The twelfth lunar month of the thirty-seventh year of Jingchun.
Xie Shenwei, the top scholar in the new science department, took out a family bluestone from the Baqiao Yi Pavilion and carved the word "Xie" on the stone. The Salt and Iron Case occurred, and 17 members of six departments and eight departments were implicated, and the whole court was as silent as a mute in purple robes. Shenwei took advantage of the situation by moving among the eunuchs, relatives, and border towns, using the books of sages as armor and human hearts as weapons.
At that time, Dai En approved the Red Army for 20 years, Wei Chong was in charge of the garrison of the capital for fourteen years, and Pei Shao in the north had a hundred thousand troops to occupy a large area. Emperor Jingchun has been ill for a long time and has not been in court for a long time. The sacrificial vessels in the southern suburbs are covered with dust in April. Beidi cavalry is pressing down on the border, while the beaded curtains in Chang'an City are hung with brocade, and the bones outside the city are covered with snow.
Xie Shenwei investigated the salt and iron, the examination room, the Tongbei border, and the alliance rivers and lakes. He spent three years dormant in Yongzhou and built a dark network. In the first battle, the North Wind defeated hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.
In the winter of the forty-third year of Jingchun, the palace changed overnight. Wei Chong was beheaded, Dan En committed suicide, Xie Shenwei ascended the throne, and the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Longqi.
In the first year of Longqi, the new system of salt and iron increased the revenue of the state treasury by 30%, and all eunuchs and relatives were abolished. After Ran Shuangtai established his power, the admonishment officials saw blood, after Pei Shao reduced his power, he became silent and resigned, and after the arrest of Baicao Pavilion, the emperor and the empress became strangers.
Zhang Huanqing withdrew the imperial edict three times, and finally sat across from him in the side hall of Zichen Hall and asked only:
"Xie Jingzhao, do you still remember the boy by the Yongzhou River who asked me, 'The girl is lost'?"
Xie Shenwei picked up the cup of herbal tea.
In May of the third year of Longqi's reign, the emperor died in an abandoned well behind Zichen Hall. The edict says:
"With my bad conduct, I have betrayed everyone in the world, especially one person."
"Records of Jingchun" was finalized. Fan Zhao wrote only seven words at the end of the volume "the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month in the thirty-seventh year of Jingchun":
"It's snowing heavily today, and the number one scholar is out of the city."
Shen Hui added a small note on the side:
"In the next seven years, snow covered Chang'an seven times. When the snow fell for the seventh time, there was no one on Baqiao to say goodbye. Only on the old tiles of Baicao Pavilion, there was a man in a green shirt standing alone in the wind and snow."
He had calculated all the people in the world, but he had not calculated how he would come back.
Concept: Why should we love the dying spring when the roots are rotten and the leaves are hard to survive?