101 Chapter 42—The Wind Rises (2)

Northern Wei Dynasty went to Beijing.

The Northern Wei Imperial Palace is built in imitation of the Han family palace, divided into two main groups, the East Palace and the West Palace, the East Palace is the place where the Northern Wei Emperor and the courtiers discuss state affairs, and the West Palace is the residence of the emperor and the harem concubines.

The main palace of the West Palace was the residence of Queen Dugu in the early years, Queen Dugu was born in the powerful Dugu valve, is the eldest daughter of the Dugu family, and immediately kung fu poems and books are all first-class in Beijing, and the first emperor chose her as the concubine of the emperor despite the difference of eight years between the two, hoping that she could get the support of the Dugu family when the emperor was in charge.

However, Queen Dugu is a woman with an extremely strong personality, and the same is true of Emperor Lie, The most noble couple of the Northern Wei Dynasty rarely had the time to raise their eyebrows in their early years.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was founded only for more than 60 years, and it was also deeply influenced by the Eastern Qin Dynasty.

When Empress Dugu married Emperor Lie, Emperor Lie had already married the eldest daughter of the Yilou clan as a side concubine. Although the Yilou family is the eldest daughter, it is nothing in the Yilou family, the housewife of the Yilou family is sleek, and several concubines have developed a gentle and petty temperament. When she met Emperor Yulie, Emperor Lie was a sixteen-year-old boy, she was soft and soft, she was deeply loved by Emperor Lie in her early years, and after Dugu married in, she robbed Mr. Tuoba Dare.

Emperor Lie's young ascension to the throne was the time when he held the power and wanted to show his skills, but he didn't expect that Dugu Hong, the auxiliary minister of the former dynasty, did not support him in everything, on the contrary, he sometimes sang the opposite, which made Emperor Lie feel constrained, as for the harem, the emperor and queen had a dispute, and Queen Dugu also abided by the palace rules and strictly followed the rules, and forced him to retreat, because he was hostile to his queen for a long time.

And the crown prince Tuoba Ao was born in such a situation, at first he didn't like Queen Dugu, and he inevitably ignored this child.

In the eighth year of his reign, the monarch and the minister hunted in the suburbs of Shangjing, the then Linshan King Tuoba and the law rebelled, although he held the tiger talisman but after all, he could not quench his thirst, it was the brother of Queen Dugu who led a thousand forbidden troops to fight to the death, and finally died of eighteen arrows, and Queen Dugu in the palace handed over the prince to her henchmen, and she changed into men's clothes day and night, and it took only one day to Nanyuan to transfer the army, and directly killed the Nanyuan guard to win the military power and lead the troops to rescue, but she herself will be several months pregnant at that time!

It was only when she stood in front of him, covered in blood, that he felt afraid.

When the royal driver returned to the West Palace, he saw that the palace door was locked, and when he heard it, he knew that it was only the five-year-old Tuoba Ao who ordered the palace people to do it, and even bullied him when he was young and was killed by him in court.

After the rebellion was quelled, knowing that the only son died in battle, the only daughter's life hung by a thread, Dugu Hong was originally sick in bed, and this old minister who had gone through three dynasties chose to drag the sick body to insist on the court after the rebellion for Emperor Lie.

In the next year, Queen Dugu lingered on the sickbed, and the witch doctor told him that the queen's miscarriage might affect her longevity when the palace changed, and the young emperor, who was really powerful in his year, stayed by his wife's bed for the first time to know what it was.

In the next three years, Emperor Lie almost did the only pet of the pepper room, and this year Queen Dugu was pregnant again, Emperor Lie was ecstatic, but this year Dugu Hong died of illness, the palace people leaked the news, and the woman who was pregnant for eight months was frightened and prematurely born, leaving only a thin and small baby less than a month, and Emperor Lie named it "Jing", and the full moon was canonized as the king of Zhongshan.

It is sixteen years in a flash, even though Emperor Lie has seven sons under his knees for so many years, and there are countless daughters, but he still relies on the prince Tuoba Ao, and the most favored is the youngest son Zhongshan King Tuoba Jing, he even thought that if he was a hundred years later, there was a prince to guard, and the young son would definitely not have any mistakes, so even though the court said that the king of Zhongshan did not learn and did not know, he waved a rich county close to Zhongshan into the fief of the king of Zhongshan.

But he never thought that his crown prince, the son who inherited the bloodline of the Tuoba clan and the Dugu clan, his sister-in-law would leave this world before him.

It was October 25 when I received the news.

This day is the Winter Hunting Festival of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The ancestors of the Northern Wei Dynasty survived the desperate struggle with the wild wolves in the bitter cold season, and left two young wolves as trophies, and in the spring of the following year, the two grown snow wolves became the helpers of the ancestors of the Northern Wei Dynasty, helping them guard their livestock and reproduce since then. It is the day when the later people will leave the young wolf as the winter hunt, on this day, the great witch of the clan will hold a sacrifice to pray for the blessing of the Changsheng Mountain to protect the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Emperor Lie led hundreds of officials to hold a banquet on the square in front of the Hall of Eternal Life, and the witch watchers prayed.

At night, the snow was as white as goose feathers, the fire in front of the temple was blazing, and the old sorcerers wore sacrificial robes of Xuan Zhu and wore vermilion lacquer masks, and around the fire they provoked a dance that had been handed down since the Western Zhou Dynasty.

"Newspaper-" The herald with a white cloth wrapped around his left arm held the flag and rode through the palace gate with one hand, and even ignored his own appearance to interrupt the annual Winter Hunting Festival sacrifice, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince - His Highness, he ......has passed away."

In an instant, the world spun around, and the wine bottle in his hand rolled down to the ground covered with a thick animal skin blanket, making a dull sound.

"Ahh

"His Royal Highness was ambushed by the Qin people and died in the battle of Changping County, East Qin. His Royal Highness was originally stationed in Shuoxue Pass, the Qin reinforcements arrived late at night to attack the camp, His Royal Highness led the army to retreat, and when he arrived in Changping County, His Royal Highness ordered General Dugu to place wounded soldiers outside the city, and led the army into the city, but unexpectedly, the Qin people were cunning and recaptured Changping County early to set up an ambush, His Royal Highness died in battle, General Dugu could not attack it, and now he is still in a coma, the Qin people returned the bones of His Highness, and only one of the chief soldiers and five or six hundred wounded soldiers were left, escorting His Highness back to his hometown. The herald shed tears as he spoke, even if he had a little whisper about the high-ranking emperor, but they did trust His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wholeheartedly, but now that the other party was martyred in the prime of life, all the soldiers were sad.

"Nonsense!" King Zhongshan cut off the table with a sword, turned around and knelt down on one knee towards Emperor Lie, "Father, please also ask Father to promise his sons to lead the troops and avenge his brother!"

"Nonsense!" the old emperor's eyes turned red in an instant, he raised his hand and slapped it on the case, drinking the tearful young son, for a moment, he was actually praying to the immortal mountain in his heart, hoping that the bad news was a scam, but the next moment the herald said that they actually came back with his child, "You still have three brothers fighting outside, I don't know the news, you want to avenge your brother, who is the enemy?"

"Father!" Tuoba said hoarsely, almost speechless, "In addition to your brother, you have six sons, but Erchen has only one brother......

"Father, the seventh brother is drunk. Hearing that he was going to talk about the side, the six princes hurriedly got up and walked around from behind the table and knelt down with Tuoba Jing.

"You said that you escorted the prince back to Shangjing, so where is my son now?" Putting his hands flat on the desk, Emperor Lie only felt that his arms had never been so weak, and for a moment he felt that he couldn't even support the weight of his body, he still remembered that after returning to the palace twenty years ago, Queen Dugu was unconscious, and he took Tuoba Ao, who was canonized as the crown prince, with him at that time, Xiao Lang had a nightmare, he held the young child in his arms, promising never to leave the other party alone, but now, his son Lang was sleeping in a thin coffin, is he? Will he feel as scared as he did that winter night, will he feel that he has broken his promise as a father?

"Since I arrived in the territory of my Great Wei, Shangfeng ordered the humble to pass the message first, estimating that His Highness's coffin should arrive in Niuchuan. The herald choked up, not caring about the loss of honor in front of the king.

“...... I also asked Wu Zhu to complete the winter hunting sacrifice, and I and I personally went to welcome my son home. "It's only three days from Shangjing to Niuchuan, but if you take the coffin, I'm afraid that there will be seven or eight days, but at this moment, Emperor Lie only feels that he can't wait for one more moment, he just wants to step forward and lead his child home.

"Your Majesty is the body of a daughter, how can you easily go out of Beijing?" The person who spoke was now the great Sima Lonely Jialou, he was the cousin of Queen Dugu, since the death of the branch twenty years ago, the Dugu family was the patriarch, if others dissuaded him only for fear of being dragged down by the angry emperor, but the one who spoke was Dugu Jialou, even if it was the Lie Emperor, it was not easy to reprimand, and the seriously injured Dugu Luo was the youngest son of Dugu Jialou, and he was also the person he put on the tip of his heart.

"Father, you don't allow your son to avenge your brother without permission, and now you can allow your son to welcome your brother home?" Tuoba Jing bowed his head and kowtowed, only a slightly trembling tone revealed the master's fluctuating mood, and in a place where everyone could not see, tears had already wet the little boy's clothes.

Tuoba Jing is not really stupid Bai Tian after all, he has a good brother, a sibling brother who cares about him and loves him.

He was extremely smart when he was young, and he was able to recall the memory of when he was two or three years old, and he never forgot that when he was a child, there were palace people who chewed their tongues and said that he was born with a mother, and he was the brother who was called a gentleman by everyone, and ordered the eunuchs and palace ladies who had heads and faces in the palace to come forward to watch the punishment and set an example.

When he was older, he was studying in Shangshu, and the children of prominent families in the court bullied him and ridiculed him for being stupid, and his godbrother found out, and the brother himself came to visit his father and brother, and the young boy never appeared in Shangjing again.

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There are a lot of existences that only said a few words in the past, and I think it is vivid, but the brother who supported him behind him to obtain Wang Yang's wanton will is no longer there after all, and now all he can do is welcome his brother home.