Chapter 093: Proton
Today's experience is indeed a bit exciting, but Mulan has already been mentally prepared, so she won't be scared. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Hearing what Mrs. An said, she nodded and said "yes".
I was always haunted by the feeling of déjà vu, and I couldn't help but ask Mrs. An, "Too ...... Grandmother, who is that person? Why did Prince Guo and those children of the family bully him? ”
Mrs. An heard her change her name to her grandmother, and looked at her in a little surprise, before she replied lightly: "That's a proton sent by Wei Guo." ”
The state of Wei was adjacent to the Great Jin Dynasty, and its territory was originally the state capital of the Great Jin Dynasty. The origin of the Wei State that split from the Great Jin Dynasty and established itself as a state also starts with Xue Zhao, the founding emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Putting aside the prejudice and suppression of women, Xue Zhao was a qualified king in the first twenty years of his reign, ruling diligently, reusing talents, sympathetic to the people, paying taxes again and again, and exempting from forced labor. There is no harsh government, no cool officials, and it once presented the appearance of national peace and security.
In the next ten years, due to overwork, poor health, and old age and deafness, his suspicion increased greatly. At first, he only suspected that the concubine was unchaste, and in just two years, seven or eight out of ten were executed. Later, he suspected that the courtiers were disloyal, dismissed many officials for no reason, and even killed a founding minister who followed him to conquer the country, and even the crown prince and the princes became the object of his strict guard.
The crown prince is frightened, the civil and military officials are silent, the way of speech is blocked, and the suffering of the people is like reaching the heavens, how can the monarch make a correct and wise judgment? Seeing that the great rivers and mountains were gradually showing chaos, the crown prince Xue Qi, with the instigation and support of the courtiers, led his troops to force the palace and forced Xue Zhao to abdicate.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xue Zhao summoned the queen and the surviving concubines, as well as several princesses who had not yet left the cabinet, to the dormitory and ignited the gunpowder planted in advance. The explosion caused a fire that burned down most of the palace. Countless palace guards and guards were killed in the explosions and fires, and the crown prince was also seriously injured in the chaos and eventually died.
The courtiers wept bitterly over this tragedy, and after careful consideration, they recommended Xue Yi, the third son of the emperor, to ascend the throne as emperor. The reason why Xue Yi was recommended was because among the many princes, Xue Yi was the most disliked by Xue Zhao. Since he is the most alienated, he must be the least affected, and he is the one who will not repeat the mistakes of his predecessors.
The courtiers consciously planned far-sightedly, but they did not know the truth of the near and far directions. Xue Yi has lacked father's love since he was a child, and what he longs for most is father's love, and he pays more attention to Xue Zhao than any other prince. When I was young, I studied unconsciously, and as I got older, I consciously followed suit, hoping to win Xue Zhao's attention.
Xue Yi has always been unremarkable, usually silent and silent, no one wants to waste energy on a prince who is neither favored nor outstanding, so that no one cares about his words and deeds. It wasn't until he was promoted to the position of the king of a country that the courtiers were stunned to find that he was the most similar emperor. Especially in terms of restricting women's virtue, it can be said that it is more than enough, and even formulated the law of "if a woman loses morality, the whole family sits together".
The eldest princess Xue Xian is elegant by nature, likes poetry and writing, and often disguises herself as a man to rush to the Helin Poetry Society, and has a close relationship with a highly talented scholar. There are people with good deeds to test Xue Yi, and write this matter as a secret fold before the king.
Xue Yi was furious when he saw Mi Zhelongyan, and scolded his sister for not abiding by the law and discipline because she had royal blood, could not set an example for the people, and insulted the majesty of the royal family. Because Xue Xian was "obsessed", he issued an edict to condemn all the men in the princess's mansion and exile all the female dependents, including Xue Xian. Xue Xian did not want to bear the humiliation of exile, so she entrusted her young son Du Jian to Helin Yashi, and then committed suicide by poisoning.
Du Jian escaped under the desperate protection of Helin Yashi, and remained incognito for more than ten years, and when he grew up, he was determined to avenge his parents. With the help of some Helin scholars, after nearly ten years of planning, he organized an army and won the support of a nomadic people named Qikang in the West, and rebelled under the banner of "eliminating the faint king and saving the people".
The rebels broke through the border defense line of the Great Jin Dynasty with a surprise attack and annihilated 300,000 defenders of the Great Jin Dynasty. Then the momentum was like a bamboo, crossed the Malian Mountain, drove all the way straight in, and quickly approached the capital.
The Great Jin army was defeated and retreated, Xue Yi panicked, adopted the advice of the ministers, and urgently activated the veteran Xie Peng, who had resigned and retired for many years, that is, the ancestor of the Duke of Jie.
At the age of seventy, Xie Peng was ordered to take command in the midst of danger, led his troops to fight back, and after one year and three months, forced the rebels to retreat to Malian Mountain. In the end, due to his advanced age, he unfortunately fell off his horse and died in the final battle.
The commander was killed, and the morale of the Jin army was greatly damaged. The rebels also suffered heavy losses and were unable to fight any longer, so they retreated to the west of Malian Mountain. Du Jian refused to negotiate, killed the envoys sent by Xue Yi, occupied one-third of the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, and founded the country as "Wei".
Xue Yi then launched several expeditions to regain the lost land, but failed to do so, and finally collapsed with hatred.
On the one hand, the Wei State used the nomads on the border to contain the forces of the Great Jin, and on the other hand, it recruited displaced people, reclaimed barren land, strengthened its national strength, and finally gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains.
After years of war, the treasury of the Great Jin Dynasty was seriously depleted, and it was no longer able to fight, so it was forced to accept the fact that the territory was divided and recognized Wei as a "friendly neighbor".
The Great Jin Dynasty and the Wei State originally had the same root and origin, and to this day, the Central Plains countries still habitually call them the former Jin and the Later Wei.
For more than 300 years, there was constant friction between the Jin and Wei dynasties, and wars broke out on the border between the two countries from time to time. Just because the two countries have equal military strength, and there is the moat of Malian Mountain in the middle, no one has ever bargained.
The last battle between the two countries was thirteen or fourteen years ago, when the Wei Xing army invaded the border on a large scale and was attacked head-on by the Xie family army led by the Duke of Jieguo. Wei suffered heavy losses and withdrew its troops to sue for peace. A large number of gold, silver, wealth, horses, cattle and sheep were presented, and the second son of the emperor was sent to the Great Jin Dynasty as a proton.
According to the meaning of the Duke of Jieguo, it should be pursued with great courage, taking advantage of the victory, and the shame of splitting the country three hundred years ago. The first emperor was obsessed with the beauties of Wei and forced the Duke of Xie to retire.
After the unjust and tragic death of Duke Jieguo, many people were worried that the Wei State would take advantage of the situation and commit another offense, but it did not. Five years ago, the second prince of Wei, who had been living in Dajin as a proton, died suddenly, and instead of investigating the cause of the death of the second prince, Wei sent a large amount of wealth, and sent the third prince who was only eleven years old to Dajin and continued to act as a proton.
The young man that Mulan had just seen outside the palace gate was none other than Du Shunwen, the third prince of Wei.
Wei State's practice of swallowing his anger made Du Shunwen, who was a proton, much contempt. In addition, he has a cowardly personality, not as sleek and sophisticated as his brother, and is often bullied by the descendants of the royal family and the children of the family.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, his situation became worse and worse, and it became commonplace to be teased by Prince Guo and those children of the family, and Prince Guo even called him "the king's plaything" in public.
Mulan had never met Du Shunwen before, let alone been to the Wei Kingdom, so she really couldn't figure out where that feeling of déjà vu came from, so she could only attribute it to an illusion.
So he pressed this end and asked Mrs. An about another thing that he was more concerned about, "Grandmother, what is the matter with the family you are talking about?" ”
- (To be continued.) )