Chapter 24 The Emperor of the Ages
Afterwards, Zhang Wu also guessed that he had been drugged with sweat.
Opening the window and seeing the room with sporadic lights, Zhang Wu wanted to rush over and ask what was going on. Turned his head to look at Zhang Hui and Zhang Qi, then raised his head again and looked out the window in a daze.
The moonlight is beautiful tonight, and the moonlight is bright, but not everyone can enjoy it in peace.
The five old men were very anxious, they were very uneasy, they wanted to secretly kill Zhang Hui and them in the night, but they didn't dare. They wanted to escape, but they knew they couldn't.
Sitting by the stove, they muttered quietly, with different expressions on their faces.
To tell the truth, they also want to be good people and die peacefully like that, but they are so hungry that they can't die peacefully. At first, they were very resistant to eating this meat, but later they got used to it.
In fact, everyone wants to be a good person, and even most of the bad people in our eyes are limited by the limitations of the times, background, thoughts, etc., so they will do some bad things, from the initial passive misstep to the final catastrophe.
Psychopathology is mostly caused by huge changes, the lack of something from childhood, or inhumane education. Most of the people who have done things to exterminate humanity in history are also such people.
In addition to this, people change themselves in order to survive. In order to survive, human beings will exceed their imagination. In order to live, there are often countless reasons to do something that destroys humanity.
The five old men are like this, they have been honest farmers all their lives, and when they are old, they can't stand the hunger and do things that hurt the heavens and reason.
Fate is impermanent, and it comes to this.
The next day's breakfast was made by Zhang Wu, and as usual, it was polished rice and some jerky.
"Big brother, I was drugged yesterday. Zhang Wu asked as he pulled the rice.
Zhang Hui didn't have much appetite, so he put down his chopsticks halfway through eating, took a sip of water and replied: "It should be a sweat medicine, you have been in a coma for a long time, it seems that the medicine works well, take a little from them when you leave." ”
"How do you know they're gangsters?"
"Actually, I'm not sure, just because when I saw them, I kept frowning and unhappy, so I kept an extra eye. ”
"Frowning and unhappy??Do you still feel the good or bad of others?Ours is so powerful?" Zhang Wu swallowed, swallowed the contents of his mouth, and looked at Zhang Qi carefully.
"It seems that this is the case, we just know it in our own hearts, don't say it. ”
Zhang Wu looked at Zhang Qi for a while, but he couldn't see anything, so he picked up the chopsticks and ate and drank again.
After eating, opening the door and looking at the rising sun, Zhang Hui said casually: "I don't know what the battle is like." ”
"Whatever, it's good when we get past the ghost city. When we arrive at the Prison Cloud Pass, it is none of our business whether we fight or not. ”
After listening to his words, Zhang Hui nodded and walked towards the old man's house.
Zhang Hui knocked on the door, but there was no response, so he pushed it in hard.
They had weapons in their hands, facing Zhang Hui, as if they wanted to resist.
"It's not a big deal to come to you, just ask where you got your sweat medicine?"
No one responded.
Zhang Hui frowned and continued to threaten: "Your sweat medicine is good, and the medicine is very effective. Hurry up and tell me where it is, don't let me find it myself, if I do, I'll feed each of you a pound when I find it. ”
An old man asked tremblingly, "You're not here to kill us, are you?"
The five of them discussed a lot last night, and the final point of view was: Escaping is more likely to be death, or death in a foreign land; The only way is to do nothing.
"Do you know a lot of nonsense?" Zhang Hui glanced at the rice bowl on the table, saw the bones on the table, his stomach turned over for a while, and his face became more and more unkind.
"I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it. The old man noticed the change in Zhang Hui's tone, and hurriedly ran to the bedroom next to him to get something for Zhang Hui.
After getting the things, Zhang Hui opened the bag and dipped a little bit of it on his tongue with his hand. After waiting a few times, I found that my tongue was numb.
After confirming, Zhang Hui didn't embarrass them anymore, and took Zhang Wu away.
But after walking a distance, Zhang Wu couldn't help but speak: "Big brother, they are eating ......."
Zhang Wu stood outside, seeing the things on the table clearly, he was a little anxious and a little angry.
"Forget it, forget it, we don't have long to live, let's go. Zhang Hui interrupted him, grabbed his shoulders and walked southwest, walking onto this land!
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Zhang County is located in the north of the Flamingo Gobi, from the northernmost part of the Flamingo Cliff to the south, walk slowly for about two months, you can see a city sandwiched between two high mountains, that is the hidden city, is the first city of the sixteen cities in the north of Guanbei, and is also the first big city in the northwest of the Qin State of Rejection of Sang.
After the ghost city, there are fifteen medium-sized military towns, which rely on each other and are each other's horns, which are the other fifteen cities.
Passing through the secluded city, you can continue to the south, you can choose to enter other towns, or you can go straight south through a sparsely populated grassland.
After walking for a while, you can get to the prison cloud pass.
Continuing southward, two or three days away, you can see the world's largest river. It starts from Yao Mountain in the west and enters the Yao River in the east. It gallops or stretches across this land, winding for thousands of miles, feeding countless lives.
After crossing the Yao River, it is the terrain of a horse and a flat river, and it is also the main gathering place of the people of Qinguo, and the prosperity is not comparable to the northern cities.
The climate and soothing atmosphere make the people of this area live in peace and tranquility.
With the premise of peace, everything has developed rapidly.
Jincheng, the capital of the Chin Kingdom, is a large city of one million people. At the time of the second watch, the flower boats on the Bianhe River on the edge of Jincheng still heard a coquettish laughter, and the major downtown of the fifth watch had already begun to sell.
The palace in the Golden City, the most mysterious palace in the empire, makes everyone in the world look up to and admire from the bottom of their hearts, as if there is a dragon coiled above, making people want to bow and worship.
At that time, there were officials and rank people in Jincheng who had already dressed up and gathered at the Xuande Gate from all directions, and most of the officials could only stop here, and only a small number of officials could walk to the Daqing Gate and wait.
At that time, the bell of the drum tower rang five times, the Daqing door was opened, and the officials penetrated in.
After entering the Daqing Gate, if it is a normal morning court, the official should go to the Wende Hall next to it through the small door, and if it is a large-scale celebration or honor guard, it is necessary to go to the Daqing Hall in the center to hold the early court.
Today, the officials of the third grade and above came straight to the Daqing Palace, and lined up in two shifts according to the official positions of the left and the right.
Officials below the third grade are arranged outside the Daqing Hall in turn, and they can't take action regardless of the wind and rain. Of course, there are exceptions to everything, the official positions of the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial History Observatory are generally six or seven grades, but they can stand on the main hall, and there are some people who can be honored to stand on the hall for some reasons.
Halfway through the hour, the morning dynasty began with the dry howl of a certain eunuch.
The slightly young emperor slowly appeared in everyone's sight in the midst of three or five people, and slowly sat on the throne.
After sitting down, the emperor subconsciously glanced at the position behind the right, where there was originally a cloth curtain, and there was originally a phoenix chair behind the curtain, which had been removed today. Retracting his thoughts, the emperor gestured to a eunuch beside him with his eyes.
The eunuch nodded slightly to show that he understood, lowered his head and moved forward two steps, took out a holy decree from his sleeve, and read it loudly: "Since I was a child, the queen mother has lowered the curtain to listen to the government......"
The curtain listens to the government, the Queen Mother Liu E, whose life is legendary. was originally the maid of the former queen mother, but because she was favored by the emperor, she became the queen mother step by step.
He had no children, and later adopted Concubine Li's son with the acquiescence of the former emperor, and raised him with Yang Guifei.
This adopted child is the current Emperor Zhao Zhen of Qin, since Zhao Zhen ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, she has been listening to the government until a few days ago......
Over the years, Liu E has not been good to Zhao Zhen.
But when you think about it, a woman brought up a thirteen-year-old emperor, and the hardships are indescribable. The emperor has grown up trembling under her "domineering" all these years, but isn't this "domineering" a kind of protection?
Liu E just died, and Zhao Zhen was sad. The Eight Sages King and many important ministers told him about their life experience, and said that his biological mother died strangely, alluding to the Empress Dowager Liu E's actions against his biological mother.
Zhao Zhen was shocked and personally inspected the coffin of his biological mother, Concubine Li Chen. Seeing that Concubine Li Chen's funeral was like a lady, and even wearing a queen's dress, Zhao Zhen regretted it and sighed: "How can people believe their words." ”
came to Liu E's tablet to thank himself: "From now on, the life of the eldest lady can be innocent." ”
At the time of the title, Liu E was called the Empress of Zhuang Xianmingsu, and the general Queen Mother only had two words, and the biological mother Concubine Li Chen was also called Empress Zhuang Yi.
Soon, Zhao Zhen issued an edict that Liu E and his biological mother were buried in Yongding Mausoleum at the same time.
On the day of the coffin, Zhao Zhen first led Liu E, not only to carry out the filial piety ceremony, but also to personally carry out the ceremony regardless of the dissuasion of the Confucian scholars, pull the coffin, lay on the coffin and cry bitterly: "The grace of hard work, what is the reward for life!"
Then he went to Hongfu Yuan, where Concubine Li Chen was buried, to raise the spirit of his biological mother.
Liu E once had an edict ordering Zhao Zhenzun's other adoptive mother, Concubine Yang, to be the queen mother. Zhao Zhen complied with his will and honored Yang as the Empress Dowager of Baoqing.
And today, it is the first day of Zhao Zhen's pro-government, he is wearing an imperial robe, and the five-clawed golden dragon with gold thread makeup on his clothes looks different, as if he has come to life, and he can even hear the sound of the dragon's groan.
Under the imperial robe is coarse linen clothes, this is wearing linen and filial piety, the emperor can not perform full salutes to the court, can only wear coarse cloth under the imperial robe, in order to show filial piety.
Originally, the emperor had just been in power, and it was the time to establish authority, and the Eight Sages King and many important ministers "slandered" Liu E, and also gave him a reason to establish authority.
But when the eunuch finished reading the decree, he still didn't mean to do anything to any minister, and the courtiers who had written the book were relieved.
Several old ministers secretly thought: "Although the emperor is pro-government, his personality seems to have not changed, and he is still as tolerant as before, and he should be a bright monarch." ”