novelaction Chapter 236 Ye State fell into unprecedented chaos
Chapter 236 Ye State fell into unprecedented chaos
Ye Honghui, the fourth prince of Ye State, officially changed his name to Zhu Xinghe.
Shi Lidie asked someone to register his household registration and let him settle down in her own fiefdom. She also found Chen Zhao and asked him to form a team of skilled craftsmen, headed by Zhu Xinghe, to open a new factory.
Previously there were breweries, textile mills, etc., and now there are wood product production plants.
She also asked the system to exchange a batch of blueprints, including but not limited to agricultural tools, such as curved plows and other tools that can improve farming efficiency; industrial tools, such as the spinning jenny, etc.
Shi Lidie converted all the things that could be achieved in this era into blueprints, and copied them herself, clearly indicating the principles and final functions.
After seeing these drawings, Chen Zhao felt like he had found a treasure.
He immediately wrote a letter to the emperor, not only explaining the fact that Shi Lidie had abducted the fourth prince of the former Ye Kingdom to his fiefdom, but also copied the drawings again and submitted them.
The emperor saw the benefits of these tools after they were produced and immediately agreed to Shi Lidie's request to set up a factory.
What fourth prince of Ye State? Now there is only the carpenter Zhu Xinghe.
Thus, the Dayin Dynasty ushered in an era of comprehensive development——
First of all, the emperor of the Dayin Dynasty sat in the capital, firmly in the court, and had a panoramic view of the overall situation.
Many of Shi Lidie's strategies were reported to Chen Zhao, and then after discussion in the court, they were formed into truly feasible plans, which were then distributed and implemented throughout the country.
Secondly, the war on the border is in full swing.
Relying on the training and accumulation of the previous three years, the army fought on the front line with not only sufficient morale, but also no shortage of food and weapons, and even had low-end gunpowder to help.
The dual-front war on the northwest border and the southwest border did not drag down the army at all, and even made steady progress.
Finally, based on Shi Lidie's fiefdom, they began to develop people's livelihood.
She took out everything she could, and if there was more than her own fiefdom could consume, she reported it to the court and asked the emperor to send people to other places to carry out pilot projects.
In other words, the Dayin Dynasty as a whole presented a thriving scene.
With a wise and sensible emperor, very reliable logistics, and a battle-hardened army, it can be said that the time, the place, and the people are all favorable. What reason is there not to win such a war?
The State of Ye, on the contrary to the Dayin Dynasty, fell into unprecedented chaos.
First, Shi Lidie secretly left the capital of Ye State and interrupted the treatment of the emperor of Ye State.
You know, the drugs Shi Lidie used before were all addictive. After the sudden stop, he fell into a manic state, just like Erkang who took cocaine in Myanmar and was forced to quit by Ziwei.
Unfortunately, the Emperor of Ye State is not Erkang. He does not have such strong willpower, and there is no Ziwei by his side. There is no one who is willing to stay with him, encourage him and restrain him.
Therefore, once he went crazy, he couldn't control himself and wanted to kill people.
His emotions fluctuated too much, and the hidden injuries and headaches that had finally stabilized began to relapse, as well as the chronic poison that Shi Lidie had secretly inflicted on him over the past few years.
It was as if all these things had piled up together and suddenly exploded.
The emperor fell.
His health deteriorated day by day. In just half a month, he was like before, unable to get out of bed, his limbs were weak, he could not walk, and he could only stay in bed to rest.
The time I am awake every day gradually decreases, and I am in a coma more and more often.
Everything seemed to have returned to three years ago, when Princess Yun'an Shi Lidie had not yet come. No, it was even worse than that time.
At that time, the emperor could at least speak occasionally when he was lucid, but now, he could not speak clearly.
The court officials began to discuss who they should support to take the throne if anything happened to the emperor.
Some people supported the Sixth Prince, saying that he was the oldest among the existing princes and should be the eldest. Others said that the Eighth Prince should be the heir, saying that the Emperor had previously favored the Eighth Prince.
Naturally, there were also people who wanted to support the Seventh Prince and the Ninth Prince. As long as the prince they supported ascended the throne, it would be a great honor for the whole family, and no one would not care about this honor.
In this way, the court of Ye State was once again divided into several different parties in order to fight for the throne.
You know, when Shi Lidie was in Ye State, many officials in the court of Ye State died. Some were implicated by Ye Zhaonan and Ye Jiayan, some were involved in the case of treason of the fifth prince and the An family and died, and some were accidentally killed on the night of the palace coup.
In other words, the current officials in the court of Ye State have long destroyed the original structure and are not of one mind at all.
More importantly, many officials who were promoted temporarily did not have decent abilities and were a mess in handling government affairs. Instead, they had outstanding talents in factional struggles and power struggles.
Two months passed, the emperor's health deteriorated, and the court reached a delicate balance due to the tug of war from various parties, and everyone was waiting for an opportunity.
The faction of the eldest son, led by the Sixth Prince; the faction of the upright civil officials, led by the Seventh Prince; the faction of the royalists, led by the Eighth Prince; the faction of the military commanders, led by the Ninth Prince; and the faction of the aristocratic families, led by the Tenth Prince.
Everyone has their own selfish desires, and they restrain each other and guard against each other.
Until two battle reports from the border were transmitted to the capital one after another.
The first to arrive was the battle report from the north. The signalman knelt in the court hall and said:
"The Pei family army of the Great Yin Dynasty has conquered seven cities on the northeastern border of Ye State, and is now stationed under Songcheng. Songcheng's defender Cao Hui was once a subordinate of General Zhenbei Tang Yi. After General Tang was executed in a coup, his subordinates were scattered everywhere."
"Cao Hui was defeated by the Pei family army of the Dayin Dynasty and has abandoned the city and fled. Now Songcheng is leaderless and no one is in charge of the overall situation. The city is about to be broken. Please ask the court to send someone to take charge of the overall situation!"
After hearing the signalman's words, everyone in the court fell silent.
There were not many generals capable of leading troops in the court. In the past, there was a Tang Yi who had trained many deputy generals who were capable of taking charge of affairs on their own. But after Tang Yi's death, the emperor was afraid that those deputy generals would be resentful, so he stripped them of their military power and assigned them to other places to make them subordinates of others and be under their control.
Now, we suddenly need generals to lead troops into battle, but where are the extra generals?
They could be transferred from other places, but other places also needed to be defended. If Tang Yi's subordinates were used, there was a worry that they would pose a threat to the court after they took control of the military power.
More importantly, the emperor has not passed away yet and has not issued any clear orders. It is harmless for these court officials to fight over their own land in Kyoto, but when it comes to the safety of the border, who dares to make decisions on their own?
Even so, the court officials were unable to come up with a feasible plan, and could not find anyone to go to the north to take charge of the situation.
While this group of people were still discussing fiercely, the war report from the south arrived:
"Qi Jingze, the general of the Tiger Wing Army of the Dayin Dynasty, led 50,000 troops to launch a surprise attack on the three southern cities. Now the three southern cities have fallen into the hands of the Dayin Dynasty. Please send troops to support them!"