Doesn't my father hate me? Then let him see from the bottom of his grave what the country will become after the son he chooses ascends the throne.
The more chaotic the country became, the more pleasure he felt in revenge.
When I take over and develop the business in the future, I will feel a greater sense of accomplishment.
The eldest nephew only pretended to attend the morning court for a month, and then began to pamper beauties, play, fight, and squander money all day long.
The new emperor even forced the national treasury to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for a concubine he liked.
After my eldest nephew came to power, he accomplished several great things, but none of them were beneficial to the country or the people.
The new emperor spent two million taels to build a summer resort covering thousands of acres.
Later he said that the palace looked too old and needed to be cleaned up, and he spent hundreds of thousands of taels on renovation.
Later, in order to please a certain beautiful woman, he paved her bedroom with jade, spending a total of 500,000 taels, enough to pay the military pay of 100,000 troops for half a year.
Wait a minute... lots of stuff.
He openly opposed and secretly supported these things that cost the people a lot of money and time.
In the eyes of the new emperor, the country's money is inexhaustible. For such a big country, it doesn't matter if it squanders a little more to support only tens of thousands of people in the palace.
Within a few years, the treasury, which had been fairly full, was empty of money.
Court officials and loyal ministers cried and begged the emperor every day to cut spending, to think about the country and stop being so absurd.
But honest advice is unpleasant to the ear. After a few more persuasion, the little emperor became angry. There were actually people who dared to make trouble in front of the emperor. They were really looking for death.
Some treacherous prime ministers began to seize every opportunity to impeach those loyal officials who truly cared about the country.
The two sides fought fiercely.
Of course, the ones who won in the end were all treacherous ministers, most of the loyal ministers were killed, and some who were lucky enough were dismissed from office.
General Qiu was a victim of that struggle. Some people were jealous of the army under his command and accused him of treason.
After General Qiu and his entire family were executed, the new general was of course one of their own.
The new emperor continued to spend extravagantly, and the treacherous ministers followed suit. The corrupt officials became even more unscrupulous and worked even harder to squeeze the people's money.
In just over a decade, the entire country has been on the brink of crisis.
The Dali Kingdom in the north began to threaten to march its troops south.
However, those so-called troops guarding the border were vulnerable in front of them.
Some generals even reached an agreement with them. They gave those generals benefits, and then the generals would not resist at all and move their troops away.
They called it preserving their strength, and then allowed them to burn, kill, rob and abuse the people.
The entire country claims to have an army of one million, but in fact it is just a false name.
The military pay was not received, and every soldier was starving to the point of being skin and bones, and did not even have the strength to fight.
I heard that some soldiers were desperate and starving, so they started robbing civilians.
The people could no longer survive and even began to eat grass roots and tree bark.
I heard that cannibalism has occurred in some places.
However, those corrupt officials eat delicacies from land and sea, wear silk and satin every day, and have beautiful wives and concubines.
Even though the country was in such a state, the emperor still lived in a muddle-headed way and still allowed treacherous ministers to go among the people to find beautiful women for his entertainment.
However, he continued to flatter his nephew, the emperor, and encouraged him to do all kinds of ridiculous things.
He would actually feel pain when seeing the country become like this, and even in his dreams at midnight, he was afraid that this situation would not end.
Sometimes he would have nightmares, in which he dreamed that the ancestors of the Yu family scolded him, saying that he was selfish and insidious, and that he did not consider the overall situation and led his eldest nephew astray.
But if it hadn't turned out like this, he would have had no reason to seize the throne from his nephew.
The more chaotic the situation is now, the more outstanding his achievements will be after he seizes the throne in the future, and the more the people will praise him.
The country is becoming more and more chaotic, but the martial arts sects are becoming more and more powerful, and the country's control over them is becoming weaker and weaker.
The officers and soldiers did not dare to cause trouble in the territories of the martial arts sects, let alone collect taxes from them.
Some hungry people began to flock to the territories of martial arts sects. Even if they could not learn martial arts, they could rent some land from them to grow crops.
In their territory, they could avoid heavy taxes and the rent they collected was much more moderate, so they always had some food left over and would not starve to death.
In some places, too many people starved to death and many people migrated, resulting in uninhabited areas for thousands of miles.
Those officials couldn't find anyone to exploit.
Tax revenues were decreasing, and expenditures were insufficient to cover income, yet the eldest nephew continued to squander.
However, the territories under the jurisdiction of some martial arts sects are becoming more and more prosperous.
Only when the people who have fled here are deprived of the protection of the martial arts sects, will they obediently return to where they should be, farm well, and pay rent and taxes.
Therefore, the relationship between the imperial court and the martial arts sects was completely antagonistic.
The imperial court has long wanted to eradicate all martial arts sects in one fell swoop.
And today is the biggest opportunity.
As long as he took over Huaishan, had a large amount of weapons and silver, and killed a few treacherous officials who controlled the government, he would be able to more smoothly drive his absurd nephew out of power.
After I sit on the throne, I will definitely put this chaotic country in order.
We must work hard to govern the country and be diligent and patriotic.
We must make sure that the people across the country appreciate our kindness.
However, it seemed that such a grand ideal of mine was about to be shattered. Tonight, it might be difficult for me to even escape unscathed.
Prince Yuan showed a bitter smile on his cold face, "If you let me go, the court will forgive you, otherwise, you will be charged with treason."
There are still 50,000 soldiers at the foot of Huaishan Mountain, so it is not a complete annihilation. He comforted himself in this way, thinking that the best strategy would be to wait until they relax their vigilance and then attack them.
As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no firewood to burn. He was betting that the Huaishan Sect would not dare to kill even the prince.
He had no idea that the 50,000 soldiers and horses at the foot of the mountain had almost been wiped out.
“Hahaha!” A man burst into wild laughter. Because his laughter was so loud, it made everyone’s eardrums buzz. After the laughter, the man shouted loudly: “Treason? Do you think we are afraid of taking this charge
You all came to our door today, wanting to wipe out the entire martial arts sect in one fell swoop, so why can't we resist?"
A certain leader on another tree also echoed, "That's right. Originally, the imperial court and the martial arts sects had nothing to do with each other, but the imperial court did not think about dealing with external enemies, but only knew how to bully others in its own camp.
He actually wants to kill all the martial arts sects.
Why can’t we rebel?”
"You, how dare you? This is really treasonous!" The eunuch Qin Gonggong, who was standing with Prince Yuan, glared at him with his small eyes and shouted, "You are just some ruffians, how much trouble can you make
Why don't you kneel down when you see the prince? "
The eunuch's words were met with a wave of eye rolls.
Kneeling, that's the eunuch's habit!
Mei Mantian looked indifferent and did not comment. He still stood majestically on the top of the tree, as if his whole body was floating, giving a feeling of becoming an immortal.
King Yuan is very sensitive to the aura of the strong, and he is no match for Mei Mantian.