Mountain and River Calamity

Luoyang, Kyoto. Late at night, with the howling wind, thunder and lightning, suddenly a thousand-year-old osmanthus tree in the imperial garden broke in half, and the palace was in chaos. It was suspected that something big had happened. Emperor Ming Yuanxu was still in his study, pacing back and forth, worried, as if he wanted to make some kind of decision. After a long time, Yuan Xu poured himself a glass of wine, drank it down in one gulp, tore off a piece of silk, and wrote a line of words cautiously: I heard that in the greatness of human relations, father and son come first; in the distinction between respect and inferiority, the king and his ministers are the most important. The Empress Dowager Hu and the powerful minister Yuan Cha were good at power and disordered the government, kept the party together, corrupted the government's agenda, and issued rewards and punishments, all of which were not my intention. I worry about it all night long, fearing that the world will be in danger... After writing, his clothes were wet with sweat, and he sent Huangmen's minister Yuan Yong to Jinyang overnight, and ordered Zhu Rong, the abbot of the country, to go to the capital to serve the king. Unexpectedly, Yuan Yong was an insider placed by Empress Dowager Hu around Emperor Ming. He was deeply hidden and sent the secret edict directly to Hu's hands. Hu was furious after reading this and ordered his male favorites Zheng Yan and Xu He to be poisoned. Yuan Xu died violently in Xianyang Palace at the age of nineteen. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.