Next.

Afternoon.

Tai Chi Palace.

Outside the Taiji Palace, at the Guangyu Fence.

Li Zhi stood quietly behind the railing, looking back and forth under the stairs, walking around and inspecting Jin Wuwei.

In his eyes, these palace guards, who usually only felt imposing, somehow had a little more tiredness on their faces.

With a faint smile, he lowered his head:

Father, you are right, it turns out that as an emperor, the people around him are really a mirror, and they can reflect their truest self at any time.

Maybe...... Now he is so tired, right?

Or, it's not Jin Wuwei who has a tired face at all, it's just that he, Li Zhi, is tired of such a look, so he thinks they also have a tired face?

In this life, people are just idealistic...... Sorrow, joy, sorrow, and sorrow are all inseparable from the heart.

With a faint sigh, he looked up at the sky, as if he wanted to see through the sky, and he looked clearly, and that lovely child, who looked like her mother and grandmother, was still smiling as usual? Waving her round little hands, smiling at everyone around her?

Thinking about it, his eyes turned red, and a little bit of wetness soaked his eyes.

When he was in a trance, he suddenly heard the sound of hurried and familiar footsteps behind him, he blinked, and his tears were immediately cleared, and he took a light breath and spit it out, and then said in a deep voice:

"Is there news from Uncle Han's side?"

"The Lord is wise."

It was De'an who came, and he answered in a low voice before he said:

"It's very difficult for the people in the house over there to connect to the line, but if you connect to the line, you will naturally know."

Li Zhi raised his eyes and looked at the guards in the courtyard to pay the value:

"This Xiao family and those two grandmothers are both Uncle Wang's people, right?"

"Lord wise! It's De'an, if it weren't for this investigation, it would have been unexpected......

Who would have thought that this old palace person like the Xiao family would be the dark line that Uncle Han had buried in the palace for so long? ”

Dean couldn't help but sigh:

"Not only that, according to the news from the people in King Han's mansion, not only is the little princess killed now, but it has nothing to do with King Han's control, it is Concubine Xiao Shu's entry into the palace back then, and it is also ......"

"He also arranged it?"

Li Zhi sighed, shook his head and said:

"Also, otherwise, how can an old palace attendant beside Concubine Wei, who was just a noble concubine but has lost power for a long time, be able to find out my mind?

After all, she was an internal job at the time, and although it was not difficult to meet me, my ability to cover it up made it take a lot of effort for even the lady concubine, who was a hundred times closer to me and more intelligent than her, to find out what I meant......

With her a small palace attendant......

It's also difficult to give her the ability to splash the sky. ”

Dean thought for a moment, but also nodded and sighed:

If the Lord says so, it is true.

If you think about it, if it is His Royal Highness King Han, it is really not strange.

After all, he was a prince at the time, and it was common for him to walk around the palace, and he had more opportunities to see His Royal Highness than those harem concubines.

Second, since he has a heart for this, and the Lord is the prince of the country, he naturally wants to find all kinds of gaps to be unfavorable to the Lord.

If you know what the Lord is thinking at that time, where is the reason not to use it? ”

Li Zhi nodded and said lightly:

"When my father was alive, he often said that I was the uncle of the king, saying that he knew the best way of Tao and was good at arranging troops in secret.

If it weren't for the fact that I hadn't listened to my father's words and blindly only knew that I was soft-hearted, how could I have today's pain! ”

The more he spoke, the softer and lower his voice became:

"So...... De'an, I really can't tolerate him anymore......

Now, he is no longer a mirror, but a steel knife in front of me......

The mirror image I saw before turned out to be just an image on the blade.

I have to do it, otherwise the next thing he will have to deal with is my Mei Niang. ”

When Dean heard this, he was surprised:

"Mother?!

Niangniang is a woman's family, in the back court, what does King Han do to deal with Niangniang? ”

Li Zhi shook his head and looked back at De'an:

"Don't you understand?

Today's Mei Niang is no longer a martial artist who entered the palace at the beginning of the year, nor is she a martial arts attendant who was deposed from the Ganye Temple and survived in the palace.

Today's Mei Niang is already a second-class imperial concubine second only to the queen of the middle palace and the only concubine who is left......

De'an, such a charming girl, is already very eye-catching, but what she has done is even more outstanding and stronger than those outstanding court women that Uncle Han Wang knows.

Your brother usually follows me and Mei Niang, and he is used to seeing her act normally, so he naturally doesn't think there is anything abnormal. But the so-called long-term proximity to Lanze is difficult to know its fragrance......

...... in your eyes No, not only that, but also in my eyes, we are watching her, day by day to this point, she suffers, she suffers, she suffers, everything she pays, we all know, and I also understand that this kind of grinding has made her the Mei Niang she is today, even if she turns the entire Tang Dynasty into a flower, it is not very strange to us.

Because she did things without taking into account other people's thoughts and opinions, or even taking them into consideration, just to be able to better achieve what she wanted.

The world's opinions are meaningless to her, so she can achieve great things.

But in the eyes of those ministers outside the palace, such a woman is terrifying.

In their eyes, such a skill, such an act, should belong to outstanding men, and should be done only by those men who are listed in the biographies of generals.

If a woman can do this, it is the Chicken Si Chen, it is the chaos of the Gangchang, and it is the phenomenon of chaos in the world......

But De'an, not all the people in the world are dim and old, they are always some sober people, and they can see the significance of Mei Niang Yu Zhen and Yu Datang today.

For example, Uncle Han Wang......

He saw it very clearly, and knew very well that once there was no Mei Niang, then my country, which originally had no weaknesses, would open a huge loophole in the pillow of the back court, which could be easily invaded.

The queen is not unintelligent, and the concubine is not insensitive......

It's just that their pattern, no matter how magnificent it seems to outsiders, is just the state of mind of the harem concubines after all.

It's not like Mei Niang, she ......"

Li Zhi paused, and then said softly:

Mei Niang's state of mind is now standing in the same place as me, looking in the same direction, thinking about the same things, thinking about the same everything......

To put it mildly......

Uncle Han Wang can see that Yuan Tiangang's prophecy back then was not a lie.

Mei Niang She ...... Mei Niang, this woman, was originally the most suitable woman for the emperor's side. ”

Li Zhi said lightly:

"Just like the queen mother, she was also born as a queen, the daughter of the emperor of Liangzuo. It's just that I don't have the courage of my father, and I can't let her show her talent to the public as she pleases......

Or ......"

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and said:

"Or should I say that I was selfish in the first place......

I don't want her to be known to the world, I just want her to be my own wife, the mother of my children......

However, she is the daughter of the emperor in the end, and no matter how I hide such courage, I can only hide it from those who are blind and dizzy, but I can't hide it from those who can really see through everything.

Therefore, Uncle Han Wang can't tolerate Mei Niang, unless he ...... today.

Unless Mei Niang is willing to change hands with him today.

But he also knows that this is impossible, because Mei Niang's affection for me has already determined her life, and he is afraid that it will be ugly for the second man to enter his eyes and heart......

So ......"

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and closed his eyes:

Her goodness, her excellence, and her infatuation have become the reason for her sadness......

De'an, why aren't you sad when you call me? Isn't it sad? ”

De'an was silent - in fact, he didn't understand what Li Zhi said, but he was also like Li Zhi, and he was somewhat selfish in his heart -

A generation of virtuous queens, the queen of Wende Dasheng, everyone praised her virtuous and virtuous, motherly and virtuous, everyone envied her to live freely, and won the king's affection......

But who knows what a sacrifice she made?

She sacrificed all the rights that she should have as a woman: the right to be jealous of other women around her husband, the right to push away other side rooms as a wife, the right to monopolize her husband's rights as the love of her husband's heart, and even the right to give up half of her life for herself and her brother to fight for the false name of the glorious lintel...... Even in reverse, he did something to his brother who took care of himself and protected him from growing up, which in the eyes of outsiders was so ruthless and unrighteous, such as forcing his brother to agree to give up the name of the three princes that he should have taken for granted, such as forcing his husband to agree to demote his brother's position, such as designing his brother before he died, so that he had to leave his important position in the court......

All this is just to be able to be a good man by his beloved side.

But she's just a woman!

In the eyes of outsiders, the eldest grandson of the Empress Wende, the queen of the Holy Mother, who seems to live a glorious life and is extremely graceful, is actually an ordinary woman who is no different from the women in the world in the eyes of everyone around her.

Pity......

Her beloved, after all, is the king of a country and a generation of bright monarchs. After all, she was destined to give up too many things.

The woman who loves the King of God is painful after all, but what is more painful than them is the woman who is in love with the emperor who should be ruthless and loveless, and who is forced to be grinded into a cold and ruthless god until eternity, and does not want to have a second person in their midst of them.

Because it is destined that the emperor can only belong to the world, a hair and a finger belong to the world, are destined to be shared by the world, and are destined not to have everything they want to have like ordinary men.

Because they carry the world on their shoulders, since ancient times, this supreme position that everyone seems to envy is actually the biggest prison in the eyes of those who really sit on it and still have some conscience.

One cry and one laugh, one joy and one sorrow, one anger and one sorrow, one love and one hate, one hurt and one happy...... None of them belong to themselves, even their own bodies, nor to themselves.

Li Zhichang sighed, closed his eyes gently, stood there tiredly, and said softly:

"I heard that yesterday, the queen said that I belong to the world......

Now that I think about it, she really said this sentence, and it was really not bad at all......

Yes, I belong to the world...... Even laughing and crying by oneself cannot belong to oneself. Even if I am now, for Yan'er, for Mei Niang...... It's so painful that I can't wait to throw all this away, take Mei Niang and the children, and leave this sad place far away, never to come back......

But I can't. Because I am the lord of the world, and I belong to the world......

After all, I didn't have the courage, after leaving this palace with Mei Niang, I watched the chaos in the world, the displacement of the people, the separation of mother and son in the world, and the tragedy of losing flesh and blood......

I don't have the courage, so I can only bear it all, even if I can't shed tears, it doesn't matter......

But Mei Niang...... Mei Niang, she is different. ”

Li Zhi suddenly opened his eyes and said softly:

"Mei Niang, she's different...... She is my woman, and the only reason why I am willing to carry the burden of this world. Therefore, I can tolerate all harm to me, but I will never allow anyone to hurt her.

Dean ......"

Dean stepped forward in response:

"Lord, but do you want to be wary of His Royal Highness King Han?"

Li Zhi nodded and said lightly:

"Spread the order to Li Feng and Li Yun brothers, and lead the three hundred elites of the shadow guard to uproot all the 3,000 dead soldiers buried by King Han in Yongzhou, and there is no need to leave a single living mouth. Got it? ”

De'an's eyes widened - although he had long known that Li Zhi knew that there were 3,000 dead soldiers in Yongzhou that King Han had cultivated with great painstaking efforts in case of rebellion in the future, Li Zhi had never been determined to move here......

He opened his mouth, and finally nodded heavily:

"Dean understands, Dean will do it!"

"There is one more thing, Mei Niang, I'm afraid I'm going to do something to the queen and Concubine Shu these days, you are optimistic about me...... She can deal with the two sluts who killed me no matter what, but if Mei Niang wants to kill them, she must stop me, even if it is to confuse Mei Niang with medicine......

Such a woman is not worthy of Mei Niang's dirty hands. ”

Li Zhi said quietly:

"The revenge of killing a woman is better for me to come in person."

Dean nodded movingly.

……

The fifteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Tang Yonghui.

A certain county in Yongzhou was shocked to spread the news that in an extremely secluded wild village in the mountains outside the city, a woodcutter who was collecting firewood into the mountains broke into it by mistake, and found that the corpses were all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river, just like the hell of Shura, and the woodcutter was almost scared to death for a while.

Later, it was reported to the official office, and after inspection, more than 3,000 people died in a small wild village, and they were all stunned and then killed.

For a time, the case alarmed the localities, and local officials even prepared a table overnight, hoping that the DPRK and China would send competent officials to investigate and handle the case.

However, in just one night, the bones of more than 3,000 corpses that existed in the wild village because there was nowhere to be placed, and the heavy guards sent by the government were all gone, leaving only a place of blood and water, which seemed to prove that there had been a tragedy.

There are no bones, no bitter master, and in the end, this case can only be closed, and it has become a mysterious ownerless case that the local people are still talking about many years later.

The day after the news reached Beijing, there were rumors in Beijing.

On the fourth day, Li Zhi, the emperor of Gaozong, because of the tribute from the Western Regions, when he was sick, Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, still often went to visit, so he gave him it, and he entered it, but he got a letter of asking for sin, and he had been seriously ill for many days and could not get up.

Li Zhi was very worried when he heard this, but the imperial doctor entered the house for diagnosis and treatment, and reported back that Yuan Jia was seriously ill and could not continue.

Li Zhi sighed even more pitifully, and ordered the imperial doctor not to mention it when he was a good student.