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Chapter 267 Where Does Destiny Come From?

Mo Zibu didn't care what would happen when Chen Guangyao and Pei Shichun returned home. He only saw that Chen Guangyao had a very happy expression on his face when he took office.

Mo Zibu appointed Wu Wenyong as the garrison commander of Guangping, and gave him the rank of brigadier general and the title of general who suppresses bandits, and directly placed him on the front line of the confrontation with Beizheng, which is the Lingxi Long Wall.

Chen Guangyao entered Shunzhou and garrisoned Shunzhou. With the rank of lieutenant general and the title of General Zhenbei, he led the Wuding and Longqi regiments as Wu Wenyong's superiors and reserves.

After completing the basic defense arrangements, Mo Zibu waited in the Hue Royal Palace because the Nguyen family members came from Gia Dinh.

Looking at Ruan Shi Yuxiu holding a box and slowly approaching him, Mo Zibu's face didn't show much expression, but huge waves were still rising in his heart.

Of course, Nguyen Phuc Chu did not dare to go north, and he would not go north. This closest branch of the Nguyen family has basically become a lunatic.

Although it was intermittent, it greatly affected his ability to handle things.

Precisely because it was intermittent, he still knew a little about how to protect himself. Even if others didn't remind him, Nguyen Phuc Chu knew it.

If he dared to go north, the best outcome would be to become a captive puppet in Hue City. If he was unlucky, he would die at sea like his uncle, Nguyen Phuc Thuan, a Taoist priest from Qinghuang.

Therefore, the person who came from Gia Ding and could represent the Nguyen clan was Nguyen Ngoc Xiu, who was about to marry Mo Zi Bu.

She was the eldest daughter of Nguyen Phuc, who was supposed to be the Nguyen Lord, and the eldest sister of Nguyen Phuc Anh, the founding ruler of the Nguyen Dynasty in history.

"The Nguyen family is of little virtue. My younger brother, Wu, was murdered by Zhang Fuluan and has gone insane, making it difficult for him to manage affairs. The general is Nguyen's son-in-law, and his reputation for loyalty and righteousness is known throughout the world. Please do not refuse."

As soon as Ruan Yuxiu said this, the high-ranking officials of Jiading and Jinghan, as well as Mo Zibu's civil and military officials, also started shouting, all urging Mo Zibu not to refuse.

Mo Zibu was silent for a while, but he still didn't accept it. He stood up and walked over to pull Ruan Shi Yuxiu up from the ground, then shook his head and said:
"It's not that I don't accept it, but there are six million eyes watching this kind of thing in Guangnan.

Even if the Sixth Young Master is truly ill and unable to manage affairs, it is not our place to have the final say.

I cannot, for the sake of a position, jeopardize the reputation of loyalty and righteousness of the soldiers who came north with me.

Lord Taili, you are the elder among us. What is the real situation of the Sixth Young Master? Is he really incapable of governing the country?

I need you to take everyone with you to check it out and let everyone know the truth."

Now even Chen Taili was a little confused. Things had come to this point, and Ruan had sent someone herself. What else was there to be unacceptable?

But since Mo Zibu had said so, Chen Taili immediately agreed and said, "In that case, I will immediately draw up a list and have all the scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans in Hue send people to look at it.

Once the representatives have gone to Jiading and seen the Sixth Young Master Zhuo in person, they will certainly report the truth to the world."

In fact, it is not that Mo Zibu has to play the game of three refusal and three concessions. The three in this game does not necessarily mean to decline three times. It means to have the intention to decline, and no more than three times is fine.

The reason why Mo Zibu had to give in three times and complete the routine was because the Guangnan Ruan family had no destiny at all.

Just like Nguyen Ngoc Xiu, a member of the Nguyen family, never uses the word "destiny", but only uses the word "morality is weak".

The current Zheng Dynasty in the North and the Nguyen Dynasty in the South are actually tyrants, and they have the King of the Later Le Dynasty above them.

The Nguyen clan's legal system was even lower than the Trinh clan's, as at least the Trinh clan's official system and throne were approved by the King of the Le Dynasty. The Quang Nam Nguyen clan claimed it for themselves.

Beihe Kingdom is indeed a country.

Guangnan Kingdom has always been a self-proclaimed name.

For a small regime that claims to have legal principles, Mo Zibu's repeated actions are actually creating destiny.

Because of the current situation in Annan, if Mo Zi Bu declares himself the ruler of Guangnan, he will have to ask for the title from Emperor Jingxing of the Later Le Dynasty, Le Weizhuo.

Damn, you’re crazy!

Le Loi, the founder of the Later Le Dynasty, was the culprit who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and caused Annan to break away from the Ming Dynasty. You, a Ming Xiang person, go to Le Loi's descendants to ask for a title.

Even the most infernal jokes are not this infernal.

And if Mo Zibu became the ruler of Guangnan and did not go to the Later Le Dynasty to ask for a title, then given his identity as a Mingxiang person, there would definitely be trouble.

Although Mo Zibu can pacify the rebellion, it is impossible for you to develop it peacefully, let alone bring Annan back into the fold of the Han Dynasty.

You know, even now, many people are lurking, waiting for Mo Zibu to make a wrong move, so that they can stir up trouble behind the scenes.

The national consciousness of the Annan people has actually been basically formed since the founding of the Ly Dynasty, the development of the Tran Dynasty, and the time when Le Loi expelled the Ming Dynasty.

They could accept a king who was a Han Chinese who was assimilated into Beijing to rule them because he still knew where Wenhua came from.

But they would not accept a northerner who exuded an outsider's air from the inside out to be their king.

This kind of non-identification and exclusion represented by ethnicity and region cannot be solved by having 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers.

We can only follow the example of the Qing Dynasty and kill everyone until they dare not stand out, but we still cannot control them.

Otherwise, you have to scare them with the butcher knife first, and then convince them by telling them the facts and reasoning with them, and bring them together.

Mo Zibu took the latter route, which is why it was so complicated.

For Mo Zibu, the previous time Chen Taili and others had urged him to ascend the throne, that represented the opinions of the Guangnan gentry. Now that Nguyen Ngoc Thuy had arrived, it represented the attitude of the original ruling class, the Guangnan Nguyen family.

In the future, after these people confirm that Nguyen Phuc Chu is insane, Mo Zi Bu will hold a provincial examination in Hue. At that time, if there are scholars from the middle and lower classes who persuade him to take the throne, this will be the persuasion of the people of the world.

After receiving these three persuasions and the unification of heaven, earth and man, Mo Zi Bu was equivalent to establishing his own destiny and no longer needed to ask for a title from Emperor Jingxing of the Later Le Dynasty, Le Weizhuo.

Moreover, this is not the end yet, Mo Zibu will also start a big discussion on culture.

The theme is about whether Mo Dengyong's surrender is really a traitorous minister who sold out the country.

There is a discussion about whether Le Loi was truly a hero because he started a rebellion and was bloodthirsty and murderous.

Mo Zibu even planned to go to Hoan Kiem Lake in Tokyo, drain the water from the lake and dig it upside down.

Didn’t Le Loi say that he was given a divine sword by heaven to drive out the Ming Dynasty, and that a divine turtle was keeping the sword for him in Hoan Kiem Lake?

Mo Zibu went straight to dig up his roots to see if he had the magic sword and the magic turtle.

Yes, Mo Zibu's ultimate weapon is his great-uncle Mo Dengyong. Only by changing the image of Mo Dengyong in Annan's heart can Mo Zibu accomplish his goal.

The destiny he coveted the most, or the one he was willing to accept, came from Mo Dengyong.

To be precise, it was Mo Dengyong's act of surrender and the official position of the Grand Commander of Annan in the Ming Dynasty held by Mo Dengyong's descendants.

You must know that although Emperor Yongli recognized the independence of Annan when he was at the end of his rope and named him the King of Annan.

But at that time, the Mo Dynasty had not yet been cut off, and Yongli had not abolished the Mo family's official position as the Governor-General of Annan in the Ming Dynasty. There were still many ways to manipulate all of this.

Including the legal basis for Mo Zibu to enter Guangdong and Guangxi, the Ming Dynasty's Annan Governor-General can bear part of it.

Politics is so complicated and troublesome, unless you are willing to use a butcher's knife to make a one-size-fits-all decision.

"What is the general thinking about?" A gentle voice interrupted Mo Zibu's fantasy. He turned around and saw that Ruan Yuxiu had not left yet.

Mo Zibu still felt a little guilty about this woman. Although it was Grandpa Luo who insisted on doing this for the deaths of her three younger brothers, Mo Zibu agreed because it was the easiest way.

"I wonder if all this would have happened if I had married you in Hue, or if I hadn't been so angry."

Ruan Shi Ngoc Xiu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "General, do you think too many people have died in the war over the past three years? This is their fate.

I was only eight years old at the time, and even if I had come of age, I would still be imprisoned. Zhang Fuluan would never allow our two families to marry."

Now it was Mo Zibu's turn to be stunned. He just remembered that at that time, Ruan Yuxiu was still a little girl, and their family was also Zhang Fuluan's key target of defense. He would never let them have anything to do with the powerful foreign vassal.

In his heart, Mo Zibu was actually a little worried that Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xiu would suspect that he was the one who killed Prince Dinh Nguyen Phuc Thuan and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xiu's brothers.

But in fact, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xiu didn't think so at all.

Because in order to make such a targeted deployment, only a bug like Mo Zibu who knows the course of history can use this trick.

Because at that time no one knew that the Tây Sơn army would become so powerful, and no one knew that Huang Wufu would go south and the Nguyen family, which had been established for 200 years, would fall.

In Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xiu's view, Mo Zibu had just entered Jiading at that time and was somewhat nervous, thinking that he would be punished by the court. It was impossible for him to think of annihilating the Nguyen family.

This was also the unanimous view of the entire Guangnan. No one believed that this was Mo Zibu's conspiracy. Everyone thought it was just an accident.

Mo Zibu chatted with Ruan Shi Yuxiu for a while, carefully finding out Ruan Shi Yuxiu's thoughts on these things, and finally put his worries to rest.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thuy expressed in a coquettish voice that she hoped Mo Zi Bu could confer a title on Nguyen Phuc Chu to ensure his wealth and prosperity throughout his life. She also hoped to keep her three younger sisters by his side, and it would be best if they could also have some fiefdom.

Mo Zibu immediately smiled and said, "Your brothers and sisters are also my brothers and sisters.

I immediately gave orders and asked the Minister of Internal Affairs to select a manor for my sixth brother outside Jiading City and grant him 5,000 acres of cultivated land.

In the future, when the country is established, he will be granted a title and annuity, so that he can enjoy endless wealth and glory throughout his life.

I will raise your three sisters as my sisters in the future. When they grow up, they will all marry into the civil and military officials under my command as my legal wives."

After hearing this, Ruan Shi Yuxiu quickly knelt down to express her gratitude, and her happy face was full of happiness after receiving the guarantee.

This little girl actually had a very miserable life. Her father was imprisoned and died by Zhang Fuluan. One can easily imagine what kind of life she had.

After arriving in Jiading, although I felt a little better, I was still very worried because I didn't know what I would encounter in the future.

Now that she had received Mo Zibu's promise and felt that Mo Zibu seemed to like her very much, she was of course overjoyed.

However, after seeing Ruan Yuxiu bowing, her slender waist and already round buttocks were revealed from her wide robe.

General Mo, who had been a vegetarian for several months, could no longer hold back. The other person even prostrated himself to thank him, but Mo Zibu gently put his hand down through his collar.

Ruan Shi Yuxiu half-knelt and let out a soft cry of surprise, her head drooping weakly on Mo Zibu's arm, her small hands pressing not so firmly, which seemed like a rejection but more like a welcome.

Soft and fragrant, nothing more than this. Mo Zibu lowered his body again and picked up Ruan Yuxiu.

(End of this chapter)