Through the palace of the king of subjugation

It is not difficult to hear from Chen Yu's words that last year, Wu Jun and Lin'an in Shangning were flooded; this is consistent with the historical records.

In that natural disaster, the imperial court opened warehouses to relieve the disaster, and finally it did not cause a catastrophe.

But the current Shangning is different from its predecessor, the unified and powerful Daning Dynasty.

At that time, Daning ruled China. In addition to Jiangnan, there were two big granaries, Guangdong, Guangxi and Lianghu, which could watch and help each other; and after the split, the royal family of Daning moved south under the leadership of Li Yu's grandfather, and it was able to retain its glory to this day. .

The vast and fertile soil of the alluvial plain in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is Shangning's last reliance. Among them, Wu Jun and Lin'an are the leaders. These two places have suffered disasters and lost their harvest. It is necessary for the entire Shangning to tighten their belts together.

In the history books, Empress Shang Ning was obsessed with beauty and pleasure, and the disaster relief in the first year emptied the national treasury. When another disaster happened next year, the imperial court, under the leadership of the faint king, turned a blind eye to everything.

They closed the city gates of Jiangning tightly and kept a large number of disaster victims out of the capital, but they continued to live a luxurious life in Jiangning city. The affluent Jiangnan paradise will become a purgatory on earth next summer——

Hunger is everywhere, the plague is rampant, and the refugees who can't sustain themselves exchange their children for food.

So far, Shangning's decline was irreversible, and was annexed by the increasingly powerful Beiyin two years later.

Bai Gull is familiar with this period of history, and he is deeply ashamed of the inaction royal family of Shangning, the fatuous Empress Shangning, and the entire corrupt and incompetent court; The promiscuous/promiscuous nature is just not yet old, but now it seems——

It turned out that Li Yu had already planned for the coming catastrophe, so why did he still turn the natural disaster into a man-made disaster?

And that little emperor...

Because of years of strange dreams, the history of the rise and fall of Shang Ning has been a subject that Bai Ou has been studying. Li Yu, the king of Shang Ning's subjugation, has already been thoroughly understood through history books, but the little emperor in front of him, he is becoming more and more dissatisfied. Got it.

"Tomorrow, His Majesty will drive back to the palace. In the morning of the next day, the old minister will try his best to unite all the ministers, and please re-examine the river embankment and water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River."

After Chen Yu finished speaking, he bowed deeply.

"She won't be sure."

Bai Ou looked at the bottomless melancholy in Li Yu's eyes, which was clearly not what a 17-year-old boy should have.

"There will be no one who is willing to join forces with you." Li Yu's voice was very soft, "They are all staring at the face of the Empress Dowager." Chen Yu maintained a saluting posture without looking up, "Your Majesty knows that the Empress Dowager What does the Queen Mother want?"

"I have refused to get married for so long, and you have neglected your front foot, and I have agreed to make Zhou Muyun my queen—" Li Yu's brows twitched, "Chen Yu, have you ever thought that this is obviously a conspiracy between you and me, do you think it is too much?" The empress dowager, the old man, can't see it?"

"Is Your Majesty worried that the Empress Dowager will be unfavorable to the old minister?" Chen Yu got up and said earnestly: "The old minister said to His Majesty that as a king, you must never show the kindness of a woman."

"For the benefit of all the people of the country, the fifth child can die, and the old minister can give up; and your majesty must also make sacrifices."

So, the person who obstructed the re-examination of Jiangnan's water conservancy and embankments was actually Zhou Zheling?The major event of people's livelihood can be a means of check and balance game by the superior?

The thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River turned out to be just Zhou Zheling's leverage to force Li Yuli to make his niece his queen.

White Gull suddenly felt his teeth turn cold.

The voice in Wang's tent gradually decreased, and the two of them probably began to carefully study the details of the plan on the desk; Bai Gu quietly backed away from the range of Wang's tent, and the more he thought about it, the more something went wrong.

Chen Yu doesn't look like an incompetent person full of big talk, on the contrary, these days Baiou can see that this person is one of the few backbones in the Shangning court; Will the re-inspection of embankments and water conservancy come back in vain, and ultimately fail to prevent the natural disaster?

Although he didn't know why, he could see how much Li Yu resisted Zhou Muyun. The records of Empress Shang Ning in the history books were really ugly. Even if Bai Ou felt strange now, he didn't dare to deny the historical facts completely; he even had a terrible idea ——

Could it be that Li Yu was hesitant and delayed the opportunity, so he failed in the end?

Until he returned to his king's tent, Bai Ou still felt his mind was in a mess.

The records of the catastrophe in the history books are detailed and tragic, and there are many unofficial folk histories to support it. Perhaps the records about Li Yu or someone are biased, but Bai Ou firmly believes in the existence of this disaster.

As a senior professor of the history department, he has his own major. Since he came here, he has seen how extravagant and decadent the Shangning Dynasty under Li's rule was. Such a dynasty was eventually overthrown and replaced. Inevitability of historical development.

But reason is one thing, emotion is sometimes another.

He still can't forget the old couple who showed kindness to him before.

Compared with the world he lived in over the past twenty years, everyone closed their doors, and the neighbors who lived together for many years were just meeting each other.

The kindness and enthusiasm here was evidently direct as he hadn't seen before.

It is two different things to write historical facts in black and white in a book and to truly become a part of one's life.

What is wrong with the common people?

The white gull thought about it all night without blinking eyes, but after all, he still couldn't completely watch the disaster happen from the perspective of a bystander.

Maybe you can sigh helplessly when you can't do anything, but if you can do something but choose to stand by...

That's too brutish.

At least in history, Empress Shang Ning did issue an edict to establish Zhou Muyun as Empress. Does this not count as changing the course of history?

Bai Guu comforted himself in his heart, and made up his mind——

He had to persuade the little emperor to make a decision as soon as possible and issue an edict to make Zhou Muyun his queen, at least not to delay the business because of this.

If the rolling wheels of history cannot be stopped, if Shang Ning's destruction is inevitable in history, then at least, it would be better not to be so tragic.

The matter was discussed step by step according to the discussion between Li Yu and Chen Yu that night, and the next morning when the emperor returned to the palace, Chen Yu went to Shu and invited him to inspect the south of the Yangtze River.

As Li Yu expected, no one was willing to join Chen Yu in the Shu.

Zhou Zheling was noncommittal, and ended the early court early on the grounds that the emperor was exhausted after returning to the palace for the first time and needed a good rest.

It's just rare that she didn't directly part ways with the emperor and went back to the palace. Instead, she left Li Yu to accompany her for a walk with great interest.

"The emperor is frightened, can I see the imperial physician?" Zhou Zheling's eyes showed concern and kindness as much as possible, which was a bit inconsistent with her gorgeous and dignified appearance, "I don't know what this year's Yulin army is doing. It's trash! Aijia will send them away sooner or later-"

"Grandmother, don't be so angry." Li Yu lowered his eyebrows and supported Zhou Zheling, "It's because I'm not filial, and the Pope's grandmother is worried."

"The emperor's filial piety, since you don't want Ai's family to worry, let's have a solid relationship with Ai's family." Zhou Zheling smiled and patted the back of Li Yu's hand that was supporting him, "This morning, Chen Yu went to the court, But what does the emperor mean?"

As soon as he left the palace and returned to the court, Chen Yu went to the court to ask for orders. Zhou Zheling had already seen the tricks without even having to agree to make Zhou Muyun his queen. I have seen the woman who changed the throne three times.

Zhou Zheling turned his head and saw that the expression on Li Yu's obedient and drooping face didn't change much, and he didn't seem to want to speak, so he continued: "The emperor doesn't need to think too much, you will be weak in a few years, sooner or later If you are in charge, the Ai family only hopes that you can start a family before starting a career."

"Continuing offspring is the top priority of the royal family. Don't disappoint the Ai family like your father did."

Zhou Zheling suppressed his smile, looked at the silent Taiye Pool not far away, and gently removed Li Yu's hand that was supporting him.

"Winter is coming, Ai's family is getting old, and the imperial doctor told me not to stay in the wind for a long time, so I won't accompany the emperor."

Li Yu saluted and said goodbye to Zhou Zheling obediently. He knew that Zhou Zheling had finished what he wanted to say; the two of them, grandparent and grandson, had nothing more to say.

Not a word more.

On the other side of Taiye Pool, White Gull, who was not on duty due to injury and recuperation, chose a comfortable tree trunk to hide and relax.

He has been here for so long, and he accidentally saw this historic same frame.