On the tenth day of the seventh month of the Taiping year, the king of the Northern Liang Kingdom decreed: worship the ancestors on the third day of the ninth month, and want to give up the throne of the emperor.

As soon as the news came out, the Northern Liang country was in turmoil.

Taishi led hundreds of officials to kneel in the Taizu cemetery, persuading the Taiping Emperor to take back the Zen imperial order; after the three persuasions were refused, the Taishi got up angrily, angrily shouted that the emperor was incompetent, and abandoned the ancestors for no reason, which made the Taizu Taizong humiliated, and in a fit of anger, he crashed to death in the ancestral tombstone, and died in Mingzhi.

Then, the eldest son of the emperor, Li Qingshi, and the third prince Li Qingyun conspired, and ordered Qi Shaoqian, the defender of Jingzi City, to lead the defenders to attack the palace, and played the banner, saying: "The first emperor collapsed, and his body was occupied by demons, killing loyal ministers, harming good ministers, and causing chaos in the palace. ”

The two princes each led an army, from the south gate of Beijing, there was a master all the way in, and then the Praetorian Guard army was defeated and beheaded at the middle gate of the imperial city.

This incident angered the Taiping Emperor Li Longyuan, who overthrew Fulongtai, killed dozens of palace maids and eunuchs in anger, and then ordered the eldest son of the emperor and everyone in the palace of the third prince to be killed.

Hundreds of heads piled up in Beijing to set an example.

Then he imprisoned the biological mother of the two princes on death row, and gave him red silk poisoned wine; Jingwei, the Janissary, the Qianlongwei, the Fuhuwei, and the four guards took over the Jingzi City, closed the city gates, and strictly ordered anyone not to enter or leave; and took the soldiers on the two of them, Zhang Ziling, and ordered them to secretly investigate many clan relatives and civil and military officials, and those who wanted to march and make trouble, those who spoke against the Zen position, and those who verbally insulted and disrespectful, did not need to receive a decree, but could be killed on the spot.

All of a sudden, Jingzi City was full of blood, and the corpses of mass graves were piled up.

On July 23 of the Taiping year, the weather was gloomy, the air in Jingzi City was filled with a strong smell of blood, the prosperity of the past was once destroyed, the restaurants and shops were closed closely, the common people and civilians were nowhere to be seen, the streets were full of soldiers and horses, and the atmosphere was depressing, like a heavy rain was coming.

Then there are the Ji family, the Meng family, the Nangong family, the Yan family four families joined forces, together with the royal family and clan relatives suddenly rioted; and the prince ordered the family to set fire to kill people everywhere in Jingzi City, causing panic and riots among the people, storming the city gate, and many clansmen and the four major families led the family to enslave more than 2,000 people, attacking the north of the city, bloody battle for three days, countless casualties, and finally the prince was killed by several arrows, the four major families saw that they could not do anything, so they transferred the remnants of the clan to the basement where they had prepared to avoid pursuit, Prince Gong Li Longfei was desperately covered by dozens of slaves, but he escaped from the city, and went to the border of Xiliang to ask the general Ji Pingzi to send troops to help, and the demon and the evil were pacified in the world。

In the next few days, Jingzi City was calm, but the four guards and horses were like crazy, tracking down the people of the four major families everywhere, as long as there was any wind and grass, dozens of heads fell to the ground, as long as the words were disrespectful, they were arrested and put on death row and tortured.

The entire Jingzi City was stained red with blood, like a bloody slaughterhouse.

No one knows what Li Longyuan thinks?

At this time, Li Longyuan was extremely calm, he stood next to the brocade fish pond in the imperial garden, holding the bait in his hand, and constantly sprinkled it into the pool, attracting the brocade lithium in the pond to scramble, splashing the water, and watching the group of fish disturb a pool of clear water.

Behind him, a young man in a yellow shirt stood.

The young man's body was a little thin, although his face was pale, his face was handsome, and his eyes were bright, which was particularly attractive.

This person is Li Qingping, the seventh son of Li Longyuan.

Li Qingping is very silent and quiet, he knows that at this time, silence and silence will be safe.

"Qingping, don't you object to the widow Chan giving up the throne?"

Li Longyuan asked suddenly.

Li Qingping shook his head and said calmly: "No objection." ”

Li Longyuan's expression did not change, and he asked lightly, "Why?"

Li Qingping thought for a while and said, "Father naturally has his own reasons for doing this. After speaking, he took two steps and stood beside Li Longyuan.

This is an extremely bold move.

Li Longyuan was slightly surprised, turned his head to look at his son, then smiled, handed the bait in his hand to Li Qingping, and said, "You come and feed it!"

Li Qingping took the bait, and then threw it all into the pool, causing Jinli to jump out of the pool as if crazy.

Looking at a pool, looking at a pool of koi, all of a sudden, he seemed to realize.

Compared with the chaotic battle in Jingzi City, it has not been affected outside the city, and there is a mountain village called Xinghua Village a few miles away from Jingzi City.

There are dozens of households and ten families in Xinghua Village, built by the mountain, because of the diversion of the Jing River, there is a small river around the village, the villagers lead the river water to sink the pond, and make a wine cellar, and make the famous Xinghua wine.

At this time, on the big rock of Apricot Beach at the end of the village, two people were sitting, drinking and fishing.

The two are not the other, it is the prince and Mu Daoren.

Both of them were quiet, staring silently at the buoys floating on the river.

After a while, the buoy trembled slightly, then calmed down again, and after a few breaths, the buoy was pulled into the water with a strong force, and the fish hooked.

The prince lifted the pole and flicked it slightly, and the palm-sized red carp was pulled out of the water and fell into front of the beach.

"Do you know why I like fishing?"

Mu Dao said: "Happy heart!"

The prince nodded and said, "The heart is happy and daring, born of wisdom, and diligent, so the will is unswerving." ”

Mu Daoren nodded and said, "If a person likes it, he will naturally fight for it." ”

He thought for a while, and then said, "What does Gongzi mean, Li Longyuan doesn't want to give up the throne?"

The prince said: "If a person has been high for a long time, he will no longer bow his head and surrender to others." ”

Mu Dao said: "Why didn't the prince directly take down the Northern Liang Kingdom, why should he be so aggrieved?"

While removing the fish from the hook and putting the red carp back into the river, the prince asked, "What is heaven and what is Tao?"

He didn't wait for the wooden Taoist to speak, and muttered to himself: "All things are heaven;

Therefore, there is a way for harmony, harmony and virtue, virtue and luck.

There is no way for the heavens to be evil, and the calamity is born, and the calamity is angry.

If people lose the harmony of heaven, virtue will be lost in the Tao, and without the Tao, they will be born, and their luck will be lost in the air, and they will fall into the catastrophe and die in the catastrophe. ”

After the prince finished speaking, he threw the fishing line into the water again and said no more.

Mudao people seem to understand whether they understand or not, the prince is the prince after all, not the emperor of heaven, he has read some books, he likes to be reasonable, although he is benevolent, but he lacks the majesty of the emperor of heaven.

At this time, Xiao Min came from the head of the river, holding a tray in his hand, covered with red silk, walked to the prince and knelt down, holding the tray and shouting, "Childe!"

The prince turned his head and lifted the red silk with his hand, only to see a nine-colored jade seal on the tray, the size of a palm, the upper circle below, the faint colored light flashed in the circle, the colored light sometimes turned into a dragon, opened its teeth and danced claws, sometimes became a phoenix, spread its wings and chirped, sometimes became a tiger, soared in the clouds and fog, sometimes a turtle and snake, ups and downs, sometimes became a bird, soared in the boundless sky, sometimes became a beast, ran through the mountains and rivers, sometimes transformed into a human, showing the world...

The colored light flickered, all things reincarnated in the circle, and the world changed in the circle.

The four sides of the circle are white, and the four sides have their own patterns, including the vastness of the earth, the breadth of the ocean, the majesty of the mountains, the turbulence of the rivers, the mud, the grass source, the glaciers, the city...

The pattern is amorphous, the cycle is endless, slowly changing, the vicissitudes of life, condensed in the treasure jade of the four directions.

It's just that the pattern lines are very faint, and many places disappear from time to time, and I don't know where the map is, but it feels like it's vast.

All things in heaven and earth are condensed in this small nine-colored treasure jade seal, just like the eight ancient characters engraved under the seal: "The treasure of the heavens, the seal of the herdsmen." ”

"Cullinan"

Mu Daoren exclaimed, and the whole person stood up excitedly, at a loss.

Legend has it that when King Wu attacked the emperor, the priest turned against the water and injured the emperor unexpectedly, and then the national teacher became a monk, the ministers had no leader, the imperial capital was broken, the emperor was defeated, the kingdom of heaven died, and the supreme treasure of the heavens 'Tianxi' fell into the hands of the king of Wu. Then the Martial King held the Heavenly Seal, scattered the luck of the Heavenly Kingdom, divided the three heavenly realms of heaven, earth, and the underworld, the heavenly pipe, the earth managed the people, and the underworld managed the Yin Soul, the Martial King proclaimed himself the Emperor of Heaven, sitting in the heavenly court Lingxiao; the French king sealed the emperor of the earth, unified the four poles, and controlled the eight directions; the ghost king controlled the hell, sealed the Hades king, divided the good and evil, and guarded the reincarnation.

I hope that these are all fake, the Cullinan is still in the hands of the prince, the luck is still there, and the kingdom of heaven is not dead.

The prince glanced at the Mu Dao man with a smile, and casually threw the Tianxi in his hand towards the Mu Dao man.

Mu Daoren screamed in panic, 'No!', seeing that Tianxi was in front of him, he had to helplessly grasp it in his hand, and he didn't dare to look at it, he knelt down in a panic, raised Tianxi high, and said in his mouth: "The minister is dead, please ask the prince to surrender." ”

The prince said, "What crime?"

Mu Dao said: "The sin of disrespecting the Emperor of Heaven." ”

The prince said: "The Emperor of Heaven is dead!"

Mu Daoren raised his head, opened his mouth, and then plucked up the courage to say: "The prince can't be like this, the emperor of heaven is the father of the prince, and he should respect the emperor of heaven; After speaking, he knelt down and took two steps and handed the Cullinan to the prince.

The prince said: "The Cullinan is already in your hands, and you can also become the Emperor of Heaven." ”

Mu Dao Man trembled, raised his head, and said: "The prince is like this, and the Taoist can only dissipate his soul and atone for his sins." After saying that, he wanted to disperse and burn his soul with the fire of his heart.

The prince shook his head, lightly in the center of his eyebrows, Mu Daoren felt that the soul of the Heavenly Palace was fixed, and the fire in his heart was like being poured down by a basin of cold water, and then he heard the prince say lightly: "The treasure of inheriting the sky, the seal of the herdsmen; if the power of heaven is not granted, the herdsmen will give birth to cause and effect, and fall into the catastrophe; if he forcibly seizes Xiliang, under this cause, he will have consequences in the future; Li Longyuan's Zen position, cause and effect is on him, only this one person, not enough to suffer, understand?"

After finishing speaking, the prince looked at Mu Daoren again, and said: "The death of the kingdom of heaven is not the fault of the martial king, nor the shaman, nor the shaman, nor do you have to resent the national teacher, but the innate consciousness, the evolution of the great Yan, one of which is fixed, its forty-nine changes, the fixed number has no shadow, there is no trace, and the forty-nine transformation of the Dao, the change is impermanent." Heaven loses harmony and gives birth to the Tao, so there is a saying that 'man will conquer heaven', how can the kingdom of heaven last long. If you look at this little trapped dragon land, the number of emperors is like the swimming fish in this river, there are countless numbers, who can't be emperors? Who can't become emperors?"

After speaking, he stood up, looked up at the sky, his gaze seemed to pass through the infinite void, saw another sky, his voice became extremely cold, and said: "Therefore, this prince becomes the emperor, he will be blessed by heaven, shepherd all the souls of the world, be the emperor of heaven, and fight for the world again, are you willing to follow me?"