Chapter 80: The Unchanging Talent Li Zhao (II)
Although Bai Sheng and Zhao Junbao pretended to be indifferent on their faces, they could not hide the sadness in their eyes.
Bai Sheng was silent for a moment, and finally asked, "Xiucai, do you have any other wishes?"
Li Zhaotai is desperate. It's like I'm going to die after all these years, and my body has long collapsed. As the emperor, Bai Sheng specially assigned two imperial doctors to regulate Li Zhao's body, otherwise he would not be able to survive today, but he could only survive until today.
The doctors of the Tai Hospital took turns to fight, and the holy hands of the capital and the people also spontaneously came to treat this highly prestigious Li Ge Lao, and over the years, just the medicinal materials for Li Zhao to regulate and tonic have been used for several carts. He himself joked that he had taken more medicine than he had eaten.
Li Zhao has been tired and collapsed many times, but every time his body has just improved, he struggles to be busy with official business. Because of this, his wife, who has always been virtuous and gentle, has also quarreled with him several times. When his old mother was alive, it was fine, and Li Zhao still listened to what the old man said, and he didn't dare to be too disobedient.
But later, the old lady passed away, and when the court couldn't do without him, Bai Sheng asked him what he meant, whether he wanted to keep filial piety for his mother for three years. Li Zhao weighed it for a few days, but still asked Bai Sheng to take away the love, and he threw himself on official affairs again.
All the officials knew that Bai Sheng was a good and diligent emperor, while Li Zhao was a terrible madman!
As long as it is beneficial to the society and the people's livelihood, no matter how many opposing voices Li Zhao has, he must push things forward despite all difficulties. But if it is the emperor himself who obstructs the laws and regulations of the country, Li Zhao does not give face, refutes in public, and strives to the end.
Li Zhao has done a lot of good things for the people, but he has also blocked the way of many people, so he has been assassinated more than once, thanks to Bai Sheng has long ordered someone to secretly protect him, just like this, Li Zhao was still injured in his life, if it weren't for the two holy hands of "Xu Siming" and "Chen Bancheng" at that time, he really died young.
After this incident, Bai Sheng moved the people who secretly protected Li Zhao directly to the surface, and openly warned the early court that he would never let go of the people who moved Li Zhao, and would definitely investigate to the end. At this point, the assassination of Li Zhao gradually disappeared.
But Li Zhao doesn't seem to care for his body and life at all, as long as he can still move, he must work. Bai Sheng lost his temper with him about this, but Li Zhao didn't take it to heart and still went his own way. Bai Sheng couldn't do anything about him, he was reluctant to punish him, and he was worried about his body, and in the end, he didn't do anything to him, and a rage ended up thundering and raining.
The young man who was upright and upright and enthusiastic back then finally grew step by step into a generation of important ministers who were calm and elegant in the officialdom and calm and decisive. It's just that the oil finally ran out of lights, and there was no way to go back.
Li Zhao seriously reviewed his life, and felt that it could be called a vigorous ups and downs. In the past ten years, he has become a famous talent from a village child, and his life is plain and stable.
Later, a flood changed all that. He was reduced to an outcast, but he unexpectedly came to Bai Sheng's side, and since then he has entered the officialdom, fighting openly and secretly all the way, with ups and downs, once proud of the spring breeze, and once his life was in danger. Over the past few decades, he has really done a lot for the court and the people, and it can be regarded as a legend.
"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen has no unfulfilled wishes. What Weichen should do, what he wants to do, and what he can do has been put into action, and there is nothing to regret. Li Zhao thought of his achievements and felt satisfied and gratified.
Bai Sheng nodded and said, "In this case, your descendants will take good care of them and ensure their glory and wealth." ”
"Your Majesty's kindness is appreciated. Although Weichen does not have much savings in this life, it is enough for them to live in peace. If they have that ability, they can have a good future, and they don't have to ask for His Majesty's preferential treatment. If they are straw bales with no ability, they will have the courage to make progress without fear and live up to His Majesty's good intentions, so they will not dare to give His Majesty preferential treatment. Li Zhao calmly but firmly refused.
"After so many years, it's still this stinky temper, what a sour show. Bai Sheng shook his head and didn't mention the matter again, obviously respecting his decision.
Zhao Junbao hesitated for a long time and asked, "Xiucai, have you let it go?" He could see that since that incident, Xiucai had changed, little by little, he looked more and more stable and calm, but no one could know what he really thought in his heart.
His words were clueless, Li Zhao was stunned, and it took a while to understand what he meant.
It was as if the first crack appeared on the embankment of the Wanhuai Mansion back then, and soon, something rushed like a tsunami, washing away the high wall he had built with great difficulty in his heart, and drowning him in an instant.
Did you put it down? He asked himself. I can't let go, I don't want to let go, and I never let go.
He has always been a stubborn person, and he will stick to what he sees to the end, and he has not been in dispute with the emperor for this.
That's the person who has been in the sea of people for 10,000 years, and he is carefully full of longing and affection that he has hidden in his heart for most of his life, why should he let go? Why should he let go? Who is qualified to tell him to let go?
For so many years, he has kept paralyzing himself with official duties, and even Xiu Mu has to go to the official office to work, except for the New Year that he can't hide, he never dares to let himself be idle.
Since that incident, it was as if the meaning of his life no longer existed. He could no longer feel happy and happy, and his life was only gray and gray, and there were no more vivid and bright colors. His heart seems to have been dug a hole by life, and no matter what he does, he can't make up for the missing parts.
Gradually, he lost his joys and sorrows, and his emotions seemed to disappear. He still laughs, but not because of joy, as if the smile is really just an expression, and it no longer comes from the heart. He has become an old fox in the eyes of the officials, but no one knows, he just completely lost his joy and sorrow.
Li Zhao was about to speak, but he felt a fishy sweetness welling up in his throat, and then he vomited a large mouthful of blood.
He saw Bai Sheng and Zhao Junbao saying something to him in a panic, but he couldn't hear it clearly, and his vision became more and more blurred.
He tried to reassure them that he didn't matter, but he was too tired to speak. He found that he couldn't move, and his eyelids sank a little.
Consciousness blurred. He could feel a lot of people around him, his children and grandchildren. It should have been his wife who fell beside him and wept. Speaking of which, it is still the matchmaker made by the current queen.
For the queen, his mood has always been a little complicated, and every year at the palace banquet, he never participates under the pretext of being unwell. The queen mother is the world, cares about all the people, and praises the people of Dayue. But her face, Li Zhao didn't want to face, seeing it would evoke his pain and nostalgia, and he could always avoid it.
His wife is a lady from a famous family, and she has respected him all these years. She has a husband and children, and she is a good housekeeper. Although he didn't love her, he also respected her, and he never took a concubine or received any intercourse, which can be regarded as making up for and repaying her.
It's dying. Li Zhao, who realized this, was not afraid, but had a sense of relief, and even faintly looked forward to it. He's so tired, he can finally get some rest.
No one knew the bitterness in his heart, only his mother took his hand when she was dying, and said distressedly: "My son, you have lived for the people, the court, and your mother all your life, what can you do for yourself?"
The crying in my ears faded away, and the surroundings became silent. It seemed that he was the only one left in heaven and earth.
I don't know how long it took, a cold woman's voice suddenly sounded in my ears: "Xiucai." ”
Li Zhao was shocked, and his eyes immediately widened.
In the skylight, a girl dressed in plain deliberation was standing opposite, noble and graceful, unruly and arrogant. She glanced at Li Zhao with a cold face, and asked condescendingly, "Have you done your business?"
Li Zhao only felt tears in his eyes, and hurriedly lowered his head.
How many years had passed? Someone he hadn't even seen in his dreams had finally appeared, and he could finally see her again. This is his real unfulfilled wish.
Li Zhao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, bowed his head respectfully in response, and his voice couldn't stop trembling slightly: "The county lord forgives his sins, it's too late to be humble......
I've never had the luxury of being with you, either in this life or in the future. If Heaven has mercy and grants me what I ask, I only hope that you will be safe and happy and happy whenever and wherever you are. Li Xiucai reverently closed his eyes, and clear tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.
In the twenty-first year of Chengtai, Li Zhao, the first assistant of the Vietnamese cabinet, died suddenly with a smile on his face, and died at the age of fifty.
The whole country was in mourning, and the emperor boycotted the dynasty for seven days to show his mourning.
The voice of this important minister of the country is full of legends.
Since then, there is no one in the world, but his indelible contributions to the country of Yue and his achievements will forever be recorded in history and praised by the people from generation to generation......