In the morning, Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, woke up. He faced the wall, closed his eyelids ready for the dazzling light. Then he slowly opened his eyes.
Seeing the color of the sunlight next to the pillow, by virtue of the depth of the sunlight, he could know what time it was outside.
Inside the palace, there was initial noise. That's what the servants in the house were busy with. In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves rattled. Although there were not many soldiers in the royal palace, they practiced on time every morning. Their shouts, sometimes passing through the humid and dignified summer air of Luoyang, reached the eardrums of the King of Changsha, only slightly hoarse. Sometimes, when the soldiers ran from the woods to the garden, the sound became high-pitched, like a row of arrows in the narrow and steep sky skimming through the empty woodland, agitated and sonorous.
Portrait of Sima Qi, King of Changsha
Every day, when the King of Changsha heard the sound of these soldiers practicing, a certain comfort suddenly arose in his heart. Whether it is drizzling rain outside or the clear blue sky overhead, the King of Changsha can feel the freshness of every morning and have hope.
More than ten years ago, the scene of his half-brother Sima Wei, the king of Chu, being defeated and killed, he still remembered it vividly. After so many years, grief has long been replaced by something more agile, intense, and clearer—the fate of the Great Jin must be in the hands of the emperor's clan. Otherwise, in such an era when rivers of blood have become accustomed to it, as a direct blood relative of Emperor Wu, it is impossible to escape the fate of being slaughtered by others.
As long as it is quiet for a while, tension and remorse are like ink in the water, constantly spreading. Sometimes, they quietly skimmed past the king of Changsha's sleep, covering his hazy drowsiness with a layer of richly colored sorrow. Even in the hot summer, he could predict the coming of winter snow in his dreams...
Portrait of Sima Wei, King of Chu
"The Queen asked me to inform you, be sure to start early!" Otherwise, if the King of Qi moves first, your highness and the emperor will be in danger..."
A young eunuch from the Xianyang Hall, who was probably only seventeen or eighteen years old, knelt down at the feet of the King of Changsha, and the parrot learned his tongue and said the words that the sheep had taught him.
In the hands of Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, one was a copy of a letter sent from Chang'an by Sima Qi, the king of Hejian, against Sima Yan, the king of Qi, and a handwritten letter from Empress Yang Xianrong.
The content of the empress's handwritten letter is very simple: "Your Highness the King of Changsha, the King of Qi has usurped the plot, which will be detrimental to the emperor, please quickly summon soldiers to the palace to defend the emperor!" ”
Portrait of Sima Yong, King of Hejian
The Empress's handwriting was weak and scrawled, and the King of Changsha had never seen the handwriting of the sheep sacrifice before, and did not dare to distinguish between true and false. But looking at the Queen's Seal on it, it must be true; the identity of this little eunuch who came out of the Xianyang Hall had also been determined.
However, what made the king of Changsha wonder was why Empress Yang Xianrong herself would participate in court conspiracies and battles. She lives in the deep palace, where did she get the text of the King of Hejian? Why did she send someone to remind herself?
Since Sima Ran, the King of Qi, came to power, although this cousin was arrogant and arrogant and used private individuals, he never had any traces of subjection, and his relationship with his brothers in the wudi clan was also quite harmonious. Most of the accusations in The Hejian Wang's text are far-fetched, and only the one accusing King Qi of not paying homage to the emperor is indeed a fact. However, the King of Changsha knew that his half-brother emperor was basically a fool, and even if King Qi really went to worship him, he would only make a show for the outside world to see, and had no practical significance. This point, this alone, is difficult to constitute the guilt of king Qi's rebellion.
Portrait of Sima Ran, King of Qi
"The queen drove to..."
When the King of Changsha was standing in the local area and hesitating, Yang Xianrong suddenly sat on his shoulder and came to the palace of the Changsha King.
Sima Qi was stunned and hurriedly knelt down to salute.
"King Of Changsha, the army of the King of Hejian is very close to Luoyang, and the text refers to your highness to arrest the King of Qi." If you don't do it, king Qi has a large number of soldiers, and the right to issue edicts is in his hands, and he only needs to send an envoy to get you to head in court in your own Changsha palace! ”
The sheep are young and young, but when they talk straight to the point, they can also analyze the situation in the first place.
"The King of Hejian must have misunderstood and listened to the words of the villain, so he sent troops to Luoyang xingshi to ask for guilt... The other clans, including my sixteenth brother King of Chengdu, did not move, so how could I make trouble without permission and act rashly in the capital? ”
"After King Zhao was reprimanded, on the discussion of relatives and etiquette, it should have been the king of Chengdu as the 'emperor's brother'! King Qi was selfish, greedy for power and profit, and sima Qin, the eight-year-old son of the King of Qinghe, became crown prince... Don't you understand that the purpose of the King of Qi in doing this is to be able to control the imperial power for a long time in the future? What is the difference between the King of Qi and the Emperor Taishang? ”
The King of Changsha was not as impulsive as his brother Sima Wei, the King of Chu. Seeing that the Queen Sheep was more anxious than himself, he always felt that there was a hint of conspiracy inside.
Empress's Donation Image