Chapter 843: Shocked to Know the Truth (Second Update)
"It turned out to be him!" At the Warden of Taifu Temple, Li Yuntian looked at the note in his hand in surprise, and only two words were written on the note, "A Qiu".
"No wonder he wants to put you to death, you ruined his big thing back then." Hu Yitu, who was sitting opposite Li Yuntian, frowned and said, it seems that this Ah Qiu is not only resourceful but also quite persistent, and he actually ran to the capital to take revenge on Li Yuntian.
"Uncle Hu, I don't think it's that simple." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and said with a stern expression, "If I'm not mistaken, this Ah Qiu is the Northern Yuan who took refuge with Wen Yongbo. ”
"What you mean is that he is not looking for you to take revenge on you for breaking the affairs of Beiyuan, but using Beiyuan to take revenge on you." Hu Yitu immediately understood what Li Yuntian meant, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"I hate me to the core, and I can say that Wen Yongbo took refuge in Beiyuan, his age reminds me of a person." Li Yuntian frowned tightly and looked at Hu Yitu expressionlessly.
"Lu Tianxing, the second son of Duke Wei!" Hu Yitu had already guessed who he was suspicious of from Li Yuntian's words, so he said in a deep voice.
"After the rebellion of the King of Han was put down, Lu Tianxing disappeared, I originally thought he died in the war, but now it seems that he did not die, but regarded me as a target for revenge." Li Yuntian smiled bitterly and let out a long breath, he didn't expect that there would be more than ten years of grievances and entanglements with Lu Tianxing.
If Ah Qiu is Lu Tianxing, then all the qiē can be explained.
Wen Yongbo Guchen received the great favor of Lu Zhongqian, the Duke of Weiguo, and was loyal to Lu Zhongqian, and the reason why he took refuge in the Northern Yuan Dynasty was to assist Lu Tianxing in revenge, it was obvious that he could not ignore Lu Tianxing, otherwise how to face the dead Lu Zhongqian in the future.
And another mystery was also solved, that is, why most of the people involved in Fang Liang's case were people who followed King Han back then, it seems that after the rebellion of King Han was quelled, Lu Tianxing's temperament changed greatly, and he hated Feng Changan and Wu Tong and others.
"I'm afraid he doesn't just want to seek revenge on you." Looking at Li Yuntian who was deep in thought, Hu Yitu's brows furrowed tightly, Ah Qiu's family was ruined, and he tried his best to set this trap I am afraid that it is not just to take revenge on Li Yuntian.
"This guy is just crazy." Li Yuntian suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, and when he saw the grim expression on Hu Yitu's face, he immediately realized what Hu Yitu was worried about, and he couldn't help but change his face.
Judging from Lu Tianxing's current situation, he should not let go of those who had made great contributions to quelling the rebellion of King Han, or he really wanted to assist the prince of Han to ascend the throne in order to fulfill Lu Zhongqian's wish.
As a result, Lu Zhongqian became the meritorious service of Ming Conglong from a rebellious criminal, I am afraid this is the result that Lu Tianxing wants.
"Uncle Hu, you immediately tell my father-in-law the news, and at the same time ask my father-in-law and Yu Tingjia to send people to protect the safety of the mansion, if Ah Qiu is really Lu Zhongqian, I beware that he will attack the Zhongguo Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion!" Then, Li Yuntian remembered something and said to Hu Yitu with a stern expression.
"Okay, I'll go." Hu Yitu knew that this matter was very important, and immediately got up and left, if Lu Zhongqian came to take revenge, then the Zhenguo Mansion and the Zhongguo Mansion would bear the brunt.
Not to mention that it was Li Yuntian who blocked the King of Han in Heiniu Town, and Lu Zhongqian failed to cross Zhou Zheng's defense line to support, and finally led to the defeat of the King of Han, because of Zhou Yuting's emotional entanglement between Li Yuntian and Lu Tianxing, Lu Tianxing would take revenge on the Zhenguo Mansion and the Zhongguo Mansion.
The reason is very simple, if it weren't for Li Yuntian's "horizontal knife snatching love" to snatch Zhou Yuting, if it wasn't for Zhou Zheng's "eyes and beads" to marry Zhou Yuting to Li Yuntian, then Zhou Yuting is now his wife.
"Lu Tianxing!" After Hu Yitu left, Li Yuntian slammed his fist on the table, and said coldly, it seems that the grievances between the two will soon be understood.
After receiving Hu Yitu's warning, the Zhenguo Mansion and the Zhongguo Mansion coincidentally strengthened their defenses, and Zhou Yuting also specially transferred 300 elite warriors from outside the city to the Zhenguo Mansion to ensure the safety of the mansion.
Since the magnates in the capital have strengthened the guards in the mansion, the actions of the Zhenguo Mansion and the Zhongguo Mansion have not aroused the slightest suspicion from the outside world, which is a normal thing in everyone's opinion.
As the date of Emperor Xuande's funeral approached, the situation in the capital became more and more tense, and the atmosphere became more and more depressing.
Everyone knows that Emperor Xuande will discuss the prince's accession to the throne after the funeral, but judging from the current situation, the prestige of King Yue is growing, which makes everyone a little worried.
On the first day of the second month of the tenth year of Xuande, the capital was empty, and all the people gathered on the street to send a funeral to Emperor Xuande.
The funeral procession has to go through the Donghua Gate, in front is the guide team holding all kinds of utensils, behind is the coffin carried by seventy-two barmen, and then followed by the harem concubines and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, the sedan chair is continuous, mighty, and the cry is earth-shattering.
When the coffin appeared, the people knelt down to bid farewell to Emperor Xuande, many people cried bitterly, I have to say that the ten years of Emperor Xuande's reign were the best ten years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the country and the people are safe, and the people have gained a lot of benefits.
It is worth mentioning that the seventy-two barmen who carry the coffin should perform the bars in Deshengmen for ten days before the funeral, that is, the barmen first carry a piece of Dulong wood with the same weight as the coffin according to the scale and requirements of the official funeral, which weighs about 10,000 catties, and put a bowl of water on it, and practice until the water can not be spilled when leaving.
According to the custom, at the forefront of the guide team are 64 flag-bearers, holding high the banner umbrella of the people; Then there was the Emperor's Halo Guard of Honor, numbering 1,600 people, who carried all kinds of weapons, flags, and all kinds of paper or satin zuò "burning", all the way mighty and very majestic.
The bearers who carried the coffin were all dressed in filial piety clothes, and they were all tall and tall, and 128 people in each class took turns to carry them in three shifts.
In addition, there are a large number of monks, Taoist priests, nuns, Taoist aunts and lamas in the funeral procession, wearing Dharma robes and holding legal instruments, constantly playing and chanting.
If you calculate carefully, the whole funeral procession is more than ten miles long, there is a distance of more than 100 miles from the capital to the Jingling of Emperor Xuande of Tianshou Mountain, so every other distance to set up a reed hall for stopping the spirit and the funeral team to rest, and this kind of reed hall is also a jade step golden tile, Zhu Bi is intertwined, very gorgeous.
It is worth mentioning that the construction of Jingling began in the ninth year of Xuande, and Emperor Xuande had a premonition that his illness was difficult to recover, so he immediately sent people to the Tianshou Mountain Mausoleum District to start construction on June 15, the ninth year of Xuande (1435).
Mu Jing, the eunuch of the inner court, Li Xian, the marquis of Fengcheng, Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Cai Xin, the waiter, were ordered to supervise the work, and Zhu Yong, the prince of Chengguo, Li Yu, the new Bo Li Yu, the governor Shen Qing, and the yamen of the inner government, Jinyiwei, etc., sent a total of 100,000 military and civilian craftsmen to work.
When Emperor Xuande was at the funeral, Jingling only repaired the burial chamber where he was buried, and other supporting facilities were not completed.
Historically, Emperor Xuande's Jingling was built in the tenth year of Xuande, and it was not completed until the seventh year of Tianshun, which lasted intermittently for a total of 28 years.
After the completion of the construction of Jingling, its Shinto Road is separated from the south to the east of the North Wukong Bridge of the Changling Shinto, which is about three miles long, and a single empty stone bridge is built on the way.
The mausoleum is oriented to the south and west, covering an area of about 25,000 square meters, and the treasure city is built into a slender shape with a circle in front and a back due to the topography. The two square courtyards in front and the treasure city in the back are connected as a whole, and the central axis is built in turn to build the Qi'en Gate, the Qi'en Palace, the three gates, the Lingxing Gate, the stone offering case, the square city, the Ming Tower and other buildings.
Li Yuntian was mixed in the funeral personnel of Taifu Temple, the look on his face was extremely sad, it stands to reason that his current identity is a civilian and cannot participate in the funeral, but in order to fulfill the friendship of the monarch and ministers, he still has to send Emperor Xuande on his last journey.
After ten miles out of the city, Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Sun stopped, and led the ladies of the harem to bid farewell to Emperor Xuande's coffin, which will be escorted by the courtiers to Jingling for burial.
Due to the slow journey, it was only five days later to arrive at Jingling, under the auspices of the Taishi Zhang Fu, everyone bowed to the coffin of Emperor Xuande and sent it into the mausoleum, announcing the end of an era of the Ming Dynasty and the arrival of a new era.
On the seventh day of the second month, the funeral courtiers rushed back to the capital one after another, and after a day of rest, they will attend the great court held in the Taihe Hall on the ninth day of the second month, when the prince's accession to the throne will be discussed.
On the eighth day of the first month of February, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, Chengyong Bo Xue Yi rushed to the capital.
What is different from the past is that Xue Yi came with 50,000 Shanhaiguan defenders, and it turned out that Empress Sun used Jun Zhi to transfer troops from Shanhaiguan in the name of the crown prince, and even Empress Dowager Zhang did not know in advance.
Therefore, it was not until the defenders of Shanhaiguan were less than five miles away from the capital that the people in the capital got the news, which immediately made the situation in the city even more complicated.
According to the prince's decree, the reason why he transferred Xue Yi to come this time was to prevent the "remnant party" of Chen Tianlei and Feng Chang'an's case from making trouble.
Empress Dowager Zhang was taken aback when she learned of this, she never imagined that Empress Sun would hide from her to transfer troops, although she was dissatisfied but helpless, after all, Empress Sun was already the empress dowager of the Ming Dynasty, and according to the custom, Empress Sun should be in charge of the harem and assist the prince before he ascended the throne.
However, although the defenders of Shanhaiguan rushed over, they could not enter the capital, and could only be stationed outside the city, first, the city did not prepare a camp for them, and secondly, the capital was an important place where the imperial court was located, so the rest of the troops were forbidden to enter except for the Beijing army stationed in the capital, and even the Xiaowu army could only obediently stay in the Xiaowu army camp outside the city.
After all, the crown prince is not the emperor yet, so the defenders of Shanhaiguan cannot enter the capital, and if they want to force their way in, it will inevitably lead to a conflict.
Just imagine, if the prince can transfer troops into the city, then the emperor will not be able to sleep and eat, although the prince is the prince, but this rule can never be broken. R1148