Chapter 32: Falling apart
The collapse of a building is always faster than it was built, and it took the Zhula Dynasty more than ten years to build, and another one or two hundred years before and after to fix the current territory. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but it was only a short midnight from the time when Huangfu Qingyun led people to attack the palace to the time when Zhuluo 48th ordered the burning of Wangxiantai.
Concubine Ji took the other concubines to the east from Zhonghai by boat and went to her mother's house. However, the shipping lanes in the China Sea have been controlled by Huangfu Qingyun, so their ship was intercepted the next day, and they were detained for a full month, until the imperial doctor personally checked their pulses one by one and confirmed that none of them were pregnant, and Huangfu Qingyun released them, as if he had sold a favor to the Ji family.
Because Concubine Ji is married after all, and was once the imperial concubine of the Zhuluo royal family, after returning to the Ji family, the Ji family specially arranged them into a Zhuangzi, there is a well-known temple next to the Zhuangzi---- Dongjue Temple, Ji Wenrong restored the name when she was not married, and often went to Dongjue Temple to chant and worship the Buddha.
After the emperor and the empress ** looked at Sendai, the queen mother couldn't stand this stimulation and was bedridden after fainting. Huangfu Qingyun made people blockade the central capital the next day after the palace change in the middle of the night, and put Qingwang Mingzhen under house arrest, surprisingly, Huangfu Qingyun did not support Qingwang to ascend the throne, but three days later, he himself ascended the throne as the emperor, changed the name of the country to Wei Xingguo, and he proclaimed himself Wei Xing I.
After Wangsendai was burned to ruins, Huangfu Qingyun ordered Wangsendai to be rebuilt on the original site. Because he was not sure about the attitude of the four major families in the four directions, he left his second son by his side, and the third and fourth sons, along with several sons-in-law, were sent by him to various places to calm down possible turmoil.
I don't know if it's because the fate of the Son of Heaven of the Zhuluo Imperial Family has really ended, after the news of the Zhongdu Rebellion spread, all parties didn't have time to make any response, and Zhongdu had already changed hands, and then the armies of the Quartet were very silent, and there was no active attack. One is because the only descendant of the Zhuluo royal family is in the hands of Huangfu Qingyun, and the other is that the Sifang family also wants to take this opportunity to establish themselves as kings and get rid of the control of the Zhuluo royal family.
Huangfu Qingyun especially let people monitor the southern Jiang family and the snowy Guigu family, and the southern Jiang family quickly attached to the Nanqiu Yuan family, and there was no change on the Guigu family's side, which made Huangfu Qingyun feel at ease.
In the next three months, the situation in the entire Zhuluo Continent was like a butterfly effect, following the emergence of Wei Xingguo, the head of the Ji family in the east also established himself as the emperor and established the Zhaozhao State, the head of the Duan family in the west established the Xili State, the Yuan family in the south established the Nanqiu State, and the Jiang family defected to the Nanqiu State.
The news that Huangfu Qingyun forced the palace and ascended the throne and established himself as the emperor reached the snowy region, and Guigu Qianli immediately sent a message to Xingxi in Tiecheng, asking Xingxi to return to Yunzhou. Xingxi and Guigu Qianli talked all night in the study, and the next day Xingxi set off for Tiecheng, and Guigu Qianli announced half a month later that the snowy region would be Yanyun Country from now on, and he would be the lord of Yanyun Country.
After Xingxi returned to Tiecheng, he wholeheartedly participated in the training of the army, and although the changes in the Central Plains region also had ears and eyes to spread the news to his ears from time to time, he never expressed any opinions.
Huangfu Qinghe, who was stranded in Yunzhou, had planned to return to Zhongdu as soon as possible, but he was shocked by the news of his father's accession to the throne, and then found out the news that Guigu Qianli had a secret meeting with a young man from Tiecheng, and he began to suspect that this young man was Zhuluo Minghua.
He hesitated for a few days, and finally decided to continue north, hoping to hear more about this young man named Xingxi, if it could be confirmed that he was Zhuluo Minghua, so that when he returned to Zhongdu, he would also be able to get more praise from his father, no, he should now be called his father.
In the Iron City, the two brothers and sisters of Guigu Pengfei originally planned to stay here for three months, but after Xingxi returned to the Iron City, they received an order from their father and rushed back to Yunzhou. The two brothers and sisters of Shaojie on the North Shore also returned to Yunzhou with them, and only the two brothers and sisters of Shaojun on the North Shore continued to stay in Tiecheng and accompany Xingxi.
Guigu Qianli became the emperor, and soon named his son Guigu Pengfei as the crown prince and Guigu Yonglan as the eldest princess. Guigu Yonglan and Bei'an Shaojie have had a marriage contract since childhood, but Guigu Qianli feels that he is the emperor and is always sorry for the Zhuluo royal family, so he wants to marry his daughter to Xingxi to make up for everything.
This matter was strongly opposed by the Empress Bei'an, "Yonglan and Shaojie have been in love since childhood, why bother to break them up." I see that Xingxi's child has no personal feelings for Yonglan, if the master really wants to do this, he should ask Xingxi what he thinks first, otherwise they will be all uncomfortable if they are screwed together, isn't it even more sorry for Xingxi and their family?"
Guigu Qianli felt that his wife was reasonable, so he sent his right-hand man to Tiecheng to ask Xingxi what he meant, but Xingxi declined the opportunity to marry Guigu Yonglan.
Qianli Guigu was still very guilty in his heart, and after thinking about it, he turned his mind to Fei Fei on the north shore of the Iron City. North Shore Fei Fei and her brother have not made a marriage contract to anyone since they were young because of family discipline. However, with the status of the North Shore family in Yanyun Kingdom, their marriage has already been euphemistically inquired about by many people, but their family is particularly strange, the marriage of each generation must be approved by the head of the Guigu family, so many people secretly ask the queen here. Although the queen didn't dare to bother her husband with these things, she also reminded Guigu Qianli.
North Shore Phoebe is only two years younger than Xingxi, and now she is just fifteen years old, and after the age of fifteen, Guigu Qianli will have to do the marriage for her. North Shore Fei Fei and Xingxi's child have always had a good relationship, and the union of these two can be regarded as the fulfillment of the ancestor's unfulfilled wish, and there is nothing more than this.
Guigu Qianli is also resolute in doing things, he knows that he can protect Xingxi when he is alive, but in the future, after a hundred years, it is difficult to guarantee that his descendants will continue to treat Xingxi well. If Xingxi marries a woman from the North Shore family, at least Xingxi has the support of the second largest family in Yanyun Kingdom, whether he decides to live in Yanyun Country in the future, or wants to go back to Zhongdu, he will have a good help.
Xingxi of Tiecheng didn't know that Qianli Guigu had already started to make up his mind about marriage, and what he was most worried about recently was his two siblings. I heard that after Huangfu Qingyun ascended the throne, he put his three emperors and the other three half-princesses under house arrest.
Fortunately, he had sent someone to pick up Xuanyang and Changping last year, but strangely, he got the news that they had escaped the control of the Huangfu family, but disappeared on the way north. There was a tragedy in Qingyang Town, Yongzhou that year, and Xingxi always suspected that it was related to his sister. After that, Guigu Qianli sent people to Qingyang Town to inquire about the news, but it was not optimistic, and most of the people sent were lost, even if there were survivors returning to Yunzhou, it was impossible to tell whether it was related to the disappearance of the two little princesses, because it was too weird. Those legends about the demons, in their replies, became terrifying realities. Now that the central capital is in chaos, the dynasty has changed, Yongzhou was originally the nest of Huangfu Qingyun, and in the future, I want to send people south to find Xuanyang and Changping, but I am afraid that it will be more difficult.
Xingxi was worried, and the North Shore Shaojun and the North Shore Fei Fei were puzzled. In fact, the two brothers and sisters of the North Shore Shaojun did not have to stay in the Iron City, but the North Shore Fei Fei liked Xingxi, so she pulled her brother to stay in the Iron City. The young gentleman of the north shore who loves his sister can only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.
North Shore Shaojun is not good at martial arts, he is polite and polite, he only likes to read, North Shore Fei Fei is just the opposite, not only does he read well, but his martial arts and riding skills are first-class, so he has been the darling of the family since he was a child, and even the only sister-in-law, North Shore Shaojun, can only retreat behind her light.
Their family is also strange, each generation does not have many heirs, and after trying several generations, it is a single lineage, and now there is a son and a daughter who are already a generation with many heirs. Their family rules do not allow concubines, and if they are over forty years old and still have no children, they are allowed to take concubines. But the status of concubines and wives is very clear. The concubines who give birth to children are not qualified to live in the main house, and are generally sent to the suburbs to spend the rest of their lives in the Zhuangzi after giving birth.
Fei Fei's mother on the North Shore knew her love for Xingxi, and she had mentioned it to the former Lady Guigu, and also inquired about Xingxi's family history. Xingxi has always appeared in Yunzhou as the widow of Guigu Yanli's friend, although he has no father or mother, but he has the favor of Guigu Qianli and the support of Guigu Yanli, and the North Shore family is still quite satisfied with him.
Guigu Qianli thought that Xingxi's parents entrusted him to him, and he had the responsibility to solve the major life events of having children and reproducing offspring for Xingxi, so he made a will to let Xingxi and Feifei on the north shore get married in Iron City.
The queen of Guigu Qianli was a little worried, "Xingxi is a member of the Zhuluo family after all, will he resent us for not helping him in the future and returning to Zhongdu?"
Guigu Qianli smiled, "You just worry about it, I have already discussed it with Xingxi, in this situation, even if we do all our strength to help him, he may not be able to return to Zhongdu smoothly to sit in that position, not to mention that if we send troops, it will inevitably weaken the forces of the snowy region, if the grassland side takes the opportunity to make trouble, I am afraid that more people will suffer." Why bother with all your lives?"
The queen muttered, "After all, it was entrusted to you by the first emperor, you can't live up to it, if you don't keep your promises, will it damage the future of the Guigu family?"
Guigu Qianli comforted his queen and said, "What the first emperor told me at the beginning was only to save Xingxi's life, and did not let our Guigu family push him to the throne. Besides, it is estimated that we may not be able to accomplish things with all our strength, so why bother to let the lives of the people be miserable. ”
In the second year of the Five Kingdoms era, Xingxi married Fei Fei on the North Shore, and since then he has been living in the Iron City and has never returned to the Central Capital.