Chapter 96: The Empress Dowager Dies

Zhou Yang followed Emperor Jing and rushed to Changxin Palace.

Along the way, Emperor Jing frowned, silent, and had a lot of worries. Zhou Yang saw it and his ominous premonition became stronger.

He soon arrived at Changxin Palace and headed straight to Empress Dowager Dou's bedroom. He smelled a strong smell of medicine from afar. Zhou Yang's heart was thrilled: "Is the Empress Dowager almost out of here?"

Empress Dowager Dou is a good elder. She cares and loves Zhou Yang very much. She treats Zhou Yang as a relative from the bottom of her heart, which makes Zhou Yang very grateful to Empress Dowager Dou. When she thought of this possibility, Zhou Yang's heart couldn't help but tighten.

"Mother Queen, Mother Queen!"

Princess Guantao's anxious voice came from afar, and Zhou Yang became even more sure.

If Empress Dowager Dou fails, it is a national mourning. According to ancient etiquette, it is impossible to conquer during the national mourning period. No wonder Emperor Jing did not want Zhou Yang to use troops against the Huns.

At present, the threat from the Han Dynasty to the south has been lifted, which is a good opportunity to use troops against the Huns. If they use troops again in three years, it would be a missed opportunity. However, Emperor Jing had made up his mind, and it would be useless. The Huns were really lucky. Empress Dowager Dou actually saved the Huns for a disaster.

"Mother Queen, Mother Queen!"

Emperor Jing rushed into the bedroom in panic. Zhou Yang accelerated his pace and followed him in.

As soon as I entered the bedroom, I saw Princess Guantao, Ajiao, Meiren Wang, Princess Nangong, and Liu Yu, all of them were there, all of them with sad faces.

Princess Nangong saw Zhou Yang coming in, and she was delighted on her pretty face, then she looked worried and smiled faintly at Zhou Yang.

Empress Dowager Dou was lying on the couch, her face pale as paper, without any blood. She was much thinner, only as big as a dog. What's more serious is that she was dead and not angry.

It doesn’t matter if you are thin, as long as you are angry, it’s easy to deal with it. Once you are angry, no matter how fat you are, it’s useless.

Zhou Yang saw it and couldn't help but sigh inwardly. It's only half a year since we met, and Empress Dowager Dou has become like this. This change is too big.

After thinking about it, this was reasonable. King Liang was the beloved son of Empress Dowager Dou, and Empress Dowager Dou had to order him to be executed. This was a great blow to her, making her feel distressed, breaking her heart, and torture her, and her health became worse and worse.

"My mother, Queen Mother!" Emperor Jing rushed forward, holding Queen Mother Dou's skinny and dry hands tightly, and could no longer hold back the tears and rolled down.

"Qi'er." Empress Dowager Dou's thin left hand gently stroked Emperor Jing's head, trembling constantly.

"See the Queen Mother!" Zhou Yang stepped forward to greet him.

"Is it Zhou Yang?" Empress Dowager Dou was excited and her spirit improved slightly. She was supporting her to sit up. Emperor Jing was so panicked that he hurriedly helped her up: "Mother, what are you doing?"

"Zhou Yang, come here! Come!" Empress Dowager Dou sat up with Emperor Jing's support and stretched out her right hand towards Zhou Yang. Zhou Yang held her right hand, and a coldness came, but there was no heat at all, which was no difference from holding ice.

"Grandma, lie down." Zhou Yang supported Empress Dowager Dou.

"No!" Empress Dowager Dou stretched out her left hand and said, "Nangong, come, hold grandma's hand."

"Grandma!" Princess Nangong stretched out her jade-like plain hand, holding Empress Dowager Dou's left hand tightly, with a look of worry.

"I had to hold on for a while and didn't leave, but I just couldn't feel at ease with Nangong." Empress Dowager Dou gasped, folded Zhou Yang and Princess Nangong's hands together, and clasped their hands tightly: "Zhou Yang, Nangong is a miserable person. You must treat her well! Treat her well!"

"Grandma, don't worry." Zhou Yang nodded and looked at Yiren.

Princess Nangong smiled slightly at Zhou Yang, with a shy look on her face and a head involuntarily lowered her head.

"Yes!" Empress Dowager Dou nodded slightly: "I will feel relieved with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Empress Dowager Dou's body became soft, as if it was dough, and everyone was calling out in panic.

"Huh!" Empress Dowager Dou's breathing rapidly and could die at any time.

Gillian and Princess Nangong were patting her back lightly. Emperor Jing and Princess Guantao were so anxious that they rubbed their hands. Liu Zi was pitiful, but he was helpless.

"Transfer to Mr. Cang!" Zhou Yang said hurriedly.

"No!" Empress Dowager Dou finally gasped and stopped Chuancang Gong: "Emperor, I have no regrets in my life. I am a palace maid. I am the last emperor and I am the mother of the world. I have two sons and one daughter. My children are filial. I am very satisfied."

Empress Dowager Dou entered the palace as a palace maid during the reign of Empress Dowager Lu. During the reign of Empress Dowager Lu, in order to gather the princes and kings, he ordered the selection of talented and beautiful palace maids from the palace maids and given them to the princes and kings.

Empress Dowager Dou was also included in the list. She wanted to go to Zhao State because Zhao State is close to her hometown. She has been in the palace for many years and has been thinking about her two brothers, especially her younger brother Dou Shaojun, who misses her day and night.

In order to go to Zhao State, Empress Dowager Dou found the eunuch in charge and told him about the matter. The eunuch in charge was very moved and agreed to send her to Zhao State. After going to Zhao State, she could go back to her hometown to reunite with her relatives. Empress Dowager Dou was extremely happy.

However, man's plan is not as good as God's plan. The eunuch in charge actually forgot about this matter and assigned her to the Dai Palace. The Dai Palace, the later Emperor Wen, Empress Dowager Dou, was extremely unwilling to give up, but she had to go. When she came to the Dai Palace, because she was diligent in doing things, what was even more rare was that she was extremely heroic and had opinions, which attracted the attention of Emperor Wen.

Later, after many twists and turns, she became Emperor Wen's concubine. Although Empress Dowager Dou was a daughter, she was a woman who was extremely insightful in her work and became more and more favored. She was finally made the queen and became the famous Empress Dowager Dou in Chinese history.

"Huhuhu!" Empress Dowager Dou said a few words and was so tired that she was breathing.

After a breath, he was slightly better, and then said, "I only have one regret and one wrong thing in my life."

"My mother, what did you say? There is no regret, nothing wrong." Princess Guantao hurriedly comforted her.

"Girl, don't interrupt." Empress Dowager Dou was breathless, and said a word. It took time for the old man to finish his sentence: "I shouldn't have been, and I must not. If I want to be a brother, I will have a covetous heart, and the court will be uneasy, the family will be in a mess, and the flesh and blood will be tragic. This is Lao Man's fault. A Wu! Woo woo!"

Speaking of this, my eyes turned red and I couldn't help it anymore, and I started crying.

The reason why King Liang stared at the throne was that Empress Dowager Dou spoiled him too much and wanted to mess with brothers to make friends and fight each other, so that Empress Dowager Dou had to execute King Liang himself.

This is not only the hatred of Empress Dowager Dou, but also the hatred of the Tian family. Emperor Jing and Princess Guantao sighed. They had a particularly deep relationship with the younger brother of King Liang.

Gillian and Princess Nangong shuddered their tears to Queen Mother Dou and whispered: "Grandma, don't be sad."

"Grandma, don't cry. If you cry, people will cry." Gillian's eyes were red, and she would cry at any time. She spoke in a delicate voice, looking pitiful.

"Good you, Gillian, dare to make fun of grandma." Empress Dowager Dou said to her, and she was amused and stopped crying: "I shouldn't have, and I must have, so I forced Zhongxing to say that I went to the Huns. Zhongxing said that she was a smart person who liked to jump up and jump up in the palace. Laoxing didn't like her and thought that you like jump up and jump up, so I went to the Huns. Zhongxing said that she didn't want to go, and she also made a noise. If he went to the Huns, he would do something wrong to the great man. At that time, Laoxing did not care about it and forced him to go. Unexpectedly, Zhongxing said that she had really become a big trouble for the great man. This was Laoxing's regret, and it was Laoxing who personally created a powerful enemy for the great man."

The Bank of China said that it was originally a eunuch in the Han Palace, but because of the disagreement with Empress Dowager Dou, he forced the Huns to go to the Huns. Back then, the Bank of China said that if he went to the Huns, he would be detrimental to the Han Dynasty. However, no one believed his words, including Emperor Wen and Empress Dowager Dou, did not take them seriously. I thought to myself, what can you do if you are a small eunuch?

What no one expected was that after the Central Bank of China said that after going to the Huns, they actually instigated the Huns to plunder the border, causing disaster. Before the Central Bank of China said that the Huns had only plundered the border, and had no intention of entering the Central Plains, nor had the intention to destroy the Han Dynasty. They just regarded the Han Dynasty as an inexhaustible warehouse.

After the instigation of the Central Bank of China, the Huns learned about the inside story of the Han Dynasty, and their appetites grew bigger and bigger. They were no longer satisfied with plundering at the border. They began to go deeper into the hinterland and had the "hate of humiliation" in history. Especially after Yi Zhixie became the Shanyu, he trusted the Central Bank of China more. It can be said that he obeyed the rules and prepared to destroy the Han Dynasty and enter the Central Plains.

The disaster of the Central Leading Party can be said to be unprecedented and has become increasingly serious. After all, it was caused by Empress Dowager Dou.

Emperor Jing had complained countless times about this matter. Today, Empress Dowager Dou said it in person, and Emperor Jing still had to comfort her: "My mother, don't think too much. The Bank of China said that this traitor is unforgivable..."

"Your Majesty, don't be exonerated for the old man." Empress Dowager Dou waved her hand and stopped Emperor Jing from saying: "This is a regret for the old man. The old man has never said it, not that the old man does not understand. Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang..."

He held Zhou Yang's hand tightly and gasped, "You must capture Zhongxing alive. Dai Laoshen told him that Laoshen should not have forced him to the Huns back then, because Laoshen was sorry for him."

"ah!"

Everyone, including Zhou Yang, couldn't help but exclaim. No one expected that Empress Dowager Dou would say such words.

"Mother, why do you apologize?" Princess Guantao comforted: "He loves to be a traitor, and is born with a thief bone!"

"Then, in front of Zhongxing's speech, he killed his nine clans! Then he cut off Zhongxing's speech!" Empress Dowager Dou finally said in a deep voice: "Even if he is sorry for him, he cannot refuse his ancestors and become a traitor!"

The Han Dynasty was afraid of overstimulating Zhongxing's theory and did not attack his relatives. If he dealt with his relatives in front of Zhongxing's theory, it would be a great blow to Zhongxing's theory.

"Don't worry, grandma, I must have cut him off!" Zhou Yang said hurriedly.

"No, I have to apologize first!" Empress Dowager Dou heard that Zhou Yang had the intention of perfunctory treatment for her.

"Mother, don't worry." Emperor Jing took over the conversation: "Catch the Bank of China and say, I apologize to him in person, and then kill the nine clans and cut him into pieces."

Emperor Jing knew Empress Dowager Dou's personality, and she said that one was to say one thing, and she could not change it.

Empress Dowager Dou felt very uncomfortable when she created such a powerful enemy for the Han Dynasty. She apologized first and then killed it, which was consistent with her distinctive grudges.

"Okay! OK!" Empress Dowager Dou said a few good words in a row, and she tilted her head and fainted.

The crowd was in a panic, and Zhou Yang hurriedly asked someone to come to Mr. Cang. After Mr. Cang took his pulse, he kept shaking his head and sighing.

The people in the hall remained silent, and Tai Dou was not much later.

Although he was unwilling and sad, Emperor Jing was not allowed to arrange for Empress Dowager Dou's funeral.

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Zhang Mansion.

"Tong'er, come with my eldest father." Zhang Buyi was very kind and waved to Zhang Tong with a smile.

"Big Father, where are you going?" Zhang Tong was puzzled and followed Zhang Buyi.

"Tong'er, you plead for the eldest father and spared the eldest father's hard labor. The eldest father was happy." Zhang Buyi smiled. He had been in Chengdan Chong for more than ten years and suffered a lot. Zhang Tong pleaded for him for the first time, and Zhang Buyi was really happy.

"Big Father, this is what my grandson should do."

When the two entered the house, Zhang Buyi closed the door, his face turned solemn, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared: "Tong'er, kneel down!"

"Kneel down?" Zhang Tong was very surprised and puzzled, so he still knelt down as he said.

Zhang Buyi opened the box in the corner and spread out the most silk. This is a painting. In the painting, a thin man with a beautiful face is better than a woman. He was wearing white clothes and was as floating as a fairy, giving people a sense of being out of the world.

"Great-grandfather?" Zhang Tong recognized it at a glance. The person in the painting was Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang used countless tricks throughout his life, and his majestic tricks were amazing, but his appearance was hard to say. Tai Shigong originally thought that Zhang Liang was a tall and majestic real man. When he saw Zhang Liang's portrait, what Tai Shigong never expected was that Zhang Liang was as beautiful as a woman with picturesque eyebrows.

Zhang Buyi hung Zhang Liang's painting on the wall, knelt down and kowtowed, "The unfilial son Zhang Buyi met Ah Father! Ah Father, the child was unfilial and tried to assassinate the historian of the Chu, which made the power of heaven furious and the family fell into decline. The child thought of him and regretted it! Ah Father, Tong'er was smart and powerful, captured Zou Ying, the King of Minyue, alive, and made great contributions. He asked his father to protect Tong'er in the sky."

"Dongdong!" Zhang Buyi kept kowtowing.

"Tong'er, from today on, you will be the head of the Zhang family!" Zhang Buyi kowtowed and stood up.

"Ah!" Zhang Tongda was surprised and asked hurriedly: "Dafather, why is this?"

"Tong'er, this is the guidance technique left by A's father." Zhang Buyi took out another bunch of silk: "A's father's military strategy was obtained from the founder of Huangshi, but this guidance technique was obtained from a master. A's father had a lasting order and was not allowed to practice it unless he was an outstanding child of Zhang's family. Therefore, the eldest father did not pass on you. Now, you have made great contributions and the revival of Zhang's family is expected. You can practice this guidance technique diligently."

Zhang Tong took the silk and his hands kept shaking.

Zhang Liang is a monument. Zhang Tong was so excited that the children of the Zhang family could only look up to the existence and could obtain his relics.
To be continued...