Qi Yu Yin chirped Yan, and the hall groaned. Chu land horizontal lance curve, the relics of Lin Qin. ”

The swallows that chirped on the house flew down to the bottom of the temple steps and groaned deeply. Played the battle song of the martial arts training in the land of Jingchu, and gave the mellow wine to the two generals of Lin Qin.

This is a small poem that is familiar to the people of Daqi before the successive decline of several founding families, I don't know who it started from, and it is not too literary, as if it was just a simple description of a house outside the eaves of the swallow eaves frequently chirping, the jade plate delicacies in the house singing and dancing and leveling the scene of music and entertainment, but in just four sentences will be in that period of several great families of the Great Qi are included, namely Qi, Yin, Yan, Tang, Shen (Shen), Chu, Qu, Lin, Qin.

The Qi family is the royal family needless to say, and the old dynasty royal family Yin family is the ancestor of the throne of the most orthodox family in the Yin family when he was in the reign of the most orthodox family head of the Yin family named the king of Jinyang County, after all, Yin Fu Qi's public statement is "Zen let", naturally can not be on the bright side of the old Yin clan to kill all the extermination, not only can not be killed, but also must be treated favorably, in order to show the virtue of the Qi family, but unfortunately the old Jinyang King is not in good health, not long after the king of the county passed away, When Qin Xun and his juniors remembered, it was the little King of Jinyang who inherited his father's throne, and the fief was Jinyang County under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan.

The Yan family and the Qu family are Wenchen, and they are divided into the left and right phases of Daqi, and the right phase is respected, and it happens that the Qu family is the maiden family of the two Queen Qu, and it is even more important to suppress the Yan family.

Shen and Tang are two big relatives, Shen is the original queen of Qi Gaozu with Shen's maiden family, Qi Gaozu has no parents, and from the old Yin Dynasty step by step to climb the military position on the side of the wife Shen has a very good relationship, then respected the mother-in-law Shen Xiao as the mother, even if Shen died early and always served Shen Xiao as his biological mother, after Qi Dong called the emperor, naturally respected Shen Xiao as the queen mother, posthumously named the early wife Shen as the queen mother.

Even though Qi Dong and the late Empress Shen have a deep relationship, the emperor's throne cannot be vacant, so the only side room Tang clan, that is, the biological mother of the current emperor Qi Duan, sat on the throne of the middle palace together when Qi Dong was called the emperor, and was the queen of the hall.

The three families of Lin, Qin, and Chu were military ministers, with Lin as the leader, Qin second, and Chu again. Although the Qin family's Qin Zhenhai rank was higher than that of Lin Chu, the female general of the Lin family, among the children of Lin and Qin, the Lin family's rank was slightly higher than that of the Qin family when he first accompanied Gaozu to fight the world, the world was accustomed to calling them in the order of Lin first and then Qin. Lin and Qin are Gaozu's old subordinates who followed his subordinates all the way to work hard for decades when they were young in the old Yin, so they were all knighted later, and the Chu family was a rising star, and only followed after Gaozu called the emperor, and he was better than Chu Ci, who was still young at the time, had good qualifications, and the momentum was extremely fierce, and then he overwhelmed the generals in the army, and in the next few years after ascending the throne, the power was second only to the Lin and Qin families, and there was a slight tendency to belong to the hands of the Qin family.

Speaking of the grievances and entanglements between the Shen family and the Chu family, it is a long story, in fact, the main reason is not in the two families themselves, the source has to be traced back to the Yin Dynasty when Empress Shen was still alive.

Qi Dong and Shen's husband and wife have always had a very good relationship, but Shen has not been pregnant with an heir because of his poor health, but he loves children very much, and has always regarded the childlessness as a regret in his heart. Four years later, Qi Dong married the side room Tang for political considerations, Tang was extremely beautiful, Qi Dong couldn't bear to be snubbed, and often let him accompany him, Tang became pregnant the next year, and then gave birth to Qi Duan.

It's a pity that the Tang family is favored, but Qi Duan when he was a child is not angry, he has a good appearance that looks like the Tang family, but his talent and ability are not brilliant everywhere, and his temperament is still closed to almost gloomy. On the contrary, it was the eldest son Qi Ge, who was six years older than Qi Duan, who followed his father to fight with dazzling human feelings, and was nominally the son of the Shen family, so he was very liked by Qi Dong, and the emperor naturally named him the prince.

However, Qi Dong still has his concerns, he was carried away by the excitement of being called the emperor, and he impulsively directly crowned the crown prince, and he was more and more uneasy to think about it in the past few years as an emperor, Qi Ge is the son of his cousin's family, not his own son, and his cousin is still alive in this world, if Qi Ge really succeeds to the throne as emperor in the future, what is the biological father of the cousin? What is his adoptive father? If he only had such an adopted son as Qi Ge, it would be fine, but he didn't have his own biological son, although Qi Duan was not as outstanding as Qi Ge, he was not stupid and disabled and couldn't sit on the throne.

Qi Dong thought about it, and after thinking about it, he thought of the period when he was seriously ill, and finally made the final choice, and suddenly made a difficulty, on the grounds that the prince Qi Ge had been encroaching for a long time, abolished the crown prince, demoted to Prince Ping, gave Pingzhou as a fief, and renamed the second prince Qi Duan as the prince. Soon after, Qi Dong fell seriously ill and died, and Qi Duan succeeded him as emperor.

The Empress Dowager Shen Xiao likes her eldest grandson Qi Ge very much, because she is the adopted son of her daughter Shen, and after her daughter's early death, Shen Xiao has always doted on Qi Ge, and she is not very close to her youngest grandson Qi Duan.

The Empress Dowager Tang and the new emperor Qi Duan's mother and son also had little contact with the Shen Xiao family, if it weren't for the fact that the ancestor respected the Shen Xiao family as their mother, they would not look down on this so-called empress dowager who had no blood relationship with the Qi royal family.

However, in the bottom of their hearts, they can't help but be afraid of the Empress Dowager Shen, Shen Xiao's former official family was born, and later married into the official family as an official wife, very political, thunderous means, and act like the reincarnation of the Empress Dowager Dou of the Western Han Dynasty, Qi Duanchu ascended the throne for a few years and was restrained by her everywhere, it was difficult to let go of her hands and feet, but Qi Duan and the Empress Dowager Shen's political views were very different, and they could not compete with the strength of the Empress Dowager, and it was Qi Duan who was forced to compromise every time. In Qi Duan's opinion, she couldn't help but be alert in her heart, she wanted to wait until the time was ripe, force herself to abdicate, and then help Qi Ge to take the position.

Qi Duan and the Empress Dowager Tang had a long-standing grudge in their hearts, so after the death of the Empress Dowager Shen, Qi Duan took off the shackles and fought back, and the Shen family, which was supported by the Empress Dowager, unfortunately bore the brunt.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Shen so blatantly cultivated her relatives to stand behind Qi Ge, and she really had the idea of helping Qi Ge up one day, but it was a pity that she didn't count that she went suddenly, and no one harmed her, and the Empress Dowager went away with a sudden illness, leaving a bunch of messes that had not been fully prepared and the Ping Wang Qi Ge and the Shen family, who were suddenly pushed to the forefront because of her arrogant behavior over the past many years, were really making people.

The Shen family was noble because of the Empress Dowager, as soon as the Empress Dowager went, everyone knew that the Shen family's qi was about to run out, and they avoided it, the Shen family cautiously supported it for a few years, and most of the distant relatives and side branches moved out of Chang'an to avoid disasters and returned to their hometowns.

But no matter how cautious he is, if the Ninety-Five Venerable above really has the heart to deal with it, any mistake can be made to start from it.

The emperor naturally would not take the initiative to deal with the Shen family himself, after he ascended the throne, he carefully weighed the situation in the Great Qi court over the years, and felt that the military power in the hands of the military ministers was really too heavy, so he started thinking again.

The emperor has always had a thing in his throat, that is, I don't know when the secret rumors have quietly spread, Dao Gaozu regretted it on his deathbed after the abolition of the crown prince, and he was afraid that Qi Duan would not be able to be the emperor, and he was afraid that Qi Duan would be a good emperor but could not tolerate his brother Qi Ge, who had been incompatible since childhood, and constipated a tiger talisman engraved with his name.

The tiger talisman is used by the emperor to dispatch troops, and the token in the shape of a tiger is made of bronze or gold, which is split into two halves, half of which is handed over to the general, and the other half is kept by the emperor. Only when the two tigers meet and become a complete piece, the bearer of the talisman can obtain the right to dispatch troops.

This tiger talisman of Gaozu, according to legend, is carved by the best white marble, pure gold edging, exquisite not to say, but also because of the engraved name of Gaozu Qidong, and is called "Yuzu Tiger Fu", holding this Yuzu Tiger Talisman, can be above the current imperial power, in the name of Gaozu to order the three armies, can be given great power, ordinary sacrifice is disrespectful, but once it comes to the critical juncture, even the current emperor can not regain the control of the army under the order.

To put it simply, with this Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman, you can lead your troops to force the palace to usurp the throne.

And coincidentally, it is rumored that half of this Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman is in the hands of the Lin family, and the other half is in the hands of King Qi Ge of Ping, which is a talisman left by Gaozu to his eldest son.

Although it is all rumored that it has been more than twenty years since Gao Zu passed away, no one has ever seen this so-called Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman, but since he knows that such a thing that will threaten his throne may exist in this world, even if it is only possible, it cannot make Qi Duan feel at ease.

This military power cannot be cut without cutting, and it must be cut from the great family.