Chapter 145: The Rouge Well and the Seal of the Kingdom
Li Xinchen tugged at her ears: "Little liar." β
Princess Ning Yuan was angry and wanted to step on Li Xinchen, but when she thought of something, she said aggrievedly: "Brother-in-lawΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Your Highness, you can't kill him. β
"It's useful to keep him." Li Xinchen laughed and looked around, "What else are you looking at?" β
Pei Zilie next to him laughed and laughed, and with a wave of his hand, the guards rushed up.
And Li Xinchen patted Princess Ning Yuan gently: "Li Ping, you take them to the East Palace to settle down, and when the queen comes, ask the queen to come over directly." β
"No!"
"Is there anyone down there?" Cheng Feng yelled.
It was quiet down there for a while.
"Then move the stones and seal this well." Han Baohu also said with a smile.
"Someone, someone!" At this time, a voice came from the well.
Cheng Feng and Han Baohu glanced at each other, it really didn't take any effort to get there. The soldiers grabbed the well wheel and pulled it upward, watching a few people use the strength of feeding, and the movement below was also very slow, Cheng Feng was suddenly a little surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, as soon as this strength was used, he couldn't help but sigh: "Why is His Majesty the Emperor so heavy?" β
"It's up, it'Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Three people? Han Baohu, who was lying on the edge of the well, widened his eyes, "There are still two women?" β
The soldiers supported Chen Shubao, Zhang Lihua, and Kong Concubine up, and the rouge and gouache on Zhang Lihua and Kong Concubine's faces had been rubbed off a lot, and the cloak looked quite embarrassed, but when they looked up, the pitiful look on their pretty faces made Han Baohu and Cheng Feng couldn't help but soften in their hearts.
"Uncle Chen?" Li Xinchen strode in front of the middle-aged fat man.
"Yes, yes," Chen Shubao suddenly knelt on the ground, "I can give you whatever you want, don't kill me, don't kill me!" β
The surrounding soldiers almost laughed, but they didn't expect that this was the emperor of Nan Chen.
What a wreck.
"Zhang Lihua?" Li Xinchen also noticed the absolutely beautiful woman behind Chen Shubao, "Tsk, I really feel sorry for me." β
"I, I am willing to serve the general, and the general spares his life!" Zhang Lihua immediately cried and bowed to the ground.
Li Xinchen frowned and clapped his hands in disgust.
And Han Baohu arched his hand at this time: "Your Highness, this woman is in trouble with the country, and she can't stay." β
"Your Highness spares your life!" Zhang Lihua also reflected at this time who the person in front of her was, "The slave is willing to be a cow and a horse for His Royal Highness!" β
"The pot that brings disaster to the country and the people is not the turn of a woman to carry it." Li Xinchen said lightly, "Uncle Chen, raise your head." β
Chen Shubao trembled and wanted to step forward to hug Li Xinchen's legs, the blame for this "disaster to the country and the people" does not belong to Zhang Lihua, that is, it belongs to himself? This Li Xinchen is going to kill himself!
"Your Highness spares your life, Your Highness spares your life! This Lihua, the villain is willing to give it to His Highness, and His Highness is willing to give it to His Highness if he takes a fancy to something! β
Zhang Lihua and Concubine Kong heard Chen Shubao say this, and their faces turned even darker.
Li Xinchen snorted, and the saber in his hand patted Chen Shubao's face: "XX is not interested in them, not to mention that you are now a prisoner, you have nothing, what you want, you can take it yourself, it is not your turn to send it!" β
Chen Shubao suddenly shivered, and almost fell to the ground.
"But so-and-so won't kill you, it's still useful to keep you." Li Xinchen waved his hand a little bored, "Escort them all down, lock them up in the East Palace first, give them some water, and don't starve to death." β
"Your Highness, that Lihua Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Han Baohu frowned.
Li Xinchen glanced at him: "Do you want to reward you?" β
"I don't dare, I'm just Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
You really want to kill Zhang Lihua in your life, Li Xinchen muttered in his heart, smiled and said, "Okay, let her live with Chen Shubao." This king is not interested. β
Taking the saber back, Li Xinchen let out a long breath: "What a boring opponent." β
Before he could finish speaking, he had already strode towards the main hall in front of him.
Pei Zilie and the others were speechless, just followed quickly.
On August 13 of the Han Dynasty, Li Xinchen's troops arrived at Jiankang Mansion, Chen's right servant shot Fan Kaicheng and surrendered, and Li Xinchen captured Chen Shubao, the emperor of Southern Chen, in the dry well of the palace.
Because Chen Shubao and Zhang Lihua and Kong Concubine hid in the well, the emperor never forgot the beauty until his death, and the news spread in the market, which led to a joke, and Zhang Lihua's rouge rubbed on the well railing, leaving a touch of pink, so this well was also nicknamed "rouge well".
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Kong Fan cautiously walked through the corridor full of armor warriors and walked towards the imperial study.
Every time I come to the study, I feel different. Chen Ji's era was an indescribable depression, which made Kong Fan dare not raise his head; In the era of Chen Shubao, it was bright and luxurious, so that Kong Fan couldn't feel that this was a place where the emperor and his cronies and courtiers discussed government affairs; In the era of Li Xinchen, Kong Fan felt an awe-inspiring murderous aura, and it was also the heroic spirit exuded by those young armor soldiers.
Nan Chen's Yu Lin Lang and Hu Ben Lang don't have this kind of momentum, and they know at a glance that they are all elite soldiers on the battlefield.
The general standing at the door of the imperial study crossed his legs and held his hands, his expression was solemn, and when he saw Kong Fan coming, he just made a gesture of please, and Kong Fan also knew that this was the elite of the elite under Li Xinchen's command - Cheng Feng, the commander of the Yulin Cavalry.
It's no wonder that those soldiers outside, although young, give people a feeling of remaining after a hundred battles. With a slight shudder, Kong Fan still walked in hard:
"Weichen, see Your Highness."
Li Xinchen was leaning against the table at this time, playing with the jade seal on the table.
That's right, it's the famous heirloom jade seal.
The quiet jade color of He's Bi and the iconic gold-inlaid corner undoubtedly tell Li Xinchen that this is the jade seal of the Great Qin Inheritance that later generations will not have a chance to see.
The jade seal of the country fell into the hands of Zhao Liu Cong in front of the Hu people when the Western Jin Dynasty fell, and then circulated between the Later Zhao and Ran Wei, because the "Killing Hu Order" became more and more sought after in later generations Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, asked for help from the Eastern Jin Dynasty when the country was destroyed, and the basis for help was the jade seal of the country. The generals of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who were ordered to come used their clever skills to deceive the jade seal of the country first, and sent the elite cavalry back to Jiankang overnight.
So the jade seal of the country returned to the Jin Dynasty in this way, and traveled between the four generations of the Southern Dynasties, and appeared in front of Li Xinchen at this time.
Slowly lifting the jade seal, Li Xinchen saw the shoulders and sides of the jade seal, where there were traces of polishing, it should be the words "Great Wei Shou Han Chuan Guo Seal" engraved by Cao Pi and "Heavenly Mandate Shishi" specially engraved by Zhao Shile, and the corner of the jade seal inlaid with gold needless to say, this was when Wang Mang usurped the throne, the Empress Dowager Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty angrily threw the jade seal to the ground and broke it.
(Author's note: "Hanshu", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other official histories do not record that the jade seal is defective, so it is doubtful, and it is according to the public opinion here)
And the bottom of the jade seal is naturally the well-known four words.
"Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." Li Xinchen muttered it, gently rubbing the jade seal of the country that had gone through I don't know how many generations of emperors and how many wars and chaos.