Chapter 6 The Struggle for the Throne Section 1 I lost my father
During the days of the emperor's funeral, my father kept staying in the palace with his sick body. Every time I saw him tired and tired, I always persuaded him to go back to rest, but he always said sadly, "I only have this last chance to serve the emperor, no matter what, I will hold on until the funeral is over." When the time comes, I'll have a good rest. ”
Who knew that this was indeed his "last" chance to serve. After the funeral, he really wanted to "rest well".
On the day when the emperor's funeral ended, the palace was removed from the spirit, and the Zigong Palace was transported outside the city, my father couldn't afford to be sick.
My father and the emperor have been monarchs and ministers for decades and have always had a good relationship. My father has never been subjected to any major derogation in his life, and it can be said that his official fortune has always been prosperous. My father and the emperor are called monarchs and ministers, and they are actually friends. Although the emperor has always disliked me and disliked me from the beginning, he has always tolerated it and has not really abolished me.
As for this dethronement incident, I believe that it was not the emperor's original intention, but was facilitated by Empress Xiao Yang and the "Three Yangs". I don't know if even the edict was drawn up by the "three yangs". The emperor was already groggy at that time, and his brain had long been useless, and it was not what others said.
The Yang clan won a great victory in this power seizure. They took advantage of the emperor's critical illness and confusion to get the emperor to sign a will, appointing Yang Jun as the auxiliary minister, and the only auxiliary minister. Not only did he succeed in squeezing out my father and a group of old ministers, but even upstarts like Sima Liang, the king of Runan, who had already flourished in the imperial court during the emperor's serious illness, all stood aside.
It is said that the emperor's first edict was for my father, Yang Jun and Sima Liang, the king of Runan, to jointly assist the new lord. Fastest update. But as soon as the scribe Hua, He Shao and others walked out of the emperor's bedroom with the edict, they were stopped by Xiao Yang and Yang Jun. It is required to "borrow the edict and take a look".
Hua and He Shao originally refused to agree, but they saw that the palace and the palace were already full of guards with knives, in order to save their lives. I had to hand over the edict.
The emperor probably also noticed it, and asked about the edict the next day. Hua Zhan trembled and went to Yang Jun to ask for it. was rejected by Yang Jun with many excuses. Hua was terrified, and he didn't dare to tell the emperor, but hid outside the palace.
When the emperor was dying, Yang Jun sent someone to Hua's house to escort him and forced him to draft an "edict" according to his own will. Then, let him go to the emperor's sickbed and read it to the emperor.
In this "testament" that was later read out in public, it was written extremely sensitively: "Waiter, general of the chariot and cavalry, and the wife of the line, leading the former general Yang Jun, passing through virtue and auspiciousness, identifying Mingyuan, adjacent to the second palace of the wing, loyal and sumao, it is appropriate to take the right position to come to power, and imitate Ah Heng." He took Jun as the captain, the wife, the false festival, and the governor of the foreign military. The waiter, the record of the book, and the former general are the same. 3,000 soldiers, 3,000 infantry, and 1,000 cavalry, and moved to the former residence of the avant-garde general. If there should be winged guards in the palace, there will be 20 Simas on the left and right guards, and 10 Simas will be given to the horses. Orders to enter and exit with soldiers. ”
After reading the edict, Empress Xiao Yang motioned to Hua and He Shao to present the edict to the emperor. It is said that the emperor immediately turned his back with difficulty. Face the bed. Silent.
He knew that it was useless to say anything, he could only be silent.
Back then, he forced Emperor Wei Cao Huanchan to give way to domineering. It has faded through the years. Now he is just a useless "former emperor" who is about to become a historical place in the eyes of his ministers, not only does no one listen to what he says, but others also force him to accept many "wills" that are completely contrary to his will.
A generation of heroes was dying, and they only won a body of desolation.
After the emperor's death, Yang Jun immediately lived in the Taiji Hall as an auxiliary minister. Outside the hall, "self-defense with hundreds of people". probably also knew that what he was doing was very inconsistent with his identity, so he was afraid of being attacked and plotted. In those days, the road to the Taiji Hall was full of people every day, and all the decrees came out of the Taiji Palace. The palace where the new emperor lived was deserted.
On the day of the funeral of the emperor's Zi Palace, the palace resigned, and hundreds of officials knelt down to send it off, and the mourning moved. And Yang Jun didn't go down to the palace! As a minister, it is really disrespectful.
It's a pity that there is no one to restrain him at this time. Sima Liang was ordered by an "edict" to return to the feudal state immediately and not to stay in Kyoto for any reason. My father was sick again. As soon as the emperor's Zigong came out of the city, he fainted and fell to the ground, and he has been bedridden ever since.
Because of my father's illness, I ran back and forth between the palace and my mother's house in the Taiwei Mansion every day, worrying and anxious, and I couldn't care about anything else. Although I can hear a lot of stories about the Yang family every day, especially how Yang Jun is arrogant and rude. These messages were told by the ministers who had come to visit my father, and I did not try to verify their authenticity. There may be some ingredients in it, but Yang Jun's arrogance is already obvious to all, and there is no doubt about it.
As my father's illness worsened, and he was about to follow the emperor, those who kept saying that it was my father's old relatives and people did not come to the door.
Officialdom is so hypocritical and cold, once you have no use value, no one cares about your life or death.
What's more, I am now nameless and powerless in the palace, and once I lose my father's land, it is difficult to say whether I can become a queen in the future.
According to the Yang family's current prominence, Yunluo's call for winning the main palace is much higher than mine. Before moving from the East Palace to the harem, she was Liangdi, the first concubine of Tai. And I'm just a "former waste concubine".
In layman's terms, she is still a concubine, and I am already a cousin's wife.
Counting it, I am no longer too woman, and now I am naturally not the emperor's concubine. I can live in the Mingguang Palace, it is estimated that it is still too much, which is the result of the current emperor's insistence.
It is said that the disaster is not a single line, and the house leak coincides with the overnight rain. Just when I was in the most dire situation, I was about to lose my father and lose my biggest support.
Less than a month after the emperor's funeral, my father also died.
I don't have a son in my family, and Xiaowu's son Han Mi is the heir, and Han Mi is only a few years old, and it is impossible to inherit his father's title.
People outside are saying that they can't think of the famous Taiwei Mansion, and in the blink of an eye, there is only an empty shelf left. There was no one in the court anymore.
The Taiwei Mansion has lost its support, and I have lost its support.
I don't have a title, I don't have a proper identity, and now, I don't have any relatives.
I became the most disadvantaged and down-and-out woman in the palace.