Chapter 12: Broken Heads
At night, when the lights in the middle hall were crumbling, King Yan finally came. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Princess Xu undressed him, and Ma He took off his shoes and quietly retreated.
"What's wrong?" the princess asked.
King Yan didn't answer immediately, just looked at the moon in the teacup in his hand, and the bits and pieces of water reflected brightly, melting into a faint clear glow - he looked at it for a while and said, "Song Guogong and Dingyuan Marquis are both dead." β
Princess Xu closed her eyes slightly, then opened them again, and said, "Why?" Her voice was short and rapid, and her heart was as uncalm as the turbulent lake.
"One duke and one marquis," Xu said: "What is the crime, rebellion or arrogance?"
"There is no charge," Zhu Di said: "Summoned to the palace, a cup of poisoned wine was given to death." Except for the Marquis of Dingyuan, all the sons of Song Guogong are not allowed to inherit his throne. β
"I want to thank the emperor," Xu said: "There is no Zhulianxing Prison." β
Watching the emperor execute Lan Yu is like executing Hu Weiyong, it is necessary to connect a huge "Blue Party" and "Hu Party", and it is necessary to fabricate the crime of rebellion. However, Song Guogong and Dingyuan Marquis did not retaliate, nor did they condone the violations of law and discipline by domestic slaves, and the emperor could not find the crime, so he simply gave poisoned wine.
Feng Sheng, Duke of Song Dynasty, Wang Bi, Marquis of Dingyuan, both of them are famous generals with outstanding military achievements, and they are the lords of a hundred battles, conquering the Central Plains, going down to Shandong, slightly determining Henan and Hebei, Northern Expedition to Mengyuan, and Nanke Yunnan.
"The two of them are not guilty," Zhu Di said, "It's because two years ago, Feng Sheng and Wang Bi went to Shanxi and Henan with Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, to train troops, and they said a few words in private. β
At that time, Lan Yu was ambushed, among the founding heroes, Fu Youde, Wang Bi and Feng Sheng's meritorious service was the greatest, and when they saw Lan Yu's ending, who was not afraid in their hearts. Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, said to Fu Youde: "The spring and autumn period is high, and I will do my best every day, and my generation should be vertical and horizontal." β
The emperor is old, and sooner or later he will kill us, and we have to think about whether to join the vertical or the horizontal.
Those who are vertical will unite the weak to attack the strong, and those who are horizontal will be strong to attack the weak.
Wang Bi gave two paths: either the weak will join forces against one strong man, or simply follow one strong man to attack the other weak ones. However, before they could make a choice, the emperor killed them first.
"The emperor can make up his mind so quickly," Xu said, "It was shocked by the Duke of Yingguo!"
At the winter solstice banquet, Fu Youde's father and son were on the corpse hall, one of them was the emperor's son-in-law, and before he died, he broke the emperor's mind - you just want our head, you don't need to take it, I will cut it off for you myself!
Looking at Fu Youde's father and son, the emperor was furious, there should not be many people who died to resist him, even in the past. The emperor can control the fate of the meritorious heroes, the king wants the ministers to die, and the ministers have to die - but Fu Youde is not willing to die of humiliation like Lan Yu.
The generals did not die on the battlefield, but died in prison, which is the most cruel thing for them to a country. It is the best way for generals to die on the battlefield, so that they do not have to be suspicious of those in power, they do not have to be dismissed from office for various crimes, they do not have to be in different places, they do not have to be imprisoned, and they do not have to die in grief and indignation.
"Do you remember," Zhu Di said: "In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the second year when we first came to Beiping, I went out with my father-in-law, and I met this famous general. β
"He's not easy to approach, because he's always silent," Zhu Di recalled: "Except for explaining things, the rest, I hardly heard anything more, I thought it was a strong wind on the grassland, even if you tried your best, you couldn't shout the volume to compete with the sound of the wind and waves, so there was only silence." β
But now King Yan knows that because silence is his armor, if he can't break it, he won't be able to hurt him, and if he does, he will die with the armor.
"I feel happy," Xu's small voice said, "He is like this, I feel happy!"
To be humiliated alive, and then to be trampled to the ground and die without skin, it is better to defend your last dignity by killing yourself.
"I also feel happy, but the jade is broken," King Yan sighed, "Even the family can't be happy, what kind of happiness is it?"
The men of the Fu family committed suicide, the daughter committed suicide, the jade was incomplete, and the men, women and children of the whole family were sent to Yunnan, this is the end of the emperor to this hero who has followed him for twenty or thirty years.
"What about the Feng family and the Wang family?" Xu asked, "Are you still staying in Kyoto?"
"I heard that the family held the coffin that night and returned to Chang'an, Shaanxi. Zhu Di said: "I don't dare to go back to my hometown, and I go back to my uncle's house." β
In his ears, it seemed that when Hongwu returned from the victory of the desert in the fourteenth year, the emperor enshrined Wang Bi as the Marquis of Dingyuanββ
"Zhaoxin Captain Wang Bi, self-defeating to cross the river, as a deputy marshal, heroic and military champions, clear Lake, Hunan, Fujian and Zhejiang; Southern Yunnan is a success, first open the pass of the dragon's tail, and the Han River Xuanwei sweeps away the sea of fish. Today's decision has been made, Li Sha Yi'an, on meritorious deeds, the ceremony is clear. The marquis of Erding Yuan, the three thousand stones, the hereditary commander, the crime is from the article of the three you. The Marquis of Jin'er and the country are resting, the royal family of the Ping Domain, and the treasure of Yongzhao. Mingsi leads the rivers and mountains, abides by the solidity of the golden soup, and writes the life of loyalty and inheritance in the drama world!"
The world has been decided, is it rewarding meritorious deeds?
Does sin come from the three yos?
Is it a break with the country?
It's only been a few years.
But the last sentence "write loyalty in the drama world" is the true meaning of the emperor. Help the crisis and overcome the difficulties, and rely on loyalty. It's just that this kind of loyalty, in exchange for great virtue, great merit is not rewarded, in exchange for the accumulation of ruined bones, birds are hidden.
The army conquered outside the fortress, and the wind and frost were getting worse, and everyone from the general to the pawn seemed to like to carve words on the stone.
The so-called strategy is solid, the stele is inscribed, the stele is engraved on the stele, and the inscription is engraved on the metal, but everyone can go back alive and don't know, so they rush to carve their names on the stone.
"People forget, history is light. Fu Youde carved words crookedly on a big stone, turned his head and said to him: "His Royal Highness King Yan, the exploits of our Northern Expedition, you see, it won't be long before the appointment will be forgotten." β
He's right, nothing in this world lasts forever. If it flows, it flows away, if it remains, it dries up, and if it grows, it slowly withers.
"But Su Zhijiashi, Mu Hand Leming, let's just remember it ourselves. This is a rare time for this silent general to say so much.
What was written on the stone, Zhu Di never forgot.
He did not hesitate to dissect his heart, and would rather resign to pieces; unification can be expected, and there is no trace of wilderness.