Chastity Layman

In a blink of an eye, it is already June.

Empress Wei gave birth and gave birth to the prince.

"It's not right to calculate the time. In October last year, I was accepted as a concubine by the common people of Zhao. At the end of November, I entered the palace for the saint. This is the time. The prince's month is not right."

"I heard that this child is full-term, not premature."

"hiss!"

In Luoyang Xuecheng, in a private room of a restaurant, several students were chatting while drinking, but they were talking about a new and important event in Luoyang City.

Empress Wei gave birth to a prince, but the time was wrong. It has only been seven months since the emperor accepted her into the palace, but it is rumored that this prince was born at full term, not prematurely.

Based on this calculation, this child does not belong to the emperor, but should belong to the former king of Zhao Li Jue who was deposed as a commoner and then beheaded in half. Wangfu, the time is in October, counting the time, it happens to be the full term of the child.

"Hey, this is an anecdote in the world. It's not a big deal for the emperor to force the concubine of the emperor's son into the palace, but why did he make such a thing?"

"Should this be the prince or the grandson?"

Someone gleefully said, "If the second prince is still here, how should he be called? Brother or son?"

"Hahaha."

Since last year's turmoil in Xuecheng and the incident of the Six Gentlemen, countless students in Xuecheng and scholars who came to Beijing to rush for the exam have a bit of resentment towards the emperor.

After nearly a month of quarreling, the six leading gentlemen were finally sent to prison, deprived of their student status and fame. In addition, a total of more than 3,000 students and more than 1,000 juren were also arrested and imprisoned. Hundreds more were sent into exile.

This is not the only one affected. This spring's general examination was cancelled, and even all the imperial examinations for this subject were abolished, as were the Tongsheng, Xiucai, and Juren admitted before.

How many students and scholars studied hard and finally passed the exam, but the result was this result.

Who is not angry.

Those students who participated in Luoyang Academy City also left a record file, and they were punished once.

Although the students and people couldn't hold their arms against their thighs, the anger in their hearts was still accumulated. Now that something like this happened, everyone spread it actively and secretly with the intention of watching a joke.

For this incident last year, many people not only blamed the emperor, but also brought Webster's side by side. They felt pity for Su Shi, Prince Xiang and others.

Now that Wei Shi gave birth to a child, everyone would be unhappy if this happened.

In the previous turmoil, the Qin family was also hit hard. Originally, Qin Qiong and Qin Lang had good reputations. One was a heroic general who founded the country, and was praised as the number one general in the Tang Dynasty. He also had the titles of heavenly king, door god, and war god. Blessing, there is also a name of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

Not to mention Qin Lang, who went in and out of the court, and even led troops to fight for the Tang Dynasty many times. The most important thing is that he led the reform of the Zhenguan New Deal. Scholars and literati, merchants, artisans, or peasants, which one will not benefit?

Qin Qiong and Qin Lang are not the kind of people who are greedy for power and take credit. They always retreat bravely, unlike Yu Chigong, Qiu Xinggong, Hou Junji, Zhang Liang and other domineering warriors who take credit and are proud, not knowing how much they are.

But in the last turmoil, the second concubine of the Qin family was demoted to common people, the eight princes and five princesses were demoted to useless people, and Qin Qiong's six sons were also expelled from citizenship, which of course aroused everyone's sympathy.

So contrary to the unanimous dissatisfaction with Webster, the Qin family has a better reputation among the people after the experience last time.

Nowadays, the reserve position is empty. In fact, many people hope to make Qin Wang Li Xian the crown prince.

Because the fourth prince, Li Xian, is now the longest living prince. The eldest son, Li Xiang, had been the prince for fourteen years, but he ended up being murdered in half for treason. The emperor was not spared either.

The third prince, Doctor Li, died young.

But because Wei Shi is the queen, Wei Shi's son is more qualified to be the crown prince, but now it is rumored that Wei Shi's son belongs to Zhao Shu, so naturally he is not eligible.

Many people even colluded and encouraged secretly, planning to take this opportunity to discredit Webster and abolish him.

At that time, please take advantage of the situation and invite the noble concubine of Qin Huang to be the emperor, and Li Xian, the king of Qin, to be the prince.

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"Why hasn't His Majesty come yet?"

In the Honghui Hall, Empress Wei who had just given birth was still a little weak, and her aunt, Concubine Wei Huangchen, was also helping to take care of her in the hall. Webster had given birth to several children, so she was considered rich in experience, but with the little baby in her arms, Concubine Wei Chen But can't laugh.

The child was very healthy, weighing nine catties when he was born. He was white and fat, and his hair was black, long and black.

The cry is also loud, and the breastfeeding is also very energetic.

At this time, after eating, I don't cry or make trouble, and go to sleep sweetly.

This was originally a healthy and lovely child, but Concubine Wei Chen sighed inwardly. If calculated according to the time when Empress Wei entered the palace, even if she was conceived just after entering the palace, it should be less than seven months now. May grow so well.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this child must belong to the deceased Second Prince.

Concubine Wei Chen even felt that the child's face was very similar to the Second Prince's, which made her terrified.

It's only been three days since the child was born, but now Luoyang is full of wind and rain.

There were all kinds of discussions, and the members of the Wei family had used the opportunity of letting the female relatives into the palace to visit the queen and children to remind them more than once.

The emperor has not even visited it once.

Concubine Wei Chen sent people to invite the emperor more than once, but the emperor always said that he was busy with government affairs.

"The saint is discussing military affairs with the rulers of the Privy Council and has no time to leave."

The emperor did not come, nor did he receive any rewards.

Empress Wei lay down on the couch with a pale face, and finally couldn't help but buried her head in tears.

Concubine Chen handed the child to a nurse, and asked her to hug the child to sleep, then came to sit next to the queen, and persuaded in a low voice, "Don't cry during confinement, or you will leave the root of the disease."

"What should I do?" Empress Wei cried.

Concubine Chen looked at Empress Wei, she should have known about this matter long ago, but she didn't tell anyone from the beginning to the end, she deliberately concealed it, and now everyone was caught off guard.

But Concubine Chen didn't think Empress Wei was smart, and in the harem, she couldn't escape the emperor's grasp. The concubines' fortunes are all recorded in the files, and they will be consulted and checked after pregnancy. The medical skills of the imperial doctors after Empress Wei became pregnant can clearly calculate the time of pregnancy.

So all this should have been in the hands of the emperor.

But the emperor still let the child be born.

No one can guess the emperor's mind, but now, this child is definitely not a good thing for Empress Wei or the whole Wei.

The Wei family could claim that the child was born prematurely, but they couldn't fool the emperor, nor could they fool everyone who could see the child. This nine-pound fat boy was by no means a premature child born less than seven months old.

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"The child is so cute, big fat boy."

"Look at the black and long hair, look at the big and round eyes."

After receiving Queen Wei's invitation, the Qin sisters finally came to the Honghui Hall. The two sisters praised the child, and Wei Shi kept telling them to hug and tease the child.

"The empress has just given birth, she is weak, and needs a lot of recuperation. We won't bother you today, and we will come to see you another day."

The imperial concubine Qin Shu handed the child back to Webster.

Qin Wan also said, "The child is hungry and needs milk."

Qin Shu asked the palace attendants to bring up the prepared gifts, but they were ninety-nine pieces of gold, silver, copper and other nine special laundering money, wishing for healthy growth. There is also a set of jade pendants and poetry books, which is also a good wish.

The gifts Qin Wan gave were similar.

"Come back another day."

Empress Wei and Concubine Wei Chen sent them to the gate of the palace.

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"ah!"

In the Honghui Hall, there was a sudden sound of weeping.

"Come on, tell the imperial doctor!"

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Xuanzheng Hall.

Emperor Li Yin was discussing matters with several ruling members of the Privy Council, and they were talking about the Southern Expedition. Wang Xuance hung the seal of the general who conquered the South, and joined the marching commander of the Pyu Yue Road to lead the army to conquer the Pyu country.

Not long ago, there was a great battle with the Pyu Army in the Songyan Valley of the Pyu Kingdom. The battle report submitted was that Wang Xuance commanded three thousand elite cavalry from the Tang Dynasty, eight hundred war elephants, eight thousand soldiers from the Yongchang, Lishui, Tonghai, and Erhai tribes, and Battle of the Hussars.

King Pyu personally led the army, and his troops dispatched a total of 12,000 cavalry, 2,800 war elephants, and 60,000 infantry.

In this battle, the Pyu Kingdom also came from all over the country, and the king personally conquered it.

However, Wang Xuance had already had countermeasures. He had just divided his troops and light cavalry to harass the Pyu country and lured the Pyu country to take the initiative to attack. However, Wang Xuance had already built many fortresses on the front line of the border, built the fortifications, and had enough reserves. Grain equipment, etc.

Even the battlefield was chosen by Wang Xuance in advance.

Step by step, the hussars were introduced into the preset battlefield. In the final battle, the hussars relied on the large number of war elephants and launched a fierce attack on the Tang army's line. Pretending to be frightened and retreating steadily, the elephant army was lured away from the large formation of the hussars.

Then the Pyu elephant army was led into the jungle. At this time, the archers who had been ambushing on the big trees in the forest shot the elephants with magical rockets.

There are rockets attached to these arrows, which not only have the effect of boosting and increasing the shooting range when fired, but also explode, making loud noises and flashes of fire.

They also planted mines etc. in the woods.

When the 2,000 war elephants of the Pyu Kingdom led thousands of elephant soldiers to chase and kill Tang Qi into the forest, they attacked in groups. Immediately, rockets flew randomly and landmines exploded one after another.

It was earth-shattering, and the sky was full of fire.

The war elephants of the Pyu Kingdom are big and bulky. Although they have been trained, they have never seen such things.

Immediately frightened and panicked, the Pyu war elephants were shot and killed in large numbers in the jungle, while the rest of the elephants ran around in fright.

In the end, he was driven by Tang Qi to turn around and escape from the jungle, but was driven to charge towards the army of Hu Guo infantry who was following behind.

Driven by countless rockets, the remaining nearly 2,000 elephants crazily rushed towards the hussars, and the huge war elephants trampled all the way. Tens of thousands of horsemen from the hussars were crowded in the river valley, so crowded that it was difficult to escape , Countless casualties were trampled on.

But behind the terrified elephants in Piao Kingdom, Tang cavalry and Tibetan cavalry, elephant soldiers and infantry sent by Wang Xuance rushed out.

This battle turned into a massacre.

In the narrow river valley, tens of thousands of hussars collapsed, trampled on each other, and were mercilessly harvested by the Tang army. The massacre lasted for three days. The Tang army kept chasing them, but the hussars did not dare to turn back and fight from the beginning to the end. , keep running.

The king took the lead in fleeing, and then the senior monks and nobles of the Pyu country fled in all directions, and no one cared about the others.

In fact, although Wang Xuance used tricks to destroy the war elephants of the Pyu country and counter-drive the elephants to break through the formation of the Phu army, but as long as the Pyu king is willing to fight, they still have a strong force advantage and can still fight again.

It's just that the Pyu people have never seen the magic rocket and the magic mine, they are just like those war elephants, they are scared and panic, and what kind of god descended.

In essence, the army of the Pyu Kingdom is also a coalition army of the vassal states and tribes of the Pyu King Alliance. The more people there are, the more complicated their hearts are, and the more difficult it is to control when running.

So from beginning to end, the hussars spent a few months gathering more than 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, and it took a long time to march all the way to the northern border. Except for the sentry battle with the Tang army scouts along the way, the real A war was fought.

Even only halftime.

The whole army of the elephant army attacked aggressively, bravely, and marched forward indomitably.

Then in less than an hour, the whole line was defeated, and it was defeated for thousands of miles.