Appoint me as a spy, but the contact person is actually the empress

Chapter 20 There is not much time left for the Great Wei Dynasty
March fifteen.

early morning.

It has been seven or eight days since I met my connector.

During this period of time, Xu Shouyun's life was very boring. He went to Yanfu Palace to clock in and go to work every day. He thought that Eunuch Chen would find trouble for him if he had something to do.

But I didn't expect that the other party seemed to have changed his personality, and he ignored him. All the threats before seemed like a joke.

But it can't be said that there is no revenge at all, at least in Yanfu Palace, some eunuchs are not very willing to talk to him.

The palace maids didn't pay much attention to her, that is, the two sisters Yanyun and Yanyue were willing to chat with her, but they often stayed by Liu Taifei's side.

So Xu Shouyun was alone most of the time.

Eunuch Chen's method of revenge is a bit mentally retarded and isolates himself, but the effect is surprisingly good, because the palace is really boring.

Without any form of entertainment in his previous life, and without chatting with maids and sisters, Xu Shouyun was indeed a bit dull.

Fortunately, after coming back every day, I can occasionally chat with Li Jing.

Through this chat, Xu Shouyun got a piece of good news, that is, Da Wei might really want a pill.

Xu Shouyun generally has a certain understanding of the Great Wei Dynasty.

The Chu Dynasty did not lie to itself, the Great Wei Dynasty was indeed in crisis.

Before Renzong took over the Great Wei, he was already riddled with holes. With a series of means, he continued the fate of the Great Wei and at the same time made many concessions.

Let's talk about external troubles first and then internal troubles.

The foreign aggression is very simple. The three major dynasties in the world, the Chu Dynasty and the Jing Dynasty, the Chu Dynasty has a strong army and horses, and has always wanted to annex the Wei Dynasty.

At the same time, the grassland cavalry in the north of the Great Wei Dynasty repeatedly harassed you. This harassment is not sending an iron cavalry to invade your territory and then run away.

They came to plunder the supplies of the people on the border, and sometimes they would directly bloodbath a village. The men were killed, and the women were taken away as slaves. The children were taken as slaves when they were in a good mood, and they were killed directly when they were in a bad mood. The elderly did not need to ask.

When this kind of thing happened, the Wei Dynasty usually sent troops to guard it, and then there was no more, and even the officials of the Ministry of War suppressed such news.

To the south is the southern border area, where there is the royal court of the Nanman. These guys are even more powerful. The soldiers are not particularly strong, but in the deep mountains, you can't do anything about them.

After spending a lot of manpower and material resources, a "genius" in the court finally came up with a "genius" idea.

Let the other party take the initiative to admit that Wei is their suzerain, and then send a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and supplies to the country every year. Since then, diplomatic relations have been established. If Wei needs help in the future, you have to come and help.

The Nanman Royal Court would definitely be willing. They are not considered a big country, and they are much inferior to the northern nomadic tribes. They rely on the advantages of deep mountains, old forests, and terrain.

After several decades of raising the Nanman royal court in this way, the Southern barbarian royal court has become stronger and stronger, and is no longer weaker than the northern grassland cavalry.

Then they turned their faces and refused to recognize people, asking for more and more silver taels, and asking for women to be given to them, and even now directly asking for a marriage.

Let the Great Wei Dynasty send the princess to make a marriage, and ask three thousand maids to go there along the way.

Who doesn't know what this means?
Renzong chose to refuse, and as a result, the Nanman royal court joined forces with the northern prairie cavalry to directly invade Wei.

It was this battle that defeated Renzong. Because of this battle, the Great Wei died and injured more than 50 people. In the end, he had to agree to the request of the Nanman royal court.

And all the Guanshan Mountains in the south are lost.

By the way, the sixteen prefectures in the north are gone.

Renzong vomited blood and was depressed, and the Great Wei Dynasty almost collapsed.

Fortunately, during the two years before Renzong's death, the overall situation was abruptly stabilized through a series of means, and this series of means was to lose money and land.

Although humiliating, at least the situation was stabilized.

As for the east and west, it is slightly better, but not much better.

In the islands of the East China Sea, there are great powers from various countries, among which the Kingdom of Ying is the most powerful, and a large number of Japanese pirates roamed around, massacred the people near the sea, and plundered the resources of the people of Wei.

The west side is a little out of control, because the west side is the land of Buddhism. It was better before and could be controlled a little bit, but now it is no longer possible.

The people there only listened to the arrangement of the Buddhist temple, and the imperial power of the Wei Dynasty could not affect it, and the Buddhist sect had the support of the Jing Dynasty, so it was difficult to move.

This is the foreign aggression in the southeast and northwest of the Great Wei Dynasty.

【Eastern Sea Japanese Pirates】, 【Nanman King's Court】, 【Western Buddhist Kingdom】, 【Northern Grassland】

Let's talk about internal issues, it will be even more exciting, even more troublesome than his mother's late Ming Dynasty.

The Great Wei Dynasty adopted a 'cabinet system', without a prime minister, and the power equivalent to a prime minister became an organization.

And there are three forces in the court.

The radical faction headed by Liu Yanming, the chief minister of the cabinet, is extremely powerful.

The conservative faction headed by Yang Ning, a cabinet scholar, keeps a low profile.

The neutral faction headed by Li Jie, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, is the worst and weakest.

These three forces occupied the ruling and opposition parties, and the power of the emperor was greatly weakened, so that the emperor became the weakest existence.

It was better when Renzong was alive, but now that the empress is on the throne, almost everyone looks down on the emperor.

Subconsciously, I still feel that the generation of women, but there is still a little royalist in the court, but it is a pity that they can't beat others, and they all retired and returned to their hometowns.

[Imperial power is weak], this is the first question.

[Three Kings Struggle for Power], this is the second question.

Before Renzong died, he bestowed three princes with different powers. One was King Qin, who had the regency power, but he had to get the consent of the empress.

One is King Yan, who controls the military charms of the three major military camps, and is stationed near the capital.

The other one is King Ning. This prince is not in the capital, but is stationed in the area of ​​Nanyu. He is in charge of six military camps, has [-] cavalry, and has the imperial edict of Renzong.

If there is civil strife in Kyoto, you can lead troops into Beijing, and the Qing emperor will sideline you to eliminate traitors and sycophants.

Is it familiar?

Renzong's idea was too good. He was worried that his daughter would be weak after ascending the throne, so he asked his family to protect her.

But he would never have thought that his own family was the most ruthless to his own family.

King Qin's regent became Liu Yanming's biggest protection umbrella, and that's how the royalists were driven away.

The king of Yan was in charge of the army, and he was domineering in the Great Wei Dynasty, a hundred times more arrogant than the emperor.

King Ning was in power, and in the Nanyu area, he demanded a large amount of gold and silver at every turn. A three-year-old child knew what he wanted to do, but the court had to give it.

The only and only advantage is that the three kings struggled for power and reached a state of check and balance, but the prestige and power of the same emperor were cut again.

And that's not all.

It is rumored that the general in the Yungui area has colluded with the Chu Dynasty. This is the general who guards the Great Wei Pass.

If he betrayed the country, the Great Wei Dynasty would encounter an unprecedented crisis, so the court could only continue to give benefits, and even considered giving him the title of king, hoping that he could stabilize.

These are all power struggles.

Since the empress came to the throne, there have been years of disasters in the country. The two prefectures of Suzhou and Nanping suffered a severe drought. Countless people left their homes and became refugees.

As a result, a large number of Taoist sects have been born, under the pretext of shifting the destiny, changing the banner of the Emperor Star, conspiring to rebel, and ruining their lives.

There are still a few questions, so Xu Shouyun doesn't want to say more.

The empress dowager interferes in politics, officials are corrupted, the treasury is empty, and people eat more than enough food. These problems are not big problems.

There was a problem that was so serious that others didn't notice it, but Xu Shouyun noticed it.

Culture invasion.

Well, after chatting with Li Jing for a few days, Xu Shouyun wanted to publish a collection of lyrics and poems, but he didn't say it directly, he just talked about it.

From this, I learned that the poetry circles and ci circles of the Great Wei Dynasty prefer the Jing Dynasty recently, so Xu Shouyun asked about some clothing by the way.

Nowadays, many young scholars actually like some clothes of the countries in the East China Sea, like applying rouge, drinking and having fun, etc.

And all of this has a lot to do with the Four Seas Wenhui held every four years.

The Four Seas Literary Society is a gathering of scholars from all over the world, symbolizing the largest gathering in the literary world. After the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, it has been second every time. I thought it would win the first place sooner or later.

But what I didn't expect was that in the past hundred years, I haven't even won the top ten, especially the last time, it was second to last.

The Four Seas Cultural Society is known as the meeting of all nations, think about what the penultimate number represents.

So the scholars of Great Wei began to worship the culture of other countries one by one, but many people did not realize the crisis.

But Xu Shouyun knew that this thing was terrifying. In his previous life, his own country had suffered a huge loss, so that a bunch of dogs were born.

Of course, Xu Shouyun was quite happy about these things.

After all, once Great Wei is destroyed, he will be invincible in the world.

And Xu Shouyun also understood clearly.

There is not much time left for the Great Wei Dynasty.

Next, as long as the Great Wei Dynasty made a few more mistakes like changing rice to mulberry, the gods would not be able to save them.

well.

very good.

And at the same time.

In the morning, next to the main hall and in the side hall, Li Jie felt a little strange for no reason.

Because he found that many people looked at him with weird eyes.
(End of this chapter)