Iron Dynasty

Lying reclining on the seat, the sunlight outside the window made Xiao Ming narrow his eyes slightly.

Out of intuition, he instinctively thought that this time the British would inevitably play a disgraceful role again, and the country that was likely to benefit was Japan.

After all, a shit stick is a shit stick, and creating national conflicts has always been what the UK is good at. In contemporary times, as the former British Empire, before the collapse of this worldwide colony, the UK deliberately left a lot of regions around the world. Conflict potential.

For example, in contemporary India, India and Pakistan had a good plan to govern separately, but he left a Kashmir region, which led to several conflicts between India and Pakistan.

In the Middle East, Britain turned Kuwait from a province of Iraq into a British protectorate, and later the two countries became independent, but still gave Iraq an excuse to start the Gulf War.

The most important thing is that the United Kingdom, as an island country outside the European continent, has long pursued the policy of glorious isolation. In order to prevent the rise of a powerful power in the European continent and its hegemony, it will wear a small shoe for France today, beat Germany tomorrow, and make Europe No peace.

Although the main factor is the contradictions between the countries of the European continent, they cannot escape from the British.

Xiao Ming is naturally disgusted by such a country with its own aura of shit sticks. Of course, other countries in the European continent are not good birds, and they always have discriminatory eyes on other races.

Putting down the memorial, Xiao Ming fell into contemplation. This time, the British warship shelling the Dreadnought was no less than an act of war. He was not Cixi, who would rather have friends than slaves, and he would not measure the material resources of China and the love of the country.

Since he came to this world, he was destined to end the hegemony of the West in the world, but now that the border troubles of the Great Yu Kingdom have not been resolved, and the Goryeo and Japanese countries are eyeing them, he has no energy to clean up these foreigners.

However, it was impossible for him to swallow his voice, so he picked up the pen and replied in the memorial: Once the British warship is found, it will be sunk immediately.

After writing, Xiao Ming handed the memorial to Qian Dafu and asked him to hand it over to the inn to send it back to Qingzhou.

Qian Dafu had just left when Pang Yukun came in a hurry. When he arrived at the imperial study, he said to Xiao Ming, Your Majesty, General Niu Ben is back.

Xiao Ming was overjoyed when he heard the words. Most of the troops in this battle were transferred away. This Qingzhou is basically no different from an empty city. Xiao Ming was also a little uneasy about this.

Now that the army is back, he is relieved.

After a pause, Pang Yukun continued, Your Majesty, this time General Niuben brought King Zhao and his son, Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince back to Qingzhou.

When he said this, Pang Yukun stared at Xiao Ming, after all, this matter is a bit sensitive.

Empress Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince? Xiao Ming suddenly sighed, You guys will really leave me with problems.

After all, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study and headed for the Council Hall. Since Niu Ben brought people back, he naturally had to deal with it.

When they arrived at the Council Hall, Niu Ben and the others were already waiting.

Xiao Ming sat down on the dragon chair and said, General Niu Ben is tired. Sticking to Juyongguan and conquering Chang'an is a great achievement. This time, I will definitely reward you a lot.

Lu Fei, Qi Guangyi, Bai Mu and other generals all smiled upon hearing the words, while Niu Ben had a calm expression on his face, he said, Your Majesty, this time the generals have achieved mixed results, I am ashamed of the Emperor, and dare not take the credit.

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment. He had once accused Niu Ben of delaying the war and not breaking Qingzhou for a long time. At this time, Niu Ben said this must be because of this matter.

However, to Xiao Ming, there is another meaning in Niu Ben's words, that is, he is worried that the power will shake the master.

The current Niu Ben is no longer the previous Niu Ben. After working in the mines, the current Niu Ben has worn out his energy. Now, what he wants most is probably to be able to live the rest of his life in peace.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming's opinion, Niu Ben deliberately made some small mistakes and left it to Xiao Ming in order to achieve the purpose of not continuing to block officials.

After all, the current Niuben is almost impossible to seal again.

At this time, Xiao Ming glanced at Pang Yukun, Pang Yukun nodded to Xiao Ming, obviously what he meant was that Xiao Ming's merits and demerits would be offset this time, and he would no longer be canonized Niuben.

He nodded and said, Even so, General Niu Ben's merits outweighed his demerits, just to block the official's mouth, I won't have another canonization, and this time I'll reward you with 3,000 taels of silver.

Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly said, Thank you, Emperor Longen.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming asked: Where are King Zhao and his son now? Where are Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince?

Back to the emperor, Zhao Wang and his son have been sent to Qingzhou prison. Queen Zhao and the thirteen princes are both rebellious and also sent to Qingzhou prison.

Fiji was also in the hall, and he immediately got a little anxious and said: It's ridiculous, how can Empress Zhao and the thirteen princes be put in prison, Empress Zhao is nominally the emperor's mother, aren't you telling the world to point at the emperor's spine? ?

Pang Yukun frowned. This filial piety is the foundation of being a minister and a monarch in all dynasties. Niu Ben did not handle it properly this time. He said, Your Majesty, Queen Zhao cannot be guilty of the same crime as King Zhao.

When he came, he was thinking about Empress Zhao's problem. After coming to this world for five years, he naturally knew the importance of filial piety and integrity. Because of this, he said that Niu Ben had left him a big problem.

After a pause, he said: Elder Fei Ge, you immediately go to the Qingzhou prison to bring Queen Zhao and the third prince out, and find a house for her to settle for the time being.

Yes, Your Majesty. Fiji nodded and turned to go out.

Seeing Fiji leave, Pang Yukun said bluntly: The emperor is going to deal with Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince.

Even if Queen Zhao did not let the thirteenth prince ascend the throne, but she indirectly killed the first emperor after all. I can only demote her and the thirteenth prince to common people. What do you think?

The minister also thinks so, but the emperor, even so, can't let the Queen Zhao and the thirteen princes leave Qingzhou, so as not to use it in the future, Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming understood what Pang Yukun meant. In the future, some people might use the names of Empress Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince to rebel. After all, the Great Yu Kingdom is currently only in the hands of the North.

I understand what you're thinking, so I'm going to behead Zhao Wang and his son at Dongshi, as an example, so that some people with bad intentions can see the end of the rebellion.

Pang Yukun smiled, and he seemed to say unintentionally: The emperor actually wanted to show it to the Prince of Chu. Besides, is the emperor really not going to take back the military power from King Yong?

PS: Make up for it tomorrow.