Zheng Yan, recorded in the history books as "magnificent", I don't know how to have a face that has brought disaster to the country and the people, and actually uses magnificence to describe its beauty, and after being favored by the Empress Dowager Hu, she lives in the palace day and night.

Xu Su, who was born in a poor family, knows how to learn fame and reason, and is good at writing. When Emperor Sejong Xuanwu Emperor Yuan Ke, he was a member of the Zhongshu House, and he tended to attach Zhao Xiu to meet and was promoted to Tongzhi Sancai Cavalry.

Speaking of Zhao Xiu, let's talk about who Zhao Xiu is.

Zhao Xiu, who originally worked in the East Palace, was left and right in white, that is, the attendants beside the crown prince Yuanke, and the people who sat in this position mostly used their cronies and close ministers.

Zhao Xiu is quite powerful, after Emperor Sejong Xuanwu Emperor Yuan Ke ascended the throne, he still served as a forbidden servant, love to meet Rilong, successively served as a free cavalry attendant, Zhendong general, Guangluqing, it can be seen that his promotion is rapid, and his power is great.

However, Zhao Xiu has a stupid personality, is not good at reading, has a rapid promotion, and his power is overwhelming, he changes a shotgun for a cannon, he can't figure out his position, he is arrogant and rude, and even when he buries his father, he frolicks on the road without sadness, or rapes and robs women with guests.

Later, Zhao Xiu went too far and offended the princes and ministers, and Emperor Sejong Xuanwu Yuan Ke issued an order, demoted to a border soldier, and soon died.

Let's talk about Xu Su again.

When Emperor Suzong Xiaoming Emperor Yuanxu was in power, Yuancha was autocratic, and Xu Su was affected by Yuanyi, the king of Qinghe, and was demoted to Yanmen Taishou. Empress Dowager Hu was regent, reinstated as a scholar of Zhongshu, the party was attached to Zheng Yan, the power was tilted inside and outside, the prime minister Zhongshu was under the door, and the military edict ordered all of them.

Zheng Yan and Xu Su colluded very closely, and they shared the inside and outside, controlling the government.

The reason why I want to say Zhao Xiu is to better understand what kind of character Xu Su is, although it is said that I am attached to Zhao Xiu, but also to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, but because of my attachment to Zhao Xiu, I was promoted to Tongzhi Scattered Riding Squire, which shows that it is in line with Zhao Xiu's taste, and it is also a good look.

Another person who was favored by the Empress Dowager Hu - Li Shenliang, this person himself is a nobleman, his father Li Chong is the nephew of the Empress Li of Emperor Wencheng of Gaozong, and Li is the biological mother of Emperor Xianwen Tuoba Hong, and he is also a relative.

Favored by the Empress Dowager Hu, among the people who left a name in history, only Li Shenliang is a person, and it is recorded in the history books that he is "quite a general", but the government is controlled by Zheng Yan and Xu Su.

Empress Dowager Hu was autocratic, appointed non-people, and rewarded and punished perversely. However, Yuan Xu grows bigger and bigger, and more and more has his own ideas, so it is more and more difficult to control.

In the first year of Wutai (528), Yuan Xu's Chonghua Pan gave birth to a baby girl, but Zheng Yan and Empress Dowager Hu lied to the outside world that they had given birth to a prince, granted amnesty to the world, and changed Yuan Wutai.

More than a month later, on February 25 (March 31), Yuan Xu died violently in the Xianyang Hall at the age of nineteen.

The day after Yuan Xu's violent death, Empress Dowager Hu lied to the outside world that Pan Chonghua was born as a prince and made him the emperor, because he didn't even have a name, and a baby was submerged in history, so later generations called him Yuan Girl, the first empress of China, but because Yuan Girl was just a puppet and there was no enthronement ceremony, the identity of the "empress" was mostly not recognized by later generations.

After about a day, Empress Dowager Hu saw that people's hearts were at ease, and everyone did not move, so she said to the outside world that Pan Chong Huasheng was originally a woman, and it was appropriate to choose an heir today.

This shocked the world, and it was determined that it was Empress Dowager Hu and her male favorites Zheng Yan and Xu Su who poisoned Yuan Xu.

Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Xu, not Empress Dowager Feng and Tuoba Hong, Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Xu, but biological mother and son, if it was really Empress Dowager Hu who poisoned and killed Yuan Xu, the bear really didn't know how to express his state of mind.

In order to reach the pinnacle of supreme power, the relatives of the dearest can be killed, what fathers and sons, mothers and sons, are all passing clouds, for the sake of rights, they can all be thrown and used, which is a little uncomfortable.

Empress Dowager Hu was only three years old at the time, and Yuanzhao, the great-grandson of Emperor Yuanhong of Gaozu Xiaowen, was the emperor, and was known as the young lord in history.

Empress Dowager Hu set up a young monarch, and wanted to continue to control the government in the name of the new monarch's young age.

At this time, the Kunyu national army, which had already arrived in Hebei, was also shocked when they heard the news.

After Hyun learned about this, he felt a burst of sadness in his heart, reading the history books, one by one, they were all cold words, and they would not have feelings for them, but in history, when the characters represented by the cold words became flesh and blood and emotional living people, and this person usually had a little contact, he could no longer read it without feeling just cold words.

After Hyun calmed down, he said to Ding Wangcai:

"Find a few people with good water quality, absolutely good, who can swim and dive in the river, and then go to Luoyang quickly."

Ding Wangcai answered, and went with Lai Monkey to find someone who met the requirements.

Hyun pulled Ningyu and said very seriously:

"We have to go back to Luoyang to save people."

Ning Xuan didn't ask much, called Jiazi, Bingyin, Wuchen, Jisi, who were good at kung fu, and Ding Mao, who was more clever, and the seven of them rode horses and galloped towards Luoyang. A few days after they left, Ding Wangcai and Lai Monkey also took the soldiers with good water nature and set off for Luoyang, and all the things on the battlefield were handed over to Ning Cheng and Shi Yi.

More than ten days later, Hyun and Ningyu and his party arrived in Luoyang, they put on makeup on the road, dressed as traders, the horse because of the wild gallop all the way, tired, look, no different from civilian horses.

Successfully entered Luoyang, found an inn to live in, Ding Mao went to inquire about the news, and they divided into several waves, wandering around the street, and went to a tavern like a place where there are many people and it is easy to talk without a door.

However, people's attention is on Yuan Xu's death, as if they have seen and experienced it themselves, talking about Yuan Xu's death, the baby who is only a few months old, has long faded out of people's sight, and Hyun can't help but get irritable.

In the evening, everyone returned to the inn, Ding Mao had not returned, and when it was almost dawn, Ding Mao came back with a smell of wine.

Hyun poured him a glass of water, and Ding Mao drank a few cups before wiping his mouth and saying:

"The guards in the palace and the time to change guards, I have already set it out."

Hyun hurriedly asked:

"How's that kid?"

Ding Mao shook his head:

"I didn't come out, and I didn't dare to ask too directly."

After Ding Mao left the time and route, Ningxuan let him go to sleep, and the rest of the things were Ningxuan and Jiazi, and there was nothing to do with Xin, this time she wanted to break into the palace, she couldn't use biological and chemical weapons, for fear of causing trouble, and it was not good to go out of the city, so it was useless for people who couldn't fight, but she was not at ease and had been with them.

A few days later, Wu Chen and Ji Si wandered through the streets, and unexpectedly saw a flat painting of the palace, which of course was not put up for sale.

He was good at painting, and after wandering around for a few days, he couldn't find any other news, so he wanted to go to the place where Luoyang sold paintings, found a calligraphy and painting shop that looked like a little large, and pulled Wuchen into it.

Wu Chen didn't understand these, and he looked at them the same, so he told him about the difference of each painting, from the movement of the pen to the technique to the layout, and talked about a fine, although Wu Chen nodded while um, but still couldn't understand.

He didn't understand, but someone did, sitting in a corner, a man who looked like he was in his forties, and when he told Wu Chen, he listened attentively, and the more he listened, the happier he became, and when he pointed out the shortcomings of some of the paintings, the man's eyes brightened.

The two were talking, and a little boy dressed as a scholar came running, looking at the two with a pair of smart eyes, and said in a milky voice:

"My master wants to invite two of you to sit upstairs."

Wu Chen and Ji Si looked in the direction pointed by the little scholar and saw the stairs leading to the second floor, the two looked at each other, and raised their legs to the second floor.

The man has prepared tea here, is making tea, don't look at himself as a military attaché, but, for the literati, also quite like, in Hyun's words, is the military attache delayed by the sao people and ink, so, Ji Si is very familiar with sitting down with the man to taste tea, discuss tea.

The two of them chatted very closely, but it was bitter.

Walking on the street for so long, even if you are not hungry, you are thirsty, and you are very happy to see that there is tea to drink, Wu Chen is not as good as he knows about tea, but he can also taste it, this tea is really fragrant, and he drank all the tea as soon as he raised his head.

However, Gongfu tea is mainly to taste tea, not to drink water, the tea bowl is also small, this mouthful, even the throat is not moistened, it is gone, Wuchen wants to drink again, but see that Ji Si and the man did not even drink a cup, and he is embarrassed to pour it again, seeing that such a delicious tea, but can not drink it to the fullest, Wu Chen is very aggrieved, well, very aggrieved, plus Ji Si and the man said, he doesn't understand, and he can't interject, and he feels aggrieved.

Ji Si and the man talked more and more speculatively, and Wu Chen listened more and more sleepy.

Suddenly, the man approached him, lowered his voice, and said:

"The contemptible man has a painting to take to appreciate with the gentleman."

After saying that, he got up and walked behind the screen.

This is not something that cannot be listened to by others, but when he said this, he immediately made Wuchen and Jisi suspicious, and Wuchen was not sleepy, and looked at the screen with round eyes.

The man came out with a cylindrical thing, quite thick, wrapped in a piece of fine cloth on the outside, such a good piece of cloth, but just to wrap a painting, which shows the man's cherishing of this painting.

The scholar vacated the table before it was clean, and then, retreating in a proper manner, the man sat down at the table, opened one piece of cloth after another, almost a dozen layers, Wu Chen and Ji Si finally saw the body, the body is actually not thick, after careful framing.

The man spread out the paintings, but instead of putting them directly on the table, they put them on the cloths, and Wu Chen and Ji Si wondered what kind of paintings made the man cherish them so much.

Curiously leaned over to take a look, and immediately the eyes of the two lit up, this is a floor plan of the Luoyang Palace, however, the man did not paint according to the real scene, the painting is a bit fairy, it seems to be a fairyland, those who come and go, also painted like a fairy, the hem of the clothes is fluttering, the clouds are driving the fog, and the entire palace is also looming in the clouds.

Despite adding so many concealments, for people like Wuchen and Jisi who enter and leave the palace every day, they still recognize the layout of the palace at a glance, and the two of them are overjoyed.