Chapter 92 6. The emperor wants to take medicine

The mass assassination in the capital shocked the courtiers. Many ministers advocated changing to the Huairou route. Don't push the feudal towns into a hurry. They are really killing people. I'm not joking with you. However, Emperor Xianzong was very angry. He knew very well that if he retreated at this time, then he, the emperor, would be finished, and he would never have any authority again.He looked at Pei Du who narrowly escaped from the hands of Monk Sha, and Pei Du was also going all out at this time.Grandma, don't you want to kill Lao Tzu?Alright, since you guys can't kill Lao Tzu, then Lao Tzu wants you to look good.

So Pei Du simply put forward a plan to use troops at risk, and strongly demanded to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle in person.Xianzong was overjoyed. In August of the twelfth year of Yuanhe, he personally sent Pei Du to Tonghua Gate, shook hands with Pei Du reluctantly and said goodbye, saying: "Old Pei, I don't care what you do. Anyway, you go this time. You must solve the problem thoroughly, otherwise, if you cut the weeds without eradicating the roots, and let the assassin find the door, then your brother will have a lot of fun. Why did the emperor say that your brother had a lot of fun, but didn't include himself?

Because the emperor lives in the deep palace, even the most beloved concubine can't figure out which bed he will choose to sleep in. There are only a thousand beds in the palace. Even if an assassin enters the palace, he may not be able to touch it for three to five years. To Xianzong's bed.It is precisely because Xianzong has enough sense of security in his heart that he speaks like this. Pei Du also knew that Xianzong was telling the truth. After he left, there was a story in history about Li Shuoxue entering Caizhou at night. The incident happened on October 14th of that year. Pei Du personally supervised the battle. Li Shuo used 3,000 soldiers as the front army, 3,000 soldiers as the middle army, and 3,000 soldiers as the rear army. On the mountain road in Huaixi, he ran to Caizhou where Wu Yuanji was stationed in Huaixi.The royal soldiers and horses had already entered the city, and the defenders in the city didn't know it.When the officers and soldiers surrounded Wu Yuanji's mansion, someone told him that the officers and soldiers had arrived, but Wu Yuanji just laughed and said nothing - he wouldn't believe it even if he was killed.It wasn't until the officers and soldiers came in and stuffed him into the cage that Wu Yuanji showed a blank and astonished expression on his face.

The pacification of Huaixi shocked all the feudal towns. Among the four major feudal towns, Wei Bo Tianxing had already surrendered to the imperial court, and Huaixi Wu Yuanji was captured again.The two feudal towns of Chengde and Ziqing were so frightened that they didn't know what to do. Really didn't know what to do, Chengde Wang Chengzong desperately wrote a letter to Wei Bo Tianxing, begging Tian Xing to say something nice for him in front of Xianzong.In return, he was willing to give two states to Xianzong. In addition, he could send his two sons to the court as hostages. Xianzong gladly accepted it.A soldier who surrenders without fighting is the one who is superior.You see that it is easy to defeat Wu Yuanji, but you don't know what kind of risk it is. If Caizhou City was not completely unprepared that night, and nine thousand officers and soldiers rushed to the city, it would be tantamount to death.This kind of fluke is one thing, luck is one thing, thank God if you encounter it once, it is more appropriate to let the feudal towns surrender by themselves.

Li Shidao of Ziqing also understands this truth—it's just that Li Shidao understood it a little late.At the beginning, Li Shidao was also terrified. He wrote a letter begging for surrender, and was willing to donate three states and send his son as a hostage.After Xianzong impatiently agreed, Li Shidao suddenly woke up.Is this nonsense, my army is strong and horses are strong, if we really want to fight, we may not know who will win and who will win, and now we voluntarily surrender, isn't this confusing? Li Shidao repented and continued to use the banner to oppose Xianzong's reactionary rule.

Emperor Xianzong was so angry that he ordered Wei Bo, Xuanwu, Yicheng, Wuning, and Henghai to dispatch all five towns to fight Ziqing.Soldiers and horses from all walks of life are approaching mightily, and the Ziqing theater is facing unprecedented pressure. The great external military pressure squeezed out the internal contradictions.It is said that when Li Shidao was dispatching troops and generals, Liu Wu, the commander of Ziqing soldiers, rushed in with his subordinates. He couldn't help saying that when he caught Li Shidao, he slashed wildly.Li Shidao urgently called Monk Drifting for help, but how could there be time?As a result, Li Shidao was cut off for no apparent reason.

The death of Li Shidao announced the realization of the revival of the Tang Dynasty, and the prestige of Emperor Xianzong was close to that of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin.To this day, when historians comment on the three outstanding emperors of the Tang Dynasty, they always talk about Li Shimin, Li Longji and Xianzong Li Chun.But in fact, among the three, Li Shimin is a liar, Li Longji is a player, and only Xianzong Li Chun is a serious person who has done practical things. It's not easy. It's really not easy to leave a name in Qingshi. The feudal town was pacified, and as soon as Xianzong lay down on the dragon chair, tears flowed down all at once.

After everything is done, it's time to take medicine, right? take medicine?What medicine do you take? The elixir of life, the aphrodisiac that stimulates sexual desire, the reason why he wants to be the emperor is because of these two medicines. For the elixir of life, let the old Taoist Liu Mi in the temple refine it, and how much money it costs will speak.Liu Bi asked for a lot of money, and forced the officials and people of Tiantai Mountain to go into the mountain to collect medicine for him. After a whole year of tossing, he still couldn't refine the elixir.Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Bi simply ran away.But I never thought that when I fled halfway, I was caught by the magistrate and sent back to Xianzong.Emperor Xianzong severely criticized Liu Bi's unsteady work style: In the pursuit of science, there has never been a smooth road, and only those who are not afraid of hardships can achieve results.Immediately go back to the Taoist temple and continue to study how to refine the elixir.

The old Taoist Liu Mi had no choice but to put on a bitter face, sit in front of the alchemy stove with a small bench, fan, and continue to think about this absolutely impossible thing. The elixir of life cannot be refined for the time being, but there are many aphrodisiacs ready-made, so Xianzong decided to eat, eat, eat... While eating, great news broke out in the world: the wise and mighty Emperor Xianzong died, died Only forty-three years old. died?How is this possible?Didn't he still take the aphrodisiac just now? It is recorded in the "Old Tang Book": "When the collapse occurred suddenly, it was said that the internal official Chen Hongzhi murdered the rebellious, and the Shi family kept it secret... It means that something happened in the palace, and a fierce struggle between the two lines broke out. The unlucky Emperor Xianzong was killed by the eunuchs, who claimed that he had taken too many aphrodisiacs and his body burst open and died.

So how did Xianzong die? This matter has really become a big suspense now. Anyway, his son Li Heng has taken over. The Tang Empire is like a galloping chariot, which has long left the mystery of Xianzong's death behind.