Chapter 35: The abolished prince ascends the throne again
Ouyang Xuan took the white wolf running on the ground and the phoenix emperor flying in the sky, under the escort of the middle army and the rear army of the Yulin Army, entered the summer valley from the east gate, and went straight to the prince's mansion located on the west side of the palace in the center of the city.
In the past 40 years, although Ouyang Mao has been idle and unlearned, he has also attracted some die-hard and Han Confucian scholars, and they have also recited Confucian classics in the mansion every day, but their behavior is contrary to the ancient teachings. raised thousands of dead soldiers trained in accordance with the training methods of the Yulin Army since childhood, and used the power of the prince in his hands to build a 50,000-strong Jianzhang army, all of which were dead soldiers loyal to the prince, stationed in Xicheng, plus the princess and the prince's side concubine pillow wind, in the court Li Mu, Bai Yang Gu, Peng Fei, He Chan and others strictly could not insert the needle, so they could only make a fuss on the periphery, and placed their relatives in the Gyeonggi Prefecture, the Commercial Office, the Tax Office and other financial and military departments. On weekdays, under the teaching of those Confucian scholars, they were kind and unkind, killed and greedy for money, set up private prisons, and collected money through relatives. Whenever the news about Ouyang Xuan came, it would be relatively better. Now that he heard that Ouyang Xuan was assassinated in the Han Land, he immediately showed his original form, sent out the dead soldiers who were raised, collected a lot of money, and took it by skill, and in just five or six days, it had made the originally prosperous Xiagu City jump. Ouyang Mao, who originally wanted to sit on the big dream of the Spring and Autumn Period, heard early this morning that the dead soldier who went to collect taxes outside Dongcheng was beheaded, and he was furious, and immediately sent the elder brother of the crown prince's concubine, Gyeonggi Governor, to lead the army to arrest people. There is no news on the left, there is no news on the right, and he is burning in anger, when he smashes a cup in the hall and scolds the servants, a dead soldier comes to report that there are 10,000 troops assembled outside the east gate, wearing the unique colorful and green military uniforms of the Yulin Army, and the besieging soldiers have been disarmed. Zhongshu Ling, the military department Shangshu, the former general, and the officials of the key departments of the DPRK and China went to the east gate.
After hearing the news, Ouyang Mao suddenly collapsed to the ground, without him, he knew who this was coming, and he knew this grandfather Ouyang Mao too well, jealous and hateful, decisive in killing, and kung fu in the world. Now that he has come back with the Yulin Army, once his evil deeds are known by his grandfather, he will definitely be dead and dead. Hurriedly ordered the dead to be summoned, guarded the palace gate, and ordered someone to find his own concubine and counselor to discuss how to deal with it. This Taifu was sealed by Ouyang Mao himself, a Confucian scholar who came to China from Han China, was originally a disciple of Dong Zhongshu, and later after Dong Zhongshu's death, he worshiped the great Confucian Hu Musheng in Qidi as a teacher, named Zhao Yin, the word Haoliang, several soldiers are his disciples, all of whom are good poets and Confucian classics.
When everyone gathers, Ouyang Mao will tell you what happened this morning, and let them think of a perfect plan. After listening to it, Zhao Yin said: "Your Royal Highness, Yin thinks that the Emperor Taishang will not enter Beijing according to the etiquette system, I am afraid that it is to investigate the people's feelings, and what the prince has done now is probably known to the Emperor." Yin suggested that it is better to do the opposite. His Highness also has 50,000 elite soldiers, and 10,000 people are not to be feared." "Mr. Haoliang doesn't know the essence of his grandfather's feather forest, and he is afraid that these 50,000 military horses will be powdered in less than a moment." "Your Royal Highness, the minister thinks that now that the Emperor Taishang has arrived, it is better to succeed to the throne as the emperor as soon as possible. If you lose, you will go out of the west gate to join the Han, or go north to join Xianbei," said one of the soldiers.
"Well, when did grandfather ever fear fame? When it was surrounded by soldiers, Chang'an was once famous? If it weren't for the kindness of Emperor Jing and his grandfather, the Han Dynasty would have been a land of China. Now its reputation is the soul of China, I really don't know what you think. Now the plan is only to escape, Xianbei, grandfather and father are looking for an excuse to attack it, or not to provoke this filthy head, for now there is only one way to go to the Han land, quickly go to order the Jianzhang army and the West Gate to assemble, do a trip to the south." "No!" A soldier came out with the order.
"Your Highness's trip to Han requires passing through the passes, and the guards are all generals who can conquer and fight habitually, so I am afraid that there will be disadvantages. His Royal Highness thinks twice, and taking the throne to order the world to be the solution is the solution." Taifu Zhao Yin said.
"Taifu is ridiculous, this beautiful China is all laid down by the Emperor Taishang, the soldiers are all the only emperors to follow, and the lone and his father are just the main internal affairs. Now the internal affairs are guarded by Li Zhongshu, Aries Shangshu and other grandfather loyal ministers, and they are powerless to do it alone. As for the border pass, I know that a small road outside the Sanshui Pass can pass the border pass. Don't mention the matter of seizing the throne again, that is, if you take it, your grandfather should be killed or killed, the matter of honor and honor is enough for your grandfather, and you can also win the name of righteous annihilation."
"Your Royal Highness, people have dignity and humility, how can the Emperor Taishang kill his relatives with righteousness?"
"No wonder the Emperor Taishang and his father tried their best to abolish Confucianism, in the opinion of Mr., why did Emperor Wu kill the prince? It's not because of fault, now Lone has made a big mistake, and he can live. It's only to blame my father for having a long life, and the emperor is not old. Hurry up and prepare for the matter, escape to the army with the backyard secret passage, and only then can you plan after you have a fate."
"Alas, the minister is commanded". After saying that, he turned around and left with a few soldiers. As soon as they went out, Ouyang Mao had not yet traveled, and a dead soldier hurriedly came to report: "Your Highness, the big thing is not good, the Emperor Taishang has led the Yulin Army into the east gate and went straight to the Prince's Mansion. The commander of the Jianzhang army asked the prince to show him". "It's too fast, it's going to be the same old spicy. Quickly go and give the order, and the Jianzhang army will retreat to the prince's mansion with all its might, carrying the people as shields." "No!"
Ouyang Mao sat slumped on the tiger skin chair, and now he had to sacrifice the Jianzhang Army that he had worked so hard to build to protect himself. Back in the backyard, there was already a mess, the crown princess and the two side concubines were directing the servants to pack things, and the eight sons were also organizing the dead soldiers and the 10,000 Jianzhang troops who came from the secret passage to set up defenses at the head of the wall. Ouyang Mao also had a big head, so he hurriedly asked people to throw away useless things, only bring money and food, and nothing else.
Ouyang Xuan took 5,000 people from the Yulin Army, the middle army and the rear army, and soon came to the Prince's Mansion surrounded by the people. Now the wall of the house is full of soldiers, waiting for the bow. The wall was only two people high, and it was not very wide, and Ouyang Xuan did not divide his troops to attack. Just when Ouyang Xuan ordered the attack, a herald came to report: "Your Majesty, the Prince Jianzhang Army, with more than 1,000 people, broke through the siege from the military camp in the west of the city and came to the Prince's Mansion." "Didn't divide your forces to take Simon?" Ouyang Xuan asked rhetorically.
"Back to Your Majesty, the Jianzhang Army has been garrisoned by the Xiagu Headquarters Army and the two battalions of the Yulin Army to attack the remaining less than 20,000 people, and it is no longer able to capture the West Gate, if it is not for the people, I am afraid it will have been annihilated." "Go and give the order to release the hostages and let them go out of the west gate. The order herald ordered the headquarters army to strictly guard the key passes in various places, and the Yulin Army's horse exploration battalion sent a horse exploration horse to monitor after the Jianzhang army left the west gate, and the fugitives were arrested." "No!" The herald and the Yulin guards were given the order. For the Yulin Army, only Ouyang Xuan's guard orders were valid.
For the capture of this kind of mansion, the Yulin army was disdainful, and waited for Ouyang Xuan's order five hundred steps away. "Order, shout, order it to surrender quickly, wait for it to fall, and after shouting three times, immediately launch an attack." "No!" The guards were ordered to go down and give orders. The shouts of 5,000 people were spectacular, like a small earthquake. The three shouts ended quickly, and no one on the wall surrendered, and they also knew that under the jealous and hateful temper of the Emperor Taishang, even surrendering would be a dead end, and they would stand still on the wall. As the sword in Ouyang Xuan's hand fell, the portable 60 cannon fire had already fallen to the wall, and the wall collapsed after just a few shots. Under the alternate cover of assault rifles, the Yulin army rushed in, using both swords and guns, and under Ouyang Xuan's order to kill, they entered the mansion and opened a killing spree, except for the surrendered squatting and the servants by the wall, the rest were killed. The Yulin soldiers have not been in actual combat for a long time, so they have the opportunity to take the lead, and after the magazine is exhausted, they do not replace it, hang up the assault rifle, draw the knife and slash and stab in the hand, which is more effective than the assault rifle, and also avoids accidentally injuring the servants who surrendered. Rushing left and killing right, like a tiger descending from a mountain, is not something that those dead soldiers and the Jianzhang army can resist. The soft armor on the mountain effectively protected the cold arrow and hidden knife, and the group of five cooperated with each other to cover it, killing the blood in the prince's mansion and the corpses piled up. The 10,000 Jianzhang army and thousands of dead soldiers were annihilated before they could organize an effective resistance. Ouyang Xuan slowly entered the Prince's Mansion from the open door of the mansion, and now it was the end, and the servants who surrendered were screened and released from the mansion one by one. There are really a few descendants of Ouyang Mao pretending to be servants, trying to get through the tricks, and they are identified. Arrested in front of Ouyang Xuan, "You are a bully and a victim of one party, can you be guilty?" Ouyang Xuan stood in front of several people with the white wolf and the phoenix emperor with his sword. In order to get rid of the Phoenix Emperor, Buick and Gu Li squatted on the ground, while the two Phoenix Emperors stood on their heads and looked at the people in front of them.
"Back to the ancestors, the younger generations are all confused by their fathers, so they make a big mistake, please spare the younger generations." "Haha, come on, take a pen and paper, write down their respective crimes, and I will deal with them as appropriate." The guards around him took out pens and papers from their backpacks, and someone brought a desk in front of several people. "Look at them and write it, if there is any change, kill it immediately, don't think about me." "No!". A Yulin army was waiting to receive the order, and a group of Yulin soldiers was arranged in front of and behind everyone to guard it. After cleaning up and down the house, the crown prince and the princess, the prince's side concubine corpse was not seen, and several descendants were found in a cave, after counting, the prince and the princess, two side concubines, the eldest son, the third son, the eldest grandson, the second grandson, and Meng Sun were all nowhere to be found, and the rest of the descendants were captured eight people, and four people were beheaded. Ouyang Xuan was not surprised at all that the prince ran away with people, and soon found the secret passage under the guidance of the servants. A team of men was sent down before returning to the main hall. At this time, the herald came to report that the Jianzhang army had assembled with a village outside the city after leaving the west gate, fled south with the hostages, and only after meeting with the people thirty miles away did they put the hostages back, and continued to travel south along the mountains on the east side, and the horses were closely watched. The people they carried were being sent back to the capital by the headquarters army.
"If you want to run, haha, someone will give you an order, and the left and right battalions of the Yulin Army will pursue me according to the guidance of the Tanma, and you will be killed." "No!"
At this time, a servant in the palace came to report in a hurry: "Emperor Qiyu, Your Majesty heard about the prince's evil deeds and rebellion, and he was furious, and died in Huinuan Pavilion at a moment's notice." "Alas, it's still here that should have come, herald, pass on my will, order the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the emperor's funeral, and recruit the chief officials of the three provinces and the court." "No!".
Sit down on the main seat of the main hall of the Prince's Mansion, the guards stand on both sides, and His Royal Highness is empty. After being in a daze for a while, the military attendant who supervised the prince's family to write the confession entered the hall with a thick stack of papers and placed them on the desk, Ouyang Xuan read them page by page, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more he saw the atmosphere, including several sons-in-law and grandson-in-law of the prince, and almost a quarter of the rich nobles in the entire Huaxia capital were implicated. After reading the last page, Ouyang Xuan was already furious. Some of them were told by Li Mu and Xian Yushun to Ouyang Xuan, and some of them had just been known. "Someone, the book of the Ministry of Punishment is here. Order to pass on the military academy captain Zhou An". "No!" One of the guards took the order.
After a while, Zhou An arrived, and Jiang Ao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, followed him into the hall, and after giving the salute, Ouyang Xuan said: "Pass on my order, the Criminal Department will work with the military camp of the Yulin Army to investigate the prince and the party, and deal with it according to the law, no matter which family is involved, it must not be tolerated, and it will be searched and arrested with all its might." He also ordered that the prince's family and the criminal department should be taken into custody for the time being, and after the interrogation was completed, they would be beheaded according to the law." As he spoke, he sorted out the confession on the table and asked the guards to hand it over to the criminal department. "No! Decree of the Lord". "Captain Zhou holds my sword, and I come in person." "No!" Zhou An received the order and took the sword from the guards. He walked out of the main hall with the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, sorted out the soldiers and horses, and escorted the prince's family out of the palace.
Ouyang Xuan returned to the palace, worshiped Ouyang Hong, put a stick of incense on behalf of Liu Hui, and toasted a glass of wine. He has been such a son all his life, and he is also the son he is most proud of, and now he is also separated from heaven and man. Ouyang Xuan didn't feel too sad, people always have birth, old age, sickness and death, and stroked the piano in front of Ouyang Hongling, the tune was tactful and elegant, warm and long, and it conveyed the thoughts of his deceased relatives. Hearing the tears, all the people outside the hall were in tears, whether it was servants, courtiers, nobles, or commoners, they felt deeply for the long melody. Now there is a bloody storm in Xia Gu City, but the palace is still so quiet, the two phoenix emperors dance and wander in the air with the music of the qin, only Buick and Gu Li squatted at the door of the hall and stared at the phoenix emperor dancing in the air.
Three days later, the second emperor of China had a grand funeral, but Ouyang Xuan did not participate according to the etiquette system, and was buried with the queen in the Hongling Mausoleum, a hundred miles south of the city. At the unanimous request of hundreds of officials, Ouyang Xuan ascended the throne again. The ritual is very simple, just according to the ritual sacrifice to the heavens and the table, take an oath. During the ceremony, the two phoenix emperors flying in the air also added a touch of beauty and luxury to the simple ceremony. When Ouyang Xuan sat on the dragon chair that symbolized the throne, the two phoenix emperors slowly fell in the air, one left and one right fell on the armrest, the head turned inward, and made a bowing salute, which was jealous of the Buick and Guli were not to be outdone, after bowing down with everyone at the bottom of the steps, one left and one right jumped on the dragon chair, lying on both sides of Ouyang Xuan, and demonstrated against the Phoenix Emperor across Ouyang Xuan, and a legend was born.
The bloody wind and rain in Xia Gu City lasted for half a month before stopping, and more than 70,000 people were arrested, of which nearly 30,000 were killed on the spot. The rest of the people did not escape the trial and were beheaded, and the network that the prince had been operating for thirty years fell apart, except for Xia Gu, in the army, and the local area were carried out a large-scale purge, and more than 80,000 people were arrested, and after the trial, except for the 30,000 who were not at fault were released, the rest were beheaded or exiled.
Ouyang Hong, who was on the run, was surrounded and intercepted by the headquarters army and the Yulin army, and took the remaining 3,000 people into the deep mountains and traveled to a valley called Danquan, where Ouyang Mao ordered the team to stop. called the twenty-three-year-old eldest grandson Ouyang Shu, "Grandson, Gu Zhier has great ambitions, just because Gu and your father made a big mistake, and he died in the world." Lonely this trip has a dangerous future, this has two letters, immediately change into merchant clothes, along this mountain to the southwest there is a village, where to find an old man to hand over the red letter to him, he will take you to find the master, and then hand over this yellow letter to the master, to follow him to learn some skills, reproduce children and grandchildren, in order to figure out the future, extend my bloodline, regain my Chinese country, then the ancestors should also pass away, do not be afraid. Thou hast remembered." Ouyang Shu knelt down on his knees and saluted Ouyang Hong, and said: "My grandson remembers my grandfather's teachings, learns hard, and vows to win the country of China." After speaking, he got up, called his daughter-in-law and two sons, and took more than 30 soldiers to rush away in the direction pointed by Ouyang Mao, and since then he has also planted a time bomb for Huaxia Sheji.
Ouyang Mao took the rest of the people and walked along the Danquan Valley for three days, and only five miles away from Yanmen Pass passed through the narrow mountain stream formed by the ground fissure, and after a difficult trek, after falling to death nearly a thousand people, he crossed the Great Wall and reached the Han land. Attacked by the crossbow arrows of the Chinese soldiers on the city wall, after the bombardment, Ouyang Mao fled to Taiyuan County with less than 300 remaining people. Sent to Chang'an under the guard of Taiyuan County, Liu Aiji named him Dong'an Hou after repeated consideration, and his fief was in Dong'an County, Donghai County (now north of Donghai County, Jiangsu).
When Ouyang Xuan received Liu Aiji's letter, it was already a month after he ascended the throne. Regarding Ouyang Mao's marquis, Ouyang Xuan didn't say anything, but just asked Ling Huzhang to make a secret order.