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Chapter 77
Chapter 77
For a group of displaced victims like Yong'an, if they want to fight against the Xianle Imperial City army, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg and turning a man's arm into a chariot.
However, those who have nowhere to go are those who have the courage to use an egg to hit a stone and a praying man's arm as a chariot. After a riot, tens of thousands of Yong'an people finally left the city gate, evacuated a certain distance, and set up camp in another place.
They just wouldn't go. If you walk on the road, you might die. If you spend it here, you will die. What’s the difference? With the water and food distributed by the previous king, the bark, weeds, vegetable roots, insects, snakes, mice and ants in the wild, as well as the backlog of grievances for many days. And unwilling, these people just carried it with unimaginable tenacious vitality. A few days later, more than 1,000 people who hurried out came back to fight with some hoes, rakes, stones, and branches.
Although this game was a mess, the loss was a complete defeat, and more than half of the more than 1,000 people were killed or injured, but it was not nothing. Lang Ying rushed into the tower alone, carrying several large bags of rice grains and a few bundles of weapons back. Although he was seriously wounded, it aroused the fighting spirit of the desperadoes.
At this time, their nature is closer to that of robbers. Once, twice, three times. Xianle's soldiers found that this group of "robbers" were making rapid progress.
The previously inexperienced and scattered attackers gradually figured out their way. The people who come in are more difficult each time, and the people who go back are more and more frequent. There is also an endless stream of new victims who have heard the news and come to join. grow their ranks. Xianle Domestic was arguing about how to solve these "robbers", and after five or six such absurd battles, Xie Lian could no longer stand on the sidelines.
He hadn't reported to the Heavenly Court for many days, but this time, when he returned to Xianjing, he went straight to the Shenwu Temple without making a sound. When breaking in, Jun Wu sat on the top, and all the priests were bowing their heads and obeying orders, as if they were discussing important matters. If in the past, Xie Lian would choose another day to visit again, but now, he can't wait any longer.
All the priests were shocked, and then they kept silent, not wanting to show their emotions too much. Jun Wu thought for a moment, stood up from the throne, and said warmly: "Xianle, I probably know what happened, but you should calm down first."
Thanks for the pity: "Emperor, I am not here to ask, but to inform. My people are in dire straits, please forgive me for being calm."
Jun Wudao: "The world has its own set. You know, if you go down, you are breaking the ban."
Thanks for the pity: "If you violate the ban, you will be banned!"
Hearing this, the expressions of the priests suddenly changed. There has never been a priest who dared to say these words with confidence and sound. Even if Jun Wu favors this young prince Xianle, he is too bold.
Immediately, Xie Lian bowed his head and said: "Please open the net and give me a little time. Since the war has already started, casualties are inevitable, but if I can pacify this war, let the fewest people die, and keep things to a minimum. Within the scope of the war, after the war is over, I will come back voluntarily to plead guilty, and I will let you handle it at that time. Whether it is to suppress me under the mountain for a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years! - I will never regret it."
After he finished speaking, he kept his head bowed and retreated to the outside of the hall. Jun Wudao: "Xianle!"
Thanks for the next meal. Jun Wu looked at him and sighed: "You can't save everyone."
Xie Lian straightened up slowly and said: "Can I save everyone, I have to try it before I know the answer. Even if God says I must die, the sword will not pass through my heart, and I will be nailed to the ground and unable to move. I'm still alive, and I'll still be struggling to the end!"
This time back to the world, it is different from every time before. Xie Lian felt that something was left behind. Some light, some heavy. The first step, he couldn't wait to return to the palace first.
The king and the queen looked solemn and tired and spoke in a low voice behind the imperial study. Xie pity came to the door, and was a little nervous for a moment, then calmed down, lifted the curtain, walked in, and said: "Father."
The king and queen both turned their heads, stunned. After a while, it was the Empress who stood up first and said with great joy, "Emperor!"
She stretched out her hands and came to meet him, thanking her for supporting her. The ridiculousness has not yet receded, and suddenly he saw the king's face sinking and said, "What are you doing down!"
Thanks for the smile on the lips.
Hearing the conversation behind his parents in the palace before, Xie Lian felt that his father still missed him, not as much opinion of himself as he seemed. I thought that when I came back, the country lord would show some happiness. In that case, he would definitely soften his attitude. Who would have thought that the country lord reacted so badly, so Xie Lian came up and said solemnly: "Why did I come down, it's not all because of you? There is today's chaos in Yongan, you ask yourself, is there a certain way? responsibility?"
The king's expression changed greatly, and he said sharply: "My responsibility? This is what you should say to me?!"
He was so angry that he didn't even pay attention to himself. The queen wept and said: "It's all like this, why are you still arguing?"
Xie Lian said: "It's not arguing, it's reasoning. Even if you are the lord of the country and my father, but if you are responsible, what can I say? Why don't you try your best to relieve the disaster? Even if the disaster relief silver is swallowed up layer by layer, Why don't you rectify corrupt officials? If you are vigorous and resolute, catching one and dealing with one, which moth would dare to be greedy, wouldn't the situation be better than it is now?"
The king's forehead burst with blue veins, and he slapped the desk: "Shut up! You think the treasury is a bottomless pit, how many gaps are there to fill? If it is so easy, the king's order can be immediate and resolute. The filthy officials have never been eradicated? What do you know, ignorant child, come and talk to me about governing the country!"
Thanks for the pity: "Okay, I don't understand. Even if the imperial city has no shelter for the disaster victims, evacuation is inevitable, but why don't you give these disaster victims some trouble? Why don't you comfort them and send troops to escort them? moving east?"
The king's eyes widened in anger, and he pointed to the sky: "Go away. Go away! Go back to your sky! It's annoying to see you! Don't appear again!"
Xie Lian was full of blood, and when he saw his parents for the first time, he heard his father let him go back to the sky, without saying a word, bowed to him, and stepped back. The queen chased after him and grabbed him, saying, "Emperor!"
Xie Lian said warmly: "Empress mother, don't worry, I'm just going to the capital to take a look at the current situation."
The queen shook her head and said: "I don't understand these important matters of the country, but I understand your father. I can see how he is the lord of the country for so many years. You can feel that he is not doing well in your heart. , Sometimes I feel the same way, I just don't say it. But don't say that to your face, he is your father after all, you really punish him if you say that he doesn't care. "
Thanks for the pity. The queen said: "Although you are a prince, you have never been the head of the country. Governing a country is different from cultivating the Tao. When you first entered the Emperor's View, the national teacher said that cultivating the Tao only depends on the heart. Is that what he said?"
Xie Lian nodded slowly, the queen held his hand and said: "But, there are many other things in the world, only intentions are useless, you have to have the ability; not only you have the ability, the people under you have to have the ability. Ability; not only ability, but also one heart with you."
Thanks for being silent. After a long time, he said: "Is the national treasury shriveled? I don't need temples. Let him not build so many temples for me. All those golden statues should be pushed away."
The queen said helplessly: "You child... Of course, you have your father's selfish desire to build a temple. I want to do good things for you, and I want you to be beautiful in the sky. But, you know, in the Eight Thousand Temples, it is really your father. Huang Xiu, how many are there? You don't know."
Xie Lian really didn't know. He thought for a while and said, "...half?"
The queen said: "If your father, the emperor, used the money from the treasury to build more than 4,000 prince's palaces, and before the Yongan people started to make trouble, the imperial city would start to make trouble. Since the treasury is empty, where will the money come from to build so much? You The father has only repaired more than 20 seats, and others have followed his style, and they have also followed him, wanting to please him and you, should these be counted on his head?"
Thanks for the pity: "I..."
The queen whispered: "Your father's work is not good enough, but he... did his best. It's just that in this world, just trying your best is not enough."
After a pause, she said again: "You are looking at the poor Yongan people now, so you blame your father and emperor. But they are all his people, are we all bullying them? Actually..."
Halfway through speaking, the king made an angry voice in the imperial study: "What are you doing with him talking nonsense so much, let him go back to the sky quickly!"
The queen turned back and sighed: "Huang'er, you...you don't come down. You should go back."
After leaving the palace, Xie Lian walked along an alley on the side of Shenwu Street, just in time for Fengxin and Mu Qing. As soon as the admiration came, he said unbelievably: "His Royal Highness! You invited yourself down to the world? You went to the Shenwu Temple and told the emperor??"
Thanks for the pity: "Well."
Admiration: "Why don't you tell me first?"
Fengxin was surprised: "What do you mean. Do you have to explain to others in advance what Your Highness is going to do?"
Mu Qing was a little rude and said: "Why not? We are his people, we are tied to him now, his every move is closely related to our situation, I want to know what he plans to do, what's wrong ?"
Feng Channel: "Don't we have to follow what His Highness does? What is he going to do, whether in the sky or in the ground, he has his own ideas, what are you afraid of?"
"You!" Mu Qing said: "I'm not afraid! I'm just..."
Xie Lian waved his hand: "Enough. Stop arguing!"
Fengxin and Mu Qing immediately shut up. At this time, a parade passed through the street, and hundreds of people shouted loudly: "If Yongan is not eliminated, the country will have no peace!"
"The cancer of chaos in the country, deceiving people too much!"
The Xianle people have never been so aggressive towards anything, and they have also held such a vigorous parade. Thanks for the pity. And Fengxin frowned: "Why is there a woman here?"
Sure enough, in the parade, a girl rushed to the forefront. The girl was slender, her complexion was snow-white, her bright eyes were black and her cheeks were crimson, but she was not shy, but angry, which was very eye-catching. Mu Qing has adjusted her mood at this time, and said coldly: "Don't Your Highness know her?"
Thanks for the pity: "I don't know."
Fengxin frowned and said: "It seems a little familiar?"
Admiration: "That's one of the sources."
Xie Lian asked: "What source?"
Admiration said: "The source of the inconsistency. Before, because there were more and more people in Yong'an in the imperial city, some of them didn't stay together well, and they were wandering around to cause trouble. The court and the middle were discussing the matter of expulsion, and the rumors had already spread. He went out. There was a man from Yongan who wanted to stay, but he didn’t want to leave, so he took the risk. One night, he sneaked into a wealthy family and kidnapped the daughter of that family.”
When he said this, Xie Lian didn't react when he heard it: "Why do you want to kidnap the daughter of a rich family if you don't want to go?"
Mu Qing glanced at him and said, "I want to marry her. However, if it is not forcibly kidnapped, there will be no daughter of the imperial family who is willing to marry the Yongan people."
He didn't say it clearly, but Xie Lian also understood.
He had never imagined that it could still be like this, that there would actually be such a person in the world, that this kind of thing would happen, and suddenly there was an urge to vomit. Fengxin scolded it on the spot and said, "Disgusting!"
At this time, a group of aunts and aunts rushed up, trying to pull the girl down. It seemed that she ran out while the family was not paying attention. The girl was reluctant and said, "What are you afraid of! What do I have to be ashamed of? It's not my fault!"
Feng Xinqi said: "This girl has a very strong temper."
Admiringly said: "Yes. Her family is not an ordinary family. Her father is an important official in the court, and her mother's family is a wealthy businessman in the imperial city. She refuses to suffer from this boring loss, and it is even more impossible to marry someone just for the sake of face. The Yongan people were killed. Soon, the wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the whole city jointly signed a letter, listing several sins of the Yongan people since they entered the city, and imploring His Majesty to put all these people in prison and punish them severely. What are the positions of the ministers? Not to mention."
After a pause, he said lightly again: "I heard that this woman's father once wanted to send her to the palace to win the crown prince position. His Highness should have seen her a few times before, but he didn't recognize her."
Xie Lian finally discovered that everything was more complicated than he imagined.
Inside the city and outside the city, it has long been inconsistency. The subjects were all incensed, and they wished they could kill them all in one go. If the lord's decision still favored the Yongan people, wouldn't he be slapping his own people in the face? In the end, he decided to allocate a sum of money from the shriveled state treasury to send them out. It's shabby enough, but I'm afraid it will still arouse the dissatisfaction of a large number of people.
More terrible than the dissatisfaction of the enemy is the dissatisfaction of the subjects under his own control. Although all of them were originally Xianle's subjects, but now, I am afraid that few people think so.
He is high above the world, and he has not known the world for a long time, while his father is still in the world. As the head of a country, how can you use money, people, position, pressure, and people and things you need to worry about and reconcile with him? Just like the foreign Yongan people occupying land in the imperial city, Noise, theft, etc., are probably trivial matters for a god of war living in a temple, and it is not worth getting angry for, and it will pass by forbearance. But for the people in the imperial city, it is a real, lingering, unbearable torture, and a crisis that may break out at any time. It feels simple or trivial, but it's not him who is in that position.
Xie Lian couldn't help but remember that the king's temples were even more white than what he saw last time. The last time I said I wanted to dye it, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to dye it anymore.
When he was young, he firmly believed that his father was the greatest king in the world. Although his father was the lord of the country, he was not wise and unparalleled. He was sometimes petty and pedantic and made mistakes frequently. He was just a mere mortal despite his incomparably noble status.
The more he understands, the more disappointed he becomes. The country lord is aware of his disappointment, so he can't tolerate every disapproving look, disapproval words, and, most intolerably, his failure to be seen by him.
There is no father in the world who wants his son to see himself as a failure. Fathers hope that in front of their sons, he will always be tall. And he appeared at such a time and scolded his father: You did a really bad job! I was so bad that I could only come down to help you save the scene-whether as a country lord or as a father, when I heard this, what was in my heart? will it feel better?
After all, the girl was pulled back by the servants and maids in her family, while the rest of the people continued to march, waving the flag and shouting for nothing more than one thing: Kill! Go to war! Let the Yongan people outside the city look good!
After a long while, he said with admiration: "His Royal Highness, you should apologize to the emperor and go back. When things have come to this point, the weather, the location, and the people are all lost."
As the Lord of the Shenwu Temple said to Xie Lian: The world has its own set. Isn't this sentence telling him: Your Xianleguo is exhausted, let him go.
Even the queen, his mother, looked forward to seeing him day and night. But I really saw him, but let him go back with tears, don't care. How Xie Lian didn't know, they didn't want him to face this difficulty, they would rather him stand on the sidelines and live his own life.
But how is this possible?
"..."
Thanks for the pity: "No!"
After speaking, he strode out.