Linque

With Duke Yan Yu of the Qing Dynasty and his eldest son Yan Huabin captured alive, it was a matter of course to take down the unsuspecting Tanchuan.

Yun Fei was already familiar with the terrain of Danchuan, and they took it by surprise. By sunrise the next day, the Wang Shijun flag had already been planted on the top of Danchuan city.

The lieutenant commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and rectify the military affairs of the city defense. Yun Fei came to the ancestral hall of the Yan family in Tanchuan alone.This place is the same as in his memory, tall and majestic, with a radiant appearance, and it is the most magnificent and solemn place in the entire Danchuan City.

The ancestral hall of the aristocratic family is not only used to enshrine the ancestors' spirits, but also a "historical record" of the family's meritorious deeds. The gold powder inscriptions engraved on the wall record how generations of Tanchuan Yan's children have devoted their lives to the glory of the family. If you can leave a mark on the wall after death, it will be the greatest value in this life.

That's what Old Master Yan asked of himself, and that's what he taught all of Tanchuan's nephews—as long as they were named Yan, as long as they were born in this land, they would shed the last drop of blood for Tanchuan.

Yun Fei stood in the ancestral hall with his hands behind his back, lit a stick of incense and put it in the stove. He came to get the iron coupon of the alchemy book.

Yun Fei stared at the memorial tablet of Old Master Yan on the alcove. If his grandfather had a spirit in heaven, he didn't know whether he wanted to kill Qing Guogong's mediocre and incompetent son, or he wanted to strangle him, the grandson who destroyed Tanchuan.In fact, the one he should hate the most should be himself, if he hadn't put Yan Xiang to death back then, if he hadn't blocked Yan San's future in the old days, if he had cherished the love of grandparents and sincerely thought about Yun Fei just once... …

However, if the old master Yan had an inch of compassion and compassion in the past, Tan Chuan would not end up like this today.

It was he who sacrificed everything to revitalize Danchuan, and it was he who finally made Danchuan go to hell.

It is probably difficult for Mrs. Yan to close his eyes under the nine springs.

Yun Fei calmly took out the iron coupons of the alchemy under the alcove case—in the ninth year of Xuanxi, the Duke of Qing used the blood of Prime Minister Yan to wash the reading in front of the door; in the 11th year of Xuanxi, Yan Yunfei will use the entire Danchuan Honoring the spirit of the father.

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Tan Chuan's conquest made Jing Wang Ling Yi's situation worse.

To this day, all his ways of life have been cut off.

In Changzhou, the Yinghai Gu epidemic was completely resolved, the battle in Dingkang was settled, and the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River bowed their heads to the imperial capital.

In Yunzhou, he "built plank roads in the open and kept Chen Cang in the dark", borrowed Changzhou prefectural test fraud to attract the attention of the imperial capital, and painstakingly built an armament transfer line from Zeguo in Nanyang. With the return of the Cangwu Fang clan, it was completely reduced to wasteland.

Even Wanzhou, his stronghold, was riddled with holes.I don't know how many famous families who used to waver are now desperately surrendering their allegiance to the emperor. The fall of Tanchuan was at the convenience of these people!

Ling Yi had nowhere to go.

He has been planning for several years. The Neila family is a family member, and the outside is Beidi Nanyang. Xuanxi officially launched the army on the third day of June in the 11th year. He thought that this would be an earth-shattering battle that would rewrite the history of Dayin Kyushu, but it just passed. In three months, his history came to an end.

Concubine Zhong Shi, the woman who has always flattered and flattered him in everything, yesterday said two truthful words that might offend him for the first time.

Zhong Yiyun has made two most important decisions in her life, one is to learn from Wu Xinghai and choose a path, and the other is to retreat given by Jing Xueli. The former invisibly determines her fate, and the latter hints at her future life and death.It's a pity that Zhong Yiyun made the wrong choice twice, or in other words, she didn't really choose for herself and live for herself both times.

Zhong Yiyun told King Jing that this battle was doomed to fail since it chose to blow up the dams of the Nanjiang River and throw the source of the Gu epidemic into the Lanjiang River.

Those who have gained the Tao will be helped a lot, but those who have lost the way will be given little help. The words of the sages are not deceitful.

As a king, he does not care for the common people and the people at home. In a single thought, tens of thousands of people in Nanjiang were displaced, and thousands of miles of corpses were buried. The people were in dire straits; they colluded with foreign tribes, sent them to the north of Baishazhu, and sent them to the southeast sea. .How is such an act different from treason?

Taizu has a spirit in heaven, so he will not agree.

Zhong Yiyun's words are blunt and harsh, do those who have attained the Tao help?

Ling Yi thought about many reasons why he lost to Ling Ye.

resourcefulness?They studied together since they were young, and were guided by the same tutor. The late emperor did not give Ling Ye special treatment just because he was the crown prince. He was not much worse than Ling Ye in this regard, otherwise he would not have the ability to gather the power of the three states.

Is that force?However, Ling Ye's strongest swordsman, the Shuozhou Iron Cavalry, has been firmly restrained by the invading Beidi people under his actions. The rest of the troops that can be used are not much different between the two. Ling Ye has the Zhongzhou Ningzhou Army, and he also has the Wanzhou Army. The Yunzhou Army occupies the natural danger of the Lanjiang River, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.Ling Ye has Lishan Mountain Lord Chuheng by his side, and he also has Cangwu Martial Venerable Fang Hongzhen under his command. Even if Fang Hongzhen loses to Ji Wuyue alone, most of the time, Dongjun will do it by himself, and rarely use his authority in Lishan Mountain. , and with the help of the Lishan Ye clan, but he has the support of the entire Cangwu Fang clan.What's more, there is Yan Zhefei, the master of Qianyong Realm, and no matter what Yan Zhefei's true position is, at least in the past few years, Yan Zhefei has indeed helped him a lot in order to gain his trust.

He is no worse than Ling Ye in cultivating influence and attracting contacts.

So blame it on identity?From the very beginning, Ling Ye won him one step. Ling Ye is the crown prince, he is the prince, Ling Ye is the emperor, and he is the prince.But is that really the case?When the late emperor was around, he gave each of his sons the same chance to seize the heir apparent, and all the princes competed together, but because Ling Ye was the prince, he was naturally the target of public criticism and became the target of everyone.Later, the first emperor passed away in a young age, and although Ling Ye successfully ascended to the throne, it was the empress dowager who ruled. In those years, he and the emperor's brother King Qi had the upper hand, and the emperor's decline and precarity were the consensus of Dayin Kyushu.The gap in status didn't really bring him down.

Ling Yi thought about it, but he never thought about it.

There is little help for the unjust.

For example, Yi Chong Xiao, who had never been involved in the struggle for imperial power, stood behind the emperor because of the invasion of Nanyang Zeguo.First, the eldest son Xiao Gaomin intercepted the Nanyang spice caravan in Cangwu City on Yunchang Road, breaking the secret of King Jing and Nanyang smuggling gunpowder and weapons; then it was Xiao Hou who led the army to defend the East China Sea; Lian Songcheng, the governor of Changzhou, captured in one fell swoop the aristocratic patriarchs of the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River who stood in line to respect the king, and thus pacified Changzhou...

Another example is Qing and the eldest princess, and even Yan Zhefei who sits on the mountain and watches the tigers fight after the flames of war ignite...

More or less helped the emperor in the end.

Moral support from many, scant support.

The cause of this "Tao" may have been planted 30 years ago.

The Empress Dowager's natal family, King Jing's mother family, the Yanxi Zhong family, together with the Cangwu Fang family and Dingkang Zhou family, destroyed the entire Erfei Medicine Sect in order to satisfy their inner greed.The fire burned for three days and three nights, and could not exhaust the endless greed of the three families, and even attempted to pull Lishan into the sea of ​​fire in vain.

Yan Zhefei, Gui Haimingyuan, Ji Wuvui... Many people's lives were changed because of this.

The Lishan Ye family may not help the emperor, but it is absolutely impossible to help King Jing.

Today's defeat is not a kind of karmic reincarnation.

But it is even more of a cocoon.

This greed and unscrupulousness for power is almost in the same line.

At that time, King Qi, the eldest son of the Empress Dowager, fought with the emperor, and through the border war, got rid of Ling Ye's uncle, Gu Chongshan, Governor of Shuozhou.The king of Qi was only determined to win the military power in the northern border, but he never saw that at such a critical juncture, the sudden death of the commander who used soldiers like a god and was invincible in all battles would deal a great blow to the Shuozhou iron cavalry who were defending against foreign enemies!It is a taboo for military strategists to change commanders just before the battle, and the northern border was almost lost.If it hadn't been for the old Zhen Guogong, who is nearly sixty years old, to re-dress and provoke the army to stabilize the morale of the army, the Beidi people might be able to break through the border.

Now, King Jing is even worse than his elder brother. Nanyang Zeguo has already occupied the southeast sea area of ​​Dayin north of Baishazhu, and the southern coast is facing the devastation of foreign enemies.

Ling Ye also wanted to ask, how dare he respect the king, he was so good at Dayin Kyushu, and was led into the house by his own family, and the whole world was tormented and riddled with holes.

The first emperor did indeed give them an equal opportunity to seize the heir, but he never allowed them to hook up with foreigners by any means.

Recalling the past days and the first year, Yujiang slaughtered the three towns on the border of Jingzhou, the first emperor was furious, and then the Western Expedition was fought from the border to Yujiang King City, and half of the treasury saved was poured into the Western Expedition battlefield. Only then did he force the king of Yujiang to bow his head and proclaim himself a minister, to sacrifice the holy relics of the Dihuan Sutra, and to lose all the wealth of the royal family.

Taking the history of the Han Dynasty as a mirror and himself as a model, the first emperor warned each of their princes that those who offend my day will be punished even if they are far away.

Today, King Jing thinks back, the former Emperor Quan Xia knew, and should have hated and angered him extremely.

If the death of the eldest brother, King Qi, had allowed him to recover in time from his greed and obsession with unscrupulous power, would he have a different ending today?

When I was young, Empress Chengde was still alive. Although Ling Ye was the crown prince at that time, the brothers were not alienated because of the difference in status and the faint rivalry between their respective mothers.Empress Chengde is a very easy-going person, and she is also willing to let the prince and his brothers and sisters get close to play, so they are not like this from the beginning.

He and Ling Ye are not much different in age, and there is also a younger sister of the same age, Qing He, who can play together best.Thinking back now, that period of innocent innocence was really far away and short. How did it change later?It's as if nothing happened, it's just that each other has grown up.

The heart is small.

But in such a small place, there are too many things to hold, the favor of the emperor, the power in hand, the future throne...all of them are stuffed into the heart. Throw out some useless things, such as the years of innocence, such as brotherhood.

I threw it away and you threw it away. When we meet again, we will be like strangers.

He threw it cleaner than Ling Ye.Qinghe's marriage was not good. It was the Empress Dowager Zhong who decided to marry Qinghe to the notorious Lianyan Jiang family when she was in power.At that time, he had spoken for Qinghe at his mother's empress, but to no avail, he had to add an extra dowry to the younger sister in private.But Qinghe was still very grateful to him, saying Brother Sanhuang, I knew you still cared about me.

But later, he went to Shiyi Jiang Jincheng, which was very close to Lianyan. At that time, he had inherited the ambition and unwillingness of his eldest brother, King Qi. Qinghe's son-in-law sent a famous concubine.Qinghe's situation in Jiang's family was not good, and she suffered a lot of contempt. The arrival of this concubine made her princess lose her dignity even more.It wasn't until Ling Ye, who was far away in the imperial capital, sent Su Lang over to Wanzhou, ordered to be the master of Qinghe, divorced his son-in-law, and finally escaped from the sea of ​​suffering and returned to the imperial capital.

The struggle for imperial power became more and more intense day by day, and later, he even ordered the hidden guards to hurt Qinghe's life, if it wasn't for Qinghe's life...

Years and feelings, how clean he throws away!

If the eldest brother King Qi died back then, he would have followed the old path of the loser and fought... The enemies all knew each other, and he knew that Ling Ye would not do anything wrong.At first, there will be many suspicions and grudges, but if he stays peacefully in Jiangjin City for ten or twenty years—maybe it won’t take that long—and become a wealthy and leisure king, and when we meet again in the future, Ling Ye will be willing to call him The tone of "Third Brother" must be light, but the address is the same as when I was a child.

However, if the eldest brother King Qi had won five years ago, he knew that Ling Ye would never end up as a rich and idle king.

Many times, Ling Ye fights because he will die if he can't fight.

The palace people at Jiuchongque always said that His Majesty was kind and generous when they talked about His Majesty, this was not a deliberate compliment.

In terms of character, among all the princes, Ling Ye is the least like the late emperor. He has a wrist that is as good as blue, but he does not have the heart to restrain Gongye.If he could choose, Ling Ye might not have thought of being in the imperial power fire.Sitting on the throne, he has boundless power in his hands, and there are no Sangongs and six courtyards, and he used to indulge in extravagance. The emperor should be like practicing.He didn't accept concubine or master attendant, and he seemed to fall in love with the man named Chu Heng later. Although Ling Yi didn't know when the emperor knew that Chu Heng was the Lord of Lishan Mountain, if the feelings were not based on the Mahayana realm, If you use it, then for someone like Ling Ye, you probably really like him and are willing to spend your whole life with him.

Maybe after 20 years, when Qing Yan grows up, according to Ling Ye's temperament, the imperial power and the country may be handed over smoothly.

The separation of father and son and brother-in-law killing in their generation will be temporarily terminated here by Emperor Xuanxi, and the tragedy will never happen again.

Ling Yi was willing to lose to such a person, but also unwilling.

But you have to admit it.

Huangquan Road, Huangquan Road, if you take this road, you must always be prepared to go to Huangquan.

The decisive battle was fought on the north and south banks of the Lanjiang River. The garrisons of Zhongning and Ningzhou under Wang Shi attacked from the front, and the garrisons of Yuezhou outflanked from the west wing. With the map of King Jing's marching formation handed over, victory is almost within reach.The final battle against chaos lasted only half a month. At the beginning of September, King Jing retreated to defend Jiangjin City, and resisted stubbornly for two days and two nights. His wives and concubines, as well as his daughter-in-law and other heirs committed suicide in Jiang Jincheng's palace.

From the beginning of the new year in February to the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus in September, the turmoil in the three states of Yunchangwan ended with the mastermind respecting the king and committing suicide, and the family heads of the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River begging for crimes.So far, the civil strife in Kyushu has subsided, and imperial power has been added to Yunei.

Destined to return, when the army officially presented its victory, it happened to coincide with the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, and the Longevity Festival.

Although His Majesty ordered that the war in the East China Sea is not peaceful, everything should be kept simple and not celebrated, but this year is His Majesty's 25th birthday at the age of [-], and it is also worth the triumphant return of the king's teacher. The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War discuss with Taichang Temple and Guanglu Temple After that, I still prepared well.

Congratulations to our army for their invincibility, and congratulations to my emperor for his longevity.

On the eve of Wanshou, Wang Shixianjie's vanguard battalion returned to Beijing first, and Yun Fei escorted Tanchuan Yan's key criminals along with them.

He has not yet retired from the Hall of Martial Arts, he is still the emperor's personal guard, the first thing he does after returning to Beijing after finishing his "outside mission" is of course to pay respects to the saint.

In front of the Hall of Respect and Sincerity, I happened to meet Chu Heng who was going to Yuzheng Palace to check Qingyan's schoolwork. Although Yun Fei was far away in Wanzhou, he also heard that Chu Heng was the concubine Wuyue of Lishan Mountain. After thinking about how to face it, I suddenly met here, and I couldn't help but feel a little at a loss.He remembered the stupid thing he had done three times trying to drive Dong Jun out of the palace, and he also remembered that he was ignorant in the past, insisted on confronting Yan, and made trouble all day long, and for a while he didn't know how to greet him.

Seeing that he was still the same as before, Chu Heng looked him up and down, nodded and said, "I've grown taller and thinner." He patted him on the shoulder again, and said with a smile, "But there's nothing wrong with this trip. Go in vain, as soon as you come back, you will be a person who can be awarded a general."

——At the time of King Qi’s Rebellion, Gu Zheng, who was not Marquis of Shuoan at that time, led the Zhongzhou vanguard army to raid King Qi’s camp under the tent of Lord Ying Su Que, captured the Lord of Yanxi City alive, and made him a Marquis in the first battle.

Now that King Jing rebelled, Yun Fei, under the tent of Marquis Gu Zheng of Shuo'an, led Qingqi to attack for thousands of miles, cut off the armament distribution line behind the rebel army in one fell swoop, captured Danchuan City, and captured Duke Qing alive.

When Yun Fei heard the words, he smiled a little embarrassedly.

Chu Heng rushed to Yuzheng Palace, and didn't chat with him much, "In two days, call Shang Lu Ji, Su Lang and the others to welcome you. Go in, Your Majesty is waiting for you."

"En." Yun Fei nodded, took a deep breath, and stepped into the hall holding the brocade box.

The study room of Jingcheng Hall is the same as two years ago, nothing has changed. His Majesty is sitting behind the imperial case reading the military newspaper memorial. Hearing footsteps, he raised his head, smiled slightly, and said, "Are you back?"

Yun Fei knelt down and saluted, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is respectfully blessed by Yan Yunfei."

"Stay flat." Ling Ye said, "This trip has lived up to expectations." He pointed at the brocade box at hand, motioned for Zhu Geng, who was standing beside him, to hand it over, and said with a smile, "Let's go home and have a look."

Inside is the key to Yan Xiang's mansion. Today, he has become famous, and he can finally take it back in a legitimate way, and tell the old family that Yan Xiang's son has returned.

Yun Fei didn't get up, bowed his head and bowed deeply again, "Your Majesty," he said, "Your Majesty," he said, "Your Majesty will never repay your kindness."

His journey was more than a "shun" word, His Majesty almost handed him military merits directly in front of him.

Earlier, he went to the northern border with the son of Lord Zhen Guo. In Shuozhou, Gu Yanshi personally took him around the various camps of Shuozhou cavalry, and introduced him to the generals. "People", and soon he fell into the eyes of the generals, opening up connections from top to bottom.

Later, I went to Qingzhou. Under the tents of Su Que and the governor of Qingzhou, when there was civil strife in Yujiang, Prince Weixi asked the Dayin Army for foreign aid. Duke Ying sent him and other young soldiers to Yujiang if he had nothing to do. Shaking it around, it is both practiced and gold-plated.He was already strong in martial arts, and he was protected by Yan Cang by his side, not to mention that Duke Ying let his confidants watch in secret, how could he be inappropriate, he was like a fish in water.

Finally, at Zhongzhou Camp Shuo'an Hou Gu Zheng's place, Tan Chuan's attack was prepared by His Majesty Shuo'an Hou, just waiting for him to lead the troops, and he finally lived up to His Majesty's hard work and succeeded in one fell swoop.

"Well, get up." Ling Ye smiled.

Yun Fei thanked him, picked up the brocade box by his side and stood up, he stepped forward two steps, handed the box to Zhu Geng, and said: "Your Majesty's holy candle shines, I can't repay you, but I wish my emperor heaven to be as good as ever. I am safe and sound."

When Zhu Geng opened the box, he was a little surprised, and bowed his head before the emperor.The emperor just glanced at it, then turned to look at Yun Fei, and asked, "Do you really want to do this?"

"Take it back," he said with a light smile, "Tanchuan will be yours in the future, I have nothing to worry about."

Inside the brocade box are the iron coupons of Danshu bestowed by the Emperor Taizu to the Yan family, as well as the order of the mayor of Danchuan and the gold-plated seal, which are the proof and symbol of Yan's possession of the land of Danchuan.

Duke Yan Yu of the Qing Dynasty collaborated in the rebellion, and the three clans would all be implicated in this, but as long as the land is still there, the future Tanchuan will still belong to the Yan family.The emperor will choose someone who has seen it from the remote branches of the Yan family that has nothing to do with the rebellion to be the lord of Danchuan.

Now there is no need to choose, Yan Yunfei is the unyielding choice, and he will also be the natural head of the Yan family in the future.

Yun Fei shook his head and said: "My late father was not from Tanchuan long ago, and I am not willing to accept the ancestral favor of the Yan family in Tanchuan. The heavens are a lesson, I will not change my mind, and I beg your majesty for permission."

The emperor smiled lightly and said, "What you said, if Mrs. Yan is alive in the sky, I don't know how angry she will be."

Yun Fei resigned, holding the brocade box that contained the key of Yan Xiangfu when he left.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone into the Hall of Respect and Sincerity, and the smile on the emperor's face was flatly suppressed. He picked up the decree of the mayor of Tanchuan and the gold-plated seal, and waved his hands.

Zhu Geng bowed respectfully, glanced at the emperor who had not shown any signs of surprise from the beginning to the end, and bowed his head while holding the iron coupon of the Danshu.

The emperor's face was calm and unwavering, he opened the hidden compartment under the imperial case, inside were a pair of black and white chess pieces, and the Cangwu order seal returned by Fang Jingci.The emperor put the seal of Tan Chuan next to Cang Wu, glanced over the pair of chess pieces, and suddenly pulled the corner of his lips very shallowly.