Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 500 19 The Origin of Concubine Xue (3)

The two Confucian teachers were not fools.

After provoking three different forces in succession, they were also keenly aware that the number of enemies in the palace had increased significantly. However, the lack of experience in political struggle caused the two men to only recognize the danger.

But he didn't realize the murderous intention behind this danger.

In the eyes of the two kings, their most powerful card is still Tang Shunzong Li Song who visited the thatched cottage three times and invited them to Chang'an.

It doesn't matter if you make enemies, because reform will inevitably make enemies. The most important thing at this time was to obtain the military power in Li Song's hands, that is, the Central Forbidden Army stationed in Chang'an City.

However, at this step, reality taught the two Confucian teachers a hard lesson!

They were surprised to find that it was impossible to gain the allegiance of the army overnight with just a letter of appointment from the emperor. All Li Song could do was to give himself a position.

He had no way to get the army to support him from the bottom of his heart.

Even as the king of the Tang Dynasty, he was just a mortal.

He is not the omniscient and omnipotent true God.

The final choice of the army will only be the one who pays them gold coins. The reason why the eunuchs dared to withstand the violent conquests of the Sword Immortal Rangers in Chang'an City was precisely because they paid enough tribute to the Imperial Guards.

On one side is the generous eunuch, and on the other side is the desperate Confucian teacher who takes over the seal with a desperate attitude and wants to liquidate all corrupt Confucian teachers step by step.

The commanders of the Forbidden Army are still aware of the truth behind death.

When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden. The cunning rabbit dies and the lackey is cooked.

"After we deal with this group of corrupt officials, the next step will be our turn."

There is no need to think about who you are loyal to.

Without military support, a few Confucian scholars were like young children walking into a wolf pen empty-handed. Once fear takes over their hearts, when they open their eyes again, they feel that they are surrounded by enemies in front, back, left and right.

At this time, Concubine Xue stepped into the drizzle and returned to the world in the deep mountains.

The Legalist teachers needed a "new face" who had never been known to anyone to carry out the task of getting rid of Tang Shunzong Li Song. This was to prepare for the succession of Li Chun, the next emperor identified by the Legalist school as "Tang Xianzong".

Concubine Xue took the information, flipped through it briefly, and threw the pages of papyrus directly into the stove.

She already had a plan in mind.

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Concubine Xue did not choose to enter Chang'an.

Instead, she walked into Jiangnan and came to Wang Shuwen's hometown.

Come to the thatched cottage where he taught Confucianism.

On a dark and windy night, after all the Confucian scholars fell asleep, Concubine Xue sneaked into the Wang family's thatched cottage like a silent bat. She took out the pre-prepared potion and blew it into the Queen Mother's mouth.

The next day, the Queen Mother became critically ill.

Although she is only 16 years old, Concubine Xue's intuition as an assassin is unparalleled in the world.

The centipede insect is dead but not stiff. Although the Tang Dynasty is declining in the east and west, the position of "two phases of left and right" is simply not accessible to ordinary people.

Instead of walking into the palace and fighting the powerful swordsman for his life, it is better to take advantage of the biggest weakness of "Confucianism"——

——In their hearts, filial piety is more important than Mount Tai.

Sure enough, after hearing about his mother's illness, Wang Shuwen had to go back even if the reform, which lasted less than four months, was in danger.

With just a packet of medicinal powder, Concubine Xue had already eliminated the craziest enemy around Li Song.

The next step is to kill the other of the two kings, Left Prime Minister Wang Wan.

Concubine Xue entered Chang'an City riding on the golden wind and drizzle.

The next night, Wang Min, who was writing a memorial in the Hanlin Academy, suddenly let out a miserable howl and was carried home from the Hanlin Academy by the eunuchs that night.

It is said that when he returned home, his speech was slurred, his whole body was shaking, and he looked like he was having a stroke.

After checking his pulse, the imperial doctor determined that the cause of the man's illness was "illness caused by overwork." The next day, he was picked up by students from Chang'an City and returned home to rest.

At this point, this reform was called the "Yongzhen Reform" by later generations.

It failed after only 5 months.

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The failure of the Confucian scholars was doomed from the moment they entered the palace.

They were defeated before they entered Chang'an City.

He was defeated at the moment when Tang Shunzong Li Song came to power.

From the moment he sat on the throne, this crippled emperor who could not speak had already made a huge mistake. In the face of internal and external troubles, he desperately believed in the justice in his heart and dreamed of the Confucian dream of "ruling the world with benevolence and righteousness."

As everyone knows, these stories are all dreams sung by the troupe after being dramatized.

Uncle Liu Huang went into the deep mountains and old forests, and invited a wandering wild crane to herd cattle and horses. After coming out of the mountain, he was like a god and defeated all the counselors in the world.

In the real world, this drama never happens!

Throw two upright moral standards into a group of slippery, sinister and cunning politicians. Of course, the most likely thing that will happen is that they will be beaten until their outlook is completely ruined.

In comparison, the politicians of the Legalist school were much shrewder.

They are all "trying to save the country." Unlike the upright Confucian scholars, the Legalist politicians understand the true meaning of the power game.

Throw a frog into boiling water and it will jump out without hesitation.

But if you throw in cold water, bring to a simmer.

Not to mention a frog, there is no room for frogs to escape in a pot!

After cutting out the two queens, Li Song, who was aphasic due to stroke, no longer had the means to check and balance the group of tiger and wolf ministers left by Dezong. On the ninth day of August in the first year of Zhenyong, Tang Xianzong Li Chunzai, the successor elected by Legalist politicians, proclaimed his accession to the throne.

At this time, it had only been less than eight months since Dezong passed away and Shunzong ascended the throne.

This kind of thing was unprecedented in the 200-year history of the Tang Dynasty.

On the first day of the first lunar month in AD 806, Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Chun led hundreds of civil and military officials to Xingqing Palace to congratulate his father. At the same time, he dedicated his honorary title - Ying Gan Shengshou, and wished the Supreme Emperor a long life.

However, when the new king led hundreds of officials to wait outside the palace gate, waiting for Li Song to go out to greet guests, what they were waiting for was the news that the Supreme Emperor had died suddenly in his sleep!

Rushing into the room, the guards and maids were trembling, not knowing what was going on.

After a while, the imperial doctor took Lao Wang's body back to the Royal Forest Garden for a closer inspection, but no wounds were found at all. In the end, it can only be attributed to "ending without any illness and heading west".

This was Concubine Xue's first attack after coming out of the mountain.

Her work was done so beautifully that even the Legalist teachers couldn't explain exactly what method she used to enter the palace guarded by Daluo Jinxian.

And what method should be used to kill Lao Wang silently.

So when his body was discovered, Concubine Xue had walked nearly 300 miles out of Chang'an City, stepping on the golden wind and drizzle, and quietly returned to the mountain gate of the Assassin Academy.