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Chapter 61

?The carriage continued to drive, and Yuwen Wen, who was sitting in the carriage, continued to think about things. Today, a performance like a martial arts show made him accidentally discover the "exceptional" of the little emperor Yuwen Gankeng. What should he do next is something he has to think about.

The little emperor's mind surpassed his age and was considered precocious, but he was so precocious that he needed to continue to observe because this was not a joke.

As a representative of the royal family, Yuwen Wen came to Yecheng. The heavy responsibility he shouldered was not only to chat with the emperor, but also to observe the emperor and determine the child's character. He had to report to his father when he went back.

It’s not that the father and son are ambitious, and if they want to see if the little emperor looks like an emperor, if the other party “looks like a king”, they will start a new job in Shannan and proclaim themselves emperor.

It is because the performance of the little emperor directly affects the overall situation, and Shannan must have relative preventive measures.

Yuwen Gankeng was the youngest son of King Yuwen Zhao. He was born in a royal family. It was said that he could not have received any education from a political country. He was young when he was promoted to the emperor, so he could not have experienced it.

Without the guidance of elders, the level of dealing with people is roughly consistent with their age. They are just a child who doesn’t understand anything. It is okay to take a few servants to the streets and be domineering, but it is basically impossible to have a scheming with people.

Such a child may not be able to manage the servants in the mansion even if he is in charge, let alone the intrigue political struggle. Therefore, the Prime Minister of the regent Yuchi Jiong holds great power, and Yuwen Gankeng is a statue that was offered.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it has been difficult for the emperor and the powerful ministers to get along with each other. As the saying goes, "One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers." Either the emperor eliminates the powerful ministers, or the powerful ministers will be accepted and ascended the throne. The most extreme thing is that both sides suffer losses and make wedding dresses for others.

Now in the situation in Zhou State, the Sui State in the west is a big problem, and the big problem has not been eliminated. Once the emperor and the prime minister of the regent have something to do, the two sides will eventually showdown, and everything will be over.

If the emperor is finished, then the Yuwen Liang and his son in Shannan will naturally rebel, and they will be destroyed if they do not rebel; if the prime minister is finished, Yuchi will rebel, but civil war is inevitable anyway, and in the end, it will be taken advantage of by the Sui Kingdom.

The emperor was young and the prime minister held the power. Not to mention Yuchi Jiong's mentality, he thought he would not make any extraordinary moves before the demise of the Sui Kingdom, but the emperor might not have been. After all, not everyone can tolerate being an emperor in name only.

Yuwen Liang, the leader of the royal family, wanted to know what kind of person the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty would be, whether he could tolerate or could not.

If Yuwen Gankeng was confused and allowed the prime minister to be the dictatorship, or if he did not like to take power by nature, everyone would be happy. Yuchi Jiong was relieved and would not make any excessive actions. The Zhou Kingdom would do his best to deal with the Sui Kingdom.

If the young emperor was a passionate boy, remembering the hatred of the country, the great achievements of Taizu, and watching Yuwen Chan's miserable end of his grandfather's throne, and deciding not to sit still and wait for death, the situation would be a bit confusing.

Maybe the little emperor was just complaining, maybe he just vented his dissatisfaction in private, but sooner or later he would be noticed by the eyes and ears around him, and then it would be heard by the Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong. Even if Yuchi Jiong might not have that kind of thought in advance, he would only firmly embark on that path after learning about the emperor's mentality.

The road that the Eastern Wei Prime Minister Gao Huan walked.

Putting the little emperor in front of the royal family, cutting off the power, and firmly controlling the power, the Zhou Kingdom is actually the world of the Yuchi family. If the Sui Kingdom can be destroyed, it doesn’t matter if it can’t be destroyed. Anyway, the emperor hates himself, so why bother to regain the mountains for the little guy? It’s better to support the family forces safely and steadily.

Just like when Gao Qi replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he confronted Zhou State, which replaced the Western Wei Dynasty for more than 20 years. The threat of external troubles was less, so the first thing to solve was internal troubles.

If the little emperor could not stand his temper and made Yuchi Jiong feel alert, once he embarked on this path, the first thing he had to deal with was the royal family, namely, Yuwen Liang, Shannan and his son. When things progressed to this point, what should Shannan do?

If you surrender to the Sui Kingdom? That's impossible. If you surrender to the Chen Kingdom, you will survive. If you proclaim yourself as an emperor, it will be even more stupid. All three parties will siege them together, so this situation can be avoided as much as possible.

Like his father, Yuwen Wen sincerely hopes that the young emperor Yuwen Gankeng can put the overall situation first, at least tolerate it before the Sui Kingdom was destroyed, and make a statue dedicated to others.

If you don’t have power, you don’t have power. At least you have no worries about food and clothing. As long as you are honest, even if Yuchi Jiong has thought about it, he will not harm Yuwen Gankeng’s life.

After all, the little emperor is gone, and the remaining royal family is Yuwen Liang, Yuwenming and Yuwen Wen. Unless Yuchi Jiong turns his back, it is much more reliable to support a child than to let adults become puppet emperors.

Yuwen Gankeng's sister, Princess Jin, is now Kehe Dun of the Turkic Khan. If Princess Qianjin's only brother is killed, the pillow will be deadly blown.

The development of the situation over the past three years shows that Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong really wants to eliminate Yang Jian and recover the rivers and mountains. If Yang Sui can be defeated, Yuchi Jiong will make the contribution to restoring the country, be granted the king, and add Jiujin, and the moment of showdown may come.

But at that time, the showdown was better than the showdown now. To destroy Yang Sui, it would have to take some time. Maybe one year or five years. Then Shannan can gain more time to hoard power. If the showdown is now or soon, the form will be very unfavorable to Shannan.

As the saying goes, preparing for the future, the little emperor is a huge unstable factor, so Yuwen Wen must judge how Yuwen Gankeng's performance based on what he saw and heard so that his father Yuwen Liang can deal with it well.

Although the government was controlled by Yuchi Jiong, not everyone was in the same position as Yuchi Jiong. If the situation was stable, Yuwen Liang could try to contact those ministers, governors, and generals who were willing to stand on the emperor's side, and slowly form the "royalists".

I dare not say that seizing power from Yuchi Jiong can at least form effective constraints, so that this nephew of Taizu would be a loyal minister of Zhou with peace of mind, and reward great achievements for restoring the country. If you are granted a king, you will be granted a king, and if you are given a nine-sized person, you will be given an important position. As long as you do not usurp the throne, everything will be easy to say.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Wang and Xie families controlled the power of the court, but at least they could live with the Sima family. Although there were conflicts, they were at least "fighting on the bedside and having sex at the end of the bed". Yuwen Liang hoped that this would be possible. Yuwen and Yuchi family would not turn against each other, and at least live their lives.

As for the affairs of future generations, the descendants will deal with it. The first thing they need is to kill Yang Jian, the evil thief of the country, recover the great Zhou Dynasty, and comfort the spirits of the ancestors and ancestors in heaven.

The premise is that the little emperor is "honest". If he is not "honest", then Yuwen Liang decided to change his strategy. First of all, he was friendly to Chen and left a way out for the alliance with Chen to resist the enemy.

In this way, the battle against Chen must be stopped. Yu Wen Wen, who was appointed as the governor of Bazhou, was the first to be the brunt of the war, turn war into jade and silk, turn goodwill ambassadors, release all the prisoners and people of Chen, and appropriately compensate for the losses.

Chen Shujian, the king of Changsha, the formerly captured Chen State, naturally wanted to send it back, that is, to release goodwill, to build a good neighborly country, and to ease relations with Chen State so that when the situation worsens in the future, he can join forces to keep warm.

According to the rules of this era, in order to strengthen the relationship between the two parties or prove their sincerity, they can send a proton or marry each other. No matter which one is the one who bears the brunt of it.

He is the youngest son, so he is naturally a proton. He has a daughter in his family. Although he is the stepdaughter of "buy one free one", he is actually the serious princess of the Yuwen family and the only woman among the descendants of the Yuwen family. It doesn't matter if he is younger, he can do something special.

‘The bullshit proton, the bullshit marriage!’ Yuwen Wen cursed in his heart. Wuming became popular when he thought of this. He didn’t want to choose either, so he hoped that the little emperor would be more reliable than his father.

At least I can bear it until Yang Sui is defeated again! If you don’t have it, just be a gourmet, a carpenter, or recite poems and lyrics, or practice calligraphy and landscape painting. The emperor’s life is actually very rich, so don’t be stubborn!

I recognize an emperor, who is very good at calligraphy, and he has created the "slim gold style". You can also try practicing calligraphy and create the "Yuwen style" that has been passed down through the ages!

The more Yuwen Wen thought about it, the more he became, the more helpless he felt. He was very optimistic before, but today's incident made him unable to be optimistic. The little emperor obviously had his mind surpassed his age, so he hoped to be more rational or skilled in his "acting skills".

The young emperor defeated the powerful ministers, a familiar example in later generations was Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. There were precedents in this era, and the ending was positive and negative.

A positive example is Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, who died six years ago. When he was promoted to the throne, he was only seventeen years old. His two emperor brothers had been killed by his powerful cousin Yuwen Hu. He was the third puppet, perhaps not the last one.

Yuwen Tai still has many sons, so Yuwen Hu can replace many puppets. Yuwen Yong understands this, so he let Yuwen Hu be domineering without any complaints, and his attitude is always low.

On the surface, the acting was actually a secret arrangement. After twelve years, Yuwen Yong finally seized the opportunity. Taking advantage of Yuwen Hu's entry into the palace alone, he personally removed the powerful minister, and then suppressed the remnants to rebound, holding the power firmly in his hands.

This is an inspiring story, but Yu Wen Wen doesn't think that Yu Wen Qiankeng can be "replicated", which is more likely to be a tragedy.

More than 60 years ago, the "Six Towns Rebellion" broke out in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the consequences were similar to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. After the war was quelled, the imperial court's majesty was wiped out and the military force controlled the government. That person was called Erzhu Rong.

The puppet emperor Yuan Ziyou, supported by Erzhu Rong, lives in fear every day. Whether he can live depends on Erzhu Rong's thoughts. The question follows: Do you want to be a coward for the rest of your life or be a hero, even if it is only three minutes?

Yuan Ziyou bravely chose the latter. Taking advantage of Erzhu Rong's entry into the court, he set up an ambush to kill the powerful minister. He then summoned loyal ministers and generals to protect the capital, and repelled Erzhu Rong's men in a thrilling manner.

He chose to be a hero for more than three minutes, but failed to exceed three months. Erzhu Rong was extremely powerful, and the Erzhu army's counterattack was unstoppable. The capital Luoyang fell and Yuan Ziyou was captured.

Three months after killing Erzhu Rong, Yuan Ziyou was strangled to death in Jinyang.

In today's Zhou State, the power of the Yuchi clan is similar to that of the Erzhu clan back then. Yuchi Jiong holds the power of the court, and his nephews and confidants have no one to control his military power. If Yuwen Gankeng wants to learn from the former emperor Yuwen Yong, he will only become Yuan Ziyou after learning.

The most important thing about Yuwen Yong's ability to turn the tables is that the powerful minister Yuwen Hu is innately deficient: his ability to take power is all Yuwen Tai's death fate, so that Yuwen Hu can protect his son as the emperor, that is, the royal family of the Yuwen family.

With this righteousness, Yuwen Hu can win over Yuwen Tai's basic foundation and Yuwen's followers. With the eyes of Yuwen Tai's old friends, external troubles outweigh internal troubles, so even if Yuwen Hu deposed two emperors in succession, Yuwen's followers could only endure it.

Even if he was powerful in the court and the people, Yuwen Hu did not dare to ascend the throne as the emperor himself, because this would lead to betrayal of his relatives. The legitimate emperor Yuwen Yong killed Yuwen Hu and only needed to deal with his small number of best friends, and others would not add up to the emperor at all.

Yuwen Wen only hopes that if the little emperor wants to turn against him, he will wait until the royal family comes up, otherwise he will turn against him in a hurry, and he may not be able to survive for even three hours.

The little emperor was precocious, and he was afraid that this passionate boy would not be able to hide things in his heart, or he would take risks. Yuwen Wen did not hope that the little emperor would be a coward, but he just wanted to pay attention to the overall situation.

It is okay to learn from the former Emperor Yuwen Yong, but can you endure it for twelve years?

The journey from the palace to the residence is not long. Yuwen Wen has already thought about a lot of things. When he thinks of the little emperor who is very likely to become a time bomb, his inexplicable uneasiness comes to his mind.

‘Father wants extra plans, I have to make another arrangement!’

A loud bang sounded like a thunder suddenly sounded, and the loud noise shocked Yuwen Wen to his hair standing upside down. Zhang Yu, who was sitting beside him, rushed to protect him. Yuwen Wen felt the carriage shaking, and the neighing sounds of horses outside were constantly.

The horse pulling the cart seemed to be frightened by the sound. She pulled the cart forward and ran continuously despite the scolding of the coachman. Yuwen Wen came to his senses, exchanged glances with Zhang Yu, glanced out of the window, and then rushed out of the window.

Jump out of the galloping carriage and easily get injured when landing. However, Yuwen Wen has practiced the "carriage escape technique". This situation is not difficult for him. When landing, he rolls with the flow and stabilizes his body.

I immediately looked around and found that the street was full of panicked people, but there was no suspicious person rushing towards him. Yuwen Wen calmed down and looked in the direction of the previous loud noise, then was stunned.

I saw a ball of black smoke rising from the sky in a yard, and the black smoke looked very familiar.

Three years ago, Yuwen Wen set up an ambush in Chang'an and tried to send Yang Jian to the west with a "rumbling" rumbling. The current situation is very similar to that at that time: fire and medicine, only when the fire and medicine explode, the rising black smoke has such an effect.

Yuwen Wen stayed with his father and brother in Shannan for three years, and did not leak water. He gave the secret recipe for thunder to the court not long ago. He agreed to keep it strictly confidential. It took only a moment before the market had a grand explosion of fire and medicine.

This is not a military weapon surveillance, but a pure living area. Whether it is a "production accident" or a conspiracy, the only possibility is that the secret of the fire medicine has been leaked.

Less than half a month has passed!!

Yuwen Wen felt that his face was slapped loudly.
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