The Emperor of Guang Dong's long hair cut incident was getting more and more intense, and it had already affected the entire Ming Empire.
However, after Prince Qing was imprisoned, countless nobles and officials had already made their choices.
Most of the nobles and ministers chose to support the idea of cutting long hair. Even though this was against the etiquette of their ancestors. But to them, the most important thing was not to be targeted by the Emperor of Guang Dong! As for the ancestral etiquette, it was not that important! Everything could be thrown aside.
However, there was also a group of conservative and stubborn people who clung to the ancestral system and hated the Emperor of Guang Dong's actions to the bone.
Of course, most of them could only hold grudges in their hearts and did not dare to show it. As for the others, they began to plot and take risks.
To the Gong Prince and his followers, if they wanted to regain power and defend their ideology, they could only use extreme methods to get rid of the Emperor of Guang Dong.
However, murdering the emperor would require execution. He had to think long and carefully.
If it was leaked, it would be a death sentence!
The Emperor of Guang Dong didn't know that someone was already plotting against him.
The Qing Prince had already confessed to all his crimes.
The Emperor then gave the order to strip Prince Qing of his title and demote him to a commoner. Moreover, the entire clan had moved to the northeast to guard the border. And all of the Qing Prince's assets had already been counted. All of his assets had been converted into silver, totaling up to 120 million taels. All of this silver went into the treasury.
And this also caused a great uproar in the upper echelons of the Great Ming Empire.
Many of the nobles felt like the fox was grieving over the death of the rabbit.
After all, the Emperor of Guang Dong was able to treat the Qing Prince like this today. Then, he could treat them like this tomorrow!
This caused the Gong Prince to gain even more support.
At the same time, because of the financial crisis, the ministers in the court also had their eyes on this money. However, the emperor was unwilling to put this money into the national treasury.
He knew very well that if this money was returned to the national treasury, more than half of it would be embezzled by these officials.
In that case, it would be a huge waste.
As time passed, the Gong Prince and his followers were plotting.
However, the emperor spent most of his time in the Forbidden City. When he left the Forbidden City occasionally, he would go to the military camp. Along the way, he was protected by a large number of soldiers, so they had no chance to make a move.
Therefore, he could only wait for an opportunity and did not dare to act rashly.
During this period of time, the court and the people of the Ming Empire had calmed down.
The emperor did not force them to shave their hair. Although he encouraged cutting long hair, he didn't force her to do so. This made many nobles and ministers, who were already against cutting braids, heave a sigh of relief.
Originally, they were afraid that the emperor would force everyone to cut their hair.
Fortunately, the Emperor of Guang Dong had not done so yet.
"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Sun Never Sets Empire to the Great Ming Empire, Sir Ognes, requests an audience.”Li Shaoquan reported to the emperor.
"Sun Never Sets? What do they want?" The Emperor of Guang Dong frowned.
He did not have a good impression of the Sun Never Sets Empire.
In the eyes of the Emperor of Guang Yue, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets was definitely not a good thing. Not only did they take the lead in invading the Ming Empire, but they also placed their support on the East Asian Empire. They hoped to develop the East Asian people into their thugs and help them contain the Russian Empire. At the same time, they also protected the interests of the Sun Never Sets Empire in the Far East.
This would undoubtedly cause great damage and threat to the Ming Empire.
This was because if the East Asian Empire wanted to rise, they would have to step on the Ming Empire and even plunder a large amount of wealth from the Ming Empire.
In another time and space, the backbone of the Ming Empire was also broken in this battle.
"Emperor, the people of Sun Never Sets will not rise early without benefits. They must have heard about our purchase of large amounts of firearms and machinery from the Germanic Empire. Therefore, they were jealous and wanted a share of the profits.”Li Shaoquan said.
The emperor nodded. In his opinion, this was entirely possible.
These foreigners valued benefits the most.
Previously, the Sun Never Sets Empire sold warships to the Great Ming Empire in order to earn money from the Great Ming Empire.
The Emperor of Guang Yue wanted to ignore the envoy of the Empire of Sun Never Sets, but he knew that the current Ming Empire was still very weak. Its industrial base was still blank, and the preparation for war had just begun. It did not have the capital to fight against the Empire of Sun Never Sets, which was already the overlord of the world. Therefore, he could only feign civility for the time being.
"Arrange it. I'll find time to meet him tomorrow afternoon!”said the emperor of Guang Dong.
He had already made up his mind. If it really didn't work, then he would give the Empire of the Sun Never Sets a taste of sweetness.
Before the Ming Empire truly rose, he had to first stabilize the Empire of the Sun Never Sets.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Shaoquan replied.
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