I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 340 Drafted Will

After Prince Liu Sheng supervised the country, almost everyone agreed that Emperor Qi, who had worked so hard on state affairs for many years and eventually fell ill from overwork, could finally find time to rest for a while.

——Including Liu Sheng, actually think so too.

After all, after Prince Liu Sheng supervised the country, almost all the government pressure that was on the shoulders of the emperor Qi was transferred to Liu Sheng.

The entire process that originally required review, investigation, discussion, discussion, and finally a solution and final decision, now only remains "whether to adopt Liu Sheng's suggestion" which requires the emperor to expend energy;

There is no doubt: this has definitely relieved most of the pressure for today's Tianzi Qi, and also saved a considerable amount of time and energy.

However, Tianziqi's physical condition did not gradually improve as the pressure on government affairs eased as expected by the government and the public, and did not even slow down the rate of deterioration.

Just like at this moment, Tian Ziqi fell into a deep coma again, and most of the Chang'an court team gathered in the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace.

And similar situations have happened more and more frequently in the past year, and in the past two months, they have even developed to the point of happening every [-] or [-] days... ·
"Having passed out again?"

"The last time Your Majesty fainted, it seems that it was only half a month ago?"

"Why, fainted again?"

Kneeling far away near the gate hall and far away from the imperial couch, the court ministers couldn't help thinking to themselves: Why did Tianzi Qi's physical condition deteriorate so quickly?
On the imperial couch, the emperor Qi closed his eyes slightly, his hands were naturally folded in front of his abdomen, and he lay flat on the couch very peacefully.

If it wasn't for Tian Ziqi's chest, slowly bullying with that weak breath, everyone in the hall would immediately murmur in their hearts: Your Majesty, are you still alive?
How does it look like...

"how?"

"Emperor, what kind of disease do you suffer from?"

"Why is there such a coma every ten days?"

On the edge of the imperial couch, Empress Dowager Dou bowed her head sadly, although she couldn't see the scene in front of her, her hand that had been eroded by time was tremblingly stroking Tianzi Qi's cheek.

Hearing Empress Dowager Dou's soft question, the old doctor beside her was already sweating profusely, I don't know if it was tired or frightened.

"To the Empress Dowager;"

"Your Majesty has worked hard for many years. He is already weak, and he has not followed the doctor's advice, so he will stay away from drinking and lusting."

'In recent years, I have even used the ginseng of the party and land as a tonic without authorization. '

"—The Codonopsis ginseng, I have inspected it, and it does have medicinal properties and is indeed a great tonic, but it is even a yang thing."

"Your Majesty is originally yin deficient but yang is abundant, yin and yang are imbalanced, spleen and stomach are not in harmony, and eating this most yang thing is a great tonic, which makes the balance of yin and yang in the body even more."

"In the past three to five months, His Majesty only ate half a bowl of rice porridge for each meal."

"As the saying goes: people's diseases are born in the land of five grains, and the land of five grains is the spleen and stomach."

"Your Majesty's anode is abundant and cathode is deficient, the spleen and stomach are not open, and it is difficult to eat food into the throat."

"If you don't take care of it, I'm afraid, it's hopeless..."

Tremblingly speaking of his own diagnosis, the old doctor raised his hand tremblingly to wipe off the cold sweat on his forehead, and at the same time, he did not forget to take the opportunity to sneak a look at the face of the Queen Mother of Eyes.

And behind the old imperial physician, most of the imperial physicians who belonged to the yamen, all had expressions of trepidation and anxiety, and their eyes were fixed on the man who was sitting on the edge of the palace, still unwilling to caress the emperor's cheek. Empress Dowager Dou.

In fact, Tianzi Qi's physical condition has long been no secret.

At least for the important ministers inside and outside the government and the opposition, "Your Majesty's body is not very strong" has been news several years ago.

The loyal ministers of the court have already received the news of "Your Majesty is ill" several years ago, not to mention another emperor of the Han family: the current Empress Dowager Dou.

In fact, as early as more than a year ago, when Tian Ziqi, who was still barely in a healthy state, proposed that Liu Sheng be the "prince to supervise the country", Empress Dowager Dou already knew that Tian Ziqi's body and bones might not last long.

In order to satisfy Tian Ziqi's last wish and plan, and at the same time to let Tian Ziqi relax for a few years and live for a while, Empress Dowager Dou finally agreed to Tian Ziqi's request and allowed the prince to supervise the country.

If not?
Hey!
It is no exaggeration to say: If there is no nod from the queen mother, let alone the prince supervising the country, even the new king will have to go through a legal procedure!
As long as the empress dowager says "I don't recognize the new emperor", then no matter how popular the new emperor is, no matter how much he is the eldest son of the first emperor, the crown prince, or holding the first emperor's book to make a will, it will be meaningless at all.

With a very simple example, we can understand what kind of decision-making power the Queen Mother of the Han family has over such a major political decision.

——From Taizu Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty until Han Xiandi Liu Xie abdicated, for more than [-] years in the Han Dynasty, every powerful official and thief who wanted to abolish the establishment never dared to anger the Queen Mother of the Han family.

Even the edict to abolish and establish the emperor was obtained from the queen mother by these power ministers and thieves, either softly, or through coercion and lure, so that it finally became legal.

For example, in history, Emperor Xiaohui, Liu Ying, died young without warning, and when there was chaos inside and outside the government and the public, and no one knew what to do next, the Empress Dowager Lu said, "The eldest son of the emperor, Liu Gong ascended the throne", The eldest son of Emperor Xiaohui, the former young emperor Liu Gong, who was only four years old, has really become the new emperor.

Four years later, Liu Gong, who was eight years old, was bewitched by others and learned that his mother was "killed by the Empress Dowager Lu to save her son", so he angrily approached the Empress Dowager Lu to ask for an explanation.

Liu Gong said: How can the queen kill my biological mother and treat me as the queen's son?
I am still young, when I grow up, I must take revenge!

(Hou An can kill my mother and name me? I am not yet strong, and being strong means changing!)
Therefore, the young emperor Liu Gong, who is the emperor, was imprisoned and died in the deep palace because of the empress dowager Lu's light "the emperor is crazy~".

Liu Gong 'died suddenly due to illness', once again confused inside and outside the government and the field, and the Empress Dowager Lu stood up and slapped her head: Changshan King Liu Yi is a good boy, let him be the emperor;

For the convenience of the world, we have to change the child's name, let's call it Liu Hong.

This is the young emperor in history.

If Empress Dowager Lu is too special and irrelevant because of her status as the "founding queen", then we can continue to look down.

In the first year of Yuanping (74 BC), Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty, Liu Fuling died at the age of 20. He had no children, and the emperor died.

At this moment, Huo Guang, the minister of power, stood up and persuaded the Empress Dowager Shangguan to summon Liu He, the king of Changyi who had just ascended the throne, to the funeral in Chang'an almost by himself.

In June of the same year, Liu He, the king of Changyi, received the decree of the empress dowager Shangguan, and the side branch was included in the successor line and ascended the throne of Han Dynasty.

Then?

Ah;
——Just 27 days later, Liu He was accused of a total of 120 seven crimes by Da Sima and General Bo Luhou Huo Guang!
Calculated on average, every day since he took the throne, Liu He has committed 41 "big crimes" that can be regarded as "big crimes" that both humans and gods hate.

Then, Liu He ended his 27-day experience card as the Emperor of Han, and was deposed by the Empress Dowager Shangguan as the Emperor, and demoted to Haihunhou.

Some people may ask: The Empress Dowager Shangguan is the Empress Dowager Han after all, why does she just listen to Huo Guangyi's foreign minister?
But after knowing that the famous Shangguan Empress Dowager actually wanted to call Huo Guang 'grandfather', I am afraid that no one would ask such a question...

In the future, it will naturally be Wang Mang, the "traveler" who usurped Liu Han and established a new dynasty.

Most people only know that Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty from the last emperor of the Western Han Dynasty: Ru Ziying, who was only two years old, took over the throne of Ru Ziying's "abdication".

But few people know that Wang Mang's usurping the Han was actually a matter of management and planning for many years. He started planning from Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, and then it was precipitated during the reigns of Emperor Han Ping and Emperor Han Ai;

In the end, with the help of his aunt Wang Zhengjun, the Empress Dowager Wang, he was able to usurp Liu Han.

Even in the Eastern Han Dynasty after Wang Mang's "crossing counterattack failed", Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, was born, and helped the Han Dynasty, whenever the emperor abolished the establishment, the figure of the Queen Mother of Han never disappeared from the historian's writing between the lines.

The reason is nothing more than the overwhelming power that the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty has naturally possessed since the time of Gaohou Lu Zhi: as the common mother of all people in the world, and even the mother of the emperor Laozi, the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty has the full power to abolish and establish the emperor.

Only when the Empress Dowager nodded and abolished the emperor, such sensational things in the eyes of later generations, would they be considered 'legal' and 'reasonable'.

Even the abolition of the emperor can be resolved with one word, let alone the move of the prince to supervise the country, which may cause turmoil in the government and the public, and send a signal to the outside world that the handover of power is in progress.

To put it bluntly: From the day when she promised the emperor to let Prince Liu Sheng supervise the country, Empress Dowager Dou has been mentally prepared to welcome this day.

But when this day really comes, even though Rao has been prepared for it, Empress Dowager Dou still can't accept it for a while...

"How..."

"How could this be..."

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"I think back in the past, the late emperor's back disease was so serious that it was difficult to recover, and the medicine stone was useless, so he ordered the prince to supervise the country;"

"With the crown prince staring at the inside and outside of the government and the public, the first emperor relieved the burden, and finally relaxed for a few years."

"How did you come to the emperor, who obviously has already let go of the burden and ordered the crown prince to supervise the country, but still..."

Hearing Empress Dowager Dou's rather dull murmur, all the officials in the palace shook their heads and sighed unanimously, and then lowered their heads deeply.

——This kind of thing is not something that anyone can intervene in, or even think about it in their minds.

When the Queen Mother issued such an inquiry, except for the few imperial physicians who had the responsibility to bite the bullet and answer, most of the others wished to find a crack in the ground to sneak in to show that they 'didn't know that His Majesty was ill'.

The Empress Dowager asked a question, even if she didn't indicate who she was asking, someone still needed to answer;
Fortunately, this time, those old doctors were not embarrassing anymore.

The one who stood up was the only son of the late Nanpi Hou Dou Changjun and the nephew of the Empress Dowager Dou.

"At this time of crisis, Empress Dowager, please take care..."

"Your Majesty's illness has indeed been around for a long time, and the disease is deeply rooted, and it has not been cultivated for many years, so it has reached the current state."

"As long as there is still room for rescue, the imperial physician's order will not say that your majesty has no way to return to heaven in front of the ministers of the court, the empress dowager and the empress..."

···
"Your Majesty is sick, sleepy and unable to wake up, and people inside and outside the court are in panic. Although the crown prince has already supervised the country, he is still young and has not been crowned."

"At such a critical moment, it is the queen mother..."

"—Uh~~~"

Before Dou Pengzu finished speaking, a slight sound from the imperial couch made the whole Xuanshi Palace quiet!
After everyone recovered from the short-term shock, they followed the prestige and saw the bloodless Emperor Qi, who had already sat up with the support of the imperial physician.

Scanning around the hall with slack eyes, and then looking at the edge of the imperial couch, Tianzi Qi's gaze finally fell on the mother who was sitting on the edge of the couch: Empress Dowager Dou.

"Son, I heard everything..."

"Even if I didn't hear it, my own body and bones, I know it in my heart..."

Extremely weak, making the hearing as sensitive as Queen Mother Dou, the weak tone that could only be heard by bending down subconsciously, only caused the hearts of everyone in the hall to tense slightly.

It was then that Emperor Qi, after trying for a while, finally fell back on the couch as if appointed.

After Empress Dowager Dou also stood up with a long sigh, and squatted down beside Tianzi Qi's head, Tianzi Qi's hoarse and weak voice was relayed by the Lang Guan's loud voice to the ears of everyone in the hall.

"People who eat whole grains will inevitably experience birth, old age, sickness and death. This is the way of heaven, and there is no way to avoid it."

"Now I am lying on the couch with a serious illness. I am about to go on a grand trip. It happens that the queen mother and all the princes are here, and I want to entrust each other with the affairs of the afterlife."

"Written: The prime minister drafted an imperial edict, the queen mother heard it personally, and the doctor of the censor and the minister as evidence..."

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"My tiny body has been in this world for Yuan Yuan. Although it is only nine years ago, it feels even more like a lifetime away."

"There is no higher merit than Emperor Taizu Gao, and no higher virtue than Emperor Taizong Xiaowen."

"I have done nothing for the country, but caused the military disaster of the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and threatened to overthrow the ancestral temple and bring chaos to the society;"

"My morality is shallow, and I have repeatedly met Zhongliang's life and death, but I can't stop him. Fake the virtues of the previous emperor, and come to the Yuanyuan of the world, trembling, like walking on thin ice..."

"Today there is a prince who says: Victory, Yunwen Yunwu, won the love of all the people in the world, the support of the officials of the court, I secretly watched him, and could inherit the ancestral temple."

"Naizhao: The crown prince wins the position of emperor, and will not be involved in politics for the time being;"

"I have often heard that a man is crowned at the age of twenty, but a man of our Han family is crowned at seventeen. This is why there are similarities and differences between the ancient and modern methods."

"Therefore, when the crown prince ascends the throne, those who are less than twenty years old, all government orders come from the East Palace Changle."

"At the age of [-], the ministers of the court will invite Changle together, perform the crowning ceremony to become an adult, register in the pepper house and get married, and with Changle's permission, they can manage politics at the court..."

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"Worship: Prince Taifu Lieutenant Jianling Marquis Weiwan is Prime Minister Zuo, who is in charge of the central guard;"

"Wherever the south and north of Chang'an, the Xiliu, Thorny Gate, and Bashang armies are all in place, they cannot be mobilized unless the emperor's edict, the empress dowager's edict, the talisman, and the seal are all in place."

"When I collapse, I will be buried in Yangling, and the whole country will not be mourned;"

"The people wept for three days, the officials mourned for seven days, and the patriarchs stopped in the middle of ten days..."

(End of this chapter)