Chapter 61
Luoyi Jin Palace
This year's Lantern Festival is particularly lively, the Jin Dynasty Mansion held a Lantern Festival meeting, in order to wish the Jin King a great victory in the war, in order to wish the world the common people to return to stability as soon as possible, the King of Jin specially invited His Majesty to edict, civil and military officials are all to the Jin Palace.
The banquet of the Jin Dynasty was already full of people, all of whom were ministers of the Zhou Dynasty, and in the center of the hall, there was a huge lantern, which was particularly red. Around this lantern, many small lanterns are dotted around. Looking at the lights, the jade pot is bright, and the dazzling array is dazzling, and everyone is suddenly like a dream, selling children and girls, and eating with children, as if it was yesterday. It seems that the last brother-in-law who traveled with him to the Lantern Festival, his friends, his relatives, and the division commander are no longer there. I don't know who started to sob, causing everyone to cry loudly.
It was also at this time that the host took his seat, looked at the appearance of the princes in the banquet, and did not interrupt, raised the wine glass, and drank it fiercely. After taking a big breath, he began to cry and wail. This behavior shocked all the princes in the hall, stopped crying, and looked at the king of Jin.
After a while, Sikong's crying did not stop, but there were signs of more and more intense crying.
"Why is King Jin crying?" At this time, a person stood out from the hall, folded his hands, and bowed his head and asked.
"Zhonglu, I'm thinking about that Yan Kang. King Jin looked at the lantern in the hall and did not stop crying.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, the lantern in the center of this hall, as if I and that Yan Kang traveled in the Luoyang Lantern Festival to see, lead me to remember, that day I was the proton of the Jin Kingdom, he was the son of Yan Ge, all of them were snubbed, watching the lanterns have a feeling, and I was determined to do a big thing that shook Luoyang and attracted people's attention. King Jin wiped his tears and continued. "It's a shame to say that the two of us are discussing the kidnapping of other brides, he came to look at the wind but was tripped by the weeds, I saw that he couldn't get out, so I thought of a way, bluntly shouted that he was the thief, and he was in a hurry to pull the weeds to escape. Decades later, but remembering this friendship, I also sincerely feel that he is my lifelong friend. ”
"But at the beginning, I tried my best to refuse to blindly punish the eunuch, but he didn't listen to me, which led to the death of the general and Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing. I sat for him as the leader of the Eighteenth Road Princes, but he made me fight alone. I persuaded the Son of Heaven to make him a lieutenant, and he would also write to scold me. Ladies and gentlemen, what is this?" King Ying of Jin looked at the four halls, no one replied, and everyone in the hall trembled, like sitting on pins and needles.
"Yu Sikong, Ji Jin is a general, the lord of Yankang, a model for the world, how can he not think of the backlash of the eunuch, this must be a plan to kill people with a knife, and it is unkind. He wants to be the leader of the alliance of the eighteen-way princes, but it is for the sake of power and selfishness, and isolating the king is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, which is unjust. The Son of Heaven has appointed his lieutenant, but he refuses to accept it, but he is disloyal, how can such an unkind, unrighteous and disloyal person be with the king?"
"If what the public said is excessive, then Yan Kande is highly respected, how can he be unkind, unrighteous and disloyal? Lift it up. King Jin frowned, his face was sad, he sighed, and waved his hand leisurely, like an old horse, weak and weak. Outside the door, he walked into his left and right hands, with a bronze mask on his face, an axe on his waist, and an armor on his waist, carrying a large box, and placed it in the hall.
"Do you know what is in it?" said King Jin slowly. Again, no one answered.
"Chonggong, what do you say?" was caught off guard, but it made the seed series under the hall slap a spirit, and the seed series suppressed the instinctive tremor of the body, and sweated on his forehead.
"No.. Ignorance. ”
"Oh—" King Jin sighed, dragging out the end of his note, and he slowly turned his head away and looked at the other minister.
"Ah, prince, you should know. King Jin seemed to have starlight in his eyes, and said with a radiant expression.
"Minister... The minister, who was called the prince's suit, immediately stood up from the banquet after hearing his name, threw himself to the ground, and his head hit the ground, all covered in blood.
"Yikes... I don't know. King Jin squinted, touched his velvet beard, waved his sleeves, and said aloud: "Then you two talk about it, who knows?"
At this time, Chongji also stood up from the banquet, imitating the prince's clothes, but did not speak.
"Hmph, what a martyr. King Jin sneered, pointed to the box, and said, "Let me tell you, this is my private message from Chaozhong Humerus and Na Yankang." King Jin paused. "All signed with real names. After King Jin finished speaking, the hall was in an uproar, and the ministers were dumbfounded and frightened. The candlelight in the red lantern flickered and flickered. King Jin got up, held his head high, and walked slowly into the hall.
"I heard that someone had a private message with Yan Kang, stole the dragon robe, tore the clothes as an edict, and wanted to seek my head. Can you tell Meng De one or two?" King Jin leaned down, as if smiling.
"Your Majesty, this must be a non-essential thing at this time. Yuan Zhonglu hurriedly got up and said.
"Your Majesty, what Ling Jun said is extremely true, this must be Yan Kang's strategy of discord, the Son of Heaven is benevolent, the authority is to quell the chaos, and the court is a great virtuous and virtuous, why did he do such a despicable and obscene thing?" King Jin nodded at Frustration, ignored Yuan Zhonglu who was standing, lowered his eyebrows and waved his sleeves, signaling Frustration to sit down.
"Chop. He didn't lift his head. Left and right, dragged the two kneeling in the hall, and the two who suddenly came back to their senses in this abruptness shouted wronged, King Jin pouted and squinted, holding his hands in front of him, regardless of it, letting the shadows of the two flutter.
"Brother... Thou shalt not be presumptuous.." Yuan Zhonglu got up abruptly and tried to persuade him, but was interrupted.
"Yuan thief, Piff, you are enough!" A person stood up in the hall, it was clearly Dong Cheng, the head of the dynasty, he glared angrily, stretched out his hand and pointed at the king of Jin.
"You imprisoned Your Majesty in the palace, fake Your Majesty's hand to order the world, is disloyal, Yan Kang's virtue is known to the world, the world's model, and everything is your friend, you are the enemy, it is unjust, today to kill the prince in vain, the second duke, is unkind, this disloyal, unkind and unrighteous person, the world fights it. What kind of face do you have to slander Yuan Shaogong, and what power do you have to deal with the loyal ministers of the Zhou family?"
Dong Cheng said angrily in the hall, but King Jin didn't see any waves on his face, he turned his head, smiled at Dong Cheng, and then raised his hand and signaled left and right. "Brother, no!" Yuan Zhonglu knelt on the ground and mourned.
"Zhonglu, such wolf-hearted and dog-hearted people, why do you still speak for them, this prince's clothes, all kinds of books are used by me, but today I listened to the words of Yan Kang, but instead devoured the lord, as well as this Dong Cheng, a speculative person. King Jin revealed his true feelings and covered his face with his sleeves.
"Brother. Yuan Zhonglu paused and closed his eyes. "Brother and I, Dong Guozhang, and all the dukes present are all Zhou Chen!" Yuan Zhonglu suddenly increased his volume, raised his head, and looked directly at King Jin. King Jin was stunned for a moment, his hands hung in his sleeves, clenched tightly, and then let go.
"What the lonely brother said, doesn't it mean that what I did at this time is not something that a virtuous king can do?" King Jin squinted his eyes and stared at Yuan Zhonglu.
Zhonglu has no such intention, he really has a word and brother, Yan Kang is a model in the world, scholars and talents are flocking to him, Tian Feng, judges, and Mo family heroes, all of them are today's talents, but they care about seeing people born and crowding out sages. Everyone in the world knows that the elder brother has issued a wide range of orders to seek talents, and he is thirsty for talent, but now if the elder brother goes to learn from that Yan Kang, kills loyal ministers and deviates from morality, who can Your Majesty rely on the staff?" Yuan Zhonglu knelt in the hall, made three compilations, and said rightly. However, King Jin did not respond immediately when he heard this, he turned around and put his hands behind his back, as if he was making a choice. After a long time, he turned around suddenly, danced with his hands, and shouted: "What the lonely brother said is extremely true, quickly, come quickly, please come back Dong Guozhang, the prince's suit, and the three princes of the series!" Unfortunately, it was too late.
"Your Majesty... This... The three have been executed, and the subordinates deserve to die. A small school heard the shouts of King Jin and hurriedly rushed into the hall.
"Ah, Ziyou, Ziji, I'm wrong..."When King Jin heard what Xiao said, he suddenly knelt on the ground, howling and crying bitterly, and Yuan Zhonglu knelt in the hall, tears in his eyes. The princes in the audience did not dare to say anything, and trembled. After a long time, the king of Jin stopped crying, wiped his tears with his sleeve, and said in a sad tone: "Come on, burn this box, let the king, Dong, and the three princes take it away, alas! I, Yuan Jing, am wrong today, very wrong, Dong Gong!." As he spoke, he walked away with a depressed pace, his back looking lonely under the red lantern.
"There's nothing in the box. ”
"What are you muttering, the king said to burn, and he burned it. ”