Pedantic, conservative, conformist, stubborn …
This was Li Yi's impression of Geezer Wang. In reality, it wasn't just him. These high-ranking officials and old men all had similar images in his eyes.
Only now did he realize that he was wrong, completely wrong. He shouldn't have looked at people with colored glasses, shouldn't have been biased, and shouldn't have used a single point to cover the whole. He had committed the most common mistake in the world.
How was this the stubborn old Prime Minister? This was simply a pioneer with an avant-garde ideology.
In the era without the Wu woman, Geezer Wang's ideology was hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of the rest of the world.
What kind of ideological realm was this?
Li Yi took a sip of tea, looked at him, and asked, "If I support Princess Duan Rong as the Empress, what will happen to King Jing?"
Geezer Wang should have already thought of this problem. Without any thought or hesitation, he said, "I will announce to the public that King Jing was ambushed by a traitor sent by Emperor Wu and unfortunately died. That traitor killed his brother and father, and now he even wants to assassinate his own brother. He has lost his virtue and has lost the Mandate of Heaven. The people of the Wu Kingdom should rise up and rebel against the tyranny …"
To be able to think of even this kind of method, Geezer Wang's image in Li Yi's mind was invisibly raised by another level.
"This is a good idea …" Li Yi nodded. It was a rebellion, after all. The most important thing at the beginning was to find a reason, such as a tyrannical ruler, losing the Mandate of Heaven, the fall of the Emperor Star, the coming of purple Qi from the East …
With this as an excuse, the rest of the operation would be carried out in a logical manner.
"Gyeong Of Silla is a genius who has assisted the Jing Kingdom in its resurgence. He is experienced and knowledgeable, so he must be able to see further than this old man." Geezer Wang looked at him and said, "This old man only has one question. Is it possible to support a woman as the Empress?"
Li Yi put down his teacup and said with a smile, "Prime Minister Wang, have you heard of an old saying?"
Geezer Wang looked at him and asked, "What old saying?"
"Anything is possible."
The old man surnamed Wang thought for a moment and asked, "May I know who said this?"
"An ancient person with the surname Li once said that everything is possible." Li Yi smiled and said, "This sentence is for Prime Minister Wang."
"Anything is possible …" The old man surnamed Wang repeated these words over and over again. After a while, he stood up and bowed respectfully to Li Yi, "Thank you, Gyeong Of Silla!"
In the eyes of the world, a woman becoming an Empress was undoubtedly a fantasy. Several months ago, even he could not accept it.
However, too many things had happened in the past few months. First, Imperial Prince Jing had no talent or virtue, which made him thoroughly disappointed. Then, the eldest princess of the Jing Kingdom took charge of the government and rapidly rose to power, which also caused his mentality to change greatly.
The Wu Kingdom was different from the Jing Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom. If he wanted to change the current situation, he had to open up a new path. This path was unprecedented since ancient times. It was the first path since the beginning of the world.
He did not know if this path would work until he received confirmation from Gyeong Of Silla.
He came to ask him only to get confirmation.
This would be his unwavering direction in the future.
"Prime Minister, you're too kind …" Li Yi waved his hand and asked with interest, "A woman becoming an Empress is something that has never happened in history. Why did Prime Minister Wang suddenly think of supporting Princess Duan Rong as the Empress? I'm afraid it's not just because Imperial Prince Jing has lost his virtue, right?"
The old man surnamed Wang asked in return, "Since the Jing Kingdom has a Empress, why can't our Wu Kingdom have one?"
Li Yi said in surprise, "Since when did the Jing Kingdom have a Empress?"
"Although she doesn't have the title of Empress, she is the real Empress!" The old man surnamed Wang said with certainty, "The Jing Kingdom's Emperor is muddle-headed and lazy. He is thousands of miles away from the Capital City. All the affairs in the court, big or small, are handled by the Eldest Princess, Li MIngzhu. If she isn't the Empress, then what is she?"
"Cough!" Li Yi covered his mouth and coughed softly.
The old man surnamed Wang waved his sleeve, "The Jing Kingdom needs a vase Emperor, but the Wu Kingdom doesn't need one. We only need to support the Eldest Princess as the Empress. As for the other matters, we'll discuss them after we've cleared out the rebels!"
Li Yi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. This time, he did not have to cough anymore.
Li Xuan walked over from behind and put his arm around the old man surnamed Wang's shoulder. He smiled and said, "Come, come and tell me. Tell me why the Jing Kingdom's Emperor is muddle-headed."
…
"Who did it?!" Li Xuan had returned half a day earlier. When he found out that Shouning was injured, he was extremely angry.
He looked at Li Yi and said angrily, "I've only been gone for a few days, and you've already injured Shouning. How did you protect her? How can I be at ease when I hand her over to you in the future?"
Li Yi could not refute this matter. Shouning used her other uninjured leg to hop over and said, "Brother, it's not Mister's fault. It's all my fault …"
"Where's the assassin? Who sent him?" Li Xuan's anger had not dissipated. "How dare he assassinate the Jing Kingdom's Princess. I'm going to hack him into pieces!"
"The Wu Kingdom's Emperor." Li Yi looked at him and said, "The assassin was sent by the Wu Kingdom's Emperor. Why don't you send your troops to wipe out the Wu Kingdom? I'll lend you the Red Barbarian Cannon and give you a 20% discount on the new weapons …"
Li Xuan quickly calmed down.
The war between the Jing Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom and the Zhao Kingdom had just subsided for less than two years. They were still at the stage of stabilizing the national economy. It was impossible for them to wipe out the Wu Kingdom for no reason. Even if Li Xuan agreed, the courtiers would not agree.
Li Xuan had nowhere to vent his anger. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go and see how the old man's writing is going!"
Meditate and reflect on one's own mistakes. Don't talk about other people's wrongs while chatting.
This ancient saying was very good. Don't speak ill of others behind their backs. Because Old Man Wang spoke ill of Li Xuan behind his back, he was taken down by two imperial consecrators on the spot.
The two consecrators were older than him, and there was no such thing as respecting the old and loving the young. Li Xuan did not make things difficult for him. He just locked him in his room and made him write a five-thousand-word reflection.
The content of the reflection was to praise him, saying that he was wise and mighty, indomitable, talented and good-looking, and a famous ruler throughout the ages …
Li Yi felt that Old Man Wang, as the Prime Minister, should not lack a five-thousand-word vocabulary. If Li Xuan did not vent his anger on him, it should not be a problem for him to double the number of words.
As it turned out, Li Xuan did not do things in such a low-end way.
He only made Old Man Wang read what he had written with great emotion. According to an imperial guard who did not want to be named, the old man fell down before he finished half of the content.
When he fell down, he vomited and had diarrhea. It was extremely miserable.
Li Yi had not seen Old Man Wang for three days, and it had also been three days since he saw Yang Fu.
In these three days, Yangliuqing did chores such as cleaning the courtyard and drying the clothes as usual. She was more like a servant girl of the Li family than a princess.
She never talked much. She just buried herself in her work and had little communication with Ruyi.
Until the morning of the third day, the weather was sunny and the breeze was gentle. Li Yi came out to bask in the sun with Shouning in his arms and played chess with her casually. Ruyi stood behind him and watched the game. Many times, she expressed her disdain for his loss to Shouning.
Ruyi, Ruoqing and Third Miss Chen took turns to take Li Mu from Zui Mo's hands and walked around the yard with her in their arms. A little further away, Yangliuqing was helping Li Duan correct his movements. Under her guidance, Li Duan had been able to play a complete set of boxing.
Of course, his fist technique only had the form, it did not have any power.
Compared with Shouning, Li Yi's chess skills seemed very bad, or even no chess skills at all.
So it made Miss.Liu have the illusion that she could also beat him. This illusion was completely dispelled after five consecutive defeats.
On the other side, Yangliuqing touched Li Duan's head and said, "Well, that's all for today. Go and play …"
Li Duan cupped his hands to her in a chivalrous manner and ran to the other side to see his sister.
Yangliuqing turned around and saw that her master was blaming Uncle Li Yi for losing the game. The place where Uncle Ruyi was was also warm …
She looked at the situation in this small courtyard and couldn't help smiling.
For her, there was no place in this world that could compare to this place.
She stood in the shadow of the trees, facing a warm and harmonious family. When she turned around, there were only knives, spears, swords, halberds, mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
She walked out of the shadow of the trees and into the sun, but it seemed that she had walked into the deeper shadow.
She walked to Li Yi and Ruyi with a smile on her face and said, "Master, Uncle, I'm here to say goodbye to you …"
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