Chapter 28: Rebellion
Blood splattered. General Wang waved his sword and pointed it at the sky, and said angrily: "Shut up!" Alarmists, execute on the spot! The Qin State fought in all directions, and then there were Xiongnu chasing soldiers and assassins who restored the country in the old Xia. ”
Takubahiro over there didn't know what was going on.
Concubine Zhen held his hand all the time. Lin Yuan sat alone on the concubine's chariot, raising her eyes to look at the red glow of the fire in the sky.
"How's the road ahead?" She tightened her shirt.
Miss Liu was silent, holding her bow and crossbow tightly in her hand. Lin Yuan looked ahead fixedly.
Heh, will you die here? The enemy army is outnumbered......
Lin Yuan gritted her teeth and closed her eyes. It's false to say that you're not afraid, I'm a woman after all.
The dull sound of the horn was like a loud sound that shook the earth, almost bursting through the eardrums. It was the Huns beating the drum order......
Wait a minute! Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.
It doesn't sound right.
The Huns worshipped the eagle totem, and the horn sounded loud and loud, implying the broadest sky. Moreover, the Huns are rude, and their royal rituals are far less solemn than those of the Central Plains......
But now the voice ...... It's not the kind of feeling that is often heard on the battlefields of North Cyprus these days.
Lin Yuanhuo sat up, flew on the horse, and shouted left and right: "Those who are not afraid of death will go with this palace!" The main palace is going to the North City Gate! ”
She galloped on a flying horse, having never ridden so fast in her life. She gradually felt the weirdness of things, which was a hundred times more terrifying than the real Hun army pressing the realm!
"Lady!" Someone recognized Lin Yuan who came on horseback.
Lin Yuan stood at the forefront of the battle. There is no cold in the middle of the night, there is no fear of being on a bloody battlefield, there is no anxiety about seeing the pressure of the army. She looked blankly at the "enemy army" on the opposite side with a blank look.
She licked her chapped lips with difficulty and muttered, "General Zhang......"
She has always known that Zhang Kaishan is a henchman of the East Palace, and he is also the largest military general force that the prince of the country can mobilize now.
But why, would he stand opposite him, the hundreds of thousands of garrisons in the capital, would stand opposite the holy car?
Lin Yuan used the only remaining courage to shout: "Stop!" Hurry up and ...... the army"
The sound came to an abrupt end. Several generals swept her off the horse with the barrel of their guns, and then tied her with ropes, shouting: "Concubine Shu has been captured!" Zhang Kaishan led the army to rebel, take him down quickly! ”
Juyong passes the south gate.
Tuoba Hong finally got the report, and the governor of the capital, Zhang Kaishan, rebelled, and led the army to Juyongguan to kill the king.
Half an hour later, Concubine Shu, Zhang Kaishan and his cronies were all tied up and brought to the Holy Driver. However, they did not see the emperor's face, and Tuoba Hong directly issued an order, the concubine was imprisoned, and Zhang Kaishan and the others were executed on the spot.
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who followed Zhang Kaishan to Juyong Pass did not really meet with the defenders of Juyong Pass. After Zhang Kaishan and the others were taken away, the rest of the soldiers, led by a general surnamed Qiu, knelt down to plead guilty, and explained that they didn't know that General Zhang was plotting at all, and only thought that they were here to save the driver.
At the moment when the enemy of the Huns is present, how dare the emperor have civil strife, and if hundreds of thousands of people are determined to rebel, they are forced to really rebel, and it will be over.
At this time, Tuoba Hong was so angry that he was angry, and Zhang Kaishan's rebellion made him angry than the Xiongnu really captured Juyong Pass. He interrogated several military attachés who led the troops, and what they said was the same as that of General Qiu, and he came to the conclusion that these soldiers were loyal to the Great Qin and the Tuoba royal family, and it was Zhang Kaishan who deceived them and made them mistakenly think that they had come to Juyongguan to save the driver, and this was the reason why an oolong was staged.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been brainwashed by the idea of "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism", and it is really impossible to rebel together. And he is not one of those faint kings in history, forcing the people below to rebel.
So Tuoba Hong swallowed the fire in his belly, waved his hand to indicate that it was a misunderstanding, and only killed Zhang Kaishan and his cronies.
When Lin Yuan saw the sunshine of this world again, it was ten days later.
The holy car has already left Juyong Pass and headed south. The farther south you go, the warmer it gets, the coldness of Beisai gradually fades, and the Huai River in the Central Plains coincidentally floods, flooding all the way to northern Shaanxi, turning a large area of plains into swamps.
After leaving Juyong Pass, the holy driver and his accompanying brigade did not encounter the enemy's pursuers, but because the swamp was too difficult to walk, the army trekked hard, and even the wheels of the emperor's sedan car were sunk several times. The army walked slowly, and Takubahiro was so anxious that if he wasn't injured, he would have jumped out of the car and rode away.
And the rest, whether it was the favored Concubine Zhen or the imprisoned Concubine Shu, were pulled out and rode away. The wheels always sink in, and you have to waste a lot of work to pull the cart.
Lin Yuan was tied up in a dark sedan chair for ten days, and she had to be glad that the flood disaster was finally able to come out to breathe.
She was dizzy and was led by a horse, surrounded by people in the dark, and the posture of guarding the female prisoner was full. Her mind was a little unconscious, and she fell asleep while sitting on the horse, dreaming of her previous life, dreaming of Kiki.
Someone next to her whispered to her about the night Juyong Guan broke the city: "...... General Zhang kept shouting injustice when he was dragged down, and when he cut off his head, he shouted that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had no intention of rebellion. ”
That night, General Wang led his troops to meet the enemy, and when he saw that it was General Zhang, he ordered everyone to stop. And General Zhang was ...... at that time It's also a herald to tell his soldiers to lay down their weapons! But the adjutant generals who followed behind General Wang shouted that they were rebelling and led the army to kill them without authorization! That's when the trouble is out of control! ”
"General Zhang was executed in a hurry, and later a close confidant next to the general was executed the next day, so he released some news. said that General Zhang received the will of the East Palace to come to Juyongguan, and the will was indeed 'to save the driver'. The reason why General Zhang attacked the city was because he received a military intelligence report that Juyong Pass had been captured by the Huns, and the emperor was besieged by enemy troops. He thought that the soldiers and horses in Juyong Pass were Huns, so he hit the city gate......" [1]
That is the most loyal henchman that Lin Yuan has ever won the hearts of the people, even if she is convicted of treason and imprisoned by the emperor's decree, there will be people who are not afraid of death to be loyal to her and pass on key news to her.
Unfortunately, she didn't listen much.
She didn't know how Xiaoqi was doing now.
On April 18 of the 20th year of Qianwu, the prince of the East Palace was sick, and the emperor, who was thousands of miles away, sent a decree to order the emperor's eldest son, King Zhao, to supervise the country.
On April 19, the holy decree was handed down again, and the fifth son of the emperor, King Wu, was appointed as the commander of the northern Xinjiang and commanded the war of the Three Kingdoms. Feng Huaien was crowned from the first rank of the Great Sima, and the position was only below the general of Shangzhu State.
At this time, the emperor did not rush back to the capital. After heading south from Juyong Pass, he traveled west to Yunzhou. That was where the king of Xiliang was.
The group of soldiers who were "incited to rebel" in Juyong Pass had already been sent back to the capital by the emperor. Tuoba Hong is not worried that they really have the intention of rebellion - they are all sons of ordinary people, where is the power and ambition of the aristocratic class? Moreover, when the East Palace was "sick" for no reason and all matters in the capital were handed over to King Zhao, these defenders of the capital did not show a trace of abnormality. Even General Zhen, who took over as commander-in-chief after Zhang Kaishan's death, and several lieutenant generals did not have any objections.
Then the defenders of the capital traveled thousands of miles and hurried back to the capital, first of all, they were ordered to welcome the king of Zhao to the court to supervise the country.
Tuoba Hong relieved himself and led the soldiers to Yunzhou.
On the tenth day of the fifth month, he issued the third holy decree to the world - to pardon Tuoba Yu, the king of Western Liang who was detained in the capital, and at the same time announced in the name of the emperor that Chu Dakai died in the hands of the Xia people many years ago for the country, not by the assassination of Xiliang.
Since then, Xiliang has finally come out of the crisis.
King Wu, who was fighting far away in the territory of the Xiongnu, gradually showed his edge. Even though he broke with the Tibetans, the Western Liang forces led by Feng Huaien rose more and more, giving him the most reliable support.
However, in the place of Yunzhou in Western Liang, since the death of Tuoba Yu's father, the entire fief is not actually the new king of Western Liang, but everything is based on the general Feng Huaien. Feng Huaien was the confidant of the King of Xiliang in his early years, and later the King of Xiliang and his only concubine died of illness one after another, and several concubines took over the throne and made a lot of trouble, and the Xiliang Palace's mansion had long been in decline. Feng Huaien, as a military general with military power in his hands, naturally gathered his authority.
So it doesn't matter whether the emperor pardons Tuoba Yu or not.
Takubahiro understands this as well. But he still decreed pardon. King Xiliang is still regarded as Feng Huaien's master. At that time, King Wu ascended the throne, and Feng Huaien became the regent, and he could not bear the bad reputation of "turning his back on the old master".
Although the emperor did not abolish the East Palace, the royal nobles saw it in their eyes and knew that the emperor had already favored King Wu. Although it was King Zhao who was in charge of the country, in the war years, military power was more valuable than anything else.
The royal family of the Qin State once again set off a bloody storm. The storage position is turbulent, and the world is unstable.
There's a little thing going on here.
Tuoba Yu, the king of Western Liang, who was welcomed back from the capital, unfortunately died of heat stroke on the way.
After thinking about it for a few days, the emperor took back the edict of the king of Xiliang and rewarded the vast and rich Yunzhou as Tang Muyi to Emperor Huaikechang.
The fiefdom of the emperor is not hereditary. Since then, the "King of Western Liang", as a feudal official, has been completely withdrawn from his authority.
No one has any objections. Feng Huaien also sent his cronies back to thank him.
Feng Huaien said that he was a military general under the command of the King of Xiliang, in fact, he was only loyal to one master in his life, that is, the eleventh uncle of the current emperor, the original King of Xiliang. After he died of illness, his son-in-law also died of illness, and the throne was snatched by a group of concubines who could not be on the table, and Feng Huaien sneered at them, lamenting from time to time that the old master's life was not good.
The father and son of the old lord both died of illness, and the only one Feng Huaien recognized was the orthodox daughter-in-law in the palace, the eldest daughter-in-law, Emperor Huaike.
Although Emperor Huai Ke is a woman, she has a noble bloodline, and when her husband was alive, the two were in love, and her in-laws trusted her the most.
In these years, Emperor Huaike was widowed and did not participate in the struggle for the overlapping thrones of the royal palace. Like Feng Huaien's thoughts, as the emperor's eldest daughter, she didn't bother to look at her husband's concubines and younger brothers, and fighting with them was simply surrendering her identity.
She stayed quietly in the temple, and sent a message to Feng Huaien on the front line, ordering him to support King Wu and befriend the Mongolian concubine. Feng Huaien also sometimes disagreed with her, such as the fact that the edict of the King of Xiliang was withdrawn in the end, which he did not agree with very much - but the tiger talisman of Xiliang had always been held in the hands of Emperor Ji.
And now the whole of Yunzhou has become the Tang Muyi of the emperor - it is not only a big city in Yunzhou, but also countless small towns in the borderlands. Either the king of Western Liang is a hegemon in Western Xinjiang, this place is vast and rich, and it is a country China as far as the eye can see. Now that it has become a fief of the imperial daughter, the officials of all sizes in this place naturally belong to the jurisdiction of the imperial daughter.
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Lin Yuan followed the holy driver and settled in Yunzhou City.
It is very strange that Tuoba Hong has already executed Zhang Kaishan, but he has not given her the death of the concubine. The news from the capital was that Donggong was slightly ill, and King Zhao took over state affairs only after he was ill.
Lin Yuan did not suffer any humiliation, and the emperor neither killed her nor escorted her back to the capital for disposal.
The news that the Yunzhou fief was taken back by the royal family soon reached her ears. She didn't think it was strange that the emperor wanted to abolish the crown prince and establish King Wu, so he brought Fan Yu and Feng Huaien and others. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the Dragon Boat Festival, Fan Yu came to visit his father, and Lin Yuan listened to the attendants whispering that Emperor Huai Ke had been a monk for many years, and her appearance was more and more beautiful and moisturized, and she did not look like a widow who had lived a hard life for many years.
Because of the Dragon Boat Festival, the holy car is there again, and the temple fair and lantern festival are held in Yunzhou City, which is very lively. Lin Yuan sat quietly, since she came to Yunzhou, she was under house arrest again, never allowed to go out, and faced a bleak little black house all day long.
The liveliness of the front table has nothing to do with her, and the dishes served by the palace people at dinner add one more dish and a soup, which is regarded as a festival for her. Lin Yuan was not dissatisfied, there was mud in the cakes he ate every day when he was fighting in Beisai, and the emperor ate the same as himself. In Yunzhou City, even if he was guilty, he still put several plates at once according to the courtesy of the imperial concubine.
The palace people set up the meal, and another aunt stepped forward with a silver plate and said, "Niangniang, these are the emperor's rewards." The emperor ordered you to go to the study at all times. ”
Lin Yuan looked up suddenly, and then she saw something in the silver platter—it was some jasper head ornaments.
She hurriedly said: "I am a person who wears sin, and I can't wear jewelry." ”
"It was the emperor who rewarded you." The aunt lowered her eyebrows and said, "Niangniang has dinner early, the emperor is busy with war, you can't miss the hour later." ”
Lin Yuan was silent for a long time, knelt down to thank him, and put the things in the box.
She was puzzled, why did Takubahiro summon her?
In his eyes, isn't she already a dead person?
She didn't dare to slack off, and after freshening up, she was carried by a sedan chair to the emperor's study.
The palace people around her are all the emperor's henchmen, and they won't say more than half a word to her. The summer night in Yunzhou was very cool, she folded her arms in the sedan chair, lifted the curtain and breathed deeply.
When the sedan chair hit the ground, he felt his heart flutter. The evening breeze is blowing, but it hurts to blow on the face.
Just when she hesitated for a long time and mustered up the courage to knock on the door, a beautiful girl's voice sounded beside her:
"Concubine Shu."
It was an unfamiliar face, about nineteen years old, with a simple golden hairpin in a bun.
Lin Yuan was slightly stunned, and after a while, she remembered that only the princess and the queen could wear the hairpin of the nine-tailed phoenix. Her face was calm, and she stretched out her hand lightly and said, "Long Emperor Ji, I haven't seen you for many years." The eighteenth change of the female university, and the palace almost didn't recognize it. ”
Fan Yu smiled solemnly: "Yes, it's been more than seven years, and many ladies in the capital say that they don't recognize their sons anymore." Erchen just went to the temple to pray for blessings, and he just passed by here when he returned home. Seeing that Concubine Shu was fine, Erchen was not worried. As she spoke, there was a faint scar on her cheek, which showed with her smile and smile.
Lin Yuan said: "Emperor Ji is now a person of noble status, and she still behaves with me like a courtesy, I should be moved." He looked at her cheeks again and said: "Emperor Ji has been in Yunzhou City all these years, although she has been widowed, but with the tiger symbol, Feng Huaien and a group of Western Liang generals and military generals supported King Wu, and strategized to win thousands of miles away, I am afraid that it is not as bitter and pitiful as rumored." What's wrong with Diji's face? Is it Tuoba Ling's cousins who are offended? ”
Referring to the scars on his face, Fan Yu did not have a trace of embarrassment, and smiled as usual: "Not really." My husband died of illness at a young age, and I was reluctant to give up, so I engraved his name on my face. As he spoke, he glanced at the candle flame in the study and said, "Mother, go in, the emperor is already waiting." ”
Takubahiro has been in the study all the time. His injuries have healed and he is now able to walk. The imperial doctor told him to stay in bed for 100 days to recuperate, but he was embarrassed to ask someone to carry him after running around with the army, and he couldn't leave the political affairs alone.
When Lin Yuan entered, he dozed off against the soft collapse. Lin Yuan stood underground and didn't dare to move, and after waiting for half an hour, his feet hurt, Tuoba Hongfang touched his eyes, sat up and said, "You're here?" Go and get me water. ”
Lin Yuan held the teacup and served it, just as he had served him over the years.
Takubahiro took it and drank a lot in one go. Since the injury, he often felt thirsty, and he still thought that the tea tasted bitter, and only liked to drink plain water.
Lin Yuan stood silently. He glanced up at Lin Yuan, and instructed her to polish the ink.
So this night, Lin Yuan was waiting in the study, serving tea and water, and she felt that her hands were sore after serving people for a long time. The emperor did not want to gossip with her, and was very absorbed in the recitals and excerpts.
When she was so busy until she was so busy, it was pitch black outside, and the emperor finally opened her pen and ordered her to get the basin for washing. Lin Yuan brought things to serve as she said, and only three of the thirty-six candles in the room were blown out, and there was not a single palace maid.
Note [1]: Obviously, the prince of Donggong was framed. Zhang Kaishan was originally a loyal minister, but was identified as a rebel by the emperor in a series of misunderstandings.
The plot seemed unbelievable and detached from reality, and Sakura hesitated to write it, but finally decided to write it like that.
Based on the historical facts of the Tang Dynasty: In order to support her own son Shouwang to ascend to the throne, Concubine Wu Hui, the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong, designed to frame the crown prince Li Ying, the princess's brother Xue Ru and the other two princes. She sent someone to summon the three kings into the palace, saying that there were thieves in the palace and wanted to ask them for help, and they agreed. Concubine Hui then told Xuanzong: "The crown prince and the second king are going to rebel!" They wore iron armor and entered the palace! "Xuanzong sent someone to inspect it, and if this was the case, he asked the prime minister Li Linfu (Concubine Wu Huifei's henchman) to discuss. Li Linfu said: "This is Your Majesty's family matter, not a matter that ministers should interfere with. Xuanzong made up his mind to abolish the three kings as concubines. Soon, all three of them were killed, and everyone in the world felt wronged for them.
Since framing the prince and others, Concubine Wu Hui has become suspicious, and she has repeatedly seen their ghosts, but she can't afford to get sick. Asking the shamans to do the magic at night, reburial them, and even using the executed man to accompany the burial, all the methods were exhausted, but all to no avail. In the end, I was scared to death by myself, and I was only 38 years old.
After the death of Concubine Hui, Xuanzong posthumously presented her with the position of queen, said that she was the queen of Zhenshun, buried in Jingling, and set up a temple to worship. However, his plot to kill the three kings is well known, and during the Qianyuan period, all the queen's shrines were abolished by Tang Suzong.
Sakura is fascinated by this piece of history, and today she finally fulfilled her wish to write it in her own way.
The crown prince Li Ying's biological mother is Concubine Li, who was born as a prostitute, and is a legend. Concubine Wu Hui is the descendant of Wu Zetian, and the women of the Wu family are all myths, creating a very incomprehensible chaos in that era. Concubine Hui killed three kings at one time, compared to Wu Zetian's sons who took turns to be emperors, and finally abolished her sons as emperors herself...... That's not a problem. As for Concubine Hui's son Shouwang, well, he is Yang Guifei's original husband. Yang Guifei married Li Longji after the death of Concubine Wu Hui. Aha, what a fascinating history......
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