Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 422: A Day of Grace for You (Special thanks to my book friend Brother Fu Yuan for his 4 monthly tickets!)

Chai Zongxun accompanied Princess Jialuo for lunch and comforted her during the meal, finally helping her calm down.

After taking a nap in the main hall of the harem, Chai Zongxun walked into the main hall of the front yard, sat on the throne and thought about how to deal with Mo Zang Liuyun.

Mo Zang Liuyun is a natural beauty with extraordinary skills in bed. If she stays with me, I'm afraid she will fall for me sooner or later and succumb to her bewitchment.

The most straightforward way would be to kill him with a single blow, but Chai Zongxun knew he could not do such a heinous act as to take the huge amount of money contributed by others and then kill people.

Thinking of the beautiful and charming night last night, Chai Zongxun felt a little reluctant.

Although Mo Zang had caused public outrage in Gaochang, her power had after all melted away, and she and her son were no longer a threat.

After considering for a while, Chai Zongxun decided to let Mo Zang Liuyun and his mother go to Bian Jing to enter the "Bao En Temple" to practice as female Taoist priests.

As for his son Ye Luoge, he was made a marquis. When he grew up, he started a family and became a citizen of the Great Zhou.

As soon as the decision was made, Chai Zongxun ordered the Wude Division to send a thousand men to escort Mo Zang Liuyun and his mother to Bian Jing.

After all, it would not be fun if Princess Jialuo saw that Mo Zang Liuyun was still by her side and wanted to commit suicide again.

Chai Zongxun sighed and thought:

"In terms of beauty, Jialuo is not inferior to Mo Zang Liuyun at all. However, in terms of stimulation, beauties like Jialuo are like cigarettes, fascinating, while the temptation of Mo Zang Liuyun is like drugs."

On that day, Mo Zang Liuyun received an imperial edict to accompany the Wude Division to Bian Jing.

Seeing that Emperor Chai Zongxun would not keep him to serve him, Mei Zang Liuyun was both surprised and disappointed. He had no choice but to tell the whereabouts of Mei Zang's family treasure and how to open the basement. Then, that evening, he and his son Ye Luoge got on a carriage and set off for Bian Jing under the escort of thousands of Wudesi.

During the long and boring journey, Mo Zang Liuyun kept thinking about his life, especially the night of joy he had with the Great Zhou Emperor Chai Zongxun.

Thinking of others and feeling sad for himself, Mo Zang Liuyun recalled a long poem that he had been taught by a private school teacher invited by his father when he was young at Rokutani Fan's home. With his heart agitated, he wrote it down with pen and ink:

Drawing the Silver Bottle from the Well

The silver bottle was being pulled out from the bottom of the well, but the silk rope broke when the bottle was about to come up.

The jade hairpin was being ground on the stone, and it was about to break in the middle.

What can I do if the vase sinks and the hairpin breaks? It seems like I am saying goodbye to you today.

I remember when I was a girl at home, people said that my actions were unique.

The beautiful woman's temples are like the wings of cicadas, and her eyebrows are like the color of distant mountains.

I was laughing and playing with you in the back garden, but at that time I didn't know you yet.

I am playing with green plums leaning against the short wall, and you are riding a white horse beside the weeping willow.

They immediately looked at each other from afar, and their hearts broke as soon as they saw Zhijun.

I know you are heartbroken and I am talking to you. You point to the pine and cypress trees in the South Mountain.

I feel grateful for your kindness and I am like pine and cypress, which have turned into my heart. I secretly follow you with my two maids.

I have been living in your house for five or six years, and the elders in your family have often said something to me.

If she is engaged, she will be your wife, and if she is married, she will be your concubine, who is not fit to serve the sacrifices and offerings.

I finally realized that I couldn't stay in your house, but what could I do if I left home and had nowhere to go?

Don’t we have parents at home? We also have family ties filling our hometown.

I came here secretly without any news, and today I am too sad and ashamed to go home.

One day of kindness from you will waste my whole life.

A message to all the foolish girls from humble families: be careful not to give yourself to others lightly!
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Princess Jialuo saw that Chai Zongxun had sent someone to send Mo Zang Liuyun away that night. Although she failed to kill Mo Zang Liuyun as she wished, she was satisfied that Chai Zongxun could give up Mo Zang Liuyun, who had just been favored, for her. Born into a royal family, she knew that she could not push the emperor too hard, otherwise it would be counterproductive, so she suppressed her jealousy.

On the afternoon of October 3rd in the 31st year of Kaixi, Chen Ding, the pacification envoy of the Wude Division who was hiding in the mountains and forests north of Gaochang, received the imperial edict and led a hundred soldiers to escort the Queen of Gaochang and the eldest prince back to Gaochang City to meet the emperor.

Chai Zongxun and his concubine Jialuo summoned the two of them to the main hall in the front yard.

On their way here, the Queen of Gaochang and the eldest prince had learned about the current situation in Gaochang from Chen Ding and other soldiers of the Wude Division.

After seeing the ceremony, Chai Zong ordered the two of them to sit down.

Chai Zongxun said:

“My two beloved ministers have suffered a lot in the past few days!

Now I have put down the rebellion of the Mo Zang clan in Gaochang State, and all the ministers and civilians who were wrongly accused have been released.

The officials and garrison troops sent by the Great Zhou court will arrive at the border of Gaochang soon.

At that time, you two dear ministers will set off with me and Concubine Jialuo and return to Bianliang.

I confer the title of "Duke of Cheshi" on the eldest prince Milige, grant him a house in Bianjing, and grant him a fief of 5,000 households!"

When Milige and the queen heard that Chai Zongxun did not support the eldest prince to succeed the throne of Gaochang, they felt disappointed and turned to look at Princess Jialuo who was sitting nearby.

Princess Jialuo knew that Chai Zongxun had made up his mind about Gaochang, and it was useless to say more. Moreover, the entire Gaochang was now under the control of the Zhou army. Her brother and mother had not made any contribution at all in the elimination of the Mo Zang clan. Most of the ministers in the court who were loyal to them were imprisoned and had no merit at all. At this moment, they did not even have the qualifications to ask Chai Zongxun for the title of king of Milige.

Princess Jialuo nodded secretly, indicating to her mother and brother to agree immediately.

Chai Zongxun took in the expressions of the three people and felt slightly unhappy. He thought to himself:
"I personally led the army to attack the Mo Zang clan and rescued the Gaochang royal family and the people of the country. For the sake of my relationship with Jia Luo, I gave up Mo Zang Liuyun, the best in bed.

You just had your lives saved by me, yet you still have ambitions to be the King of Gaochang?"

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"What? The Queen and the eldest prince are dissatisfied with my arrangement?
This is also easy to do. The eldest prince and the queen can freely go to all parts of Gaochang to recruit old subordinates and restore the royal court.

I will never stop you from leaving!"

The queen and the eldest prince were horrified when they heard this and said hurriedly:
"Your Majesty has rescued my mother and me, cleared the evil spirits in Gaochang, and saved the people from their misfortunes! And you have also treated me with a high rank.

We, the subjects of Gaochang, are deeply grateful to your majesty and are willing to become the subjects of the Great Zhou!"

Princess Jialuo smiled and said:

"Your Majesty, my mother and my brother were just a little hesitant about leaving Gaochang, where we have lived since childhood, and we have no other intentions.

Only Your Majesty knows it clearly. "

Chai Zongxun nodded slightly and said:

“So very good.

Tonight I will hold a state banquet in the front yard of the Gaochang Palace, inviting all ministers and common people in the country to attend the banquet. My beloved concubine, the queen, and the eldest prince will also attend."

At the dinner that day, there were more than 6,000 people in total, including the generals of the Great Zhou who accompanied Emperor Chai Zongxun to the battlefield.

The people of Gaochang were already very grateful to Chai Zongxun for rescuing them from prison and tyranny; now they were glad to see the queen and eldest prince return safely, and to be canonized as dukes by Chai Zongxun and raised in Bian Jing, and they were also grateful.

At midnight that night, the emperor and his ministers all left happily.

The Gaochang Uighurs were founded in the second year of Tang Dazhong (848) by Pang Teqin, the leader of the main part of the Uighurs who migrated westward. They were incorporated into the Zhou territory in the 31st year of Kaixi (990) of Chai Zongxun, the founder of the Great Zhou Empire. It lasted for 142 years and had six generations of kings.

There are fifty-seven states with a population of over three million.

The value of the property confiscated from the national treasury and the Mo Zang family and their followers was about five million taels.

(End of this chapter)