"Your Majesty, let me take a look."
Back at Fuhua Palace, the children were taken away. As soon as the palace maids left, Bei Lingyao started to strip Emperor Yanxing of his clothes.
"I'm not injured."
Although Emperor Yanxing said this, he did not stop Bei Lingyao's behavior.
Although he personally led the army to boost morale, he also wanted to fight the enemy himself.
He studied military books and practiced martial arts diligently since he was young, just for this day.
However, he didn't expect that he would not have the chance to make a move at all. The officials, guards, generals and the general manager Xiu Fu would not give him this opportunity.
Whenever he had the slightest idea, not only his ministers and generals, but even the chief steward Xiu Fu beside him would kowtow to him.
However, it feels good to sit in the rear, plan strategies, and make decisions thousands of miles away.
"I am well protected."
There was a hint of helplessness in Emperor Yanxing's tone.
"That's great! The Emperor should reward them."
Bei Lingyao put her arms around Emperor Yanxing's waist and pressed her face against his chest. "Your Majesty has lost weight. I know you want to personally fight the enemy, but a gentleman never stands under a dangerous wall. When the children grow up, I will fight the enemy with Your Majesty."
Emperor Yanxing: “…”
"Your Majesty, please don't underestimate me. Since Your Majesty personally led the army into battle, I have been studying military books and practicing martial arts every day, never slacking off."
Bei Lingyao raised her chin as she spoke, "If the Emperor doesn't believe me, you can ask the Crown Prince and his civil and military instructors."
"I trust you"
Emperor Yanxing always thought that Bei Lingyao was a very hardworking person.
Although she didn't come from a high-class family, after he got to know her, she worked hard to learn to read, practice calligraphy, and read, and she learned very quickly.
In the past few years, he has been somewhat amazed at Bei Lingyao's speed of learning and progress.
But it is not that easy to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.
Even though he had been practicing martial arts since he was a child and held the power of life and death, he still felt very uncomfortable when he first saw the mountains of corpses and the blood and flesh on the battlefield.
Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you understand the cruelty on the battlefield.
Seeing this, Bei Lingyao's eyes lit up, and Emperor Yanxing no longer dared to think about going into battle to kill the enemy.
"I won't go. I didn't see the battle to defend the capital, but the battlefield in the northwest was very cruel. The Yu people and rebels like Jiang Liangji burned, killed, and looted, and they took any beautiful woman, regardless of age."
At this point, Emperor Yanxing clenched his fists and said, "Before the Great Jing Dynasty, there were continuous wars and the population was drastically reduced. During the years when I ascended the throne, the Dongyang Kingdom and the Western Jin Kingdom also harassed the border, and it was General Mu Rong who repelled the enemy.
Now, more than ten years have passed, and there has been no movement from the Dongyang and Xijin kingdoms. The Yu people have invaded, Jiang Liangji has rebelled, and my brothers have also rebelled, resulting in countless casualties."
"How does the Emperor intend to deal with the Princes of Qi, Han, and Xiang?"
Bei Lingyao didn't ask about Prince Yi who was imprisoned.
"Before I returned to the capital, I ordered three teams to go to their fiefdoms and capture the King of Qi, the King of Han, and the King of Xiang and bring them back to the capital."
"How many people did the Emperor send? The Three Kings have quite a few."
"Don't worry, Queen. The thunderbolts during the battle to defend the city have caused the three kings to lose the support of the people. In order to redeem themselves from their crimes, their subordinates will make the right choice."
Bei Lingyao did not ask any more questions. The three kings were indeed miserable. Even though they escaped all the way back to their fiefdom, they were still scolded by the people.
The scholars wrote article after article full of curse words.
The common people were even more direct, throwing whatever they could along the way.
The imperial power is supreme, and the subjects and common people have a natural fear of the royal descendants.
However, the three kings rebelled and forcibly conscripted young men, causing too many families to be broken up and many people to lose their loved ones. They hated the three kings to death.
Prince Yi was luckier and was captured by Emperor Yanxing, but the three princes were ahead and were ignored.
There was also a Prince Qing who, although he intended to rebel, was hindered by natural disasters in his fiefdom.
He also wanted to wait for the other brothers to fight so that he could reap the benefits.
Now I am very grateful.
At this time, the fiefs of the three kings were arranged by Emperor Yanxing as he had expected.
The King of Qi, the King of Han, and the King of Xiang were tied up by their subordinates and forced to make amends for their crimes.
They couldn't believe it and never expected to be betrayed by their subordinates.
The queen dowager, princess and other female relatives were even more frightened.
"take away"
The families of the King of Qi, the King of Han, and the King of Xiang were brought to the capital, and the three were held in the main hall.
Including Prince Yi who was promoted.
Emperor Yanxing looked at his four embarrassed brothers and said quietly, "I grew up listening to your stories. When I was three years old, my father passed the throne to me and told me frankly that I wasn't the son he had hoped for. He said that every one of my brothers was better than me and more suitable for the throne, and asked me to learn from them."
"Although I am a puppet emperor, I am also diligent and eager to learn. I privately pester the lecturer to tell me more about the deeds of my brothers. However, after years of hard work, I regard them as my role models, but in retrospect, I find that they are not as good as my father said."
Emperor Yanxing believed that as descendants of the royal family, no matter how they fought internally, they would be united when facing the outside world.
This is the consensus that all royal descendants should have.
After all, Dajing Jiangshan’s surname is Zhao, and they are all descendants of the royal family.
Without the big picture, they are nothing.
Even when facing foreign invasion, the people will first deal with the foreigners.
However, when foreign enemies invaded, several brothers ignored the safety of Dajing, the people, and even the royal family, and took advantage of the situation to rebel and even collaborate with the enemy.
I am afraid that the world will not be in chaos.
Emperor Yanxing was quite disappointed.
The King of Qi, the King of Yi, the King of Han, and the King of Xiang were all stunned.
Years of obsession have made them forget their original intention, and they do not take foreign enemies seriously.
He just wanted to sit on the throne first, and then deal with the Yu people and Jiang Liangji.
Jiang Liangji must be killed. The Yu people are not difficult to deal with. Even if we cannot defeat them, we can negotiate peace and marry their daughter to us. It is not a big deal.
They felt very uncomfortable after hearing what Emperor Yanxing said.
"Your Majesty is just luckier than us. If we were to sit on the throne, we would only do better than Your Majesty."
"There is no disabled emperor in the imperial family."
As soon as Emperor Yanxing finished speaking, several princes disagreed, saying, "Even if we can't become emperor, we still have descendants."
If all these brothers were killed, they could still become emperor no matter how disabled they were.
But these words were not spoken.
"When I say you're not as good as me, you're not. Go down to the fields and accompany your father. Let him see how good his son is, the one he's so proudly showing off to me."
Emperor Yanxing was too lazy to argue with his brothers. They did not recognize their own problems at all. They were just obsessed and crazy about their father.
Ultimately, it's my father's fault.
I heard that my father did not like the Crown Prince, so I praised all the other brothers, making each of them feel that he was the heir favored by my father and had the opportunity to compete with the Crown Prince.
"If you want to blame someone, blame the emperor. If you have any dissatisfaction or resentment, go and tell him."
Emperor Yanxing waved his hand and said, "Please rest. Give the princes some respect."
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