Qi Mingxu Fanwai (I)

On the day he was named the Duke of Zhenbei for his military exploits, Qi Mingxu took his three brothers to drink wine for a night.

The three brothers have been serving as officials in Beijing all the year round, and the amount of alcohol is naturally no match for him, and the wine has not passed the third round.

Looking at the three people who were staggering, Qi Mingxu shook his head helplessly, and asked his subordinates to come in and help them back to the house to rest—his Zhenbei Mansion had reserved rooms for the three brothers to make it easier for them to stay overnight.

As for him, he'll go to the roof for a while.

Carrying the wine jar, Qi Mingxu stepped on the tree in the courtyard and climbed onto the roof, blowing the night breeze and continuing to drink, and the past suddenly came to mind.

After a great change in his family and the death of his parents one after another, he came to the capital with resentment and pain, wanting to assassinate Ji Yushan and avenge his parents.

The result of that assassination was not actually unexpected by him, he had already made a move with the intention of burning jade.

What really surprised him was that he was saved by a teenager during that assassination.

The young man's mind was easy to read, and it was nothing more than to recruit him and several of his brothers.

But no one could refuse that kind of solicitation – especially for them who had nowhere else to go at the time.

After that, it was like a dream.

He joked that the person he admired the most was General Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty, and then he really embarked on a similar path to Guo Ziyi under the arrangement of the young man.

- "There will always be a place for you at my side. So it is today, and so it is with him tomorrow. ”

- "I hope that Brother Qi has the military ability of General Yao, but I want Brother Qi to become a person like Guo Ziyi. ”

- "I want to be the master of ZTE, and Brother Qi is my famous ZTE general. ”

From a second-rank hussar general to a first-rank general.

From Zhenbei Hou to Zhenbei Gong.

On this road of a famous general, he walked more smoothly than General Yao and Guo Ziyi.

Maybe he had a little too much reminiscence, or maybe he drank too much wine, and when Qi Mingxu climbed off the roof and went back to his room to sleep, he had a long and strange dream.

The dream was so long that he seemed to have experienced his whole life in it.

The first half of the dream and reality completely overlap.

The bifurcation point was when he entered Beijing to assassinate Ji Yushan.

This time, there was no boy named Nan Liujing in his world, and he was not rescued by Nan Liujing, but was caught by Ji Yushan's people and imprisoned in prison.

In prison, he was tortured. The officials kept whipping him for meritorious service, trying to get out of his mouth the whereabouts of the other accomplices.

Many times, Qi Mingxu thought that he was going to die inside.

He was in a state of confusion in the prison, unaware of the changes of time or what was happening in the outside world.

Until one day, even though he was in prison, he heard the shouts and commotion of the outside world.

There was chaos outside, and no one cared about them, the death row inmates who were being held in the prison. I don't know which force broke into the prison to save people, and kindly opened the doors of the other cells, Qi Mingxu took advantage of the chaos to follow this group of people to escape from the prison and escape from the capital.

After a long time, Qi Mingxu knew that there was a palace change in the palace that day-

Ji Yushan and Ji Guifei should cooperate with the outside world, and led troops to break into the palace, wanting to support the six princes to ascend the throne and force Emperor Yongqing to abdicate.

Tiger poison still doesn't eat children, but Emperor Yongqing is already crazy and doesn't care if he floods after his death. He hated the Ji family deeply, and he ordered someone to assassinate the six princes, and destroyed Ji Yushan's wishful thinking before he died.

After the palace change, the court quarreled several times, and the forces of all parties played with each other, and finally the third prince who grew up in the cold palace was pushed to the front of the stage.

It wasn't until the enthronement ceremony was approaching that some officials remembered that the three princes had no names, and they hadn't even been recorded in the royal family tree, so Ji Yushan casually gave the three princes the name "Nanli".

Everyone knows very well that this Son of Heaven named Nanli is just a puppet of Ji Yushan to control the government.

Things are also as everyone expected, no matter how excessive Ji Yushan's request is, this young son of heaven will not object.

Later, Qi Mingxu changed his face, wandered all the way back to Jinling.

When he and the three brothers met again, they wept bitterly over each other's downfall.

It turned out that during the time he was imprisoned, the three brothers had been hiding in the Ganxiao Temple outside the city waiting for him, and they were always trying to find a way to rescue him.

It's a pity that their rescue was unsuccessful, and the fourth Qi Si was seriously injured because of this, and he wandered in the Ghost Gate Pass for a long time before being rescued.

Even so, Qi Si and they were not willing to give up.

But a penny is difficult for a good man, even if Qi Si and they don't need to pay for accommodation when they live in Ganxiao Temple, they usually have to spend money on meals and Qi Si's medical treatment.

So after hearing that all the fugitives in the prison had escaped, Qi Si and the others also returned to Jinling.

After arriving in Jinling, Qi Si and the others realized what had happened during their absence-

Li Guanqi lost his father's bookkeeping job, and the family had no financial resources, and eating and drinking became a problem.

Jiang Ding's wife contracted a cold, but because she had no money to see a doctor, she couldn't contact Jiang Ding, and finally died at home for several days before being found by neighbors.

This incident not only became Jiang Ding's lifelong regret, but also Qi Mingxu's lifelong guilt.

If it weren't for the revenge for him, how could his brothers have experienced such a thing.

Later, when floods broke out in the south and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, Qi Mingxu stood up from the displaced people and gradually formed an insurrectionary army.

When the scale of this rebel army became larger and larger, Qi Mingxu played the banner of "Qing Jun's side, punish the national thief", and used the 10,000-word book written by Qu Jianbai on his deathbed as a text to conquer Ji Yushan.

Daye's qi has long been exhausted, and where the army has passed, countless people have descended from the wind.

That was when Qi Mingxu was at his most energetic.

But at that time, something else happened that made him feel heartbroken.

His fourth brother, Qi Si, died of illness during the march.

Later, Qi Mingxu hit outside the city of Kyoto.

After all, the capital is the capital, and it is not easy to take it, plus the march all the way, the soldiers under Qi Mingxu are already exhausted, so Qi Mingxu ordered the whole army to be temporarily stationed outside the city to rest, and at the same time find a way to force the people in the capital to open the city gate and surrender.

After arranging everything, Qi Mingxu simply freshened up and went into the tent to sleep.

In the middle of the night, he was awakened by a commotion, and then his third brother, Jiang Ding, opened the tent and walked in.

"Big brother, a Praetorian Guard named Liang Guangyu appeared outside the barracks, and he said that he came to see you on the orders of the Son of Heaven."

Qi Mingxu frowned, he was actually on the order of the Son of Heaven instead of Ji Yushan?

In the end, Qi Mingxu still nodded: "Okay, let him in." I want to see what kind of medicine is sold in that young man's gourd. ”

In a moment, candles lit in the tent.

Qi Mingxu sat upright and watched a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life walking into the tent with a wooden box.

At Li Guanqi's signal, Liang Guangyu stopped at a safe distance.

"What is the important matter of that Your Majesty ordering you to come to me?" Qi Mingxu spoke.

Liang Guangyu slowly dragged up the wooden box in his hand and raised it above his head: "Your Majesty ordered me to come and present a head to the leader of the rebel army. ”

Qi Mingxu said with interest: "Whose head is this?" ”

"When the court is the prince, Ji Yushan."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Liang Guangyu took Ji Yushan's head out of the box and put it on the table, asking Qi Mingxu and them to inspect it.

Someone who knew Ji Yushan stepped forward and checked back and forth for a long time, even if it was unbelievable, he still gave his own conclusion: this was indeed Ji Yushan's head, not Liang Guangyu who took someone else's head to impersonate.

Qi Mingxu's heart was shocked, thinking of Liang Guangyu's origin, and asked, "Who killed Ji Yushan?" ”

Liang Guangyu's words were sonorous: "Such a scourge to the country and the people is naturally killed by His Majesty himself." ”

Qi Mingxu's eyes drooped slightly, thinking that he had guessed the purpose of Liang Guangyu's visit.

The banner of his rebel army is "Punish the country thief, Qingjun side", now that Ji Yushan is dead, could it be that the young son of heaven wants to use Ji Yushan's head to persuade him to surrender?

Not to mention Qi Mingxu, even Li Guanqi, Jiang Ding and others also think so.

But Liang Guangyu's next words completely subverted their conjectures.

"Your Majesty has heard that the leader of the rebel army is known to be a great talent, and wherever the army passes, he has not committed any offence against the people. Therefore, His Majesty ordered me to come and surrender with Ji Yushan's head, and open the city gate to welcome the rebel army into the city. ”

Qi Mingxu stood up from his chair abruptly and looked at Liang Guangyu in disbelief, unable to believe that this was true.

His army had just arrived outside the city of Kyoto, and had not yet begun to attack Kyoto; He hadn't racked his brains to persuade the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital to surrender, nor did he promise any benefits, and then ......

Someone beheaded Ji Yushan?

Someone opened the gates and surrendered?

That person is still a puppet son of heaven who is considered cowardly and incompetent by the people of the world!?

How dare Qi Mingxu believe this.

At this moment, another subordinate lifted the tent and informed Qi Mingxu and the others that a raging fire was burning in the direction of the palace, and the fire was very obvious in the dark night.

Qi Mingxu looked at Liang Guangyu fiercely, but saw Liang Guangyu burst into tears and lay on the ground for a long time.

"The fire......"

Qi Mingxu opened his mouth and said four words, and he couldn't say any more.

Liang Guangyu choked up and said: "Your Majesty said that he doesn't want the soldiers to make any more senseless sacrifices, and he doesn't need the courtiers to commit suicide to be wholehearted. He arranged a way for the people, soldiers, and ministers to live, but he chose a dead end for himself. If I'm not mistaken, that fire was set by His Majesty. ”

The fire that started in the Star Picking Palace burned for three days and three nights.

Because the area around the Star Picking Palace was so desolate that there were no other buildings nearby except this palace, the fire did not spread to the rest of the palace at all, but only burned the newly built palace.

Even when it was death, he chose a restrained way and did not cause greater damage.

Three days later, Qi Mingxu officially entered the palace.

Then, Liang Guangyu asked him again and handed over a holy decree that had already been prepared to Qi Mingxu.

"What is this?" Qi Mingxu asked.

"Your Majesty...... No, it was the Emperor who told me on his deathbed that if the rebel army could really do nothing to the people in the city after entering the city, let me dedicate this holy decree to General Qi as a gift for your enthronement. ”

Qi Mingxu slowly unfolded the holy decree, and when he saw the ugly handwriting in the holy decree, he pulled his mouth and wanted to show a mockery, but after seeing the words on the holy decree, he fell into a long shock and silence.

“…… This gift is too heavy. ”

After a long time, Qi Mingxu closed the holy decree, and his hand that could carry a hundred catties of boulders was almost unable to hold this fluttering holy decree.

“…… I don't know him, so why did he give me this gift? ”

Liang Guangyu said: "Because the first emperor knew that his ambitions that had been unattainable could be realized by General Qi for him." Therefore, he was willing to remove some obstacles for General Qi in advance. ”

Qi Mingxu was silent again.

Later, Qi Mingxu ordered people to collect the bones of this deceased monarch who died young, and buried this young man who had never met but could be called his lifelong confidant in the tomb of Emperor Daye.

On the day of the boy's burial, Qi Mingxu asked Liang Guangyu if he would like to stay by his side and do things: "If you want, you can continue to stay in the Praetorian Guard as the deputy commander." ”

But Liang Guangyu smiled and politely rejected him: "From the first emperor of Yongqing to the first emperor, I am a little tired and do not want to stay in this deep palace anymore. ”

Qi Mingxu had some regrets, but he didn't force it. ：，n，