A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 579: Parental Love 579
Seeing that she seemed to be irritated by him, Dugu Yongye was anxious in his heart, but he said calmly on the surface:
"Your Majesty is so heartless. Aren't you afraid of revenge on your daughter?"

"I believe that everyone has their own destiny. If she can't even subdue a small mouse, she is not worthy of being the ruler of a country."

"If that's the case... After all, you're already dead, and if the corpse ghost who came to borrow your life still destroys the living, it would be a great sin."

Dugu Yongye suddenly drew out the sword behind him and slashed at the black-robed empress in front of him, "Your Majesty, for the sake of the people of this world, I'm sorry!"

Yuan Mingjing reacted very quickly and raised his sword to fight back, with two swords striking each other. At the same time, Dugu Yongye suddenly turned his wrist and threw out several hidden weapons!

There was a flash of silver light, and a muffled groan of pain came from the other side, accompanied by a sizzling sound like barbecue.

Yuan Wuyou looked up and saw a silver dart cutting through the black robe and piercing his mother's chest. The skin was not torn, but the wound was smoking! There was not even any bleeding.

She was immediately terrified.

Dugu Yongye nodded, "It is indeed not the flesh and blood of a living person. To tell you the truth, Your Majesty, my sword is also tempered with silver."

Yuan Mingjing, who was stabbed by the silver weapon, pulled out the silver dart with her bare hands the next moment, and only lowered her eyes to look at the ravine-like hole in her chest. There was no pain on her face, but when she raised her eyes again, her eyes were cold.

Instead, Dugu Yongye suddenly raised his sword and put it on her neck.
"Your Majesty, please move the sword away from Dugu Luo,"

The next moment, a young man in black suddenly rushed out from behind the rockery, with his long black hair tied into a knee-length pigtail.

The young man had a slender figure like a swallow, and his steps were light and swift. In two steps, he rushed between the three people. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the neck of the man in the red shirt with the rapier in his hand.

Li Ming saw Youyou and said:

"If one Gu ghost dies, I can create tens of millions more. But if Dugu Luo dies, it will depend on how you, the State of Qi, will handle it."

The mother and son were the kind of people who were not afraid of wearing shoes even if they were barefoot. They looked like they were fine with being alive or dead, but Dugu Luo couldn't die. Dugu Yongye had to bring the people out and bring them back intact. He really didn't dare to fight to the death with the two of them.

Yuan Wuyou originally wanted to move closer to persuade them to make peace, but as a result, a few people discussed something in a low voice. Dugu Yongye was the first to retract his sword, spread his hands in surrender, and even retreated two steps to show his sincerity.

Li Ming was afraid that the old man would go back on his word, so he still put the sword on Dugu Luo, but urged the two to leave. So the black-shirted boy held the red-shirted man hostage and followed Dugu Yongye away.

For a moment, only mother and daughter were left on the field.

As soon as he saw Li Mingjian, Yuan Wuyou knew what was going on.

Yuan Wuyou asked the black-robed empress beside him. Seeing her face becoming increasingly yellowish and her stabbed chest becoming black, he guessed that the Gu ghost's life span would be shortened by the injury, so he didn't dare to ask, and only carefully changed the subject:
"Did you love my father?"

"What do you mean by loved? I love him the most."

"Why do you love him the most, not just him? Why did you divorce him back then? Was it because he had an affair with someone else and had a child before you became the empress? Then why did you let him have me after he had so many children?"

Yuan Mingjing was silent. "I have failed him." This was too sentimental. Yuan Wuyou finally understood who he inherited his tyrannical character from.

"Mom, if you were to say this in the context of a relationship between husband and wife, I would think you value friendship, but you are the female Khan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. I don't know anything about the two of you. What are you talking about?"

"I don't know if he only loves one person, but he is loyal to me and has no second thoughts. I also took him back to Gaxian Cave in Shiwei to worship Tuoba ancestors, and returned to Huaxu to hold a grand wedding with Kunlun. We are truly the first wife. He should have been the queen, but I acquiesced to his false accusation in order to check the situation in the court and divorced him. He left his family and career to follow me and was loyal to my Suxing Mansion. For so many years, I have neglected him, but he never complained and has no regrets."

"Ah? Mother Queen...he has already had children with another woman. You are so sincere."

"I betrayed him first."

Yuan Wuyou shook his head, "You two are birds of a feather, so don't criticize each other. It's nothing like me and Gao Changgong, who had a glorious and clean relationship."

Yuan Mingjing, who was wearing a black robe and a straw hat, was amused by her, and suddenly narrowed his eyes, "How can you talk to your mother and father? However, if you really want to marry him in the future, you must return to Gaxian Cave to worship your ancestors. After all, since the Five Barbarians invaded China, if the Tuoba clan had not married into the Chinese family to support the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would have perished long ago. Since the Xianbei Tuoba have adopted the Han surname, we cannot forget that they have been here."

Yuan Wuyou nodded, "Where is Gaxian Cave? Why is this place name so strange?"

"In Shiwei, the origin of Gaxian Cave is said to be that before the Five Barbarians invaded China, the ancestors of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe met a goddess in the cave who taught them military books and asked them to go to the south to save the people. In the Xianbei language, Gaxian means the female war god. When the Tuoba ancestors arrived in the Central Plains, they learned that the goddess was the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman in Chinese legends. Therefore, the Tuoba clan devoted themselves to the Han Dynasty, and Gaxian Cave became a place to worship their ancestors."

Yuan Wuyou didn't like to listen to myths, but suddenly thought of Gao Changgong, whom she wanted to marry. She looked around and frowned. "Why is it so quiet here? Didn't you see Gao Changgong come out?"

Yuan Mingjing frowned, "I have been outside the whole time, how come I have never seen anyone come out?"

Yuan Wuyou realized something was wrong, "No, Xiao Tongyan also came out, didn't you see it?"

Before she could finish her words, she saw the black-robed queen in front of her suddenly pull off her black robe and throw it in her face!

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Since Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yuan Hong, moved the capital to Luoyang, the political and economic center moved south, and the old capital Pingcheng became a forgotten place.

At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xuanwu Yuan Ke died. The six-year-old Crown Prince Yuan Xu succeeded to the throne and was known in history as Emperor Xiaoming. Because Emperor Xiaoming was young, his mother, Empress Dowager Hu, took power and ruled the country. The mother and son were collectively known as the "Second Emperor".

The empress dowager who had just taken charge of the government valued virtuous people and was close to the people. In order to thank the young Princess Lanling, the youngest daughter of Emperor Xiaowen, for advising Empress Dowager Hu in front of her brother to save her life from the fate of "the son is noble and the mother dies", Empress Dowager Hu appointed a large number of princesses from the royal family as female officials in the court, and appointed the ten-year-old Princess Lanling as the female attendant and the Lord of the Suxing Mansion, and ordered her to be in charge of the "Suxing Mansion", a personal guard cabinet directly under the emperor.

Since the Tuoba family inherited the Han Dynasty, the Suxing Mansion has only obeyed the orders of successive emperors. "Suxing" means the place where the stars rest, and the organization structure is the same as the "Ziwei Doushu" imperial science passed down by the ancients. The Lord of Suxing Mansion is responsible for providing personal guards for the emperor, fortune-telling and sacrifice, and recruiting and recommending talents from all over the world for the emperor. The structure of the mansion is arranged according to Ziwei Doushu, with the fourteen main stars at the top. The Lord of the Mansion calls himself the "Ziwei" star, and the auxiliary stars below are layered, rigorous and strict, each doing its own job, without any disorder.

In order to ensure the loyal support of the current emperor, all the successive lords were selected by the emperor from among the royal blood relatives.

The empress dowager used the Suxing Palace as her right-hand man, suppressed Buddhist monks and quelled religious rebellions, shocked the Xiaoliang in the south and resisted the Rouran in the north. All nations came to pay tribute, and the world praised it as "the sky is peaceful and the earth is harmonious, and the four seas are at peace." The Northern Wei Dynasty was extremely powerful.

The ambitious Empress Dowager Hu renovated the Buddhist cave murals and built the Yongning Temple Pagoda, the tallest building in the world, in the capital Luoyang. However, natural disasters and droughts occurred, and the people could not bear the heavy burden of taxes. The Empress Dowager quickly issued an edict to exempt taxes and stop construction in order to reassure the people.

As a result, when he looked back, he found that his former dynasty had fallen.