[Vol. 1] Section 175: Huo Qu died of illness in the turmoil

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Liu Che returned to the palace sullenly, his eyebrows were furrowed, his expression was cold, and the attendants in front of him were so frightened that they avoided it. He ignored it, patted the dust off his body, and reclined on the couch with half squints.

A palace maid lightly made him a cup of weak tea, he suddenly opened his eyes, drank the weak tea, and then suddenly threw the teacup on the ground, the palace maid was so frightened that she staggered, and knelt down, she thought that the tea she brewed was not in line with the emperor's wishes, and even said "The slave should die, please forgive the emperor."

Liu Che looked at the poor little palace maid lying on the ground, and suddenly sighed, and only when he was alone could he sigh like this. He instructed the palace maid to pack up and hurry down.

The little palace maid got up tremblingly and retreated respectfully. Like all palace maids, although she understands that the emperor in front of her never scolds people indiscriminately, let alone kills indiscriminately, but in the face of this Ninety-Five Supreme, she is still afraid, afraid that he will shout, afraid that he will get angry, afraid that he will scream, and even more afraid that he can let his life be lost with a word.

At this moment, Liu Che can't care about people's thoughts, if he estimates well, soon, the people of the Li family will cry and rush to Weiyang Palace to ask for a meeting.

It's not that he has a headache for them to cry, but when people die, they always have to cry for a while, take care of themselves, and after a while, they will naturally be calm. What he had a headache was that Huo Quai, the love general, would shoot the minister of Jiuqing under his nose, and Huo Qubing committed a capital crime. He can block the champion for a while, but he can't stop for a lifetime. Everyone knows that Li Dare to be a tiger in the door, twice in the army, can be described as unstoppable, saying that he was killed by Yunlu, isn't he talking nonsense with his eyes open? If he doesn't even believe in himself, how can he make others believe it.

But other than that, there is no other way, Liu Che can only prevaricate the mouth of others with such a seemingly absurd reason, whether others believe it or not, this matter ends here, this is the conclusion of the current imperial court.

He was unwilling to deal with Huo Quai, Huo Qubing was too important to him, he was needed on the battlefield, and he was even more needed in the court.

Liu Che is a smart person, Huo Quai's shooting of Li Kang has become a fact, it seems to be a simple matter of revenge and killing, but if you think about it carefully, I am afraid it is not as simple as it seems.

Could there be some weird scheming in this?

Huo Qubing wants to kill Li Kang, there is a way, he can find someone to kill him in the dead of night with a sack, why do it in front of everyone, isn't this leaving the handle to others?

Even if Huo Quzhi was confident that the emperor would not punish him, he couldn't give an explanation to the Li family if he wanted to protect him. Huo Quai's behavior like this didn't embarrass Liu Che?

Everyone knew that he had a tendency to belittle Wei Zunhuo. The reason why he did this was not to target Wei Qing intentionally, he knew that Wei Qing was honest, so naturally there would be no misdeeds.

He targeted the people behind Wei Qing, hoping that they would be honest and not act mischiefly as relatives of the emperor.

Although the crown prince was only twelve years old, Liu Che often taught him not to rely too much on his maternal family and to make his own decisions.

In the eyes of others, this can be regarded as a knock on the mountain.

Today's Liu Che has long since stopped pampering Mrs. Wei, who is already old and decrepit, even so, he is still worried about the continuous expansion of Wei's power.

To be honest, the Wei family is at the mercy of others, because from the queen to the general, and then to the general's sons, they are all honest people, they don't forget their roots, how dare they take a step beyond Lei Chi!

It's Liu Che's sister who is difficult to manipulate! Her sister, Liu Che knows better than anyone else, she respects herself on face, but in fact, her desire for power will not be less than his, thinking that she gave Wei Zifu to him back then, and thinking that she married Wei Qing, who was born as a slave, which time was not for power?

Liu Che is no longer the young man when he first ascended the throne, he is middle-aged, he has a new understanding of the Jiangshan Sheji, he has a good insight into the situation of the imperial court, what he wants to maintain now is the eternal foundation of his old Liu family, and all those who covet the scepter, no matter who they are, will be suppressed by him without exception.

Therefore, since the sixth year of Yuan Shuo, he has secretly respected Huo and suppressed the guard, Huo Quai's most reassuring thing is that he is still young, quiet and arrogant, whether in the army or the court, because of poor communication, he has not formed a force, and most of the generals he promoted are low-level sergeants, without any background. Huo Quzhi never does things for others, and in the eyes of others, he is so alternative and annoying.

In the first battle of Mobei, Wei Huo and Huo were added to the official Sima, the rank was the same, and the nephew and uncle were both important ministers of the Inner Dynasty, and Huo Qubing had the posture of surpassing the general.

In this way, except for Wei Qing, the rest of the Wei family regarded Huo Qu's illness as an enemy.

All this Liu Che is like a mirror in his heart, this is also the result he wants, if the two most capable generals are hugging together, then he will not be able to eat and sleep. It's just that he didn't expect that Huo Quzhi would use the extreme means of shooting Li Dang to repair the rift.

As Liu Che expected, someone must be fanning the flames behind his back, otherwise Huo Quzhi would not have killed people under his nose, as for who did it, Liu Che is unwilling to think about it now.

Liu Che calmed down a little, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the inner servant coming to report that the Li family was crying outside the palace gate to see the emperor.

Liu Che's head hurt again, signaled that he was gone, and ordered someone to live and compensate.

The matter passed perfunctorily, but in the hearts of the living Li family, it was imprinted with irreparable pain, and even the grandson of the famous general Li Guang, Li Linghui's nephew Li Linghui later embarked on the road of betraying the country.

Huo Qubing was not punished under the protection of Liu Che.

Although Liu Che repeatedly ordered him not to believe or spread rumors, in the face of Li Kang's innocent death, Fei Short and Long still spread in the streets and alleys.

Huo Quai's wanton murder of Li Dang became an open secret in Chang'an City.

Huo Qu didn't care about these things, he just hoped that through this matter, the Wei family who didn't like him could accept him again and treat him as his own.

But as a result, nothing has changed, and the rest of the Wei family still treats him coldly, not only that, but his most beloved uncle not only does not appreciate his actions, but also reprimands him for being too impulsive and should not have killed Li Kang, killing Li Kang will only make it more difficult for him to face the dead old General Li.

Soon after, when Huo Qubing was in the Inner Dynasty, he asked the third prince to be crowned king.

Liu Che was stunned when he heard this, and for a while he didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in this kid's gourd, so he didn't care, and sent him away for a random reason.

Unexpectedly, Huo Qubing didn't know which evil he had bumped into, and when he mentioned this matter for the second time, he also took the trouble to write a letter of confession, and asked for the seal for the three princes.

Liu Che's most enthusiastic thing over the years is to cut the domain, today to cut this king, tomorrow to cut that Hou, it is commonplace, and now he is going to follow the old path before, and divide the heir as the king, isn't this his own slap in the mouth? To be honest, Huo Quai's illness gave him another problem.

Of course, Liu Che understood Huo Quai's intentions, he just wanted to ask other princes to repair his relationship with the Wei family, once the prince was crowned king, he would go to seal the country, and the prince was far away from Chang'an, so the prince would naturally sit back and relax.

Liu Che couldn't help asking, when did Huo Quzhi have such scheming?

Liu Che naturally didn't believe that Huo Qubing could think of such a way by himself, so as not to hurt Huo Quzhi's heart, he took the trouble to discuss Huo Quzhi's excerpts, hoping to use the words of the courtiers to deny the matter.

I didn't expect it to be okay not to discuss it, and the momentum of the ministers came, and even the prime minister and the imperial historian wrote to express their support for the princes to become kings.

Liu Che looked at the reactions of the courtiers with a complicated expression, and thought to himself, it seems that the power of the prince is not small. Although Liu Che was reluctant, he could not disobey the wishes of the ministers, so he named the second son Liu Hong as the king of Qi, the third son Liu Dan as the king of Yan, and the fourth son Liu Xu as the king of Guangling.

Huo Qubing has done a great thing for the Wei family, and he thinks that he can make the Wei family accept him again.

But he was wrong again, and what he saw was still cold eyes.

The low-key Wei Qing also did not appreciate his high-profile behavior.

"Why is this happening, can anyone tell me why this is happening?"

Huo Quzhi kept asking himself, he didn't understand what he had done wrong? It will be so unpopular with fellow relatives. He has regarded himself as a member of the Wei family since he was a child, but he didn't expect to lose his family affection in his most beautiful days.

Now he is extremely lonely in Chang'an, his younger brother Huo Guang and son Huo Yan are all young, and they don't even have anyone to talk to. Although his uncle still recognized him as a nephew, Huo Qubing did not dare to visit, he was afraid of seeing the cold gaze of others, which was sharper than the knife of the Huns, and the heartache of the poke was like a stone.

Such a gloomy day is half a year in a flash.

In September of the sixth year of Yuanjia (117 BC), the autumn wind swept the withered yellow leaves, and the desolate and helpless fell on the decaying mud that exuded the breath of death.

Liu Che was still in Weiyang Palace carefully reviewing the six people sent by Dr. Chu Da, Xu Yan and other six people to follow the county and the country, when he was feeling a little tired, his right eyelid jumped, he didn't care, took a sip of weak tea, and planned to end the day's state affairs and get up to go to Mrs. Wang.

At this time, the chamberlain ran in in a panic and knelt in front of Liu Che.

Liu Che was about to ask what had happened, but the chamberlain stammered with tears on his face, "The emperor... On..., Big... Sima Champion... Hou, it's gone...!"

Liu Che suddenly jumped up, opened his eyes, and asked sharply, "What did you say?" ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Champion Hou is here before dusk today!" After saying that, the chamberlain repeated again with a cry.

"What! How could it be..."Liu Che staggered back a few steps, pressed his hand to his heart, and he almost yelled, "Quick, quick, quick, take me to see him!" ”

When Liu Che came to the Champion Hou's Mansion, the filial piety cloth had already been hung up in the mansion, and there was a lot of crying.

Liu Che walked to Huo Quzhi's body step by step tremblingly, his heart was already in pain, he sat next to Huo Quzhi, Liu Che stroked Huo Quzhi's face, just like a father touching his son, Liu Che's tears couldn't stop flowing, his face was clearly with despair and endless pain.

"Tell me quickly, tell me quickly, the champion is asleep, asleep."

He angrily pulled out the sword of the armorer and pointed at one of Huo's subordinates and shouted.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" A subordinate cried and crawled to Liu Che's side, "Master Hou was in his study all day today, and he didn't come out until the little ones went to deliver food, but there was no answer, so they went in, went in, but found that Master Hou was gone." ”

Liu Che put away his sword, wiped his tears, he waved his hand, and told everyone to go down, and after everyone went down, he sent the lieutenant and asked about the cause of death.

A few days later, the edict of the imperial court came out, and Huo Qu fell ill and died of a violent illness at the age of twenty-three.