Chapter 23 - The Eunuch's Scourge
If there is any time when is the most uncomfortable day after Zhao Fan's crossing, then it must be today.
Do you think that if the identity of a prince falls from the sky, Zhao Fan will feel happy and excited?
No, you are wrong, Zhao Fan didn't have any excitement at the moment, he didn't have any happiness, he even faintly felt a little terrifying.
The so-called Shouwang refers to Tang Xizong's half-mothered brother Li Jie, Tang Yizong's seventh son, these are not the point, the most important thing is that he also has the most important identity, that is, the nineteenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the famous Ding Ding Tang Zhaozong!
Except for the puppet emperor Tang Ai Emperor who followed him, Tang Zhaozong was actually the de facto last king of the Tang Dynasty.
Yes, being a prince and an emperor sounds very good, but when you are the last emperor who is restricted and controlled by people everywhere, are you still willing?
Anyway, Zhao Fan is obviously unwilling anyway!
Tang Zhaozong in history, as an emperor, he didn't do too badly, but the edifice will collapse, and it will be difficult to support it alone.
Throughout Tang Zhaozong's life, he wanted to do something to rectify internal affairs, but it backfired, the Tang Dynasty had already been fragmented, and any feudal town with some troops in his hands could almost put the Tang Dynasty to death at will, and what Tang Zhaozong could do was just barely make the Tang Dynasty exist for a few more years.
He worked hard to restore the prosperous situation of the Tang Dynasty, but his subjective will was limited by ruthless objective facts, and the situation he faced had made his enthusiasm useless.
Since Chang'an is still under his control, he is quite comfortable with the eunuchs. However, the only effective way to divide the feudal towns was to use strong military strength to change the situation, but this is exactly what he lacks.
In one sentence to describe the problems faced by Tang Zhaozong, that is, the division of feudal towns, the dictatorship of eunuchs, the party struggle in the court, and the rise of foreign races.
has the heart to revive the dynasty, but he has no choice but to be born at the wrong time, this is Zhao Fan's only evaluation of Tang Zhaozong in his previous life.
Results now... He actually became Tang Zhaozong!
If you follow the trend of history, his final result is that he struggled and was finally killed in the palace, even the woman with him died to protect himself, and his son was used as a puppet, and then poisoned after being put on the throne...
This... It's also miserable.
At this moment, Zhao Fan finally reacted, why did Wei Ruqian say that she didn't belong here, why she never worried that she would be bad for her, why she would take care of herself so much.
It turned out that it was because she had already recognized herself, that she was King Shou...
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Zhao Fan had forgotten how he got back home, and it seemed that he was driven back by the bearded man and Wei Da.
When Zhao Fan came back to his senses, he was already sitting in the living room at home, and the bearded man was sitting opposite him at the moment, staring at him with wide eyes.
Wei Da Wei Er acted as a bodyguard, patrolling back and forth in the yard.
"Van ...... Lord, are you feeling better? Joey came out of the kitchen, cut a bowl of hot tea for Zhao Fan and the beard, and then sat down next to Zhao Fan, looking at Zhao Fan with a concerned face.
Zhao Fan watched Joey reach out and wanted to hold his hand, but he hesitated halfway through and retracted it, couldn't help frowning, grabbed Joey's delicate body, and hugged him into his arms.
"Little fool, no matter who I am, I will always be your husband, do you understand?" Zhao Fan pinched Joey's nose and pretended to be a little dissatisfied.
"The king... Husband, don't be like this, there are still outsiders here. Joey struggled a few times a little restlessly, feeling the strong male aura on Zhao Fan's body, and couldn't help but blush.
"Ahem..."The bearded man sitting opposite the two of them coughed awkwardly a few times, raised his sense of existence, and said a little curtly, "Princess, I'm not an outsider, I'm my own person, you continue, continue to ......"
One sentence made Joey blush, and with a sigh, he broke out of Zhao Fan's arms and ran to the kitchen to cook.
"Alright, bearded, tell me about the situation." Zhao Fan glanced at Joey's back with tenderness, and then turned his head to stare at the bearded Zhengse and said.
"Lord Wang, do you really not remember anything?" The bearded man glanced at Zhao Fan with some suspicion, and said with some disbelief.
"What do you say?" Zhao Fan rolled his eyes and said with a little weakness.
"Well, here's the thing..."The bearded man didn't look like he was playing tricks on Zhao Fan, and after a pause, he began to tell the ins and outs of the matter.
This matter has to start with Tian Lingzi, the eunuch.
Originally, Xizong finally quelled the Huangchao Uprising, and finally could return to Chang'an to live a few days of peace.
As a result, because Tian Lingzi was dizzy, he fell in love with the pond salt of Wang Chongrong's mobile phone in the river Jiedu, so he made enemies with him, in order to maintain the strength of the confrontation, Tian Lingzi united with Zhu Mei and Fengxiang Jiedu to make Li Changfu fight against Wang Chongrong.
In March last year, Wang Chongrong begged for help from Li Keyong in Taiyuan, and the two joined forces to defeat Zhu Mei and Li Changfu and enter Chang'an. The Shence army was dispersed, and Tian Lingzi had no choice but to lead Xizong to flee to Fengxiang in December of the first year of Guangqi.
When Huangchao occupied Chang'an, the palace city buildings were well preserved, and this time the soldiers and horses entered Chang'an, burned, killed and looted, and the palace was burned by six or seven out of ten, "the palace is depressed, and the bow is lush grass."
At this time, the envoys of various places were very dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the eunuch Tian Lingzi, and many people aimed the spearhead of the attack at Tian Lingzi.
Zhu Mei originally wanted to kidnap Xizong, but Tian Lingzi did not succeed in holding Xizong hostage and escaping from Dasanguan to Xingyuan, and in October this year, that is, last month, Zhu Mei actually kidnapped Li Xuan, the king of Xiang, who did not run away due to illness, to Chang'an to establish himself as a puppet emperor and change the Yuan to "Jianzhen". Xizong is revered as the "Emperor Taishang Yuan Holy Emperor", which is actually the Emperor Taishang.
And Zhao Fan, on the way to Guangyuan, got lost with Xizong, somehow ran into the ravine where Joey was, and fell down from the mountain.
Xi Zong took a group of people and horses to look for more than ten days around the place where Zhao Fan last disappeared, but finally did not find him, Zhu Mei's army chased after him again, and Zhao Fan's army wanted to protect the emperor and could not stop to find his commander, so he had to ask the commander of the Shenwu army to arrange a group of brothers to search back and forth in the place where he was finally lost.
It wasn't until a few days ago that Zhao Fan, who was hanging a jade pendant and swaggering through the city, was finally found in Luoyang City.
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After pondering for a long time, Zhao Fan finally sorted out his clues, but the more he sorted it out, the more worried Zhao Fan became about the current situation.
One country, two systems, he has heard, one country, two monarchs? So how to play?
As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and one country cannot tolerate two monarchs, this is not the point, more importantly, in this way, the last bit of national fortune of the Tang Dynasty has also been completely buried.
All the feudal towns will find out, oh, it turns out that the emperor is so easy to bully, any two knots can beat him into a dog, it turns out that he can still play like this, the emperor is disobedient, then change to an obedient person, put him on the throne, let him do whatever he wants.
It can be said that Zhu Mei's actions have buried the last trace of face in the Tang Dynasty, and the center of the Tang Dynasty has since become the plaything of the ministers.
And all of this should be said to have arisen because of Tian Lingzi, a eunuch...
It is the eunuchs who mess with the government and bring disaster to the country and the people...