CHAPTER XXXV

Wait until Li Cong received this thick ...... in Beijing When painting, because Shen Ruyu's letter took the route of the post station, and she didn't specifically explain that she wanted to expedite it, so several days have passed, calculating the time, she should have already arrived in Beijun by now.

Li Cong thought in her heart that she didn't know if she was okay now, and with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, she spread out the letter and took the initiative to write it...... Drawn letters.

The first sentence that caught my eye was "Don't think about peace, I hope you are well" as if you know what he is thinking.

Li Cong's eyebrows softened suddenly, as if he saw the man looking at him with a smile on his eyebrows, and his voice spoke softly and softly in his ear.

If there are other people who have been in love with people on the side, they can probably see at a glance that this sentence has more than 10,000 gold oil, if they are really concerned in their hearts, they can't wait to talk at length, no matter how big or small, nagging, how can they be so decent and calm, but in Li Cong's heart, no matter what Shen Ruyu does, it is a thousand good, even if it is only a short greeting, it makes him feel ten thousand things in his heart.

Then, one by one, he carefully and cherished those picture scrolls, from the turbulent Yellow River, to the wharf where hundreds of boats competed, and the bustling and noisy street market...... Looking at it, it seems that he is also by her side, accompanying her through this journey, and ordinary people are always inscribed poems and lyrics on the painting, but Shen Ruyu will only occasionally write a few homely gossip, such as "The boat is so high, standing by the railing, I am always afraid that it will fall" "I saw the painting boat on the pier, and I saw the painting boat for the first time, and I felt very fresh, but I still don't like this kind of place very much" "I saw a very beautiful cloud today...... I don't know if people thousands of years from now will be able to see it here one day", "The official road is very long, and I feel so bored after walking for a long time" and other words, bits and pieces, but they make Li Conglai's heart happy more than any love words, he has never seen such a letter, others may think that the talented Shen Ruyu writes so straightforwardly, I am afraid that he is not careful, but Li Cong only feels that he is worthy of being the person he likes, and he is always so different and gratifying.

And the last painting seems to be depicting the place where she lived at the time, and through the windowsill in the painting, he seems to be sitting there with her, looking out the window at the deep courtyard, and the purple and red are all blooming.

On the painting she wrote, "A, what do you want the world to look like?" ”

What does ...... look like?

Suddenly seeing such a sentence, the smile on Li Cong's face that had never dissipated since just now was slightly stunned.

In this world, I am afraid that there is no emperor who does not want to be a Ming monarch who will leave a name in history, and the same is true for Li Cong.

But what does it take to be a wise man?

Now that there is no strong enemy outside Dajiang, the internal imperial power is gradually stabilizing, and the expansion of the territory can only be a waste of money and a lack of military force, and as a king of success, the greatest achievement is probably Heqing Haiyan, the four seas are peaceful, and the country and the people are safe, right?

But he frowned in confusion, such an empty clichΓ© even sneered at himself, how could he reply to Ruyu?

In fact, Shen Ruyu didn't expect Li Cong's reply to be so amazing that she was amazed, the words she wrote were just her own feelings at the time, and she occasionally sighed slightly, but when she treats the person she likes, no matter who she is, she hopes to impress the other party. His Majesty the Emperor even felt that this was a test?

Not only him, but after Cui Wenjun learned about the content of the letter through his own intelligence network in the palace, he also felt that this must be a test for Shen Ruyu, just like a virtuous minister choosing the master, anyway, it will not be smooth sailing, and there must be a few problems to test the other party.

Yes...... Ruyu's thought is so deep......

Sure enough, Shen Ruyu is not so easy to chase!

However, when she inadvertently revealed some content in front of Wang Zizhi, the former writer who insisted on Li Cong as the male protagonist for a hundred years was suddenly touched again, and after worrying about Shen Ruyu in distress and then learning that she was safe and sound, she began to be nervous about returning to her old business.

Soon after, he finally couldn't hold it back, and wrote all kinds of scripts that although the names were different, the blind could see who wrote them, which set off one craze after another in the Jingshi, and in the end even alarmed Li Cong, who was in the big house.

But those are not important at the moment, Shen Ruyu and Wang Zijun, who had just arrived in Beijun, took Mingxi and Wen Ming to stay in the largest inn in Beijun, compared to Julu County, which suffered a robbery before entering the city, Beijun looks a lot more peaceful, but the dark tide under such a peaceful surface is turbulent, I am afraid it will not be much more peaceful than Julu County.

In the mansion of the county guard of Beijun, such a voice sounded secretly: "Shen Ruyu is really fateful, there are not many officials who are killed in bandits every year, she can save the day!" ”

"General Zhichong has specially sent troops, and he can't die like this."

"So what now? Unexpectedly, Li Cong suddenly sent a deposed envoy, and the route happened to collide with the itinerary of His Royal Highness the Acting King! Now that we are both in the North County, how are we going to move? ”

Acting King Li Yuan is the fourth sister of the current emperor, and the fourth child of the deceased emperor and queen.

After the first three daughters were abused by the queen and died, the acting king became the last daughter. If in other dynasties, there is only one concubine left, it is simply the best choice for the heir, but the queen is too powerful, or the mind has been decided, even if there is only such a concubine left in the end, she was relegated to the edge without hesitation, and even after he died, he didn't have time to rush back, and Li Cong quickly ascended the throne.

It would be impossible to say that Li Yuan did not make a fire, if the queen ascended the throne, their sisters grew up being strictly disciplined by the queen since childhood, and the queen frowned slightly, they could be scared and tremble, but what happened to Li Cong!? This guy has been the most favored since he was a child, and the roots of their jealous teeth itched, but thinking that he was a man, he endured it silently, in order to please his father, they also followed and loved their younger brother, and as a result, this guy who has been inconspicuous in the battle for succession because of gender, just picked the peach in the end, and even their father didn't do the position, but after he dominated, he didn't mean to let go at all!

Li Yuan, who grew up under the pressure of the queen, did not have much courage and self-confidence, and when she witnessed her three sisters being ruthlessly expelled by her father, she was even more abandoned by the terrible reality that she even belonged to the young people, but even so, it did not prevent her from despising and hating her younger brother - a man! A man! How dare he ascend the throne as emperor!?

She is the last princess and the only concubine! When the queen dies, that position should almost be hers! When she heard the news of the death of the queen, she didn't even have time to grieve for her father, she was overwhelmed by the huge ecstasy, she even thought about Li Cong, when she was welcomed back to Beijing to ascend the throne, she would definitely love him as before, but then came the news of Li Cong's accession to the throne, Li Yuan still remembered that she was packing her things at that time, just waiting for the Jingshi to come to greet her, at first glance, she didn't react at all at that moment, and even now, when Li Yuan thought of it, she had an unreal sense of absurdity.

How could that young man, who was still just a simple and domineering boy in her memory, complete the transformation from an arrogant prince who knew nothing about the sky to an ambitious usurper overnight? If all his innocence and straightforwardness before were just acting, then what a terrible monster he was?

In fact, Li Yuan thought of Li Cong when he was thinking about ascending the throne, and Li Cong also thought of Li Yuan, but he clearly knew that he ascended the throne as a man, and he had just sat on the hot dragon chair, and he took the four princesses back, purely for death, so he used the death of his parents and the reason that Li Yuan continued to stay on the edge and keep filial piety for three years.

Then, three years and three years.

Now, Li Cong has been on the throne for six years, and Li Yuan has hated him for six years, and that hatred is growing day and night, every minute and every second, churning and roaring in her chest, eager to eat her flesh and drink her blood from the thief on the dragon chair who snatched the most precious treasure that should have belonged to her.

It's not that she can't understand Li Cong's thoughts, for Li Cong, her threat is too great, the only princess, and she is in the prime of life, he didn't send someone to let her die of illness in this barren place unknowingly, he is already thinking about the former brotherhood.

But how could she be willing? How could she be willing!

But no matter how unwilling she is, Li Yuan can only wait, she can only survive.

Some people around her feel that it is most appropriate to make a move when Li Cong has just ascended the throne and his foundation is not stable, but she knows that Li Cong can take the throne, not because of how domineering he is, but because he must represent the interests of enough people.

What's more, Li Yuan himself was almost powerless at that time, how could he make a move?

But it doesn't matter, she knows that the most important thing after Li Cong ascends the throne is to appease these people and fulfill her previous promise, they will enter the honeymoon period, at this time, Li Cong began to support his own forces, and also gave Li Yuan time.

There is no need to worry, the tacit understanding between them will never last long, the imperial power will always be the most domineering thing in the world, it will never allow other powers to exist besides itself, it can only tolerate that it is the only voice in this world, when Li Cong's power is gradually growing, will his power hit the acting king who is almost forgotten by the world far away? He will only point the finger at those who put him on the throne.

Because they will inevitably restrain him and restrain him, they have absorbed enough benefits from Li Cong, and then they will expand day by day, and one day there will be no longer any extra space between them and the imperial power, at that time, the imperial power and this force will inevitably be like fire and water, because any king who has ascended the throne will never tolerate the retreat of imperial power in his hands.

Li Yuan lived under the nose of the queen before being demoted, although she was terrified and didn't dare to touch the government at all, but after all, she grew up in the palace, and she had seen her mother and queen father gritting her teeth at those family gates many times, but she was helpless.

As long as there are enough interests, even a man can get the support of the family to ascend to the throne, but once he ascends the throne, there is no emperor who can tolerate the family having this kind of energy.

This sounds very much like crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, but all kinds of things in this world tell the world that the emperor who can't cross the river and tear down the bridge is not a good emperor, and the emperor who doesn't demolish others will be demolished by others one day.

Although Li Yuan has been away from the court all these years, he was stimulated by the fact that he thought he was in the hands of victory, but Li Cong only learned about it after he ascended the throne for several days, and spent a lot of money to collect news, so he didn't know everything about Kyoto, but he also knew a lot.

The clans are dominated by the Shen family, and they have become more and more aggressive in recent years, testing Li Cong's bottom line, and trying to break through step by step, they strive to monopolize the way for officials to rise, settle their clansmen β–‘β–‘ the court, and try their best to squeeze out the poor officials supported by the emperor-

Li Cong sat in that seat, and he must not be sitting safely. Sometimes Li Yuan admires him, the younger brother who was hot-tempered and arrogant at the beginning, was able to endure it for six years, and it was really embarrassing for him.

Each of the family gate valves has a century-old foundation, not so easy to pull out, if it can't be fatal with a thunderous blow, then there will be endless troubles, Li Cong must also understand this, he spent six years cultivating his own power, from the beginning of almost no power to fight back to the current division of the gift to contend with the present...... But the stronger he is, the greater the family's reaction will be, they will not hesitate to suppress the gradually rising imperial power, this time, is the weakest time for Li Yuan, at this time, when he and his initially, the closest connection, the strongest ability of the ally began to appear suspicious, is the best time for Li Yuan to stand up - she can let those families find that there is no choice in this world except Li Cong, she is more justified and more justified than him.

And even though she is a concubine, her character is also very important. Li Yuan, who has always appeared as a supple and cowardly image in the period of the queen of the monarch, can obviously give those families who have been hurt by the strong personality Li Cong see a glimmer of hope for healing.

Like these idiots in front of you.

Obviously, the plan has been set, Beijun first revolted, and then Luzhou, Langya County, and Cangzhou moved when they heard the wind, and the clans that were divided into the whole country gathered to respond, and then took those mountain bandits in Julu County as the vanguard, so that they could break into the Central Plains, which could not only be used as a pathfinder, but also disrupt public order and cause chaos, and more importantly, a group of mountain bandits, who were not distressed when they died.

But she had to pretend to be stupid at the moment, otherwise if these officials from a family thought that she could think of things they couldn't think of, coupled with the identity of a concubine, maybe they would give up supporting her and support other cowardly and unscrupulous clans.

Therefore, Li Yuan sat on the top with a dignified demeanor, fully showing the royal family's upbringing, but some pale and emaciated faces were frowning melancholy, worried as if they had no opinion, looking at the arguing officials in front of them, and said, "Then what should we do?" Why don't you wait for this group to pass and then discuss it? ”

"No!" As soon as her implied radical words fell, a middle-aged woman dressed as a military general immediately stood up, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, why should we be afraid!?" Most of the states and counties in the back of Beijun have made an appointment with us, and this line of people is like getting into our pockets, even if it is the Son of Heaven, what is there to be afraid of?! ”

Li Yuan showed a surprised expression of "so it is" on her face, but she rolled her eyes contemptuously in her heart, thank God, you finally thought of it!

"But ......" there are still people who hesitate, "This dethroned envoy is Shen Ruyu, I heard that the girl of the Wang family is also accompanying her, Shen Ruyu is famous all over the world, and she is the daughter of the Shen family, if we are rude to her, I'm afraid it's not big, right?" ”

Before Li Yuan could speak, the military general before snorted, "Although the Shen family and the Wang family are not directly involved in us, if they don't know at all, they don't believe it!" If you don't want to take risks, but you want to be profitable, how can there be such a good thing? For a hundred years, it has been the four families of Shen Cui and Lu Wang, and it is time for us to use the merits of the dragon to glorify the lintel and taste the taste of being called the four great families! ”

"Besides, Li Cong has always said that he admires Shen Ruyu, isn't it just as a hostage? If we can convince Shen Ruyu and Wang Zizhi to join us, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? ”