bayedsolid Chapter 29 The Original Body's Understanding
Chapter 29 The Original Body's Understanding
Yunyi's understanding of this world comes from the original owner's memories, but the original owner herself is a bit hard to judge.
Call her foolish? She was quite good at music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and needlework. She had been educated since childhood and had some knowledge of poetry and songs. She was especially talented in painting.
She may be considered clever, but she can't distinguish between close and distant relatives, and she's incredibly selfish. After her mother, Qi Miao'er, was falsely accused and divorced, she even resented her mother for ruining her reputation and thought her father was right. Later, after Qi Miao'er jumped into the river, she cried bitterly, but also felt relieved, thinking that death absolves all debts and that she would not be affected from then on and could still be the Third Prince's consort.
Even after she was sold, her first thought was to find the Third Prince and let him know that she had suffered. He would surely pity her and she could continue to be the Third Prince's consort. Meanwhile, the person who framed her would live in constant fear from then on.
In short, if Yunyi were to use a modern term to describe the original owner of this body, it would be "selfish love-obsessed."
Given her original form, how could she possibly care about court politics? All she cared about every day was how to dress up to please the Third Prince, so she didn't have much information for Yunyi to know.
However, even from that limited information, Yunyi was able to piece together some useful details.
The current emperor is the third emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He has been on the throne for twenty years and currently has five adult princes and one adult princess. The second prince, Zhou Jingyu, born to Empress Xiao, was made crown prince at a young age. Zhou Jingyu is not only handsome, but also excels in both literature and martial arts, and is deeply loved by officials and common people. Later, he married Gu Chengyun, the legitimate daughter of a valiant general, as his crown princess. The couple are deeply in love.
The year after their marriage, they had a grandson, Zhou Chengjin. If nothing unexpected happens, Zhou Jingyu will become a wise and virtuous ruler after ascending the throne, and may even be remembered for all time.
However, on the very day the Crown Prince came of age (a man's coming of age at twenty) and was worshipping his ancestors and the heavens and earth with the emperor, he suffered the most tragic assassination attempt. In order to save the emperor, the Crown Prince was stabbed several times and was trampled by horses. Although he survived, he was disfigured and his leg was broken.
None of the imperial physicians in the entire Imperial Medical Academy could restore the prince's leg. As expected, he would spend the rest of his life wearing a mask and sitting in a wheelchair.
The emperor was greatly shocked, after all, that was his most beloved and proud son, and he even fell ill as a result.
However, no matter how outstanding the crown prince was, a country cannot have a disabled heir apparent, much less a disabled emperor. Therefore, a few months later, after it was determined that there was no hope of recovery, the ministers in the court submitted a memorial requesting the re-establishment of an heir apparent.
However, Emperor Zhou Shundi kept delaying the approval, but he couldn't withstand the ministers' impassioned anger, and finally had no choice but to issue an edict to depose the crown prince.
However, no sooner had the imperial edict been issued than the Northern Liang Kingdom launched a war of invasion southward.
The mighty general who had been guarding the northern frontier became passive and negligent in his duties. His reckless advance and desire for personal gain led to the deaths of 30,000 soldiers in Tianyang Valley.
Although General Gu Zhong and his wife Lady Kou died in battle, it still aroused public dissatisfaction. In the end, the emperor ordered the Gu family to be dismissed from their official positions. However, the Gu family had guarded the northern border for decades and made great contributions. Therefore, they were spared the death penalty, but not the punishment. Thus, their three clans were sentenced to exile to Heicheng.
Some even suggested demoting the crown prince to a commoner.
On that very day, the Crown Prince set fire to the Eastern Palace and immolated himself, along with his wife, Gu Chengyun, and his five-year-old grandson, Zhou Chengjin.
The emperor was furious and immediately imprisoned Empress Xiao.
Not long after, news broke that Grand Tutor Xiao had spoken disrespectfully because he was dissatisfied with the Emperor's handling of the matter. The Emperor was furious again and demoted the Xiao family to commoners and exiled them as well, but to the southern border.
However, it is said that the emperor couldn't bear it later, after all, Grand Tutor Xiao was too old and the southern border was too far away, so he changed the sentence to exile in Heicheng.
Although he dealt with others, it is said that Emperor Zhou Shun was deeply affected and fell ill for about two months before slowly recovering. However, he was in poor spirits, so he often summoned several other princes to assist in handling state affairs. Among them, the third prince, Zhou Jingxuan, performed the best.
Many people privately speculate that, whether based on seniority or talent, the third prince is the most likely candidate to become the next crown prince.
Therefore, the original owner was particularly happy, even quite smug, after all, she would be the Third Prince's wife in the future. If the Third Prince became the Crown Prince, she would be the Crown Princess, and in the future, she would be the Empress. This was also an important reason why she was sold.
After all, how could Concubine Sun, who had been officially recognized as the wife, watch such a good marriage fall into the hands of the original owner? Her daughter would be of marriageable age next year, and as long as the original owner was dealt with, the marriage would fall into the hands of her own daughter.
Yunyi held reservations about the information in the original owner's mind. The original owner could only see the surface, but the affairs of the imperial court were too complicated to be judged by appearances alone.
The Great Zhou was the largest state in the Central Plains, surrounded by many other states and tribes. As long as the country was divided, wars would frequently break out.
Longxi belongs to the northern region, and the northern frontier has been harassed by the Northern Liang Kingdom for many years.
The Northern Liang Kingdom was a nomadic people, probably descendants of the Quanrong. They were a brave and warlike nomadic people, and later, some people united various tribes to form the Northern Liang Kingdom.
The Northern Liang and the Great Zhou were constantly at odds over food and territory.
Later, a mighty general named Gu Zhong emerged. He was brave and skilled in battle, and led the Gu family army to be invincible. They almost flattened the imperial court of Northern Liang, causing Northern Liang to not dare to make any moves for ten years.
Later, when the Gu family ran into trouble, the emperor appointed Bai Jianming as the Marquis of Zhenbei and put him in charge of affairs in the northern frontier.
Bai Jianming was once a top military scholar, and later served as Gu Zhong's personal guard. He then went to the southern border and became a third-rank Xuanwei General based on his military achievements.
Later, the Nanzhao Kingdom and the Great Zhou signed a ceasefire agreement, ending the war in the southern border region.
When Bai Jianming returned to the capital to report on his duties, the Gu family was in trouble. As a result, Emperor Zhou Shundi directly appointed Bai Jianming as the Marquis of Zhenbei and sent troops to Tianyang Pass.
The Northern Liang Kingdom fears Gu Zhong, but it is dissatisfied with others, so friction has been constant in recent years.
However, these were mostly minor incidents and did not have any significant impact.
However, the fact that the imperial court has now begun to restrict iron ore supplies indicates that a major war is likely to break out.
If war really breaks out, the first thing to do is to collect supplies, and then people. Longxi Prefecture is known as a place of exile, and there are many exiled criminals here. In addition to conscripting soldiers from among the common people, the imperial court will also send criminals to the front line, so that they can be used as cannon fodder and hard laborers.
Yunyi traveled through three thousand small worlds and experienced thousands of wars, whether ancient, modern, or future, and whether they involved cold weapons, hot weapons, or interstellar weapons. In the end, it was the ordinary people who suffered.