"You personally send someone to summon the third child to Chang'an!"

Changle Palace, Changxin Palace.

Empress Dowager Dou said angrily, but it made Liu Yan, the princess of the Pavilion Tao who was sitting next to her, suddenly a little suspicious.

"Since you miss the third child, why didn't the queen mother send someone to summon the third child into the court?"

But when she saw that Empress Dowager Dou heard this, the look of anger on her face was even worse, and between her eyebrows, a touch of anger suddenly swelled up.

"-The third child was sparse by himself and was refuted by the emperor!"

"In recent days, I always feel like I have been planted eyeliner by the emperor········"

Empress Dowager Dou said angrily, but Concubine Liu's face changed suddenly!

Full of astonishment, he turned his head sideways and glanced around the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace;

After everyone lowered their heads nervously, Liu Yan moved her body in disbelief, approached the side of the Empress Dowager Dou, and then subconsciously grabbed her mother's arm.

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't do that, right?"

"After all········· no matter how you say it"

Unexpectedly, before Liu Yan's voice fell, she was interrupted by Empress Dowager Dou's irritable wave.

"If you are told to go, you will go!"

"I really don't want to go, just say it!"

"-It's not like I'm without anyone else to count on!"

The angry snort made the palace people in the palace tremble a little, and they couldn't help but cover their ears immediately to show that they hadn't heard anything.

Seeing that her mother was so angry, Liu Yan was also shocked, and hurriedly pulled Empress Dowager Dou's arm tighter.

"The queen mother dissipates her anger, don't move the liver fire;"

"Just send someone to my daughter·········"

The aggrieved response finally made the Empress Dowager Dou angry a little, turned over slightly, and looked at Concubine Liu with a gloomy expression.

"The eldest boss, the seventh child, and the ninth child were all appointed by the emperor as envoys to handle the prime minister's funeral."

"-Lao Qi and Xiao Jiu, they are the prime minister's students, so it is understandable to do this;"

"But the emperor only let Lao Qi and Xiao Jiu be the 'deputy envoys', but let the boss be the 'main envoy'."

"The emperor's intentions, you won't be incomprehensible, right?"

Hearing this, Liu Yan thought for a while, and then raised her head a little suspiciously: "········What does the queen mother mean?"

"Your Majesty, do you still want to be the emperor's eldest son?"

"That's why you took advantage of the prime minister's illness to build momentum for the emperor's eldest son?"

But when she saw that Empress Dowager Dou heard this, she didn't nod, but took a deep breath, and the grim look on her face was even worse.

"Long before the rebellion, I had already guessed that the emperor's 'imperial brother' was the one who coaxed the third child."

"Now, the rebellion is about to be quelled, and the emperor doesn't need the third child to fight in Suiyang again, and he will definitely not keep his previous promise."

"——Right now, while preventing the third child from entering the court, the emperor also wants to build momentum for the emperor's eldest son, obviously trying to force me to issue an edict and make the emperor's eldest son the prince;"

"Can I sit idly by at such a critical juncture?"

"You are a sister, can you help me find a way to recall the third child back to Chang'an???"

Hearing the urgency in her mother's tone, Concubine Liu only nodded hurriedly, saying that she would follow the instructions of the Empress Dowager Dou and summon Liu Wu, the king of Liang, to Chang'an.

But soon, there was a little doubt on Liu Yan's face.

"But if Your Majesty really makes up your mind to make the eldest son of the emperor the prince, even if the queen mother summons the third child to Chang'an, what can it change?"

"-Could it be that the queen mother should really be angry with His Majesty, regardless of the canonization of the third ????"

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Dou sighed lightly, and was like the daughter beside her.

"The emperor wants to establish the emperor's eldest son, so he has to build momentum for the emperor's eldest son;"

"But if I want to establish a third child, why do I need to build momentum?"

"——This rebellion alone, the third child resisted the traitors in Suiyang, and thanks to Sheji, it is enough to win the general trend of being registered as a reserve for the third child!"

"But the premise is: the third child himself has to be in Chang'an~"

"The third child is not in Chang'an, I am in this deep palace, even if I exert great strength, it will not help at all~~~"

The bitter explanation finally made Liu Yan react in hindsight;

He nodded thoughtfully, and thought to himself for a moment before finally chuckling and raising his head.

"The daughter listens to her mother;"

"When I returned home, my daughter sent someone out of the customs and summoned King Liang to Chang'an."

Seeing that Concubine Liu responded to her orders, Empress Dowager Dou finally nodded slowly, and the look of anger on her face also showed a slight trend of recovery.

Just a moment later, a figure that suddenly appeared outside the palace gate, but made Empress Dowager Dou's expression, which had just warmed up, appear gloomy again·········

"Doctor Yuan?"

"It's Dr. Yuan, right?"

Hearing the extremely familiar sound of worship in her ears, the Empress Dowager Dou only subconsciously raised her head;

Looking at the blurred figure outside the hall gate, Empress Dowager Dou squinted her eyes a little and leaned forward a little.

"It's Dr. Yuan·······"

Concubine Liu reminded gently, but it made the Empress Dowager Dou even more confused.

"Doctor Yuan, wasn't he sent to Kanto by the emperor?"

"It's me who dazzled ·······"

"—or are you deaf?"

Hearing this, Yuan Ang walked into the hall with a chuckle and bowed to the Empress Dowager Dou again.

"Minister, it is true that I went to Kanto on the orders of His Majesty."

"I just returned to Chang'an today, and I didn't even care about going back home, so I went to the palace to visit the Queen Mother·······

was full of indifferent words, but it made Mrs. Dou's color change slightly, and she only got up from the couch tremblingly.

"Oh········"

"Since you just came back, why are you in such a hurry to enter the palace?"

"It's not too late to rest at home for a few days, and then come to see my blind old woman?"

Hearing Empress Dowager Dou's tone, she was obviously a little uncomfortable, but Yuan Ang shook her head with a chuckle.

stepped forward, gently held the arm of the Empress Dowager Dou, and sat down on the seat on the side of the hall.

After bowing to the Empress Dowager Dou again, Yuan Ang sat down in front of the Empress Dowager Dou.

After pondering for a moment, he turned his face clear again.

"This time I went to Kanto, and I heard a lot of stories that happened in Kanto during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

"So as soon as I returned to Chang'an, the minister couldn't wait to see the Queen Mother, because he wanted to tell this story to the Queen Mother········"

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Dou only let out a long sigh wistfully, and nodded slowly.

It's just that although she made a posture of 'then you can talk about it', Empress Dowager Dou's scattered eyes also faintly carried a little coldness.

But seeing Yuan Ang chuckling and lowering his head, he muttered a wording, and in a curious and gossipy tone, he told the story he 'heard' to Empress Dowager Dou.

"It is said that in the eighteenth year of Song Wugong, Song Wugong died; The edict allowed Gongzili to succeed to the throne. ”

"Gongzi Li, who inherited the throne, was later Song Xuangong."

"In the nineteenth year of Song Xuangong, Song Xuangong was seriously ill, but he did not follow the past practice and let his son inherit the throne;

"-Instead, he gave up the crown prince and Yi and let his younger brother: Gongzi and inherit the throne."

"Song Xuangong said: After the death of the father, the son will succeed to the throne, and the younger brother will succeed after the death of the elder brother, which is the general meaning of the world·······"

After a few words, I saw that the cold look on Empress Dowager Dou's face suddenly disappeared!

Instead, there was a touch of excitement, even a little urgency!

Seeing Empress Dowager Dou's reaction, Yuan Ang only smiled secretly;

With a slight sigh, he continued: "Gongzi He repeatedly pushed back, but Song Xuangong insisted again and again, and in the end, it was Song Xuangong's younger brother Gongzi He who inherited the throne of Song State. ”

"And the prince who inherited the throne of the Song State was also the later Song Mugong ········"

In just a few words, Empress Dowager Dou's face was even more happy!

On top of the face that was still lacking in interest, it was full of excitement.

"—Mu Gong!"

"If you can be called 'Mu', then this son-in-law, who inherited his brother's throne, should also be regarded as a Ming Jun, right?"

"Doesn't this mean that it is not a bad thing for the younger brother to inherit the throne of the elder brother?"

Seeing that the Empress Dowager Dou was more and more excited, Yuan Ang still looked like a light smile;

Just like everything, it is always under Yuan An's control.

"As a younger brother, Song Mugong took over the temple left by his brother Song Xuangong and became Song Jun for nine years."

"Nine years later, Song Mugong was seriously ill, so he recruited Sima Kong Fujia and entrusted Song Xuangong's crown prince, his nephew and Yi to Kong Fujia;"

"Song Mugong said to Confucius: The first monarch Song Xuangong abandoned his son and Yi and made me the king, I dare not forget.

After I die, please serve the crown prince and Yi of Song Xuangong to preside over state affairs, although I die, I have no regrets. ”

"Confucius replied, "But the ministers are willing to serve your son, Gongzi Feng."

But Song Mugong said: You can't do this;

The first gentleman thought that I was virtuous, so he asked me to preside over the affairs of the state.

If morality is discarded and not abated, this is the promotion of the abandonment of the ancestors, where can there be any virtue?

Please don't abandon the deeds of your ancestors! ”

As Yuan Ang's more and more in-depth narration began, Empress Dowager Dou was also fascinated by it for a while;

And Yuan An's gaze at the Empress Dowager Dou became more and more solemn.

"So, Song Mugong expelled his two sons, Gongzi Feng and Zuo Shibo, from the Song State and let them live in the Zheng State;"

"And said unto them, Though ye be my sons, do not come to me again while I live, and do not come and weep upon me when I die."

"When the prince and Yi heard about this, they said to Song Mugong: The reason why the first monarch did not hand over the country to me, but handed over the country to you, was because he thought that you could be the master of the Sheji Temple.

Now that you have expelled your two sons and are ready to return the family to me and Yi, this is not the intention of the ancestors.

What's more, if my son can be expelled, then I'm afraid that the first king will also drive me away. ”

"But Song Mugong said: The reason why the first monarch did not expel you is understandable, I am only a regent in the position of the monarch, and I will eventually return the country to you and Yi."

"On the fifth day of August of the same year, Song Mugong died, and Song Xuangong's crown prince and Yi succeeded to the throne, which was ········ for Song Yangong"

Yuan An's voice fell, and the Empress Dowager Dou lowered her head in amazement, her mind was still silent in this story, and she couldn't extricate herself for a long time.

recalled that in this story, Song Xuangong, who made his younger brother the monarch, and Song Mugong, who returned the throne to his nephew;

and the crown prince and Yi who were finally established as kings, that is, the Duke of Song Yan········

"Huh?"

"—the martyr?"

"How could Song Xuangong's prince and Yi be called 'martyred' duke?"

Seeing that Empress Dowager Dou unexpectedly asked about this, a big stone fell to the ground in Yuan An's heart;

It's just that Yuan An's face suddenly brought a touch of sternness!

"Because of what happened later, the Song Kingdom under the governance of Song Xuangong and Song Mugong was completely ruined········"

"—During the reign of Song Yangong, Confucius was the Sima and the Huadu was the Dazai;"

"In the ninth year of the Song Dynasty, Sima Kong's wife was beautiful, and Dazai Huadu liked her beauty and wanted to take it for himself;"

"So he sent someone to threaten in the capital: Song Yangong has only been on the throne for ten years, but there have been eleven wars, and the people are miserable, all of which are the result of Confucius Fujia, and I want to kill Confucius to make the people peaceful."

"In the tenth year of the Song Dynasty, Hua Du attacked and killed Kong Fujia and robbed his wife."

"When Song Yangong learned of this, he was furious, and Huadu was afraid of being killed by Song Yangong, so he killed Song Yangong, and from Zheng State, welcomed back Song Mugong's son: Gongzi Feng, and supported Gongzi Feng as the king;"

"Feng, the son who was supported by Huadu, was the later ······ of Songzhuang"

Hearing this, Mrs. Dou's color changed suddenly, and the previous excitement had long since disappeared!

In its place, there is a vague sense of worry········

With a gloomy face, he has been thinking about himself for a long time;

was about to say something, but Yuan Ang spoke first, and continued: "Gongzi Feng, that is, after the Duke of Song Zhuang succeeded to the throne, appointed Hua Du as the minister of state; ”

"For many years after that, the power of the Song State was in the hands of the Prime Minister Huadu."

"Hua Du was the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and gave the great tripod of Gao Guo to Lu Huan Gong, and Qi, Chen, and Zheng Zhuguo also gave financial gifts, which were supported by all countries;"

"——In the Song Kingdom at that time, people only knew that there was a national minister Huadu, but they didn't know that there was a national gentleman Feng."

"Later, Huadu also forced Song Zhuang Gong to meddle in Zheng Guo's government affairs, forced Zheng Zhaogong to flee to defend the country, and changed Zheng Li Gong to be the monarch of Zheng Guo."

"From then on, the kingdoms of heaven and earth hated Song very much, and secretly spat on Song Zhuang Gong and State Minister Huadu;"

Ram Gao also said in "The Legend of the Ram": Song Zhuang Gongfeng's killing and razing seems to be the reason for the decline of the Song Kingdom; But in fact, the disaster of the Song Kingdom was caused by the Song Xuangong who passed on the throne to his younger brother·······"

In an inexplicably low and incomparably solemn tone, Yuan Ang raised his head slightly.

Looking at the Empress Dowager Dou's eyes, there was only a frank and sincere plea.

It didn't take long for Empress Dowager Dou to come back from her thoughts under Yuan An's complicated gaze.

Full of sorrow, he let out a lament, and then said to Yuan Ang with a struggling face: "I think ·······"

"Well, I think, the decay of the Song Kingdom ·······"

"It should be because of that, the traitor named Huadu, right?"

"-If it weren't for the killing of Duke Song and Duke Feng of Song Zhuang, he would not have become the monarch of the Song Kingdom;"

"Without Song Zhuang Gong and Hua Du, the Song Kingdom would not have declined?"

Seeing that Yuan Ang heard this, he only smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He took a deep breath and let out a long sigh·······

"The Queen Mother didn't realize the crux of this story."

"—At the beginning, Xuan Gong passed the throne to his younger brother Mu Gong;"

"Later, Mu Gong returned the throne to his brother's son Yan Gong."

"After the continuation of these three people, Song Guo doesn't seem to have any problems."

"But what the Queen Mother didn't notice was: Mu Gong returned the throne to his brother's son, so what would Mu Gong's own son think?"

"——As the so-called: with a sharp weapon in the mind, the murderous heart rises;"

"If Xuan Gong did not pass on the throne to his younger brother, but directly passed it on to his son Yan Gong, then Mu Gong's son will never have thoughts that he shouldn't have."

"But after Mu Gong has been established as the king, how can Mu Gong's son be willing?"

"Even if there is no traitor like Huadu, because he failed to get his father's position, how can the disgruntled Song Zhuang Gongfeng give up?"

"Even if you don't rebel immediately, you're just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the opportunity to kill Song Yangong so that you can take the throne yourself·······"

Speaking of which, Yuan Ang finally stopped beating around the bush, and only bluntly explained his intentions.

"I have known the Queen Mother for many years, and I know the Queen Mother's wishes clearly;"

"I also believe that after His Majesty passes on the throne to King Liang, even if there is no Queen Mother, King Liang will definitely return the throne to His Majesty's heirs."

"But has the Queen Mother ever thought about what will happen after that?"

"-King Liang is willing to return the throne to His Majesty's heirs, so what will King Liang's heirs think?"

"My father is the emperor, but I can't be the emperor myself, how can the son of King Liang be willing?"

"The minister has the courage to say a disrespectful word: When His Majesty's son is old, the Queen Mother, I am afraid that she will no longer be in this world."

"At that time, if the son of King Liang rebels and wants to kill His Majesty's son to usurp the throne, what should the Queen Mother do?"

"Under Jiuquan, how does the Queen Mother face Emperor Taizu Gao, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, how does she face the Empress Dowager Bo, and Your Majesty?"

Speaking earnestly, Yuan Ang did not forget to shake his head with embarrassment.

In his tone, there was a faint choked voice.

"The Queen Mother must know: Song State is just a vassal state·······"

"And now, what the Queen Mother wants to do is to pass on the whole world to King Liang."

"——There was a traitor in the Song Kingdom, who just messed up the society of a country;"

"But the Queen Mother wants Her Majesty to pass on the throne to King Liang, if there is a traitor like Huadu, then it will be chaotic, but the whole world will ······"

"Queen Mother, are you willing to be a faint queen who has been stinking for thousands of years, causing chaos in Zhuxia, corrupting Liu Han Sheji, and dishonoring Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and being scolded by future generations?"

"Does the Queen Mother want Your Majesty to become a faint monarch like Song Xuangongli who laid the root of the chaos in the world?"

"Queen Mother's ·······"

"Queen Mother ·········"

In the end, Yuan Ang lowered his head and sobbed uncontrollably, as if he felt extremely worried about the future of the Empress Dowager Dou;

After a long time, Yuan Ancai raised his head again and bowed to the Empress Dowager Dou with tears.

"This is the reason why as soon as the minister returned to Chang'an, he couldn't wait to enter the palace immediately and meet the queen mother."

"The queen mother's kindness to the minister, the minister will never dare or forget."

But the Empress Dowager should also understand: what the Empress Dowager is about to do is to corrupt the virtues of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen;"

"It is to destroy the peace of the world, and it is to leave a huge hidden danger for me Liu Hansheji for thousands of years·······

(End of chapter)