Spring and Autumn I Am King

ps: The third update, the 4,000-word chapter, is so tiring, I want a recommendation ticket, and a monthly ticket!

Shi Juan, a well-known musician of Weiguo, he has been hidden in Diqiu in recent years, but in earlier years, he was an elegant scholar who was famous among the princes.し

It was the peaceful era after the Military Soldiers Meeting, and Shi Juan was a state-of-the-defense musician in his prime. In the Spring and Autumn Period, most musicians were blind people, because when the darkness covered their eyes, they could better discern music. But Shi Juan is an exception. His eyes are clear, but his memory is excellent, his hearing is extraordinary, he never forgets the music after listening to it, and he can be called a "genius" in playing the piano. At a young age, he was as famous as Shi Kuang of Jin State and Shi Hui of Zheng State, and with that seven-stringed guqin, when the music played, countless Puyang women fell in love with him.

He can write the music of ancient times, and is good at creating new songs to replace the ancient ones, and he has composed music that expresses the four seasons. In spring, there are songs such as "Li Hong", "Going Wild Goose" and "Ying Ping"; Songs of "White Clouds", "Falling Leaves" and "Blowing Canopy"; in winter there are "Ninghe", "Liu Yin" and "Shen Yun".

Shi Juan played these four new songs to Wei Hou Yuan, who was also young and energetic. As a result, Qu Boyu said worriedly: "Although Shi Juan's new four-season songs have carried forward the characteristics of qi rhythm, these new songs are all confusing and extravagant sounds, and they have the essence of Fengya and other ancient songs. The difference is not suitable for playing in the court."

Wei's ministers at home and abroad can be called a gathering of sages, and Wei Hou also has the ambition to rejuvenate. After that, Wei Hou alienated a lot from the teacher. He did not feel sorry for himself, and began to travel around the world in search of inspiration, and only occasionally returned to Weiguo.

The world gradually changed, the princes began to abandon propriety and faith, and they no longer respected the emperor and the monarch, and even neglected the sacrifices and betrothed, and the clans began to disintegrate into small families. Wei Hou also changed from a determined and enterprising young hero to a dull and dull king. The wise people around him are still there, but he can only be a mason, so that the big house of Wei can last a little longer in the wind and rain.

Shi Juan was also getting old, his fingers were not as sensitive as they used to be, his memory gradually faded, and even the music scores left behind were burned by Qu Boyu. Qu Boyu was too naive, thinking that burning these new songs would stop the monarch from being lewd, but Wei Hou Yuan's favored men and courtiers were one after the other.

Even the music officials have changed a group of people, they are not playing some kind of elegant music, but more absurd and unsightly things!

Shi Juan was shocked, angry that he didn't fight, wishing he was blind.

Seeing that the Wei Kingdom's court has become like this, he did not choose to avoid it, but entered the palace again, hoping to practice to the extreme and no longer rely on novel songs to persuade Weihou. However, it was too late, he jumped into a fire pit and happened to be surrounded by Zhao Jun, so Shi Juan was trapped in the palace together.

The days of being trapped were difficult, especially the music officer. He couldn't do anything except play the piano on his back. With his sensitive hearing, everything came to his ears: the fear of the guards, the cowardice of the soldiers, the timidity of the generals. Cowardly, the continuous sound of stones coming out of the city, the cracking of rubble, the cries of people crying for help...

The white-haired Shi Juan could only hold the piano and squeeze into the crowd, closing his eyes and enduring everything silently. At this time, he regretted that he was born with such a keen hearing, and wished he was deaf.

Being summoned today, he was neither happy nor worried, he put on a simple linen white coat and came with a guqin on his back. When we meet again, the present Marquis of Wei has long lost the high spirits that he had when he first ascended the throne. This half-hundred-year-old man who has been in power for more than 30 years is sloppy, leaning on the railing of the terrace, shaking a jade glass in his hand and dreaming of death, probably because of hope. As soon as he wakes up, Zhao Bing outside the city will fade away.

"Shi Juan, you are the best at knowing people's hearts and telling the widow, am I a faint-hearted prince?" Weihou Yuan asked drowsily with red eyes.

...

Shi Juan hesitated for a while, then said: "When your Majesty took the throne, not only did he not faint, but he also had the appearance of rejuvenating the country..."

It was more than 20 years ago, when four rebels, including Qibao, Bei Gongxi, Chu Shipu, the Sikou of Wei, were the first to attack Qibao on the 29th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Weihou was in Pingshou and returned to the capital after hearing the chaos, but the situation was out of control. From the side, it seems that this young Weihou is about to lose his country and go into exile.

But Weihou had to take a few people to flee to Diqiu not far away. Facing the threat of the rebels, he did not panic, but tactfully contacted Qihou Chujiu, got help from Qi, and then sent people back to Diqiu to persuade the people of the country. welcome him back. After a counter-kill, the betrayal of the party was scattered, and Wei Hou showed his political skills. He was good at dancing among the forces of all walks of life. There was no such civil strife, and Wei Houyuan was only 18 years old at the time.

As a musician, Shi Kuang witnessed this scene with his own eyes. Like the young Qu Boyu, Shi Yu, Wang Sunjia, Zhu Yun and Kong Yu, he had high hopes for Wei Houyuan. I hope that he can revive the state of Wei, not to mention the status of Uncle Kang, the prosperity of Duke Wu of Wei is at least the short-term revival of Duke Wen of Wei.

Even Yan He and Confucius from the State of Lu were watching, hoping that the State of Wei could produce a worthy ruler.

But in the end, they were still disappointed.

Wei Houyuan failed them, but he didn't know it, and he still muttered to himself: "Although I doted on the villains like Song Zichao and Mi Zixia, don't Duke Huan of Qi also have a lot of villains around him. I'm limited by the national situation. He failed to dominate, but what he did was no less than the hegemons of Qi Huan, Jin Wen Chu Zhuang, and he was the best among the princes in the world, but why did he fall to this point?"

Either Zhao Jun was too strong, or he had misjudged the situation and made a wrong step, so that everyone betrayed his relatives and separated, and even his own son wanted his life.

However, in Shi Juan's view, it was due to Wei Hou Yuan's willingness to degenerate. In recent years, he has been called a ruthless monarch. The reason why he did not die is all because of the hard support of his ministers. He used to be angry with him in the past, but now seeing the monarch in such a predicament, Shi Juan felt a little sad for his misfortune.

"It's the old minister who has no virtue, and he can't learn from the teacher Kuang, holding the qin and bumping into the Duke of Jin Pinggong, to persuade the emperor..." The kind-hearted old musician even took the blame on himself.

"If the emperor is close to the worthy ministers and far from the villains, he will change his past mistakes..."

"It's too late!" Wei Hou Yuan shook his head heavily, pointing to the Zhao army camp in the outer city of the city and the outside Guo, which had fallen, and Zhao Bing enforced the curfew. If Zheng Guo doesn't come to rescue, I'm afraid it won't last for a few days... It's too late to come to correct it at this time!"

Following Weihou's finger, a warning sound of gold suddenly sounded on the heavily defended palace wall, and then the sound returned to silence, but most of the palace city was awakened, and even Weihou stopped moving, fixedly. Looking at the location where the voice came, it was the southwest corner of Miyagi, where his male pet Mi Zixia was guarding.

Could it be Zhao Bing's night attack?

Soon, his guess was confirmed. After a short period of calm, there was a loud scream of killing again in that area. Accompanied by bright firelight, he found that the palace gate in the southwest corner was wide open, and the shadowy Zhao Bing was walking from the outer Guo. Killing will come in, like a rushing river flood, unstoppable.

Weihou just stared blankly at the broken palace gate until the minister Zhu Yun staggered over to report to him: "Your Majesty, the Ximen was broken by the Zhao army!"

"How did it break?" When things came to an end, Wei Hou Yuan became more calm.

"It is said that Mi Zixia betrayed the country, opened the city gate for the Zhao army, and brought him in..."

"Mimu!" ​​Wei Houyuan gritted his teeth, he felt betrayed, that Mizixia was like a dog kept by his side, for him to satisfy deformed eyes, if he liked it, he would reward him with a bone, and if he didn't like it, he would give a kick. Kicked away, how dare he hate himself?

This is what Zhu Yun once said, but now, that Mi Zixia has violated the principle of being a lackey, holding a grudge against Wei Hou's cold reception, and finally betrayed him at the last moment, giving him a fatal blow!

"Wang Sun Sima is organizing soldiers to resist, hoping to block Zhao's soldiers, and the emperor will take refuge with his ministers. If it can't be done, he will wait for the opportunity to break out..."

"Breakthrough, where are you going?" Wei Hou Yuan laughed and looked around blankly in the dark.

"To the north is Chanyuan, and without a large boat, it is impossible to cross the other side; to the west is Chuqiu, where my unfilial son Kuai Xun is sitting on the couch of a hypocrite with a dignified appearance; to the east and south is Waiguo, where I do not know how many Zhao soldiers are ambushed. As soon as I go out, I will be captured... Wei Guo has been occupied by the Zhao clan, you say, where can I go?"

Zhu Yun knelt on the ground speechless, to be honest, Wei Hou Yuan had nowhere to go.

Wei Hou Yuan lamented as he was pacing back and forth on the high platform. Although Wang Sun Jia resisted fiercely, the Zhao army was also aggressive. They began to devour the Wei Palace from the west gate. I am afraid that they will be able to reach here in less than an hour. The rest of his time, Running out.

"Don't go, the widow is tired and doesn't want to leave this palace... Come on, fill the solitary wine glass!"

The attendant was agitated, and he was about to come over with a jug, but was slapped to the ground by Weihou.

"Stupid, the widow was talking about that pot!" Weihou stepped forward in person, raised the gilded lacquer pot, and filled himself with a fine wine, but he didn't drink it.

"Shi Juan..." The bird is about to die, and its sound is also mourning, Wei Hou looks very tired.

Shi Juan covered a tearful face with wide sleeves and replied, "The old minister is here."

"The widow is about to perish, so let's play another song for Gu... After so many years, Gu still remembers that tune, but no one except you can play the beauty of it, you, Remember how to play?"

"I won't forget when I die!" Shi Juan choked.

Twenty years ago, when he accompanied Wei Hou Yuan to Jin, he stayed on the Pushui River on the way. Wei Hou heard the sound of the bell chiming and the harp in the middle of the night. The tune was extremely pleasant, and Wei Hou was immediately addicted to it. After he woke up, he sent people to look for the musicians, but there was no one there. After repeating it a few times, I thought it was a ghost. At that time, Wei Houyuan was very curious, so he ordered Shi Juan to stay by the Pushui River on the second night and record the wonderful music.

Shi Juan "sit up on the qin, listen and write it", and stayed for another night the next day. He didn't sleep all night. He practiced this piece while listening, and played it to Wei Hou Yuan when it was just dawn. When Wei Hou heard that it was exactly the same as what he heard the night before, he was immediately overjoyed, thinking he had found a treasure. After arriving in Jin State, he proudly asked Shi Juan to play the song "Sangjian Pu Shang" for Duke Ping of Jin.

However, before Shi Juan's piece of music was finished, Shi Kuang, a blind music official of Jin state, pressed the strings to stop him and said, "This is the sound of the subjugation of the country, and it cannot be finished." Joy" is what Shi Yan did. King Zhou of Yin was indulging in wine and **** all day long, indulging in this kind of music, living a life without concern for political affairs, and finally lost his country. After the death of King Zhou of Yin, Shi Yan fled to the edge of the Pushui holding the qin. Someone saw him commit suicide by throwing himself into the water. His soul was still alive. Shi Juan must have heard this music on the Pushui.

Shi Kuang is a senior that Shi Juan respects very much, and Shi Juan keeps in mind what he said.

But Marquis Wei no longer believed in evil, he said: "Shi Kuang has a word, saying that whoever hears this sound will cut his country and must never play it again! You have kept this music for 20 years, but now, Wei Guo It's on the verge of extinction, it doesn't matter, just satisfy the widow's last wish, and when you get to Huangquan, you can also have less thoughts..."

"I would like to play the last song for your Majesty..." Shi Juan sighed in his heart, and went straight to the ground and tore off the cloth wrapping the guqin, but saw that the polished lacquer wood body had seven straight arrows. Thin strings.

The front of the qin is wide and the back is narrow, symbolizing the distinction between high and low. The five strings of palace, business, horn, sign and feather symbolize the five levels of ruler, minister, people, affairs and things. The sixth and seventh strings added later are called Wen and Wu Er strings, which symbolize the harmony between the ruler and the minister.

In the music of the piano, there is also a great way! This is the gift of the music officer.

The ten old and stiff fingers stroked the strings, like a soldier touching a weapon that weighed his hand, and became flexible. With the sound of music fluttering, Wei Houyuan seemed to see that the place where he succeeded to the throne had great ambitions. At that time, the emperor hill was surrounded by the sound of jade trees and warblers, and the waterside pavilion in Puyang bloomed very early. How proud he used to be, raised the Zhulou, banqueted guests, the green moss and green tiles in the palace, he once slept with the concubines and concubines...

"It's this feeling, it's this tune!" Wei Houyuan untied his hair bun, and his long gray and white hair fluttered in the wind. He held a jade lamp and laughed loudly. It's like living again, forever immersed in the happy times, this extravagant sound is really wonderful, no wonder some people are addicted.

However, Shi Juan's music suddenly changed and became sad. This was something Weihou had never heard of back then, and he couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Qingjiao is the most tragic, followed by Qingzheng. I can't play the sound of Qingjiao to the height of Shi Juan, but this Qingjiao, the old minister has been wandering around for all these years, but he has some understanding."

In the music, it is still the extravagant life of the monarch, who would have expected this extravagant scene to be so easily eliminated! Unexpectedly, the building collapsed in a blink of an eye. Now looking under the high platform, but seeing beacon fires everywhere, he betrayed his relatives and separated, the society of Wei is in jeopardy, and many separations of life and death are caused by his greed for pleasure...

"Sangjian Pu Shang" was originally an extravagant sound, and Shi Juan played it back then, but after decades of Shi Juan's precipitation, he realized the strange tones he heard by the Pu water that night, and wanted to Telling, in fact, is another thought.

The lyrics finally became generous and desolate, and the tone was sonorous. This kind of old age is coming, this kind of pain of subjugation ~www.wuxiahere.com~ makes people cry, and they can't hide it.

"Shi Yan wanted to use this song to warn the world, don't forget how the Dayi merchants perished! It's a pity, it's a pity... When the old minister realized this, it was too late!"

At the end of the song, the music is over, the strings are broken, and the blood flows. And Wei Hou Yuan's face was also ashen, and then a miserable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Well played and well spoken! It's a pity we're not young anymore."

He held the wine bottle aloft, drank all the wine in it, and walked to the railings of the high platform, watching Zhao Bing, who had already entered the palace, hold a torch and kill him like a fiery snake.

This destitute monarch, in such a night, staring at the completely occupied country, his back is so lonely, he squeezed the front of his shirt tightly, a trace of blood oozes from the corner of his mouth, he breathed heavily and said: "It doesn't matter. Well, after living at the age of fifty, Gu can be considered enough to see the rise and fall of the country..."

The next moment, his mouth and nose bleed like a spring, and he fell to the ground. In the lingering sound of the country's subjugation, in the cries of Zhu Yun and Shi Juan, Wei Hou Yuan died drinking poison!

(To be continued.)