Rebirth of Glory and Splendour

As the longest reigning emperor in the history of the Dayan Dynasty, Wei Su was just an ordinary prince when he was born.

Among the sons of Emperor Shenzong, Wei Su ranked ninth, without any advantage at all.Wei Su's mother and concubine, Sun's family, also belonged to the same kind in Emperor Shenzong's harem, neither the favorite concubine of the sixth palace, nor the forgotten existence.

In terms of background and affection, she can't compare with a concubine to Empress Gu. She is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qi's mansion. She was childhood sweetheart with Emperor Shenzong since she was a child, and she gave birth to twins who were auspicious to the emperor.And she is just a concubine who is not valued by the Guoguo government. It is purely a coincidence that her entry into the palace is purely coincidental. The Sun family doesn't care what status she can obtain in the palace. Son, there are only three princesses under her knees.

Competing for beauty and love, Hefei is not as good as Concubine Li, that one comes from a humble family, and his family can barely be considered aristocratic, but in fact it has long since fallen, and no one has been in office for several generations.It's a pity that the emperor just likes Concubine Li. He thinks she is good-looking, can talk, and understands his thoughts. Just by looking at her title, one can also see what the emperor thinks.It's not that concubine He is completely unfavorable, otherwise she would not be able to give birth to three princesses, but in Emperor Shenzong's heart, she is a dispensable type, there are not many with her, and there are many without her, there is nothing worth worrying about special place.

Originally, Empress Gu gave birth to the eldest son, and the other princes didn't have to think about the crown prince anymore.However, before Emperor Shenzong officially canonized the eldest prince Wei Feng as the crown prince, he died of illness at the age of ten, which made the emperor and empress heartbroken and mourned.

Although the emperor posthumously crowned his beloved son who died young as Prince Xiaozhen, the Dayan Dynasty would eventually have a crown prince.

It has been a practice since ancient times to establish a son with a descendant, and to establish an elder without a descendant.After Wei Feng, the second and third princes of Emperor Shenzong died young, and Wei Zhou, the fourth prince born of Concubine Li, became the de facto eldest son of the emperor.

When Wei Su was two years old, Emperor Shenzong conferred the title of Concubine Li Tian as a noble concubine after much deliberation, and made the 12-year-old fourth prince enter the East Palace.

In the years to come, if Concubine Li Gui and her son don't take the initiative to make mistakes, Wei Su and the Ninth Five Lord will basically miss the position.

In the ninth year of Xiande, Tie Le entered Yanzhou and occupied the two counties in the northwest.

The request made by Tie Le Khan Boya Atu was sent back to Yujing, and there was an uproar in the court, like a pot of boiling water.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the country, Dayan and Tie Le have been at peace in wars and wars, and occasionally made marriages, but they always married clan women and even court ladies in the name of princesses. The real princess of the Wei family has never been married.

There are different opinions in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. Some people say that they want to fight Tie Le to the end, and they will never swallow this useless gas. Some people also object, saying that it is okay to fight, but if you want money or no money, what should you do if you want people? Fight recklessly with Tiele's invincible cavalry.

Emperor Shenzong discussed with his officials for three days and three nights, and came to the conclusion that the situation was not good enough, so he could only temporarily agree to Tiele's request.In this way, the ones who are nervous are all the empresses in the harem, no one wants their precious daughter to marry into a barren land.

The emperor has many daughters, but not many are suitable for marriage, only Wei Huang, the eldest daughter of Empress Gu, and Princess Xin'an, the eldest daughter of Hefei.

In terms of age, Princess Gu Zhang is obviously more suitable than the 15-year-old Princess Xin'an.However, Empress Gu only had one son and one daughter, her son had already passed away, and only her daughter was left by her side. She was still seriously ill, and the always soft-hearted Emperor Shenzong couldn't speak to her at all.

At this moment, Concubine Li Gui jumped out suddenly and said to the emperor that Empress Gu was seriously ill, and it was too inhumane to marry her only daughter to marry her, why not let her share the empress' worries and let Princess Baling replace her elder sister marry in the past.

Concubine Ligui's words were sincere, but her only daughter, Princess Baling, was only ten years old, far below the age of marriage. Even the second daughter of Concubine Nanyang, Princess Nanyang, was three years older than Princess Baling. It's not her turn to marry Wei Huang.

Concubine Li Gui said such a thing, how could Concubine He be able to sit still, she was a smart woman, she could tell from the beginning that the emperor was reluctant to part with Wei Huang, so no matter how reluctant she was, she took the initiative to say it in front of the emperor. Let the words of Princess Xin'an and Qin Tie Le.

Therefore, when Wei Su was three years old, his favorite elder sister was forced to marry off to a foreign country, and the siblings never saw each other again.Wei Su's hatred for Tie Le, and his determination to get rid of it quickly, were planted at this time.

Two months after Princess Xin'an married, Empress Gu passed away, and her posthumous title was "Jing".The harem cannot be left without a master for a day. Concubine Li has the highest status and is the birth mother of the prince. It is reasonable for her to temporarily take care of Fengyin and rule the six palaces. No one has any objections.

If Concubine Li kept her own place and did her job well, it would be a matter of course to be canonized as a new queen after the filial piety period for the filial queen is over.It's a pity that Concubine Li Gui is too impatient. She has assumed the prestige of a queen before she became a queen.What's more terrible is that it's okay for her to be harsh to other low-ranking concubines, she always likes to get along with concubines, picking her thorns and making troubles for her everywhere.

It is true that Emperor Shenzong did not favor Hefei very much, but she was the daughter of the Guo State Mansion after all, her father and brother had a place in the court, and Princess Xin'an went to Tiele with her relatives. The attitude is obviously much closer than before.

Concubine Li's obvious suppression of Concubine He caught the emperor's attention, and he began to think about whether she was really qualified for the post of empress.When Empress Gu was here, there were no such things in the palace. It seems that the lack of background is indeed a fatal wound.

As an emperor, Emperor Shenzong could barely be considered qualified, but his mind was extremely delicate.Because of his poor health, he often worried that after a hundred years, the young Wei Su and others would be treated harshly.Once, the emperor summoned Concubine Li to stay in bed, and casually mentioned that after he became famous, he hoped that Concubine Li and the Crown Prince would treat the other concubines and their princes and daughters well in the palace.

As long as it is a woman with a brain, no matter how upset she is, she will agree to it with a smile.When the emperor said this, he clearly had the idea of ​​supporting the orphan and establishing the empress. Except for the empress dowager and the new emperor, who needs to take care of the concubines and children of the former emperor.

After hearing this, Concubine Ke Li not only did not agree, but became angry. She was not willing to take care of those women and their children who had competed with her for favor.Emperor Shenzong was stunned, and laughed back from his anger, but he almost didn't have an attack, he didn't know what to say.

It was at that time that the emperor had the idea of ​​changing the crown prince. He didn't have to make the noble concubine Li the queen, but as long as Wei Zhou ascended the throne, her mother was more expensive than her son, and she was still a high-ranking empress dowager. Prince changed together.

Emperor Shenzong gave birth to many sons, but unfortunately not many of them survived, and most of them were born to humble mothers, only the Ninth Prince Wei Su, who was born of a noble daughter of a decent family.The emperor hated Wu and Wu, and even lost his affection for the prince, so he began to pay attention to Wei Su.

Feeling the emperor's neglect, Concubine Li Gui didn't want to save her, but instead made a foolish move and killed herself and her son.

Concubine Li Gui poisoned Wei Su, intending to poison him to death, and directly solve the problem from the root cause, and it will be over forever.Unexpectedly, Wei Su was lucky, he didn't eat the drugged crystal hibiscus cake, but gave it to Changning Prince Ji Qing who came to the palace to play with him.

Wei Su suffered from Ji Qing Dynasty, and almost lost his life. He was rescued with great difficulty, but it also injured his tendons and ruined the foundation of martial arts.

The matter was revealed, and the emperor was furious. Changning's palace was weak, and almost every generation was a single pass. Concubine Li ruined Ji Qing, did she want to leave the Ji family with no successors?Besides, Concubine Li's original intention was to get rid of Wei Su, he absolutely couldn't bear it anymore.

In the 12th year of Xiande, Wei Zhou was abolished as the crown prince and changed to the title of acting king.The next year, Wei Zhou committed suicide in the fiefdom at the age of 17. The common man Tian Shi died of grief and anger after hearing the news.

In the 15th year of Xiande, Emperor Shenzong canonized his concubine Sun as the queen.The following year, Wei Suyuan took over and was crowned the crown prince.

The emperor was sick and weak-tempered, and the power of government had long been in the hands of the Empress Dowager Xie Yi.Xie Yi was not the emperor's biological mother, but his adoptive mother, and his biological son was the King of Chu.The emperor was afraid that the prince would be too young to restrain Xie Yi in the future, so he wanted to tell him a powerful marriage.

Unexpectedly, Wei Su heard that the candidate his father was looking for was Ji Yang, the lord of Xianyou County in Changning Palace, so he rejected it on the spot.

Wei Su has always felt that brothers and sisters Ji Qing and Ji Yang were born with the wrong gender, the elder brother is modest and gentleman, gentle as jade, and the younger sister is brutal and violent, without any image of a lady.The first and only time he saw Ji Yang was when he was six years old. He just said a wrong sentence and was beaten by her. His whole body hurt like hell, but there was no trace of the beating.Including Concubine He, everyone was praising Ji Yang, saying that she lived up to her reputation as a tiger girl, and no one cared about him being injured. Only Ji Qing gave him a sympathetic look.

Due to Wei Su's insistence, his marriage with Ji Yang was stillborn before it was formally proposed, and almost no one knew about it.

Two years later, the news spread that the head of Xianyou County married the young head of the Jun family, and everyone in the world was shocked.Because in the eyes of everyone, the Ji family and the Jun family are two completely different families.Don't talk about marriage between them, even if they have contacts, it will make people feel strange.

Needless to say, the Ji family is one of the two kings with different surnames who founded Dayan, and together with the Jiang family of Yong'an Wangfu, they are also known as the head of the world's aristocratic families.

The Changning Prince's Mansion started with military exploits, and both their sons and daughters are proficient in the art of war, bow and horse.The successive county heads of the Ji family either entered the palace as queens or married into the same family. There was never a saying that they married into a poor family, not even once.

But Ji Yang set such a precedent, how could it not be surprising, and there was a lot of discussion about it.Of course, Lord Langya's family is not an ordinary family. Although they do not have the status of a family, they are a very special existence of the Dayan Dynasty, and no one dares to despise them.

The Jun family passed on poems and books to the family. What they passed down was not ordinary books, but history books from the history of the Central Plains, from all dynasties and countries.

Without the efforts of the ancestors of the Jun family, the history of the Central Plains before the Shenchuan Dynasty would probably have disappeared in the flames of war.Therefore, from the Shenchuan Dynasty to the Dayan Dynasty, although the direct descendants of the Jun family have never been in official positions, their family's status is absolutely detached.

The young master of the Jun family, Junya, is famous all over the world. His senior brother Yu Zong once said that if Junya is willing to take the imperial examination, his title of No. Besides, there is nothing to do.

Junya married Ji Yang, Ji Yang married Junya...

When Wei Su heard the news, he found it funny, but also felt relieved. Anyway, the emperor couldn't force him anymore.

From Wei Su's point of view, whether he marries Ji Yang has nothing to do with whether the Changning Palace supports him or not.The old Changning King has already gone, and Ji Qing is now the master of the Ji family. He believes that with the friendship between the two of them, Ji Qing will stand by him without hesitation.

In the 22nd year of Xiande, Emperor Shenzong died, with the posthumous title of "Hui", and Wei Su, who was only 16 years old, became emperor.

Just as the first emperor had imagined, the Empress Dowager Xie Yi firmly controlled the court and did not give the little emperor any chance at all.Wei Su was young and energetic, how could he endure it? He was not the first emperor, nor did he have such a weak temperament, so he would not let Xie Yi manipulate him.

In the first year of Yongjia, Wei Su dismissed Xie Yi's nephew Xie Ning Zhongshu Ling in order to suppress the momentum of Xie's family and replaced him with Yu Dong.At the same time, he dismissed Yu Xian and Shang Shuling Wei Chuan from his post, and replaced him with Gui Ru and Sun Yan.

Yu Dong is the uncle of former top scholar Lang Yu Zong, and also a student of Jun's family. Although he is not from Wei Su, he is not from Xie Yi either. He stands firmly in a neutral stance.As for Gui Ru and Sun Yan, the former is Wei Su's teacher, and the latter is his uncle, so they are both his own.

Xie Yi watched the little emperor's actions with cold eyes, his face remained calm, but he was thinking in his heart that the court that Ai's family has run for decades cannot be shaken by replacing a few officials. If it is that easy, first The emperor had already succeeded, so where would it be his turn.

Sure enough, within half a year after taking office, the newly appointed governors of the three provinces were found wrong by Xie Yi one after another. Yu Dong committed suicide in prison, and Gui Ru and Sun Yan were dismissed and returned home.Wei Su was so angry that he was half dead, but he was powerless. He realized that his strength was too small in front of the Empress Dowager.

Wei Su's crisis was not over yet, Xie Yi dismissed him and the people still didn't give up, he moved to change the emperor's mind.

Wei Su panicked when he heard the news that the Empress Dowager summoned the King of Chu to Beijing.

Xie Yi was not his biological grandmother, but she was the biological mother of King Chu, it was obvious who was closer and who was far.More importantly, when the emperor was at fault, the empress dowager or empress dowager of the Dayan Dynasty had the power to abolish the emperor.

Wei Su was wrong, this is a fact, even though he could not rise to the height of the deposed emperor, if Xie Yi was determined and wanted to help his own son to the throne, it would not be impossible to make a big fuss, after all, the whole court was under the control of the former emperor since he ascended the throne. In the hands of the Empress Dowager.

Wei Su didn't want to sit still, he rushed out of the palace under the banner of inspecting the river works before King Chu arrived in Beijing.He was going to Shuozhou, he was going to find Ji Qing, and he really confronted the Empress Dowager, only Ji Qing's military power could help him.

Not long after leaving the palace, Wei Su asked the shadow guard to make up his appearance and went to inspect the river workers instead of himself.He secretly led a group of guards, diverted to the north, and defected to Ji Qing.Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager had expected it and sent people to ambush him on the road in advance.

The guards fought desperately, but unfortunately they were outnumbered and gradually surrounded by people.As the opponent pressed closer and closer, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and it was about to be broken through.Wei Su managed to maintain a calm expression on his face, but his heart began to fluster to some extent.

He couldn't help thinking about what would happen to him if he was taken back to the palace by the Empress Dowager.Maybe, like his uncle, King Huai of Qi, he would be abolished directly, and given a glass of poisoned wine.King Huai of Qi also had his younger brother, the emperor's grandfather. Although he was bestowed to death, he was mourned according to the emperor's ceremony.He only has three older sisters, if he is really deposed, the ending may be worse than that of King Huai of Qi. God knows how Xie Yi and King Chu will treat him.

At a critical moment, a white figure broke into Wei Su's line of sight, and he was seen dashing from left to right, rushing to Wei Su in two or three steps.

"Follow me!" The man in white grabbed Wei Su's arm and flew him up, so fast that no one else had time to stop him.

Wei Su faintly felt that this voice sounded familiar, but before he remembered where he heard it, he was taken away like a lightning bolt.After running for twenty or thirty li in one breath, seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, the man in white put down Wei Su and let him take a breather.

Although Wei Su practiced martial arts, it was only for the purpose of strengthening his body, and he had never practiced internal and light skills. It was indeed a bit overwhelming to go through such a sudden experience.He sat under the tree for a while, stared at the man in white for a while, and suddenly said, "You are Ah Qing, right?"

Due to their similar age, Wei Su has been playing with Changning Prince Ji Qing since he could walk and talk, and the relationship between the two is very close.But after Ji Qing was poisoned in place of Wei Su that year, the old King Chang Ning sent his son to Kunlun Mountain to heal his wounds and expel the poison.Later, the old Changning King was conspired to die in Shuozhou. Ji Qing went directly to Shuozhou to attack the prince and took over the military power after he came down from the mountain.Wei Su had never been out of the capital before, so he and Ji Qing hadn't seen each other for more than ten years, and the contact with each other was only through letters.

Ji Qing smiled, and said softly, "Your Majesty, can you go? This place is more than a thousand miles away from Shuozhou. We must arrive as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams." The way he smiled and the tone of his voice made Wei Su feels very familiar.

Wei Su jumped up and said excitedly: "Ah Qing, how did you heal your injury? I remember the imperial doctor once said that you can no longer practice martial arts." He was sad for a long time because of this matter, why not him After eating that piece of hibiscus cake, he doesn't need to practice martial arts.

"Usually you can only listen to half of the imperial physician's words." After Ji Qing finished speaking, he dragged Wei Su up again to his horse hiding place.

Wei Su looked at the tall horse with a black body and snow-white hooves, and asked in puzzlement, "Why is there only one horse?"

Ji Qing curled her lips and asked with a smile: "How long has your Majesty ridden on a horse for the longest time? Not more than half an hour, right?" Seeing that he was silent, he continued: "We are going to Shuozhou. We can't delay on the way, Your Majesty. A person can't stand it."

After Ji Qing finished speaking, he got on his horse and pulled Wei Su up.Wei Su felt a little dissatisfied with what Ji Qing said. He wanted to refute him, but felt that speaking with facts was more convincing, so he remained silent.An hour later, he didn't want to say anything.

After galloping all the way for two days and two nights, after dispatching three groups of ambushes and two groups of pursuers, Ji Qing finally brought Wei Su to Shuozhou Camp.

When he got off the horse, Wei Su could no longer feel that his legs belonged to him. He really wanted to swear that he would never ride a horse again in his life, but seeing Ji Qing walking as usual, he was embarrassed to say it and swallowed it silently. down.

As soon as they entered the camp, some soldiers stepped forward to answer. After hearing this, Ji Qing immediately dropped Wei Su and ran away.

Wei Su was puzzled, so he raised his legs and followed. Before he entered the tent, he heard Ji Qing's panicked voice: "Brother!"

brother? !The old King Changning had a son and two daughters, and Ji Qing was the eldest son. It's really strange where he got such a big brother.