Chapter 17: Zhu Rong's Ambition
"In any case, I am willing to advance and retreat with my father, if anything happens to my father, how can I live alone?!" Yu Wendi said angrily.
Ding Fu said anxiously: "Son, even if you fight hard, you must protect you thoroughly, and I can't let you go back to die!" ”
After speaking, he stretched out his hand to Yuwendi's dumb door acupoint, and Yuwendi immediately fainted. So he and the little attendant next to him found a carriage and drove south overnight.
Zhu Rong's method can be described as "praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind". He was originally a villain who would take revenge, greedy for glory and profit, and had great ambitions, but now that he has such a great opportunity, how can he miss it? He expected that there would be today, so he secretly planned, first desperately currying up with the Empress Dowager Zheng to gain her trust, and then secretly repeatedly provoking the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the emperor, the purpose is to one day monopolize the power himself, one person under ten thousand people, and become a nameless but real "emperor".
So he ordered his cronies to draw up a holy decree, the content of which was nothing more than that the Empress Dowager Zheng usurped power, and Emperor Wei asked him to lead his troops to escort him. In this way, he completely cleared the charge, jumped from a chaotic minister and thief to a meritorious minister, and designated the three-year-old prince Tuoba Rui to succeed him in the name of Emperor Wei, and served as the auxiliary general and concurrently served as the position of Xiangguo, and convened all the ministers overnight, in the name of taking care of the funeral of Emperor Wei and Empress Dowager Zheng, in fact, "pointing to the deer as a horse", announcing his rights, eradicating dissidents, and winning over the party.
The contradiction between the two factions in the palace has been in the eyes of the ministers for many years, and now such a major event has happened in the palace overnight, and they all have ghosts, and there are few people who are really sad. On the surface, everyone was saddened by the death of Emperor Wei and the Empress Dowager, and they all knew what was going on in their hearts, and they all knew that Zhu Rong was in power, and opposing him was tantamount to joking with his own net worth, so he pointed to the deer as a horse, and the royalist party represented by Fan Zhen expressed support for the succession of the new monarch, saying: "Now that Your Majesty has died, someone should come out to abbot the overall situation." He supported Zhu Rong, but Empress Dowager Zheng and her party expressed their disbelief, and insinuated that Zhu Rong was noisy and had bad intentions.
Zhu Rong is a deep thinker, and on the surface, he always pretends to be loyal, but secretly he has already calculated how to eliminate those who oppose him.
So, I can't wait to announce to the world, ready to hold a new emperor enthronement ceremony three days later, and then hold a funeral for Emperor Wei after the ceremony, and the Empress Dowager Zheng abolished the title of the Empress Dowager on the charge of treason, and her clansmen were all reduced to concubines, and the Empress Dowager Zheng was also buried as a common man, and the prince Tuoba Rui was ordered to succeed to the throne, and his mother Han Wanyi was named the Empress Dowager, and Zhu Rong has always opposed friendship with Liang State, so he ordered You Lanxin to be buried with the emperor in the name of the imperial concubine, and was buried with the body of the former emperor after the new emperor ascended the throne.
You Lanxin was horrified when she heard the news, and said unwillingly: "Why do I want to accompany the funeral, I am only sixteen years old, and I am in the prime of my youth, I have only been married into Dawei for a few months, and besides, Your Majesty has no feelings for me, I don't want to accompany him to the funeral!" ”
After that, he said to the confidant palace maid Jade who came to marry: "Quickly bring a pen and paper, I will write to my aunt, you secretly find someone to send it out, and my aunt will ask Your Majesty to send someone to save me." ”
After writing it, he asked Jade to quietly send the letter out of the palace in the name of buying clothes, and sent someone back to Nanliang.
Liang dynasty.
Above the court, the ministers discussed Zhu Rong's usurpation of power and letting You Lanxin accompany the funeral, and they had different opinions on whether to come forward to rescue You Lanxin.
Emperor Wu of Liang frowned and said, "How can this be true! Now that Zhu Rong has usurped power, undermined the friendship between the two countries, and wants to use my Daliang and his own daughter as a funeral object, what do the Qing family think? ”
Zhou Dazai said: "Your Majesty, Zhu Rong and my Liang have always been at odds, if you come forward to save people at this time, I am afraid it will cause a big war; If you give up saving people, it will also damage my national prestige, and things are really tricky. ”
After hearing this, Mrs. Xue said: "According to the minister's opinion, the overall situation should be the priority, then Zhu Rong is deliberately provoking us by acting like this, Your Majesty, 'if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan', don't provoke a war first!" ”
Shen Shangshu also agreed: "Your Majesty, what Taifu said is extremely true, and the diplomatic relations between the two countries should be the most important. ”
As a result, the vast majority of the court agreed to continue to maintain diplomatic relations between the two countries and give up saving people.
Gyeongin Palace.
Queen Youlan rubbed one side of her forehead and said, "I didn't expect Xin'er to encounter such a thing just a few days after she got married, and she couldn't complain about the palace, and she didn't have any creation." ”
Chun Xian on the side comforted: "Niangniang wants to open some, Miss wants to get married to the two countries, and she must be able to understand Niangniang's distress." ”
After that, he poured tea for Queen Youlan.
Queen Youlan looked at it and said, "For the sake of diplomatic relations, I can only wronged her." ”
Chunning Palace.
Xiao Mingyue was learning to order tea with Concubine Hu, and Concubine Hu was preaching: "The blow of the tea whisk should be soothing. ”
Amber ran in like a chicken and said, "Oh no, something is wrong!" ”
Xiao Mingyue put down the teacup in her hand, raised her head and said angrily: "What happened, so that you forgot the rules?" ”
Concubine Hu also looked up at Amber and asked, "Yes, what happened?" ”
Amber gasped and said: "I heard Qiaoyue from Jingren Palace say that the Northern Wei court coup, Empress Dowager Zheng killed her son, and was killed by the general Zhu Rong, and now the general ordered to let Queen Youlan's niece Youlanxin accompany the funeral, Queen Youlan is upset about this." ”
After hearing this, Xiao Mingyue muttered, "So fast? I wonder if he received the letter? ”
Concubine Hu listened to it and asked, "What letter?" ”
Xiao Mingyue smiled at Concubine Hu and said, "It's nothing, I just feel that all this happened too suddenly, and I think Youlanxin is also pitiful, and I sympathize with her." ”
Concubine Hu heard this, and also sighed and said: "Yes, a good young lady, she became a concubine again, and suddenly she has to go to the funeral, it's a pity." ”
After speaking, he looked at Xiao Mingyue again, took his hand and said, "Fortunately, you were not selected at the beginning, otherwise my aunt would have died of distress." ”
Amber said, "Yes, it's still Miss who has a creation. ”
Northern wei dynasty
In an inn more than 100 miles away from the capital Luoyang, Ding Fu and his little attendants guarded Yuwendi, and in order to prevent him from leaving, Ding Fu tied a rope to him.
After Yu Wendi woke up, he saw that he was tied up, so he said anxiously: "What are you doing, let go of me!" I'm going to save my dad! ”
Ding Fu knelt down and said: "The subordinates are also forced to do so, but the subordinates have used their own heads to guarantee that they must protect the safety of their sons no matter what, and Zhu Rong's dog thieves have seized power, my lord...... Your Excellency is dead. ”
When Yu Wendi heard this, two lines of tears suddenly flowed out of his originally beautiful eyes, and he looked out the window and said bitterly: "Dad, the child is not filial, and he finally didn't have time to see you for the last time." ”
Ding Fu said: "Don't blame yourself, that Zhu Rong has countless elite soldiers, we are not opponents, and now Gongzi can only be worthy of the spirit of the adult in the sky if he lives well." ”
Yu Wendi looked at Ding Fu and said, "Get up, untie it for me." ”
Ding Fu hesitated: "Childe?!" ”
Yuwendi said calmly: "Don't worry, I won't run anymore." ”
When Ding Fu heard Yu Wendi say this, he got up and untied the rope for him.
Yu Wendi stood up and said coldly: "Zhu Rong killed my father and brother, this revenge is not shared, even if I take my life, I will avenge them." ”
Ding Fu said: "My lord, I hope you will stay away from the Wei Kingdom, stay away from the court, and live a peaceful life." ”
Yu Wendi listened and sneered: "From this moment on, I am already destined to be unable to live a dull life. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a knock at the door.
The little attendant was just about to open the door, but Ding Fu said defensively, "I'll come." After speaking, he quietly walked over, drew his sword, pushed open the door, and saw a man wearing a hat, and took it off when he saw Yuwendi.
"Yiwei, why are you here? Did something happen to Mingyue? Yu Wendi asked anxiously.
Yi Wei replied: "The young lady is in the palace, very safe, last night asked someone to let me send a letter to Childe overnight, thinking that it was something important, so I followed the whereabouts of the sharp-tailed swift left by Childe, and learned that Childe was here." ”
After speaking, he took out the letter and sent it to Yu Wendi.
Yu Wendi hurriedly took the letter, and after opening it, he saw Xiao Mingyue writing: "Empress Dowager Zheng and Emperor Wei will inevitably fall, and Zhu Rong is extremely ambitious, I am worried that he may contain the overall situation." If something happens to Lord Yuwen, I hope you don't act rashly and hit the stone with an egg. You must protect yourself, 'it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years'. Zhu Rong is unpopular, his regime is not destined to last long, if you want to take revenge, for the sake of today, your best choice is to take refuge in Tuoba Hong, the king of Heqing, he is also a member of the royal family, mastering the northwest fortress, although the army is not as good as Zhu Rong, but now only he has the strength to compete with Zhu Rong. Take care! Signed: Xiao Mingyue. ”
After Yu Wendi saw it, he was filled with joy and sorrow, and the sad thing was that his family was ruined, so he could no longer protect his sweetheart everywhere; The good thing is that the person you love in your heart also has your own place in your heart. He immediately decided to leave for the northwest side.
Northern Wei court.
Zhu Rong held an enthronement ceremony for the new emperor, Tuoba Rui is Tuoba Xi's only son, just turned three years old, just an ignorant child, his mother Han Wanyi was named the queen mother because of her dignified appearance, but in fact, because Zhu Rong saw that she had no ambitions, it was more convenient to keep her in control. The people who opposed Zhu Rong before and the party of Empress Dowager Zheng were all executed by Zhu Rong in the name of the new emperor, imprisoned and degraded, and since then he has covered the sky with one hand.
Seeing that the day of the funeral was approaching, Youlanxin's side, seeing that the mother country had not sent someone to save her for a long time, understood that she was just an insignificant chess piece, so she no longer had hope for the mother country.
Since then, Zhu Rong has been calling for wind and rain in the court, saying that he has ordered to build a pagoda for himself, and he will work hard and lose money; He advocated Buddhism, so he levied taxes, built temples on a large scale, and resisted Confucianism, emphasizing military force over literature; In order to enrich his palace, he ordered people to collect beautiful women from all over the country for his own fun.
The people of the country hate it.