. What I am worried about is not the war situation in southern Xinjiang, but I have thought about a lot of things recently. Although I haven't really thought about it, I always have a sense of crisis." Yu Yuanxu looked at a map on the wall and said.

The map is handed down from the Dayan empire. The topography and place names on it are the old appearance and ancient place names of Qingmu nearly ten thousand years ago. It outlines the 359 states enfeoffed by Yanhuang with dotted lines. In addition, the capital of Dayan at that time, which is now the Yanyang city in Daqian, is exactly 360, which coincides with the number of Zhou days. This is also the rudiment of 360 counties in Qingmu continent.

"Why are you worried, brother?" Yuan Huan also took a look at the map, which was made of gold silk and was not rotten for thousands of years. He couldn't help but wonder.

"Nine younger brother, if we can successfully annex the 36 counties of the two countries in the southern Xinjiang war, and then send troops to the north to destroy the grassland Three Kingdoms, and take the grassland back to the territory, then we will have 180 counties in Daqian, which accounts for half of the whole Qingmu continent. What do you think about the future of Daqian?"

"Nature is brilliant and prosperous." Yuan Huan thought for a moment and replied.

"I don't think so." Yu Yuanxu shook his head. "Once Daqian is united and does not return to the east of the mountain, Daqian will be invincible in the east of the whole Qingmu continent. To the west of the mountain is the endless sand sea and the plateau with ice and snow all the year round. It is really useless to take it. As long as you set up a grand pass at the mountain pass of the plateau and add Mingquan pass now, you can defend the country, no matter how powerful the foreign enemies are, It only takes 300000 troops to get them back in vain. "

"Isn't that good? As long as people's livelihood is developed, it will be a prosperous and peaceful time."

"Is that really good?" Yu Yuanxu shook his head again. "The survival of the country is nothing more than internal and external troubles. At that time, if there are no foreign troubles, there will be only internal troubles. Because of the absence of foreign aggression, the power of the outer cabinet will be greatly reduced, and the status of the military prime minister, the military commander and the soldiers will be reduced. At that time, more people will become civil servants rather than military generals, the balance between the inner and outer cabinet will be broken, and the fighting on the court will be more intense. "

"Brother Huang has a point." Yuan Huan's eyes flashed a little clear, and then he said, "it's just that it's at least decades or even a hundred years later. Let the later generations solve it. After all, one generation has a generation's responsibility. The emperor's brother's generation annexed the two countries in the south, and the prince's generation destroyed the Three Kingdoms in Northern Xinjiang, fulfilled the wishes of the great Qians, and restored the territory of the three ancient dynasties, That's the most important thing. "

"Ah ~" Yu Yuanxu sighed and looked at the map on the wall and said nothing.

He knew that Yuan Huan, the ninth younger brother, was right. A generation had a generation to do, but he was really worried that once Da qianzhen unified Aoki Oriental, and after decades of governance, the national power would reach a peak that had never been reached since the founding of the country, but after that, it would probably be extremely prosperous and decline.

Without foreign enemies, it would be very difficult for the army to maintain its combat effectiveness. If there were no such strategic talents as Baili Chengping and Lu Chun, then most of the leaders at that time would be people who had not been fighting on paper. However, the most important thing to support a dynasty is the army, decrees and people's hearts. They are like tripods supporting a dynasty, and they are indispensable.

Once the military of the outer cabinet declines, the civil servants will take over the power, which will cause a series of chain reactions. If the stupid and benevolent people are the emperor, Daqian is likely to repeat the mistakes of the Da Xuan empire. The imperial power collapses, and all the Heroes rise together, and then a new empire is born on Daqian's forehead, Then the emperor of the new Empire also wanted to restore the territory of Da Qian and sent troops to attack. It was like a reincarnation, a reincarnation that could not escape.

From the beginning of the Dayan Empire, Dayu, Daheng, Dali, and Daxuan, which were once the most prosperous dynasties, did not escape this samsara. Now it's Daqian's turn. Can the Daqian Empire built by Yu's royal family escape this samsara? This is a question Yu Yuanxu keeps asking himself these days, but the answer to this question makes him very frustrated, Because he couldn't find a solution.

At the time of the collapse of the former dynasty, the royal family was destroyed by the independent princes, which may be the fate of the Yu family.

Yu Yuanxu has a lot of heart palpitations when he thinks that before the founding of the great Qian Dynasty, all the ancestors had a long way to go, and then the founder of the great Qian Dynasty was born to wipe out all the countries, establish a new country, and what might happen in the future.

Yuan Huan looked at the map and suddenly said, "brother Huang, why don't you set up the Royal ancestral precepts? The future emperors take it as their duty to restore the territory of Dayan 360 county and unify the mainland of Qingmu. Maybe they will find something for future generations, and they won't be lost in the glorious and prosperous times."

"This ~" Yu Yuanxu was stunned and shook his head. "It's too difficult. If you don't go back to the west of the mountain, the ice cold area in the north, the sand sea in the middle, and the poisonous water in the south, even if you send 100000 troops, the logistics supply is a terrible number. If you encounter iceberg avalanche, desert storm and swamp miasma again, the army will probably never come back."

"Brother Huang, it is precisely because these places can be said to be the forbidden zones of the human race that we need a more prosperous country, a stronger army and a more convenient armament. Only in this way can we accomplish the great cause that only Yanhuang did. Because it's difficult, we have to do it. Only later generations can have their goals, not waste time in the name of the royal family. " Yuan Huan saw the emperor moved, quickly advised.

"You have a point, but it is necessary for the royal family to discuss and pass such a great event as Zuxun. Now the eighth younger brother is in the southern Xinjiang battlefield, the sixth younger brother is at sea, and the seventh younger sister is also going south to zhennanguan. They are in charge of the dark Phoenix tribe buried in the territory of the two countries in advance. Only the elder sister is in the capital. When this war is over, they will all go back to Beijing."

Yu Yuanxu looks at the silent nine younger brother around him and marvels. He can't say that what he said is really a good way. After all, the landform has changed over the past ten thousand years. The original western grassland has become a desert due to the rising of the non returning mountains, blocking the water vapor on the sea. Similarly, the sea of grass in the northwest and the grassland in Northern Xinjiang has become a highland ice sheet because of the rising of the non returning mountains, Because of the expansion of xiyuanze, the fertile soil in the Southwest has become a swamp, which is not suitable for the army to pass, but it is better than no way.

What he was most afraid of was that once Daqian unified Aoki Oriental, future generations would lose the motivation to forge ahead, and they would have to look up to the great achievements of their ancestors and wait to die. At that time, the emperor either devoted his energy to women, or turned the court hall into a place of entertainment for plotting and fighting. It was also a way to set up ancestral precepts to find something for them.

"In fact, the elder brother should discuss with the eldest princess. Eldest sister is a talented woman of our royal family. She once led the imperial government and immersed in the court for many years. Maybe she will have a better way."

Yuan Huan had been the commander of the shadow guards for many years. He knew too many dirty things that had not been disclosed to the public. He naturally knew what the emperor was worried about. The continuity of the royal family was only one aspect, but also the back of the people's heart.

As time goes on, both the officials and the common people will want more. Different from the courtiers' pursuit of rights, what the people need is more realistic.

Just as in the period of great reputation, the monarch was like heaven, and the people were like grass. At that time, the people who could help them remove their status as slaves would support them. At the end of the period of great Xuan, the land annexation was serious, and the people worked for a year, but they had no winter food or warm clothes. They would support the people who could make them eat and wear warm clothes, The imperial power collapsed.

Now, with the emperor's 20 years of light corvee and meager taxes, Daqian has realized that the tiller has his own land, the Weaver has his own clothes, and the people are happy and rich. They all call for Mingjun to be in power and the emperor to be in power. But in a few decades or a hundred years, when such days become normal, will they still be satisfied?

At that time, people's grievances will be everywhere, and the court will be in turmoil. As long as someone calls out, Daqian may really end up like Daxuan. Therefore, war is the only way to solve the problem. He can not only give a goal to the later emperors and courtiers, but also divert the people's attention. Only in this way can the country continue.

"Well, time is almost up. I promise to accompany the queen to enjoy the flowers. You should go back to Yingwei first. Lu que was right just now. The safety of the generals in southern Xinjiang is the most important thing. If you send more people to the south, I will also give orders to the secret guards and the secret guards."

"I will comply with the order, and I will leave."