Big Han Weiyang

"Ah, do you believe that Father will lose?" I asked with a sigh of relief.

Liu Zhi shook his head firmly.

After leaving Yongxiang, we quietly approached Xuanshi Hall.Although the guards have long turned a blind eye to our behavior, we still insist that peeking must look like peeping.

Stepping over the snowy bushes, climbing up the vermilion lacquered railings, pushing aside the bamboo curtains and jumping into the corridor, in the empty hall of Xuanshi, Emperor Jing and Empress Dowager Dou were talking.

I thought I would see Chao Cuo.

Emperor Jing said: "Mother, if you want to see the emperor, just say one word, and the emperor will go to Changle Palace. Why did you come all the way to Weiyang Palace to find the emperor?"

Empress Dowager Dou said: "Mother knows that you are very tired these days, so I, a mother, came to see my child, and let's talk to each other. Did you meet Chao Cuo just now?"

"Yes." Emperor Jing's expression was dark.

"He suggested that you lead the army to fight in person, and also suggested that you kill the prime minister of King Wu?"

Emperor Jing nodded: "Yes."

"Confucian scholars are useless. Let's not talk about whether an emperor should leave the capital and lead troops in person. I know that he has a rift with the prime minister of King Wu, but at this time, he still wants to get rid of his political enemies. Kings Could it be the fault of a vassal king's prime minister for rebellion? In the final analysis, it was Chao Cui who was eager for quick success."

"Doctor Chao is not that kind of person. He must have a reason for his suggestion." Emperor Jing retorted weakly.

Empress Dowager Dou waved her hand to signal the end of this topic, and she pushed over a silk letter: "This is a letter from your younger brother Liang. He said that he would advance and retreat with you. Take a look, in a critical moment, are those favorite ministers useful? Don't care about anything, the only one who is willing to help you is your own brother."

Emperor Jing remained silent, his brows slightly relaxed.

Empress Dowager Dou went on to say: "I heard that you didn't adopt Chao Cuo's suggestion, but used Zhou Yafu as the general. It's a good use. Actually, I think Dou Ying can also be used."

Emperor Jing put on a happy expression: "The emperor really intends to use him, but he made you so angry last time... and now he is hiding at home and refusing to be an official."

Empress Dowager Dou said: "That brat Dou Ying really made me pissed off last time, but as long as he is useful, I will use it. Mother should have the courage. If you can't talk him out, I'll find him personally."

"Mother." Emperor Jing took a deep breath, suppressing the moisture in his eyes.

"But Liu Qi," said Empress Dowager Dou, "although the matter has come to this point, I still have to say something. It is better to resolve this battle peacefully than to win miserably. The kings rebelled, and they rebelled. It's not you, the emperor. It's fighting against Chao Cuo, the banner of the Qing emperor. Chao Cuo pushed you into such a situation. When something went wrong, he hid himself in the rear, asked you to lead troops to the battlefield, and took the opportunity to wipe out political enemies. Do you think it's worth pouring out all the troops of the whole country to fight against the kings for such a person?"

"Mother," Emperor Jing was silent for a while, and said with difficulty, "This battle is not fought for Chao Cuo, but for my great man's foundation. If the vassal princes make trouble, the court will kill the ministers to apologize, and in the future they will not take The imperial court paid attention to it."

"Do you think it's worth standing against all the ministers and all the vassals for a subject?"

The announcement room fell silent.

Coming out of the corridor, at the back of the Xuanshi Hall, I met a minister with a gloomy face, wiping the corners of his eyes from time to time.

"Hey, why are you crying at such an old age?" Liu She said.

The man stopped in his tracks, and said seriously: "My father passed away, and I was sad in my heart, and I couldn't resolve it, so I expressed it to the outside."

"Did your father die because of illness?"

"No, it was suicide."

"Why, did you do something that made him unhappy?"

The man nodded: "I suggest that the emperor cut down the vassals to consolidate the imperial power. My father came from his hometown dragging his sick body and told me not to do this. He said that I would promote the Liu family and harm the Chao family. He resigned and went into seclusion. I didn't agree. He said he didn't want to see the Chao family die because of me, so he took medicine and committed suicide."

Chao? "You are Chao Cuo?" I understood.

"Yes, Chao Cuo has met the two princes." Chao Cuo straightened his crown and saluted our two princes properly.

He was tall, elegant and handsome, but his expression was solemn, as if he couldn't smile.

I said, "They all said you were wrong, you shouldn't encourage my father to cut down the vassal's land."

Chao Cuo said: "It's not right or wrong, you can tell right away. I'm all about revitalizing the Han Dynasty, and I don't have the slightest selfishness. Whether there is anything wrong or not, it will take another hundred years to wait for future generations to comment."

"You still want to keep going? Your father died because of you."

Chao Cuo said: "Since he has passed away, what's the point of me stopping? I can't save my father's life, and I can't realize my ideal. The seven kings rebelled, the court was chaotic, and the Han royal family was in jeopardy. Even if this road is a dead end , I also have to go to the end. Excuse me."

For a while, I felt that Chao Cuo was indeed loyal, and at the same time I felt that what Queen Dowager Dou said was reasonable, but I couldn't tell who was good and who was not.

"Ah, what would you do if someone told you that you did something wrong?"

Liu Zhi raised his chin imposingly and said: "I can't be wrong, what I do must be right, I don't care what others say. What about you, Ayue?"

I felt the same way and patted Liu She on the shoulder: "Me too. If someone says I'm wrong, just kill those people."

After all, war has nothing to do with us children.While playing around, I heard that Empress Dowager Dou had brought her nephew Dou Ying back; I heard that the feudal prince had conquered several cities and counties; Cut the land to seek peace; I heard that Dou Ying and the new general jointly demanded that Chao Cuo be killed to quell the civil strife.

No matter how chaotic it was outside, Chang'an City was still peaceful and quiet.

In mid-February, Liu Zhi and I got permission from Queen Dowager Dou to go to Ajiao, Tangyihou's Mansion, and enter Changle Palace.

Last time Liu Zhi heard that Princess Guantao had been picking folk beauties for my father, and she was arguing to go to Sister Gillian's house to see new ones.This time finally got his wish.

Sure enough, A-Jiao did not lie. In the Tangyi Hou Mansion where Princess Guantao lives, there are not only many singers and dancers who are good at singing and dancing, but there are also many beautiful young men, most of whom are indifferent. Dipping in the spring water, the slender willow looks like it is swaying in the wind.Stand or sit in the garden, or play the piano or dance.

Decorate the Tangyihou Mansion in the early spring like a fairyland.

"How about it, they look no worse than Brother Liu Rong, whom you talk about every day." On the way back to the palace in a parallel car, A-Jiao said with wrinkled eyebrows.

Liu Zhi said stubbornly: "They are beautiful, but they look like girls. Brother Liu Rong is different, he..."

"What's wrong with Liu Rong, he doesn't look like a girl?" Gillian said.

Liu Zhi and I were speechless, we leaned together and looked out unhappily.

This is Gillian's favorite parallel car.Green gauze hangs down from all sides of the car cover, which is hazy, not only to block the wind, but also to see the scenery outside.The four corners are tied with tassels that flutter in the wind.

Gillian's appearance attracted many people to stop and watch.

Gillian had long been used to being noticed, and it was still early anyway, so she asked the coachman to drive around the various markets, watch the jugglers, and buy some novelties to go home.

In mid-spring, the afternoon sun is quite bright and bright.People come and go in Dongshi City, it is very lively, it is completely different from the cold appearance in Weiyang Palace.

During the jolt, the three of us lazily fell asleep.

A carriage in front stopped, and an acquaintance came down, wearing a blue court dress, standing solemnly.

"Ahhhhhh, don't you think that's Chao Cuo?" I pushed Liu Sheh to wake him up.

"That person is Chao Cuo, who is said by the adults to be confusing the government," Gillian said. "He looks very upright, not a bad guy. I thought he might be a rogue-headed guy."

"We can talk to him, I think he's a very... strange person." Because of my Liu family, it's not surprising that my father committed suicide?

Just as Gillian nodded, the situation changed suddenly.

Chao Cuo said a few words to a man who looked like a minister, and suddenly his face turned pale and he was dripping with cold sweat.Then six armored soldiers rushed forward, grabbed Chao Cuo and left.

The road was suddenly surrounded by crowds.

It is human nature to like to watch the excitement.The three of us jumped out of the car and squeezed inside, and the house slaves of Tangyihou's Mansion scattered to protect us.

After huddling for a while, we couldn't see anything, and finally realized the reality that we were too short, so we each rode on the neck of a house slave.

Chao Cuo was stripped of his court clothes, brought to the high earthen platform in the middle of the East City, pushed and tied to the base of the guillotine, and laid down horizontally.

Four shirtless wrestlers dragged the rope tied to the top of the guillotine, and raised the guillotine high while retreating.

A line of guards separates the crowd from the raised platform.

"What are they going to do? Isn't Chao Cuo the emperor's teacher?" The crowd talked a lot.

"Oh, it's a good thing to cut down the feudal clan, it's a pity for Chao Cuo." said a big man who was still wearing a short jacket in early spring.

"Did you hear that the lieutenant read the imperial edict just now? The emperor ordered Chao Cuo to be cut in half, and he wanted to punish his three clans. These days, it's not easy to be a minister. Even if you are the emperor's teacher, even if you are helping the emperor. My idea, if the situation is not good, you are the scapegoat." An angry literati said.

"Wrong, although this order was issued by the emperor, it was not voluntarily issued by the emperor. I heard that it was persecuted by the Queen Mother Dou. Why are you so incomprehensible about the matter of the emperor's family? The mother actually asked her son to kill her." Get rid of his mentor."

"Empress Dowager Dou is the emperor's mother, no matter what she decides, it must be for the emperor's good." A woman said while holding her young son.

We squeezed to the front of the square platform.

"Chao Cuo, do you have anything else to say to the emperor?" the beheading official asked.

Chao Cuo looked up at the sky and said nothing.

The official sighed and turned his back: "Cut!"

The humming of drums sounded, the four wrestlers let go of the rope, and the guillotine fell heavily along the depression of the iron frame, making the sound of gold and stone.

I quickly hooked myself to A-Jiao's side and covered her eyes.

A bright red gushed out from Chao Cuo's waist, dyeing half of the platform.

I felt strange, looked down, a drop of blood splashed on the back of my hand covering Gillian's eyes.

Gorgeous.

After that, everything seemed to improve with Chao Cuo's death.

I heard that the new general caught the leader of Wu Wang by surprise; I heard that Liang Guo was besieged, but Liang Wang was unyielding; victory.