Chapter 53 The end of Shi Xiao, the legend of the emperor
In the manuscript of the handwritten book that Li Haoyue got back from Wang Fuzi, the official history and the wild history are intertwined, which one is the real past, no one is clear to future generations, but for An Mingyu, these contents are enough for her to understand everything in the past two hundred years, judge most of the truth, know who is right and wrong, who is her An Mingyu's enemy, and who is not Xiao's descendants.
Imperial calendar, in the thirty-ninth year of Xuande, after the Tai'an princess, the national teacher Pei Zhiche died on the spot in the East Palace because of the leakage of heavenly secrets, but before that, Pei Zhiche had already indicated to the Empress Shangwu that he invited himself to become one of the martyrs of the Tai'an Princess, and because Pei's blessing technique failed to work, he failed to avoid the early death of the princess, and pleaded with the Empress Shangwu to change the tradition of Pei's succession to the national teacher, and chose the heavenly master to become the national teacher of the Tianyu Dynasty.
Although Empress Shangwu approved Pei Zhiche's request to become a martyr and be buried in the burial tomb of Tai'an Tainu, she also decreed that Pei would no longer serve as a national teacher, but she did not choose another heavenly master to become a national teacher, but completely removed the position of national teacher. Since then, the Tianyu Dynasty has no national teacher, and the Pei clan has stayed away from the imperial capital and retired elsewhere. It is said that it was a prayer for the death of the Taian princess, and there is no trace of this clan in history.
Because of the early death of the princess, the Empress Shangwu was overly sad, declaring that the art of poisoning Gu was the way of yin and evil, angering the Yue clan and ordering three generations of her clan not to set foot in the imperial capital. Since then, the Yue clan, which is equivalent to being driven out of the center of power, has left the imperial capital and is nowhere to be found.
In the burial tomb of the Tai'an princess, there are 999 martyrs, which is the royal family with the most martyrs and the highest status in the history of the dynasty. Among them, the low-status people include the eunuchs and palace maids who serve her in the world and the prisoners found from all over the world, and the high-status people include some other Pei clansmen of the Pei clan except Pei Zhiche, as well as the clansmen of the Yue clan of the Poison Gu clan, and even important ministers when she was in power, such as Wen Shuyang and others.
Even though the official history only passed by a few words about this, the wild history has different opinions and countless speculations.
Without the Tai'an princess, the emperor in the harem became more and more out of order, and in the same year, she was killed in the place of a concubine in the harem. And the martial empress still did not change the original intention of pursuing the way of cultivating martial arts, and even intensified her efforts, looking for the matter of cultivating the truth and ascending, retreating to the second son of the emperor, Huangfu Minghuan, and Xuanyuan Huangfu, with the Xuanyuan family, with the countless gold and silver treasures in the treasury that the Tai'an princess had been in power for fifteen years, and went away to find immortals.
It's just that before the abdication of the martial empress, she also did something that made later generations criticize, suddenly degraded the two emperors to concubines, and guarded the imperial tomb, so that the two never appeared in front of the world again. This matter, whether it is the official history or the wild history, has been recorded in it, but the reasons are different.
In the ninth year of Zhenghe, there was a sudden funeral in the palace, announcing to the world that the Empress Shangwu and the Emperor Shengzun both died, however, a group of people who asked the immortals were left with only the Empress Shangwu and returned with the coffin, not only the huge wealth equivalent to a dynasty was gone, but even the Xuanyuan family did not return, as for the coffin brought back by the Empress Shangwu, no one really knew whether there was a Shengzun Emperor or not.
All the ministers of the court knew was that after Empress Shangwu returned to Ziwei City, she died in a few days. Emperor Chengzheng buried the two in the imperial mausoleum as quickly as possible.
Therefore, Yeshi claimed that the Pei, Yue, and Xuanyuan clans had already been exterminated for various reasons, and Yeshi also said that there were no bodies in the coffins in the mausoleums of the Empress Shangwu and the Shengzun Emperor, because the two were not actually dead, but really found the way to cultivate the truth and ascend, and the two took the Xuanyuan clan to ascend. The reason why Empress Shangwu came back was probably just to say goodbye to Emperor Chengzheng.
Regardless of the truth, one thing is certain, Empress Shangwu and Emperor Shengzun did embezzle the treasury and take away an incomparably huge fortune, leaving the successor Emperor Chengzheng a mess.
It is precisely because of this pile of messes that there is no Tai'an princess, and the ministers of the imperial court, who were originally worried, discovered that Emperor Chengzheng, who was not favored by everyone, had not bad abilities. If you don't compare with the Tai'an princess, Emperor Chengzheng can be said to be a Ming monarch.
During his reign, he was diligent in political affairs, worked hard day and night, and made great efforts to make the country prosperous, and in just ten years, he filled a huge deficit in the state treasury.
However, just when everything seemed to be on the right track and going in the direction that the courtiers wanted, Emperor Chengzheng was assassinated at the imperial sacrifice ceremony. Although he was unharmed because of his strong force, the queen and several of her princes and concubines were all killed, and the world was shocked.
In order to continue the bloodline of the royal family, Emperor Chengzheng, who was originally in deep love with the queen, covered his sorrow, broke the principle of monogamy with the queen and did not accept others, and selected several beauties from various families to enter the harem.
Xu because his lover and the children born to his lover died, and because he dealt with the government day and night, Emperor Chengzheng's health became worse and worse, and Yu Zhenghe died suddenly in the Qinzheng Palace in the twenty-third year of Yu Zhenghe, only forty-seven years old.
After Emperor Chengzheng, the young Emperor Yongmu succeeded to the throne, because he was only seven years old, he was listened to by his mother, the Empress Dowager Shengyi, Xiao Shi, and his uncle Xiao Yanchen served as the regent to supplement the government.
Emperor Yongmu was indecisive all his life and rarely dealt with the government, resulting in the dictatorship of his relatives Xiao family. I don't know if he inherited it from the Empress Shangwu, in short, this emperor also likes to cultivate immortals and asks, even more indulgent in this way than the Empress Shangwu. However, he was not addicted to martial arts like the Martial Empress, but found countless "immortal law" pills, wanting to become an immortal.
It's just that Cheng Xian hasn't been seen yet, but because he is taking various pills, his health is worse than that of his father.
One day, Emperor Yongmu, who was not far from death, woke up, no longer consumed pills, and in order to save himself, he retired to Emperor Jingshun, wanting to go out to find immortals to save his life. For some reason, the Xiao clan, a foreign relative in power, gave up the power in their hands, and the Ju clan and Emperor Yongmu left the imperial capital and did not know where to go.
At that time, his daughter Yunshang Emperor Ji was both civil and military, and was the successor with the highest voice among the ministers in the court, but Emperor Yongmu was passed on to the irascible and bloodthirsty Jingshun Emperor, just because he was the prince.
Emperor Yongmu, who has been indecisive all his life, only does not hesitate in two things, one is his path to cultivating immortals, and the other is the establishment of the crown prince. He always believed that a woman could not be called emperor, and as for his imperial grandmother, the Empress Shangwu, who could be called emperor, in his opinion, it was a complete mistake, even if he became the emperor's descendant and was able to succeed to the throne.
Regarding the family rule modified by Tai'an Tai'an, "the successor can be a woman", the emperor directly ignored it, after all, he didn't know this aunt. Because everything about her has been ordered by the Empress Shangwu since her death, there are only a few sentences of records. A sick aunt who failed to be the emperor at all did not get the attention of Emperor Yongmu at all.