The factory guards rode for many days to track and search, the empress dowager of the deep palace was worried for many days, and the ministers of the court and the central government sighed and lamented for many days, all for the same person.

For Jiangshan Sheji, this person is the sky, the backbone, and he is the source of the normal operation and life of the subjects of the whole world.

Qin Kan didn't expect to be able to see Zhu Houzhao again in this life, but he didn't expect to wait for such an answer when he asked Zhu Houzhao to return to the palace and ascend the throne.

Zhu Houzhao said a lot, but it boils down to only two words, "tired".

Qin Kan can understand that since the day he met him fourteen years ago, Qin Kan has always thought that Zhu Houzhao is not suitable to be the emperor, he can be a talented man who makes the wind and the moon, he can be a gentleman who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, and he can even be a woodcutter who chops firewood and transplants rice in the countryside...... No matter what kind of identity, presumably Zhu Houzhao will live this life with an extremely satisfied and comfortable smile, plainly and happily, he can be anyone, any identity, but not the emperor.

The palace is a cage, and the emperor is just a prisoner in the cage, the daily court meeting is tantamount to the place where hundreds of ministers in the Golden Palace interrogate him, in addition to the step-by-step rebuke, there is also a long and endless seemingly endless reprimand, persecution, each time the court is equivalent to a bloodless battle, he fought for a full fourteen years.

Comparing hearts to hearts, what would Qin Kanruo feel like after sitting on that dragon chair and fighting with hundreds of people for more than ten years?

Perhaps, this emperor does not want to go down again, even if it represents the most noble status in the world.

Qin Kan could understand Zhu Houzhao's choice, but he couldn't accept such a choice.

"After His Majesty re-ascends the throne, he can not go to the court, he can avoid the courtiers, and the state affairs and government are taken care of by the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, and the ministers can also share their worries for His Majesty, but the dragon chair in the palace. It can only be Majesty's! Qin Kan hung his head and pleaded.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Qin Kan, do you know what kind of life I have lived every day since Gao Feng brought me out of the palace?"

"I don't know."

"I slept until three o'clock every day and got up, and Liu Liangnu dressed me. Then she brought me a bowl of white porridge that she had boiled with her own hands. After I finished drinking the porridge, I grabbed a handful of millet and went to the yard to feed the chickens. Then Gao Feng accompanied me to go around the mountains, and occasionally I could shoot down three or two hares with my own hands, by the way, it was the autumn queen. I recently learned how to harvest wheat, Gao Feng bought ten acres of land with a false name, and even bought the wheat planted in the field, all of which were harvested by the three of us together, Liu Liangnu said that she would continue to sell wine, and next spring we will find a place with beautiful scenery to open a wine shop, I am the shopkeeper. Gao Feng is a cook, and Liu Liangnu makes wine......"

Zhu Houzhao's eyes were filled with fascination, and he said leisurely: "This is the life I want to live, there is no court fight. I don't have to fight with the ministers, and I don't have to carry the burden of my family and country on my shoulders, and only now do I feel like a real person, and I used to be just a walking corpse in a dragon robe."

Qin Kan still hung his head deeply, and it was not until today that he found that Zhu Houzhao had such a heavy pressure in his heart, and there was so much dissatisfaction and resistance to the life of the emperor.

The constant struggle and torment in his mind made Qin Kan hesitate whether to tell the current situation of the Jingshi.

While still hesitating, Zhu Houzhao seemed to see his ambivalent mood, and said with a smile: "I heard that the new emperor has ascended the throne, is it my cousin Zhu Houxi?"

"Yes."

"Your expression tells me that you don't get along very well with the new emperor."

Qin Kan also smiled: "Make an emperor friend, it's enough to make only one in a lifetime, sometimes this emperor friend makes a mess, I can't wait to never know each other in this life, how can I kill myself and make another emperor friend?"

Zhu Houzhao laughed: "Since you have handed it over, you can't go back, this emperor friend of yours will need you to protect him in the future."

Qin Kan felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart: "You have protected me for fourteen years, from now on, it is time for me to protect you,...... Unless one day I'm gone."

Speaking of this, Qin Kan reluctantly agreed with Zhu Houzhao's choice.

Zhu Houzhao pondered for a while, and looked at him with deep meaning: "It seems that the situation in the Jingshi Dynasty is about to break out......"

Qin Kan calmly looked him in the eye and said frankly, "Yes."

Zhu Houzhao said lightly: "I still remember the day I met you, let's play the landlord together, and finally I showed the identity of the prince of the East Palace...... Qin Kan, you are not a person who is willing to be killed, your appearance is elegant and elegant, but you are stronger than anyone else in your bones, although you are a scholar, but your loyalty and treachery are actually very weak, I don't know where your sage books were read back then, among the people who read all over the country, I have never seen you, since I knew that the new emperor ascended the throne, I have been thinking, if the new emperor is dissatisfied with you, how will you respond? Presumably, if you are cornered, you will not hesitate to pull the flag and rebel, right? Qin Kan, am I right?"

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, the eyes that looked at Qin Kan indifferently gradually became sharp, as a world-famous faint monarch, such eyes were very rare, and the atmosphere in the courtyard became tense in vain.

Gao Feng on the side looked at him in shock.

The friendship between Zhu Houzhao and Qin Kan, Gao Feng, as one of the Eight Tigers of the Inner Palace, has always been in his eyes, in his opinion, the friendship between these two people is closer than that of brothers, so good that they only need to wear a pair of pants together, I didn't expect Zhu Houzhao to say such a direct word today, and Gao Feng's eyelids twitched when he heard it.

Qin Kan's reaction was calmer than Zhu Houzhao's, he didn't kneel down and shout grievances, and he didn't swear loyalty to the imperial court, he just looked at Zhu Houzhao calmly, his calm gaze was like an all-encompassing scabbard, and Zhu Houzhao was as sharp as a sword. [,！ Feng's gaze was completely absorbed into the sheath.

"I already know that Ye Jinquan, the governor of Liaodong, led 50,000 border troops into Beijing, others don't know the relationship between you and Ye Jinquan, but I know very well, I saw you bring him back to the mansion and be your servant and protector, and now the Liaodong border army has entered Beijing, Qin Kan, do you want to be the emperor?" Zhu Houzhao's voice was a little strange.

"I never thought of being an emperor, seeing that you have been an emperor for fourteen years and are tired like this, how can I repeat your mistakes? I just want to live, I just want my wife and children to live."

Looking at Qin Kan's incomparably calm face, Zhu Houzhao's face was slightly distorted, the two looked at each other, and the courtyard gradually filled the smell of sabre-rattling.

After a long time, Zhu Houzhao sighed faintly: "You are my best friend in this life, but this country is the Zhu family's country after all, Qin Kan, if you were me, what would you do?"

Qin Kan also sighed: "I have been forced to a desperate situation, and one step back is the abyss, if I fall, my wife and children will be killed, and I have devoted countless energy and painstaking efforts to change the world for more than ten years, and the Ming Dynasty has returned to the old road again, my Qin Kan's existence is like a Huangliang dream that leaves no trace, Your Majesty, if you were me, what would you do?"

When the carriage returned to the city, Qin Kan's face was gloomy and terrifying, Tang Zihe knew that he was weak, and he kept cowering in the corner of the carriage and didn't dare to speak, and he didn't even have the courage to look at him.

The carriage returned to the outer house of the eastern city of Jingshi in silence all the way, Qin Kan and Tang Zihe got out of the carriage, raised their feet and just stepped into the gate, but saw the end of the avenue outside the door, Ding Shun hurried over with a panicked face.

"Grandpa, it's not good, Qian Ning is killing in Tianjin!"

Qin Kan was stunned, and the foot that stepped into the gate was immediately retracted, and the guards were very conscious and scattered.

"Go on." Qin Kan said coldly.

Ding Shun wiped his sweat and said angrily: "This Qian Ning just arrived in Tianjin yesterday and ordered the Tianjin prefect, the commander of the three guards and the governor of the Tianjin Navy Division to lock them up, and the thousands of households of the Jinyi Wei Tianjin Thousand Households were killed on the spot, immediately announced that these people had an affair with the White Lotus Sect, and without trial, they showed their heads in front of tens of thousands of soldiers of the water division, and some of the water division soldiers were not convinced, and shouted a few wrongs, but they were in Qian Ning's arms, and immediately took thousands of soldiers to behead, and then ordered all the soldiers of the water division to disarm and return to the camp, not to move without permission, and wait for the court to deal with ......"

The more Qin Kan listened, the more his face turned blue, he trembled with anger, clenched his fists and scolded fiercely: "Bastard! He's turned the sky upside down! "

Ding Shun licked his dry lips and said, "Grandpa, Qian Ning's move is clearly instructed by the new emperor, Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, and it is intended for Pei Gong...... The surname Qian killed so many people in Tianjin, and in the end, the seven twists and turns will definitely involve you, once the accusations are enough, then the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee should be impeached, and at that time, the public opinion of the DPRK and China will be everywhere, and the new emperor will come to push the boat down the river again, and cut off the Duke of Ningguo, the grandfather has no position and no lord, wouldn't it be easier for the new emperor to deal with you again?"

Qin Kan gritted his teeth loudly, but he didn't say a word.

I don't know how long it took, Qin Kan gradually calmed down, and suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated word.

"Is there any movement in the city today?"

Ding Shun finally showed a smile on his face when he heard this, obviously full of pride, but he pretended to sigh: "There is a big movement in the city today, more than 400 ministers petitioned in front of the Chengtian Gate, but more than 100 soldiers rushed out of the sky, saying that they were ordered by holy order, and killed 113 ministers on the spot, which is the only earth-shattering bloody case seen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty......

Tang Zihe, who had a weak face, originally supported his ears to listen to the two of them, and said that more than 100 ministers had died in Chengtianmen, and it was said that after the Holy Decree ordered the cane to kill, Tang Zihe's eyes gradually brightened, and the excitement in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

(.) ru