Chapter 352: Extra 8: The Underworld
That’s what he said, but he definitely can’t close it. Everyone took a deep breath at the same time and continued to read with gritted teeth.
After that, it was the coronation ceremony and the selection of the queen.
Seeing this, Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but grin.
In the past, he thought that Xiaojiu was just a prince, and Emperor Jingwen himself intended to let Xiaojiu avoid those court fights. Seeing that he liked the Jianghu woman named Yao Zhi so much, he agreed.
Yao Zhi is fine as a princess. Anyway, there are not many people in Xiaojiu’s house, and the imperial concubine will not just watch. At that time, at most, a few more maids will be sent over to help with the housekeeping. I believe there will be no trouble. However, the queen is the mother of a country, and she can’t be decided so hastily.
Emperor Jingwen privately thought of choosing another person. As for Yao Zhi, it would be fair to her to make her a royal concubine.
Anyway, in Emperor Jingwen’s mind, how can an emperor not have three palaces and six courtyards? Even if we look at the entire history, he can be said to be pure and unselfish. Even so, there are already twenty concubines in the harem of Emperor Jingwen.
However, Emperor Jingwen had a beautiful idea, but the prince knew that if Xiaojiu could follow his father’s wishes, he would not be Xiaojiu. In the entire royal family, he was the only one who was rebellious. How could he succumb so easily?
Sure enough, the young man in the picture insisted on taking the pressure from the civil and military officials and the royal family and made Yao Zhi his queen.
Emperor Jingwen couldn’t understand it, and Emperor Taicheng couldn’t understand it either. The little emperor did understand it a little, but he was young and his words were not taken seriously, so he thought about it and shut his mouth.Watching his youngest son in a black dragon robe, sitting high on the dragon throne, overlooking the civil and military officials in the palace, Emperor Jingwen felt awkward. He had spent his entire life and racked his brains to imagine that there would be such a day.
But it should be said that Xiaojiu took after himself and his mother, and had a very good appearance. Now he is the emperor, and he looks really noble and heroic.
Wait, is this still the child who made him worry about him? ?
Emperor Jingwen suddenly felt that the little prince who made him miss him so much before his death seemed to have grown up.
However, before Emperor Jingwen could finish his sigh, the envoys from Chen State and Beiting came. The expression on Emperor Jingwen’s face, which was originally slightly relieved because of Xiaojiu’s growth, froze.
Emperor Taicheng and others on the side could not help but frown.
Now that the plague has not subsided in the Great Zhou, it is already in a mess. The envoys from the two countries came at this time, and I am afraid they are not here with good intentions.
The complicated mood originally caused by Xiaojiu’s ascension to the throne was diluted a lot. After calming down, he found that the Great Zhou was indeed in internal and external troubles, and the little emperor left a mess for his uncle.
I just hope I can get through it smoothly, even if I suffer some grievances.
This is what Emperor Jingwen and Emperor Taicheng thought. After all, they have both been emperors and know how to make choices. They know that now is not a good time, so they choose to endure their anger for the time being, thinking that no matter what conditions Chen Guo and Beiting have, they can try to agree to them under the current situation, even if it means ceding land… R̃�
Just as the two were thinking about something, soon, Chen Guo and Beiting put forward their own conditions on the screen.
Chen Guo chose Princess Zhaocheng of Emperor Taicheng, while Beiting wanted the seventh princess, Jianjian, who was the most beloved by Emperor Jingwen during his lifetime.
“You are going too far, and you have wolfish ambitions!” This time, even the prince, who was always good-tempered, was angry and shouted angrily.
Emperor Taicheng’s face was as gloomy as water. He only had two children in his life, Ye Jin and Zhaocheng. Although Zhaocheng was just a princess, she was his only daughter after all, and she was also his blood. How could Emperor Taicheng not love her? Fearing that Zhaocheng would be wronged after his death, he followed his father’s example and issued a direct decree, prohibiting Zhaocheng from marrying. With Emperor Taicheng’s temperament, his love was already very blatant. Now that he was sitting here and heard Chen Guo’s words with his own ears, he really wanted to tear them apart alive.
The second prince paused slightly with his hand holding the teacup, and commented lightly: “The plan of alienation, choosing one of the two, can’t be said to be not poisonous.”
Xiaojiu encountered such a thing just after ascending the throne. If it was not handled properly, what prestige would he have as an emperor who was originally chosen temporarily?
But these are still trivial matters. What the second prince cares more about is the attitude of the envoys of the two countries. Does the same request mean that the two families have joined forces? If so, I am afraid that Xiaojiu is in danger.
“With Xiaojiu’s temperament, he will not promise both princesses. Although the plague has not subsided in the Great Zhou, it is not so cowardly.”
The problem lies in who to take and who to give up.
Emperor Taicheng knew it in his heart, but it was because he knew it too well that he couldn’t bear to watch it.
Between his own sister and his niece, any fool would know which one to choose, not to mention Xiaojiu who always regarded the imperial concubines as extremely important.
Despite this, when he saw He Xiang and others in the picture pressing forward step by step and bluntly telling the princess to put state affairs first, Emperor Taicheng couldn’t help but clench his fists, his heart was filled with sadness.
When the Shangshu ordered them to take the word “Ping” as their posthumous title, Emperor Taicheng was calm because it was expected. When he forgot about the little emperor who died at a young age, Emperor Taicheng was still calm because it was human nature.
But at this moment, facing Zhaocheng who was frightened, he felt sad and angry, and felt that people had left and the tea had been cold, and he felt that he was incompetent and couldn’t even protect a mere princess.
Zhaocheng is not even eleven years old this year, but they are pressing forward step by step without mercy. How can these people have the heart? !
Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but sigh when he saw this scene. He felt distressed for a moment. This was the emperor. When things came to a critical moment, he had to let go even of his closest relatives…
Seeing the depressed atmosphere in the courtyard, the little emperor finally couldn’t help but spoke: “The Ninth Uncle is not like that! He will not send Zhaocheng’s sister out to marry!”
Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help laughing when he heard this. It was impossible. No one could not see such a simple thing clearly——
[“Whether it is Jianjian, Zhaocheng, or any other princess, I will not send any of them out.”]
However, what Emperor Jingwen and the others heard was such a resounding sentence.
Emperor Taicheng suddenly raised his head and looked at the young man in the picture with shock.
The fourth prince took a breath of cold air: “Are you kidding me?”
Soon, Ye Shuo proved that there was no joke in this sentence, because then he sent Jianjian with the people of the Supervisory Department to kill all the envoys from Beiting very simply, leaving no one behind. The envoys from the State of Chen who were in the post station and separated by only a wall were frightened to tears and could not stand steadily. They fled from Shangjing.
With such a tough attitude, let alone the fourth prince, even Emperor Jingwen, who had experienced many storms, was shocked by him.
“… What a courage. “The second prince let out a long breath, and for the first time in his life, he showed a different look.
Emperor Jingwen held his forehead with his hand. Although he felt happy in his heart, but… but this is not how the country is governed!
Emperor Jingwen’s mood was almost as furious as He Xiang in the picture.
A total of 218 corpses were laid out in front of them. Now, even if He Xiang and his men didn’t want to go to war with Beiting, it was impossible.
Seeing this, Emperor Taicheng couldn’t help thinking, so there’s this trick…
Anyway, the problem has been solved . In front of him, even if He Xiang and the others cursed him harshly, they still had to do their best.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Emperor Jingwen had a complicated look in his eyes, but soon, something even more complicated happened.
When he heard the words “If they die, I die” and decided to lead the army in person, Emperor Jingwen wanted to rush into the King of Hell’s Palace to discuss returning to the human world with the King of Hell. He didn’t understand what Xiaojiu was showing off. Although Xiaojiu was good at kung fu, it was impossible that the old Duke Zhen didn’t teach him any real skills when he was a child, and then there were the top masters in the martial arts world. The Queen served as his sparring partner, but… on the battlefield, swords and knives have no eyes. No matter how strong one’s martial arts is, how can one defeat thousands of troops?
However, the facts have proved that it really works.
Although Emperor Jingwen and his men did not know what the Lanchester equation was, they had to admit that it was really useful. As long as they knew the number of enemy troops and arranged the battle according to the number of enemy troops, they would be invincible.
Emperor Jingwen could not help but slap his thigh. His first reaction was that if there was such a good thing, why didn’t Xiaojiu take it out earlier? After calming down a little, Emperor Jingwen smiled bitterly. Even if Xiaojiu took it out earlier, he couldn’t believe it.
The matter was of great importance, and Emperor Jingwen would not listen to him. This kind of thing that had not been tested in practice could only be used unhindered when he led the troops.
And no matter how useful the Lanchester equation was, it was not as useful as Xiaojiu/Ninth Emperor’s brain.
He stood at the battlefield. Xia Ying was still there calculating how many people Beiting had sent to fight. Xiaojiu/Ninth Emperor’s eyes scanned a few circles and instantly got the answer.
[“A total of about 28,300 people. From left to right, the first square has 3,400 people, the second square has 2,700 people, and the third…”]
Emperor Jingwen subconsciously pressed the pause button, wanting to count whether Xiaojiu’s calculation was correct. However, when he saw the densely packed people on the screen, he felt dizzy. After trying to distinguish them several times, Emperor Jingwen finally gave up.
There were too many people to count.
So now the question is, how did Xiaojiu know? Emperor Jingwen and others saw it clearly. He rolled his eyes a few times, and then read out a long list. digits.
The young man in the paused screen looked nonchalant, as if these remarks were just casual remarks.
At this moment, all sounds stopped, except for the faint noise and bustle of ghosts on the street not far away.
Emperor Jingwen touched his chin and pulled out a few hairs of his beard. Looking at the hair pulled out by the roots in his hand, Emperor Jingwen fell into deep thought.
Emperor Taicheng and others on the side were also in deep thought.
Everyone was silent for a long time. After a while, the little emperor, who was the youngest and could not hide things the most, raised his hand and said weakly and tentatively: “That…is the ninth uncle…a little too powerful? Does he feel, feel…different from usual?”
Then, the little emperor noticed that the expressions of his grandfather and father suddenly became uglier.