Chapter 476: The Long Truth (1st Update)
The smile on King Xiliang's face was closed, "But I still have Fu Zhang with me, he was only three years old at the time, and he can always be found. I turned into a beggar, abandoned the child, and found a substitute for the dead, so as to completely dispel the doubts of the Duke of Dingguo. I hid in the mountains to gather the old troops, and those soldiers who used to dominate the battlefield pretended to be homeless people and quietly entered Xiliang one after another, so that we have today."
He explained clearly what happened after the destruction of the country in just a few words, and in the face of heavy national hatred and family hatred, the hardships and sufferings of the past 20 years seemed to be not worth mentioning.
Zhao Chengyuan said, "No wonder the people of Xiliang have been quite strategic in recent years, it turns out that it is your credit."
King Xiliang squinted at him, "You're a ghost-faced general, right? You were the one who saved the prince that day."
"Yes."
King Xiliang sighed, "Our uncle and nephew fought to the death on the battlefield, but it was cheaper for others...... That's it, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, it's not this one, I don't know that Baorong has a son!"
He patted Zhao Chengyuan on the shoulder and praised, "Good boy, you almost killed me twice. If you can practice such a masterful kung fu, you must have suffered a lot when you were young, and you have no desire to survive, who can bear those sins."
He then sneered, "Then Zhao Chengche is ruthless, how can he make you feel better."
Zhao Chengyuan didn't want to mention what he had experienced since he was a child, suffering, and who suffered less.
"I don't know much about what happened back then, so tell me about it."
"What happened back then......" When it came to this topic, King Xiliang lost his talent and was full of strong anger.
More than 20 years ago, the national strength of Chu was unprecedentedly strong, and the king of Chu had the idea of destroying Zhou to the north, so the first major war broke out between the two countries, the scale of the war was unprecedented, protracted, and more than 200,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched.
At that time, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was Emperor Qingxuan, and when he was a prince, he often led troops to fight, and when he was in the prime of life, he drove his own expedition. A year later, the well-equipped state of Chu, with abundant grain and grass, fought a great victory and captured Emperor Qingxuan.
The king of Chu admired the demeanor of Emperor Qingxuan and placed him in a courtyard in the palace to treat him with courtesy. The original intention of the king of Chu was that the two countries would make peace with the armistice and cut off ten cities in the Great Zhou. Emperor Qingxuan said that he would rather die than give up his ancestors' foundation to survive.
Emperor Qingxuan was handsome and elegant, knowledgeable, and Princess Baorong fell in love with him at first sight and begged the king of Chu to let him return to China.
Princess Baorong is the most beloved little princess of the King of Chu, with a charming appearance and a lively and well-behaved appearance. And Emperor Qingxuan was more than ten years older than her, and he had a deep relationship with Queen Lu and his wife, and the king of Chu did not want his daughter to marry away from another country as a concubine and be wronged. But Princess Baorong is caught in love and can't extricate herself.
The king of Chu saw that Baorong was getting haggard day by day, and he relented for a while and promised her to Emperor Qingxuan, but for the sake of protecting Emperor Qingxuan's face, he did not make a noise.
When Princess Baorong was seven months pregnant, the king of Chu saw that Emperor Qingxuan had a lot of affection for Baorong, and the child was about to be born, so Emperor Qingxuan had no possibility of repentance, so he stopped fighting and negotiated peace and let him return to Zhou.
He made two requests to Emperor Qingxuan: first, Feng Baorong was the imperial concubine, and there was no need to kneel and salute Empress Lu; Second, if Bao Rong gives birth to a prince, make him the crown prince.
Emperor Qingxuan solemnly responded and took Princess Baorong to leave Southern Chu.
Three months later, the king of Chu also received a handwritten letter from Princess Baorong, saying that the mother and son were safe. ….
For more than three years after that, the King of Chu would receive letters from Princess Baorong every year, and his words were lively, and his life seemed to be going smoothly.
But more than three years later, Emperor Qingxuan died, but Emperor Qingming ascended the throne.
The king of Chu was furious when he heard the news and sent the crown prince to the Great Zhou theory. When the prince of Southern Chu saw Emperor Qingming, he knew that the imperial concubine of the Great Zhou Dynasty was just a false title, with an empty title, and no one else. There was no princess of Chu in the Great Zhou, and Emperor Qingxuan was never captured.
After the prince of Chu returned to China, the king of Chu attacked the Great Zhou again on the grounds of the treachery of the Great Zhou, but Emperor Qingming and the Duke of Dingguo had already laid a trap, and the revenge battle under the anger of the Chu State ended in the death of the king of Chu and the destruction of the country.
King Xiliang said, "I once suspected that you were Bao Rong's child, but after investigation, I found out that Bao Rong had just arrived in Da Zhou when you were born, and she was only seven months pregnant at that time. And Empress Lu arrived at Xiangping Mansion before Emperor Qingxuan was captured, and I believed that you were her son
Son."
There was a chill in his eyes, "I gave birth in July, and I don't know how much of a sin Bao Rong has suffered...... They treacherously crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and did this to an unarmed woman. You say, how can this king spare the royal family of the Great Zhou, how can he spare the Anling Houfu, how can he spare the Duke of Dingguo!"
Zhao Chengyuan's phoenix eyes were deep. It turned out that the father had also made these two conditions.
He did so, crowning the imperial concubine and the crown prince. It's just that the imperial concubine was given to the dead, and the crown prince was usurped by the eldest son before he could do so.
I don't know what my father thought when he did this, whether he had affection for Princess Baorong, and whether he felt guilty.
Princess Baorong's death, whether there is a father's handiwork in it.
And the queen mother...... In the previous life, the Anling Houfu was finally destroyed, and it turned out to be involved by the queen mother, and the evidence of treason was handed over to Zhao Chen by the king of Xiliang.
"When the queen mother and the imperial brother arrived at Xiangping Mansion, her father had already been captured, and she was afraid that she would have no choice but to cooperate with the whole royal family. Also, every year the Queen Mother would make me kowtow to an empty tablet without telling me who she was."
King Xiliang's face sank, "You want to protect Anling Houfu? Yes, you knew your background before, but you still pretended to be a ghost-faced general to come to the border to help Anling Houfu. You read Queen Lu's nurturing grace, but you don't know that she doesn't want her mother to rely on her son to sit firmly in the position of the queen!"
Zhao Chengyuan also had such a guess that his most respected father, his most attached mother, was the enemy who killed his biological mother and the executioner who destroyed his maternal grandfather. This once became his inner demon, making him miserable and almost becoming a demon.
It wasn't until he arrived at Cangyuan Mountain that he met the little girl, who dissolved the anger in his heart little by little, and let him gradually return to peace.
Zhao Chengyuan said, "The love of parents is far-reaching. If it weren't for the many life-saving things that the Queen Mother secretly did for me, I am afraid I would not be alive now."
Master Qingde is a great help left to him by his mother, and in the years when he was young, he was able to escape several assassinations because of Master Qingde.
The queen mother is a woman in the deep palace, but it took four years to build a private army of 5,000 people, and the master is him. Later, he slowly strengthened this private army, so that he had the deterrent power of today's ghost-faced general.
The silver taels used to raise the private army are all rich private property left to him by the queen mother.
King Xiliang snorted coldly, "I originally saw that you were decisive in killing, and I thought you were a ruthless person, but I didn't think that you were as soft-hearted as Fu Zhang, because of the grace of caring for nurturing, the country hated and the family hatred was forgotten."
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