Chapter 3 King Xu Sheng of the Jin Dynasty and the Imperial Tomb
"King Jin?"
King Jin, who is also his third emperor uncle, is the second prince of the East Palace once set up by Emperor Wu, Xu Sheng. He is also the first crown prince in the history of the Yang Dynasty to "ask for abolition". The reason was that the day after he was appointed as the supervisor of the Dragon Capture Legion to resist Beirong's second southward movement, the largest city in Mobei at that time, Gravel City, was raided and lost by the Rong soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed by the Rong soldiers......
Although he immediately turned the tide after rushing to Mobei and forced the soldiers to abandon the army and sue for peace, he never forgot the events of that time in his heart after returning to the dynasty. Because of this incident, Emperor Wu beheaded the five generals at that time, and did not mean to punish the prince, but because he witnessed the tragic situation of the gravel city, his heart was difficult to get rid of, and he asked Emperor Wu three times to abolish his position as the prince, and he was demoted to a concubine, and went to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb for the rest of his life to apologize.
Although the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including Emperor Wu, did not think that it was the responsibility of the crown prince, but he could not stand Xu Sheng's repeated requests, and his intention was decided, and Emperor Wu finally issued an order to abolish the position of the crown prince, but kept the throne, fief, and position of Xu Sheng, the king of Jin, unchanged.
After Xu Sheng removed the name of the East Palace, he resigned from all his positions, volunteered his job to rebuild the Gravel City, and then went to guard the mausoleum alone.
The matter of Xu Sheng, the king of Jin, is well known to everyone in Shenjing City, but when the two brothers Xu Jin and Xu Heng followed King Qi from Qilu to Shenjing City, King Jin had already had the resources to guard the tomb for many years, and he did not leave the imperial tomb for more than ten years. Xu Heng had never seen this Third Emperor Uncle once.
Such an elder actually sent a message that he wanted to meet him?
Xu Heng was a little surprised, but more confused.
Turning his head to look at his brother, the gaze from his brother was calm and firm, and he did not miss a clue, making Xu Heng unpredictable.
"What do you think, big brother?"
"That's a letter brought by one of the Imperial Tomb defenders two days ago, and I don't know why the Third Emperor Uncle wants to see you, but it shouldn't be a bad thing. If you have time, go for it. β
Xu Jin explained, but did not solve the doubts in Xu Heng's heart.
Xu Heng thought about it and decided to focus on Su Su: "Su Su's situation is indeed very urgent, I'm afraid it will be ...... this time."
"I think it may have something to do with the ghost town of Xudu. β
Xu Jin rarely said the words that he was not sure about, but since he said it, then this matter would not be far away. The eldest brother's words made Xu Heng a little entangled at the moment.
Sensing his brother's concerns, Xu Jin said again, "But since the message doesn't say the time, it shouldn't hurt to go again if you have the opportunity in the future." β
Xu Heng was still groaning, but at this time, a familiar female voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Go." β
Su Su, no, it's the thing that occupies Su Su's body! She let me go?
Xu Heng thought for a while: It was just past noon at this moment, and there were still more than three hours before the agreed time, if you rode a fast horse, you should be able to reach the imperial tomb in one hour......
"Okay! I'll go!"
Xu Jin nodded: "I have a fast horse and a good saddle here, Brother Heng can rush to the imperial tomb in less than an hour, since it has been agreed, it should not delay Miss Su's time." β
Xu Jin and Yu Qisi sent Xu Heng to the door, where a man and a woman were already waiting, the woman was holding the package, the man was leading the horse, and they all said hello when they saw Xu Heng coming over.
"Heng Gongzi, the package is made by Aunt Ye herself, with sauced beef, five-spiced fish, eight taels of shortbread and a pot of rice wine, all of which are still hot, you can eat them on the road~"
Xiao Ji, who knew that she was at a loss, came forward with a smile, for the sake of the importance of the news, Xu Heng was really embarrassed to blame her, so he took the package from the maid's hand, checked it, raised his eyes and said fiercely: "I should have really put you on the acupoint and thrown you into the room for two or three days of starvation." β
Xiao Ji knew that she had passed the test, so she hugged Xu Heng's arm and shook it twice, pretending to be coquettish, but in fact, she was fearless: "Hehehehe, who made the son soft-hearted~"
Xu Heng pulled out his hand with a cold face and looked at the person leading the horse next to him: "Brother Chen, do you know where Ma Ye went?"
Originally, the main purpose of returning to Shenjing City was to discuss things with his master, but he didn't expect to be found in the palace of King Qi, so he wrote a letter to leave a message, and after writing it, he simply wrote a few more letters, so that he had the pile of letters in Xu Jin's hand.
It stands to reason that Ma Xingwen, who is proficient in divination, should not be unable to calculate that he will come back to him today, and the biggest possibility that he can't find him is that he doesn't want to see him.
Chen Changyi's answer also confirmed this: "When I was going to practice swordsmanship in the martial arts arena, I happened to see Ma Ye preparing to leave the house, and said that if Xu Heng asked about him, I would reply to him with six wordsββ"
As soon as Chen Changyi's words paused, Xu Heng saw a sentence in the stitches: "Roll the calf?"
The sudden swear words made Chen Changyi blink, and Xu Hengle was happy, "Is there really three words for rolling calves?"
"You're really right!" Chen Changyi handed the horse rope to Xu Heng and finished the interrupted words, "The remaining half is-"
β¦β¦
"Roll the calf, listen to them"
On the way to the imperial mausoleum, Xu Heng was pondering the meaning of these six words.
Rolling the calf is easy to understand, not only scolding himself for not listening to his old man at the time, but now that he has suffered a loss and running back in a fart, he is very unhappy, and he is also telling Xu Heng that there is no solution to what he is experiencing now in his master, it is time to get out of here, don't waste time.
But "listening to TA" is a bit puzzling.
Is it a man or a woman, is it for Xu Heng to listen to Su Su or to listen to his eldest brother? I have met so many people in the past half a day when I returned to Shenjing City, and I will never let him listen to Xiao Yi, after all, there are only two people who give advice.
After being entangled halfway, Xu Heng simply stopped thinking about it.
Anyway, Xu Jin and the one attached to Su Su meant that he should go and meet the unmasked Third Emperor Uncle, so let's go and see it.
The imperial tomb is fifty miles outside the Shenjing City, and the horses are fast, and they are there in a blink of an eye.
Since the ancestral tomb of Emperor Taizu was located at the foot of Tianshou Mountain outside Shenjing City, the emperors of later generations were built in the Tianshou Mountains, and now the mausoleum that has been built for Emperor Wu is also among them. If nothing else, after a hundred years and a thousand years, there will almost be a series of majestic imperial mausoleum scenery at the foot of Tianshou Mountain.
The earliest construction of the ancestral tomb of Emperor Taizu is located at the southern foot of the main peak of Tianshou Mountain, its east, west and north are surrounded by mountains respectively, hugging the basin plain in the middle, there are tributaries of the Yellow River flowing from west to east in the south, occupying the best feng shui treasure land, and then Emperor Wen and Emperor Cheng's imperial tombs are built near the Ming Tomb, and the trend of arching the horns is to defend it.
Xu Heng galloped all the way, and soon entered the Tianshou Mountains, the interior of the mountain range was rugged, but in order to build the ancestral tomb, it took six years to mobilize nearly 100,000 craftsmen, and used the power of filling pits to move mountains, and paved a solid and flat road between the mountains, the road sloped upwards to the north along the mountain, and the mountains were on both sides, galloping all the way, the scenery was magnificent and majestic, and it was beautiful.
When there were still about ten miles from the ancestral tomb, Xu Heng stopped his horse and met the first Gangcha camp of the Wolong Army.
I also met an acquaintance.