Chapter 355 ending

The explanation of the old Guogong really surprised everyone, and even made the entire court collective aphasia for a time.

Twenty years older than Zong Chixian, he is eighty-five years old this year. Even though he still has a heart to go around the world with a sword, his body is not as tough as a year. Back to the youth happy to enmity.

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

Therefore, no one can ignore his ninety-year-old birthday. The emperor personally sent a letter to the old man who often beat his **** when he was a child. Banquet, to make the old man happy.

In today’s palaces, each palace and hall finally has the atmosphere that a heavenly family should have. It is not as if the Taiping and Huaiwu emperors were in power, and if there was a banquet, the hostess would take care of it, and the Ministry of Rites would not have to bite the bullet and decide. , It really made the elders who had gone through three dynasties moved to tears.

On the right day, a family of young and old talked in the palace of Zongzhixian outside the palace. The emperor took his wife and children out of the palace to give his father Shi Yan, and his grandfather Zongzhixian greeted him. By the way, he personally picked up his great-grandfather Lao Guogong into the palace to attend the banquet.

On behalf of several people, Shi Yan made the words clear: “Our family is here to talk, and your grandfather and I will not enter the palace, and the palace is for outsiders to see.

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

Second, the two of us went, and there were two mountains on your head in an instant, which made no one feel comfortable. You just pick up your great-grandfather and go to the hustle and bustle. ”

Shi Yan’s meaning has been very euphemistic. Since ancient times, who has three emperors living in the palace at the same time?

Not to mention three, it is two, and it can be fought in minutes.

The three emperors appeared at the same time. If the three of them had one heart, it would be alright. If the three of them demolished each other, how chaotic would the scene be? One sentence per person, who should the ministers listen to?

Do not listen?

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

Therefore, Shi Yan and Zong Chixian didn’t plan to go to the palace to join in the fun on this day.

The old prince did not stop him. 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 only the prince, and he did not have the above troubles. Wait for a lucky person.

But no one thought that this blessed birthday star, known all over the world, was in the heat of wine, and a thunderstorm exploded on the top of everyone’s heads. 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, and I have always felt that our old Xie family should thank the father and son for their kindness and kindness.”

The old man’s words caught everyone’s attention, and he couldn’t help but feel nervous. The old man was still playing with a wine glass in his hand, very relaxed, as if he was chatting with someone.

“It’s a long story. This matter has to start from the last years of Emperor Min’an. Perhaps many people here are not aware of that period of history. Emperor Min’an died in his later years because of divine punishment, and 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 you say outside? ”

The old man looked at the ministers who were restless, and poured himself a glass of wine slowly, regardless of everyone’s face, and continued: “You guys, say that this king’s life is good, and the son will take the throne from this king’s unsatisfactory. The cousin took it in his hand and gave him a firm seat. The grandsons and great-grandchildren of this king are all emperors.

But today, this king wants to tell you that it is all wrong.

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

This king has been observing secretly for more than ten years, and none of the children he gave birth were successful. In that case, he was about to die, and he didn’t want to set up a prince. After his death, he wanted the whole Da Zhou to be buried with him. ”

One by one, the ministers below felt bitter and did not understand why they had to listen to such terrible royal secrets when they came to a birthday banquet happily.

The singing and dancing in the hall did not know when to stop, and the ministers knelt on the ground in unison, and only the voice of the old prince was left in the entire hall.

“Oh, since you don’t want to set up a prince and want to make Da Zhou chaotic, then I have no scruples. This king himself has chosen an emperor for me Da Zhou!

You must be thinking at this moment that this king chose his own son to be the emperor because of his own selfishness, right?

Selfishness is indeed there, but Emperor Taiping is not the son of this king. ”

The ministers who were kneeling on the ground heard the words and ignored the rules and etiquette, all raised their heads in shock and looked at the legendary old man above.

“Even, his surname is not Xie, not my Xie family. His name is Zong Chixian, the number one expert in the arena decades ago, and Zong Chixian, the owner of the Zhejian Villa. At the occasion, under the guise of the identity of this king’s son, he is recuperating in my mansion.

Prince Chaoyan, your Emperor Huaiwu, is Zong Chixian’s biological son, Zong Shiyan. ”

The old prince didn’t care about the stormy waves that stirred up in the hearts of the courtiers below, and he didn’t care about the big drops of sweat dripping from his forehead as the emperor knelt beside him.

After drinking a cup, he pointed at the head below and said, “I didn’t expect that it was not our Xie family who pushed me into the prosperous world of two generations of emperors.

Well, but you don’t have to babble, this king is a new year old friend, if the father and son owe this king’s favor, they are not in the mood to care about the mess of our royal family. If you have the ability, you can live anywhere. of ease!

No, this great-grandson of this king is happy, the genuine Xie family, don’t think about what you can do with your happy status, it’s useless, the original thing was done by this king himself, and I can’t find out. ”

Delighted, the great name is Xie Chengxian, so is His Majesty today.

I don’t know who suddenly let out a sigh of relief. The movement was a bit loud, which caught the attention of the old man. The old man supported his great-grandson’s shoulder and slowly got up, looked around, and faced a very insignificant person in the corner who was writing at his desk The young official said, “Have you written it all down?”

The young official didn’t speak, just raised his head, quietly bowed to the old man, and sat back to his original position, writing and waiting at the desk. Most people don’t look for him deliberately, so it’s hard to find his existence.

It is the historian.

The voice of the old man continued to resound in the hall, and it also hit the hearts of everyone: “The family owes this king a life-saving grace, so the father and son have repaid the kindness of this king.

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

After a walk in the world, there is no need to let people live in the name of others after doing good deeds. ”

The old man’s voice suddenly became low: “This king is so old, and if I don’t say it, 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… I want to come, They should be thanking my unworthy descendant, ha!”

I don’t know when the old prince left the hall. When the emperor wiped off the cold sweat and was helped up by the shivering eunuch, he waved his hand weakly and let the ministers of the court disperse: “Block the news. , If there is any leak, hum!

If there is anything, we will talk about it tomorrow. ”

That night, I don’t know how many people in the capital couldn’t sleep, their minds were going back and forth, thinking over and over again, tossing and turning, and they couldn’t make up their minds until dawn.

But Shi Yan’s palace was very quiet, and the three generations of father and son seemed like nothing had happened. What should I do? I just went to the palace to attend a birthday banquet with the old man. Huhu sleep in general.

In fact, Shi Yan and Zong Chixian knew right away what the old man had done in the palace. To be honest, the old man took care of everything for them, which was really touching.

But the two of them said they didn’t care about this before, which was also true.

But the two of them don’t care, others really can’t care.

Well-informed people have already smelled a few different breaths from the unusual atmosphere last night, but they did everything possible to inquire, but found nothing, only said that everything was business as usual.

This made it even more certain that something extraordinary must have happened last night.

Early in the morning, the emperor and the ministers looked at each other, looking at each other silently, with huge dark circles under their eyes, and their moods were complicated.

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

My father fought the four seas and settled the chaos in the rivers and lakes. He brought eight thousand black iron cavalry to pacify the four countries, swept the Kyushu, and made all the nations surrender.

During his thirty-year reign, his grandfather corrected the abuses of the previous dynasty, rebuilt the law, made the people recuperate, prospered and strong, and brought congratulations from all over the world.

My royal family really should give my father and grandfather an explanation, even if they don’t have the last name Xie? I have done something that many descendants of the Xie family could not accomplish. My descendants of the Xie family can only be ashamed and grateful! ”

The emperor’s meaning is obvious. He does not intend to pursue this matter. He feels that his father, his grandfather, is his own father and his own grandfather.

In a word, everyone is at fault in this matter. Emperor Min An, who was punished by heaven, was at fault, the unsatisfactory prince and clan were at fault at that time, and the old prince who was motivated was at fault.

Otherwise what to do?

Is the father and son wrong? If there is a mistake, it needs to be corrected, how to correct it? Naturally eliminate mistakes.

How to eliminate?

Send troops to attack? Stop kidding, who else in the world is the opponent of the Black Iron Cavalry? To beat them, who has the courage and the ability?

Erase the traces of their existence from the history books? Don’t be funny, other people’s Idlers Pavilion, Shengshibang, is not a simple pheasant list. After five years of development, it has been recognized by surrounding countries. At the beginning of each month, who doesn’t care about the change of the ranking of Shengshibang?

In such an organization that is already unclear, the leader is still two guys who have been emperors. Who is confident that they can kill each other?

Don’t dare to say such a big thing.

From the point of view of interests alone, these two must be in the same camp with them, 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.

On the contrary, 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 an emotional point of view, there is no reason to oppose these two. Working under these two can really maximize my talents.

If it is said that the ministers can have the opportunity to leave their names in the history books in this life, I am afraid that they have done a few important things under these two men.

Originally, it was a major event that could cause shocks in the government and the public, and the whole world was shocked. With the tacit cooperation of the emperor and courtiers, it was handled with care, and the past was silent.

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

The people of the common people are more simple in their minds. Whoever makes their families have surplus food, avoid wars, have enough food and clothing, children can read, businessmen can travel to the world, and their lives are stable and happy, who is the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering.

You said that the Bodhisattva who did these things was not named Zong or Xie?

It doesn’t matter, as long as we can live a good life, we can’t control him even if he wants to change his surname!

Besides, we ordinary people don’t even know what the emperor’s surname is today! Don’t say what the emperor’s surname is, even the magistrate’s surname is not something we should care about! It would be good to know what Li Zheng’s surname is at most!

Do you talk about inheritance, etiquette and law, rulers and ministers, fathers and sons, ethical principles, and thieves? I’m sorry, I don’t understand and don’t want to understand.

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

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

It is said that “to repay the kindness to enter the palace, to rule the world and work hard for thirty years”.

It is said that “return to the rivers and lakes when you succeed, and you will be on the list of prosperous times in the idler pavilion”.

What’s more, it is that “two generations of emperors have early Zen positions, and their hearts are free to travel around the world.”

The two of them were even called “folk emperors” at the moment, meaning they came from the people, and finally came to the people. Because they knew what the people needed best, they tried to do what they could when they were in power.

They have done something that the people are grateful for and won unprecedented support from the people. Even in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, these two are the two most shining and unavoidable 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 its own records.

There is no less tossing in the wild, and the work of the idler pavilion is not idle at all, and even very busy.

Including the appearance of the list of giants and local officials, as well as the personal records and memoirs published for the success of these people, all opened another door to success for many people.

Before opening this door, the idler pavilion first unlocked another wealth code.

If you want to spread the prosperity list to the world at the fastest speed, you must have your own unique, safe, efficient and convenient way. In this way, Shi Yan chose express delivery.

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

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

Later, there were several times that the news of the private station reached the party before the official order, which made the party full of preparations and caused a lot of losses. As a result, the official had to hurry up and reform the delivery method of the post.

Later, when there was a severe drought in the south, the imperial court’s disaster relief food was directly entrusted to the idler express to help with the transportation. The loss was small, the time was fast, and the efficiency was high. Officially organized manual deliveries of food are too timely.

Everyone knows that Xianren Express is the industry of Xianrenge, and the reputation of Xianrenge among the people is really nothing to say. As soon as this matter came out, Mr. Storyteller had a new topic.

As the so-called “idler expresses thousands of miles to transport grain, folk emperors have common people in mind!”

The big figures in the courtroom are often taken aback, thinking that these two retired emperors who are getting older and more tossed have the idea of ​​returning to the courtroom and showing their glory! He was so frightened that his liver trembled.

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

The appearance of the courier was simply because one day at noon, his father sighed in front of the table full of dishes: “This season, the first batch of Umboluo Guo should enter the palace?”

Umboluo fruit, which is mango, is one of the few things that Zong Chixian likes in the palace.

Shi Yan then said: “Father, all the food in the palace is half-cooked from the locals, and it took a dozen days to transport it back to the capital, and it took more than ten days to get to the palace.

Why don’t my son build a road for you, so that you can eat the freshest fruit in the shortest time, how about the fruits from all over the world? ”

I don’t know how the father and son thought, one dared to think, the other dared to do it, and got started directly, and they established the fastest express delivery for idlers in the world today.

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

Until one day, the latest news was delivered by express line. At that time, the father and son were watching the sunset in the desert. After reading the news, Shi Yan watched the sun slowly fall from the horizon, rendering the surrounding into pitch darkness.

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

Only then did Shi Yan say, “Father, the news just now, my mother is gone.”

Zong Chixian’s voice was very calm: “Why not?”

“The day before yesterday, I scratched Cheng Yuhua’s face. I was happy at night. I drank a few more glasses and went away with a smile in my dream.”

“Let someone send the ashes back to Snow Wind City. Where did they come from and where they go? There is a beginning and an end. If you can’t be a lonely ghost, that’s the last thing our father and son do for her.”

“Um.”

Since the identities of the two were revealed to the world, the Ding family in Fengxuecheng had guessed the reason why Shi Yan had not married and had children for many years.

The two took people out of the desert, and received a message from the emperor from the capital. The emperor was still the same old man.

This time the emperor said: “Father, the royal heir assurance process that you asked me to do last time, I have let me do it. When are you free to come back and have a look, if you see it is feasible, the son will let the ancestral house, The Ministry of Rites is ready.

Since the death of your great-grandfather, you have become more and more ruthless towards me. I doubt whether you were telling the truth when you said that you liked your son the most. Every midnight dream come back to you, thinking of things from when you were a child, compared to the current situation, it makes your son sad! ”

When it comes to the process of securing the heirs, the root is 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. One has two. If there is Zong Chixian today, who can ensure that no one will follow suit tomorrow and come to Liu Chixian?

If everyone dares to think and act like this, sooner or later the court will be messed up, so the introduction of a strict and harsh method for identifying the identity of royal children is essential.

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 implying to mention this in front of these two people?

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

When Shi Yan walked back to the palace, the emperor told Shi Yan with an embarrassed face: “Actually, Dad, that’s it, there is something here for my son, I didn’t dare to tell you in the letter, I was afraid that you would be angry, my son will wait. I said, if you are still angry, beat your son to let out your anger, but don’t get angry.”

Then Shi Yan listened to his son’s careful words: “So what, do you still remember the widow of Lord Xie Chaozhou, Zong Shixiang?

It was the one who gave birth to twins that year, was sent out to Xie Chaoshu, and was sent back. ”

Shi Yan was impatient. The male protagonist has been gone for many years, and he has not paid attention to the news of the female protagonist for many years: “Speak quickly if you have something to say.”

“Master Xie went, and Mrs. Xie took her two children and lived 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, broke things, and was very destructive. Everyone was trembling.

Later, the couple found a daughter-in-law for Zong Shiyin from nowhere, and the two gave birth to a child, and the family stumbled through life.

No, since your identity was exposed, the identity of the clan family in the capital has become special. It is neither too serious nor too serious, and can only be offered as an ancestor.

Who knows, three years ago, that couple secretly used you and your grandfather’s name to set up an emperor temple in the people, just to make money, there will be 600,000 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 without him. When his father was young, he would really hit him.

Who knows that his father only said one sentence when he heard the words: “Let’s do it.”

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly, “Let’s do it?”

“Well, legal proceedings.”

The emperor wanted to say that you and your grandfather are one of the few relatives in this world, so he heard his father say, “Isn’t there still Zong Shixiang?”

In the end, Zong Shixiang became the only relative of him and his father in the world, which is really fantastic.

Zong Shixiang was already a grandmother, and when she learned of Shi Yan’s decision, facing the resentment and cursing from her parents, she only said lightly, “It’s all just retribution.”

It was her retribution, her brother Shiyin’s retribution, and her parents’ retribution. It was cheaper for Xie Chaozhou, and he died early, but he was relieved, leaving himself behind in this world and dragging a large family to suffer.

Whether others are suffering, Zong Chixian can’t understand now, he just feels satisfied.

At that time, there was willow Yiyi on the edge of the evening pond in the palace, and the sun was setting in the west. I leaned on the chaise longue and felt the breeze 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 slightly different: “Ayan, you say, did our father and son make money in this life?”

In fact, this is not what he wanted to say, Shi Yan understood, so he told him with a smile: “Being responsible for the affairs of the past, why do you plan to judge after your death?” (1)

“Being responsible for the events of his life, why do you think about it? It’s good, it’s good, it’s what my son can say!”

“Um.”

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.

When it was time for the two of them to go back to the house to rest in the past, Shi Yan slowly got up and carefully placed the hand that was beginning to stiffen on his chest.

He bent down and picked up the person who was not breathing, and whispered to the people in the dark, “Let’s 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, and then his voice choked up: “Yes.”

In March of the 30th year of Jinggao, Emperor Taiping and Emperor Huaiwu died successively in the palace on the outskirts of Beijing. The whole country mourned. The people spontaneously wore filial piety. They did not eat meat in March, and they did not marry for one year. There was little entertainment among the people. Up, tears wet the placket.

The Idleman Pavilion Prosperity List has officially stopped updating, and Idleman Express has stopped running for three months, and the express delivery has piled up into a mountain. The mysterious and unpredictable Black Iron Cavalry has not been heard from since then.

For the next three hundred years, every time 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, these inkstones were not clear. He just looked at the system in front of him that had been tested as crazy, and secretly thought about the possibility of abandoning its beauty alone.