49429 Chapter 267 Tuogu

The emperor covered his mouth, held back his cough, and was teaching Fang Zheng face-to-face.

"Among the four armies of Longwu, Shence, Shenwu, and Longxiang who defend the capital, Feng Qiudao of the Longwu Army and Han Dashi of the Longxiang Army should be trusted. Fang Zheng, you can hold the handwritten order of the tiger talisman and the couplet. Go to their barracks and move troops. Remember. This is a confidential matter, and before the army moves, we must not leak the slightest rumor, otherwise the major event will be suspended."

"Yes."

"As for the city defense army, you can act at the opportunity, Qin Chong, the deputy general of the city defense army, if this person is obsessed. As soon as you follow the prince, you will find an opportunity to kill him in the military camp and seize the military power."

Fang Zheng trembled, his face suddenly turned pale, and his lips trembled: "Your Majesty" What are you kidding! Kill Qin Chong in the barracks of the city defense army. It's dangerous! Wechen is not yet 20 years old this year. It's still an ignorant child, and it's fragile to break when you touch it, so you let someone else do it,"

The emperor glared at him dissatisfiedly: "No interest!" These days, you have transferred hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the treasury to pay the soldiers of the city defense army. Caring for the bereaved families of the casualties and inviting people to buy people's hearts everywhere, have you done all this in vain? Rest assured, ordinary soldiers will not understand these court battles, and whoever is good to them will be loyal to whomever they are. Now that you have a lot of prestige in the city defense army, as long as you control those high-ranking generals and their own soldiers, you can succeed in this matter. ”

Is it as simple as you say? Fang Zheng stared at the emperor suspiciously, the old man wouldn't want to fool me into sending me to death, right?

After hesitating for a long time, Fang Zheng still felt that he couldn't believe the emperor's words, the danger factor was too high. He decided to reason with Qin Chong.

It is reasonable to travel all over the world, everyone is a Sven person who has read books, how bad it is to fight and kill, what should I do if I am injured?

Fang Zheng considers himself a pacifist. If you can not use the sword and soldiers, try not to move, no matter what disputes and differences, if you want to solve it perfectly, the highest state is not to kill, it is peace"

The emperor saw that Fang Zheng's eyes kept rolling. I know that this kid must be playing some wrong idea. So the emperor snorted coldly: "This matter is important. When it comes to the country, you must not be smart. Break the Dazhuo of Lian, otherwise Lianruo will die. will definitely leave a will, so that you will follow the martyrdom! ”

Fang Zheng trembled, and said with a pale face: "Don't, Your Majesty, you have to let Weichen live well, otherwise Yu'er will become a widow, and you won't be patient, right?" ”

The old man is so ruthless that he actually wants to drag me to accompany the funeral, is the emperor so psychological

Dark?

The emperor snorted: "Then you will do what the Lian instructs, and you are not allowed to have another branch, otherwise the Lian will not be spared!" ”

"Yes

With a sigh of relief, the emperor looked at Fang Zheng with a deep gaze, and after a while, the emperor sighed: "You are not yet twenty years old, you have changed to someone else, and now you are still studying and taking the Xiucai exam, but Lian has put such a heavy burden on your shoulders, Fang Zheng, do you blame Lian?" ”

Fang Zheng shook his head hurriedly and said, "Your Majesty." Wechen never blamed you, to be honest, whether you are a good emperor or not, Wechen doesn't know. But Weichen knows that you are a kind elder, and you have been tolerating me since I met you. Take care of me, Wechen has always remembered the five feelings, do something to repay you, this is what Wechen should do,"

The emperor sighed: "There are five princes in the alliance, but now the only ones who can be trusted are you and the two who are not sick, and the other princes are either ambitious, secretly disobedient, or have no ambitions, and only know how to make friends with literati, travel the mountains and rivers, and connect with them, it is really chilling!" ”

After the emperor breathed for a while, he finally eased up, sighed and said: "It has been more than 40 years since Lian ascended the throne, and in the past 40 years, the Chinese Dynasty has been in constant wars, foreign tribes have frequently knocked on the border, and people in various places have been in rebellion. It is constantly suppressed, pacified, resisted, and Lian Yisheng seems to be doing the same thing, Lenovo strengthens the army, creates an iron-blooded army that makes the enemy fearful, Lenovo changes the law, formulates a set of laws and regulations that benefit the people, so that the people live and work in peace and contentment, Lian still has many ambitions, but unfortunately it has been constrained and entangled by these struggles between the DPRK and China, so that now, Lian has reached the age of running out of oil and lamps, and the emperor of Lian still has achieved nothing, and what makes Lian even more sad is that these princes of Lian are more ambitious than one another, and one is more greedy and cunning than one. Family affairs and state affairs, the federation seems to have failed too much, I'm sorry for the ancestors and ancestors."

The more the emperor spoke, the more sad he became, and in the end he was already in tears, and he kept wiping his tears.

Fang Zheng was speechless, and couldn't think of words to comfort him for a while, so he had to hang his head silently and listen to the emperor's voice without saying a word.

Looking at the emperor's twilight years, tears flowed down his desolate and aging face, and Fang Zheng's heart couldn't help but feel a little bitter.

Born in the emperor's family, is it fortunate or unlucky? In the emperor's family, a little little thing of serving tea and boiling medicine has been covered with a deep utilitarian color, and the emperor's life has to be planted.

After a long time, the emperor gradually calmed down, and looking at Fang Zheng, Hun Ye's old eyes couldn't help but be a little relieved.

"Among the five princes of the Union, only the King of Fu and the King of Thailand are still considered duty, but unfortunately the King of Thailand is lazy, only knows how to play in the mountains and rivers, and the United is pleased with him, but also a little more disappointed" King Fu is less than twenty years old, his temperament is too simple, although his heart is kind and innocent, but he lacks a little courage and strategy. His temperament is too honest, if one day he ascends to the great treasure, it is inevitable to be taken advantage of by traitors, but everything has disadvantages and advantages, if the character of King Fu is tempered a little, with his simple and benevolent nature, he will be able to treat the people well in the future, and he will be a generation of Ming Jun "Fang Zheng." You and no disease acquaintance in cloth, is a deep love of classmates, this friendship is very rare, I hope you can do your best in the future to assist without disease, learn from each other's strengths, and serve the new monarch for the rest of your life, can you do it?" ”

Fang Zheng's brain exploded when he heard this, and his ears were buzzing. I was stunned for a while.

If you want to say this, could it be that you have determined that the candidate for the new prince is fat?

Before the huge surprise could be revealed, Fang Zheng thought about it carefully again, and then was shocked again.

The emperor's words clearly walked towards him to support the orphan!

Fang Zheng raised his head suddenly, and he came into view. Only the emperor's old and tired face was relieved.

The emperor is too tired, he has been tired all his life, and now that the deadline is approaching, it is time to rest.

Fang Zheng took a few steps back, knelt down on the smooth floor of the dormitory, respectfully kowtowed to the emperor three times, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Weichen will do his best to safely and smoothly push King Fu to the crown prince's height until he inherits the throne." The king is in the world, and Weichen swears for the rest of his life. will be loyal to King Fu! ”

The emperor nodded with satisfaction, and then stared at Fang Zheng seriously, a bit of complicated light flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Several famous ministers from the past and present. The mouth of a young man like you is unique. The royal family is not stingy with high-ranking officials, but you must remember to be cautious of your duty. Don't abuse power, don't get power, Lian doesn't want to see that many years later, there is a second Pan Shangshu above the court, the monarch is weak and the minister is strong. For the monarchy of the country. It's all a way to get evil, Fang Zheng, in the future, you don't have to become a sinner of the Ten Ancient Dynasty of the Hua Dynasty, otherwise, Lian Wei will be dead. It will also allow you to see the means of coupling! Do you understand? ”

Fang Zheng's heart was shocked, and then his face turned pale, cold sweat kept bursting out, and he soaked through his clothes in an instant.

The most ruthless emperor's family, the true meaning of this sentence, Fang Zheng can be regarded as having learned it today.

For the continuation of the country, for the orthodoxy of the heavenly family. The emperor must have made arrangements, leaving a will for different people in advance, including himself, if he really becomes a chaotic minister who usurped power, I am afraid that someone will soon come out with the will of the emperor, and what awaits him at that time will be a sword and axe.

For the emperor, they may yearn for sincere family affection, for a family that makes people feel warm and peaceful, but he has the most weight in his heart. But it is the consolidation of the country and the continuation of 10,000 years. This is the bottom line in the emperor's heart, no one, including Fang Zheng, is allowed to violate this bottom line in the slightest, otherwise, the emperor will not hesitate to kill him no matter how much he believes in him, this has nothing to do with personal feelings, for the sake of the orthodoxy of the country, it is worth killing anyone, it should be.

Fang Zheng suddenly felt a chill all over his body, it was a kind of cold that was deep in his bones. The emperor, who was lying on the sickbed weakly, felt that he was so strange and indifferent for the first time in Fang Zheng's eyes at this moment. Fang Zheng seemed to have suddenly realized at this moment that the old man in front of him, who had always been generous and benevolent to him, still had an identity, that is, the emperor who was high above, holding the life and death of the people in the world, supporting the survival of the country, stepping on thousands of white bones, and ruling the emperor of the world!

Are emperors ruthless? Without exception?

In the future, when the fat man ascends the throne as the emperor, will it become like this? Will he also be suspicious of his own power and disorderly government? The emperor and Pan Shangshu, weren't they also a pair of friends who got along very well when they were young?

As if seeing himself many years later, Fang Zheng suddenly felt a burst of fear.

I am a traverser, I am a traverser with no ambitions, I just want to live a leisurely life as a young master, once upon a time. Am I caught up in this murky court battle? Once upon a time, I, a young man under the age of twenty, had become the envy of everyone as a second-class master, a hereditary repudiatory marquis? Are these what I need?

looked at the emperor who was lying on the sickbed and was breathing. A feeling of pity rose in Fang Zheng's heart.

This old man has been busy maintaining his imperial power all his life, he is afraid that others will snatch the power in his hands, he is afraid that other people's every move will affect the supreme imperial power, and he even thinks about the transfer of power when the oil is exhausted.

He was not only the emperor whom everyone feared, but also a poor old man. Maybe he understands that he has no ambitions and has no intention of officialdom, but he still left a will, which is not distrust, but an instinctive defense against the emperor.

Fang Zheng's heart was full of mixed feelings for a while, mixed feelings, disappointment, coldness, pity, and confusion didn't know what to say.

"We-Chen, We-Chan obeys." After thinking about it, Fang Zheng finally didn't say anything, kowtowed and replied indifferently.

The emperor closed his eyes, sighed, and said weakly: "Fang Zheng, don't blame Lian, Lian's shoulders bear the Jiangshan Sheji passed down from generation to generation by his ancestors. Lian still hopes that it will be passed on from generation to generation, and does not want it to have any mistakes, whether the emperor's family is ruthless or not, you will know in the future. As long as you keep to your duty, whether it is now or in the future, Lianhe will give you everything you want. ”

The crown prince's chariot was parked in the square outside Jingyang Palace. Nearly 100 honor guards and small yellow gates stood quietly around the imperial chariot, waiting for the prince to ascend the chariot.

The crown prince stood motionless in front of Jingyang Palace. Looking at the emperor's bedroom with his eyes, it didn't take long for him to see a group of eunuchs, palace maids and imperial doctors respectfully and slowly exiting the palace, and the prince's eyes swelled with a little uneasiness.

There was a sound of gentle footsteps behind him, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it must be King Shou.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, didn't you say that you will go back to your home and invite a folk doctor to your father? Why are you still standing still? King Shou sneered and stared at the prince fearlessly, his tone full of ridicule.

The crown prince didn't look back, still staring at the emperor's bedroom, and said lightly: "Don't you also want to go back to the mansion to get that thousand-year-old snow ginseng to offer to your father?" Why don't you go yet? ”

King Shou laughed: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a filial person, serving his father and the emperor with all his heart, and this king is also a son of man, how dare he fall behind you and let His Royal Highness be beautiful?" It's just that if Your Highness wants to heal others, it is better to heal yourself first. ”

The prince frowned and glanced back at King Shou. said lightly: "Why did King Shou say this? ”

King Shou sneered: "Don't mention that my father is seriously ill, His Royal Highness the Prince's heart disease is also very serious, and he has been a prince for ten years, I'm afraid that he feels that this seat is not very stable now, right?" ”

The prince's gaze swept over King Shou, and then stared at the palace with a distracted gaze, and said indifferently: "Lonely, King Shou doesn't have to care too much, you better be careful of yourself, Lone is the prince, and he will always be the prince." Maybe, maybe it's not just the prince! ”

After speaking, the prince flicked his sleeves, took a deep look at the dormitory again, and then turned around and walked down the white jade steps with the word Jingyang, carefully adjusted the crown hat on his head, and climbed into the royal chariot and said lightly: "Go home." ”

Sixteen people carried the royal chariot slowly towards the gate of the West Palace, and the honor guard warrior holding the golden gourd scepter opened the way in front, and the eunuchs in the palace passed through. When the palace maids saw it, they knelt down and saluted, and they didn't dare to stand up until the royal chariot was far away.

Outside the palace gate of Jingyang Palace, King Shou stared at the prince's imperial chariot with resentment, and suddenly sneered: "The weight of the tripod, is it possible that you are the only one in the world who can ask?" This king wants it! The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind the trick, do you think you can do it alone? ”

In the imperial chariot, the prince sat upright and looked at him, his eyes were already fierce, looking at the palace maids and eunuchs who knelt down to him on the side of the road, a feeling of dominating all beings spread, the prince's fists were clenched tightly until he trembled, and said to himself with hatred: "Lone is the prince, Lone is not only the prince!" No one should try to depose the lonely, no one! ”

Xiao Fang Zheng and his father, what are the two of them talking about in the dormitory?

Suddenly, there was a great sense of trepidation. Like a dark cloud covering the sky, it shrouded the prince's heart heavily.

Three days later, in the early morning, an order occurred

After the failure of the last impeachment of the prince, the imperial history Taichung Cheng Zheng Ru once again put forward the four major faults of the prince in the Jinjian Palace, and urged the emperor to depose the prince and set up a new prince.

Zheng Ru sat at the emperor's head despite the fact that he was sitting at that time. The prince, whose face had turned pale, generously stated in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, counting all the mistakes and crimes committed by the prince in the ten years since he was canonized.

What's even more surprising is that Fang Zheng, who unexpectedly said good things for the prince last time and obstructed the deposition of the prince, was once again surprised this time.

After Zheng Ru's speech, Fang Zheng was the first to stand up from the court, and first responded to Zheng Ru's proposal to ask the emperor to depose the crown prince.

Under the resentful gaze of the prince, Fang Zheng's face was calm, and in an impassioned tone, he shrugged out extreme pain and disappointment at the prince's perverse behavior over the years, and hoped that the emperor would set up another virtuous prince to serve the hearts of the people of the world.

"Fang Zheng! You "you capricious villain!" Guo Renliang, the left attendant of the household department, jumped out first and scolded: "You" Didn't you say last time that the prince will be a benevolent and virtuous monarch in the future, please don't listen to slander and don't do the act of abolishing the long and the young? How has it changed today? Villain! Villain! ”

Guo Renliang is the prince's hardcore confidant, and at this time, the prince is surrounded by enemies, Guo Renliang can't help but be anxious, and he doesn't choose what to say.

Fang Zheng took a step back in surprise, looked at him with wide eyes, and said in amazement, "Are you crazy?" How could I possibly say something like that? Didn't you wake up at the time? ”

Guo Renliang didn't catch his breath when he heard this, and almost fainted.

knew that Fang Zheng was shameless, but he didn't expect Fang Zheng to be shameless to such an extent, saying that if he didn't admit it, he wouldn't admit it, and he would rely on what he said cleanly, such a character was even in a high position, "The misfortune of the country!"

"You, you scoundrel!" I said it, but I didn't admit it! Guo Renliang couldn't wait to scold.

"I didn't say it!" Fang Zheng's head tilted, and he leaned his neck to deny it.

"You said it!"

"I didn't!"

"That's what you said!"

"I definitely didn't say it!"

"Do you dare to swear to the sky?" Guo Renliang is unrelentingly entangled.

Fang Zheng's eyes widened and he was speechless.

Guo Renliang looked at him with a sneer: "What? Don't dare? ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also looked at Fang Zheng with contempt to see how he responded.

Who knew that after Fang Zheng was suffocated, his face immediately returned to normal, and he twisted his head arrogantly, and said disdainfully: "Jinjian Hall is such a sacred place. You're bickering like a child, isn't that interesting? Too lazy to tell you, naïve! ”

"You" you "you" Guo Ren's old face was flushed, but he didn't know what to scold.

"The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have heard it, you are a repeated villain, but now you don't admit it, where is your moral character?"

Fang Zheng rolled his eyes: "Manchu Dynasty civil and military? Who? Who heard? ”

"We all heard it!" Several of the prince's cronies and ministers stood up and spoke in unison.

"Huh?" Fang Zheng was shocked, and then he looked like he was stuck in a memory, frowning and thinking, "Did I really say it?" ”

"Did!" Everyone replied in unison.

"Oh, I remember! I really said it! "After trying to recall for a moment, Fang Zheng seemed to remember that there was such a thing," Bi Ran patted his forehead and said loudly.

The ministers looked at them with contempt, you repeated villain, now that you admit it yourself, you can still deny it.

Calmly facing the contempt of everyone, Fang Zheng straightened his chest and said loudly: "What did you say? I changed my mind today, can't I? I'm a sensitive and fickle man, can't I? ””

Everyone fell.

"Enough!" The emperor drank loudly, his weak body trembled slightly, and Gonggong Cao, who was standing beside him, hurriedly reached out to support the crumbling emperor.

Glaring at Fang Zheng fiercely, the emperor gasped, and with the support of Gonggong Cao, he stood up with difficulty, his majestic eyes swept over the ministers, and his gaze stayed on the pale-faced prince for a short time, and then staggered.

"Zheng Ru, present your participation in the impeachment of the prince. What do you think about this matter? You can speak freely on the fold, and after joint consideration, you can call the public to reconsider. ”

As soon as the emperor's words came out, the ministers were in an uproar.

This "what's going on?" In the past, there were a lot of twists and turns to impeach the prince, and the emperor has always been indifferent to leave the twists and turns, and then it is over, why is the emperor today leaving Zheng Ru's folds alone, saying that he will consider it carefully, and also say that it is reconsidered, does the emperor really have the intention of deposing the prince. And it's already starting to do something?

The ministers had different expressions at the moment, some were frightened, some were happy, and some were incredulous. At the same time, the gaze of everyone looking at the prince was also unusual.

Just when everyone was still digesting what the emperor had just said in shock, the emperor unexpectedly made another will.

"Recently, I have been feeling unwell, and this year, I have been experiencing drought and disasters in various places, and people have been displaced. After Qin Tianjian deduced the strategy, he believed that Lian's actions in recent years were against the will of heaven, so disasters fell on the world. Therefore, the Union decided that five days later, the Union will come to the Temple of Heaven on the Shenlie Mountain in the north of the capital to worship the heavens, and then the Union will reflect on itself, and issue an edict of guilt, all the sins are in the Union, begging God to have mercy on the people, do not inflict disasters. This matter is handled by the Qin Tianjian and the Ministry of Rites. I went with the officials of the fourth rank and above. There must be no mistakes. ”

After speaking, the emperor ignored the stunned gaze of the ministers. didn't look at the prince's desperate expression, brushed the sleeves of the dragon robe, and with the support of Gonggong Cao, he turned around and walked towards the harem.

Xiao Huangmen shook off the dust lightly and shouted loudly: "The emperor retreats from the court, and hundreds of officials bow down."

In a long live singing and cheering of my emperor, the prince's lowered eyes suddenly revealed a bit of ecstasy, flashed, and then quickly changed to the desperate expression just now, under the sympathetic gaze of the ministers, slowly walked out of the Jinjian Palace, leaving the ministers with a hero's desolate back.

The ministers remained in the Jinjian Hall, standing dumbfounded, looking at each other, and they saw worry and heaviness in each other's gazes.

Outside the temple gate, the sky was gloomy and stuffy. Suddenly, a spring thunder exploded, and everyone was shocked, and their faces turned pale in an instant.

It's changed.

"Oops! It's going to rain! Fast! Adults go home and collect their clothes."

Fang Zheng shouted blindly, and under the attention of the ministers, his figure turned into a puff of black smoke, and disappeared with a swish.