Chapter II: National Changes
1. Love
Ye Yao straightened out his thoughts and thought about how to speak, as if he was afraid that Ye Xingcan would mention the matter of the Dao Sect again, so he asked, "Ah Can, what is the recent incident you remember?" ”
Although Ye Xingcan was surprised, she still thought about it seriously, and suddenly her face changed, and her whole body was full of anger, and she glared at Ye Yao with jealousy, "I remember, Princess Ancheng said that because of my childhood sweetheart, you have always been my sister, and you can't give birth to the love of men and women, and the person in your heart is her......" The more she spoke, the more angry she became, full of grievances.
Ye Yao was stunned for a moment, full of embarrassment and chagrin, although this topic was led away from the Dao Sect, why didn't Princess Ancheng's memory be washed away, it was really unjust.
Without waiting for Ye Yao to answer, Ye Xingcan pushed him away, "An Cheng said, where is there any border emergency, you deliberately did not participate in my ceremony for her, and my father has already promised her to remarry...... is also a princess, my mother died early, and she was sent to Yongning Wangfu before the moon, but she is the only daughter of the queen, the pearl of her father's palm......" Ye Xingcan thought of her sister Ancheng, and went to the sad place again, coughing, and couldn't go on.
Ye Yao was full of distress, and he didn't care how to explain it, so he stretched out his hand and took her into his arms, although Ye Xingcan was angry, he felt that he had to have a backbone, and struggled with all his strength to push away the man beside him.
After all, when he first woke up, and King Yongning led his troops to the border all the year round, how could he push it away.
"Ah Can, it's all my fault that the saint didn't remarry, I hurt you, no matter what others say, you are my princess, my princess, and when your body recovers, we will get married." Ye Yao tightened his arms and hugged the girl in his arms tightly, as if he was afraid that if he was not careful, he would disappear again.
Ye Xingcan didn't believe it, she clearly remembered that before the ceremony, her brother left on the grounds of military urgency on the frontier.
Ye Yao couldn't argue, he could only tell the truth, he did get the news at that time, Beiyin mobilized troops and horses, and there was really a change in the frontier. But I don't know what Ancheng said to Ah Can, and I don't know how to explain it, so I paused, and then said, "You also know that King Yongning can't go out of the fiefdom, I approached her to listen to the news of the imperial capital, I rushed back to the courtesy, inserted a hosta for you, and led you to Fengtai."
Listening to Ye Yao's insistence on making amends, Ye Xingcan's eyes were stubborn and unwilling to face him again. When Leng Buding heard the hosta and Fengtai, his head hurt inexplicably.
It seems that something very important has been forgotten, but no matter how hard I try, the memory is wisps, as if the intertwined silk threads are constantly entwined, converging in front of me, but I can't catch anything, and it is empty.
Slowly, a man appeared in front of Ye Xingcan's eyes, his clothes were cold, holding a white hosta, and the hairpin head was a phoenix winged to fly. In my memory, the man looked at himself, smiling gently, his eyes seemed to be full of stars, dazzling, but he couldn't see his appearance clearly.
Suddenly, everything around them changed, the sky and the earth were empty, and there was ice everywhere with no end in sight. The black robe went farther and farther, no matter how much he ran, he couldn't catch up, he kept shouting, but he couldn't make a sound, he ran and ran, fell on the ice edge, and cried in pain. The man seemed to hear the cry, and actually stopped, but did not look back, and continued to walk forward, obviously full of coldness, but inexplicably warm, which made people feel at ease.
Ye Xingcan was in pain, wanted to cry, but couldn't cry, struggling to see the man's face clearly, but there was nothing in front of him, angina, no matter how hard he tried, there was nothing.
"I saw a man, dressed in a dark robe, and I couldn't get close to him, I couldn't see his face clearly, and I couldn't even call his name." Ye Xingcan's eyes widened, looking at Ye Yao in confusion, tears condensed in his eyes, but he stubbornly didn't want to fall.
Hearing Xuanyi, Ye Yao's body couldn't help but tremble, and the hand holding Ye Xingxuan fell unconsciously, but he just said, "The palace was attacked by an assassin a month ago, and you were attacked and injured your head, I'm afraid you suffered from hysteria." ”
2. The Battle of Tonglin Pass
After waking up for more than a month, Ye Xingcan slowly recovered, and also figured out the antecedents. Two months ago, she was attacked and injured her head, and for some reason, after a month of sleep, she forgot everything that had happened in the past two years, and her memory was frozen in the fifteen-year-old and before the ceremony.
A lot of things have happened in the past two years, but Ye Yao chose the key points, and the narrative is very simple, only saying that soon after the ceremony, Yang Su, the old prince of Yongning Palace, died of illness, and half a year later, Princess Ancheng and Qin Beiyin. A year later, the king of Thailand went to the border of Yongbei to supervise the war, was hit by the enemy's secret arrow, and died before returning to the imperial capital Yongning.
Four months ago, in the second year of Chu Can, Daozong died of illness, King Hui ascended the throne, and changed the year name to Yuankang. Princess Ancheng heard the news of her father's death in the Mobei royal court, and she couldn't afford to fall ill, and died in the same month. In just two years, the Taoist Sect that once led Dayong to dominate the Northern Continent was left with only one princess who was raised to the Yongning Palace since she was a child and was still alive in the world.
It's just that Ye Yao didn't mention that when it comes to the lineage of Daozong, the Dayong Wang clan has withered, and the most pro-royal family is only Daozong's cousin Huiwang Yelin and Han Wang Yehe, and then there are Zhao King Ye Qin and Yongning Wang Ye Yao.
In November of the second year of Chu Can, Daozong was still immersed in the grief of losing two sons in a row, so he was forced to the palace by the ministers and asked to make his cousin King Hui the crown prince.
In just a few days, four out of ten soldiers in the world swore allegiance to King Hui, and Daozong found that even the Imperial Forest Guard could not be mobilized, so he reacted that King Hui had laid out early and had deep intentions.
Daozong denounced King Hui in the palace for his ill-intentioned intentions, but no one responded to the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and he was like watching a play. His health was even worse under exhaustion, so he had to send his guards out of the city overnight and ordered all the troops to "be rescued by King Qin", but there was no general to receive the military talisman.
The Yongning Palace, which accounted for nearly forty percent of Dayong's military strength, just returned, and according to the ancestral teachings, the Yongning King was not allowed to leave the fiefdom, and was on the border of Yongbei for generations. Therefore, the 300,000 wind riders and 50,000 snow riders were all immovable.
Only General Qin Shuo, who had been guarding the Yongtang border all the year round, resolutely took his only son Qin Mo and led 100,000 Wuling troops to the imperial capital after leaving 20,000 soldiers to continue to defend the border.
The Wuling army fought from outside the pass to inside the pass, fighting bloody all the way, and King Hui personally led several times the soldiers and horses, but he failed to hold back the Wuling army.
The last battle was at Tonglin Pass, the last pass to guard the imperial capital Yongning. In the battle of Shi Zaitong's pass, the remaining strength of the Wuling army was less than two or three, and in the absence of food and grass supplies, it launched more than ten attacks on the pass, two days and two nights, and the fire reflected the red sky. The Wuling army fought to the death, and the major general Qin Mo led the pro-army to "trap the camp" as the vanguard, stepping on the corpses and advancing towards Tonglin Pass step by step.
However, the breakthrough was imminent, but the Wuling army was betrayed by the deputy general and besieged by King Hui's soldiers and horses. But no one knows why the major general, who was hit by several arrows, had obviously rushed out of the pass, and why he returned to Tonglin Pass.
It's just that it is said that on that day, the defenders of Tonglin Pass saw a girl with silver wings, cursed with blood, swore to the sky, and flew to the nine heavens with the body of the young general. Dozens of days later, in Tonglin Pass, a woman could always be heard crying, miserable, and grief-stricken.
Three days after the death of the major general Qin Mo, the old general Qin received the news that Daozong had committed suicide and that King Yongning had succeeded to the throne. The old general looked up to the sky and shouted, blood and tears flowed, and after getting King Hui's will to pardon the remaining soldiers of the Wuling army, he committed suicide in the emperor's tomb.
The general stained the coffin of Daozong with blood, and died as a king, and more than 100 of the remaining Wuling soldiers committed suicide, all of whom were buried on the side of the tomb of Daozong.
But he didn't want to, after Huizong ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to issue a holy decree, designate the Wuling army as a rebel army, and strangle the remaining soldiers. When the news reached the border of Yongtang, the old troops of the Wuling Army of 20,000 soldiers rose up to resist, and they all died under the attack of the border army of the Central Tang Dynasty and the Yongning Wang Fengcai.
For a time, the border between the Yongtang and Tang dynasties was thousands of miles away, the birds could not fly, the beasts were dead, and the ghosts cried only to hear the sky and the ghosts crying, and they did not disperse for a long time. Since then, the Wuling Army, which has been loyal and brave for generations, has died.
In the same month, in order to show the friendship between the two countries, Beiyin sent the head of Princess Ancheng, the eldest daughter of Daozong. Huizong was merciful, and even wiped a few tears, and then ordered the king of Yongning to send troops to Beiyin, revenge for his killing and the princess, and Yang Chuan, the master of the Xingxue Iron Cavalry, was ordered by the King of Yongning to lead 100,000 wind cavalry and Xingxue Iron Cavalry to attack, and hit Beiyin hard.
In the same year, in order to show respect for the former emperor Daozong to the people of the world, Huizong also won over King Yongning, and crowned Ye Xingcan, the only living daughter of Daozong and the future princess of Yongning, as the eldest princess.
3. Yongning Palace
Beilu is divided into three, Dayong occupies the central territory, the northwest is bordered by Beiyin, the east is bordered by the Tang Dynasty, and the southern border is all dense forests and coastlines.
Beiyin is a nomadic people, divided and combined, until a hundred years ago, the Jurchen lord Lei Yan imitated Dayong, established the country, called "Beiyin", to Mobei royal court respected. The Middle Tang Dynasty occupies the richest east, and after the defeat of the Wuling army two years ago, Dayong is the Zhengshuo and pays tribute at the age of the year.
The Dayong royal family has always been thin, before forcing the palace to succeed to the throne, King Hui only had one son and one daughter, Ye Yan, the lord of Yongxi County, Princess Yongxi, sixteen years old, Ye Lian, the little prince, and the prince was only less than six years old, and it is said that the body is not very strong.
It is no secret that the descendants of the Dayong royal family are thin. Two hundred years ago, Ye Cheng, the ancestor of the Ye family, was called Yongtai (tai) ancestor (zu), but after ascending the throne, only one princess was left behind, named Yin'er.
In ancient times, women could not succeed to the throne, although the ancestor of Tai (tai) did not give up the imperial power, but in order to ensure the stability of his daughter, he still set up the imperial brother as the prince, for Yongtai-Zong and the imperial capital Yongning as the title, and named Ye Yin as the "Yongning Princess", I wish her a smooth life and peace forever.
Yongning princess Ye Yin married Qin Yan, the general of Zhenbei, not called a concubine, but named "King Yongning", Qin Yan was the first king of Yongning of the opposite sex, and the seven counties in the northwest were used as the fief of Yongning Palace, and the throne was hereditary.
In order to ensure the safety of future generations, Yongtai-Zu made an edict to transfer the 200,000 wind cavalry army, which accounted for one-third of the army at that time, to the northwest, and the king of Yongning held the military seal. Set down the rules, the palace to the surname Ye as the observance, if the descendants of Princess Yongning are male, they will succeed to the throne of Yongning, if there is no male to grow up, then the county lord will succeed Princess Yongning title, is the heir of the palace, the princess will be a military general, for the northwest of Yongyong Town, not to step out of the fief half a step.
The edict is justified and well-founded, and there are advances and retreats. 200,000 iron cavalry in the northwest of the town, said to be on the border, but also guarded the descendants of the Tai-ancestor, guarded the royal bloodline, Yongning King never came out of the fief, so that the successor to the throne of the Tai-Zong lineage can let down their guard and sit on the throne safely.
But it is also strange that Ye Yin, the princess of Yongning, also left only one daughter. In the past two hundred years, although there was also a little prince born in the Yongning Palace, none of them lived past the age of ten.
It's not that no one speculates whether the people on the throne don't want King Yongning surnamed Ye to grow up, but who dares to talk about the royal matter. It is to choose a horse for each Yongning princess will shake the government and the opposition, the military generals of the Manchu Dynasty are looking forward to it, for a hundred years, the family of Dayong military generals has sixty percent into the Yongning Palace.
In the reign of Daozong, Yongning Princess Ye Yan died when her only son Ye Yao was thirteen years old, and King Yongning was General Yang Su, a descendant of General Yang Meng, one of the ten founding generals. And the little prince Ye Yao actually broke the curse of the man in the Yongning palace who could not live to be ten years old, grew up, and succeeded to the throne of Yongning in the eighth year of Jingning.
It is rumored in the world that Ye Yao is a soldier who broke the military star and entered the fate, and this Yao entered the fate, killed countless people, and wandered and turbulent all his life, but he could change the world and destroy the earth. There are even rumors that Princess Ye Xingcan of Dayong is the Seven Killing Stars, and the heavenly fragrance is enough to go through troubled times.
Breaking the army, seven killings, plus the greedy wolf that has not yet come out, three stars appear at the same time, and the world will definitely change hands.
But when the Taoist Sect heard about it, he smiled and smiled, and only said that how could there be a broken army and seven killings for the royal princess and the horse.