271. The Road of the Emperor (I)
When Zheng first heard about Li Jiancheng's death and just entered Changle Gate for more than a year, he hated Li Shimin and his wife to the core.
Her whole person is always in a state of extreme anxiety and anger, and when she is stimulated by the slightest external stimulus, she will be exhausted and look like crazy.
Her two daughters had a very bad time, Miao Miao was okay, she was thirteen when she first entered Changlemen, and this series of changes in the family made her grow up quickly.
The second daughter Shunwan is only four years old, if it weren't for Miao Miao's sister to take care of her, I am afraid that she has been scared by the Zheng family.
My brother-in-law Yang didn't know how much ridicule and ridicule she had received. As the days passed, I don't know if it was a long time, and the pain gradually eased, so that her sanity slowly returned.
It was still her brother-in-law Yang's calmness that made her look too ugly as a former crown princess, which made her wake up.
In short, she really quieted down, for more than two years, she hadn't lost her temper again, no matter what news came into her ears outside, her expression was very calm, and she couldn't see the slightest change in mood.
Her life has become extremely regular, except for carefully teaching her two daughters, most of the time she is either chanting or reading, and her life is like that of the Qing monks in the temple, quiet and peaceful, without any earthly disturbances.
When the news of the victory of the Northern Expedition reached the Changdong Gate, she was kneeling in front of the Buddha statue and chanting, and when she heard the news, she only paused slightly with the Buddha beads in her hand, and then continued her homework as if nothing had happened.
But at this moment, when I suddenly saw Li Shimin and heard his sister-in-law, Zheng's heart, who had not had any mood swings for more than two years, seemed to have been suddenly thrown into a boulder, boiling and rolling.
Her eyes were as cold as a knife, staring at Li Shimin with a calm face, and her tone was several decibels higher than usual, at this moment, she seemed to see the shadow of her husband and son lying helplessly in a pool of blood, and the hatred in her heart was churning like a tide.
"Yes." Li Shimin met her knife-like gaze, his expression remained unchanged, and his face was calm.
"Hehe, what a promising saint who surrenders to hundreds of officials, praises virtue from top to bottom, and a heavenly khan who comes to the court from all tribes, why, you came here today to show off your deeds to my widowed sister-in-law?" Zheng sneered.
Although she was imprisoned here, Li Shimin did not order that no outside news should be allowed to communicate with here, so she also knew the news that ordinary people outside knew.
"Sister-in-law is the daughter of Xingyang Zheng's careful teaching, her vision should not be so narrow, you should know that the purpose of my coming today is not to show off, I just want to come and tell my sister-in-law that I did nothing wrong with the choice I made four years ago."
"If time can be turned back, I will still do this, because I am more suitable for the throne than the eldest brother and the fourth brother, and my Li family has spent so much effort and filled in so many lives to conquer the country, it should not be the same as the Sui Dynasty, only the second generation died."
"Between the flesh and blood of the hands and feet and the country, anyone who has the world in mind and has the heart of a qualified emperor should know how to make trade-offs, but I just made the most suitable choice like those people." Li Shimin was not shocked or angry, and still had a calm face.
"Haha, it's ridiculous, what you said is really high-sounding and shameless, listening to your words, people who don't know the details still think that the Li family is the only one who has the world in mind, only you have the eloquence and strategy, and everyone else is a waste."
"Li Erlang, ask yourself, your eldest brother is built, although the martial arts strategy is slightly inferior to you, but it is not necessarily much worse than you in other aspects, right? How can you conclude that if he ascends to the throne, he will definitely ruin the Tang Dynasty? ”
"Obviously, you are greedy for profit, unkind, and unscrupulous to kill and slaughter your brother for the throne, but now you are putting gold on your face like this, don't you feel panicked?" Zheng couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
The Qing cultivation in the past few years made the Zheng family think that they had really let go of the past, but today facing Li Shimin, facing this culprit who killed her husband with his own hands and ordered the killing of her son, she realized that those hatreds are really not something that can be let go.
Miao Miao, who came out with the Zheng family, was nervous when she heard this, for fear that her mother would anger Li Shimin by saying so much, and thus cause a disaster of death, so she unconsciously reached out and gently pinched her mother's hand.
After listening to Zheng's ridicule, Li Shimin only smiled faintly, and there was no trace of anger on his face: "It seems that my sister-in-law has not read the scriptures well in the past few years, not only has she not read the scriptures well, but the wisdom of the past has also been almost blinded by hatred." ”
"My sister-in-law has been married to my eldest brother for nearly 20 years, and you should know very well what kind of ability my eldest brother has, if it is in peacetime, he may indeed be a promising king."
"But with the situation before my Tang Dynasty, if he kills me, he will inevitably wipe out all the civil servants and military generals of the Qin Wangfu back then, with the national strength of my Tang Dynasty at that time, without me, without the Qin Wang's mansion, he may not be able to sit still for three years, and my Datang is only afraid that it will be defeated faster than the Great Sui."
"Sister-in-law should not have forgotten what happened in the seventh year of Wude, when the Turkic army wiped out tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of my Tang Dynasty in Taiyuan, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an, at that time, the father and the eldest brother of the prince could not raise the courage to fight against the Turks, they actually felt that Chang'an was close to the Turks, and it was easy for them to raid, so they wanted to move the capital in order to ensure safety."
"Just imagine, if the eldest brother is on the throne, under the premise that the court lacks so many civil and military generals, how will he deal with the Turkic threat? I am naturally not a good person, but I have never dared to do anything and whitewash the peace. ”
"The process of my ascension to the throne of God is indeed not so glorious, I stepped on the blood and corpse of my own brother, and it is because of this that I have always felt uneasy and guilty in my heart, even though I know that my sister-in-law is here and curses me day and night."
"Even using some chess pieces that my eldest brother buried in the palace back then to make trouble in the harem, I didn't think about what I wanted to do with you, and the fact that I killed my brother and slaughtered my brother was even clearer, and it was clearly recorded in history."
"I didn't force the historian to delete this disgraceful thing because I became the emperor, since I didn't even cover up such a thing, in front of my sister-in-law, what do I need to put gold on my face?"
"If the eldest brother is really better than me in everything, I would have already returned from the crown, and there would be no brother Xiao Wall behind me at all."
"He is not better than me, if I can trust me wholeheartedly and not be suspicious of me, I am also willing to be the Duke of Zhou, treat him with all my heart, swear allegiance to him, and work with him to create a prosperous dynasty."
"It's a pity, although I have the heart of Duke Zhou, King Wu and King Cheng are rare, the eldest brother has neither the elegance of King Wu and King Cheng, nor the ability to stabilize my head, how can I be caught and ready to be killed?" When Li Shimin said this, he paused slightly, and looked at Zheng's eyes with a touch of coldness.