There is a huge building complex on the 18th Street of Tiejian City, which is across the street from the Yamen of the Reserve Army, which is the residence of the Sun family, one of the four major families.

At this moment, Sun Jianshu, the head of the Sun family, was reclining on the bamboo chair, and the old man was stunned to look at a tall ginkgo biloba in the yard, and there was a ginkgo tree on the ginkgo tree that was babbling non-stop.

Next to the bamboo chair were two maids in green shirts and skirts who were gently shaking their fans to fan him, and a handsome man who was about a year old stood respectfully on the side waiting for his decision.

Sun Jianshu, who had passed the sixtieth birthday and was slightly bloated, sat up straight and stretched his waist, which had not moved for a long time.

"Does anyone else know about this?" Sun Jianshu asked in a hoarse voice.

"Master Zhuang and I were present when Lu Buwei was talking," the man in an indigo robe replied respectfully. "Master Zhuang also means to let the child ask for his father's opinion."

"This is not a trivial matter," Sun Jianshu tapped his fingernails on the armrest of the bamboo chair and muttered: "Guanyu, you have to understand that what they want to do is not just as simple as planting a few nails in the army and the other three major families, then Lu Buwei's intention is actually very clear, that is, to lay eyeliner in the Northern Desert Army, so that the one in the capital can control every move of the marshal." ”

"This kid naturally understands," Sun Guanyu replied: "The one in the capital naturally wants to keep an eye on the eldest prince, for fear that our king will one day bring the Northern Desert Army to the capital to grab his throne, so he laid eyeliner here to prevent accidents." ”

"Call Lord Marshal!" Sun Jianshu gently hit the armrest with his palm and looked up at his son slightly, "What's wrong?" Could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still worried that the marshal will covet his bird throne? The Northern Desert Army went to grab the throne of the capital, so who will guard the great country in the north of the Jin Kingdom? Hum! The heart of the villain is the belly of the king, the marshal is very busy, the Northern Desert Army is very busy, and he has no time to play with these people in the capital. ”

"It's my father," Sun Guanyu replied cautiously: "Our marshal naturally doesn't want to grab the throne, and Lu Buwei's words are also thorough, that is, our people are arranged by the army and the other three families, if there is no accident, these people are just family members, miscellaneous servants and soldiers, and they have paid a lot of money for this." ”

"Don't mention money," Sun Jianshu rubbed his temples, "I have a headache when I mention money, our family has never lacked any money." ”

"An official book, some jewelry, and a promise."

"Huh? What do you mean? Sun Jianshu raised an eyebrow and looked at his only son.

"The one in the capital means that the jewelry is a meeting gift for us, and the official register is the list of officials we can transfer in the capital, and that promise is that if my father agrees to this, then you will be a Taishou from the day he ascends the throne, and Lord Lu will let him follow the marshal."

"What do you think?" Seeing that his son was embarrassed, Sun Jianshu added: "Don't scruple to say it directly. ”

"We might as well promise him," Sun Guanyu said: "One more friend is better than one more enemy, and even if we don't agree to him, maybe he will have to find three other ......."

Sun Jianshu sneered, "His people may already be on their way to the Jin, Bai, and Ouyang families, this is called a multi-pronged approach, and it is best to separate the four families from the marshal - you continue." ”

"If we reject him outright, what if one day the marshal ...... Then we will definitely become the target of public criticism, and the Jin, Bai, and Ouyang families will definitely add fuel to the fire. ”

"But what if the marshal finds out that we are secretly dating the crown prince?" Sun Jianshu asked.

"What measure does the marshal have?" The man in the green shirt walked behind Sun Jianshu and took the fan in the hand of the maid to fan his father personally, "I will definitely take into account the situation of our family, and if the child doesn't believe in the other three families, he will be indifferent, if the matter is revealed in the future, the marshal will not first take the Sun family who provides military supplies even if he opens the knife." ”

"Your sentence 'What a measure the marshal' is used wonderfully, we would rather offend the gentleman than the villain."

Sun Jianshu stood up from the bamboo chair and paced slowly in the courtyard with his hands behind him, and Sun Guanyu followed behind him and respectfully waited for his father's decision.

"First arrange their people in the reserve army yamen, they can participate in the transportation and distribution of military supplies, we can't control and won't care about other places, as for whether these people are used to deliver news to the capital, or to cut off the head of the marshal to show loyalty, it depends on which of the prince and the marshal is stronger or weaker in the future!"

"Yes! Father, the child will do it. The man in the green shirt bowed and left.

******

On the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Jinhui, wearing a golden crown of heaven and a five-clawed golden dragon robe, sat on a dragon chair, and a middle-aged man with a face like a crown of jade was squinting at the silent civil and military officials below.

Li Qishang has been back to the palace for two days, these two days he summoned the minister of civil and military affairs in the palace of nourishing the heart during the day, and at night in the imperial study to review the chapters, sleep itself is pitiful, don't talk about going to the harem to spoil the concubines, the most leisurely time is yesterday afternoon and the queen walked in the imperial garden by the way to chat about family life, and then plunged into the imperial study to continue to deal with his national affairs.

There are currently three so-called national events: first, let the Ministry of Rites abolish the Taiyi Sect and establish the Imperial Sword Sect as the Kendo Sect to select Zhongyue Taiwang Mountain as the site of the Kendo Sect; Second, it is necessary to appoint, dismiss, transfer, and resolve the problem of party disputes in the imperial court and the replacement of the old and the new; Third, and most importantly, the Jin Kingdom is going to send troops to the west to conquer the Rohan Kingdom. ’

Prime Minister Tian Yuchun, who has been in his sixtieth year, slowly walked out of the queue of Wenchen, and the old prime minister bent down and bowed his head with a board in his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty!" The old minister believed that the appointment, dismissal, and transfer of officials were related to the foundation of the imperial court, and they needed to be gradual and not in a hurry. In particular, the important departments of the imperial court should be more cautious, and the officials and ministers mentioned in the roster of Lord Chen have also seen it, and some of them still need to be investigated, and the old ministers have the courage to suggest that adventurers can be included in this year's imperial examination. ”

His last sentence caused an uproar in the court, and the ministers of civil and military affairs all whispered and discussed.

"Do you have anything to say?" Emperor Jinhui asked appropriately.

"Your Majesty!" Dong Huai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly walked out of the queue and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Lord Tian's previous words are reasonable, but it is quite inappropriate to let adventurers participate in the imperial examination. ”

"Oh? What's wrong? Dong Aiqing, but it doesn't matter. ”

"It's true that adventurers have great skills, even if Weichen lives in Kyoto, he often hears that adventurers have many outstanding things, just like the previous civil and military conferences, isn't the one who finally won the championship also an adventurer? However, no matter how great the ability is, you must first have a loyal and patriotic heart, and there are not a few adventurers who come and go without a trace, and they ignore my Dajin's law and gang to do things that hurt the heavens and their lives, if one day let such a person enter the court to take office, wouldn't it endanger the whole country? On that day, what about the Tian people who managed the six departments? ”

His remarks were echoed by many colleagues, some said, 'If you are not of my race, your heart will be different,' some said,' Some said, 'Our country is still managed by our own people,' and some said, 'It is understandable that Lord Tian is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, but this suggestion is really inappropriate,' Emperor Jinhui looked at them lightly and discussed, and did not express any opinions.

"Humph! What is heterogeneity? Tian Yuchun snorted coldly, "Are you born to be a man?" Are you born to understand the Fa? Or will you be born to be an official and know how to report to the monarch and love the people? I don't think so, the so-called way of being a man, the way of being a minister, and the etiquette of indoctrination are all learned, and there are naturally many adventurers who ignore the law and look at the way of the world as a child's play, but there are also many officials who oppress the people in vain against the law; Among the adventurers are those who are benevolent and righteous; There are also loyal and patriotic people among us, why are we all human beings but there are good and bad? It's all because of the different environments they are in, the different encounters they have encountered, and the different indoctrination they have received. You must know that being in my Dajin is the people of my Dajin, and they should enjoy the rights and obligations that the people of my Dajin have, whether it is an adventurer or us, the court of people with lofty ideals can use it, and the court of the great evildoers can also be removed, how can they be positioned in a foreign race because they are the so-called 'adventurers'? ”

"Could it be that the Prime Minister forgot who was involved in the Huluxia incident?" The military department Shangshu wearing a curly crown on his head sneered and smiled sarcastically.

"Han Guangping, you are presumptuous!" Tian Yuchun pointed to this military department Shangshu who had always been at odds with his political views and shouted: "How can you trust the people in the court? ”

After he said this, the court really can't talk about the emperor's assassination lightly.

"It looks like this reckless man will fan the flames too." Li Qishang secretly scolded and had to come out to play a round, Emperor Jinhui raised his palm and pressed it down, "Speaking of adventurers, I met one when I was on the southern tour, it was a middle-aged man who was a little similar to the average me, this person did things neatly, not humble or arrogant, he was a material for leading soldiers to fight, I was very happy, so I had privately given the dragon pattern armor and canonized as 'General Longxing', if this person entered the court one day, I hope that you Aiqing will not treat him as an outlier." ”

When the emperor said this, it was tantamount to approving Prime Minister Tian's suggestion, what else could the rest of the people do as courtiers? Although there were some puzzles, worries, and even dissatisfaction with Emperor Jinhui's appointment of an adventurer as the 'Dragon General', who would dare to have any objections? So the Manchu civil and military shouted, 'The emperor is wise, and the ministers obey the holy decree'.

"What time is it?" Li Qishang asked Husband An, who was standing next to the dragon chair with his hands in his hands, and asked.

"It's time to return to the emperor." The eunuch in charge of the imperial front replied in a sharp voice.

Emperor Jinhui nodded, "You go down and ask someone to prepare!" He said.

"It's the emperor!" Husband An bowed down and left the Jinluan Hall through the side door.

The courtiers didn't know what Emperor Jinhui meant, so they could only bow down and stand and wait for the following.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is something about my great Jin Xi expedition to Rohan; The canonization of the Imperial Sword Sect as the authentic sect of the sword has been decided, and the relevant subordinates will go down to discuss how to implement it and then make it clear to me; The appointment, dismissal, and deployment of officials may be discussed later. It's not early, it's time for the people to have breakfast, and I consider that all the ministers are still hungry and it's not easy to discuss things, so I specially let the imperial dining room make a breakfast and invite you Aiqing to eat together. ”

"Thank you, Emperor Longen! The emperor's compassion for his subjects is rare in ancient and modern times. ”

Emperor Jinhui waved his hand to let the courtiers get up.

At this time, there were seven or eight little eunuchs outside with wooden trays in their hands, on which were placed porcelain bowls and bamboo chopsticks, and each bowl contained a large half bowl of gray rice porridge.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Li Qishang took a bowl of rice porridge handed over by Mr. An and looked at it, "I passed by a town in a certain county during my southern tour this time, this bowl of millet porridge!" It has become a delicacy that can only be enjoyed by local people during the New Year, let's drink it up together. ”

Emperor Jinhui picked up the bamboo chopsticks and began to drink to the bowl, but the porcelain bowl did not block his frowning brows.

"Your Majesty!" Only Ann's husband is shouting in heartache! "Don't eat it."

What kind of porridge is this? It was mixed with black mud and rotten leaves, and some of the ministers began to gag as they ate it, and then had to swallow it as much as they could.

"Your Majesty! The dragon body matters! Tian Yuchun took the lead in drinking the porridge and knelt on the ground with tears on his face, he begged bitterly, "Your Majesty, don't eat it!" ”

The rest of the princes and ministers who had eaten porridge all knelt on the court and begged bitterly.

Li Qishang drank all the millet porridge in the bowl, and gently held the porcelain bowl with his palm to look at the ministers kneeling on the ground.

"Do you still know the heartache of your body?" He sneered, "Then let me ask you, why can't the people eat such a bowl of millet porridge mixed with stones, rotten vegetable leaves, and mouse droppings?" Why did it become a delicacy that the people would only appear on the table during the New Year's holidays, but it became an unpalatable garbage in your hands? He slowly stood up from the dragon chair and walked up the golden steps to the front of the ministers, "Why is it that my Dajin has gone through a hundred years of hard work, digging canals, repairing river embankments, building water conservancy, and reducing taxes, and in the end my people eat all this kind of thing?" Fuck your generation of Mingjun! Fuck you! The middle-aged man Long Yan was furious, scolded rudely, and slammed the porcelain bowl on the ground.

"Your Majesty is angry! Your Majesty is angry! The courtiers were now lying on their stomachs and begging.

"Is it a natural disaster that caused this phenomenon?" He walked in front of Tobe Shangshu and asked, and then replied himself: "No! Not really! This is a man-made disaster! Do you know about man-made disasters? It's the kind of person who pretends to be clean in front of me, the kind of person who is full of benevolence and morality, but behind the scenes, he is corrupt, bribery and oppression of the people-here! Bring the county guard of Yiliang County to the temple. ”

An old man who had long since lost his official robe and was wearing prison clothes, trembling with fright, was escorted by the Imperial Forest Army to the top of the main hall like a chicken.

"This Lord Zhang is the parent official of a county, all the ministers, please take a look at his current appearance." Emperor Jinhui took two deep breaths and suppressed the anger in his heart, "Your ministers must think that his current appearance is extremely pitiful and miserable!" That's what you haven't seen before, Master Zhang, he is a place where the people of a county talk about changing color, and the cool officials are very majestic! And guess what Master Zhang did to me? ”

He paused, and none of the people dared to answer Li Qishang's words.

"Our Lord Zhang took the county officials for a full three hundred miles to take over, all the officials were wearing old official uniforms, and Lord Zhang even changed into patched official robes - Lord Zhang is so poor in the Jinguo Imperial Court that he can't even afford to give you clothes?"

The middle-aged man bowed slightly and looked coldly at the old man who was lying on the ground trembling.

"The minister is guilty! The minister is guilty! May Your Majesty be gracious! The old man replied in a daze.

"When I walked through this county, all the people wore brand new clothes and praised this Lord Zhang for his goodness, and they were all singing praises to me and the Jinguo court, and then what? Then an adventurer who you thought was an alien came to me and said, "The emperor is not like this, what you see is all fake, he took me to a village that Lord Zhang had not yet had time to arrange, and I ate a bowl of this fragrant millet porridge, and my face was red and my heart was dripping blood—hey! Let's cut down a bunch of people! I don't have to go through the lobby of the Criminal Department to try it in person. ”

At this time, the old man in prison clothes woke up like a dream, and immediately shouted: "The minister is wronged! The minister is wronged! The emperor spares his life! ”

Emperor Jinhui waved his hand, and the Imperial Forest Army dragged the man out of the hall.

"I know that some of you are better than this Lord Zhang; Some people lead the court to be lazy, mediocre, and listless in running official affairs, but they are extremely enthusiastic about fighting crickets, visiting kilns, and raising concubines. Emperor Jinhui walked in front of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, "I'm right, Lord Wang. ”

This fat waiter of the Ministry of Rites trembled with fright: "The minister is guilty!" The minister is guilty! ”

Li Qishang didn't pay attention to him, just walked past the Central Committee of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs as he spoke. "Some people go back and forth to various ministries, figuring out the thoughts of their bosses and giving them a lot of gifts, I'm not wrong, Master Li."

Okay! Another official in a high position lay on the ground and shivered.

"There is also that inquiry news to report to the master, even where I went, when I ate, and when I went to bed, I knew it clearly," the emperor began to walk back, only to give him a cold look when passing by the crown prince Li Jiade and then walked over the price. "I won't explain them all, but ask yourselves if you are clean in this great hall. All the sage books of the past have been read in the dog's belly? How many years have only passed since the original Li Dynasty? How did you destroy the country? Forgot! The faint king and the traitor are watching you from the grave! ”

The ministers had tears streaming down their faces, and some even burst into tears.

"At the beginning, we were all a group of students who studied the books of the sages and sages, and none of them had the heart to report to the country and the people, why do we have a conscience that we are bent on getting promoted and making a fortune for ourselves." Tian Yunqing cried while crying.

"Get up!" After finishing his anger, the emperor seemed a little tired and slowly sat back on the dragon chair, "I don't plan to cure your sins today, it's not that I don't know what you have done, I just want to give you and myself a chance, make amends!" It is also said in the books of the sages that knowing mistakes can improve greatly. Don't wait for the day I'm afraid, I'm afraid that if I go down with a knife, I will be the only one in the entire court. ”

The ministers began to examine themselves bitterly again, and one by one the adults in official robes had tears on their faces, guilt, and sadness, and swore that they would not do anything that was sorry for the country and the people, and that their Majesty would not be sad.

Emperor Jinhui just leaned on the armrests of the dragon chair with both hands, and he hadn't slept all night, and this half-hundred-year-old monarch looked at his courtiers a little tiredly.

"I ordered the person who just got his name to be dealt with according to the law—all the ministers are scattered!"

The former eunuch An's husband shouted to retreat from the court, and the ministers shouted 'Long live my emperor, long live, long live' and bowed down to the monarch and withdrew from the Jinluan Palace.

*******

The crown prince Li Jiade slowly walked out of the Jinluan Palace, he had a bad premonition in his heart, this time his father came back and seemed to be indifferent to him, especially when he looked at himself in the hall just now, his eyes were too complicated. He wanted to go out of the city to welcome his father back to the palace, but he got the decree that everyone did not need to go out of the city to pick up the driver, and he wanted to go to the palace to ask his father for peace, but was stopped by the eunuch, saying that His Majesty was busy with state affairs and was temporarily gone.

And today, Husband An, who was holding the dust, stopped the prince who was walking down the steps on the Dan Majesty Royal Road.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stays!" Husband An, who was fair-skinned and fat, smiled and said, "Your Majesty has a decree to invite Your Highness to go to the imperial study." ”

The young man in the four-clawed dragon robe felt a chuckle in his heart, and he was even more worried about it.

"There's Lao An's father-in-law!" Li Jiade opened his thin lips and smiled politely, "This palace is going here." ”

"Your Highness, this is the minion's business." Gonggong An bowed sideways and asked the prince to go first, "Let's go!" Don't let Your Majesty wait for a long time. ”

The two walked to the imperial study one after the other, and the crown prince Li Jiade collapsed and entered, and An's husband stood outside the door.

In the imperial study room full of books, Emperor Jinhui put a pillow under his waist and leaned on the dragon couch to read the recitals, and the dragon couch was already full of thick stacks of recitals. The sandalwood in the incense burner was smoking purple, and four young eunuchs stood on both sides of the room like wood.

"Erchen greets his father, I wish my father and the emperor good health!" Li Jiade knelt on the ground and bowed.

"Humph!" Emperor Jinhui didn't raise his head and still stared at the song, "Can you get up?" In the twenty-fifth year of Jinhui, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited the soldiers to enjoy the scenery in spring. He threw the piece to Li Jiade and began to read the next one.

"In the twenty-seventh year of Jinhui, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince congratulated the birthday of the scholar of Hallym University, and it is yours again." Emperor Jinhui threw another piece of music to Li Jiade.

"In the twenty-eighth year of Jinhui, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stepped into the Criminal Department to personally inquire about a case of abuse of power, and it is still yours." At this time, Li Qishang simply smashed the chapter on his son's head.

"Thirty-two years of Jinhui, oh! That is, during my southern tour, you Li Jiade appeared on the shore of Dajing Lake and drank and talked with the heroes of the rivers and lakes and the literati, all of which are yours," Emperor Jinhui suddenly became angry and swept a bunch of pieces of music towards Li Jiade. "These are all notes of impeachment against you!"

"Father Emperor Mingjian!" The prince, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly picked up the scattered pieces and stacked them, "Erchen is wronged!" He shouted.

Emperor Jinhui laughed angrily at his son, who still didn't admit his mistake when he was in front of him.

"Who gave you the guts?" He bowed down and stared at his son who was kneeling on the ground with his long narrow eyes, "Is the chair on the Jinluan Hall for you?" ”

"Don't you dare?" Li Jiade was unconvinced, but he was really submissive.

"You dare, what is there that the prince does not dare to do?" Emperor Jinhui stood up and put his hands behind his back, "De'er, are you so anxious?" I'm afraid that my father will have an accident and won't be able to come back, so I can make plans as soon as possible? But have you ever thought you're fledgling? You do these things to make my father feel angry and ridiculous, you are not capable of controlling hundreds of officials at all, and you are still trying to make friends with others. Do you think that you can win over a group of officials to support you, have you ever thought about it, one day it is this group of officials who will drag you into the abyss, do you think that their association with you is to tie up with your crown prince, tie up with you Li Jiade, and tie up with you, the future son of heaven who is about to climb to the throne, but what do they think? DID YOU KNOW? ”

Li Jiade looked up at his father and pouted, trying to answer, but unable to speak.

Emperor Jinhui was a little relieved at this time, thinking that this was still his son, the child who would be a little stubborn.

"I tell you that these people are only using your identity for their own benefit; Use you to strengthen their own power; Pull you, His Royal Highness, the crown prince, into their party struggle, and one day when their affairs are revealed and I want them to be headed, they will weigh whether they should cut off their own son first, do you understand? ”

Li Jiade pretended to grow his mouth, in fact, he understood everything, he understood very well that as long as a person has real power in his hands, no one is afraid.

"I personally explained to you before my southern tour, and if you don't understand anything about the government, you will go to ask Prime Minister Tian for advice, and he will definitely help you. What about you? Leaving such a rare learning opportunity behind you, and thinking about encircling officials and befriending the forces of the rivers and lakes, do you think that Lord Tian is old and useless, and will go with his father in the future? ”

"No, it's not like that, Erchen definitely doesn't have such thoughts, Erchen is just worried...... Worried about ....."

"Worried about what?" Li Qishang asked.

"Erchen will also say that he is going to die," Li Jiade seemed to summon up great courage and said: "This time, my father's southern tour met the assassin in Huluxia, and Erchen was so anxious that he came to escort him, and later did not leave the capital under the persuasion of Prime Minister Tian. It is said that the person who performed the assassination was still a female Taoist priest in Taiwang Mountain, hum! Don't think I don't know who she is. ”

"Oh? Who's it, tell me. Emperor Jinhui raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

"Brother Huang," Li Jiade said indignantly, "Gu understands that this Taoist priest has traveled to the Northern Desert, how could she come to assassinate her father and emperor for no reason?" Erchen can't figure it out, this throne is so important? Is it worth it for him Li Jiazhen to send someone to assassinate his father and the emperor without even taking into account the least father-son relationship? If this is the case, this prince and his son don't want to be the prince, it's good to take this royal brother, anyway, my father will be absent one day, who will protect me at that time? Instead of letting the eldest brother grab it, it is better to give it to him directly. ”

What he said later was nonsense, where is this what a prince should say? But this is the cleverness of the crown prince, in front of Emperor Jinhui, he always pretends to be like a child with a little temper, but in matters he is a young man who can reassure his father. It's just that he didn't know that what he said just now had made Li Qishang's heart sink to the bottom.

"Where is he a prince who is playing petty?" Emperor Jinhui was sad in his heart, "The one kneeling on the ground is clearly a little fox who plays with his mind and frames blame. ”

"De'er, I came to ask you to answer truthfully," Li Jiade sat back on the dragon couch and strengthened his tone: "Let's say so! If you only tell the truth in your life, I hope it will be this sentence - did you participate in the murder of the king in Huluxia? ”

"Erchen didn't!" This thunderbolt almost made Li Jiade stand up on his own, and he said in horror: "Father, how can the sons and daughters do such a rebellious thing? The son needs the protection of his father, what accident do you have for the son is harmful and not beneficial, only the royal brother who is far away in the north will do this beast is not as good as the beast, he is the eldest son of the royal family, he is not chosen to inherit the throne, assassinated his father and the emperor he can lead the army south to grab the throne. ”

Emperor Jinhui really wanted to slap this kneeling rebel with a shake of his hand, he might have done it before, but today he didn't, he just muttered: "I know, it's better for you to kneel down if you don't participate!" ”

Li Jiade left the imperial study with an even more uneasy heart, and as soon as he returned to the prince's mansion, a eunuch arrived at the prince's mansion with the emperor's dictation.

"According to His Majesty's instructions, from now on, the crown prince Li Jiade will be confined to the prince's mansion, and the prince and his family will not be allowed to leave the mansion without my personal permission."

After the eunuch finished reading Emperor Jinhui's message, he turned around and left, leading the crown princess, the little princess and a group of people to kneel on the ground to receive the edict Li Jiade sat on the ground, he heard the princess sobbing and someone whispering, his body was weak and his face was dazed, he didn't know what he had done wrong, and he would be punished by his father.

And in the back room of the imperial study, Emperor Jinhui, who looked tired, was writing a letter to his eldest son, who was thousands of miles away.