Chapter 351 The heartbreaking reason!
"Ah? My grandpa?" Ran Qingxuan thought he had heard it wrong and his eyes were full of surprise.
It was the first time she heard these things, and she really couldn't digest what he said immediately.
Gu Yanchen nodded and continued: "I will tell you about these things slowly in the future, but the most important thing is what happened afterwards."
"After the late emperor regained the throne, he succeeded to the throne. Duan Yinghe and my father had meritorious service in following the emperor, so naturally they were rewarded. My father was named the Great General Guarding the Nation, but Duan Yinghe has not been rewarded yet."
"Why is this? Logically speaking, the contributions are all the same, so why is only my father-in-law being rewarded?"
Gu Yanchen shook his head and said, "This is the problem. Why was he not rewarded? It's because Duan Yinghe is the late queen's younger brother!"
"Hiss..." Ran Qingxuan couldn't help but take a breath. If that means Duan Yinghe is Emperor Mingde's uncle, then Duan Yi and Qi Jing are cousins.
But think about it, the Marquis of Zhenbei is now a marquis, so he should have been rewarded in the end. Why did Gu Yanchen say in the end that he could not return to the capital without being summoned?
Thinking of this, she asked the same question.
"Because the late queen was of low birth, she was named queen because she was the late emperor's legal wife, but..."
Gu Yanchen seemed to have difficulty speaking at this point, but he quickly said: "The late queen was born into a merchant family. Such an identity would not be recognized by those in the court, but the late emperor did not want to be criticized, so he insisted on making her the queen."
"It's just that less than half a month after the Northern Qi Dynasty was established, something happened. The late emperor almost thought of deposing the queen."
"What's the matter? Tell me quickly?" At this moment, Ran Qingxuan's desire to watch the show reached its peak, and he didn't have time to think about why the matter had gone so far.
It was the late emperor who insisted on enthroning the queen, and it was also the late emperor who thought of deposing the queen just half a month later. How could one not be curious about what happened?
Gu Yanchen: "Dad told us this privately when he was admonishing us brothers."
"What on earth is this? Don't keep me in suspense!"
Under Ran Qingxuan's expectant gaze, Gu Yanchen smiled helplessly and said slowly: "The late queen intended to elevate the status of my mother's family, but the late emperor felt that this matter could be discussed later.
I don't mean to belittle her, but the daughter of a merchant is not as sensible as the women of power and influence in Beijing. Moreover, as the mother of a country, she should restrain her words and actions. ”
"But the late queen actually thought that the late emperor was ungrateful and forgot the contributions of her own brother and the financial support from her mother's family.
The late emperor was already worried about how to bestow rewards, but he did not expect that the late empress would bring the matter to the court, and like a shrew, she denounced the late emperor for his cruelty and injustice, becoming the laughing stock of the entire capital.
Later, the late emperor fulfilled the late queen's wish and conferred the title of Marquis of Zhenbei on Duan Yinghe, granted him land and 200,000 soldiers, and made the title of marquis hereditary, but only the legitimate son could inherit it.
Moreover, an imperial decree was issued, declaring that all members of the Duan family could only live in their fiefdoms from now on, and Duan Yinghe and his descendants were not allowed to return to the capital without being summoned, otherwise all nine generations of the family would be executed! ”
"Huh?" Ran Qingxuan was half open in shock. He didn't expect that the Duan family was about to successfully step into the ranks of the powerful in Beijing circle, but was kicked back by the good daughter of the Duan family at the last minute.
And it's a bottomless cage!
The son of a merchant became a king, a prince, a general or a minister. It seemed like a huge reward, but in the end he was trapped in his fiefdom for the rest of his life.
"It's ridiculous, so ridiculous. If the late queen could keep her temper, and even acted like a little girl to make the late emperor happy, the Duan family might have been the imperial merchant of Northern Qi long ago!
Moreover, his contribution to following the emperor is that of a great hero, so how could the rewards and honors he will receive in the future be small? ”
"You are absolutely right. It's all the fault of the late queen who lost her patience and ruined the future of everyone in the Duan family in her haste."
"But does this have anything to do with your discomfort with each other? Is it because your father-in-law didn't plead for Duan Yinghe back then?"
Gu Yanchen shook his head and revealed the key point.
"No, on the contrary. The late emperor issued this decree in order to silence the ministers in the court and to teach the Duan family a lesson, letting them know that even if they have the merit of following the emperor, they have no right to make decisions for the emperor."
Hey, Ran Qingxuan suddenly understood why Gu Yanchen's father told this matter to them brothers. A sensible wife can really save the family a lot of trouble!
Gu Yanchen had no idea what Ran Qingxuan was thinking, and his face looked a little solemn.
"Dad was named the Great General of the Nation at the time, and he shouldn't have shown up when something like this happened, but he still found an opportunity to plead for Duan Yinghe.
The emperor's heart is as deep as the sea. After the late emperor ascended the throne, he was very suspicious. He was afraid that the Gu family would form a faction if they stayed in the capital for too long, so he found an excuse and directly ordered my father to guard the Xiguan camp.
When I was seven years old, the war in Beiguan was tense. The late emperor had no choice but to send my father to lead troops to Beiguan for support. Duan Yi was nine years old that year, and that was when we met. ”
Ran Qingxuan listened quietly and did not make any judgment before getting the full picture of the matter.
“Although Duan Yi is two years older than me, few people dare to play with him because of his status as the son of the Marquis of Zhenbei.
My arrival made him very happy, so we became friends at that time. ”
Having said this, Ran Qingxuan suddenly felt the person next to him trembling slightly, and he looked a little dazed.
"On the eve of my eleventh birthday, my father was ambushed by the Yigui people while guarding the West Gate. He and more than 3,000 soldiers were trapped at the intersection of the West Gate and the North Gate for more than two months.
At that time, the North Pass was the closest to the intersection of the two passes. As long as an order was issued to send troops to break through, my father would be saved. However, Emperor Mingde delayed issuing the order, and even the late emperor, who was already the retired emperor at that time, did not take any action.
My eldest brother was only a captain at the time and didn't have much power to command troops. My mother was anxious and took us brothers to ask for help from Duan Yinghe. ”
"But Duan Yinghe had learned a lesson from the late emperor in his early years. He was afraid that if he went to save people without the emperor's order, he would be openly opposing his own nephew. He was also afraid that his family would be ruined because of this, so he did not agree to my mother's request.
It was not until after his father's death that news of the late emperor's passing came from the capital. Emperor Mingde suddenly fainted while dealing with the late empress's affairs and missed the urgent report. No one in the court dared to make this decision, so the decision-making power was given to Qi Jing, who was already the crown prince at the time. ”
The more Ran Qingxuan listened, the more frightened he became. He always felt that what happened happened too perfectly, just like a storybook, following the routine step by step and leaving no room for doubt.
"Then how did Qi Jing make the decision?"
As Gu Yanchen smiled bitterly, his eyes quickly turned red and he took deep breaths to calm himself down.
"Qi Jing, as the crown prince, ordered Duan Yinghe to send troops to rescue him, but it was too late, just three days too late. My father starved to death!"
“But even so, the Yigui people were not going to let my father go. When the Zhenbei Marquis led his men to rescue the remaining soldiers, the Yigui general took advantage of the chaos and abducted my father’s body.
And then...he was tortured to death in front of all the soldiers..."
Ran Qingxuan couldn't control his rapid breathing, his nose felt sore and tears fell uncontrollably, then without hesitation he hugged Gu Yanchen tightly, whose emotions were on the verge of getting out of control.
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