Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 257 It seems that the laughter of a father after his death is not just a specialty of the Tang Dynasty

Zhao Kuangyin's voice was filled with anger, and with the special effects provided by Li Qing, his voice echoed even at the foot of the mountain.

The emperor's wrath resounded throughout the mountains!

He couldn't help but feel angry. Zhao Heng was too anthropomorphic and had no clue at all.

This is no longer an ordinary behavior, and a heavy blow is necessary!

Hearing this sound, everyone present couldn't help but subconsciously tighten their fists.

Without him, although it is said that "the son does not talk about strange powers and confuses the gods", this is after all on Mount Tai, and it also takes place in the sacred Zen ceremony, which can't help but make people daydream.

Especially the Western scene that just happened, where Emperor Taizu's memorial tablet was held in a hearse beating the current emperor, which undoubtedly intensified the reverie of the ministers.

Could it be...that Emperor Taizu really appeared?
Especially when they saw the memorial tablet of Zhao Guangyi driving a donkey cart carrying the memorial tablet of Emperor Taizu, they strengthened this idea.

After all, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi... Zhao Jiong's accession to the throne can be said to be unclear. No matter whether he was the successor or not, whether the Golden Chamber Alliance was true or false, it could not eliminate the suspicion that Zhao Guangyi was under the melon fields and plums on the night of Zhao Kuangyin's death.

It was like a lump of yellow mud fell into Zhao Guangyi's crotch. It was either feces or feces.

The "Candle Shadow and Ax Sound" incident that was very famous in later generations had no market in this era... No, it should be said that it had not been written yet.

The so-called sound of candle shadows and axes, also known as the sound of axes and candle shadows, refers to the fact that at midnight in October of the ninth year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was seriously ill and summoned King Zhao Guangyi of Jin to discuss matters (other records say that Zhao Defang, the fourth son of Taizu, was summoned to the palace. After discussing the funeral affairs, the king of Jin knew about it but did not summon him into the palace), and was not heard from left and right. During the banquet, someone saw Guangyi leaving the banquet under the candlelight from time to time, as if he was shying away. They also heard Taizu stabbing the ground with his axe, and loudly saying: "It's good to do it" (other records say "It's good to do it, it's good to do it"). ). Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly and inexplicably that night, and Jin King Zhao Guangyi naturally ascended the throne.

The first time this candle shadow and ax sound incident appeared in records was in "Xu Xiangshan Wild Records" written by Wenying during the Xining period of Song Shenzong Zhao Xu.

There has never been a specific and reliable record of what happened during the Taizu period. Suddenly one day a hundred years later, someone vividly made up a story, the degree of credibility of which... is probably equivalent to the record in "Nanjing Taichang Temple Chronicles" written during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Di's biological mother during the Hongwu period was not Ma The queen is as metaphysical.

Of course, some people listen to the wind and it turns out to be rain...

But in fact, official history records that on the night of October 19, Zhao Kuangyin was seriously ill, and the Queen of the Song Dynasty sent her confidant Wang Jien to summon her fourth son Zhao Defang into the palace to make arrangements for his funeral. Zhao Guangyi, the second brother of Song Taizu, had already been spying on the throne and bribed Wang Jien as his confidant. When he learned that Taizu was seriously ill, he and his close confidant Cheng Dexuan stayed in the Jin Palace all night waiting for the news.

After receiving the imperial edict, Wang Jien did not summon Zhao Defang, Taizu's fourth son, but went directly to inform Zhao Guangyi. Guangyi immediately entered the palace, and after entering the palace, he entered Taizu's bedroom without waiting for notification. When Wang Jien returned to the palace, Queen Song asked, "Is Defang coming?" Wang Jien said, "The King of Jin has arrived." Queen Song was shocked when she saw that Zhao Guangyi had arrived. Knowing that something had happened and that it was irreversible, he could only call Zhao Guangyi "Guan Jia", one of the names for the emperor, and begged: "The lives of my mother and son are all entrusted to Guan Jia." Zhao Guangyi replied: "Let's protect our wealth together. No worries!"

Generally speaking, compared with the case of Zhu Di's biological mother, no matter which theory is used, it is not conducive to Zhao Guangyi.

Of course, Zhao Heng also knew that his father's ascension to the throne was not very logical. Now when he heard a thunderbolt in the clear sky, he was so frightened that half of his soul fell away.

In his horrified gaze, an extremely familiar face appeared in his field of vision.

It's his good father, Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi looked defeated. He was still wearing a cart harness, and he was pulling a donkey cart behind him. There was a dark-faced man sitting on the donkey cart. He looked like he had been leading troops all year round.

"First...Emperor?" Wang Dan exclaimed in surprise, but he was not surprised at Zhao Guangyi's donkey cart.

He is not stupid, he knows that the one who can treat Zhao Guangyi like this must be Zhao Kuangyin.

I remember when the late emperor drove a donkey cart and trotted all the way to catch shrimp farmers in the Gaoliang River, and the world was shocked. This must be a great shame for his brother, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin.

I'm such a damn man, why do I have a useless brother like you?
Putting Zhao Kuangyin's thinking into perspective, Wang Dan also felt that this donkey cart was quite suitable for the late emperor.

"Father?" Zhao Heng looked at the crestfallen Zhao Guangyi in horror, feeling cold from his tailbone to his Tianling Gai.

As Zhao Guangyi's son, of course he knew what was going on when his father ascended the throne.

Otherwise, his father wouldn't be thinking about Feng Chan every day.

Firstly, it was to promote the national power of the Song Dynasty, and secondly, it was to show orthodoxy. The most important thing was that Zhao Guangyi wanted to flaunt his legitimacy through the title of Zen.

As we all know, the more you lack something, the more you like to show off, just like some netizens in the group brag about how great they are every day.

Of course Zhao Heng knew the person Zhao Guangyi was pulling behind him.

Zhao Heng was born in the first year of Kaibao, and Zhao Kuangyin was not dead when he remembered.

Besides, Zhao Kuangyin looks quite distinctive. The old Zhao family only has such a big black fat man, so of course Zhao Heng recognizes him.

Zhao Guangyi raised his head and glanced at Zhao Heng, looked around at his surroundings, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

If this had happened before he met Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi would have been furious and stretched out his hand to slap Zhao Heng several times.

Damn it, you and I haven’t even been granted the title of Zen, but you’ve actually become one?
In fact, Zhao Heng's relationship with Zhao Guangyi is not very close, but the blame lies not with Zhao Heng, but with Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi was very suspicious, perhaps because his accession to the throne was not normal, so he did not even believe in his son.

On August 18, the first year of Zhidao, Zhao Heng was appointed as the crown prince. He changed his name from Zhao Yuankan to Zhao Heng, and also took charge of Kaifeng government affairs. From the mid-Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, few emperors appointed crown princes, so Zhao Guangyi's establishment of a crown prince was regarded as a major event.

After Zhao Heng was established as the prince, on his way back to the palace from visiting the Ancestral Temple, the people of Kaifeng cheered and some even called him the "young emperor" (some say "the true lord of the country"). After Zhao Guangyi heard about this from Queen Li, he felt that "the common people only know that there is a prince, but they don't know that there is me."

But as the father of a prince and the emperor of the dynasty, he must not be angry at Zhao Heng. After all, Zhao Heng was scolded as soon as he was established as prince. It is obvious that he, the emperor, is petty.

For this reason, Zhao Guangyi could only vent his anger on Kou Zhun, but after Kou Zhun's explanation, he went down the slope to calm down.

After Zhao Heng became the prince, he was cautious in everything and rarely attracted attention. However, Zhao Heng was frightened by the Kaifeng disaster tax reduction incident in the second year of his reign.

At that time, all seventeen counties under Kaifeng Prefecture were exempted from paying taxes due to drought. Someone reported to Taizong and falsely accused the Kaifeng government of exaggerating the disaster and deliberately trying to win people's hearts. Zhao Guangyi attached great importance to this matter and immediately ordered an investigation into the matter. In the end, the officials who investigated the matter came back and said that the disaster was true, and Zhao Heng was able to get through the difficulty without any danger.

If Zhao Guangyi grasps this problem, it will be a big problem for Zhao Heng, not to mention whether he can keep his position as prince, but also whether he can save his life.

Zhao Guangyi is an old boy. Even Zhao Tingmei can kill him if he wants. There is doubt whether he killed Zhao Kuangyin. Isn't it normal to kill a son?
Let's talk about it, he is a ruthless person who enjoys killing his brothers and killing his brothers. Zhao Heng's accession to the throne was not smooth either. Zhao Guangyi's suspicion gave Xiao Xiao an opportunity. When Zhao Guangyi was critically ill, the eunuch Wang Jien, the political minister Li Changling, the Zhizhigao Hu Dan, and the scribe Pan Lang planned to make Zhao Yuanzuo the emperor of Chu. There is also a theory that they wanted to support Zhao Weiji, the second son of Yan Wang Zhao Dezhao. Empress Li also had this tendency but was undecided. She ordered Wang Jien to summon Prime Minister Lu Duan to the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Lu Duan noticed the unusual information, and first secretly wrote the word "Dajian" on the wat board, sent his personal followers to urge Zhao Heng to enter the palace, and then put Wang Jien under house arrest in the Zhaoshu Pavilion. He entered the palace and had a debate with Queen Li, forcing her to agree to make Zhao Heng emperor.

However, Lu Duan was not completely reassured, so when "the Zhenzong was established and the ministers were introduced by hanging the curtain", he "standing flatly without bowing to His Highness" and asked to roll up the curtain. After he was promoted to the palace for inspection, he was demoted after confirming that it was Zhao Heng. , led the ministers to say long live. Due to Lu Duan's appropriate measures, an imminent palace incident was avoided.

As the saying goes, "Zhuge was only cautious in his life, but Lu Duan was not confused in important matters." This is what Lu Duan is talking about.

Perhaps it was because Zhao Guangyi had always been suspicious of him and made him walk on thin ice. The first thing Zhao Heng did when he took the throne was to deal with Wang Jien and other speculators in the palace coup. The second thing was to recognize the fourth uncle Zhao Ting who was persecuted by Zhao Guangyi. Zhao Tingmei's two sons were given the title of King of Qin, and they were reburied according to higher standards soon after. Zhao Tingmei's two sons were given official titles, which in fact erased the charges that Zhao Guangyi had imposed on Zhao Tingmei.

To say that Zhao Tingmei is also quite unlucky, let's not say that he was persecuted, let's just talk about his name... In the beginning, he and Zhao Guangyi both had the same character "kuang", they were Zhao Kuangyi and Zhao Kuangmei respectively. After Zhao Kuangyin came to the throne, they were changed to Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Guangmei to avoid taboos. Later, Zhao Guangyi came to the throne, and Zhao Guangmei changed his name to Zhao Tingmei again because of taboos.

This name is almost as fast as Wu Zetian's change of name.

After all, Wu Zetian changed her reign name just to post on Moments, and it was completely voluntary. But Zhao Tingmei was completely voluntary.

But it turns out that Zhao Guangyi's first target is him, whether he is willing or not. Without him, after all, the so-called "Golden Chamber Alliance" produced by Zhao Guangyi records that before her death, Empress Dowager Du made an agreement with Zhao Kuangyin that "a hundred years from now, your biography will be in Guangyi, Guangyi will be passed on to Guangmei, and Guangmei will be passed on to Dezhao." . If Zhao Tingmei is not eliminated, it can be said that Zhao Guangyi will have trouble sleeping and eating.

Throughout the Song Dynasty, everyone knew that Zhao Guangyi was narrow-minded.

There is a very good joke. It is said that during the Yongxi period, a man cursed at the base of the city wall of Bianliang: "The saints today are so short-sighted!"

So he was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison for two reasons.

The second year was because he insulted the current Holy Emperor.

Twenty years was because the top secrets of the Song Dynasty were leaked.

So in the Song Dynasty, you can't tell random jokes. If you tell a good joke today, you will have all you can eat tomorrow.

It is precisely because of Zhao Guangyi's petty suspicion that Zhao Heng cannot be said to be very close to him.

Now seeing Zhao Guangyi miserably being tied up in front of the car like a donkey, don't tell me, don't tell me, Zhao Heng felt a twisted pleasure in his heart.

This mentality is actually understandable. Since ancient times, I have never heard of a deposed prince ending up well. If we don’t talk about it far away, let’s talk about Li Chengqian. He died in the exile a few months after he deposed the prince. Every time he dreamed back at midnight, Zhao Heng would dream about being deposed as the crown prince because of Zhao Guangyi's suspicion about the tax reduction incident caused by the disaster in the second year of Zhidao, and he would wake up from his dream in fear.

It has created a psychological shadow on the children.

"Huang...Uncle Huang?" Zhao Hengmao had the courage to crawl to the side of the donkey cart. He raised his face, narrowed his swollen eyes, and asked flatteringly: "Are you not dead?"

"Even if I die, I still have to make you angry!" Zhao Kuangyin swung his riding whip angrily.

Zhao Heng was so frightened that he subconsciously put his hand in front of him.

There was a sound of breaking wind, followed by a snapping sound, and then a scream.

Zhao Heng subconsciously screamed, but found that his body didn't hurt.

"Howling mother, I'm relying on you." Zhao Kuangyin looked at Zhao Heng angrily: "It's a letter ball, and I didn't fight, howling mother?"

After scolding Zhao Heng, Zhao Kuangyin raised his whip and whipped him hard.

Only then did Zhao Heng realize that the person Zhao Kuangyin was smoking was Zhao Guangyi.

Hey, it's not me who smoked, so that's okay.

My father has rough skin and thick flesh, so it won't matter if he can be whipped a few more times.

This kind of laughter between father and son is not a specialty of the Tang Dynasty, but it is also realistic in the Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Heng said "uncle emperor", the officials had already confirmed the identity of the fat black man in front of them.

Some veterans recognized Zhao Kuangyin, but after all, the county magistrates were not as good as the current officials. They could not confirm Zhao Kuangyin's identity beyond the current emperor Zhao Heng.

Don't want to die? This is a transgression! If the emperor doesn't want to recognize him, won't he still be the one who is put in the shoes after he returns?
Those who can be officials are all talented people, and they have a lot of little things in their hearts.

Just like this, the ministers immediately knelt down and paid homage: "I will pay homage to Emperor Taizu! Emperor Taizu is in peace!"

After paying homage to Emperor Taizu, he began to pay homage to Emperor Taizong.

"I and others pay homage to Emperor Taizong..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Kuangyin.

"Everyone, get up!" Zhao Kuangyin said impatiently.

After all, Lao Zhao is the founding emperor, and his words are full of majesty. In addition, his status was higher than that of Emperor Taizong, so the ministers looked at each other and stopped saying hello to Emperor Taizong.

Then, the gossip souls of the ministers began to burn brightly.

Zhao Pu was already dead at this time, and Wang Jien, who had tipped off Zhao Guangyi, was also demoted from the capital and had been demoted to the post a few years ago. Everyone who knew Mi Xin back then has now passed away, so how Emperor Taizong came to the throne has become an unsolved mystery of the Song Dynasty.

Now I am looking forward to Emperor Taizu publishing an issue approaching science to clear up the fog of the past.

Looking at Emperor Taizu's attitude towards Emperor Taizong, there must be something fishy in it.

(Ask for monthly ticket)

(End of this chapter)