Lei Yue Longmen

The old lady was lying on the bed, gulping down the porridge handed over by Jiang Hou, "Oh, my old man is so old, and I want my wife to come and feed me personally, I really have a bad conscience!"

Jiang Hou put down his spoon, "We should have brought you along. The bumpy road is certainly not good for your health. But if there was an accident at home and no one took care of it, the result would be even worse. Fortunately, Gu Qing discovered it in time this time, otherwise..." Thinking of it After a while, I was afraid.

"Actually, I'm not afraid of death at all, but I'm afraid that Madam won't be with me in the future."

"What are you talking about!" Hearing footsteps, Jiang Hou put down the porridge bowl, changed into a lotus-colored dark clothes and sat on the head of the bed, called Li Jingchen to him, and said gently: "I heard from Cen Zhu that this Fortunately, you dispatched it in time, otherwise I would not be able to save Qingyuan in time. I really don’t know how to thank you.”

Li Jingchen said respectfully: "This is what juniors should do."

"Well - I made a wish for each of Cen Zhuo and Gu Qing, and I promised to help them fulfill it. I should have a wish for you, but I'm afraid I can't do it, and I can't fulfill your wish, so I promise you to do your best how?"

Li Jingchen was flattered and said: "Jingchen dare not."

Jiang Hou smiled again and said: "It's okay. If you don't think about it now, you can come to me if you think about it in the future. As long as I can do my best, I will definitely do my best."

After finishing speaking, he ordered Xiang Ming: "Go and get a piece of paper."

Xiang Ming took the order to go outside to get a piece of letter paper.Jiang Hou untied a pouch from his waist, hooked the rope with his fingers, and took out an amber jade seal from inside. There was a seal on the bottom of the jade seal. Jiang Hou opened the seal and breathed on the seal.Taking Xiang Ming's back as an example, he carved a red peony seal on the paper.Then hand this blank paper with only the peony seal engraved on it to Li Jingchen.

"It has my private seal on it. If you think of any wish in the future, write it on this piece of paper and pass it to me. No matter what wish, I will do my best."

Li Jingchen took the paper carefully, and seeing that the peony seal at the end was exactly the same as the peony seal he had seen in the palace, he hesitated and said, "Can I make any wish?"

"Correct."

Li Jingchen folded the printing paper and put it in his sleeve.He raised his eyebrows with his hands high, bent his knees, and bowed respectfully to the person in front of the bed, "Jing Chen, thank Empress Tai Ci Ren for giving the peony seal."

Lying on the bed, Jiang Qingyuan looked at Jiang Hou with bright eyes. Although she knew her identity a long time ago, it was after Jiang Hou lived in seclusion.Before this, no one had ever called her Empress Taiciren face to face, only felt that the scene in front of her was very fresh, and felt a certain kind of pride.

Empress Jiang was not surprised by Li Jingchen's sudden behavior, and asked her very calmly, "How do you know my identity?"

Li Jingchen got up and said: "Going back to Empress Taiciren, great-grandfather Li Zuojun consulted the edict of the ancestors and deduced the whereabouts of Empress Taiciren. He also went to Jingyang County to look for Empress Taiciren. But in the end, he couldn't find it. However, he passed on the secret of the Peony Seal to future generations."

"Li Zuojun?" Empress Jiang was a little unfamiliar with the name, and asked, "Is it Chinese or Chinese?"

"In name, it is the first line of Chinese and Han, but in fact it is the first line of Chinese governance." Li Jingchen replied cautiously.

Empress Jiang thought for a while, "Zhongxing Yanzuo is Zhongzhi's great-grandson."

"Yes."

Both Li Zhonghan and Li Zhongzhi are the legitimate sons of the No.17 empress Li Xiuyao and her son-in-law Li Xiuxin when Yurui's blood returned to his ancestors for the second time.Among them, Li Zhonghanbi was made the grandson of the emperor by the previous queen as soon as he was born.

It's a pity that when the two empresses were in power, the court was in chaos, treacherous ministers were in power, and the emperor's veins were on the decline.Li Xiuyue was unable to restore the chaos, and died within a few years of succeeding to the throne.After the crown prince Li Zhonghan succeeded to the throne, the situation became even worse. Not only was the court controlled by treacherous officials, the emperor was like a puppet, and even the inner court was controlled by eunuchs without any autonomy.

In the end, Li Zhonghan was murdered by his second son Li Xingge and the eunuch, and the prince at that time was also murdered.Li Xingge succeeded to the throne after killing his father and brother. Because he took into account the power of the eunuch party, he began to punish and kill eunuchs in the palace, and was finally killed by the eunuchs.

Two generations of emperors died unexpectedly, and the ministers had no choice but to appoint Li Xingtan, the third son of Li Zhonghan, as emperor.Because Li Xingtan was young, he extremely hated the queen arranged by the courtiers, and favored other concubines instead. He was envied by the courtiers and died inexplicably.The treacherous ministers and the eunuchs respectively established four young emperors, who were either deposed or died early.Seeing that all the descendants of Li Zhonghan's line were abolished, the courtiers thought of making Li Zhongzhi's descendants emperor.Li Zhongzhi was also the son of his ancestors. His eldest grandson Li Yanhong was adopted to Li Xingtan as his heir, and the successor emperor was Zhongzong, the father of Qingzong Li Zuojun.

Zhongzong was still the puppet emperor, but he never confronted any forces in the court, and only felt at ease as his puppet.And focus on having children in the harem.In just 13 years of reign, he gave birth to [-] sons and [-] daughters, which is not considered premature.

Qingzong Li Zuojun was his second son, who was born before Zhongzong succeeded to the throne. When he was 15 years old, he was exiled from Beijing for killing someone by mistake and served in the northern Xinjiang.Unexpectedly, this trip would become an opportunity for him to grow up.At that time, the nomadic counties in the north united to rebel in an attempt to restore the Great Hungarian Khanate before the ancestors.Li Zuojun seized the opportunity to lead his army to suppress the rebellion and made great military exploits.When the news came back to the capital, the powerful officials who controlled the government were terrified, and immediately began to suppress Li Zuojun, and vigorously supported Li Taizhong, Zhongzong's puppet grandson.

It's a pity that the other party was too young and ineffective, and Li Zuojun adopted the strategy of being soft and showing weakness, laying down all his military power in northern Xinjiang and returning to Beijing alone.Spending all his wealth and wantonly bribing important officials in the court, suggesting that he would obey orders in the future, he saved his life.

When Zhongzong was critically ill, he suddenly fled from Beijing, returned to northern Xinjiang, waved the flag of righteousness, raised his arms, and called on the guards of the four borders to enter Jingqin King.

Immediately, the crowd responded, and the generals from all directions came to the capital within a month.Li Zuojun led the army to attack Jiankang, and killed all the traitors and eunuchs in the court one by one.Eighty out of ten of the Beijing officials at that time were killed@nine, and Li Zuojun ordered the demolition of the houses and temples of the giant traitor Chang Zhengyong and others, and made nearly a hundred large sedan chairs, and went to all over the country to bring talented people to Beijing to enrich themselves? .At that time, the corpses of the old officials were exposed in the wilderness, and the sedan chairs of the new officials stepped on the corpses to enter Beijing. All kinds of scenes made people's scalp numb and shuddering.

But in any case, after a bloodbath that is still controversial today, Jiankang City was finally reborn in the blood.

Afterwards, Emperor Zhongzong died, and Li Zuojun followed the people's hearts and ascended the throne as emperor.In addition, except for Li Zhonghan and Li Xingtan, all other puppet emperors of Li Zhonghan's line were deposed as emperors, and the emperor's mausoleum was also demolished and buried elsewhere.As a result, Li Zhongzhi was honored as Yanzong and established as Yurui orthodoxy.

But to be established is one thing, to be recognized is another.Although Li Zuodu raised the status of Yanzong and Chengzong, because the two emperors never came to the Great Treasure, the courtiers still acquiesced that Zhongzong was Li Xingtan's heir, otherwise the legitimacy of their line of succession would be lost.It may also cause future generations to follow suit and list them as collateral.It was only in his later years that Li Zuojun understood the taste, and began to vigorously chase after Li Zhonghan and Li Xingtan, and admitted that his lineage was inherited from Li Zhonghan, which is completely legitimate.

In short, this period of history is very complicated, even a little confusing. Although they are descended from Li Zhongzhi's lineage, they are still descendants of Li Zhonghan in name.

It is speculated that as early as the sixth generation of filial ancestors passed away, Empress Tai Ciren stopped interfering in political affairs and returned to Baihualin in Jingyang County to live in seclusion.It is also human nature to be unclear about the emperor behind.

However, from her knowledge of Li Zhonghan and Li Zhongzhi, it can be judged that Qingzong Li Zuojun's speculation that she came out of the mountain again is very likely to be correct.

According to Li Zuojun's speculation, Empress Taiciren once went out to assist Li Jianwen's only daughter in the last years of the No.15 emperor Li Jianwen.It was the later No.16 Empress Li Yiran, also the mother of Li Xiuyao.

It is clearly recorded in Li Jianwen's daily life note that three months before Li Jianwen died of illness, he had lived in Jingyang County for a period of time, and then died on the way back to Beijing.

In the last days of his life, he should have had nothing to ask for when he went to Jingyang County, just to arrange the affairs after his death.The reason why he was in such a hurry was that this ancestor was unlucky. He originally had two sons and a daughter under his knees, but these two sons died one after another just half a year before his death, leaving no heirs.When Li Jianwen was sad, he thought that he could only have a daughter.But her daughter had been raised as a princess before, and she didn't have any foundation in the court. Even if she was established, she would be pulled down by her uncles, uncles, and cousins.Li Jianwen had no choice but to go to Jingyang County to beg Empress Jiang to assist Li Yiran.

It's a pity that Li Yiran was not qualified to be an emperor, even if he was put on the throne, after Empress Tai Ciren left, the court immediately fell into chaos.On the contrary, her daughter Li Xiuyao was very talented, but her life was too short. She had a chance to help the country, but she passed away early.

It is said that Li Xiuyao took his two sons to Piyang County in his early years and stayed there for a long time.Li Jingyu had never paid attention to this matter before, until he learned from Cen Zhuo that Empress Jiang lived in Daman Mountain not far from Piyang County, and went back to read Li Xiuyao's daily life notes in his early years, and got such a piece of information, It is speculated that she most likely went to Piyang County to visit Jianghou.Moreover, from Jiang Hou's demeanor and tone of doting on the younger generation when he mentioned Zhonghan and Zhongzhi, it is not difficult for Li Jing to speculate that Jiang Hou should have seen Li Zhonghan and Li Zhongzhi when they were young, so he has a deep impression on them. impression.

After Li Jingchen left, Jiang Hou looked at her back in a daze for a long time, turned her head and said to Qingyuan: "Yiran is a poor child, I was the one who harmed her back then."

Qingyuan heard about this dusty past from Tangzhu and Chuyang, reached out and grabbed her hand, "It's not Madam's fault, it's everyone's fate, no one can escape If she doesn't become the emperor, maybe the result will be even worse."

Empress Jiang sighed, "No matter what, I should treat her kindly."

Not everyone wants to be emperor, and Li Yiran is one of them.She is cowardly and timid, pure and kind, and being put on the throne is nothing short of trying to push her to the throne. Because her two older brothers are dead and her father has no successor, she is unprepared and put on the throne.

She has never been to the former court, and she dare not even speak loudly to her ministers.She originally had a son-in-law who loved each other very much, but because she suddenly became the empress dowager, her father thought the son-in-law was too low-born to be worthy of her, so he was deposed on trumped-up charges and demoted to the frontier.It is said that the son-in-law soon fell ill and died there.

And she couldn't resist it.

Later, Empress Jiang felt that this matter was very strange. She investigated the cause of the son-in-law's death and found a heart-wrenching news. The reason why the son-in-law was demoted? It may not be that her family background was too low, but that her identity was discovered by the emperor. Poisoned on the way to distribution.

Her real? Identity is actually a woman.Previously, when the emperor had no shortage of heirs, for the sake of the royal reputation, it was possible for this female consort to survive.But once the two sons died, the emperor's only hope of continuing the bloodline fell on the daughter, and the female son-in-law became a blocker, and she had to die.

Her body was not preserved after death, but was reduced to ashes on the spot.In Yurui, the seriousness of destroying bones and ashes is greater than poisoning. The emperor did not need to cover up the latter by destroying bones and ashes, so his destruction of corpses and traces was mostly to cover up the true identity of the consort.

The incident was kept under wraps for years.If it wasn't for an uncle with ulterior motives who accidentally found out that the man serving in the frontier was not the original son-in-law at all, alluding to Li Yiran's disregard of the former emperor's teachings and still breaking ties with the former son-in-law, and took the opportunity to secretly replace him.Li Yiran may be kept in the dark forever.

And the purpose of the emperor's uncle breaking this matter was purely to hurt her, and it was proved afterwards that he did.

When Empress Jiang left Beijing, the little girl who had always been silent said something she would never forget. She said: "May I be a ghost after death, and live forever? World? No longer born in the emperor's house."

At that time, Empress Jiang suddenly understood what the slightly begging eyes she cast on herself were.Perhaps she had briefly pinned her hopes on her, and lost all courage when she learned that her hopes were dashed.She should have noticed, but because of her father, she chose to ignore it time and time again.

The little girl quietly walked through her unhappy and unrecognized life. After giving birth to the emperor's eldest daughter at the age of 21, she completed her so-called task of continuing the bloodline, and began to lead a practice in the harem? Until she passed away at the age of 38, she never spoke to anyone again.

As an emperor, she is unqualified and Yu Rui is thrown into chaos because of her.But as a person, a person who has no power to resist fate, her silence is full of sympathy and pity.

Maybe, if she was able to lend a helping hand in time, the ending would be different.But maybe, she couldn't change anything from beginning to end.

Since then, she has kept in touch with Li Xiuyao. This eldest daughter of the emperor is much braver than her mother, but in Empress Jiang's heart, she will never forget the helpless woman sitting on the glorious throne with tears in her eyes. little girl.Therefore, in this imperial tomb, there is an imperial tomb that she has not dared to set foot in so far.I'm afraid that as soon as I step there, I can't help crying.May she be born in the emperor's family forever?

The author has something to say:

Zhongzong Li Xingyao changed his name to Li Xinghuang.It’s true that IQ is not online recently, and I see light as fire, and I still can’t read the comments.