Chapter 2 The Frontier of the West

After a moment's pause, he returned to his cold and shabby side hall. Although his father is still very good to him, and even has a little apology in it, after all, he was written in a secret letter of rebellion by the "rebellious minister", presumably every time his father sees him again, he can always think of the secret letter that made him faint and the big rebellion that made him take his place. So I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, my father was still kind to him, but he saw him less and less, and only gave some rewards from time to time to be considered grace.

But in this palace that eats people and does not spit out bones, who is not the rudder of the wind? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the six princes are no longer the most favored sons of heaven at the beginning, and it is unknown whether they can live to the end. Moreover, when he was spoiled and abnormal, he was unruly and gave the palace people a cold face, but now he has lost power, and he is uncountable by the meanness of the snobbish in the open. Carbon deficiency in winter and ice deficiency in summer are already light, and it is inevitable that there will be a deficit in daily food and clothing. The world in the folk market is hot and cold, and the prohibition of the Son of Heaven who is closest to the gods is the most vivid.

In the blink of an eye, he actually stood on the crown prince's canonization ceremony again. A year after the Pei family was destroyed, his father finally made up his mind and made the eldest prince the crown prince, and Queen Hu's hanging heart finally landed halfway. I still remember that day, he stood among the princes, hanging his head slightly, unable to look directly at the heavenly power on the high platform.

The eldest brother who once let him make trouble, wearing the court clothes of the prince Qiu Lihuang, step by step, walked steadily through the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, walked through the emperor's relatives and relatives, walked through a group of brothers, walked to the Hanyuan Palace, walked up the steps, bowed down to receive the prince's treasure seal and canonization documents given by his father, held it high above his head, and smiled humbly at the ancestors of heaven and earth and the Central Plains.

And it was only then that Li Yuanqi knew that he was born in the imperial court where he grew up, and it was not an ordinary home, and the relatives who accompanied him in morning and dusk were not ordinary family members. There are only classes stacked with power, just like the steps in front of Hanyuan Palace, and he is undoubtedly the one at the bottom. From now on, he will also be like everyone else, meticulously performing the most thoughtful etiquette to the emperor's eldest brother.

"Sixth brother! Look what good stuff I'm holding! A familiar voice called him, and when he turned his head, he looked at the tenth brother, who was only eight years old at the time, carrying a small honey-colored porcelain jar, and rushed towards him. He knew that there were horse ** grapes from the Western Regions, which were the favorite of the concubine.

I think that in order to let the mother concubine eat a bite of this treasure all year round, the father and the emperor ordered the capital to set up a special cellar to seal the ice, and in the winter it was delivered quickly in the wind and snow, and in the summer, it was rushed with an ice bucket for thousands of miles, so the Xianju Palace never tasted this fresh and sweet fruit. But since the death of his mother, he has never been able to taste one or two. The tenth brother Li Yuanxi is the second son of the queen, and he is quite favored by her.

At first, he secretly hated in his heart, thinking that this kid intended to ridicule him and bring these children to show off in front of him. After a long time, I found that the tenth brother was the only person who had not changed his mind due to the change, and he was treated as before. General Liu also secretly comforted him and said: "The Ten Princes are simple-hearted, if they are friendly with them, I am afraid they can also avoid the woman's open guns and arrows." ”

Therefore, he and his tenth brother are like a mother's compatriots, inseparable, and only then did he have the opportunity to return to the hall and call respectfully: "Father, mother." But he was always aware that the dark waves under the loving face of the woman in the deep palace surged, like a dark arrow that would fly at any time, killing him. So, on the one hand, he was respectful and calm, but on the other hand, he tried his courage and worked hard, waiting for an opportunity to show his sword out of the sheath.

In a flash, he seemed to be in the court half a year ago. The father wrinkled his eyebrows, looked at the report in his hand that the Turks had committed another crime in the west, and asked the civil and military ministers standing in the hall in a cold voice: "What do you think?" Hu Zhongyan bowed and replied: "The Turks are extremely arrogant, repeatedly attacking, and even instigating a number of small countries in the west to oppose our dynasty, and they are even fearless. Your Majesty, the minister thinks that my Central Plains Tianwei cannot be committed by the barbarians, so he should wave his army to the north to behead the Tatars. After that, a group of officials who worshiped the Hu family responded one after another, saying that what the Taishi said was extremely true.

Those courtiers thought that their father was so difficult, they must have moved the idea of conquest, and the son of Hu Taishi guarded the northwest, if there was a war, the army's salary, grain and grass would be earned. But he saw the general Liu Shili standing up: "Although what Taishi Hu said is very morale-encouraging, but the land of the western realm is now intertwined and the forces of many parties are complicated, and it may not be a good opportunity to go on the expedition at this time." The minister thought that it would be better to extend the effect of the previous emperors and relatives, and the vertical and horizontal marriages would be broken one by one, and they would be slowly plotted. ”

As soon as the surrounding realm changed, two months ago, his father led a group of ministers and hundreds of officials to see him off in front of Danfeng Gate. "The sixth son of the emperor is humble and benevolent, diligent and slack, specially canonized as the king of Rui County, and sent an envoy to Qiuzi to discuss the peace plan between the two countries." After the eunuch finished announcing the decree, his father personally helped him up and said: "It is not easy to pray for your son's trip, you must be cautious, my father is very pleased, and I will be triumphant." After that, the warm hands pressed vigorously on his shoulders, and he looked up to see that his father's increasingly vicissitudes of life were full of the love and ardent expectations that he had been familiar with when he was young. He was in a trance for a while, as if the estrangement of more than ten years had dissipated, and the relationship between father and son was not that year, but better than that year.

Yes, after the Manchu Dynasty civil and military authorities allowed General Liu's recital, they were all silent, and no one dared to accept this mission. Who doesn't know that today's western realm is not what it used to be, and it is no longer a plate of loose sand that Yangzhong Central Plains breathed in. With the support of the Turks behind them, all of them are in defiance of the yang and the yin, and even more of them are clearly defective, hoping that the Turks can encroach on the Central Plains and get some rich water and grass. Now that Wu has to talk about peace, no one has a good chance of winning. If it doesn't work, it is still a good ending to come back and receive the punishment, but I am afraid that even if it is not possible, it may not be able to come back, and it will become Su Ziqing of the dynasty. Therefore, they all shrank and did not dare to come out. Unexpectedly, he stood up and took down this hot potato, which made the government and the opposition look sideways.

But how do they know how much effort he has secretly laid out for this move. These years of being in a low position have made him clearly know that if you don't live, you will die, and the palace walls that are calm on the surface are full of surging plans and calculations. With no one to protect him, he has been struggling and stealing his life for more than ten years, and he has escaped many catastrophes. And every danger forced him to secretly move towards the highest cold chair.