Chapter 25: The Hatred of Humiliation
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Again, the white-haired man sends the black-haired man.
Liu Qi looked at his old mother's full head of gorgeous hair, and his heart ached.
He and Liu Wu left one after another, and the filial piety of his mother was handed over to the eldest sister alone.
He inspected his closest relatives for another week, skipping the concubines and children kneeling not far away, and went to the ministers farther away, and the ministers knelt in the dark.
When people are about to die, there are many memories and remembrances.
In terms of governing the country, he was far less ambitious than he had imagined when he first ascended the throne. However, what was finally left to Che'er was a country that was gradually getting richer, and he had the face to go to his ancestors.
Thinking of this, he raised his spirit and said to Queen Wang: "Serve with pen and ink, call the prime minister and Taishi Ling." When Emperor Jing was glancing, everyone was holding their nerves, knowing that the emperor was making a final farewell to the world.
And now, it is time to dictate the edict, write a clear edict for the future direction of the Han Dynasty, and legitimize Liu Che's accession to the throne.
Queen Wang understood in her heart, and held back her tears to summon Prime Minister Wei Juan to talk with Taishi Ling Sima. Record the emperor's edict and the duty lies.
In the main hall, there was a deathly silence.
Liu Che clenched his fists in his sleeves, thinking of the deaths and injuries in the side newspaper and then looking at his father who was about to leave forever, he tried his best to restrain himself from crying.
Gillian looked at him worriedly, but he didn't realize it.
According to the system, every time the emperor says a word, the prime minister repeats it once, and the Taishi Ling remembers it. In the end, the prime minister asked the emperor word by word to see if there were any omissions or mistakes.
The edict clarified the succession of the crown prince, and at the same time instructed the queen mother to consult the queen mother in case of trouble. The ancestral system cannot be changed lightly, and the Xiongnu outside, and the Li people inside. Heavy agriculture and mulberry, light servitude. It delineated the basic national policy for the direction of the new dynasty.
After reading the edict, Liu Qi weakly waved his hand and signaled to retreat. He left the Empress Dowager Dou to have a secret conversation, and he talked with the Empress Dowager Dou for about half an hour. Then there are important ministers like Dou Ying, and the royal family such as the king and queen have not been able to get the emperor's last talk, so the clans can't help but secretly look at the queen mother. However, the Queen Mother sat motionless, and her face did not show any expression.
The last to go in was Liu Che, who stayed the longest.
Gillian knew that repeated summons and mental concentration would quickly consume Emperor Jing's last vitality, and sure enough, when Liu Che came out with red eyes, he stood still and said loudly: "The emperor is immortal." β
As if water were boiling at once, the whole temple poured into the inner sanctum, and then they all began to cry.
Although it is a mental preparation, but once it happens. Liu Che still felt very dizzy, he was in a trance, and he hadn't rested well for more than a month. Then he held his father's hand with his own eyes and saw him smile and close his eyes, he didn't have any expectations for his ambitions at the moment.
I'm very tired, from my body to my heart.
However, he has to hold on.
From today onwards, he has no father.
He wants to support the entire Han and his father's entrustment and hope for him.
Everyone was crying, some were crying silently like grandmothers, some were crying like mothers and aunts, but he seemed to be numb, and he looked at everyone quietly.
He looked at Gillian, who looked at him with tears and concern on her face. I wanted to come up and help him, but I didn't dare. He wanted to smile at her and say he was fine, but he was too tired, too tired. In the end, she could only pull out a smile that was more ugly than crying to comfort her, making her cry even more.
In the midst of crying, the prime minister got up and walked past everyone, and he walked towards Liu Che and said in a deep voice: "Please also ask the prince to mourn."
Condolences?
He touched his face, and it turned out that his face was full of tears.
The prime minister walked up to the Empress Dowager Dou and saluted: "The country cannot be without a king for a day, and I ask the Empress Dowager to show it." The Empress Dowager looked silent, and she said softly: "The ministers support the crown prince to ascend the throne, and then mourn and announce it to the world." According to the emperor's instructions, you can do it. β
Prime Minister Dono.
Everything worked out in an orderly manner.
Liu Che justifiably became the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the funeral and even the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor had his own set of systems to lead to it. Therefore, after Liu Che received a hundred official gifts, he saluted like the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager. As a matter of course, he stayed in the front hall of Weiyang Palace to guard the spirit of Emperor Jing.
He knelt in front of his father's spirit in a daze, and what his mind couldn't control was what his father had told him, and he recalled his father's laughter, anger, joy and sorrow over and over again. Like, so that the father remained with him.
No one could see his weakness, and he was the only one who kept watch in the empty inner sanctum.
He didn't know how long he knelt until the sound of the third watch sounded. He realized that he hadn't slept all night, and he lay down on his father's coffin and hugged him one last time.
Liu Che knew in his heart that this was the last time he relied on his father like this.
Walking out of this temple, he is the Son of Heaven, and he can no longer show a little weakness.
His uncles and uncles of the vassal kings were all watching him, seeing if he could be a good son of heaven. The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were also waiting for him, the new monarch, and he took a deep breath and thought of the four counties of Northern Xinjiang in the side newspaper.
He exhaled this deeply, saying goodbye to his boyhood. He walked out with vigorous steps, and outside the hall were ministers waiting for him.
The death of the emperor is for the national mourning, and the whole country mourns.
The mausoleum of Emperor Jing was repaired early, located in the northeast of Chang'an, and was known as the Hanyang Mausoleum in history.
Before Liu Che held the enthronement ceremony, there was an incident called "the hatred of humiliation" by the Han royal family.
That night, the Xiongnu, Wuheng, Yu Shen and other aliens invaded Ganquan Palace, and the entire palace was burned down. Standing on the high platform, you can see the sky reddish.
Liu Che was furious, took a sword to cut the case, and swore to take revenge.
The Xiongnu took advantage of Emperor Jing's serious illness and death in the four counties of northern Xinjiang, killing people and setting fires. Now the royal palace is also burned to show provocation. If you don't take revenge, what face do you have to see your ancestors?
Standing on a high platform, looking at the firelight, holding a sword. He remembered the humiliating history of the Han Dynasty for decades, since Gaozu personally led an army of more than 200,000 to conquer the Xiongnu, and as a result, "400,000 elite soldiers of Maodun rode around Emperor Gao Yu Baideng". Since then, the Han Dynasty has embarked on a policy of "appeasement": peace and tributary.
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He clenched his sword tightly, his forehead throbbing with green tendons, and his eyes were red.
Such a young man is angry again. Even Chuntuo, who had been serving him since he was a child, shrank in the corner, not daring to go up and touch Liu Che's moldy head.
Gillian Shi Ran walked up and didn't say a word.
Stand beside him and hold his hand.
Liu Che was shaken by her warm jade hand, and his anger was slightly reduced by two points. He didn't have to look to know it was her. She was the only one who dared to come up and comfort him when he was angry.
The snowflakes and the cold wind were whistling, and his voice was tired and hoarse: "Jiaojiao, do you know? After Gaozu went, the Xiongnu wrote a letter: The lonely king, born in the depression, grew up in the plains of cattle and horses, counted to the border, and is willing to travel to China. His Majesty is independent and lives alone. The two lords are unhappy, and they have nothing to worry about, and they are willing to give everything they have. β
This is a book of provocation written by Mao Dunshan Yu to the Han Dynasty, is he molesting Empress LΓΌ? No, he is belittling and humiliating the Han family.
He clenched his fists and slammed them against the bar.
Speechless for a long time because of anger and humiliation, Gillian held his hand tightly. comforted him and said, "Needless to say, I have read the letter from Lu Houhui." β
"Just don't forget the disadvantages, give them books, and the disadvantages are afraid. Retreat to self-esteem, old age, depraved teeth, out-of-pace, merely listening, not enough to defile yourself. There is no guilt in the evils, and it is appropriate to be forgiven. There are two royal cars and two horses, so as to be often driven. β
This is Empress Lu's reply, forbearance and humility.
After she received the letter, she was furious and wanted to kill the envoy and wave her army north.
It was only after the persuasion of the ministers that he gave up.
However, it took many years. Recalling this incident again, Liu Che was still speechless because of shame.
This world, when you fight back, when you become domineering, it will become gentle.
Is the way of harmony practiced by the Han family for decades useful?
It's useless, even if the history books say that it is obscure.
He still disagrees, using the sacrifice of the princess of the Han family to maintain peace, or the peace that is as thin as a cicada's wings. Is this the work of the eldest husband?
Peace has always been decided by the strong.
He had to admit that the defeat of Gaozu in the Han family gave birth to a cowardly enemy to the Xiongnu.
No horses, no cavalry, no money.
This is not the root cause, the real cause is in the mind.
He thought of his father's edict and the Huns, and he sighed deeply in his heart. He knew that he couldn't follow his father's will, although it was unfilial, but it was necessary.
He glanced at Gillian beside him, and he couldn't tolerate it anymore to send himself and Gillian's daughter to the Huns and relatives. In exchange for their annual disturbances and increasingly greedy tributary demands.
Gillian was also looking at him, her eyes filled with a pool of spring water.
She was firm and resolute, and whispered in his ear with confidence: "Che'er, you will definitely be able to recast the dignity of the Han family." β
He himself had no faith, and he wasn't sure he would do better than his ancestors. Although the ancestors failed to fight back against the Xiongnu, they stabilized the livelihood of the country and left him with a country that was becoming more and more prosperous.
Gaozu started his family on his back, but he was still defeated and trapped, and bribed the Yan family to solve the difficulty.
War has the potential to wash away the shame. It may also plunge the country into an unprecedented crisis, so he never shows his heart for the Huns in front of anyone. Only in front of Gillian, who is the least guarded and disguised, does he dare to reveal it.
However, she is so determined every time that she believes that he will accomplish the great work that the Han family has not completed for generations.
He did not dare to live up to the trust in her eyes, although he knew that it all came from a wife's expectation of her husband's omnipotence. Even so, he couldn't lose that trust. This trust supported him to continue to move forward in his hatred of the Xiongnu.
After Emperor Jing's burial, Liu Che held a court meeting.
On this day, Gillian officially moved from the Taigong Palace to Weiyang Palace.
She stood behind the temple door, looked at the magnificence inside, and stood for a while before lifting the hem of her skirt and walking in. From today onwards, it will be the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. There seems to be a strange circle in the Han family, and the Yuan Empress didn't end too well.
And today, she stepped into the palace gate and became the new queen of the Han Dynasty.
There is no good ending for Empress Chen in history, so what about her?
Since Emperor Wen, the Son of Heaven has lived in mourning for days and months.
Therefore, the three-year filial piety period passed in a blink of an eye.
Liu Che officially began his career as emperor, and the Han dynasty ushered in an unprecedented emperor who had innovated and eliminated the old. However, at this time, except for Gillian, who was not a good historian, no one believed that this sixteen-year-old young emperor would achieve such a hegemony.