After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

snowy winter night

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the Hall of Fengxian.

King Gu Xiu was wearing a thin plain robe, with his crown untied and his hair loose, kneeling upright on the futon in Fengxian Hall.In the large and empty palace, there is only one golden tripod incense burner for heating. The cold wind of deep winter penetrates every hole, blowing the gorgeous prayer flags in the palace, blowing the clever candlelight on the altar, and blowing the king's hair scattered between his eyebrows. hair strands

The young king was not disturbed by the cold wind. He always maintained an upright and pious posture, praying for the spiritual tablets of the ancestors of the past generations on the altar.

This is the ninth day of Gu Xiu's fast in Fengxian Hall.

Except for normal court meetings and dealing with major military and political affairs every day, Gu Xiu spends the rest of his time here.

They only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, and wash their bodies with cold spring water every evening in order to cleanse their bodies and minds.

The reason for Gu Xiu's fasting is very simple.

Before January, a disease of unknown etiology broke out simultaneously in several states and counties in southern Xinjiang.

The infected person first turned blue and had difficulty breathing, followed by vomiting and diarrhea. Almost all infected people could not live beyond seven days, and those who survived by chance were blind in both eyes.The epidemic spread extremely fast, and the Qiongqi Army, which was the first to develop the disease, had a particularly large number of cases. According to the military newspaper reported by Yun Jin, nearly a hundred people fell ill at the same time on the first day, and the number quadrupled on the second day. The medicinal herbs brought by the previous king when he reorganized the army were not suitable for the disease. By the time the third army report arrived, 1 people in the army had been infected, and more than [-] people had died of the disease.

The epidemic was strange, and the depth of winter was not a season for frequent epidemics, but this plague happened to be fierce and fierce.General Yun Jin of the Qiongqi Army described in detail the strangeness of the epidemic.Since the discovery of the disease, they have checked all possible sources of the disease, such as food, drinking water, livestock, etc., and burned the bodies of all the dead, but the disease is still frequent and repeated.

This calamity spread to the middle of the capital and to the court.

Gu Xiu ordered the allocation of funds as quickly as possible, dispatched medicine, and rewarded the local officials for ordering him to comfort the government and calm the people.In addition, they also advertised among the people and recruited famous doctors and medicines who are good at curing plagues with a lot of money.

After everything was arranged properly, the officials began to worry about the cause of the epidemic again.

In the end, the officials and the people who could not find the cause attributed the epidemic to a natural punishment, a natural punishment caused by the improper governance of the king.

In ancient times, kings were also called the son of heaven, and the son of heaven was the son of the god of heaven.If the gods are cruel and unkind, arrogant, extravagant and dissipated, and unable to cultivate virtue and self-sufficiency, heaven will punish them.

This is true of earthquakes, floods, plagues, and droughts and floods.

As for which one of the above-mentioned rules committed by a diligent emperor like Gu Xiu, they didn't know.

Some people say that Gu Xiu cooked and killed corrupt officials in Jiangnan Road, which accounted for cruelty.

Someone refuted it, saying that Gu Xiubo killed corrupt officials who were fish and meat of the common people, if these people didn't kill them, what would be the king's prestige.

Some people say that Gu Xiu forced the New Deal in the early years of his tenure, which disturbed the foundation of his ancestors, and that's why he offended God and punished him.

Some people refuted, saying that the new policy promoted by Gu Xiu is a good policy for governing the country that will benefit the present and benefit the future. May I ask which of these good policies will offend the ancestors?

Gu Xiu ignored the group arena where the two groups were singing together, and quietly moved his living room into Fengxian Hall.

Clothing and food are vegetarian, which is intended to advance and retreat with those affected by the disaster, and also to give an explanation to the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty.

During the day, Gu Xiu was still the young emperor who killed with iron and blood. After dusk, he became a devout believer, giving himself up to take the blame for the common people in the world.

At the beginning of Haishi, the door of Fengxian Hall was opened.

Wearing a cloud-patterned crane cloak, Han Mochu walked in from outside the hall stepping through the wind and snow, and the scattered snowflakes were blown by the wind and swept into the hall.After he entered and approached the hall, the little eunuch behind him closed the opened door again, and the snowflakes that hadn't landed followed his footsteps for a while, falling to the ground and slowly melting.

This seemingly brightly lit palace is really cold.

Han Mochu was the only courtier who could enter Fengxian Hall with the king since the beginning of the previous dynasty.

When Gu Xiu set this precedent, he also received two or three books of denunciation from the old speech officer, but in the end it was nothing.

"Your Majesty." Han Mochu stood behind Gu Xiu and called out.

"Are you here?" Gu Xiu turned his head to look behind him, stood up from the futon he was kneeling on and walked to the person, reaching out his hand to wipe off the snowflakes like ice crystals on the person's body: "It's from Mr. Su again?"

"Ah."

Han Mochu took off the cloak on his body, revealing the same single clothes as Gu Xiu.For the past nine days, Gu Xiu lived alone and he was also a vegetarian.Gu Xiu had two meals a day, and he also had two meals a day.At dusk, Gu Xiu entered the Fengxian Hall and knelt down to pray for blessings. Then he went to the imperial hospital to study the cure of the epidemic together with Su Che and the doctors who came to reveal the list.

There were no living cases of this plague in Beijing, and Su Che had asked for an order to go to the local frontlines, but Han Mochu refused on the grounds that the illness was unclear and he wanted to take charge of the overall situation.Su Che, who was in the imperial hospital, could only rely on the patient cases and medical pulse records sent back from the front from the front, and rely on the medical books left by Mr. Yi Wei in the palace to try to find the progress of similar diseases. After considering the medication, he gave the prescription Send back to the front.After the front-line medication, the patient's response and healing status will be sent back, and the eight hundred miles will be expedited, and they will go back and forth in two days.

The imperial hospital is not busy day and night, seven or eight prescriptions have been reworked, and the curative effects reported back are not satisfactory.

"Do you have any clues today?" Gu Xiu asked.

Han Mochu shook his head calmly: "Return to Your Majesty, today is the same as yesterday. But Chang Ru said that he seems to have found his way. He told the minister that as long as he communicated with the front two more times, it confirmed what he thought, maybe This plague will soon be quelled."

"I hope so." Gu Xiu turned around and stood in front of those spotless ancestral tablets, and sighed slowly: "As long as I think of the lives of those common people and generals, and those families whose households are in vain, I will I just feel uncomfortable. I have been thinking these days, I have only been on the throne for more than a year, and I have pushed the New Deal, killed corrupt officials, reformed the system and lowered the salary, is it really too aggressive?"

Han Mochu smiled and wrapped his arms around Gu Xiuchang from behind, gently rubbing Gu Xiuchang's cold hands on his knees: "In ancient times, all the monarchs who can last forever have made drastic decisions since they ascended the throne. Besides, when your Majesty did these things Nothing is selfish..."

"Yes, why not?" Gu Xiu cast his eyes on the center of the hall, too!On the tablet of the Emperor Zu, it said sincerely: "I was thinking of you when dealing with the corruption of corrupt officials in the south of the Yangtze River."

"So, I will accompany Your Majesty to atone for the sins of our ancestors." Han Mochu smiled and took Gu Xiu's hand, and the two of them knelt together and knelt on the soft futon in front of them: "By the way, Princess Qingzhao wants to tell Your Majesty , From today onwards, the whole Princess Mansion and King Ning Mansion have also begun to fast and eat vegetarian food. Sometimes I envy Your Majesty for having such flesh and blood relatives."

"Master, don't you have Mr. Su and Mr. Yi?"

"Nowadays, if I want to fast, Chang Ru will not only not accompany me, but will set up a pile of firewood outside Fengxian Hall and eat meat with the help of the east wind." Han Mochu shook his head with helplessness on his face and said, "If you don't let me Once you break the precept, it’s not over.”

"Isn't Master just fasting right now?" Gu Xiu asked, "Why don't you see Mr. Su coming?"

"That's because he's busy. If he's not busy, he'll be here early in the morning." Han Mochu's tone was so determined that Su Che, who was in the imperial hospital, sneezed inexplicably.

"I remember that year when I just returned to the palace from Beihuang, I was often punished to kneel in Fengxian Hall. At that time, I often thought that the first thing I would do when I became emperor was to demolish this place. But then I changed my mind Think about it, if this place is demolished and punished to kneel in the future, won't it be even colder?" Taking advantage of the topic Han Mochu just brought up, Gu Xiu suddenly talked about his past before he met Han Mochu.

"Your Majesty, I didn't even know you had such childish thoughts?" Han Mochu couldn't help but smile, "I always thought that under General Yunhui's education, Your Majesty is much more mature than youngsters of the same age."

"Of course there will be. People can think of anything when they are hungry. I once thought about making a cake bigger than a person and sharing it with Dongyang, but it was very small and very small. It's time to be young." The night wind was very cold, Gu Xiu wore the cloak that Han Mochu brought, and oppressed Han Mochu's back from behind, just like when he was leaning on his back when he was a teenager.

"Your Majesty never talked about this with your ministers in the past, so it seems that Your Majesty and His Highness King Ning are brothers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are siblings from the same mother." Han Mochu leaned back against Gu Xiu's arms, and the two clinged to each other There is not a single gap in their bodies, and heat is transmitted to each other to resist the severe cold.

"I never told anyone about this in the past, Ziran was the first to know." Gu Xiu put his chin on Han Mochu's shoulder very naturally, and slightly raised his lips: "Speaking of Sixth Brother, I remembered that I had just returned to the palace. When I was young, because he broke my wolf hair, I trampled to death the green silkworm he raised with his own hands. I don’t know if he wants to pay him a piece now. Although my elder sister always said that he was not modest when I was young, in fact To be honest, there is only three months of separation between him and me, so there is no way to tell who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother."

"Most brothers of the same age grew up like this, and Chen and Chang Ru were the same. When he was eight years old, he ate the herring that I had worked so hard to catch, and I poured tea on his couch while he was asleep. He thought It was the dirt he accidentally left behind at night. It took me more than half a month to get myself a needle and check my pulse."

"Zi Ran lied to Mr. Su for more than half a month just for a herring." Gu Xiu couldn't help being surprised: "Then did he find out later?"

"Your Majesty, do you know how fat and how big the herring was at that time? When I roasted it, I specially put some fine salt on it. As soon as I turned around, there were only fish bones left." Han Mochu raised his hand and tapped his forehead, unconsciously. He sighed and laughed: "After he found out, he refused to let go, and forced my husband to beat me. Unexpectedly, as soon as my husband raised the board, he stopped him again, and said with a puffy face that he was not angry anymore."

"So, did Ziran get hit by a board when he was a child?" Gu Xiu's sharp focus was quite unexpected.

"Naturally, I did. I treated my Majesty's husband that way. After all, which boy has never been naughty in his childhood?" Han Mochu opened Gu Xiu's left hand, which could no longer see the palm prints clearly. Shaking his head: "It's just that I was much smarter than Your Majesty when I was young, and I never got hit by a board because of an endorsement.

"Han Mochu!" Gu Xiu suddenly exerted force on the arm around the man, and lowered his voice fiercely: "Did I pamper you too much?"

"Your Majesty doesn't want to condone or not. You can deal with it however you want. Anyway, if you really deal with the subject, it will be His Majesty who will feel sorry for you in the end." Han Mochu turned his head to look at Gu Xiu, and his smile gradually deepened, as if at Gu Xiu's heart. A flame ignited in his chest.

From childhood to adulthood, the two monarchs and ministers have always had fun while suffering.

All these years, as long as the two of them were together, there was never a moment of depression.They will hold each other's hands all the time, look forward, and move forward.They will also stand behind each other all the time, supporting him, so that the other party can give it a go without any worries.

They are each other's armor, each other's backing.

They always arm themselves constantly and never allow themselves to become the opponent's weakness.

The more hopeless the adversity, the stronger they are.

late at night.

The gate of Fengxian Hall suddenly opened, and an officer with double flags on his back fell to his knees, dragging a blood-stained report in his hands, and said hoarsely: "Your Majesty! The military situation of eight hundred miles is urgent! Nanzhao has declared war!" !"