Steel Dynasty - Chapter 693

[Chapter 692: Serving as a warning]

Lying on the seat, the sunlight outside the window made Xiao Ming squint his eyes slightly.

Out of intuition, he instinctively believed that the British would play a disgraceful role this time, and the country that was likely to benefit was the Japanese country.

After all, a stirrer is a stirrer, and creating national conflicts has always been what the UK is good at. In the contemporary era, as the former British Empire, before the collapse of this world-wide colony, the UK deliberately left a lot of areas around the world. Conflict potential.

For example, in contemporary India, India and Pakistan originally had a good plan to govern separately, but they left a Kashmir region behind, which led to several conflicts between India and Pakistan.

In the Middle East, Britain turned Kuwait from a province of Iraq into a British protectorate. Later, the two countries became independent, but it still gave Iraq an excuse to launch the Gulf War.

The most important thing is that the United Kingdom, as an island country outside the European continent, has long pursued a policy of “glorious isolation”. In order to prevent the rise of a powerful country on the European continent and compete with it for hegemony, it puts a little shoe on France today and beats Germany tomorrow, causing Europe to No peace.

Although the conflicts between the countries on the European continent are the main factor, they cannot escape the relationship with the British in fanning the flames.

Xiao Ming was naturally disgusted with such a country that had the aura of being a troublemaker. Of course, other countries on the European continent were not good birds either, and they always looked at other races with discriminatory eyes.

Putting down the memorial, Xiao Ming fell into deep thought. The bombardment of the Dreadnought by the British warship this time was no less than an act of war. He was not Cixi who would rather have friends than domestic slaves, nor would he consider China’s material resources and the favor of his country.

From the moment he came to this world, he was destined to end the Western tyranny in the world. However, the border troubles of Dayu have not yet been resolved, and Korea and Japan are eyeing them. He has no energy to deal with these foreign guests.

However, it was impossible for him to swallow his anger, so he picked up a pen and wrote on the memorial: “As soon as the British warship is discovered, sink it immediately.”

After writing, Xiao Ming handed the memorial to Qian Dafu and asked him to hand it over. The inn will send you back to Qingzhou.

Qian Dafu had just left when Pang Yukun came in a hurry. When he arrived at the imperial study, he said to Xiao Ming, “Your Majesty, General Niu Ben is back.”

Xiao Ming was overjoyed when he heard this. Most of the troops in this war were transferred away, and Qingzhou basically It was no different from an empty city, and Xiao Ming was also a little uneasy about this.

Now that the army is back, he is relieved.

After a pause, Pang Yukun continued: “Your Majesty, this time General Niu Ben brought Prince Zhao and his son, Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince back to Qingzhou.”

When he said this, Pang Yukun stared at Xiao Ming. After all, this Things are a bit sensitive.

“Empress Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince?” Xiao Ming suddenly sighed, “You will really leave me with problems.”

After saying that, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study and went to the political hall. Since Niu Ben had brought everyone back , he naturally has to deal with it.

When they arrived at the Yizheng Hall, Niu Ben and others were already waiting.

Xiao Ming sat down on the dragon chair and said: “General Niu Ben is tired. Holding Juyong Pass and conquering Chang’an is a great achievement. I will definitely be rewarded this time.”

Lu Fei, Qi Guangyi, Bai Mu and other generals heard this Everyone showed smiles, but Niu Ben had a calm look on his face. He said: “Your Majesty, this time I will have both merit and demerit. I am ashamed of Your Majesty and dare not accept the merit.”

Xiao Ming was startled for a moment. He had once accused Niu Ben of delaying Due to the war, there has been no attack on Qingzhou. Niu Ben’s words must be because of this incident.

However, for Xiao Ming, there is another meaning behind Niu Ben’s words, that is, he is worried that his great achievements will shock his master.

The Niu Ben of today is no longer the Niu Ben of the past. After working in the mines, Niu Ben’s spirit has been worn away. What he wants most now is probably to spend the rest of his life in peace.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming’s view, Niu Ben deliberately made some small mistakes and left them to Xiao Ming to achieve the purpose of not continuing to be promoted to official.

After all, Niu Ben is almost impossible to seal anymore.

At this time, Xiao Ming glanced at Pang Yukun, and Pang Yukun nodded to Xiao Ming. Obviously, he meant that Xiao Ming should balance his merits and demerits this time and no longer canonize Niu Ben.

He nodded and said: “Even so, General Niu Ben’s merits outweigh his faults. Just to stop the officials from talking, I will not confer another title. This time, I will reward you with three thousand taels of silver.”

Niu Ben Feeling relieved, he hurriedly said, “Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness.”

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Ming asked, “Where are Prince Zhao and his son now? Where are Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince?”

“Back to the Emperor, Prince Zhao and his son have been sent to the Qingzhou Prison. Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince were both rebels and were also sent to the Qingzhou Prison. “

Fiji was also in the palace. He immediately became anxious and said, “That’s ridiculous, what’s going on with Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince. Being able to be imprisoned, Queen Zhao is nominally the emperor’s mother. Aren’t you making the world point at the emperor’s backbone

? Niu Ben did handle it a bit inappropriately. He said: “Your Majesty, Queen Zhao cannot be guilty of the same crime as King Zhao.”

He was thinking about Queen Zhao’s problem when he came here. He has been in this world for five years, so he naturally knows that Xiaolian Importance, because of this, he said that Niu Ben left him with a big problem.

After a pause, he said: “Mr. Fei Ge, you immediately go to Qingzhou Prison to bring out Queen Zhao and the third prince, and find a house for her to stay temporarily.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Feiji nodded, turned around and went out. .

Seeing Fiji leaving, Pang Yukun said bluntly: “The Emperor is ready to deal with Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince.”

“Even if Queen Zhao did not let the Thirteenth Prince ascend the throne, she indirectly killed the late Emperor after all. I can only deal with her and the Thirteenth Prince. “

How do you feel about the prince being demoted to a commoner? “

“I think so too, but Your Majesty, even so, we cannot let Empress Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince leave Qingzhou, lest someone with intentions take advantage of them in the future.” Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming understood what Pang Yukun meant. Someone might use the names of Queen Zhao and the Thirteenth Prince to rebel in the future. After all, only the northern part of the Chongqing Kingdom was currently in his hands.

“I understand your thoughts, so I am going to kill Prince Zhao and his son in Dongshi to set an example and let some people with evil intentions see the consequences of rebellion.”

Pang Yukun smiled, seemingly unintentionally Said: “The emperor actually wants to show it to the Crown Prince of Chu. In addition, is the emperor really not ready to take back military power from King Yong?”

PS: Will update tomorrow.

(End of chapter)