Liu Qian sat in his cell, quietly thinking about his life.

For as long as he can remember, he has been surrounded by a bloody outpouring of blood, fights, battles for favor, frame-ups, and smiles against his will. At that time, he was still a child, weak and helpless, and if it were not for his brother Liu Yutong's thoughtfulness, I am afraid that it would be a luxury to live to adulthood.

But since Liu Yutong got the throne, the whole person has changed. The brothers who had made their brothers suffer enough were cleaned up by their brothers one after another, and even those brothers who had not offended them could not escape the catastrophe. Liu Qian, who was already an ignorant teenager at that time, began to feel the horror of his brother, and since then he has lived in trembling fear for more than ten years, worrying every day that he has become a threat to his brother and will be cleaned up. Finally, my brother was not bad to himself, named himself the king of Jin, and handed over the heavy responsibility of guarding Taiyuan to him. Originally, he thought that he would go back to a place far away from the capital and guard the frontier for the imperial brother with peace of mind. But all this is ruined now, and he did not die under the purges of the imperial brother, but he was to be executed by his nephew.

If I didn't have the intention of entering Beijing to seize power, would the result be better? This question deeply troubled Liu Qian, since the day of the defeat, it has been bothering Liu Qian, and after thinking about it, Liu Qian made the same judgment - no!

In fact, there is no so-called queen mother who has the power of the army to threaten the throne, so as long as he raises troops to the south, it will be regarded as a rebellion. As its son Liu Xianzhi said, going south is the end of the clan annihilation. But who gave him this series of false news? Is it the emperor? Dowager? Or is it someone else?

Liu Qian, who was troubled by these questions, spent these days like this. He was so immersed in his thoughts that he didn't hear the sound of progressive footsteps, until the sound of opening the chains made him realize what was in front of him.

"Your Majesty?" Liu Qian rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. After a few years, Liu Yan has also changed somewhat. So much so that Liu Qian didn't dare to be sure for a while.

Liu Yan looked at the prisoner in front of him, his uncle. Not yet forty years old. But now he looks like an old man in his fifties. Liu Yan's eyes couldn't help but blur a little, and he grabbed a step and knelt down and said, "Nephew to see uncle." ”

"The sinners don't dare." Liu Qian helped him up, then knelt down on his knees and said, "The criminal minister Liu Qian pays a visit to the emperor." ”

"Uncle, please get up, there are no kings and ministers here, only family gifts." Liu Yan helped Liu Qian up, and then the two sat on the couch together.

Liu Qian couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes, and sobbed: "The body of the criminal minister who is waiting to die is actually the emperor's driver, the criminal minister, the criminal minister"

Liu Yan wiped away Liu Qian's tears with his sleeve. Then he waved his hand and ordered the people waiting outside the cell to wait for all the people to exit before saying, "My nephew came here this time because I have a few things to ask my uncle." ”

Liu Qian stopped his grief and said, "The sinner knows everything. ”

"My nephew saw in Liu Xianzhi's recital, uncle, you have received four secret letters from the emperor and me, can you have such a thing?"

"It does." Liu Qian said that he told the truth about how he received the four secret letters.

"That's strange," Liu Yan frowned and said, "Regardless of the first two, the last two secret letters alone are all fake, and my nephew has never written these things." The first two letters are also suspicious, only the content in the first letter is more consistent with the facts. The rest is not right, and if the handwriting is not the father's, how can there be a father's private seal, and also know the code agreed between the uncle and the father? ”

The sinner was also puzzled by this. However, the criminal thought that the imperial brother was too ill to write on his own, and it was possible to have someone else write on his behalf, because it used the imperial brother's private seal. There is no difference from usual, and the guilty man thinks that he would rather believe it. Don't believe it, this is the great sin committed. ”

Liu Yan suddenly slapped his thigh. "Yes! It must be the thief of Lu Hai! ”

"Father-in-law Lu? Isn't he the imperial brother's chamberlain? ”

"It's him, it must be like this. Uncle didn't know that Lu Hai had long been bought by the Queen Mother and became the eyes and ears she arranged by her father's side. He has followed his father for many years, and he naturally knows the secret of his uncle's correspondence with his father, and most of his father's private seals are also stolen by him. It's a pity that after the death of his father, Lu Hai sneaked into the palace of the Queen Mother, and never appeared again, and most of them have been killed by the Queen Mother. ”

"Empress Dowager Li? Yes, yes, it makes sense, it is indeed the most beneficial for her to implement this strategy, it is really vicious, this woman actually uses such a method! Liu Qian couldn't help but rub his hands and gritted his teeth and said.

Liu Yan said: "Not only that, she also sent people into the palace to assassinate, and then blamed her uncle, forcing you to kill your children who stayed in Beijing, and attracted all her attention to you." ”

"What! Pingzhi and Yan'er are gone" Liu Qian was obviously hit hard, and his trembling hands were clenched together.

"I came this time to confirm the origin of this matter with my uncle, and I also asked my uncle to hand over those fake edicts to my nephew."

"Can these fake edicts condemn the poisonous woman?" Liu Qian suddenly raised his head and asked.

Liu Yan shook his head and said: "These things do not prove that the Queen Mother did it, she has always acted meticulously and cautiously, and this time it is already a slight negligence, and we have found out some clues." If you want to bring her down, you need more evidence. ”

Liu Qian sighed: "Then I have to die." My family was not spared. ”

Liu Yan nodded heavily and said, "Now I can only execute my uncle to thank the world." However, the uncle and nephew did not want to pursue it, and wanted to preserve the power of the clan in preparation for a future showdown with the Queen Mother. ”

"Yes, that's right, that's exactly how it should be." Liu Qian seemed to see a glimmer of hope, and said again and again: "As long as there are still people in the criminal minister's clan, we will not be able to give up with that poisonous woman!" ”

"Unfortunately, my nephew must exile your clan. Although Liu Xianzhi killed his relatives in righteousness and had the credit of defending against the invasion of the Sudden Covenant, his nephew could only use this as an excuse to exempt his uncle's family from the death penalty and exile instead. But uncle, please rest assured, the nephew will send someone to protect them from the assassination of the Queen Mother and her party, and in time, the nephew will still recall them back to Beijing. ”

Liu Qian nodded and said, "The guilty minister understands." But the guilty man has one more request. ”

"Uncle, please speak."

"Liu Xianzhi's kid, I misjudged him before. Because he was frail and sickly since childhood, I didn't like this child very much. I can see from this incident that this kid has vision, strategy, city, and courage. If the emperor can keep him by his side and train him well, he may be able to become a useful person to assist the emperor in the future, and the criminal ministers failed to serve the emperor and the emperor well, I hope this child can fulfill this wish. ”

Hearing this, Liu Yan nodded slightly and said, "This nephew will definitely do it." Originally, he was a meritorious person in this incident, and no one dared to make irresponsible remarks even if he was knighted. He was named the king of Zhongyi County and stayed in Beijing, and found him a few good masters to train. ”

"Thank you, Emperor! The criminal minister wrote a letter and asked the emperor to hand it over to the wife and children of the criminal minister, so that they would know that it was not the emperor who harmed them, but the queen mother! Liu Qian knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily as he spoke.

On the fifth day of December of that year, a grand burial ceremony of the former emperor Liu Yutong was held. On the same day, Liu Qianchang'an, who was stripped of the title of King of Jin, was beheaded. His wife and children were all exiled to Lingnan and were not allowed to return to Beijing, but Liu Xianzhi was named the king of Zhongyi County because of his merits and stayed in Beijing. The rebellion of the Jin Dynasty has come to an end, but the open and secret battles in Chang'an City are still continuing. (To be continued......)