Chapter 48 Human heart, will Aye believe it?
Chapter 48 Human heart, will Aye believe it?
Changsun Wuji's mood was much better today.
Finally, some things have been finalized.
After being beaten in the Taiji Hall, Lu Dongzan did not get angry after being comforted and consoled by officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple. Instead, he went against his usual behavior and again requested the officials from the Ministry of Rites for permission to marry a foreign prince.
The prime minister of a country was openly beaten, but he didn't show any resentment or anger at all.
Such forbearance.
It is truly extraordinary.
Either they are cowardly or they have great ambitions and are able to bend and stretch.
Your Majesty and they all felt admiration.
But it was precisely because of this that Your Majesty decided to reject this marriage and launch a series of subsequent actions against Tubo.
The history books are so thick, and there are so many people who endured the consequences.
Especially the forbearance of such a character's identity will always lead to disaster in the end.
Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and even he himself had the intention to keep Lu Dongzan in Chang'an, and either imprison him or kill him to eliminate the trouble once and for all.
But in the end, His Majesty did not agree.
"I don't take Tubo seriously. If you use such means, wouldn't that make me unkind and unjust, and make the Tang Dynasty a laughing stock?"
"Let him go back. I think he's not something that I should worry about."
"Compared with our Tang Dynasty, Tubo is nothing but an ant. How dare a grain of rice compete with the bright moon?"
Your Majesty is a man of great talent and vision, with great ambition and confidence that he can settle everything.
Li Er does have the confidence to do so. He is self-confident, arrogant, and looks down on everything.
He also has the courage to do so.
The prime minister of a small Tibetan country made him want to kill him.
Wouldn't it be a joke for him, the great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, His Majesty the Khan, to live like a hero?
In this way, Lu Dongzan saved his life.
It is estimated that the Tibetan delegation will leave Chang'an soon.
The hostile relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo will be a protracted confrontation.
Either Tubo surrenders or the fight continues.
The Ministry of Rites sent an envoy to Tuyuhun, bringing the imperial edict of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the instructions of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty to express their greetings to Princess Honghua.
Hou Junji destroyed Gaochang and will return soon, and a ceremony to present prisoners will be held.
One important thing after another was finalized.
Clear away the haze that was weighing on Changsun Wuji's heart.
Although he could still hear many officials talking nonsense about him, he couldn't say anything unless they said it to his face.
Do you want to go up to someone and ask him why he asked me that?
Then someone else said, "Duke Zhao doesn't support the system of primogeniture."
That's not a falling out.
He was the one who was embarrassed.
As soon as he entered the mansion, Changsun Wuji noticed that the atmosphere in the mansion was not right.
Depressing, serious, heavy.
It seemed as if there was something looming over his mansion.
"What happened?"
Changsun Wuji frowned and asked, "When he usually returned home, the butler would be waiting for him at the gate."
Now there was no one in charge to be seen, only a few servants guarding the door.
The servant was so frightened that he trembled and dared not answer.
Changsun Wuji felt increasingly depressed, and gradually a fishy smell came over him.
correct.
It's bloody smell.
Is there bloodshed in the mansion?
With a cold face, he walked in quickly and saw several servants covered in scars lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the yard.
He recognized at a glance that one of them was the chief steward of the mansion.
Usually he was greeted outside the mansion.
No wonder I didn't see him today.
At this moment, he was lying on the ground, twitching violently, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.
Main hall.
Changsun Wuji took a look and saw a dense crowd of people kneeling.
His sons, his concubines.
There are also housekeepers of all sizes in the mansion.
All of them were kneeling on the ground, with only one person standing.
His good son.
Chang Sun Chong. At this moment, Chang Sun Chong's eyes were fierce and full of hostility.
"Da Lang."
"What are you doing?"
Changsun Wuji asked in a hoarse voice.
"Aye is back."
Chang Sun Chong said calmly, "I am teaching a group of people who have no respect for the elders and the inferiors a lesson."
When he returned home from the restaurant, he called everyone out.
He was so angry that he attacked the man without saying a word.
As the eldest son of Changsun Wuji's family, he has the same status as the head of the family.
When Changsun Wuji is not around, he is the head of the family.
Not to mention that his younger brothers did not have as high a status as him, even Changsun Wuji's concubines had to kneel down in front of him, Changsun Chong.
The chief steward of the mansion just said a few too many words, and Chang Sun Chong ordered his men to beat him half to death.
A group of people knelt in the lobby, silent as a mouse, not daring to breathe.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief only after Changsun Wuji came back.
No one knows why the eldest master suddenly became a different person today, so crazy and violent.
The screams of those people lying in a pool of blood are still vivid in my mind.
"Ah Lang, you have to make the decision for us."
A concubine favored by Zhangsun Wuji, seeing him coming back, cried out as if she had seen her savior, and said, "Now that Dalang is back, let us all kneel in the hall."
"We don't know anything and we don't know what we did wrong."
As soon as she started to speak, others also began to complain.
"Bitch!"
Chang Sun Chong cursed: "I knew you were not a good person."
He stepped forward and kicked him down, "Who do you think you are? How dare you call me Da Lang?"
"You are just a bitch, and you dare to yell in front of me?"
"Someone, drag me down."
"beat!"
What is a concubine?
Nothing.
It's just an item that can be ignored.
Even if he killed his eldest grandson Chong, let alone beat him, he would only have to pay some money as compensation.
The servants he brought with him rushed forward and grabbed the concubine without saying a word and started attacking her.
Changsun Wuji could no longer bear it and shouted angrily: "Enough!"
"Da Lang, what are you doing?"
Chang Sun Chong laughed in anger, "Aye, what do you think I am doing?"
"Am I the one who's causing trouble?"
"Listen to what everyone is saying outside."
"What kind of life have I been living these days?"
"My princess at home would say something bad about me, my friends outside would mock me, and even those students from the Imperial College could say in broad daylight that I, Chang Sun Chong, am nothing."
His grievances.
Not one or two days.
Ever since the grand court meeting, rumors have been lingering around him and never ceased to be heard.
His old friend seemed to be the same as usual, with no changes, but he could always sense the sarcasm in his words and attitude.
There were also people outside who were even more outspoken in their discussions, saying that his eldest grandson Chong was extremely cowardly and that he would be stripped of his title sooner or later.
He could tolerate it because he believed that his father would not be that kind of person.
There is a limit to what can be tolerated.
When he became an outsider, the sympathetic, pity and mocking looks from those around him eventually stimulated his self-esteem to explode.
Everyone is the eldest son recognized by the family.
Although he is the eldest son, outsiders think that his father does not think so.
"I'm almost being ostracized."
Chang Sun Chong shouted with red eyes: "They think I am not worthy to be with them."
"Da Lang, don't listen to what people say outside. Don't you still not believe your father?" Changsun Wuji advised.
"I don't want to listen? Does that mean I can just not listen if I want to?"
Chang Sun Chong pointed at his brothers kneeling on the ground and said loudly: "I believe in Aye, but can I trust them?"
"Human heart, Aye, can you believe it?"
(End of this chapter)