After the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

At midnight, Bowling Hou Mansion.

"Second brother, you really don't intend to..." Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding rubbed his hands anxiously, but he dared not say the rest, for fear that the walls have ears and add another crime.

Baoling Hou Shi Nai shook his head, and persuaded: "I won't hide my family property, and I advise you not to hide it either."

"Then how can it be done?" Shi Ding asked anxiously, "The saints today are the most..."

"Speak carefully!" Shi Nai yelled, and said angrily, "You are so grown up, how come you can't figure it out at all? Saints are also things you can arrange? You think our family is dying too slowly, don't you?"

Shi Ding's face twitched, and abruptly replaced "mean and ungrateful" with "don't rub the sand in your eyes"

"I mean, in the eyes of today's saints, they don't rub sand in their eyes. If something really bad happens to our family, we must save some for our wife and children to chew on in the future, right?"

In fact, to be honest, their family didn't commit any major crimes, and they were all faults common to honorable families.

However, their historians have a large population, so the cost is naturally high.The money left by the ancestors to repay the arrears was spent by them without knowing it.

Originally, they were still lucky, thinking that since the old sage hadn't mentioned this matter for decades, and allowed the officials of the DPRK and China to borrow money from the treasury, [-]% of the money owed by the founders of the country would not have to be repaid.

After all, the people in the Tian family knew well what the reason why these nobles borrowed money back then.

But who would have thought that just because the old sage opened his mouth, those officials in the court, no matter whether they really couldn't get rid of the pot, or they wanted to be in harmony with the light, you borrowed it, and I borrowed it, but they emptied the national treasury abruptly. up!

Therefore, after the current sage comes to power, he will face a court with corrupt officials and empty treasury.

After the old sage took the Zen position, it didn't take long before he regretted it again.

The regret of the old sage made the originally unstable court even more turbulent.

Some were originally loyal to the old sage, and had not had time to get in touch with the new sage, so they simply followed their old master; there were also those who originally followed the three kings and nine kings, and seeing the dust of the battle for the succession settled, their master and There is no destiny for the throne, and he is already thinking about how to avoid the liquidation of the new emperor.Some were thinking about making a comeback with their masters, while others were thinking about how to use this opportunity and switch to the new emperor's camp.

But these are not the most difficult things for Xindi.

The most troublesome ones are the people who used to follow the old Prince Yizhong, that is, the former prince.

When the former prince was alive, the new emperor was also a follower of the former prince, and he was still loyal to the former prince.The reason why the old sage passed on the throne to the new emperor, who was the most insignificant among the princes, was because the new emperor belonged to the former prince.

After the prince's defeat, he died, but before he died, he personally raised a sword and slaughtered all the wives, concubines and children in the East Palace.

Perhaps it was because the former prince's family died so tragically that the old sage immediately forgot all his bad things and began to reflect: Did I push the child too hard?This child has lost his mother since he was a child. He grew up with me, and the only thing he relies on is my own father.If I had talked to him well and didn't force him so much, he wouldn't have gone down the road.

Moreover, deep down in his heart, the old sage admired the former prince's temperament of daring to force the palace when he came to a dead end.

The change of imperial power has always been full of bloody and violent struggles.The so-called benevolent and holy monarchs are just for the common people to see.If those in power are really weak, the officials below will be ready to move, and they all want to be powerful officials.

Then, the court will be in chaos.

When the court is in chaos, the world will also be in chaos.

Moreover, such things as forcing the palace to seize the throne, to put it bluntly, it is the winner and the loser.Now that the prince is defeated, he is naturally a traitor.But if the prince wins, it is not impossible to govern the world well in the future and become a generation of sages.

Therefore, like the former prince, who dared to force the palace to seize the throne, the saint certainly felt sad and angry about being betrayed by his son.Deep down in my heart, I am not without the pride of "worthy of being my son".

Now, the heir who he personally taught and made him proud is gone, and the old sage was disheartened for a while.Coupled with the fact that he had a stroke due to the shock and anger of the prince forcing the palace, he began to think about the Zen position.

Since we want a Zen position, we must choose a suitable person.

First of all, the third child and the seventh child must be eliminated, and the ninth child is not a good thing either.Don't think that I don't know the little tricks behind them.

The third child was acquiesced by me, and it's justifiable, but the ninth child dared to make a difference with the prince because of Zhen's favor, it's really abominable!

Also, the crown prince didn't even leave any descendants. It was fine when I was here, and he had a pair of bowls and chopsticks for sacrifices every year.After a hundred years, if the new king who succeeds me is not at peace with the crown prince, wouldn't the crown prince not even enjoy the incense?

After looking around, the old sage took a fancy to the sixth prince, King Zhongjing.

So, when no one thought of it, including King Zhongjing himself, he stood out and picked up the throne inexplicably.

But it was because the new emperor came to the throne too easily, not only did he not have much confidence in himself, the three kings and the nine kings were not convinced, even the old sage was not too confident in whether he could stabilize the situation.

The old sage was worried, so he naturally had to pay attention to the court.And this attention caused trouble for Xindi's attention.

Originally, the new emperor had never received the education that an emperor should receive. Compared with the first prince who learned how to be an emperor since childhood, although there is no difference, there is still a big gap.

Moreover, after a person dies, the living will only magnify his goodness infinitely.Now the old sage recalls the former prince, that is, he wore a 500-meter-thick filter, so it really is good to look at it.

In this comparison, Xindi is even more unbearable.

Coupled with the fact that the old saint's body gradually recovered, it was logical that he regretted passing the throne impulsively.

Of course, he didn't regret passing the throne to the new emperor, but regret passing it too early.

——It should be brought with you first, and trained for a few years.

But others don't know about the old sage's endless thoughts, they only believe what they see.

The move of the old saint to return to the court, in the eyes of others, is dissatisfaction with the new king.Those princes who were defeated inexplicably naturally rekindled hope.

And the saint felt the crisis, so he naturally wanted to resist.The first step in this resistance is to gather power.And the prince-party officials who were once in the same camp as him are the first choice for the new emperor.

The historian is the prince-the hard core of the party.

It stands to reason that the new emperor intends to close in, and the historian leans over, which is simply a matter of course.As long as he accompanied the new emperor through the pains of the old saint, he would be able to enjoy another few decades.

but.

That's right, no matter what, once the word "but" is involved, nothing good will happen.Good things can go bad, and bad things can get worse.

This is going to go back and start with the emptiness of the national treasury.

The national treasury is empty, and the new emperor's private treasury doesn't have much.But governing the world is inseparable from money and food.

The imperial guards in Beijing and border guards need food and pay; the world is so big, with drought here and flood there, the imperial court also needs money and food for disaster relief.

However, Xindi has no money.

Then, the new emperor set his sights on the honorable ministers who owed money to the court.

At this time, the former prince-party who had defected to the new emperor because they were in the same camp had internal differences.

Some people think that they, as supporters of the new emperor, were spared the fate of being liquidated because of the new emperor's ascension.They should chip in and pay the money back;

Some think that the new emperor has no other people in his hands, and the court has to rely on them to support him. Even if the new emperor wants to collect debts, he should not ask them for money;

There are also some who want to pay back the money, but can't afford it.

Historians belong to the third category.

There is no way, they have a lot of family members, and after the death of their father and brother, the two brothers also used some of them to seek officials.In this way, their family is also struggling to live, and even the wife of the family has to lead the girls to do it by themselves. Where can I get the money to pay off the debt?

Shi Nai and Shi Ding were also lucky, thinking that the new emperor would not be so heartless.

The new emperor really didn't want to be unfeeling, but he couldn't stand someone's death.

Let me ask, which emperor could bear the kindness of his courtiers?

Those who thought that the new emperor would not be able to control the court without them completely disgusted the new emperor.Xindi was also impatient to distinguish which ones he could not pay back and which ones he did not want to pay back.As long as the money is not repaid, all of them will be blacklisted.

No, now that the new emperor has made his move, the historians have been liquidated.

Shi Ding knew that he couldn't escape this catastrophe, so he thought of packing up some valuables and hiding them in his aunt Jia Shi's house, so that even if their brothers were in trouble, the remaining orphans and widows would not end up living on the streets.

But Shi Nai disagreed.

"Even if our family packs up all the soft things, how many do we have?"

Shi Ding said: "That's better than nothing at all."

Shi Nai sighed, being defeated by this single-minded younger brother.

"Third brother, today, brother, I will teach you another truth."

"Second brother, tell me." Shi Ding has always been convinced of this second brother.

Shi Nai paused and said: "For the emperor, there are only things in this world that he doesn't want to know, and there is nothing he doesn't know."

Shi Ding's face turned pale all of a sudden.

Shi Nai said: "Our family has no money in the first place, so why hide it? When the sage finds out, I'm afraid it will prove the fact that our family has money and won't pay it back. That will really kill future generations."

"Second brother, let's sit and wait for death?"

"This is already the best way out."

Judging from the continuous offering of sacrifices to the former crown prince every year, one can see that although the saint is cruel, he is also a man of great affection.

Moreover, there were faint rumors in the palace that the sage was going to adopt the newly born fifth prince to the first prince.It was also for this reason that the sage changed the posthumous title of the first prince, and changed Prince Duanhui to Prince Yizhong.

He felt that as long as the sage knew that their family really had no money, they would be lenient to their descendants.