Chapter 219 It's time to leave the mother and son
Chu Xiwang returned to Song State in one breath and entered the palace. The eunuchs and court officials were so excited that they burst into tears.
If Your Majesty doesn't come back, they don't know what to do.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother wants you to go to Weiyang Palace," the chief eunuch told him, "The Queen Mother has lost her temper several times."
Chu Xiwang said nothing and strode towards the Weiyang Palace.
When the Queen Mother Wei saw him coming back, she said unhappily, "Your Majesty, don't forget your position. How can your subjects cope with the situation when you, the ruler of a country, leave so suddenly?"
Chu Xiwang had no expression on his face, and said calmly: "I have something to do outside, I am going to look for seeds."
"Why can't you go find seeds yourself? Why do you have to keep those servants? Now that you sit on the throne, you should act like an emperor."
Queen Mother Wei was very unhappy. "I originally asked those women from noble families to enter the palace to select the queen and concubines for you, but you just ran away. Do you think I, your mother, am just a decoration?"
Chu Xiwang was annoyed by her scolding, and stood up and said, "I have told my mother many times that I have my own plans for the position of empress, and I have no plans to establish a queen for the time being."
"How old are you? Why don't you have a queen? The most important thing for an emperor is his offspring. You have no children yet. Where will the world go?"
Chu Xiwang asked quietly: "Whose daughter did my mother choose as my queen?"
"There are three in total. One is your uncle's daughter Wei Caicai, one is the daughter of Prince Ruyang Wang Yingying, and the other is your aunt's daughter."
Queen Mother Wei continued to talk about many candidates for the positions of imperial concubine and imperial consort.
Chu Xiwang didn't listen and just said, "Mother, should my queen also give birth to a child and keep the child?"
Queen Mother Wei's face changed and she said, "This is the rule."
"Does it also include my cousin Wei Caicai?"
"Of course, no one is exempt from this."
Chu Xiwang suddenly laughed: "Queen Mother, you plotted against my mother in the same way back then, right? And my brothers, were their mothers also killed by you in the same way?"
Queen Mother Wei said in panic, "What do you want to say?"
Chu Xiwang listened to the faint sounds of the swordsmen around the Weiyang Palace and said nonchalantly, "Queen Mother, you are so lucky. You can't even give birth to a child, but you are in control of everything. And you still say with a clear conscience that you won't interfere in state affairs? You treated us harshly and killed our own mother, and your interference in state affairs seems to be even worse."
"Your Majesty probably doesn't know that I saw with my own eyes how you had my mother strangled to death."
The Queen Mother's eyes widened: "You, you actually remember?"
"Yes, I was precocious and I remember it clearly. I recite it to myself every night before going to bed, for fear that I might forget it one day."
He was a descendant of the Han Dynasty. When the Han Dynasty was in decline, Emperor Ai of Han worked hard to govern the country. However, due to the interference of the harem and external relatives in government affairs, Emperor Ai was forced to death at a young age.
But no one knew that Emperor Ai Liu Xin secretly favored a palace maid, who became pregnant, escaped, and was rescued by the Langya Wang family.
That little palace maid was his ancestor.
Later, the loyal ministers such as the Wang family and the Wei family who supported his great ancestor always wanted to restore the country and hated the interference of foreign relatives in politics. They asked every royal heir to kill the mother and keep the son.
Chu Xiwang was only four years old at the time, and he saw with his own eyes the empress dowager strangle his mother, a humble family, to death.
In order to survive, he pretended to be well-behaved, practiced martial arts and calligraphy, and worked harder than all his brothers. He didn't know how much suffering he had endured, and he couldn't count it.
This childless empress dowager, while shouting that the harem was not allowed to interfere in government affairs, tightly controlled their lives.
From the moment they were born, they were burdened with the heavy responsibility of restoring the country. What to do and what not to do were all decided by the Queen Mother Wei and the aristocratic families and loyal ministers who supported them to ascend the throne.
For example, those industries all belong to the Restoration Group, and each of Chu Xiwang’s brothers and his deceased mother are their pawns.
The brothers fought and competed with each other, and only the winner was qualified to survive, representing the hope and seed of national restoration. The rest of the brothers were mostly killed for fear that they would be difficult to control.
Kill the mother and keep the son, then the wolves will fight to find the one who can survive to restore the country.
He is the winner.
Also a puppet.
Except for "Splendid Mountains and Rivers" and Sihai Pavilion, the others are not his, they all belong to the Restoration Power Group. Someone like Lao Cai can influence him and warn him in a gentle and soft way: You can't do this, you can't do that!
The world today was conquered by him. The Queen Mother Wei and her followers conferred titles on some women as queens and some as kings. They began to choose their daughters to be his queens. If they were obedient, he could continue to be the emperor. If they were disobedient, he would probably become the emperor emeritus, right?
Chu Xiwang thought of this, with an extremely cold and indifferent look on his face: "Mother, give me three years. I don't want to establish a queen now, nor do I want to worry about having children now."
"Then you can just wait for the censor to die!"
Queen Mother Wei waved her hand unceremoniously, and a large group of swordsmen and axemen suddenly came in from outside.
"What does the Queen want to do?"
"You have already drunk the medicine I gave you. You will like women. Caicai has been waiting for you for a long time. You can consummate your marriage today."
Chu Xiwang became furious. In a moment, he grabbed Queen Mother Wei's neck and exerted so much force that the Queen Mother Wei died in extreme fear.
"You still haven't found the treasure left by my ancestors. I conquered the Song Kingdom with my own ability. It has nothing to do with you."
"I want to be the emperor just to get rid of you and to create a peaceful and prosperous world for the woman I love, because this is my territory."
"I conquered this country by myself, yet you still want to use me as a puppet! You are given the title of Queen Mother, do you really think you are my real mother?"
"Mother, according to the ancestral rules, if you want to kill the mother, you must keep the son. You are the mother and I am the son, so you die and I stay."
He wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said to the executioners, "Go, ring the funeral bell. The Queen Mother has passed away. I will observe mourning for her for three years and be a model of filial piety for the world. I will not establish a queen, take concubines, or get close to women within three years."
In the second year of Emperor Wu of Song, Emperor Wu killed all the members of the Wei and Wang clans and announced it to the world. He changed his mother's surname to Chu and his father's surname to Liu, and named himself Yu. Liu Yu, also known as Xiwang.
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Western Yan.
After the New Year, Concubine Xiang returned home in glory.
The capital city has now been cleaned up. Xie Xiangxiang returned to Duke Jingguo's Mansion in a majestic manner from the palace in a phoenix carriage.
Old Shen and Little Shen were already kneeling at the door to greet them. The mansion had already hired more than a thousand maids and servants, and a troupe had also been set up in the original theater. They were all waiting respectfully for Concubine Xiang to choose a play.
In the garden, the families of the aristocratic families and the new rich in the capital all came. When they saw Xie Xiangxiang, they knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, shouting "Long live the queen" three times.
Xie Xiangxiang was wearing a fox fur coat and holding a heater in her hands, looking at the members of the noble family shivering in the cold wind.
She couldn't help but smile slightly. Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. In just one year, she not only returned to the capital, but also became the high and mighty Xie Xiangxiang, and the only woman of Emperor Jingzhao of Western Yan.
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