I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

The appointment of Zhidu and Zhang Xu as marquises did not exceed anyone's expectations.

——These two people, one is the commander in chief of the Mayi campaign, and the other is the 'first meritorious service' in the Mayi campaign. If neither of them is qualified to be a marquis, then the great victory in Mayi will no longer be worthy of being called the 'Great Victory' in Mayi.

As for the generals and deputies under the command of Zhidu and Zhang Xu to be named marquises, it is barely understandable.

The king eats meat, but the little king drinks soup;

It's just that among the seven people, the only yellow crossbowman with the rank of 'pawn' caused a lot of gossip on the streets of Chang'an.

Some people said that the crossbowman Huang Ponu was actually not an ordinary soldier, but a descendant of a certain former emperor left behind among the people!

It's just that similar things hurt the royal prestige, and it's not easy for the Tian family to admit it directly, so they took the opportunity of the Mayi battle to make up for the illegitimate son of the clan by offering rewards.

Some people also said that the crossbowman Huang Ponu was actually a long-lost sibling of the Empress Dowager Jia.

— After all, there are precedents!
Back then, when the current Empress Dowager was still the queen of Emperor Taizong's dynasty, she reunited with her long-lost brothers Dou Changjun and Dou Pengzu.

Empress Dowager Dou has lost brothers and sisters, so it is not impossible for Empress Dowager Jia to have one.

what?
Do you think it's ridiculous?
Then let's talk about what happened to the two siblings of Empress Dowager Dou back then.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Gao of Taizu, Dou's family in Guanjin County, Qinghe County gave birth to a daughter, who was taboo named: Dou Yifang.

There is an elder brother above Dou Yi's room, taboo: Dou Jian, styled Changjun; there is a younger brother underneath, taboo: Dou Guangguo, styled Shaojun.

Dou's father experienced the turmoil in the Qin Dynasty and was not far away from the troubled times. He took his wife and children and lived in Guanjin County in seclusion. He didn't care about world affairs and lived a poor life of fishing.

Life was so ordinary, until Dou's father fell into the river and died while fishing. The Dou family, who was barely able to live, lost the only pillar of the family in an instant.

Dou's mother was weak and sick, and the burden of the family fell on the eldest son of the family: Dou Jian, Dou Changjun.

At that time, Dou Jian was young, and there was an old mother lying on the couch at home, and younger brothers and sisters waiting to be fed, and Han Zuo was newly established, and the world was full of waste, not to mention how difficult it was to make a living;

In desperation, it was Dou's mother who finally made the decision with tears in her eyes, and sold her youngest son, Dou Guangguo, who was temporarily unable to provide any help for the family, to the county's powerful and powerful as slaves, finally letting the fragile family breathe a sigh of relief.

Being sold as a slave to a powerful man, Dou Guangguo's childhood was not very bright - not long after being sold, Dou Guangguo was taken to the mines in Yiyang by the owner and became the most miserable miner among the slaves.

In Guanjin County, the Dou family, who was relieved by the money sold by Dou Guangguo, still failed to escape the tragic fate of sitting on the mountain and the poor getting poorer.

The youngest son was sold, and the money was gone, and Mrs. Dou had been ill for many years. In desperation, it was her daughter's turn: Dou Yi's house was sold.

At this time, it was already the reign of Emperor Xiaohui.

Dou Yifang was very angry.

At least at that time, Dou Yifang would rather fight for a very small possibility than commit herself to the powerful and rich, and become a miserable person who is also a slave, a dancer, and a reproductive machine.

Therefore, Dou Yifang resolutely signed up for the draft, and finally passed the selection with luck, and was sent to the palace as a son of a good family, and became a maid beside the Empress Dowager Lu.

Dou Yi's room entered the palace, took away and left a sum of money, and Dou's family only had two mouths left, and Dou Jian only had to take care of his sick mother, and the pressure of survival dropped sharply;
Within a few years, Dou's mother died of illness, and Dou Jian, who was alone, did not want to stay in his hometown of writing. He read Guanjin sadly, so he went out to make a living.

So far, the Dou Clan in Guanjin County, Qinghe County has completely dispersed.

As time passed, the boss Dou Changjun was running around, eating enough for one person and the whole family was not hungry;
The Dou Yi room in the palace was given by the Empress Dowager Lu to Liu Heng, the then acting king, and went to Jinyang, the acting capital.

The third son, Dou Guangguo, has endured human hardships in the mines in Yiyang since he was very young.

It wasn't until Dou Guangguo was 20 years old that the fate of the three brothers and sisters had a major turning point.

——When Dou Guangguo was 20 years old, the Yiyang mine where Dou Guangguo was located was flooded with mud and rocks, and the entire shack for the miners to rest was buried by gravel and mud.

Hundreds of mine slaves died unexpectedly, but Dou Guangguo survived by chance because he was squeezed out to the edge of the shack by the "predecessors" when he was fighting for the berth because of his young age.

When such a thing happened, the family members of hundreds of wronged souls cried out, demanding an explanation from the mine owner;

But the mine owner who bought Dou Guangguo back then and took him to Yiyang to mine, finally chose to leave Yiyang, a place of right and wrong, and ran to Chang'an to avoid the limelight.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven!
Even if some desperadoes want to avenge their dead father and elder brother, they have to be cautious when they are at the feet of the emperor.

Furthermore, after decades of digging for 'money' in the mines in Yiyang, the mine owners are already rich;

After going through such ordeals, the mine owner has quite a bit of enlightenment, and he plans to spend the rest of his life in the most prosperous city in the world, enjoying the fruits of his hard work in the first half of his life.

As a result, Dou Guangguo, the only surviving miner, followed the mine owner to Chang'an.

I don't know if he felt lucky that he survived the catastrophe, but the first time Dou Guangguo arrived in Chang'an, he asked a famous fortune teller for a divination to ask about his future.
Unexpectedly, the hexagrams come from Pi Jitai's hexagrams, saying that not only Dou Guangguo no longer has to worry about his life, but he will change his body within a few days, become a relative of the emperor, and be granted the title of Marquis.

For this hexagram, Dou Guangguo did not believe it at all;

Only a few days later, when he heard that the empress of the current dynasty was named Dou and was from Guanjin County, Qinghe County, Dou Guangguo was stunned...

It turned out that after being given to Dai Wang Liu Heng by Empress Dowager Lu, Dou Yifang not only received the utmost favor from Dai Wang Liu Heng, but also gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Dai Wang successively;
But in the year when Empress Dowager Lu passed away, the world of the Han family underwent drastic changes. Liu Heng, the former poor king and king of Gong, suddenly became the ruler of the emperor!

I don't know if it's a coincidence: just before and after the acting king Liu Heng entered Chang'an to inherit the Datong, the acting queen Lu's family and the queen's four sons all died in Jinyang, the capital of the generation, for unknown reasons.

Therefore, in the second year of coming to Chang'an to succeed the Datong, that is, the first year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Tianziheng issued an imperial edict: the old queen died, and the heirs were also extinct;

The son Qi gave birth to his mother, Dou's family, who is gentle and virtuous, but her mother is respectful to the world...

In this way, the two siblings, who were separated in childhood and separated from each other, reunited in Chang'an under the arrangement of fate—they met in a strange way with the opposite extreme identities, one in the sky and the other in the earth.

After becoming a queen, Dou Yifang was at a loss for the sudden change of status;

It happened not long after the Zhulu Rebellion was settled, and I don't know how many people took advantage of the time when the chaos had not yet been completely settled, and they dated relatives with the Wang family.

Therefore, when Dou Guangguo plucked up the courage to appear outside the Weiyang Palace, saying that he was the younger brother of the empress of the current dynasty, the guards outside the palace not only did not pay attention to it, but sneered at Dou Guangguo's confession.

——During that time, I don’t know how many people with good hands and eyes jumped out after inquiring about Empress Dou’s life experience, saying that they were Empress Dou’s elder brother Dou Jian and younger brother Dou Guangguo.

And after seeing the group of scammers, Empress Dou has gone from being pleasantly surprised at the beginning, to disappointed later, to apprehensive...
In the end, even Empress Dou Dou was desperate.

So when news came from outside the palace gate that a man who claimed to be Dou Guangguo, was in his twenties, but was completely black and looked like he was around 50 or [-] years old was looking for him, Empress Dou let out a long sigh helplessly.

"Know that I have a younger brother, so you all want to be my younger brother..."

Muttering like this, Empress Dou just shook her head in despair, signaling the middle official to send a message outside the palace gate.

——What is the proof?
Empress Dou said this to countless people during those few days, but she never got a satisfactory answer.

Only this time, fate wants to play with Empress Dou for real.

"Please tell the Queen: When I was a child, I once climbed a tree with the Queen to pick mulberries, but accidentally slipped and fell."

"At that time, I was too young, and my body was too thin. I broke my legs and feet when I fell, and I stayed at home for more than a month..."

When the palace guard came to Jiaofang Hall with the news, Empress Dou finally cheered up a little.

Such a thing did happen.

But Empress Dou couldn't judge the identity of the person through this one incident, whether it was her long-lost brother Dou Guangguo.

The reason is simple: the southern part of Qinghe County, especially the hundreds of miles around Guanjin County, is a famous mulberry producing area in the world.

Even if the person who came was not Dou Guangguo, as long as he found out that the Queen's native place was Guanjin County, Qinghe County, he could combine Guanjin County's reputation of "rich mulberries" to fabricate such a lie.

How many teenagers born in Qinghe County have never climbed a mulberry tree to pick mulberries?
How many people didn't fall from the tree and lay down at home for ten days and half a month?

Undecided, Empress Dou finally decided: meet this 'Dou Guangguo'.

Whether the person is real or not, judge after seeing it.

"How old were we separated?"

"—Min can't remember the queen's age."

"——only vaguely the head of the family once said: Cao Min committed himself as a slave at the age of five, and shortly thereafter, the queen was drafted into the palace..."

Upon hearing this, Empress Dou was completely restless.

The world only knows that Empress Dou had an elder brother named Dou Jian, who was named Changjun, and a younger brother named Dou Guangguo, who was named Shaojun.

Even with that, it was the only information revealed by Empress Dou when she asked someone to look for it.

Empress Dou was very sure: when she asked someone to find her brothers and sisters, she never revealed the ages of the two.

Even if she hadn't become a queen herself, even Dou Yifang's age would still be a little-known secret.

——Dou Yifang remembers very clearly: my younger brother was sold to Hao Qiang when he was five years old, and was taken to Yiyang shortly thereafter, it is said that he went to mine;
And before her younger brother left, Dou Yifang, who had just made up her mind to participate in the draft, also had a final farewell...

"What else can I do to prove my identity?"

Hearing the Queen's question, Dou Guangguo replied without hesitation: "Min vaguely remembers that the Queen was going to the county office to sign up for the draft, and Min was about to be taken to Yiyang."

"Therefore, Minyu Queen parted from life and death at the post station of Shiwuli Pavilion in Guanjin, and agreed to meet again in the future."

"When parting, the people washed the queen's hair with warm water;"

"The queen saw that the people were suffering from hunger and cold, so she even begged for food in the station."

"The queen said: Goodbye Xu is in Jiuyoumingcao, the trace of parting from life and death, after all, let the younger brother have a full meal..."

After saying these words, Dou Guangguo was already sobbing;

After hearing these words, Empress Dou couldn't restrain her emotions in the end, and rushed forward without hesitation, hugging her long-lost younger brother, and the two siblings cried.

Hearing that the queen was reunited with his younger brother, Tian Ziheng was also deeply moved, so he sent Yushi to Qinghe County to find out the whereabouts of his uncle Dou Changjun.

Obviously, compared with Dou Yifang, the acting concubine of concubine Concubine Dou Yi, who once "took someone to look for", the power that Tian Ziheng can use undoubtedly has reached an unknown number of levels.

Not long after, the three brothers and sisters of the Dou family reunited in Chang'an, and Tian Ziheng was not stingy, and rewarded the Dou brothers with land, a house, and a large sum of money, allowing them to live in Chang'an.

When she learned of this, Empress Dowager Bo also felt distressed about her daughter-in-law's life experience, so she also issued a decree, posthumously naming Empress Dou's father as Marquis of An Cheng and mother as Mrs. An Cheng;

Although the Marquis of Ancheng did not allow Dou Jian and Dou Guangguo brothers to inherit, he still established the Dou family cemetery in Qinghe County, enfeoffing [-] households;

These two hundred families are the guardians of Dou's cemetery; the tax income is the source of expenditure for Dou's cemetery.

The above is the whole process of the reunion of Empress Dou Taizong, Empress Dou Xiaojing, and the current Empress Dowager Dou with Nanpihou Doujian and Zhangwuhou Dou Guangguo.

With this incident of the past few years as a 'bedding', it seems that it is not incomprehensible that there will be another Queen Mother Jia reunited with her brothers.

Only at the very beginning, both inside and outside the ruling and opposition parties scoffed at this statement.

——Although the crossbowman Huang Ponu was alone, without father, mother, relatives, or family background, he was also from a good family whose genealogy and lineage could be found.

In addition, he himself was a yellow crossbowman with the nature of a heavy sniper, and it was not so shocking to kill a few Xiongnu nobles on the battlefield, and even be able to become a marquis because of this.

It's just that as the incident progressed, the development direction of the situation began to become a little uncontrollable.

At the beginning, Emperor Sheng of Weiyang Palace took the attitude of "my Han family will not punish crimes for words" to this rumor.

Saying this sentence means that the foolish people are talking nonsense, and I don't care about it, and I can't care about it.

But just a few days later, the crossbowman Huang Ponu, who was about to be named Marquis, was received by the Empress Dowager of the Eastern Palace!
Although it was not the Empress Dowager Jia herself, but the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang, it was enough to make the gossip party in the streets and alleys of Chang'an have a "really so" addiction.

Especially when the Empress Dowager Dou was the person involved in the previous 'precedent'...