So what, it's just four words, but after it came out of the king's thin and merciless lips, it seemed to add layers of frost to the entire imperial study, and the infinite and endless cold was born for no reason, freezing all the glass windows, the mahogany dwarf, the green indoor potted plants, and there seemed to be hoarfrost invisible to the naked eye, which was spreading on these things, and then spread all the way out, enveloping the entire cold palace, making the cold turn into freezing, and the cold even pierced the sky, hitting the gray and gray clouds in the distant east。

The clouds are like frightened animals, stimulated by this cold, the whole body shrank sharply, shivering, and the face gradually deepened, and had to squeeze out some of the dampness hidden deep in the clouds and mist.

The dampness condensed into water, condensed into rain, and slowly fell from the sky. In the gray Kyoto, the Imperial Palace, all the people who had woken up squinted at the clouds in the sky, only to know that the first rain of early autumn had finally fallen, and the weather was about to turn cold.

............ However, the chill on Emperor Qing's body is not overwhelming, there is not the slightest gap, and the face of the thin lips is not very good-looking, and there is still a touch of room in his mind. Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, quietly looking at the master she had served for decades, quietly waiting for the other party's next sentence.

If Emperor Qing never had the slightest sense of guilt about the things of the past, there was no trace of hidden pain in his heart, and if he was really ruthless, then he would be the person with the most shortcomings in the world. No matter who stood in front of this king, they would involuntarily give birth to a sense of surrender and retreat, and they would not look at him indifferently like Chen Pingping.

The corners of Chen Pingping's eyes drooped, if the emperor's heart was really like a thousand years of ice, then why did he say those four words? Although the four words were the coldest, they were still words.

The emperor just didn't accept Chen Pingping's mind, he was not as good as Ye Qingmei, so he was really angry.

"Ye Qingmei is still impossible for you to be a passerby...... Chen Pingping sighed faintly, her eyes swept over the shoulders of the emperor, and looked at the wall behind the imperial study, as if she wanted to look through this wall, until she looked into a certain portrait.

His Majesty the Emperor laughed, his smile was very light, very cold, very self-deprecating, very painful, and very complicated. He was silent for a long time and then said, "I don't want to talk about the past. ”

"Why don't you mention it?" Chen Pingping squinted at him, "Do you think she is too dazzling, so she has completely overwhelmed your pride, so you have always felt uncomfortable from the heart?"

The emperor sneered slightly, didn't explain anything, just said: "Xiao Yezi has never been a person who likes to show his head. ”

"So you know. Chen Pingping laughed, and there was a hint of resentment in Jiansha's voice, "What do you have that you can't tolerate?"

"I can't tolerate it, or is this world intolerable?" the emperor slowly raised his head and looked directly into Chen Pingping's eyes, very indifferent and solemn, "Maybe you people have never thought about this question. ”

The indifferent voice stopped abruptly, it was obvious that Emperor Qing didn't want to talk about anything about the year at all, even in the face of his partner who had been with him for decades, even in this situation, he still kept the piece of underworld in his heart strongly, and was unwilling to touch it.

However, Chen Pingping returned to Beijing to die today, in order to tear open the veil in the heart of this middle-aged man, who seems to be so strong that he is irresistible, that has been separated for thousands of years, and expose the wound that the other party may have in his heart, so that the other party can be weak!

Chen Pingping stared at Emperor Qing's eyes and said, "Is it the queen mother's great displeasure, is it the powerful rebound of the princes and nobles, or is it your pride that made you make such a cold-blooded and ruthless decision?"

Emperor Qing looked indifferent and did not answer his question, but his pupils gradually became empty, and the focus drifted to somewhere, so he changed the topic coldly: "What prompted you to make such a rebellious decision? You are a eunuch, do you also like women?"

"Eunuch, ......" Chen Pingping slowly lowered her eyes and said: "As I said before, whoever is good to me, I will be good to whom, and I have always kept in mind her kindness to me." The sorrow of her death, the doubt of death, I have been guarding it for decades, just to ask your majesty for her. ”

"Could it be that I am not good to you?" Emperor Qing's gaze flicked on Chen Pingping's old face, and said lightly: "I give you supreme glory, I give you a status that ordinary courtiers will never have, I give you ...... trust, and you, because of a woman who has been dead for twenty years...... You want to ask me?"

Chen Pingping looked at the emperor with a smile, and suddenly said: "She treats me well, she treats me like a friend, her majesty treats me well, she treats me like a slave, can this be the same?"

The emperor waved his hand, a little tired, he didn't want to say this question with no answer at all, the encounters in life are always extremely wonderful, especially these partners in Qingguo back then, they were entangled with each other, and they were afraid that they couldn't say it clearly.

Chen Pingping continued: "I am just a eunuch in the Chengwang Mansion, but she has never disdained me in the slightest because of my physical disability...... Ah, this is the treatment that the old slave has never enjoyed in his life, not before her, and not after her. ”

He suddenly smiled and said, "Fortunately, Fan Xian is more like her." ”

In the quiet imperial study at this time, the name Fan Xian was particularly harsh, and His Majesty the Emperor, who had always maintained indifference with a strong heart, frowned extremely slightly when he heard the name Fan Xian.

"I don't want to say anything about what Xiao Yezi has done for Qingguo, for the Li royal family, and for us people. Chen Pingping sighed a little tiredly. Yes, there is no need to say anything about the past, in fact, it is all stored in the hearts and minds of these partners, and no one will deliberately remember it, but no one will forget it.

His voice was slightly sharp, and he said: "Yes, when you first ascended the throne, the government was unstable, and you wanted to implement a new policy, but the backlash was too great, and the supervision of the Supervision Yuan in my hand also made the whole Kyoto have some unstable movements, and besides, the Queen Mother has always been very jealous of the woman who refused to enter the palace, especially when she found out that the influence of that woman on Your Majesty was even farther than her! The stupid woman of the queen has just married you, and it is not clear why you don't stay in the palace every day, but you have to go to the Taiping Courtyard to climb the wall!"

"Ye Qingmei has helped you, on the seaside of Shanzhou, the picture scroll she once promised has gradually unfolded, the old Ye family has repaired the three major workshops in northern Fujian, and the foundation of Qingguo has been firmly laid, she seems to have no effect on His Majesty, on the contrary...... She is the most unstable factor in the imperial court, if she goes on according to her picture, Qingguo will not be the Qingguo of today, and Your Majesty, it is impossible for you to allow such a thing to happen, let alone in the process, you may offend the officials and gentry of the whole world. ”

Chen Pingping's eyes narrowed slightly, and she sneered slightly: "If you want to make immortal achievements, you need to have immortal courage, but you don't have this kind of courage, and you don't want to give up the one you already have, as long as Ye Qingmei is dead, you enjoy the one qiē she gave you, but you don't need to bear any danger she brings." ”

"A thousand reasons, ten thousand reasons, even if you have countless reasons, because of this dragon chair, because of this kingdom, because of your own ambitions, to kill her. Chen Pingping pursed her lips, shook her head disdainfully and said, "But this person is you, and you are not qualified to do this." ”

Emperor Qing's eyes were still empty, as if he hadn't heard Chen Pingping's words in his heart at all, but he said slowly: "There are still the original words in King Jing's mansion, I think you should remember clearly, like her whimsical ideas that deviate from people's hearts, although they are wonderful, they are poisonous flowers, once they bloom in the fields of Qingguo, I am afraid that the entire Qingguo will fall because of it." As the king of Qingguo, I must be responsible for the people of the world. ”

"In my life, I cherish that woman the most. His Majesty the Emperor turned his head and looked at Chen Pingping indifferently, "I cherish that woman more than anyone else in the world." ”

"What does it have to do with the people? What kind of person is Xiao Yezi, Her Majesty and I know very well that she has never been a person who has empty ideas and is unable to put them into practice, and the words she says and leave behind may only be what she wants to stay. Chen Pingping looked at the emperor coldly, "And you, but you were shocked by those terrible thoughts, Your Majesty, you suddenly discovered, you suddenly found that her thoughts, for this chair is too harmful, even if she doesn't do it now, but the fire she left behind, maybe when, will burn this bright appearance, but in fact rotten chair into ashes." ”

"Rotten chair?" the emperor laughed strangely, looked at Chen Pingping and said, "I didn't expect that you, an old dog, would still be such a character. ”

Chen Pingping didn't answer, but after coughing twice, she continued to say weakly: "Your Majesty, why do you have to explain so much, it's not as good as the previous four words...... You're just greedy for this chair, you have too many ambitions, or ambitions to fulfill, how can you allow someone to be in danger of this process......? You can't have a woman looming over you forever. ”

After hearing these words, Emperor Qing was silent for a long time, not knowing whether this was a tacit acquiescence, or thinking about his most obscure inner activities back then, and after a long time, he said indifferently: "I have any ambitions, isn't she giving them to me?"

"I was just an inconspicuous son of the Chengwang Mansion back then, although I had great ambitions, pity the people, and wanted to change the chaos of this war, but how could I have the virtue to realize this qiē, and even dream of this qiē?" The emperor said with a slight mockery: "It's her, it's you, it's Fan Jian, it's all the people, let me step by step to the dragon chair, have the dream of this qiē, the possibility of realizing this qiē." ”

Emperor Qing's eyes sharpened, his voice became calm, louder, and said slightly: "Since I have sat on this dragon chair, I have to complete the idea of the year, no matter who it is, don't try to stop this qiē!"

"What did you think back then?" Chen Pingping looked at him and said indifferently: "Your Majesty, do you still remember what we thought back then?"

"I know what you're trying to say, old dog. The emperor sat on the soft couch, the two sleeves of the dragon robe were spread out like a wide cloud, and a powerful and solemn aura appeared on the whole person's body, like a god among the clouds, and said in a deep voice: "I want to lay down a big country and dominate the whole world, so that hundreds of millions of people in the three kingdoms will no longer have to suffer from wars and chaos, and it will be for generations to come, isn't this her will?"

Emperor Qing's voice gradually got higher, and he looked at Chen Pingping with a cold voice: "It's been a long time since I've talked like this, and I just found out that you, an old dog, are still a sad horn, but don't forget, I am the emperor of Qingguo, I don't care about the agreement I made back then, and I don't care about what I have deviated from, but I ...... I care about her, I promise her, I do everything I do, so ...... Whether it's you or Fan Jian, even if she comes back from yīn and asks me what I've done in the past few decades, I can look at you with disdain and say, as long as I can do this!"

Chen Pingping fell silent.

"She's a mysterious woman, but she's a woman after all, she's very naïve, but I didn't expect that you were also naïve. The emperor slowly closed his eyes, only the thin lips were slightly opened, and his words were full of coldness, "Governing the country is not about hoeing flowers and weeds, and it is not about King Jing's waste who can feel sorry for himself every day." As a king, anyone can die in order to achieve his goal. ”

"Anyone can die. ”

"So she died. Chen Pingping leaned over in a wheelchair and said sadly: "All the causes of chaos in Qingguo can die, such as the queen, such as the eldest princess, such as the prince, such as many, many more." But I just don't understand, what is the difference between the Qingguo of today and the Qingguo of the past? What is the difference between this world and the world twenty years ago? You said that you are the one who is chosen in the world, so you can sacrifice a qiē for your goal, but if it is your turn to be sacrificed one day, will you be willing to go away? ”

"I ...... He will be the lord of the world and the king of the earth. Emperor Qing said indifferently: "If there is a rì, the world will be better than a rì." ”

"It's still a name. Chen Pingping sighed and said, "Your Majesty is as powerful as a torch, and you are as good as a torch, and the rule of the officials of Qingguo is unprecedented, but what should you do after you die? People always have to die." ”

Immediately, the old cripple in a wheelchair waved his hand and said lightly: "Even if the flood is monstrous after you die, I suddenly thought of this sentence, I suddenly thought that this sentence is a bit redundant, Your Majesty, I still look up to you, after all, you are just an ordinary person who has occupied all your body and mind by ambition, whether it is a great grandmaster or a generation of emperors, you still can't escape this." ”

The emperor was not so angry, just looked at him and said lightly: "At least I have done what I promised her back then, one by one. ”

"Yes, before the old slave died, can you listen to His Majesty's explanation, so that I can die with peace of mind, and I should be the last grace that His Majesty gives to the old slave. ”

The emperor noticed the hint of sarcasm on the corner of Chen Pingping's lips, for some reason, the king's heart suddenly trembled a little, and countless anger arose, probably as an emperor, especially an emperor like him, the most unbearable thing is to be ignored or deliberately despised for the achievements made on this continent in this life.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said slowly, "I don't need to explain anything to you, a thief, when I die, I will naturally tell her one by one." ”

"Your Majesty, do you have the face to see her after you die?" Chen Pingping is not at all like the past rì, a person is about to die, his heart is also clear, and his ambition is also strong, in front of the strongest man in the world, he indifferently and meanly scratched the other party's heart, "I heard that on the shore of the sea in Shanzhou, you once explained this so-called ...... One thing at a time, do you want to comfort yourself, or do you want to figure out Fan Xian and let her understand you in the dark?"

This sentence was very indifferent, but it happened to pierce Emperor Qing's heart. Emperor Qing opened his eyes, his eyes were still strangely empty, but his face was slightly pale.

"Why don't I dare see her? After Emperor Qing was silent for a long time, he suddenly laughed, and the laughter echoed in the imperial study, "Back then, on the shore of the sea in Shanzhou, in the old mansion of King Cheng, the things I promised her have been done, or will be done, and what I have done in this life are not all things that she has looked forward to infinitely?"

Chen Pingping just looked at him indifferently.

Emperor Qing's voice was low, and he said coldly: "She wants to reform, to cure the shortcomings in the court, okay, I will rely on her, I will change the yuan, reform the system, and implement a new policy." ”

She explained that the king should be able to hear the advice, so I granted the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to hear about the matter. ”

She said that the establishment of a postal route system in the country is of great benefit to business and people's livelihood, and that I have spared no expense in the country to build postal routes throughout the country in the shortest possible time. ”

She said that the eunuchs in the palace were pitiful and hateful. Emperor Qing glanced at Chen Pingping indifferently, "Therefore, I abolished the practice of sending eunuchs to the palaces and princes, scattered half of the eunuchs in the palace, and strictly forbade eunuchs from interfering in politics." ”

She said that the country was rich without business, so I vigorously supported merchants and sent Xue Qing to stay in Jiangnan for a long time, so as not to let the imperial court interfere in private business affairs. ”

She said that the country was unstable without agriculture, so I vigorously built water conservancy, and set up a special river transport governor Yamen to repair the embankment of the river. ”

"She said she wanted a newspaper, and I started it. ”

"She said she wanted lace, and I painted it. ”

............ The emperor spoke faster and faster, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and in the end, he seemed to be a little emotional, looking at Chen Pingping and scolding loudly: "Whatever she wants, I will do it, you, or why do you accuse me!"

............ Chen Pingping smiled, very quickly, very strangely smiled, he looked at the emperor and said softly: "This paragraph is very skillful, presumably except for the shore of the sea in Shanzhou, you are often in the small building, talking to yourself to that portrait, is this to comfort her in the sky, or to drive away the chill in your heart?"

Emperor Qing's face changed slightly, but Chen Pingping slowly sat up straight, looked at him and said word by word:

"To implement the new policy, it is not to change the name of the era twice, it is a new policy! The restructuring is not to change the military department into the old military department, and then to change it to the Privy Council. Do you remember what Taixue was called in the first place? Do you remember that there was a yamen that used to be called the Education Institute? Tongwen Pavilion? What is the Transfer Division? What is the Transportation Division?"

"The new deal is either a new name, or a new deal!" Chen Pingping's sharp voice was like a whip, slamming the emperor's face, "The reform is either a name change or a reform, what kind of bullshit new deal! Let the officials and the people not know what the yamen is called, is the new deal? Are you deceiving the people of the world, or are you deceiving yourself?"

"How did the Imperial Procuratorate end up with a mess of mud in the hands of the eldest princess of Xinyang? Let them be innocent of the deliberations? In the autumn of the fifth year of Qingli, the imperial history of the left capital surrendered, and those imperial historians who wore Chu sè official robes were miserably beaten by the court because of Fan Xian, which ...... Whose will it be?"

"Not to mention the postal route system! This is purely a joke, it costs one or two pieces of silver to send a letter, who can afford to send it except for the children of the eunuchs? What is the use of this postal route except for the lazy relatives of a large number of officials in the post station?"

"It is strictly forbidden for eunuchs to interfere in politics? What kind of thing is Hong Siqi? The assassin entered the palace and was involved in court and state affairs, but he was a eunuch who had the right to preside over the investigation. Okay, even if he has a special status, then let me ask Your Majesty, when Eunuch Yao goes out, a large number of officials of two or three grades have to bow down to give way, what is this?"

"The imperial court vigorously supports merchants, and the imperial court does not interfere in civil commercial affairs?" Chen Pingping's voice became more and more sharp, and she said disdainfully: "How come there are so many powerful cadres in the Ming family? If Your Majesty does not interfere in commercial affairs, what did Fan Xian go to Jiangnan for?" businessmen...... Now it's just a flock of fat sheep raised by the imperial court. ”

"Build water conservancy and ensure farming?" Chen Pingping smiled more and more absurdly, "...... Hehe, the Yamen of the Governor of Heyun is the darkest yamen in the world, and the old slave had to check it many years ago, but Your Majesty, the emperor's mind, knows that this yamen hides half of the world's officials, you don't want to shake the government, so you have to let him rot, and what is the result? How many people have drowned in the collapse of the river? How many people have frozen to death in the winter of the fifth or sixth year of Qingli? Even if Fan Xian and his wife have been desperately filling in the silver in the past two years, they can still only maintain. ”

"And the Lau Shizi newspaper, lace. The corners of Chen Pingping's eyes narrowed, and she looked at Emperor Qing mockingly, "The newspaper she said is something that opens the wisdom of the people, but it is not useless shit from the inner court, it should not only have the story of my old black dog, but there should be some other content, do you think what I said is right?"

The emperor's face became whiter and whiter, so white that it was about to become transparent, and he didn't hear Chen Pingping's last words at all.

"You may be able to convince Fan Xian, you can convince yourself that over the years, you have been trying to do something, make up for something, and practice something for the things in the Chengwang Mansion on the shore of the Lanzhou Sea. Chen Pingping looked at the emperor harshly, "But you can't convince her in the portrait, it's just that she can't speak now." But you can't convince me, and it's unfortunate that I can still speak. ”

The emperor was silent for a long time, his pale face was matched with his slightly trembling fingers, it can be imagined that he was already angry to the point of hatred in his heart, he slowly raised his head, looked at Chen Pingping and said indifferently: "In my life, in fact, the most wrong thing I did was when I was still the crown prince, I heard her say that the hundred officials of the imperial court needed a dúlì yamen to supervise, so I ignored everyone's opposition, wrote to my father, and forcibly set up the yamen of the Supervision Yuan. ”

"I shouldn't have listened to her, let you, an old black dog who can't be raised well, this gelding man with the smell of urine, become the first president of the Supervision Yuan. Emperor Qing's voice was calm, but there was an infinite chill in the calm.

After Chen Pingping was silent for a long time, she raised her head and said very calmly: "Even the Supervision Yuan, I, an old black dog, have been guarding the Supervision Yuan for decades, but I'm afraid it is not the Supervision Yuan she wants to see." ”

The emperor listened to the old lame man and said: "The Supervision Yuan is an institution that supervises hundreds of officials, but it is not a deformed and powerful spy agency today, especially since this courtyard itself is still your Majesty's courtyard. ”

Chen Pingping suddenly laughed ugly, and looked directly at the emperor's face: "Do you remember what is written on the stone tablet in front of the gate of the Supervision Yuan?"

It was a large, glittering golden letter, forever shining in front of the square building of the Inspectorate, and I don't know how many people in Kyoto had attracted the attention of the people, but no one would ever really see these words clearly. The officials of the Supervisory Yuan memorized it very clearly, but they did not know the hidden meaning behind this passage.

The most important thing is that those people back then may know the full text of this passage, but whether it is the emperor or others, they may have subconsciously forgotten this. In the whole world, only Chen Pingping and the earliest people in the Supervision Yuan have always remembered that paragraph.

"I hope that the people of Qingguo will become unruly people. When you are abused by others, you will not give in, you will not be frustrated when you are attacked by evil, and when you do something wrong, you will not be afraid to amend, and you will not flatter the jackal......"

This is the words that Ye Qingmei left to the Supervision Yuan, but this passage was not finished, and there were two sentences that disappeared in the dust of history for unknown reasons.

Chen Pingping looked at His Majesty the Emperor indifferently, her withered lips trembled slightly, and she said word by word: "I hope that every citizen of Qingguo can become a king and become a ...... who rules the territory called 'himself' A one-of-a-kind king. ”

"Your Majesty, my king. Chen Pingping's eyes were filled with a touch of burning heat and a willingness to pay for it.

"Inspectorate...... From the beginning, it was used to monitor you. ”