Chu Pingzhe closed his eyes, and the once familiar images in his mind kept coming to mind: "Sixteen years ago, I was nineteen years old, and my father was the first emperor during the period of Xianxizong, and he was still the king of Linbei in Zhao State, and I was only the most unpopular among my father's many children.

I'm active by nature and don't like to read.,Often do evil in the city with my partners.,It's a real gentleman.,I don't know if my father is to exercise me or have other ideas.,Suddenly put me in the tiger camp of the northern border army.,The northern border of the year.,The Liao army,The Zhao army,The bandits are all the year round melee together.,No matter how noble your identity is.,How rich your family is.,You may die anywhere.,If you don't pay attention to your head, you will leave your body.。

Every day at that time, I lived on thin ice, afraid that one day I would die. ”

"A year later, in the eighth year of Tianyou, Prime Minister Li You formulated a counteroffensive plan in the north, trying to recover the six states in the north in a war, and it happened that the tiger battalion where I was the vanguard of this operation, according to the plan, we attacked all the way to Yancheng.

However, at this time, we learned that the rear baggage troops were attacked by the enemy, the grain and grass were all burned, and the general of Subei on the right led 50,000 Zhenbei troops to surrender to the enemy, after learning a series of circumstances, the morale of the imperial army quickly collapsed, many troops broke and fled, although the tiger battalion fought hard to kill the enemy, but after all, it was outnumbered, except for a few of us, almost all the army was wiped out.

We were running all the way, and we wanted to go back to the city in the rear to report the situation of the battle, but the Liao army had occupied the city occupied by our army earlier, and we had no choice but to keep running backwards, but the speed of the Liao army was very fast, and whenever we wanted to rest, the cavalry of the Liao army was killed.

So we kept fleeing south, and two months later we finally fled to the Daimyo's Mansion, but with it was the Liao army's large iron cavalry, but fortunately, the high walls of the Daimyo's Mansion made it impossible for the Liao army, which was dominated by cavalry, to break through for a while, and we were able to rest.

However, the nearby villages that were not protected by the city walls could not stop the Liao army's iron cavalry, and under the slaughter of the Liao army, countless villages were reduced to ashes, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.

Some of them were lucky enough to hide in the Daimyo's mansion, but most of them were slaughtered by the Liao army, and some had no choice but to fall into the grass, the worst of which were the women who were captured by the Liao army, who were played with as slaves of the Liao army during the day, and ....... at night And at night, he can't even save his life" Speaking of this, Chu Pingxiong suddenly stopped, and a line of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, often when recalling this memory, Chu Pingxiong's heart could not be calmed.

"That day, my team of eight people went out of the city to investigate, but because of the wrong map, we went in the wrong direction, in a village burned by the Liao army, we found ten Liao soldiers pressing fifteen girls to walk outside the village, and your mother was also among them, behind them were dozens of corpses of people who had just been killed, those Liao soldiers laughed wantonly, and constantly moved their hands and feet to those girls, and someone even pressed a girl to the ground in broad daylight."

"After that, we killed those Liao soldiers by sneaking up on the attack and saved those girls, and we still had a mission at that time, so we left some money for those women, and when we were about to leave, the girls we rescued followed us all the time.

At that time, we thought, where can they go if they don't follow us? In this troubled world, money is a life-threatening spell for these women, and human life is like a mustard!

So we asked a few people to wait here now, and when we finished our mission, we took them away, and when we returned to the Daimyo's Mansion, your mother was always with me, and I told her many times that she would die sooner or later if she followed me, but she seemed to recognize me, and she would not leave no matter what I said, so I had no choice but to keep her by my side.

And this is the most correct decision I have made in my life, your mother seems to be a gift from God, she is very gentle, and when I lose my mind, as long as she is around, she will use her tenderness to soothe my angry heart.

Slowly, I gradually developed a love for her, three months later the imperial court and the Liao State to negotiate peace, the north of the Yellow River, Hebei County two counties and seventy-two counties of nearly one million people were ceded to the Liao State, in addition, the court also gave the Liao State 5 million coins every year, 5 million horses, every two years from the royal family to choose the princess to marry into the Liao State. ”

Two months later, Emperor Xizong died suddenly, and since Xizong had no heirs, my father Huaizong ascended the throne, and I was driven to Shannan by him.

When I first arrived in Shannan, I felt that life was like this, I could only be a free prince in my life, and it was just a fantasy to serve the country and kill the enemy and regain the lost land.

Therefore, I lived in a state of confusion every day, but your mother kept persuading me to cheer up and she believed that I would definitely become a great hero in the future, and under her persuasion, I began to study, began to pay attention to the life of the people in the fiefdom, and gradually I became a virtuous king praised by everyone, and the strategists under my command were like clouds. ”

"In those two years, I was on the fief every day, ploughing with the peasants, grazing with the herdsmen, asking the children of the bookstore what they had learned today, returning home at night, my wife brought water and a white towel to wipe with me, after sitting for a while, a hot noodle soup was served on the table, the family gathered around to eat, the mother took her daughter-in-law's hand and asked us to give her a grandson at that time, the wife's face was delicate, my brother and I laughed loudly, that time was the happiest day in my life."

Speaking of this, Chu Pingxiong's face inadvertently leaked a slight smile, and there was a little soft light in his eyes, and he seemed to have returned to the period that haunted him.

"In the third year of Ren'an, there was news in the palace that the first emperor's illness was approaching, and the kings were about to move, my mother and I also saw this opportunity, and secretly contacted the minister of Kyoto to make heavy profits, but I couldn't contact the general who held the military power in his hands, just when we were at a loss, the general Murong of Anchuan found us, and he proposed that as long as I divorced your mother and then married his daughter Murong Xue Kite, and the queen must be Murong Xue Kite when she ascended the throne as the emperor in the future; In this way, not only the 150,000 mountain troops in my hands will support me, but even the 50,000 Anxi troops will also support me. ”

"At that time, I was already carried away by the desire for power, so I agreed to Murong Zhizhong's request, and wrote a letter of resignation in front of your mother, and after a night when I woke up and wanted to regret it, I found that your mother had disappeared.

At that time, I thought that your mother was resentful of me and ran away from home, but I sent people to look for you for more than ten days but never found your mother, because the former emperor was getting sicker and more and more tense at that time, and the situation in the court was becoming more and more tense, under the advice of your grandmother and the ministers around me, I could only enter Beijing to seize the throne first, and then I was looking for an opportunity to find your mother. ”

"When I officially ascended the throne, I wanted to find your mother and bring her into the palace, but at that time, the other concubines in my harem were killed one after another, and the forbidden army could not investigate and punish the murderers, but in fact, I knew that it was my queen who killed them, but because the queen's maternal family was huge, I didn't dare to touch him for a while.

And at that time, the Queen Mother also told me that she hid your mother, and also brought me your mother's handwritten letter, in which she did not have any resentment against me, but was full of understanding and support for me, and I also learned that she was pregnant. ”

"After that, I put child avoidance medicine and fragrant muscle pills on the queen's meal, so that she could not get pregnant, and then I did my best to govern the country, eradicate dissidents and crazy control of the government, I wanted to completely control the government and put your mother and son in Kyoto, but I didn't think about it, but I suddenly fell ill at the last moment, resulting in a failure, and I had no choice but to enter you to Kyoto first."

After telling everything, Chu Pingxiong's eyes were closed, as if he was thinking about something, or recalling something, and after a while, he opened his eyes and touched Chu Haowen's head lovingly, "Child, the future will depend on you." ”

After speaking, he asked Chu Haowen to call all the people just now in.

Just when Chu Pingzhe recalled the past to Chu Haowen, a thrilling battle for military power was going on in the Beijing camp ten miles away from Kyoto.

Inside the Beijing camp, 10,000 Yangwei troops have been ready to go, just waiting for an order to kill the target at any time, a torch will illuminate the Beijing camp, the commander of the Yangwei battalion in the big tent of the Chinese army Ning Pengju is still anxiously waiting for the news in the palace, as long as the news in the palace is together, he will immediately lead the army into the palace King Qin's escort.

But the generals below didn't know anything about this matter, and kept asking about tonight's deployment, and some people even clamored to lead the team to leave, seeing that they couldn't suppress the generals below, Ning Peng raised his rope and pulled out: "Ben will receive a secret order from the imperial court, and someone intends to rebel tonight!" ”

One of the generals below didn't believe what Ning Pengju said, arched his hand and said, "General, since it is an order from the imperial court, then please ask the general to take out the tiger talisman or the troop transfer token!" ”

Ning Pengju had long thought that someone would ask this, and then took out a tiger talisman: "You all don't care!" Obey my orders to destroy the traitors! ”

"Traitor? Who is a traitor? Is it me who learns from Wuxing? An old voice came, and everyone looked at the person who came to see that it was the only king with a different surname in Da Zhao, the only one in Zhao who had a big Sima identity, who was favored by three generations of emperors, and was quite prestigious in the official and folk of Da Zhao Zheng Wang Wu Xingxue, Ning Pengju looked at the person in front of him incredulously, with a look of horror, according to Wu Xingxue, he should now drink tea and chat in the palace of Taiyuan Mansion, how could he suddenly come to the capital?

Da Sima was full of aura, "You little rabbits, what do you want to do?" Rebellion? As he spoke, he walked over to his seat and sat down.

Ning Peng looked at the Wuxing scholars who were not good at following them, even though he was terrified in his heart, but the desire to be promoted and make a fortune prompted him to step forward and ask: "King Zheng is not in Taiyuan Mansion to manage the fief, why did he come to the capital?" You still want to come to my Beijing camp, I don't know what kind of business King Zheng has? ”

Wu Xingxue glanced at Ning Pengju, and then said as if he had just woken up from a dream: "Oh, Xiao Ning is also here, this is the king, it was originally in Taiyuan Mansion, but I suddenly received an order from the emperor, saying that I should take over the Beijing camp, although I don't want to move an old bone, but the emperor's order is always to be obeyed." "Wu Xingxue clearly told him, I! Your father, come to seize power! How's that!

Ning Pengju was also nervous and entangled at this time, whether to listen to Wu Xingxue's orders or not, the fear of Wu Xingxue made him want to kneel in front of Wu Xingxue and shout that I was wrong, but the desire to be promoted and make a fortune made him have an extremely terrible idea

"That's not right! This military power was delivered by the imperial court! How can I listen to your simple words and hand them over! What about the Holy Decree? What about the Talisman? ”

Looking at Ning Pengju's crazy state, Wu Xingxue snorted coldly, "Why don't you trust me?" ”

"Of course not, it's just ......"

"It's just that I don't know if I'm really on the emperor's orders."

"That's right!"

When the words fell, Wu Xingxue snorted coldly, his eyes gradually became cold, and he took out a square gold medal from his arms and threw it in front of Ning Pengju.

"Lord Ning, take a look." Ning Peng raised his head and saw that the gold medal was written with four big characters written on it, and the generals saw Wu Xingxue take out the token, and they also saluted one after another.

Seeing the generals saluting, Wu Xingxue immediately issued an order: "Okay! Let each of you go back to his camp. ”

"Stop! I am the commander, and no one is allowed to move without my orders! At this time, Ning Pengju is also out of the way, things have developed to this point, success or failure is in a breath, fight a bicycle into a motorcycle, at this time it depends on who is harder, and this is his territory.

However, he seems to think too highly of himself, and his aura is simply not worth mentioning in front of the battle-hardened Wu Xingxue: "You said you are the main general, right?" Well, from now on you're not! ”

"Humph! Da Sima, I would have respected you and called you Da Sima, but you don't want to make an inch! You don't even look at whose territory this is! As soon as the words fell, Ning Peng raised his hands and clapped them, and dozens of armored soldiers with weapons rushed in and surrounded the generals.

"Good ~ General Ning's good means, I will admire it!" Seeing the soldiers surrounding him, Wu Xingxue shouted loudly and applauded at Ning Peng.

"Hmph, I regret it now, it's too late!" Ning Pengju thought that Wu Xingxue was scared, and he didn't think about it, "Go!" With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen soldiers rushed up and killed him.

"You ........" Ning Peng looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, and fell down full of doubt.

"Idiot!" Glancing at Ning Pengju's corpse with disdain, Wu Xingxue sat on top of the general seat and looked at the generals below, "Okay, let's go back and wash and sleep." Then he sat down in his chair and closed his eyes.

In the Golden Dragon Palace, Chu Haowen stood next to Chu Pingxiong, and in front of them, the six ministers stood in a row, and the Queen Mother sat next to Chu Haowen holding beads and chanting Buddha.

Chu Pingxiong took Chu Haowen's hand and introduced him to the six people standing next to him

"Wen'er, this is the six wisest, most loyal, and most courageous ministers of my Zhao Kingdom, now I will introduce you to the six of them for my father" As Chu Pingzhe finished speaking, the six ministers also saluted Chu Haowen.

"Prime Minister Xiao Yunzhou, he is a descendant of the royal family of the Southern Dynasty, the eldest son of the Xiao family in Jiangnan, is the personal disciple of the Huangshan Confucian, his old friends, relatives and friends and students are all over the world, he is gentle, scheming, decisive is the power of the dynasty, you need to listen to his opinions in the future, and in terms of knowing and employing people, you need to learn more from him, and it is always right to ask his opinion more about everything."

"Chen Run'an, the head of the household, although he was born in a poor family but is very intelligent, and he is also a brother who has experienced life and death with me, he is humble, loyal and courageous, cautious, he often goes deep into the grassroots to understand the life of the people, and has a very high knowledge of the economy, in the future, all the things related to the people's livelihood, the people's housing, and the national economy, you can ask him for advice."

"The military department is still the book, the generalissimo Yang Zhicai was born in the Yang family in the north, his family has been a general for six generations, and has a prestige in the army, he has learned martial arts since he was a child and is familiar with the art of war, and is good at fighting in large corps, he is a humble and strategic, and you can listen to his advice when you can't make decisions in the future when you encounter a foreign invasion."

"Sheng Jingquan, the third son of the Sheng family in Huainan, is erudite and fair, he studied under the master of the Legalist, and has made great achievements in the study of the law, and you can ask him about anything related to the law in the future."

"Ning Qian, the secretary of the ministry, was born in the Ning family in Guanzhong, is loyal, pure-minded, he is a teacher, and he can ask him in terms of talent selection and official promotion."

"General Pang Ji, a general of Yipin, was born in the Pang family in Guanzhong, has a good character, is proficient in military affairs, and is good at defensive battles.

After introducing the six auxiliary ministers, Chu Pingxiong asked Chu Haowen to walk in front of the six people, "Wen'er, go, kowtow to the six teachers." ”

"I've seen six teachers."

"Your Highness, no." Seeing Chu Haowen kneeling down towards them, the six of them hurriedly snored while helping Chu Haowen up.

"Communication." After introducing a few people, Chu Pingxiong called Chu Haowen to his side and asked him to bow down to the old woman next to him.

"Wen'er, this is your grandmother, the wisest person in my Da Zhao, you must listen to your grandmother's advice in everything in the future, and you must not disobey her."

After speaking, Chu Pingxiong took out a golden tiger talisman from the box beside him and put it in the hands of the Queen Mother, "Mother, I have worked hard for you, my son is going to be one step ahead of you, so I will bother you to work hard and help my son keep an eye on this Da Zhao again." ”

Handing over the tiger talisman to the Queen Mother, Chu Pingxiong called Xiao Yunzhou to him, took his hand and said emotionally: "Wen An, you are the person I trust the most, and this child will be entrusted to you in the future."

In the future, you will be his middle father, if he does well in the future, you will do your best to assist him, if he is extravagant, not an emperor material, can not keep this great Zhao Jiangshan, you can abolish him and set up a new emperor. After listening to Chu Pingxiong's words, Xiao Yunzhou suddenly sweated profusely, and he was at a loss for a while.

"Your Majesty, the ministers should do their best to assist Prince Wen, and there will be no two hearts when paired. I hope Your Majesty will take it back! Xiao Yunzhou knelt directly on the ground, and promised one after another that he would do his best to assist Chu Haowen.

Xiao Yunzhou is not a fool, Chu Pingxiong's words of retreating as advance are not unheard, if he reveals a little abnormal expression now, then the dozen or so dead soldiers beside him can eat themselves alive in an instant, even if he does not die now, but in the future, the queen mother with heavy troops and the other five auxiliary ministers who are eyeing him can definitely kill himself in 1,200 ways.

Don't look at Chu Pingxiong in front of him, he is already running out of oil, but Xiao Yunzhou knows how this lord eradicated the three famous sects in the first place, which is tens of thousands of lives.

It seemed that he was satisfied with Xiao Yunzhou's attitude, and it seemed that Chu Pingxiong did not have the strength to deal with Xiao Yunzhou at this time, he waved his hand lightly, and Mo Feng walked out from behind the curtain with a plate, "Everyone, this is my edict of succession, after I die, you will take him outside the palace and read my last photo to the ministers of civil and military affairs outside." ”

After speaking, a holy decree was handed over to the Queen Mother.

It seemed that after arranging everything, Chu Pingxiong lay on the bed panting, he took Chu Haowen's hand and forced his body to finish the last sentence of this life: "I put this thousand catties of burden on your shoulders, I believe that you will be able to refresh the rule of officials, prepare the army, recover the sixteen states in the north, fulfill my wish, and be ashamed of Da Zhao Xue, after you ascend the throne, you must think twice before acting, light and virtuous ministers and villains, treat your courtiers well, and love your people."

Encourage the practice of farming, encourage the traders, be kind to the craftsmen, encourage the young people to study, do not neglect the imperial examination, do not covet pleasures, understand the hardships of the people, do not increase taxes, and love them, if you can do this, I will have no regrets. ”

After saying this, he turned his head to look at the Queen Mother beside him, "Mother, my son is gone, you ..... Take care. ”

The words fell, the sound was closed, the beads were scattered, and the person was dead.

"Holy !!"

Zhao Mingde 18 years 42-year-old Mingde Emperor Chu Pingxiong died of illness, the temple name Zhaozong, Zhaozong during the reign of Zhaozong, reform the rule of officials, prepare the army to change the political decline of Xizong Anzong, and in the eighth year of Mingde in one fell swoop to recover the two counties and 62 counties lost during the Xizong period, known as Zhaozong Zhongxing.

At this time, the civil and military officials outside the Golden Dragon Hall heard the emperor's roar and heard the cry coming from the hall, and they all guessed that the emperor might die, and they all wanted to rush into the palace, but they were stopped by the dead soldiers.

Just when the ministers outside the hall were in chaos, the door of the palace creaked open, and the queen mother took Chu Haowen's hand and led the six auxiliary ministers behind her to walk out of the palace, "What are you panicking about!" One by one, what kind of system has it become! The Queen Mother's cold eyes swept over everyone present, and the Queen Mother's power made all the ministers retreat one after another.

"Although the emperor is dead! But I'm still there, the crown prince is still there, the six auxiliary ministers are still there, and Zhao Guo can't die! Then he nodded to Mo Feng behind him, and Mo Feng picked up the holy decree, "Read out the decree of Emperor Daxing!" Kneel! The ministers knelt down and waited for the decree to be read

"Edict: I have been ordered by the emperor to live in the world, and it has been 18 years now, and I have been working hard all night and night, fearing that I will be entrusted by the emperor, but now I will not rise due to illness, which is the mandate of heaven. The emperor's eldest son, Wen, is smart and benevolent, and makes De Tiancheng, the heir to the emperor's throne, because he has not been crowned, he ordered the queen mother to govern, the queen to assist the government, Xiao Yunzhou, Chen Run'an, Yang Zhicai, Sheng Jingquan, Ning Qian, Pang Ji Six people are loyal and courageous, and six people are appointed as auxiliary ministers, assisting the new monarch, and looking forward to the internal and external civil and military cooperation to assist and protect the primate. His funeral was to abide by the legacy of the first emperor, and he was released on the 23rd, and he did not prohibit folk music to marry, and the ministers inside and outside the country strictly sealed the territory, pacified the army and the people, and did not leave his post without permission. ”

After finishing speaking, King Chu stood up suddenly, he pointed at Mo Feng with his finger and said angrily: "Impossible! How could the saint let such a hairy boy who didn't know where he came from be the emperor! ”

"Chu Pingqi! What do you want? Rebellion? The Queen Mother stopped the king, and then took the posthumous photo into her hand and said: "This posthumous photo was personally handed over to the mourning family by the emperor in front of the six ministers!" Wen'er is also the grandson of the mourning family, the first emperor, the son of Emperor Mingde, who dares not believe it? Who dares! The old lady's deterrent power is not comparable to others, and her words directly suppressed the ministers, but the king of England is not a vegetarian, and of course he can't be suppressed by this sentence alone.

"It's not up to you to decide whether it's true or not! You believe it, but I don't! The King of England still did not give up, and walked out angrily as he spoke.

"Stop! What do you want to do when you go out at this time? Want to move troops? Yes! At this moment, a general in black armor walked in from outside the palace and met the king face to face.

"You can't take care of it!" Chu Pingqi, who had something in his heart, bypassed the Black Armor General and was about to walk outside, but the Black Armor General grabbed his clothes and pulled him back.

"Zhao Hai! Do what you want! The angry Chu Pingqi pointed at Zhao Hai and was about to scold, but at this time, he only heard a crisp and loud voice from behind him, "Zhao Hai!" Come and kneel for me! Looking back, the Queen Mother was staring at Chu Pingqi with a sharp sword in her hand, and the dead soldiers next to her were also on the hilt of the sword.

Seeing this scene, Chu Pingqi was not false, he knew that the queen mother did not dare to move herself, because if he had a little thing here, it would prove to the world that the emperor's death was strange, then the ambitious kings in the world would attack it en masse, and considering this, the queen mother would not do it.

"What! Is the Queen Mother trying to kill me? Come on! But what if you kill me? Can you stop the world? Chu Pingqi directly ripped off his clothes and exposed his chest to the Queen Mother.

"The mourning family said that Wen'er is the biological son of Emperor Daxing, there is no doubt about it! In addition, Emperor Daxing still has an edict that has not been read, don't you want to hear it? ”

Hearing that there was another edict, all the ministers also advised the king to listen to the edict before other things, and seeing this situation, Chu Pingqi had no choice but to listen to the edict first.

Seeing Chu Pingqi coming back, the Queen Mother opened the holy decree in her hand and read, "Edict: I have heard of the ancient sages, the brother died and the brother assisted his nephew, one year to save the chaos, two years to Ke Yin, three years to practice the dying, four years to build the Hou Wei, five years to camp into Zhou, six years to make ceremonies, seven years to become the king." Now I collapsed, so that the Qin King Chu Zhimin, the Wei King Chu Zhide as the regent to assist the young lord to adulthood, hope that the kings of the world will live up to my wishes, jointly assist the young lord, protect me to fight Zhao Jiangshan, if there is an opportunity to hold troops to make trouble, the kings of the world can wave troops to ask for it, and the people of the land under the jurisdiction of the rebels can be divided and inherited by the kings of the rebellion. ”

As soon as this decree came out, Chu Pingqi, who was still clamoring just now, was extremely quiet at the moment, he knew that he had no chance at the moment, and now who cared if Chu Haowen was the emperor's biological son, a sentence of rebellion against the kings of the division of the inheritance made those originally neutral princes stand on the opposite side of him, and he could even feel the killing intent of the other kings behind him.

Seeing that no one spoke anymore, the Queen Mother put away the holy decree and said to everyone: "Everyone go back first, the Ministry of Rites will leave the first emperor in the coffin according to the rules, and worship in a unified manner tomorrow." After speaking, he pulled Chu Haowen into the hall.