Rong Xuan

In the middle of March in the eighth year of Jingchu, the spring is bright and everything is prosperous, and the grass in Chang'an City grows and warblers fly.

Cao Ke, the Duke of Yipin Fuguo, the chief minister of the cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the Fifty States of the Western Territory, rebelled.

General Sima Xiu, commanded by the northern border army, was ordered by King Qin to lead an army from the border of the town to the territory of Chaoguo. Sima and Cao's two armies met in Yingchuan. General Sima Dezu failed to persuade him to surrender. The border army finally wiped out [-] Cao's troops in Fengyeling, Yingchuan.

The Chang'an Imperial Palace was occupied by Cao Ke's troops, and the kings from all over the country raised troops to serve the king, preparing to gather in Chang'an. Cao Ke lost [-] foreign aid from Cao's army, and even though he besieged the imperial city, Chang'an was besieged by beasts.

General Sima Dezu led [-] mighty generals from the frontier army, marching all the way southward, approaching the imperial capital, the imperial city, where Cao Kebing was defeated and died.

The big case of treason involves a lot of people - according to the investigation, Cao Ke, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, used the reason that today's relatives and villains are far away from virtuous ministers, secretly colluding with King Shuo, King Xiang, King Shanyin, King Shanyang, etc. The seven sons of the ancestors, the lords of the frontiers, wanted to replace the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and made the prince Zhao Zhuanjing the emperor.

The evidence is undeniable and unquestionable. Those eight princes who were left behind by the Tai/ancestor were attacked by the Northern Army and the Eastern Army for the crime of treason. The prince of Chang'an was arrested and brought to justice.

The clan's mansion filed a case for investigation, and the Eight Kings were stripped of their titles and demoted to common people, and imprisoned in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Tai/Zu for life.

Then, the imperial court formally abolished the system of enfeoffing vassal kings that threatened centralization, and re-established the relevant Chao Law. So far, the imperial power belongs to the upper hand, and the soldiers are controlled by the Tian family.

After the end of the rebellion, the emperor reorganized the court, worshiped Xun Run as the chief assistant of the cabinet, and worshiped Sima Xiu and Zhang Chao as the generals of the northern and eastern borders. The peaceful and prosperous age of the first rule.

After Cao Gongke's death, Yipin Fuguo's mansion was razed by fire, the wife of the Duke was buried in the sea of ​​fire, the wife of the son committed suicide by the sword, and the whole Cao family was beheaded.

It has been many years since the Cao family's treason case. After many years, the bloody storm that once covered the sky has been banned by Chang'an's singing and dancing. How many beheading knives were cut into the heads of the people.

In the treason case that year, only two women survived the Cao family—one was Cao Baojuan, the empress of Chao who was in charge of Fengyin, and the other was Cao Yuanrong, the wife of the newly promoted young marshal of the Northern Frontier Army. .

Cao Ke's rebellion shook the foundation of the Chao Kingdom, and the Tian family was furious. Although they did not abolish the queen to vent their anger, they have also neglected the middle palace since then. Even the prince of the East Palace, who has always been favored by the emperor, can not help but become trembling.

However, Cao Hui, the wife of the Marquis of Jingling, was decreed to deprive her of her imperial order, and was ordered to go to Luoxia Temple in Wan'an Temple to lead her practice.

One went for several spring and autumn.

Only the people in Wan'an Temple stood under the high temple wall and looked out, and the people in Chang'an City looked at Hezhou from a distance in Jinglinghou's mansion—after that year, His Majesty ordered that Jinglinghou Sima Xuan avoided suspecting the Cao family, so he was not allowed to leave Chang'an without reason.

Sima Xuan never gave up, whether it was after he was trapped in Chang'an in the ninth year of Jingchu, or before he was trapped in Chang'an in the eighth year of Jingchu:

The Autumn Harvest War ended in the eighth year of Jingchu. At that time, Sima Xuan, the young commander of the Northern Frontier Army, took advantage of the victory and pursued him. He led his army to the north, intending to attack the king's court of the Xiongnu directly, and exchange his wife Cao's return with the great achievements of the Lord.

The protection of her ancestors made her Sima Xuan a god-blessed general—on the way to chase the Xiongnu, she ran into the leader of the Northern Barbarians and the Da Shanyu of the Mentu tribe of the Xiongnu in Yanping Mountain!

One hundred thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry came from the Dachao Empire, the kingdom of the mainland of Kyushu. They rode excellent war horses and dragged sharp knives. 11 soldiers met the enemy in front of the battle.

The two sides fought fiercely for two days, and the right-wing infantry rushing to the aid of Sima Xuan blocked the reserve army brought by the northern barbarian king at the mouth of the gourd. , led the remaining [-] troops, and fought a decisive battle with Sima Xuan, the young marshal of Chao State's northern border army, in the land of Kule, Xingdu.

In this battle, the countries in the mainland of Kyushu paid attention to it. The Empress of Jin, the Crown Prince of Tang, and the Regent of Xiliang all sent letters to their borders, asking them to keep the country informed.

The battle of Xingdu Kule lasted for two days and two nights. The chief general Sima Xuan had the sword in front of the battle. Seeing that the victory was imminent, she herself was shot in the chest by Zhang You, the son of Zhang Chao, the king of Zhenhai who was ordered to come here, and she almost survived.

At the right time, the Beiman Kingdom was in a fierce battle with Xiliang on the other side, and it was the time when the whole country was exhausted. If Chao Guo won this battle, Sima Xuan might directly change his original goal of attacking the Xiongnu and lead his troops instead. After destroying the royal court of the Beiman Kingdom, all the territory of the Beiman Kingdom was merged into Chao Kingdom's geomancy map.

If this is the case, then Chao State, Xiliang State, Jin State and other countries that have land borders with the Northern Huns will no longer have to worry about borders!

However, with the scheming of Zhao Yujing, the emperor of Chao Kingdom, it is absolutely impossible for him to make Sima Xuan the winner.

After receiving the news of the outcome of that battle, the Empress of Jin State spoke three times in the court hall, only to feel extremely sorry for the famous young general Sima Yuanchu.

However, Sima Xuan at that time was already red-eyed. Even though she was stabbed with an arrow in the chest, she didn't die. Taking advantage of Zhang He's Western Region Army and the reinforcements of the Northern Huns to restrain each other, her heart was bloodthirsty. Being ruthless, he directly ordered the deputy general Yin Hanning to lead his own army to strangle Zhang or the marching command tent.

On that side, Zhang He also brought the troops here by order of the emperor and his father. If he failed to contain Sima Xuan's northern cavalry, he would have killed the young deputy commander.

By mistake, the seriously injured Sima Xuan was killed first by Zhang Or, who secretly brought someone over.

Zhang or left the two armies behind, and was chased by Sima Xuan's personal guards all the way, so he had to take Sima Xuan to hide in a small town that specially provided beacon towers on the border.

The emperor wanted to know the reason why Sima Xuan pursued the Huns endlessly this time. Sima Xuan said that it was naturally for the return of the beauty.

However, the answer the emperor wanted was not this, nor was the answer Zhang Chao wanted, the King of Zhenhai. All of this was attributed to Sima Xuan, who had already tortured Sima Xuan who was already seriously injured.

However, the young commander of the Northern Frontier Army is really tough.

Sima Xuan always knew Zhang He's thoughts on Cao Hui these years, so he irritated Zhang He with the utmost sarcasm. Zhang Or got angry, picked up the long bench at hand, and patted Sima Xuan's head from the side.

Sima Xuan was deaf in his left ear.

Sima Xuan, whose head was covered in blood, knew that she had succeeded. Before she could no longer hold on, before Liu Sheng led soldiers to rescue her, she imitated the behavior of those soldiers and ruffians in the Northern Frontier Army, and she was very angry. The same Zhang or talking about Cao Hui's taste is so wonderful.

Zhang or locked her in a sealed cellar, he had someone smoke her with wolf smoke, which damaged her nose, he had someone tie her to a post, and pour salt water on the wounds all over her body— After all, Zhang Or was enraged by Sima Xuan, and he brought aphasia medicine for Sima Xuan to pour down.

The herbal medicine was thick and bitter, so he poured it into Sima Xuan's mouth a little bit. Zhang He, who came to pour the medicine himself, finally discovered the secret that was enough to make the whole family of Sima be murdered—Jinglinghou Sima Xuan was actually a woman. !

Fortunately, Sima Xuan procrastinated like this until Liu Sheng led the troops to arrive and rescued her.

And Sima Xuan's fear of taking decoction was left over from that time.

As the marshal of an army, Sima Xiu couldn't leave Duyueguan City even though he was worried about his son's safety.

He hastily sent his confidant deputy general He Tong to lead his own army to help, but when He Tong rushed over without stopping, Sima Xuan had already beheaded Zhang He, and took advantage of the chaos to blame Beiman.

——Sima Xuan did not leak the matter of framing. After many years, until Sima Xuan hid in the dark and stirred up the wind and rain with his ruthlessness, she suddenly realized that she was not forced to become a conspirator , but this kind of thing exists in her bones.

Is she really as open and bright as the world says?No, no, she is a leader of the army. If she doesn't have some scheming, how can she lead the army on the battlefield?

The war with the Xiongnu and northern barbarians has not yet subsided. The emperor in Chang'an issued five Jintai decrees in succession, ordering Sima Xuan to return to Beijing to report on his duties. He also broke into the Datong Harmony Hall with a Wuhen knife.

There are so many things that people can't do anything about.

So what if she was forced to have nowhere to go?So what if she pressed the [-] northern cavalry to death?Even if she stained Datong Harmony Hall with blood, so what?

——After all, she still failed to rescue Cao Hui after all, no...

Sima Xuan, who returned to Chang'an, was like a tiger leaving the mountain, and a falcon broke its wings. She took a job as the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment.

Sima Xuan was trapped in Chang'an. From then on, the incense lamp was half rolled up in the tassel tent, and he saw his old friend in his dream in the middle of the night.

But she still persisted, and never gave up trying to save Cao Hui back one day.

The prince always wanted to kill his cousin Cao Hui. The queen didn't know about it, and the emperor stood by. Hezhou was too far away from Chang'an and the northern border. Yu, almost sent all the death guards left by her father to protect her to Cao Hui's side.

She blocked the prince/party's assassination wave after wave for her, and even she did not hesitate to show her position and chose to oppose her father-she helped Hezhou a few years ago when the prince was trying to take the world's rich businessmen as his wings The head of the Shen family, Shen Quji.

She negotiated terms with Shen Quji, she helped the other party solve the Chang'an matter, and when the other party returned to Hezhou, he helped her protect Cao Hui's safety.

Shen Quji did indeed do what she had personally promised her—and, the fire at Wan'an Temple was the result of her discussing with Shen Quji, who wanted to use the crown prince's hand to replace Cao Hui.

Of course, she and Shen Quji didn't start the fire, it was the result of the prince's ruthless murder to silence her.

Acting requires a complete set. With His Majesty's eyes and ears, he naturally knew that Sima Xuan rescued Cao Hui from the fire and brought him back to Chang'an, so Sima Xuan chose to take the initiative to enter the palace to face the saint.

It was the middle of winter in the 14th year of Jingchu, and that year, she got to know King Jing'an Zhao Qingyuan, and chose to stand on the same front with him, fighting a conspiracy to change the world, and quietly followed Jingchu's 14th year. The heavy snow in the midwinter of the year has buried every corner of Chang'an City...

But she is young after all, if she is not careful, Datong and the deep-hearted king of a country in the palace will hold her weakness in their hands.

His Majesty the Emperor summoned Cao Hui and expressed his concern and guilt for Cao Hui as his uncle.

Sima Xuan still remembers what the emperor said to Cao Hui at that time——

"It's really helpless for me to demote you to Wan'an Temple in Hezhou to suffer and suffer. Cao's crime is serious, and your husband's family is the Sima family who stands in the northern sky of Chao State. You can't be blamed. Your status as a husband-in-law protects you. Life, but the ministers of civil and military affairs in the imperial court, and the Twelve Laws engraved on the nine-square cauldron on the Huangji Terrace, do not allow you to live in Chang'an safely. In order to save your life, I have no choice but to send you to the river. Zhou, Yuanrong, my uncle's heart is also very bitter, I hope you can understand me..."

On that day, Sima Xuan was sent by the emperor to greet the empress Cao, who had been ill for a long time, while Cao Hui was left by the Tian family in the side hall of Tonghe Hall to talk for a long time.

To this day, until Cao Hui confessed everything to himself, Sima Xuan did not know what His Majesty the Emperor had said to Cao Hui in Datong and the palace during the summoning at the end of the 14th year of Jingchu.

His Majesty the Emperor knew that Cao Hui did not want to drag Sima Xuan down, so he threatened Sima Xuan's life and made a gentleman's agreement with Cao Hui——

Cao Hui promised Emperor Zhao Yujing to remarry Jingling Marquis Sima Xuan as his wife as a girl from the Xun family, and then won Sima Xuan's heart, instigated Sima Xuan to suppress Qingxu Princess Zhao, and regain the throne of Qingxu's heir, and then instigated The relationship between Sima Xuan and his father, Sima Xiu, is best to help Sima Xuan get the commander-in-chief of the Northern Border Army, and ensure that Sima Xuan will be loyal to the Prince of the East Palace in the future and be loyal.

So far, the crown prince's road has been paved, and His Majesty the Emperor promised Cao Hui that if things come to fruition, he will order a thorough investigation of the Cao family's treason case in the name of the king of the country before calling for the throne of Zen, and return the entire Cao family. One is innocent, and the thirty thousand sons of the Cao family army are innocent.

But His Majesty the Emperor overlooked one thing, or he made a wrong bet——Cao Hui's heart.

"Then it seems that the Tian family had wanted to attack Yuanzhi a long time ago," Sima Xuan pulled Cao Hui out of the Ningyue Pavilion in the backyard. She walked to the west courtyard while talking to Cao Hui in a low voice:

"However, if you think about it, you can understand that person's actions. Yuanzhi's mother is the daughter of King Sinshuo. Because she was raised under the empress dowager's knees since she was a child, she survived the disaster back then. Zhao's luck was good, and she returned the yin and yang. She married my father by mistake, not only did she give birth to Yuanzhi, but she also won the title of Qingxu Heir King for Yuanzhi, and preserved her future glory and wealth."

"That's not true." Cao Hui held Sima Xuan's arm, and deliberately walked at the same frequency as Sima Xuan: "Now that the child Yuanzhi can come out safely, it is thanks to your 'brother'."

"Brother..." Sima Xuan repeated these two words in a low voice, and his mood suddenly became a little low.

These two words also hit Cao Hui's mind, she didn't say anything, but went back to the bedroom with Sima Xuan all the way.

After washing, Sima Xuan sat on the low couch and waited for Cao Hui to climb onto the bed first, then she blew on the lamps in the room one by one, leaving only one lamp at the head of the bed, which illuminated a faint light in front of the bed.

Lying on the bed, Sima Xuan felt that her brain was being torn apart vigorously in opposite directions by a pair of invisible hands—half of them rose and half fell, half climbed to the clouds and half fell into the quagmire, while she herself was alive and well. It was really uncomfortable to be caught in the middle.

I don't know if it was in response to Sima Xuan's joke in Ningyue Pavilion, Cao Hui lay down for a long time without falling asleep, so she simply leaned towards Sima Xuan who was lying beside the bed.

She lay on her side, silently resting her forehead on Sima Xuan's shoulder, the faint candlelight shone in through the bed curtain, making her petite face frosted by the shadows of the night.

Sima Xuan lay down and did not dare to move.

From yesterday to today, it's only a few hours, but she has a sudden feeling that the vicissitudes of life are just a moment away. In seven or eight years, no matter how difficult or tiring she was, she walked all the way without saying a word However, when she finally got what she wanted in her heart, she was a little scared.

The acceptance from Cao Hui came a bit suddenly, and Sima Xuan was so happy in her heart that she always felt that it was unreal, and she was even more afraid that she would lose control of her behavior and act recklessly out of line. Cao Hui was not happy for nothing.

It was an expedient measure for her to ask Cao Hui to pretend to be sick. She was afraid that Cao Hui's acceptance of her was actually an expedient measure for Cao Hui, or it was a kind of "go all out"—Cao Hui might have known her plan secretly, so she chose to accept it. She, so that her persistence over the years can have a result before all the dust settles, so that she, Sima Xuan, will not give up her true feelings from the beginning to the end.

Cao Hui is a good man, Sima Xuan knows.

I don't know how long it took until Sima Xuan's arms were numb from Cao Hui's pressure. She thought that Cao Hui had fallen asleep, and she might finally take the opportunity to do something bad, but she lowered her eyes half-directed. Turning his head to look at the other party, Cao Hui suddenly spoke.

"At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, was my brother Cao Zheng really killed by you?"

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【small theater】

Do you want Wuli Cao Guliang to send a low-brow letter to continue the formalities, saying what is in your heart?

A certain prince:? ?Maybe? ?Author, don't you know Yuanrong's temperament?Let me tell you, she is very resolute, and it is already unbearable to cry twice after suffering so much...

Cao Hui: Hey, Sima Xuan, do you want to hear me play konghou?

A certain gentleman (nods like pounding garlic): Think about it!

Cao Hui (smiling): Come and have a look in women's clothing, and I'll play the harp for you right away—hey, eh, eh?Why run away! !

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