Sword in the Qin [Comprehensive + Sword III]

Before the age of nine, Gong Jiu was a child who grew up in a honey pot. His father was the Taiping King who held military power, and his mother was beautiful and gentle.

Unlike other clan princes who have three wives and four concubines, Gong Jiu's father has no other concubines, only his mother.His parents are loving, and as the only son of King Taiping, Gong Jiu was invited to be crowned heir at birth.

Strict father and loving mother, Gong Jiu at that time was the youngest son of the Taiping Palace that everyone admired.He remembered that every time he went to the palace for a banquet when he was a child, even his cousin of the crown prince was extremely envious of him.

When the late emperor was the crown prince and the young emperor was not even the crown prince, their imperial grandfather didn't like the late emperor and even didn't like the little emperor who was only the bastard son of the royal family at that time.The little emperor's biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, continued until the emperor's grandfather passed away, and the late emperor ascended the throne, and the mother made her a noble concubine by virtue of her son.

Concubine Gong Jiumu, who was born in the same humble background as Queen Mother Li, was a princess as soon as she entered the palace, and was even loved by the prince.Empress Dowager Li taught the prince to be strict, but Gong Jiu was the little son loved by his parents.

The prince studied at the age of five, and Gong Jiu was enlightened at the age of seven because of his mother's love.When the crown prince had already started to learn the ways of the world, Gong Jiu was like a spoiled child of ordinary people.Therefore, the prince at that time was no different from envious of Gong Jiu's happiness.

But Gong Jiu didn't expect all his happiness to disappear overnight.

That day, he ran to his mother's room and hid in the cabinet to play with his mother. Unexpectedly, his mother didn't come back for a long time, so he sat in the cabinet and fell asleep unconsciously.

When he woke up, he heard his father and mother talking, and his mother crying.Gong Jiu didn't know what they were arguing about, and secretly opened the cabinet a crack, but saw an unforgettable scene.

Father's sword pierced mother's chest, and his hand was holding the blade.Gong Jiu saw her mother's lips moving, as if she was calling herself, and finally died without making any sound.Gong Jiu tightly covered his mouth, so he didn't cry.

He didn't understand, didn't his father love him and his mother the most?Why?Why did his father kill his mother himself?

Gong Jiu didn't dare to let his father know that he saw all this. He wondered if his father would kill him like he killed his mother if he found out?He didn't dare to think, as if everything had changed overnight.

The palace soon announced that the princess died of illness, and Gong Jiu was also sick, and he was terrified.

Not long after he recovered from his illness, the emperor suddenly gave him a marriage, and his father had a new concubine.His mother died, and so soon another woman took his mother's place.Gong Jiu's heart was full of hatred, he hated his father, and even more hated the woman who took his mother's seat.He wondered if his father wanted to marry a new princess, so he killed his mother and concubine.

Every time he had to use a knife to draw scars on his body in order to allow himself to endure.In an almost self-harming way, Gong Jiu restrained himself from "hitting a pebble against a rock" to take revenge.

However, his young heart was also bit by bit engulfed by hatred.He wanted to avenge his mother, he wanted King Taiping to suffer as much as he did, and he wanted the new princess to die worse than his mother.

At the moment when he saw his father kill his mother and concubine, Gong Jiu no longer wanted to call him father, but only Prince Taiping—the enemy he wanted to deal with in this life.

At this time, a man who claimed to be his mother's senior brother appeared.This person is naturally Princess Taiping's mysterious brother Wu Ming.

Gong Jiu secretly worshiped Wu Ming as his teacher, and decided to accumulate strength for revenge.Soon, the first emperor died, and the young prince ascended the throne.The northern border was unstable, so King Taiping went to the northern border to guard it.

With the help of Wu Ming, Gong Jiu used a double to deceive the new princess and went to Wuming Island.He and Wu Ming have been plotting for more than ten years, planning to seize the throne, completely attack his father and king, and avenge his mother and concubine.

However, Gong Jiu didn't expect to be pointed out that the so-called revenge was completely Wu Ming's use of him.

The mother and concubine committed suicide, and the person who forced the mother and concubine to commit suicide to protect their father and son was Wu Ming.Treating an enemy as a benefactor, Gong Jiu doesn't know what he has done in the past ten years, and what is the significance.His life seemed to turn from gray and white to complete darkness.

Gong Jiu was taken back to the palace by King Taiping in a daze. What surprised him was that the emperor didn't rush to summon him.After being under house arrest in the palace for a month, Gong Jiu was led to the palace by King Taiping himself.

In the south study, Gong Jiu met the young emperor.

He and the emperor are cousins ​​but only met a few times when they were young. In terms of age, the emperor is a few years younger than Gong Jiu, but standing together, the emperor looks more like an elder brother.

Seeing the emperor, Gong Jiu felt a little bit of admiration for this cousin.Knowing what he was planning before, and knowing that his martial arts are strong, but without acupoints or medicine, he retreated to the left and right to see him alone.

Of course Gong Jiu knew that there were other hidden guards here, but if Gong Jiu wanted to do something, with his martial arts and the distance from the emperor, even the sword god Ximen Chuuxue might not be able to save him in time.

The emperor looked at Gong Jiu with a smile and said, "You have been in the mansion for a month, have you ever figured it out?"

"So what if you want to understand it, so what if you don't understand it?" Gong Jiu asked rhetorically.

"If you don't figure it out, go back to the mansion and continue to think about your mistakes behind closed doors. If you figure it out, I have something for you to do."

Gong Jiu couldn't help but glanced at the emperor in surprise: "You don't kill me, but you still use me? It's just why are you so confident that I will do things for you?"

"I don't kill you because you have a good father. Since your stupid plan has been aborted, for the sake of Uncle Taiping, I can forgive you." The emperor said, "As for why I still dare to use You, confident that you will be willing to do this, but it couldn't be easier!"

"Oh?"

"Your surname is Zhu, since you have learned such a skill, you shouldn't waste it, should you?"

"Why should I do things for you?"

"You thought that the person who killed the princess was Uncle Taiping, and he had planned for more than ten years to take revenge. Now that the enemy is not your father, do you want to give up revenge instead?"

"But, isn't Wu Ming already dead?"

"Although Wu Ming is dead, the people behind Wu Ming are still alive and well. I don't think you would like these people who killed your mother and concubine to continue to live happily?"

Gong Jiu clenched her fists tightly, a little angrily.

He was not angry, because what the emperor said was exactly what he thought in his heart.The hatred of more than ten years, does it mean that you can let go of it.Even if he admits that his father did not kill his mother, someone must bear his hatred for his mother's death.

The emperor handed over all the court's materials about Dongying to Gong Jiu, and also gave him a token and an imperial decree.With this token and imperial decree, Gong Jiu was able to mobilize the navy along the coast.Although Daming's navy is still weak, it is still an army.

Gong Jiu said unwillingly: "Could it be that you are not afraid of me—"

"After Xiao Jiu has finished this matter, she will understand that being an emperor is completely different from what you imagined." The emperor said, "By the way, that Miss Ye is still in the capital, I think Xiao Jiu will miss it very much before leaving the capital." Let's pay a visit, won't you?"

Gong Jiu took what the emperor gave him and left the palace angrily.He hated the emperor, hated his self-confidence as if he knew he would get what he wanted.

But compared to the hated emperor, Gong Jiu still wants to avenge his mother and concubine.Although Wu Ming died, it was not enough to offset what he had lost over the years.

Gong Jiu didn't go back to the mansion to see King Taiping, hated him for so many years, even though he knew it was a misunderstanding, Gong Jiu still couldn't let go of the past immediately, and be filial to Prince Taiping's kindness and son.Perhaps, it was also because of the guilt in his heart for misunderstanding his father, Gong Jiu was even more reluctant to see him.

Before leaving the capital, Gong Jiu secretly visited Ye Xiaoyi, but did not visit Ye Xiaoyi as the emperor said.Gong Jiu stood in the distance watching Ye Xiaoyi chatting and laughing with her senior brother, and her mood calmed down a little.

He still remembers the first time he met Ye Xiaoyi on that beautiful spring day by the West Lake.At that time, he thought this girl was really interesting.In fact, Gong Jiu seldom gets close to outsiders, and the people of Wuming Island respect him and fear him.

But Ye Xiaoyi won't, she is so lively when she is angry.Gong Jiu always thought that he liked gentle and quiet women like his mother and concubine, but when he met Ye Xiaoyi again, he found that he was not.

During the famous sword competition, Gong Jiu always liked to provoke Ye Xiaoyi, watching her jumping angrily.But gradually Gong Jiu felt that something had changed.

Wumingdao failed, and he became a prisoner overnight.Ye Lange's brother and sister escorted him to Beijing. At that time, Gong Jiu was very afraid, afraid of seeing pity in Ye Xiaoyi's eyes.

But Ye Xiaoyi didn't!She still had that angry look, even if she talked to him, she was complaining for King Taiping.

Gong Jiu was glad at first, but then felt a little disappointed.

For this lively girl, Gong Jiu has never been clear about her thoughts.

Gong Jiu took the emperor's secret decree and token, accompanied by the emperor's emissary, and quietly went to Wuming Island.Using tokens and imperial edicts to dispatch the sailors who besieged Wuming Island, Gong Jiu went to the island himself to take the people on the island for his own use.

Although Wuming Island was founded by Wu Ming, the people on Wuming Island don't know Wu Ming's origin.As the island master's disciple, Gong Jiu could easily recruit the island's masters.Then he took these masters and went to Dongpu with the five strongholds of Wuming Island.

Because Shangguan Danfeng once mentioned that Dongying is rich in precious metal mines, the emperor also mentioned it in the materials given to Gong Jiu.Gong Jiu always liked money, and when Dongying warriors made disasters along the coast of Daming, Gong Jiu retaliated against him in his own way.

When Gong Jiu arrived in Dongying, Dongying was still in civil war, but there was a trend of unification.Gong Jiu took advantage of his strength to vigorously support those weak daimyos and lords.For a while, the unification process of Japan was delayed, and some powerful figures of the unification faction were assassinated one after another.

Gong Jiu took advantage of the chaos and occupied many mines. In just five years, he brought back a large amount of gold, silver and copper from Japan.According to the agreement between the emperor and Gong Jiu, Gong Jiu will hand over [-]% of the income to the emperor.Gong Jiu is a very trustworthy person, since he has promised the emperor, he will never make trouble from it.

At that time, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty due to the war, and with the arrival of the Little Ice Age, natural disasters increased.Because of the gold and silver brought back by Gong Jiu, the treasury was enriched again.

In recent years, because of the effective crackdown on Japanese pirates along the coast, the sea ban has also begun to be partially opened.The Hua family came forward to unite many big businessmen to form a fleet to go south.Using unsalable porcelain and cloth to bring back a lot of food from the rich Nanyang, eased the pressure on the court.

After five years, Gong Jiu returned to Daming again, and asked people to send the things back to the capital, but he did not go to see the emperor or King Taiping in person, but went to Hangzhou alone.

In the spring of March, Gong Jiu suddenly understood what his cousin meant when he looked at the girl in golden clothes under the sun.

Rather than being trapped in the boxy Forbidden City, it is better to fight the rivers and lakes.Of course, it would be even better if there was a girl he admired traveling with him.