Chapter 114: The Secret History of the Empire
After speaking, Han Tianwei looked at the old emperor.
The old emperor's tone was still soothing: "When the emperor is naturally domineering, if everyone is as soft as your father, the government of this country will fall into erosion and corruption, and it will not be far from destruction!" β
The old emperor always said lightly, but Han Tianwei knew that he had been expressing his dissatisfaction with the prince. The chess pieces in the old emperor's hand continued to fall, but the conversation remained the same: "Xiao Tianwei, what do you mean by kindness?" β
Han Tianwei thought for a while and said, "It represents benevolence!" β
The old emperor laughed: "Little Weiwei, you must know that kindness sometimes means ignorance, especially among the royal family!" β
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The old emperor said: "And benevolence is the people's impression of the emperor's family, not the emperor's own title, let alone a group of decadent old pedants who can get it by patting their ass!" β
"If you believe the words of the old horsemen, then one day when you are ousted from power, you will find that they are saying the compliments they have given you again, and you are often a victim of his future glory and wealth."
"Grandpa Huang" Han Tianwei thought for a while and said, "What do you want to say to me?" β
The old emperor said: "I'm saying, you think about your father, for your imperial grandfather and me, then you haven't thought about yourself?" β
"I thought about it, I wanted to be a teacher, if I wasn't a royal princess!" Han Tianwei opened her mouth and finally said her ideals.
The old emperor said: "When I was a teenager, I wanted to be an interstellar adventurer, driving the most advanced spaceship in the universe, exploring those unknown star fields, and becoming a world-famous adventurer!" β
"Little Weiwei!" The old emperor turned his head to look at Princess Claire again: "Ideal and reality are far away, do you know? Look at your imperial grandfather, it is impossible to realize your ideals in this life! β
"But Grandpa Huang has become a good emperor!" Han Tianwei comforted.
"Hehe, good emperor? That was the name more than 20 years ago, and the current ministers probably say behind their backs, 'His Majesty the Emperor is getting old and getting more and more deaf'! The old emperor said, "But if I don't look deaf, how can I pave the way for you?" β
Han Tianwei looked at the old emperor in surprise.
"The prince is old, and he is soft-hearted, it is difficult to achieve great things, I have given him several opportunities to deal with corruption and control his subordinates, but he is always completely forgotten by those bastards kneeling and crying, and only cares about soft-heartedness!" The old emperor said with some anger: "In order to maintain his prestige, I wiped his ass behind his back, and he actually got up as a matter of course, so it is better for him to recuperate well in the palace!" β
Princess Claire's body trembled, but she didn't speak again, she knew that her father's ears were soft, and sometimes she couldn't stand the acting of those bastards, but her father couldn't understand it. So she didn't refute, she could only say it in silence.
"Xiao Weiwei, your third uncle is indeed very good at being an emperor, but he is indeed a tyrant, what the Titan Empire needs now is not a tyrant, but a benevolent monarch who guards the country, you are right!" The old emperor panted slightly, and seemed to be a little tired.
Princess Claire immediately picked up the teacup and handed it to the emperor's mouth: "Grandpa Huang, let's drink some tea!" β
The old emperor opened his mouth and took two sips, and then said to Princess Claire: "Little Weiwei, you can drink some too, there will be a lot of words today!" β
Princess Claire immediately took a sip of her teacup, then put it away and waited for the old emperor's next words.
The old emperor said: "The third brother, very much like my former eldest brother, has been ambitious since childhood, when my eldest brother was the crown prince, he always seemed very domineering, he would snatch the best things among his brothers and sisters, and enjoy them as a matter of course!" β
"I am the crown prince, this country will be mine in the future, and you can only submit to me!" The old emperor said in the tone of his eldest brother back then.
"It's customary!" Princess Claire said.
The old emperor panted slightly and said: "But he has that capital, he is an innate body cultivator, and he has an extraordinary fighting talent, extremely belligerent!" β
Princess Claire couldn't help asking, "Could it be that the large-scale war with the Arda people more than two hundred years ago is"
"Yes, that's him!" The old emperor said: "At that time, several of our brothers and sisters were very afraid of him, he entered the military department early, and cultivated a group of his own descendants, and even advocated that if he wanted to unify the universe, he must first set foot on the imperial capital of the Alda people, so he concealed the military situation without authorization and launched a large-scale war against the Alda people!" β
"At that time, your imperial grandfather was still a free prince, hoping to get a reward from the queen mother and buy a spaceship to go for an interstellar swim, but who would have thought that I would end up in this position!" The old emperor's dim eyes rolled slightly, recalling the scene at that time: "At that time, my father was extremely angry, thinking that the prince was deviant, but the eldest brother kept winning, always winning, and the ministers didn't dare to say anything. β
"But Xiao Weiwei, no matter how strong a person is, he has a weakness, and no matter how cold-blooded a person is, once he is caught with a weakness, he will die without a place to be buried!" The old emperor said: "When the Arda people begged the eldest brother for peace, he was very arrogant, but at that time, the Arda people used the simplest 'beauty trick' to make the eldest brother completely tricked!" β
"Beauty tricks? Is that woman beautiful? Princess Claire couldn't help asking.
"Beauty is not enough to describe her, but attraction, anyone who sees her will be attracted unconsciously, legend has it that she is the most beautiful woman of the Arda people, the holy daughter of their gods, and has always lived in seclusion and is very low-key." The old emperor thought of the woman's beauty, and couldn't help but be full of hope: "At that time, half of the star field of the Arda people had been captured, and their army line needed time to turnover, otherwise the imperial capital would not be guaranteed, so that woman took the initiative to appear and claimed to be able to persuade my eldest brother to withdraw from the army, so the Arda people reluctantly sent her out." β
"Everyone thinks that the prince is a male lord who loves the country and not beauties, but he was planted in that woman's gentle township, and no one knows what contract they reached, anyway, my eldest brother announced his retirement from the army like being drugged with psychedelics!" The old emperor said: "At that time, the eldest brother insisted on waging a war, the Titan's economy regressed, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but under the cover of his victory, people didn't say anything, but when he came back with a woman and gave up the occupation area, the people were dissatisfied, and the government and the opposition were furious!" β
"Is that woman really that attractive, Grandpa?" Claire looked at the Emperor.
The old emperor nodded: "When I first saw her, I thought she was the person I was destined to be, but unfortunately she only belonged to my eldest brother, and she always seemed cold, unhappy or sad, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world!" β
"Heh, is that still human?" Princess Claire thought it was an exaggeration.
"She really can't be regarded as a human being, she came to the imperial capital of the Titans, and it also caused a huge wave, and the emperor at that time, who was my father, was actually addicted to it, and he wanted to get involved and possess that woman, which angered my eldest brother!"
"Could it be that the palace coup d'Γ©tat back then," Princess Claire said in a somewhat lost voice.
"Yes, the palace coup d'Γ©tat that year was launched by the prince and the guards, but the real reason was not only because the emperor wanted to depose the prince, but more importantly, for the sake of that woman, but the prince at that time had already rebelled and left, so soon a marshal announced the establishment of the Qinwang Army to come to crusade against the prince after the coup." The old emperor coughed slightly, and Princess Claire immediately slapped him on the back: "If the imperial grandfather is tired, don't say it!" β
"No, it's rare to be in the mood today, I must say it!" The old emperor said and breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "My eldest brother knew about the so-called King Qin's army at that time, and he actually did something heinous in a fit of anger! β
"What's the matter?" Claire couldn't help but say, but then she thought of something, and immediately felt cold hands and feet.
The old emperor looked at her with a somewhat pale expression and smiled: "Yes, he killed the first emperor and his brothers and sisters, because I have been stubborn and like to mess with civilians since I was a child, so I am very good at escaping and disguising so that I was not caught by him!" β
"It's also because after they were all slaughtered, this throne is in my hands!" The old emperor said: "At that time, my ideals and everything were shit, I just wanted to avenge my mother and my brothers and sisters, so I rushed into the imperial capital with the army of King Qin in the name of orphans, and stabbed my eldest brother!" β
"I know this history!" Princess Claire's eyelashes twitched slightly, and then she said, "But why haven't I seen this woman even if it's a royal secret?" β
"Because she disappeared, when I led the troops into the palace, she was gone, I only know that she was pregnant with the eldest brother's child when she left!" The old emperor shook his head: "In order to maintain the dignity and reputation of the royal family, I naturally can't let people write this palace scandal, because there are many stories that violate human ethics in it!" The old emperor looked at Claire and said, "Little Weiwei, do you know, even if I kill my eldest brother, I will be unhappy!" β
"People can't be resurrected after death, Grandpa Huang, don't think so much!" Princess Claire comforted.
The old emperor shook his head and said, "No, I'm not grieving the loss of my relatives, I'm grieving for myself!" β
"Because of Xiao Weiwei, my eldest brother is also my relative, and he is the only relative, but I still killed him!" The old emperor's eyes were a little sour: "Actually, to put it bluntly, I, like him, am a murderer of my relatives!" β
"Grandpa Huang, you are different from him, he is like this on purpose, he is too brutal, but you are here to pay tribute to the emperor and his brothers and sisters, you are different!"
"You're wrong, we're the same, you wouldn't be naΓ―ve enough to think that I was just stabbing him for hatred, would you? I want to establish my prestige, and I want to establish my prestige! The old emperor looked at Princess Claire's expression and gradually became cold: "The people have been deeply disappointed in the Nikolai clan, if I don't kill decisively at that time, it is very likely that the current titan will no longer have the surname Nikolai, and even fall into the scene of warlord melee!" β