Chapter 31: The Birds

Early the next morning, the shocking news came from Jingshi, Zhou Yafu went on a hunger strike for five days and vomited blood and died, leaving a suicide note, the content of which was written in blood, and the words were shocking and stunned.

The civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty rolled Zhu Qing lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to say a word, the suicide note was gradually thrown into the court by the angry Son of Heaven, and it was vaguely visible on it, "The birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooked, Wu Guo Wu Zixu, the Yue Guo Wenzi fowl, loyal to the king, died of the king's suspicion, the jailer insulted my father, the court lieutenant insulted Yafu, so far the oath is abolished, the gong dog is difficult to live, the Han family is prosperous, the princes are destroyed, the son of heaven forgets the danger, and the hero should be cooked!" ”

The Son of Heaven was very angry, he didn't believe that the elm head would open his mind and write such an alarmist suicide note, there must be someone behind the trouble.

The princes who were officials in the court were expressionless, as if they hadn't seen the suicide note at all, and they naturally wouldn't believe the suicide note written by Zhou Yafu.

The Son of Heaven wanted to exhaustively investigate, but the subsequent news made the exhaustive investigation an empty letter, Zhou Yafu's wife starved to death at home, leaving a suicide note claiming to follow her husband to the underground without regrets, Zhou Yafu's son-in-law Zhou Yang also starved to death in the prison of Tingwei Mansion, he was not so lucky to get the opportunity to write a suicide note, so he died quietly.

Zhou Yafu's family of three all starved to death, and the time of death was only half a day, and the fool would also show the strangeness, but the reason is not to say and it is not suitable for poor investigation, the people of the Zhou family wore linen and filial piety for the family of three to collect the funeral, and the people who went to the funeral in Beijing were endless, and the people missed the loyal and upright Tiaohou, and organized themselves to mourn for Zhou Yafu.

The court is disgraced, and they will be scolded by the people when they walk on the street, as if they are accomplices who plotted to kill Zhou Yafu, and the noses made by dignitaries are not noses and faces, and there are also a lot of dissatisfaction with the Son of Heaven in their hearts, but when Zhou Yafu killed Zhou Yafu, the Minister of the Manchu Dynasty also acquiesced, so how could he accuse the Son of Heaven in person.

As a border county very close to Dongou and Minyue, he had to reorganize his armaments and guard against the rebellion of the Yue people, and also had to endure the terrible climate of the hot and humid tropical rainforest, which was in fact equivalent to exile and left to fend for himself, and also heralded the end of Zhao Fang's political career.

In the evening of the same day, the Son of Heaven decided to remove Taohou Liu She from the position of prime minister, changed the imperial historian Wei Juan to the prime minister, Wei Wei Zhi was undoubtedly the imperial historian, moved Bai to Hou Xuchang as the guard lieutenant, Gao Wan Hou Bingwu as the court lieutenant, and appointed an inconspicuous Lang Zhong Linghe to strengthen the palace ban on duty.

In order to appease the liehous, he also specially issued an edict ordering Zhou Bo's young son Zhou Jian to be the Marquis of Pingqu and inherit the 15,000 stone feudal kingdom left by the Marquis, so that the bitter lord Zhou family has no reason to continue to make trouble, even if some people have the intention to make trouble, they will lose the reason to continue to make trouble.

Pingyang Hou Mansion outside the city of Chang'an, Beijing Division, listened to the servants of the Hou Mansion dictate the great changes in the court, Cao Shi was shocked into a cold sweat, and he only wrote down the twelve words of "flying birds, good bows hidden, cunning rabbits died, lackeys cooked" at the banquet that day, completely out of sympathy and helplessness for Zhou Yafu, and wrote down a few words casually.

And these twelve characters are not his original, the earliest is the Spring and Autumn Period Fan Li's persuasion of the literature, the early Han Dynasty Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin also said to Emperor Gao once, the canon is not particularly strange, I never thought that these twelve words were interpreted by that week to make such a terrifying text.

It's the text!

Zhou Yafu left a note with blood and made a final struggle with his own death.

With Zhou Yafu's death to the Son of Heaven's text, the silence of the princes means that they have a deep feeling for this text, and it is not difficult to understand the truth that you don't resist the next one who dies.

Fan Qiguang stroked his long beard and said: "The Son of Heaven moved Bai to Hou Xuchang as the guard lieutenant, and it seems to have great intentions to be in charge of the lock and key of the Southern Military Palace, but everyone knows that Bai Zhihou has a gentle temperament and is good Huang Lao and does not like to fight, the Queen Mother likes him very much, and Gao Wanhou Bingwu is too old and weak to be a director, and the two of them are used to ease the contradiction between the Son of Heaven and the liehou!" ”

"Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, how to alleviate the accumulated evils?" Cao Shi was also not very confident in the strategy of the Son of Heaven, he knew that the reconciliation in history was not so successful, the princes were weak and powerless, had millions of family assets but had no military power, and the laws and righteous names of the court were in the hands of the Son of Heaven, and if there was any change, they would be cut off as soon as possible.

When the new monarch felt that the princes were just paper tigers and had no power to curb the ambition of the Son of Heaven, the new monarch would intensify the suppression and eradication until the main body of the princes was eliminated, and the transformation of the princes from gonggou to lackeys was completed.

In the past few days, the princes seemed to have woken up from a big dream, and they swarmed to send worship posts to the Pingyang Marquis' mansion, Princess Yangxin didn't even look at them and threw all these worship posts into the fire, and turned her face to the family officials and ordered: "In the future, the rules in the palace must be made clear, no matter which prince's worship post must be answered cautiously, the prince is very busy in the mansion, and he has no time to accompany those who are not indiscriminate, flying eagles and lackeys." ”

"Isn't this the first time we've received so many prayer posts? It's always a bit fresh that I haven't seen this formation. Cao Shi waved his hand to cover for Hu Sui, Fan Itguang and others to let them retreat.

Princess Yangxin glanced at him: "The princes don't know what the princes want to do, if they accidentally go to a wine banquet that they shouldn't go, they will hold their arms and press their handprints!" ”

"It's not as strict as you said, if there are not so many Hongmen banquets in Taiping today, where do the princes dare to rebel for the alliance, their princess is also clear, Zhou Yafu will be a plate of scattered sand as soon as he dies." Cao Shi took Princess Yangxin's hand and left the front yard, followed only by Wei Junru and Xia Zhi.

After a simple run-in of the Hou Mansion to familiarize themselves with each other's temperament, Princess Yangxin began to clean up the inner courtyard, and the royal maids who usually did not attract much attention were beaten down and promised to be married to the strong men of the Hou Mansion as wives, and those royal maids also knew in their hearts that they could not get the favor of the prince, and they obediently obeyed the princess's arrangement.

Cao Shi knows the soft nature of Princess Yangxin, this tough method is the trick pointed out by the queen in the palace, and he also knows a little about the swords, lights, swords, shadows, guns and hidden arrows in the **, the queen's scheming is extremely powerful, even the old lady in Changle Palace is very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, it can be seen that the queen is what kind of woman she is.

Among the queen's three sons-in-law, the second son-in-law Nangong Hou Zhang sat down and didn't seem to like Princess Nangong very much, the couple had been married for more than a year, and the quarrels kept every day, Nangong Hou Zhang sat in the Hou Mansion and pampered the princess with the maid in the cold, and Princess Nangong often entered the palace and was reluctant to go home, and the ancestors of Nangong Hou were King Zhao and King Lu Yuan, with the label of Zhulu, so he couldn't get the support of the liehous.

The third son-in-law has Princess Tao and Princess Chen Ajiao in the Hou Mansion, and the queen can't allow the queen to point fingers at the little daughter.

Princess Yangxin also knew that her husband's temperament was hidden in the needle, and she did not follow the instructions of the queen to reprimand the maid, but left her favorite Wei Junru as the maid by Cao Shi's side, and Princess Yangxin also left Xia Yu, who grew up with her, as the maid, and it was better to stay by Cao Shi's side as a personal person than to leave the impression of a "jealous woman" to her husband.

The Han family system inherited the open folk customs of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and there was no so-called "jealous woman" One said that Princess Yangxin also loved her husband, and she was worried that she would be too unprovoked and disgusted with the marquis, but it left a shadow crack in the life of the husband and wife.

The two daughters left behind are extraordinary, such as Chunlan and Qiuju, each of whom is good at winning.

Wei Junru is like a natural uncarved jade, with the unique simplicity and innocence of a country girl between words and deeds, Xia Yuruo's carefully carved golden step, dressed and adorned with carefully selected decorations, because she was originally a palace maid who served the queen, she did a good job in the etiquette system, and faintly pressed Wei Junru under it, becoming a well-deserved person among the women of the Hou Mansion.

Princess Yangxin instructed the second daughter to rebuke the redundant maids, enter the inner room and sit down and bowed and said: "According to the etiquette law, the concubine cannot interfere in the foreign affairs of the gentleman, but the military affairs in the court have to be cautious, the gentleman is the respect of the princes, and the prince (Cao Shen) is admired by all generations. The gentleman only needs to keep his mouth shut, and the father will definitely use it. ”

His wife hinted that he would be a good person by talking less, and the emperor's father-in-law would treat him well, which sounded a bit harsh at first glance, but in the monarch and minister system of the Han Empire, it was really a golden and jade good word, and no one in this world would say it except Princess Yangxin, which can be described as well-intentioned.

Cao Shi bowed back with gratitude, and when he saw his wife looking solemn, he sighed: "A moment of glory, a moment of decay, the power is in the hands of the Son of Heaven, I know the importance in my heart, and I am worried about the king." ”

The princes can't see each other for the time being, he is the son-in-law of the Son of Heaven and should belong to the camp of the Son of Heaven, Princess Yangxin's almost begging behavior shows the determination of the Son of Heaven, if the ** of the Liehou is really eaten by him, the fate of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion is just the next Zhou Shengzhi, or the next Zhou Yafu.

At this moment, he suddenly deeply realized that Princess Jiangyi's absurdity and shamelessness may not be temperamental**, if so, how can he be blessed by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to marry the Marquis of Jiang's family, you don't see Princess Guantao is the daughter of Queen Dou, but she only marries Chen Wu, the marquis of 1,800 households, to fill the house, and the gap between the two is terrifying.

Princess Jiangyi may have been instructed by the Son of Heaven to let the princess hold up a shelf to oppress Zhou Shengzhi, and the heart of the Marquis of Jiangzhi gradually changed over time, and she made a jaw-dropping shameful act to provoke Zhou Shengzhi to kill the killer, and the Son of Heaven also easily pulled out the Marquis of Jiangdong from Hedong, but unfortunately the trouble in the city could not be covered, and the Son of Heaven set up Zhou Yafu as the Marquis to suppress the chaotic thoughts in order to calm the turmoil.

When today's son has done a lot of good things in these years, he basically adheres to the policy left by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and expands it, but the arrangement of government affairs and personnel is not satisfactory, and he cannot tolerate meritorious heroes such as Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying, the Marquis of Wei, leaving a bad image of meanness and lack of kindness to the world.

A few days later, Princess Yangxin brought news from the palace that the queen wanted to see her son-in-law.

Cao Shi took a deep breath, knowing that the time to test himself had come, and perhaps this meeting would change the trajectory of his life.

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