Chapter 0890 When the edict came out, the world was shocked! (Tonight and tomorrow to make up
"What happened to the young master?"
"..."
After hearing what the doctor said, the servants started talking quietly.
Xiang Yan heard what the doctor said and hurriedly said: "Then don't disturb him and let him be alone."
"It's all gone, it's all gone..."
After hearing Xiang Yan's words, the housekeeper hurriedly dispersed the surrounding servants.
However, Xiang Yan stayed at the door of Kou Tianci's room and did not leave.
Seeing that Xiang Yan looked bad, Kou Hui also felt bad. She hugged Xiang Yan's arm and said with a worried look: "Mom, what's wrong with my brother?"
Xiang Yan touched Kou Hui's head and whispered: "He probably thinks that he has done bad things with good intentions."
Kou Hui tilted her head and asked, "Is it about the old lady of the Yang family?"
Xiang Yan was stunned for a moment. She originally wanted to hide it from Kou Hui, but Kou Hui had obviously guessed it.
Xiang Yan no longer concealed anything, "Your brother and the Yang family brother used many means to escape from Bianjing City and went to the North, hoping to bring back the bones of General Yang and fulfill the wish of the old lady of the Yang family.
But he didn't expect that the day when the bones of old General Yang returned to Bianjing City would be the day when the old lady of the Yang family died.
He felt that he had done something wrong and killed the old lady of the Yang family."
Kou Hui asked with an ugly face: "Is that the old lady of the Yang family that my brother killed?"
Xiang Yan sighed and said: "The person who presided over the return of the remains of General Yang to Bianjing this time is your uncle Yang, not your brother and brother Yang. So this matter has nothing to do with your brother."
Kou Hui slowly frowned, "Did Uncle Yang kill the old lady of the Yang family?"
Xiang Yan sighed again and shook her head.
Kou Hui was a little confused, "What on earth is that?"
Xiang Yan whispered: "What you, Uncle Yang, did was right."
Kou Hui was even more confused, "Then the old lady of the Yang family is gone, whose fault is it?"
Xiang Yan lowered her head, looked at Kou Hui, and said seriously: "No one is wrong. I am telling you some truths, but you may not understand them.
When you become a wife and a mother, you will naturally know."
Kou Hui scratched her head and stared at Xiang Yan in confusion.
Xiang Yan lamented: "Seeing my loved ones leaving one by one, my heart has been broken. The longer she lives, the more suffering she will suffer.
That feeling is probably more uncomfortable than any punishment in the world, and more painful than going to hell.
If she is burned inside and out, it is a sin, a sin made by everyone in the Song Dynasty."
Xiang Yan's words were a bit profound for Kou Hui and she couldn't understand them.
So she could only scratch her head.
Xiang Yan patted her shoulder and whispered: "Your brother is smart enough. There are not many people of his age who can match him. Unfortunately, he is not knowledgeable enough and doesn't understand enough principles.
So it will be easy to do this after encountering something.
Let's give him some time to think more.
If he can't figure it out, I can only ask your Uncle Yang to enlighten him."
Kou Hui pondered and asked: "If dad were here, what would he do?"
Xiang Yan was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: "I will probably throw your brother out of the house and let him play. Don't think too much."
Kou Hui said in astonishment: "Then why don't you do this?"
Xiang Yan sighed and said: "Mom is a woman, so she can't make your brother feel at ease. Your father is different. If the sky falls, he can withstand it, but mom can't."
"..."
The older one and the younger one said this outside the door of Kou Tianci's room. Kou Tianci was hiding in the room, squatting in the corner, as if he had lost his soul.
Kou Tianci's soul will be recovered sooner or later.
But the soul of the old lady of the Yang family may have gone to hell hand in hand with Old General Yang at this moment.
Yang Wenguang never thought of making a big deal about the funeral of the old lady of the Yang family.
But many people came to express their condolences at Yang's house, and the scene became a big one.
The streets where the Yang Mansion is located are all hung with white silk ribbons.
Except for Yang Mansion's Bai Ling, which was hung up by oneself, the rest were hung up voluntarily by the common people.
Almost everyone in the Song Dynasty knew what happened to the old lady of the Yang family.
They were all feeling sad for the death of the old lady of the Yang family.
The news of the death of the old lady of the Yang family spread throughout the Song Dynasty overnight.
The old lady in charge of many people's homes ordered their servants to hang a white lantern at the door.
Thousands of white lanterns, like a sheet of snow, covered the Song Dynasty.
When Kou Ji got the news, it was already half a month later.
That day.
The sky is covered with heavy snow.
Kou Ji was standing on the top of the mountain admiring the snow. Chen Lin stepped on the crunching snow and walked to Kou Ji. She said with a sad face: "Kou Ji...the old lady has gone..."
"Why……"
Kou Ji's body trembled and he let out a long sigh.
The voice, appearance, and smile of the old lady of the Yang family all appeared before Kou Ji's eyes.
Kou Ji withdrew his gaze admiring Daxue, fell on Chen Lin, and said sadly: "I remember she was a kind old woman, and she was very kind when she smiled.
No matter whose junior you are, you are always greeted with a smile.
Every time she smiles, people can't help but get close to her.
I feel like she is my own grandma.
She is obviously the person with the prettiest smile in my country, but she is also the most miserable person in my country."
Chen Lin wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded heavily.
Kou Ji took a deep breath and said, "Chen Lin, if such an old man appears again in the Song Dynasty, we should all be buried alive."
Chen Lin's eyes were red, her mouth was pursed, and she was speechless.
Kou Ji continued: "Chen Lin, I'm not happy."
Chen Lin stared at Kou Ji and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Kou Ji pondered and said: "It's a pity that I didn't see the old lady for the last time. If I don't condole with her anymore, I'm afraid I will regret it for the rest of my life."
Chen Lin stared in shock, "You want... to go back?!"
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin and said, "I leave hundreds of thousands of troops behind and go back? Am I crazy or are you crazy?"
"and you……"
"Go and get me a mourning hall so we can express our condolences."
"In the wilderness, where is our home..."
"You just say it can be done, right?"
"manage!"
Chen Lin gritted her teeth, agreed to Kou Ji's request, and hurried down the mountain to find Bai Ling and other things.
Kou Ji stood alone on the top of the mountain, blowing in the wind and accompanied by snow, and murmured in a low voice, "Actually, I want to dig up the graves of Xiao Yanyan and Brother Yeluxiu to take revenge.
But after thinking about it carefully, I was right.
They wanted to protect their country of Liao.
The ones who are really at fault are Zhao Guangyi and Wang Qian.
I can't dig Zhao Guangyi's tomb.
Wang Qian's tomb was flooded by the Yellow River a few years ago, and his bones were blown away.
I can’t dig it either.”
Speaking of which.
Kou Ji laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's really strange to say that the culprits Zhao Guangyi and Wang Qian did not bear the bad reputation, but instead let Pan Mei bear the blame for thousands of years."
Kou Ji's self-talk was blown away by the wind and disappeared between heaven and earth.
Kou Ji stood on the top of the mountain for a long time, and heavy snow fell on Kou Ji.
Kou Ji shook off the snow from his body and stepped down the mountain.
On the mountainside, there is a row of cave dwellings, with dozens of them.
People with status in the army opened cave dwellings and lived there.
After Kou Ji returned to the cave, he sent for Zhong Shiheng, the most knowledgeable man in the army.
The two of them worked in the cave for most of the day and wrote a memorial.
After Chen Lin prepared the mourning hall, Kou Ji led those in the army who wanted to express their condolences to the old lady of the Yang family, and together they paid homage to the old lady of the Yang family, read and burned the eulogy.
Because of the old lady of the Yang family, the Song Dynasty was in mourning throughout the winter.
It was not until the willows blew their breath and the spring breeze blew on the shore that the Song Dynasty gained some vitality.
They just appear with the vitality, not just one newborn baby after another.
But one by one the old people passed away.
The first person to receive the bad news was Wenchang Academy.
Wen Yanbo's master, Shi Zheng, died quietly in his residence just when Liu Ya'er spit out a little bit of fresh green.
Since then, three old masters in Wenchang Academy passed away.
Seven veteran ministers who resigned from office passed away in Bianjing City.
Just when the situation got a little better.
Cao Wei fell ill on the bed and never got up.
After Zhao Zhen learned about this, he immediately rushed to Cao Mansion with his people to visit.
Entering Cao Wei's residence, what he saw was an old man who was so thin that only his bones were left.
"Cao Aiqing?!"
Zhao Zhen exclaimed when he looked at Cao Wei, who was skinny and skinny on the bed and was breathing out more than he was taking in.
Cao Wei's eldest son, Cao Xu, was waiting in front of the bed, wiping tears while trying hard to listen to what Cao Wei said silently.
Cao Wei's lips opened and closed, but no sound came out.
You can only tell what Cao Wei wants to say through the shape of his lips.
Cao Xu stared at Cao Wei hard and finished speaking, and said to Zhao Zhen with tears in his eyes: "I am reporting to the official family. My father said that he could no longer get up and could not salute you. Please don't blame me..."
Zhao Zhen hurriedly walked to Cao Wei's bed, shook his head and said: "I don't blame... I don't blame..."
Cao Wei opened his mouth again.
Cao Xu hurriedly watched.
Cao Wei said a lot, and Cao Xu looked at it for a long time.
After Cao Wei shut up, Cao Xu choked and spoke, "In the official family, my father said that King Shou is smart and should be taught by a good teacher so that he can take on big responsibilities in the future.
Kou Ji, the envoy of the Privy Council, was proficient in all kinds of arts and had profound knowledge. He could be the master of the Shou King.
My father also said that the official family is in its prime and should not establish a prince too early. The position of prince should be established a few years later."
After listening to Cao Xu's retelling, Zhao Zhen nodded and said to Cao Wei: "I understand... I promised you that as long as you help me win the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, I will make King Shou the crown prince. If you
If I can't take back the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, I will ask King Shou to be a long-term follower to Kou Ji.
I just didn't expect that you helped me win the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, but instead of asking for rewards, you asked for punishment.
I can agree to this."
When Cao Wei heard this, he blinked and said a few words silently.
Cao Xu quickly repeated, "My father said, thank you Lord for your kindness."
Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "You are also thinking about my heirs, so I should thank you. As the saying goes, a nephew is close to an uncle. But I feel that an uncle is also close to a nephew.
I said before that I want you to be a living king with a different surname.
I originally thought that after Kou Ji and others returned to the court, they would be rewarded together.
But I look at you, I’m afraid I won’t be able to wait until that time.”
When Cao Wei heard this, his lips opened and closed quickly.
Cao Xu immediately repeated, "My father said that being crowned king is just a matter of fact, and he does not ask for it. There is no need for the officials to make an exception for him and leave trouble for future generations."
Zhao Zhen said frankly: "There is no need to worry about Cao Aiqing, I have my own considerations. It's just that it's not easy to handle this living king with a different surname."
Having said this, Zhao Zhen waved his hand and asked most of the people in the room to get out.
Only he, Cao Wei, and Cao Xu were left.
Zhao Zhen stared at Cao Wei on the bed and said in a deep voice: "You are not the only one who has made extraordinary contributions to our Song Dynasty, there are others. If I don't reward him, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince everyone.
If I were to reward you, it would not be possible for me to show my great kindness unless I was a king with a different surname.
It's just that if a king with a different surname is placed in the hinterland of our Song Dynasty, it will be beneficial to our Song Dynasty.
So I want to enfeoff you all.
Let you help me guard the borders of the four fields."
When Cao Wei heard this, his eyes widened in shock, staring at Zhao Zhen in disbelief.
Cao Xu opened his mouth in shock.
Zhao Zhen continued: "My dear, you don't have to be so surprised. After our Song Dynasty conquers Liao and Qingtang, our territory will be far greater than before.
Compared with the powerful Han Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it is only bigger but not smaller.
The bigger the place is, the harder it is to manage.
Some remote places are simply beyond my reach.
Instead of supporting the wild king, let him become powerful and attack us in the Song Dynasty.
It would be better to entrust those places to you.
With you guarding the border and taming the barbarians, I can rest assured.
Maybe a hundred years from now, the place where you sit will become a Han people who speak Han culture and wear Han clothes.
By that time, we, the Great Song Dynasty, will not be able to rule hundreds of lands, but all the lands will take our Great Song Dynasty as their sect.
By that time, only I, the Song Dynasty, have the final say in how big the world is."
Cao Wei stared at Zhao Zhen for a long time, hesitated for a long time, opened his lips lightly, and uttered a sentence.
Cao Xu looked frightened and repeated, "Father...Father..."
Cao Xu said "father" twice in a row, but he didn't repeat what Cao Wei said.
Zhao Zhen glanced at Cao Xu and said, "Don't worry, I won't blame you."
Cao Xu hesitated again and again, and said hesitantly: "My father said... aren't the officials afraid of more than a dozen people rebelling against the king and coming to Beijing?"
"Hahaha……"
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he laughed loudly, "The three major forces of Liao, Qingtang, and Heihan have joined forces to attack the Song Dynasty. I am not afraid. Why should I be afraid of rebelling against the king?
Furthermore, I will not enfeoff you, but will keep you in Bianjing City and leave the borderland to those barbarians.
A hundred years later, wouldn’t there be dozens of barbarians attacking the Song Dynasty?”
At this point, Zhao Zhen put away his little face and said seriously: "From the Qin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, all dynasties have been fighting against the barbarians. Not only did the barbarians not completely disappear, but they became stronger and stronger.
I don't want to give those barbarians another chance.
I don’t even want to see barbarians setting foot in our Central Plains.
Therefore, I am not afraid of more than a dozen rebels.
What I am afraid of are dozens of barbarians.
If you rebel against the king and enter the capital, you will not massacre the people of our Central Plains.
But if the barbarians enter the capital, our Central Plains will be wiped out thousands of miles away.
Even if we, the people of the Central Plains, die, we will become souls killed by the sword, not food in other people's bellies.
Therefore, it is better for me to enfeoff you than to leave the border areas to those barbarians.
I have considered all of them again and again.
The benefits of enfeoffing the border areas to you are far greater than leaving them to the barbarians."
Cao Wei looked shocked, and Cao Xu felt like he was dreaming.
"The official... the official's mind... is as broad as the sky..."
These words were said by Cao Wei himself, not repeated by Cao Xu.
The sound is very small, almost inaudible.
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he laughed heartily.
After laughing, Zhao Zhen continued: "Don't rush to praise me, I will grant you a title, and you can take away your clansmen and your frivolous wealth.
But the fertile land, houses, and shops in your hands must be left to me.
I think it is not excessive to give you a fiefdom and take some of your family property."
Cao Xu had a look of pain on his face when he heard that Zhao Zhen wanted to take away all the farmland, houses, and shops of the Cao family for free.
Cao Wei opened his mouth without hesitation.
Cao Xu looked at it carefully for a while and said with difficulty: "My father said that it is not too much, and the official family should keep all the extravagant wealth. After all, no matter how big the family fortune is, it can't compare to a fief."
Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "The places I granted to you are almost all remote areas. I asked you to go to the outskirts of the town, not to distribute them.
So I won’t touch money.
I also allow you to bring a group of prisoners with you before you leave."
Cao Wei immediately opened his mouth.
Cao Xu immediately repeated, "Thank you Lord for your kindness..."
Zhao Zhen nodded, "I will leave now. The edict to confer your canonization will be delivered to your house tomorrow. I will be accompanied by people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
They will take inventory of your Cao family’s properties, houses, and shops.”
Cao Wei spoke slowly, his expression solemn.
Cao Xu recounted: "My father said that as a human being, I envy your friendship with Kou Ji, but as a human minister, I have to persuade you and guard against Kou Ji.
I know that Kou Ji is loyal to the official family, but he must be on guard against others.
The power that Kou Ji holds in his hands is so terrifying that it can turn the world upside down."
Zhao Zhen said loudly: "I understand. When I turn around, I will appoint fourth brother as Ping Zhangshi under Tong Zhongshu. After Baoqing and Tianci get married, I will give the reward to fourth brother to Tianci, so that
Tianci left Bianjing City and went to the border to become an idle prince.
When the time comes, I will ask Kou Tianci to take away all the old men of Fourth Brother.
Fourth brother will be just a civil servant in the court."
When Cao Wei heard this, the solemn expression on his face slowly dissipated.
He spoke again.
Cao Xu quickly repeated, "My father said that Di Qing is trustworthy."
Zhao Zhen nodded and left Cao Wei's bedroom without saying anything.
After Zhao Zhen left, Cao Wei immediately ordered Cao Xu to call the Cao family to his bedroom and began to instruct the entire family to move.
Cao Wei didn't have the slightest objection to Zhao Zhen trying to take away all the Cao family's properties, houses, and shops.
I even felt that Zhao Zhen took less.
Others in the Cao family may have ideas.
But Cao Wei would never have the slightest idea.
Because Cao Wei knows in his heart that Zhao Zhen asks you for it without hesitation, that is, he thinks highly of you, gives you face, and keeps you alive.
If he doesn't ask, he will still want your things.
Then your whole family must prepare coffin boards.
Besides, Zhao Zhen wants to give them a fief, and a fief worthy of the king's title will definitely not be small.
They earned a small piece of fiefdom in exchange for some properties, houses, and shops.
So there is no reason to worry about anything else.
The human heart needs to be satisfied. If you are not satisfied, you will easily die.
There are only two consequences for people who want to swallow everything.
Either supreme, or the body dies and the Tao disappears.
There is only one Supreme Being.
Countless people have died.
Zhao Zhen left Cao's Mansion and returned to the palace. He took out the edict that he had prepared in advance and sent someone to deliver it to Cao's Mansion with great fanfare.
The edict said: Cao Wei's meritorious service is high, and it is difficult to show his kindness without heavy rewards. Cao Wei was made the king of Nanhai County, and his land was Liuqiu Island and the Penghu Islands.
Hereditary, regardless of succession, rest with the country, and use it to control the South China Sea.
In addition, the edict also contains some regulations that restrict the Cao family's children, as well as the rules that the Cao family must follow.
The contents of the edict were instantly spread throughout Bianjing City.
The city of Bianjing was boiling instantly.
All the officials rushed into the palace instantly.
Empress Cao, who had just completed her confinement, also hurried to Zishitang to see Zhao Zhen.
Empress Cao rushed into the Zishi Hall, gave a hasty salute, and said to Zhao Zhen: "What does the official family mean? Why do they send me, the Cao family, to Liuqiu?"
Zhao Zhen had long expected that the world would be shocked when the imperial edict was issued, and someone would definitely come looking for him, so he acted very calmly.
Zhao Zhen sat on the throne, calmly flipping through the memorial, and said calmly: "Fa Pei? Are you blaming me?"
Empress Cao gritted her teeth, lowered her head, and said in a deep voice, "I don't dare, I, my concubine."
Zhao Zhen raised his head and put down the memorial, "Then you are here to ask me to punish you?"
Empress Cao lowered her head even further, "I don't dare."
Zhao Zhen sighed, "If others had treated me like this, I would have had them pushed out and beheaded. You are my wife, and I can understand that you are thinking about your natal family.
As a human being, I should answer your questions.
I will tell you a few words.
Don’t ask me about this matter again in the future.”
Queen Cao lowered her head and remained silent, waiting for Zhao Zhen to say more.
Zhao Zhen said quietly: "My Song Dynasty has now stood up and become stronger, stronger than ever before. Naturally, there are more heroes, and each of them has made great contributions.
Four or five of them can be called masters of great merit.
I can't use the bird's bow to hide it, nor can I dare to use the bird's bow to hide it.
For the sake of the country and the country of the Song Dynasty, and for the foundation of our ancestors, I can only do this."
Queen Cao suddenly raised her head and stared straight at Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen seemed to know what she was thinking, and said in a deep voice: "Take my fourth brother as an example, do you think I can kill him?"
Before Empress Cao could speak, Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "I can't kill him. Firstly, I won't let him go; secondly, if I kill him, my kingdom will probably fall into chaos.
Kou Gong will definitely bump into my head and die in my golden palace, and before he dies, he will definitely curse me as a foolish king.
My name as Hunjun will spread throughout the world overnight.
People in the world who are favored by Fourth Brother will inevitably raise a flag to rebel.
How many people in the world have benefited from Fourth Brother?
Not only the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, but also the common people, as long as they got new farm tools, they all benefited from Fourth Brother.
If they knew that I, a foolish king, had killed Fourth Brother, they would definitely rise up and seek justice for Fourth Brother.
Even though I tried my best to suppress this matter.
I will kill many more people.
We must first kill the Kou family.
Then he had to kill Bao Qing, who had a deep love for his God-given son.
We still have to kill Cao Wei, Zhong Shiheng, Zhu Neng and other people who are like rabbits and foxes.
We still have to kill those disciples of Fourth Brother.
If I kill you in one breath, I, the Song Dynasty, may have to go back to the past.
I will eventually fall into madness and self-destruct.
Therefore, it is not advisable to hide the bird behind the bow.
If I want to save the Song Dynasty from the disasters caused by many outstanding officials, the only way I can do it is to make the king a king."
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(PS: Something delayed me a bit tonight, so the update is late. Sorry. I can only update once tonight, and I will make up for it tomorrow if I owe another update.)