The cold palace has long lost the gorgeous color of the glorious period of the empire, the gorgeous glazed tiles have been covered with a thick layer of gray snow, and the ground is no longer as clean as it used to be, and the ground is full of snow, a decaying color.

But it's not going to be ruined after all.

Although there are many people who have fled from the palace, there are also many people who have nowhere to go.

Maybe it's because the long-term panic has numbed people's nerves, so the remaining palace people are numb to do their own things, staying in the palace and waiting for the last chance to survive, or...... Die.

Some things, if they come sooner or later, they will have a result, right?

Baili Chuze stood in front of the Taiji Palace, quietly looking at the huge palace in front of him, which symbolized the residence of the highest power of the empire, and was dragged out of a black shadow by the setting sun, like an old giant beast entrenched on the ground, looking up at the sky.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and walked towards the Taiji Palace.

The palace people who occasionally walked by, looking at the Yulin Guard armor on his body, immediately retreated without saying a word.

……

"Ahem, ahem...... Ahem....... ”

When he reached the door of the inner sanctum, he heard a low cough, hoarse and unpleasant.

An old eunuch was boiling tea outside the temple gate, I don't know if it was because he was too tired, he closed his eyes, his head dozed off little by little, the palace door was wide open, if anyone wanted to kill the emperor of the empire at this time, it was simply a simple matter.

He glanced at the medicine that the old eunuch was boiling, then picked it up and went to the inner sanctum.

Although the inner hall looks quite tidy, the tables and chairs are also covered with a thin layer of dust, which shows that the situation of the emperor is the same as that of this empire...... Doomsday.

As if he heard someone coming in, the cold wind poured in, so that Emperor Shun, who was curled up on the bed, said in a low voice: "Lao Tu, I don't want to...... Again...... Ahem...... Drink that bitter tea, just change to a glass of water. ”

He raised his eyebrows, poured a cup of tea and handed it over, and said indifferently: "There is no other water here, just drink it." ”

The withered hand that had been habitually stretched out to pick up the teacup froze in mid-air when his voice sounded, and it took a while before he slowly raised his head, looked in the direction of the sound with a look of disbelief, and trembled his voice: "Ze'er...... Ze'er ...... Is that you? ”

Baili Chuze tore off his mask, looked at the Eight Immortals chair that was stained with a lot of dust, simply walked to the window, and then ripped off all kinds of dusty soft cushions and cushions on the soft couch, before he sat down, leaned on the couch, put up his long legs, and said lightly: "I haven't seen you for a long time, my father is fine." ”

"Ze'er......." Emperor Shun's eyes were no longer visible, and his two gray eyes were staring straight in the direction of Baili Chuze, his face was full of excitement: "Ze'er, have you forgiven your father, have you come to save Shangjing, are you no longer angry, are you ......." ”

He finally waited for his savior.

Seeing him so excited, Baili Chuze suddenly sneered in a low voice: "Hehe...... Father, you will always only see what you want to see, and expect others to always follow your path. ”

He paused, and casually picked up a delicate jade seal to play with: "It's just that you are no longer His Majesty the Emperor at the beginning, or rather, maybe you have never been full of blood, but you have never had enough strength and brains to sit in this position, even my grandmother is more capable than you." ”

Listening to Baili Chuze's words, Emperor Shun's original hope was poured down like cold water, and he was half cold all of a sudden, and he laughed low for a while: "Hehe...... Ze'er, you're right, I'm incompetent, my greatest achievement may be to hand over the country to you, and the biggest failure is also to hand over the country to you. ”

At this moment, he suddenly realized his mistake very clearly - if the country is in the hands of the Du family, the person who sits on the throne is still surnamed Baili, this Tianji is still Tianji, and Guozuo will not be destroyed in his own hands.

"I should have known when you filled my room with one hundred and eight human heads...... You should know that you already hate me in your heart, and you hate all beings in this world...... A capable destroyer and a greedy guardian, I ...... Finally...... I'm still wrong...... Couldn't be more wrong. Emperor Shun closed his eyes and shed two lines of old tears while laughing.

Bai Li Chu looked at him and suddenly chuckled: "It seems that you are not hopelessly stupid, but don't you think it's too late to say this?" ”

He paused, and slowly put the jade seal in his hand back on the table: "In your eyes, there is no one who is more important than your country, whether it is a subordinate or a relative. ”

"The people are important, the king is light!" Emperor Shun said angrily, his chapped lips trembled, and although his voice was hoarse, he stopped coughing when he was excited.

A sneering and indifferent smile appeared in Bailichu's silver eyes: "The people are important, the king is light, no, father, in your heart, power is the most important thing, why do you want to take out the people as a shield so hypocritical." ”

Over the years, he has kept saying that he has served the country and the people, what has he done, natural disasters and man-made disasters, in addition to hiding, in addition to blindly pretending to be sick, he is stubborn and self-serving, and he is extremely suspicious, until the last patience he gave him is exhausted.

As an emperor, he envied the glory of the former emperor, but he didn't see if he had the ability, forcing everyone in the courtiers to endanger themselves.

Until the king does not believe in the minister, the minister loses his heart, and is not loyal to the king.

But he has never self-reflected, and he has never been at fault with others.

"The mediocre monarch is willing to be mediocre, and he can still keep it, but he thinks he is the master, and the country will die, and he will suffer by himself." Baili Chuze said lightly.

When Emperor Shun heard this, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly on his dry face, and he could only tremble hysterically and said in a trembling voice: "Rebel son...... Unfilial son...... You...... You brute, I should have killed you in the first place...... Kill you! ”

"That's right, from a human being to a beast that can only walk in the dark night and eat people, it is also a blessing to my father, if you killed me at the beginning, maybe I would really be grateful to you." Baili Chuze smiled slightly, not annoyed or angry, the smile can almost be called elegant and warm, the smile of the typical national teacher Yuan Ze.

It's a pity that this man sent him to hell, and in this case, when he returns from hell, this man will have to pay the price if he wants to consolidate his power with the help of the power from hell, and now there is nothing to complain about.

Although Emperor Shun couldn't see the ridicule on his face, he was sad, hateful and remorseful in his heart, supported his body, gritted his teeth and sneered: "What do you want to do when you come back now, do you want to see my jokes, or do you see if I am dead?" ”

Baili Chuze said lightly: "I'm here to see if you have grown up, as for the ghost parasite growing slower in your body than I imagined, it can also let you live for another three months, enough to watch Wen Jiajun enter Beijing, and the day the empire finally overturns." ”

Emperor Shun closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "Hehe...... Such a vicious heart...... Hehe...... It's really a ...... The one who has my blood flowing for hundreds of miles. ”

"That's right, cold, paranoid, crazy, cruel...... and this unique face, all of which are the characteristics of the direct bloodline of the Baili family. Baili Chuze stood up and looked at Emperor Shun condescendingly.

"Thank you, father, for letting these traits shine to the fullest."

Then, he placed a delicate box on the table and opened it, revealing one of the pills inside.

"What is this...... Ahem? Although Emperor Shun couldn't see it, he could hear that he had put something on the table.

Baili Chuze didn't answer immediately, but turned around and walked out of the door, until he walked to the door, and then said, "This is the medicine to stop the parasitic growth of ghosts." ”

"Terminate ......." Emperor Shun's body stiffened.

Baili Chuze turned his back to him, quietly looking out of the door, the heavy snow had stopped, and it was rare to reveal a remnant sun, that light like blood, reflecting the whole land into a scarlet red light, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Father, your whole life, you are making wrong choices, and every time, you feel that it is not your own life that is wrong, what are you like, when the sun sets, you should understand better than anyone else, if you are still sober, just make a right choice." ”

With that, he chuckled lightly and walked out of the temple without any nostalgia.

Emperor Shun listened to his footsteps and gradually walked away, he stretched out his hand and stayed in the air, as if he wanted to stop the other party from leaving, but in the end he trembled and fell, just next to the medicine box that was resting on the table.

He paused, trembling and fumbling towards the medicine box, and his hand stiffened for a while before he slowly and lowly laughed: "Hehehe......." ”

……

"Duke, I'm afraid Your Majesty won't last long, and we have to make plans early." Chen He was dressed in a military uniform and looked at Zheng Jun who was incense for a portrait. 、

Although Zheng Jun is no longer the supervisor of the celebrant supervisor, in Chen He's heart, only Zheng Jun is the real celebrant overseer.

Zheng Jun folded his hands and bowed to the portrait, then raised his head to look at the person on the portrait, but replied: "Lao Chen, did you say that our family did something wrong at the beginning, maybe we should have killed Qiu Yebai when I saw her for the first time." ”

But he allowed her to grow and develop, and even secretly helped.

Now don't talk about the revitalization of the celebrant supervisor, even the national ...... The capital will not be a country.

A faint smile appeared on Chen He's thin face: "Dugong, you didn't do anything wrong, and it wasn't Qiu Yebai who was wrong, but this world, our powerless destiny." ”

He paused, looked at the painting on the wall, the Western painting looked very old, but it was still very well preserved, the man on it was dressed in a gorgeous dark purple flower flying fish suit, lazily leaning on the soft couch of red sandalwood, at first glance only felt a dark and ghostly, and with a wanton and wild intention to meet him.

"Just like the Chitose Lord, before he founded the country, everyone said that his Sima Yi and Cao Cao's generations were not small, and they were thieves, but who could see that it was precisely because of the Chitose Lord's 'stealing the country' that there was the unification of Xidi and the Celestial Empire, the territory was vast, and the rise of the Tianji Empire for more than a hundred years, the world was peaceful, this is the Mandate of Heaven." Chen He sighed lightly.

"The reincarnation of heaven, the alternation of rise and fall, has never been the intervention of manpower, one wrong step, Emperor Zhongzong, when he was tempted by the Du family's daughter, it was already a wrong step, a wrong step, the world, the capable should live in it, the existence of our celebrant supervisor has been two dynasties, how many ups and downs have been seen, how many ups and downs have been witnessed, the governor, you have inherited the position of the governor of the thousand-year-old lord, do you still not understand?"

Zheng Jun looked at the portrait, and a little astringent smile appeared on his old face: "Hehe...... Yes, the older you get, the more confused you get. ”

"What kind of person is Chitose Ye, he has always acted eclecticly, quite similar to our first highness, rampant in the previous dynasty, saying the opposite is the opposite, saying that he left the Qianqiu hegemony and returned to the desert, he left the Qianqiu hegemony and returned to the desert, if he really put these foreign things in his heart, I am afraid that he will not be the Chitose Lord."

Who knows, after a hundred years, the celebrant has never been loyal to any emperor, but has always been the legendary founding overlord of the Tianji Empire.

Who knows that Emperor Zhenwu is the nine-thousand-year-old who was full of evil in the Celestial Empire and was violently killed by heaven?

"So, it's time for us to make plans." Chen He looked at Zheng Jun quietly.

"Is it a bloody battle with the Hehe people to the end, or will the city open the city and let the other party enter the city?"

This is a dilemma, the bloody battle to the end, although the Hehe people are not as ferocious as before, but they will definitely slaughter the city; And letting the other party into the city, burning, killing, and plundering are inevitable.

Zheng Jun looked at the paintings on the wall, pondered for a long time with a solemn expression, and suddenly asked, "How far is Wen Jiajun from us?" ”

Chen He hesitated for a while before he said: "I heard that they are fighting with the Chang family army, if they defeat the Chang family army today and rush over quickly, it will take more than three days, but Lord Chang is also stubborn, I am afraid that he will not surrender easily, and now he has been confronting Wen Jiajun for ten days, and the army has not yet fought each other." ”

When the battle is over, and then rush back, I don't know that the Year of the Monkey is the month of the horse, and Shangjing has already been bleeding.

When Zheng Jun heard this, he smiled lowly, vicissitudes of life and helplessness, raised his head, quietly looked at the painting in front of him, and suddenly stretched out his hand: "Give me the fire fold." ”

Chen He didn't doubt that he had him, so he handed over the fire fold.

Zheng Jun took the fire fold, shook it, and then lit a little flame, he brought the fire fold in his hand close to the wall, and slowly lit the painting on the wall.

"The Governor ......." Chen He was stunned for a moment, and his eyes widened slightly.

Zheng Jun only watched quietly as the painting slowly burned out.

The bright light of the fire made his old face look more and more vicissitudes.

"Everything ......."

He was about to say something, when he suddenly heard the voice of an old eunuch outside the door: "Chief Administrator, Your Majesty is in a hurry." ”

Zheng Jun was stunned for a moment, and Chen He glanced at each other, both of them seeing worry in each other's eyes.

It's been a long time since Emperor Shun has summoned any of them in such a hurry.

The two of them immediately turned around and went out, picked up their cloaks, and walked towards the Taiji Hall in the snow.

Zheng Jun only briefly explained to the old eunuch: "Lao Tu, wait a while, the painting is burned and the fire is extinguished." ”

The old eunuch nodded resignedly: "Yes." ”

Behind them, in the empty room, the Western oil painting was slowly engulfed by the flames, and the man with the eyebrows and eyes dyed with a strange purple seemed to show a strange and cold smile in his eyes, looking down on the empire he had built single-handedly and indifferently.

Let it live, let it perish.

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"Your Majesty?!" Zheng Jun and Chen He just entered the palace and saw Emperor Shun sitting on the Jinluan Palace, wearing a gorgeous dragon robe with golden light, neatly dressed, so that Zheng Jun and Chen He almost had a moment's suddenness, as if they saw the young emperor when His Majesty went to court for the first time.

The ministers below bowed.

They were all shocked, His Majesty couldn't get up at all, how could he suddenly sit down?

"You're here." Emperor Shun slowly raised his head and followed the voice.

Zheng Jun and Chen He came to their senses, looked at the empty and dusty Taiji Hall, and then stepped forward quickly.

Zheng Jun looked at Emperor Shun with some concern: "Your Majesty, are you in good health?" ”

Seeing that Emperor Shun's complexion seemed to be much better, he could only think of one word - back to the light.

Emperor Shun smiled, his gray eyes seemed to be able to see them: "Zheng Jun, Chen He, I never thought that you would be here to see them off on my last journey. ”

Zheng Jun was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Chen He, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Your Majesty......."

Emperor Shun suddenly raised his hand, blocking what he was about to say, and only said lightly: "Zheng Jun, come and help me, I want to see my country." ”

Zheng Jun and Chen He were in a heavy mood, although they were not sure whether Emperor Shun could still stand, and even more doubtful that he couldn't see anything at all, they still immediately stepped forward to help him up.

But I don't want Emperor Shun to be able to stand up reluctantly despite his weak legs and feet.

Zheng Jun slowly helped Emperor Shun towards the gate of the Taiji Palace, and glanced at Chen He, who immediately moved a Eight Immortal Chair and placed it in front of the palace door as quickly as possible.

Emperor Shun walked for a while before he barely reached the gate of the Taiji Hall with the support of Zheng Jun, although the heavy snow had stopped, the cold air instantly poured in, making him shiver instantly.

"Your Majesty......." Zheng Jun wanted to let him sit down with some concern.

Emperor Shun suddenly reached out and patted his hand: "I, it's okay, help me go and get the picture scroll I put on the desk and the short sword." ”

Chen He turned around again silently.

Emperor Shun raised his face and turned slowly, as if he was feeling the wind, and as if he was looking around his palace, and sighed lightly: "Alone without the railing, infinite rivers and mountains, it is easy to see when it is difficult at other times." Flowing water and flowers go in spring, heaven and earth. ”

Zheng Jun looked at Emperor Shun's appearance and was a little puzzled: "Your Majesty, why are you so interested today?" ”

"Isn't this a good word, in heaven and earth, the country changes hands, and the king of the dead country can write such words, and the queen and I should be confidants."

Emperor Shun smiled slightly, but there was not much sadness in his expression, he just looked ahead lightly: "The rivers and mountains of the heavens are really beautiful, aren't they?" ”

Zheng Jun looked at the appearance of Emperor Shun, and suddenly realized the cruelty of time so clearly, he still remembered that the young and handsome emperor stood on the Jinluan Palace, full of spirit, and had great ambitions, in a blink of an eye, decades have passed, and the young emperor looks even older than himself.

Emperor Shun couldn't stand still, and Zheng Jun helped him sit down slowly.

"Yes, the heavens are so beautiful." Zheng Jun followed Emperor Shun's gaze into the distance, the Taiji Hall is the highest place in the palace, and at this moment, you can still see the mountains in the distance from the palace gate, majestic and desolate.

It's just that, soon, this country will change hands?

At this time, Chen He had already taken the scroll and short sword in his hand and rested them on Emperor Shun's lap.

Emperor Shun stretched out his hand and stroked the scroll and the short sword on his lap, and the violent and morbid distortion between his expressions had long since dissipated, leaving only a lot of melancholy.

"The world is eternal, but a dream, all of them are flowing water, how many people come, people go again...... I'm just a loner after all. Emperor Shun stroked the scroll and the short sword, raised his head to look into the distance, and chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"Concubine Chen is gone, Qingluan is gone, even the queen mother and Yunshang are gone, my enemies, my relatives, my love and hatred are all ...... gone, I'm the only one left, this is the retribution of my greed? ”

Vaguely, he seemed to be able to see those once young figures in the snow passing in front of his eyes, pointing out the country, inspiring words, scolding Fang Xuan, or the hairpin in front of the mirror, and the pen Danqing falling ink.

Zheng Jun didn't speak, just stood quietly on the side.

"Huh......." Emperor Shun sighed lightly: "Zheng Jun, prepare pen and paper, and pass on my will." ”

Zheng Jun looked at Emperor Shun sitting in a precarious position, his mood was a little complicated, but he still said very respectfully: "Yes." ”

After a while, he took a pen and paper, and with the assistance of Chen He, he finished the preparation, and said to Emperor Shun: "Your Majesty, everything is ready." ”

Emperor Shun raised his head, quietly looked at the bleak and silent palace and the mountains in the distance, and said slowly: "I, for the guilty king, Liang De bowed, and the heavens were to blame, causing the traitors to go straight to the Jingshi, and the foreign captives violated the realm, all of which were absurd mistakes, and I had nothing to do with people, I was cut off from the world, I pleaded for the people, I died, I saw my ancestors without a face, and let the enemy be divided, and I did not hurt one of the people of Tianji." ”

"Your Majesty!" Zheng Jun's hands were already trembling and he couldn't write, and he only raised his reddened old eyes to look at the emperor.

Emperor Shun smiled faintly: "Remember, put my body in front of the Taiji Palace, and then, open the city gate, I want to see with my own eyes how failed I am, and let those great people sit like this while watching me, just do what they do to me, and when they get out of this siege for a month, they can block one more killing for the people, which is the last thing I can do." ”

"Your Majesty......." Zheng Jun and Chen He both knelt on the ground together, this was the first time they felt that what was sitting in front of them was the real ...... of the empire Emperor.

Pity...... Too late.

Emperor Shun sighed lightly, a little mist escaped from his lips, he slowly raised his head, looked at the sky, and laughed softly.

"I, I am misleading and misleading, but my Tianji Kingdom has lasted for hundreds of years, and the heir to the throne of my Baili family has never ceded the land or paid compensation at any time, although I can no longer keep this society, but I can still follow my ancestral teachings - the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!"

The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies.

May God bless me on the land of the Central Plains.

He slowly closed his eyes, and a cold tear slowly fell.

The cold snow fell silently again, obscuring the once handsome and now old and vicissitudes of the last emperor on the throne.

And in the distance, the eunuch called Lao Tu raised his eyes, looking at the emperor in the snow from a distance, the skin of the stiff wood twitched, and the clear eyes that were completely different from his old hard face instantly reddened, he closed his eyes, and desolate tears fell line by line.

He slowly knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in the direction of Emperor Shun, curled up, and cried silently.

Your Majesty......

Zhong Qing...... Zhong Qing......

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Autumn House

"It's really not accurate at all, and when it says that the snow falls, it snows, and when it says the snow stops, the snow stops." Nameless raised his eyebrows slightly, and casually dusted around on himself with a feather duster.

Autumn leaves sat on the side, looking at the room not far away with some absent-mindedness, that was the place where the spirit stopped, and Feng Xiuyun had been in for almost an hour.

"Si Shao, if you're worried about Mrs. Feng, just go in and have a look." Nameless looked at her and knew what she was worried about.

She dragged her cheeks and sighed softly: "My mother's obsession with that man, I'm afraid that's it in this life, but it's just a charred corpse, what can she look at?" ”

I'm afraid that her sentimental mother watched the gentleman on the clouds with the breeze and bright moon turn into a charred corpse, and now that such a long time has passed, I am afraid that it will be even more unbearable, except for the heartache and pain, there is nothing left.

"Maybe it would have been better for you not to think about snatching the body out, but now you have to light another fire, and it will be burned to ashes." Akiba Bai shook her head, risking her life to snatch the corpse, she thought it would be better to let the fire burn clean.

The nameless eyeballs moved slightly, flashed a hint of different color, and only said casually: "After all, it is Mrs. Feng's thoughts, if Mrs. Feng doesn't even have the last thoughts, I'm afraid that she will be sad, and it will also make the four young people sad." ”

Qiu Yebai looked at Nameless, and saw him playing with a feather duster, looking indifferent and detached, but the concern in her words still made her heart slightly sour, but in this life she was destined to fail him, let him down, let him down......

She suddenly remembered another person, and her eyes involuntarily looked at the sky in the direction of the palace, wondering if the snow on the Pingyun Hall had accumulated very thickly, whether the armor that had been stained with the blood of the enemy had fallen with ashes, whether the grass in front of his clothes and mounds had been desolate, and whether his sword had rusted......

"Four young ......." Nameless looked at her stunned appearance, and there were already tears in her eyes, and she knew that she remembered the wind-like person who had long since dissipated in the wind.

She closed her eyes, wiped away the tears in her eyes, and then looked up and returned to her usual appearance, and said lightly: "Well, let's wait." ”

It's just that as soon as the words fell, a deep bell rang suddenly - "Dang...... While...... While......! ”

She was stunned, and Nameless was stunned, and they listened silently as the bell rang twelve in a row.

The low bell, they recognized, was—the great death knell in the palace.

Prince Shenglie, when the general Wang Baili Lingfeng passed away, it once rang ten times, and now it has sounded twelve, could it be ......

"Emperor Shun?" Nameless muttered to himself in disbelief.

Akiba Bai stood up, walked quickly to the door, opened the door, and looked in the direction of the palace, with an unusually complicated expression.

"Why did it happen all of a sudden, didn't Chu Ze just enter the palace ......."

"I entered the palace just to give him a ride." A faint and cool voice suddenly sounded behind Autumn Leaf Bai.

She was stunned, and turned her face to look behind her, and saw a tall figure walking in through another door at some point.

"Why?" She suddenly looked at Baili Chuze with some confusion.

She didn't know why Baili Chuze wanted to kill Emperor Shun, or let Emperor Shun cut himself at this time.

I found ...... Basically, a postscript explains a person's ending~

I don't know if you can see it, Emperor Shun is a combination of Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Chongzhen, half of what Emperor Shun said is Chongzhen Yes, but Chongzhen still blamed the cause of the death of the country on external factors until he died, but Emperor Shun finally sobered up.

An emperor who has not been in court for decades, an emperor who has used too much force and has no real ability and vision to judge the situation, but the Ming Dynasty is still really interesting.