Zhao State, Handan, Royal Palace, Longevity Palace.

The atmosphere in the huge palace was tense at this time, an old man was dying on the beautifully carved bed motionless, the beautiful young palace maids stood quietly waiting for the nobles to summon, and the skilled imperial doctors stepped forward one after another to look at the old man. After a long time, the imperial physicians glanced at each other, shook their heads at each other, and then exited the Hall of Longevity one after another.

"What happened to the Queen Mother? Is there any salvation? Zhao Dan, who had been waiting outside the Longevity Hall for a long time, asked the imperial doctors.

"The Queen Mother is already terminally ill, and there is no medical treatment for the medicine stone, but now she is just holding a breath and pretending to insist!" The chief physician lowered his voice and resounded Zhao Danyu reported.

"Insist, do you know what the Queen Mother is insisting on?" Zhao Dan continued to ask puzzled.

"Please forgive the king, it's really not clear that the minister is equal to this!" The chief physician replied again: "The queen mother's insistence on refusing to leave should be because her heart has not yet been completed, and she thinks that the king can ask the queen mother's personal maid to understand the situation!" ”

"Lone understands, you wait to retreat!" Zhao Dan waved his hand in annoyance, and the eunuch ordered the eunuch to send the eunuchs back to the hospital.

After a while, an old woman with pale hair was brought to Zhao Jie by the eunuch. "Old mother, since I can remember, you have been the personal maid of the queen mother, and you have been by the side of the queen mother for decades!" Zhao Dan asked earnestly: "If you want to come to your mother, you must have always believed in you, did you ever tell you what worries you before you were seriously ill and bedridden?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother's illness this time is quite sudden, it is like a mountain of illness, where is the opportunity to talk to me about my worries? So I don't know! The old palace maid paused, and then speculated and said: "But the queen mother is usually worried about only the king, the queen of Yan, and Chang'anjun, and now the things that are not at ease may be related to you and the other three!" The king can give it a try. ”

"No, you should go with me to meet the queen mother, and persuade her to leave with confidence!" Zhao Dan gave an order with a sad face.

At the same time, Zhao State, Handan, at the city gate.

"The great victory in the north, the great victory in Yanmen, the great victory in Pingcheng!" Soldiers wearing black armor and khaki cloaks rode brown horses and waved red flags to report victory, and the whole person galloped through the city gate. Wherever the horse's hooves passed, everyone avoided it, and the knights wantonly shouted "great victory", sharing the good news of victory with all the people in the national capital, and the banner representing victory in their hands "hunted" in the wind, attracting everyone's attention.

"Long live Zhao Guo, long live the king!" Some citizens were the first to cheer loudly after hearing the news of the victory. Immediately afterwards, more people joined the ranks of shouting for victory one after another, and the sound gradually poured into the Handan Palace in the inner city like waves.

When the messenger from Yanmen passed through the inner city gate and quickly arrived in front of the Handan Palace, there were already eunuchs in the palace who were responsible for transmitting messages and receiving reports and waited in front of the inner palace gate for a long time. The eunuch quickly took the good news from the messenger, roughly responded to the soldier who sent the letter, and then handed it to the general guarding the inner palace, and turned around and ran quickly towards the inner palace.

"Yanmen victory!" The eunuch held his head high, and while striding towards the Hall of Longevity, he let go of his voice and roared.

Although the palace of Handan is not as huge as the palace of the emperors of later generations, the palace group built by the Zhao family for a hundred years must not be small. During the time when the eunuch who reported the news ran to the Longevity Palace, Zhao Dan stood beside Zhao Weihou's bedside and made tentative inquiries about the worries in his heart.

"Queen Mother, Lone has been involved in the government for many years, and with the assistance of the ministers in the court, the state affairs will not be defeated, please don't worry!" Zhao Jie said tentatively.

Zhao Weihou's eyes were glazed and he didn't make any response. Zhao Danyou was quite disappointed in his heart and thought secretly: "It's not me who is worried, it seems that your favorite is Chang'anjun!" ”。

"Queen Mother, although Chang'an Jun has been a hostage for many years, his life has always been okay, once he has the opportunity in the future, he will definitely take it back to Zhao and enjoy the royal family's offerings, please don't worry!" Zhao Dan spoke again, with a hint of sourness in his tone.

Zhao Weihou's eyes were still dull, and he still didn't make any response. "It's not Chang'anjun, but the queen mother's favorite has always been Chang'anjun! Could it be that she has become the sister of Queen Yan? Zhao Dan thought suspiciously.

At this moment, a loud sound of victory outside the hall interrupted Zhao Jie's thoughts, and at this moment, a trace of change in Zhao Weihou's eyes happened to be captured by Zhao Dan. "It turned out that I was not worried about the battle situation in Yanmen, and I was afraid that I would not have the face to see the ancestors of the Zhao family in the past dynasties!" Zhao Dan understood everything in his heart at once.

"Let the messenger read the message outside the door, loud enough for me to hear here!" Zhao Jie instructed the eunuch to order.

A few minutes later, the voice of the eunuch began to echo inside and outside the Longevity Palace: "Chentian Shan Qi: Relying on the power of all the generals, by September 24, the whole territory of Yanmen has been restored. In the battle, our army annihilated 100,000 Xiongnu invading troops, suffered 30,000 casualties, and captured war horses and materials. Here are the entire course of the campaign and the main contributors to the battles involved:

On the fourth day of the ninth month, the minister set out from Handan and went to the north of Taiyuan;

……

On September 22, the pioneer Li Mu arrived in Pingcheng and annihilated nearly 40,000 remnants of the Hun army.

On September 24, the entire territory of Yanmen was recovered, troops were sent to defend the Great Wall and other border passes, and the people were organized to resume production. ”

After reading the thousands of words of the report, Zhao Dan looked at Zhao Wei again, only to see that his eyes were over, his breath was gone, and his life was gone!

After a few minutes, "Boom! Boom! Boom! Three loud bells rang throughout Handan City, informing the people of the city who were rejoicing in the good news of Zhao Weihou's death, and the atmosphere of the whole city changed from great joy to great sorrow in an instant. The honest and simple people never paid attention to those political struggles for power and profit, they only knew that in the years when Zhao Weihou was in power, their lives were getting better and better like bamboo growing, so they would give their respect and nostalgia to those in power.

Empress Wei died, and Zhao Dan returned to power. After the funeral, Zhao Dan issued two appointments in a row: one of them: the edict ordered Li Mufu to be the guard of Yanmen County, and the civil affairs, military, grain and grass and other affairs should be left to his own care. The two of them: the edict ordered Tian Dan to add an official to the lord as the Taishi, and immediately returned to Handan to be entitled, and the army led by him immediately returned to the north of Taiyuan.

The two edicts respectively marked the complete downfall of Yanmen County as a platform for Li Mu to display his talents and a later faction that had been in power after relying on Zhao Wei.

A new era has begun!