Chapter 35: Stealing the Day
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After all, Xiling Ye did not die in vain, although Bai Qian always felt that his death was unnecessary.
The Xiongnu side soon became on the begging table, and the negotiations went smoothly.
Diplomat Cheng Lan is clever and has a good way of negotiating, and like Wei Qichen, he likes to bring a fan when he has nothing to do. The only difference is that the one in Qi Chen's hand is a silk cloth folding fan, and Cheng Lan's hand is a feather fan that is standard for military advisors like Kong Ming.
Bai Qian still misses Wei Qichen a little, after all, Qichen is much better-looking.
Xiling Ye arranged the aftermath very properly, and Bai Qian basically had nothing else to do except lead the army to fight.
Many days passed, and the remaining snow had melted away, leaving only some white-headed mountains to be seen in the distance. Spring is coming, and the grass sprouts are ready to bloom in early spring.
Xilingye's body has never been cold.
For the first seven nights after his death, even a faint pulse began to regain.
The first seven are the days of the resurrection of the soul in folklore.
Hades would let the new ghost go to the sun to say goodbye one last time, and that night Shirozen had a very strange dream.
Flowers bloom everywhere in the dream, and spring is as deep as the sea. It's just that there is no one in the four fields, and only a low sigh can be heard. That feeling of tranquility made Bai Qian feel at ease, just like when Xiling Ye was by his side.
It was after waking up from that dream that Bai Qian took a look at Xiling Ye and found his faint pulsation. Tsai carefully checked it several times, Xiling Ye, who was lying on the bed, was as pale as paper, and several wounds on the arteries on his body had already drained his blood, but there were no corpse spots that should have appeared.
In those days, he originally hoped that Xiling Ye could give him a dream or something, even if he turned into a ghost and came back to talk to him.
He still had a lot of questions to ask, and he didn't want him to die in such a hurry.
But there was nothing, so he didn't really believe he was dead. At this moment, I found that he was indeed not dead, and not only was he not afraid, but he was indescribably happy.
As soon as he was excited, he rushed out, intending to find someone to talk to.
When he ran out, he only saw the sky full of stars, and the night of the fourth watch was quiet, and he couldn't find anyone to share the news.
What Bai Qian didn't know was that there was a greater danger waiting for him ahead.
In Chang'an City, Prime Minister Shangben secretly accused Zhenyuan General Xiling Ye of bullying the monarch and concealing the disappearance of the prince, and asked for the crime and should be executed by Ling Chi.
With a blushing face, the emperor removed Xilingye's father from his post and sent him to prison.
The urgent edict was issued again and again, but it sank into the sea and there was no response.
Du Heng fanned the flames on the side, constantly presenting evidence of Xilingye's disobedience to the emperor's orders, saying that Xilingye probably wanted to rebel and stand on his own.
In the final edict, he sent a Li Chengfeng, who had been an enemy of the Xiling family for generations, to replace Xiling Ye, and the edict said that as soon as he saw Xiling Ye, he would correct the law on the spot and bring the head back.
Li Chengfeng failed to bring back the head of Xiling Ye, and he didn't even walk out of Chang'an City.
The old emperor just felt that his health had been getting worse and worse in the past few years, and his energy was slowly unable to keep up, he looked at Du Heng, who was about the same age as him, and he still looked energetic, but he was always physically and mentally tired.
In the past two years, he has become more and more dependent on Du Heng for things in the court.
And now, Du Heng knelt in the study, saying that Xiling Ye was recommended by him at the beginning, and now he is out of the control of the royal family with the most elite army of the empire, and he himself is at fault, begging the emperor to surrender.
The Xiling family has been the general for generations, and has always been the most stable Great Wall of the empire, if it weren't for the impeccable evidence and witnesses brought by Du Heng, he would never believe that Xiling Ye would have a day of treason.
Xiling Ye is the companion of Prince Yu Wenze, and he has been very smart since he was a child.
That child, whom he has been watching grow up, has a pair of very pure and clear eyes, like an old man he has longed for many years.
Two months after Li Chengfeng received the order, he returned to the emperor, he confirmed that the crown prince had disappeared, his life and death were unknown, but he did not hand over Xiling Ye's head, he said that he had resisted stubbornly and had been hacked to death with a knife.
He presented Xilingye's broken helmet engraved with knife marks, and the blood stains had long since solidified and blackened.
I don't know why, when I heard the news, the emperor's heart was not as relaxed as expected, but hurt fiercely.
He turned his head almost instinctively, unwilling to look at the evidence that indicated his death.
In this world, there is no trace of pine cocos anymore, not even a little similar. The old emperor suddenly felt very tired and tired, and felt that he had worked so hard to expand the territory in his life, but it was very tasteless to only end up betraying his relatives and leaving him.
There have been a lot of new faces in the court in recent years, and he doesn't know much about them.
Those people were all Du Heng's newly promoted protégés, what he didn't know was that when he was too focused on the territory and neglected internal affairs, Du Heng had already inserted his eyeliner inside and outside the capital.
It is said that the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is full of buildings, and the old emperor himself feels faintly uneasy.
His hunch soon came true.
He didn't remember the last memory very clearly, he only remembered that day Du Heng drafted an edict for him to stamp the jade seal to confirm, he was dizzy that day, he didn't think much about going to the court, and he didn't read the edict much.
It wasn't until in the court that the eunuch read out loud the edict to Du Heng that he suddenly woke up.
Chrysostom said that horses are difficult to chase.
He was only awake for a while, and he was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood, and fainted before he could even shout "rebel".
When he woke up, it was already late at night, and he was a little surprised that he wasn't even dead.
Could it be that he was already confused to such a point? How could he issue such an edict?
He woke up from the cold, and woke up to look around through the faint moonlight outside the window, and the cold wind pierced through the broken window paper, and the knife slashed at people.
The house was not large, but it had very little furniture, it seemed dark and empty, and he could only hear the echo of the cold wind at the moment.
He still remembered that Song Ling died in a fire, she died to save him, when he drank too much wine and fell asleep, who knew that there was a fire for some reason, and she was a weak woman who kept telling him not to wake up, so she dragged him out on her back.
When he woke up, he saw a broken piece of wood being smashed against her, and if he had been in peace, he would have been able to stop it for him. But that time he was drunk.
I could only watch as she was smashed and fell on top of herself.
All he could hold out of the fire was a warm corpse, which was supposed to be his crown princess, who was going to get married next month.
He felt that he was still repeating the fire in his dream, but he did not know that he had slept for three days, and his concubines and heirs were no longer alive.
Later, the palace maid who still delivered food found the frozen and dead emperor of the former dynasty, she had never seen him, and she did not know the stories of the previous dynasty, but she saw the poor corpse of an old man, and was startled, and then reported it to her superior.
Later, the body was taken away, and then his history ended.
Turning this page in the history books, later generations called this incident the Wuning coup. A coup d'état without a large-scale armed conflict.
After Du Heng ascended the throne, he changed his name to Kaiping.
At that time, Bai Qian had just repelled the Xiongnu on the northwest battlefield, and Du Heng's fast horse passed the news that Bai Qian would handle the surrender by himself, and after leaving 100,000 defenders, he could return to the court.
The holy decree said that he deeply regretted the martyrdom of General Xiling, but the prince's courage was inspiring, and his father was ready to wash the dust for the prince.