Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 124 The Curse of the Witch Gu (End)

half year later

Spring of the third year of Zhenghe

Changan
Shanglin Court

Emperor Liu Che lay listlessly on the soft mat, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze.

It's been half a year in such a daze, since the empress prince committed suicide, he felt that life had lost its meaning, and his heart was full of guilt.

"Your Majesty..." Mrs. Gou Yi squeezed the emperor's leg beside her.

"Your Majesty, Lang Guan Tian Qianqiu and Yantie Supervisor Wang Changjiong wrote a letter." A little eunuch came to the emperor's side.

The emperor ignored it and continued to look at the clouds. After a long time, perhaps because he was tired of looking at the clouds, the emperor just picked up the letter from his courtiers to read casually.

In the letters written by Langguan Tian Qianqiu and Yantie Supervisor Wang Changjiong, they both rehabilitated the prince Liu Shi, and believed that the prince's rebellion was probably manipulated by villains secretly.

Looking at the content of the letter, the emperor muttered to himself: "I am a big man, and I have loyal ministers."

……

Changan
Royal Mansion
Wang Changjiong is playing chess with his daughter Wang Ling.

"Father didn't stand for the prince before, why is he rehabilitating the prince now?" the young girl Wang Ling was puzzled.

"In the past, the emperor's attitude was not clear, no matter which side he stood on, it was not safe, but since the death of the prince, His Majesty has been worrying all day long, which shows that His Majesty approves of the prince in his heart and likes the prince, otherwise, how could he worry about the death of the prince? And feel sad? You know, there are quite a few princesses killed by His Majesty, and those are all his own daughters, and His Majesty has never been sad."

Wang Changjiong said with a slight smile, now that the princelings and Li Guangli's party have lost both sides in the fight, it is finally their turn for the Liaodong royal family to come out and win the fruits of victory.

"Now that we understand that His Majesty approves of the Crown Prince, His Majesty will definitely support us in rehabilitating the Crown Prince." Wang Changjiong continued to explain: "If His Majesty supports us, the status of our royal family in the court will naturally be further improved. .”

In the past, Wang Changjiong didn't know whether the emperor recognized the prince or not, so he didn't dare to stand in line easily, and because of this, he avoided the disaster of witchcraft. Now that the situation is clear, he naturally wants to stand in line to reap the fruits.

……

another two months later

Following Tian Qianqiu and Wang Changjiong's letters, more and more people realized that the emperor originally approved of the prince in his heart, so they also took the opportunity to write letters to vindicate the prince for their own future.

These people are the same as Wang Changjiong. When the princeling party and Li Guangli party were fighting to the death, they didn't dare to get involved. After the fight was over and everyone died, they came out to take credit for the prince's redress.

Under such a situation, some officials in the prime minister's mansion worried that the emperor would really rehabilitate the prince. In that case, they would die as prime ministers.

Therefore, in order to survive, an official in the prime minister's mansion chose to betray the prime minister, colluding with the prime minister Liu Quyu, Li Guangli and others to force the prince to rebel.

The emperor was furious, so he charged Prime Minister Liu Quyu and his family with witchcraft and executed them.

"They used the crime of witchcraft to frame my son to death, and I will punish them in the same way as others, and execute them with the crime of witchcraft!" Emperor Liu Che was very vengeful. Liu Quyu and others were executed on the charge of witchcraft: "There is also Li Guangli's family, I will also execute them!"

"Your Majesty, Li Guangli is attacking the Huns on the Monan Grassland, should we wait for him to come back?" Huo Guang persuaded from the side.

Huo Guang has been the emperor's confidant since a long time ago, but his official position is relatively low, and he is not as favored as Su Wenjiangchong and others, so he has always been a little transparent.

But now, the emperor came to his senses, Su Wen and others were naturally not favored, so Huo Guang began to be favored.

"Are you worried that Li Guangli will jump over the wall in a hurry to rebel?" Emperor Liu Che sneered, "Let him rebel! I want to see whether the soldiers of my big man listen to him, the second division general, or to me, the emperor!"

Huo Guang had no choice but to stand aside and dare not speak.

In the end, Prime Minister Liu Quyu's wife was accused of witchcraft and executed, and the Prime Minister's family was also executed.

At the same time, Tian Qianqiu made a meritorious letter and was promoted to prime minister, and Wang Changjiong also made a meritorious letter and was promoted from Yantiejian to Taichang.

Wang Changjiong has been in the officialdom for almost 50 years, and finally became a doctor of literature from the beginning to the position of Jiuqing, becoming one of the Jiuqing Taichang, also known as Taichangqing, and he is now 65 years old, older than Emperor Liu Che Only two and a half years younger.

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Monan Grassland
"General, the prime minister's family has been killed by His Majesty, and your wives and concubines..."

"I see."

Li Guangli, who had just defeated the Huns in the Monan Grassland, had not had time to be happy when he heard that his comrades Liu Quyao, Su Wen and others were killed by the emperor, and even his own family was also killed by the emperor.

In recent years, Li Guangli has basically been fighting the foreign wars of the big Han. Although he lost more than the Xiongnu, but fortunately he did not lose much when fighting against the small countries in the Western Regions.

As the people's livelihood in the Han Dynasty declined and the intensity of the Northern Expedition continued to decrease, the Huns moved Shan Yuting from the Western Regions back to the Mobei Grassland, and then continued southward, trying to take back the Monan Grassland from the Han.

He even captured generals of the Han Dynasty like Li Ling.

In the past, Wei Qinghuo Qubing pushed the battle between the Han and the Xiongnu to the Mobei area.

Now, the front of the Xiongnu and the big Han has been pushed back to the Monan area by the Huns.

Li Guangli fought decisive battles with the Xiongnu on the Monan Grassland many times, winning and losing each other.

Compared with defeating the Huns in the Monan Grassland, the news of Chang'an City is the key.

Li Guangli sighed helplessly at the reversal of the witchcraft disaster.

Naturally, he didn't dare to bring these tens of thousands of Han troops to rebel, because the soldiers were loyal to the big man, not Li Guangli. Once they rebelled, these big man soldiers would kill him immediately.

But he did not dare to go back to Chang'an to plead guilty to the emperor. According to Li Guangli's understanding of the emperor, he believed that the emperor Liu Che was a mean and ungrateful person. Even if Li Guangli went back to Chang'an to plead guilty, the emperor would not let him go. The prince took revenge and killed Li Guangli.

and so……

"So, in today's plan, we can only survive if we surrender to the Huns!" Li Guangli's lieutenant general said.

"No, no, no, no, I, Li Guangli, are not talented, but I can't be a person like Li Ling. What's more, I am a great general of a big man. How can I bow down to serve the Huns?" There are tens of thousands of elite Han troops in their hands. It is impossible for these elite Han troops to rebel. They surrendered to the emperor with a word from the emperor, but it is no problem to take them north to fight the Huns, so Li Guangli said to the lieutenant: " We have so many elite soldiers, why do we have to surrender? Why not just take down the entire Xiongnu, then I will be Shanyu the Xiongnu, and you will be the Zuoxian King of the Xiongnu, and then find a chance to bring the Huns’ servants back to Chang’an to be the emperor, isn’t it? Isn't it beautiful?"

"That's not bad." The lieutenant also thought it was feasible.

……

a few months later
Li Guangli led tens of thousands of elite Han troops to go deep and fight all the way to the Beihai area in Mobei. This place was only visited by Huo Qubing at the beginning. He did not expect Li Guangli to be able to fight so far.

Because no one could have imagined that Li Guangli wanted to take down the entire Xiongnu and become a big Shanyu, so the Huns were very confused and did not react. They were really caught off guard by Li Guangli, and tens of thousands of Xiongnu soldiers were killed by Li Guangli.

But after the remaining Huns reacted, the Xiongnu Shanyu surrounded Li Guangli with the remaining tens of thousands of the Huns' main force.

Li Guangli, who went deep alone, was finally defeated in Beihai and had to surrender to the Huns in order to survive.

In recent years, people's livelihood in the Han Dynasty has been declining, and millions of refugees have rebelled everywhere, but the Huns are actually worse. Because the entire Xiongnu lost the Monan grassland and half of the Western Regions, the economy collapsed. More than half.

In the past, the Huns could mobilize 30 troops to go south at every turn, but now it is very difficult for the Huns to even have an army of [-].

The bloody battle and confrontation between the Han and the Huns for more than 50 years resulted in frequent civil upheavals in the Han Dynasty, and the population of the Huns was halved, making it difficult for both sides.

(End of this chapter)