Before the Emperor's personal guards surrounded the Nine Emperors' Mansion, in the palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Tong knelt on the cold smooth stone bricks, Emperor Yuanwu sat in front of him, and on the table there were several newspapers from Yanbei.

"King Rui is acting like this, I can't help but guard against it." Emperor Yuanwu said softly, "Xiao Jiu, I will give you one last chance. ”

Emperor Yuanwu leaned forward, looked at Liu Tong fixedly, and said, "What is King Rui's plan, you recruited it from the truth." ”

Liu Tong's lips are pale, and his body is still calm. He grinned: "Since my father suspects that the fifth brother has the intention of rebellion, why should he ask again?" The father knew that his sons were facing the fifth brother, and he would inevitably say good things about him, but he would not believe the father if he thought about it. What's the plan? ”

Emperor Yuanwu looked at him silently for a while, and sneered: "You have a deep brotherly relationship, and you don't even care about your wife and children?" ”

Liu Tong's hands on both sides tightened: "My father is also a wise man, and he will never do anything to women and children." ”

This was said sarcastically and mockingly, but Emperor Yuan Wu was not angry because of it.

The father and son were in a stalemate for a moment, and Emperor Yuanwu spoke: "Yanbei has started a war, and the reinforcements have not yet arrived, but King Rui is very brave, and there are many capable generals under him, and there are several ghost military divisions, and the skills of intrigue are endless, and even with 30,000 troops, the number of victories is more with less, and the elite division of Xianbei is repelled with 30,000 troops...... Watching him act, I am afraid that he wants to rush to fight a big victory, and then swing to Kyoto. He has military power in his hands, how can he not be jealous. ”

"It's to make the prince jealous." Liu Tong said lightly: "My father is really worried about the crown prince." ”

"That's your brother-in-law!"

"That's true." Liu Tong did not deny it: "But he is also a narrow-minded, narrow-minded, suspicious and untalented prince." ”

"Presumptuous!" Emperor Yuanwu said angrily.

Liu Tong raised his head sharply and looked directly at Emperor Yuanwu: "My father hopes that the country will be stable, so he doesn't want the matter of the prince to be extraneous." But the father asked himself, does the prince really have the virtue of a virtuous king? If the country is handed over to the prince, can it really be passed down from generation to generation? ”

Emperor Yuanwu looked at him coldly: "King Rui just wants me to be in this world, and he doesn't need you to find such a high-sounding excuse for him." ”

"What Erchen said is the truth." Liu Tong lowered his head and sneered: "Let the sons and daughters imagine the situation after the crown prince ascends the throne for his father." First of all, he will be jealous of King Rui's military power, so he will support his relatives against King Rui, and will seize the opportunity to put King Rui to death. Whether it is a son-in-law or a fourteenth brother, those who once admired and admired King Rui will be killed by the crown prince. The prince is suspicious and stubborn, even if the virtuous and loyal ministers in the court say a word that he does not like, it will make him hold grudges, and he will only use the villain who is accustomed to slapping horses and flattering him. In this way, it will not take a few years, and the peaceful world that my father tried to maintain will inevitably be in chaos. ”

Liu Tong's words are slightly exaggerated, but they are not completely alarmist.

He believed that with the current person of the crown prince, he had done these things.

The brother who once gave him so many threats when he was still the prince, when he ascended the throne as emperor one day, how could he let it go?

Liu Tong looked at Emperor Yuanwu: "But King Rui is different. Compared to the crown prince, he is not so ruthless. ”

Emperor Yuanwu scoffed at this: "Xiao Jiu, once a person stands in the highest position of power and is ruthless, it is very easy. ”

Liu Tong laughed: "Father doesn't believe in the fifth brother's personality? ”

"I can't trust the hearts of people when power is in hand and the supreme interests are in front of me."

Emperor Yuanwu looked at Liu Tong with a sigh: "Xiao Jiu, how good it would be if you were towards the crown prince." ”

"How is that possible?" Liu Tong said softly: "Since he conspired with the Fuguo Mansion and calculated my marriage, I have not shared the sky with him. ”

Emperor Yuanwu's face was stunned for a moment, and then his face was a little gray.

He personally issued a holy decree to let the guards go to the Nine Emperor Princes' Mansion to besiege the mansion, and after the holy decree was issued, he asked Liu Tong to be escorted to the heavenly prison, and on the grounds of "great disrespect", the detention was suspended and sentenced on a later date.

The king wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die, the father wants the son to die, and the son has to die.

Although Liu Tong knew that Emperor Yuanwu would not want his life, after all, he was alive and still had a role in restraining King Rui, which was beneficial to both Emperor Yuanwu and the crown prince.

But this order from Emperor Yuanwu still made him feel cold.

The chamberlain held Liu Tong's shoulders one left and one right, Liu Tong paused when he got up, looked at Emperor Yuanwu and asked, "Father, there is something else I want to ask my father." ”

Emperor Yuanwu looked at him.

"The father knew that the crown prince was immoral and incompetent, but insisted that he succeed to the throne and strive to ensure that he did not lose the position of the crown prince, was it out of love for the former queen and reluctance to the crown prince, or ...... Unwilling to admit that your eldest brother was the most wrong decision you ever made? ”

Emperor Yuanwu looked at Liu Tong suddenly, his eyes splitting.

Liu Tong smiled slightly, as if sighing, like loss, and like relieved.

"In this way, the son no longer has to expect even a little bit of fatherly love from you."

He muttered softly, but Emperor Yuanwu didn't hear it clearly. Soon, the chamberlain took Liu Tong out of the inner hall and handed him over to the guards on duty outside the hall.

Emperor Yuanwu also sat for a long time, and finally issued a holy decree to the Nine Emperor Princes' Mansion.

If you put it in the previous court, you will be killed if you commit the crime of great disrespect. However, in the 100 years since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, speech was relatively free, and there were cases where ministers pointed at the emperor's nose and scolded, but instead of being punished, they were promoted.

So to put it bluntly, the crime of "great disrespect" was caught by the emperor, and it depends on the emperor's intentions.

He thinks it's nothing, so this "big disrespect" is nothing. But if the emperor thinks it offends him, then the crime can be light or serious.

The mistake of Emperor Yuanwu to arrest Liu Tong was that after he came back from a recent errand, he received some awards from Emperor Yuanwu. Among them, there is a word "Chao Ti Xi Ti", in order to rhyme and read well, Liu Tong wrote it as "Xi Ti Chao Qian".

After two months of Emperor Yuanwu, he "accidentally" noticed this excerpt, and then announced that Liu Tong had entered the palace, so as to reprimand him for being "rebellious" and not having the same heart as his father.

At the same time, the guards arrested Yao Chengxi, the head of the Xixing Society, saying that he was making a joke and insinuating royal secrets, and sent him to prison. The Yao family's officials in the court were also dismissed and dismissed from their posts in a resolute manner.

At this time, Chang Runzhi stood in front of the Nine Emperors' Mansion and knelt down calmly to receive the order.

The holy decree said that Liu Tong, the son of the Nine Emperors, committed the crime of great disrespect and was disrespectful to the emperor. Remembering that he was the blood of the royal family, he opened the net and ordered the Nine Emperor Princes to move to a secluded place, and all the property in the Nine Emperor Princes' Mansion was confiscated.

Chang Runzhi listened silently, and thanked him for receiving the order. When he got up, he stuffed a purse into his father-in-law and asked, "Father-in-law, does Your Majesty have any other arrangements......

The father-in-law of Xuanzhi checked his purse, smiled with satisfaction, and knew what Chang Runzhi was asking, so he simply replied: "Your Majesty didn't say it, but since the holy decree of the family was taken, the princess and the little prince must not be able to live here." (To be continued.) )