Chapter VIII

Empress Xiaoping mourns her deceased husband (2)

Since ascending the throne, Wang Mang has called himself his father for the first time. Wang Yan saw that her father flickered his words, and the reason for Emperor Xiaoping's driving was that he avoided talking about it, so he said with a straight face: "I hope my father doesn't hide it." ”

Wang Mang saw this situation and had to reply: "Emperor Xiaoping was seriously ill and died. In the days when the first emperor was ill, I would take my ministers to the Taimiao Temple every day to pray for blessings, begging God to have mercy on my Han Emperor. When I was in the beginning, my heart was like a knife, and you would not have noticed it. I also made a wish to the gods, as long as the virtuous son-in-law can recover, I am willing to die on his behalf, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill the wishes of the people, and the first emperor died young. There was a slight dissatisfaction and no compassion. Wang Yan said: "My husband did not die of illness, if my father is loyal to the Han family, I hope you can investigate thoroughly." As soon as these words came out, Wang Mang reprimanded in a low voice: "Nonsense, your husband is the honor of the Ninety-Five, the pride of the sky, who dares to come to murder." ”

Wang Yan wept sadly, and asked back: "Who said that as an emperor, no one will harm him, and there is no usurpation of power and murder of the monarch in history?" Wang Mang's face was full of clouds, and he shouted: "You are talking nonsense today!" Wang Yan snorted lightly and said, "You still have to lie to me······ The decoction that my husband took was highly poisonous······ He was poisoned alive ······"

Wang Mang couldn't bear it anymore, and said sharply: "You are really dizzy! You dare to talk nonsense!" Later, he calmed down and continued gloomily: "The decoction taken by Emperor Xiaoping was brought by me personally, and every time Emperor Xian took it, I would taste a mouthful. In this way, you are still talking nonsense that the decoction is poisonous. As he spoke, his lips trembled slightly, and he could not control himself.

Wang Yan looked at her father's demeanor in her eyes, suppressed her anger at the moment, and recalled leisurely: "My husband was really sick back then, but his body has improved, so my husband and I often thank you for tasting medicine. Wang Mang snorted and said lukewarmly: "You still have some conscience." ”

Wang Yan said: "But you didn't taste the decoction of my husband before he died, and I remember this matter clearly." As he spoke, his delicate face seemed to be shrouded in frost, and Wang Mang only snorted lightly, noncommittal.

Wang Yan looked at her hands in a daze, and said sadly: "At that time, my husband and I didn't care, after you left the Jiaofang Palace, I personally brought the medicine to him." After taking the medicine, he also said to me that although the ancestor set the rules and said that those who are not from the Liu family cannot be called kings, he still wants to crown you as the king of Anhan, and even promised me to him for you, even if Zen gave up the throne, it was all willing. We were fine, but after only talking for a while, he suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain, vomited a few mouthfuls of black blood, and after a short time, he left me. When he was dying, he also said that he was reluctant to ······ me." After speaking, his hands couldn't help trembling, but he turned to calm himself, looked at Wang Mang angrily and said: "My husband's lips, teeth, mouth, nose, torso and nails are all blue-black, and you have seen these with your own eyes. I have begged you many times to find out who the murderer of the poison is, but you insist that he died of illness, but in fact you are just trying to cover up the fact that he was poisoned, you are a traitor who killed the king and usurped the throne!"

Wang Mang's eyes were half-closed, his teeth creaked, his throat was low, and he said viciously: "You are crazy, it seems that you are really crazy." Wang Yan said sadly: "How I hope that my husband was not killed by my father, but over the years, you have always deduced that the first emperor died of a violent illness······ I had to ······ Look straight to the truth······" Later, he couldn't cry to himself, and turned to reprimand: "You are a jackal in human skin, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty must have killed you!"

Wang Mang got up and walked towards the outside of the hall, and then said gloomily: "If you weren't my beloved daughter, how could you still be alive today." With that, he waved off his sleeve robe and stepped out of the Jiaofang Palace.

Everyone outside the hall saw Wang Mang's face gloomy, and hurriedly bowed down. Wang Mang's face was pale, and he turned his hands behind his back and said: "The crown prince Liu Ying is stupid, it is difficult to inherit the unification, and he will be abolished as the crown prince from now on and demoted to the Duke of Anding." Emperor Xiaoping's widow Wang Yan, as Liu Ying's adoptive mother, did not fulfill the responsibility of raising the queen, from now on stripped of the title of Empress Xiaoping, renamed the palace master of the Yellow Chamber, tomorrow morning I will announce to the world. The voice was so high that Wang Yan could hear it clearly even though she was in the temple.

The palace people were submissive, and a little eunuch trotted over and bowed to Wang Mang: "Your Majesty, General Jinwu Yunqi has a confidential and important report, and he is now waiting for His Majesty in Tianlu Pavilion." Wang Mang said: "I already know, you step back first." He turned to the old eunuch who served him and said, "Zhao Chengen, you take a few people to stay first, and then at the gate of this Jiaofang Palace, the eunuch and palace maid who served Liu Ying will be killed with a cane as soon as possible." ”

That Zhao Chengen is nearly half a hundred years old, and he bows his head to Wang Mang, and his posture is groveling and servile, and he is not a problem, this person is the chief eunuch, and he is quite dependent on the saint today, and many officials in the court and China hate to break through the threshold and give generous gifts.

Zhao Chengen saw Wang Mang leave, and then called several soldiers and ordered him to press the eunuch palace maid who was serving Liu Ying to the ground, and then smiled and shouted in the Jiaofang Palace: "Don't blame Niangniang, the old slave is just acting on orders." Then he ordered the soldiers to say, "Beat our family to death." ”

The poor palace people who served Liu Ying just obeyed Wang Yan's orders, but they suffered this disaster in vain. The ghost cried wolf outside the Jiaofang Palace, Wang Yan's personal palace slave looked at it and didn't dare to come out, and after a while, the two palace people who served Liu Ying couldn't stop being tortured, and they were extremely happy.

However, it is said that Tianlu Pavilion is located in the north of Weiyang Palace, south of the front hall of Wang Mang's last dynasty, mainly used to store all kinds of classics and anecdotal books in Kyushu. Wang Mang likes to read the classics, because after he became the emperor, he will approve the folds here, and when he has a little flaw, he can read it by the way. Yun Qiwu himself wore armor, held a simple slip in his hand, and carefully checked it, and time passed, which made the general's face more weathered and a little older.

Wang Mang retreated left and right, and entered the pavilion alone, just when he saw Yun Qi contemplating from time to time, he only paced slowly, and then asked: "What is Yun Qi looking at?" Yun Qi heard that Wang Mang was standing beside him and asked, so he immediately knelt down and said: "The last general wants to think Duan Feng thoroughly, so he is reading this person's anecdotes. Wang Mang said: "You have already checked this person's affairs, why do you need to look at it again?" Yun Qi said: "The last general will do his best to do things for the saint, although I have seen it, I am still afraid that there will be some omissions." ”

Wang Mang held up the cloud flag and said kindly: "You are the righteous son I raised from childhood to adulthood, and now you are not in the court, you don't have to kneel for me, we are still commensurate with father and son, so good?"

Yun Qi felt nostalgic in his heart, and then thanked him, Wang Mang asked: "Have you ever captured Duan Feng and asked about Liu Ziyu's whereabouts?" Yun Qi shook his head and sighed lightly, and said: "Returning to my father-in-law, you sent the Nine Heavens Divine Sect to assist your sons in hunting down Duan Feng. When the people in the Nine Heavens God Sect informed my son Duan Feng of the news, I immediately led troops to reinforce me. It was only later that I only saw the corpses of many disciples, but I did not search for Duan Feng. I wanted to follow some marks to follow, but at that time, the blizzard was continuous, and I couldn't find any clues, so I blamed the child for not doing well, and I hoped that my father-in-law would punish me. ”

Wang Mang was not angry with Yunqi because of this, but said comfortingly: "I can't blame you completely, that Duan Feng used to be the general of the Imperial Forest Army's right Yiwei, and his martial arts are already strong, and I asked you to capture him alive, so it is not easy to arrest him." Later, he sighed to himself and continued: "Since Duan Feng of the Xuanyuan faction rescued Liu Ziyu, I have been thinking hard about the strategy of destroying the Xuanyuan faction, and I originally wanted to take advantage of the contradiction between the Nine Heavens Divine Sect and the Xuanyuan faction to fight each other, but in the blink of an eye, six years have passed, and there has been little success, it seems that I can only send a large army to fight against the Xuanyuan faction. ”

Yun Qi persuaded: "I heard that there are tens of thousands of people under this Xuanyuan faction, and its power is all over Kyushu, and there are tens of thousands of people in the Huangshan General Altar alone, and they are all highly skilled. At that time, Lu Chongxiao, the leader of the Nine Heavens Divine Sect, personally led the Nine Dharma Kings and 100,000 sect members to attack the Huangshan General Altar, but finally returned in vain. The reason for this is not only that Xuanyuan's disciples are very skilled, but also because the terrain there is extremely precipitous. From this point of view, if the imperial court easily attacked the Xuanyuan faction, even if it won, it would also lose its troops. Later, he raised his eyes to look at Wang Mang's expression, and saw that he did not show displeasure, so he relieved himself and continued: "Now that there are rebellions against the king today, and many rebellions such as the Green Forest Army have also made trouble, if the court loses too much, I am afraid it will be difficult to suppress other rebels, and the court should preserve its strength." As the father-in-law said before, this faction was created by the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, known as the head of the so-called righteous path, the kings of the previous dynasties were quite courteous, before His Majesty ascended the throne, there were some important ministers' families worshiped under their doors, for a time it was not easy to tear their faces, they could only rely on the people in the rivers and lakes to fight each other, and they were both defeated, and the father-in-law would benefit from it. ”

Wang Mang stroked his beard lightly, bowed his chin and said, "You have some truth in what you said. Later, his expression became more and more solemn, and he was deeply depressed, and he was separated for a moment before he continued: "The people I am afraid of are not only the Nine Heavens Divine Sect and the Xuanyuan Sect, but this martial arts is a three-legged trend, in addition to the Xuanyuan Sect and the Nine Heavens Divine Sect, there is also a Tianzhi Gang in Penglai. The helm of this gang is close to mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are tens of thousands of gangs. Although they didn't usually compete for the top of the martial arts, the Nine Heavens Divine Sect and the Xuanyuan Party were still afraid of the Tianzhi Gang, and they didn't dare to fight with the Tianzhi Gang······" Yun Qi said: "The child heard that the Tianzhi Gang is rich and rivals the country, and the masters of that gang are like clouds, and the gang leader Yao Sufeng is treacherous, so the two major forces dare not fight with them." ”

Wang Mang sighed when he heard this, and then said: "I really don't know when the forces of the rivers and lakes will be able to fend for themselves, whenever I think about these things, I really can't sleep well······ Yun Qi also sighed lightly, and then said: "The Holy Lord doesn't need to worry, the imperial court has a million troops, and when the time is ripe, he can sit back and reap the benefits." Wang Mang said: "That's nature, and the most annoying thing for me now is the Xuanyuan faction." As he spoke, he couldn't help frowning, and said secretly in his heart: "Alas, what an interesting thing I have done for this emperor······"

At this moment, Yun Qi said: "The child has often thought hard about good strategies over the years, lest these forces become bigger and bigger, endangering my new dynasty. Recently, I have thought of some ways to promote the early demise of the Xuanyuan faction. ”

This is exactly what it is: the foolish man is obsessed with fame and fame, and the organ is all cocooned. Pursue profit and do the right way, don't make time wasted. If you want to know what the cloud flag has, and look at the next breakdown.