But at this time, no one believed in him anymore, and many people threw vegetable leaves and stones at him, angrily scolding him as a "national thief". In the end, the sergeant who put Ye Wang on the torture rack, Ye Wang said to him: "With my hero of the Eastern Continent and the north, who can fight in the world?" Don't fall into the hero's ambition, there should be great harmony in the world! "Don't fall into the hero's ambition, there should be great harmony in the world." Zhenwu Marquis Ye Wang calmly accepted the fate of death and left such a last word.

However, the sergeant replied to the hero with a resounding mouth. His body was not allowed to be collected, and was abandoned in the snow on the side of the street for a month and a half, and the ignorant people of the Ming Kingdom had completely believed the words of the ancestral hall party, and vented the hatred of the loss of their relatives on his corpse, when there were bold people who took advantage of the dead of night to steal the flesh of the corpse, and took it out in the wine store at dawn to show off to the people around him, and the owner of a wine store was also arrogant, and bought a palm-sized leather and pasted it on the threshold of his own wine store for people to trample on. When Emperor Zhou Qing, who was in Tianyuan, heard the news of Ye Wang's death, he "pointed to the sky and reprimanded angrily, vomited blood and rose continuously, and he convulsed for three days and nights." "It's a pity that at this time his sick and weak body has been unable to support him to fight to the death with the ancestral party, he was cut off from all external contact, quietly lying in the "god dormitory" to recuperate, the cold since the beginning of winter is constantly eroding his body, the imperial doctor of the Taiqing Palace made it clear that the emperor's body is difficult to survive the year, he is a dying dragon, the wolves of the ancestral party respectfully surround him, looking forward to.

Su Jin's reaction was calmer than Zhou Qing's, but it caused a greater commotion, he took Ye Wang's family heirloom gun as a memorial for the dead, and worshiped the north outside Tianyuan City for fifteen days. The tablet he erected for Ye Wang read Ye Wang's official position "Commander of the Three Armies of the Ming Kingdom", which was extremely taboo at that time, because Ye Wang, who was executed as a traitor, had been deprived of his official position. At this time, there were still many officers in Tianyuan City who were sympathetic to the imperial party, and when Su Jin sacrificed, there were many onlookers, and "everyone was crying". Su Jin's approach was undoubtedly an open break with the ancestral party, and the ancestral party violated the agreement and executed Ye Wang, and he couldn't continue to remain silent. Su Jin didn't know what this might lead to, and Zhou Chun wouldn't mind killing a Su Jin when he needed to quell the opposition.

Su Jin didn't care about the possible outcome of this, as his last brother died. Zhou Chun did have the idea of executing Su Jin, and Su Jin's continuous worship made this matter bigger and bigger, and the more onlookers there were, the voice of sympathy for the imperial party also rose. But one person protected Su Jin at this moment. Wen Fuming, the son of Wen Gangyu, the new important minister of the ancestral hall, warned Zhou Chun: "Do you want to test your own blade? There is no objection to breaking the army, and if you punish it, the martial artists of the world will take you and me as their enemies. This passage is said in the wild history elegantly, in fact, the meaning is quite straightforward, Wen Fuming asked Zhou Chun, do you want to hit the blade of the world's warriors by yourself? Su Jin has no intention of rebelling, but if you kill him, the warriors of the Eastern Continent will regard you and me as their enemies.

Zhou Chun was shocked and woke up to the fact that the fame of "Champion Hou" Su Jin was too great, and his kindness to his subordinates was difficult for Zhou Chun to erase with violence, and the execution of Su Jin at this time was just to fulfill him. So Zhou Chun chose not to care, he even sent people to set up a brocade tent around the place where Su Jin worshipped to block the wind, and sent people to deliver food to Su Jin on time. Wen Fuming's judgment was correct, and in the end, Su Jin could only return home helplessly, and Zhou Chun's leniency also made the officers who were inclined to the imperial party relax slightly, and the order of the imperial capital improved. On December 7, the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan, Zhou Qing died. The tired and sick generation of martial kings died lonely in the temple of the gods with unwillingness and heartache. His death was very bleak and peaceful, and it did not cause any waves in the imperial capital. He died in the temple of the gods, died of illness, and the internal historians were not allowed to approach Zhou Qing at that time, so the details of the emperor's funeral were not very clear, according to the palace people, Zhou Qing was alone when he died, on a snowy night. Before leaving, the palace people lit a charcoal basin for the emperor to keep warm, and the next morning, the emperor's body was as cold as the ashes in the charcoal basin. It can basically rule out the murder of the emperor by the ancestral hall, because there were as many as 20 doctors in charge of diagnosing the emperor at that time, all of whom came on Sunday and left at night. In this case, there were also twenty people who performed autopsies, and the traces of murder were easily detected. These twenty doctors later left various notes to prove that they did their best to treat the emperor, but no matter how superb their medical skills were, the emperor's flame of life was irretrievably slowly extinguished.

Perhaps it was the death of the deceased that killed the emperor from the depths of his heart, and he had lost the will to live. He did not marry the barbarian princess he brought back until his death, so he was an emperor who never married, and there is no record in the genealogy that he had descendants. After hearing this, the vast majority of people let out a long sigh of relief, the emperor's death ended the eleven-year death struggle with the ancestral party that began with his accession to the throne, and the political situation in the Eastern Continent returned to its original track. There is a very strange thing, that is, every important person in Zhou Qing's camp has recorded their endings, except for Lantai Ling Baili Yu. It is said that Bai Li Yu is the number one figure in the Imperial Party, far more dangerous than the Iron Horse's Car, and should be executed before Ye Wang. But Zhou Chun didn't do this, Bai Liyu has been locked in a secret cell in Tianyuan City since he was executed, and the so-called "punishment" is to dig out people's knees, probably with the intention of preventing him from escaping. Baili Yu's name is not found in the records of the various prisons in the imperial capital, and it is said that he was held in an extremely secret prison, and only three people in this prison have the power to wield: the emperor, the chief of Taibu Shi, and the Taifu of the Three Princes. Baili Yu enjoyed a long treatment that simply surpassed that of his emperor partner Zhou Qing.

Zhou Chun did not kill Baili Yu for two reasons: either Zhou Qing threatened to protect Baili Yu with his own life, or Baili Yu was still useful to Zhou Chun. But what use can this little official of unknown origin have? On the day after the emperor's funeral, all records of Baili Yu disappeared, and this person became a mystery. Until the reign of Emperor Xi of Zhou, a small official named Xiang Zhuang appeared in Tianyuan City, "sassy and sassy with the appearance of immortals", at that time some old people felt that he and Zhou Wu Dynasty's Lantai Ling Baili Yu "similar style". This little official later became very famous, assisting the King of Beilu to destroy the Zhou dynasty, and the official became the prince.

Interestingly, the actual ruler of the Zhou ancestral hall, Zhou Chun, the Northern Martial Emperor, did not enjoy the fruits of victory, and he died only two days after Zhou Qing. During a grand winter hunt of a noble family, he was invited to watch and bestowed a mink on the best children of the family in terms of bows and arrows and horsemanship. This half-disabled old man was supported by his retainers, and walked out of the warm sedan chair with the snow to look at the young people chasing prey in the snowfield, and suddenly said with emotion, saying that when I saw Xingzhi more than 30 years ago, he was also such a young man, galloping on horseback in the hunting ground. Zhou Xing was Zhou Qing's original name, and because of his humble origins, he was reluctant to use a similar name with his brothers, and has been using the alias "Zhou Qing" since he ascended the throne (in fact, this is his alias, and the official name has always been his name recorded in the Zhou family tree: Zhou Xing). As a political opponent and an elder of the Zhou clan's ancestral hall, Zhou Chun will recall the scene of the first meeting of the thirteen princes many years later, which sounds a little incredible, but this incident is recorded in the Zhou family's family history "The Chronicles of the Great Zhou Dynasty", and there should not be any apocryphalic elements. Even if the historian of the Zhou family's own private history wants to make it up, he has to consider the two sides of this struggle, one is the emperor of the Zhou family, and the other is the boss of the Zhou ancestral hall. It was during this hunting that Zhou Chun contracted a severe wind chill, and after being urgently escorted back to the city by his retainers, he failed to survive two days on the hospital bed and died on the ninth day of December in the 21st year of Zhenyuan. He didn't survive until the day when the new emperor officially ascended the throne and announced the change of the yuan, and the heavens seemed to have played tricks on this old man, when he got rid of his opponents, held great power, and had no one to match in the power arena of the Eastern Continent, the good fortune that had saved him from illness several times left him.

In fact, Zhou Chun was not a conspirator who was loyal to the family's political system and at the same time full of power and control as some historians who sympathized with the Zhou military group speculated, and he was very sober in his political thinking, and he was equally aware that his life was coming to an end. On the fourth day of the ninth month of the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, before Zhou Qing died and the political situation in the imperial capital was not completely clear, in a letter written by Zhou Chun to his second son Zhou Zina, he earnestly instructed: "The autumn is deep and cold, the frost and cold clothes are heavy, and the heart is worried. My father has been born for 80 years and 3 times, and he is already the longest-lived person in the world, with no regrets, and it is not my life to pour the country into wealth. "It's cold in late autumn, and I feel heavy when I put on my clothes, and I'm worried. Your father thought about it himself, and after living for eighty-three years, he was already the longest-lived man in the world, and he had no regrets. The wealth of the country is not my life. ”

Zhou Zina understood, handed the letter to the people around him, and soon the news was transmitted back to the imperial capital. So the ministers who persuaded Zhou Chun to depose the emperor and set up his son as the heir to the imperial family retreated, and Zhou Chun did not set up his most beloved son Zhou Zina as the heir to the imperial family, and the blood relationship between the crown prince Zhou Yuping and Zhou Chun was very distant. Before his death, Zhou Chun predicted the future of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he recalled his most beloved second son, Zhou Zina, and said to him on the hospital bed: "In the forty-seventh year of Xiuwen, I asked Shi Li Zesi, the chief of divination: 'Can the rise and fall of the family and country be glimpsed? Is the bell of heaven measurable? ’。 Li Zesi said: "However, the income is not auspicious, and the Zhou family should have a king after the prosperity, less than a hundred years." 'Looking at the prosperity of my Zhou family today, more than 600 years, a family with a surname, has 600 years to hold the country without sparing its own well-being, especially diligently seeking to be replaced forever? "In the forty-seventh year of the revision of the text, I asked Shi Li Zesi, the chief of divination, 'Can the rise and fall of the state be monitored?' Who can be inferred that fortune is fond of? Li Zesi said: "Yes, but the result is not auspicious, and there will be a king after the Zhou clan, and it will not be more than a hundred years at most." 'Now look at the prosperity of my Zhou family, it has been more than 600 years, a family with a surname, has been in charge of the state for 600 years, can it not cherish its own blessings, but also tirelessly pursue the eternal generations? ”

When Zhou Chun was dying, he also commented on his opponent very bluntly, calling Zhou Qing the most heroic talent of the Zhou family since the first emperor, but he was still only a "material of a thousand miles", not a "material of a thousand miles", and could not dominate Kyushu. If Zhou Qing chose to cooperate with him at that time, then with the strength of the two and stick to the Eastern Continent, the Zhou family would have another 600 years of glory, but Zhou Qing chose a different path from Zhou Chun, and the fight between the two of them has greatly weakened the power of the Zhou family and the family's political system in the Eastern Continent, and it is bound to be difficult to have a new round of cheering up after that. This prediction can not but be said to be a kind of foresight, for the current situation is a kind of insight with great penetration, Zhou Chun's victory over Zhou Qing, just like Zhou Qing's victory against the Northern Barbarians, is a kind of miserable victory, in this political duel really benefited from the Wanzhou business groups and the princes of various countries.

At that time, an astrologer enshrined in the Zhou Ancestral Hall received Zhou Chun's last words, and was very surprised by the large time span of Li Zesi's prediction, because even the greatest astrologer in Kyushu could not have made such an accurate judgment about what would happen a hundred years later. But Li Zesi's fame made him keep an eye on it, so he recorded this last word and sealed it with fire paint. History proves Li Zesi's insight into the future and Zhou Chun's prediction of the country's fortune.

Xiang Zhuang's answer was very subtle, he said: "Li Zesi's words, what is the truth? He also said: "The way of heaven cannot be remembered, and the magic cannot be coveted. Li Zesi's no, is it retribution? "The way of heaven cannot be recorded and understood, just as the spells of the gods cannot be coveted and envied, vainly trying to use the power beyond oneself will inevitably have terrible revenge, Li Zesi's sudden death, isn't it because he peeked at the mystery of the way of heaven? Probably because the Great Zhou Taifu also did not like others to discuss the fate of the stars, so he gave the descendant of this astrologer some money and sent him home. The astrological master, Dr. Qin Tianjian, who was very important at the time of the founding of the country, remained silent about this. If it is calculated according to the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, then it is true that the life span of the Zhou Dynasty did not last for more than a hundred years, and if it is calculated according to Emperor Zhou Jingde's official acceptance of the abdication of Emperor Zhou, then the Zhou family finally lasted for more than a hundred years, so Li Zesi's prophecy is also between the right and the not.