Chapter 1: Shadows

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Great Wei Qitai for four years

"The surname Shen was given to die, and the title of the eldest prince Cao Yi is so decided, hehe!" Queen Yan, who was in her twenties, was full of ridicule.

"Queen Mother, Shen Cai's family is the gateway of the southerners, although she is favored by His Majesty, but her family has no power in the country, don't say that she doesn't understand anything after entering the palace, but she understands the knowledge here, it is estimated that according to her temper, she will also be the first to give birth to a prince." Yue Le, the middle attendant, replied cautiously.

"It's not that the little doesn't understand, but she thinks she can be pampered and proud, the emperor won't do anything to her, haha, it's really ridiculous, the emperor will spoil her again, and the old ministers will not agree to leave this scourge." Queen Yan said.

"Yes! After all, the foundation is unstable, although the Shen family has an elder brother who is a thorn in Yanzhou, but how can there be the dignity of the queen mother, your Manchu minister, you are personally pointed out to Your Majesty by His Majesty the Emperor, and our Great Wei still needs your Yan family to support it! Yue Le said.

"That's nature, from now on, let's stop condensing and dispersing! You emperor's neighbors don't always take the emperor to those foxes, although this Cao Yi will be the crown prince in the future, I am also his mother-in-law, you can take care of it! ”

"Yes, yes, I won't dare." Yue Le secretly glanced at Queen Yan and replied in a loud voice.

It is strange to say that since the fourth prince of Qitai, Cao Yi, was established as the crown prince, the Qitai Emperor, who had a difficult heir, seemed to have changed people, and the harem gave birth to six princes for him one after another, among which the third prince Cao Fan, born to Queen Yan, was the most favored, and the crown prince Cao Yi was also handed over by Emperor Qitai to be raised by Empress Yan. The other princes were raised by their own mothers.

Although Shuyi Pavilion is a pavilion, there is also a main hall, two side halls, the middle is the hall, the wall at the door is hung with "Lao Tzu out of the customs map", the couplet on both sides reads: Founding the sect, the purple gas comes from the east for 30,000 miles; He wrote books and preached, and wrote about the first 5,000 words. Below the picture is a pear case, flanked by wide chairs carved with plum orchids and bamboo chrysanthemums.

Behind the hall is a fine repair room, there are no other objects, only the three clear on the niche, and a futon made of cattail grass under the niche.

Han Concubine entered the palace in the first year of Qitai, she was already respectful and pure, cautious in the palace, her father Han Shineng outside the palace was a famous and powerless general, and her brother was only a small captain in the Southern Army. Compared with Queen Yan and other concubines, she is as humble as a grain of sand in this palace, if it weren't for the fact that Emperor Qitai was lucky enough to be concubine Han after drinking and gave birth to the fourth prince Cao Hong, it is estimated that this concubine position would be out of reach.

After giving birth to the prince, Concubine Han was more cautious, unless she was celebrating the harem daily and going to Yi'an Palace to ask for peace from the Empress Yan, she basically didn't go out of this Shuyi Pavilion. After speaking, she also knew that this Han Concubine had no power outside the palace, and she was also cautious in the palace, so she was not too embarrassed by her, and Han Concubine was also happy to be at ease, and she would not participate in the turmoil of inviting pets and jealousy.

The fourth prince Cao Hong, smart and lovely since childhood, can speak in October, can read at the age of three, can write at the age of five, although he is young, but has been following his brother Cao Yi and Cao Fan to study, today from the warm pavilion where the prince is studying back to Shuyi Pavilion, Han Concubine is sitting on the futon and reciting the "Tao Te Ching", Cao Hong saw and said: "A-Niang should not always be stuffy in the house, but also go out and walk around." Han Concubine saw that it was her son and smiled: "The weather is not good, your body is not cool, you are too lazy to move around, but you just got out of school, why did you come back directly, the prince and the third prince didn't invite you to go out to play?" "I'm too lazy to go out and fool around with them, Cao Fan always teases His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in a weird way, and the prince doesn't dare to reply, I'm uncomfortable in the middle."

Seeing this, Concubine Han didn't say anything, and changed the subject: "Next month is your grandfather's birthday, I have prepared some gifts, and then you go out of the palace to help me see your grandfather and your uncle." ”

Cao Hong was also happy when he heard that he could leave the palace: "It's rare to see my grandfather and uncle, and I always have to get my uncle's little bamboo knife back when I go out this time." But then I thought that my mother could let me out of the palace, and she must have worked hard after the words, and I don't know how much money I had to make. Cao Hong was silently gloomy.

When Concubine Han saw her son like this, she comforted: "Usually you are clamoring to leave the palace, but this time you can go out again, but it's not happy." After speaking, he touched Cao Hong's head with his hand.

"I don't want my mother to work too hard." Cao Hong lowered his eyelids.

"This child, you are still young, don't be confined within the walls of this palace, you still have to go out and walk around more if you have the chance. Mother, it's okay here. As long as you can grow up smoothly and healthily, when the prince leaves the palace and opens the mansion, our mother and daughter will be able to get out. Han smiled.

Twenty-six years after the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, Taizu Cao Qi reigned for eight years, and his son Emperor Qitai ascended the throne after his death, and has been reigning for 14 years.

The decline of the Later Han Dynasty, Sima Yan established the Jin Dynasty, after the rebellion of the Eight Kings, the clothes crossed to the south, the Central Plains is your side to sing and I appeared, the small court changed non-stop, Taizu Cao Qi was a member of the former Dynasty Dayan, and was named the history of Youzhou Assassin because of the Liu Ke Department of the Hetao, the last emperor of the Great Yan Murong Hui was greedy and lustful, and the tyrannical conquest made the world angry and resentful, Cao Qi raised troops to kill Murong Hui, swept away the country, and built the capital Luoyang.

Cao Hong's grandfather Han Shineng is the Jizhou assassin of Dayan, because Han Shineng himself is from Han nationality, and he is not the descendant of Taizu Cao Qi in Youzhou, so after the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, there was a partial general in name only. Every day, I go to the army to order something, and after the exercise, I go home to instruct my children and grandchildren to work hard and exercise martial arts. Cao Hong's uncle Han Zhong is in his thirties, brave and upright, because of his father, he does not want to be idle and become a second ancestor, he entered the army as a captain when he was young, and he was not allowed to be promoted for so many years, because he was bold, but he was very loved by soldiers. He didn't go home often on weekdays, but stayed in the camp all day long, mingling with a group of soldiers.

After more than a month, on Han Shineng's birthday, Cao Hong prepared the gifts prepared by his mother and left the palace, and when he arrived at his grandfather's house, the gate of his grandfather's house had already been lit up.

"Uncle!" Cao Hong hurriedly caught up with a few steps, walked to the front of the house, and bowed to salute.

"Four Princes!" Han Zhong stepped down, haha, and held Cao Hong's arms, "Too thin, or too thin, are you practicing that set of boxing techniques that taught you?" ”

"I've been practicing every day, and I'm much stronger than before! Uncle, you still call me Hong'er! ”

Han Zhong squeezed his eyes and smiled quietly: "There are many people, let's go into the mansion and meet your grandfather!" ”

"Yes." Cao Hong responded.

Han Shineng is in his early fifties, in good spirits, is stroking a handful of gray beard in the flower hall with the guests chatting and laughing, seeing Cao Hong come in, he stood up happily, and said to the guests present: "All of you here are the old robes of Jizhou, I have no other hope in this life, Han Zhong is still rude and reckless in his thirties, just this grandson of the fourth prince makes me feel very relieved, Hong'er has a good chest, can be civil and martial." In the future, he will also be the virtuous king of our Great Wei. ”

"Grandpa is blessed with a long life and a long life." Cao Hong has a long stroke.

"Hahahaha... Get up, get up, your mother is well. Han Shineng helped Cao Hongdao up.

"My mother is in good health, but she just chants and prays every day, and she doesn't like to move around." Cao Hongdao.

"It's hard for her, you have to treat your mother well." Han Shineng said.

"Yes!"

At this time, the guests in the hall all gathered around, and Cao Hong saw that most of them were his grandfather's old robes, so he also bowed respectfully. Most of the people on the seat were old military leaders, and when they met, they either pinched Cao Hong's shoulders or touched Cao Hong's arms. It's like picking meat in the vegetable market. "Tut-tut, in the end, it is the species of our Yi Wujun, this appearance, take it out, how many little girls will not be able to live in peace." The most excessive thing is a red-faced old man, older than Han Shineng, and Du Yao, who is currently the commander of the Southern Army, stepped forward to beat Cao Hong's chest and said, "The four princes have ape arms and bee waists!" You can't drop your fists and feet, this is the capital of our Yi Wujun. As for those abilities to find chapters and extract sentences, learn as much as you want! Can this world still rely on that thing to eat? ”

Cao Hong couldn't accept a group of old men touching him for a while, he blushed with embarrassment, but asked Han Shineng to see it, and said with a smile: "What do you say, we old people just fight and kill, I have only heard that we will win the world immediately, how can there be a reason to rule the world immediately." In the future, His Royal Highness will be a virtuous king who will assist His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in governing the country. Why do you old soldiers want to talk nonsense. Go and go. ”

The old army leaders smiled, and they all dispersed and sat down. But Du Yao said: "Prince, hehe." Whether it will last long or not is another matter. Whose virtuous king is this assistant again? ”

A white fat old soldier next to him said: "Lao Du, the prince is not muddy, and the Huns of Abida will not let the child with a mother sit on the throne." "This person is Ningzhou Thorn Shi Pang Bin, although it is said that he is an assassin Shi Envoy, but it is also a remote leader, to put it bluntly, it is just a good sound." Besides, do you think the prince is weak and can be bullied? I think it's better to learn to practice and taste the courage of lying down. Besides, his uncle made an iron bucket made in Yanzhou, and the needle couldn't be inserted, who was it for? ”

Everyone was silent for a while, as we all know, the so-called child with a mother must be Cao Fan born to Queen Yan, and the child without a mother is naturally the crown prince Cao Yi, although on the surface brother and brother are respectful, but since outsiders know that the two are not in harmony, it must be no wind and no waves. The secret fight between the two still attracted the attention of people in the court. It's strange to say, the crown prince Cao Yi is from the Han Shen family, but the Xiongnu nobles have supported this motherless child, but the three princes Cao Fan born to the Xiongnu nobles born to Queen Yan are not treated by these people, although the Yan family has mastered the power of the court, but other Xiongnu nobles are eyeing each other, just waiting for the prince to ascend the throne, squeeze out the Yan family in the new dynasty, and take power himself.

"The more you talk about it, the more boundless it becomes, and you dare to take out the things you guess and talk nonsense, but His Royal Highness accompanies the prince and the third highness to study every day, and he doesn't know about the things, you take them out and talk about them. Today is the old man's birthday, and I want nothing more than to wish the four highnesses peace and health, and the brothers to be blessed and long. Come on, come on, eat and drink. Seeing this, Han Shineng hurriedly said.

Seeing this, a group of old army leaders didn't say much, and quietly looked at each other. You can only understand it, but you can't say it!

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