The situation between the DPRK and China has gradually stabilized, and the chaos that followed Zhengde Long's control of Shangbin has gradually been forgotten by people. The case of Yang Tinghe's false edict and rebellion was also announced recently as closed. ¡÷The matter is not complicated at all. It is a fact to foist an edict, and it is also a fact to encourage Zhang Wei and others to use force to cause rebellion. Although Yang Ting, Fei Hong and others keep saying that they are for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the country, they want to eradicate the traitors in the court and risk the disapproval of the world. This argument was not enough to save their lives. Song Nan's original intention was not to kill Yang Tinghe, Fei Hong and others. After all, these were once important ministers of the imperial court, and their influence in the government and the public was very important. Maybe it would be more beneficial to him to keep their lives; but Song Nan didn't want to just do it. Sparing them so easily, after all, these people can no longer be used by themselves. If they are alive, they will give hope to many people who are willing to do so. At the moment of the dilemma, news came that Yang Ting and Fei Hong had hanged themselves to death in the imperial prison. After being shocked, Song Nan immediately understood that this was a trick played by the Jinyiwei Yamen because it knew that it was difficult for him to make this decision. Song Nan summoned Wan Zhi and Huang Hui for severe questioning. Of course Wan Zhi and Huang Hui refused to admit it. They only said that Yang Ting and himself were arrogant and could not accept their current situation, so they hung themselves to death. He also said that he would investigate the crime of dereliction of duty by the prison guards. Song Nan stared at them for a long time, finally helpless, and finally said something: "Don't make excuses. You have followed me for many years, and I still don't know you. I know you are afraid that I will have difficulty making up my mind, so in private Deal with them, you did something very wrong. Remember one thing, the situation in the court is no longer the same as before. From now on, these methods cannot be used again, otherwise I will not allow you to revive the Ming Dynasty. To work hard, stability must be the first priority, and we must not resort to these drastic measures. If we don't restrain ourselves at this time, we will accumulate resentment, and at some point in the future, the liquidation will become more fierce. No matter what happens in the future, we must be tolerant. We must unite all the forces that can be united and never use these methods again. "The deaths of Yang Ting and Fei Hong indeed aroused dissatisfaction among the old ministers in the DPRK. It was not that they did not deserve to die, but that this method of death was difficult to convince the public. However, the Jinyiwei Prison immediately produced Yang Tinghe's prison diary. After studying it, the cabinet unanimously concluded that the deaths of Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong were indeed suicides. There was such a passage in Yang Tinghe's diary before his death, which was clear evidence of his desire to die. "I cultivated myself and maintained self-control all my life. When I was young, I set my ambition to be loyal to the country. After I became an official, I was supported by the emperor's favor and mentor and held a high position. However, I was responsible for the holy will and the common people. I was disturbed by selfish interests and fame. To the extent that I was blinded and acted against the people and ministers, I am truly ashamed of the late emperor and the people of the world. Every time I think about it, I shed tears like rain and feel like I am crazy. I really can't forgive myself for being rebellious. Although the facts are there, there is no need to argue with anyone. The late emperor has passed away, so why should I confess? On the day when I saw the late emperor at Quanxia, ??could the late emperor forgive me? " The guards of the Jinyiwei Prison also provided the records of the guards? , before Yang Tinghe committed suicide, he could not sleep for several days and nights, pacing and muttering in the cell. The guards heard the same words he said over and over again: "It is better to go back, it is better to go back" The above two points The evidence is enough to prove the authenticity of Yang Tinghe's suicide out of fear of crime, and Fei Hong's death must have been caused by Yang Tinghe's suicide, so he also died. There was a friendship between the two, and Fei Hong was a straight-tempered person. He followed It is very possible that Yang Tinghe hanged himself to death. Although many people still have doubts in their minds, the matter has come to this point and they have no choice. Fortunately, what comforts them is that Song Nan, the king of Zhenguo County, reported to the emperor that he had forgiven Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong's family and allowed them to raise their families. By moving back to his hometown, his descendants will never be allowed to enter the officialdom, which can be regarded as preserving the bloodline of the Yang and Fei families. Many people were surprised by Song Nan's move, and at the same time their views on Song Nan were greatly changed. In the late spring of May, in the back garden of the Song Dynasty, orioles and butterflies were making noise among the grass and trees. In the shade of the pavilion in the back garden, Song Nan was leaning on a bamboo chair and squinting for a nap; the pretty maid Wan'er was standing behind Song Nan. Gently rubbing his temples for him, Qingluan was engrossed in writing a large pile of drafts on the small table for Song Nan. The sounds of Zhu Xiufu, Ye Fanggu, Lu Qingli, Zhu Fengtong, Shen Yunyan, Yang Kouer and others on the grass far away under the pavilion could be heard playing Cuju, mixed with a few milky screams. Those were Song Nan's children. Following the booing. In fact, this kind of scene has become the norm in the Song Mansion. As the current situation stabilizes, Song Nan becomes more relaxed. The ears of Yang Keer and Lu Qingli also gradually improved after treatment, all thanks to the wonderful training of Dr. Li. At first, Divine Doctor Li was so frightened that he fled the capital because of his prediction of Zhengde's condition. Now that Zhengde has passed away, he has also gone to the hospital. Jin Yiwei found him in Nanjing in April and invited him back to the capital to help treat the two women. The two women were so shocked that their eardrums were ruptured that day, and they were indeed in danger of going deaf. However, after treatment by Divine Doctor Li, they have basically recovered their hearing, although they are somewhat deaf. Doctor Li said that as time goes by, the ear disease will gradually recover; with his words, everyone in the Song family felt relieved. In the imperial court, there was Zhang Yong inside and Yang Yiqing outside, and Zhang Lun in the capital camp. They could all take charge of their own affairs, and there was no need for Song Nan to worry about trivial matters. Song Nan was able to enjoy his free time and began to think about the future of Ming Dynasty. Reform is necessary. There are too many long-standing shortcomings in the Ming Dynasty, and there are too many things that need to be changed. Song Nan needs to clarify them one by one, and then advance them one by one in order, just like what he said to Zhu Fengtong on the carriage that day. Just like those words, Song Nan put a heavy burden on himself in his heart. What is the future of the Ming Dynasty? Whether he can bring the Ming Dynasty back to life is the most important thing. Although Song Nan also understands that every generation will always have its ups and downs, just like people, there is always the process of birth, old age, illness and death, but Song Nan only wants to give the Ming Dynasty some breathing space and the people during the period of time under his control. Live a better life. As for what will happen a hundred years after his death, Song Nan can't even think about it. Since traveling through time, Song Nan never thought that one day he would be like a loyal minister and an obedient citizen, working hard to govern the country for this feudal dynasty. However, all this happened to him in the end. Song Nan sighed in his heart that he could not change the Ming Dynasty. Dynasty, on the contrary, was changed by the Ming Dynasty. "My lord, this article has been transcribed, please take a look." Qingluan arranged the stack of papers that smelled of ink and handed them to Song Nan. She knew that Song Nan was not asleep, but just squinting to enjoy. Song Nan opened his eyes, sat upright, and took the roll of copied paper. He saw that the paper was full of regular hairpins and small regular script, and the handwriting was clear and regular. "Very good. Your handwriting is indeed as good as your lady said. At least it's much prettier than mine." Song Nan said with a smile. Qingluan blushed and said, "My lord, please stop making fun of me. My handwriting is just practiced by the young lady. It's very immature." Song Nan smiled and said, "It's already good. Bring me a pen. I'll sign the title. I will go to the cabinet tomorrow to show it to Mr. Yang and others, and then revise it." Qingluan agreed and handed over the pen dipped in ink. Song Nan thought for a moment and wrote a line on the white paper: "Daming Tianmu Reform Policy." After writing, he handed it to Qingluan and said: "Bind it, rest for a while and then copy another article." Qingluan said: "No need to rest, my little maid will start copying now. Should I write this article "Reform Policy of the Military System of the Ming Dynasty" or "What about the "Ming Dynasty Tax Reform Policy"?" Song Nan smiled and said: "You have to make a copy. You can decide for yourself. I'll go play Cuju with them for a while. Don't be tired. It's not a temporary thing. Write slowly, slowly. "Let's write." Qingluan agreed, sat down again, straightened his posture, and started copying again. Song Nan got up and walked down from the pavilion. He looked at the figures of the daughters and sons and daughters playing on the grass. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to pass by. Suddenly, he saw the little princess Peipei coming in a hurry on the path leading to the entrance of the garden. He hurriedly greeted her and smiled. He said, "Have you accompanied your mother to the temple to burn incense and come back?" The little princess nodded and said, "Yes, my mother has gone back to her room to rest. A eunuch from the palace just arrived from the outer house. He said that he was passing on the Queen Mother's decree and asked you to come to the palace to see him. " Song Nan was stunned and said: "The queen mother?" The little princess rolled her eyes at him and said: "The one in Xiyuan is already the queen mother, who else can be the queen mother? " Song Nan frowned and thought, the new emperor's empress dowager is very low-key. In the more than two months since the new emperor came to the throne, Song Nan and the ministers have not even heard her say a word. Song Nan has also led the ministers several times I went to Cining Palace for an audience, but behind a thick curtain, I couldn't see the Queen Mother clearly or hear her voice. The communication was carried out by the female officer next to her going back and forth outside the curtain. Although Song Nan felt strange, she didn't think much about it. It is not a bad thing to have such a low-key Queen Mother. It is worth worrying about someone like Queen Mother Zhang who likes to participate in government affairs. But now this low-key Queen Mother suddenly took the initiative to summon her to see him, which was a bit unusual. When they arrived at the outer house, the waiting eunuch who was delivering the order was drinking tea. Song Nan asked a few questions, but the eunuch obviously didn't know anything. Song Nan simply stopped asking any more questions, changed into his official uniform, and followed the eunuch who delivered the order out of the palace. Hours later, he was in the palace. Walking in the quiet corridor of Cining Palace, Song Nan kept speculating on the Queen Mother's intention of summoning her, and made up her mind that if the new Queen Mother had any idea of ??participating in the government affairs and expressing her opinions, she would resolutely resist it. , nipped her intention in the bud; Song Nan could not let the second Queen Mother Zhang appear in the Ming Dynasty, and did not need the Queen Mother in the harem to worry about state affairs. "Please sit down, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother will be here soon." A female official brought Song Nan into the Xinuan Pavilion, made a cup of fragrant tea for Song Nan, and bowed. "Thank you." Song Nan slowly sat down and slowly looked around the furnishings in the Nuan Pavilion. However, she saw that all the items used by Queen Mother Zhang had been replaced, and the room looked more simple and casual. Strangely, the water in the corner was On the wall above the bamboo, Song Nan saw aA sheathed knife. The scabbard is new and inlaid with jewels, but judging from the exposed hilt, the knife is obviously not a valuable item. The crude hilt is also wrapped with a black strip of cloth, which is different from the knife. The sheath doesn't match at all. Song Nan stood up and walked over, looked at it for a long time, and finally reached out to pick up the knife to check. Suddenly, there was a slight cough behind him. Song Nan quickly retracted his hand and turned around, but saw a blurry figure quietly behind the bamboo curtain. stand. Song Nan hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Greetings to the Queen Mother." The figure remained motionless for a while, and after a while he said, "Is the prince interested in the Ai family's sword?" This was the first time Song Nan heard the Queen Mother speak. This voice sounded familiar, but for a while I couldn't remember where it was. "Ah, I was just casually looking at it. It seemed a little strange to have this knife hanging in the Queen Mother's palace. I was curious and wanted to pick it off to have a look. I'm sorry." "There's actually nothing weird about that knife. It's not expensive at all. It's just It's an ordinary thing, but it belongs to an old friend of the Ai family. It's just a sign of nostalgia for the old friend. " "Oh, that's it. Queen Mother, what's your purpose in calling me to the palace?" " Sit down, Your Majesty. The Ai family has no intention, but the Ai family has invited the prince to come There is something that the Ai family should tell the prince. The Ai family feels that the prince should know this matter, which is extremely important to the Ming Dynasty. Nan hurriedly said: "Please give me some advice from the Queen Mother." "Sit down, sit down and talk." The figure behind the curtain slowly sat down and let out a faint sigh. Song Nan didn't dare to think too much, and Sit slowly on the chair and listen. "Ai Jia, let's tell the prince a story first. I wonder if the prince is willing to listen." The doubts in Song Nan's heart were getting thicker and thicker, and he almost blurted out and asked: "Who are you?" But he knew not to make mistakes, in case he admitted his mistake. That was troublesome, so he said: "I bow to listen to the teachings of the Queen Mother." The figure behind the curtain moved slightly, and his body seemed to be shaking a little. After a while, he said softly: "There is a family. It is an ordinary family. There are brothers and sisters in the family. Three people; later, the two brothers of the family committed a crime, and the government sent someone to arrest him, so the two brothers escaped. The officials responsible for the arrest chased them all the way into the mountains, but they were captured by the two brothers. He made a deal with the court. The sister of that family didn't want her brother to make a big mistake, so she secretly let the official go. As a result the imperial army arrived, and the two brothers of that family died, but the sister of this family died. The official fell in love with each other in the mountains, and even engaged in adultery. Do you thinkshould the woman in this family deserve to be reviled by the world?" Song Nan's head was like a huge bang. Cannonballs exploded in his mind, leaving a mess. He stood up slowly while holding on to the table. "That woman knew that she shouldn't be with that official, so she left the official. She couldn't bring herself to kill the official for revenge, so she went to the far south incognito. But she sadly discovered that it was that official who After a night of sexual intercourse in the mountains, she was already pregnant with the official's flesh and blood; in a foreign land where she was unfamiliar, and still pregnant, she had no choice but to say: "Then what will happen to her?" Song Nan said in a trembling voice. Survive?" The Queen Mother's voice also trembled slightly, and she said in a low voice: "When I said goodbye to the official, the official gave the woman an amber necklace that he carried with him. The woman wanted to keep it in mind, but I was in a hurry and had nothing to live with, so I went to a pawn shop to pawn the necklace. Unexpectedly, I took out the necklace and was seen by a nobleman in the pawnshop. The nobleman saw that the necklace was expensive and asked the woman about her life experience. The woman did not dare to tell the truth. , so he made up the identity of a woman from a wealthy family in the capital. The noble man happened to have lost his wife. Seeing that the woman had a decent appearance and a not lowly status, he couldn't sleep for some reason, so he took the woman into his house. . This woman is desperate. In order to give birth to a child and raise him in the future, she has to commit herself to this noble man. " Song Nan's hands and feet were shaking uncontrollably, and he didn't know where to place them. He had already heard this woman. Whose voice was he heard and heard what the story was about. He couldn't believe it all. He couldn't believe it at all. "Unfortunately, the noble man was seriously ill and died a few months later. The woman also gave birth to a boy eight months later. No one except the noble man knew that the child was not the noble man's flesh and blood at all. So, the woman gave birth to a boy eight months later. The mother is as valuable as the child. This woman is respected by the tribe as the noble man's wife, and the child becomes the noble man's posthumous child. The fate is really unpredictable. The woman thought that she could live and grow up in the south with the child in peace, but she failed. Suddenly, an imperial edict came and the mother and son had to go to the capital. The woman became the queen mother in the palace overnight, and the child becamethe emperor of the Ming Dynasty overnight" Song Nan alone Staggering, unable to control his hands and feet, he threw the things on the tableThe teapot was swept all over the floor, and the tea was dripping and the ground was messy. An eunuch hurried to the door and asked: "Queen Mother, what's wrong? What's wrong?" Song Nan roared: "Get out, no one is allowed to come near this place. Anyone who dares to take a step closer will be beaten to death." Then The eunuch was startled and was in a daze. He didn't know why the king of Zhenguo suddenly got angry and did it in front of the queen mother. This was a bit out of order. "Listen to the orders of the King of Zhenguo. You all should retreat. No one is allowed to come in and disturb. Please stay away. The Ai family has important matters to discuss with the King of Zhenguo." The Queen Mother behind the curtain waved her hand and ordered. The eunuch quickly agreed and led everyone to push them far away, not daring to take a step closer to Xi Nuan Pavilion. Song Nan dragged his heavy legs and walked towards the bamboo curtain step by step. The figure sitting upright behind the bamboo curtain trembled slightly, as if he could not bear the pressure of Song Nan's approach. Song Nan gently opened the thin bamboo curtain and saw a tearful face. That was Liu Yuerong whom she had not seen for seven years. She was the current Empress Dowager Liu. Song Nan's mind went blank. This outcome was beyond his imagination. He went back and forth and chose a candidate for the emperor, but he didn't expect that the one he chose was Liu Yuerong's mother and son, who were living in peace in Raozhou. What a fate. Man, it's incredible. "Yuerong" Song Nan reached out, but did not dare to touch Liu Yuerong's body. Liu Yuerong stood up in tears, rushed over, hugged Song Nan, and cried bitterly. Punching Song Nan's back with both fists, he murmured: "Whywhy do you want to disturb the lives of my mother and son? Why did you choose us to come to Beijing? I carry this secret alone. For two months, I have slept and eaten It's uneasy, so I don't care. I want to tell you this and let you suffer" Song Nan let her beat and scold him, and only said in a daze: "Tell me, is the current emperor my flesh and blood? I just hope you will give it to me. I gave an unequivocal answer." Liu Yuerong suddenly left Song Nan's arms, gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Go and look at the amber necklace hanging on the emperor's chest, and then ask the people around you about their opinions on the emperor's appearance. If you still don¡¯t believe it, take the emperor home and let your mother see if the emperor looks like you when you were a child? Let me tell you, Prince Huai has never laid a finger on me. I am the only one in the world who has ever had sex with you. Skin-to-skin kiss, isn¡¯t that child yours or someone else¡¯s? Do you want to confess your love with blood?¡± Song Nan¡¯s legs and feet became weak, and she slumped to the ground and murmured: ¡°No need no need.¡± People nature plays tricks on them. " Song Nan never expected that things would end up like this. It is simply unbelievable that the current emperor is his son. Although I have no intention of usurping the throne, I have actually usurped the throne. But what about promising justice and promising the princess never to usurp the throne? How will we face this fact in the future? He had originally made up his mind to reform the government and introduce the constitutional system of the Ming Dynasty, but now that the world belongs to his son, it is almost equal to his own. Can he still do this? Song Nan had mixed feelings and thousands of thoughts intertwined. She sat on the ground blankly, unable to speak for a long time. (Complete book)