Chapter Thirty-Nine: Give Way to the Emperor Again
Just when Ouyang Xuan was about to clean up the surrounding Roman strongholds, Ouyang Xuan received a secret letter from Li Mu through the Xia Gu base, the content of the letter was very simple, only a few words: There is a change in the court, and Shantou wants to seize the throne of the Han Dynasty, please return quickly. This made Ouyang Xuan never expect that one of his most optimistic grandsons, who was also a person who was ready to entrust a big position, would actually rebel.
Just when Ouyang Xuan was about to return with the Yulin army overnight, Li Mu sent another military report: Han Ting gathered an army of 300,000 troops, led by Wang Feng, the Marquis of Pingqing, the general of the Great Sima, stationed in Taiyuan County, and had sent envoys to contact Shan, asking His Majesty to return to Beijing to make a decision.
After reading the military report, Ouyang Xuan burned it on the fire and ordered the whole army to return to Beijing. Wei Kui led the Huaxia army to enter the pass, returned to Beijing as quickly as possible, and Gongliang was fully responsible for negotiating with the Romans at Guanyangguan, and ordered the navy to blockade Persia until the negotiations with the Romans were over, and returned to Suyue Port to rest and wait for orders. Ouyang Xuan led Hu Zhang and the Yulin Army to return to Xia Gu first.
The army also couldn't take care of resting, packed up their equipment overnight, took a shortcut and went directly back to Jiangyangguan. After contacting the secret bases, the Yulin Army took five flying saucers and flew directly to Xia Valley, and arrived at the base just after Yinshi, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army of the Yulin Army to rush into Xia Valley. The journey of more than 100 miles is just a short distance for the Yulin Army, which is all sweat and blood, and the roar of the horse team woke up the sleeping villagers, and they all looked at the direction of the horse team from the courtyard, silently hoping that the bloody rain and bloody wind of the last time would not come to the capital again.
When the day poked out of the mountain, Ouyang Xuan had already approached the east gate of Xiagu, and the officers and soldiers of the city gate recognized the special waist card of the Yulin Army and the Yulin Army, coupled with the emperor's unique banner, the city gate officer hurriedly ordered to open the city gate and welcome the emperor back to Beijing outside the city. Entering the Xia Valley, Ouyang Xuan ordered Hu Zhang to send troops to guard all the main roads, implement a curfew in the whole city, and leave a battalion as a reserve to wait for orders. The first thing Ouyang Xuan did when he returned to the palace was to send Li Mu, Peng Fei, Zhou An, and Jin Jian, an official from the Yulin Army who was suspended in Beijing.
In the Congress Hall of Huaxia Palace, Ouyang Xuan was sitting in a precarious position, listening to the reports of Li Mu and Peng Fei, and gradually understood the reason, and also lamented that his estrangement from his relatives led to even Ouyang Shan's usurpation of power today. Ouyang Shan is now also the year of the sixtieth year, after his father Ouyang Zan passed away eleven years ago, Ouyang Shan has been hesitating, his uncles and aunts, except for the eldest uncle as the crown prince has been waiting to succeed to the throne, the other princes and grandsons have lived the life of ordinary people, which has lasted for decades. Ouyang Shan's heart gradually changed, until a one-armed man came to the door and talked for a long time, originally wanted to act with Ouyang Mao, but Ouyang Xuan's sudden return and micro-service travel exposed Ouyang Mao's evil deeds, causing Ouyang Mao to have to deal with it in a hurry, resulting in a fiasco. Ouyang Shan had no choice but to stop, cut off all contact with Ouyang Mao, and became the prefect of Mengzhou for a year in fear. It wasn't until he was appointed as Shangshu Ling, who was appointed as Shangshu Ling, that he let go of his heart, and under the influence of his children and grandsons, he had the idea of being an emperor again, but he never had a chance until Ouyang Xuan's personal expedition this time. After the consultation of the Han people, it was decided to unite with the Han court to seize the throne, but he didn't expect everything he did to be under Li Mu's surveillance.
After listening to everyone's reports, Ouyang Xuan asked, "Do you have any evidence?" ”。
"Back to Your Majesty, there are human and material evidence, and the Han envoy is also in detention." Li Mu got up and saluted back.
"For the time being, the empirical evidence will be properly kept, and the Han envoy will be secretly detained by the Yulin Army for the time being. The crown prince and prince in the year of the sixtieth year have not yet been crowned kings, which are rare in ancient and modern times. Passing on my will, the province of Zhongshu inspected the emperor's grandson, awarded the title of duke and marquis according to knowledge and merit, and implemented it according to the title system, so that Shan'er was canonized as the king of Ji, and the treatment was the same as that of the duke, without fiefdom, and he enjoyed the fief as a tax of 10%. "No! The minister will handle it", Li Mu got up and gave his hand to take the order. At this moment, the deacon guards outside the door hurriedly entered the hall, bowed down and saluted: "Your Majesty, Shang Shuling's mansion has just sent a letter, Shang Shuling has committed suicide by hanging himself when His Majesty first entered the palace, and his eldest son also committed suicide by taking poison and in front of the hall." Ouyang Xuan weakly waved off the guards, and after a long pause, he said: "The proposed decree of the Zhongshu Order: posthumously crown my great-grandson Ouyang Shan as the king of Ji, and entitle his wife, Mrs. Tian Zhengguo; The throne was succeeded by my great-great-grandson Ouyang Lu, who was crowned Duke of Ji; The king of Ji was buried according to the emperor's rites, and a place was selected to build a Ji mausoleum in the east of the city, nicknamed: Emperor Huai.
Ouyang Xuan also blamed himself deeply, since Ouyang Mao was removed, he should directly let Ouyang Shan ascend the throne as the emperor, because his temporary greed for power ruined a good emperor. Seeing that Ouyang Xuan was silent, everyone was silent, and the hall of the Congress was terrifyingly quiet at this time. After a long time, Ouyang Xuan said slowly: "Zhongshu Order, Door Order to stay, and the rest of the meeting will be dismissed." "No!" The people stood up and bowed, and left the hall.
When everyone went out, only Li Mu and Peng Fei were sitting on the left and right. "Now I have figured it out, it is all the difficulty of immortality. I'm most afraid of this, so Hong'er is the only one. The princes have been in charge of the court all the year round, educating the emperor and grandson, and there are people like Hong'er who have both talent and virtue among my descendants? ”。
"Back to Your Majesty, there really is, for the emperor's grandson (Ouyang) Heng's youngest grandson (Ouyang) Dan, his mother is a university higher education, and his father is the emperor's great-grandson (Ouyang) Gong. Now in Jin'an County, Minzhou, Xinluo County, incognito Renzhi County, won the support of the people. Originally, when the emperor Sun Hengxu was in power, he wanted to transfer him to serve in the Xiagu Military Department, but he was temporarily retained because tens of thousands of people wrote to him. His wife is an orphan daughter of Han refugees, who was rescued by Dan when she was in the army, so she got married, and now has two sons and a daughter, both of whom are incognito and studying in the public school. The county prince also didn't know that Dan'er was the emperor's grandson, and he often criticized him for political affairs", Li Mu replied thoughtfully. "Oh, I still have such descendants, very good, Dan'er will be cultivated by two good students. I also have a question, how did Mao'er pass through the Great Wall defense line back then? ”。
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister was also puzzled, and sent someone to investigate strictly, only to know that he and his subordinates suddenly appeared five miles outside the pass, and were bombarded by heavy artillery, but fortunately escaped. Now that a few years have passed, the minister has been sending people to search, but nothing has been found," Peng Fei replied, getting up.
"Isn't there a secret way? Do you remember Juyongguan Longyin Cave? The vicinity of Yanmen is a long-haired area of ground movement, and if there is a rift valley covering the mountain, it is also unknown. Ordered people to strictly investigate within a hundred miles of its surroundings. Mao'er knew that the Han army was known, and only then did Chen Bing Taiyuan County border pass. In addition, additional personnel were sent to strictly investigate outsiders, and if there were differences, they would be strictly interrogated. When the army returns, it will be sent directly to Yanmen to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Han army." "Commandment!".
Ouyang Shan's funeral was very solemn, and the Ji Tomb was not far from Hongling, which was being built and temporarily placed in a temporary tomb. After the construction of the mausoleum is completed, it will be transferred to move in. When the mausoleum was being built, Ouyang Xuan went to the Duliba people, hoping to get their help and make it faster. But the elder's words gave Ouyang Xuan another idea. After Ouyang Xuan found the elder and explained his intentions, the elder said: "My clan has done a lot of this matter, and there is still a large mausoleum built by the clan not far from here, although Your Majesty can rest assured that it will be completed in a few days, but the laborers also ask Your Majesty not to appoint it, it can all be completed by my clansmen." It was this sentence that reminded Ouyang Xuan of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Ouyang Xuan didn't ask much, but he faintly felt that there must be a hidden secret.
Half a month later, the Ji Mausoleum was completed, and the ceremony of moving the tomb was more grand than the burial, Ouyang Xuan still did not participate, but the day before the relocation of the tomb, the engineer of the Duliba people entered the tomb to investigate a circle, and only returned to the palace after confirming that there was no hidden mechanism. Prepared a rich funeral goods for his favorite great-grandson, Ouyang Shan was an honest official all his life, and he had no family property, looking at the funeral goods rewarded by Ouyang Xuan, everyone was speechless. The last nickname is the best commendation given to him by the current emperor during his lifetime, and Ouyang Xuan is not a stingy person, and he also rewarded Ouyang Shan's family with a thousand catties of gold.
When everything returned to calm, Li Mu took a middle-aged man dressed as a servant to meet Ouyang Xuan in the warm pavilion of the harem. "Your Majesty, the minister has a secret affair to play." "Zhongshu Ling, you and I don't have to be polite, even if there is something to do, there are people in the Yulin Army within 300 steps."
"In this way, Your Majesty: The minister found out that Emperor Huai and his eldest son did not commit suicide, but created a false impression after being murdered. Before his son had time to deceive, he was discovered by the servants, who hastily knocked him unconscious and left."
"Oh? Is there such a thing? Is there any evidence? ”。
"Back to Your Majesty, this person is the servant who was injured, and he was the most trusted person in front of Emperor Huai." As he spoke, he pulled the middle-aged man and said to him: "If you have anything, you must tell Your Majesty the truth." Your Majesty will definitely make decisions for Emperor Huai."
The middle-aged man stepped forward and knelt down on one knee in front of Ouyang Xuan and bowed. "Get up and speak, don't be restrained, come according to the truth," Ouyang Xuan said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The middle-aged man got up and replied: "Your Majesty, the grass people have been following Emperor Huai since childhood, going south and north, and serving everywhere. The grass people have been serving left and right. This time, Emperor Huai wanted to ask His Majesty to apologize for his sins when His Majesty returned to Beijing, and Emperor Huai wrote a letter of request for guilt because the grass people were serving him and studying ink. Emperor Huai wrote while talking to the grass people, this time he was bewitched by traitors in the court, and he was disloyal, and he was entrusted by His Majesty. Emperor Xuansun Zhi entered the study, talked with Emperor Huai, ordered the grass people to go to the kitchen to find some food, and when the grass people came back from taking pastries, they saw a masked one-armed man who was about to hang Zhi on the beam, and Emperor Huai had passed away and was hung on the beam. When the man saw the little people coming in, he knocked him unconscious and fled."
"Zhongshu order, pass on my will, and the criminal department will strictly investigate this matter. If you need assistance, you can go directly to General Linghu. You also know the means of the Yulin Army. Come and reward Emperor Huai's servants with one hundred taels of gold". "No!" Deacon Yulin Guards and Li Mu led the order.
After half a month, the 100,000-strong army of Chen Bing Yanmen in the west was closed, and exercises were carried out outside the gate every day, Wang Feng chose to withdraw his troops under strong pressure, and the secret passage was not found in the end, which also laid a hidden danger for the later war.
After another half a year, the cause of Ouyang Shan's death was finally revealed, and the three officials hidden in the court were captured by the Yulin Army. Before he could be interrogated, he was killed by a mysterious person during the night, and the matter was over. But Ouyang Xuan always sent someone to track it down, and after twenty years of investigation, it was still fruitless, and finally had to give up.
Ouyang Dan was deeply loved by Ouyang Xuan after Ouyang Xuan's secret visit, and was transferred to the capital to serve as Shang Shuling. By dealing with the observation of the government and politics, Ouyang Xuan finally decided to retire again, abdicate to Ouyang Dan, and once again Zen throne twenty years after Ouyang Xuan ascended the throne again. returned to the once secluded Dawan Palace, and came back with Li Mu, Peng Fei, and Xian Yushun. It was Ling Huzhang who remained in the court to replace Li Mu, Peng Fei's position was taken over by Zhou An, and the military department Shangshu was taken over by Hu Tan, the former captain of the left military academy of the Yulin Army. After some blood exchange, Ouyang Xuan returned to the mountains to herd sheep with confidence, and the newly trained Yulin Army finally left 50,000 after repeated elimination and screening, stationed in various secret bases. It is managed by the original Yulin training and maintains a constant state.
As the third emperor of the Huaxia Kingdom, Ouyang Dan gave full play to his ability to govern, used the way of Huang Lao and the Legalists to govern the country together, promulgated more than 30 new laws, encouraged agricultural reform, established the Agricultural University, and the country gradually entered a new stage of development, so that the reclusive Ouyang Xuan put down his heart and devoted himself to the cultivation and training of the Yulin Army, and a group of famous generals of later generations were released.
The Han court continued to develop according to the laws of history, and Wang Mang, the minister of the chaotic Han Dynasty, finally surfaced, although Ouyang Xuan killed two eunuchs who caused chaos in the court, but the historical time and space still corrected this deviation. The eunuchs still messed up the Han court, and the officialdom became a slaughterhouse. Ouyang Xuan looked at the information from the Han Court, and it was also an abnormal atmosphere, but he could only be angry. Every year, he still goes back to worship in front of Liu Qi's Yangling, and after Wang Mang took power, he also stabbed Zhongnan Villa. As a last resort, Ouyang Dan ordered the removal of Zhongnan Villa, which served as a bridge between China and Han, and sent envoys to the Han court instead. Ouyang Xuan's base in the mountains is still operating as usual, but it is much more hidden.
Winter goes to spring, it is another sunny summer day, Ouyang Xuan has been living in seclusion here for eight years, it is already the first year BC, the two phoenix emperors have now become the air overlords here, under Ouyang Xuan's training for so many years, both in terms of action speed and intelligence have been greatly improved. Today is the first day of moving to the mountain, after training with the Yulin Army, he put on a civilian suit, and took Buick, Guli and the two Phoenix Emperors to drive the snow-white sheep to his pasture. The sheep are naturally free-range by Buick and Guli, and there are two phoenix emperors to help, which is also very reassuring. I drank this tea under the pergola I built, looking at the scenery of the grassland, and there were two new books on the table, both of which were collections of works from this era.
In the distance, many herders are building their own yurts for their summer pastures, and their flocks are bright and colorful like flowers on a green carpet. The shepherds gallop across the pasture with a whip in hand, driving the flock. Looking at this scene, Ouyang Xuan was also full of emotion, and asked the guards to find a piece of drawing paper and pen and ink, and improvised a painting, less than two hours, a picture of "Alpine Pasture" jumped on the paper, and the snow mountains, grasslands, sheep, herdsmen, and yurts contrasted with each other.
After finishing the painting, he was in a very good mood, riding the sweaty BMW that he had carefully selected and cultivated among nearly 100,000 sweaty and bloody horses five years ago, wearing snow-white and shining metallic fur, and the lower half of his limbs were shining with bright gold, Ouyang Xuan gave him a resounding name Xuanyuan. The feeding method is the same as that of the White Wolf and the Phoenix Emperor, and it also uses a graupel energy body and seven-dimensional space debris.
The speed of the horse is very fast, Ouyang Xuan likes this feeling of galloping very much, the guards did not follow, first, they can't keep up, and second, it is absolutely safe here, there are 10,000 Yulin troops guarding the mountain passes under the mountain, and there are patrol horse teams regularly and irregularly patrolling everywhere, and the herdsmen on the mountain are all vetted, and they all know this nobleman who grazes in person. Looking at the galloping white horses, the herdsmen cheered. After going around twice, Ouyang Xuan was still unsatisfied, and when he was about to gallop for a while, there was a commotion of cattle and sheep not far away, and the Phoenix Emperor in the sky also made a loud noise.