Standing on a high place and looking down, you can see the vast sea not far away from the top of the mountain ridge.
"This place was originally called Tangjiabao. In the distance is the Bohai Bay. From here, you can go out to sea in any direction, from the east to the west to the north. You can reach Jiaozhou Bay nearby, from Luosha in the north to Tianzhu in the south. This fortress was built when Goguryeo was in danger."
Emperor Zhaode spoke slowly and with a playful look on his face: "You are different than I thought. Smarter and calmer, many times better than your biological father - how did you know this was Jinzhou Prefecture? Did Bai'an ask you to memorize the map?"
Xianjin shook his head: "During the Baiduo Rebellion, 80% of the refugees from the two places attacked the capital city from Jinzhou Prefecture. On the eve of the attack, the official on duty in Jinzhou Prefecture hanged himself at home - this is the only suspicious point about the Baiduo Rebellion."
"From this it is not difficult to guess: perhaps your base camp is not in Hebei, nor in the capital, but in Jinzhou Prefecture, which is well connected but has a small area." Xianjin folded his hands on his abdomen, and spoke every word calmly and majestically.
Emperor Zhaode leaned back and said, "You also think that the Baiduo Rebellion was my doing?"
Xianjin said nothing.
Emperor Zhaode finally stopped smiling, and a hint of annoyance appeared between his brows: "Oh, the famine is real, the ineffective disaster relief is real, the refugees are real, and the desperate situation is also real - what does this have to do with me!?"
"Your father, my eldest brother, was indecisive and didn't dare to make decisions right away. He kept delaying the Shandong Provincial Administration Commissioner's memorial to the court, which stated that drought was likely to cause a major disaster and requested the court to allocate funds to prevent and deal with it. He put it off again and again! He turned a small disaster into a major epidemic and a minor illness into a serious disease!"
"When the famine and the refugees became uncontrollable, my brother selected officials who were talented but incompetent to rush to Shandong to deal with the emergency! What can he do? Write poems to boost morale or draw pictures to record the situation!?"
Emperor Zhaode stared at Xianjin with sinister eyes: "One incompetent general can tire out the entire army! Your father has no sense of propriety in family affairs and no understanding of state affairs! Why can't I take his place?!"
"Because I am the daughter of a seventh-rank beauty, and he is the daughter of the empress's legitimate wife?"
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