Spring and Autumn I Am King - Chapter 1220

PS: The high energy ahead can only accept the reunion. Don’t read this chapter. If the important things are said three times, it will be the end of the previous chapter.

In the 23rd year of Jianyuan (453 BC).

Twenty-three years have passed since the establishment of the Hao Dynasty and the enthronement of the Jianyuan Emperor Zhao Wuxi by Heaven’s mandate.

In order to facilitate the rule of the Quartet, His Majesty the Emperor established the Five Capitals System on the basis of the Two Capitals System. Beijing is Yecheng, which sits in Jizhou, the basic city of the Hao Dynasty; Tokyo is Qufu, known as “the ruins of Shaohao”, which deter Haidai. ; Xijing is Chang’an by the Wei River, entrenched in Qinchuan, looking at Longxi in the west, and supporting Bashu in the south.

As for Zhongjing, it is naturally Luoyang, which is called “in the world, east and west”.

Only Nanjing was not set up, because His Majesty the Emperor said that his ideal Nanjing should be in Jiying (Jiangling) or Jinling, and until now, those two places are still the territory of the Hao Dynasty princes Chu and Yue…

Wen County, located in Hanoi County, although it is not the five capitals of the Hao Dynasty, has a special status. It is the location of the ancestral tomb of the family temple of the Zhao family, and it is also the mausoleum selected by His Majesty the Emperor. He said that after he could not afford to sleep for a long time, he hoped to accompany the ancestors of the Zhao family, King Wen, King Jing, and his father, Zhao Yang, who was honored as “Emperor Wu”…

This is the homeland of the Su clan in the past, looking at Taihang in the north and the Yellow River in the south, with excellent feng shui.

At that time, people were dying, and the royal family was no exception. When His Majesty the Emperor was still in good health, the construction of the imperial mausoleum in Wenxian County had already started.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the external form of the tomb was “no tree, no seal”. In the past two hundred years, in order to worship ancestors and facilitate the identification of tombs, princes and high officials turned “tombs” into “graves”, and mounds were piled up on the ground, and later developed from “mausoleums” into “mountains”. . Therefore, the size of the tomb has become an important symbol of authority and wealth.

After the emperor came to the Central Plains, he attacked this custom of extravagant burial. He said: “To the dead, they treat ten thousand years like a moment. The lifespan of a person is only a hundred years, and the lifespan of an ordinary person is no more than a hundred years. Sixty years old. Wouldn’t it be ridiculous to plan for an endless sinful life according to a hundred and sixty years old?”

Therefore, the emperor chose a festival burial, but as the master of the four seas, the mausoleum should not be too shabby, so on the basis of the tomb of the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, it was just a little higher. The fiefdom that is fifty feet high is far inferior.

According to the tradition of the surname Ying, the mausoleum is not the one of the Xia and Zhou people facing the south, but is similar to the public tomb of the Qin state, sitting on the west and facing the east. Even if they die, the descendants of the surname Ying have to look at the direction from which they came, the direction in which the sun rises…

The main body of this mausoleum is equipped with two cemeteries for the emperor and the queen to rest in peace. The Emperor’s Mausoleum is located in the middle and west of the entire mausoleum area, and the Queen’s Mausoleum is on its side.

However, what is surprising is that this imperial mausoleum has one left and one right and two queen mausoleums, especially the one on the right. All are old. Compared with the imperial mausoleum that is still being built next to it, it is even more unusual…

This is about a closely guarded royal struggle, and those who know it dare not say much.

At this moment, the emperor of the Hao Dynasty, Zhao Wuxi, who was in his sixties, was standing in front of the pair of mausoleums. He was wearing his regular clothes, and his travel crown hooped his black and white hair.

“Lao Tzu once said to me that a great deal of love will cost a lot, and a lot of storage will lead to a great loss. Excessive greed will result in greater waste, and the more you store, the more will be lost. The meaning of this sentence is that You have to pay a price for what you want…”

Recalling the past, he said sadly: “At that time, I focused on replacing Zhou’s family and pacifying the world, and I didn’t think too much. It was only when I was over sixty years old that I realized how much this cost…”

His hand touched the cold tombstone, which read “Queen Wenmin’s Tomb” and “Mourning Prince’s Tomb”.

“Although I have done a lot of things in this life, I can still be regarded as worthy of my conscience. The only ones who are sorry, Lingzi and Heng’er, are your mother and son…”

This has been a practice for five years. Every Qingming Festival, His Majesty the Emperor will come to Wenxian County to pay homage in front of the two mausoleums. Look at the nose and nose, look at the heart, keep silent and dare not speak.

Only the close servants who have served by the emperor’s side for many years know that since that incident, the emperor has rarely smiled, and his temper has become more and more incomprehensible.

Looking at the slightly lonely figure of the emperor from a distance, Le Yang, the little official guarding the mausoleum, couldn’t help but recall what happened back then…

…

In the first year of Jianyuan, he was ordered by Heaven to replace the Zhou family, and the emperor adopted the “Huang-Lao Treatment” suggested by Ren Zhang. The large amount of copper coins in Curry has not been used for many years, so that the rope that wears the money is rotten, and the loose money is too much to calculate.

When the country has money and grain, it has the power to expand its territory. In the tenth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor ordered the Saihou Zhao Jia to attack the State of Shu and take Nanzheng. After operating Badi for a few years, he built a plank road and continued to attack Shu. After half a year of hard work, the Kaiming clan of Shu surrendered, and the land of Huayang in Bashu was completely brought under control. Shu County, Ba County and Hanzhong County were established. Waiting for people to guard, because of its customs, govern its land.

At this point, Master Wang has completely occupied the upper reaches of Chu, and His Majesty the Emperor began to sharpen his sword, preparing to attack Chu and Yue, to eliminate these two vassals, but in fact, to unite against the Central Plains princes, and to complete the “great unification” in his mind. “.

At this juncture, something happened inside the royal family.

At that time, in Yecheng and the prefectures and counties, there was a secret saying: “How can there be a thirty-year-old prince in the world?”

Prince Zhao Heng, also known as Le Yang’s distant cousin, was a prince at the age of five. After years of experience, he was the ideal heir to the emperor’s mind.

However, with the passage of time, he has been the crown prince for 30 years, and his identity is inevitably a little delicate, and he is also facing competition from opponents.

Xu Hou Zhao Yan, the son of Ji Ying, is handsome in appearance, beautiful in talent, and perfect in all six arts. In the harem, the emperor favored Ji Ying the most, loved the house and Wu, and took great care of Zhao Yan. Not only did he make him Marquis Xu, he would also let Marquis Xu accompany him whenever he toured various counties and counties. of.

Prince Zhao Heng and Xu Hou Zhao Yan were in a state of arguing for succession. As a result, the relationship between Changxin and Changqiu was a little bit tense. There were rumors outside the palace that the emperor planned to abolish the queen and let Ji Ying take the throne. As a result, the rumors that “there is no such thing as a thirty-year prince in the world” began to spread inside and outside the empire, saying that the prince could not wait, and there was resentment. There are even more rumors that the Empress Le and Pengcheng Jun Leyou hope that the prince will succeed the throne in advance. However, His Majesty the Emperor is in good health, I am afraid that there will be many years to live…

The three became tigers. In the long run, even the emperor himself became suspicious. After all, the heavenly family had no kinship.

In this case, the upheaval happened suddenly…

Although Leyang was the weakest year five years ago, for the Song Guole family, that incident was tantamount to annihilation, so he was deeply impressed.

It was the emperor’s 60th birthday banquet, and all the sons and daughters of the Zhao family returned to Yecheng to congratulate the old father. The emperor was planning to go south to attack Chu and Yue after his birthday. He didn’t want to be at the banquet, Ji Ying’s daughter, Princess Lingshou, wife of the crown prince of Jiaodong Kingdom, died of drinking!

What she drank was the wine that should have been placed in front of Ji Ying and Xu Hou Zhao Yan!

Ji Ying cried so **** the spot that he fell into a coma, and the emperor was also furious and his heart was bleeding.

This incident caused an uproar, and all the doubts were pointed to the queen Le Lingzi and the prince Zhao Yan. The emperor lost his beloved daughter, and was even more suspicious that someone was going to harm Ji Ying, Zhao Yan, and even himself. Order Tingwei Li Kui to investigate this matter thoroughly!

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but all the evidence found by Tingwei Li Kui pointed to the Empress – she was Bian Que’s female disciple, and she was a world-renowned physician who could kill and kill people. That highly poisonous potion, And it may be from her!

Princess Lingshou is dead, and Le Lingzi is speechless. The emperor is angry and intends to abolish the queen, and cancel the status of the Le family, and the status of the prince is also in jeopardy.

And the prince Zhao Heng is also pure filial piety, in order to prove his mother’s innocence, in order to save his mother Jia Le, he committed suicide in prison!

The death of the crown prince greatly touched the emperor. After losing his daughter and son in a row, he began to calm down from his anger. He severely tortured the palace staff who might have been involved in the incident, and finally found the tail of a poisonous snake…

All of this, from beginning to end, is Nanzi’s handwriting!

Not only the crown prince and Xu Hou, but also Song Gongzi Shang…

As the emperor’s illegitimate son, Zishang has no right to inherit, but he has an ambitious and cruel mother.

Nanzi originally wanted to poison Ji Ying and Zhao Yan, and then frame the queen and the prince, so that both Changxin and Changqiu’s palaces would suffer and the entire army would be wiped out. At that time, even if he can’t reach the sky in one step, let himself become the queen, and let Zishang become the prince, at least he can destroy the Le family, and the Song country can regain the land of the two counties.

Except for Zhao Heng and Zhao Yan, the emperor’s other sons are either incompetent or young and have no prestige. When the emperor dies, she will assist Zishang again and raise the banner of seizing the throne as “Xuanzi”, which is very hopeful to seize the throne.

After finding out about this matter, the emperor was the real grief and indignation. The plan of the southern expedition was also canceled.

As for Zishang, the emperor spared his life because of the tiger’s poison, and ordered him and 3,000 of his henchmen to be loaded into a ship.

“If you are lucky enough to reach Fusang, you will live; if God does not forgive you, you will die in the belly of the sea fish to atone for your sins!”

This is a life-and-death exile. Although the navigation technology in the Central Plains has made great progress in the past 20 years, at most it is possible to cross the Shaohai Sea to the North Korea of ​​the Chen family. According to legend, Fusang, a large island thousands of miles away in the East China Sea , only people go, no one returns…

In addition, Zichuan and Jiaoxi, which are related to the rebellion of the Southern Party, were directly exterminated! Among the three Qi, only Han’s Jiaodong Kingdom was preserved because of Princess Lingshou.

But the deceased is already dead, and doing these things can’t save Zhao Heng’s life. Le Lingzi, who is good at healing people, can’t cure her own heart disease. She is depressed and hid in the deep palace, never saying a word to the emperor again. Words will soon be gone forever…

She was named Empress Wenmin, and Zhao Heng was named Prince Mourning, and she was buried next to the Emperor’s Mausoleum in Wenxian County.

As a descendant of the Le Clan in Pengcheng, Le Yang, on behalf of the clan, came here to guard the mausoleum…

…

After a long time, the emperor ended the worship and mourning, and sat wearily on the chariot, ready to leave.

But before he left, he let Le Yang go there.

Although the mourning for the deceased wife and deceased son has just ended, there is no trace of emotional fluctuations in the emperor’s words.

“Are you Le Yang?”

“Wei, the little minister is Le Yang.”

“You’ve been guarding the mausoleum here for five years, haven’t you? It’s also intentional. If the queen knew that the Le family had such a filial son and nephew under Huangquan, she would definitely be relieved. I heard from Prime Minister Zhai Huang that he accompanied him last year. When I came to inspect the imperial mausoleum, I chatted with you a few times, and I think you are a general.”

Le Yang was terrified: “The prefect is wrong and praised, and the villain does not dare to be.”

“Zhai Huang felt that you shouldn’t be allowed to stay here any longer, it should be used by the country. He has a good sense of people and has recommended many talents to me, Li Kui, Ximen Bao, Li Ke, and Qu Houzhu, all of them. Temporary choice. You won’t be bad if you think about it, but I want to ask you one thing.”

“Your father, Letai, the younger brother of Pengcheng Jun Leyou, resented my treatment of the queen and the crown prince for being unkind after the rebellion of the Southern Party five years ago, and ran to the country of Yue. If I order you to cut Yue, the Yue people will use your father. To make a threat, how should you handle yourself?”

Faced with such a choice, Le Yang trembled a little, his teeth rattled, and he replied after a long time: “Loyalty and filial piety can’t be both, so the little minister chooses to be loyal to His Majesty, even if the Yue people cook the little minister’s father and deliver it as a meat soup, The little minister will also drink it in one gulp, and then attack to take revenge!”

“good.”

Zhao Wuxi applauded him lightly, and then said: “In this way, you can be a lieutenant, don’t worry, I will not see other people’s fathers and sons together because my family is unfortunate, I will let you go to attack Chu, not cross……”

After speaking, Zhao Wuxi ignored Le Yang, gave way and continued to move forward, leaving the imperial mausoleum.

The Emperor’s Mausoleum is in the mountains on the outskirts of Wenxian County. The journey back is slow and long. The Yulin guards are heavily guarded. Everything around, in the past twenty years, the emperor has encountered many assassinations. Of course, each time it was a near miss. Before the assassin approached the threatening distance, he was solved by a strong crossbow.

Zhao Wuxi wasn’t worried, he was dozing off in the car, he couldn’t compare to back then, he seldom rides horses now, and travels much less, not to mention expeditions in person…

However, when passing by an abandoned small hall in the Wenxian Emperor’s Palace, Zhao Wuxi suddenly woke up, stopped the car, and glanced sideways, his hand trembled slightly when no one noticed.

That’s it.

Five years ago, right here, he killed Nanzi with his own hands!

…

She often haunts Zhao Wuxi’s dreams, and she looks as bright as when she first met in Shangqiu. She is dressed in a dark purple robe, gorgeous and noble, with a silk belt embellished with jade on her slender waist. The hair was tied in a high vertebrae bun, and a jade shade, which was completely white and without carvings, was inserted into the bun. Her eyes are charming, her lips are like cherries, and her age is still fifteen years old.

In the dream, they are still young and smiling, but in reality, both of them are old, their mentality has changed, passion is precipitated, and ambition breeds.

Here, Nan Zi, who was captured so far, confessed to him one by one those crimes, how to spread rumors, how to try to poison Ji Ying and Zhao Yan, and how to blame the queen and Zhao Heng. If Princess Lingshou hadn’t acted as a scapegoat, this poisonous woman’s plan would have been almost seamless.

She is the person who understands Zhao Wu Xie’s heart the most. She knows where his inverse scales are, so she is the easiest to approach success…

“But you clearly know why you still want to touch my inverse scales!” Zhao Wuxi scolded with grief and indignation.

Although the milfs are old, Nanzi’s eyes are full of big crystal tears: “Because the concubine loves His Majesty, just like before!”

“The one who should accompany His Majesty should be me! The one who can inherit His Majesty’s cause should also be our son!”

Looking at her face, Zhao Wuxi remembered countless past events, remembered the love and affection of each time he cheated, and sounded that he hugged her waist every time, fiddled with her thick black hair, and stroked her lips, cheeks and ears… …

“Me too,” he told her, affectionately.

She hugged him, she was lying in Zhao Wuxie’s arms, and Zhao Wuxie’s hand slowly wrapped around her neck, gentle and considerate, but suddenly turned violent.

During the exciting affair, he and her often played this kind of suffocating ** game, which was a bliss that other wives and concubines could not experience.

But that day was different…

“There are beautiful women in the East, peerless and independent, once the city of Qingren, and then the country of Qingren…”

His arms that could open two crossbows, his hands that had stroked her body countless times, used all his strength, his fingers intertwined tightly, sinking into his neck!

He pressed on her, Nan Zi’s face became flushed due to the lack of oxygen, her eyes widened, her breathing was slowly disappearing, and her mouth was babbling, like the scene of two people’s bliss…

“I don’t know about Qingcheng and Qingguo? It’s rare to find a beautiful woman! It’s rare to find a beautiful woman!”

Zhao Wuxi was unmoved, he hissed, and then gave the fragile neck a final twist, and let the tears flow from his eyes!

The body in his arms gradually became cold, and he personally strangled this woman who he loved like a shark who loved blood, and hated that he couldn’t eat her flesh raw…

This is a really bad story, but perhaps, since Zhao Wuxi first met her, the ending was already doomed. If he knew this, maybe he shouldn’t change her fate.

Recalling what happened at that time, Zhao Wuxi closed his eyes again while sitting in the car.

Yes, he made a big mistake five years ago, which led to the tragedy. A pair of children died tragically one after another, and his wife also died with resentment towards him, and the culprit’s mistress was also arrested. He killed himself!

Fortunately, his heart can no longer feel the pain, otherwise I really don’t know how to bear it.

This is the price he paid for the queen, right?

However, since he is the true king who connects the world, the past, the present and the future, he cannot hide too much vulnerability and regret in his heart.

Since what you do cannot be desecrated, don’t feel sorry for yourself, but continue to look at the world!

What’s more, she was always with him…

…

As usual, after entering the palace, the waiters all retreated, because His Majesty the Emperor did not like too many people surrounding him, which made him even more insecure.

“Yaoyao?”

Beating his slightly hunchbacked back, walking a little staggeringly, calling her name, Zhao Wuxi looked for it.

“Stop shouting, the Lord of Kyushu, the King of a country, shouting in the palace, what is the etiquette?”

Just like the old man Zhao Wuxi, Ji Ying, who is already a sixty-year-old woman, came out of the curtain. Even though she is old, she is still an old beauty, wearing plain clothes. Because she is not feeling well, she is not with Zhao Wuxi today. Go to worship, but hold small sacrifices in the palace.

“You’ve been shouting all your life, how can you not shout? Is it possible to be like a farmer and a peasant woman, calling your old wife directly, or continue to call your sister?”

Although Ji Ying has been named Queen, Zhao Wuxi couldn’t pronounce this word after the Southern Party Rebellion. Every time he heard this word, he would see a pair of injustice and indignant eyes, she was also his wife with hair!

Ji Ying didn’t think too much about it, he quenched him, and then asked about the situation on the other side of the emperor’s mausoleum. Can the weeds still be removed, and the offerings are still as usual?

She said that she was always afraid that if the offerings were not done properly, the ghosts of Lingzi and Zhao Heng would come to her.

“This is the fault of the Southern Party, it is my fault, what does it have to do with you?”

Zhao Wuxi was unhappy. This was his scar. Every time Ji Ying talked about it, he would turn his head away and didn’t want to hear it. For a while, the two were speechless.

The emperor who reigns over the world, who can do whatever he wants, and the empress of the mother Yi Wanmin, are so angry.

Although this palace is large and there are many people waiting for it, it always seems empty and deserted. In this way, they are more like a pair of old men and women who depend on each other for life, and the parents are short…

I don’t know how long it took, but Ji Ying sighed first, stood up behind Zhao Wuxi, and turned his head.

“What?” Zhao Wuxi said angrily.

“The white hair has grown back.” Ji Ying’s tone was very gentle, “I’ll cut it for you?”

“If it can’t be cut out, the rationale is still messed up, what does he do?” Zhao Wuxi was very impatient.

“Don’t move, come here.”

In the end, he obediently turned his head and let Ji Ying dictate.

Old husband and wife, after forty years, the love between them has turned into family again. The relationship between the two seems to have returned to the time when they were brothers and sisters, and when Zhao Wuxi gave the crown…

At that time, Ji Ying, who was dressed in red, combed his hair, wore jade, and changed clothes for Zhao Wuxi, who was sitting in front of the big bronze mirror. The girl’s slender fingers, like green onions, held a jade comb and slid down Zhao Wuchun’s jet-black hair, combing the strands neatly, while stroking the scar on his neck…

Now, her hands are no longer young, and there are many wrinkles, but as gentle as ever, she gently took off Zhao Wuxi’s crown and pulled out the jade cap…

However, Zhao Wuxi snatched the jade cap and threw it far away! Smashed on the porch!

“Pfft.”

Ji Ying looked at the nervous Zhao Wuxi and couldn’t help laughing.

Since the rebellion of the Southern Party five years ago, Zhao Wuxi has changed a lot. The concrete manifestation is that every time she touches her hairpin, Zhao Wuxi will take it away and keep it away from her, as if it was As if she was afraid that she would hurt herself with this thing.

“People in the world don’t know that the emperor of Dahao is as terrified of a tiger as a tiger.”

Ji Ying made fun of him and regarded it as a quirk. Zhao Wuxi never explained his reason, just closed his eyes and let Ji Ying cut more and more gray hair for him that could no longer be removed…

After a long time, Zhao Wuxi said slowly: “This time the southern expedition of Chu and Yue, I don’t plan to go personally. I’m tired and old. It’s time to take a break. I plan to let Yan’er take command…”

Ji Ying’s hand shook a little, then calmed down again, and tried to say in a plain tone: “Since he has become a prince, he should undertake state affairs.”

“Don’t worry.” Zhao Wuxi patted Ji Ying’s hand on his shoulder, and said with a smile: “He is just sitting in Nanyang County. If he has merit, he will attribute it to the prince, and if he has deeds, he will attribute it to the general. There will be no danger. What’s more, there will be no danger. After 20 years of accumulation, Master Wang is extremely powerful, ten times stronger than the enemy, and Chu Yue will surely surrender! When the world settles down, I will slowly step down and let Yan’er preside over everything, and you and I can travel freely in the mountains and rivers. If you can’t swim, you can also find a quiet place to build a palace and live your whole life.”

He glanced at Ji Ying’s still dark hair, and laughed at himself: “But looking at this situation, I’m afraid you will live longer than me…”

“Hugh is going to talk nonsense.” Ji Ying took Zhao Wuxi’s hand and stopped him.

Then, the two looked at each other…

As if looking back outside the stable, it spanned fifty years.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

The beauty is late, the hero is white, and no one has escaped the pursuit of time, but their relationship, as before, is ruthless, and the palace conspiracy has not affected the slightest.

But this peaceful and pleasant time could not last, after a while, an attendant reported that Lu Ban, the great foreman, was already waiting in the outer hall~www.mtlnovel.com~ He also brought another person this time.

“It should come, it will always come.”

Zhao Wuxi burst out laughing, and asked Ji Ying to re-comb his hair for him, put on a crown, and turned into the cold emperor again.

He put on his Xuan clothes, took a step, and walked out, high-spirited, towards the moment he had been waiting for for a long time.

“Xuan, Gongshuzi has an audience!”

In the Wenxian Palace, there were continuous summons.

“Xuan, Gongshuzi has an audience!”

Outside the gate of the palace, Lu Ban walked into the palace angrily with his hands behind his back. The young man in black and black robe behind him smiled, calmly tidied up his clothes, and handed the walking stick that he had traveled to the guard at the door, and then he walked in…

“My dear Mo Di from afar, I have seen His Majesty the Emperor!”

PS: Well, there is a final chapter in the afternoon, the finale