Can you live forever

Chapter 159 Changing clan to ancestor, declaring war

"Practice so that the body looks like a crane, and there are two scriptures under a thousand pine trees."

"I came to ask and Wu Yu said, the clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle."

In the Qianqing Palace, Jiajing was holding a collection of Daoist rhymes, and happened to turn to Li Ao's "Two Poems by Wei Yan, an Eminent Monk Sending Medicine Mountain", and recited these two lines of poems with deep feeling.

Fighting fiercely with Fei Hong these years, I really don't have much time to spare to practice.

Fortunately, Yang Ting and the "Confessions" allowed him to successfully put Empress Dowager Zhang under house arrest, and the harem was at peace. He didn't have to worry about being assassinated when he slept at night, and he didn't have to worry about the poison in the soup.

Now his son has grown up smoothly and did not die early, which is better than anything else.

It's just that Fei Hong is different from Yang Tinghe. Yang Tinghe is a gambler and is willing to put all his chips up in the game, so he can win big and lose big.

King Ning's rebellion, murder of Zhengde, and succession of vassal kings were all written by Yang Tinghe.

Therefore, when Yang Tinghe is in a high position, he is extremely prominent and powerful, but as long as he seizes the opportunity and fights against Yang Tinghe, if he can win, it will be a big victory.

He won the big ceremony, and Yang Tinghe was forced to resign.

Deng Wen encouraged Zhang Zhixiang to win, Yang Tinghe presented "Confessions", and his son Yang Shen was exempted from exile.

Jiajing actually liked opponents like Yang Tinghe, but Fei Hong was much more annoying. He never made big bets, and was best at cutting meat slowly, and was good at taking advantage of the system.

The entire imperial examination system is the root of the gentry class.

Those who passed the exam to become officials were all scholar-bureaucrats, teachers and students, fellow villagers, classmates, all inextricably linked. He just wanted to promote people who were loyal to him. There is a relationship again...

There are very few people who are willing to be lonely ministers to the emperor.

As a result, he could only try his best to balance the court and let his words be effective, but Fei Hong poisoned Zhang Cong, and Nanjing brought Xia Yan into the cabinet through court discussions. He is indeed in trouble now.

but……

"Huang Ban, is the martial arts conference in Zhoushan about to start?" Jiajing closed the book and asked aloud.

Huang Jin quickly replied: "In the past two days, I heard that the master of the country is now unrivaled in cultivation, and when he wins the championship in the martial arts competition, he will come to the capital to help the Lord Long Live."

"Fei Hong, Xia Yan and those old thieves need to watch their heads carefully."

Jiajing smiled and said: "Don't let the court go to nagging Anping about these dirty things. He can beat all the heroes in Zhoushan, and I can't let him down. He is trapped in the capital."

"Huang Ban, go get ready, I'm going on a southern tour."

Huang Jin didn't react all of a sudden, and said in surprise: "South, south tour?"

"No, Lord Long Live, Emperor Zhengde has learned from the past, and we must not repeat the same mistakes. Nanjing is a dragon's lake and a tiger's den. Those people will definitely murder Lord Long Live!"

Jiajing smiled lightly and said, "I have a national teacher, what are you afraid of? After crossing the Yangtze River and the martial arts conference is over, the national teacher will come to protect me."

"Moreover."

"If I stay in the capital and grind with them slowly, I don't know when this game will be broken. Why don't you go on a southern tour, go to Nanjing, go to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, and pay homage to Emperor Taizu Gao."

Huang Jin still felt that something was wrong, gritted his teeth, knelt down and said, "My slave please ask Long Live Lord Tiao Yu to go south to accompany you!"

An eunuch suggested that the side general should be transferred to accompany him, which would easily arouse suspicion. Naturally, Huang Jin knew the consequences of this, but he still said it. Jiajing heard it and said with emotion: "You are a loyal one."

"However, Yu Dayou can't be with me. All eggs are put in one basket. It's not a good chance for others to catch them all."

"Yu Dayou is not in Liaodong, and there are no people from me in the frontier army, so that would be bad."

"Maybe as soon as I left, they joined forces with Dahan, and the Tatar army directly killed the capital. It is possible for the capital to be breached."

"At that time, I will be the second Yingzong."

Huang Jin broke out in a cold sweat, kowtowed and said, "Your servant deserves to die, my servant deserves to die..."

"Okay, okay, you just don't understand, what is there to blame yourself for?"

Jiajing patted Huang Jin in relief, and said, "Call Yan Song and Marquis Wuding Guo Xun to come over, I want to discuss the southern tour with them..." Before Jiajing finished speaking, there was a commotion outside.

He frowned and stood up, looking at the eunuch who stumbled in from outside.

"What's the matter?"

"Back to Lord Long Live, when the envoy of the Date Kingdom of Beishangzhou arrived in the capital, the envoy Yiqiong said that he was an old friend of the national teacher, and that he had something important to report to His Majesty, saying that this matter involved the survival of hundreds of millions of living beings in Kyushu. Yu Dayou, the commander of the Liaodong Metropolis, eight hundred Li Jia is in a hurry, saying that this matter is true, and respectfully invites the Holy Tribunal."

"Xuan."

Naturally, Jiajing would not be blind to overseas affairs. In fact, over the years, he has ordered Cui Wen to send staff to the West Factory to collect information from all over the world, and he has a clear understanding of the world situation.

The Xu family and the Wang family are fighting for sea power, and the martial arts conference is the key to future sea power wars.

The Beishangzhou route has been cut off for several years, but something big may happen...

"The foreign minister, Yiqiong, has met His Majesty the Emperor."

"There is no need to be too polite. Ten years ago, your Yida tribe escorted Dengwengu to Beijing with the national teacher. I kept it in my heart. I promised Fangfeng that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, you could come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute and conduct research and trade. The Kingdom of Date was originally my vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. If you have any difficulties, please speak up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Yiqiong got up and explained the current situation in Beishangzhou in detail. The method of poisoning by the Xiluo people was appalling, but Jiajing, as the emperor, was not very surprised.

He frowned, seeing a farther future.

In the remote and barren land of Xiluozhou, no matter how cruel and cunning the Xiluo barbarians are, their development is limited, not to mention that the plague has been raging in that place for hundreds of years, it can be said that they are barbarians among barbarians.

but.

If all the natives of Shangzhou are killed and the Xiluo people monopolize the resources of Shangzhou, then after two or three hundred years, the Xiluo people may not be able to become the other pole of the world.

And Daming will have to face the "Great Cold World" next, and needs to cope with the catastrophe.

If the Great Ming failed in the robbery, and the land of China would be empty, and when a new dynasty develops, it will be difficult to say which one is stronger in the East and the West at that time.

maybe……

Jiajing made a decision in his heart, got up immediately, and ordered: "pass down the order, I will go to Taimiao to worship ancestors tomorrow, let the Ministry of Rites draw up regulations, change Emperor Taizong as Chengzu, move Renzong out of the Nine Temples, and improve Xingxian Emperor."

Yiqiong was confused and didn't understand what Jiajing meant.

Knowing that she was Zhang Zhixiang's friend, Huang Jin kindly explained: "Emperor Taizong sent Zheng He seven voyages to the West to establish a tribute system. The whole world will come to worship me, Daming. According to the Chinese custom, the name of the emperor's temple should start with the ancestors. "

"Long Live God changed the name of the Taizong Temple to Chengzu, and he is honored as the second ancestor of the Ming Dynasty."

"It shows the admiration of the Lord Long Live to Chengzu, and he also wants to follow Chengzu's seven voyages to the West and rebuild the tribute system."

"As for removing Renzong."

"Only nine months after Renzong succeeded to the throne, the civil officials headed by San Yang made Daming lose Annan. Since then, Daming has lost half of its control over Nanyang. Later, the Xuanwei Department of the old port was also lost, and it was completely unable to sail far."

"Respecting Chengzu and Yirenzong, it is the Lord Long Live who is declaring war on them."

"As for Emperor Xingxian, that's the emperor's test of Lord Long Live."

"Long Live Lord's literary and martial arts, Emperor Xingxian is naturally qualified to be in the Taimiao."

(PS: Jiajing’s Taoist name is Emperor Longevity, so it’s okay to call him Longevity Lord.)
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