Rui Hegui

Zhao Liangyue had a very long dream.

In the dream, he returned to the time when he first came to Kyoto.

Then, on a night with a bright full moon, he was walking on the mountain road to Heng'en Temple, and that familiar figure walked ahead with a lamp to illuminate him.

The two did not speak to each other, but walked forward at a leisurely pace.

After a long silence, Zhao Liangyue spoke first: "Brother Han, you didn't talk much today."

"Really?" The person in front replied lightly, without looking back.

There was silence between the two of them again, and they continued to walk forward one after the other.

The mountain road under my feet seemed extraordinarily long, endless, and I didn't meet other people along the way. The surrounding scenery was blurred, like balls of black ink.

Finally, after walking for an unknown amount of time, Zhao Liangyue noticed that the lamp in the hands of the person in front began to dim a little bit.

Afterwards, he also slowed down, sighed, and asked, "Sir, do you think the teacher will blame me?"

It turned out that he still regarded himself as He Wu who was wearing a bamboo hat to tell fortunes.

Zhao Liangyue said: "How come, you have been doing very well."

The person in front raised his head and looked at the full moon with a confused and sad tone: "Really?"

Zhao Liangyue said firmly: "Yes, Mr. Wei wants to teach a gentleman, and you are a gentleman who emerges from the mud without being stained."

The person in front finally laughed, and said: "Okay, I will believe what the sir said."

Zhao Liangyue also felt a little relieved to follow, he quickened his pace and wanted to be side by side with the person in front, but he suddenly started running, no matter how hard he chased him, he couldn't catch up, and he was getting further and further away.

"Brother Han!"

Zhao Liangyue only felt a huge panic in his chest, and shouted at the top of his voice.

The person in front finally stopped, came back and smiled at him, saying: "Sir, the lights are about to go out, I should leave, someone is waiting for me."

Before Zhao Liangyue could reply, the dimly lit lamp in his hand suddenly went out.

In Zhao Liangyue's field of vision, there was only an endless road left, and the thick ink-like scenery around him began to flow strangely, like a giant dark beast that wanted to swallow everything.

And at the moment when the giant beast annexed the world, Zhao Liangyue saw many familiar figures, his father and mother who smiled at him together, and Master Wei who raised his head from the document and waved to him, begging him to bring the pressed money to you. The old Mrs. Xiao who is white, and the mentor Wang Yu who broke off a red plum in the heavy snow and handed it to him.

"Let's go back."

Finally, they said so.

The lamp bearer has passed away, but the aspirant still lives in the world.

"What should I do? Why did you suddenly fall ill? Doctor Li, can you do it? Zhao Shangshu hasn't woken up yet!"

"Don't worry, my lords. Zhao Shangshu is overworked and sick. If he sleeps like this, let me use acupuncture to release the sickness, and he will be fine."

"How can you not be in a hurry? There are still a lot of things to discuss, and Pu Yang..."

"What happened to Pu Yang?"

Zhao Liangyue woke up at some point, and before his vision recovered, he heard the word Pu Yang in a trance, and the panic in his dream extended directly to reality.

Beside the bed, the officials who were noisy just now quieted down instantly, no one dared to answer Zhao Liangyue.

When the vision was clear, Zhao Liangyue looked up at the nearest Zheng Xiu, raised his hand to grab his official robe, and asked word by word: "Pu Yang, but something happened?"

Zheng Xiu looked dignified, nodded his head, and said: "Dongyi raided Mucheng, and then directly attacked Puyang. In order to drag the reinforcements to arrive, and to protect the people in the city, General Han and General Xiang died."

Zhao Liangyue's throat tightened, he was already speechless, and his eyes turned red instantly.

Zheng Xiu's lips moved, and he continued in a trembling voice: "The two were forced to a dead end by more than a thousand Dongyi soldiers, and they refused to surrender. As a result...there were no bones left. By the time the reinforcements arrived, it was already too late."

Zhao Liangyue leaned on the couch with blue veins exposed, finger bones turned white, and his whole body trembling. Finally, he leaned forward suddenly, coughing up a mouthful of blood, which splashed on the snow-white brocade quilt, which was shocking.

"Zhao Shangshu!"

The scene became flustered again, Zheng Xiu asked Imperial Physician Li to stay, and then he and Youbai invited everyone else out.

Zhao Liangyue leaned against the bed rail, his face pale, and when the surroundings quieted down, he raised his head to look at Zheng Xiu, and asked, "Pu Yang, are you guarding?"

"We have kept it." Zheng Xiu paused, "The people of Puyang have not suffered any casualties."

Zhao Liangyue closed his eyes, smiled lightly, and said to himself, "Master Wei, he must have seen it all."

At the end of the month, after half a month, in the midst of the civil and military anxiety of the Manchu Dynasty, Mobei was the first to report the good news, as if a ray of sky suddenly shone in the unknown lost way, with the dawn of the people, everyone finally saw hope .

A few days later, Yunhezi led three thousand sailors to attack the Japanese pirate stronghold, forcing the main Dongyi army who invaded the border of Maozhou with him to retreat to the bay. When the news reached Kyoto, Zheng Xiu was excited At the court meeting, he high-fived Changsun Jian on the spot, and because he was too excited, he couldn't control his strength, which made Changsun Shangshu's old bones almost unbearable.

Another month, summer has entered, and the rain in Kyoto has never stopped.

Zhao Liangyue has been living in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he can't sleep well. Oftentimes, he will be awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night, and he will inevitably go to other government offices the next day.

"Master Wan, is there any news from Southwest?"

"Returning to Zhao Shangshu, the Southwest Protectorate came to report that the troops of the three states were all used to fight against Tu Yuan. The number of victories was small and the defeat was high. It is not optimistic, but at least it has slowed down the speed of the front spreading to the east."

"Then, is there any news about him and Fan Jiajun?"

"not yet."

"Zheng Shangshu, is there any news?"

"Oh, it's not that the old man doesn't say anything. You have to ask at least a hundred times a day, and the results are all the same."

"That is not yet?"

"You... well, that's all, no, there is no news at all."

"Zhao Shangshu, there is news!"

"Is it from the Southwest?"

"Exactly, the situation in the Southwest has improved, and more than half of the lost cities have been captured. It was General Chi who led people to go around the enemy's rear and cut off the opportunity to obtain food and supplies. General Jin and Mr. Xing were also very accurate in seizing the opportunity. , The cooperation is simply amazing.”

"That……"

"Chu Shangshu, he still has no news."

……

Waiting is always infinitely stretched, stretched again.

Zhao Liangyue, apart from working and resting in the government office of the Ministry of Household Affairs, waited outside Nanping Gate every day. He watched the row of smoked willows beside the road from dotted with green buds, to full of emerald green branches, and then to lush and dark green.

But that person has not come back for a long time, and there is no news at all.

Finally, on this day, Zhao Liangyue went out of Nanping Gate as usual, and unexpectedly waited for Jingmo who had rushed back from the journey.

Is it an obituary?Or good news?

Zhao Liangyue firmly grasped the golden waist plaque of the Ministry of Punishment in his hand.

When the answer was about to come, Zhao Liangyue was extraordinarily flustered, but he ran out extremely fast, and Youbai, who was a little slow to react, took a long stride to catch up.

"Master Zhao!"

Jing Mo grinned at Zhao Liangyue, obviously overjoyed.

Zhao Liangyue's hanging heart finally fell.

Jing Mo didn't want the horse at all, jumped up and landed in front of Zhao Liangyue and Youbai, then quickly took off the long leather bag on his back, took out a file from a pile of letters and presented it to Zhao Liangyue.

The dossier was so new that it didn't even have the official seal of the government office, only the private seal of Bandit Chu on the seal.

Zhao Liangyue took it, carefully hugged it in his arms, and asked with emotion: "Is it from the old case?"

Jing Mo nodded again and again, excitedly said: "My lord, while finding out the situation of Tu Yuan's army, went all the way to Tu Yuan's capital, and used Tu Yuan's king to capture Ming Xun. Fan Shuai was already in Kunshan at that time, and Fan Jiajun was arrested. Find out everything that happened after cheating out of Qianqian Pass."

Zhao Liangyue rubbed the file lightly with his fingers, and couldn't help laughing.

Jingmo was too excited, hugged Youbai, and burst into tears. Youbai laughed at Jingmo at first, but then he couldn't help it anymore.

When Zhao Liangyue returned to the city, he was followed by two weeping men, among whom Youbai was still tugging on his official robe, and Zhao Liangyue's own eyes were also red. Everyone on the street was stunned when they saw it, but they dared not Asked each other, it was not until Tang Kang, who rarely went out, saw the three of them from a distance, that he brought them back to Tang's mansion.

After a full meal, the three of them finally calmed down.

Tang Kang was sitting on the rocking chair of the pergola, drinking a pot of tea leisurely, watching Youbai eat up the last grain of rice on the edge of the bowl, he clicked his tongue, and said, "Look at each of you, everyone Skinny like a monkey."

Zhao Liangyue got up, took Jingmo and Youbai to thank Tang Kang.

"Okay, okay, it's just a meal." Tang Kang beckoned the three of them to sit over, then took out a box from the sleeve of his robe, gave it to Youbai, and said, "This is something your mother left you, It's time for you."

Youbai took it with both hands and opened it, and found that it was a silky silver-white sword tassel. Youbai carefully picked it up and looked at it. It happened that the draft was blowing through the hall, and the sword tassel swayed like water, and it was like snowflakes.

"Your mother is the daughter of the Yuan family in the east of the city. She was originally a childhood sweetheart who was married to Lord Hou. Later, because she was seriously ill and time was running out, Yuan family voluntarily divorced. He took her into the Hou's mansion to get married, which showed his determination to marry Qin and Jin forever. After the marriage, Lord Hou asked for medicine in many ways, and even personally invited Dr. Zhong, a doctor who has been traveling all the year round, to drag her out of the gate of hell. After returning home, even though he is still sick in bed all year round, at least the husband and wife can still stay together."

When Tang Kang said this, he paused for a moment, and continued: "This sword spike was made up for your mother by Lord Hou himself. The name is taken from the two baby names when they were young. Few people know about this. Your father's baby name is A Bai, the original intention of the old Hou Ye is to hope that he will only be a white man in this life and live a long life. As for your mother's baby name, I don't know the details, I only know that there is a word for pomelo."

"So, the name of this sword spike is my name." Youbai said, gently sticking the sword spike to his chest, he couldn't help laughing, with a bit of fulfillment.

He finally got in touch with that broken blood relationship.

Tang Kang looked at the smiles overflowing from Youbai's eyebrows, and thought of something in a trance, and said: "If the old man's child was born, it would probably be your age, and it is still a monkey, so it must be naughtier than you."

Youbai was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Grandpa Tang married a wife?"

"Yes, her favorite thing is grapes. Her eyes are also like grapes. No one else's eyes are as beautiful as hers. But she passed away in the second year of our marriage." Tang Kang said with a sigh, "For a woman to have a child, it's never different from going through hell. Unfortunately, I can't bear it for her, and I can't keep her."

Hearing this, Youbai imitated Abai's usual appearance, and rubbed his head on Tang Kang's shoulder, making Tang Kang laugh, and said: "In two years, I will grow up to be an adult, so this will not work." .”

Youbai chuckled, and held the sword spike in his palm even tighter.

Afterwards, Zhao Liangyue discussed with Tang Kang about the reform of the imperial examination, but the old man nodded in agreement as soon as he finished listening, and even Youbai and Jingmo couldn't help feeling: "It's so sloppy."

Tang Kang laughed and said: "Don't be hasty, the imperial examinations have not been fair in the past ten years, otherwise I wouldn't have been the top student who was extremely incompetent, and still won the triple prize. Therefore, the sooner the reform, the better. And you adults actually If you can tell this old man about the matter, you must have discussed it with the Ministry of Rites."

Having said that, Tang Kang suppressed his smile.

Zhao Liangyue understood, and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Tang, since this junior is Brother Xiang's friend, he will naturally take care of Mr. Xiang for him."

"Alright." Tang Kang nodded, "When the old man is free, I will also go to play chess with him. Although his chess skills are ridiculously poor, the old man endured it!"

The three couldn't help laughing, and Tang Kang took the opportunity to drag Zhao Liangyue to play chess for half a day.

By the time Zhao Liangyue returned to the small courtyard in the south of the city, it was already evening.

Youbai was about to hug Abai to accompany Zhao Liangyue for a while, but when Zhao Liangyue entered the room alone with a letter and closed the door, Youbai understood Abai and went to find Uncle Song.

Chi Tingyu told him about the relationship between the two. Although he couldn't accept the two men being together at first, for some reason, when he thought of Zhao Liangyue and Chu Bandit, he felt very reasonable, no, very reasonable!

In the room, Zhao Liangyue opened the letter Jing Mo gave him, but there was nothing after opening it.

Did you forget to put it?

But this is not like Chu Bandit's usual cautious style.

Zhao Liangyue checked the letter inside and out again, and found that there was indeed nothing except a name on the envelope.

What does this mean?

Zhao Liangyue was puzzled. He wanted to send a letter to ask Chu Bandit, but Chu Bandit was still in Tuyuan, so he couldn't bring him there.

A month later, the inside and the outside worked together, and the situation in the Southwest Territory completely improved. Jin Hao led his troops to drive Tu Yuan's army out of the Qiangqian Pass. When the good news came back, there was a letter from Chu Bandit to Zhao Liangyue. No empty letter.

In another two months, news of great victories came from Mobei and Jiangnan successively, and everyone rejoiced together.

But as the situation began to stabilize, Ji Xuan also began to cultivate his own power - he didn't need pure ministers, they were full of the theory of benevolence and righteousness to rule the world, apart from impeaching him as an emperor with Zhao Liangyue every day, they cared about the life and death of those ants.As for Meng Yu and Sima Xiao, they were indeed loyal to him, but he gradually discovered that they were only emperors who respected Daxu, and what he wanted was the power to respect him alone!

Zhao Liangyue, Zheng Xiu and other officials of the six departments were well aware of the new emperor's thoughts, but he was the king of a country after all, he was headstrong and could not be stopped after all.

It doesn't matter if you can't stop them, but the officials promoted by Ji Xuan are not benevolent, righteous, honest and filial.

Zhao Liangyue saw it in his eyes, and suddenly thought of what Chu Bandit said before to change the new emperor, and his heart really began to move.

Finally, at the beginning of autumn, the three-party war ended, and Da Xu's vitality continued miraculously.

But just when Ji Xuan had rewarded all civil servants and generals, and wanted to show the greatness of the emperor, and went to reward Yun Hezi and Xiao Rong, the former returned the governor's seal intact, and then disappeared. As for the latter, he refused again in public. For Ji Xuan, it is very shameless.

It's just that no one thought that Ji Xuan, who is an emperor, would really be careful enough to send someone to assassinate Xiao Rong, and this matter was discovered by Jin Luanwei and soon became known to the public.

But what was even more unexpected was that when the officials were furious because of this incident, Ji Xuan suddenly died of illness in the palace, and Empress Wei, who was pregnant with Liujia, was on the dragon couch at that time.

Everything was suddenly full of doubts, but Ding Miao and Wan Qian, a chief servant, a minister of the Ministry of punishment, and the Imperial Medical Office all insisted that Ji Xuan died of a sudden illness, so no one dared to comment.

So, less than half a year after his ascension to the throne, the new emperor died without even having a year name, and was carried into the imperial mausoleum by the civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty.

So, who will succeed to the throne?

All the descendants are dead, there is no crown prince, Empress Wei is still pregnant, male and female are unknown, and the rest of the royal family are of similar backgrounds, all the courtiers are arguing in a mess, they only hope that the new ruler who has won the Ninth Five-Year Plan can be related to his family With reason.

In the end, Wan Qian handed over a kit left by Chu bandit to Zhao Liangyue. Zhao Liangyue and a group of senior ministers put the 13-year-old tenth emperor brother Ji Ke on the throne. The whole court was shocked, but no one dared to object.

In fact, Zhao Liangyue had never met Ji Ke before, and he didn't understand why Chu Bandit chose him, because no matter from his family background or qualifications, he was not outstanding.

Until Ji Ke appeared in Changtai Palace in a yellow robe, Zhao Liangyue looked up and found that Ji Ke's eyebrows and eyes resembled his own.

By the time Chu Bandit finished dealing with the matter in the Southwest Territory and returned to Beijing, it was already after Bai Lu. At this time, Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue hadn't seen each other for half a year.

According to the agreement, Zhao Liangyue went to Nanping Gate to pick up Chu Bandit in person, but Zhao Liangyue did not expect that when he arrived at the city gate, Chu Bandit had already arrived. Silence like a cicada.

Bandit Chu did not notify the government when he returned to the capital, but only informed Zhao Liangyue, and then he rushed back day and night, dressed in normal clothes and on a fast horse.

Zhao Liangyue sighed lightly: "Brother, I seem to be late."

"It's not too late, am I still outside the gate?" Chu Bandit said and pointed that he was still a foot away from the city gate, which made Zhao Liangyue smile, and Chu Bandit smiled, bowed his head and whispered, "And if I don't Tell the arrival time later, I am afraid that someone will wait here before dawn."

Zhao Liangyue raised his hand to touch his nose, coughed lightly, and then felt sour for some reason, and his eyes turned red.

Chu Bandit took him into his arms distressedly, and murmured over and over again: "Xilin, I'm back."

When I come back, I will never leave again.

In the autumn of the eighth year of Ping Chong, the old case of Fan Jiajun's treason was finally uncovered again on top of the case of the third company. After 15 years, everyone saw the bloody and tragic past.

In the 55th year of Jianning, the Fan family army went west to Qianqian Pass to pursue Tu Yuan. Wang Taboo took the magic machine camp to guard in the pass, but suddenly fell ill after the shock. Doubt, even Wang Taboo, who was in a trance at that time, didn't doubt it.

The night attack happened two days after Wang Yu fell ill.First, Wang Xian, who was escorting grain and grass, lied and called for help in distress. Shenjiying sent people to bring the grain escort team back to the city. Unexpectedly, gunpowder was hidden in the grain loaded on the carriage. Before it was too late, the city gate was blown up in an instant, and the flames reflected the sky.Then, the [-] Tuyuan Army, which was supposed to resist the Fan Jiajun hundreds of miles away, appeared outside the Qiangqian Pass, and joined forces with Wang Xianli to attack the Qiangqian Pass.

After that, the Zhao family imitated a secret letter in Wang Yu's handwriting and sent it to Fan Qiguang, recalling more than [-] Fan's troops back to the pass.

At the same time, Wang Xian sent a blood-stained letter to the capital of the Fan family's rebellion, and Han Wenyun had already woven a big net that turned black and white.

On Kunshan Mountain, Fan Qiguang was surrounded by Han Zhou and his men at the dam. He could have broken out of the battlefield after he was born and died, but Han Zhou threw him a question that was so cruel that it was inhumane——Han Zhou put the dam to death. A hole was blasted, and the raging Lumian River kept hitting the hole, and the hole became bigger at a speed visible to the naked eye.This dam is the main dyke, if it is ignored, it will break completely in a short time, Xiangyuan City under Kunshan Mountain and the nearby towns hundreds of miles away will be submerged and swallowed, and tens of thousands of people will suffer unreasonable disasters.

Fan Qiguang hesitated for a moment, then chose to stay, and led his soldiers to carry rocks and soil to block up, but the water flow of Lufang River was too fast, and Han Zhou ordered people to stop it deliberately, and it was too late, Fan Qiguang looked angrily at Lufang River In the end, Fan Jiajun had to jump into the river and block the gap with his flesh and blood.

When Kerry arrived with his troops, what he saw was that scene. The rushing water washed away batch after batch of Fan's troops, but the remaining Fan's troops would still jump down without hesitation until they reached the block of human flesh. The built wall successfully blocked the gap in the embankment.

At that time, the water of the Lumian River was dyed blood red, and these ten thousand Fan family soldiers resolutely went to die, willing to build a tomb for themselves, and then used this tomb to guard the dam.

Rao Kerry, who was his opponent, was also shocked by the scene in front of him, and remained silent for a long time.

In the end, Fan Qiguang had lost the best chance to break through the formation and leave. He was outnumbered in the siege and was beheaded by Han Zhou.A generation of war gods fell away.

Afterwards, Wang Taboo's whereabouts were unknown, Chi Tingyu fell into a coma, and the leaderless Fan family army didn't know about the conspiracy of the Wang Han family and Ye Yuan.

This time, the ones who greeted the Fan family's army were no longer the beggars who had been defeated at the beginning, but equipped with Daxu's best firecrackers, with Daxu's officials personally responding internally, and Daxu's snowflakes and silver recruits.

The knife drawn from his family's hand quietly pierced Fan Jiajun's back, piercing through the heart, fast and ruthless, with the coldest poison in the world.

Why did Fan Jiajun lose?

To use the crazy words Kriti told Chu Bandit, it was because he valued benevolence and righteousness too much.

Because of benevolence and righteousness, after the Fan family army left Qianqianguan and entered Tuyuan, they strictly ordered not to burn, kill and loot ordinary Tuyuan people, so Tuyuan dared to secretly transfer all troops to Qianguanguan and Kunshan for deployment.

Because of benevolence and righteousness, the Zhao family who had saved lives and healed the wounded was revered as a god-like existence by Fan's army. When she secretly poisoned Wang Taboo, no one doubted her, and when she excused Wang Xian and forged false evidence, no one doubted her.

Because of benevolence and righteousness, Fan Qiguang chose to give up the opportunity to break the formation on Kunshan Mountain, and stayed there with [-] Fan's troops almost forever.

In Kriti's eyes, the benevolence and righteousness that Fan Jiajun upholds are the most worthless things in the world, flaws and weaknesses, and extremely stupid, just a joke.

But have they really lost?

Fifteen years ago, they held the Southwest Territory.

Fifteen years later, they are still the ones guarding the southwest border.

Perhaps, the cold imperial court abandoned them and forgot them for a long time, but the Daxu people they guarded have always been there, and those old people with the same passion have always been there, and they have gone through all kinds of difficulties to bring their names to the world again. Send them off with a clean slate.

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Secretary Xu of the later generation, the fifth generation, took the title of Anxuan, and worshiped Zhao Liangyue, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, as the emperor's teacher.

In the spring of the first year of Anxuan, the emperor's relatives vindicated the case of the Fan family's army and made it known to the world.Half a month later, the Ministry of War finally got the whereabouts of the criminals who fled from the Han family.This widow is lonely and white, he is a follower of Cangji Yunhe, who has the ability to pull mountains and surpass the world, and later becomes the commander of the Southwest Army.

In the winter of the second year of Anxuan, hundreds of officials promoted Bandit Chu as chancellor, and Meng Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, took the lead in protesting.

In the summer of the third year of Anxuan, the fifth generation took the emperor's teacher to play again, resumed the two provinces of Zhongshu under the door, reopened the meeting hall, and the three provinces and six departments improved.

In autumn, the meeting hall entered the admonishment, intending to revive the new policy of the former emperor, teacher and king, and the fifth generation agreed, and Anxuan Shengshi started from then on.