Chapter Seven: The Night Talk of the Phoenix Guards (I)
At night, Dingguo Gong and the eldest princess went to bed, and Dingguo Gong took his wife into his arms as before, and his right hand unconsciously rubbed his wife's skin, as if he was in deep thought.
The night was silent, and the breath between the two was clearly audible.
The eldest princess broke the silence first.
"Ah Qian, what do you think of today's events?" Dingguo's official surname is Zhao Mingqian.
"I wanted to hide it, but the Holy One already knows it, so it depends on what the Holy One thinks." Dingguo Gong said in a deep voice.
He is not very worried about this matter, after all, Xi'er is just a girl, and she will definitely marry and have children in the future, and with the power of the Zhao family, the men of the Zhao family may still be the master, but the girls of the Zhao family will not marry the royal family.
The eldest princess was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, "Now that the Holy Lord already knows about this matter, then some of my ideas may be able to come true. You know, Xi'er is a daughter, she also has divine powers, and she is extremely intelligent. Although I had such thoughts before, I still wanted Xi'er to live an ordinary life, but the current situation may not allow Xi'er to be ordinary. ”
Ding Guogong has shared a bed with his wife for decades, and when she speaks, he understands what she says.
"You're talking about the Feng Guard?"
"That's right, it's the Feng Guard"
In the last years of the Great Qi Dynasty, natural disasters were lying horizontally, the people were not able to make a living, and they were hungry for thousands of miles, and the court at that time had been rotten from the roots, and the courtiers only knew how to loot the people's fat and ointment, and the royal family would only eat, drink and enjoy themselves, and they did not care about the lives of the people at all.
There were droughts and floods or floods, and there was no livelihood in the crops and no harvests, but the taxes became heavier and heavier, and a large number of people began to flee. In the end, there was nothing to eat, even the roots of the bark were gone, and the hungry people were inhumane, and at last some mad people stretched out their hands to the young women and children on the way to escape.
In the end, the people couldn't bear it anymore and rose up.
There are one and there are two, just like a spark can start a prairie fire, when a peasant army appears, the rebels from all over the country have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, killing corrupt officials and robbing the rich, which is called robbing the rich and helping the poor, but at the same time, ** looting also continues to occur.
Those who can participate in the righteous army are some fierce and brave people, the last years of the Great Qi Dynasty collapsed, at the beginning of the righteous army was still to be able to beg for food, and when they robbed the rich family's home, they saw many good things that could not be enjoyed in their lives were placed everywhere, and their eyes were already full of greed, and then they saw that the young lady of the rich family was delicate and expensive, and added another layer of **. In this way, the young lady of the rich family finally failed to escape the hands of the devil, was ravaged and was ** killed.
This happened as a signal that the rebels were no longer satisfied with filling their stomachs, and some people who had read some books shouted, "What kind of prince will Xiangning?" ”
Men are born with a yearning for power and want to be at the pinnacle of power. Naturally, the leaders and subordinates of the rebels began their path to power. Everywhere he went, he attacked the rich, robbed the gold, silver and jewelry, and enjoyed everyone's ladies.
The army sent by the imperial court did not have enough food and grass, and the soldiers who could not eat enough finally rebelled, and no one suppressed those rebels, and what made ordinary people even more desperate was that an army was added to the rebel army, even if the strength of this army was not high, but it was still a regular army, and it could not be compared with the rabble, but for ordinary people, this was a devil.
There seem to be waves of resentment floating over the land of Daqi, there are the old, weak, sick and disabled who starved to death, the women who were killed by **, the good people who were innocently killed, and the unarmed people. Some talented people saw the resentment that was almost as thick as substance, and shook their heads one after another: Daqi is over.
At the beginning, Emperor Wai of Daqi was still drunk and dreamed of death in the wine and meat pond forest, and all the major affairs of the court and government were handed over to the ministers, and he ignored them, as long as his daily offerings were not less, he didn't care about anything.
It was not until there were so many rebels in various places that the troops sent out not only failed to exterminate the rebels, but instead became a member of the rebel army, and in turn wanted to overthrow the regime of Daqi, that the royal family began to be afraid. It's a pity that Emperor Wai has nothing to do, because there are only those mediocre and insatiable ministers left in his court, and those who have a little ability are either killed in the process of advising Emperor Wai or resign themselves, as those capable people said, Daqi is finished, and Daqi has lost control of this land.
At the beginning, the clans still hoped that the imperial court could open the granary to relieve the people, but what they were waiting for was to increase the tax, and the patriarchs and elders of the clans immediately held a clan meeting, and after the clan meeting, the protection forces of the various clans were strengthened a lot, and the children of the clans were recalled one after another, and the grange under their names was reduced to one percent tax, and the in-laws of the various clans were more closely linked.
As soon as the clans had set up, the rebels revolted. The first uprising broke out in the Tohoku region, which was the hardest-hit region, and then people from all over the country responded to the rebels.
And married into the famous Li family, as the eldest daughter-in-law, Feng Ruxin got a thunderbolt news one day - the eldest son of the current patriarch of the Feng family came to the Li family with the Feng family's chief housekeeper and the Feng family's remaining money, and the servants and guards who took refuge in the Feng family's name, along with three coffins.
The chief housekeeper told his young lady that the Feng family was attacked by a group of gangsters, broke through the door, swept away the money, and killed the young lady.
At that time, the old man and wife of the Feng family were raising food to prepare for the relief of the people, and took away some of the guards, and left a group of guards at home. But what I never imagined was that there were extremely vicious gangsters who gathered to attack the Feng family.
The Feng family is a family of goodness, very popular with the local people, found out about this situation and immediately called for rescue, but their rescue came too late, and after they drove away the gangsters, they found that the youngest lady of the Feng family, Feng Runuan, had been raped/adulterous/killed, the death was terrifying, the body was bruised and swollen, the whole body was **, and there was a disgusting white turbidity on the body, and there was still despair for this world in the big eyes, which made people unbearable to look at directly.
The old man and wife of the Feng family, who rushed back, were grief-stricken, spurting blood in unison, and their bodies were seriously injured. But they still brace their bodies to restrain their little daughter's body, clean her body, put on her favorite dress, and place it in a special coffin.
He also restrained the guards and slaves who had died defending their masters in this calamity, and commanded the stewards to bring money and food to the homes of these faithful servants, so as to appease the aftermath.
When the Feng family's clan got the news, they rushed over one after another to assist Master Feng in handling affairs, while at the same time sending people to track down the whereabouts of the gangsters.
Master Feng used to worship the second grade, but later saw that the court was hopeless, and finally resigned and returned to the country, he was one of the candidates for the next patriarch of the Feng family. Now that something like this has happened to the next candidate for the patriarch of Neiding, the Feng family, as a short-term protector, will definitely not let go of that group of gangsters.
Master Feng called his cousin Feng Shaoxing and the big housekeeper to the study who came to help, and began to explain what was going on after his death. He very sincerely begged them to take the rest of the family's family assets to find Feng Ruxin, the eldest lady of the Feng family, and handed them a letter to Feng Ruxin, hoping that the chief housekeeper would take good care of her.
Feng Shaoxing and the chief housekeeper both knew that the bodies of the Feng family's master and wife were already at the end of their strength, and they all nodded and agreed when they looked at the earnest plea on his face.
The old man of the Feng family cried sadly: The sky has no eyes! Pity my son, how innocent!
Then he died, and the Feng family wife followed.
Feng Shaoxing tearfully dealt with the aftermath of his cousin and his wife, and gathered loyal servants and guards who were willing to follow, but all the servants in the Feng family's name responded, and even the loyal servants' families who died in that unwarranted disaster asked to follow them on the road.
In this way, Feng Shaoxing and the chief housekeeper took the remaining family assets and three coffins of the Feng family, and under the escort of hundreds of people, found the Li family, met their eldest lady, and told her about the Feng family's tragedy.
In the end, after the big housekeeper saw Feng Shaoxing handing over the family assets and letters to Feng Ruxin, he knelt down and kowtowed to her three times, and said with tears in his eyes: "Eldest sister, the master told me to protect you well before his death, please forgive the old slave for not being able to do it." You have to take care of yourself and take care of yourself.
The old man, the wife, and the second sister are not served underground, so the old slave will go down and take care of them now. Eldest sister, please forgive the old slave for his selfishness, the old slave has taken care of the old man for decades, but he can't be left halfway, and the old slave will ask the master for his guilt after he goes down. ”
After the words fell, he took out the dagger used for self-defense, stabbed the center of the mouth, and looked at Feng Ruxin with guilt in his eyes.
Feng Ruxin's eyes were red, leaving blood and tears, and he personally collected the corpse of this old loyal servant. She looked at the coffins of her parents and sister, because the coffins were specially made and the two families were not far away, so the bodies did not stink yet.
She stopped in front of her sister's coffin for a long time, and watched her sister's eyes not close until she died, before sealing the coffin under the persuasion of her husband and burying the coffin of the three Feng family and the coffin of the chief housekeeper in her dowry Zhuangzi.