Daning Tiancheng is twenty-five years old, and Shen Leng is twenty-five years old.

Pingyue Road, it's messy.

On the ninth day of the eighth month of the 25th year of Daning Tiancheng, a rebellion broke out in the counties of Pingyue Province, and almost at the same time, all the county soldiers attacked the county government at the same time, and all the local officials transferred from all over the country to Pingyue Province had accidents, and seven or eight out of ten people were killed on this day.

This day is the twelfth year of the destruction of Nanyue, the ninth day of August in the thirteenth year of Daning Tiancheng, the capital of Nanyue was breached, and Yang Yu, the emperor of Nanyue, surrendered out of the city.

Some people say that 12 years is a reincarnation, and I don't know what the meaning is, but for the Yue people who have not forgotten the hatred of the country, this day is the 12-year taboo of South Vietnam.

It's not a matter of one county, it's about all counties.

The Ning people never thought that the hatred of the Yue people would be so heavy, the South Vietnamese people who had been ruled for twelve years broke out all their hatred on this day, and those soldiers rushed to the street like beasts, as long as they were Ning people, they would kill, fortunately, there were not many Ning people in South Vietnam.

Xishu Road.

Mu Zhaotong didn't sleep all night, he felt that this night had taken away his little vitality, and even had the illusion that someone called his name outside the window last night, and called it all night until dawn.

But he didn't regret it, he felt that there were some things that no one could do except him.

Wuwei Taoist came in from outside with a bowl of noodles, and was startled when he saw Mu Zhaotong, overnight, in fact, it was less than one night, it was only two short hours from the time he left this room to see Mu Zhaotong again, but Mu Zhaotong seemed to have become a piece of dead wood, he was sitting there, no longer wanting to be a living person, but a dried corpse.

"I've counted the time."

Mu Zhaotong reluctantly allowed himself to smile: "At this moment, Your Majesty should have just received the letter I wrote to him." ”

Wuwei Taoist sighed and put down his face: "Ge Lao, actually...... Why do you bother? ”

"I once said that I would not do anything to hurt Daning, even if I didn't want His Majesty to have a good time, I wouldn't hurt Daning, and no one believed me when I said it, just believe it myself...... I am a Ning person, a thing that has been destined since birth, Ning people...... There is a sense of pride in their bones that makes foreigners feel disgusted, why do they disgust? Because they are inferior, they will be disgusted. ”

"Your Majesty is right."

Mu Zhaotong looked at the bowl of noodles: "From the beginning, I knew that Your Majesty was right, even if he wanted to empty all my power, I also knew that it was something that an emperor should do, which was different from me hating him, just like what I planned in Pingyue Road today, and I hated him was also two different things, when I could do something for Daning and it happened to make His Majesty feel very uncomfortable and unhappy, I should be very comfortable and happy." ”

Wuwei Daoist shook his head: "Where does Ge Lao seem to be comfortable?" ”

"I thought I would."

Mu Zhaotong took a bite of noodles and put it in his mouth, the taste was obviously very good, but it tasted tasteless.

"If Daning is a giant, no one can defeat it, but the carrion on his body can bring the giant down from the inside, I have been vigilant for so many years as the head of the cabinet, but I still watch the carrion grow, and I also have it in myself, as long as I am an official, there are many things that cannot be avoided, Your Majesty wants to rip off the carrion, and in his opinion I am the biggest piece."

Wuwei said: "But Ge Lao is not." ”

"I am."

Mu Zhaotong raised his head and glanced at him: "When I am."

When I was sitting in the Eight Alleys copying books, one day I looked at my wife who was lying on the bed and was getting more and more confused, and suddenly realized that I was indeed the carrion. ”

Wuwei Taoists don't know what to say.

"The queen is dead, but the people and arrangements left by the queen are also rotten meat."

Mu Zhaotong said while eating noodles: "Your Majesty is kind-hearted, you can't do it so thoroughly, I am planning to let him die two sons, just give him a Da Ning Jiangshan who looks devastated but no longer has the shadow of the queen." ”

A tear fell into the bowl, making the noodles taste a little bitter.

Chang'an City, Mao Zhai.

The emperor had a letter in front of him, which he had already read.

The emperor sat there, his face very white, his hands clenched into fists, and the back of his hands was full of green tendons.

"Your Majesty, are you still looking for the old minister? But you must not find it, the old minister has served His Majesty for 20 years, not the one who has followed His Majesty the longest, nor the one that His Majesty trusts the most, when it comes to the word trust, any person who was born in the palace, no matter which one of the clouds and leaves in the sky, His Majesty's trust is above the old minister, His Majesty can put his heart into them, and the minister is just the best person, but the old minister must be the one who knows His Majesty best. ”

"Lao Chen reflected on his life when he copied books in Babu Alley, and suddenly woke up, it turned out that Lao Chen had always thought that everything he did was for the good of Daning, but he inadvertently hurt Daning, of course, if it was just to hurt His Majesty, Lao Chen would not feel guilty, what Lao Chen was planning was plotting for the lives of His Majesty's two sons, His Majesty knew, Lao Chen's son was gone, and Lao Chen was still a person who would repay him."

"In the first year of Tiancheng, His Majesty said to the old minister, Daning can't do without you, I can't do without you, the old minister was full of emotion at the time, thinking that Your Majesty is really magnanimous, the old minister once sought the emperor's throne, not for himself, and selfless, just to seek the emperor's throne for Daning in his heart, and seek a decades of stability, but His Majesty is thinking further, His Majesty is planning for at least a hundred years, so the old minister is convinced."

"After the death of my son Xiaofeng, the old minister was grief-stricken, but he still didn't dare to slack off and be sloppy, the old minister could pat his chest and say, for the minister's duty, the old minister has done it, but how much does the old minister care about this Daning, the old minister is also a father and a husband, the old minister was thinking at that time, how to make His Majesty sad but not hurt Daning?"

"Someone has to do it."

"The queen is a wicked person, Your Majesty knows better than the old minister, the old minister will do one more thing for His Majesty before he dies, if nothing else, when the old minister's letter is sent to His Majesty, the counties of Pingyue Road have rebelled at the same time, in the past few years, the old minister has been able to secretly transfer millions of taels of silver every year, where did it come from? came from the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, and the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion was rotten up and down, not the sin of the old ministers, but they themselves were rotten, so the old ministers urged the ugliness in their hearts again. ”

"All this silver was sent to the soldiers of Pingyue Dao counties, secretly building weapons and armor, and agreeing to raise troops at the same time on the day the letter was delivered, but that was nothing, at most many people died, and the dead people were only minor injuries for Daning, and they could be healed in three or five years, and then Pingyue Road should be stable."

"Looking at the world, the only person who can control such a scale of things is Lao Chen, so Lao Chen will inevitably still be a little proud in his heart, thinking that His Majesty's face is white and rough at this time, Lao Chen will be even more proud, and when His Majesty's two sons are dead, Lao Chen will be able to smile at Jiuquan."

"Lao Chen cares about reputation, he has always cared, but in the end, Lao Chen chose to bear one

A name, Your Majesty, you know how painful it is for a person to have a complicated contradiction in his heart like me, the rebellion of the Yue people did not last long, and the old minister first used the people of northern Xinjiang to let the Bohai people enter the customs to confuse the public, and then the old minister was able to leave Chang'an. ”

"Then the old minister sent people to Rilang to urge the Rilang army to enter the country of Miao, because of this battle, Shen Leng, Haisha and Zhuang Yong were not allowed to get out, and the soldiers of Pingyue Road were already seeking to stand, so the southern Xinjiang wolf ape will inevitably go south to help, and the war does not wait for anyone, and His Majesty gave the general of the four frontiers the right to arbitrarily make decisions on the spot, so Ye Jingtian will not wait for His Majesty's will to lead the army south."

"In this way, there is no large-scale army of soldiers in Pingyue Road, this is the promise of the old minister to the Yue people is also to the confidence of the Yue people, there is no wolf ape, no soldiers, the Yue dare to rebel, but to quell such a rebellion, it does not take long, the wolf ape returns to the army, the soldiers go south, and the rebellion will be wiped out in less than three months.

"The old minister is in the world, but the ant, the old minister is humble, but he dares to say, I have been in this world, no one can erase it, when the old minister wants to leave, I wipe it myself, and no one can stop it."

"Lao Chen has always believed in his loyalty to Daning, to this day, Lao Chen does not doubt, even if Lao Chen always wants to take revenge on His Majesty, Lao Chen's thoughts may be a little shocking, from the date Lao Chen became an official, Lao Chen's thoughts have never changed, Lao Chen feels, the emperor does not represent Daning, not only Your Majesty, any emperor is like this, Lao Chen is loyal to the country and disloyal to the king, and the law of the country is a capital crime, but Lao Chen will not admit this crime even if he dies."

"The first emperor died, the old minister could have turned the tide, the cabinet had the old minister, that is, the new emperor could not govern for ten years, the old minister could also protect Daning worry-free, but His Majesty ascended to the pole, all the plans of the old minister were shattered, Your Majesty is not a worldly Ming Jun, everything is everywhere, the old minister is convinced, so in the past 20 years, the old minister has tried his best to assist His Majesty, Daning is thriving, and Your Majesty cannot say that the old minister does not have a trace of credit."

"The old minister's calculation should be right, when His Majesty saw this letter, he was thinking about where to mobilize troops and horses to quickly quell the rebellion? No one adjusts it, right? The guards of southern Xinjiang, either in the three places of the country, or go to the north, the closest to Pingyue Road is the Xishu Road soldiers, but Shu Road is difficult to walk, the soldiers are transferred over, the old minister's plan has been almost completed, Han Zhaozhi is also in the plan of the old minister in Pingyue Road, he must die, because I was killed by who he has already found out, Han Zhaozhi, who is known as fair and selfless, did not give my son a fair and selfless for Shen Liang, he did not die, and the old minister was unwilling. ”

"Pingyue Dao, no one can help Your Majesty, the old minister gave His Majesty a reason to kill, Your Majesty will kill it, the Yue people hate the country, there is no good killing can not be suppressed, now the more people who are in turmoil are more than 20 years old and 40 years old men in the prime of life, after this good killing, the Yue people are unable to make waves for 20 years, 20 years later, they already think that they are Ning people, 50 years later, they will completely forget South Vietnam."

Xishu Road.

Mu Zhaotong ate a bowl of noodles, stood up on the table, his arms trembled, he reluctantly walked to the window and pushed open the window, and the wind outside rushed in all of a sudden, almost blowing him down.

Wuwei Taoist stepped forward to help him: "Elder Ge, take care." ”

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "My death is not far away, there is nothing to take care of, no one can stop me when it is time to leave, just like the game of Pingyue Road, no one can break it." ”

He let out a long breath and said to himself, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, you're welcome. ”