Chapter 085: Frost Killing Hundred Herbs (III)
Qi Mansion Book Building, Qi Yanglong looked at the middle-aged man who could not hide his fatigue, and said sentimentally, “Your Majesty, how can a bowstring not break after being taut for a full twenty to thirty years?”
Zhao family’s son of heaven laughed openly, “It can’t be helped, in the past, there was no mister at his side to assist, if mister had entered the capital twenty years earlier, the widow might have been able to live for another twenty years, it’s just that things are hard to be complete, and the widow has looked away.”
Qi Yanglong sighed gently, then said with a straight face, “There is one thing, I don’t know when to ask or not to ask?”
The Emperor nodded his head and said, “The widow and sir, just as that secret letter said earlier, nothing can’t be said, nothing can’t be done.”
Qi Yanglong asked, “Your Majesty can tolerate Tantan Weng’s impetuous style, can tolerate the Yellow Door Langs on duty when they drink and sleep soundly, can tolerate the Zhang Gu two huts under the eyes, can tolerate the Bieye’er in front of him and the side of the Han Sheng Xuan two ‘standing emperors’ can tolerate the literati in the south of the river to discuss politics, can tolerate the readers to write wistful poems and remember the past dynasty. Can a day never slack political affairs, twenty years, Phi Zhu text accumulated up to nine million words. Why can’t you tolerate a feudal king of a different surname who lives in a remote area and has no intention of opposing?”
The emperor bitterly said, “Mr. so knowingly asked, is it afraid that I am determined to embarrass Northern Liang?”
Qi Yanglong did not speak, his eyes gleaming as he stared at this Lord of the Central Plains who had been ambitious since his youth.
He did not have the feats of the previous emperor who had unified the world, but his ambition was as great as ever.
The emperor felt the simple and clumsy book atmosphere inside the book building, that kind of aroma, he was more than familiar with when he was a child, and often tore up books and played with the best relationship with the emperor’s brother, Zhao Heng, on the contrary, with his younger brother, Zhao Yi, who had the same father and mother, did not have a lot of time to spend together at that time. After the emperor was slightly lost in thought, he recovered his thoughts and calmly said: “Please rest assured, sir, the only person I can’t tolerate is already dead, so a Song Dongming of Luming County can still be tolerated. Mister wants to open the ban on shipping and fully support Northern Liang’s resistance to Mang, I also listen to the advice, just before entering the palace, I have authorized the Ministry of Appointments and the Ministry of Revenue, so that they do not continue to make things difficult for Northern Liang.”
The emperor continued, “Mr. before entering the capital, once asked the widow how he would dispose of Zhang Julu, to be honest, it is not that the widow is difficult to tolerate this Zhang Shoufu, but the Zhao room is difficult to tolerate the river and mountain, and it is necessary for the widow to make trade-offs. On the matter of fact, the widow’s reputation is far inferior to the first emperor, before ascending the throne, my father in the death of his father before we set up a secret family rules, no matter who inherits the throne, must be heavy civil and military suppression, this is also Zhao Heng lost to the widow’s real reason, he is too much like the first emperor, military and horseback military service, is the highest of the nine sons, if he sits in the north and looks at the south of the king of the world, even if he exhausted the power of the country, but also with the North Mang fight, the widow year also can stop at the cliff, Zhao Heng is destined not to do, remember when I was a child, he said he wanted to hold a jade axe to the north of North Mang, south of the southern border, all to draw a national boundary.”
Already not considered to be in his prime, the Zhao family’s Son of Heaven turned his back to Qi Yang Long, stretched out his fingers to touch an ancient book, and helplessly said, “In the generation of the widow’s son, the eldest son Zhao Wu lost to the fourth son Zhao Zhuan, which is the same reasoning. The man who claims the throne must not be without ambition, but also must not be too ambitious, just that the seal son’s popularity is again lost to the widow as a father, back then I check and balance the military, is already extremely difficult, the next seal son wants to tame the civil officials, is also a long way to go, with or without Zhang Julu’s group of civil officials, it’s very different. After my death, if Zhang Julu is alive for one year, I will have to keep my hands tied year after year, no matter if he is in the government or not. Moreover, Zhuan’er was born with the bones of an elegant scholar and a flirtatious nature, and often he would soften his heart towards those literati who held the sword and pen, even though he knew it was wrong. Readers, even if the real heart of the world, but to ask them once to do things beneficial to the people, often high eyes and low power, such a civil official, the higher the position, the more terrible. In fact, Mr. and Wang Priest that in the Shangyin Academy Palace of heaven and man debate, I am inclined to lose Wang Priest, just this kind of words, in the position of the widow, it is not good to say out.”
“Liyang state throne has stretched more than two hundred years, but in the widow’s opinion, the birth of this dynasty, is in the first year of Yonghui! Compared to the four hundred years of age of the Great Feng Dynasty, Liyang is no better than a baby in its infancy. Zhuan’er is far from being able to rest on his laurels as a defeated emperor.”
“I naturally know that there has never been a dynasty that has been passed down for thousands of generations, and that one day, the world will not be surnamed Zhao, and the top of the genealogy list will be changed to another surname with it. The descendants of the Zhao family, the future posthumous name of both beauty and evil, but I hope that the beauty of the posthumous name is also OK, evil posthumous name is also OK, more than a few is better than less.”
“When I was young, I listened to the then not yet abolished the official position of the tai fu said history, mentioning the number of years of each dynasty, there is always a feeling, that is like a scholar in a long or short examination, only to catch the examination, can be the father and son, some people answered the questionnaire brilliantly, will be able to get the favor of God as the examiner, if someone answered the questionnaire muddled, will have to deduct something, so Plus and minus, when nothing can be deducted, then the family world of the royal family is no longer qualified for the imperial examinations, a dynasty has come to an end. If it is from the great ancestor to create Liyang counting, I think compared to those predecessors, the widow rule, to win nine out of ten, only lost the great talent and strategy of the great ancestor and the understanding of the thoroughness of the first emperor within a few people only.”
When the emperor was rambling, his face was glowing, and a kind of morbid splendor appeared.
For a long time, it was the emperor who was revealing his heart, while the old man listened with an old spirit, occasionally smiling.
In the world today, Qi Yanglong was surely the only one who could make the Zhao family’s son of heaven spit out his thoughts in such a manner.
He suddenly laughed, “The three disciples of Mister, Xun Ping, Mr. Yuan, and Mr. Xie, have all single-mindedly assisted Li Yang, so it can be said that the four of you, Mister Master and disciple, have supported half of my dynasty, and are truly unqualified for their achievements.”
From the Zhao family Prince of Heaven’s address to the three can be seen in his closeness to the three disciples of Qi Yang Long, and the scholar Xunping get along with the shortest time, but he felt that he could call each other by their first names of the best friends, call Yuan Benxi as Mr. Yuan, is out of heartfelt respect, and directly said Xie Flying Fish this name, is through a wave of spontaneity.
The old man waved his hand and said: ”Compared to those spring and autumn celebrities, I Qi Yanglong became famous the latest, is also recognized as the most obtuse and unenlightened readers, like when I was more than thirty years old, still wandering in the jianghu, accomplishing nothing, and Zhang Julu and Huan Wen’s mentor, has long been famous all over the world, as well as the Jiangnan Road that like to raise cats old fellow, when they gained power, I can only watch from afar, have no shame to go to They are all guests in their homes. Speaking of their respective disciples, on the surface look is my most pleased, but in fact really want to break up the words, a show front of Zhang Julu, an awkward Huan Wen, these two, the latter with me is on a road, ultimately difficult to escape the mundane maze, as for my three disciples, although everyone can be better than blue and blue place, but compared to the Zhang Julu, in addition to Xunping can live for two decades can be compared to the rest of the two, are not as good as Zhang Julu, the other two, the other two, the other two, the other two are not as good as Zhang Julu. .”
Qi Yanglong sighed, “Zhang Julu, is the only fellow who can be called a supreme talent alongside Huang Sanjia. They say he is just a tinkerer from the sun, hey, underestimating Bieye’s more than enough. I went to the capital this time, there is no idea of pushing back, on the contrary, Zhang Julu many initiatives had to be too strong, by me to repair, I am a repairer. Without Zhang Julu in the first place, I would not have been able to do anything, and I would have spent my life just staying within the Shang Yin Academy, doing that bullshit learning that would go unnoticed after a few generations.”
The old man looked towards the Zhao Family’s Son of Heaven, stretched out his hands, and laughed softly, “Your Majesty, you are a good emperor, no doubt about it, gifted and intelligent, yet you still insist that diligence can make up for clumsiness. I dare say that in the world today, there are only generals and prime ministers to evaluate, if there is an emperor evaluation, since a thousand years, since the Great Qin Empire, plus one thousand years later, you can be ranked in the top ten.”
The emperor froze for a moment and laughed, “The widow can also rub off on a similar martial arts assessment of the world’s top ten masters?”
Qi Yanglong laughed along with him, then nodded heavily.
The Emperor walked to the window of this Iron Sword and Qin Gallows Book Building, looked up and saw a flying pigeon crossing the sky of the capital, vaguely heard a pigeon song, and asked in a self-deprecating manner, “Mister, is this the death of a man for the widow?”
Qi Yanglong unprecedentedly did not know how to answer.
The emperor said to himself, “If Xu Primrose did not have a son how good it would be, otherwise that young man died early in the jianghu, but at the same time left an heir, then the widow does not begrudge Xu Primrose one of the greatest beauty posthumously, to give that young man a hereditary recklessness, to give Xu Primrose’s grandchildren invited into the capital to enjoy that even more than the Zhao family’s dragons sons and grandsons of the honor of the treatment. I have the Zhao family sitting in the world one day, there will be his Xu family children and grandchildren enjoy one day of happiness. Unfortunately, the regrettable things in the world are due to a word that has no ‘if’ to say.”
Qi Yanglong was silent.
The emperor collected his emotions, smiled and asked: “Mr. last time you want to say but said that the time has not yet come that thing, in the end what is it?”
Qi Yanglong slowly replied, “Decentralization, completely breaking up local forces. But this has to wait until the world unification, when the annexation of North Mang, according to the current Liyang the most important road state county county four level setup, a road of the main official, but is the section of the civil and military division of the messenger and the secretary, as long as the section of the messenger completely over the secretary, and the Spring and Autumn period of chaos of a country king is not much different, Liyang was once suffering from the scourge of the clans and towns, can not repeat the same mistake. Especially after eating North Mang, plus the original fourteen Road, there will be a total of more than twenty-four Road, looks like a lot, can now the degree of post, in addition to the hinterland of the Central Plains, most of the Festival Ministers Secretary General that is the emperor is far away, the establishment of this level of the Road, the original is a temporary set up, and then even more to be repealed, not only this, Liyang now more than thirty states, more to be subdivided, some of the big counties are taken out of the separate state, in the maintenance of Civil and military co-rule and mutual checks and balances under the same premise, the future of the world, there should be eighty states, and a state assassins and generals every four to six years, it must be rotated, rotated at the time, but also into the capital to face the saint a trip. The implementation of this move, resistance will not be too great, after all, by then a state civil and military two chief officials have real power, the official rank is also high, everyone is happy to see it, even if some of the existing strategic ambassador and assassin’s heart resentment, that can not resist under the auxiliary officials of the push, if you dare to go against the trend, it is also self-defeating, do not need the court to take action, since some people to help the imperial court to squeeze out of them.”
Qi Yanglong hesitated for a moment, raised his arm and made a fist clenching and unclenching gesture before he spoke, “This is the collection of power, the next step will depend on the ability of Emperor Zhao to delegate power in the future. Collecting, can’t be too tight and too dead, can’t be clutched and not released, can’t be cronyism. Put, can not think that once and for all, do academic people, can go to fight that human nature is good or human nature is evil, can be the emperor, to firmly believe that the human heart is easy to repeat, hard to fill the gulch, the need to always give and give. But generally speaking, as long as this matter is accomplished, away from the Yang Zhao room in the genealogy of the top position, another two hundred years, certainly not difficult. As for the specific measures, for example, the more borderlands, can slightly use relatives without using the virtuous, the closer to the capital city, can use the virtuous without using the relatives, when the rotation, to follow this reasoning, but this kind of thing, always just some minutiae.”
The emperor listened intently to the words of the old man, not dare to miss a word.
Qi Yanglong seems to have a sense of realization, said: “the world is inevitable to divide and merge, but trace back to the root, every time the world is in chaos, is that dynasty blocked the path of all people to rise, in fact, when the people and when the official, it is very simple, that is, so that they can have a thought in their hearts, and with the thought, will be afraid of death, and also don’t want to die.”
“In the end, when the emperor, and then stingy, still have to give everyone a pair of shoes to wear, don’t let the world’s bare feet are not afraid to wear shoes, and thus the heart of that give up a death of cuts also dare to pull the emperor down to the last thought.”
“This is something that Xu Fengnian has done very well. From the Beiliang military generals, to the civil officials, to the common people, all his actions are telling those Beiliang people that I, Xu Fengnian, will enjoy the blessings with you, and bear the hardships with you.”
Hearing this, the emperor said softly for no reason, “This young man, if he were his own son, how good it would be, it would be fine to become the son-in-law of the widow back then.”
Qi Yanglong cried and laughed, wanting to remind His Majesty the Emperor that there is no if in the world.
The emperor was silent and looked out of the building, fuming for a long time.
Qi Yanglong also accompanied the daze.
This xiangfu year, after the fall let a lot of people feel bad, but in fact, even more uncomfortable waves are still in the back.
When the frost kills all the grass.
Will die a lot of people, and there will be a lot of people who have already raked in great wealth.
The emperor turned his head violently, tears streaming down his face, ”Sir, the widow doesn’t want to die yet. Still want to take another look at the world, from south to north, a few more glances. One more glance is good.”
Qi Yanglong was actually speechless, standing on tiptoe, which was able to pat the shoulders of this tall man who did not wear a dragon robe today.
This picture was comical and sad.