The eldest son of the red mansion

These people didn't dare to use the wall when they saw the old prince standing in front of them, so they all turned their heads and asked Niu Jizong for an idea.

Seeing this situation, Niu Jizong stepped forward and said coldly to Prince Yixiao: "Old Prince, do you want to protect King Zhongshun?"

The old prince didn't even look at Niu Jizong, turned around and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this point and we can no longer be weak. Jia Ke's intention to usurp the throne is clearly revealed. Even if you sacrifice King Zhongshun, you won't be able to keep him for a while." Half a moment of peace is worse than a desperate fight, and you can leave behind eternal wisdom."

After the emperor heard this, the hand holding the handrail made of jade turned pale.

Seeing that the emperor hesitated, Prince Yixiao hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we are doing our best to recruit troops now, and we will not fight Jia Ke in the capital. We will take these troops and the silver we have accumulated over the years to the south of the Yangtze River, and fight with Jia Ke in the capital." Jia Ke came across the river, but there is still a glimmer of hope."

The emperor's eyes lit up when he heard this. What Prince Yixiao said may not be unreasonable. As long as he retreats to Jinling, where the emperor Taizu started his family, the local gentry and common people still respect the court very much. Maybe they can rely on this Jiye contends with Jia Ke.

So the emperor looked at the four princes and eight princes in a blink of an eye, and wanted them to make a choice.

And at this time, as soon as Gongsun Xuan waited, his heart began to open up. If he really retreated to Jiangnan, it would be a world of flowers, and the annual taxes paid there accounted for 35% of the country's total, so it might not be possible to make a comeback.

So Sun Xuan immediately winked at Niu Jizong, and then stood up and said to the emperor: "Long Live Lord, this plan is very clever, why don't we rectify our troops and retreat to the south of the Yangtze River."

People like the four kings and eight princes are now whispering, discussing what will happen if they go to Jiangnan, but the more they talk, the more excited they are, and it seems that they have found a panacea to break Jia Ke.

However, Chen Ruiwen, the grandson of Chen Yi, the grandson of Duke Qi, was the first to stand up against him.

"Your Majesty, this is a plan to subjugate the country, and it must not be done."

After the emperor heard it, he couldn't help but change his face, he was already a little bit like a snake.

"Whatever Aiqing has to say, just say it."

"Your Majesty, the people we recruited are untrained, and they lack weapons and food. How can they go all the way to the south of the Yangtze River?"

After Chen Ruiwen asked this sentence, all the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty hesitated.

Prince Yixiao doesn't look good, if this person is really allowed to continue talking, then King Zhongshun will be decapitated.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to this man's nonsense. Although we are recruiting new soldiers, there are also tens of thousands of servants and servants from various prefectures. These people went south all the way. When we were in the county, we avoided seeing big cities, attacked small towns, replenished food and grass, and recruited soldiers. In this way, we will grow bigger and bigger. When we reach the south of the Yangtze River, we may have hundreds of thousands of soldiers."

In fact, what Prince Yixiao said was just to lie to the emperor with his eyes open, and it was simply nonsense that he kept recruiting soldiers on the road.

They have no food and no money, those peasant children are not crazy, they really went to wander with you, risking their lives to protect you, the emperor.

Prince Yixiao's current purpose is to preserve King Zhongshun, because in Prince Yixiao's view, the Zhongshun Wang family is the only one with some blood in the royal family. If even him is finished, then their family's family will end here up.

After the emperor finished listening, he said to Chen Ruiwen next to him: "Ai Qing, you heard it too. According to the old emperor's uncle, we still have a glimmer of hope. It's better than sitting here and waiting to die."

Having said this, the emperor sighed again, and said to the civil and military ministers below: "When you protect me to go to Jiangnan to ascend the throne, I will not treat my lovers badly. When I arrive in Jiangnan, all the losses will be made up for."

The four kings and eight princes below still had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, so they didn't refute the emperor's words.

King Zhongshun looked at them below, discussing livelyly, but showed a sneer.

In the heart of King Zhongshun, there is no place for safety now. Do you think that Jiangnan does not have Jia Ke's manpower now? The soldiers and horses in the world are all under Jia Ke's command. Wanting to break through the siege and reach the south of the Yangtze River is simply a fantasy.

It's better to defend the city desperately in the capital, and then negotiate terms with Jia Ke, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

But King Zhongshun couldn't explain it, because now his life was in the hands of these people to give them hope, maybe he could save it temporarily, if they were completely desperate, he would die immediately.

After thinking clearly on the throne, the emperor gave an order to his subordinates: "Niu Jizong immediately recruited soldiers and horses, issued weapons, and organized these people to train and prepare to leave Beijing."

Niu Jizong immediately knelt down on the ground and stood aside.

Then the emperor ordered the people present to go back and pack up their belongings immediately, and set off for Jinling three days later.

After these four kings and eight princes and princes and nobles all retired.

Now, besides the two royal families, King Zhongshun and Prince Yixiao, only Liu Wan remained in the hall.

Only then did the emperor look at Liu Wan who was standing beside him.

"Liu Aiqing, how much food is in the treasury now?"

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After listening to this, Liu Wan pondered for a while before saying to the emperor: "Long live, this year's money, food and taxes are much higher than last year, but these money and food are still in the provinces and have not yet been transported to the capital. Now the households in the capital only have 60 million yuan in silver. two."

The emperor was a little disappointed when he heard this. He originally wanted to enrich the national treasury. He took all the money to the south and recruited soldiers. But it turned out that this little money was not enough. I am afraid that it would not even be enough to appease these newly recruited soldiers. .

In fact, this was all deliberately arranged by Jia Ke.

Jia Ke had been planning to eradicate these royal family and nobles for a long time, but he never had the chance, so he came up with this method. These people jumped out and just killed them all to pave the way for his future actions.

Since Jia Ke knew that these people would rebel, how could they leave money and food for him, so Jia Ke ordered early this year that the money and food of each province should be temporarily kept in the treasury of each province.

So now, the warehouses of the household department in the capital are short of silver and food, which can be said to be poor and white.

The emperor now felt that the matter was serious. If there was no money and food, no matter how many soldiers were recruited, it would be nothing but a dream.

"There are still many wealthy households in the city. Can these people donate money and food for the imperial court?"

Liu Wan felt that the emperor was a little naive now, those wealthy households were eager to get money from the court, so how could they donate their own money to the court.

Besides, the current imperial court led by the emperor is just turbulent. Now donate a penny and don’t even think about getting it back. If you don’t do it, you will have a reputation of rebellion. When Jia Ke comes back, none of them will die. Don't try to run.

"Long live, I'm afraid it's impossible?"

The emperor actually knew the answer a long time ago, but he still had the idea of ​​just in case.

That being the case, the emperor also became cruel, and said directly to Liu Wan: "You take some soldiers to steal all these families, and then take all their property to the south."

As a result, just as he made this suggestion, the following King Zhongshun refused to agree.

"What is the emperor doing? Do you want to dig into the foundation of our family?"

What King Zhongshun said was already very blunt.

The emperor was a little annoyed when he heard that, he turned around and stared at King Zhongshun and said, "Shut up, I haven't let you speak yet."

Unexpectedly, King Zhongshun no longer regards the emperor as a relative since the emperor wanted to sacrifice him to appease Jia Ke's anger.

So King Zhongshun stared at the emperor and started fighting.

"Could it be that I, as the late emperor's son and a hero who saved the emperor, can't even speak now?"

Seeing that King Zhongshun dared to contradict him, the emperor slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Do you still have my emperor in your heart? Do you still think of me as my servant?"

Originally, the emperor's words were enough to punish his heart, but in the end, King Zhongshun didn't buy his account at all, and directly said something that shocked him.

"Mencius told King Xuan of Qi, saying: When the king regards his ministers like brothers and feet, the ministers regard the emperor as the heart; "

After hearing these words, the emperor couldn't bear it any longer. King Zhongshun really didn't take himself seriously, so there was no need to keep him anymore.