Chapter 3: I'm Excellent
"If you don't marry, you won't pay compensation, you won't cede land, and you won't give annual monies. Those who violate my Great Zhou will be punished even if they are far away!"
Zhao Yan has practiced this sentence several times in his mind, so it sounds full of momentum and has a kingly style.
What shocked and even frightened the ministers below was the content of this sentence.
For more than a hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, peace has always been the most important thing, and problems that can be solved with money will never be solved by force.
Therefore, over the past century, I have been inseparable from the surrounding countries and cede more than ten times. Every year, I have given a large amount of silver and silk to the surrounding areas on the grounds of giving annual coins to ensure safety.
Even this time when the Northern Mongolian army reached the mouth of the Yellow River, the five princes were thinking of pleading the enemy with huge compensation, and then let both sides use the Yellow River as their national border!
Zhao Yan's words directly overturned the Dazhou's national policy that had been implemented for a hundred years and advocated governing the country with force!
Xiao Jingye, Yang Xinghuai and Kong Moshan looked at each other, all looking confused. They didn't teach the new emperor to say this.
At this time, an old minister with gray hair came out and bowed, "Your Majesty, the old minister, the censor Wu Chong, thinks what Your Majesty said is inappropriate. It is not a good idea to be strong and powerful. Our Great Zhou country is strong and has vast land. What the surrounding barbarian countries have obtained is nothing but fur. The late emperor said that if we do not attack, the country can prosper and the people can Chang'an!"
When Zhao Yan heard this, he was furious!
The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were bullied into this kind of pedantic thoughts, greedy for enjoyment, and just lived a mediocre life, so they were bullied into this way.
Especially this person also moved out of the late emperor, which made Zhao Yan even more angry.
If the Great Zhou is not tougher, he will become the king of the country. Since Zhao Yan became the emperor, he has the responsibility to change the lazy style of the Great Zhou.
This new national policy must be implemented.
Zhao Yan rolled up his sleeves and pointed at the old minister with gray hair. He said sternly: "I think people like you can retire and return home!"
As soon as these words came out, all the ministers were shocked.
On the first day of ascending the throne, the new emperor pointed to the second-rank official and the highest censor of the Censorate, and asked him to retire and return home.
This has never happened in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Wu Chong was so angry that his body trembled, and his voice trembled: "Your Majesty, the old minister has worked diligently in the Censorate for 30 years. He has always been for the country and the people. He speaks bluntly and dares to advise me. The late emperor has treated me very well. Unexpectedly, Your Majesty actually insulted me so much in the Daqing Palace. For the sake of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the old minister can only choose to speak out to death!"
After saying that, Wu Chong was about to hit the big red pillar on the left side of the hall gate.
The other censors on the side hurried to stop Wu Chong.
Zhao Yan has watched a lot in TV series, and there is only one ultimate method for these censors, that is, to speak out for death.
But it's a trick, and you can eat it all the time.
If a censor dies in the hall, he will definitely be given the title of loyal minister, and the emperor will be called a foolish monarch.
In this case, the emperor usually compromises.
The current Great Zhou Dynasty was controlled by the literati class, and the emperors had never hurt a fame and honorable official, so these censors were even more arrogant.
It is common for the ministers to quarrel over certain things in the court. Even Xiao Jingye sometimes wants to make these censors a little bit.
There are some things that they accept good advice, but some things are completely their stubbornness and pedanticity.
If the Great Zhou country is rich and the people are strong now, Zhao Yan would not have seen him as much as he did.
But as the country is about to perish and people are fighting at your house, you are still shouting that you cannot use force.
Zhao Yan can't spoil him anymore.
The three giants Xiao Jingye on the side did not speak, and they also wanted to see how the new emperor dealt with this problem.
After all, this kind of problem is common in the court in the future.
Zhao Yan quickly took off his golden jade belt, took off his crown, took off his crimson robe, and threw his hand into the hall with a wave.
"Make a fuss, this emperor, whoever loves to be the one I will stop doing it!"
If you make trouble, I can make trouble better than you.
When Zhao Yan said no, the ministers below were stunned.
The Zhao royal family, all the princes were captured, and there was only one prince. If you don’t become the emperor, who will do it!
"Your Majesty, you must not, you must not!"
All the ministers in the court knelt down, including Wu Chong, the censor who was quarreling with the pillars.
Zhao Yan exhaled a long sigh and said, "It's not that I like force, but that others have attacked our home. Can't we resist? "Five Child Kneeling and Worshiping Picture" has become the biggest shame of our Great Zhou. Don't you know how the late emperor died? Blindly seeking peace can only make the enemy country more severe. I know that war costs money and kill people, but if we go to marry, pay compensation, and cede land, the Great Zhou will perish and more people will die. Do you want to be ministers of the destruction of the country? Anyway, I don't like to be the king of the destruction of the country!"
After saying that, Zhao Yan turned around and left Daqing Palace.
Today, he was indeed angry!
The Great Zhou was bullied by others not because others were too strong, but because the Great Zhou was too cowardly!
After hearing this passage, the ministers reacted inconsistently.
Those who looked sad were some civil officials. Once the Great Zhou Dynasty began to advocate force, their status would decline rapidly.
Some military generals and some visionary civil officials were excited.
This new monarch is extraordinary!
Although he is a little eager to make progress, it may bring a turning point to the Great Zhou Dynasty.
After all, the Great Zhou is bad enough now!
After Zhao Yan left, the three giants of the court gathered together and then picked up Zhao Yan's clothes and walked into the side hall next to him.
At this moment, the three giants have different minds.
The literary prime minister Xiao Jingye was filled with joy and sorrow. What was happy was that this new monarch had a ravine in his heart, had sufficient aura, and had good language expression skills, and had the potential to become a saint. What was worried was that the new monarch was too reckless and irritable. Once he led a path of no return for the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would be a sinner for the eternal period.
The Martial Artsman Yang Xinghuai looked excited. If the late emperor had such a sharp aura, how could the Great Zhou be bullied into such a field? He felt that his passion and passion from decades ago had returned.
As for the wealthy prime minister Kong Moshan, he still looked worried. War is the most expensive thing, but the national treasury is in short supply, where will he raise money?
The three giants of the court looked at Zhao Yan with a dark face, and felt helpless.
They thought that the new emperor had just ascended the throne, and knew nothing, and would listen to these three ministers of the regent, but they never thought that the new emperor would have the imperial spirit that no one could suppress when he first ascended the position.
Now, the three of them will naturally coax. If Zhao Yan refuses to do anything, the Great Zhou will be completely over.
"Your Majesty, I think the new national policy you mentioned is feasible, but the most important thing for us at the moment is to solve the Yellow River Estuary crisis. If this crisis can be solved, the new national policy will definitely be feasible!" Xiao Jingye said.
Yang Xinghuai, who was standing beside him, whispered: "Your Majesty, you must never say anything like being an emperor in the future. I, the Great Zhou, can't stand this kind of trouble!"
Zhao Yan knew he was indeed a little willful, so he nodded slightly, as if he agreed, and then said, "I have a way to resolve the crisis in the Yellow River Estuary."
The three giants in the court were all stunned. The new emperor still understands the art of war?
Zhao Yan looked at Yang Xinghuai and said, "Although the Northern Mongolian Army was powerful, the army's food and grass were all obtained through long journeys. Although the six northern prefectures fell, they were unable to manage them. Riots were common. The Northern Mongolian Army went deep into the mouth of the Yellow River with the purpose of capturing the imperial capital and overthrowing the rule of our Great Zhou. But if the Yellow River did not freeze, they would not last long."
Yang Xinghuai nodded slightly. Most of the military officers of the Great Zhou Dynasty knew about these situations, but he was still a little surprised when he spoke of them from a seventeen-year-old new emperor.
He felt more and more that Zhao Yan was an unexplored treasure, and perhaps it could really bring earth-shaking changes to the Great Zhou in the future.
"What Your Majesty said is reasonable. The Northern Mongolian cavalry is powerful, but they do not have shipbuilding skills. They can only wait until the Yellow River freezes and lay a large amount of grass and wood boards to cross the river. If the Yellow River does not freezes, they can only last for half a month at most." Yang Xinghuai said.
Xiao Jingye, who was standing beside him, sighed: "Half a month? The day before yesterday, it had already entered the cold weather. According to the current trend of getting colder, the Yellow River will inevitably freeze within ten days."
Chapter completed!