Chengtian three years, March 10, Chang'an, Weiyang Palace front hall.

In the long letter lamp, Liu Hong was pale and lay weakly on the bed, recalling his life.

Unknowingly, it has been 20 years since I left my hometown in Hebei.

He still can't forget how excited and panicked he felt when Lao Liu Tou and Cao brought a road full of tigers, feathers, and Zhonghuang to greet him.

And when he came to Heavenly Kyoto with the convoy nervously, it was the general Dou Wu who greeted him in the Xiamen Pavilion and personally welcomed him into the palace with a green cover car.

The next day, he became the lord of the Han Dynasty and the twelfth son of the Han Dynasty.

But soon Liu Hong was very unhappy, because he vaguely heard some bad rumors that he, Liu Hong, would be the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, and he would be the lord of the fallen country.

It turns out that no matter how prosperous the virtue of the ancient emperors is, it can only be passed down for twelve generations, and no matter how much there is, this virtue is not enough. Therefore, the crown of the Son of Heaven, vermilion algae, is two out of ten. This crown is given by God, and the pearls are twelve, and there are no more.

Therefore, Gaozu punished Qin and Dinghai, and had so much merit in the world, but he only passed on the twelve emperors, which is still counted as the ridiculous king of Changyi.

The picture of the death of the twelve is like a black spot. Even if the brilliance of the Han family is dazzling, this black spot will follow you like a shadow, which is unforgettable.

Unfortunately, he Liu Hong is the twelfth emperor after the re-emergence of the ancestors, and whether he can break this doom plot depends on him Liu Hong.

But Liu Hong, who was quite ambitious, of course did not believe in this kind of unfavorable plan, so he gave himself the first era name after ascending the throne: "Jianning".

This is his ambition to rebuild a peaceful Han world.

And he did it, in the first year of his ascension to the throne, the old captain who was still the captain of the Qiang school broke the Qiang people, and in the second year, he completely annihilated the rebels.

So far, from the period of Emperor Zhang, for a hundred years, the chaos that caused the empire to run out of blood and spend countless money and grain was solved in the first year of his reign Liu Hong.

This merit is far ahead of the emperors.

In internal affairs, the noisy party members who fought against the court and the ditch also disappeared under his thunderous means.

These people always feel that the world can't be done without them, but how? After driving these clear streams away, I, Liu Hong, still dominate the world.

This Wenzhi martial arts is worthy of Fengzen Taishan!

Of course, Liu Hong also knew that he had not made mistakes.

His mistake is that he trusts others too much, and he is always burdened by others.

He trusted Chen Fan and Dou Wu, but the two joined forces to rebel against him. For this reason, he razed the three tribes.

He trusts Li Ying, Fan Fan, and other local moral celebrities, but they always slander the court and me behind their backs. That's it, he just put them in prison. Fortunately, these people still have shame, and finally commit suicide in prison.

He trusted the Hebei faction of Yangqiu and regarded them as the imperial party and the ministers of his humerus.

But what about them? pampered and arrogant, he deceived and killed Wang Fu and the old lady successively. Especially the courtier who was so loyal to the old lady, but died in vain.

Even Yangqiu and these people still want to rebel, if it wasn't for Cao everyone, they found out in time, and the consequences were unimaginable.

And then there's Zhang Jiao, didn't you dedicate a book to me before to teach me the way of immortality? Why did it suddenly start a rebellion? And you, old man Cai, just don't let you talk more, so you ran away to join the thief?

The great things in the world have been corrupted to this extent, and they are all the responsibility of these disloyal and unrighteous people.

But these are not what Liu Hong hates the most, what he hates the most is He Jin.

As his own Qi family, he actually ate inside and out, and conspired with outsiders to rebel against him, which made him embarrassed to come to Chang'an.

You must know that the cemetery you built is in Kyoto, not Chang'an. Which emperor of this generation was finally buried in Xijing?

Hey, I don't know if my mausoleum will be in time.

He lay on the couch, opened his mouth, and asked in a soft voice:

"Where's the mausoleum?"

Guarding on both sides of Liu Hong's bed were Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

Seeing that the country was opening its mouth, Zhang Rang, who was very old and inconvenient to move, hurriedly stepped forward and leaned on Liu Hong's ear to listen.

After listening to Liu Hong's words, Zhang Rang turned his head to Wu Xiudao, the master craftsman below:

"The country asked, where is the mausoleum?"

Wu Xiu, as a master craftsman, is in charge of the cemetery, so this question is naturally for him to answer.

So Wu Xiu didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly knelt down and replied:

"Back to Your Majesty, I chose Longshouyuan, which is thirteen miles away in the southeast. This original Sichuan is beautiful, and it is a first-class dragon's lair. ”

Then Wu Xiu saw Liu Hong on the couch and opened his mouth again, but he couldn't hear what he said.

Then, he listened to Zhang Rang ask again:

"Why don't you bury it on the Xianyang Plain? Aren't most of the emperors of the previous dynasties buried there? ”

Wu Xiu opened his mouth and said embarrassedly:

"Discord with courtesy."

Subsequently, Wu Xiu explained that the tombs of the emperors of the former Han Dynasty were separated in the north and south of Xianyang Plain according to the Zhaomu system in the ritual system.

For example, Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Jing, Emperor Zhao, Emperor Xuan and Emperor Cheng are listed in the Zhao throne, while Emperor Hui, Emperor Wen, Emperor Wu, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Wai and Emperor Ping are buried in the Mu throne.

And our Liu Hong is too far away from these previous emperors in terms of genealogy, so we can't be buried together. Therefore, it is necessary to choose another site for burial.

According to the principle of Kanyu Xue to be close to the mountains and rivers and the Ming Hall to be open, a group of craftsmen, including Wu Xiu, worked as officials in the palace, and almost all of them never slept until the place of Longshouyuan was determined.

In fact, the reason why it was so hasty was also done by Liu Hong himself.

In fact, since going west to Chang'an, Yang Biao and other Kansai families have persuaded Liu Hong to build a mountain mausoleum in Chang'an several times, but Liu Hong just did not respond.

He said that his mountain is in Kyoto, 300 steps and 12 zhang high.

Of course, Liu Hong understood what Yang Biao and those people meant, no matter whether he was recovered in the future or not, he wanted him to stay in Chang'an. The mausoleum is here, can the capital still run?

But Liu Hong still had a trace of the illusion of invigorating the Han family in his heart, and he still wanted to return to Kyoto, but he couldn't accept that he was a Waqi emperor who had lost half of the world.

Of course, he didn't explicitly oppose it, which was also his trick to control the power of the Kansai family.

It's just a pity that this power trick ended up on his head.

Thinking that after his death, he would have to rest outside and wait for the mountain mausoleum to be completed, so he was sad.

But at this time, Liu Hong felt even weaker, and he hurriedly gritted his teeth and asked one more thing:

"Have you thought of my nickname?"

This sentence is still conveyed by Zhang Rang.

Hearing this, the people in the inner court and the middle court present all looked at Taishi Ling Wang Li, who was sitting in the left school.

There are four important palaces in the whole Weiyang Palace, from south to north are the front hall, the Xuan room, the Chengming and the four halls of the greenhouse.

And from the palace to the hall, to pass through the end door, and the end gate to the front hall has a long road six meters wide, the left school is the hall on the right side of the doorway, also called the door hall.

And Wang Li, as the Taishi Ling, is to accompany Liu Hong around and compile Liu Hong's daily life, so he generally sits silently in the left school of Duanmen to record Liu Hong's words and deeds.

And now that Liu Hong asked about his nickname, this kind of coffin-covering thing naturally refers to the meaning of Tai Shi Ling.

So when Wang Li heard this, he put down his knife and pen, and said to Liu Hong:

"Back to Your Majesty, the name is a matter of death, not a decision by the ministers alone, and we have to wait for the ministers outside the palace to discuss together."

This time, there was no need for Liu Hong to say, Zhang Rang scolded:

"In your case, which one should you use?"

Wang Li was silent for a while, and then replied truthfully:

"If it is a good word or uses 'spirit,' if it is a bad word, it may be a 'bad word.'"

Hearing Wang Li's words, the officials present all bowed their heads to the ground and did not dare to squeak.

What is Spirit?

Death and ambition to become a spirit, chaos without damage to the spirit, know the ghosts and gods to say the spirit, do not become famous and become famous, die and see the god can say the spirit, good sacrifice to the ghost and god said the spirit.

This is already a proper slander, and then Wang Li said that it is a good slander.

And what is Min?

In the country, when there is trouble, it is said that the people are sad, and in the country, it is said that it is sad, and in the country, it is said that it is sad, and the disaster is said to be sad

This is also appropriate for Liu Hong, but who dares to say this?

So, for a while, everyone put their faces on the floor, and the atmosphere was depressing.

Only Liu Hong on the bed has been panting there after hearing these words, which adds a little fear to this depression.

Seeing this, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to give Liu Hong a good breath, but they were really sincere.

After that, Zhang Rang scolded Wang Li and told him to step down.

Then there was a dead silence again in the front hall, and everyone waited in silence.

Wait for Liu Hong to take his last breath.

As for the issue of Liu Hong's successor, there is no need to discuss it, because only the prince's association followed Liu Hong to the west.

At that time, Liu Hong was holding the five-year-old Liu Xie in his arms. And the little prince didn't cry or make trouble along the way, and showed a different temperament early on.

Those Kansai ministers of the foreign dynasty also want Liu Xie to ascend the throne, otherwise can they do the ridiculous thing of bringing another one in from the people?

Therefore, it is understandable that the officials did not ask the question of the heir.

But the strange thing is that the prince Liu Xie is only seven years old this year and is completely unable to manage politics, but now Liu Hong did not say the candidate for the auxiliary minister before his death, and the ministers present, including Zhang Rang, did not mention it.

In short, time passed little by little in this treacherous and oppressive atmosphere.

Only the sound of water droplets leaking in the hall and Liu Hong's heavy breathing fainted out in the hall.

A scene of twilight.

……

At this time, the Kansai ministers who were waiting outside the corridor of the front hall were also worried.

Outside, the twilight faded away, and darkness hung over everyone's minds.

Soon, the maids and maids waiting by the corridor came over with incense burners to drive away the mosquitoes outside for these ministers and ministers.

And these attendants and attendants waiting on the side, under orders, also successively lit the lamps on both sides of the corridor, illuminating the corridor as if it were day.

But as everyone knows, this light together shines on these face-to-face ministers faintly, which makes the corridor look terrifying.

At this time, at the outermost edge of the crowd, the confessor Zhang Song was muttering in the darkness in his Shu voice:

"It's not good, it's not good."

Kneeling beside him was the confessor Pei Mao, from Hedong Wenxi. Listening to the muttering of his colleagues on the side, he wondered:

"Ziqiao, what are you talking about?"

Zhang Song is thin and small, and he is supposed to be a person who can't be confessed to represent the dignity of the court. But who makes Yizhou more and more important in the Guanxi Imperial Court now, and the children of Yizhou heroes like Zhang Song should naturally have a place for him.

At this time, seeing Pei Mao, who was still ignorant next to him, Zhang Song jokingly said:

"Juguang, what do you say we're kneeling here now?"

Pei Mao didn't understand, and replied honestly:

"Isn't it a prayer for Your Majesty?"

Zhang Song glanced at Pei Mao's good looks, and felt a pity in his heart:

"This Hedong Pei family is also a famous family, and his father is also a big official, how can he teach such an honest boy."

He pointed to the front hall and asked Pei Mao:

"Where are we now?"

Pei Mao still didn't understand, and replied:

"In the front hall."

Zhang Song saw that when he said this, this kid didn't understand it yet, so he knew that he was more hammered than himself, a Yizhou scholar, so he taught:

"You, you really don't know anything about the affairs of the country, your father sent you to be a confessor, and I don't know whether to love you or hurt you. I'll tell you, this front hall is also called Lu Bed. According to "The Book of Rites and the Great Funeral": "The gentleman and the lady died on the road. 'Understood, it's all here, can the country still pray for good blessings?' ”

At this time, Zhang Song didn't see that when he told Pei Mao that his father asked him to be a confessor, and he didn't know whether to love him or hate him, Pei Mao's face flashed with past embarrassment and sadness.

Zhang Song is still talking about it:

"In the previous generations, except for Emperor Wu, Emperor Hui and below all collapsed in Weiyang Palace. Although Emperor Wu collapsed in Wuqi, he was finally buried in the front hall of Weiyang Palace. This front hall is where the Son of Heaven Zi Palace is located. And now that His Majesty has come here directly, what blessing do we have to pray for? ”

At this time, Pei Mao understood this, glanced at his father who was standing in front of everyone, took Zhang Song's words, and said:

"So you're standing here because a storm is coming."

This sentence stunned Zhang Song, he looked at Pei Mao with his eyes, and he was not sure whether this person was really or fake.

But he agreed with Pei Mao's words and said:

"Yes, you said that Your Majesty, what will be the result later, that is, ......"

Just as Zhang Song was about to talk about his head, a young chief official standing in front of him in the corridor turned his head and said to Zhang Song and Pei Mao:

"Silence."

Zhang Song glanced at the person, although he didn't think so, he still shut up.

Because the person who said this is Zuo Zhonglang Liu Fan, the son of Liu Yan, who is now the assassin of Yizhou.

Outside the corridor of the front hall, there is the end gate that separates the palace and the hall. Under the door, there is a team of halberd men from Weiwei Batun, patrolling at night.

Outside the door, there are the front and back followers of the ministers in the hall, who also know the seriousness of today's matter, and constantly walk anxiously outside the gate.

At this moment, a bus official named Du Ji hurried over.

The chief officer guarding the end gate wondered why the people who ordered the bus did not enter from the north, and how they went around to the end gate.

But he knew that the bus order was specially for receiving extra-palace documents at night, and there must be something important at this time. Therefore, Duanmen Lieutenant did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked people to come up.

After Du Yi came up from the basket, he didn't care about being polite to Duanmen, so he hurried down to find someone.

As soon as he entered, he saw a full crowd of ministers standing under the corridor of the front hall. The Three Princes, Zongzheng, Wei Wei, Guangluxun, the princes in Beijing, and the Imperial Doctor, these big people who are rarely seen on weekdays, will all be crowded together with everyone, and no one wants to talk more.

Du Ji searched through the crowd and saw where Shang Shuling Yang Biao was.

He lowered his head, hurriedly walked to Yang Biao, and stuffed the two thousand miles of urgent newspaper sent by Liangzhou into Yang Biao's hand. And then he was gone.

Du Yi knew that he was too sensitive tonight and didn't dare to stay longer.

And Yang Biao had already seen Du Ji's protégé, and was stunned when he saw him stuffing himself with a silk book.

But when he opened it, he was confused.

However, Yang Biao's city government has already been trained, he didn't move on his face, walked to a long letter lamp, and directly ordered the silk book.

At this time, when he turned around again, he saw that Jin Shang, Zhao Qi, Fifth Yong, Gai Xun, and Fu Xie had already looked over.

Yang Biao said lightly:

"It's okay, nothing matters today."

After speaking, Yang Biao looked at the closed front hall, unconsciously pinched the bones under the long sleeves, and muttered:

"Tonight's night, it's deep."

(End of chapter)