In the study, the imperial physician who was urgently summoned looked at the wound after checking the emperor's pulse, and they all knelt on the ground, their faces were pale, the poison in the emperor could not be cured, all they could do was to prolong the emperor's life and support it for a few more days.

Listening to the diagnosis results of the imperial doctors, Cao Anmin's face turned pale, "What do you want you to do?" For the first time in his life, he was angry. Looking at his angry son, a smile appeared on the emperor's face, "Treat me with medicine, I must eradicate those rebellions before I die." The emperor stood up, looked at the imperial doctor kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice.

"Father." Looking at his father, Cao Anmin's voice choked, he loved his father as much as his father loved him.

"Go and summon the captain into the palace on my behalf." The emperor patted his son on the shoulder and looked at Da Sima on the side, a friend he had always regarded as a confidant. Looking at the emperor's gaze, Da Sima, who had no expression on his face, nodded and walked out of the imperial study.

The imperial doctors used the medicine for the emperor in the imperial study, and Cao Anmin always knelt on the side, taking care of his father. Li Ang and Guo Nu sat on their knees, quietly waiting, when the matter finally came to an end, Li Ang felt an indescribable bitterness in his heart, no matter what the result was, he was already tired, he didn't want to be involved in any political struggle, the death of Thule and Yizi was an eternal pain in his heart.

Looking at his son kneeling beside him, the emperor looked at Li Ang in the distance, "How about the person that Father chose for you?" From what his son had just said, he could tell that his son attached great importance to this young man who had been discovered by himself.

"My father's eyes were like torches, and he chose a talent for his sons who could be entrusted with military affairs." Cao Anmin replied quietly.

"He has no foundation, he can be reused, and he can use it to balance the current family." The Emperor withdrew his gaze from Leon. Looking at his son, he said, "He is a man of affection, although he is cold on the surface, but in fact he values the people around him more than anyone else, and this is his only weakness." The emperor taught his son the way of employing people, "For a person like this, his family is his weakness." ”

"Father, the son will not use this method to control his subordinates." Cao Anmin looked at the emperor without a trace of flinching in his eyes. "Erchen believes that he treats Li Qing's family with sincerity, and Li Qing's family will not fail Erchen."

"You've grown up, prince." Looking at his son's insistent face, the emperor laughed happily, and then he glanced at Li Ang, who was kneeling quietly, and said to himself, "It is true that he is not a man who will betray, but people always change, and you have to remember this, prince." ”

"Sons remember the teachings of their father." Cao Anmin did not disobey his father's words again. just lowered his head and said silently in his heart, 'Father, the son will never be betrayed, the son believes in him, and believes in himself even more. ’

"Ahh The Emperor suddenly looked at the dome above him and sighed to himself. Hearing his muttering voice, Cao Anmin couldn't help but look at his father, "Father." What do you think of Uncle him? ”

"Well, your uncle is a man who doesn't admit defeat, and I should have thought of him a long time ago." The emperor looked at his son in front of him, smiled on his face, and said softly, "Don't worry." No one can fight with you, not even if he's my brother. ”

"Are you alright?" The emperor looked at the imperial physician beside him, and after knowing that he only had three days to live at most, his heart calmed down, and he thought of many things that he had not thought of before.

"Weichen has only temporarily suppressed the toxicity for His Majesty, and he needs to take medicine every three hours." The imperial physician replied in trepidation, although he knew that the crown prince was a generous person, but once the emperor died, they would still ...

"Prince, you remember. After I die, I can't be angry with the Imperial Doctor. The emperor looked at his son and said in a deep voice, he was a cold man, but he was not a cruel man.

"Erchen wrote it down." Cao Anmin knelt on the ground, agreed to what his father said, and then stood up.

"Stand down, all of you." The emperor waved away the soldiers in the palace, leaving only Li Ang and the crown prince. When the door to the study is closed. The Emperor looked at Leon and pointed to the mat on the ground beside him. "Sit down!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Leon hesitated for a moment, and finally sat down on his knees respectfully, although he didn't know what the emperor wanted to say by leaving him alone, but he knew that it must be something terrible.

Cao Anmin stood quietly beside his father, and the emperor looked at Li Ang, "I know that you are a smart person, you must be wondering, how much do I know and what role did I play in all this incident?" ”

Facing the emperor's gaze, Li Ang did not hide his true intentions, he bowed down and replied, "The minister does suspect Your Majesty. ”

"Never deceive, this is your advantage, but if you meet a narrow-minded emperor, your life is in danger." Looking at Li Ang, who was bent down, the emperor smiled, "Straighten up and answer, Daqin has no groveling soldiers, even in the face of the emperor." ”

"If it were a narrow-minded emperor, the minister would never dare to answer like this." Li Ang straightened up, looked at the emperor and replied, with no flinching fear in his eyes.

"Prince, do you see that? This is your future courtier, a clever fellow. The Emperor looked at Leon, laughed happily, and said to his son, who was satisfied with Leon's answer, and that he had chosen a great man for his son.

"Actually, I asked the prince to go to the river and to the rice country, in addition to letting the prince practice, I also had the intention of defeating the Guo family." The emperor's laughter stopped, and he told some of the past, "Thirty years ago, when I was still the crown prince, I was assassinated and almost killed, and I also hurt my friend Feng Siniang's father Xiahou Tang to be wronged, and that incident has always made me haunted. ”

"I always thought that someone secretly wanted to subvert the imperial power, so after ascending the throne, I enabled the Confucian literati to govern the country, and wanted to use their set to check and balance the family, but I was wrong, those literati let them do learning, but let them govern the country, they are far inferior to the cool officials of the Legalists, the strength of the country needs strong laws to restrain the subjects, not to rely on education to influence people's hearts, in this regard, I made a mistake." The emperor recalled the so-called 'thirty years of peace' in the past, and couldn't help but show a bitter color on his face.

"Because of these three

Yanwu Xiuwen directly led to the decline of the hegemony of the Great Qin Land. Later, I dismissed the new Legalists, and the family also told me that they had no intention of subverting the imperial power, and the Sima family and other families ceded a lot of their rights. ”

"But I'm still not reassured." Speaking of this, the Emperor laughed self-deprecatingly, "I have known the Chief Commander since he was young, and he was just a kind young man at that time, but all these years. He became stranger and stranger, and although I knew that he was loyal to Great Qin, I felt that the Chief Commander and the Guo family should let go of the dark power of Great Qin that they had ruled for a hundred and fifty years. ”

"Dark Forces." Li Ang lowered his head, of course he understood what the dark power in the emperor's mouth was, the position of chief was held by the Guo clan for generations, they were in charge of the secret forces of Great Qin, for the whole country, they did a lot of things, if you don't discuss the position of the country and the nation. It can be summed up as having no humanity and evil, and it is not surprising for the emperor to have such thoughts about such a family that has long held the dark power of the country, after all, the power of those secret forces is really strong.

"So I asked Cao Shaoqin to secretly follow the crown prince and sent assassins, I just wanted to use this assassination incident to weaken the chief and his local family just like the Xiahou family thirty years ago. It's just that I didn't expect that Cao Shaoqin actually betrayed me. The Emperor said quietly, and he squeezed his son's hand beside him.

Li Ang now understood that the assassination on the road was entirely arranged by the emperor, so those assassins were so easy to deal with, and those black-clothed dead soldiers that he and Gao Changgong met later. It was Cao Shaoqin's people, and the people behind Cao Shaoqin took advantage of the emperor's arrangement to set up the future situation. He felt that the assassination had come too suddenly, but he didn't expect it to be arranged by the emperor.

"No matter who is behind Cao Shaoqin, I will eradicate him." Looking at Li Ang, whose face remained unchanged, the emperor said quietly. There was a chilling killing intent in his voice, full of a sense of oppression.

"The person behind the curtain must have waited a long time for this opportunity." After listening to his son's account of the affairs of the United States, the emperor knew that Cao Shaoqin, whom he had always reused, had betrayed him a long time ago.

"Regardless of whether my brother is involved in this matter or not, I don't intend to let him go." The emperor looked at his son beside him, "If Cao Shaoqin wants to frame your uncle and get rid of him, then it means that he has the power to make Cao Shaoqin behind the scenes jealous." For that alone, he deserves to die, so you shouldn't be soft-hearted, prince. ”

Listening to the emperor's calm voice, Li Ang was silent, he had no intention of evaluating the rights and wrongs of the emperor's statement, he was just feeling sad for the emperor's family, as a superior person, he was always ruthless, which made him shudder.

"Li Qing's family. I heard that you defeated Cao Shaoqin and captured him alive. Let the prince have the blade, right? The Emperor suddenly looked at the silent Leon and asked.

"It's just a fluke." Li Ang replied in a deep voice, in the battle with Cao Shaoqin, he only defeated him when Cao Shaoqin was surprised by his swordsmanship, if Cao Shaoqin's state of mind at that time had not changed, the victory or defeat between him and him would be five or five.

"Although Cao Shaoqin is a damn rebel, his swordsmanship is indeed on the word 'strong', and you can defeat him, which surprises me." The emperor looked at Li Ang, who bowed his head, and said quietly, "The Great Thunder God Sword Technique is a martial art from the clan, and I used to practice it when I was young, but unfortunately I never practiced it. Over the years, you have been the only one who has practiced the Great Thunder God Sword Technique, and I would love to see how powerful this Emperor Taizong called the Peerless Martial Arts. ”

"Wait for my brother, the Taiwei of Great Qin, you will defeat you!" The emperor's voice was deep, which surprised both Li Ang and Cao Anmin.

"Father, if the uncle is wronged, the Li Qing family will defeat him." Cao Anmin knelt in front of his father, his voice was a little anxious, he didn't know why the emperor made such an arrangement, but he knew that if Li Ang killed his uncle, in the future... After all, his uncles are all members of the clan and are royals with noble status.

"Edict." Li Ang bowed down and took the emperor's order, he knew that the emperor asked him to defeat the imperial lieutenant, but he wanted him to be loyal to the prince in the future, and not to have a bad heart, the so-called emperor's mental trick, nothing more than this. Li Ang did not resent the emperor, because he saw the emperor's love for Cao Anmin.

"It doesn't look like I thought that Li Qing's family would be defeated at all!" Looking at the son kneeling in front of him, the emperor's smiling face was full of love, he had been extremely strict with this only son since he was a child, and rarely followed his heart, he had always believed in the old saying 'training a son and hugging a grandson', but now looking at his son, he decided to go with his heart.

"I just asked the Li Qing family to defeat the Taiwei, not what you think." The emperor let his son get up and laughed, "After all, he is my own brother, even if I want to kill him, I will do it myself, and I will not fake others." ”

The Emperor did not speak again, but sat down peacefully in his chair, closed his eyes and took a nap. Cao Anmin stood beside him quietly, looking at his father's old face, remembering what happened when he was a child, and he was a little distracted for a while.

Leon sat quietly on his knees, he tried to understand the emperor, but at last he found that he could not guess the emperor at all, this was an old man who was at once insidious, forgiving, ruthless and loving, he looked at the sleeping emperor and thought to himself.

Outside the imperial city, in a black carriage, the Tai Lieutenant of Great Qin looked at the Great Sima who came to summon him to the palace, and suddenly said, "I haven't seen Your Majesty for many years, why did you suddenly summon me." ”

"You'll know when you enter the palace." Da Sima looked at the Tai Lieutenant, who had never been seen in the White Tiger Festival Hall since he took office, and replied quietly, as the emperor's friend and confidant, of course he knew about the matter between the emperor and this brother, if it weren't for his deep cultivation of qi over the years, maybe he would have started with him a long time ago.

"You're always on his side, whether he's right or not." Seeing that Da Sima's voice was cold, Taiwei shook his head to himself, he remembered those past events. Da Sima wanted to open his mouth to refute, but he still didn't say anything in the end.