Chapter 143: Essence of Water
Some people live for a certain moment in their lives.
For example, these three people in front of me.
In a certain period of time and space, for eighty-one days, their flowers of life were in full swing...
In that time and space, they were not serving the old dynasty. , but trying his best for his own dignity.
This quality is the one that Yun Zhao values the most. He is more important than intelligence, more important than loyalty, and even more important than love.
Dignity is the prefix sound of all important nouns! !
We must live with dignity, be smart with dignity, be loyal with dignity, love with dignity... This is the cornerstone of why humans are human and why they transcend the concept of animals.
Xu Yuanshou couldn't understand why Yun Zhao abandoned those knowledgeable and famous people as if they were old shoes, but he only favored these three petty officials.
"The wine you brought here probably costs five taels of silver per jar, right?"
After these days of interaction, Yan Yingyuan's impression of Yun Zhao is no longer that bad.
Yun Zhaodao: "You guessed it wrong. This jar of wine comes from the south of Jiange in Sichuan. After being hidden for thirty years, the jar of wine is only half of its original size. The wine pulp is thick and needs to be mixed with new wine. The best thing is to drink together.
Thirty years, one jar of wine, one lifetime, isn’t it too humiliating?”
“This is the benefit of being an emperor?” Yan Yingyuan sighed slightly.
Yun Zhao raised his glass and clinked it with the three people in front of him, drank all the wine in the glass and said: "The benefits of being an emperor are so many that you cannot predict."
Yan Yingyuan nodded. The leader said: "No wonder there are so many thieves in the world who harm the people."
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "I, Lantian, have never harmed the people. On the contrary, we are saving the people from the fire and water. The people of the world have seen how hard it is, so it is fair to let me be their emperor."
Feng Houdun, the academic and political instructor, said helplessly: "I know that your family has been a big bandit for many generations, and you are a great scholar after all. Xu Yuanshou's disciples have to worry about their face after all, and they can't just say a shameless thing as a matter of course."
Yun Zhao looked at the jailer waiting outside the door and said, "Do you like it or not. "Am I your emperor?"
The jailer saluted with a smile: "The little one is willing, not only the little one is willing, but even the little one's father who died long ago is also willing."
< p>Yun Zhao was very satisfied with the jailer's answer. He spread his hands and asked Feng Houdun, "What do you think?"Feng Houdun glared at the middle-aged jailer and said, "How many years has it been since your father died?"< /p>
The jailer smiled and said: "Nineteen years."
Feng Houdun said: "At that time, the Yun family was still a giant bandit in the mountains. Do you also like it?"
The jailer said: "Of course I like it. If you don't believe me, ask my father."
Feng Houdun said: "Okay, after we finish drinking this beheading wine,Go ask your father. "
Yun Zhao said in surprise: "No one intends to kill you. "
Chen Mingyu waved his hand and said: "The three of us must die! "
Yun Zhao looked at the oldest Yan Yingyuan and said: "What's the explanation?
Yan Yingyuan said: "One hundred thousand people in Jiangyin almost became the souls of the dead under the artillery fire. The three of us can no longer live. The people of Jiangyin are resolute and prone to anger. If the three of us do not die, I am worried." , the people of Jiangyin will be taken advantage of by giant bandits like you.
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "Such a thing will not happen. If it did, I would be beheaded!"
Yan Yingyuan laughed and said: "Do you think you can really do whatever you want because you are the emperor?"
Yun Zhao smiled and said: "You can really do whatever you want. If you don't live to watch me, maybe one day I will go crazy and kill hundreds of thousands of people in Jiangyin." "
Chen Mingyu said: "If he were an emperor and could do whatever he wanted, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty would not have committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine in the palace. "
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "What he drank was not poisonous wine, but Duangchang Powder, which was given with aconite wine. Others would die after drinking just one cup, but he still drank till his blood flowed from all the seven orifices. , considered a tough guy. "
Yan Yingyuan was silent for a moment and said: "The wine you sent? "
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "I sent someone to the capital and asked him if he wanted to taste the life of ordinary people. As a result, he refused and said that he was an emperor in life and would be an emperor in death.
It is understandable for him to think so. I have only been the emperor for half a year. If I suddenly stopped being the emperor, I would feel like life would be worse than death. "
"You will also seek death? "
"No, I will definitely agree to his suggestion that I be a civilian. I am not as persistent as he is. "
Chen Mingyu said: "Maybe you have been emperor for too short a time and haven't learned the taste yet.
Yun Zhao thought for a while and said: "Most of the founding kings had perseverance and perseverance, so they all know that only by living can you create unlimited possibilities. If you die, then it will be true." It's over.
So, many founding kings have done a lot of embarrassing things. After success, they would desperately confuse right and wrong, and exaggerate their fear of death, failure, and life into noble moral integrity. "
"Will you do this again in the future? "Feng Houdun was very interested in what Yun Zhao said and couldn't help but ask.
"I have nothing to hide. I am an unparalleled example of success in the first time, and I will be the object of imitation by future emperors. After all, , my existence itself is the supreme luck of the people of Ming Dynasty. "
"I mean, your status as a robber family, your lustful reputation, and the fact that you clearly accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty and were a real Ming Dynasty official, but you personally forced your emperor to death, He personally disrupted the Ming Dynasty and caused the people of the Ming Dynasty to suffer unprecedented disasters..."
"The Yun family has been a family of robbers for thousands of years. I think this is a glory, just like the family of saints.All are temporary options. There is nothing to be taboo about. Not only am I not taboo, I also want to integrate the bloodline of the Yun clan's thousand-year-old bandits into the bloodline of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, when troubled times come, only bandits can live a prosperous life.
As for other things, such as lust and regicide, they are nothing to me. If you did it, you did it. If you didn’t, you didn’t do it. Just know it yourself. There is no need to explain it to anyone. , after all, I am the king.
Since you are a king, it is natural for you to be criticized by people in the world, and I don’t mind.
Chen Mingyu frowned and said: "You are so careless, aren't you afraid of Zhu Ming's resurgence?" "
Yun Zhao took out a belt from his sleeve and threw it to Chen Mingyu and said: "This is the letter of apology written by Zhu Ming, the last king who did not surrender. If it can rekindle, I have nothing to say. "
Feng Houdun, the most knowledgeable among the three, unfolded his belt and looked at it, handed it to Yan Yingyuan and said: "There is no hope."
After Yan Yingyuan read the belt edict, he threw it to Chen Mingyu and said: "The reason why we want to stop the army in Jiangyin is not because of these silverfish. We just heard that the Lantian army is coming and wants to take back all of us." From now on, everyone in the world will become your Yunshi's slaves, and they can only survive by relying on you, the Yunshi.
Being a slave is something you should never do.
Later, I realized that I had been fooled after I heard Gu Yanwu talk about Lantian’s national policy. ”
Yun Zhao smiled and raised the wine jar, took out the last bit of wine from it, and divided it into the wine glasses of four people. Each glass was not quite full.
Yun Zhaoju He picked up the wine glass and said: "Come on, come on, the three of us will drink this glass of wine and then go our separate ways. I will continue to be my emperor, and you will go back to Jiangyin and continue to be your common people. If you want to be an official, go to the local government." The county government and the government government report, as long as they can pass the assessment. "
Chen Mingyu smiled bitterly and raised his belt to tear it to pieces. Yun Zhao took it back, stuffed it into his sleeve again and said: "This is a good thing. It cannot be damaged. It must be preserved in the future. Put it on display in the Great Hall. ”
Chen Mingyu said: “Three of us should die...”
After he finished speaking, Yun Zhao raised his hand and blocked his mouth with a wine glass. He said: "Why die? The great days are coming. Live well and see how I can display my power and rule the world of Han people into the heroes of the world!" "
After finishing speaking, he drank half of the remaining wine in one gulp, dropped the wine glass and said to the three of them: "Goodbye! ”
Then he stood up and walked away at a fast pace with his hands behind his back.
The three of them, Yan Yingyuan, watched Yun Zhao’s figure disappear around the corner of the prison, and the three of them looked at each other. They all dropped their wine glasses and had no intention of talking.
The prison door was wide open. They did not doubt Yun Zhao's sincerity in letting them leave, but they were somewhat embarrassed. So far, they are still. I don’t understand how three petty subordinates have the qualifications to drink with the notorious giant bandits in today’s world.liquor.
Feng Houdun was the first to speak up: "Maybe this is what the emperor is really like. After meeting him three times, my opinion of him changed three times. I don't seem to object to him being my emperor. ”
Chen Mingyu said: “One of the founding emperors is easy to deal with, but overall, the founding emperor’s work is not too bad.”
Yan Yingyuan took a look. The impatient jailer guarding the door said: "Let's go, the emperor treats us with courtesy, but these bastards don't. I have been a historian for many years, and even the king of hell is easy to meet, but the kid is difficult to deal with.
< p>Since they won’t kill us, we have no reason to seek death ourselves.”The three of them had just left the prison with their baggage on their backs, when they saw the jailer came out in ordinary clothes and opened the door of the prison. He locked it up, untied a donkey from under the tree, sat astride it, and walked away happily.
"There are only three of us in the whole prison, right?"
Feng Houdun didn't believe it.
Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu were originally Jiangyin classics, so they would not understand Feng Houdun’s doubts. These days, they have seen this jailer, and this guy only appears during the day. At night, The whole prison was eerily quiet. They were the only three prisoners in the prison.
"Let's go home."
Yan Yingyuan put his parcel on his back and left first, followed closely by Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun.
After leaving Yushan Prison, after three or two turns, they merged into a main street.
This street was very lively with people coming and going. After the three people merged into the crowd, they quickly disappeared, like three drops of water flowing into a river or lake.