Ruan Fusheng snorted unhappily and got up, took a flute from Yu Lenu's hand, danced on behalf of the sword, and chanted indiscriminately in his mouth. After singing and dancing, Ruan Fusheng fell on the grass, drunk and laughing, he couldn't hear what the eldest brother said at all, and he only saw the bright moon in the sky like falling into the water, flowing hazy.

Ruan Fuyingzhen saw Ruan Fusheng sleeping, and suddenly sighed: "Fourth brother, you really can't be an emperor." ”

In the next few days, Ruan Fusheng was in a deep sleep, drunk, and I don't know how much nonsense he said. Even Emperor Heide no longer had a seizure, but just sighed: "If this child can get drunk for this life, it will be a blessing." ”

Disasters have continued since he was born, and for 18 consecutive years, a breach occurred in Van Giang County, Hung Yen Province, Vietnam, causing the local people to live in dire straits. These unsettled people were left to the grass, and eventually developed into a riot against the imperial court. In the northern Qianguo, due to the rebellion of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom, many Qianguo people fled into northern Vietnam and occupied the mountainous areas to become bandits.

In the fifth year of the Emperor's reign, the Qianguo bandits Guangyi Hall, Liusheng Hall, and Desheng Hall were stationed in the Beiqi Mountains and harassed the Taiyuan area. Emperor Duc sent Nguyen Dengjie as the minister of the Northern Qi Economic Strategy to quell the rebellion. Nguyen Dengjie did not send troops to suppress it, but induced the Santang thieves to surrender. During Nguyen Teng Dai's tenure, the area around Beiqi was uneventful. However, in the eighth year of the reign of Nguyen Teng Tier, he died in office, and in the same year, a peasant rebellion broke out in Beiqi, which was called "locust thieves". The peasants of Shanxi Province put Li Weikou, a descendant of the royal family of the Later Li Dynasty, to the position of the leader of the alliance, and took Gao Boshi as the national teacher, harassing Shanxi, Hanoi, and Bac Ninh. The rebellion was soon put down, but sporadic riots continued to occur.

Since Emperor Ming Ming, European warships often came to Vietnam to ask for trade. But they were all rejected by the imperial court. The imperial court also forbade the spread of Christianity. Side 4 years and Side 5 years. Emperor Side ordered the execution of Western missionaries. He exiled Christians and repeatedly refused to trade with Western countries. During the reigns of Emperor Shaozhi and Emperor Side, the ban on religion was more severe than that of Emperor Mingming, who ordered the expulsion and even execution of Western missionaries. After Emperor Edde issued a second ban on Christianity, many French missionaries were killed. In the 10th year of the Emperor's reign, French warships flew to Tuo Chau to protest against the killing of missionaries in Vietnam, and opened fire on Tuo Chau's forts. Soon France again demanded trade with Vietnam and missionary work in Vietnam. But it was still refused. So France, together with Spain, decided to send troops to Vietnam. At this time, Nguyen Phuc Hung Bao colluded with the French to seize the throne. Nguyen Phuc Hong Bao was the eldest half-brother of Emperor Duc and his dissolute and uneducated behavior, and Emperor Shao Zhi hated him very much. On the other hand, Emperor Side was intelligent and erudite, so Emperor Shaozhi made him the crown prince. Nguyen Phuc Hong Bao has always been very dissatisfied, and at this time he saw the opportunity to start an incident, but the matter was finally leaked, Nguyen Phuc Hong Bao was given death, and his son Nguyen Phuc Nguyen and others all changed their surnames to Ding.

Twelfth year of the Emperor. The Franco-Spanish coalition army of 3,000 people attacked Tuohao and captured the cities of Anhai and Zunhai. Emperor Side sent Tao Zhi, Chen Hong, and Li Tingli to the rescue. However, he was defeated by the Franco-Spanish coalition forces, and Le Dinh Lig was killed. Emperor De sent Ruan Zhifang and Zhu Fuming to defend. Ruan Zhifang built Lianchi Tun, and built a long fortress defense from Haizhou to Funing. The French army wanted to capture Hue after occupying Tuo Ha, but failed to break through the defensive line, so they came to Nanqi and attacked the city of Gia Dinh from Can Thanh Haikou. The city of Jiading was captured, and the protector Wu Weining committed suicide. The coalition forces razed the city. Emperor Si De sent Ruan Zhifang, Fan Shihian, and Zun Mur Hafnium to Nanqi for defense. In the fourteenth year of Side, the Franco-Spanish coalition army occupied Dinh Xiang Province. Emperor Si De sent Ruan Boyi, the secretary of the household department, as the minister of the Qin mission, to go to Nanqi to manage affairs. Ruan Boyi suggested peace, but Zhang Denggui in the court insisted on going to war with the Franco-Spanish coalition forces, and the matter of peace was put on hold.

In the fifteenth year of his reign, the Catholic Xie Wenfeng raised troops in Beiqi, claiming to be a descendant of the Later Li Dynasty, Li Weiming, who was supported by foreign missionaries and bandits from the Qianguo Kingdom. The peasants of Quang An responded by attacking Haining Province. In the sixteenth year of the reign of Duc, Nguyen Van Thanh raised troops in Bac Ninh, supported Le Vy Lap as the leader of the alliance, and jointly attacked Lang Giang and An Dung counties with Xie Van Phong, and besieged the provincial capital of Bac Ninh. At the same time, the provinces of Bien Hoa and Vinh Long were captured by the Franco-Spanish coalition forces, and Emperor Side had to send Pan Qingjian and Lin Weihun to Saigon to negotiate peace and sign a treaty. The treaty stipulates that Catholicism is the legal religion in Vietnam; Missionaries were free to preach in Vietnam; Vietnam ceded the provinces of Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh and Dinh Huong and the island of Kunlun to France; allowing French merchant ships to sail and trade freely in the Mekong River basin; Vietnam opened the ports of Toulon Port, Quang An Port and Bala Port as treaty ports; Vietnam paid a total of 4 million taels of silver in reparations to France and Spain over a period of ten years. At the same time, King Norodom of Cambodia, with the support of France, took the opportunity to break free from the control of Siam and Vietnam and declare independence.

Although the four provinces of Nanqi were occupied by the French, Nanqi was the place of Zhongxing of Emperor Jialong, and it was also the hometown of Emperor Side's maternal grandfather, Fan Dengxing, so Emperor Side always hoped to recover this land. In the sixteenth year of the reign of Emperor Side, Emperor Side sent Pan Qingjian, Fan Fushu, and Wei Kexin to France to propose to the French Emperor Napoleon III to redeem this land. Napoleon III wanted to agree, but refused the request in the face of the resolute opposition of the Admiral Roba. During this mission, Pan Qingjian was surprised to find the advanced technology of France, and after returning to China, Pan Qingjian reported what he had seen and heard to Emperor Side. But Emperor Side and other courtiers rebuked him. In view of Pan Qingjian's familiarity with the situation in France, Emperor Side sent Pan Qingjian to Nanqi to guard against France. Soon the French captured Yonglong, An Jiang, and Ha Xian, and Pan Qingjian committed suicide. The land of Nanqi was completely occupied by the French.

Nguyen Van Thanh and Xie Van Phong jointly attacked Lang Giang and An Dung districts and besieged the provincial capital of Bac Ninh. Nguyen Ke Shu, the political envoy of Hanoi Province, Le Yu, the political envoy of Shanxi Province, and the deputy leader of Hung Yen Province, Vu Wu, went to the rescue and repelled the rebels. Xie Wenfeng besieged the provincial capital of Haiyang again, and Emperor Side sent Zhang Guoyong, Tao Zhi, and Ruan Boyi to relieve the siege; He also sent Nguyen Chi Phuong, Phan Dinh Xuan, and Zun Mur Sui to fight against Nguyen Van Thanh's rebels. Vu had already captured Le Vûng Lap in Tuyen Quang Province, and Nguyen Chi Phuong defeated Nguyen Van Thanh in Bac Ninh. But Xie Wenfeng's power is still strong, occupying the land of Guang'an. Xie Wenfeng asked the French army in Nanqi to come to support, but the French were negotiating peace and ignored their request. Zhang Guoyong was defeated and killed in the conquest. Nguyen Zhifang sent Deng Chenqian and Weng Yiqian to attack together with the local garrison of Qinzhou in Qianguo, broke and captured Xie Van Feng, and sent Hue to be executed, and finally put down the chaos.

After suffering heavy defeats in two wars with France, Emperor Ide finally realized the importance of learning from the advanced culture of the West. In the 33rd year of Side, the World Exposition was held in Paris, France. Emperor Duc sent Ruan Chengcheng and Ruan Zenglang to Paris with exhibits. I took the opportunity to send someone to the port of Toulon, France to learn advanced technology. Thirty-four years of success. He also sent Pham Binh, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to Hong Kong to let 12 Vietnamese teenagers study in a British school. He also sent envoys to Siam and Qianguo to inspect the country. The French consul in Vietnam was not informed in advance, and the French government condemned Vietnam for violating the treaty.

In order to resist the French invasion, Emperor Side hoped to use the Qianguo as foreign aid and the Black Flag Army as domestic aid. In the 35th year of the reign of Emperor Duc, when Emperor Duc sent Nguyen Shu, Tran Thanh Son, and Nguyen Huan to Qianguo to pay tribute, he asked Qianguo to set up an investment promotion bureau in Hue like the Western powers. Emperor Duc's move was in the hope that the Qianguo would learn more quickly about what France had done in Vietnam, so as to achieve the goal of using the Qianguo to contain France.

Internal and external troubles made Emperor Side anxious. Although he was the most talented and diligent emperor of the Great Nguyen Dynasty, Emperor Duc was very thoughtful. But he has no power to return to the sky, and can only watch the country decline day by day.

And Ruan Fusheng didn't know anything about what was happening outside, but just spent his youth leisurely in the deep palace.

These days, there is less laughter and laughter in the imperial city, and fewer of the princes' children enter the palace. The dynasty was facing war and famine. However, Ruan Phuc Thanh concentrated on painting, and did not notice the gradual changes in the external situation, and only indulged in his own paintings.

Ruan Phuc Sheng's world is only in this palace, and the soft tent is warm, as if the girl's laughter is still echoing. He thought it would be all his memories. He doesn't think about the outside world, and he's not interested. He can stay in the studio. In the afternoon sun, quietly draw a picture of the beauty of the landscape, a stroke of detail, maybe the time of the day, only used to paint a pair of eyes, a trace of wrinkles, lest the pen is unstable, unwilling to have a little bias...... Suddenly, I felt that I was in a trance in front of me, and when the figures of the mountain scenery were shaking, I realized that it was already night, and countless fire candles were lit around. His eyes were full of tears, looking at a large hall in the bright light, but there was no figure, thinking that none of this was true, he had already sunk into the painting.

His drawings are never seen by others, but he also never collects them, and when a painting is finished and the last stroke is dropped, he also feels that it has lost its meaning, and he will never remember it again. He didn't remember how many paintings he had painted, and he didn't remember where those paintings had gone, until Ruan Phuc Sheng saw that his sketches when he was a teenager were circulating among the people, and some people bought them with a lot of money, so he realized that it was indeed someone who put away every painting he had painted and hid it, and it was only because of the chaos in his family and country that he went to the people. But who? The attendants whose names he remembered but couldn't remember their faces? Or is it a girl?

There are bandits in the north, and Fayi in the south, and they are attacked on both sides. Emperor Side was worried day and night, lest hundreds of years of the country be destroyed by his own hands, and he became depressed and sick, and he could not afford to be seriously ill. It is rumored in the city of Hue that Emperor Nguyen Phuc will not survive this winter.

It was almost the New Year, and there was a heavy snow in Zhongqi. The snow seemed to silence the voice, and the huge and prosperous capital was suddenly very quiet and lonely. Emperor Ruan Phuc Shi woke up in a drowsy and suddenly felt better in spirit, so he ordered the inner eunuch to help him outside the palace gate and watch the snow scene of the capital on the railing.

He looked around and asked, "Where are my sons?" The inner chamberlain hurriedly sent people to summon the princes in the palace, and suddenly more than 100 concubines and attendants rushed to His Royal Highness with the princes. Suddenly, he asked, "Has it ever snowed in Beiqi?" The inner chamberlain shook his head and said he didn't know. Emperor Si De remembered the loss of land in the south, the war on this side, his heart ached, and he exclaimed: "After I passed away, among the sons, there are those who can chase Fayi in the south, and those who are in rebellion in Beiping, regain my homeland in Vietnam, and lay the head of the Fa chief in the ancestral temple, can be regarded as the emperor of my Nguyen family!" ”

After finishing speaking, everyone hurriedly helped into the palace, and a few hours later, Emperor Ruan Phuc Shi died in the snow at the age of fifty-four.

In the cold wind and heavy snow, the entire city of Hue is covered with vegetarian food.

Ruan Phuc Thanh stood in the garden, looking at the wind rolling paper ashes into the sky, the clouds spraying wild snow on the ground, intertwined into a dense patch, he couldn't listen to anything, no one came to tell him what happened. Everything in this world has nothing to do with him.

But he stretched out his hand, using his finger as a pen, and drew something out of thin air. When the city was full of chaos and the sound of crying, he spent a whole day in a lonely house in an isolated garden, cold as ice. When he finished painting the "Picture of Troubled Snow", he looked at the frost on the paper, and looked around, the snowflakes sprayed in from the window, and there was no sound of human words and footsteps around him, as if he was the only one left in the world. Chilling all over his body, he dropped his pen and pushed open the door. Heaven and earth are overcast. Heavy snow blows. He closed his eyes. Tears flowed.

Nguyen Phuc Thanh was placed under house arrest in his former dormitory, unaware of what was happening outside. On this day, he was sitting in the palace, facing the white paper, scribbling indiscriminately, and his heart was irritated. I suddenly heard the voices of people outside the hall and got up to look. The door of the temple opened, and a group of soldiers rushed in, pushed him and walked away. Go straight to the Taihe Palace. There were countless civil and military gatherings inside and outside the hall.

Ruan Phuc Sheng was pushed to the front of the hall, he thought to himself, which brother became the emperor this time, and who will he bow to?

But suddenly I heard the inner chamberlain step forward and said loudly: "Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince!" The first emperor left a secret edict, and if the crown prince was immoral and could not succeed to the throne, the fourth prince Nguyen Phuc Thanh would inherit the throne. The current crown prince colluded with Fayi, which violated the instructions of the previous emperor, so he asked the queen mother to abolish his throne and ask His Royal Highness to take the throne immediately. The country is eternal, and the blessings are eternal. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! ”

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Inside and outside the hall, civil and military officials knelt down together.

Nguyen Phuc Thanh stood there, looking at the entire court that was kneeling at his feet.

He never imagined that one day he would ascend to the throne.

Thinking that his eldest brother Ruan Phuc Yingzhen was abolished, his heart couldn't help but tighten.

Later, he learned that the eldest brother Nguyen Phuc Anh was ideologically inclined to France and had close contacts with the French. His father, Emperor Duc, thought that Nguyen Phuc Nh Thanh did not have the talent to be an emperor, and originally wanted the third prince Nguyen Phuc Nh Nhon to succeed him. However, considering that Nguyen Phuc Nh was too young, he had to make Nguyen Phuc Nh Yen the king, and let Nguyen Van Thuang, Zun Mu Shuo, Chen Jian Cheng and other important ministers assist the government. Emperor Duc died, and his eldest brother Nguyen Phuc Yen Yen succeeded to the throne, and the year name was changed to Yude, which was for Emperor Yude. However, Nguyen Van Xiang and Zun said that there had always been a gap with Emperor Yude, so under the pretext of being friendly with the French, they asked the Empress Dowager to abolish the heir, imprison Emperor Yude, and re-establish himself as emperor.

Nguyen Phuc Thanh sat on the throne in a daze, like a wood carving.

The enthronement ceremony ended hastily, there was no drum music, no ritual songs, and after three bows and nine knocks, the hundred officials dispersed like birds and beasts, and everything seemed to have not changed. The people of the Great Ruan Dynasty will not know about the change of emperor until a long time later, or some will never know, and they don't care.

Early in the morning of the second day. Ruan Fusheng was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard the inner supervisor calling: "Your Majesty should go to the morning court." ”

He was suddenly startled, remembering the incident of being proclaimed emperor yesterday, and suddenly felt that the world was funny, and he couldn't help laughing.

Ruan Fusheng put on the dragon robe and found that in a hurry, this dragon robe was not newly made, but used by his father. Suddenly, my heart was sour, and I was almost about to cry, and suddenly said: "Wash for me, I want to be the emperor with all my spirit." ”

The new emperor picked up his clothes, tightened his robe, walked briskly with the dragon, his face greeted the rising sun, and strode up to the palace with a generous atmosphere. The hundred officials were originally bowing their waists and yawning, ready to deal with things, but when they saw the new emperor's look, they couldn't help but straighten their bodies. The warden had no confidence to eat breakfast and was unprepared to mutter, "The emperor is coming", but suddenly saw the new emperor striding over, the banner behind him was flying, and the gold-armored warriors ran with him, and suddenly he felt that he was back in the time of the Great Ruan Dynasty Weijia Hai. The breath that had been held for several years suddenly rushed up from the bottom of his heart, and he shouted like thunder: "Your Majesty has arrived!" "I feel very happy. All the officials hurriedly knelt down in unison, and unconsciously raised their voices: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

The Venerable said that he stood in front of the hundred officials, watching the new emperor walk up to the hall, his face was still cold and arrogant, but there was a bit of approval in his eyes.

Ruan Fusheng stood in front of the throne, stunned for a moment, brushed the chair surface, and then sat down, clenched his fists, restrained the turbulence in his heart, and was silent for a long time.

The officials had no choice but to kneel like that, peeking at each other. The Venerable Room said that he had already stood up, turned to the hundred officials and raised his hand and said, "You are flat." ”

The officials stood up one after another. The warden frowned, daring to be angry but not daring to speak. Ruan Fusheng didn't say anything, just looked at the Venerable Room and said, as if he didn't care about these things at all.

However, some officials still refused to stand up, just waiting for Nguyen Phuc Sheng's will. The Venerable said to one of the old ministers with a smile: "Boss, why can't you stand up? The old minister scolded: "I only listen to His Majesty's will, but how dare you order a hundred officials?" ”

He said: "You are a loyal minister, but it is a pity that now the loyal minister should go into battle to serve the country and sacrifice his life." Why are you still here? ”

The old minister was so angry that his beard trembled: "The brave generals of my army of the Great Ruan Dynasty are all desperately dying on the battlefield with Fayi." but cheapened you, thief of the country. ”

He stood in front of him with a sneer and said, "Then why don't you die too?" He shouted, "Fa Yi is outside the city, give him a horse and a sword, and let him go out of the city to fight the enemy." ”

The old minister was furious: "I'll kill you dog thief first." He jumped up, and was immediately shot through the neck by the guard who was said by the Venerable Chamber, and pierced through the throat in front of him, and planted himself on the ground. The officials were shocked.

His Royal Highness ran to the sergeant and dragged away the body of the old minister, leaving a bloody mark on the main hall. Only then did he turn to look at Ruan Fusheng and said, "Your Majesty is frightened. Please continue to go on the pilgrimage. (To be continued.) )

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