Xiao Mingxuan looked at her, his stern features gradually turned to warmth.
"Walk."
With that said, he pulled Luo Jiuli and asked her to walk side by side with him, and stopped in front of an underground secret room.
Behind his back, he didn't know which mechanism Qin Yin had touched.
After hearing a rumbling sound, there was a long corridor with only the faint light from the oil lamp in the corner.
Luo Jiuli didn't ask any more questions, and Xiao Mingxuan didn't answer either.
The two of them walked in with a tacit understanding.
The stone door behind him rumbled again and then closed.
The corridor was very long, Luo Jiuli estimated that it took more than a minute, and the two stopped again in front of a secret room.
The door to the secret room was bare without any extraneous objects, so it must have been a trap.
As expected, Xiao Mingxuan was seen holding Luo Jiuli with one hand, and with the other hand, he inserted his fingers into a certain mechanism on the upper left side and pressed lightly.
Just as a roar was heard, the originally tight secret room door slowly opened from one side.
"Let's go."
Xiao Mingxuan looked at her.
"Um."
Luo Jiuli nodded, becoming more and more curious about what he wanted to show her.
The two entered the secret room, and the door of the secret room was closed.
"This is--"
Everything in the secret room made Luo Jiuli's eyes wide open in shock.
It was about six feet long and more than four feet wide. In front of the dark secret room were two shrines, and behind the shrines were rows of tablets.
There is an incense burner in front, and the incense burner is full of incense ashes. It can be seen that someone often comes to burn incense.
"This is what I want to show you."
Xiao Mingxuan looked at her and took her step by step towards the altar table.
As he got closer step by step, Luo Jiuli stared blankly at the two shrines, feeling extremely shocked in his heart.
I saw that the shrine on the left said that the position of Emperor Shengwen and Shenwu of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was written, and the shrine on the right said that the position of Empress Xiaogongyi, Mercy and Mingde of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was written.
On the land of the Changning Dynasty, the emperor and queen of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were enshrined. This... Luo Jiuli looked at Xiao Mingxuan.
Xiao Mingxuan looked at the shocked expression on her face and her hesitation in speaking. He wanted to ask but didn't know how to ask.
Then he let go of her hand, giving her room for doubt and shock, stepped forward, lit two sticks of incense, bowed respectfully, and said:
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty and your wife are here to see you."
It would have been fine if he didn't say it. Once he said it, Luo Jiuli felt like a big hammer was hitting her heart.
Xiao Mingxuan, Xiao Mingxuan actually named the tablets on the two shrines Father Emperor and Mother Queen.
Then wouldn't he...
She didn't know much about the distant Eastern Zhou Dynasty, just as she suddenly felt that Xiao Mingxuan was a little strange at this time.
Xiao Mingxuan finished burning two sticks of incense and looked back at Luo Jiuli.
"What do you want to ask? Just ask."
After a while, Luo Jiuli found his voice and only said two words.
"all."
Her fate has long been closely related to his. If he is really not the ninth prince of the Changning Dynasty, then do the palace, the emperor, the queen mother, and all the princes and princes know this huge secret?
Xiao Mingxuan stepped forward and took her hand.
"Although you and I are not married yet, I have already regarded you as my wife. Since I brought you here, I naturally want to tell you everything."
As he spoke, he looked at the tablets with a faint look, telling Luo Jiuli every word, every word, thrillingly, from his life experience to the stories of blood and tears that had happened in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Palace.
Luo Jiuli also went from being shocked at the beginning, to gradually calming down, and then to feeling pity for his rough life experience.
It turned out that Xiao Mingxuan was really not from the Changning Dynasty as she thought, or to be precise, he was not the Ninth Prince of the Changning Dynasty.
However, his status is no worse than that of the 'Nine Princes', because he is the sixth son of the previous emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Shengwen.
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, one of the five countries on this continent.
Thousands of miles of territory, vast land, and strong military strength, but at the same time, due to lack of popular support and the war provoked by the interests of all parties, it has faced a fate of fragmentation.
And the beginning of this 'destiny' was the palace change more than twenty years ago.
To put it simply, it is the political struggle between the legitimate prince and the distinguished prince with military exploits.
And this legitimate prince is Xiao Mingxuan's father, the previous emperor Sheng Wenhuang, and the prince with outstanding military exploits is the current emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wu.
Because Xiao Mingxuan's father, Emperor Shengwen, was the ancestor of the emperor, Xiao Mingxuan's grandfather. The eldest son of the emperor was the crown prince from birth.
As a prince of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he naturally had to learn all aspects of etiquette, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics, but the most important thing was naturally the education of strategies for governing the country.
After all, the prince will manage the country as the emperor in the future, so he must learn the strategies of governing the country and carry out certain practices.
The purpose of the prince's supervision of the country was to train his ability to govern the country.
But at that time, the border was unstable, and as the prince, he could not put himself in danger, so Emperor Wu, who was still the prince, led the troops to the expedition.
Because of that time when he led his troops on an expedition, Emperor Wu won a great victory and gradually accumulated military merits. His military power and power in his hands became more and more powerful, and his appetite and ambition became more and more obvious.
At that time, Emperor Shizu saw the ambition of Emperor Wu, and some courtiers in the court secretly asked Emperor Shizu to re-establish the prince because the prince had no military merit.
But Emperor Shizu never thought about changing the prince.
He was very aware of the disadvantages of deposing the eldest son and establishing the young. He also understood that once the prince was deposed, the prince would definitely die after Emperor Wu ascended the throne.
Therefore, when the two sides were fighting, Emperor Shizu began to help the prince contact several major families in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and handed over part of the military power in the capital to the prince.
Although Emperor Wu of that time had great military exploits, his foundation was in the military, and most of them were at the bottom.
In addition, the prince had the help of the ancestor emperor until he successfully ascended the throne and became the emperor.
It stands to reason that a life-and-death political struggle should have come to an end with the crown prince's ascension to the throne.
However, Emperor Wu's palace was deep and deep. During those few years, he kept his edge hidden and lay dormant. On the one hand, he planted many party members in the court to strengthen his power.
On the other hand, they are just waiting for Emperor Shizu to die and return to heaven.
Finally, in the second year after the death of Emperor Shizu, which was also the year when Xiao Mingxuan was born, Emperor Wu launched a palace coup.
Royal brothers, father and son have no family affection, which is vividly shown in Emperor Wu.
He killed his brother and sister-in-law, issued a death order to all the princes and princesses, and carried out a general purge of all the aristocratic families who followed Emperor Sheng Wen.
Even the families of all the concubines of Emperor Sheng Wen were massacred.
For a whole month, the smell of blood floated over the entire capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
When night comes, the people close their doors early, and even the wind is whimpering like the cry of the dead.
The author has something to say:
When writing this article, I feel a little uncomfortable. I have read in history books that the battle for the right to inherit the throne in ancient times has always been cruel. Think about the Xuanwumen Incident in the Tang Dynasty and the Nine Dragons in the Qing Dynasty. Alas! The throne of Kowloon is really
Is it that important? Maybe I’m not a man and don’t understand it, or maybe I wasn’t born in that era.
Phew! Phew! Tomorrow, October 1st, I wish our motherland a happy birthday, and I also wish all readers a happy holiday.
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