Chapter 17 Section 17

She smiled bitterly: "You are too young, no wonder you don't know. Twenty-two years ago, you were not even born. Twenty-two years ago, Shanyang County was still a kingdom, and the king was the grandson of Emperor Wu. He. In order to let you understand, I will not hide my name below. Liu He's grandmother is very famous, she is Mrs. Li, who is known as the most beautiful woman in the Han Dynasty. She gave birth to a son named Liu Wei, who was named Chang The king of Yi, the ruler is located in Changyi County in our Shanyang County. Liu Mao died in the Zhenghe period, and Liu He came to the throne. That was thirty-six years ago."

"Oh, keep talking." Although I don't like to think about major issues such as government orders, laws, and counties, I am still a little curious about the changes in my hometown. "Liu He was supposed to be his Changyi king, but God seemed to be teasing him. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in the first year of Yuanping, in the middle of the night, Chang'an's envoys suddenly came to Changyi, with torches covering the sky, and asked Changyi king Liu He to get up and greet him." The imperial edict. The king of Changyi was terrified, thinking that there was something ominous. You know that the fifth day of the fifth lunar month has never been an auspicious day."

Her narration was still very elegant, and I listened with relish, forgetting that she was a criminal who was arrested by edict.I said, "Liu He was abolished by General Huo Guang because of his promiscuous behavior, wasn't he?" She snorted coldly: "What kind of promiscuous and rebellious behavior? I have served Master Gai for so many years, and was finally sent by Gai Master to serve the king of Changyi. I have never seen such a loyal master. How can I be considered promiscuous and rebellious?" Yes. It was completely framed by Huo Guang and his gang. Since they hold the power, they wrote the history. You can say whatever you want. I think this grievance will be buried forever. Almost everyone who knew it back then was punished. Their poisonous hands, a small number of old ministers who knew the truth were cowardly and selfish, and defected to Huo Guang shamelessly, just to continue their life as dogs and horses. They threw away all the scriptures they read on weekdays, and the teachings of killing one's life for benevolence and giving up one's life for righteousness. The back of the head. Confucian scholars are a bunch of villains who learned from Ashi."

She was very excited, but she still spoke in a gentle manner, and she didn't speak harshly, which shows that her self-cultivation is very good.I don't agree with her point of view. I never think about sacrificing one's life for benevolence or sacrificing one's life for righteousness. For many years, I just want to spend my whole life with the man I love the most.Now that fantasy is shattered, I am very sad.If Confucian scholars want to survive, they can only speak nonsense against their will.What's more, didn't you, Li Zhongfu, hide from the people for so long in order to survive?You said that you served the King of Changyi, but you did not commit suicide for him, but for your son Chen Tang, you are finally willing to surrender yourself. What does this mean?It shows that the relationship between father and son and the love between husband and wife are human nature, which is more important than any Confucian righteousness.

"Why did Huo Guang frame the king of Changyi? Wasn't he the one who advocated conscripting the king of Changyi to Chang'an as emperor?" I was a little puzzled. "That's just superficial." She said, "He was really sincere at the beginning, but it was also the result of various considerations. Huo Guang has always been greedy for power, and he knew that if he recruited King Guangling as emperor, he would not be able to control it. At that time, Changyi Wang was only eighteen years old, and he was lonely as the king of a small Changyi country in Shandong. He never dreamed that he would have the opportunity to become the emperor of the Han family. Huo Guang guessed that the king of Changyi would be grateful to him, and his great general Sima The official position of Shangshushi can be occupied forever. Who knows that the king of Changyi is not willing to be a puppet emperor. He wants to arrange his own guards and appoint his own ministers. Huo Guang finally couldn't bear it anymore and risked the crime of abolishing the establishment without authorization. We also want to abolish our king. A group of them formed a party for personal gain, and while our king was not established in Chang'an, they succeeded easily."

"What happened next?" I became more and more interested. I had never thought about such a complicated issue before. It doesn't matter who becomes the emperor to me. Of course, I can't say that it doesn't matter at all.After all, if you meet a good emperor, the officials will be diligent in their duties, and the lives of the people will be easier.I was also thankful for abolishing the fatuous King Changyi and replacing him with the wise Jinshang, because the government announced to us Shenshen the promiscuous and immoral acts of King Changyi. , and committed 1,127 bad things, which is really a heinous crime.But after her analysis, my deep-rooted opinion was shaken.Perhaps the king of Changyi really suffered an injustice.I couldn't help unfolding a silk painting that Li Zhongfu had just handed to me. Looking at the portrait of the king of Changyi on it, I couldn't help but feel deep sympathy for this poor king who had never met.

Li Zhongfu took a breath and continued in a hoarse voice: "Poor king, he was demoted back to Changyi. And he didn't even have the original title of king. He lived in the original Changyi palace, but lost his freedom. Local officials They were all ordered to monitor him. Later, Zhang Chang, the prefect of Shanyang, pretended to visit him from time to time, in fact spying on our king’s movements. Our king was not a fool. We knew that if we showed any complaints, we would die, so we pretended to be deaf and dumb. He seemed extremely dull. Zhang Chang reported these things to Jinshang, and Jinshang stopped worrying about our king. Speaking of which, what makes Jinshang stronger than our king is that he knows how to endure, and our king still maintains his innocence."

"Why?" I was very nervous when I heard her talking about Imam, because it was a taboo thing, but I couldn't help being curious. She smiled faintly: "Because Jinshang grew up in the common people since he was a child, interacted with a group of rogue rangers in Wuling, fought cockfights, and was familiar with the intrigues and tricks of the world. Huo Guang, that ignorant Li Zi, of course I can't see through him; but our king was born in a deep palace and grew up in the hands of a woman. He is simple and true, so how could he know that there are so many dirty and dirty deeds in the world. He has no intention, so naturally he was caught Framed by traitors."

"Is that what Emperor Wen was like back then?" I asked this sentence, and I couldn't believe that it came out of my own mouth. She was a little surprised: "Oh, you asked a good question. When Emperor Wen was conscripted from Daiguo to Chang'an to be emperor, he was surrounded by strong ministers, but Emperor Wen was taught by his mother, and there were loyal ministers such as Bo Zhao and Zhang Wu and other assistant ministers were also careful, and they were finally safe and sound. But my king was born in the Taiping era, and there was no mother to teach him, and no loyal ministers to assist him. If you move it, the natural result will be completely different.”

I nodded: "After Huo Guang's death, the king of Changyi should have a better life, right?" Li Zhongfu sighed: "You child is so naive. I admit that you are considered a wise lord today, but when it comes to the throne, no kind person can remain indifferent. Since our king was deposed from the throne, it will naturally He was envied and hated, fearing that he would make a comeback. Even after Huo Guang died, how could he let him go today? Otherwise, why would he issue an edict today to arrest a dying old woman like me." "That's true. Why are you being arrested?" I glanced at the lacquer box and thought to myself, what kind of shady things are hidden in it.

She sighed again, and said: "After Huo Guang's death, in the second year of Yuankang, today's emperor pretended to make our king the Marquis of Haihun. Haihun is a county in Yuzhang County. You hear the name contains irony. The meaning of the sea is dark. Darkness means night, which means that our king is as stupid as the night. The emperor of the Han Dynasty has such a small heart." I also heard that the king of Changyi was demoted to the sea, and it was the first time I heard that the place name contained such a vicious meaning.I couldn't help asking: "Then what happened to Queen Changyi?" "What else can I do? It is said that I often go up the Ganjiang River by boat and look at Chang'an in the distance. I feel so sad and sad. The local people are very sad for him when they see him, and they call the ferry where he often stops by boat. " A sad picture suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. I saw a lone boat tossing in the wind and waves, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a man in his thirties was standing on the bow and weeping sadly.Poor man, it was obviously a very sad day when he was exiled from the central plains of Shuangyang to the humid south.I sighed heavily, and asked, "Then what kind of big secret are you going to tell me? It seems that I still don't understand it after talking about it for so long."