Chapter 292: Once Upon a Time in the Empire

Since the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao Yuan, the Great Xia Dynasty will fight the world with him, and he will fight for half his life, and he is also the five siblings who have made great achievements, and have sealed the five iron hat kings of Zhao, Chu, Shu, Wu, and Jiujiang.

In a sense, which one will be reincarnated into the belly of these five iron-hat princesses, that is called accumulating virtue in the previous life!

With a golden spoon in his mother's womb, he was born with a life of enjoyment, and the hereditary throne and the Danshu iron coupon given by the first emperor made them even more comfortable than many princes who were crowned kings.

After all, it can be regarded as the throne that the ancestors fought hard for, so the grandfather didn't even deliberately set any restrictive conditions for the descendants of these five iron hat kings, and only asked the five of them to kneel in front of the bed and swear when they were dying:

The world is not a high surname but the king, fight it together!

That's all.

Therefore, it also led to the upheaval that almost overturned the entire Great Xia Dynasty when the emperor passed on for three generations!

However, the Great Xia Dynasty had just been founded for more than 50 years at that time, and it could be described as a deep blessing and endless luck, and it met Emperor Ruizong, a holy monarch that has not been encountered for thousands of years, so although the rebellion was monstrous at the beginning, igniting the smoke of nearly half of the Great Xia Dynasty, it was finally quelled by this wise and martial emperor.

And it is precisely because of this that Emperor Ruizong added an extra tightening spell to these five iron hat kings:

The hereditary throne can only be passed on to the prince's concubine, unless the concubine dies early, and only after the emperor agrees, can he order the elder to be the king.

The emperor has been passed down for three generations, and the throne has been passed down for three or four generations, and these little princes in fine clothes and jade food are no longer the shrewd ancestors who can see the male and female when mosquitoes flew in front of them, and they didn't feel anything about Ruizong's will.

It wasn't until a few years later that the dispute between them and their concubines in the mansion had become the main theme of their daily life, and they woke up and thought about how painful Ruizong's soft knife stabbed people.

Before Ruizong, it was also because when the mansion was not yet flourishing at the beginning, the sons and daughters of the concubines still got along very well, and they were all like most scholars, willing to go to the main hall or the frontier to make a reputation, if they could get ahead, regardless of whether they were concubines or concubines, they were likely to receive the big seal of the palace from the old prince.

At that time, all the princes wanted to reach out to the court and expand their power, which in disguise was to expand the influence of the palace.

However, after Ruizong, this phenomenon has almost disappeared!

Why?

You are a prince who is a concubine, even if you are named the champion of the top three ranks, or you are the best in the world, and you have changed the black yarn of a second-class member to the sky, you still can't snatch the throne from your brother who carries a birdcage every day and seeks joy in the Fengyue Institute day and night.

A sentence of "the ancestral system cannot be violated" will block the thousands of words in your stomach.

Unless....... He's dead......

Therefore, since then, these princes in the palace no longer have the heart to think about fame and military exploits, because Ruizong seems to have reduced the difficulty of clearing them, as long as they kill that brother,

But while they were staring coldly at the throne of the brother in front of them, the younger brother in the back was also looking at him with pity,

In the palace, there is no peace, and in the world, it has become peaceful.

And Ruizong's changed flavor of the "Tui En Order", but also quickly received unexpected results, only twenty years later, because of the battle between the princes, the Jiujiang Palace, developed to the war against each other, the old drama of the same room was staged in the Lujiang Palace, and the result was so bad that it was also jaw-dropping.

The king and princess of Jiujiang died tragically in the palace, and four of the six sons died in the fire in the city, and a fire burned the entire Jiujiang palace clean.

For this ancient anecdote, the reaction of the imperial court was also unexpectedly fast, Ruizong threw a strict decree on the same day, the third son and the fifth son of the king of Jiujiang were disobedient and unfilial, and fratricidal was against human morality, and was immediately sentenced to capital punishment to set an example! At the same time, the throne of the King of Jiujiang was also withdrawn by the Ministry of Rites because there were no descendants to pass on.

Many years later, whenever a mouthful of people criticized this matter, they would mention that this was Ruizong's conspiracy to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, because Ruizong was dissatisfied with the five unrestrained iron hat kings divided by Taizu from the beginning, but it was difficult to act because of the Danshu iron coupon and the grace of the emperor, so there was this strategy.

A hundred years of time has passed in a flash, for this kind of wild history that will not even be recorded in the annals, it is just a conversation after tea and dinner, no one knows whether the matter of Jiujiang Wangfu at that time was instructed by Ruizong, but everyone knows that since then, the remaining four kings of Zhao, Chu, Shu, and Wu have completely become docile cats, and if there is any summons or etiquette in the court, they are all with the rumors, and there is no complaint.

There is a saying in Buddhism, called "If good and evil are not rewarded, there must be selfishness".

Judging from the facts, this "Qiankun" is really a fair and strict old man, and he will not be partial because Ruizong is the son of "Qiankun".

In the forty-fourth year of the Great Summer, Ruizong's son Xia Wuzong died violently,

What is more embarrassing is that the emperor, who has been on the throne for more than 40 years, not only survived several of his brothers to death, but also left no heirs.

This sudden bad news made the behemoth of the Great Xia Dynasty seem to suddenly lose its head, and it began to stumble helplessly.

But it's still the same sentence, if the blessing is shallow, the Great Xia Dynasty will not be founded for 400 years and still stand in the east.

At the critical time, it was the then Empress Zhou who stood up, in line with the principle of "brother to brother", and passed down the edict in her name to the four vassal kings to enter Beijing immediately, the edict was very simple, just eight words:

The first to come, the last to come!

As the aunt of King Zhao at that time, Queen Zhou's edict, which sounded fair at first glance, inevitably had a taste of favoritism.

To be able to "come first", it stands to reason that in addition to the King of Zhao who is close at hand, the other three kings are almost impossible, for the King of Shu and King Wu who are thousands of miles away, this edict is no different from summoning him to Beijing to meet the new emperor, after all, the distance is here, and by the time the two of them get the edict, it may be that King Zhao's convoy has already arrived outside the Wu'an Gate.

But

Things don't end here in an ending that everyone can expect, and there is also a small episode here.

At that time, the king of Chu, that is, the father of the current king of Chu, Gao Youxian, was not far away in the palace of the king of Chu in Wuchang Mansion, but because Concubine Ning gave birth to a little princess in the court, the happy Emperor Wuzong issued a holy decree before his death to summon the king of Chu and his concubine into the palace to congratulate him, and at this time he had already entered the realm of Zhili.

It is also a coincidence that this Ning Concubine is not an outsider, she is the concubine sister of Princess Chu at that time, and this sister has a very good relationship with her sister, and it is also strange to say that the little princess born to Ning Concubine turned out to be the only heir of Emperor Wuzong.

Therefore, Emperor Wuzong, who was happy, also opened a grace and summoned him to Beijing in the name of letting the king of Chu meet him, which could be regarded as giving his family a chance to reunite.

It's just that I didn't expect that before the people reunited in the city, they took the first step.

But at both ends, when the news of King De of Chu and Queen Zhou was announced, the location of the Forbidden City was more than a little closer than that of King Zhao, and it could almost be described as the dawn and the evening!

According to reason, who can see that being an aunt in this matter is to make her nephew the emperor, so you King Chu have to squeeze your head and fight for something? There is no force in the court to support you, and the "first to come" is just to give King Zhao a justifiable reason when everything is ready.

But I don't blame anyone for wanting to come back, it's the throne! The dazzling peak of power in Great Xia is that people who can't beat it with eight poles want to go up and touch it, let alone the King of Chu who is close at hand.

Therefore, the king of Chu hurried his horse, put aside his princess and Gao Youji, who was not as high as the wheel at that time, and rushed to Wang Jing.

Of course, Empress Zhou's side has already prepared everything, even if she was negligent and forgot about your stubble at that time, can she let you plunge into the Forbidden City like a stunned head? Before he even entered Wang Jingcheng, he was stopped by the northern army guarding the south gate.

The reason is that without the queen's decree, no one is allowed to enter the city!

Again, where is the queen's purpose? Don't you see? It turned out that it was an 800-mile fast horse and sent to the Chu Wangfu in Wuchang.

King Chu is so angry!

When he returned to Wuchang, took Yizhi in his hand, turned around and rushed to the capital, I am afraid that the two kings of Shu and Wu have already knelt down outside the main hall.

Gas, very angry!

But there is no way, what else can he do now? Even if he took out two flying ropes from his waist to climb the towering city wall, what was waiting for him inside was nothing more than a man-made knife and a fish and meat.

As for the king of Chu, he was originally a high-spirited person, so he put down his cruel words of not worshipping the new emperor in a fit of anger, and then turned around and returned to Wuchang with his wife and children.

Only seven days later, King Zhao ascended the throne with the year name Chongzheng, which was the Chongzheng Emperor Gao Youxiao, who had just died!

And at his enthronement ceremony, sure enough, only the king of Shu and the king of Wu came, and only a chair of the king of Chu was vacated.

When things come to this, it can only be said that although Gao Youxiao, the emperor, has done unsatisfactory, he is also a rare generous monarch.

The impulsive approach of the king of Chu, no matter which dynasty he is in, the first thing the new emperor did when he ascended the throne was to detain him first on a charge, and he was ruthless as if he was in the reign of Ruizong.

So relatively speaking, Chongzheng, who just sent internal officials to Wuchang Mansion to reprimand him, is already quite benevolent and righteous.

Even later, whether it was a sacrifice or a New Year's Festival, the king of Chu never appeared in the royal capital again, and he never asked about half of the affairs of the court.

In contrast, Chongzheng made this depressed Chu prince look a little small.

Fortunately, the son of the King of Chu, the current King of Chu, Gao Youxian, is still a sensible person, and he knows that since ancient times, how can there be a reason to be angry with the emperor?

As soon as he took over the throne of the King of Chu, he took the opportunity of Chongzheng to congratulate Concubine Hui, which can be regarded as alleviating the embarrassing situation between the two veins before.

However, like his father, since he ascended the throne, he has not asked about half of the affairs of the court, but he doesn't know if he still has a grudge in his heart about the previous "first to come".