Chapter 393 Three Conditions

"Ask my father to return the man.

"All retreat, guard outside the door," Li Shimin ordered, and the two attendants who were adding tea and ink in the imperial study put down their things and bowed out.

"Tiangang, you also avoid it." He shook his hand behind him, and stepped out from behind the screen of the landscape and river map, an old eunuch who was not good-looking, if he was careful, he would find that this person walked without any sound.

"Your Majesty—" The old eunuch glanced at Li Tai and spoke hesitantly.

"It's okay, let's go."

"Yes."

After the people in the bright and dark places retreated, there were really only two father and son left in the inner room of this imperial study, and for the first time in many years, Li Shimin avoided everyone and Li Tai alone.

Li Tai was still kneeling on the ground, Li Shimin walked out from behind the bookcase, and when he passed in front of him, he glanced down, and then walked straight to the reclining soft couch where he was resting on weekdays, sat on it, took a comfortable sitting position, looked at Li Tai sideways, and his face was very peaceful:

"I've heard what Li Ke said tonight, what do you think?"

He directly avoided Li Tai's question, as if he had never heard Li Tai's words just now, and his relaxed posture was like a father who just wanted to talk to his son.

Li Tai's knees moved, and he knelt in a different direction:

"King Wu has said too many things tonight, I don't know which one my father is referring to."

Li Shimin's eyes showed pain, "He said that I am biased, he hates me, what about you, are you the same as him, resentful of me?" ”

Li Tai leaned down, "Erchen is terrified. ”

Li Shimin sighed lightly, held his forehead, and said slowly:

"Since I ascended the throne, I have been considering your brothers, trying to choose the most suitable candidate to succeed me. Li Kuan, decent, too mild-tempered, I don't like to come, Li Ke, tactful, more than cunning but not enough, but self-confidence is very high, often regardless of severity, I love and hate him, the fifth is full of ambition, but there is no distinction between loyalty and treachery, Li Chen, Li Yun is stubborn, easy and evil"

"Among them, I am the most optimistic, is Li Ke, after I was disappointed in Cheng Qian, I wanted to find an opportunity to depose him, and then set up Li Ke, let him marry the only daughter of the prime minister, and introduce the eldest grandson Wuji as the prince and teacher, Li Ke followed me a little, he cares about the eyes of the world, so after a hundred years, there is no need to worry that those old ministers who fight with me will be harsh by him, and your brothers, at least you can enjoy your old age in peace."

Li Shimin counted the advantages and disadvantages of his sons, and even calmly revealed his calculations, and in the end, the topic suddenly changed and asked Li Tai:

"I've said all that, what do you understand?"

Li Tai knelt there motionless, without answering, Li Shimin laughed at himself:

"That's right, I never intended to give you this country, or rather, I never regarded you as a son, Yu I, your use is to force Cheng Qian and Li Ke to move forward, help me cover up people's eyes, dispel the idea of courtiers forming a party for personal gain, and use you to search for clues in Hongzhuang. Everyone in the world thinks that my favorite son is you Li Tai, and even Li Ke thinks so, he complains about my injustice, but he never thinks that the most unfair person I treat is you. ”

"Emperor, I ask you again, do you resent me?"

Li Tai moved slightly, raised his head in Li Shimin's hidden guilty gaze, and looked directly at the king, or rather, his father, who had manipulated his life for thirty years, with a frank look.

"What the sons want, they will fight for themselves, and if they can't get it, they can't complain about others."

In half of Li Tai's life, there is nothing that he does not fight for by himself, rights, money, status, glory, merits, and even the woman he loves the most, all of which he won step by step.

There will be no resentment, because for him, the gift itself is another kind of humiliation.

Li Shimin had already gotten the answer he wanted from Li Tai's answer, and when he thought that such a man was his son, some pride poured out in his heart, and he said with a complicated expression:

"Don't you want to know why I'm doing this to you?"

To his disappointment, Li Tai's eyes did not show the slightest curiosity. But this does not hinder the mood he wants to tell:

"Do you remember your mother?".

"Erchen remembers."

Li Shimin closed his eyes, looking for memories of the past, and for a moment, there seemed to be a smile on his majestic face, but soon, that smile was hidden under the abruptness:

"I have had many confidantes in my life, and there are three thousand beauties in the harem, but there are only two women who can make my life unforgettable, one of them is your mother Yao Ye. When I met Yao Ye, the first emperor was still staying in Taiyuan, our Li family is a big family in Longxi, I as the eldest son, brocade clothes and jade food, since I was a child, a little pretentious, but the first emperor's favorite is the second son, that is, King An, who later competed with me for the throne. ”

"At that time, we had not turned against each other, once we went out hunting together, strayed into the deep forest, and separated with Hu, and met Yao Ye in the mountains and forests, Yao Ye is a rare beauty in the world, temperament out of the dust, I was young at that time, and I admired her, so I took her out of the mountains and forests regardless of the unknown background, and placed her in a house outside the city, at first I often went to visit her together, your mother is a man of few words, but she is smart and different, and she is understanding, the closer she is, the more she likes, and then I accepted her into the house."

Li Shimin opened his eyes and ended that distant memory, the story was not finished, it was obvious that he had pinched off a paragraph, and jumped directly to the back, he shook his head, and a light sigh overflowed:

"Gu Youyun, the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, when the battle for the throne of King Tong'an was the most intense, Yao Ye confessed her identity to me, told me about the existence of Hongzhuang, and told me that King Zhen'an was the emperor selected by Hongzhuang, Huang'er, you can imagine that a person who has been a prince for many years, is struggling for the throne, thinking that when he can take the last step, he will be able to be honored in the ninety-five, someone told him that above the throne, there is a higher existence, there is such a group of people, they want whoever is in charge of the world, let whoever is in charge of the world, all this, It's up to me to call the shots, it's up to me to call the shots, haha. ”

He smiled bitterly, and then said:

"I thought it was a joke at the time, until the people of Hongzhuang unscrupulously broke into the palace to assassinate me, I was caught off guard, and escaped under the protection of Yao Ye, I knew that this was not a joke, and that group of reckless aliens did not take imperial power into their eyes at all."

His eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice:

"Yao Ye because of the day for me to block the robbery, poison hair is difficult to treat and died, before dying, she asked me to send you to Shuzhong, and later, there was a problem inside Hongzhuang, retreated from Chang'an, King An lost their help, after the defeat of Xuanwumen, I sat on the throne, and began to visit the origin of Hongzhuang, wanting to exterminate the group of pretentious alien races - above the imperial power, how can you tolerate higher places."

Li Tai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he reacted to his last sentence.

"It's been twenty years," Li Shimin's voice became tired, "I haven't been able to fulfill this wish for a day, I can't sleep peacefully for a day, I'm tired, Emperor, you should know why I am prejudiced against you, why I am unfair to you, right?" Fewer words"

Li Tai's eyes moved, he lowered his head, and did not answer.

"You have been in Hongzhuang for three years, I am the emperor, the emperor should be suspicious, even the closest people around him can't fully believe it, how can I know that you are not a move arranged by Hongzhuang, maybe even you don't know, I have a deep obsession in my heart, like a demon, I don't want them to get their wish, I don't want my Tang Dynasty to be decided by a group of foreign races, so for so many years, I have always regarded you as a tool, I never thought that this would be unfair to you, until a few years ago, someone reminded me——"

"She said that I have a heart for a father, but I am alone in shortage."

Li Shimin stared at Li Tai, no longer hiding the guilt in his heart, he seemed to be looking at this son with his father's eyes for the first time, the most outstanding one among his fourteen sons, and the one he owed the most after so many years.

"I forgot, you are not only Yao Ye's son, you are also my child."

Li Tai's body shook slightly, he slowly raised his head, distinguishing the familiar and unfamiliar face opposite, the face that had always been hidden in front of the king, but at this moment it was a trace of confusion.

"Therefore, after I figured it out, I let go of my prejudices for many years and set you up as the crown prince, and you did not disappoint me, in the past few years, you have done very well, compared to Cheng Qian and Li Ke, no matter what aspect you are, you are a qualified heir to the throne, except for one point - the woman next to you."

Li Tai instantly retracted his expression, and returned to that unhappy and angry face.

Li Shimin saw this subtle change in his eyes, snorted coldly, and said:

"Don't you know where she came from? I am a person who misses the old love very much, the rewards and punishments are clear, Lu Zhongzhi, the Duke of Huaiguo, is the hero of the founding of the country, and helped me ascend the throne, why do you think I suppressed the Lu family later? How do others know that his loyalty is not about me, but about a woman, a woman with an extraordinary status in Hongzhuang. If you hide her origin from me, I won't pursue you, but if you want to sit on the throne smoothly, you must promise me a few things. ”

Li Taimei's heart jumped, but he didn't bow his head in Li Shimin's sharp gaze, but looked at him fixedly, and told him with his eyes that at a certain point, he would never give in.

"First, if you ascend the throne, you must not kill your brothers, and I will not touch their lives regardless of whether you belittle them or exile them outside the capital."

"Second, the case of the eldest grandson Wuji who collaborated with the enemy to murder you, you will find a way to get him out, and I want you to ensure that their eldest grandson is safe and sound after you ascend the throne."

"Third, I will help you choose another queen, that woman, you don't have to think about it anymore, when she gives birth to the child in the womb, if it is a boy, I will send their mother and son out of the capital to settle, if it is a daughter, I will carry the child to you, I can allow you to make this exception, but I can't let the blood of the royal family be confused again."

"You are here to consider me, if you are willing to agree, I will issue an edict immediately, you don't have to wait, as soon as this year is over, I will pass the throne to you and go to Luoyang Palace to recuperate in your old age."

Temptation, this is a real temptation, the emperor is willing to automatically abdicate and let Xian, ancient and modern, there can be a few, if Li Ke is here, let alone three things, thirty must be frowned upon.

Li Tai did not frown, he leaned down and bowed very simply:

"If you are not filial, you can't do it."

"Can't do it?" Li Shimin shook his eyebrows, "Which one do you say you can't do?" ”

"Please return the man to his son." Li Tai said what he said when he came again, and he didn't forget what he was doing when he found the imperial study and knelt for so long.

Li Shimin was angry with him when he boarded:

"Li Tai, Li Tai, I just told you so much, did I talk about it in vain? Do you really think that your position as a prince is stable, and I will take you without a problem? You're pushing me, you know? ”。

“”

After being an emperor for so many years, the one in front of him who can give him the most headache is the one in front of him, Li Shimin shook his head and smiled, and muttered to himself:

"Infatuation seems to be enough for her."

Wouldn't it be a waste to use a woman to blackmail his own son?

"Okay, then I will change the third one, but this one," Li Shimin's expression became serious, "You don't regret it in the future." ”

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