A WASTED KNIGHT
Empress Xu Yihua's
The first day of spring had arrived, that morning it was snowing in
the lawn begins to melt, foliage buds and flower buds begin to grow after hibernation
during the winter. The birds begin to welcome the day
first spring. The air is not felt
hot but also not too cold, cool to calm the heart.
Wiraksara woke up from his sleep, last night Tie Shi had
saying that tomorrow spring will begin and he invites Wiraksara to start making pickles, jerky and fish
salty for supplies next winter. Wiraksara out the yard, his eyes
the light welcomes the coming of the spring sun. It was blown deep in the air
that spring morning, it was so cool and refreshing.
“Uncle, tomorrow I will hunt wild boar, deer and
fishing for food supplies during winter,”, Wiraksara said
when they enjoyed breakfast.
Tie Shi simply smiled watching the excitement of Wiraksara
welcoming the spring.
“Not to rush, we still have plenty of time. Seems
you miss the sunshine, don't you? Ha ha ha,” guess Tie Shi.
Wiraksara laughed in response to Tie Shi's guess, being in
the somber winter for 3 months made his mood worse.
“Uncle how did you know?”
“Your face looks more cheerful than usual, or maybe you
already crass in China?”
Wiraksara laughed and said
“Ha ha ha, no Uncle of course I still miss
my beautiful country with a sun that shines all year.”
As usual that morning Wiraksara fed the horses,
brushing his fur, cutting and caring for the hooves of the horse. From a distance it looks
a Soldier rode his horse towards the stables complex. Arriving
in the stables the soldier asked Wiraksara who was brushing
horse hair.
“Where is Tie Shi?” Ask the soldier.
“He's inside working, let me call him,”
wiraksara said as he ran calling Tie Shi.
Before long Tie Shi had walked out of the stables.
The soldier delivered a warrant
“Our kingdom will invade Annam at the beginning of this semi-musin. You have to prepare 1000
ponytails for the benefit of our troops. 7 days to come the horses must be
ready in prime condition.”
Tie Shi read the warrant then said
“Good, we will prepare the horses asap!”
After that the warrior and Tie Shi were involved in
conversations .yang Wiraksara did not understand what they were talking about because
he was far away from Tie Shi so was unable to hear their conversation.
When the soldier had already passed, Wiraksara approached Tie
Shi'i.
“Uncle, will there be war?”
Tie Shi replied
“15 days to come
we must prepare the horses for the raid on Annam.”
“Huh war again, what
china's advantage of this war?” Ask Wiraksara.
Tie Shi told me
“Annam was once part of China during the dynasty
Tang. But then they liberated themselves. And now the Ho Dynasty and
The Tran dynasty in Annam fought for the throne. The Tran Dynasty asked
chinese aid to expel the people of the Ho Dynasty. Let's start work, sort and take care of
horses to be taken to Annam.”
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For the past 1 year, Empress Xu's disease has been increasing
worse, from day to day his body is getting worse and now he is no longer able
get out of bed. That day Yongle visited, his wife who was
be ill. Upon entering the queen's room,
the smell of the herbal concoction ambushed the nose, an odor that was often present in the Empress's room
Xu since he was sick. Xu Yihua's
his wife seemed to be lying weakly on the bed, her body growing thinner and thinner,
his face increasingly wrinkled his eyes sunken like a living skull. I don't know what disease
he suffered, all the drugs to cure his wife even a healer from
the whole world and shamans have been deployed but none have succeeded.
He saw that the palace healer had finished checking on his wife's condition.
“Tabib, how is he doing now?” Asked Yongle with
“Although Your Majesty, we are only able to make an effort, his illness
this is hard to cure,” whispered the Physician.
Yongle was only stunned to hear the Physician's explanation, fear
losing Yihua instantly ambushed him. I can't imagine he'll rule
alone without Yihua beside him. Yongles
an emotional person who sometimes acts uncontrollably and is impressed
diabolical. Only Yi Hua was able to temper
all that, what Yihua said would definitely be carried out unconditionally.
After the healer left he approached his wife and sat down
on the edge of the bed greeted him gently. “Yi Hua, how are you doing now, is your body still feeling pain?
Do these medicines help your healing?”
Yi Hua smiled
weak and said
“My husband, believe me I will be cured, these medicines are very
help in my healing. Don't worry about my health. Now
what is important is the survival of the Ming Dynasty. How, have you determined the heir to the throne?”
“At first I appointed Gaochi our eldest son as
his successor, but then I began to consider choosing Gaoxu
as heir to the throne,” replied Yongle.
Empress Xu was surprised and asked
“Why do you like Gaoxu better?”
Yongle looked at his wife and then said again
“Gaoxu has good fighting ability, we
it is necessary for the expansion of our kingdom's power. I'm sure if he becomes
King, he will be a strong King and respected by friends and opponents.
As for Gaochi, he was indeed smarter in political science and order
countryman, but he does not have good fighting ability. Anyway
he is too weak, sickly and less firm.”
The sound of Empress Xu sighing, she had already guessed
her husband definitely preferred Gaoxu who was more prominent in combat ability,
a knight chooses a respected match in war. Abilities
his role was proven in the Jingnan incident
the Jianwen emperor's family was all but finished off, delivering
Yongle to the throne of the long-sought Ming dynasty.
“My husband, you better consider it again if you want
gaoxu. I know exactly his disposition, he will be a tyrant who
cruel, even more cruel than you if he becomes emperor,” proposed
Empress Xu.
Yongle was surprised to hear his wife's opinion, but he
he had to listen to his wife's words. Xu Yihua his wife was
a highly educated woman, a brilliant politician. He has
good relations with important officials and politicians in the kingdom.
His success in reaching the throne of the Ming dynasty can not be separated from the role of his wife
as an influential family of the Xu clan. Yongle grabbed his wife's hand and grabbed it
gently, and then said to
relax his wife's heart
“Alright baby, I will consider it with the guys
royal advisor. I think you're right, your mother would know better
their character,” said Yongle.
Empress Xu only nodded weakly, her husband's words
it was enough to ease the turmoil of his mind this past year when Yongle
said it would consider Gaoxu as heir to the throne.
“Otherwise you want from me Yihua?”
Empress Xu looked at her husband through her sunken eyes,
she could see through her husband's eyes the cruelty he had committed
against his political opponents viciously by Zhu Jiuzu's methods
(The Destruction of the Nine Descendants) which made her husband's first years
as the emperor was filled with a flood of innocent blood.
Ironically her husband has shed a lot of blood of his fellow comrades
used to be with his relatives.
Maybe my pain is a punishment from Thian (God),
I should have been able to prevent Yongle from committing atrocities against
his enemies. He was enough to punish his enemy who was indeed guilty, no need to slaughter his entire family from
great-grandfather up to the great-granddaughter, inner empress.
“I just want you
act a little more humanely to your political opponents.
Be kind to those who have contributed to you. If you're good at
they, I'm sure they will also be loyal to you,” Empress Xu said.