Big Han Weiyang

It didn't take long to learn that Yu Shan died of illness.The Second Royal Court suffered a blow.I hurriedly sent Han Shuo to maintain the situation.After discussing with the ministers, I believe that the current form of the Han Dynasty is stronger than that of the Xiongnu, and it is more beneficial to have the help of the Western Regions.Gouli Lake was born in the Xiongnu, grew up in the great Han Dynasty, and has been a general for many years. He can maintain the second royal court and be supervised by the Han officials, so he can still be trusted.

Moreover, even if he betrayed, the Xiongnu would be divided into two from now on, and it would be easier to defeat each of them than before.

I called Juli Lake back to Beijing to assign tasks.

The handsome general of the foreign race received the order in the court hall. After he came down, I called him to the courtyard of the front hall.

It was the height of spring at this time, and the garden was full of rockery and lush flowers and plants.The sun shines through the shade of the trees and shines on the surrounding corridors.I took a few steps in the yard, and Gouli Lake followed me silently.

When I reached a bush, I stopped and looked back at him.His appearance is still beautiful enough to make people feel weak.He must have suffered a lot in the barracks for this.

The name Liu Li sounded awkward to me, so I ignored it and said, "How are you these days?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. The future will be fine." Juli Lake just came out of the hall, feeling a little unwell, with blue eyes like a winter lake just exposed to the sun.

I patted his not-so-thick shoulder: "It is indeed different from when I was a teenager. The first time I saw you, you looked like a newborn wolf cub, with only a pair of fierce eyes. When you grow up, your body will become stronger, and your eyes will disappear. Now I’ve finally come back.” I smiled, “I always remember the sword you cut off the head of that general in Yanmen, it was amazing.”

Gou Lihu said: "The emperor trusts the general very much, if I really surrender to the enemy that time, the emperor will not be the emperor."

"you will not."

Juli Lake shook his head: "The last general was born in the Xiongnu, and he was half an enemy when he first met the emperor. The king of Jiaodong killed my third uncle, and the emperor treated me like a slave. In the end, he worked as a servant in the schoolyard for several months. Could it be that the emperor didn't Think I should hate you?"

I raised my eyebrows: "Then do you hate me or not?"

Juli Lake said: "At that time, I hated it."

"now what?"

"I hate it too, I hate it even more."

I laughed: "I know. But I still dare to use you. Even if you questioned me before the army, I dared to let you take on the most important part of the entire plan to destroy the enemy. I also asked you to lead troops to conquer the Huns. Now it's up to you to tell me, can I continue to trust you this time?"

Juli Lake lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, when I pretended to surrender to the enemy, I was prepared to die. That Wanqi Commander was related to me, and he tried his best to favor me and heal my wounds, but I still killed him." I think it is impossible for the emperor to remember to save me and wait for death with his eyes closed, but Li Danghu risked his life to come here. Since then, I have been a Han Chinese through and through, and I have dedicated all my loyalty."

"I think this date should be earlier."

Juli Lake's slender body took a step back, behind him were flowers hanging down the corridor, his eyebrows were like a painting.

I took a step forward: "I think that since the day you met me, Gouli Lake, it is impossible to betray you. What do you think?"

He lowered his head even deeper, as if acquiescing.

"The emperor does trust me. However, the way the emperor trusts is to put the general in a dangerous situation that is almost certain to die? Whether it is in Yanmen or in the border county, every time he comes back from a near death and meets again. A new order to the emperor. If it weren't for luck, the general would have died countless times. Sometimes the general feels that he simply cannot be trusted by the emperor."

I laughed and said, "If you died so easily, King Jiaodong wouldn't have just hit your belt buckle with that arrow." The most dangerous battle.

The surface of Juli Lake was gloomy for a moment, but his tone became tough: "But you will feel that it is unfair in the end, and you will hate the emperor even more because of it. In the eyes of the emperor, what am I? Why did the emperor treat me like this?"

"I said that I would give you a chance to fight for thousands of households. Now that the chance has been given to you, what else are you not satisfied with?" I smiled at him.

"Could it be that the emperor's trust, and the care he took at Bian Guan's clothes all because of..." He spoke halfway, swallowed the second half, and his voice stopped abruptly.

I replied: "I am the king, and you are the minister. I don't know if I am a wise king, but you must be my good minister. It is not strange that I trust you to take care of you."

I leaned over to brush his arm, took off a thorny fruit, and put it in the palm of my hand: "I just like your temperament, and you stab people without any scruples. In my eyes, you are like this thorny fruit, covered with a Thorns. I like the fruit inside you, and I like the thorns outside you. It's very real."

Clenched tightly, the skin of the palm was easily pierced.

Gouli Lake knelt down on one knee in front of me, the armor clanging.He pulled my fingers away, and the thornberry rolled down with blood.Gouli Lake was sticking to my hand, his face was stained with blood: "The emperor has indeed held this humble minister in his palm for a long time."

The tone seemed to be disheartened.

After the dinner, I summoned Juli Lake to an attic.The court ladies serve tea standing up.Under the attic is a lotus pond with sparkling water.

The expression of Juli Lake has returned to the past.

I thought about my wording, and asked peacefully: "A Li, please tell me about the situation of King Jiaodong in the border for the past few years."

Except for protecting Yu Shan and establishing the Second Royal Court recently, he was sent by me to monitor Liu Che before.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Gouli Lake turned his gaze from the lotus pond to the tea set, "When the minister and the king of Jiaodong first arrived at Yanmen, the king of Jiaodong was gloomy and violent, killing people at every turn, and the soldiers were afraid of him. On the battlefield, he was extremely brave. , not afraid of death," Juli Lake looked at me, and added, "or as if he was going to die, he often rushed into the belly of the Xiongnu army with two or three personal guards and returned to the camp with blood."

"So was he seriously injured?" I interrupted.

Juli Lake said: "There are too many to count. Everyone said that he is not like a prince, but like a dead soldier. However, after the King of Jiaodong went to the battlefield a few times, his hostility has subsided, and he is not so gloomy and irritable on weekdays, and the soldiers are not so afraid of him. , but admiration."

"You keep talking."

"However, after returning to Beijing the year before last and receiving the conferment, the King of Jiaodong became more silent and solemn. But from the beginning to the end, the King of Jiaodong did not collude with the Xiongnu." It must be true that he said so.

Liu Che has been depressed, afraid that it will be bad for his health.

"You go back first." I asked the eunuch to see him off.

Gou Lihu said yes, then silently backed away.

I strolled along the lotus pond for a while and returned to Yeting.Pixiang Hall and Yilan Hall, where I lived the longest when I was a child, have changed owners, and now they house Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Li.I told the palace servants not to disturb them, to walk alone.

The moonlight is soft.In the depths of a seldom-visited corridor in Pixiang Temple, I suddenly smelled a fragrance that was almost forgotten in the depths of my memory.When I saw Liu Che in Shiqu Pavilion for the last time when I was a child, the fragrance on his body was originally contaminated here.

I still remember that day when I leaned over to smell it, his face turned red.

Looking back, I can't help but smile.

I also remembered that he once held my sleeve and said that he was not allowed to leave.But now he left me and refused to come back.

I sat on the porch, bathed in the silver light, as if I could see the two children back then.

They beat each other to the death, and then cried and hugged each other, saying sorry to each other, and then said, let's never do this again, okay?

"Your Majesty, don't catch a cold here." Chuntuo said.

I smiled and stood up: "Chuntuo, I really miss King Jiaodong today."

Chuntuo said: "Your Majesty, you must think about people when you see things. I remember that when you were young, you were always fighting with King Jiaodong in these two palaces, and you were as good as one person."

"Yeah." I exhaled.Chuntuo has followed Emperor Jing for decades, and now he is following me.He has seen all the grievances and grievances between Liu Che and me since we were young.

Chuntuo said: "Your Majesty, let me tell you something, although you and King Jiaodong were young at that time, your hearts were clear and clear, and you knew how to put your own heart into the hearts of others. If anything happened, you would think about it." Subdue before the other party, and apologize first."

I listened quietly.

"Now, he has become the king of Jiaodong, and you have become the emperor. You have all grown up. The clothes have changed, and the people have changed. But it is not as good as before. You are holding your breath in your heart, and you are watching the distance between the two with cold eyes. Farther and farther away. Your majesty, between brothers, it’s not about who is more ruthless than who, who is more tolerant. Blood is connected, you hurt him, he hurts you, he hurts you. If this continues, see the end, can you bear it? , are you willing?" Chuntuo said.

Bianjun and the Huns fought hand-to-hand one after another.

Juli Lake left for Shuofang in early April.The old Shanyu, a military minister, is dead, and the new Shanyu is Yi Zhixie.With the efforts of Han Shuo and Gouli Lake, wave after wave of scattered Huns came to seek refuge, and the Second Royal Court gradually took shape.

When I sent someone to clean up the Weiyang Palace, I found that Liu Shun's influence in the palace was almost deeply rooted, and it took a long time to abolish some of them.Occasionally, someone would invite me to see him, and some courtiers even asked me to take care of Liu Shun in consideration of brotherhood, but I ignored them all, and even felt a little afraid.Liu Shun's hands have been extended to the court, and if he is really given another three to five years, wouldn't he be the uncrowned king.

Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Liu Che and others lined up on the front line, waiting for the final battle.It is said that it was World War I, but in fact, including the contact before the war, the cleaning up of the remnants after the war may not be completed in five or ten years.

The first thing I do every day is to read the battle reports from the front line.

In the middle of the month, when he learned that Liu Che was injured in an ambush, he hurriedly sent the imperial physician to treat him.The ensuing flood that covered half of the Han Dynasty left the courtiers devastated.At the end of the month, after the emergency measures were arranged, news came from Dingxiang that Liu Che's injury had not only failed to heal, but had worsened.Dingxiang was often attacked by the Xiongnu, which was very dangerous.

My heart skipped a beat when I heard this, and I left the affairs of the court to the prime minister and Shangshuge to manage the matter. I said clearly that I was going to the front line for inspection, but in fact, several border counties didn't care about it, and hurriedly led [-] forest troops to Dingxiang.

Floods spread across the counties and the roads were very difficult.At first I still carried the guard of honor, but later I ordered to leave all the guard of honor in a county passing by, and travel lightly.More than two thousand miles, day and night.

Several times I saw that the shore was on the opposite side, but the bridge was washed away and I had to make a detour.There were also times when the main road was covered by rocks, and it was necessary to find a trail.

On the night of the fifth day, Liu Che's camp was in front, and the young elites in the Habayashi Army were exhausted.

Only I feel that I am not far from my destination, and I have changed from worried to energetic.

It was raining heavily, and Zhang Qian came back from exploring the road, saying that the bridge on the river ahead was crumbling.

I said: "I think it can last for a while, I will cross the bridge with you first, and the rest of the people will cross the bridge if they can, and detour if they can't."

Zhang Tang and Li Ling said that the road was dangerous, and the emperor would not sit in the hall and stop it.I stayed on the road for many days, not knowing what was going on with Liu Che. Seeing the bridge was in front of me, I whipped the two of them away and galloped over.They had to risk their lives to keep up.

The river is rushing, and the bridge body seems to be reduced to powder soon. It would be ridiculous if this fate is confessed here.With a heartbeat, I rushed straight to the other side.After only a few feet away, the sound of heaven and earth cracking behind him was heard, and the bridge instantly shattered and was swept away by the water.

Several Habayashi guards who had passed halfway were ups and downs in the water.The army stayed at the other end of the bridge, and I only had two Zhang Yili and thirty or so personal guards by my side.

Li Ling's face was ashen: "Your Majesty, you must not take such a risk next time. Otherwise, I will die and cannot absolve myself of the blame."

Zhang Tang reported to me: "Since the bridge is broken, it may take at least two days for the army to detour here. Should the emperor wait first, or go to the Jiaodong King's camp?"

I leave two personal guards here to command, and the rest continue to move forward.

The rain gradually subsided, and the mountain road was muddy, but the glimmer of the camp could already be seen.Zhang Tang sent troops to inform Liu Che before crossing the bridge.Far away, there are generals and captains who come to greet him.

In front is a requisitioned mansion, brightly lit, guarded by many guards, and the king's flag and the Han flag are intertwined.

The night in early summer was a bit cool. In front of the gate, Liu Che was wearing a black armor and a large cloak. His face was stern and slightly pale. He was waiting with more than a dozen personal guards and generals.He didn't know how long he waited, the black military boots were covered with mud, and the cloak was almost half wet.

The references of the two ranks of sergeants did not reach my ears.

When I was seven or eight feet away from Liu Che, I tightened the bridle of the horse, turned over and got off the horse, splashing a piece of muddy water.Looking at Liu Che, whom I hadn't seen for more than a year, my eyes were slightly hot, and I stepped forward to scold him: "The king of Jiaodong has not recovered from his serious injury, so why come out to greet him in person."

When he came to me, he looked at me deeply without avoiding it, and said in a low voice, "I didn't come here specially to greet me." His voice was a little hoarse.

I held his hand, very cold: "How long have you been standing here?"

Liu Che turned his face away and said in a cold voice: "Not long ago, I just arrived." The look of anticipation in his eyes turned cold.

"Just arrived as soon as you arrive." I smiled, and the two of them entered the gate together.

Liu Che's hand was held by me, and he remained uncomfortably quiet for a moment, as if he was sorting out his thoughts.Walking to the front of the hall, he stopped suddenly.

I turned my head in doubt, and Liu Che looked at me with a cold look in his eyes.

He took a step back and said softly: "Liu Yue, do you really think it was such a coincidence that the bridge broke just as you crossed it?"

A moment of lightning flashed before my eyes.

He said again: "You dare to come here with so many people, are you stupid or confused?"

The surrounding atmosphere changed.

As soon as the hundred crossbowmen inside the gate appeared from the darkness.Thick arrows, layer upon layer, aimed at us.