"Emperor Taishang, are you okay? A few days ago, when I read the edict of today's 'Emperor Taishang's old illness and harmony', I suddenly had a faint feeling of uneasiness in my heart, when today's son has never issued a holy decree about the emperor's illness, what does this edict mean, is it ......? In the cold rain, Liu Yuxi is staggering on the road of deprecation, and the destination of his trip is Langzhou, because his latest official position is Langzhou Sima, a petty official from the eighth grade.

We used to be a group of small people, without prominent family power, without broad network resources, without strong political backers, only a loyal and patriotic heart that was unwilling to be mediocre. With a lot of political enthusiasm, we gather around you and become the people you trust most. Although you were only the crown prince at that time, your cleverness, benevolence and filial piety made us rejoice and firmly believe that the future Tang Empire will be revitalized in your hands. We swear that no matter how difficult the days ahead, we will be with you and never give up. But God is so unfair that you have a bad fate: you were made the crown prince at the age of 19, and at the age of 23, you suffered the Jingyuan Mutiny, and had to follow your father to escape from Chang'an. At the age of 27, the eldest princess, the mother of the crown princess, was filthy and disturbed the palace, and the incident happened, you suffered from the pond fish, and the prince's status was almost lost; At the age of 44, you had a stroke in bed, and since then we can no longer listen to your earnest teachings, and the palace is even more undercurrent, and you are facing a huge crisis; At the age of 45, Emperor Dezong died, and the eunuch group wanted to set up a new monarch, but fortunately, you were able to ascend to the emperor's throne thanks to the arguments of Wei Cigong, Zheng Qi and others. Looking back at the road, it can be described as thorny step by step, but you finally survived with extraordinary perseverance, which makes us believe that all the ups and downs you have experienced are the necessary tribulations of "the heavens will descend on the people".

You have ascended to the supreme throne, and as your most trusted person, we have also entered the power center of the Tang Empire. With your support and protection, we have carried out reforms in full swing. We stopped the "palace market", and the eunuchs in charge of the "palace market" could no longer buy and sell at a low price, and plundered in disguise, and the phenomenon of "half a horse of red silk and a zhang of silk, tied to the head of the ox to fill the charcoal straight" will never happen again; We disposed of the big corrupt official Jingzhao Yin Daowang Li Shi, demoted him to the governor of Tongzhou, as soon as the edict came out, the whole Chang'an cheered, and some people prepared rubble and stones, to hit Li Shi, Li Shi had to sneak out of Chang'an from the Yueying Gate; We recalled the highly respected and degraded ministers Lu Zhen, Yangcheng and others; We released 300 harem women and 600 teaching women, "The ancient palace is lonely, and the palace flowers are lonely and red." The tragedy of the white-headed palace maid is here, sitting idle and saying "Xuanzong" will be greatly reduced, and I still clearly remember that when the families of these women came to the palace gate to greet their relatives, the people who were mixed with joy and sorrow cried and shook the sky; We abolished the "monthly money" given to the emperor by the salt and iron envoys; We also announced a general amnesty for the whole world, reduced or exempted exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and stopped the "worship" of the emperor in addition to the regular tribute...... Our reforms hit the nail on the head and won a lot of praise.

The reform is in full swing and the situation is very good, which makes us full of vigor and determination to show our strength and feet, push the reform deeper, and seize the command of the eunuch group over the Shence Army. But our heavy punch hit the cotton hard, and no one was called. It turned out that the emperor's edict was so worthless in the eyes of those eunuchs! The blows followed, and Li Chun, the king of Guangling, who had always been at odds with us, was made the crown prince, and that day, when Zheng Qi, a scholar of Hanlin, took the four big words of "Li's inheritance to grow" for you to express his position, you nodded and agreed, and we knew that our reform was about to fail completely. Wang Shuwen sighed, and softly chanted Du Fu's poem "Die before leaving the school, and the hero will be full of tears", but there was a contemptuous laughter in his ears, Liu Zihou and I glanced at each other, shook our heads, and walked away helplessly.

"Long hatred is not as good as water, waiting for the waves on the flat ground", the crown prince Li Chun actually colluded with the elders and eunuchs of the court and the eunuch group to force you off the throne, our only backer has arrived, and we have become catkins in the wind, rootless duckweed, and can no longer control their own destiny, let alone the fate of reform. In 146 days, only 146 days, our reform failed completely, and we were ruthlessly liquidated: Wang Ling died of fear, Wang Shuwen was given to death, Wei Zhiyi, Han Tai, Liu Zongyuan, Han Ye, Chen Ji, Ling Zhun, Cheng Yi, and of course, me, Liu Yuxi, were all demoted to Sima. On the day we left Chang'an, Liu Zihou and I raised our glasses and drank one cup after another, but "the water flowed more when the knife was drawn, and the sorrow was more sorrowful when we raised a glass", and no amount of wine could eliminate the deep sorrow and hatred that lingered in our hearts. As the sun set, the cups and plates were in disarray, it was time to go, and the two of us staggered to our feet, cherished each other, and embarked on the road of thousands of miles of debasement. We were accompanied only by the thin donkey servant and our gray-haired old mother. Farewell, Brother Zihou, I hope we will have a date in the future; Farewell, Emperor Taishang, may you live longer than Nanshan; Farewell, Chang'an; Farewell, Daming Palace; Farewell, Xuandu Guan...... But I firmly believe that I will come back, and I hope that at that time, I will be able to see the old man of the Emperor.

"Tonight, it's time for the Emperor Taishang to control the sky, right?" Ju Wenzhen looked at the cold rain outside the window, and a hideous smile flashed on her uncertain face. Who would have thought that the Li Tang Jiangshan that Tang Gaozu and Tang Taizong had worked so hard to build back then would one day fall into the hands of our eunuchs, and even the lives of their descendants would be under our control. Speaking of which, I would like to thank Tang Xuanzong, the old fool, An Lushan and Shi Siming, the two thieves. If it weren't for the eight-year-long rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Siming, the two rebels, I don't know how long the myth of the prosperity of the Tang Empire would continue; If it weren't for the suspicion and suspicion of Tang Xuanzong's old fool, how could there be a precedent for eunuchs supervising the army, let alone holding heavy troops. It's just that Li Yu, this paralyzed man, is so hateful that he wants to cut our military power. Knowing this, when Emperor Dezong died, we should have set up a new monarch and put it in our hands. What kind of things are those veterans of the DPRK and China, who are powerless, how can they defeat our wolf-like army? However, at the beginning, why were we choked speechless by the three or two sentences of those elders of the DPRK and China? It's a shame to think about.

One person attained the Tao, the chicken and dog ascended to heaven, the paralyzed man ascended to the throne, and the people around him, like Wang Ling, Wang Shuwen, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan, these former little people, flew up to the branches one by one, and the pheasant became a phoenix! They are all hot and proud, so that the Beijing master looks sideways, and they are called "two kings Liu Liu". They are not willing to be lonely, and they have started some bullshit reforms in a hurry. Reform is reform, as long as it does not touch the fundamental interests of our eunuch group, who will let you be in the limelight. You want to release the palace maids, I am in favor; You want to dispose of Jingzhao Yin Li Shi, I agree; I have no opinion that you should reduce the taxes and miscellaneous taxes; You are going to cancel the palace market and cut off one of our ways to make money, I gritted my teeth and endured ....... However, Wang Shuwen, you are too ignorant to lift, and you actually stretched out your hand to the Shence Army, you want to use the means of transferring flowers and trees to take away the command of the Shence Army unknowingly. Give you three or two colors, and you will dare to open a dyeing workshop. What do you think you are? You people have no foundation, and you have no connections, and your only backer is the paralyzed emperor! Your sudden ascension to the throne has made many people's hearts sour, their eyes red, but they still don't know their own respect, and they have made enemies everywhere! What's even more ridiculous is that when Du Huangsheng, the elder of the court, suggested that Li Chun, the king of Guangling, be appointed as the crown prince to buffer the contradiction between you and Li Chun, that foolish Wei Zhiyi actually refused. Do you know that by doing this, you have offended both the elders of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China and Li Chun. Now, you have offended our eunuch group again, and you don't know how thick the sky is. Okay, you give me flowers and trees, and I'll give you a salary from the bottom of the kettle. Since the paralyzed emperor is your only supporter, then we will force him to abdicate; Since you and Li Chun have irreconcilable contradictions, we will make Li Chun the emperor. For a while, the indispensable "two kings Liu Liu" died like this, depreciated, and scattered. If you want to completely destroy your hope and possibility of a comeback, you must let your backer, the former paralyzed emperor, and now the paralyzed emperor, return to bliss. We hit it off with Li Chun, tonight, just tonight, everything will be settled. Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan, you don't have a chance to make a comeback, so you will honestly spend your life in the poor mountains and bad waters.

There was silence in the middle of the night, and there seemed to be no sound except for the sound of the rain, but at this moment, the deep drum night bell of Xingqing Palace suddenly rang, cutting through the silent night sky and echoing in the cold rain. Hearing the silent bell of the night, Ju Wenzhen smiled, and Li Chun was also relieved and let out a long breath.

Luoxi, in the cold rain, the dusty Wei Xin Ping of Gao'an County, Hongzhou and Cheng Shilian, Wei Cheng Shilian of Luling County, Jizhou, knocked on the door of the Yulin Inn. It was a very ordinary roadside inn, but it was here that they met a very unusual person, a man in green named Wang Zhen. No, to be exact, it was a chariot from the underworld named Wang Zhen. The so-called chasers in the underworld, in other words, are the people sent by the underworld to welcome the emperor's ascension to heaven. Xin Pingping accepted the invitation of Wang Zhen, the chapereur of the underworld, and followed more than 500 chasers of the underworld and their leader, the "Great General", into the mysterious palace and witnessed a mysterious death, the mysterious death of a king of ten thousand vehicles:

"The Holy Son of Heaven is blessed by a hundred spirits, and we can't get close to His Majesty the Emperor, let alone welcome him to 'ascend to immortal'. But the deadline for His Majesty's "ascension to heaven" is approaching, and it is urgent to do so? "The general was a little impatient, anxiously asking for advice from his subordinates." It's not difficult, night feast. Wang Zhen smiled slightly and replied calmly. What do you mean ......? The general looked dazed. The night banquet is full of meat, the gods are faint, we take the opportunity to enter, and great things can be helped! Wang Zhen took the trouble to explain, and the general nodded as if he had understood.

Above the night banquet, the candlelight flickered, and the excellent singers sang and danced, gloomy and melancholy. After the third watch, a strange figure suddenly appeared at the night banquet: this person was dressed in a green shirt and black pants, embroidered with red edges, a strange cloak, and a leather crown in the shape of a strange beast, with a layer of red veil on it, and he was dressed in a gloomy and terrifying manner. He held a snow-bright gold dagger more than a foot long, presented it in front of the general, and shouted in a lengthened voice: "The hour has come ......", the voice was neither male nor female, quite like .......

"Eunuch, it's a eunuch", Xin Ping's heart beat wildly, those two words were about to come out, but for some reason they were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't make a single note. I saw that the eunuch held the dagger, climbed the jade steps step by step, walked to the back of the throne and knelt down, and presented the dagger! The banquet was in chaos, and the emperor on the throne looked at the golden dagger in front of him, and suddenly felt dizzy, and was immediately helped into the West Pavilion. For a long time, for a long time, I didn't come out .......

The general said loudly: "The period of 'ascending to immortals' cannot be mistaken, why not welcome Your Majesty's 'immortals'?" A hoarse voice came from the West Pavilion: "Bathe and change clothes, send Your Majesty on the road!" ”

On the fifth watch of the day, the emperor boarded the jade court, and six Tsing Yi carried the jade public opinion and sent it out of the West Pavilion. "This should be the ghost of His Majesty the Emperor, right?" , Xin Pingping guessed in his heart, "It seems that he is more energetic than before his death." The general bowed slightly, and asked awe-inspiringly: "The world is hard, the world is difficult, and those who are the Son of Heaven are even more manageable; And live deep in the court, ** disturbed, body and mind are confused, do you still have a pure and innocent heart? The emperor said, "My heart is not a golden stone, there are many temptations, how can I not be chaotic?" But now that I have given up the world, all the things in my past life are just a passing cloud, and I am relieved. ”

On the nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of Yuanhe, the 46-year-old Emperor Li Yu died in the Xianning Hall of Xingqing Palace. In June, Emperor Li Chun led his ministers to the Emperor Taishang and said "Emperor Zhide Dasheng Da'anxiao", and the temple name was "Shunzong". In autumn and July, he was buried in Fengling.

Li Yu's existence is a joke, although, for the Tang Empire, this joke is not funny at all, and even a little cruel. When the rule of Zhenguan became a distant history, when the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty became a good memory, when the Anshi Rebellion became a lingering pain, the empire was already full of holes, and the breath was dying. The empire urgently needs, more than ever, a bright monarch and a heroic lord to restore the empire to its former prosperity and glory.

Perhaps, God didn't want to disappoint the empire either, so he gave the Li Tang royal family a gift, a big gift, and this gift was Li Yu.

No matter how you look at it, Li Yu is an out-and-out Mingjun billet. He is generous by nature and has the style of a benevolent man; He respects teachers and teaching, and is humble and courteous; He is resolute and decisive; He took the lead and risked the arrows and stones; He is outspoken and dares to admonish, and responds calmly; He has been a reservoir for many years. The whole world is blessed by its shade...... In short, in addition to the body, Li Yu has a faint shadow of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty in many aspects.

When the Tang Empire most needed the Ming monarch to save its declining fate, Li Yu's appearance was undoubtedly a spring breeze, bringing infinite beautiful possibilities to the future of the Tang Empire. It's a pity that God repented, he wanted to destroy this gift, not all at once, that would not be cruel enough, he wanted to tear this gift apart little by little, and then destroy it. First of all, he arranged for Li Xu's father, Li Shi, the idle Dezong Li Shi, to stay on the throne for twenty-six years, and Li Yu could only honestly stay on the throne for twenty-six years. finally waited for Dezong to die, no, before his father died, Li Yu himself was already sick, very sick, not only paralyzed, but also mute.

At the moment of his father's death, Li Yu, who was physically weak, was in a very dangerous situation, but he resolved a crisis with his tenacious will and ascended to the throne thrillingly. It's a pity that his weak body has once again become his weakness, and he can no longer handle the government freely, so he has to hand over the power to the people around him. And his eldest son Li Chun has already been staring at his throne from the sidelines, no matter what, a paralyzed and mute person cannot fight against the vigorous and ambitious Li Chun. As a result, Li Yu, who ascended the throne with difficulty, was easily driven off the dragon chair and became a flashy emperor. Li Yu waited for the emperor's throne for 26 years as a prince, but it was less than 200 days, and he was replaced by his own son before he even celebrated a New Year as emperor. Soon, he died inexplicably.

When the Tang Empire needed the Ming monarch the most, God sent Li Yu to it, and then destroyed it with his own hands, what is a tragedy? This is the tragedy! In this regard, the "New Tang Dynasty Book" also commented regretfully: "In the past, Han Yue said, Shunzong has been in the East Palace for 20 years, and the world has been given by him. However, the country is shallow, unfortunate disease, Moke is promising, and he can also be sad! ”

The cold rain is still floating in the sky above the Tang Empire, and it seems that it is also shedding tears for Li Yu's tragic life. But some people are already busy sharing the big piece of cheese that they bought in exchange for intrigue.

In addition to Emperor Li Chun, the biggest beneficiary of Yongzhen Neizen is the eunuch group with the most contributions: Ju Wenzhen was promoted to the general of the right guard, and he knew how to save trouble; Xue Yingzhen served as a lieutenant in the first month of the first year of Yuanhe; Liu Guangqi got his wish and became a privy envoy. They, without exception, have become hot figures in Chang'an. However, if compared with their juniors, the unknown little yellow door Tutu Chengxuan, they should still be regarded as frustrated people. Within a few years, Tutu Chengguang's official position soared all the way, from the internal servant, the governor of the internal affairs to the general of the Zuo Jian Gate, and then soared, surpassing many senior predecessors in one fell swoop, becoming the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army Protector of the powerful dynasty, and becoming the No. 1 power supervisor in Chang'an. More important than the official position, he is the emperor's most trusted person, there is no one. In the fifteen years since, Chang'an was Li Chun's Chang'an, and in a certain sense, it was also Tutu Chengguang's Chang'an.