King Qin looked around and saw a person coming out of the forest in the distance. He was covered with leaves and had a ring of branches on his head. If it hadn't been for the reminder from the Qiu Long Guard, he would not have been able to spot this person.
This man raised his hands, and when Wu Da and others rushed over, he shouted: "Old Lin! Old Lin!"
Lin Feibao's body was shaken, "Wait a minute!"
Uda and others stopped.
Lin Feibao walked over slowly.
"you……"
The man's face was smeared with yellow stuff. He took off the ring on his forehead, pulled off the leaves on his body...and then rubbed his face.
He rubbed his face until it turned red and raised his head, "Old Lin, do you recognize me?"
"Gongsunjie?" Lin Feibao said in a trembling voice, "You... aren't you missing?"
"After His Majesty was buried here, I have been hiding nearby..."
The man turned his eyes and looked at King Qin, "He is..."
"It's little master, that child."
The man came over.
King Qin waved his hand to stop the two monks from blocking him.
The man looked at King Qin's face rudely, "Like! Like His Majesty! Like Huang Fengyi."
The man knelt down and said, "Gongsun Jie, I have met my young master!"
Lin Feibao came over and introduced: "Your Highness, Gongsun Jie was originally your Majesty's bodyguard. He is good at raising birds and can understand the language of birds. After your Majesty left, he disappeared."
"stand up!"
The King of Qin personally helped Gongsun Jie up and asked, "Have you been here all these years?"
"Yes!" Gongsun Jie stood up, "His Majesty is buried here. I was worried that someone would damage the mausoleum, so I hid nearby. I am good at raising birds, so I raised those birds. If nothing happened, I would poop on the heads of the mausoleum guards.
...The word spread and everyone said that His Majesty had appeared. In this way, no one dared to destroy the mausoleum."
That daddy!
What kind of charm does he have that can make these guards give up their good years and either go to southern Xinjiang or hide in the mountains and forests?
King Qin patted Gongsun Jie on the shoulder, "Okay!"
When the emperor is full of praise for you, in fact, fear or some other emotion is gradually growing, or it is just perfunctory.
The less you say, the better.
The King of Qin and his family fasted that day.
The next day, the people from the Ministry of Rites and the people from the Department of Metaphysics discussed the ceremony. The two sides couldn't argue, so they went to ask the King of Qin for instructions.
"I'm here to pay homage to my late father, so please put aside the rules!"
Both sides were dumbfounded.
In the early morning of the third day, King Qin got up early. When he came out, he heard Zhou Ning coaxing his second son to get up.
"Auntie, let me sleep a little longer!"
"Today you have to sacrifice to your grandfather. Don't get up late, otherwise your grandfather will whip you."
"Ah! Grandpa still beats people?"
"Yes!"
"Get up get up!"
King Qin smiled, and then his uncle Huang Wei came over with a handful of incense in his hand.
"Where are you going, uncle?"
Huang Wei raised his head and said, "My sister is buried on the hill next to her. I will burn some incense for her first."
"Let's go together later." King Qin said.
His biological mother had a humble status, so she could only be buried beside her, which was like being buried with her.
Then it was time to shower and change clothes.
There is no breakfast today.
The family walked out of their residence, and it was still dark at the moment.
The officials of the Ministry of Personnel and the disciples of metaphysics were busy.
The so-called mausoleum is a hill. The mausoleum is halfway up the mountain.
From here is the tomb passage. After a few hundred steps, there is a huge stone door. It looks tall and gives people a sense of oppression.
According to the traditional rules of the Central Plains, when things are like death, the palace is right in front of you.
It is said that Emperor Xuande and Emperor Wu were deeply regretful, but the palace city of the mausoleum was not large.
The sacrificial items are already in place.
Ning Yayun stood inside the stone gate, blowing the cold wind, and sighed: "Emperors, generals, and prime ministers are just a handful of loess in the end."
Bao Dong coughed dryly and said, "Headmaster, this loess is too big!"
Gongling Mausoleum is a tomb built on a mountain, so it is quite large.
The largest one is the joint burial mausoleum of Emperor Xuande and Emperor Wu.
King Qin is here.
Behind him was a family, and behind him were the accompanying ministers.
There is a eucalyptus table in front with tributes on it.
An official wanted to guide him, but King Qin looked at him and stopped him.
The King of Qin took three sticks of incense, lit them on the candle, then saluted and placed the incense.
What follows is a series of tedious and dizzying rituals.
King Qin waved his hand, "Everyone, step back!"
This is against the rules!
The officials of the Ministry of Rites were stunned.
Liu Qing coughed dryly and said, "Stay away for now."
Everyone slowly retreated, leaving only King Qin's family.
King Qin turned around and said, "Come, the ugly daughter-in-law will eventually see her parents-in-law. The naughty children and grandchildren will also be beaten, so come and bow."
Zhou Ning came forward and knelt down to salute, followed by A Liang, Li Laoer...
A family of four stood in front of the eucalyptus table, looking at the mausoleum halfway up the mountain.
"You guys go first!"
King Qin said.
Zhou Ning glanced at him and said, "Okay!"
She knew that this was the first time that King Qin had 'met' his late father, and he must have a lot to say.
Zhou Ning left with her two children.
King Qin stood in front of the eucalyptus table.
Facing the mausoleum in the distance.
It seems that there is no room for anything else in the world.
"Being here, I feel a little timid. It's not that I'm afraid of anything, but that I don't know how to face you."
"Infancy is not included, of course. I have never seen you. All my impressions of you are from hearsay. Yang Lue was probably worried about triggering my suspicions, so he never mentioned you."
"It wasn't until I arrived in Chang'an that Cao Ying and Yi Niang told me all this. I... you don't know, I wanted to run away at that time and stay far away."
"When I learned that my opponent was the emperor, I became scared. Don't blame me. At that time, I was just a country boy, thinking with my bare hands... I thought it would be better to find a place to live in peace."
"I grew up in the countryside of Yuanzhou. Was it hard? It was hard! After I was ten years old, I almost grew up in the bitter water. Other people's children were loved by their mother, but my mother only knew how to treat me harshly.
"
"I later learned that their attitude changed because Yang Lue was chased by spies from the mirror and escaped, and his monthly money was gone. So I became a trouble... Did you know that ignorant people in the countryside will
How to deal with trouble?"
"I never told anyone. One night when I was eleven years old, I didn't eat enough during the day, drank too much water, and got up to urinate at night. Before I went out, I heard a couple discussing what they wanted to do.
I sold it... They said I was quite handsome, and someone was willing to pay a big price..."
"At that time, I didn't know why a handsome child was so valuable. It wasn't until I stayed in Chang'an for a long time that I realized that there were people who specially raised such children and teenagers for the enjoyment of those who like masculinity."
"After that night, I felt like the sky was falling apart."
"I desperately wanted to save it all, so I worked hard and hunted hard. I just asked them to give me a smile and not to sell me."
"I am not saying this to complain to you, I just want to tell you that all this suffering has finally made me successful."
"In my eyes, you are a... fearless person."
King Qin thought for a while, "They said that my grandfather and grandmother loved you the most and said that you were my Qilin son. The close relationship between the empress and the prince is a model."
"Han Ji and the others told me that the Tang Dynasty seemed to be in bloom at that time, but you saw the undercurrents and crises underneath."
"You propose to curb land annexation and preserve the military system; you propose to reduce the support for the clan and reduce the rewards for the children and grandchildren of powerful families; you propose that you must pass the imperial examination to become an official; you propose to rectify the army; you propose to suppress the aristocratic families...
"
"You said that if there is no innovation, the fate of the Tang Dynasty will surely decline, and it will not last more than a hundred years."
"You said that with the spread of land annexation, the military system of the government will inevitably collapse. Then the armies in various places will lose their soldiers and have to recruit strong men locally. In this way, the localities will become vassal towns and the generals will be domineering."
The King of Qin really admired his father's vision. Even today, the conclusion of filial piety to the emperor still has great reference significance.
"You said that as the power of aristocratic families expands, they will inevitably turn their attention to the emperor and compete with him for power."
Yang Songcheng and others began to fight secretly with Li Miming, so that the court was filled with smoke and smoke, and state affairs were ignored, and they wanted to seize power first.
"You said that with the proliferation of official positions, infant children also had official status, and being an official naturally became a business. As a result, corruption was rampant, and officials colluded with local wealthy families and aristocratic families..."
"You said that as the land annexation becomes more and more intense, the people are displaced. If it is not curbed, sooner or later a rebellion will break out. Shi Zhongtang's rebellion seems to be due to the ambition of the foreign generals, but if it weren't for the people's life becoming more and more difficult, the refugees would
More and more, how could Shi Zhongtang's rebellion be so smooth?"
If the people had not been disappointed or even despaired of the Tang Dynasty, how could Shi Zhongtang be able to stabilize southern Xinjiang?
"Everything you said has come true."
"But your suggestions have become a thorn in the side of those with vested interests."
"I asked many people, and they all said that you are handsome and not a womanizer. But back then you got into trouble because of this matter."
"When my grandfather and grandmother were poisoned, they all said it was you. So they sent you and my mother away with a pot of poisoned wine. Later, my grandparents realized something was wrong, but you had already left."
"Who is manipulating all this? I have been checking. Those people are not only your opponents, but also my opponents. How many of them seem to be respectfully saluting me at the moment, but secretly are planning to attack me. Regarding this
I don’t know.”
"Those ground rats were hiding in the dark and watching me gloomily as I entered Chang'an City. Later, they would be proud and say secretly that back then we made the filial emperor miserable... Look! The emperor's beloved son died of us.
But we are still free and at ease. What a joy! Now that his son is here, let us join forces again to send him to the west!"
"You hate them down there too, right?" King Qin's eyes were slightly cold.
"I will find them, make them regret their mistakes, and let them die without a burial place."
"Your good nephew Li Mi is hiding in Shu, and he is accompanied by Li Yuan. I think what happened to you has something to do with their father and son. You must have been looking forward to God's retribution for those two beasts all these years.
Right? It’s a pity that it didn’t happen. But if God doesn’t repay you, I will!”
"Han Ji once said that you were quite calm before you left. The only thing you were reluctant to leave was that your efforts over the years had not yielded results. Those suggestions and innovations ended one by one after you were deposed."
King Qin saluted towards the mausoleum.
"I'm here today just to tell you. I'll do what you haven't done yet!"
King Qin slowly knelt down.
"I'm here today for one more thing. Over the years, you and my mother-in-law have been living in various rumors, which makes me feel a little desolate without a father and mother. It wasn't until I became a father that I realized that even if I die, my mother-in-law will
Thinking about your children."
The King of Qin kowtowed.
"My child, meet Aye!"
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I'm exhausted both physically and mentally and need to slow down, everyone, please forgive me.
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