In fact, not only Meng Jiayuan, but also Meng Boqin's descendants, including many of his subordinates, thought so: Meng Boqin's biological father, Marquis Zheng, was killed by King Gaomi, and Emperor Xuanjing and the Queen Mother were still waiting in the forest garden. Rescue... In that situation, due to both emotion and reason, why couldn't Meng Boqin send his troops to the south to avenge both private and national enemies? !
But when Meng Boqin heard this, he said happily: "If the Rong family is unethical and disappoints everyone in Tiandong, it will be nothing more than what we do!"
"However, he has just said that Tiandong Cuo is still very attached to the Rong family!"
"At that time, as ministers, we surnamed Meng, even if my grandfather was killed, according to etiquette, we should express our grievances and not start an army ourselves!"
"But can we go to quell the rebellion..." Meng Jiayuan was only halfway through his argument when he was interrupted by Meng Boqin: "No, my aunt, the Queen Mother, has jointly issued an edict to the East with Xuan Jing, calling on the people of Tiandong to fight against the rebel king. Gao Mi! But I told him, how many people responded to the news we received like Ruming?"
Meng Jiayuan said calmly: "Is it because Ni Wang Gaomi is crazy and slandered Xuan Jing..."
"That's just the appearance!" Meng Boqin shook his head and said, "The real reason is that the Tiandong people are unwilling to accept their Meng family. Am I clear?!"
Meng Jiayuan was startled and said: "How can that be possible?! Not to mention that Xuan Jing has achieved nothing but success in the thirty years since he ascended the throne! Just talk about the rise of the Meng family in those years, and those officials who have groveled and flattered us in every possible way, Isn’t it all fake?!”
"Have I forgotten General Zhou?" Meng Boqin sneered. "That person's reputation and achievements are so great that I, his father and his son, can't be compared to each other? Can Xuan Jing come to the east with a death edict... It turns out How about it? The Zhou family was wiped out in ashes, and after the army he had trained was so excited, in the final analysis, they could not continue to shed their blood and bury their bones for Xuanjing honestly!"
"I think... I, his father and son, can we go over that one?"
"As for those officials... it's easy to put icing on a cake, but it's hard to add embellished flowers to a snowy situation!"
"Previously, Xuanjing did not care about the affairs of the court. Because of the Queen Mother, we, the Meng family, had a lot of support. Even if he encountered a situation of quarrel with King Gaomi and Huan Guanlan, and the court was fighting for power, he would go to the harem to talk to the Queen Mother. , the Queen Mother summoned Xuan Jing to come to her, and unless the Shu sisters stopped her, Xuan Jing refused to agree!"
"Under that kind of situation, there are naturally many people who are willing to seek refuge with us and please us."
"But now neither the Queen Mother nor Xuan Jing can protect themselves. The three most prestigious elders of the Meng family, as well as my uncles, were killed overnight. Even many people in Chang'an who were close to our Meng family were also killed. Gao Mi killed them all... The Meng family was so big that our father and son were the only ones who had some hope, but Zhao Shi was stumbling. In that case, how could those who were scattered outside have a wait-and-see mentality?! "
Hearing this, Meng Jiayuan was silent for a long time. After a while, he said angrily: "Have those people lost their minds?! Since King Gaomi has just occupied Chang'an, he will drive out all of us in Chang'an! He Yue Ruoguo has conquered Tiandong, Can we give them a way to survive?! What’s the difference between waiting and watching at that time and waiting for death?!”
"The problem is that all our confidants in Chang'an were killed by King Gaomi!" Meng Boqin said happily, "So they will naturally consider that if King Gaomi is so ruthless to his political opponents, if they continue to support the Meng family at that time, Once we don’t make any progress...don’t they also want to follow in the footsteps of their colleagues in Chang’an?!”
"If we had just stood still at that time, or even waited for King Gaomi to take refuge behind Feng, there might have been a way to survive!"
"I beg you, if the King of Gaomi shows his dejection in a few months, and if they fall into trouble again, it won't be too late to ask for credit from us in the future!"
"After all, our leg Didong people in Chang'an are all gone, and it's impossible to have no one to do political work. If you don't ask them, who can we look for? Are we looking for people from Gaomi?!"
Meng Boqin took a deep look at his eldest son and sighed, "The origin of our family is very cold in the high place. I don't think he is the third generation of the Meng family. I have never experienced the time when the Meng family was humble, and I have never even remembered that the Meng family was with Huan Guanlan." , when the intrigues with the King of Gaomi were at their most intense, but as far back as I can remember, what I have seen is that the Meng family is so powerful that no one shuns him wherever he goes!"
"So even though he has always been strict with me, I still have a somewhat frivolous spirit!"
"Of course you can't blame me entirely, because I have never experienced a big shock at all, let alone the thorny path of starting a business... Then maybe he would be extra cruel to me and put pressure on me."
"No, he really values family work more than me, but he is afraid that I will be lost in the shadow of my predecessors!"
Meng Jiayuan was shocked and said: "Dad! The child is so stupid that he doesn't know how hard his father has worked! In the future, the child will definitely try to abandon frivolity and arrogance, be down-to-earth, and work hard to revitalize the Meng family and avenge his grandfather and other relatives!"
"How do I plan to work hard?" Meng Boqin looked at him, "If the people of the East do not buy our account tomorrow, not to mention that although Mi Zhen, the son of the King of Gaomi, is immature, the Western Xinjiang Army is not as good as his Northern Xinjiang. However, with Zhao Shi Now, there is no way we can take away all the soldiers and horses! Once we do, our food and grass may not even be able to reach the east of Chang'an City in time!"
"At that time, if you want to starve to death, if you want, you can eat locally. It is not in line with our people's hearts. How can we be disgusted if we don't know it?!"
"At that time, how could King Gaomi and Mi Zhen let go of the opportunity to smear the Meng family?"
"You can't say that under the banner of counter-rebellion, they were the first to be identified as rebels!"
"Qu Qiu Qiu, even if the problem of food and grass is solved, there are still soldiers and horses, but... don't forget that when Mi Zhen ambushed Ruru before, he used the troops of the Southern Xinjiang Army!" "
"Dad, can we sneak into the Princess of Mi Zhen County in order to kidnap the Princess of Mi Zhen County?" Meng Jiayuan pondered, "The Princess of Mi Zhen County is just outside Jizhou City and is about to give birth! That flaw, You don’t need to be red, right?”
Meng Boqin said: "Of course I want to take advantage of that. Bu Nao Guan Mi Zhen is a man with quite a majestic appearance. His parents are not very attached to him, and he may not be willing to give up his inheritance in exchange for his wife!"
"The child also feels that Mi Zhen is not like a person who is ruthless to beauty and ruthless to the country." Meng Jiayuan said, "But the concubine's natal family is of great importance to his career. For that reason, where is Mi Zhen? Dare to let her go wrong?!"
"But I must not forget that Princess Didong of Mizhen County has many sisters who have not left the cabinet." Meng Boqin said coldly, "What if the Sheng family is willing to replace them? What if our Meng family's daughter was in the same situation as the Princess of Mizhen County? Here, as my mother-in-law, will I teach Mi Zhen to agree to our request?"
Meng Jiayuan was stunned and couldn't help but be speechless. The atmosphere in the Meng clan was to favor sons over daughters.
The most obvious aspect of this patriarchal preference is that Empress Meng and Concubine Meng used girls as pawns.
As the eldest son of Zheng Hou's original wife, Meng Jiayuan certainly grew up under such influence. It would be beneficial for his family to decide who to marry and when to marry according to the opinions of his aunts and sisters.
If he were not Sheng Weiqiao's mother-in-law, Rong Shuihe would definitely be more valuable than Sheng Weiqiao.
Unless there is no second marriage candidate in the family, according to Meng's style since then, of course he should let Sheng Weiqiao die and then marry Sheng Weiwu to Rong Shuihe. Isn't that very different to the Yue family
At that time, father and son regarded others as their own and did not think that the Sheng family would try their best to protect Sheng Weiqiao. After all, although Sheng Weiqiao had a reputation of being loved by her mother's family, in the eyes of Meng Boqin and his son, no matter how much the Sheng family doted on Sheng Weiqiao, There is nothing that can be compared with the opportunity of being the head of the state.
Moreover, "Taking a step back, even if Mi Zhen is willing to do that, with his bright future, how can he watch him cut off his future?!"
For example, Zhao Shi, who was not the King of Gaomi, turned to Rong Suihe Mendong. It is a joke to say that he missed his uncle and nephew. In the final analysis, he felt that Rong Suihe had a better future than the King of Gaomi.
So even if Sheng Wei Qiao was his direct nephew and daughter-in-law, and she cherished the blood of Rong Suihe, if it threatened Rong Suihe's future, Zhao Shi would probably kill her more easily than Meng!
"If he wasn't worried about that, I think he would let the Sheng family have a good pregnancy in Jizhou City?" Meng Boqin snorted coldly and said, "She is like a Ming Dynasty person in Jizhou, even though there are Xijiang and Nanfeng County in the middle. She will be served by her entourage, but the escort she requested must come from Zhao Shi! If we mistakenly attack her, Zhao Shi will definitely try his best to protect her. However, once he feels that he cannot protect her, he will most likely kill her first! To avoid falling into our trap In my legs, I became a hostage and put Mi Zhen in trouble!"
"therefore… "
He sighed deeply, "Although I absolutely don't want to admit it, our Meng family seems to have really reached the point where Fu Zuo has declined!"
"Dad, my great-aunt is here, how come his Meng family's blessings have completely declined?" Meng Jiayuan had never seen his father look so tired and old, and felt uncomfortable in his heart. He gently advised, "Just as dad said, according to the According to the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, even if my grandfather and the others were unjustly killed by the King of Gaomi, if we, as ministers, want to abide by our duties, we should state the incident in person and wait for the court's decision, instead of directly launching an army to rebel!"
"However, the King of Gaomi is not the son of the late emperor, and when he comes to his great-aunt, he will not call her 'Mother'!"
"He kept saying that Xuan Jing had passed away. As the Queen Mother, would my great-aunt protect his Meng family and not hesitate to force the palace to keep secrets and not announce the funeral?"
"But instead of following the etiquette that a son should have, he went to Xinshou Palace and persuaded his aunt face to face. Instead, he directly launched a war, causing the sky to be shaken and people to be frightened!"
"Doesn't this act mean that a concubine should show the respect that a legitimate mother should have, and a prince should show awe that the country should have?!"
"We can seize that point to make a fuss about it and call on Tiandong to discuss it together!"
Meng Boqin sneered and said: "Idiot! Although my great-aunt is not the Queen Mother, she has never been the queen of the late emperor? When it comes to the status of the harem during the late emperor's time, the biological mother of King Gaomi, Concubine Mo, is not as good as my great-aunt. You know how much higher it is! So when we talk about it carefully, my great-aunt is not a legitimate mother at all... It is useless to discuss that. If the problems such as baggage and Zhao Shi are not solved, we will be in a dilemma if we find out!"
"If you stand still, you will definitely be waiting for death; if you send your troops to the south, you may not win... The most important thing is..."
He exhaled, took out a secret letter from his sleeve, and motioned to Meng Jiayuan to open it and read it, "I'll see for myself the news that was sent quickly last month!"