(a)

When the first rays of dawn illuminated the sky, the city fell completely.

The last banner of the Southern Han Dynasty finally fell in a sea of fire.

Liu Shen's chariot drove into the inner palace under the escort of the Northern Han Iron Cavalry.

He finally returned to the home where he grew up. He walked through one familiar courtyard after another, and came to the top of his father's hall. He saw his father's throne.

He looked at the throne with a flurry of emotions and thoughts.

Now, he has finally overcome fate and taken this throne back on his own. He had finally put the throne back in the hands of those worthy of it. He was finally able to carry on his father's legacy and make his dynasty flourish. He finally became a disobedient son, so that his father could not look at Jiuquan.

In this world, who can say what is right and what is wrong? How to choose?

When Liu Shen sat on his father's throne, from the main hall to the whole city, the Northern Han army erupted in all directions and shouted: "Long live the King of Han!" Long live King Han! Long live the King of Han! ”

Liu Shen burst into tears when he heard this, and his blood boiled all over his body.

Now, there is finally only one Han King in the world.

The war on both the North and the South was finally over.

But at this moment, Liu Shen felt an unprecedented emptiness.

This emptiness is even more than the moment when he disobeyed his father's will and fled to the city of Dongcheng, became the king independently, and fought against his younger brother.

The feeling of emptiness left him stunned.

In the deafening mountain cry of long live, he secretly thought to himself: "Is it true that the ideal is realized, and the beauty is on the side, is it still not the pinnacle of life?" If such a peak can't lift the emptiness and loneliness in life, then. How, what is it necessary to do so? ”

At this time, he thinks of you, of your life and of the path you have chosen.

Have you lifted that emptiness and loneliness?

Is it lifted?

(b)

Now, Liu Shen sits high on the Wuying Palace.

It was only a few years ago that Gao sat in this position. It was still his younger brother Liu Yan, and the one who calmly stated in the main hall and said the final battle strategy was you who had been buried in the wilderness and disappeared.

The world is so fickle and incredible.

The heads and corpses of Liu Yan's family were bloodily placed in the center of the main hall, and they were presented in front of Liu Shen's eyes in a terrible manner.

Liu Shen's heart tingled. He was overwhelmed by guilt and emptiness.

He remembered when he was a child, playing with Liu Yan and listening to lectures in the upper study together, and they also had a deep brotherhood between brothers. Carefree and friendly, the two brothers read and write together, fly kites and ride bamboo horses together, learn to ride and shoot together, and go out of the city to hunt together.

Looking at Liu Yan's pale human head, his dead fish-like dull eyes, he felt some kind of pain of flesh and blood. He closed his eyes, unable to bear to look at them again.

Lines of hot tears rolled down his cheeks. Although these tears are not all sincere, they are not all sincere.

(c)

Looking at the remains of my brother's family. Liu Shen felt a chill all over his body.

I don't know why, at this time. He suddenly remembered the formed boy I had lost not long ago.

A terrible thought welled up in his heart: perhaps Heaven had taken away his first son to punish him for this unfilial and unfriendly sin he had committed today.

The thought sent him a deep shiver from the depths of his heart.

He lowered his face and asked angrily, "Who did this?!" Who gave you permission to do this to the children of the kings? ”

The full hall of civil and military officials looked at Liu Shen's appearance of genuine detachment and anger, and they were silent one by one.

Chen Shouye looked at Xu Zaitian opposite

Xu Zaitian walked out of the staff queue.

He walked to the center of the main hall, bowed to Liu Shen, and said calmly: "Your Majesty enlightens the King of Han." This matter was done by Wu Anhou, an important minister of Prince Yan. He saw that the royal city was about to be broken, and the general trend was gone, so in order to protect himself, he did not hesitate to sell his master to seek glory. led troops into the palace, brutally killed Li Miaochang, the chief of the chamberlain, and later killed Prince Yan's family one by one. ”

Liu Shen patted the case and asked: "This Wu Anhou, what about others?" Have your troops who were the first to enter the royal city caught such wicked people? ”

At this time, he saw Xu Zaitian and Chen Shouye quietly exchanging glances.

His heart moved, and he vaguely guessed the reason, and suddenly his heart was mixed, and he couldn't say whether he was happy or sad.

Xu Zaitian replied loudly: "When the vanguard troops of King Qi Han and other ministers first attacked the royal city, they saw that the Marquis of Wu An, covered in blood, with a hideous face, carrying a sword, and the head of Prince Yan dripping blood, standing on the side of the throne of Wuying Palace, proclaimed to surrender, and shouted Long live His Majesty King Han, long live, after the ministers went to the palace, but saw that the blood in the palace was flowing into a river, the women and children in the palace were strewn with corpses everywhere, and the body of Prince Yan was in a different place, and it was a mess. The ministers remembered the heart of the first king's beloved son, and the deep brotherhood of the Han king, and the soldiers of the Han army, all of whom were full of anger and righteous indignation, and felt that this person was disloyal and untrustworthy, and the means were cruel, and he killed the first king's own flesh and blood without authorization, and trapped the Han king in the notoriety of unkindness and injustice, which was really a great crime, and its evil should be punished. The ministers decided on the spot, such a big matter, before they could ask the king of Han for instructions, the ministers were sentenced to death!"

Chen Shouye comprehended, and also led the crowd to salute and echo: "The minister is a capital crime!"

(iv)

Liu Shen stared at Xu Zaitian and looked at him deeply.

At this glance, the two monarchs and ministers tacitly understood each other.

So, Liu Shen suppressed the mixed feelings in his heart and said loudly: "You guys handled it well. Such a vicious traitor who is disloyal to the old master and ignores human morality, people and gods are angry, and heaven and earth do not tolerate it! Such a heinous crime, how could he be allowed to die! The whole city was ordered to search for the remnants of Wu Anhou and his family, all of whom were arrested and detained, interrogated and interrogated according to the law, and no one was allowed to slip through the net! ”

After saying this righteous and awe-inspiring confession, Liu Shen really put his mind at ease, and looked at his brother's head again, and couldn't help but shed tears for the second time. This time, his tears were basically sincere.

According to Liu Shen's will, the remains of Liu Yan's family were collected, and Liu Yan was buried as a prince descended from the first king. The mausoleum is also arranged next to the tomb of the old Han king. His dependents and children were also buried in the royal cemetery.

A former dynasty has come to an end.

But the tragedy did not end.

More than 200 years later, a new usurper has repeated the same historical tragedy.

It's just that those who were slaughtered and killed that time were replaced by Liu Shen and my children and grandchildren.

This is how things alternate reincarnation, and the blood debt owed will have to be repaid after a long time.

The reason of heaven is clear, and the retribution is unhappy, because Liu Shen did such a thing, and our children and grandchildren finally fell into the same fate as Liu Yan's descendants.

The kind of blood and violence that we inflict on others is, in the end, back to ourselves.

Spring goes to autumn, cold and summer alternate, how many monarchs and ministers, all kinds of competition, endless, but who is there, and what can they get?

Facing the tombs of the ancestors and ancestors, you tell me, who has gained from these swords, mountains and fires?

(5)

"Life is an intricate turbulence." (To be continued.) )