Chapter 332: The Ending
At the beginning of Ling Han's ascension to the throne, he recovered Yuedi, five years later, destroyed Chu, seven years later, died in Qin, in the autumn of the same year, the king of Xiao Wu lost his footing and drowned, and the general of Wu Di, Helian Loufang, led the sword warrior army to surrender to Western Chu, since then, the world has been unified, Ling Han changed the name of the country to Western Chu as Zheng, and later generations called it the Taizheng Dynasty.
In the spring of the following year, Emperor Taizheng fell ill and died in the palace not long after, passing on the throne to King Yan before his death. In accordance with the emperor's will, King Yan set the imperial tomb at the foot of Bashan, which originally belonged to the territory of Qin, moved the tomb of Gu Fengxun, the secretary of Dali Temple, to the west side of the imperial tomb as a companion mausoleum, and the Qin Emperor Zhao Hao, who was captured by the country, was named the Marquis of Shun, and guarded the tomb for the Dazheng Emperor for generations. But Shunhou did not reach Bashan, and when he received the holy decree, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, fell to the ground, and died on the couch that night.
These are all contained in the history books of later generations, and future generations will never know what the truth is.
For example, in the imperial mausoleum in Bashan, there are only a large number of burial goods, but the coffin is empty, and the same is true in the mausoleum.
Another example is Zhao Hao's death, which is naturally not simply angry.
When the Qin Kingdom was destroyed, Gu Fengxun was waking up from a long coma, and when he opened his eyes, what he saw was Ling Han who was moving the bookcase in front of the couch and reviewing the folds on the desk, Xia Min stood silently on one side, Bai Jue stood next to the plum blossom incense case by the window, and was adding incense to the three-legged dragon's head incense burner, the aroma had a medicinal smell, Gu Fengxun knew that it was a medicinal fragrance that nourished the heart and calmed the nerves.
There was a dull pain in the heart, but unlike the usual dull pain, it was a stinging pain in the flesh and a little itching, which should be caused by the wound not completely healing.
Mind swapping, successful?
But...... Where does the heart come from? Ling Han sat beside him dignifiedly, where did this second heart come from?
Thinking about it, Gu Fengxun couldn't help but raise his hand, gently pressed it to the heart, felt the beating of his heart, and felt the indescribable mood of breaking free from the shadow of death again.
As soon as he moved here, Ling Han immediately noticed it, and the pen in his hand didn't have time to put it down, he looked back, and his eyes were facing each other, like green silk entangled, and he could no longer be separated.
Xia Min was also shocked by Ling Han's movements, and at the same time, it seemed that seeing Gu Fengxun's eyes open, he only looked at Ling Han fixedly, a flash of joy flashed in his eyes, and then walked out quietly.
The last one to notice was Bai Jue, the little boy was not so calm, and he suddenly pounced on the couch, as happy as a finch on a branch, and shouted: "Childe, you have finally woken up!" ”
This sound also woke up the two people whose eyes were entangled, Gu Fengxun finally looked away, looked at Bai Jue, who had grown from a child to a teenager, and smiled slightly.
After lying on the sickbed for almost a month, Gu Fengxun was finally able to get out of bed and walk around, and the wound caused by the heart change technique had completely healed, except that his body was still a little weak, and there were basically no sequelae.
Among them, the Qin State jade ginseng played a big role, replenishing qi and consolidating the yuan, like a divine pill, unparalleled in the world, it was precisely by relying on it that Gu Fengxun's body could recover so quickly and so well.
When Gu Fengxun's body was completely restored, the news of the breaking of Liling Pass came, and after a stalemate for several months, Xie Jinyan finally broke open the city gate and annihilated most of the defenders of Liling Pass.
The remaining small half of the Qin army was taken away by the great Sima of Qin, and retreated while fighting, intending to flee back to the Qin capital, set up a new monarch, and make the last resistance, but was returned to the rear by Zheng Hou to wrap dumplings, and then, Xie Jinyan broke through the Qin capital and captured the Qin royal family, so far, the Qin State was officially declared extinct.
Ling Han was busy again, although Qin was dead, but the people were still fierce, and the people's hearts were not returned, it was much more difficult to completely swallow Qin Land than Chu Land. Fortunately, Xie Jinyan captured Zhao Hao, with Zhao Hao in hand, a lot of things about Qindi, Xichu can directly do it in the name of Zhao Hao, which can save a lot of trouble.
However, Zhao Hao is still on the way to Xijing, and in the Western Chu court, in addition to being busy dividing the cake of Qindi, he is discussing how to settle Zhao Hao. People can never be killed, he has more uses, and Xichu also has to rely on him to break Qindi's will to resist, not only can he not kill, but he also has to offer people up like he treats the King of Jin.
But Zhao Hao is not the king of Jin, he can't cooperate with Western Chu, even if he becomes a prisoner, he is also a proud emperor.
So, the question is, why didn't he die when Liling Pass was broken?
Only Ling Han is entangled in this problem, people in the world will not think so, who would want to die if he can live, Emperor Qin is no exception, he is not martyred, of course he just doesn't want to die, this is a matter of not killing him.
"He wants to see me!"
If you want to talk about understanding Zhao Hao, I'm afraid no one can compare to Gu Fengxun. If you don't see him, how can Zhao Hao be willing to die, and even the humiliation of the prisoners can endure it, which shows how strong Zhao Hao's heart is to see him.
In this regard, Ling Han did not say a word, but ordered the people who escorted Zhao Hao into Beijing to slow down the speed, so as to delay the time for Zhao Hao to enter Beijing.
From Qin State to Xijing, less than a month's journey, he walked for more than three months, Zhao Hao is not a fool, is Shen Bikong unwilling to see him, or is the Western Chu Emperor unwilling to see Shen Bikong?
Zhao Hao looked coldly at the sky above his head, from Qin State to Xijing, he looked at it for three whole months, wanting to see how this sky was different from the past.
He didn't believe that Shen Bikong would not see him, such a person, how could he have been afraid, so it was the Emperor of Western Chu who didn't want him to see Shen Bikong, but so what. He is the Emperor of Qin, and he is still useful to Western Chu.
This is the quid pro quo, and he also wants to know that in the eyes of the Western Chu Emperor, is it the world that is important, or Shen Bikong is important.
If the world is important, the smile in Zhao Hao's eyes is becoming more and more fierce, Shen Bikong, Shen Bikong, if you survive, what kind of fate can you have, it is nothing more than the same as back then, I want to see how you die this time.
No matter how he delayed the trip, Zhao Hao finally entered the territory of Xijing. The emperor who was captured alive, this is still the first one, even Emperor Wu committed suicide and martyred after the country was broken, is this Emperor Qin so afraid of death, even Emperor Wu is not as good?
When the escorted convoy entered the city, it attracted hundreds of onlookers, and in order to prevent changes, Ling Han ordered the Xuanjia guards to guard along the street, and finally there was no trouble.
Although he is a prisoner, for the sake of the overall situation, Xichu still gave Zhao Hao the treatment of a VIP, and let him stay in the largest and most gorgeously built post house in Xijing, of course, the guards must also be the strictest, not only the Xuanjia guard surrounded the post house with three layers inside and three layers outside, but also added Fengyitai in the secret three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, not to mention people in the post house, even flies can't fly in.
Zhao Hao lived in the post house, and he was more patient with the Emperor of Western Chu. In the past, his patience was not good, because he was the Qin Emperor, and there was nothing in the world worthy of his patience, but now, the Qin State is gone, and the Qin Emperor has become a joke, and he has nothing left, so there is only patience left.
In this way, he was hung in the post house for another three months, until it was reported that the Emperor of Western Chu had become ill from hard work and could not afford to be ill, and the news that he was located in the King of Yan before his death.
Zhao Hao was stunned, and then smashed half of the room in a rage.
Emperor Xichu, hello, you are really ruthless!
On the same day, Zhao Hao asked to see the new emperor.
But the king of Yan ...... No, the new emperor can't take care of him at all, the old and the new alternate, there are a lot of things in the court, Qin Di is still in chaos, Chu Di has not completely settled down, Yue Di is staring at Princess Maoyang, and Mrs. Yue Guo is also a little restless, frequently contacting Xie Jinyan, who holds the army, secretly I don't know what he is instigating, the new emperor has to guard against it, plus the first emperor still left him a big problem...... The emperor pretended to be dead, how can he cover it up seamlessly without making a single mistake, is it true that the ministers of the court and the central government are blind? Brother, the younger brother is still young, don't push everything on the younger brother, the younger brother really can't carry so much!
In short, after the new emperor had spent this hectic time of getting up early and feeling dark and life worse than death, he finally remembered that there was still a Zhao Hao who had smashed a huge post house.
Can I make a claim?
The new emperor, who has been working hard in the fields for thirteen years, is a thrifty and cherishing character, but when he thinks that Emperor Qin is now a bare pole and has nothing, the new emperor can only sigh and extinguish the mind of the claim, anyway, he can't afford to lose, so it is better to let him squeeze the last bit of residual value on Emperor Qin.
So, a few days later, after a secret conversation with Zhao Hao, the title of Shunhou fell on Zhao Hao's head. Zhao Hao, in the name of the original Qin Emperor, wrote a letter to the world praising the merits of the new emperor, indicating that he was willing to submit to Western Chu, oh no, now it is the Taizheng Dynasty.
Of course, the new emperor also agreed to Zhao Hao's conditions and let him see Shen Bikong, although the new emperor didn't know that there was such a person in Xichu at all, but Ling Han had an explanation before his "death", so the new emperor completely complied, as for where to find Shen Bikong to come out, the new emperor didn't care at all, anyway, this matter had already been arranged.
That night, a carriage quietly stopped outside the inn, and the patrolling Xuanjia guards walked past the carriage as if they hadn't seen it.
"I deliberately hung him for so long, I didn't expect it to ......"
Ling Han pushed open the door of the carriage, looked at the gate of the post house in the night, and sighed in a low voice.
Unexpectedly, at this time, what Zhao Hao was thinking about was not his imperial hegemony, but Shen Bikong. The new emperor is young and immature, but Zhao Hao is a mature emperor, with the help of Xichu still having a place to use Zhao Hao at the moment, he negotiated terms with the new emperor, and he can completely ask for greater benefits in order to make a comeback, but Zhao Hao just wants to see Shen Bikong.
It's ridiculous, it's a pity!
Gu Fengxun slowly walked out of the car and said indifferently: "If you are patient, you are going to lose, he endured it for at least ten years in order to kill me." ”
Many things were blind at the time, but now that I think back, I only have melancholy.
The door of the post house had been opened from the inside, Ling Han put his hands behind his back, looked at it for a moment, turned around and stretched out his hand to Gu Fengxun, and said with a smile: "I have never seen hatred in your eyes. ”
Gu Fengxun held his hand, crossed the threshold with him, and when he looked down at his feet, Fang chuckled and said, "What do you hate him for?" It is my own willingness to give, but it does not mean that he can get my benefits, but he is stingy in giving back. I don't hate him, I just want to take back every bit and drop I once gave him, and he never wants to have it again. ”
If you have the ability, don't ask for it from the beginning, and then want to get rid of it, really when Shen Bikong is a vegetarian? He didn't hate Zhao Hao, but he pitied this person. Because Zhao Hao can never figure out what he really wants. When he should have endured, he couldn't bear it, but when he should have made a move, he couldn't see through it.
Whether it is Zhao Hao or Emperor Qin, he is a failure.
Ling Han bent his eyes and asked with a low smile, "But have you got them back?" ”
Gu Fengxun shook his head and said, "He...... You owe me my life! ”
Shen Bikong's life.
Ling Han took a breath lightly, so they came here today, not to break the previous dust, but to ask for their lives.
That night, Zhao Hao died violently in the post house, after investigation, he vomited blood and died, some people say that the new emperor ordered him to guard the tomb for the first emperor for generations, and gave a humiliating title like Shunhou, and he was angry with him. But two wine glasses were found in his house, and the liquor in the glasses was still poisonous.
The truth of the matter is buried forever in the night, some people have come, some people have left, when they come, they bring a pot of wine, and when they go, they ask for a life, and since then the sea and the sky have been wide, and the mountains and rivers have been ten thousand years.
Only Nightwind recorded a conversation.
"You don't have anything to say to him?"
"A glass of wine is over, Shen Bikong is dead, Gu Fengxun and Zhao Hao have never met, and they have no friends, strangers, what do you have to say."
"Poor ......"
"You don't have anything to say to me?"
"Huh?"
"This heart...... It's Luo Feng's. I should have thought that the meridians of his body were opened by the power of medicine, and if there was a second heart in this world with a hundred veins, it would be him. ”
"Ah...... This ...... He ......"
"Where is he buried?"
“…… Heavenly Absolute Valley! ”
"I want to worship him."
"Okay."