Chapter 246: Painting the Tiger and Slaying the Dragon Comes to Nothing
In a certain room of the big ship, the candle flame gently swayed with the undulation of the hull, and several palace maids and eunuchs with panicked expressions stood with their heads bowed, and the sad cries outside came and went.
Princess Ning Lou Suzhen was neatly dressed under the service of her personal maid Fluttershy, tied up her hair in a bun, and applied fat powder, a woman who was nearly forty years old was still so beautiful, with bright eyes and bright teeth, picturesque eyebrows, graceful and dignified with a rich bookish atmosphere. When she was in the boudoir, Lou Suzhen was a well-known beauty and talented woman, with countless admirers, and there was an endless stream of talented people who came to ask for marriage, but unfortunately in the end, Lou's family chose Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who was very talented and sparse.
Concubine Lou walked to the bookcase and sat down, spread out a piece of paper with a calm expression, picked up the pen and ink, stared out the window for a long time, and then sighed lightly, and wrote down four lines of poetry: Draw the old picture of the tiger slaying the dragon and sighing, and the blood book is dry and the phoenix's eyes are dry. So far, the water of Pohu Lake has been exhausted, and there are no tears in the past?
A crystal tear rolled down, followed by a few drops, wetting the rice paper on the case.
Since discovering that her husband had the intention of rebelling, Lou Suzhen has repeatedly advised euphemistically, and the year before last, she even wrote a metaphorical "Inscription Map" to persuade her husband to give up his attempt to rebel. It's a pity that her husband didn't listen to it at all, and he was furious and tore up the poem, for which Lou Suzhen could lose a lot of tears.
However, as a woman, what else can you do but admonish her? Now that her husband's rebellion has failed, the whole family will be executed, and the Lou family will also be implicated......
Fluttershy stood behind Concubine Lou, tears streaming down her eyes, she knew exactly what was about to happen, and the cries outside were coming and going, all of them were maidservants bidding farewell to their master.
Concubine Lou put down her pen, her cheeks still stained with tears, stood up gently, moved a small stool to the window and rested down.
"Princess!" Fluttershy snorts.
Concubine Lou glanced back at the maidservant and sighed, "Fluttershy, you should have married a long time ago, but I relented for a while and delayed you, and now I have hurt you." ”
Fluttershy said with tears in her eyes: "Don't say that, the princess, it's just that the slave doesn't want to marry, as long as the princess doesn't dislike the slave and the slave is clumsy*** the maid is willing to serve the princess for the rest of her life, whether she lives or dies!" ”
Concubine Lou sighed lightly: "Alas, you stupid girl, from today onwards, you don't have to serve me anymore, live well, if you have the opportunity to see that Xu Jin again, ask him for me, is this poem written correctly?" ”
Last year, Xu Jin was captured by Brother Zhu, the son of King Ning, and in order to get out, he stole the first two sentences of Concubine Lou's "Desperate Poem", and fooled that it was a dream, and Concubine Lou believed it at that time, because the first two sentences of this poem She thought it would be written by herself at a glance.
Now that her husband's rebellion has failed, and the fate of King Ning will be to destroy the family, Lou Suzhen touched the scene, and naturally wrote the last two sentences of "Desperate Poem".
Lou Suzhen regretted a little at the moment, she knew that the scholar's "dream" would come true, and she should have stopped her husband hysterically in the first place, but it's a pity...... It's all providential!
If it was possible, Lou Suzhen would like to ask Xu Jin in person, the two poems he continued were the same as what he dreamed of, but now it is impossible.
Concubine Lou stood on the stool, like a remnant butterfly falling into the unfathomable Poyang Lake......
"Princess!" Fluttershy, the maidservant, screams and runs to the window, and the maids and eunuchs behind her fall to their knees, and the cries begin to erupt.
Leaning slightly, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning who received the news, stumbled in, screaming for his concubine, and ran to the window to cry sadly, for this beautiful and talented wife, he was favored from the heart, of course, he obviously loved the emperor's throne more, otherwise he would not easily listen to the flickering of a few warlocks, and the comfortable rich vassal king did not do it, but was hot-headed to dream of the emperor.
When he saw the "Desperate Poem" left by Concubine Lou on the bookcase, Zhu Chenhao was even more in tears, and couldn't help but think of the metaphorical poem "Title Picking Wood" that Concubine Ai wrote to herself back then: The woman calls her husband to listen to her husband, and the picker must be light. Last night's rain was slippery with moss, don't go to the moss danger.
Earnestly admonished, the words are still in my ears, I only sigh that I couldn't listen to it at that time, and I only ended up like today!
Zhu Chenhao sighed and said sadly: "In the past, I used women's words to die in the world, and I thought that I didn't use women's words to die in his country, so how can I regret it now." Concubine Xian, I'm sorry for you for my husband! ”
The meaning of Zhu Chenhao's sentence is translated: In ancient times, the king of Shang lost the country because he was bewitched by the demon concubine and listened to the woman's words, but I killed myself because I didn't listen to the woman's words, and it was too late to regret it!
A group of palace maids and eunuchs knelt and cried silently, the cry shook the sky, Concubine Lou has always been deeply loved by the palace, and now she committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake, and all the palace people cried for her.
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On the second day of the third month of the 14th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the big boat on which King Ning was riding ran aground in Poyang Lake and was caught up by the counterinsurgency army that was chasing after him with his tail. Zhu Chenhao and his son, the prince of the county, Li Shishi, the left prime minister, Liu Yangzheng, the right prime minister, Wang Lun, the secretary of the military department, and Liu Ji, the superintendent of the army, were all captured.
As the saying goes: every time you slaughter more dogs, the party is full of righteous chickens. This sentence is not rough. Those men who are usually righteous and awe-inspiring and full of moral gentlemen often cower when they really face death, and they are not even as brave as women.
In order to avoid being captured and humiliated, King Ning's concubines resolutely chose to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the lake, but King Ning and Liu Yangzheng, the men who took the lead in the rebellion, chose to steal their lives, and finally all of them were captured, I have to say, this is really a great irony!
On the second day of the first month of March, King Ning and a group of backbones were captured, announcing that the rebellion in Jiangxi was completely put down, from the seventeenth day of the first month when King Ning sent troops to the second day of the third month, the rebellion lasted only forty-three days, and was put down by Wang Shouren.
Although history made King Ning rebel half a year ahead of schedule due to a slight deviation from Xu Jin, the wheel of history seems to have just slipped and returned to his original track.
At this time, when today's son Zhu Houzhao was leading tens of thousands of Beijing troops to the south to personally conquer, and proclaimed himself the governor of the military affairs of the mighty general Zhu Shou, the prince of Zhenguo, Jiang Bin, Xu Tai, Zhang Yong, and Zhang Zhong went out with the army.
However, not long after the army of Zhu Houzhao, the Son of Heaven, left the capital, and traveled from Zhuozhou, Wang Shouren's good news came. Zhu Houzhao, the son of heaven, was extremely unhappy, and he was ready to conquer in person, but you Wang Shouren was too blind, and the rebellion was put down in three or two strokes, so I still have a fart in person?
So, under the instigation of Jiang Bin and others, Zhu Houzhao kept Wang Shouren's good news a secret, continued to lead the army south, and traveled along the way, enjoying himself, and planned to let Wang Shouren put Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, back into Poyang Lake, and then personally lead the army to capture him alive again......