Chapter 23: The Transfiguration of the Heart

FUJIWARA KYYO. Fujiwara Imperial Palace

This Fujiwara Imperial Palace is a palace rebuilt since the original Fujiwara Imperial Palace was burned down more than ten years ago, compared to the original Fujiwara Imperial Palace, this one is more solemn and less pompous than the original.

In the Great Pole Palace, except for Emperor Wenmu and Fujiwara Fubi, all the other ministers and palace people were dismissed by Emperor Wenwu. Emperor Wenwu doesn't seem to be very old, and it is true, he is only twenty-three years old this year, and his long-term pampering has made him full of nobility, but he does not have the majesty of a king at all.

Emperor Wenwu was walking anxiously around the imperial steps, looking at Fujiwara Bubi who was kneeling at the bottom of the steps, he was angry, he raised his hand, and pointed at Fujiwara Bubi angrily.

"Fujiwara Gong, Fujiwara Gong, you are so daring, for the sake of a woman, you actually forged the jade seal of the Tang Kingdom!"

Fujiwara is not as dead as the face, prostrated on the ground, and said weakly.

"Please condemn your majesty to ......"

"Condemnation?!" Emperor Wenwu smashed a vase to the ground with a clatter, and shouted angrily, "Is it still my turn to condemn your sin?!" If what Kaguya Ji said was true, then now the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tang Kingdom are about to come to surrender my sin! ”

Fujiwara lay on the ground and didn't say a word, but judging from his slightly trembling appearance, he was also full of fear.

Emperor Wenwu took a deep breath, just now he was in a trance, and saw the picture of Fujiwara Bubi and other subordinates privately carving the Tang jade seal, and when he came back to his senses, he was still a little suspicious, but he fell into a trance and saw Fujiwara Bubi and others holding the privately engraved Tang jade seal to propose to a vague woman, and now he was sure that this was the warning of the gods, and hurriedly put his favorite concubine, Fujiwara Bubi's eldest daughter Fujiwara Miyako into prison to prevent the name of favoritism from being deducted on his head, and quickly sent someone to recall Fujiwara Bubi, How do you know that now I heard that the saint of Middle-earth has already sensed the matter of carving the jade seal privately, and the envoys and sailors of the Tang Kingdom of Gaotianyuan are already coming to Yamato, no wonder the gods want to warn him.

Emperor Wenwu looked at Fujiwara Bubi who was lying on the ground with complicated eyes, it was impossible for him to deal with his political protectors, which was almost equivalent to denying his authority, not to mention that Fujiwara Bubi's father was the first major contributor to the Dahua Innovation.

"Fujiwara Gong, the only way to do it now, I have to put Gongziji in prison first, to show that I have no partiality, what do Fujiwara Gongru think?" Barely suppressing his anger, Emperor Wenwu struggled to calm his voice.

"Your Majesty is so disposed of, it is naturally excellent, the minister will return home and close the door to thank the guests, if the envoy of the Tang Kingdom comes, His Majesty will put the blame on the minister, and hand over the family of the minister and the minister to the Tang Kingdom of Gaotianyuan, so that the peace of Yamato can be guaranteed." Fujiwara didn't wait to get up, and he bowed his hand weakly, and now he seemed to be much older.

"Well," Emperor Wenwu nodded, and continued, "but if you only take the palace prince into custody, it is not easy to convince the mouths of many ministers and nobles, after all, the palace prince is my side room, and she already belongs to the royal family, and the relationship with the Fujiwara family is shallow, so Fujiwara Gong must choose another family member and put him in prison by me, so as to show that Fujiwara has no intention of escaping into exile." ”

"This ......" Fujiwara frowned in embarrassment, pondered for a long time, sighed, and said, "I will hand over the minister's little sister Hong to His Majesty and put her in prison." ”

"Is that good?" Emperor Wenwu looked at the haggard Fujiwara in surprise, "I know that Fujiwara's daughter, Fujiwara Meihong, saved Fujiwara's life from my aunt (1)." ”

When Fujiwara heard this, a strange look flashed on his face, and he immediately calmed down, arching his hand to Emperor Wenwu and said, "Please ask Your Majesty to send Mei Hong to prison." ”

"It's okay," Emperor Wenwu nodded, "Then I will send someone to go to the mansion with Fujiwara Gong to get someone." After speaking, Emperor Wenwu shouted, and five soldiers came out from behind the palace and bowed to Emperor Wenwu collectively. Fujiwara was shocked when he saw these samurai who appeared from behind the palace in an instant, no wonder the gods dared to talk to him alone, and he was wondering if he could fight to the death and hijack the gods of the gods, and then coerce them to escape, whether the gods didn't notice it, or he trusted himself too much. However, as soon as he saw these soldiers now, he knew that the current gods did not believe in him at all, and if he made any reckless moves, he would be directly killed by His Highness.

I was chilled by Emperor Wenwu's scheming, but Fujiwara still maintained a dead look on his face, and he arched his hand towards Emperor Wenwu and exited the main hall, and the five soldiers followed him.

FUJIWARA KYYO. Fujiwara Mansion

The style of the mansion is designed according to the Central Plains style, which is very elegant. In the courtyard at the front of the mansion, a beautiful girl with long black hair was sitting on the stone steps reading a book in her hand.

Fujiwara Meihong rubbed her eyes, and her eyes were a little sour after reading for a long time. However, at this moment, the door of the mansion facing her was suddenly pushed open, and Fujiwara was still looking like a dead face, followed by several soldiers with cold faces.

"Father, you're back~!" Mei Hong hurriedly put down the book in her hand and happily got up to greet Fujiwara Bubi and others.

Fujiwara looked at his daughter calmly, then glanced at the soldiers behind him, who moved their gaze to Mei Hong, and then nodded to each other.

Mei Hong was stunned, the smile quickly disappeared from her face, she watched in a daze as the five soldiers stepped forward and surrounded her, and before she could react, the heavy iron cuffs were put on her hands and wrists by a soldier.

"Father, Father!" Meihong shouted in a panic that Fujiwara would not wait. However, Fujiwara's reaction was completely unexpected.

Fujiwara's face sank, and he gave Mei Hong a backhand slap.

Syllable!

The crisp sound echoed in the courtyard, and Mei Hong was stunned to touch her face that had been slapped by her father with her hand, looking at Fujiwara Bubi's eyes full of grievances and incomprehension.

Why......

Fujiwara, however, just turned around and walked towards his study step by step. never looked back at Mei Hong.

The soldiers didn't talk nonsense, set up Mei Hong, took Mei Hong out of the Fujiwara mansion, and escorted Mei Hong to the prison in the city.

Regardless of the fact that Mei Hong was taken away, Fujiwara walked into the study with a slow step, and sat on the chair weakly, as if he had lost his soul.

There are two kinds of excuses, one is for others, and the other is for one's own people, madly in love with Kaguya, if you don't marry Kaguya, you vow not to give up for others, and after marrying Kabaya, you will integrate Kaguya's bloodline into the Fujiwara family for yourself, this is an excuse to get support from both sides, and the real idea, only Fujiwara does not wait for himself to know.

Of course, the author Sang also knows, in order to prevent everyone from shouting God unfolds, the author Sang is here to explain to everyone, after all, some people have complained that the explanation at the end of each chapter looks troublesome, so try to explain it at the moment.

cough, back to the topic, in fact, Fujiwara Bubi's idea is very simple, he is for the medicine of Penglai for immortality.

It's not just that as power grows and you want to live forever, you want to hold on to this power forever, in fact, this is also one of the important reasons, it is difficult for human beings who have enjoyed the taste of being superior to others to lower their mentality again, and this thing of power, like some harmonious white powder, is addictive, just like the first emperor in history. After all, there are only a few people who can take the initiative to break free from the shackles of power, and not everyone is a Nanhua Zhuangzi who would rather fish on the river.

But just like the preface, this is only one of the important reasons, and everyone knows very well that the main reason is the key, so what is the main reason why Fujiwara and others want the medicine of Penglai?

Because he didn't want to die.

At first glance, it seems to be no different from the reason in the preface, but careful readers will find that more than ten years ago, when Fujiwara Kyoto was on fire, the love that wanted to take Fujiwara's life was finally touched by Meihong, and for the sake of Fujiwara Bubi and others who did not "kill" Shang Yang with their own hands, they only took the lives of all Fujiwara Bubi and other generals, and spared Fujiwara Bubi, but love has another sentence after this: When you die, I will kill you again.

Although after Shang Yang returned, he knew that whether it was Shang Yang's killing or the rest of the plan, he didn't have the heart to care about this sentence anymore, but for these ignorant Fujiwara Bubi and others, the blood-colored eyes of more than ten years ago have never dispersed in the depths of Fujiwara's heart for more than ten years.

In this era, under the influence of a series of religions such as Shintoism, people generally believe in the existence of the dead, even the nobles and nobles, and the emperors have the setting of becoming ancestral gods directly after death, regardless of whether these settings are true or not, at least such a setting can effectively alleviate people's fear of death, and even in the eyes of some nobles, death is nothing more than a change of life and becoming the ancestral god of the family.

And this is where Fujiwara's heart knot lies, to be honest, Fujiwara is a very good political family, as the head of the revived Fujiwara clan, his merits are enough to be compared with the founder of the Fujiwara clan, Nakazumi Kamazu, according to the setting of Shintoism, it is certain that he will become a god after death, but if he is killed by love again after death, then what is it? The soul is scattered and turned to ashes.

Fujiwara is afraid of this, so when he heard that Kaguyahime with the elixir of immortality Penglai appeared, he was so active in making up excuses to lie to outsiders that he liked Kaguya and couldn't extricate himself, and made up excuses to lie to his own people that he wanted to introduce Kaguyahime's noble blood into the Fujiwara family, but the real reason was nothing else, it was for the medicine of Penglai, as long as he didn't die, it wasn't a problem.

That's why he dared to forge the heirloom jade seal of the Tang Kingdom of Gao Tianyuan.

As for Mei Hong, why Fujiwara Mei Hong, who originally saved his life, was alienated by him in recent years, and finally pushed Mei Hong out without hesitation after the forgery of the jade seal was exposed, it is also very easy to understand, and it is definitely not a god to expand.

It's just a change of mentality.

In fact, you can understand this mentality if you watch a few palace fighting dramas, but the author Sang is not a lover of palace fighting dramas, and the author Sang generally looks at the history of various countries as palace fighting dramas (fog).

As Fujiwara has more and more power in the past ten years, but when he recalls that no matter how much power he has, in the face of love as an inhuman thing, he naturally has a mutated sense of self-esteem and shame, and thus begins to hate himself who was so frightened that he couldn't say his words completely, not to mention that he was saved by his daughter in the end, which is a stain that he can't forget when he holds more and more power.

He would have thought, "If I had been brave enough to raise my weapon, it would have been great, and even if I died in battle, I would have lived up to the name of the Fujiwara clan." So when Emperor Wenwu asked Fujiwara why he used his sister Hong, who saved his life, to ward off the disaster, Fujiwara Bubi and others had a strange face.

Fujiwara is not like us, you can blame the world, and you can blame Shichen. He can only blame himself except himself.

Fujiwara sister red.

So,The author Sang is a guy who likes foreshadowing.,There's foreshadowing everywhere in front.,Of course, that doesn't matter.,When the time comes, the author Sang will explain.,Okay,After reading the author San-san's "Fujiwara Doesn't Compare the Mental Journey",Let's continue to return to Taketori Monogatari.,Don't worry about the author Mulberry This is making up the number of words.,The author has no pressure whether it's four thousand or five thousand.,And have you ever seen such a high-end number of words? (laughs.)

Mt. Yoshino. Hot spring village

Shang Yang, who successfully solved the Fujiwara Bubi and other incidents, continued to lie on the recliner, looking at the latest issue of the One Piece manga in his hand, and he was not afraid that this thing would be lost in this era and interfere with the world line......

Kaguya is happily dueling Yu-Gi-Oh with love.,By the way, the author San-chan doesn't have a deep study of Yu-Gi-Oh.,So I won't describe the process of these two plays.。

"Shang Yang, why don't you go to the Tang Kingdom to report to the sage of Middle Earth, saying that Fujiwara is not as good as forging jade seals, and the concubine wants to see what will happen to the Fujiwara family in the face of the powerful power of that country?"

Kaguya set his eyes on Shang Yang, covered his smile with the cards in his hand, and said with interest.

"No, it will make Meihong suffer too." Without waiting for Shang Yang to answer, Ai interrupted Kaguya lightly, staring at Kaguya with blood-red eyes, the meaning is very simple, you are not allowed to do this.

"I think it's better to forget it." After thinking about it, Shang Yang also rejected this mention, "Forged the jade seal of the country, for Tang, this is the proof of Yamato's status that wants to replace Tang, if the Tang army is induced, I am afraid that not only the Fujiwara family and the imperial family will be wiped out, but you who put forward the condition of the jade seal of the country will also be hunted down, although because the mysterious side of the Tang has long been a thing of the past (1), for us, although there is nothing terrible, but it will also be very troublesome." ”

"Ha~~~" sighed, Kaguya was a little dissatisfied that he couldn't satisfy his bad taste.

"But the Fujiwara family is unlucky, and when the Yamato side finds out that there is no Tang army coming across the sea a few months later, the lord of Yamato will breathe a sigh of relief while ordering all the ministers to keep silent about this matter, on the surface, nothing happened to the Yamato court will not punish Fujiwara Bubi and others in any way, but from now on he will stay away from the political center, Fujiwara Bubi's life will not be in danger, and it will end his political life, and this is more painful than his life."

Shang Yang held the cartoon in one hand and supported his head in the other, and said calmly that for Shang Yang, this kind of Cheng dΓΉ is almost the same.

After all, he doesn't have any ill feelings towards Fujiwara, it's just that the author Sang wants to trap him (correct).

The most important thing now is to master the ability and become a big monster as soon as possible.

Although there is still something for him to do in a few decades, ha~ (sigh), how difficult the world is.

A few months later

In the past few months, both the Emperor Wenwu and the nobles of the Gongqing were all very worried, for fear that when they woke up one day, they would find that the army of the Takamagahara Tang Kingdom was stationed in Fujiwara Kyo, or they found that there were many majestic Takamagahara Tang Kingdom warships sailing on the sea.

The nobles and nobles are going to hate Fujiwara and the entire Fujiwara family. I heard that for the Tang Kingdom, the jade seal of the country and the clan are equivalent to the treasures of the three artifacts of Yamato, if the nobles and the Emperor Wenwu heard that who forged the three artifacts, they can personally carry a knife to play with their lives, and compare their hearts to their hearts, it is not surprising what kind of reaction Gao Tianyuan Tang Guo makes, not to mention that there is no way to resist, and it is useless to resist.

You know, that's the Tang Kingdom of High Heaven! We sent a thousand ships and were sunk by a hundred ships, or we crushed them.

In this way, Emperor Wenwu didn't eat well, he couldn't sleep well, and I heard that the ministers didn't have a side room recently, so they were not in the mood......

But fortunately, after waiting for a few months, Emperor Wenwu even wrote a letter of apology, and finally waited for good news. After contacting the envoys in Tang, the envoys replied that the naval forces of the Tang Kingdom were still in their respective stations, and there was no sign of mobilization, and when the envoys of various countries participated in the Chang'an Dynasty (2), the sage of Middle Earth did not draw his sword and shouted war on Yamato.

In general, it is probably that Yamato is too remote, and the Middle-earth sage did not sense that someone had carved the jade seal privately, or ignored Yamato at all.

Although the words were not good, Emperor Wenwu and the nobles finally breathed a sigh of relief, and directly said that Emperor Wenwu burned the letter of apology and ate more bowls of rice at night.

After that, Emperor Wenwu finally thought of the question of closing.

Similar to Shang Yang's speculation, Emperor Wenwu ordered all the ministers to shut up, and when this incident had not happened, he also exterminated several slaves who went with the ministers' family that day. Fujiwara was not punished, but all the power in his hands was taken back and distributed among the other ministers.

The ministers are very satisfied, a blessing in disguise, and because of this fraud incident, the attitude of the ministers and nobles towards the Fujiwara family has dropped to the freezing point, and even some small nobles will laugh at the Fujiwara family in a weird way.

However, Fujiwara, who had been idle for a few months, was once again edicted into the palace by Emperor Bunmu.

PS: (1) This reason is a problem that doesn't matter if you explain it or not.,Everyone understands that it's just to facilitate the setting of the plot.,Of course, there will be some explanations later.。

(2) The court meeting of envoys from various countries to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

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