Chapter 203: The End of the Old Era
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Thank you for your support to Lao Bing, but today there was a little change in the family, kind, the mood is really low, and the strong soldiers have also reached a new turning point, so back and forth, rewritten a few times, before this chapter was coded, please forgive me, I will make up for it tomorrow, from the next chapter onwards will be the 'Recovered Empire Volume', I will write each chapter with my heart, and apologize again.
In the bright hall, there was silence and silence, and the emperor with his eyes closed opened his eyes, and he looked at Li Ang, "I will grant you what you want." β
"Father." Hearing that his father agreed to let Li Ang go to guard the border, Cao Anmin couldn't help but stand up from the banquet, although he said that there were young talents in the Dragon Tooth Society available, but Li Ang had lived and died with him, and no one reassured him more than Li Ang.
Looking at his son, who stood up, the emperor waved his hand to stop him, and then said to Li Ang, "After the crown prince ascends the throne, I want you to stay by his side for three years." β
"Edict." Li Ang did not hesitate, he knew that the emperor wanted him to be the knife in the prince's hand, although Cao Mingde had been ambushed, and the prince had decided to follow the emperor, but who knew that there were no ambitions to spy on the throne in secret, if the emperor could live for another three months, the emperor's means would definitely be able to clear all the characters that might cause obstacles for the prince.
"Since you have been in the army, you have done many miraculous achievements, but until now you are still only a thousand households, because I don't want you to be promoted too quickly and be jealous." The emperor looked at Li Ang, who had always been calm, and nodded at Da Sima.
Da Sima came out of the seat, took out a brocade box from his sleeve, opened it, and saw that there was a black gilt token inlaid with the shape of a dragon, Li Ang took this token and looked at the emperor.
"In Great Qin, there are only twelve families that hold this token, and they are in charge of the twelve military kings of the empire." The Emperor's voice was deep. "The reason why the military king team is the strongest army in Great Qin is because behind each military king team is a powerful family, and the families with the inheritance of the military king team are all families that were considered loyal to Great Qin by the previous emperors."
"Your Majesty is asked to retract this order." When Li Ang knew that the token in his hand had such a meaning, he knelt on one knee and raised the dragon order that was longed for by countless families in Great Qin.
"You are a man with secrets, but I recognize your loyalty to Great Qin." Looking at Li Ang, the emperor said quietly, "The military king family." It's not me who they're going to protect, it's the country, and I think you can do that, so I'm giving you this token. β
"Since Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong bestowed the Twelve Military Kings, you have been the only new military king in one hundred and fifty years, but this glory was not given to you by me, but by yourself." The emperor said in a deep voice, since Emperor Taizong, he wants to give the king of the army. It is necessary to get the consent of the three commanders of the military hall, and if you want to become the king of the army, you must have the corresponding military exploits, and Li Ang's achievements over the years are enough for the emperor and the three commanders of the military hall to agree with him.
"You have to remember that the military order I gave you is not hereditary, and you can only enjoy it if you make great contributions to the Great Qin to cut off the enemy country." The emperor looked at Li Ang, who had received the order of the military king, looked at the crown prince, and muttered to himself. "I hope that in the hands of the crown prince, I can complete the immortal hegemony of the Great Qin Land."
"Okay, let's not say anything, today is my last day on this earth." The Emperor said, raising the glass on the table, "Let me and my brother have a little fun." β
Li Ang sat back down at the table and raised his glass with Da Sima. Salute to the emperor and the lieutenant who were together. And then, everything was like a banquet, and the emperor and the prince talked about their past while drinking wine.
During the banquet, there was gradually laughter, and Li Ang didn't feel anything uncomfortable, whether it was the emperor, the Taiwei, the big Sima and Cao Anmin, they were all people. As long as you are human, you will be happy for things that are worth being happy about, and you will be sad about things that are sad, and everyone is the same.
After three rounds of drinking, the eldest grandson of the emperor, who had been quiet in the hands of the crown princess, suddenly cried. "Come, let me hug the eldest grandson of the Emperor of the Earth." The emperor took over the crying emperor grandson from his son, although the emperor and the captain beside him coaxed him very hard, but the emperor still cried hard, and finally Da Sima also stepped forward to coax the emperor grandson. Soon the hall became lively.
Li Ang watched quietly from the side, and there was a warm feeling in his heart. Just when he was a little distracted, he suddenly heard the emperor's voice, "Li Qingjia, you come to hug the eldest grandson of the emperor of the earth." β
"Your Majesty, are you calling me?" Li Ang looked at the emperor and Cao Anmin, who was helpless beside him, a little stunned.
Taking over the eldest grandson of the emperor who may rule the country in the future from the emperor, Li Ang was a little incredulous, was what he was holding in his hand the eldest grandson of the emperor? Something surprising happened to the people around him, after being hugged by Li Ang, I don't know if he was tired of crying or something else, the emperor's eldest grandson quieted down, opened a pair of black eyes, looked at Li Ang who was holding him, and suddenly 'giggled'.
"My eldest grandson has a fate with you, Li Qing's family." Looking at Li Ang, who was holding the emperor's eldest grandson and was a little overwhelmed, the emperor laughed.
"It seems so." Looking at the emperor's eldest grandson who was nestled in his arms, Li Ang looked at the emperor and others who were staring at him around him, and a warm smile appeared on his face, which always looked a little cold.
The emperor's eldest grandson seemed to have made up his mind to lie in Li Ang's arms, no matter who wanted to hug him next, he was crying, and in the end, Li Ang only returned to the banquet with the emperor's eldest grandson, and the emperor's eldest grandson's actions made a lot of laughter and conversation in the banquet.
As the night deepened, the emperor's expression became more and more flat, and he suddenly looked at the lieutenant beside him, "Brother Huang, we should go." "Although the past between the Emperor and the Taiwei has been resolved, the Emperor's heart is still ruthless.
Cao Yu laughed, for him, he has never married a wife and had children, his attachment in this world has long been gone, and he is alive, just for the hatred that he is not sure of, and now even this hatred that cannot be affirmed will pass, "It's time to go." Cao Yu laughed.
Behind the emperor, an inner attendant served two cups of poisoned wine, which were poisoned wine concocted by the imperial doctors, which could make people die without pain. The Emperor and the Captain took their glasses, looked at each other, and drank the wine in the glasses together.
The Emperor and the Lieutenant went away together, with a smile on their faces before they died, and the glass fell from his drooping hand and shattered on the ground. This voice woke up the emperor's eldest grandson, who was already asleep in Li Ang's arms, and in the cry, all the people in the hall knelt down.
With the sharp voice of the chamberlain's 'death of the emperor', in the dark night
Falling into a sorrow, the Zhijin Wu and Yu Linwei on duty knelt on one knee on the ground, and the cavalry of the Black Cavalry Battalion galloped out of the imperial city and went to the major families.
After handing back the emperor's eldest grandson, who had fallen asleep after crying, to the crown princess, Li Ang looked at Cao Anmin, who was about to ascend to the throne of the emperor, "Your Majesty. Please mourn. Witnessing the last moment of the emperor's death, Li Ang's heart felt an inexplicable throbbing, as if he saw the end of an era.
Cao Anmin looked at Li Ang, nodded, and said in a low voice, "Father is very happy, I will not let his old man down." β
Li Ang left the palace, and he was accompanied by Da Sima, "The emperor has high expectations for you. He once said to me that in your eyes he saw loyalty, true loyalty, so His Majesty persuaded me to agree to grant you the title of King of the Army. β
"Your Majesty's grace, Qing Yuan dare not forget." Li Ang's hand touched the military king's order on his chest, and his voice deepened when he thought of the emperor.
"It's good if you remember." Da Sima didn't say anything more, at the gate of the palace. He got into his carriage and galloped out into the distant street. Watching the carriage disappear from sight, Leon walked out of the imperial city.
In the middle of the night, when Li Ang returned home, he saw Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang who had been waiting for him, and he smiled. "Why don't you go to sleep at such a late hour?" He walked over to the two who had stood up.
"What's wrong, you seem to have something on your mind?" Although Li Ang was laughing, Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang could feel that he was not happy.
"Your Majesty is gone." Looking at Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang, who were worried, Li Ang hugged them and said to himself, "I have witnessed the end of an era, so I feel a little nostalgic in my heart, which makes you worried." β
"The emperor is dead?" Listening to Li Ang's words, Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang both leaned on Li Ang's arms. They had seen the emperor, in the days when Li Ang left Chang'an, because of Aunt Sun, they had seen the emperor in Da Sima's house, in their eyes, the emperor was an ordinary and kind old man, and he was also very good to them, and at this time they were a little sad to hear that the emperor was dead.
"I hugged the emperor's eldest grandson today." Looking at his wife in his arms. Li Ang suddenly said, "When are we?" Let's have a few children, too! β
"Huh?!" Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang raised their heads at the same time and looked at their husbands with serious faces, and then they blushed, their voices smaller than mosquitoes, "Well, good, good!" Then, the lamp that had been lit was blown out.
When the day came again, the whole city of Chang'an fell into a state of sorrow, for the common people, the thirty years of Chengping made them feel that the emperor was a good emperor, and the decline of hegemony brought about by Chengping was blamed on the deposed Confucian literati, so every common people from the bottom of their hearts to remember this gentle emperor.
After the emperor's death, the nickname was 'Wen', which was completely different from the name of the previous six generations of emperors, and in his hands, the people enjoyed thirty years of peace, away from the soldiers, but also let the hegemony of Daqin decline from the peak of thirty years, for Daqin, who established the country by force and established hegemony with military strength, the nickname of 'Wen' was far less respected than the Han Dynasty in the past, but it was the most suitable for the emperor's life.
The death of Emperor Wen, so that many family Gaomen sighed, Emperor Wen was alive, had a blow to the family, but never touched the bottom line of the family, in the eyes of these family Gaomen, Emperor Wen's iron fist is not inferior to the past six generations of the Qin Emperor, they are called ' after the death of the family Emperor Wen of Wen has always been in awe, although they have also felt resentment for the emperor for limiting their power, but now with the death of Emperor Wen, they realize Emperor Wen's painstaking efforts, a strong country, will never be destroyed because of external troubles, but will be defeated in internal strife, the power between the family and the clan, the emperor and the courtiers must maintain peace, once this peace is broken, the Great Qin will go to real weakness.
Some people are sad, and some people will not be sad, for the Great Qin Legion that has been suppressed for too long, the death of Emperor Wen means the arrival of a new era, an era of war, and they will let the declining Great Qin hegemony in the hands of Emperor Wen be re-erected, and use the swords in their hands to seize the martial arts that are not inferior to their predecessors.
A month later, according to the tradition handed down by Emperor Taizu when the Great Qin was founded, after cremation, the ashes were divided into two, one was put into the Taimiao, and the other part would be escorted by the Great Qin Army, along the Silk Road, to the distant heavens, and put into the Qin Mausoleum in Jerusalem, the Dragon City, and the millions of military souls together to the west forever, and the kings of the past dynasties to protect the hegemony of the Great Qin.
Cao Anmin, who ascended the throne as emperor, showed a skill that was not inferior to that of the first emperor, relying on the black lance dragon guard left to him by Emperor Wen, he mastered the army inside and outside Chang'an, and forced the major families to agree to his personnel changes to the cabinet and the six ministries of the three provinces.
A large number of young talents occupy the real power positions of the six ministries of the three provinces and the Supervision Yuan, including the children of the family, and also the children of the poor family, Cao Anmin vigorously completed the blood exchange of the entire court, and at the same time strengthened the control of the army, of course, he has never touched the bottom line of the family, in the court, in the army, the children of the family still occupy more positions. The pattern of the clan and the family ruling the world together has not changed, but Cao An's civil actions have announced to all the families that he will not be like his father, Emperor Wen, who will be content with the rule of Chengping, and he will revive the hegemony of Great Qin, which passed away quietly in peace.
For the young children of the major families who have grown up, the new emperor has given them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and the generals who are in the prime of the army are also eager to set foot on the battlefield and seize the martial arts for themselves.
For Li Ang, the change of the court had no effect on him, except that his own military rank changed from a thousand households to a captain, officially established the title of 'general', and obtained the title of general of Zhengxi, so that he could open a mansion and establish his own family.
On the day Li Ang opened his mansion, not many families were present, except for a few families that Li Ang was familiar with, no one knew that there was another family in Chang'an. And the curtain of the new era kicked off in such a calm.