Chapter 40: Succession

Early in the morning of the second day, Chu Weixian accompanied King Yuwen to climb the city wall and look down on Tongyuan County. There are 20,000 soldiers led by King Yuwen stationed on the east and west school fields in the city and under the north and south city walls, but seeing the banners in the barracks, the queue is neat, the camp tents are uniform, and the people have no offenses, so it is a good army with strict military discipline.

This situation made Chu Weixian secretly admire in his heart, and King Yuwen really lived up to his reputation.

King Yuwen said to the general soldier of Chu: "The Gulu Pass is lost, and the imperial court will definitely take advantage of the situation to take the Western Regions in the near future. The subordinate troops can be mobilized by the commander-in-chief, and you and I can work together to defend this city without losing. ”

"I heard a few days ago that Lord Chu calculated in seconds, and used soldiers like gods, and actually retreated from the imperial court with 10,000 soldiers and horses, which is really a great feat. King Yuwen's words revealed his heartfelt respect.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" General Chu hurriedly waved his hand and excused himself: "It's really fortunate to get the help of a master to break the enemy with skill, it's really a bit of a fluke, not enough to worry about." After that, Chu Wei first stated to King Yuwen how to plan and rob grain, line up arrows to defend the city, and retreat from the enemy with sky lanterns.

After hearing this, King Yuwen was full of praise and praised it again and again. and asked General Chu for the design drawings of the "row of arrows" and studied them carefully. While looking at the drawings, he asked Mr. Chu: "Is this person the one your little girl said is somewhat similar to me?"

"Exactly. Chu Wei replied first: "This person's surname is Zhang, his name is given by heaven, he is a fellow villager in the next, and he is also the old friend of the little girl. This person is naturally intelligent, wise and brave, and has the talent of a general, and will be able to achieve great things in the future. ”

"Oh, then I'll definitely meet this person when I have a chance in the future. But when it comes to such talents, why doesn't the king of Zhenxi reuse them?"

"I want to keep it, but this person is a Taoist disciple, and his sex is traveling all over the world, and he still has the teacher's life, so naturally he can't keep it. Chu Weixian shook his head regretfully.

At this time, the herald came to report: "The king of Zhenxi has an order: I invite Yuwen Haotian, the king of Zhenbei, to go to Xiamaguan to meet with this king, accompanied by General Chengguang and Zhao Jiandu, and the rest of the people are not allowed to follow." ”

After listening to the order, Chu Wei first said to King Yuwen: "Then please ask King Yuwen to go in person, and then discuss important matters with King Zhenxi." There was a hint of apprehension in his words.

King Yuwen saw Lord Chu's worries, so he asked, "What does Lord Chu think is wrong with this matter?"

Chu Weixian hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not inappropriate, it's just that I have always heard that the king of Zhenxi seems to have a lot of opinions about you, saying that he has different political views from you, and he doesn't conspire with you." After a moment's hesitation, he said: "It is rumored that you once led the Tufan army to try to enter the palace to assassinate the emperor and rebel, and even the current emperor ordered the Yuwen family to be beheaded, this is the reason why you rebelled against the Northern Regions. "Say goodbye and bow to apologize.

After hearing this, King Yuwen sighed: "Alas, this grievance is not redressed, what face does my Yuwen Haotian have to stand in the world!" After that, he told Chu Zongbing in detail about everything that happened back then.

It is said that when King Wuyu was Jin Ge Iron Horse, when the Quartet was fighting, two of the three biological sons died in battle, and these two sons were born to his original partner Wu Qin, and only one son was born, who was born to the concubine Huang Wu. This means that the only person who will inherit the throne in the future will be the son of this concubine, which makes King Wuyu feel very sorry for the queen Qin.

As a result, I didn't expect that in the second year of Wuzhi, Qin, who was over forty years old, was pregnant with another child, King Wuyu was really overjoyed, and invited famous doctors all over the world to take care of him, and he didn't want to give birth to a difficult birth in the end, Qin risked death to give birth to this son for King Wuyu, and finally gave birth to the youngest son Wu Shizheng, but Qin died of hemorrhage.

King Wuyu is really a mixture of joy and sorrow, in order to commemorate the Qin family, the Qin family was named the Empress Renzhong, and she permanently reserved the throne, and did not promote Concubine Huang to the queen, and immediately established Wu Shizheng as the crown prince.

Unexpectedly, although Wu Shizheng was born with extraordinary talents, very smart, he could read the books of sages and sages since he was a child, argued clearly, and knew everything, but his body was very weak, thin as firewood, and he was sick all the year round.

It can be said that God is jealous of talents, and when he was in the thirteenth year of martial arts, King Wuyu was seriously ill and begged for famous doctors all over the world, but he could not be cured. For the sake of his death, he originally wanted to let Wu Shizheng, who was only ten years old at the time, inherit the throne, but seeing that he was still young and ignorant, and he was weak and weak, he was both unbearable and not very reassured.

Later, under the repeated persuasion of Huang Guifei, King Wu Yu finally decided to let Wu Shizhong, the son born to Huang Fei, temporarily inherit the throne on his behalf, without changing the era name, and when Wu Shizheng reached the age of eighteen, he was still in Shizheng, and after Wu Shizheng officially inherited the throne, he could change the era name to show orthodoxy.

In the spring of the following year, King Wu Yu died, and Wu Shizhong took over the throne and ascended the throne, but Wu Shizhong was loyal and unintentional, although he was in charge of the palace, but he had no intention of government, and the affairs of the court were all decided by the Empress Dowager Huang. As a result, the Empress Dowager Huang often controlled the government, and for a time the Huang family ascended to heaven, and it was impossible to live forever.

By the time of the twentieth year of Wuzhi, it should have been located in the crown prince Wu Shizheng, but Wu Shizheng was seeking the Tao in the mountains at this time and was nowhere to be found. The emperor sent people to search around, and finally found him to return to the court, wanting to return the imperial power to him.

But Wu Shizheng, who had just turned eighteen, was obsessed with Taoist academics at this time, and wanted to travel all over the world, visiting the world's immortal mountains, and did not want to inherit the throne.

I don't want to do it in the spring of the next year, when Wu Shizhong was hunting in the suburbs of Beijing, he was unfortunately bitten by a poisonous snake, and was immediately attacked by snake venom, and he was sick in bed, and he was about to die.

When Wu Shizhong was critically ill, he immediately sent someone to recall Wu Shizheng, who was traveling the world with his wife Yu Wenmingzhu, and wanted to transfer the throne to him.

After Wu Shizheng got the letter and immediately rushed back to Beijing, Wu Shizhong was already angry and died. Empress Huang showed Wu Shizheng the secret edict issued by Wu Shizhong during his lifetime, and the content of the secret edict was to let her son Wu Beikun inherit the throne, not to let Wu Shizhong take over the world of the martial arts.

Because many ministers in the court knew that the founding emperor Wu Yuwang had made a will to let Wu Shizhong govern on behalf of his younger brother and return the throne in the future, but he did not expect Wu Shizhong to finally give the throne to his son Wu Beikun before he died, so many people were very dissatisfied, and because the Huang family had long controlled the government, it also caused a lot of dissatisfaction, and for a time there were disputes inside and outside the court, with the Yuwen family and the prince and minister surnamed Wu leading the "Yan" faction, and the Huang family headed by the "Shu" The most powerful thing is that after hearing about the succession of the throne, King Wu Yuguo, the younger brother of King Wu Yu, immediately raised a banner in the Western Regions to rebel, claiming that he wanted to abolish the throne and support the imperial court!