That was seventeen years ago. Seventeen years ago, the country name was not called "Yi", but "Zhou".

On the Qingming Festival that year, the princes from all over the country came to the capital to worship the Taimiao as usual. On that day, Emperor Zhaoyang suddenly had a headache, her body was unstable, and she fell down the steps. Song Xu, the prince of Yiguo, who was standing in the front row, was quick with his eyes, flew up, took the emperor in his arms, and sent her into the palace to rest.

It was precisely because of this brief encounter that Emperor Zhaoyang noticed this young man who was both civil and military, and brave and courageous.

After that, they fell in love.

It's a pity that the emotions in the royal family are always so unbearable that people are restless. However, Song Xu was not anxious, did not complain, and only used various excuses to quietly enter the palace to visit the emperor.

Young women are always amorous. Even though he knew that Song Xu already had a wife and a concubine, and even had children, his feelings were always so unreasonable, and Song Xu's vows made the emperor addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.

The worship activities that lasted for more than half a month have come to an end, and it is time for the princes and princes to embark on the road back to the fiefdom. Emperor Zhaoyang had a lot of reluctance, but she was helpless.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, at this time, Song Xu and several other princes broke their legs while racing, and the injuries were serious, so it was not suitable to travel far. Duke Yi Guo entered the palace and asked His Majesty to allow Song Xu to stay in the capital to recuperate from his injuries.

Of course, His Majesty agreed.

Later, some ministers bullied His Majesty for his young age, and arbitrarily increased taxes, and the situation of selling official titles and corruption became more and more serious. The common people could no longer live, so they tore off the banner one after another and rebelled.

At this critical time, Yi Guogong first expressed his attitude. When the princes were undecided, he responded to the imperial edict and personally led his troops to sweep away the rebels and bandits, giving the imperial army enough time to counterattack.

The little emperor was very satisfied, and the right to transfer troops and horses was safely handed over to the hands of Yi Guogong.

The rebellion was quickly quelled. More than 70 rebel leaders were beheaded, and countless people were exiled and imprisoned.

Later, His Majesty's uncle, Cheng Fei, the Duke of Liang Guo, was dissatisfied with the power of the Duke of Yiguo, and wrote to impeach him many times. The impeachment stones sank into the sea again and again, making Cheng Fei angry and ashamed, and finally rebelled.

Cheng Fei, known as the "Victorious General", did not give in to each other on the battlefield, and the two sides fought several battles in Huoyi, Tongguan and Jingyang one after another, and each other won and lost. Yi Guogong used the excuse that he was injured before the battle, and asked for help from the capital one after another.

It had already reached the gate of the palace, how could the imperial court sit idly by? Therefore, Emperor Zhaoyang issued seven imperial orders in a row, ordering all armies to serve the king and stabilize the overall situation.

Song Xu, who had been almost raised with a leg injury, was naturally indifferent to seeing his father and brothers bleeding on the battlefield, so he proposed to Emperor Zhaoyang that he would go to the front line to support the battle.

Even if Emperor Zhaoyang is reluctant, it is not easy to force him to stay, after all, this is not only a family matter, but also a state matter. She only said: "Come back early, I hope that when the child is born, his father will be by his side." ”

Song Xu hugged and kissed the emperor affectionately, and said to her: "When I come back, I will marry you in the door!"

Xu was because of Song Xu's outstanding leadership skills, Liang Guogong retreated, and was soon killed on the way to Pucheng, his head hung on the flagpole, and his body was exposed for three days.

And then......

Yi Guogong's blade suddenly turned around and killed in the direction of Chang'an City!

Yi Guogong's banner is "Qingjun side", but looking at the world, no one knows who the "Qing" person is.

The war to defend Chang'an lasted for more than three months, and in the course of more than three months, countless cities around Chang'an fell, and the bones blocked the river, and many corpses had to be thrown into the mountains because they had no time to bury them, causing the number of wolves to surge and become a disaster.

After occupying Chang'an, Song Xu did not find the little emperor and the Zhaoyang emperor, and the two of them had already been protected and transferred first.

Yi Guogong did not claim the title of emperor immediately, he first found a side branch of the imperial family to ascend the throne to block the mouth of Youyou. The little doll who was forcibly thrown into the dragon chair was only four years old, where would there be any government affairs, so the power of the court all fell into the hands of Yi Guogong. This kind of trick of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes lasted for more than three years.

But it's not over yet.

The royal family of the Zhou Dynasty once worked hard to cultivate an army called Zhongwuwei, which was a team dedicated to protecting His Majesty. This team is strictly screened, only obeying the emperor's orders, and its combat power and number are kept secret, and it is their credit that His Majesty and the emperor were able to escape from the capital safely.

In the decades that followed, this team became a nightmare for the Yi royal family.

Within three years, Zhongwuwei successively killed Xu Hongtao, the first general who defected to Yi Guogong, and Liu Delong, the Taishi, poisoned the left wing of Shangshu of the military department, and quietly infiltrated the palace and shot Yu Jie, the great eunuch who had delivered news to Yi Guogong. Even, he set up an ambush on the side of the road and shot Yi Guogong in the right arm with a long crossbow.

At every crime scene, there will be a word "loyalty" written in blood.

Yi Guogong was furious and ordered to hunt down Zhongwuwei. It is better to kill by mistake than to let go.

But Zhongwuwei still couldn't stop the wheel of history. Yi Guogong killed the little emperor with a poisonous cake, proclaimed himself emperor in Chang'an, changed the country name to Yi, and made his eldest son Song Xu the crown prince. A year later, Taizu was poisoned by a eunuch, and the eunuch was admitted to being a loyal and military guard.

Ten days later, Song Xu ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong.

Since the day of his accession to the throne, Taizong Song Xu has vigorously searched for Emperor Zhou Ai, Emperor Zhaoyang and their loyal guards, but anyone who has a relationship with the royal family of the previous dynasty, regardless of identity, will be executed.

At that time, if you see someone who is not pleasing to your eyes and has an enmity with someone, as long as you secretly go to the government to "report" and identify that person as Zhongwuwei or have something to do with Zhongwuwei, rest assured, that person will definitely die.

The streets were filled with panic.

I don't know whether to sigh "hard work pays off", in the winter of the second year of Hongde, Song Xu heard that there was a small manor outside the bamboo forest in the suburbs of Beijing, and the hostess in the manor was like the portrait of Emperor Zhaoyang on the notice. On the same day, Song Xu saw Emperor Zhaoyang, dressed as a peasant woman, and her child Ye Yi'an, who was less than six years old, in that small manor.

Song Xu coerced and lured for a long time, but he couldn't get any news from Emperor Zhou Ai and Zhongwuwei, and in a fit of anger, he dragged Emperor Zhaoyang to death behind the war horse.

What was sweet talk at the beginning has now become a curse. Before Emperor Zhaoyang died, he didn't know how to feel.