Self-cultivation of male support

The old Duke's explanation really caught everyone's mind, and even made the entire court collectively speechless for a time.

He is 20 years older than Zong Chixian. He is 85 years old this year. Even though he still has a heart to walk the world with a sword, his body is not as strong every year. Happy to be kind and enmity.

Such a long-lived old man, and because of his special status, is considered the most precious living treasure of the royal family today.

Therefore, no one can ignore his 90th birthday. The emperor personally wrote a letter to ask the old man who would beat his ass when he didn't agree with him when he was a child, and asked someone to prepare a birthday banquet for the old man in the imperial palace of the capital. , I want to make the old man happy.

Today's imperial palace, each palace and each hall finally has the atmosphere that a heavenly family should have. It is not as empty as when Emperor Taiping and Emperor Huaiwu were in power. There is a banquet, and the hostess will come forward to take care of it, so there is no need for the Ministry of Rites to bite the bullet and make decisions , It really moved the veterans who have gone through the three dynasties to tears.

On the right day, the whole family was talking in Zong Chixian's palace outside the palace. The emperor took his wife and children out of the palace to give Shi Yan to his father.

Shi Yan made it clear on behalf of several people: "Our family will speak here, and your grandfather and I will not enter the palace. The palace is for outsiders to see.

First of all, we have been used to freedom in the past few years, and we are impatient with those rules. Besides, we are all old, and it is tiring to toss back and forth.

Secondly, the two of us went, and there were two big mountains on your head in an instant, and no one felt comfortable.You can just pick your great-grandfather to go to the lively scene. "

Shi Yan's meaning is already very euphemistic. Since ancient times, who lived in the palace with three emperors at the same time?

Not to mention three, even two, they can fight in minutes.

The three emperors appeared at the same time, if the three of them were of one mind, it would be fine, but if the three of them tore each other down, how chaotic would the scene be?One sentence per person, who should the officials listen to?

Do not listen?

If you don't listen, the person sitting above can't immediately give you a promotion and title, and can't you wear shoes?No matter how bad it is, in the name of your contempt for the emperor's grace, people will pull you out to play a few boards to vent your anger, right?

Therefore, Shi Yan and Zong Chixian did not intend to go to the palace to join in the fun on this day.

The old duke didn't stop him either. He was able to hold a birthday banquet in the palace entirely because, although his son, grandson, and great-grandson were all emperors, he himself was just a duke, and he didn't have the above worries. Wait for a lucky person.

But no one expected that this well-known and blessed birthday man, while the wine was hot, a thunder blasted on the top of everyone's heads, making people feel like the thunder was rolling, and the people's scalps were numb, dizzy, and their brains were blurred. blank.

"Today, while everyone is here, I have something I want to talk to you about. This matter has been in my heart for more than ten years. I always think that our old Xie family should thank the father and son for their kindness and kindness."

The old man's words attracted everyone's attention, making people feel tense to breathe. He was still playing with the wine glass in his hand, and he was very leisurely, as if he was chatting with someone.

"It's a long story. It starts from the last years of Emperor Min'an. Maybe many people here don't know that period of history. Emperor Min'an died in his later years because of the punishment of God. The capital was once in chaos. Yue, that is, Emperor Taiping brought people into the palace, was ordered in danger, and took over the throne from Emperor Min'an.

Is that what they said to the outside world? "

The old man looked at the restless ministers in the court, poured himself a glass of wine and drank it slowly, regardless of the faces of the people, and continued: "You all said that the king's life is good, and my son will take the throne from the king who is not up to date. The cousin took it from his hand and sat still. The king's grandsons and great-grandsons are all emperors.

But today, this king wants to tell you that they are all wrong.

It is true to say that Emperor Min An was punished by heaven, because he did a lot of things that hurt nature and reason in his early years. How can there be real immortality and eternal beauty in this world?If you think about it with your brain, you will know that you have lost your heart!

Ben Wang has been secretly observing for more than ten years, and none of the children he gave birth to was angry.In that situation, he was about to die, and he didn't want to establish a crown prince. After his death, he wanted to be buried with him for the whole of Da Zhou. "

The following ministers were all bitter, and they didn't understand why they had to listen to such a terrible royal secret when they were happy to attend a birthday banquet?

The singing and dancing in the hall stopped at some point, and all the ministers knelt down on the ground in unison, only the voice of the old Duke was left in the whole hall.

"Heh, since you don't set up a crown prince and want to make Great Zhou mess up, then I don't have any scruples, this king personally chose an emperor for Great Zhou!

You must be thinking right now, this king chose his own son to be the emperor because of selfish motives, right?

There is indeed selfishness, but Emperor Taiping is not the son of this king. "

All the ministers kneeling on the ground ignored the rules and etiquette and raised their heads in shock to look at the legendary old man above.

"Even, his surname is not Xie, not my Xie family. His name is Zong Chixian, the number one master in the Jianghu decades ago, Zong Chixian, the master of Zhejian Villa, the year-end friend I met when I was young when I was wandering in the Jianghu. On the occasion of the meeting, under the guise of the identity of the prince's son, he was recuperating in my residence.

Prince Chaoyan, that is, your Emperor Huaiwu, is Zong Chixian's biological son, Zong Shiyan. "

The old Duke didn't care about the turbulent waves in the hearts of the courtiers below, and he didn't care about the big drops of sweat dripping from the forehead of the emperor kneeling aside.

After drinking a glass, he pointed to the head below and said, "Never thought of that, one civil and one military emperor, it wasn't our Xie family who pushed my Da Zhou into the limelight of this prosperous age.

Well, but you don’t need to be babbling, this king is so forgetful, if his father and son didn’t owe me favors, they wouldn’t be in the mood to take care of this mess of our royal family. If they have the ability, they can live anywhere The ease and ease!

No, this king's great-grandson is happy, the real Xie family, don't look at what you want to do with your happy status, it's useless, the original thing was done by the king himself, and I can't find out. "

Pleased, your name is Xie Chengxian, His Majesty is also here today.

I don't know who suddenly let out a breath of relief. The movement was a bit loud, which caught the attention of the old man. The old man supported his great-grandson's shoulders and slowly stood up. The young official said: "Have you written it all down?"

The young official didn't speak, but raised his head. After silently bowing to the old man, he sat back to his original position and wrote a pen at his desk. It is difficult for ordinary people to find his existence if they don't look for it deliberately.

It is the official historian.

The voice of the old Duke continued to resound in the hall, and also hit everyone's hearts heavily: "I owe this king a life-saving favor, so the father and son have repaid the favor of this king.

But people don't owe you anything, and they don't owe anyone in this world!On the contrary, my old Xie family owes them!

Once in the world, if you do good deeds, you don't need to let others live in other people's names. "

The old man's voice suddenly sank: "This king is already at this age, if I don't say anything, I don't know if there is still a chance. That's it, if there is any problem, I will go back and explain to my ancestors personally... I want to come , They should thank my unworthy descendants, ha!"

I don't know when the old Duke left the hall. When the emperor wiped off the cold sweat and was helped up by the trembling eunuch, he waved weakly and let the ministers of the court disperse: "Block the news!" , If there is even a hint of leakage, huh! Come back.

I'll talk about it tomorrow when I go to court. "

That night, I don't know how many people in the whole capital couldn't sleep, their minds were turning a thousand times, thinking over and over again, tossing and turning, and they couldn't make up their minds until dawn.

But Shi Yan's palace was extremely quiet, the three generations of father and son acted as if nothing had happened, what should they do, just like the old man who really just entered the palace to attend a birthday banquet, and returned home in the middle of the night exhausted. As if asleep.

In fact, Shi Yan and Zong Chixian immediately knew what the old Duke had done in the palace. To be honest, the old man took care of everything for them. He was really moved.

But the two said before that they don't care about these things, which is also true.

But the two of them don't care, and others really can't care less.

People who are well-informed have already smelled a few traces of something different from the unusual atmosphere last night, but they tried their best to inquire, but found nothing, and only said that everything was as usual.

This makes people more sure that something extraordinary must have happened last night.

In the early morning, the emperor and his ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, speechless, with huge dark circles under their eyes, in complicated moods.

In the end, the emperor set a tone for the early court: "Father, Emperor Huaiwu, and grandfather, Emperor Taiping, entered my royal family tree and will enter my royal ancestral temple in the future to make great contributions to our royal family and the world.

My father fought all over the world, settled the chaos in the rivers and lakes, brought eight thousand black cavalry to level the four countries, swept Kyushu, and made all nations submit.

My grandfather has been in power for 30 years. He corrected the shortcomings of the previous dynasty, re-established the law, made the people recuperate, prospered and prospered, and brought congratulations from all over the world.

My royal family should really give an explanation to my father and grandfather, even if their surname is not Xie, so what?Having done something that many descendants of the Xie family could not accomplish, I, the descendants of the Xie family, can only be ashamed and grateful! "

The emperor's intentions were obvious. He didn't intend to pursue this matter. He felt that his father, his grandfather, was his own father, his own grandfather. He hoped that others would follow his wishes and stop talking nonsense.

In short, everyone was at fault in this matter, the Heavenly Punishment Emperor Min An was at fault, the unsatisfactory prince's clan was at fault, the old Duke who was arrogant was at fault, it was the clan's father and son.

What else?

Is the Zong family father and son wrong?If there is a mistake, it must be corrected. How to correct it?Naturally, mistakes are eliminated.

How to eliminate?

Send troops to attack?Don't be kidding, who else in the world is the opponent of the black cavalry?To fight them, who has the courage, who has the ability?

Erase the traces of their existence in the history books?Don't be ridiculous, the idler's pavilion, the Shengshi list, is not a simple pheasant list. After five years of development, it has been recognized by the surrounding countries. At the beginning of each month, who doesn't care about the change of the Shengshi list?

This kind of organization is already unclear, and the leaders are still two guys who have been emperors. Who is sure that they can kill each other?

I dare not say such big words.

From the perspective of interests alone, these two must be in the same camp as them, and they must be pure and flawless. Others can make mistakes, but these two cannot be wrong.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain to the world.

Instead, he directly and generously admitted that in front of the world and in the history books, he can also gain a good reputation for being gentle and tolerant.

From the emotional point of view, there is no reason to object to these two. Working under these two men is really the best use of my talents.

If the ministers had the opportunity to be famous in history books in this life, it would be the few major things they did under these two men.

It was originally a major event that could shock the government and the public and shock the whole world, but with the tacit cooperation of the emperor and courtiers, it was handled with care, and the past passed silently.

When the news spread to the people, it was not as complicated as the royal family and people in the court thought.

The minds of the common people are more simple. Whoever makes their families have surplus food, avoids wars, eats and wears clothes, allows children to study, businessmen to know the world, and lives in peace and happiness, whoever is the Bodhisattva master who saves the suffering.

You said that the bodhisattva who did this was not surnamed Xie?

It doesn't matter, as long as we live a good life, even if he wants to change his surname to a bastard, we don't care about it!

Besides, we ordinary people don't even know what the emperor's surname is now, okay?Don't say what the emperor's surname is, even the magistrate's name is not something we should care about!At most, it would be nice to know what Li Zheng's surname is!

You talk about inheritance, etiquette, monarch and minister, father and son, ethics, and thieves?I'm sorry, I don't understand, and I don't want to understand.

Anyway, we only recognize Emperor Taiping and Emperor Huaiwu. There is no more reassuring emperor than these two emperors!

On the contrary, the folks were the fastest to accept the news, and even opera legends began to be sung very soon.

It's about "sacrificing one's life to enter the palace to repay kindness, and working hard to rule the world for thirty years".

It's about "returning to the rivers and lakes after success, and being on the list of prosperity in the idler's pavilion".

What's more, "the two generations of emperors took the Zen position early, and their hearts were full of leisure travel in the world".

The two are called "folk emperors" at the moment, which means to go from the people and finally come to the people. Because they know what the people need best, they try to do what they can when they are in power.

He did something that made the people grateful, and won unprecedented support from the people. Even in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, these two were the most shining and inescapable two pearls. Mention the life achievements of these two men.

I won't say much about what I did in the dynasty, the history books have their own records.

There is no lack of tossing and tossing in the field, and the things that Xianren Pavilion does are not idle at all, even very busy.

Including the appearance of the list of wealthy businessmen and local officials later, as well as the personal annals and memoirs published for these people's success, all opened another door to success for many people.

Before opening this door, Xianren Pavilion first unlocked another wealth code.

If you want to spread the Prosperity List to the world as quickly as possible, you must have your own unique, safe, efficient, and convenient method. Shi Yan chose express delivery for this method.

Therefore, in addition to the official post stations in Dazhou, many express stations have appeared successively between prefectures, counties, and even towns.

These sites have quickly occupied the private market in an efficient, fast and cheap way, leaving the official station only for the purpose of delivering official news.

Later, there were several occasions when news from private post stations reached the parties before the official orders, which made sufficient preparations for the parties and caused considerable losses.As a result, the officials had to seize the time to reform the delivery method of the post station.

Later, when there was a severe drought in the south, the imperial court’s disaster relief food was directly entrusted to idlers for help in transshipment. The loss was small, the time was fast, and the efficiency was high. The official organization delivered food by hand in too much time.

Everyone knows that Xianren Express is the industry of Xianren Pavilion, and the reputation of Xianren Pavilion among the people is really nothing to say. As soon as this incident happened, the storytellers in the market had a new topic.

As the saying goes, "the idler expresses thousands of miles to transport food, and the folk emperor has the people in his heart!"

Those big figures in the court are often surprised, thinking that these two retired emperors who are getting older and more able to toss have the idea of ​​returning to the court and showing their glory!I was so scared that my heart trembled.

Yao Shiyan said, there are really not so many things, people tend to scare themselves if they think too much.The reason is not as complicated as rumored.

The appearance of express delivery was simply because one day at noon, his father sighed in front of the table full of dishes: "This season, the first batch of ampolo fruits should enter the palace, right?"

Anboluo fruit is mango, one of the few things Zongchixian likes in the palace.

Shi Yan then said: "Father, the food in the palace is half-cooked picked by the locals, and it was rushed all the way back to the capital, and it took more than ten days to get to the palace. It's not very interesting.

How about my son build a road for you so that you can eat the freshest fruits from all over the world in the shortest time? "

I don't know how the father and son thought, one dared to think, the other dared to do it, and started directly, and established the fastest idler express in the world today.

Who would have thought that the original intention was just to eat a bite of fresh fruit?

Until one day, the latest news was delivered by special line express. At that time, the father and son were watching the sunset in the desert. After Shi Yan read the news, he watched the sun slowly set from the horizon, rendering the surroundings into darkness.

Someone behind him lit a torch, illuminating the surroundings again.

Only then did Shi Yan say: "Father, I just heard the news that my mother has gone."

Zong Chixian's voice was very steady: "Why not?"

"I scratched Cheng Yuhua's face the day before yesterday. I was happy at night. I drank a few more glasses and went away smiling in my dream."

"Let someone send the ashes back to Snow Wind City. Where did they come from, where do they go? There is a beginning and an end. If you can't be a lonely ghost, this is the last thing we father and son will do for her."

"Ah."

Ever since the identities of the two were revealed to the world, the Ding family in Fengxue City guessed the reason why Shi Yan did not marry a wife and have children for many years, they were very guilty, and often worried that Shi Yan would turn his anger on them and would not refuse his small request.

The two left the desert with their people, and received a message from the emperor from the capital. The emperor was still old-fashioned.

This time the emperor said: "Father, the last time you asked me to make the royal heir guarantee process, I let someone do it. When you have time, come back and have a look. If you see it works, the son will let the clan mansion, The Ministry of Rites started preparations.

Since your great-grandfather passed away, you have become more and more ruthless to me. I doubt if you were telling the truth when you said you loved your son the most. Every time you dream about it in the middle of the night, remembering the things when you were a child, and comparing it with the current situation, it makes your son feel sad! "

Speaking of the process of ensuring heirs, the roots are still in Zong Chixian and Shi Yan, two people who are not from the Xie family have been emperors for decades, and no one has found out.

It even works surprisingly well.

This is a hidden crisis. If there is one, there are two. If there is Zong Chixian today, who can guarantee that no one will follow suit tomorrow, and come to Liu Chixian?

If everyone is so daring to think and act like this, sooner or later the court will be messed up, so the introduction of a set of strict and harsh methods for identifying the identity of the children of the royal family is indispensable.

Everyone knows that the royal family needs this thing, but no one dares to mention it, why?Because Emperor Taiping and Emperor Huaiwu are still alive, who are you alluding to by mentioning this matter in front of these two people?

Therefore, it can only be proposed by Shi Yan and let the emperor start preparations.

When Shi Yan walked back to the palace in the capital, the emperor told Shi Yan with a face of embarrassment: "Actually, Dad, that's it, my son has something here, and I didn't dare to tell you in the letter. Having said that, if you are still angry, you can beat your son to vent your anger, but don't get angry."

Then Shi Yan heard his son say cautiously: "Then what, do you still remember Zong Shixiang, the widow of Master Xie Chaozhou back then?

It was the one who gave birth to twins, sent one to Xie Chaoshu, and sent it back. "

Shi Yan is impatient, the male lead has been gone for many years, and he hasn't paid attention to the female lead's news for many years: "Say something quickly."

"Master Xie left, and Mrs. Xie took her two children to live with her parents and younger brother, but Mrs. Xie's younger brother, for some reason, turned out to be crazy. He often lost his temper at home, threw things, and was very destructive. Everyone is trembling.

Later, the couple found Zong Shiyin a wife from nowhere, and the two gave birth to a child, and the family lived in stumbles.

No, since your identity was exposed, the status of the clan family members in the capital has become special. It is not a trivial matter, and it can only be offered as an ancestor.

Who knows, three years ago, that couple secretly used you and grandfather's name to set up an emperor's temple among the people, and just to raise money, it was worth 60 yuan a year..."

The emperor was really scared when he said this. In the capital, at the foot of the emperor, let the couple do this kind of thing without telling him. Let his father really know how to beat him when he was young.

Unexpectedly, his father only said one sentence after hearing the words: "Let's do it."

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly: "How can it be done?"

"Well, there is no way."

The emperor wanted to say, that is one of the few relatives you and your grandfather have in this world, so he heard his father say, "Don't you still have Zong Shixiang?"

In the end, Zong Shixiang became the only family member of him and his father in the world, this matter is really unreal.

Zong Shixiang is now a grandmother, and when he learned of Shi Yan's decision, facing his parents' resentment and cursing, he only said lightly: "It's all retribution."

It was her retribution, it was her younger brother Shi Yin's retribution, and it was also her parents' retribution.Thanks to Xie Chaozhou, he passed away early, but he was relieved, leaving himself behind in this world and dragging his whole family to suffer.

Zong Chixian can't understand whether others have suffered or not, he just feels satisfied.

At that time, there were willows on the side of the pond in the palace in the evening, and the sun was slanting to the west. I leaned on the recliner and felt the breeze blowing on my face. I held my son's hand and chatted with my son like every leisurely evening.

It's just that today's content is a little different: "A Yan, tell me, have our father and son made money in this life?"

In fact, what he wanted to say was not this, Shi Yan understood, so he told him with a smile: "What's the point of judging after death when you are responsible for the affairs of the past?" (1)

"What's the point of judging after you take charge of the affairs of your life? That's good, that's good, it's what my son can say!"

"Ah."

The atmosphere between the two fell into silence again. For some reason, looking at the sunset this time, I felt that the Huoshaoyun next to it was a little sad for no reason.

When it was time for the two of them to go back to the room to rest, Shi Yan slowly got up, and carefully placed the hand that had started to become stiff on his chest.

Bending down to pick up the breathless person, he softly said to the people in the dark: "Report the funeral to the outside world."

"Yes."

"Just say, my father and I are leaving together."

The person in the dark was stunned for a moment, then his voice choked up: "Yes."

In March of the 30th year of Jinggao, Emperor Taiping and Emperor Huaiwu died successively in the palace in the suburbs of Beijing. The whole country mourned. , Tears wet the skirt.

The idler's pavilion prosperity list officially stopped updating, idler's express delivery stopped running for three months, and the express delivery piled up into mountains.The rumored mysterious black cavalry has not been heard from since then.

For the next 300 years, whenever the Zhou Dynasty was in danger of subjugation, there was a mysterious power to save the building when it was about to collapse.

Of course, Shi Yan was not clear about these things, he just looked at the system in front of him that had been crazily criticized in the exam, and secretly thought about the possibility of abandoning it to be beautiful alone.