Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 164

[Chapter 162]

It was the night moonlight, the sea wind and waves were calm, the warship left the island that night, under the guidance of experienced guides, dozens of sailors rowed the oars in unison, and the boats went at a uniform speed towards the landing.

The islanders who boarded the ship together were settled. With awe-inspiring eyes, they carefully looked at the heroic back of the young man in the distance, and the woman coaxed the child, trying not to make a noise.

But on top of the faces that had become black and haggard due to hardship and hardship, there was a look of hope that had not been seen for a long time.

From yesterday to this moment, but in just one day and one night, their fate has experienced ups and downs that they have never experienced in this life, and they know that the man who brought them back to their hometown will be the new king of the world.

These people had been living on the isolated island for several years, and had never heard of the name of Yanhou Wei Shao before, but out of a hunch that they themselves could not say clearly, they believed that this young new monarch who was willing to stop and gather for the sake of these grass people would surely bring them the stable life they had longed for.

How can they not rejoice and be encouraged by this?

……

Nothing has happened. Wei Shao told Lei Yan and the others to disperse and returned to the cabin himself.

He stood in front of the porthole, looked up at the starry sky, and was fascinated for a long time.

……

When the Yong capital was finally broken, emperor Hou fled into Shu, but how could he stop Wei Shao’s troops who were bound to clear the way and unify the world?

The last city was finally broken.

As his soldiers occupied the city and shouted loudly to celebrate the victory, he was told that the Later Emperor had killed himself in the palace.

Corpses were strewn across the feet, the stench of blood floated in the air, the houses were burning with unquenched embers, smoke billowed and the ears were filled with the suppressed cries of fear of the captured citymen.

He had long been accustomed to all this, and surrounded by heavily armored soldiers, he entered the palace that smelled of blood.

In the pool of blood on the ground, there were several dead women in colored clothes, and on the bed, side by side, lay a pair of men and women who had lost their breath.

The trembling old eunuch knelt in a pool of blood and said in a trembling, dissonant voice that these two men and women were the Later Emperor Liu Yan and his empress Qiao Shi.

After Liu Yan ordered his close eunuchs to kill the empress dowager, he personally killed the empress, and then committed suicide by taking poison.

Liu Yan’s eyes were tightly closed, his face glowed with a dead blue-and-white color, and his facial muscles were slightly twisted.

He stared at the dead Liu Yan for a moment, and then swept towards the woman lying on her back with him.

The sister of his dead wife.

It also came from the Joe family he hated.

Her body was neatly dressed, there was a sharp bladed wound on her left chest, the blood was dripping, solidified into a purple-black color, and the brilliant brocade placket and the layers of fabric under the placket were also soaked with blood.

As you can see, the sword she received in her heart before she died was extremely accurate, and the force came out through her back.

But compared to her husband’s almost painfully distorted look, the dead Joe’s expression was unusually calm.

She just closed her eyes, her eyelashes hanging low, as if she had fallen asleep.

Even if she had been dead for a moment, her body had long been cold and stiff, but she still looked amazingly beautiful, and the blood-stained wound on her chest not only did not damage her peerless appearance, but made her beauty add a little bit of sadness.

Enough to impress the hearts of the most hard-hearted people in the world.

But his gaze paused for a moment on her beautiful face, which was slightly like that of his wife, Big Joe, and then he withdrew it.

The look was full of indifference, without the slightest hint of compassion.

Under the suppressed and fearful gaze of the old eunuch behind him, he turned and left the palace.

He was only thirty years old, and he had already come to the world, and today he cleared the last obstacle on the road to the great cause of the thousand autumns.

At this point, his enemies were eliminated, and the people he wanted to let them die, one by one, died at his hands, and no one in the world could compete with him, and every inch of the royal land of this beautiful country and mountains was also in his hands.

He should have been excited at this moment, and the cries of his soldiers celebrating victory a moment ago still seemed to fill his ears, but he didn’t know why, he didn’t feel the slightest excitement.

Perhaps it was such a city and victory, he had already experienced too much before, and now he had long been numb, and it was only one of his goals to get rid of the Emperor who had been stubbornly resisting for several years. Now that the goal was finally accomplished, he seemed to feel a little dazed, even lonely.

A sense of loneliness in reaching the top alone, looking around.

He strode down the smoke-filled streets of the city, coldly allowing his soldiers to vent their emotions after the destruction of the city by killing, setting fire to, and even committing adultery. The pain of the city’s citizens shouted, groaned, and groaned, as if he had not heard it, because the people in this city had helped the Later Emperor resist his arrival, so this was the punishment they deserved, until the next day, when he heard that his Gongsun Yang, who had hurriedly arrived, came to dissuade him, and he finally gave the order to stop slaughtering the city.

From the first day after he ascended the throne, Dayan did not stop fighting. After he returned to Luoyang, he appointed capable ministers, opened up tax sources, filled the national treasury, used them as military salaries, and supported him in fighting the Xiongnu, and a few years later, the Great Yan Iron Horse finally occupied the Xiongnu Wangting Longcheng, and drove the Xiongnu living here far to the north, completely extinct in the Longcheng area. In his harem, the beauties also entered one by one, but no one could get his affection, even if he was spoiled on the dragon bed for a while, he was soon snubbed by him, as for the Su daughter who was made empress by him, in the past few years, he had not summoned her for a long time, he just looked coldly, watching her and the women in the harem wrestling with each other for favors, feeling doubly bored and contemptuous, the past of his youth in his heart, has long been gone, only occasionally, in the middle of the night, he climbed the high-rise building of the deep palace alone, Remembering his grandmother, who died many years ago, his cold heart seemed to have become a stone, and then it would slowly soften again.

Only in those moments would he feel a momentary loneliness, a loneliness that had nowhere to hide.

He also knew that if his grandmother were still alive, he would not want to see him become what he is today.

But he could no longer control himself, his grandmother had gone, his mother only needed to be honored and raised, the women in the harem could not make him stop, no one in the world could soften the heart that he had planted the seeds of hatred since he was twelve years old, he needed the stimulation and pleasure of continuous conquest, and in the second year after the Ping xiongnu, he continued to launch a war to conquer the western regions despite the opposition of Gongsun Yang and courtiers. After several years of conquest, he finally achieved his wish, and incorporated a large area of the Western Regions that had surrendered to him into the territory of Great Yan.

In less than ten years, he achieved a great deed that no monarch before him could do, so that the Great Yan Empire flaunted its might and power to the four seas, however, those songs and praises like snowflakes were still piled on top of his royal case, and before it was time to read it, in this year, the Yellow River broke the river from Huaxian County, flooded northeast Henan, southwest Lu, merged into Surabaya, and finally seized Si into Huai, countless good land houses were washed away by the torrential flood, and people and animals were killed and injured. Countless.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the people who have been suffering from heavy enlistment and servitude can not be squeezed, riots and chaos have arisen everywhere, he was forced to suppress, and finally quelled the riots, chaos, but then the bad news came again, he had always relied on gongsun Yang, who had been extremely dependent on the sun and sheep to control the water and care for the people, died of illness in other places, and before he died, he gave him a letter of advice, saying that because of the continuous use of troops, the national treasury was empty, the people’s grievances were boiling, and the country was plagued by disasters, and he advised the king to govern the water and care for the people, stop the work, and return the people to leniencyPolitics.

The former generals who had followed him to lay the foundation for the world were now scattered, either killed in battle, or retreated, or intimidated by his usual arbitrariness and no longer speaking.

There are only Gongsun Yang left around, and he will not be afraid of the experience of being angry with him several times, and still often speak bitterly.

Now, even the last of the sheep is sick and dead.

In his heart, he suddenly gave birth to a complete sense of loneliness.

He was finally touched, stopped for three days, and finally wrote a letter of sin himself.

However, just when he decided to issue a government decree for recuperation and recuperation, then, in the land of Baling, the rebellion of the displaced people broke out again, and in just a few months, the number of people reached hundreds of thousands, and it was said that the head of the thief was the green eye that had been favored by the Later Emperor and had blocked his destruction of the Later Emperor for nearly two years.

He was furious, and the evil beast in his heart came out of the cage again, he did not listen to the bitter advice of Wei Quan and others, and decided to personally march, before the expedition, he sacrificed to the heavens in Huanqiu, swore to suppress this chaos, and after killing the green eyes, he would shepherd the people of the world and never lightly start a war.

The wrath of the Son of Heaven, the blood flowing from the pestle. With the idea of revenge, he led a large army to the south and strangled the Baling rebels.

He triumphed and sang triumphant songs.

A few months later, the final battle with the displaced rebels was fought in a deserted wilderness called Wangxiang.

In the legend of the local Baling people, this is the place where the undead after death cut off all the shackles of the past life and look back at their hometown for the last time.

The wilderness of Wangxiang became the slaughter site of Shuluo, the rebel army was suppressed, his armor was stained with blood, his eyes were red, he was sweating, every pore was shouting with pleasure, and finally he killed, got rid of the protection of his guards, and when he rode in front of him, a stream of arrows, like a silent poisonous snake, never knew which direction suddenly tore through the air and shot at him.

When his blood-soaked eyes saw it, the stray arrow had reached his throat.

He didn’t even have time to react, and as soon as his throat cooled, he felt the cold hard metal penetrate his soft, unprotected piece of flesh and insert it straight in.

His figure was fixed, and the blood that had just boiled to the extreme was also condensed in an instant.

After a few moments, he clearly felt the indescribable pain of the metal puncture in his throat.

Wind rises, clouds roll, battle flag hunting.

The sweaty BMW under him, which had accompanied him for many years in the southern conquest and the northern war, seemed to feel the ominous atmosphere, and suddenly hissed uneasily, frantically throwing him off the horse.

He fell to the ground on his back, as if he had seen countless people running in his direction, and the drums in his ears were filled with the panicked cries of his guards.

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty—”

Gradually, the shaking figures and all kinds of noisy voices gathered around him became blurred.

The last scene that lingered in his bloodshot eyes was a blue sky with white clouds above his head.

The sky is as blue as a jewel, and the clouds are as white as white shells.

Very beautiful.

Why had he never discovered this before…

Struggling, struggling to exhale his last breath from the trachea inserted into the foreign body, he thought vaguely in his mind.

……

“Lord! Lord—”

There seemed to be a voice ringing in my ears.

Wei Shao shouted, covered his throat, sat up violently, opened his eyes, and what fell into the curtain was Gongsun Yang’s stunned expression.

Wei Shao’s whole body was sweating profusely, as if he had just been fished out of the water, and his heart was beating so violently that he almost jumped out of his throat.

Gongsun Yang was not surprised, and hurriedly took a step back, saying, “But I was shocked by the lord?” The Lord forgives sins! The warship had docked, and the lord had not left the cabin for a long time, so I dared to board the ship to summon the lord. What happened to the lord? Could it be a nightmare? Wei Shao

slowly lowered his hand covering his throat and looked around slightly dazedly, finding himself still in the cabin last night.

It was already bright, as if it were noon the next day, the sun was shining outside the porthole, and the sound of footsteps on the deck mixed with the high and low of the command…

Nanke a dream?

Luckily, a dream!

He looked at Gongsun Yang fiercely, staring at him deadly, motionless.

Wei Shao personally went on a warship to pursue Liu Yan the day before, and Gongsun Yang waited at the port. When he finally waited for the warship to return to Hong Kong, he heard Lei Yan say that he seemed to be still asleep and had not woken up, thinking that he was too tired. Gongsun Yang felt something abnormal and could not rest assured, so he boarded the ship and looked for it. Seeing him wake up, he looked strange, and suddenly looked at himself with such a strange look, even if he had been with him for many years before, he felt inexplicable at this moment.

Gradually, the cold hairs on the back of the prince’s eyes stood straight up, and he subconsciously touched his face and laughed dryly: “What does the lord think of me like this?” Wei Shao

jumped up from the bed and almost pounced on him, grabbing his shoulder deadly and shaking it vigorously.

“Sir, you’re not dead yet!” That’s great! The prince’s

hands were extremely strong, Gongsun Yang’s two shoulders were held by him, the bones seemed to be cracked, and he was dizzy and swollen by his shaking, and he had to endure severe pain, and he gritted his teeth: “What does the lord mean?” Wei Shao

was shocked to find himself out of shape, so he hurriedly released his hand, rubbed it, threw an apologetic glance at Gongsun Yang, turned around, and quickly pushed open the porthole.

A sea breeze with a salty smell rushed in.

Wei Shao closed his eyes, took a long breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned his head: “Liu Yan has been reprimanded, I will go to Dong County to pick up the mother and daughter of the empress.”

Gongsun Yang suppressed the surprise in his heart and said busily, “The lord will stay for the time being, I have one more thing to say.” For example, the trend of unification today has taken shape. The people must not be without a monarch, and the elders elected from all over the country have also successively arrived in Luoyang, asking the lord to obey the mandate of heaven and come to the world in order to benefit the people of Li. The people of Luoyang also rejoiced. The matter of the lord’s ascension to the throne should be put on the agenda. Wei Shao

bowed his head slightly, “I will write to my grandmother, and the rest will be handed over to My Husband in advance, and when I take the mother and daughter of the empress to Luoyang, I will agree on the details.” ”

[End of This Chapter]