Chapter 78: Resentment
Like a thunderbolt from the blue, Yang Shouzheng's reaction to hearing this bad news can be imagined.
He was stunned on the spot, and the pen in his hand fell to the ground.
"My lord, go and take a look, it's too late." Someone kindly reminded me.
Yang Shouzheng didn't wear any shoes, so he ran out barefoot.
"Kill him! Kill him!! Kill him!!! ”
In the distance, Yang Shouzheng heard many people yelling angrily.
He squeezed into the crowd, just in time to see the executioner's knife fall, a stream of blood rising into the sky, his father's head rolling at his feet, a pair of eyes wide open, staring at his son unwillingly.
Yang Shouzheng's mind was dizzy for a while, and he almost couldn't stand steadily.
"You've come just in time." Emperor Zhengde said loftyly, "Your father has hurt heaven and reason, and he has already subdued the law." My aunt remembered that your fame was not easy to come by, and you were not at fault in this matter, so I will not pursue it. I hope you will clean yourself in the future, and don't let down my hard work! ”
Yang Shouzheng knelt down and picked up his father's head, his mind blank.
"I said that you countrymen are too, once you have a will, you are incoherent. I was originally a kind-hearted person who made your father and son glorify their ancestors, but I didn't expect such a turmoil. ”
"You fart!" Yang Shouzheng was furious, suddenly jumped up from the ground, stared at Emperor Zhengde, and his eyes were about to split, "Although my father has never read, he has always been honest and has never done anything beyond his duty, let alone doing anything that hurts heaven and reason!" As the Ninth Five-Year Honor, how can you be so hasty in judging people's life and death? Is your head pinched by tofu scum and fart?! ”
Jiang Feng'er died, his father was beheaded, the two closest people in the world died innocently and tragically, anger and grief overwhelmed Yang Shouzheng's mind, and he didn't care about any courtesy.
Emperor Zhengde was completely stunned, he never imagined that anyone would dare to talk to him like this, and couldn't help but say, "You...... What did you say? ”
"I said you're a pig! Who doesn't know what bullshit fame you have?! ”
Yang Shouzheng took off the crown of champions on his head, threw it heavily on the ground, and stepped on it several times.
Emperor Zhengde is also crazy now.
He was still a little guilty in his heart, and he wanted to keep Yang Shouzheng's fame, who knew that he Yang Shouzheng didn't know what to do, not only did he appreciate it, but also insulted and humiliated the royal laurel in public, which is really bearable, which is unbearable?
"Chop this unknown thing into meat sauce!"
In the end, the ministers persuaded each other, saying that the champion of the new department suddenly changed and lost his mind, and he did not intend to contradict the emperor. Zhengde spared Yang Shouzheng from death, got rid of fame, and never hired.
Before dawn, Zhengde picked up the people and went back to Beijing angrily.
Overnight, Yang Shouzheng went from a new champion to a joke all over the world.
No one was willing to help, so he was the only one who carried his father up the mountain and hastily wrapped a broken mat and buried it. And people are not allowed to bury this thief in the ancestral grave of the Yang family, so he can only be buried alone in the barren mountains where wild boars are often infested.
"The old ones are whores, but how good will the little ones be? Be careful with your sows, hahahaha......"
"Oh, father and son are in the same department, it's disgusting to think about it......"
"Don't say it again, if you say it again, people will say that your head is tofu scum and fart, hahaha......"
"After being the champion for three days, it's finally a good time, it's better than us hillbillies who have farmed all our lives, right?"
"Also, if I become the champion, I don't know if I dare to scold the emperor for being a pig? Hahahaha...... People think he's a pet and play around, and he takes it seriously, thinking that people think he's a son. ”
“……”
When a person falls from the clouds, all of them will step on it, which is the same truth through the ages. Because when you were in the clouds and they looked up at you, their necks were really sore. The most unseemly thing for people is not that they have been down, but that those who were originally on an equal footing with themselves suddenly became high and let them look up. The happiest thing in the world is that this kind of person suddenly falls down again, falls into the dust, and is sorry for himself if he doesn't step on it a few times.
Yang Shouzheng was drowning in saliva and white eyes, and his backbone was almost broken. He didn't dare to go out, he didn't dare to see people, and he locked himself in his house all day. Even so, buckets of feces were often poured into his yard, walls, and roof.
Yang Shouzheng lost weight day by day, and his eyes were deeply sunken, and in the end, he was like skin and bones, which was shocking.
Yang Shouzheng fell ill. He was lying on the bed, and it was difficult to even turn over, and his body felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar for a while, and then it was like he was in a furnace.
He was moaning in the cold night, but no one heard him, and others were sitting around his warm home, drinking with jokes about the new champions......
In the harsh winter, the cold wind is howling, and in Yang Shouzheng's heart, there is also a cold wind whistling.
He tore to shreds the unfinished policy that he was going to dedicate to Emperor Zhengde, and then ate it all to his stomach, choking on his tears.
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To say, although Emperor Zhengde is naughty and naughty, his essence is not bad, and he has never had any scheming to harm others. Unexpectedly, this small incident caused a huge turmoil. Although Yang Shouzheng scolded him to his face, he was very angry, but after a few days, he became more and more uneasy. Especially thinking of Yang Shouzheng's eyes at that time, he was even more restless and sighed.
Back in the capital, Emperor Zhengde, who used to be greedy for good things, stopped playing, stopped making trouble, and handled political affairs seriously.
At that time, Emperor Zhengde's favorite was none other than the eunuch Zhang Yong. This man is the best at observing words and feelings, and he knows his master best. Seeing that Emperor Zhengde came back from Yang Shouzheng's hometown, he was very unusual, and he thought that something unusual must have happened during this trip, so he asked the reason for the incident. Emperor Zhengde trusted him very much, and finally revealed the secret in his heart to Zhang Yonghe.
Zhang Yong didn't say anything at that time, but only comforted Emperor Zhengde a few words.
Afterwards, Zhang Yong quietly told Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, about the incident.
"You can't hide the fire in the paper, those villagers will find out the ins and outs of the matter sooner or later, what face does the court have at that time?" The two of them had a general mind, and finally decided on a cruel decision.
King Ning personally ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses, and killed Yang Shouzheng's hometown at night, killing people when he saw them, and cutting things when he saw them. As the saying goes, the grass is cut and the roots are removed, and the chickens and dogs are not left, and the whole village is stained red with blood.
One of the officers and soldiers went to Yang Shouzheng's house.
At this time, Yang Shouzheng was lying on the hospital bed, dying.
"Why did you kill me?" Yang Shouzheng asked breathlessly.
"Master Zhuangyuan, you are the last living person in this village." King Ning looked down at Yang Shouzheng on the hospital bed with pity and said, "Since you are about to die, I will do a good deed and let you be a ghost." In fact, Jiang Feng'er was not killed by your father, your father carried the black pot for the emperor. The emperor didn't mean to kill, he just wanted to steal Jiang Million's cricket, so he had no choice but to go to the wrong room. This can be regarded as Jiang Fenger's life, she died in such a daze, which is indeed a bit wronged. ”
Although Yang Shouzheng was seriously ill, his mind was still clear, and he already understood the intention of King Ning's trip in a flash: "You came this time to kill the whole village, to kill people and kill people?" ”
King Ning said: "This is also something that can't be helped. If this matter spreads, the system of the court and the face of the royal family will be gone, and the impact will be so great that you and I can't afford it. So, I had to make this decision. ”
Yang Shouzheng's heart is like ashes.
King Ning said, "What else do you have to say?" For the sake of your innocence and a champion, if you have any unfulfilled wishes, this king will help you fulfill them as appropriate. ”
"I only have one word." Yang Shouzheng said calmly.
"You say."
"Are you tired of maintaining such a baby emperor like this? The bear doll is in charge, how many people do you have to kill? ”
Sowing such a seed in King Ning's heart, Yang Shouzheng died with a smile.
Listening to Yang Shouzheng's last words, King Ning fell into deep thought, and after going back, he didn't sleep well for several days and nights.
After Yang Shouzheng died, a rush of resentment became heavier and heavier, and he decided to take revenge.
Originally, the ghost who was unjustly killed would only be full of resentment towards the person who killed him, as long as he killed the person who killed him, after taking revenge, the resentment would naturally dissipate. However, he hated Emperor Zhengde, hated King Ning, hated those officers and soldiers under them, hated the imperial court, hated those villagers who had insulted him, and he hated all the people.
The power of resentment is staggeringly terrifying.
In this tragedy, more than 1,000 villagers died innocently in vain, and they were also full of resentment.
Yang Shouzheng absorbed all these grievances, made himself stronger, and killed all the soldiers brought by King Ning, leaving King Ning to flee back with a dozen people.
Then, he possessed a small soldier under the command of King Ning, and quickly gained the trust of King Ning, becoming King Ning's most relied on right and left hand.
Two years later, King Ning rebelled.
To replace the emperor, it is necessary to count the crimes of the current emperor. Stealing crickets, killing people's daughters by mistake, and framing the champion's father are naturally also included, which is equivalent to rehabilitating Yang Shouzheng from another aspect.
"The children are in charge, the chickens fly and the dogs jump. I sit on the country, the world is peaceful! ”
What Yang Shouzheng wants is that Emperor Zhengde and King Ning kill each other, he wants the entire Ming Dynasty to be Jiang Feng'er, his father, and himself to be buried, the more people who die, the better!
But it backfired. It has only been forty-three days since King Ning's uprising, and Emperor Zhengde's side is still slowly and logically, and Wang Yangming's side has already extinguished King Ning's rebellion with lightning speed, and Wang Ning was captured alive. Emperor Zhengde, who was about to show his strength, was so angry that he thundered, but he didn't hurt a single hair.
Of course, Yang Shouzheng was not reconciled. He simply turned into a ghost and entered Emperor Zhengde's bedroom every night, and did not kill him directly, just to make him panic.
Finally, Emperor Zhengde died in terror at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, leaving not even a son.
"I can't do anything about it. He reached the queen mother with his intentions, and the world was serious, and he was tried and dealt with by the ministers. The past is all wrong, and it is not something that you can predict. ”
This is the last words left by Emperor Zhengde, and it can be regarded as a deathbed confession.