I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 308 These people are the shit stirrers, so who is the shit?
Not long after, Li Yannian also rushed to Lanling Palace in a panic.

"Sister, why is this happening?"

As soon as he dismissed his attendants, Li Yannian asked the same question that Li Qing'er could not help but ask Su Wen when he heard the imperial edict, his beardless face full of worry.

"It is not clear at the moment. I only heard from Su Wen that Your Majesty received Li Ji's imperial edict before issuing this edict."

Li Qing'er shook her head. Now she was much calmer and had figured out more details.
"From this, I suspect that this matter is most likely related to the Crown Prince. Li Ji's feathered letter must have mentioned something related to the Crown Prince, which angered Your Majesty, and that's why Your Majesty warned Li in this way."

"It's a pity that my elder brother is currently on a business trip in Jingzhou. Otherwise, if I asked him, perhaps the answer would be clearer."

The person Li Qing'er wants to see most now is Li Guangli.

She wanted Li Guangli to explain his original warning clearly and thoroughly understand what kind of person the prince was. Only in this way could she ensure that Li would make the most correct choice in the future.

"Eldest brother?"

Hearing this, Li Yannian immediately remembered Li Guangli's original warning.

"Sister, what you mean is that what happened is that Li Ji wrote something in the imperial edict to interfere with the crown prince, and Your Majesty punished him for it?"

"Besides this reason, is there anything else?"

Li Qing'er asked back.

Li Yannian recalled his recent behavior and confirmed that nothing could have caused such consequences.

As for Li Qing'er asking this question, naturally there should be no such thing, and it is even more impossible for Li Guangli to have such a question. After all, Li Guangli is not in Chang'an at all, and has been entrusted with a real important task by Liu Che, which is more practical than him as the "Xiedu Duwei".

and so……

"Hey, what should I do?"

Li Yannian sighed sadly and asked in a daze.

"At this point, I'm afraid the only thing I can do is to fix the problem before it's too late..."

Li Qing'er's beautiful eyes moved as she pondered,
"Second brother, it is not convenient for me to enter the palace, and my eldest brother is not here, so I can only rely on you to do this."

"You must immediately write a letter and have someone secretly send it to Liaodong. Hand it to Li Ji as soon as possible, telling him to keep a low profile and not to criticize the Crown Prince in his memorials. If he does make a memorial, he must only say what is pleasing to the ear, praising the Crown Prince and flattering him. In short, write whatever is beneficial to the Crown Prince and never say a word about him."

"Since I became pregnant, I haven't visited the Queen for some time."

"Later, I will order the nurse to bring Bo'er to the Pepper Palace to pay homage in person. From now on, my mother and I will get closer to the Queen. Perhaps this will allow His Majesty and the Crown Prince to see that Li is not arrogant because of her son, and at least it won't make things worse."

After hearing this, Li Yannian finally gained some confidence and nodded repeatedly:

"Yes, yes, that's it, let's do it this way, I'll do it over here!"

Looking at Li Yannian's hurriedly leaving back.

Li Qing'er's eyes showed a trace of fatigue, and she sighed secretly:

"My second brother and my younger brother have no ideas when encountering problems, and they are easily influenced and used by others. They are often not reliable."

"Big brother has changed a lot since he accompanied the crown prince on his two trips. Not only has he become more confident, but he has also gained a bit of foresight that even I can't match...Is big brother's change also because of the crown prince?"

"How far the Li family can go in the future, whether it will be a blessing or a curse, I'm afraid it all depends on my eldest brother..."

"Somebody come!"

"promise!"

"Dress me up and have the nurse bring Bo'er here. My son and I are going to the Pepper Room to pay our respects to the Queen."

……

at the same time.

Liu Ju and his companions had already arrived in Zhuo County, Youzhou, but his ears were still uneasy.

"Your Highness, as the saying goes, a red man becomes redder when he is near a red man, and a black man becomes blacker when he is near a black man. It is also said that evil men stay away from each other, and good men are close to each other."

Zhao Zhou bowed before Liu Ju and tried to persuade him earnestly.

"Gongsun Qing and his gang of rumormongers have bad conduct. Your Highness, as the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, has close ties with them. Even if you are determined not to be contaminated by people's bad habits, if you are seen by outsiders, I am afraid you will still be criticized. Please make sure to draw a clear line between yourself and these rumormongers."

Although Zhao Zhou is no longer the prime minister, he is still the prince's tutor. Even if this is just an empty title, legally speaking, he still has the qualifications and obligations to persuade Liu Ju to study and do good.

And Zhao Zhou really has no selfish motives now.

After talking with Liu Ju that day, he really regarded Liu Ju as his savior. Otherwise, if it were in the past, he would have just turned a blind eye to the matter and just wanted to keep himself out of it.

"Mr. Zhao is absolutely right."

Ni Kuan at the side also echoed and said, "Confucius has three things he hates: he hates purple stealing red, he hates Zheng music disrupting classical music, and he hates eloquence subverting the country. These rumormongers have always disrupted etiquette with their nonsense, just like Zheng music disrupting classical music, and they use their eloquence to deceive people, just like eloquence subverting the country."

"Your Highness, if you keep communicating with them for a long time, you will definitely suffer from their chaos. You must be on guard, Your Highness!"

Liu Ju laughed when he heard this, and said to the two of them slowly:
"Mr. Zhao, Mr. Ni, I understand the logic of what you two said."

"But I believe in a saying when hiring people, which is 'make the best use of things and people's talents'. Although they were liars before, they are not without merit in terms of courage, means, insight into people's hearts and imagination, and they may not be useless."

"Also, I might as well ask you two a question."

"If there is a dry toilet in front of you, and you want to stir the feces and urine in the toilet, would you choose a golden sacrificial stick made of fine jade, or a dung scoop made of rotten wood?"

"..."

Zhao Zhou and Ni Kuan could only look at each other and smile bitterly when they heard this.

They had not had much contact with Liu Ju before and had never had such "in-depth" communication, so they were naturally unable to withstand the vulgar language that Liu Ju came out of his mouth.

And they couldn’t understand it.

Liu Ju was born in the palace and became the crown prince at the age of seven. He also received a good education from great Confucian scholars and wise men since childhood. Such a person should have excellent etiquette and cultivation no matter what he said or did. How could he talk about feces and urine so carelessly? This is probably rare even among those uneducated children of princes and nobles, right?
But here's the thing.

Liu Ju's vulgar and obscene words are often impossible to refute.

Since the purpose is to stir up shit, naturally no one would choose an exquisitely carved golden sacrificial stick. One must use a dung shovel specially used for scooping and stirring shit... Is the logic behind this even a bit thought-provoking?
Beyond that, there's another problem.

They could also hear that Liu Ju was comparing Gongsun Qing, a rumormonger and alchemist, to a "dung shovel" that stirs up shit.

But since it means stirring up shit, then what does “shit” refer to?
While speaking.

"Report!"

Guo Zhen's voice came from outside the tent. After receiving the response, he walked in quickly and presented a bamboo tube with chicken feathers stuck in it to Liu Ju.
"Your Highness, this is an urgent report sent by General Han Shuo from the front!"

"The results will be available so soon?"

Liu Ju took the bamboo tube, broke the seal on it, took out the bamboo slips and examined them carefully.

Zhao Zhou and Ni Kuan also temporarily put aside their previous dispute over "trouble-making", and looked over with curiosity.

Han said that the army and the delegation had only set out less than ten days earlier than Liu Ju and his men. Even if Han's march was faster and Liu Ju and his men were not walking too fast or too slow, the gap should not be too big.

Therefore, taking into account the time it took to send back the urgent report, Han said that the army and the delegation should have just arrived at the Perak River on the border of Wiman Joseon.

As far as Liu knows, in the pre-Qin period, the Pei River referred to the Yalu River, while in the Han Dynasty, the Pei River referred to the Cheongcheon River.

However, there is a saying that has been circulated in both the Pre-Qin and Han dynasties:
"As long as we cross the Pei River, we can capture Wang Jian City in one fell swoop."

Wang Jiancheng was the royal capital of the previous Gojoseon and also the royal capital of the current Wiman Joseon. Conquering the royal capital was naturally equivalent to destroying the country.

There is nothing we can do about it.

Wei Man Joseon is like other small countries. It has no geographical depth and only one proper city. Once the city is besieged, there is no plan for rescue. How can it resist the Han cavalry?
What's more, this time, Liu Che directly delivered a "serious punch" to the Han Dynasty. How could Wei Man Joseon resist it?
Therefore, even without reading the urgent news, Liu Ju was extremely optimistic about the outcome of the war.

really!

"As soon as the Han army arrived at the Peregrine River, Wei Man Joseon received the news in advance, and especially after hearing about the 'Mutual Security Treaty', chaos had already occurred."

Liu Ju handed the urgent report to Zhao Zhou and Ni Kuan, and said with a happy face,
"Some of the vassal nobles of Wei Man Joseon assassinated Wei Youqu, and they all rushed to restore their country names. They sent envoys to the Pei River to welcome the Han army and the delegation, requesting to join our Han's 'Mutual Security Treaty' and support our Han in establishing a 'Joint Protectorate' on the Korean Peninsula, and from then on, they would advance and retreat together with the Han."

This is already a reserved skill of the small countries surrounding the Han Dynasty.

Whether it is Dongyue, Wei Man Joseon, or Dayuan, there are countless examples like this...

Whenever the Han Dynasty was too lazy to argue with them, the kings of these small countries would start to be shameless and would jump out to show their presence in various matters in order to demonstrate their toughness and authority and gain some political benefits. They were very much like those tiny countries in later generations that followed behind the Lighthouse Country and barked at the knees of the Celestial Empire.

Not only did he deceive the people, he even deceived himself, just like a toad that doesn't bite but is disgusting.

But once the Han Dynasty delivers a "serious punch", these small countries will immediately activate their reserved skills - killing the king and surrendering.

This is how the Han Dynasty's war of conquest of Korea ended in history. In the beginning, Xun Zhui and Yang Pu did a lot of ridiculous things to compete for credit, which caused the Han army to be completely consumed by internal strife. Finally, Emperor Liu Che couldn't stand it anymore, and after killing several messengers who didn't understand the situation, he ordered Xun Zhui and Yang Pu to attack directly.

Then the Han army showed some of its true strength, and Wei Man Joseon's nobles and ministers immediately killed Wei Youqu. One after another, they raised the banner of surrender and submitted to the Han Dynasty, hoping to be rewarded with the title of marquis or king for their surrender.

Although this time the process was slightly different from that in history, it was also a replica of history to some extent and did not surprise Liu Ju too much.

And this is exactly the result Liu Ju wants to see most.

As the saying goes, the best strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, the next best is to attack their alliances, the next best is to attack their troops, and the worst is to attack their cities.

The entire Korean Peninsula was taken over without bloodshed. Now as long as the Han army officially stationed troops to take over, he can go out to sea to stir up trouble!

(End of this chapter)