Chapter 7: Secrets of the Imperial Family
Out of the Li Palace, towards the north, just bypass two or three main streets, you can see the Shengxin Imperial City. The meandering moat is visible, and two quaint bridges are the only access to the inner city.
The wall behind the bridge is renovated every few years, and the walls are made of blue bricks and are as smooth as the ground. There are many palaces in the city, magnificent, there are hundreds of palaces for the royal nobles to live, and there are countless flat houses where palace maids and maids live......
The current Emperor Li Chi lives deep within the walls and has not left the imperial city for more than ten years. The content of the long conversation between King Li and Qin Sixteen all night tonight is related to this mysterious Lord of Shengxin!
"Li Chi is at least more than one hundred and twenty years old!" King Li's first words made Qin Sixteen stunned. The lifespan of a mortal is only a few decades, how can there be a person who lives up to more than 100 years old? Not to mention that he has seen the emperor, not an old man!
Seeing that Qin Sixteen was a little dazed, King Li did not continue to speak.
"The prince said that he laughed!" Qin Sixteen finally came back to his senses, and looked at King Li's eyes full of suspicion, "Although Qin is not a royal relative, he has seen His Majesty a few times. ”
Not surprised by Qin Sixteen's attitude, King Li took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Although you are restricted by Qin Changsong and have no status in the family, after all, after all, you have heard of Yuxiao Mountain, right?"
Of course, Qin Sixteen had heard of it, this was a name that would make Sheng Xin's powerful people fight for it.
King Li deliberately mentioned Qin Changsong's name, but he also wanted to give the young man in front of him a dismount, and Qin Sixteen also understood the other words, but he didn't plan to slip away again this time.
"What does the prince mean that the saint is related to monks today?" Qin Sixteen got straight to the point.
Although it is difficult for ordinary people to know, for the aristocratic class of Sheng Xin, monks are not an existence that they cannot reach, and there are monks stationed in Yuxiao Mountain, less than three hundred miles east of Tiansheng City.
"Most of the monks in Yuxiao Mountain have the ability to fly and prolong life, they abide by their own set of rules, and never interfere in mundane things, even if the dynasty changes and the stars change, they still only care about Qing Xiu and never go down the mountain. Without directly responding to Qin Sixteen's doubts, King Li began to talk about Yuxiao Mountain.
What King Li said was not a secret, for this mysterious Yuxiao Mountain, Qin Sixteen, who was a young man, was also very interested, although he could not obtain information from the Qin family, but he still took the opportunity to enter the palace several times a month, and found out a lot of useful news.
The only contact between the monks of Yuxiao Mountain and the magnates of the dynasty is to recruit servant disciples, although they are servants, but the magnates of Sheng Xin are happy to send their children up the mountain to serve as slaves for the monks and lords, and even sometimes fight for a servant place, just to get a little elixir given by the monks in the mountain.
"Li Chi has nothing to do with Yuxiao Mountain, but he must be a monk!"
Qin Sixteen was silent, he knew that it was best for him not to say anything at this time.
"About 90 years ago, there was an incident that shook the foundation of Shengxin. At that time, Li Jingxuan, the sixteenth lord of Sheng Xin, suddenly announced his abdication in the prime of life, and ceded the imperial throne to the Nine Emperor Sons Li Xi, the strange thing is that the Nine Emperor Sons Li Xuan appeared out of thin air, and no one knew about his existence before this. King Li continued, "Soon after Li Zhi ascended the throne, the former emperor and eight other princes died violently one after another, and the cause of death is unknown! Li Zhi reigned for 30 years, and although he liked the harem, he had no heirs. But in the thirtieth year, he suddenly claimed that he had a son named Li Xi. In the same year, Li Xi was made the crown prince, and Li Xi died soon after......"
Seeing that Qin Sixteen began to bow his head and play with his sleeves, King Li paused, and the silence lasted in the room for nearly a cup of tea, until Qin Sixteen raised his head slightly helplessly and looked into his eyes again, and King Li continued:
Li Xi also reigned for 30 years, and his crown prince Li Chi suddenly appeared in the thirtieth year! This time, not to mention the dignitaries and dignitaries in Sheng Xin, even the ordinary people began to notice that there was a problem with the emperor's identity. In the face of all the doubts, Li Chi's approach is also ruthless, just one word, kill!"
Although the entire Qin family does not want to see him, Qin Sixteen is still the young master of the Qin family after all, in order to avoid his gaffe from bringing disaster to the entire family, about the taboo of Emperor Sheng Xin's identity, and that bloody history, Qin Changsong personally taught him:
In the second year after Li Chi ascended the throne, the official eunuchs and ministers of the Sheng Xin Dynasty and the royal family were almost washed in blood, and all the people who had vain claims about the identity of the Son of Heaven, once reported, whether true or false, all were reduced to labor and exiled to the border, and the Shengxin royal family who survived were all given the surname "Baili", and since then the imperial family Li has become history, except for the emperor, the surname Li has only continued to exist among the people.
"My father and uncle were executed one after another, and the name of the king changed from "Li Yao" to "Baili Yao". The pain of having a surname that cannot be mentioned, and the pain of not being able to recognize an ancestor has been tormenting this king, and the hatred of killing my father and the shame of taking my surname have never been forgotten for a day!" King Li's speech suddenly became rapid, and even his body trembled slightly. "This king didn't want his daughter to suffer the shame of having no surname, so he let her take her mother's surname and name her Xiao Duxue!"
It turned out that her name was Xiao Duxue! Qin Sixteen's emotional speech to King Li's back was basically left ear in and right ear out, but he only remembered this name.
"So this king wants to take revenge, I want to cut Li Chi Xiao'er with a thousand knives, I want to restore my prosperity and national fortune, I want to regain my surname!" King Li's eyes turned red, his face was hideous, and his throat let out a low roar like a beast.
Isn't it good to be alive? The emperor is already very difficult to deal with, not to mention that he is still a monk. Facing the almost crazy King Li in front of him, Qin Sixteen could only bury his thoughts in his heart.
"What does the prince want me to do?" waited until the person in front of him calmed down a little before Qin Sixteen spoke again.
"Li Chi cultivates demonic skills, and he has to change his physical body every thirty years, and this year is the twenty-ninth year of his reign, and according to the custom, his new body will appear soon. King Li stared at Qin Sixteen directly, and his tone was solemn, "When the old and new bodies appear at the same time, it is also the time when he is the weakest, I want you to declare the world in the name of the Heavenly Master, expose Li Chi's identity, and then our Li clan will use the strength of the whole country to crusade against demon cultivation!"
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Qin will definitely do it!" King Li's brain twitched, Qin Sixteen didn't want to accompany him to play with his life, although he promised happily, but he was already thinking about how to get out in his heart.
"There is no need to worry about the authenticity of the information, for this day, our Li family has been preparing for more than 20 years. Seeming to see through what Qin Sixteen was thinking, King Li added, "Don't think about running away, you know too much, in case you disappear, we will use the power of the whole clan to strangle you first!"
"Haha...... Ha, how could it be, I'm like this kind of person!" Qin Sixteen stretched out his hands to pick up the teacup, took a big sip, and brushed the beads of sweat from his forehead in as natural a posture as possible.
This place is not much better than the Qin family, and the young man only felt tired for a while.