Chapter 346 The Battle of the Emperors (1)
As soon as Viin finished speaking, the imperial edict was written. As before, the ministers would stamp it and order the eunuch to send it to Okde to bring it back.
"His Majesty!"
Seeing the eunuch holding the imperial edict and leaving, all the ministers knelt on the ground to block the door and shouted with grief and anger. The Marshal and the Prime Minister looked at each other. The Prime Minister shook his beard and shook his head. The Marshal pinched his fists and sighed and said nothing.
Emperor Weiyin was very calm when he saw the Marshal and the Prime Minister not saying anything. He wanted to explain but was too lazy to speak because he was in a bad mood. He waved his hand and left, "I have my own opinions, I will retreat!" and turned around and left.
Seeing that his emperor was so tough, the ministers had to admit it. Anyway, the world was the emperor's world. Whatever his business was about them, he would defeat him if he was willing to lose.
After the ministers retreated, the marshal and the prime minister slowly walked away. On the way, the marshal asked: "Why don't you stop this imperial edict from Your Majesty? This is equivalent to losing the empire's boundary!"
The prime minister smiled and said, "Isn't Cons the person you like? It doesn't matter if it falls into his hands."
The marshal shook his head with a wry smile: "What can the person you like? In these years, people's hearts are unpredictable, who can guarantee what? And after giving the five coastal provinces to Cons, regardless of whether Cons is loyal or not, the empire's coastal boundary will be controlled by outsiders. The maritime trade will be cut off from now on. What a huge loss this is!"
The prime minister smiled and said, "Haha, our Majesty will not have seen this. The three provinces of Haiquan, Haibin and Haiping are nothing, but don't forget that Haiwu and Haiguang are the territory of the Imperial Fleet. In this chaotic era, local taxation and sea trade have long been the hands of local powerful people. The Imperial Fleet has gained much benefit from the sea. Do you think they will willingly accept that their territory belongs to others?"
The marshal shook his head: "I am not optimistic about the Imperial Fleet. Even if they fight at sea, land-based warfare cannot be compared with the army. Since Cons can easily occupy the seventh prince under house arrest in Haiquan Province, it is enough to prove his army's ability. So as long as the Imperial Fleet's garrison is completely occupied, the Imperial Fleet will harass the coast for a period of time at most, and in the end they either surrender or become pirates."
"When Cons owns these five provinces, his strength will definitely become the largest warlord of the empire! It would be fine if he is loyal at that time. If he has any ambitions, it would be another disaster!"
The Prime Minister smiled and said, "Haha, maybe this is the powerful and powerful who can do anything to defend their vested interests. After all, the Imperial fleet cannot control the two provinces by their sailors alone. And Your Majesty has made that imperial edict the world. You said that the second prince and the third prince knew that Cons wanted to educate them on His Majesty. Do you think they would wait for Cons to come to him?"
Seeing the Marshal thinking, the Prime Minister patted the Marshal on the shoulder: "As long as your Majesty no longer explicitly orders to increase Cons' control, what if Cons has five coastal provinces? As long as he is obedient, the Southeast Governor can do a stable time.
If your ambition is too great and you extend your hand to other provinces, then there is a reason to remove Cons from his position openly. You wouldn't think that after His Majesty unified the inland, such a huge population base and wealth base would not defeat Cons, who only had five provinces, right?"
The marshal nodded without saying a word, but sighed in his heart: "Oh, that's it, but all this can only be achieved under the premise of unifying the inland."
The continuous news of the emperor's ascending the throne made the people of the empire a little numb, and the person who had a little hope for the imperial capital was also lost.
There are actually seven or eight emperors in the entire empire, and all of them are the bloodline of the late emperor. Those who are a little smarter know that the battle between the emperors, which is more cruel than the warlords' melee, is about to break out. Even if the boss's empire can be unified in the end, his generation will probably not be able to see it.
However, a news from the imperial capital that was released suddenly made the numb people vibrate for a moment, and began to look at the coastal areas of the empire with curious and confusing eyes.
All the warlords in Haibin Province were stunned. They knew that the Cons army was strong, but they didn't expect that they could easily destroy the Haiquan province, and there was also a division of war horses? In this seaside area, who would dare to provoke the Cons army?
I knew that Cons army was famous, but I didn’t expect that it would not only become the governor of the Southeast, but also the governor of the five provinces! The entire sea area fell into Cons army with justification!
Now that I am staying in the jurisdiction of this great governor, what should I do? Some warlords immediately learned from the original commander of the coastal division, and the inventory funds swept away and went abroad to become rich.
Some people had some connections with the Cons army, and immediately sent an envoy or went there in person to express their willingness to serve Cons. Of course, some people who were ignorant of the current affairs were inevitably recruiting soldiers, clamoring to fight with Cons for life and death, and the coastal province was also surging in the new year and new moon.
In the territory of the Cons army, when they learned that Cons had been appointed as the governor of the five provinces in the southeast, the members of the Cons army who were busy wishing Cons a New Year were stunned, and then they immediately cheered, and began to be busy decorating the governor's mansion with red faces. Oh no, now they should be called the governor's mansion.
The members of the Cons army did not care about the Southeast Governor, the governor of the five provinces, the lieutenant general, and the baron. What they cared about was that if they had this title, they could openly launch strategies for these five provinces, without fear of someone jumping out and calling for traitors, and the people would not be able to resist such a war of restoration.
Unlike his subordinates who were happy, Cons was a little stunned.
I just sent someone to congratulate the new emperor ascended the throne, but I actually gave myself such a careless title? Isn’t the emperor afraid that he will lose his throne?
And the most troublesome thing is that I have no plan to swallow up the five coastal provinces of the empire! I am just planning to manage the sea spring and seaside so that the people who fly across the peninsula can have a place to settle down. How could such a big thing happen? It's really distressing.
But although Cons was not very willing, seeing the excited expression on his subordinates, Cons could only sigh and shake his head. When the title came, they naturally wanted to get the real benefits for their leader, because the greater the benefits they got, the more benefits they would get. This is the rule set during the time of flying across the Peninsula and has become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In fact, even if there is no such rule, according to convention and people's hearts, they will still pursue benefits for themselves, because for themselves is for them, and the two complement each other.
If this continues, sooner or later, I will be carried to a terrifying position by these subordinates, but it is impossible to scold them by myself. Rejecting my subordinates’ requests in such a thing will not only be considered an idiot, but also cause the entire force to fall apart, and my subordinates are disinterested. It seems that I can only accept it.
Seeing Cons sighing, Xiangwen was not only not worried, but was secretly proud. Oaked's actions could not be carried out without the support of Xiangwen, the chief secretary of the Secret Guard. As long as Xiangwen thinks it is beneficial to the Lord, he will do whatever he wants. He has done a lot of things like this, so there is no wonder that he will make these plans without authorization.
In the lobby of the Grand Governor's Office with a brand new plaque, civil and military officials from the Cons army gathered to discuss military and political affairs.
Before the start of the Military and Political Council, under the leadership of Bikud, everyone saluted Cons: "Congratulations to you, the Governor of the Southeast and the Governor of the Five Provinces."
The two positions of Lieutenant General and Baron were not seen by these old men of Cons. Officials from the Empire did not think that such ranks and titles were useful among warlords. Those from Feidu Peninsula completely believed that their lords were the monarch, so why should they care about the positions that only these ministers could have?
Cons waved his hand helplessly and asked everyone to get up and said, "No need to say these useless words, the imperial edict has not arrived yet. I know what you mean, but our current task is to like to control the two provinces of Haiquan and Haibin, and then we can plot against the other three provinces."
Bikud smiled and said, "Sir, Haiquan Province needs to be said to have really been in the hands of adults since the local tyrants recommended their children. Now, warlords from all over the province either rush to step down or are ready to surrender to the adults. There are only a few people ready to fight against us.
"It can be said that we don't need to mobilize troops to urge those warlords who are willing to surrender to send troops. It won't take long for the adults to control the entire coastal province."
"Well, since that's the case, then how can I attack Haiping Save after stabilizing Haiquan and Haibin provinces?"
The rotating chief military officer said, and as soon as this was said, it immediately received everyone's praise.
Cons shook his head and said, "You guys, don't be too proud. Haiping Province, Haiwu and Haiguang Province are connected together, and Haiwu and Haiguang Provinces are the nests of the Imperial Fleet. They will not watch us attack Haiping Province, and they may not say that they will start first.
"You must know that the third fleet on our side is regarded as a traitor by them. In addition, the five maritime provinces are now under my jurisdiction, so they have long become mortal enemies with us!"
"Not afraid! Our Cons army is not afraid of these water birds at all! We dare not say about water combat, but land combat will definitely make the Marines of these fleets come and go!"
The military officers shouted.
Seeing his subordinates arrogant, Cons couldn't help but shouted angrily: "It's ridiculous! You dare to guarantee that you will win before you even started fighting! What do you rely on? The strength of the two divisions is still the power of the life-saving bottle? Do you really think we can be invincible to the world with these invincibles!"
The first time I saw Cons speak in such a tone, I immediately lay down on the ground from the Feidu Peninsula, and the empire's origin immediately stood up and bowed to confess. When I saw my colleagues kneeling down, I immediately realized that my elders had long been the monarch of an independent kingdom, so I quickly knelt down and apologized for guilt.
"I am not condemning you, but just reminding you not to be arrogant. Since even things like demons exist in this world, no matter how strange things happen, we can only be bold and careful in the place where we march and war, we cannot have eyes on our foreheads!
Cons sighed and waved his hand and said, "Okay, who can you show me like this? Get up."
Chapter completed!