Ninety-four, sparks start a prairie (below)
Not only was the front battlefield near the capital, it was already showing a collapse, but the hidden knife stabbed from behind made the young emperor's hair turn white and his eyes red from crying. The 50,000 Zhangwu Army of Qin Fan of Shaanxi Province was unstoppable since entering Shu. The Sichuan army from all walks of life had almost no resistance. In just a few dozen days, they had already arrived at the city of Chengdu, and Qin and Shu were about to merge into one!
The Wei Navy of Qifan, Shandong, had been bravely moving from southeast China from Jiaodong a few days ago, occupied Xuzhou and Haizhou in Huaibei, and took away the largest Haizhou salt field in the world. It was still unsatisfied with the huge profits of Huai salt. Recently, it continued to cross the Huaihe River and advanced southward, and its troops had already pointed directly at Yangzhou!
In the eyes of Emperor Kant, among the various vassal states in other places, those who did not want it to come, now they were all sharpening their heads and insisted on rushing here; those who wanted it to come, but there was no movement in urged it to die. After receiving the imperial edict from the court, the princes of various vassal states in Lingnan and Guangdong always looked for excuses to delay and refused to send troops north to rescue the emperor. The day before yesterday, they even fabricated a "Lingnan Mutual Protection" alliance, announcing "external neutrality" and "protecting the territory and self-defense"... You are not foreign monarchs, but generals under the court!
What made the emperor even more indignant was that although the other vassal states were rebellious and rebellious, they all stared at the emperor's throne under their butts, they were still wearing a layer of the outer skin of the imperial official army for the time being, and there was a perfunctory statement in front of the world. However, Liu Yu, the governor of the Black Flag Army of Annan, had no choice but to even this layer of official skin, and directly announced the rebellion openly!
In addition, this guy was nominally in the name of "responsible for the king" and entered Fuzhou City with dignity and suddenly turned against him! His despicable and harsh methods and the heavy blow to the court really made Emperor Kant almost vomit blood.
What made His Majesty the Emperor almost vomit blood until he died was that when Fuzhou fell, the Grand Marshal Liu also used the jade instrument communication system of the Fuzhou Post Station to rush to the prefectures and counties across the country to find out something wrong, which was roughly equivalent to the "power-up nationwide" in another world. At that time, it was shocking and the world was sensation...
——So, when the eunuch on duty on the day of the palace's voice transmission hall broke into the bedroom tremblingly and sent a copy of the manifesto, His Majesty the Emperor glanced a few times and was so angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas' Nirvana.
This is what the beginning of this manifesto is written:
"... The ugly Tartars were secretly occupied by the temple. They were originally a foreigner, nomadic and lowly race. Since ancient times, they have been enemies of our Central Plains for a long time. For three hundred years, they have shown their cruel and evil nature, slaughtered my compatriots, steal my magical artifacts, and become jackals and wolves, and harmed loyal and kindness. What gods and men are jealous of, and what heaven and earth are not tolerated.
In modern times, the government has become increasingly declining, and the territory has become increasingly narrow. The pseudo-emperors still regard evil and far away from goodness, and regard innocent children as if they were plants and trees. The ugly people are in power, and the meat eaters are nothing but temple people. The sky is angry and the earth is broken, the yin and yang are not in harmony, and the corpses are left thousands of miles away. The land is sinking, the grains are not rising, and the people are hungry for feeding.
All these kinds of things cannot be counted. The savages in the court have lost their harmony, and the sky has taken away their royal aura. All Chinese people are against their virtues. Eunuchs are confused and confused, and bandits are rampant. They are internal and external troubles, and they are not safe. Outside, they provoke friendly countries, and inside, they are violent to loyal and kind; in the north, they are defeated by Hu people, and in the south, they make enemies with the people. As the saying goes, dragons and snakes rise to the land, and Ziwei has murderous intentions. When they compete for the desolation, the Tartars have been exhausted! Their land collapse has been completed, and the decision of the storm can also be fully waited!
Although this commander is in the Southern Desert, he is also committed to peace and the country and save the world and the people. He wants to follow the orders of Tianjing to promote the king's business, so he raises the banner of righteousness to clear the evil spirits. Now he draws a clear line with the pseudo-Tartars dynasty, and specially promotes a criminal army to lead the children of Annan to avenge the previous shame for the world!
The current situation is changing, the king's army is improvised, the Tartars are full of evil, and God does not bless it. All our compatriots should do their own duties and strive to quickly destroy the Tartars and achieve the revolution. At this time, when the chaos is rectified, all our compatriots in the Central Plains, both young, young, young, young, female, farmer, business, and other people have the responsibility to destroy the Tartars. We must do our best and express our abilities to quickly eliminate the great cause of the ugly and barbarians.
Until now, those who are officials of the prison court should be demoted and go out to welcome each other. If those who are still working for the prisoners should be treated as the Tartars, they will be killed without mercy. Now those who are brave in the prison court should respond to the news and turn against each other. If those who are still working hard to stand up for each other, they will also be treated as the Tartars, they will be killed without mercy.
We hereby tell the world to attack and attack them. The officials and people like to do it themselves! Don’t say that they are not prepared for what they say!"
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"...Bang! It's so unreasonable, it's so unreasonable! He's so arrogant and slutty with his official position and title from the court..."
When he thought of the various disobedient words in the Black Flag Army's manifesto, Emperor Kant felt the blue veins on his forehead jumping around, "... Annan Liu jumped against the beam and made trouble, and Fujian Province was in ruins. Has the Military Affairs Office and the Ministry of War discussed any countermeasures?"
He asked casually to Kong Lingqi, the chief supervisor who was serving beside him, but the other party just smiled helplessly.
"...Report to the emperor, the Military Affairs Office has been quarreling for a day, but I have no idea. As for the Ministry of War... the Minister of War, the two ministers, and several chief clerks, have recently said that there was a funeral at home and they were going back to their hometown to guard the system. It has been a few days since I arrived at the yamen to dig..."
Kong Lingqi hesitated for a moment, and still answered in a slight manner--there is no friendship with those people, so there is no need to cover up too much.
In fact, since the three official troops were all frustrated in counterattacks, while the powerful soldiers of various vassal states encroached on the imperial palace from behind, the civil and military officials in the court in the capital were almost scared out of their courage while being extremely indignant and furious.
There was a saying that "a filial son is born in a family, and a loyal son is seen in the country but at the end of the imperial capital, it happened to fall and became "a filial son is born in a family, and the country is difficult to see a filial son is seen in the country." Those officials who had already made money from the official bag either claimed to be old or weak, or used their parents' illness, or secretly bribed the censor to issue documents to impeach themselves. In short, they were begging for nothing to return home. If they really couldn't get the approval of the court, they would just leave themselves. The six ministers and nine ministers in the capital, as well as the various yamen below, were already sparsely populated.
On the other hand, those officials who lived in the Qingshui Yamen who relied on a little salary to make a living and would starve when they left the capital and returned home, had to stay in the capital as loyal ministers. They all expressed their love in the court with passion and passion, and kept saying that they wanted to be loyal and lonely ministers of the end of the world. They secretly tried every means to find ways to contact foreigners, foreign vassals and revolutionaries, and find ways to make good relationships to protect the peace of the whole family. No matter how bad it is, they should at least have some connection with the Demon Cult so that they can still have a backer after the court falls.
The general manager of Kong Lingqi summarized these general situations and tried to report them to the emperor as tactfully as possible, which immediately made His Majesty Kant angry again.
"... Not only are the princes of the outer vassals and the princes are determined to usurp the rebellion, but even the officials and officials of the capital who are paying the court are rushing to abandon me? OK, okay! What a bunch of wolves and hearts! All the Han officials are really unreliable! Hehe, what I said before to make me be cautious and endure, and slowly try to do so. In the end, they still secretly colluded with the outer vassals, colluded with the inner and outer, and embezzled the territory of the imperial court together!"
Emperor Kant was so angry that he threw the tea bowl onto the pillar, used the technique of ridicule, and cursed in the form of a map cannon, "...I'm so lucky that I've taken care of all the defense power of the city in the middle of the capital to the Manchus. Otherwise, if I don't do it well, I'll be dedicated to the city by these anti-bone boys!"
Although Emperor Kant was extremely anxious about the current situation of increasingly collapse, he was in the deep palace and had no idea what was going on outside. He was very distrustful of the ministers, so he had to close his eyes and think about it on his own. When he encountered a decision, he could only let the ministers express his opinions and see who said it was reasonable... or who made the advertisements better, and whoever said it was more alarmist, and whoever said it was more alarmist.
Obviously, under the current situation of rebellion between all directions and the world collapsed, Emperor Kant definitely trusted his royal relatives more.
The general manager Kong Lingqi looked up slightly, looked at his haggard and impatient master, and couldn't help but sigh quietly.
According to the historical events he learned in the inner study, among the experiences of all dynasties, if a corrupt dynasty whose luck is on the verge of extinction and which is about to decline, wants to continue to save and maintain its rule, the only feasible and effective way is to expand its ruling foundation as much as possible, absorb more talented people into the ruling group, and widely decentralize power to the outside world. In this way, the wave of revolution and rebellion can be suppressed and the dispersed hearts of the people will be gathered again.
The first two emperors after moving south to Jinling also did this in general, so they could barely maintain this remaining mountain and water without losing it.
However, since Emperor Kant ascended the throne, he did not seem to intend to compromise and survive. Instead, he changed the old system and was always busy accelerating the collection of military and political power, further excluding the Han forces, promoting royal relatives and Manchu nobles, and striving to strengthen the centralization level of the central government and the royal family. He was simply doing the opposite, as if the concept of "expanding the foundation of rule" had never existed in his mind...
Obviously, such a ruling policy that is contrary to one's perspective is very stupid. No matter how hard Emperor Kant works hard and diligent in national affairs, he will only make mistakes more and more. The more he tries his best, the more people's hearts become dispersed and fallen, and eventually leads the court to a deeper all-round isolation and hostility. In short, it is "embraceful"... and this is the most appropriate portrayal of the current situation.
Of course, serving such a stubborn and moody master, General Kong Lingqi also knew that he usually couldn't interrupt much in such major affairs in the court. Otherwise, he would not cause any risks, and he would not have any good ideas in his heart.
——It is actually not difficult to see the problem of the court, but how to properly solve this problem is helpless.
However, there seems to be a lot of bad news today. Emperor Kant had just hysterically vented because of the Fujian Incident and the bad news of the collapse of the front line. After almost smashing the things, he sat down on a high chair with exquisitely decorated pear blossoms and wood, and gasped. A small yellow door of Jinyi who was rushing to him hurriedly sent him another terrifying bad news.
Chapter completed!