At the opposite end of the Changle Palace, there is the direction of the Long Live Palace.

It's always the tightest place.

No matter how turbulent the capital is, the center of the country will never be shaken, and once it rises because of it, it will not be shaken.

Shen Shuzhao led her in with the emperor's confidant Huangmen Shilang Qin, who was the emperor's close attendant and could convey the edict to him. The emperor stood by the window with his hands in his hands, "Your Majesty, the person has arrived." After Qin Shilang finished speaking, he retreated, and the emperor turned to look at her, this was the first time that Shen Shuzhao had been alone with him at close range. The person who was once close was in front of him, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Unexpectedly, it was the emperor who spoke first.

Shen Shuzhao calmly brushed her body, "The courtiers visited His Majesty, but I didn't expect that I would make Your Majesty wait for a long time." ”

"That's not what I mean." The emperor walked to the side of the desk, "I have been waiting for you for a long time because of her." ”

"Could it be that Majesty refers to the eldest princess?"

The emperor was noncommittal, his bright yellow and nine-dragon gold silk top around his claws reflected a dazzling light, the breath of the Son of Heaven was unstoppable, and the dark red inlaid gold and jade belt tied around his waist was wearing a clear jade, and he looked directly at Shen Shuzhao, "It's her." ”

Shen Shuzhao said: "Then Your Majesty knows where the courtiers came...... so she knelt down, "The courtiers have never known the Queen Mother's ambitions to this point, even if they fight, the courtiers also know that the world belongs to Your Majesty, and now they don't expect your Majesty's forgiveness." ”

At this moment, she no longer has the arrogance and confidence she had before, and she was so weak that she had to stop and rest at any time.

"If you are sick, don't kneel for a long time, and give me a seat."

"Thank you." Shen Shuzhao got up.

"I have heard a lot about your deeds from the imperial sister before, and I know that you are very smart, but it is a pity to join the queen mother. Now that I see you, I don't have the slightest fear of seeing me, you must be bold, no wonder you can be appreciated by the imperial sister. ”

"Compared with the monstrous strategy of the Son of Heaven for the people and the country, such cleverness is nothing." Shen Shuzhao said humbly. In fact, they had seen it too many times in their previous lives, and they didn't care to disguise it.

The emperor sat down and looked at her with interest, "How did you come up with the idea of coming to me?" ”

"The courtiers know that they are useful to His Majesty."

"How can it be useful?"

"The courtiers know that His Majesty has always been troubled by the power of his relatives, and the courtiers think that his relatives are always relatives and should not point fingers at the dynasty of the Son of Heaven." Shen Shuzhao came one by one, "Although His Majesty used Concubine Xi to compete with Xiao Shi, it did not play an obvious role. And now there are still forces loyal to the Queen Mother in the palace, Your Majesty can not get close to them, but you can't help but give the Queen Mother a face, only the new favorite decentralization is the best way. Gu concubines and others, although they have a master, but their family background is weak. His Majesty favored concubines from humble backgrounds and disliked famous families, which limited the status they could promote. What His Majesty needs is a concubine who is from a clean and famous family and obedient, so that he can get the bloodline of the next generation of emperors who are not controlled by his relatives. ”

"You're right, my harem is the one that has been most eroded by relatives since the first emperor of the Wei Dynasty, and it was all because the first emperor was close to the four surnames and chose women to enter the palace......" After speaking, he looked at Shen Shuzhao with deep eyes, "I have actually been paying attention to you since you entered the palace, and I have known your ability since you left the palace three times and twice." ”

"The courtiers didn't know that Her Majesty had started to pay attention to the courtiers so long ago, and she was really scared."

"I know everything. In the whole world, nothing can be hidden from my ears and eyes. Sometimes I pretend I don't know, I just don't care. The emperor said, "You are the person who is extremely recommended by the imperial sister, although I don't know why the imperial sister is like this to you, but I will respect her choice." ”

"The eldest princess is the only person in the palace who can be trusted by the courtiers before this, and the courtiers will not let her down, let alone let Her Majesty down."

"Before that, I would have thought that if you didn't choose to come with her today, but decided to marry the second son of the Jiang family, who had a bright future among the Queen Mother's allies and stood on the opposite side of the imperial sister...... Do you know what I do? ”

Shen Shuzhao's heart tightened, "What should Your Majesty do?" ”

"I'm going to kill you."

He said flatly.

"I'm glad that you're not a vulgar person, but willing to take your own destiny into your own hands."

Shen Shuzhao understood that this was the emperor putting pressure on her, and the emperor would not trust her too much at present, so she gave her a heavy feeling that she was extremely lucky to be appointed, so she obediently gave him a response: "The courtiers are willing to be used by the emperor, and from now on, the emperor will be the only monarch Shuzhao serves, and there is no one." The courtiers will treat the emperor with the loyalty of the Shen family to truly serve the king. ”

The emperor looked at her with satisfaction and understood the righteousness, "It's good if you understand." ”

Here, there is no eternal master, and there is no absolute loyalty.

"What does Your Majesty need her courtiers to do next?" She asked.

The emperor closed his eyes and replied, "Stay in Qinglian Pavilion first, and I will soon build momentum for you to enter the palace." After that, you will live in the palace and get rid of the unfavorable foreign relatives in the harem. ”

"The courtiers will spare no effort to do it."

"It's good that you're determined." The emperor nodded, suddenly remembered something, and then asked, "By the way, did the imperial sister mention two words to you?" ”

Shen Shuzhao looked up in confusion, "What?" ”

The emperor's eyes were bloodshot with exhaustion, but he stared at Shen Shuzhao very energetically, like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, and slowly said four words from his mouth word by word: "About seizing the throne." ”

Shen Shuzhao immediately showed a faint panic, because this was a very shunned word among the royal family.

Seeing her like this, the emperor paused slightly, and looked away, "It seems that she wants to tell you by me." ”

"The courtiers would like to hear about it." Shen Shuzhao felt apprehensive in his heart.

"Then let me say it...... In fact, since six years ago, I have often dreamed that it is a blood-red sky, the afterglow is shining, the soldiers are facing each other, the imperial city is in shambles, I have died at the hands of the rebels, floating in the air and staring at myself. And the rebels did not come from the neighboring country Shan Yu, nor from the disagreeable Zhao Yan and other countries, but from their own imperial army, the Queen Mother. ”

Shen Shuzhao listened carefully to him talking about this past, and the scene that appeared in front of him seemed to be something that the Queen Mother might do.

The emperor continued: "Later, the imperial sister found me, and I found that she had the same dream, although they had different perspectives, they could still be combined into a complete experience, which is really amazing. And that year happened to be when the queen mother was in power. Her father was seriously ill, and everything was on her shoulders, and she was like a real monarch running the Wei Dynasty. I was isolated from the regime, and I had no right to decide anything, not even the opportunity to prop up my own power. ”

"So you're saying that the eldest princess and you have dreamed since then...... A battle for the throne that will take place in nine years? ”

"Well, from then on, I searched for hermits in the world, just to find a bright future, until I found an old man who lived in seclusion in the deep forest and was about to die, he opened his mouth and directly said my dream, and then asked me, 'What is the most difficult thing to find now?' I replied to immortality, and the man replied, 'The Son of Heaven is not right, in fact, the most difficult thing to find is time'. With that, he gave me a bag, and when I opened it, there was a big 'murder' written on it. He told me that the only way to solve the problem is to strike first, and he told me that in the harem, there will be people who are free from the imperial concubine and are like fish in water, and the elder said that recruiting this person will make many things in the harem easier. ”

Shen Shuzhao was in a cold sweat behind his back when he heard this, what this elder said-did he mean that he had been reborn?

"Later, the elder said, 'The secret of heaven must not be revealed, and the leaker will surely die', and he died soon after he calculated this fortune for me, and I don't know if the time has come." The emperor said.

After listening to him, Shen Shuzhao almost couldn't sit still, she didn't expect that there were many ordinary people in the world who couldn't explain the reason, could it be that her rebirth affected different changes? So she said: "Your Majesty is the crown prince appointed by the first emperor, even if the courtiers are from the Shen family, I know that no one can shake the status of His Majesty, please let the emperor know it." ”

"It is precisely because of my worries that when the Queen Mother did not allow me to support the forces, I sent the forces supported by the imperial sister to the border to meet Beidan Yu, so as to win the hearts of the people in the army." The emperor said, "Whether it is the Queen Mother's side or the Xiao family's Xu family, my harem does not need so many foreign relatives, and everyone must be eliminated." The tip says...... You know how to do that. ”

A feeling of coming back instantly swept through Shen Shuzhao's blood, her heart was pounding, and she knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, courtier-you know what to do." ”

"That's it for today, you can step down first."

"The courtiers retired."

Shen Shuzhao got up and bowed his head, and then stepped back and left the pavilion. She walked down the long steps, as if her heart was constantly being hit by a heavy hammer, could it be ...... This moment is the meaning of God to let her be born again? Is all the experience a deliberate reminder from heaven that the Wei Dynasty is a sign of a bloody royal storm that is coming many years later?

Shen Shuzhao couldn't help but clench his fists.

This time, you must not lose.

After Shen Shuzhao left far away, the emperor pondered in the cabinet.

A figure slowly walked out from behind the screen, the pearl was elegant, tall and tall, and when he came, he suddenly brought a burst of fairy energy, and quietly walked in front of the emperor.

The emperor was staring at the twists and turns on the case, and he didn't look back and said, "You're here." ”

"She's gone, and Lone should come."

"I have said everything I should have said," said the Emperor, "and the rest ...... It's over to the royal sister. ”

Wei Yang smiled lightly, "That's enough." ”

"Sister Huang, are you going to keep it alone?"

"It's not time to sue her yet," Wei Yang looked at the song in front of him calmly, "The time has not yet come, and I don't want her to get involved in this complicated matter." ”

After hearing this, the emperor sighed, "Sister Huang, you treat her too well." ”

Wei Yang's eyes had a soft light, "That's nature." ”

"I ......" The emperor seemed to say something, but in the end he still didn't say it, "Sister Huang, you can control it yourself." ”

"Brother Huang, Zhao'er didn't do anything to hurt you in her previous life." Wei Yang is categorical.

"I understand. But she is also a woman after all...... Forget it, the imperial sister should think that I care too much. ”

"What about women?" Wei Yang lightly hooked Dan's lips, as if relieved, "Gu has never cared about her identity. From today...... Lone will hand her over to you, brother Huang, you will take care of her for the eldest sister. ”

The emperor replied helplessly: "Although I can't understand your feelings, I will definitely do what I promised." ”

"We must not allow the events of our previous life to repeat themselves," Wei Yang said to himself, "otherwise the Wei Dynasty will fall into a situation of misery again." ”

The emperor was silent when he heard this.

Wei Yang paced to the window, it was another moonlit night, and when she saw her for the first time, it was here that she tried her best to hide her calm feelings with the emperor. The pupils fell into the loneliness of the moonlight, the breeze also became cold, and the pearl jade on Wei Yang's forehead was shining with the luster of the missing moon, and she felt a trace of helplessness in her heart, "No matter what, that kind of tragedy can't be repeated again, it's the worst ending for anyone, there is no winning or losing." ”

At this time, the emperor walked over softly and stroked Wei Yang's shaved shoulder, "Sister Huang doesn't have to remember the past, it's all a past that doesn't exist." ”

"Okay." Wei Yang tilted his head.

But in front of him, a bloody scene of Xinghuo vaguely emerged.

Blood-colored, invisible, that is the memory she most reluctant to look back, the entire palace is shrouded in the shadow of the coup d'état, swords and swords, countless corpses, the sorrow of helpless palace maids, and the suppressed soldiers gather towards the center of the palace. The insignificant concubines who had no family protection fled in panic, and those who had the support of the family power were either selectively ignored by the soldiers, or the rebel generals in their own army personally escorted their family concubines away. Chaos, crowds, pools of blood, there is no real light to be found here.

In the midst of the strife, a woman dressed in white came on a horse. The iron horse's hooves trampled on the blood, rubbing a shocking red on the ground.

Several teams of men and horses followed her, fighting all the way out of the encirclement, the more they fought, the more brave they became, no one was the opponent of this elite force, the team went all the way, running towards the destination, but the purpose of the woman's leadership was not the central Banzai Palace.

But...... Weiyang Palace.