Chapter 001: The Past (I)
"The snow is flying, the newcomer is crying, how many reincarnations can the red dust have? Recalling the previous dynasty, the old people are sad, and the world is no longer changing! ”
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A phoenix luan, surrounded by many slaves and maids, slowly moved forward, and there were soldiers in front of him to open the way.
Dugu Shahua in Luan Yu wrote those two lines of poetry on Jinpa, and the old hand hung in the air and kept trembling. Her brow was furrowed, and the wrinkles in her eyebrows were much deeper than the other wrinkles on her face, apparently caused by years of melancholy.
A drop of thick ink dripped from the tip of the pen on the Jinpa, Sha Hua broke down, threw down the pen, grabbed the Jin Pa, suddenly a cold wind blew open the curtain, the Jin Pa was blown up, Sha Hua did not have time to react, Jin Pa has been blown out of Luanyu, disappeared in the vastness.
A gust of wind blew away, scattering Shahua's white sideburns, and also wrapped the Jinpa until it disappeared into the boundless expanse.
"Mrs. Tailing, Tailing has arrived!" A delicate slave and maid reported it.
Luan Yu slowly fell, and Sha Hua walked down Luan Yu tremblingly with the support of the slave and maid. Although the snow was only up to his ankles, it was still very difficult for Sawa to walk.
Finally, in front of the two majestic mausoleums, Sha Hua, who had no strength, fell on the tombstones. Sha Hua looked up at the tombstone several zhang high, and the book "Mausoleum of Emperor Yang Jian of Gaozuwen of the Great Sui" was engraved with a soaring auspicious dragon. In the mausoleum next door, there is a tombstone of the same height, engraved with a flying phoenix, and the book "The Tomb of Dugu Jialuo, the Empress of the Great Sui Literature".
Sha Hua brushed away a thin layer of snow adhered to the stele with his hand, completely unaware of the cold bones of the stele. The slave saw the old tears falling from the corners of Sha Hua's eyes, and she couldn't bear to cry out, "Mrs. Tai!" But he didn't persuade him any further.
Sha Hua shouted sadly and oldly: "Yang Jian...... Yang Jian! The corner of Sha Hua's eyes scanned the mausoleum next door, "Why are you with this woman, you are together when you are alive, and she still wants to possess you when you are dead?!" Come...... Come! Dig this grave! ”
The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the corpses under Chang'an City were all over the place, the banners were dilapidated, and everything was covered with snow, making it more and more desolate and miserable.
The imperial flag embroidered with the word "Sui" on the city wall fell, and another handsome flag embroidered with the word "Tang" took its place. The poor Great Sui Dynasty, which dominated China and flourished for a while, was short-lived and only existed for more than 30 years in Chinese history. The Sui Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty created the "rule of Zhenguan" and "the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty", creating the pinnacle of Chinese civilization, but what later generations know is that whether it is the unification of the Sui Dynasty or the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, it is inseparable from the four women of the Dugu family with the surname Xianbei!
In the fourteenth year of the unification of the Western Wei Dynasty, this year was also the second year of the Taiqing Dynasty of the Southern Liang Dynasty, and the "Hou Jing Rebellion" broke out. Hou Jingben was a rebel general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who defected to the Southern Liang, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms in the Central Plains at that time, and Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, accepted him.
However, what Emperor Wu of Liang didn't expect was that he became Mr. Dongguo and lured the wolf into the room. Because the Southern Dynasty has always admired civil rule and despised martial arts, those scholars and doctors looked down on this military general who surrendered from the Northern Dynasty, which made Hou Jing feel extremely unfair, so that Shouyang raised an army to rebel, and this rebellion lasted for four years before it was quelled.
It was precisely because of this war that the national strength of Daliang was consumed, and the Western Wei Dynasty took the opportunity to plunder a large area of the territory of Daliang. Poor, Jiangzuo's wealth can't help but be harassed by this war, which shakes the foundation of the country. Since then, a political pattern has been laid in which the north is strong and the south is weak.
In Chang'an City, the market was bustling and lively, and a soldier who delivered the message quickly whipped his horse and shouted: "Eight hundred miles urgent!" Eight hundred miles expedited! Let's get it! Let's get it! "Passing through the crowd, passers-by dodging in both directions.
The soldier carrying the message went straight to the court, delivered the letter to the eunuch, and immediately fainted to the ground.
Above the court, Emperor Wei Wen was rewarding the generals who had triumphed in the southern expedition.
Emperor Wei Wendi: "Nian Zuo Servant shot Li Hu, made meritorious contributions to the south, worked hard for the country, and did his best." I mean, worship Li Hu as a captain, add the title of Tang Guogong, and give a thousand taels of gold! ”
Li Hu, who was weak, knelt down tremblingly and thanked: "Emperor Xie Wu, long live, long live!" ”
Li Hu got up, coughed incessantly, and when he looked up, he and the powerful minister Yuwentai, who was sitting next to Emperor Wei Wendi's dragon chair, looked at each other, and Li Hu's eyes widened angrily: "Yuwentai, how can you bully the monarch like this?" On the side of the dragon chair, where do you sit? Do you want to emulate Dong Zhuo Cao Cao and want to usurp the throne and stand on your own? ”
Li Hu's voice was like a bell, deafening, and the hundred officials were shocked, they had always known that Li Hu was as loyal and brave as Dugu Xin, but he never expected to confront Yuwentai in public. The atmosphere in the court became tense, and Yuwentai was so angry that his face was red.
Just when the hundred officials didn't know how to break the siege, they suddenly saw a little eunuch outside the hall holding an urgent letter and hurriedly walked up.
"Your Majesty, General Duguxin has good news from the front line!"
Emperor Wei Wendi was overjoyed: "Hurry up and present it to me!" ”
The eunuch handed the letter into the hands of Emperor Wei Wendi, who opened it and was overjoyed: "Good, great! He looked at Yu Wentai, who was slightly relieved by his emotions, and handed him the letter: "Otsuka Zai, please take a look!" ”
Yu Wentai glanced at him: "Please read it to your majesty and listen to it with me!" ”
Emperor Wei Wendi was a little unhappy, but he still endured it: "What the letter said is that General Dugu pacified the rebels and recovered Liangzhou, which is really gratifying!" Congratulations! ”
Although the hundred officials were moved, they all looked at Yu Wentai, who was sitting next to the emperor, and no one dared to say anything. Yu Wentai reluctantly stood up and bowed slightly to Emperor Wei Wendi: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" ”
The following Yuwen Hu led the civil and military officials to kneel down in unison: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" Long live my emperor, long live long live! ”
Yuwen Hu is the nephew of the powerful minister Yuwentai, is the advisor of Yuwentai, and is also the powerful minister who has surpassed Yuwentai after him.
Emperor Wei Wendi forced his face: "Let's be flat!" Dugu Aiqing also said in the letter that since the war abroad, he has not returned for several years, and he misses his family, wife and children very much. I implore the class teacher to return the capital, I don't know what Otsuka Zai wants? ”
Before Yuwentai could say anything, Yuwenhu stood up: "Your Majesty has an order first, and Dugu Xin can't return the capital without an edict!" ”
"However, it is also human nature to reunite with your family and enjoy the joy of family!"
"Your Majesty's words are wrong, the country is also a home, now, the newly opened territory is very wide, the border is not stable, the responsibility of guarding the border and guarding the land is a heavy burden, for everyone to give up a small family, General Dugu will inevitably understand the righteousness!"
Emperor Wei Wendi looked at the arrogant Yuwentai and the aggressive Yuwenhu, and then looked at the silent civil and military officials, and there were words of suffering in his heart. As everyone knows, his ingots torch is a puppet emperor supported by Yuwentai, and the government is controlled by this pair of uncles and nephews all the year round, and the hundred officials are either the minions of the Yuwen family, or they are intimidated by the authority of the Yuwen family. Even if there are people of insight like Dugu Xin and Li Hu who are brave, resourceful, and loyal, they will either die under the sword of the Yuwen family, or they will be excluded from the court by the Yuwen family like Dugu Xin. If it weren't for Li Hu's declining health, it would be difficult to return to the dynasty, this is the trick of the Yuwen family, not only to rely on the six Zhuguo generals to expand the territory, but also to guard against the generals loyal to the emperor "Qingjun side", under the pretense of Emperor Wei Wendi, set up the rule that "generals must not return the capital without edicts". In the huge court, no one could speak for him.
Emperor Wei Wen once emulated the edict of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and asked the palace people to bring a bloody book to Dugu Xin, hoping that he could unite with loyal generals to crusade against the Yuwen family. Then, the matter was revealed, and Empress Yifu took the charge for Emperor Wei Wen and was poisoned by Yuwentai with a glass of wine.
Li Hu was dissatisfied: "Yuwen Hu, you are a hussar general, you don't know that you will be rewarded for your merits, right?" Since General Dugu has made such a great achievement, he will not be rewarded, but let him stay outside the Saiwai, wouldn't he lose the prestige of the imperial court? As far as I know, in the past few years, Dugu Xin has pacified Minzhou, courted Gao Huan in the east, conquered Liang in the south, and recovered Liangzhou, and has fought more than 100 battles outside, but he has never been rewarded, doesn't it chill the soldiers who spilled blood on the front line? ”
Li Hu was filled with indignation, and after saying it in one breath, he couldn't help but wheezing and coughing. When the officials heard this, they all whispered. Although some people are afraid of the power of the Yuwen family, because Dugu Xin has always been famous, everyone in the world is respectful, and after listening to Li Hu's words, there are still people who want to complain about Dugu Xin.
"Yes, General Dugu has been fighting for about five years, right?"
"If it weren't for the loyalty of the general, how could he bear such injustice!"