Chapter 1279 Cold Wave Rebellion, the Prince Goes to War

Three years later.

Wu Yi sent the four fierce beasts into the Daji Dynasty to stir up conflicts and alienate the upper and lower classes, but the Daji Dynasty did not see the bloody storm as Wu Yi expected, and even many sharp conflicts did not cause much change. After a little turmoil, it returned to silence.

The national fortune continued, and the general trend remained unchanged. The current emperor has been in office for nearly sixty years, holding great power, and his control over the local areas is unprecedentedly strong. Many premeditated plans have never been implemented, and they have become premeditated forever.

At present, it can really be said that the Daji emperor has stabilized this expanding ancient empire with his own strength. In recent years, the harvests in various places have been generally poor, and the cold wave continues to move south. The vast north has almost become a dead end and is no longer suitable for living.

The tribes in the north no longer want to go back and want to settle down in the south forever, but there is not enough food and not much undeveloped land. They have built a lot of water conservancy projects in recent years, but it is impossible to continue to build them!

Led by the food problem, various problems almost broke out at the same time. The Great Emperor was able to suppress all these contradictions. It must be said that he was worthy of being the emperor with the highest popularity in hundreds of years.

In the eyes of the people, the empire was safe and sound, and the people were happy. However, the high-ranking officials close to the emperor were more worried about one thing, that is, the emperor's life span.

The current emperor has always been known for his diligence. He attended court every day and reviewed hundreds of memorials. In fact, every emperor with great power must be diligent. If many things are left to his hands, it will inevitably lead to the transfer of power.

However, three years ago, the emperor had already changed to attending court every three days, and a month ago, it had changed to every five days. On weekdays, the officials began to let others read the memorials beside them instead of examining them in person, because they could no longer see clearly.

This real dragon on earth is old, and it is the law of heaven and earth. Who will become the next real dragon on earth?

The four princes who failed in the election system before, although they lost the right to inherit legally, it was not absolute, because the only blood heir left to the emperor today, the prince Zhier who was raised in the palace, had no experience of going out. If he could not be elected, how could he be qualified to inherit.

Although the four of them were defeated in the outside world and the people resented them, and they lost their qualification to inherit, they had been trained outside. Their years of experience in the palace gave them considerable power in the court and the country.

Therefore, seeing that their father was ill and about to collapse, they mobilized their own energy and prepared to seize power.

However, the emperor obviously did not have the idea of ​​letting his four incompetent sons succeed to the throne. Instead, this prince Zhier was very smart. The emperor held a ceremony for the crowning of the prince Zhier in advance before the New Year. However, the prince Zhier was only thirteen years old, far from the age of crowning.

The crown means adulthood, and adulthood means that one can inherit the throne. In addition, the emperor mentioned earlier asked someone to read the memorial beside him. This person is the prince Zhier.

In fact, the palace no longer calls him Zhier. He has his own name, Jiang Qi, and his courtesy name is Yuque. Qi means beautiful jade, and Yuque means there is a flaw in the jade.

When the emperor gave this name to the prince Zhier, he just hoped that the prince would always be dissatisfied and know how to be content and make progress. However, in the interpretation of outsiders, it became the emperor's idea that the child was not qualified enough to inherit the throne.

And who spread this rumor, I don't need to say more. The emperor asked the prince Jiang Qi to be by his side and read the memorial for him. Even the common people understand this meaning. It is obviously to cultivate a successor, okay? Many "emperor's skills" were passed down in this way.

The four princes tried to change the emperor's mind, but this idea was doomed to be futile.

In this way, half a year passed, and winter came again. The cold wave from the north crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and blew all the way to the southernmost tip of the continent. For the first time in history, snow fell at the southernmost tip of the continent. Many crops froze to death. The houses in the south were not built to prevent cold. No one expected such a fierce cold wave, and many people died in this natural disaster.

The southernmost tip was still like this, and the result in the north was even more tragic. There were victims everywhere. It was not as simple as one place or one village, but a large-scale, universal disaster.

After the victims ate the food in one place, they moved to another place, just like locusts, or even worse than locusts. The famine spread like a plague. The treasuries in various places were smashed open, and the food obtained was only enough for a few days.

The flying snow fell heavily, covering the surface, one meter deep, making it impossible for people and horses to pass, and the transmission of information from various places was forced to stop. After the riots of the victims in many places reached Zhongdu City, it was already half a month later, and the dispatch of troops from various places to suppress them was not worth the loss because of the difficult roads.

The information transmission was cut off or slow, and the emperor in Zhongdu City lost his eyes and ears, and his decision-making could not be as perfect as before.

The blockade of information brought about the people's unrest, and rumors spread everywhere. As for the even rumor that the emperor had died, it was really treasonous.

However, there was one thing that the court and the people had a relatively unified view on, that is, the heaven and man were in harmony, and the heaven and earth must have done something wrong to send down such a disaster.

The theory of the heaven and man in harmony can curb the unlimited expansion of imperial power, but it can also be used by people with ulterior motives as an excuse to attack current politics.

In fact, because of this incident, many people pointed the finger at the next emperor appointed by the emperor, that is, Prince Zhier. How could he be the emperor without the election system? This has never happened since the two emperors Rui and Xuan. The scholars discussed it.

There were natural disasters outside and succession disputes inside. The news was cut off from each other because of the blizzard. Conspiracies were brewing and wars were born. This cold wave destroyed the peaceful appearance that the emperor had painstakingly maintained, and the biggest chaos in a thousand years appeared.

At this critical moment, Prince Zhier, now Prince Jiang Qi, resolutely asked the emperor to personally rescue the disaster and save the people from the suffering.

Everyone thought that this prince was crazy. If you go out to rescue the disaster at this time, the victims will eat you alive, but they don’t care whether you are a prince or not. They only have food in their eyes, but do you have it in your hands?

There is also a statement that is not convenient to be made public, that is, once Prince Jiang Qi leaves Zhongdu City and arrives at the place, it will be fine if he is really killed by the people. If the other princes ambush the swordsmen and axes into the disaster victims, wouldn’t it be self-destruction?

To everyone’s surprise, the emperor agreed to this request and allocated 30,000 imperial guards to Prince Jiang Qi, who was driven by him, and he took away half of the dynasty’s treasury.

If you want to achieve a great position, you must have great merits!