"The idiot emperor has a bride!"
With the children playing on the street, the desolation of early winter in Luoyang City has been reduced a bit, and people's faces have become a bit more smiley.
However, this smile did not come from blessing, but from ridicule and ridicule, and even more like a show, with disdain and contempt between his eyebrows.
After all, ten years after Sima Yan's death, based on the wealth accumulated during the prosperous age of Taikang, his idiot son Sima Zhong was able to live a comfortable life in charge of the world.
However, his queen Jia Nanfeng was not a fuel-efficient lamp. After Sima Yan died, she became specialized in government affairs and deliberately eliminated Taifu Yang Jun, Empress Dowager Yang Zhi, King Sima Liang of Runan, veteran Wei Guan, and King Chu. Sima Wei and other old ministers and powerful ministers who hindered her dictatorial power played the fool Emperor Sima Zhong in the middle of applause... and caused chaos in the court.
The princes from all over the country were ready to take action, unable to bear this tone, and wanted to seize the power of the world from the hands of the fool emperor. On the matter of "abolishing Jia first and returning the imperial power to the Sima clan", everyone was surprisingly unanimous.
Led by the emperor's uncle Sima Lun, under the banner of "clearing the emperor and returning the government to the court", he finally led his troops into the Luoyang Palace on the first day of May and captured Queen Jia Nanfeng and a group of her cronies, ending the decade of debauchery. politics.
But how can a king of a country not have a queen?
Sima Lun's close confidant Sun Xiu recommended his brother's granddaughter Yang Xianrong to be the queen.
Use marriage to consolidate the foundation of this faction.
"Who knows if there will be another empress?"
"Where did the sheep Xianrong come from?"
"Are you as ugly as Queen Jia?"
"A fool too, right?"
"What is Sima Lun going to do again?"
"..." The discussion in the streets has not stopped, and everyone is also curious about who the new queen is who entered the palace today.
The emperor's wedding was naturally a lively event, and the people looked forward to it.
A noisy celebration can always dilute the panic caused by palace changes, which is also one of the goals of Sima Lun, Liu Xiu and the others.
In the past few days, whenever the gates of Luoyang City are opened, a large number of people will pour in.
In addition to the relatives of the Sima royal family who came from various feudal territories to watch the ceremony, there were also many envoys from neighboring countries who sent gifts.
As these people came to Luoyang City, a lot of trade exchanges were stimulated.
For a time, people of all races and colors were bustling, which indeed brought some vitality to this slightly cold November.
What's more, the people of the Western Jin Dynasty were open, the government was loose, and people of various ethnic groups mixed with each other. Even the strong Khitan, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, Qiang and other ethnic groups were common. They did business and trade with the Han people, and those who intermarried Then he settled down in the Central Plains.
The afterglow of Taikang's prosperous age continues, and people's lives are still relatively stable and prosperous.
Yangfu is located on Zhuque Street, not far from the Imperial Palace, just across the street.
The Royal Guards and the royal wedding team had controlled the area early, but they still couldn't resist the people's love of excitement. There were people standing wherever they could, and even the bold ones were standing on the roofs and trees.
Many nearby restaurants, inns and shops also used this as an excuse to attract business, and even sold "location fees", making a lot of money.
Among the crowd watching the excitement, there were several tall men eating and drinking at a nearby wonton shop and listening carefully to the discussions of the surrounding diners.
"Don't you know who Yang Xianrong is?" An old man at the next table who was drinking wonton soup sighed slightly, "General Yang Hu of the Yang family in Taishan County must know about it."
"The founding general, his sister was Queen Jin... It's a pity that he died too early..." The man at the same table in coarse clothes said in a low voice.
"Isn't that right? Otherwise, there would be nothing wrong with Queen Yang...cough cough cough..." Probably because he knew he had made a mistake, the old man coughed a few times before continuing: "This Yang Xianrong is the legitimate daughter of the Yang family. She just passed away. Even though she is young, she is really smart and beautiful..."
"There are many noble ladies in Luoyang City, why haven't you heard of Yang Xianrong's name?"
"She also moved here from the ancestral home of the Yang family in Taishan County, Yanzhou a few years ago. She grew up in the ancestral home and was raised by Yang Hu's first wife Xiahou. Does Xiahou know this? She is the sister of Cao Cao's wife... Tell me, this Yang Xianrong is an ordinary noble girl? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk teh "The wonton soup was too hot for my mouth, so I couldn't say some words.
However, all the listeners already understood and nodded secretly.
"Why should a noble girl of such a noble family marry?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, you don't understand this." The old man looked enigmatic again, "Yang Xianrong's grandfather Sun Qike and Sun Xiu are brothers, and Sun Xiu is now in front of Prince Sima Lun. Celebrities must naturally support each other..."
"I understand, I understand...it's such a pity..."
"That's not necessarily the case. If this little lady is also willing...who doesn't want to be a queen?"
More and more people were participating in the discussion in the wonton shop. The owner of the shop was so frightened that he kept asking everyone to keep their voices down. He kept adding wonton soup to the diners, and asked the boy to quickly add firewood to the fire. Taking advantage of the crowd today, he could cook more. A few bowls of wontons make a lot of money.
The tall men ordered a few more bowls of wontons and soy sauce beef to fill their stomachs and cheer them up.
One of the young men asked: "What's so good about being a queen? Queen Jia has so much power. Isn't this just because she was given to death by poisonous wine?"
"Hey, you don't understand this." The old man looked at these people, "A foreigner?"
"Come from Xiangyang." Before another older man answered, he glanced at the man sitting next to him again.
The man was dressed in gray cloth, and even when he was sitting, you could tell that he was a tall and extremely muscular man. However, he just lowered his head and picked up a small wonton and put it in his mouth, seemingly not caring about the topic.
"There is a legend, Master Xu... Master Xu, do you know?" The old man still knew a lot of things. When he saw someone asking questions, he even liked to gossip.
"What Xu Zhenren?" the young man asked.
"It's Xu Shenxian." Someone around him had already added.
"Oh oh oh, that fortune teller is very good, the one like Dongshan Xiaoyao Immortal or something?" The young man grinned, "Hasn't this person already been a god a long time ago and said he couldn't find it, so I still want to ask him to tell fortunes. "
"How can you, an ordinary citizen, meet Master Xu?" Another diner laughed and knocked on the table, "Besides, people only calculate fortunes for noble people like the emperor and empress, even if you have I won’t count the extra money for you.”
"Oh, okay." The young man glanced at the man next to him who was eating wontons, and said no more.
The old man continued: "When the late emperor was seriously ill and couldn't afford it, Master Xu figured out that the current emperor should have a second queen, and she would also have the fate of 'a phoenix in a thousand years'. It is extremely precious. Since then, he has been After searching secretly, it was not until three months ago that we found out that this woman was Yang Xianrong. Fortunately, we found out, otherwise she would have been killed by Empress Jia's people."
"So, she is destined to be the queen? It's a bit mysterious, right?" Everyone didn't quite believe it, and someone asked.
"Zhenren Xu calculated it, can you not believe it?" The old man laughed, "Zhenren Xu learned from Taoist Sanqing. That man is a divine man who has known for five hundred years. He is incredible."
"Then Yang Xianrong agreed to be the queen? She didn't know that the emperor was...ahem, why did she agree?"
"Can you not agree? I heard that her grandfather brought 500 imperial guards to her house. They were so powerful... So, even if you don't agree, it will definitely not happen. What is this called? It's hard to violate a Phoenix's order. !”
"As I said, three or four months ago, my nephew told me that he wanted to go on a trip. It turned out that he was going to Taishan County."
"Yes, yes, I remembered it too. It was early in the morning. I just entered the city and saw the Imperial Guards leaving. I was wondering who else I wanted to kill?"
"Really? Then if you marry Yang Xianrong, wouldn't you be able to become the emperor..."
"No words, no words!"
