Chapter 8: Reading History and Exploring the Roots 2

It was night, as soon as Yingxian closed his eyes, he remembered what he had seen and heard during the day, and his heart seemed to be blocked by something, and it was difficult to fall asleep after tossing and turning, and he stayed up until the fourth watch before he felt sleepiness. He slept until noon the next day. When I woke up, the sun was in the sky, and the flowers outside the window were smiling, bright and peaceful. Yingxian had no time to appreciate it, and after finishing grooming, he went to find the second princess. When he left the courtyard, he had a photo with Situ Su's other close maid, Xinting. Since Yingxian returned home, she has not talked much with Xinting, but she is very quiet and simple, and she is valued by the second princess. Hear her ask with concern, "Is the girl sleeping well?" But going to find the princess? ”

"Yes. Where is she now? ”

"The princess went out early this morning, but she had just returned. Said there was a book on the table in the study. Ask the slave to tell the girl that she can take it herself. ”

"What about her?"

When the princess had finished her order, she went out again. Lan Sheng and Hui Yi are with them. I guess it's just going outside. ”

Since Yingxian returned to the princess's mansion, she rarely saw Situ Su go out, which couldn't help but be strange. But I couldn't care so much about it at the moment, so I hurriedly went to the study, and sure enough, I saw a blue book on the table, which was very poorly bound and had no title. Ying Xian flipped through it casually, and from the pages it looked like it had been a few years since the book was written. The words are all handwritten, all graceful and majestic, and there is a bit of the grace of the right army. Yingxian secretly praised: Good words! I thought again: The sun is just right today, why don't you take it to Yunyin Garden and read it carefully? Just as he was thinking about it, a strange voice suddenly sounded in the room. Yingxian was startled, listened attentively, but heard two more cooings, and immediately laughed.

Yingxian took the book back to her room, asked Qingyan to prepare snacks, brewed the tip of the pot, and brought it to Yinbipo together.

The Yinbi slope of Yunyin Garden is the place where the qin song is played on the eve of the strings. This slope is high in the east and low in the west, apricot trees are planted in the west, cherry trees are planted in the east, and the blue pond is seen closely, and the cloud mountain is overlooked. At this time, when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, Yingxian climbed up the eastern slope of the grassy grass and found a tall weeping cherry tree, signaling Qingyan to put away the food and tea. When the smoke leaves, Yingxian sits on the soft grass and enjoys the beautiful spring sun. The weeping cherry tree has a long trunk, and its branches hang down like willows, and it is adorned with pink cherry blossoms, which are crystal clear, and they want to smile, competing to spit out the tender yellow and slender stamens. The petals are very dense, and the clusters of flowers are stretched out heavily, looking like white clouds and pink mist. The clear sunlight penetrates the flower branches, like the tentacles of a butterfly brushing softly on the face. After Ying Xian sat down, he picked up a piece of jade bean cake and put it in his mouth. The skin is soft and glutinous, and the taste is sweet and refreshing. The mood was immediately very happy, and I gently opened the book while eating.

It didn't take long for Ying Xian to realize that this book was part of the chronicle of Xiang Guo. There were seven generations of kings in the Xiang Kingdom, and only the last three dynasties are recorded in this book. The author's penmanship is very delicate, as if he has experienced the scene, regardless of the front and harem, everything is unavoidable and detailed one by one; After telling the story, I have to add a few words of my own comments and feelings, which makes Yingxian smack.

Emperor Jian, the penultimate emperor of Xiang State, ascended the throne in the prime of life, and soon realized that there were many crises in the country, and resisted the pressure to appoint Sun Yamei, the prime minister of the Shaozhuang faction, to implement a new policy in a big way, aiming to reduce taxes and military salaries, vigorously fight corruption, and strengthen the monarchy. At first, it was quite effective, but later because of the radical reform, he angered a group of old ministers and relatives, especially Taiwei Zuohua. This person is the brother of Emperor Jian's Empress, who holds military power for more than ten years, and has been fighting secretly with Sun Yamei for more than ten years. In the end, Sun Yamei was framed and beheaded all over the house. Emperor Jian died of exhaustion, and the prequel to his young son, who was weak and sickly, was Emperor Ping. There are many doubts about the succession of Emperor Jian, and the author commented: "The emperor has been ill for a long time, and his mouth is full of words, and his hand is written in his hand, so what is the edict to do?" When he died, only the captain and the attendant waited on his side. The following month, the chamberlain died violently. To Emperor Ping, Taiwei began to do the things of Ihuo. ”

Yingxian laughed secretly: This is not clear that Zuo Hua took advantage of the emperor's coma to coerce the eunuch to kill people after correcting the edict. This Jian Emperor is also really. When he was alive, he didn't care about the overall situation, he cheated the prime minister, and when he died, he was also calculated. However, to say that this Emperor Jian is not a faint king, it is to blame...... Blame yourself for being born in the emperor's family! After thinking about it, he sighed, raised the teacup and took a sip, and picked a piece of red bean lily cake, and when he took a bite, the taste was crispy and crispy, the honey flowed, and the sweet smell filled the entire mouth.

The breeze is like a groan, and the pages of the book are rustling.

When Emperor Ping ascended the throne, he was just a nine-year-old ignorant child, and all the power of the court and government belonged to Zuohua. The flame of the Zuo family also burned to its peak. The loyal ministers killed and fled, and the rest were either Zuo Hua's relatives or lackeys. The pictures of bloody rain and bloody wind unfolded one after another under the author's wonderful pen like rafters, and I gasped when I saw it. That Zuo Hua regarded himself as a prisoner of the country, and played with Emperor Ping in applause. When Emperor Ping became an adult, he married his cousin and granddaughter to the emperor and became the queen, but unfortunately the queen was not angry and couldn't conceive, so she had to make another plan. not only strictly guarded Emperor Ping, but also harmed the concubines in the palace to "give birth to a girl and live, and give birth to a boy, and the harem dares to be angry and dare not speak." "However, man is not as good as heaven. However, there is a palace of the Qiu family, who accidentally planted a dewy marriage with Emperor Ping, and it turned out to be a secret knot. After thinking about it, I decided to secretly give birth to the dragon seed. He also hid it in a vacant room in the harem and named it "Qing'er". At that time, there was no shortage of palace maids, eunuchs, and even concubines who knew about it. All kinds of people who should usually be intriguing with each other, but at this time, they all have resentment towards the queen and the uncle, and they all tacitly conceal the news and secretly protect the safety of the only prince. During the natural period, there are also thrilling and even life-sacrificing things. But in the end, the child was blessed and survived in the cracks of the harem. When he was six years old, a eunuch named Xu Lianzhi risked death to inform Emperor Ping. Emperor Ping, who had never had an heir, was overjoyed, and immediately received him as the crown prince and named Qiu as a concubine. The Qiu family endured for several years, and their will was not strong, but after all, they couldn't fight the fearless queen, and they were forced to hang themselves soon after being promoted. The prince has also been living a life of fear and unguardedness. Fortunately, within a few years, the queen and uncle died of illness one after another (phew, finally died!). )。 Emperor Ping exhaled and raised his eyebrows, even accepted young women, broadcast rain and dew, and gave birth to several little princes in five years, but at the age of thirty-four, he drove a crane to the west (is it because of ......?). )。 The crown prince ascended the throne as the emperor, that is, Emperor Li, and Qiankun seemed to be a new one. However, who would have thought that this man with a bumpy fate would become the last emperor of Xiang State.

Ying Xian frowned as she read. This Emperor Li was originally an illegitimate child, who had been hidden and tucked away, and he must have been stunted, let alone any enlightenment education. The biological mother has a low status, and after entering the palace, she was forced to die, and this psychological shadow is afraid that it will be a lifetime, so I just hope that it will not be perverted. What about Dad, after so many years, he turned over, but he didn't want to forge ahead, he was busy with heroes in the gentle township, and he lost his life. With no teacher or role model, and people dying all the time, what can this child become when he grows up?

The sun had dimmed at this time, the wind was getting stronger, and a few cherry blossoms were falling, and the corpses were still light as silk and white as snow. There was a hint of sentimentality in the reflection. Soon, this tree full of cherry blossoms will be in the most gorgeous time, like a beautiful girl who died young, which is really a poignant projection of the short time of life. So today, reading a book with tea and cherry blossoms is an eternal commemoration of the beauty of this moment! Ying Xian thought about it like this, and then he was free again.

Emperor Li, really not a good lord. After ascending the throne, the era name was set as "Shaoguang", and he wiped out the remnants of the Zuo family in one go, but soon found that he was constrained by new forces. So he didn't ask about state affairs, but only looked for beautiful women in the palace, and he was even infected with the habit of Longyang. In addition, favoring eunuchs and reusing traitors eventually led to corruption inside and outside the court, a miasma, and peasant uprisings in various places also occurred from time to time. It's just that Emperor Li is much more ruthless than Emperor Ping. He was most afraid of others talking about his origins, and he was always worried about the usurpation of the throne by his brothers and powerful ministers. So they blocked speech, let officials at all levels report good news but not bad news, and live in a peaceful world of fantasy. What's even more outrageous is that later, under the instigation of the ministers, the literary prison was greatly promoted. Within a few years, hundreds of officials had died tragically and suffered from literary prisons, and the government and the opposition were full of complaints. What sentences such as "the river returns to the autumn geese, and the early cicadas are heard at the end of the year", "the green lantern is hidden in the sky and the snow will fall", "the sunset soaks in the pond and summons ten thousand sands", etc., in Yingxian's view, are just verses of chant and nature, which are all taken out of context and even added by the author's knife and axe. Unexpectedly, one of the cases involved the Situ family, and there was a later Dayu New Dynasty.

Finally saw the ancestor of the second princess! Yingxian perked up and slowed down his reading. The origin of the matter was a poem inscribed by Situ Li, who was a bachelor of Tianzhang Pavilion at the time, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the twenty-second year of Shaoguang. The full poem is:

Twilight snow Dian's fine flowers are yin, and rock guests are out of Baiyujing.

The treasure rabbit is blurred and the horned sword, and Qing'e is more tuned.

When the period of the list of homesickness painting, turned into a thousand Yingbi City.

Sending eyes to the cold palace to warm the old dream, the mountains and streams are new to cultivate.

This poem was originally inscribed by Situ Yi when he was admiring the moon at home, but he was secretly written down by a slave, stole the manuscript, and asked someone to report it to Emperor Li, saying that this poem "is ironic and obvious, and it is difficult to hide the heart of rebellion." Emperor Li immediately ordered Situ Li to be arrested and tortured. Situ Li couldn't argue, and he was old, but he couldn't die. When the news reached the ears of Situ Li's son, Situ Yi, who was serving as the commander of the Shuofeng Army in northern Xinjiang, he was sad and indignant, and it was expected that Emperor Li would definitely be killed in the future. So he gritted his teeth and decided to raise troops, change the dynasty, and take revenge!

Situ Yi was well-known in the army and was soon supported by many officials and local people. The army was invincible, and there were still some peasant rebels at that time, but they did not become successful, and were eventually defeated by Wang's army or absorbed by Situ Yi. There are constantly talented people returning, and for a while, the strong generals and ministers are like clouds, and the eldest son Situ Ying is even more of a dragon and phoenix among the people. The three armies were killed, and King Xiang's army was quickly defeated. Situ Yi sent troops to garrison every city he captured, and registered his household registration, acres of land, taxes, etc., as if he had regarded the land he had earned as his own territory. The officers and soldiers did not commit any offenses in autumn, the common people cheered, and many cities along the way looked at the wind and descended. Therefore, he went all the way south and approached Xijian in less than a year. However, in the vicinity of Kyoto, the city of Ankai encountered the biggest obstacle.

Just because the person who defends the city is called Tan Qianmo, he is originally a staff member of the Ministry of War, and he is both civil and military. He is familiar with the art of war, and he is familiar with Confucius and Mencius, and he has a foolish heart that is loyal to the king. This time, he was ordered to go to Anhui to defend the city and worship as the governor. Whether Situ Yi is attacking or sneak attacking, he sees the moves and dismantles them one by one. Situ Yi suffered heavy losses, and even Situ Ying was shot by a cold arrow because of his greed for merit. The stalemate between the two sides has lasted for two months. Situ Yi's army couldn't keep up, the fighting spirit of the soldiers withered, and Situ Yi was also grieved by the loss of his son. Tan Qianmo was full of ambition and was preparing how to counterattack, but at this moment, suddenly a person came to take refuge from Situ Yi's army, which immediately ignited Tan Qianmo's hope.

The author wrote: "The person who came was alone, with a high crown of soap clothes, and the style of a Confucian ......" Yingxian's heart gradually rose - this person didn't know whether it was a real surrender or a fraudulent surrender? If Tan Qianmo negligently identified the mistake, the national ...... It's really time to run out of gas. Bow your head and read carefully, for a while, the wind and clouds are silent, and the world is silent. Ying Xian gradually read the gods, and there seemed to be a sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse in his ears. How did she know that Tan Qianmo had a sharp eye, and she couldn't tell the difference between honesty and falsehood. However, what happens is beyond the control of the authorities. At this moment, Yingxian was immersed in the spring breeze in March, staring intently at the white and yellowing book, as if he was suddenly sucked into the pages, and descended on the Anhui City of the year, ready to welcome the grand and sad ending of Xiang Guo.

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