Huan Rong

Chapter 235 The Thing From Heaven

Since ancient times, solar eclipses have symbolized bad omens.

According to the rules of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the dragon eclipsed the sun, the Taicheng City played a drum, and the emperor hid in the side hall in plain clothes.The next day, when civil and military officials went to court, they were all exempted from court crowns and changed to wearing caps.

Civilian Dai Jiepei, military officer Dai Ping Shangpei.

Both civil and military people wear swords. In the Han Dynasty, it was an iron sword, and in the Wei and Jin Dynasties it was changed to a wooden sword to demonstrate power.

The fierce man climbed up the city wall, and drums were used to drive away evil spirits in the city, and magicians entered the palace to make fortune-telling, divining whether there would be a catastrophe after the solar eclipse.

During Sima Yi's reign, there was a solar eclipse.Unfortunately, disasters occurred in the land of Sanwu, and hungry people were everywhere, which became another ironclad evidence of the abolition of the emperor.

Sima Yu has only been in power for one year, and it is hard to say whether it is luck or misfortune that he did not catch up with a similar situation.

Sima Yao... According to the historical trend, this solar eclipse occurred in the early days of his succession.As a result, Huan Rong replaced him, and the matter of the sky police fell on the latter's head.

Fortunately, everyone knew the seriousness and didn't involve the matter in such matters as "the emperor has no virtue", and no one mentioned the words "Huan's usurpation of the throne, the punishment of heaven is coming".

It must be known that this matter is very involved, and if the word spreads, it is not only the new emperor and the Longkanghuan family that will be angered, including the Langya Wang family, the Chenjun Xie family, the Taiyuan Wang family, the Hongnong Yang family, and even the Gaoping Xi family. I was completely offended.

At that time, it won't be solved by wiping your own neck.

However, not mentioning the above does not mean that the matter will be exposed.

The emperor's patrol is one thing, and the harem is empty, and the official family has no children.

The ancients were in awe of ghosts and gods, and one or two of them can be seen from the many sacrifices.

Taking the warning from heaven as an opportunity, I asked the new emperor to give up the idea of ​​patrolling and stay in Jiankang with peace of mind. One, it is time to enrich the harem and prolong the descendants in order to stabilize the country.

Xie Anxi also agreed with the previous point, but Wang Biaozhi did not make a clear statement, which was somewhat ambiguous.In the last article, the Wang Xie clan did not participate, and most of the middle and small clans were active.

In the same way as when the Sima family was in power, Wang Xie's clan was deeply rooted, and he had no intention of sending his daughter into the palace, let alone the position of his relatives.Although he cooperated with the Huan family, his status as the military son of the Huan family cannot be erased in the end.

This is not the case for the small and medium gentry.

The year of the emperor's weak crown, the first time he ascended the throne, and the emptiness around him, is the best time to give someone away.

The most important thing is that before Huan Rong ascended the throne, he had many covenants with Wang Xie's clan, and the biggest piece of cake had been divided up.Even Wu surnames like the Zhou family have gained a lot of benefits. The children of the clan have successively become officials, and there are signs of gradual rise.

Failing to seize the opportunity, everyone couldn't hold back.

Afterwards, the Queen Mother and Queen Mother Chu went out of the palace, and the princes of the Wang family and the Chu family were appraised by Da Zhongzheng, and soon elected officials.Even in the frontier, after all, it represents the trust and attitude of the emperor!

Seeing this situation, the families who had not taken any action finally couldn't sit still.

The solar eclipse just gave everyone a chance.

What wind is the hardest?

Pillow wind!

Huan Rong didn't want to be a display, let alone be a puppet like Sima Shi.In the face of a powerful monarch, no other way will work, so you might as well follow the example of Han Dynasty and get promoted by foreign relatives.

The Dou family in the Western Han Dynasty and the Yin family in the Eastern Han Dynasty both had power over the government.

With their own conditions, they can't be compared with the Dou family and the Yin family, and it is even more a joke to beat Wang Xie Gaomen.However, it is not a big problem to take the opportunity to gain the trust of the emperor, increase the number of officials in the clan, and strengthen the right to speak in the court.

As for the Zhou family taking the lead, they chose Huan Yi instead of marrying Huan Rong. Everyone didn't think much about it, they just thought it was because of Wu's surname.

As everyone knows, Zhou Chu had seen Huan Rong's character early on, and knew that the road to foreign relatives would never work.Instead of arousing the disgust of the new emperor and hurting the good situation, it is better to take a step back and marry the girl to Huan Yi, which can not only express heartfeltness to the new emperor, but also protect the interests of the family.

Unfortunately, not many people agree with him.

So, after the solar eclipse, Huan Rong was urged to marry almost every day, and the petitions were piled up into a hill, and the three provinces had no choice but to pack them into the Tai Chi Hall.

Huan Rong was very upset.

From the random rummaging at the beginning to the abandonment at the end, [-]% of them would order someone to carry it down and use it as firewood if the mother didn't stop it.

Seeing him like this, Princess Nankang was contemplative, and a thought flashed in her mind, asking: "The officials have no intention of this matter?"

Huan Rong was silent for a while, then nodded slightly.

"I don't want to choose a beauty, let alone get married."

"You don't want to now?"

"I don't want to in the future."

Princess Nankang asked straightforwardly, and Huan Rong's answer was also quite straightforward.

Mrs. Li sat on the side, lifted the lid of the incense burner with bare hands, and poured in a new injection of incense.The fragrance curls up, dispelling the momentary anxiety, and the mood becomes calm.

"Mother, my son has no intention of getting married." In front of Princess Nankang, Huan Rong never called "Zhen".

"Unintentionally." Unexpectedly, Princess Nankang didn't ask the reason, and didn't say anything to dissuade her. She took a sip of the tea soup and said slowly, "However, this matter is not easy to handle, and requires careful planning."

"Mum?" Seeing his mother's attitude, Huan Rong couldn't react, he was surprised and froze on the spot.

"What? Do you think I will insist on getting you married regardless of your wishes?" Princess Nankang raised her eyebrows and looked at Huan Rong with a smile on her lips, but the latter shrank his neck unconsciously.

My mother is mighty, I really don't just talk about it.

"I dare not." Swallowing, Huan Rong said.

"I said before, I only hope you are safe, and everything else is fine." Princess Nankang put down the tea soup, motioned Huan Rong to come closer, stroked his temple hair, and said, "You said you want to end the troubled times, I believe it. You said To rule the world, I also believe."

"Aunt..."

"My son has made a great wish to restore the Han Dynasty and save the people of China. How can he be dictated by others and confined in a cage." Pressing Huan Rong's shoulder, Princess Nankang's eyes were firm, "I don't care what others do, I only hope that my son can Follow your heart."

Huan Rong lowered his head, suddenly felt sore eyes.

"Gua'er, raise your head." Princess Nankang laughed, "A man stands upright, it's just a trivial matter, how can he make such a gesture?"

"promise."

Mrs. Li shook her head and smiled lightly, moved the censer to the side, and said softly: "Sister, Hu Qian is in the city, why not call him into the palace to make a pot."

kindness?

Princess Nankang and Huan Rong turned their heads at the same time, and similar eyes fell on Mrs. Li.

The latter smiled like a flower and gently covered his mouth with his hand.Her beautiful eyes were slightly bent, and her voice drifted past her ears, softly, like catkins brushing her heart.

"According to the old rule of the previous dynasty, every day when the dragon eclipses, warlocks are called into the palace to make pottery. Not long after the official's accession to the throne, he is busy every day, and I am afraid he has forgotten about it." Mrs. Li laughed, "The Chinese and military talents of the court, and the prophecy through pictures. The study is not a person in the sect."

Huan Rong blinked, pondered over these words carefully, suddenly enlightened, suddenly enlightened.

That's right, why didn't he think of that!

Why don't these people use the words of magicians to confront them?

As Mrs. Li said, civil and military officials in court can observe astrology and do divination, but they are not as good as professionals—such as Hu Qian, who was the emperor of three generations.

As for whether Hu Qian is willing to divination a suitable prophecy, it depends on whether there is a means.

If you can't do it yourself, you have your own mother.

The mother-in-law can't do it either, so he simply pushes out Jia Sheren.

Huan Rong believed that Jia Bing's eloquence would surely convince Hu Qian to make the best choice.

"Thank you, Auntie!"

"The officials don't need to do this." Mrs. Li smiled. "These are just small tricks. They can be delayed for a while, but they can't be delayed forever. If the officials want to solve this matter thoroughly, I'm afraid they will have to make some preparations."

Huan Rong nodded, thinking of the theory of ghosts and gods from Bu Ji, many thoughts flashed through his mind.Unexpectedly, he remembered something he had brought back from Chang'an, narrowed his eyes slightly, and quickly made up his mind.

Seeing him like this, Princess Nankang and Mrs. Li looked at each other without making a sound.

The next day, Hu Qian entered the palace according to the order to divination good or bad luck for the emperor.

The hexagram quickly came out, which was quite different from what the officials said.

"Heaven did have a warning, but the disaster is not Lin Jiankang."

If the disaster didn't lie with Jiankang, then it had nothing to do with Huan Rong.It has nothing to do with Huan Rong, and there is no reason to stop the patrol and persuade Daquan to get married.

Thinking deeply, the warning from heaven is not in the south, but in nine out of ten it is in the north.

"There have been years of disasters in the northern region, the military chaos has never been extinguished, and the people have been devastated. Only then did the heavenly dragons eclipse the sun as a warning."

As soon as this hexagram came out, no one questioned it, let alone refuted it casually.

This is related to "political correctness". The hexagram is wrong, and the disaster is not in the north. It must be Jiankang?

Huan Rong doesn't need to do anything, the Wang Xie family will be the first to clean up.If Xie An and others don't do anything, the people's saliva can drown people.

This is just the first hexagram.

Soon, Hu Qian divined the second hexagram. In front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he invited the emperor to come to the suburbs, saying that there was something that fell from heaven, and the emperor had to take it personally.

"A thing that fell from heaven?"

Huan Rong sat on the dragon chair, his face was full of surprise, it didn't look like he was acting at all.

Xie An and Xi Yin frowned at the same time, they were also a little vague about what kind of medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd.

Hu Qian spoke with certainty, and implored the emperor to come to the suburbs to offer sacrifices.

"It is about the continuity of the country, the common people in the world, and the well-being of the people. I hope His Majesty will make a decision soon!"

Speaking of this, it is obvious that the emperor must go, and it is absolutely impossible not to go.

Huan Rong nodded, with a serious expression, the court announced the decree, tomorrow will go out to the suburbs of the city, and the officials will accompany them.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Hu Qian bent down on the ground, looking at each other's civil and military personnel, with a huge question mark above his head, he couldn't think of a reason for it for a while.

On that day, the people of Jiankang saw a government army leaving the city and set up an altar by the river, which was over ten feet high in the blink of an eye.The altar is in the shape of a trapezoid, with wooden stakes standing on the front, back, left, and right sides. There are silks tied to the stakes, and soldiers are on guard day and night, and no one else is allowed to approach.

An order was issued at the port of Jinkou that merchant ships would not be allowed to enter the city tomorrow; boat workers and fishermen traveling on the river were also told that there would be a sacrifice tomorrow and that they were not allowed to enter the river for fishing.

"The official house will come tomorrow?"

There was a lot of discussion in the city, men, women and children heard about it, almost everyone made up their minds, no matter what, they would leave the city tomorrow, and it was good to have a look at it from a distance.

"Since ascending the throne today, in just a few months, several benevolent policies have been promulgated, and the people have been blessed. Although we don't know why this sacrifice is, we will also guard the riverside to show our sincerity to God!"

The benevolent government mentioned by the common people, one is to encourage land reclamation, tax reduction and exemption for three years; After being naturalized, you can get land, and if you want to go to Guzang and other places in Longxi, the court will reward you even more.

In order to prevent officials from cheating and deceiving the people and doing harm to the people, there must be no less than three scattered officials in each county to compile household registration.In addition, in the prefectures, counties and counties, the hearing officers were set up, and the officials below the assassin and the prefect took turns to act in order to listen to the people's words.

In Jiankang City, before Taicheng City, there is also a hearing place.Every three to five days, the emperor will come in person.Even if the emperor has no time, he will listen to the wishes of the people on his behalf.

This ensures that the words of the people can be heard directly.

Historically, Fu Jian had adopted a similar policy, and Huan Rong borrowed it to implement and improve it. At the beginning, the effect was not great, and various problems often appeared. Moreover, there was always a lot of opposition from the court.

Huan Rong withstood the pressure of all parties, solved problems, and further improved the administration of hearing.

Whoever dares to jump up and down, those who have reason and evidence can be accepted, those who are simply looking for faults, Jia Bing and Xun You will come forward to fight with each other, even if they don't vomit blood, they will have to be sick for a few days.

Several benevolent policies were promulgated and implemented, and Huan Rong's reputation among the people continued to rise, even in the north there were rumors.

This time, when the solar terms are not approaching and it is not the time to worship the gods, a high platform is suddenly built by the river, and the emperor is going out of the city to offer sacrifices, which inevitably reminds people of the previous Tianlong Eclipse.

Despite the hexagram "disaster is in the north", the people are still worried and decide to put aside their daily livelihood and pray to heaven with the emperor, hoping that the disaster will be eliminated and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, there was already a long queue in front of the city gate, all the people who came from their homes.

Crowded and crowded under the city gate, the old and the young are hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, but it is extraordinarily quiet, without the slightest noise.

Not long after, there was a sound of drums in Taicheng, the gate of the palace opened wide, and two teams of cavalry galloped out, with the five-element flag waving, guarding the emperor's body.

Huan Rong is dressed in a gown uniform, black on the upper and red on the lower, with a twelve-pronged crown on his head and a sword on his waist. He is sitting under the canopy. The mountains and rivers and animal patterns on the sleeves of the robe show his majesty.

On both sides of the royal road, civil and military officials stand on the left and right.When encountering a big rein, they boarded the chariot and mounted the horse one after another, followed by the driver.

When the procession reached the gate of the city, the people gave way one after another to watch the emperor leave the city.

"Open the gate."

Dian Kui and Xu Chao are standing on the right side of Da Ren, wearing red gold bright armor, and the heart guard on the chest reflects sharp light, which can dazzle people's eyes.The two armors are both made by master craftsmen, together with the long knife made by Ou Ju himself, they just stand still, like two gods of death.

The long knife made by Ou Ju already has a shadow of the Mo knife.

Looking at Dian Kui and Xu Chao, Huan Rong couldn't help nodding.

He spared no expense, asked money for money, and people for others, just hoping to arm a strong army in a shorter period of time.

Hundreds of fierce men dressed in bright armor and standing in front of the formation held Mo Dao, just thinking about it made their hearts surge.To make an inappropriate analogy, blind the enemy's eyes before the battle!

Why?

We have money!

When the car drove to the river, Huan Rong regained his thoughts, stepped off the big pedestal, and stepped up to the high platform.

Hu Qian was already waiting on the top of the stage, and when Huan Rong stood still, he immediately lit the talisman, held a wooden sword, stepped on his feet, and muttered something.

When the sword light dances, it will bring a gust of wind.

Huan Rong looked at it for a while, then nodded secretly, not mentioning anything else, this man's skill is really good, indeed he has some real skills.It would be a waste to use it on such occasions alone. Warlocks are not easy to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they can still shine when they enter the academy as a gentleman.

Hu Qian was very attentive and his movements were in place. He didn't even know that he was being targeted by someone, and his career would take a 180-degree turn.

"Into the water!"

After the procedures to be followed, Hu Qian made another announcement.

Huan Rong was standing on a high place, and ordered the prepared government troops to launch into the water to search for "things that fell from the sky".

Cai Yun did his part and took the lead in jumping into the river.Ling Tai and others followed closely behind.

After a while, the surface of the water swelled, and the men who entered the water appeared one after another, dragging the black iron rope in their hands, and swam to the shore together.

"pull!"

The generals waiting by the river rushed up quickly, stood still, and pulled the iron chain with all their strength.

"drink!"

Everyone exerted enough strength, their faces flushed, and the muscles in their arms bulged.

The river soon became turbid, and a whirlpool appeared, from small to large.After a while, a shadow appeared in the river.

"Look!"

Accompanied by exclamation, an ancient bronze tripod was pulled out of the water!