This is the meaning of Zhang Wensu's letter.

It's just that I know that Li Shimin can't surrender, even if there is not a single soldier left in Luoyang City, he will never give in to me. Perhaps there is providence in the dark, and I came here for no reason, and from the very beginning, I was destined to be his enemy.

It occurred to me that when he was first born, if I had killed him with cruelty, there would have been no such thing as this, and I would have one less enemy, but what fate would have been after that, there was no way to predict it.

Just as I was not killed at Xuanwumen, history has been rewritten since I came here.

When I realized this, I only felt a trace of regret, and I didn't have to treat him as an enemy in the first place, and I would have lost my responsibility as an elder brother.

But what if I fulfill my responsibilities as an elder brother? Li Xuanba's bones are cold.

Luoyang has been besieged for more than a month, and I don't urge Zhang Wensu to attack the city, but I only want to heal Zimin's eyes.

In fact, why Zimin was poisoned, she can't say why, and I don't know, in the confusion of the drunken Hongjian teahouse that day, no one knows what happened.

After the imperial doctor in the palace diagnosed and treated, they all knew that it was poisoning, but there was no way to detoxify it.

And Yan Buji, who is known as "the first doctor in the world", has long since passed away.

But how he died, no one knows.

That night, Zimin and I had dinner with Mrs. Wan in the Anren Palace, and when we mentioned the recent rumors in the palace, Mrs. Wan smiled and said: "The ancient emperor, if he favors one person, he will be criticized by his subordinates, not only His Majesty." ”

Zi Min smiled when he heard this: "Fortunately, I didn't rely on my eldest brother to be a blessing, otherwise they would only be afraid of more gossip." ”

I said, "I can do whatever I like, so what's the matter if they say it?" ”

Mrs. Wan said: "Your Majesty, as the Son of Heaven, is blessed to all people. Even if Your Majesty has no intention, you have to think about the future, and now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is far away in Bashu, they are also thinking about the Tang Dynasty. ”

When I heard this, I was somehow very disturbed, and when I looked at Zimin, I suddenly felt that it didn't matter to me whether I wanted to be in the world or not.

Zi Min smiled: "What Madame said is reasonable, the eldest brother might as well canonize a few concubines, lest they say that I am not allowed behind my back." ”

I said, "Don't say that if it is undecided today, I have no intention of doing these things, but the world is decided, no matter how they advise, I just don't hear it." ”

Mrs. Wan smiled: "This is not good. ”

I also know no, since I listened to Zhang Wensu's words and returned to Chang'an and began to be the emperor in a proper manner, there are indispensable people who think about this and worry about that for me.

Probably because I gave them hope, now I finally understand that as a king, I am the least free, and I can't live for myself at all, and the so-called Ming Jun is just the hope of the Manchu Dynasty under the imperial ranks.

If I don't meet their expectations, they try to transform me into what they want me to see.

Even Zhang Wensu, who has always been regarded as a knower by me, is not exempt from vulgarity, he himself hates being an official, and he does not want to be an official and a half-job, but he also hopes that I will become a gentleman admired by people all over the world.

It was at this time that I suddenly understood Yang Guang's sorrow, his life was actually very chic, he wanted to become an emperor through the ages, he did it, although he was scolded by later generations, but the canal he created, but it became the most important waterway to communicate the north and south, when the war was torn, he mastered the waterway from Zhuojun to Yuhang, and it was very easy to transfer grain and grass, and it was the same from the east of Tongguan.

As far as I know so far, the evaluation of Yang Guang by later generations is really inappropriate.

When I returned to the Ganlu Hall in the evening, Zimin mentioned this matter to me again, the harem is really deserted, should I enrich the harem and extend the royal heirs.

I looked at Zimin, saw that she had a smile on her face, held her hand and smiled, "Do you want your eldest brother to be like this?" ”

Zimin just smiled and didn't answer, but after a while, he said: "Whether I want it or not, as an emperor, the eldest brother can't only have ......"

I reached out and pressed her lips and said, "How about these things later?" ”

As Mrs. Wan and Zimin said, there were also ministers in the court who raised the matter. It seems that Mrs. Wan's previous words were not out of nowhere, someone must have gone to Mrs. Wan and asked her to persuade me, but I didn't listen, so I publicly raised this matter.

I knew that I would encounter such trouble after returning to Chang'an, and I regretted it very much, so it was better to stay outside Luoyang City. It's just that I can't really disobey the opinions of the courtiers, the stubbornness of the ministers, I have seen it when my father was the emperor.

After this day's court meeting, I ordered someone to move the chapter to the Ganlu Palace, and I accompanied Zimin to play chess for a while, and then moved to the side of the table to flip through, who knew that even after reading several ministers' letters, even Pei Lin was very euphemistically persuaded me to take a concubine.

I left the paperwork on the sidelines and didn't want to look at it again.

Zimin seemed to sense my troubles and smiled, "What's wrong with big brother?" ”

I thought about it for a while and said, "Zimin, I asked you something, and you answered me truthfully." ”

Zi Min said: "Big brother, excuse me." ”

I said, "Why did you have to ask me to fight for the world?" ”

When Zi Min heard this, he was silent for a long time, shook his head, but did not speak, and said after a while: "Big brother is not happy? ”

I said, "It doesn't matter if you're happy or not, you're just curious." ”

Zi Min said: "If the eldest brother heals my eyes one day, I will tell the truth." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and my heart was gloomy for a while, and I said, "Okay, I promise you." ”

It's just that I chose a woman to enrich the harem, and I refused their invitation on the grounds that the world was undecided, but not only that, but also issued an edict to hire the world's famous doctors to treat the queen's mother, and if her illness is cured, I will consider their request.

When everyone saw me say this, they finally shut up.

In fact, I don't have a lot of hope for the eyes of Zi Min, for several years, as the Son of Heaven, there are the best doctors in the palace, and they are helpless, what can others do?

Sometimes I look at the throne in front of me, and I wonder why someone would do everything for this side of the couch and risk their lives, the taste of power does not make people very happy, and after I sit in this place, I have become much more alienated from my former friends.

Some of them want to maintain the authority of my emperor, and some of them don't care about the court at all, and they are only me and Zimin who are imprisoned in this square inch.

I don't even know what the meaning of fighting for this is from birth to death, if it is to fulfill the promise to Zimin, until now, she doesn't value her identity very much, and she doesn't claim to be the mother of the country.

(End of chapter)