Ancestor Bless: I built a thousand-year-old family

Chapter 825 People’s hearts are in chaos 2

At this time, the Wei State was in an extremely terrifying political atmosphere.

Why this kind of atmosphere only appears in the state of Wei at present? This is not an accidental situation. Starting from Cao Shuang, the state of Wei has entered this extreme political atmosphere, which reached its climax with Sima Yi.

At this moment, there are not many people openly opposing Cao Chengsi, but it does not mean that he has really won the hearts of the people. In invisible corners, there are countless people staring at Cao Chengsi's flaws.

The emperor is young, which is not good for political struggles. Many people are waiting for the emperor to grow up.

At that time, there will be countless people siding with the emperor to defeat Cao Chengsi. This has been the political logic since the Later Han Dynasty.

But most people don't realize that times have changed, and it's no longer the era it used to be. Cao Chengsi realizes this, and his madness is unimaginable by others.

No one could have imagined that just a little change from the Queen Mother would directly trigger the idea of ​​regicide in him.

Even if Sima Yi is released, he won't be able to stop this kind of madness.

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In the imperial palace, the majestic and gorgeous palace was still as calm as before, but the people running back and forth in the palace showed panic and anxiety.

On the bed in the palace, the little emperor was lying on the bed with a sallow complexion. The Queen Mother was crying and holding his little hand. A group of imperial doctors were kneeling beside the bed, all looking panicked.

Another imperial doctor was shaking his head and kneeling there, helpless.

Children's bodies are too fragile, and even good modern pediatricians are hard to come by, let alone in this era. It was for this reason that Luo left the medical sage alone as the head of the family when he died.

The Queen Mother was completely desperate. She counted on her son for everything, but now she saw that the Emperor was about to pass away. She said with hatred: "Execute all the palace ladies who looked at the Emperor. Even the Emperor doesn't look down on him. What's the use of living?" use.

If you can cure the emperor, I will grant you the title of marquis. If you cannot cure him, all of you will die. "

As soon as these words came out, a group of imperial doctors immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged the Queen Mother to spare their lives.

The Queen Mother's brother hurriedly walked into the palace and whispered something in the Queen Mother's ear. The anger on the Queen Mother's face became even deeper when she heard this. She gritted her teeth and said bitterly: "Cao Chengsi, I and you are inseparable."

As soon as she said these words, the eunuchs and concubines in the palace immediately lowered their heads, their expressions full of panic.

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the palace lady scream in shock. She quickly looked and saw that the emperor's chest had stopped rising and he was dead. She was extremely sad and cried loudly: "Your Majesty."

For a moment, she was so sad that she couldn't get up. She didn't know how long it took before she recovered from her sadness. First, she asked her brother to execute all the people in the palace, and then took her brother's hand and said, "I want to avenge the emperor. Only by calling Cao Chengsi into the palace and hacking him to death can I eliminate the hatred in my heart. By killing Cao Chengsi, we can establish a new emperor. Otherwise, he will definitely ascend the throne. His bloodline is almost the most recent. of."

The Queen Mother's younger brother had this kind of thought, and immediately nodded and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, I will definitely handle this matter well, and let Cao Chengsi, the evil regicide, pay with blood. He deserves to be punished with blood." Qing Shi’s treacherous ministers will never be able to live freely in this world.”

The slightly calm city of Chang'an was shocked by the sudden death of the emperor. The Queen Mother issued a decree in the palace, allowing the ministers to enter the palace to mourn the emperor. This was a normal operation, and most people entered the palace directly without thinking twice.

But Cao Chengsi didn't think so. He knew that the emperor was definitely going to die, and the news of the emperor's death was true, but as a conspirator, he didn't like to put himself in danger, seeing that he was only one step away from the throne. , he didn’t want any accidents to happen.

But it is not possible not to enter the palace. The emperor is dead, but as a minister, he does not enter the palace. Wouldn't it tell everyone that this matter has nothing to do with him. Although Cao Chengsi is extremely shameless, he wants to get With a reputation as good as possible, things like regicide naturally have nothing to do with him.

He thought about it at home. First, he asked people to clean up the palace and replace all his most elite soldiers. Then he put on armor in the inner lining and went with his guards. He had to protect himself.

After arriving at the palace, everyone else was in official uniform, but Cao Chengsi was like this, which naturally attracted everyone's attention. Someone immediately asked: "General, why did you bring the guards into the palace?"

Cao Chengsi replied coldly: "Just after the Queen Mother's relatives entered the palace, Your Majesty died suddenly. I think there must be something fishy. Among the Cao family of the Great Wei Dynasty, I have close blood, high prestige, and strong ability. I, the king, I’m worried that someone will be dissatisfied with me, is there anything wrong with that?”

Cao Chengsi came straight to the point, which immediately left the other ministers speechless. He knew that instead of being secretive, he just spoke directly and made no secret of his ambition for the throne. As a descendant of Emperor Wu, at this time, if If you don't care about the throne, you are simply deceiving yourself.

With this excuse, there is a reason to bring a few guards into the palace. If he doesn't want to, then he won't enter the palace, and no one can blame him at that time.

Before everyone entered the palace quickly under the guidance of the guards, white silk cloth had been hung on it. There was a feeling of solemnity and sadness, and all the ministers walked forward with white cloth tied around their waists.

Cao Chengsi was sure that the emperor was really dead. He couldn't suppress the joy in his heart. He looked around again and saw that his dead soldiers also appeared here, and he gradually felt relieved.

The group of people walked to the palace, and the emperor's coffin was ready. As soon as Cao Chengsi stepped into the palace door, he suddenly felt something was wrong. The Queen Mother never called his name from the beginning to the end.

This is quite unreasonable. He is a person that the Queen Mother has always trusted. Among the officials present, he is also the most powerful person. The Queen Mother should not ignore her under any circumstances.

He looked through the light outside the palace and saw the Queen Mother's face was tense, but her eyes were wandering from time to time. Something was wrong, something quite wrong.

This Queen Mother has no good intentions!

Cao Chengsi saved others by himself. At this time, if a sharpshooter was ambushing on the roof or behind the coffin, and he kowtowed in front of the coffin, he would immediately ascend to heaven.

Thinking of this, Cao Chengsi kept walking and asked loudly: "Queen Mother, what are those black shadows on the roof beams, behind the coffins, and the black shadows in the corners?"

His deception made the Queen Mother, who was extremely nervous, lose control immediately. Thinking that Cao Chengsi had discovered it, she immediately screamed: "Kill Cao Chengsi, the regicide traitor!"

This sound.

It was like a cold wind coming from the far north, blowing through the cold ice fields, and then blowing in the palace at this moment. Everyone was stunned in place, thinking that they heard wrongly, and they only had time to turn around and look at the Queen Mother.

Cao Chengsi felt that the souls of the dead were coming out, and he had no idea where he had exposed his flaw. He saw several majestic figures suddenly standing up behind the coffins. Cao Chengsi instinctively exited the hall, and heard arrows nailed to the ground. The tail feathers were even trembling slightly.

A breath of death rushed directly to his Tianling Cap.

This sudden change shocked everyone. In the emperor's mourning hall, such a big thing happened.

The Queen Mother wanted to attack the general with undisguised murderous intent. If Cao Chengsi hadn't been prepared, he would have been a corpse lying on the ground.

And what did the Queen Mother just say?

Regicide?

Was the emperor's death because of the general?

This sounds a bit absurd, but now I think it is very possible. In fact, what Cao Chengsi did after eliminating other auxiliary ministers can never be called a loyal minister.

Seeing Cao Chengsi dodge, the Queen Mother was anxious and angry, and roared: "What are you doing? Kill Cao Chengsi. The emperor was killed by him. You all want to watch the regicide go free?"

Cao Chengsi hid behind the guards and argued loudly: "Queen Mother, who is slandering me? I was not the one who killed the emperor. I am a loyal and good man of the country. How can you slander me like this?"

But the Queen Mother did not give Cao Chengsi a chance to speak at all. Cao Chengsi knew that at this point, simple sophistry was useless. With a fierce look in his eyes, he immediately yelled: "Queen Mother, you have been deceived by a traitor, I just want to I may have offended you, but if I have the opportunity in the future, I will bear the burden of my sin and apologize again.

Come on, kill all these traitors who deceived the Queen Mother, and restore peace to the world. "

The most sacred place in the Wei Kingdom actually started fighting directly. Arrows were flying in the air, and there were bursts of screams. The courtiers were in great distress. None of them were wearing armor. Neither the Queen Mother nor Cao Chengsi were Without thinking of holding back to prevent them from being hurt, dozens of people were immediately shot and killed by stray arrows, and their deaths were extremely unjust.

The rest of the people either ran towards the palace or fled to both sides, all vowing to stay away from this land of right and wrong.

Cao Chengsi had more men and gradually gained the upper hand. Now the Queen Mother's face became even more ugly. She thought that today would be foolproof, but she didn't expect that Cao Chengsi's power had reached this level.

Even in the palace, he was no match for Cao Chengsi. Cao Chengsi was hiding in the army and saw that the situation was gradually turning to his side. He couldn't help but feel reassured. But what he was worried about now was whether to kill the Queen Mother or not. There are these courtiers. If the Queen Mother is killed, then these courtiers will all die.

Since he came to power step by step, many people who resisted him have been killed. Now he is not afraid to kill him, but if he really kills them all, he will not know who will rule this huge Wei State for him. The important thing is that by killing these people, the charge of regicide will really be placed on his head.

As the number of soldiers under the Queen Mother's command gradually decreased, the Queen Mother woke up from her anger, her face became increasingly pale, and she began to feel afraid.

Among the courtiers who had been hiding earlier, there were still some relatively upright courtiers who had not been killed before. They couldn't help but stand up and said: "General, it is wrong to use weapons without authorization in the palace. Do you want to kill them in front of everyone in the world?" The Queen Mother is dead?"

Upon hearing this, Cao Chengsi immediately said loudly: "I am a loyal person to the country. I am doing what I am doing now because of the Queen Mother's pressure. If the Queen Mother is willing to lay down her arms and hand over the traitor who bewitched her, I will definitely not want to see it. To the blood."

Someone else stood up and said: "The General and the Queen Mother said that you committed regicide. If this happened, you should go out and confront the Queen Mother to clear away the blame and restore your innocence instead of doing these rebellious things here."

On the surface, these people were trying to reconcile conflicts, but in fact they were leaning towards the Queen Mother. However, they did not dare to speak out directly under Cao Chengsi's power. Those who dared to speak out in court had already been dealt with by Cao Chengsi.

The Luo family has influenced the world for more than a thousand years, and has naturally trained many scholars, but they cannot withstand Cao Chengsi's killing. The weapon of criticism is not as good as the criticism of the weapon. He just cursed Cao Chengsi. , but what finally came was Cao Chengsi’s butcher knife.

In other words, this kind of butcher knife has been wielded in Wei for many, many years, and it is not just Cao Chengsi.

The Queen Mother was still hesitating about what to do. Cao Chengsi's soldiers had already entered the hall, and there were only dozens of people surrounding the Queen Mother. Cao Chengsi also entered the hall and said loudly: "Queen Mother, I want to I want to talk to you and resolve the misunderstanding between us. I really don’t want to let such a tragic thing happen in my country of Wei."

Seeing that the situation was over, especially when corpses fell beside her, the bright red blood, and the death so close at hand, her fear reached its peak, so she could only agree to Cao Chengsi's request.

When Cao Chengsi was talking to the Queen Mother, he naturally would not let other courtiers hear it. He first glanced at the corner, then looked at the people around him, made a gesture of wiping his neck, and then stood under the protection of several dead soldiers. Xia and the Queen Mother walked to the side.

The historian in the corner felt a shadow coming. He hid the paper in his arms and opened his mouth to say something. The soldier stabbed his body directly with his sword. The blood soaked the words recorded in his arms. The dried ink marks were mixed with the blood, and the original appearance was completely unrecognizable.

The soldiers took the paper out of their arms. They did not recognize the words on it and tore it into pieces. The blood-stained words were thrown away.

The Taishi of Wei's eyes were wide open. He stared at the flying paper, his eyes full of pain, "Supreme King Su, sacred Luo Shen, when will the Luo family return to the world? The sacred Qingshi has been trampled on, I hate it. !

The clear history has been covered with dust. "

One thing that happened in this corner never caught Cao Chengsi's attention. In the past many years, this was not the first time he had done these things. There are no longer those Luo people in the world who are getting in the way.

Die well.

This is the truest thought in Cao Chengsi's heart. He really hates the Luo family. He talks about morality every day. Even the majestic emperor has to be limited by restrictions. This is a world of the jungle, and a strong man like him should Standing at the top of the world, everyone else must worship and surrender to him.

Cao Chengsi and the Queen Mother walked to the corner, facing Cao Chengsi who had completely gained the upper hand. The Queen Mother didn't know what she could talk to him about. She just asked with a frosty face: "Cao Chengsi, this is what you have been doing all along. What you want, right?

I blame you for blindly believing you and reaching this point. I'm sorry to my ancestors. "

Cao Chengsi sneered and said, "Queen Mother, those are my ancestors, Cao Chengsi. What nonsense do you, a foreigner, say here is really making people laugh."

The Queen Mother's delicate body trembled slightly and she said with a cold voice: "Cao Chengsi, are you here to humiliate me? Then let's die together. Let's see if the crime of killing the Queen Mother can make you die in the condemnation of thousands of people. Cao Chengsi chuckled softly and said: "Queen Mother, you don't need to scare me. If you really had the courage to seek death, you wouldn't talk nonsense with me now. In fact, you just don't dare to do these things, so you just stand right here.

Death is indeed the most terrifying thing in the world.

If you don’t want to die, I can prevent you from dying and give you glory and wealth, it’s that simple.

Moreover, shouldn’t you be grateful to me for the life you have now?

Among Cao Mao's concubines, you are not considered favored. If the prince hadn't succeeded to the throne, would you have achieved your current status?

Not to mention becoming the empress dowager and living a pampered life.

As a woman who has lost her husband and son, she is just thirty years old and cannot remarry. What will the rest of her life be like?

As long as you support me to become the emperor and take back those words of regicide, I will let you live in the palace and provide you with all the provisions of the Queen Mother. This can be said to be extremely preferential treatment. "

The figure of the Queen Mother couldn't help but tremble. Cao Chengsi looked at the Queen Mother and couldn't help but smile a little. He believed that the Queen Mother would definitely agree.

He knew the Queen Mother quite well. In fact, the fact that the Queen Mother dared to start an army with him today was beyond his expectation. However, the nature of a country is easy to change, and the Queen Mother's cowardly nature would definitely succumb.

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Cao Chengsi ascended the throne and became emperor in front of his still-living ministers, but he was perhaps the most illegitimate emperor when he ascended the throne. An emperor who came to power through a military coup. Regardless of whether the emperor was killed by himself, countless rumors were enough to make him He became a laughing stock, and in the history books he will not be recorded as the successor.

In addition, the history books of the Three Kingdoms will definitely be big and special, and all kinds of speculations will be written down. Although I don’t know what happened in the Wei Kingdom, I can compile it.

The people of Wei could not be convinced by Cao Chengsi's attempts to hide his secrets. Those officials did not dare to speak, but those scholars did. Although the nobles had entered the stage of aristocratic clans, no matter what stage they were, there were still passionate scholars.

The reason why there are few people who oppose Cao Chengsi in the previous incidents is because Cao Chengsi did a relatively clean job and picked himself off cleanly. However, no matter how he handled this matter, he could not handle it. clean.

The ugly face was completely exposed. Those righteous scholars broke out and criticized Cao Chengsi in the streets and academies of Chang'an.

Cao Chengsi, who had just become the emperor, was sitting on the throne. His face was full of satisfaction. He felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life. His long-cherished wish for so many years was finally completed at this moment. It was quite a feeling. The feeling of dying without complaint.

He quickly calmed down. He not only wanted to be the emperor of Wei, but also the emperor of the entire world. Then he learned the news that was coming from the streets of Chang'an, and he was furious.

A decree came from the palace. This was Cao Chengsi's first decree, but it was not an edict of amnesty, but a decree of killing.

"I have heard that since ancient times, subjects always spoke to the king with respect, so the king could treat his people with kindness.

But what do I see now?

The subjects are criticizing their king and using harsh words. Is this intolerable?

I want to be a kind emperor, but many people are unwilling and they force me to be angry.

I want to tell the people of Wei here that I cannot tolerate the corrupt words of those who spread rumors and slander my moral character.

I know that some people use the words of Mencius to criticize me, I know that some people use the words of Mozi to criticize me, and I know that some people use the words of the two sages Luo Kong to admonish me.

Using the words of a so-called saint to slander my saintliness is something that even heaven cannot bear. This is the sorrow of a saint.

Only use the most severe punishment to warn these people, and in this way, tell everyone. "

Along with this imperial edict, countless officials walked out of the palace and government offices, and then arrested those scholars who were talking in the streets.

There are many scholars in the world today. During the Pre-Han Dynasty, there were over 10,000 scholars in Taixue. In almost every country, a large number of scholars gathered in the capital, and Wei was no exception. These scholars could be easily captured Thousands of people.

This scene almost instantly reminded people of the burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians during the Qin Dynasty. In other words, the burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians was a small matter in front of this incident, because there were not that many Mencius in the Qin Dynasty.

Cursed by countless people, these scholars were arrested and died in prison. People died in prison almost every day because Cao Chengsi insisted that someone must be behind this.

His idea is not wrong, but it is impossible to find the real messenger. Just like those ministers who once opposed him, many of them were honest ministers who spoke out because of the morality in their hearts.

There are countless scholars in this world, how could there not be some people with righteous hearts?

Luo Shi has been away for tens or hundreds of years. Such a long time can change very quickly for a national dynasty, but for an academic thought, it has not produced many changes.

Academic thought changes slowly.

After Luo Shi left, the entire society was degenerating, but academics had not yet degenerated, so many out-of-time people appeared, and these people were still stuck in the previous era.

All the ministers who faced Cao Chengsi were dead, and now it was the turn of the Wei scholars who had never seen Cao Chengsi.

Those scholars who were born in Mencius, those last remaining Huang Lao students, those Mohist students who have almost never expressed their opinions in the political arena, and many upright Confucian students.

In this round of storm, he almost bore the brunt and faced Cao Chengsi directly.

The two sides faced each other, as if two eras collided.

There had been emperors like Cao Chengsi, but they were all quickly dethroned in the end. For example, Emperor Ruili of the Han Dynasty, and even Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty who implemented party bans, did not dare to kill scholars on a large scale. The total number of scholars he killed was only a few hundred.

And those people are on the list.

But Cao Chengsi was not like that. He was killing according to his school of thought. Anyone who studied the classics such as Mencius and Confucianism and participated in a gathering in Chang'an City would all be killed.

"Guo Zuo of Wei will not last long."

"If you do something that is outrageous to both humans and gods, the Kingdom of Wei will be destroyed."

"Hunjun, Hunjun, I want to watch you die."

Countless curses rang out in Chang'an City, and even the listeners only felt sad.

But Chang'an City did not fall into chaos, because Cao Chengsi strictly controlled the streets and alleys, allowing these wailings to ring out in the prison.

“Pull out their tongues, knock out their teeth, and cut off their hands and feet, this is the price of cursing an emperor.

No matter what happens, I will face it head-on. Even if it is a violent storm, you rebellious people will never shake my persistence. "

Cao Chengsi gave the cold command, declaring his strong will to the entire city of Chang'an. No words could shake his strong heart.

This unrepentant attitude made people feel scared, and flattering villains quickly surrounded Cao Chengsi. There are always some people in this world who have a straight spine, and Cao Chengsi chose to break them all.

He has read a lot of history. Those emperors always let go of those ministers who dared to remonstrate, so those ministers became famous, while the emperor became a negative example. He would never let anyone become famous through himself. Those so-called remonstrators , he will let them all die in misery, and when those people are dead, no one will oppose him anymore.

There was a faint smell of blood in Chang'an City. Corpses wrapped in straw mats were brought out of the prison one after another. There was faint blood dripping from the carts. All these corpses were thrown into a mass burial twenty miles outside Chang'an City. On post.

There are jackals and wild rats roaming there all day long, and these corpses will eventually turn into white bones that have been gnawed away.

One after another, the people of Chang'an City went from shock to numbness. No one knew how many people died in prison, and not many people knew their names.

No matter what happened during his lifetime, he was just wrapped in a straw mat and died without a burial place.

Will anyone regret it?

There will definitely be.

There is a great horror between life and death that no ordinary person dares to step into.

But will there be anyone who doesn’t regret it?

Even if it were to happen again, would it still be the same?

Will do.

There is a group of people in this world who hold light in their hearts. Naturally, these people alone cannot illuminate the heavy darkness.

But when these people come together, they will spread light throughout the world.

Before these people died, many people were thinking about the Luo family, the family that had always led the world's light-bearing people forward for the past 1,400 years.

come back.

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Cao Chengsi Yin sent eunuchs to kill the Wei emperor, and also raped the queen mother, killing dozens of courtiers in order to seize the throne. He was a traitor and a villain, and was outraged by both humans and gods. ——"The Legacy of Wei State (written by Yan Taishi)"

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Cao Chengsi secretly communicated with the palace, and the Wei emperor was seriously ill. Chengsi gave medicine, which caused the death of the Wei emperor. Chengsi forced the Queen Mother to surrender, and killed more than a hundred loyal and upright people. The people of Wei covered their faces and wept. ——"The Chronicle of the Palace Changes in the Year of Wei Chou (The Chronicle of Liang Wangxian)"

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Chengsi's Yin bird of prey is quite similar to his ancestors. Wei Wu suppressed the Han Dynasty. Chengsi killed the Wei emperor and massacred Chang'an, killing tens of thousands. He truly inherited the virtues of his ancestors. ——"Biographies of Wei Thieves (Records of Ji Han)"

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