A hundred years ago, strange things happened in the big forest on the edge of the western frontier of the Longyun Empire, the people of the border towns disappeared one after another, and the main city of the west of the town was slaughtered by a certain force overnight, except for the blood marks, there were no bones left.

In order to appease the people of the border towns, Emperor Wu of Yunzhou of the Longyun Empire led the elite jungle warriors of the empire deep into the forest, wanting to exterminate the bandits.

Three thousand warriors and ten old woodcutters followed Emperor Yun Zhou into the forest, and after a hundred days, only the scarred Yun Zhou Wu Emperor walked out of the forest carrying a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl wearing a green pleated skirt.

The girl looked back at the forest, her eyes showing reluctance and uneasiness, and her arms tightly hugged Emperor Wu of Yunzhou.

A fire burned deep in the forest, and the soot drifted to the edge of the forest, and the fire burned for dozens of days, and the forest fire did not spread in the depths of the forest, and was finally extinguished by the gathered clouds and rain.

A few days after the forest fire was extinguished, Emperor Wu of Yunzhou announced in the west that all the bandits had been wiped out, and the division returned to the dynasty on the same day. Unlike when he came, he did not ride a horse, sitting in a comfortable carriage, and the girl snuggled in the arms of Emperor Wu of Yunzhou, squinting quietly and sleepy.

A hundred years later, the little girl is already the empress dowager of the Longyun Empire, and in her twilight years, she is still waiting for something!

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Emperor Yunxing Wen, 12 years of Chaoxing, a new prince was born!

Emperor Yunxing Wen, the lord of Longyun, hid in the forbidden hall, and the eunuch holding the jade seal and an edict on the bookcase, stood next to Emperor Yunxing Wen with his head held high, and said something.

Emperor Yunxingwen's face was slightly red, he didn't look at the eunuch who held the seal, picked up the jade seal and stamped it on the edict himself, and then pushed the jade seal and the edict aside, lying on the bookcase drunk and asleep.

The three generations of kings of Longyun were dim, since Emperor Wu of Yunzhou and Emperor Wen of Yunxing, and the three generations of kings were all virtuous, incompetent, absurd and lazy, so that the central government was controlled by relatives and eunuchs.

The eunuch who held the seal walked away, and then issued the edict and announced it to the world.

The new prince covered the five-clawed dragon robe and climbed the door of the cloud building to show the people, his mother was named a concubine, and the emperor gave him the noble name - pity.

The mother of the new prince is a courtier in the palace, and she is also a nameless maid with the lowest status in the palace. Even if she was a slave girl, after learning that her son had royal blood and was the son of Emperor Yunxing Wen, according to the laws of the empire, her mother was a concubine, and her son was a prince.

Concubine Pian was originally a female slave with no surname and no name, and the palace called Qiaoxi, and after the concubine was given the surname Zhao by the royal family, the original Qiaoxi was chosen by the concubine herself.

The birth of the new prince was quite bizarre, and it took a lot of twists and turns before it was learned by everyone.

A month ago, when Princess Ling, the princess of King Lu, entered the palace with King Lu to meet the Empress Dowager, she heard a woman moaning in pain, and was driven by curiosity, so she followed the sound to investigate.

At that time, Concubine Lian was in a painful delivery, and there was only an unknown maid around her to help, out of sympathy for the woman, and the matter was urgent, Princess Ling personally helped regardless of her identity.

The yellow curtain rises, the sun sets, and the setting sun shines obliquely on the glazed and golden walls of the palace, showing the sorrow of brilliance and exhaustion. When the last rays of sunlight faded into the horizon as the sun set, the palace dimmed and the eunuchs lit their lights.

A baby's cry broke the silence of the night, and coincidentally, the baby's first cry coincided with the "Dragon Ball" lighting up at the top of the Dragon Cloud Pagoda in the center of the palace.

The Dragon Ball is a specially polished round boulder that Imperial craftsmen discovered that when a jade from the Empire was placed next to the boulder, the boulder would glow brightly. Therefore, the craftsmen carefully built the Cloud Dragon Tower, so that the palace can be illuminated by the dragon balls at night as if it were day, symbolizing that the dragon cloud sun never sets!

Qiaoxi, who had just given birth to a child, fell asleep, and Princess Ling learned about the situation from the nameless maid beside her. Thinking in his heart, the maid in the palace can give birth to a child, whether it is big or small, and it happens that he has not made any movement for many years, so he plans to adopt this child.

When Qiaoxi woke up, she was startled by the gorgeously dressed Princess Ling, no matter what Princess Ling asked, she didn't answer. After Princess Ling handed the child to Qiaoxi, she did not leave.

Princess Ling, who was not pregnant with a child, liked children very much, and immediately decided to spend the night, and after informing Queen Lu, she had a cordial conversation with Qiaoxi.

There are some rules, the concubine knows. Although Princess Ling no longer asked about the whole story, when she talked to Concubine Li, she felt the panic of Concubine Pian and her worries about the child's future.

According to Longyun's custom, on the day the child is born, he is named to worship his ancestors. But Qiaoxi refused to say who the child's father was, and he had no name or surname.

In the end, at the suggestion of Princess Ling, Qiaoxi first named the child ~ Fan!

The sun was rising on the horizon, and the faint morning light still overshadowed the dim light of the Dragon Cloud Tower, signaling to the earth that the sun would shine on the earth.

Concubine Pian knew her mistake, and after discussing with Princess Ling, she decided that the child would be taken out of the palace by Princess Ling to raise her in a month. The reason why it is a month later is because a month of breastfeeding is a ritual of mother-child bonding, which is a rule set by ancient sages thousands of years ago.

This matter has been concealed for almost half a month, Princess Ling has basically taken care of it, who would have thought that a little eunuch accidentally heard the baby crying, and sneaked into the maid's house very dirty, discovered the secret of Qiaoxi, and then reported it to the palace housekeeper.

The huge palace seemed to have exploded because of the palace maid's baby, and the usually idle Praetorian Guards began to conduct a thorough investigation of the palace, and tens of thousands of people were panicked.

The chief eunuch of the harem remembered the tragedy ten years ago, in the second year of Chaoxing, because a concubine was not favored and gave birth to a baby girl, the investigation failed, and the child was also taken away from the palace. A prince on the edge of the town led his army into the palace under the banner of maintaining order in the harem, and exterminated all the eunuchs and suspicious people who had entered and left the palace.

The head of the palace knows that this matter is very important, and if he doesn't get his own life, he will lose his life, and the weak faint monarch is nothing, just prevaricate in the past, what he is afraid of is to leave a reason for the royal family of the Yun clan to "clear the king's side and set the harem".

The head of internal affairs not only thoroughly investigated the slaves and maids in the harem, but also tortured Qiaoxi to extract confessions.

In order to find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible, the chief of internal affairs did not hesitate to come to the interrogation prison in person, sitting on a stool and sipping tea from the jailer's filial piety. And Qiaoxi on the side has just been poured cold water, and he wants Qiaoxi to soberly say who the child's father is, and the case can be closed.

The pregnancy of the palace maid is not as big as the imperial concubine's shadow, but the person who breaks the rules of the harem, or the potential fake eunuch, the owner of the case must be found. In short, you can't leave a handle for the royal family on the edge of the town.

Even if the torture was used, Qiaoxi didn't want to say it, and he didn't dare to say it, he kept begging for forgiveness for the child, and he was willing to accept all punishments.

The chief manager said all the good things, explained the pros and cons, and even carefully explained the precepts of the ancient sages, which were formulated thousands of years ago and no one dares to violate them so far.

The ancient sage precept is the faith of the empire, and no one dares to do things contrary to the ancient precept, otherwise it will lose the hearts of the people and the world will condemn it. Folk rumor: Those who disobey the teachings of the ancient saints will be overturned by lightning.

Qiaoxi also knows the ancient hadith, but recalling that night, "The reward for you, today's events, leak the slightest rumor, and die!" The threat of the faint king is like a heavenly punishment for a slave girl who has nothing to rely on, and Qiaoxi cares more about the safety of her children than herself.

Later, Princess Ling personally went to the palace prison to persuade her, but it was also ineffective, and Qiaoxi still didn't dare to say who the child's father was. Princess Ling had to try her best to get a guarantee from the chief manager that she would keep the child.

After Princess Ling left, the chief steward continued to torture, and he was angry that he didn't open his mouth, originally because of the ancient sage's teachings, he didn't dare to torture a newborn baby, but considering his own safety, he and his subordinates threatened Qiaoxi, and finally used a bamboo stick to pierce the baby's arm. Qiaoxi begged for mercy like crazy, and finally compromised and told the truth.

The steward was startled, then breathed a sigh of relief. smiled at the people around him: "What a slave, a waste faint king scared you like this." ”

Ten months ago, when the emperor returned from drinking, he had a sexual upset, and happened to meet Qiaoxi who was passing by to ask for peace.

After figuring out the ins and outs, and also having an explanation for the royal family in the town, the governor first informed the queen and the ministers of the relatives, who decided that the son of a slave girl was not a threat, and at the same time they were afraid that the royal family in the town would cause trouble, so they agreed to inform the minister. After the minister learned about it, he asked Emperor Yunxing Wen to confer the concubine in the name of the ancient sage's teachings, and the faint monarch who was not a director learned what he had done and hastily sealed the edict.

Fan'er got the surname Yun, and he was the great-grandson of the twelve princes of the empire - Yun Fan, the empress dowager Chen Jingyun!