Condescending and Condescending

And when the thirteen vassal kings assembled their troops, Fang Yanqin, Pei Shi and others were already on their way to the capital.

After all, King Taki has already handed over his fief, so if they live in Jinan, it will be a bit unfair.

It's just that they never expected that before they arrived in the capital, the Thirteen Feudal Kings would be defeated.

Pei Shi: "..."

Is this what those feudal lords call a fight?

Zhao Ningmeng immediately said: "Mother, the reason why the Thirteen Feudal Kings failed was not because they were stupid..."

In fact, in terms of military strength, the thirteen vassal kings have an army of 60, which is three times the strength of King Taki. Zhao Yan has a sharp weapon like a musket, and there is still a [-]% chance of winning.

——Especially in the thirteen feudal lords who also know that muskets are powerful, but they have obvious shortcomings of slow reloading and short range, and because of production and other reasons, the number of soldiers in the musket battalion in Zhao Yan's hands has never exceeded [-] Therefore, at the beginning, a plan was made to divide the coalition forces into five armies, gradually encroach on the surrounding state capitals, and not confront Zhao Yan's head-on confrontation.

It's a pity that they met Chen Ci.

And Chen Ci had guessed their strategy a long time ago, so he took advantage of the inconvenience of communication after they divided the troops, and the fact that the thirteen vassal kings had their own thoughts, but now they had to unite because of the situation, and took advantage of the shortcomings of King Taki The transportation route of food, grass and ammunition for the fake army was disclosed to King Zhao, a middle-ranking rebel in the Five Routes, through careful work.

——Because if the food and ammunition of King Taki's army can be burned, then isn't King Taki's army just a piece of fish on the chopping board, let them slaughter it?

The most important thing is, if he can seize the opportunity to grab some musket ammunition, then why should he worry about not being able to force other feudal lords to sit on the throne.

So King Zhao couldn't help being moved, even though he knew it might be a trap.

So two days later, King Taki's army defeated King Zhao's army in Henan, killing [-] enemies and capturing [-] enemies.

Then, in the name of King Zhao, Chen Ci sent letters to Song Wangjun and Xin Wangjun, who were the weakest among the five rebels, saying that because he burned the food and ammunition of King Taki's army, he attracted the crazy revenge of King Taki's army. As long as King Song and King Xin are willing to lead troops to rescue him, he is willing to share with them the muskets and ammunition seized from King Taki's army, and then they don't have to worry about King Zhou turning against them after he becomes emperor.

Sure enough, the two kings were also fooled.

King Taki's army then defeated King Song's army first, and then King Xin's army.

Afterwards, King Taki's army ran thousands of miles and besieged King Zhou, who was the most powerful of the Five Route Rebels with an army of 18, in Yangzhou, and finally wiped him out with an absolute superior force.

After hearing the news that the rebels of the four routes had been defeated one after another, Liu Wang, who was in charge of the last rebel army, was forced to surrender.

So far, the rebellion of the Thirteen Feudal Kings in Yongning's five years ended before the opening scene was even finished.

The reason why Zhao Ningmeng knew this was because Fang Yanqin would forward a copy to her when she received the military newspaper from the front line or the mansion newspaper from the court.

In addition, probably because she was afraid that she would be bored with the children, Fang Yanqin specially invited a few old gentlemen and old ladies to chat with her. Those old gentlemen and old ladies are very knowledgeable. Interested, so when the military newspaper and the mansion newspaper were delivered, she would always take the trouble to analyze the strategies and tactics of both sides, the primary and secondary factors that determine victory or defeat, and the post-war impact.

Hearing this, Mrs. Pei understood, and her perception of Chen Ci became more complicated.

But what she cares most about now is not this, but——

"That is to say, King Taki will soon force the Empress to take the throne."

To be precise, not immediately, but already started.

Because on the second day after they arrived in the capital, rumors spread in the capital that King Taki was favored by heaven and should be the emperor.

And the next day, Song Lu came to the door.

Pei's and Zhao Ningmeng's faces darkened immediately, of course they didn't want to see him.

But the steward of Longwang Mansion in the capital directly led him in.

Pei's and Zhao Ningmeng's faces darkened immediately.

Seeing this, Song Lu smiled instead, and he saluted casually: "My lord mother-in-law, princess."

Pei immediately scolded: "Who is your mother-in-law? Don't you forget that you have been divorced by Ningmeng."

Zhao Ningmeng said in a cold voice: "Don't you want to taste the feeling of having your legs broken again?"

Hearing this, Song Lu not only didn't get angry, but smiled even more complacently. He patted the dust that didn't exist on his hands, and sat down on the chair behind him: "Your mother-in-law doesn't know yet, and my father-in-law will take the county The Lord has betrothed to me, and has already exchanged Geng Tie with my family."

The reason is simple, because King Taki wants to force the Empress to Zen, but also doesn't want to be labeled as a rebellious minister and traitor by Shishu Gongbi, so he must obtain the support of the literati and Qingliu class.

Because history books have always been written by them.

But those literati Qingliu didn't buy his account at all.

The reason is also very simple, because in their view, King Taki dared to 'indulge' his daughter Husband at the beginning, so rebellious, disregarding principles and ethics, just like the Empress.

In this regard, King Taki came up with the idea of ​​remarrying Zhao Ningmeng to Song Lu, and declared to the outside world that Zhao Ningmeng and Zhao Yanqin were determined to go their own way, and by the time he wanted to stop it, it would be too late, so he will now Zhao Ningmeng was betrothed to Song Lu again to continue her relationship. If Zhao Ningmeng dared to do similar outrageous things again, he would let the Song family deal with it, and he would not blame him.

It's just because King Taki is busy contacting his party members now and can't take care of Pei's mother and son, so he asked Song Lu to come and tell them about this matter.

It is precisely because of this that Song Lu now dares to treat Pei's mother and son with such an attitude.

After all, from the actions of King Taki, it is enough to see how much he hates Pei's mother and son now.

Hearing this, Mrs. Pei had been mentally prepared for a long time, but couldn't help but slapped the table: "How dare Zhao Mingyi do this? Tiger poison doesn't even eat children. He is even better than a beast!" not on..."

Song Lu immediately said: "I have written down this, and I will definitely tell Prince Taki exactly when the time comes."

Only then did Mrs. Pei realize: "...and you—"

"Don't be too quick to get angry."

Song Lu immediately interrupted her. After all, he came to see the jokes of Pei's mother and son, not to be scolded.

So he said with a smile: "After all, the more angry ones are yet to come."

As he said that, his eyes fell on Hehe in Zhao Ningmeng's arms.

He clicked his tongue, and there was no love on his face that a child's biological father should have. Instead, he said with a sneer: "Didn't you always urge the prince to give her a name? The prince said that she will be called Ya in the future." man, yes,

It's the one who sends people first, men's men, so that you can remember that this is the end of trying to disobey the rules and riding wildly on top of men. "

After speaking, seeing Pei Shi and Zhao Ningmeng trembling with anger, he left triumphantly.

Yanan?

If Hehe really took such a big name, wouldn't she be ridiculed for a lifetime? How will she behave in the future?How do you get married?

King Long and Zhao Yan are trying to force them to death!

Zhao Ningmeng stared at the direction where Song Lu left, and she held Pei's hand tightly: "Mother, my daughter will definitely return with a thousand times of revenge in the future, so please don't stop me at that time."

Little did they know that Pei's eyes were even colder: "Don't worry, mother won't let them go in the future."

On the other hand, as these words of King Taki spread, the attitude of those literati Qingliu towards him also changed accordingly.

"As the saying goes, if you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing good about it. If Lord Long can kill his relatives righteously today, it will definitely be a blessing to all people in the world in the future."

"Since that's the case, I'll be Lord Feng Taki as well."

"But the empress is after all the emperor established by the late emperor..."

"So what, the reason why the first emperor appointed a female emperor was because he had no children, so that Emperor Yongning, a female emperor, took advantage of it."

"If you ask me, the first emperor was also in a daze. He actually violated principles, ethics, ancestral family law, and appointed a woman as emperor. It was a shame for me. People in future generations don't know how to mock me. To bow down to a woman."

"Poor Jiangnan Chen's family, Lingnan Song's family...these four great families have served the country and the people for generations, but in the end they ransacked their families and exterminated them."

"Look at what the empress did after she came to the throne. First, she tried to abolish the chastity archway, and then she wanted to open up women's education, but she didn't know that most women were stupid. Letting them enter school, wouldn't it pollute the pure place of the school. No wonder the ancient and modern The sages would say that the rooster wakes up in the morning, which brings disaster to the country and the people."

"There is also Concubine Pei of Long. When she was in Shandong, why did she dare to intervene in the private affairs of the officials and squires? Nine times out of ten, she was bewitched by the Empress. If things go on like this, the world will not be chaotic?"

"That's right, it is precisely because of the empress's rebellious actions that angered the heavens and sent down punishments, resulting in successive years of drought in the Southwest, which eventually led to civil uprisings."

"I see!"

"Furthermore, it doesn't matter if the female emperor was established by the previous emperor. Don't forget that King Long is favored by the heavens and is the son of destiny. Even Emperor Taiping, a foolish emperor, can't catch up with him, let alone his heir emperor."

"That's right, the empress is not worthy, so she really shouldn't continue to occupy the magpie's nest."

"I'll write a letter to ask the empress to take the throne as Prince Taki."

……

Looking at the hill-like memorial in front of him, the chief eunuch was already dizzy with anger: "The dove occupies the magpie's nest? Who is the dove and who is the magpie? It is obvious that His Majesty is the orthodoxy handed down from generation to generation in the country. He is a distant branch of King Taki , To actually try to become the master of the main sect, it is a big treason, it is a big treason."

"There is also the Jiangnan Chen family. When the Chen family was first questioned, they all pretended to be deaf and dumb. Now that things have passed for so many years, they think of the Chen family and the Song family."

"There's also the civil uprising in Southwest China. It was obvious that they embezzled disaster relief money and food in the first place, which caused the people in Southwest China to live in dire straits, and finally triggered the civil uprising. They have the face to blame this incident on Your Majesty?"

"Okay, stop talking."

The empress put down the memorial in her hand, with a tired look on her face.

Why didn't she want to be a good emperor, but because she was a woman, after the death of the first emperor, no matter whether it was the royal family or the civil and military officials below, they were more than respectful to her on the surface, but secretly obeyed her.

Just because they are all men, they can't see a woman climbing on top of them and pointing the country.

They are even more afraid that the rise of women will harm their interests.

So at the beginning, she only wanted to abolish the man-eating devil of the Chastity Archway, and those so-called Qingliu censors wrote letters to scold her.

Even after she took the throne for five years, she was still unable to make any progress in politics.

Was the late emperor wrong?

Is she wrong?

They were all wrong, and their mistake was to underestimate the inferiority of human nature.

She originally hoped that King Taki and Zhao Yan could help her break this deadlock.

So after Zhao Yan presented her with two thousand muskets, which gave her the power to protect herself, she readily decreed to allow Zhao Yan to keep the musket manufacturing technology.

Because she knew well that if musket technology fell into the hands of the Ministry of War, it would be no different from falling into the hands of those princes.

Once the vassals start to manufacture guns in large quantities, the consequences will be disastrous.

But she never expected that the barbarian would be detained just after King Taki and Zhao Yan put down the rebels.

But King Long and Zhao Yan quelled the barbarians in a single battle afterwards. Such achievements in opening up territories and gaining the limelight even directly overwhelmed her, the emperor. It has already exceeded 20, so she can't help but feel a little impatient.

Because she was afraid of raising another huge tiger.

So when King Taki wrote a letter requesting to cut down the feudal clan, she readily agreed - even though she knew exactly what King Taki was up to.

Not only because cutting the vassals is only beneficial but not harmful to Daqian, but also because she also has the idea of ​​sitting in meditation and watching Taki and those vassal kings lose both sides.

But for Zhao Yan, she is somewhat sincere.

After all, when Zhao Yan flattered her, he was much more docile and honest than those men with high eyes, although his real thoughts might be exactly the same as those men.

So she originally thought that because Zhao Yan had made so many great contributions, she would also be willing to marry Zhao Yan and grow old with him when the situation was stable.

But she never expected that among the 85 feudal kings, only [-] feudal kings dared to resist in the end.

And those thirteen vassal kings, who obviously had an army of 60, were defeated by King Taki less than half a month after they raised their troops, and the defeat was still crushing.

too fast!

Before she could even react, King Taki started to force the palace.

What is a wrong step.

What is God's will tricking people.

What does it mean to keep tigers infested.

That's it!

The empress laughed miserably.

And everything is not because of how capable King Taki and Zhao Yan are, but because Zhao Yan has a ghostly military advisor who knows things like a god.

So she is not reconciled.

But when the chief eunuch asked her what to do next, she was silent for a long time, and finally she only said: "I command you, on the day King Taki returns to court, I will lead all the civil and military officials out of the city to meet him."

"His Majesty?"

The Chief Eunuch had a look of disbelief.

Because the empress said that she was going out of the city to meet her, instead of closing the city gates to prepare for the rebels, this shows that the empress is actually preparing to give the throne to King Taki.

"Your Majesty can't..."

The empress closed her eyes directly, and slumped on the dragon chair: "Because no matter how unwilling I am, I have no other choice."

Today's Taki Dynasty is returning to his heart, and he has an army of 40 in his hands.

If the fight really starts, not to mention that her odds of winning are less than [-]%, and the common people will not be able to afford it.

She has already lost the country left to her by the late emperor, so she can no longer harm the common people.

The chief eunuch said immediately: "But Zhao Yan is definitely not a good man."

The Empress murmured, "How come I don't know."

She rubbed her belly: "But I still have hope, I've already thought about it, King Taki wants me to be a Zen seat, that's fine, but he must make the child in my belly a grandson."

"I still have the old officials left to me by the late emperor, and 10,000+ soldiers and horses. Although I have abdicated, I still have my children. Sooner or later, I will put my children on the throne again."

But she was still not reconciled.

Because her child was supposed to be the next emperor.

She thinks that she has been conscientious since she came to the throne, and she dare not slack off in the slightest, but because she is a woman, all civil and military officials disapprove of her, and the vassal king wants to rebel... So she will end up seeing all the faces of men in the end.

Is this the fate of women?

Thinking of this, a tear fell from the corner of the Empress' eyes.

But it is useless to say these now.

Because if you want to blame, you can only blame her for being stupid as a deer hog, and the mud can't support the wall.

So she just said: "Okay, go and deliver the decree, and let me be alone for a while."

The head eunuch burst into tears: "Yes."

As soon as the news came out, the government and the public were all celebrating each other.

"Good good."

King Taki, who was far away in Henan, could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear. He immediately ordered: "Quick, order the army to speed up the march."

Because he couldn't wait.

In the Prince Long's mansion in the capital city, Fang Yanqin was looking through the crimes of those vassal kings, and he couldn't help laughing when he heard the news.

This King Taki really couldn't wait to die!