Chapter 81: The Beginning and the End
"You are a rich and noble life, and you can be crowned a marquis after three years. Eight years later, if you can become prime minister, you will be in the limelight for a while. But in another nine years, you'll starve to death. ”
"I'm sure I won't be a marquis, I'm not the eldest son who can't inherit his father's title. Even if my eldest brother dies, my nephew will inherit it. As for you saying that I will starve to death, that is even more of a joke, since I will be rich and rich. How could he starve to death, Mr. Sima is alarmist again. ”
"You have a vertical stripe on the side of your mouth that goes down to the corners of your mouth. This is the face of starvation. ”
Zhou Yafu leaned against the cold wall of his cell, having just been tortured. There was no trace of strength in his body, and the scene when Sima Jizhu showed himself appeared in his mind.
It really worked, and the eldest brother Zhou Shengzhi was removed from the knighthood for his crime. The first emperor remembered his father's merits and specially returned the title to the Zhou family. Zhou Yafu was named the Marquis of Jiang, which confirmed the criticism in the first paragraph.
Hosoyanagi was named a lieutenant himself, and then became a powerful prime minister. It seems that I have forgotten this comment, and I am recalling it until today.
"Heaven and earth are furnaces, and creation is work. Yin and yang are carbon, and all things are copper. ”
After Sima Ji chanted, he laughed and walked away, as if it was just yesterday. Zhou Yafu closed his eyes, he now experienced the taste of torment. My throat hurts so badly that taking a sip of water is like swallowing a piece of hot coal. The sputum spit out is yellow with a green tinge, like a jade stone.
I was so hungry that I couldn't eat or wanted to eat. Zhou Yafu felt that this soul had left his body, and now he was only suffering from a shell.
I've seen too much slaughter in my life. I've seen too many deaths. I also thought that I had various ways to die, but the only thing I didn't expect was that I would starve to death. Maybe this is fate, after drawing a circle of three flats and four unrounds, he stubbornly returned to the position where it started.
In the sixth year of Emperor Jing, Zhou Yafu, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, died of hunger strike at the age of forty-four.
When the news of Zhou Yafu's death reached the Yun family, Yun Xiao was eating.
Gently put down the chopsticks in his hand and stood up silently. touched the girl's little face and walked out sadly.
It's not heroes who sympathize with each other, but rabbits die and foxes are sad, and power is a black hole that devours human life. No matter what amazing things you and your family have done. As long as you touch the most taboo rights of the royal family. can't escape the fate of death and annihilation. Zhou Yafu is a living example. If you don't want to die, then you have to take the right to control the world from the hands of the royal family. From this point of view, Zhou Yafu's fate is a matter of time.
Even if he succeeded in rebelling with King Liang, King Liang would not let this rebel hero die. From the day Zhou Yafu and Gongsun Wei met. It was doomed that he would die an unnatural death.
How do you want to go your own way? The higher your status, the more the royal will pay attention to you. Hiding and living a free life is a luxury. Every grass and tree in this land is ruled by the Liu family, including if you can't find a path of your own. Then according to the current path, the Yun family will only have two endings in the end. First, he was killed by royal suspicion and casually charged with a crime. The second is rebellion.
Look at the earth under your feet. Peaceful and stable people. Yun Xiao fell into a long contemplation.
"Mother, this is Zhou Yafu's confession before he died. It's all recruited, and the third child let people do it. ”
In the Hall of Immortals, Liu Qi put a few pages on the book case of the Queen Mother.
"If you give it to me, I won't see it. Since the third child has done such a thing, then he must accept the punishment. It doesn't matter what you do, but you have to keep one thing in mind. Liu does not kill Liu, this is the ancestral motto set by Gaozu. In order to prevent future generations from killing each other. ”
The Queen Mother's face was indifferent, and from the very beginning she guessed that this matter was done by someone sent by Liu Wu.
"Mother, if they succeed in seizing the palace. Do they also pay attention to their children's ancestral teachings? ”
Liu Qihuo stood up suddenly, and his anger made Liu Qi's face turn red all of a sudden.
"If Ah Wu really succeeds in seizing the palace, the old body will be the first to refuse. The inheritance of the empire cannot be done in the form of bloodshed, and if it is bloody, then future generations will follow suit. The inheritance of future generations of emperors will be full of blood, and if it is really like that, the country of the Han Dynasty will be over. ”
Liu Qi sat down helplessly and looked at the excited Queen Mother.
"Cut off the military power of the Liang State, and only allow twenty guards after the third child. Permanently reside in Liangguo and are not allowed to enter Beijing. No one is allowed to leave the fiefdom unless he is edicted. ”
Liu Qi made the final condition, which was his bottom line. It is also the price that King Liang must pay, Liu Qi will not let Liu Wu have another soldier, and leaving him with twenty guards is already benevolent.
"What a pain it is, cannibalism for this position. When Empress Lu came to the court, all the vassal kings killed Zhu Lu, how bloody it was. But after all, it's an outsider, how could Ah Wu attack his own brother, how could it......"
The Queen Mother screamed in pain, and a pair of withered yellow hands slapped the case loudly. A few cloudy tears flowed from the empty eyes.
"The rabbits in the field are chased by everyone, but the rabbits in the market are rarely cared for, why? For the rabbits in the market have a name, but the rabbits in the field have no name.
The problem now is to settle the name, and I would like to see it again. Now it seems that the crown prince will not stand for a day. This person's heart will not be stable for a day, and I decided to announce to the world tomorrow that Liu Yu, the tenth son of the emperor, the king of Jiaodong, will be the crown prince.
Belch...... This one doesn't sound good. The crown prince of the dynasty can't be called a pig, so it's okay to call Liu Che. ”
The Queen Mother closed her eyes and remained silent, which was regarded as acquiescing to Liu Qi's decision.
In the sixth year of Emperor Jing, Liu Qi officially canonized Liu Yu, the king of Jiaodong, as the crown prince. and gave the name Liu Che, a generation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty officially appeared on the stage of history.
The canonization ceremony was very solemn, and the courtiers were in two compartments. Looking at the new master of the East Palace, he walked step by step towards the supreme ruler of the Han Dynasty. And after Liu Qi's death, he legally inherited that position.
The heir of the empire showed a maturity that was not commensurate with his age, and according to etiquette, Liu Che climbed the one hundred and eight steps of Weiyang Palace step by step. Towards his father, towards the supreme power of the Han Dynasty.
And finally did that position, and his name has been engraved in the Chinese history books from this moment on. His country name has become the name of a nation that has lasted for thousands of years, and he has given a nation the confidence to stand tall for a thousand years. He gave the Han nation unprecedented dignity, and from this moment on, the history of the Han Empire and the entire world will change.
The origin of this qiē is this eight-year-old child. (To be continued......)