"Liu Zheng! You will die a tragic death!"

These were the words shouted by the tall and powerful man in the mountains that day before he committed suicide.

At that time, Pei Yue didn't know why, and he just thought it was a curse he placed on an enemy before his death. He never expected that the man's enemy turned out to be the current emperor. However, in this way, the truth of the past also verified his previous

infer.

Fourteen years ago, before his death, the first Duke of Ding, Pei Yuan, entrusted a scholar named Ling Ping in Kyoto to Gu Liang to take care of him.

That year, Emperor Pei Yuan and Emperor Zhongzong of Daliang died one after another, and Zhongzong's second son Liu Xuan succeeded to the throne.

In the second year, Liu Xuan changed his name to Yuan Yongning.

Half a year after Emperor Yongning ascended the throne, he began to feel unwell, and his condition deteriorated so rapidly that the government began to turmoil before he could fully control the situation.

On the tenth day of September in the first year of Yongning, Ling Ping's wife gave birth to a son, and this child was Pei Yue.

One autumn night, Wang Pingzhang organized an attack on the richest family in Kyoto. The head of the family was a woman whom Emperor Yongning had liked before he ascended the throne, and controlled a huge amount of wealth.

In the chaos of this night, Pei Yue's biological parents died innocently and tragically. The infant Pei Yue was rescued by Pei Zhen and raised under Pei Rong's name.

Soon after, Emperor Yongning died, and his brother Liu Zheng, the fourth son of Emperor Zhongzong, succeeded to the throne with the support of important ministers of the two governments. This is now His Majesty the Emperor.

After sorting these things out in his mind, Pei Yue sighed: "No wonder those bandits make puzzling actions and have such strong strength."

Gu Liang nodded and said: "These bandits should be the remnants of the Chen family. Although the Chen family does not have a noble title on the surface, it has been the top merchant family in Daliang for decades. Together with the Tian family and the court,

The relationship between the middle class and the powerful is very good. They say that businessmen are cheap. There is no problem with this, but if you can do something to the extreme, others will not dare to look down upon you. I still remember that the woman’s name is Chen Qingchen.

He showed amazing business talent when he was young, but it’s just a pity.”

Pei Yue said: "Actually, I have been curious before about what kind of person can maintain two or three thousand soldiers in the mountains and develop so many internal agents in the court. Only after listening to my uncle say these things did I understand. So.

With a background like the Chen family, they must have accumulated countless wealth and have deep connections in the court, so they were able to retain such strong strength after being attacked by Wang Pingzhang fourteen years ago."

Gu Liang helped him pour wine and said while drinking: "The most loyal force of the late emperor in Kyoto was actually the Chen family, even more important than the Forbidden Army. It is not surprising that Wang Pingzhang chose the Chen family to take action. It can only be said that fate plays a trick on people.

, the late emperor's succession to the throne was too short, he did not clarify the context of the dynasty, and did not arrange the children of the Chen family to join the imperial army. The late emperor's illness was very strange, and the people at the Imperial Hospital did not find out the cause for half a year, so they could only look at it.

The condition is getting worse day by day.”

He paused for a moment, with a stern look: "I don't like Wang Pingzhang, but I also admire him. Not everyone has the courage to gamble with the family's survival before the situation is completely clear."

Pei Yue has also read a lot of history and knows that this kind of change of imperial power has always been the most dangerous moment. Rivers of blood have been killed at every turn, which has been the case since ancient times. But he felt a little sad at the moment. If Gu Liang had not lied to him, then this look

The biological parents of the body are like a microcosm of ordinary people in the long history. Many times they died without knowing what happened.

So what?

No one cares about their life or death.

History books record the glorious achievements of emperors and generals, but the most they can say to tens of thousands of people is "There is a great famine, and the people eat each other."

There are only a few words, but they reveal endless cruelty and indifference.

Like Emperor Kaiping, Wang Pingzhang, and the woman in the mountain, what they care about is either supreme authority, future, destiny, or deep hatred. As for the life and death of innocent passers-by, they may never have entered their sight.

Thinking of this, Pei Yue felt intense irritation in his heart.

He doesn't like this kind of world.

"Uncle, the death of the late emperor should be the work of this majesty, right?" Pei Yue asked after calming down for a moment.

Gu Liang looked complicated and said hesitantly: "At that time, the important ministers of the two governments did not think so, so when he succeeded to the throne, it was very smooth."

Pei Yue shook his head and said: "Since he succeeded to the throne, he must have done it."

Gu Liang was slightly startled, then his eyes showed appreciation.

However, Pei Yue did not continue this topic, because even if he had conclusive evidence rather than speculation, it actually made no sense. Emperor Kaiping has been in the imperial court for thirteen years now. With the help of the two ministers and Taishitai Pavilion Shen Yun, he has very strong control over Daliang. .As long as Pei Yue is not crazy, he will not say a word about this matter in public.

He thought of the woman in the mountain, and suddenly said with a strange expression: "In this case, isn't the woman in the mountain the princess of Daliang?"

Gu Liang had already learned the details of the mountain from him, and now he realized it and said solemnly: "To be able to control the wealth and power left by the Chen family, the girl you met must be a descendant of the Chen family. But the problem is Since Emperor Yu and Chen Qingchen did not get married, they should not have a daughter."

The two looked at each other and both felt a little headache.

The past has long since turned into dust, and it is extremely difficult to find the truth from it.

Pei Yue smiled bitterly and said, "Perhaps that Chen Qingchen doesn't want to marry into the Tian family, and the late emperor secretly had a daughter with her, so I can't say for sure?"

Gu Liang also shook his head and smiled: "This is possible."

Pei Yue sighed: "This girl is really a cruel person. If she is really the daughter of the late emperor, wouldn't she be planning to dig up her ancestral grave?"

When he set off from Chenguan Town into the mountains that night, because of Qin Xian's explanation, the problem that had troubled Pei Yue for a long time was solved. He guessed the woman's plan and returned to inform Gu Liang. Later, they had a head-on confrontation in the mountains. The word "north" he said shook the woman's mind, otherwise things might not have gone so smoothly.

In fact, in Pei Yue's view, the other party's plan was a bit rough.

The woman's plan was to plunder the outside of Kyoto to attract the attention of the Daliang court, and then try to attract the Beijing army to the mountains as much as possible, secretly organizing a group of men to rush directly to Xingliang Mansion in the north of Kyoto, where there is the imperial mausoleum of the Daliang Tianjia.

If that woman was really allowed to destroy the imperial mausoleum, even if Emperor Kaiping trusted Wang Pingzhang again, the latter would not be able to escape death.

Letting the emperor and Wang Pingzhang fight each other was probably the plan of the descendant of the Chen family.

Gu Liang commented with some disapproval: "It can only be said that she is a little whimsical. Even if most of the Beijing army is dragged into the mountains by her, the imperial mausoleum will not be captured so easily. Even I don't know how many guards there are in Xingliang Mansion." Strength. After all, a woman who has never experienced battlefield killings will never achieve great results if she acts too extreme and blindly takes the wrong approach."

Pei Yue agreed with Gu Liang's judgment.
Chapter completed!