Chapter 819 Half a Life of Storm

This man has passed away. Zhou Jingxiao still remembers that before Concubine Jing died, he ran to death by more than a dozen thousand-mile horses, and finally rushed back to the capital from the grassland thousands of miles away, and met his adoptive mother for the last time.

At that time, the woman who was already Empress Dowager Jingci held his and fifth brother's hand and told the fifth brother to take good care of him, to be friendly with their brothers, and to not forget the principles he had taught him.

But he broke his promise in the end, and his hands were already covered in blood.

Before his adoptive mother suddenly fell ill, he had just cut off his grandfather's head on the battlefield. The harsh curse was like writing a bet on his adoptive mother's death.

The person he loves throughout his life will die tragically, his close relatives will be killed, and his bones and blood will be cut off.

When his mother died at the age of six, when he finally had his adopted mother, fifth brother and grandfather's family, he thought he had a belonging, but his fate was still one by one, and he took away the people he cherished from his side.

First of all, it's the father.

Emperor Wuzong's favorite son was never him. When he fell ill, Zhou Jingxiao thought he would not feel any turmoil in his heart.

But as the once wise and powerful man became haggard day by day, he still felt an indescribable depression in his chest.

Perhaps something like blood is really impossible to cut off... He didn't want to make his adoptive mother and fifth brother even more sad, so he could only tell his uncle in the letter.

But he did not expect that starting that day, the border, which had been peaceful for more than ten years, would start another war.At first it was just a small-scale fire, and as Wuzong became more and more ill, the war became more and more intense.

He naturally asked his uncle in the letter, but his uncle explained that it was Daliang's garrison on the border who provoked first, and when the war ended, he would be out of control.

Without the Dinghai Ding Hai Ji needle, Daliang retreated from the beginning, losing five cities in just half a month.

Not only is the fall of a large area of ​​land in the north, but the fact that Wuzong was seriously ill was originally the secret of the palace, and it was spread overnight and everyone knew it.

The border was in turmoil and the situation was swaying. The entire Liang was suddenly in storm and rain, and there was a disaster of overturning.

But Pity Zhou Jingxiao didn't understand until then, or he actually had suspicions in his heart, but he didn't dare to think or ask.

Why did he just tell his uncle that his father fell ill and the border guards provoked Uther for no reason?Why did Uther gather many troops in such a short time, as if she was waiting for her father to die.

He still remembered that late that night, when he suddenly saw his dusty uncle in the palace, he felt that it was indeed the case.

My uncle told him that he came here personally at the order of his grandfather and wanted to give him a huge wealth.

Now they have a thousand men lying outside the city. As soon as the Emperor Wuzong dies, Zhou Jingxiao raises troops in the city, joining the inside and outside, and can seize the palace within half an hour.

By then, he would become the emperor, and Uther could sign a peace treaty with Daliang, agreeing not to raise troops within forty years.

Of course, Daliang needs to pay a small price, which is to unconditionally cede thousands of acres of territory in the sixteen northern prefectures to Uther.

Sixteen prefectures, that is, nearly one million people...that are countless fertile and fertile land, and it is also a barrier to defend many things to overcome.

Zhou Jingxiao was silent for a long time, and his uncle's face showed impatience, and then he said hoarsely:

If the sixteen states belong to Uther, outside... will the great king treat the people here kindly?

My uncle was stunned, as if he didn't expect him to ask such questions, and said in surprise:

The southerners are weak and cunning, and have a blood feud with me, Uther, for generations. It is a great kindness to not kill them. Do you still regard them as guests of honor?

But my thin lips moved, and he didn't say that sentence, but I was also a southerner.

From that moment on, he realized that he had not found a place to stay.In other words, what the grassland can accept is Zhou Jingxiao, the Uther man, not Zhou Jingxiao, the Daliang man.

But he himself didn't know whether he was a Uther or a Daliang person.Daliang told him that he was an unfamiliar barbarian, and Uther told him that he was a hypocritical and weak southerner.

My uncle never thought that he would reject him. Before leaving, he looked at him like he was watching a traitor.

How did you be bullied by those southerners in the past? Have you forgotten today?!Besides, what else do the people of the sixteen states do you?

It is said that the Southern people are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. I just realized today that their blood is still flowing in your bones!

So...has he done something wrong?

He was born with two different blood in his body, but they hated each other.

A few days later, Wuzong was in charge of his rebellion, the third prince colluded with Uther to rebel, and the eldest son and the second son of the emperor joined the battle for the throne. After a tragic killing, blood flowed into the capital, and Zhou Jingxiao also helped the fifth prince to ascend the throne.

He did not choose to be that emperor himself because he wanted to repay his adoptive mother's kindness, and because he did not want to be enemies with his grandfather after all.

But Uther's army was approaching, and the fifth brother had just ascended the throne and was unstable, and no one in the court could use it. In desperation, he had to put on his own.