QWTBWASIFOC Chapter 46
by VolareIn the first year of Jingming, late May.
On the journey south with the imperial entourage, Liang Qin, the fourth prince of the late emperor, watched intently from the carriage the young emperor who was amusing himself by teasing a sparrow with his finger.
This new emperor truly did not play by the rules.
For example, their struggles for the throne were completely different. Others needed to build factions and win people’s hearts, but he could still defeat them and ascend to the throne.
For example, their governance was even more different. The late emperor still needed the assistance of officials to govern the country, but Liang Jue only regarded court officials as decorations.
In Liang Jue’s eyes, the entire court of civil and military officials could be used if they were useful, and if not, they should all get out of the court. If you didn’t do your job well, there were plenty of [small paper figures] who could!
Moreover, the new emperor couldn’t tolerate any nonsense. If anyone wanted to test him to see who was tougher, then the one who ended up battered and bruised would definitely be you.
After all, the blood of those corrupt officials who were beheaded in the Jinghuai City execution grounds was the best proof.
Liang Qin could clearly feel that the new emperor wanted to create a truly meaningful golden age, and was sparing no effort to eliminate the rot from the Liang Kingdom.
And his trip south with the emperor was for this purpose.
He was the son of the late Emperor’s Concubine Jing, and loved poetry and literature. This trip south was to seek out Mr. Kong Hong, and after arriving in Wuzhou, he would continue further south.
This was because he had received an important task, which was to bring back the great Confucian scholar Kong Hong, with the aim of inviting Kong Hong to compile a literary canon and sort out the various schools of thought, so that the entire literary world could be completely reformed.
In other words, if the canon was completed, the entire literary atmosphere would be renewed.
This could be described as an unprecedented grand event!
Liang Qin volunteered to join the compilation of the literary canon, and as a representative of the new emperor, he went to invite outstanding talents from various schools of thought to come to the capital to write books.
He recommended this great Confucian scholar Kong Hong.
If Kong Hong were present, then the compilation of the literary canon would definitely be divinely aided.
Liang Qin felt happy just thinking about the future of the literary world, and he really liked this job arrangement, because the new emperor was much better at recognizing talent than his father.
His father had nine sons, but he didn’t know how to appreciate them, and instead let them fight like chickens, until in the end they were demoted, imprisoned, and removed from the imperial family.
If the new emperor hadn’t been too lazy to bother with the eight of them and restored their imperial status, they would have been left to rot in their residences until death.
Or, with the late emperor’s passing, they would have become insignificant losers in the eyes of the world, just some prince in the history books a thousand years later.
Liang Qin was not willing, and neither were the other princes.
Born into the imperial family, they received the best education of the time, and the people they came into contact with were high-ranking officials of the Liang Kingdom. Naturally, they also wanted to accomplish something.
It could be said that all eight brothers were ambitious, but their former ambition was for the throne, and now their ambition was for achievements.
They really wanted to do something for the Liang Kingdom.
Anyway, they couldn’t escape the new emperor’s control, so they might as well follow the new emperor and work hard. After all, the new emperor was not the kind of stingy ruler.
Thinking of this, Liang Qin looked at the new emperor a few more times, with the matter of restoring his title in mind.
The new emperor said that as long as he could bring Kong Hong, then he would restore his former title of Prince Heng, and would also enfeoff his son as the heir of the princely residence.
In this case, he must invite Kong Hong!
As for the new emperor’s special trip to Wuzhou to welcome that Mr. Lu back to the capital to be his male consort, he was only responsible for watching the show and was not responsible for acting in it.
Heh, don’t think that just because the new emperor looks good, he is soft-hearted and easy to bully!
The new emperor was too lazy to bother right now, otherwise those court officials who frequently jumped out to oppose the establishment of a male consort and support the selection of concubines would be in trouble.
When the new emperor brings back that Mr. Lu, if that group of pedantic and old-fashioned court officials still don’t bite the bullet and accept it, they can only pack up and die.
Those who know the times are outstanding, and those who don’t know the times should all go to hell to find the late emperor.
The fourth prince Liang Qin, who had been suppressed by his own father and then released by his younger brother to arrange errands, was very aware of the times, and so were his seven brothers.
It’s none of their business what the new emperor does!
Didn’t you see that the new emperor specially cleaned up the former court and harem before leading a large team south to pick up someone?
What was it for? Wasn’t it because the new emperor didn’t want that Mr. Lu, who had gone through thick and thin with him, to see anything unpleasant, so he specially finished everything before setting off?
To love someone is to give him the best!
His emperor brother is very affectionate, and is also the most like the late emperor.
Back then, the late emperor was a well-known playboy who frequented the pleasure quarters. There were many women in his mansion, otherwise they wouldn’t have had eight sons and two daughters.
But the late emperor was moved by Imperial Prince Rui’s main wife, Jiang Zhuyan, at the spring banquet, and directly turned from a playboy who loved every woman he saw into an affectionate man, and even seized the throne that originally belonged to Imperial Prince Rui.
The first thing the late emperor did after ascending the throne was to order Imperial Prince Rui and his wife to divorce, and conferred the title of Consort Chen on the former Imperial Prince Rui’s wife, and from then on, he exclusively favored Consort Chen.
He even stopped looking at other women for this reason, his heart and eyes full of Consort Chen.
These past events were told to him by his mother.
His mother also said that the late emperor regarded the harem beauties and all his children as nothing, and only had Consort Chen and the unborn young prince in Consort Chen’s womb in his eyes.
The late emperor originally named Liang Jue as Liang Yu.
Yu means treasure.
This name contained the late emperor’s earnest expectations and infinite love for his youngest son.
If Consort Chen hadn’t died in childbirth, then this ninth prince, who should have been called Liang Yu, should have been the Liang Kingdom’s crown prince who was loved and cherished.
They didn’t even have a chance to covet the throne, but fate was jealous of beauty, and Consort Chen died early, leaving behind only the child who was resented and hated by his biological father.
Liang Jue, Liang Yu, a difference of one word, a distance of a thousand miles.
Even the arrogant Liang Qin had to admit that his brother’s past was too bitter.
If he were Liang Jue, he might have died long ago.
But Liang Jue was able to climb out of the mud and possess that kind of unpredictable ability, and even take the dragon throne from the late emperor’s hands.
He was convinced, that’s all he needed to say!
In fact, he was curious about how Liang Jue manipulated so many small paper figures and gave them all kinds of strange abilities.
Was this Taoism or immortal magic?
Could it be that an immortal taught Liang Jue magic? Or was Liang Jue a god who descended to earth to experience tribulation?
Thinking carefully about Liang Jue’s disaster-ridden life, and thinking that the gods’ tribulations all come to the human world, his guess didn’t seem impossible!
But he wouldn’t ask.
As long as Liang Jue didn’t want to be the king of a fallen country and was willing to leave a way out for their eight brothers, then Liang Jue could sit on this throne.
He would be responsible for following behind Liang Jue and cheering him on.
Regardless of whether Liang Jue was the reincarnation of a god, or a destined person who had been guided by an immortal, or a heretical Taoist who practiced evil ways.
As long as Liang Jue sincerely governed the Liang Kingdom and sincerely wanted to protect the Liang Kingdom’s land, then their eight brothers would definitely follow the new emperor’s lead.
Ninth brother, we brothers are your best partners!