Chapter 2 Demented Children
Empress Meng was the late Ma Jun Yu Hou and Meizhou Defense Envoy, and was awarded the granddaughter of the Grand Marshal Meng Yuan. She was dignified and virtuous, smart and talented, and thoughtful. However, Empress Meng was organized by Empress Dowager Gao and arranged for Zhao Xu. In addition, Meng was three years older than Zhao Xu, so she was deeply disliked by Zhao Xu.
Meng was familiar with reading scriptures since childhood and was well-educated and well-educated, but he only spoke of Kong, Mencius and Renzong. Zhao Xu was also well-read in poetry and books since he was young. The ministers were like this. How could the queen Meng win Zhao Xu's favor?
Empress Zhao Xu Meng is relatively strong in shape. Standing with the thin Zhao Xu, she does not look like a couple at all, but like a sibling, or even a mother and son...
The petite and delicate concubine, Liu, was born in a slightly cold-hearted manner. She spoke vulgar and frivolously in her daily life. This is actually deeply favored by Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu has been deposed for a long time.
The most important and most important thing is that the Empress Meng was arranged by the late Empress Dowager Gao to Zhao Xu, representing the Yuanyou Party. Zhao Xu was surrounded by ministers of Yuanyou represented by Sima Guang since he ascended the throne at the age of nine. In addition, the Yuanyou minister only respected the Empress Dowager Gao, and he was disrespectful to the young emperor Zhao Xu. He did not seek Zhao Xu's opinions at all in the affairs of the court. He was the leader of the Empress Dowager Gao, for seven years. At the same time, Zhao Xu felt aggrieved for seven years and hated him for seven years.
Therefore, after the death of Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Xu took power and demoted Yuanyou ministers, such as Fan Chunren, Lv Dafang and others, who valued Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu, Cai Bian, Cai Jing and other Yuanfeng ministers, and all the deposed Empress Dowager Gao's national policies behind the curtain and ordered the introduction of the new Yuanfeng law.
At this time, the witchcraft case suddenly broke out, which further exacerbated this situation.
Zhao Xu ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, so Zhang Dun, Cai Bian and others took all the palace maids and eunuchs around the queen, digging their eyes, cutting their tongues, burning them, skinning, and torture them severely. Many palace maids and eunuchs were tortured and beaten up.
"Your Majesty, I have found out that there is something wrong." Zhang Dun took out some confessions and said, "This is a confession. I am here to ask for decree."
"It's outrageous." Zhao Xu coughed violently in anger, patted the armrest of the soft chair and said angrily: "I will not spare such evil people easily."
"Your Majesty calm down and take care of the dragon's body." Zeng Bu, who was standing beside him, advised: "Empress Meng has always been calm and quiet, how can he be so ruthless about this? This matter must be done by the people around him. I hope your Majesty will observe clearly."
"What Mr. Zeng said is wrong." Zhang Dun shook his head and said, "I have found out that the queen has had close contacts with some ministers in the court, and has also had letters with those who have released the vent. The voodoo incident in the palace must be the treacherous party instigating the queen Meng. Your Majesty, you must not forgive them easily."
"How should Zhang Qing's family deal with them?" Zhao Xu asked after pondering for a moment.
"I suggest deposed the position of Empress Meng, and seize Sima Guang, and Duke Lu gave him the posthumous title and title, destroy his tomb and rob his corpse to serve as a warning to others." Zhang Dun replied.
"Your Majesty, you must not do this." Cai Bian said: "The queen is wrong, just depose her throne. And this matter should not be widely publicized to avoid affecting the name of Empress Dowager Xuanren. Sima Guang and others are dead after all, why destroy the tomb and corpse at this time? If you do this, it will definitely be a loss of people's hearts."
In order to fight Zhang Dun together, Cai Bian walked with Zeng Bu unknowingly.
"What Mr. Cai said is that Empress Xuanren Shenglie blesses the sage for nine years, and has great merits and returns to the world. On the day of her success, she feels like she is losing her parents. If she is defamed by a traitor, she will always be discussed, not only will she lose her filial piety, but she may lose her heart." Zeng Bu also advised.
"I have no intention of slandering the Empress." Zhao Xu said quickly after hearing this.
Although Empress Dowager Gao was dead at this time and Zhao Xu deposed all his policies, he did not dare to be too blatant. After all, Empress Dowager Gao's reputation was known to the world, and after all, Song ruled the world with filial piety.
"But if not, what name should be used to depose Meng? After deposed Meng, who should be used as the queen?" Zhao Xu asked then.
Zeng Bu sighed in his heart when he heard this and bowed and replied, "The same is true for Empress Zhang Xianliu of Zhenzong in the dynasty, but Your Majesty still has to ask for the hand orders of the two palaces, so that China and foreign countries can submit it."
The situation of the empress Liu family during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty was similar to that of Jieyu, which found the deposed queen and the enthronement of a new queen.
However, at this time, the Empress Dowager Xiang and Zhao Xu's biological mother Zhu were still there, so he had to ask for the imperial decree from both palaces for such a big deal.
"Your words are great." Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel happy when he saw that there was a precedent to follow.
The enthronement of the queen was robbed by Zeng Bu. Zhang Dun, Cai Bian and others were extremely unwilling to accept it. Later, Zhang Dun forged the edict of the two deposed queens in order to win Zhao Xu's favor in order to win Zhao Xu's favor.
This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.
The next year, the Empress Meng was deposed and moved to Lenggong to live, and appointed Jieyu Liu as the Empress. At the same time, Zhang Dun, Cai Bian, Zeng Bu and others used this matter to attack the old party of Yuanyou, and demoted Fan Chunren, Lu Dafang, Su Shi, Su Che and others again and again. Su Shi first demoted Yingzhou, then Dingzhou, and then demoted Guangnan Huizhou. In the end, the sixty-two-year-old Su Shi was demoted to Qiongtai Danzhou, a deserted area in the border.
This is second only to the killing of the whole family...
Su Shi's wife and children were separated, and his family was almost destroyed.
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Qiongtai Danzhou
Qiongtai is located at the southernmost tip of the Song Dynasty and is under the jurisdiction of Guangnan West Road. It is lonely and lonely overseas. The climate is humid and hot. It is winter, but the island has no smell of winter at all, and it doesn’t feel cold when wearing a single dress.
Traveling north to Hu, south to Yue, Lingnan, Qiongtai and other places have always been places of exile in all dynasties. Qiongtai is even a place of exile for severe prisoners, or in other words, people hated by the court were almost exiled to Qiongtai, which was the place where the imperial court demoted officials.
Qiongtai is far away from the court, and not only is there a shortage of daily necessities, but there are also many poisonous insects and beasts on the island, and the climate is also humid and hot, with wind and rain all year round.
The construction of the Song Dynasty in Qiongtai changed during the establishment of four prefectures and eleven counties were set up.
The people of Qiongtai were mainly Li people, and some Han people or Han Shang people were the places where Li and Han lived together, and of course, they also included many officials of the Song court who were demoted here.
The Li people mainly gather around Limu Mountain and are distributed in various parts of Qiongtai.
"Jian'er, are you awake?" At this time, a woman in her thirties, in a seaside fishing village in Heqing Town, Danzhou, looked at her son Li Sanjian and opened her eyes in a daze, and cried with joy.
Li Sanjian, who was only thirteen years old, opened his eyes in a daze, looked around, looked at the young woman who was lying in front of the bed and crying in a low voice, and asked, "Where am I? Who are you?"
"Jian'er, I'm your mother." The young woman cried and said, "Have you forgotten again?"
Mother? Mother is mother, what does it mean to add a kiss? So Li Sanjian asked in confusion: "Mother is mother, right? Are you my mother? No?"
"You are definitely not my mother." Li Sanjian then shook his head firmly.
"What do you think?
The words are different from before? Why is my mother a little confused? Did she get sick again?" the young woman asked with great concern.
The young woman's surname is Fu, and she is a Li native. She married a Han native of Qiongtai more than ten years ago at the age of fifteen, Li Qing, the father of Li Sanjian.
Li Qing was an imperial official who was exiled to Danzhou by the Song court in the eighth year of Yuanfeng. After that, Li Qing lived in Danzhou and married and had children. I don’t know if the court forgot it or refused to pardon Li Qing and others, so they never returned to their hometown, Shaowu Army on Fujian Road.
The Fu family is the second child, so he is called Fu Erniang.
Li Qing and Fu Erniang had three sons. Due to the plague and hard life, Li Sanjian's two brothers died young, and Li Qing also died of illness at this time.
Fu Erniang is the only one who is left with three children. Life is extremely miserable. The most important thing is that Li Sanjian has not known the reason since childhood. Perhaps it is because Li Sanjian got sick in the womb and was a little dementia when he was born. He did not speak until he was five years old, which made Fu Erniang worse.
Li Sanjian is usually stupid and silly. He just looks at the sea and smiles foolishly when he is playing by the sea one day. One day he falls into the sea.
Fortunately, Fu Erniang's house was a vegetarian, which is a boatman who specializes in picking pearls on the beach. When Li Sanjian fell into the sea, Fu Erniang's brother Fu Yan was sailing nearby, so he rescued Li Sanjian.
Li Sanjian was in a coma for three days due to drowning and woke up after three days. This made Fu Erniang very happy. But at this time what Li Sanjian said was completely different from before. Fu Erniang couldn't understand what he said, but Li Sanjian was always a dementia and spoke in a messy manner on weekdays. Fu Erniang was not very surprised.
Fu Erniang then sat beside the bed, helped the thin Li Sanjian up, and said softly: "Jian'er, it doesn't matter. We will treat the disease when we are sick. Also, I am really your mother. I gave birth to you for ten months. Can this be wrong? Jian'er, are you hungry? Come on, drink some porridge first."
The concern that Fu Erniang naturally showed made Li Sanjian even more surprised. However, at this time, Li Sanjian was indeed extremely hungry, so he took the porcelain bowl handed over by Fu Erniang and took a few sips. He drank too quickly and Li Sanjian coughed violently.
"Hey, you kid is still the same as when you were a child. Drink slowly, and no one will snatch you." Fu Erniang said with a smile.
Li Sanjian was able to drink porridge, which shows that Li Sanjian's health has improved. Although Li Sanjian is still talking in a mess, Fu Erniang doesn't care much. As long as his only son is still by his side, this is enough. If Li Sanjian is surprised, Fu Erniang will not be able to survive at all.
"Oh..." Li Sanjian said while drinking: "Are you really my mother?"
"Can this be fake? If you don't believe me, ask your uncle." Fu Erniang then glanced at Fu Yan, the brother beside her.
Fu Yan sighed and said, "Sister, it seems that Jian'er is still...dementia. He doesn't even know his mother."
"You are just dementia, always... I'm fine, and my mind is very clear." Li Sanjian was displeased when he heard Fu Yan say that he was dementia, so he stared at Fu Yan and said.
"Okay, okay, my child is a normal person, where is he dementia?" Fu Erniang hurriedly comforted her.
Chapter completed!