The sound of birds on the seashore, the gentle lapping of water under the pier, and the loud sound of the big waves crashing against the rocks under the cliffs in the distance, the rumbling sound is intermittent. Fan Xian stood on the wooden plank, not confused by His Majesty's passionate remarks, and said seriously: "The Venerable of Ten Thousand Times, if you are not in the unforeseen land, the minister will ask Your Majesty to return to Beijing again." ”

"There is a queen mother in Kyoto, Chen Pingping and two scholars, who can move freely!" The emperor looked at the sea, waved his hand impatiently, and said: "If you want to win the world, you must take that chair, and the first thing is to kill me sitting on the chair...... If you can't kill me, let them go, waste rebellion, ten years won't work. ”

Fan Xian was silent, thinking to himself that this emperor was really a freak, and the combination of incomparably strong self-confidence and incomparably strong suspicion created this person's narcissism to the extreme...... The emperor wants to play to lure the snake out of the hole, maybe he will die of narcissism one day, the problem is that he doesn't want to be a funeral object.

"Anzhi, you must know that it is difficult to see a person's heart clearly. ”

The emperor suddenly sighed, I don't know if he was talking about his son or his sister, but after this rare sigh of emotion, his expression suddenly covered with a layer of exhaustion, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of indescribable tiredness.

This exhaustion is not the exhaustion that he deliberately made on the dragon chair in the court to show his courtiers, but the real exhaustion, a kind of boredom that arises from the depths of his heart.

Fan Xian calmly looked at the face of Emperor Lao Tzu on the side, and he didn't know how many thoughts passed through his heart, this was the first time he saw such a real and approachable expression on the emperor's face.

However, this true expression of emotion, just like the clouds diagonally above the harbor of Shanzhou, only occasionally bloomed, covering those dazzling sunlight, and immediately drifted away, dissolving in the porcelain blue sky. After an instant, there was no trace on the emperor's face.

All that remained was the confidence and perseverance of the sunshine, and the man immediately returned to the horns of a king.

............ Looking at this scene, Fan Xian couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and sighed: "The so-called painting people and tigers is difficult to draw bones, knowing people and knowing faces but not hearts, and being gentle and corresponding in the plain, who knows if one of them will hold two straight knives and kill each other's chests." ”

The emperor obviously didn't care who the object of Fan Xian's emotion was, but he was just surrounded by this kind of emotion, thinking back on the past. He looked at the sea and said faintly: "The world may think that I am a heartless person, a heartless person, but in fact they are all wrong. ”

Fan Xian looked at His Majesty quietly on the side and did not answer.

The Emperor said slowly: "I have given them too many opportunities, hoping that they will be able to repent, and even up to this time, I am still giving them opportunities, if it is not for love, why should I run around like this?"

Fan Xian secretly thought, seducing and forcing others to make mistakes, to test the other party's heart, and carefully observe the hardships of the crown prince and the second prince in the past few years, is the emperor acting like this, is it affectionate or sick?

"Just like your mother......" The Emperor's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he felt that the sun floating out of the clouds was too dazzling.

Fan Xian's heart tightened slightly, and he listened carefully to every word and sentence that His Majesty said.

The emperor glanced at him, turned his face again, and said lightly: "She has immortal achievements in Qingguo, and Yu I am even more ...... can talk about kindness compared to the sky, but once it changed, she and her Ye family became a thing of the past, and she died tragically...... And I have been hiding it, although I have made up for it a little later, but compared to her kindness, I have done very little. ”

Fan Xian understood what he meant, after his mother's death, the emperor endured it for four years before he wiped out all the princes and nobles involved in this matter in Kyoto, but ...... But there are a few very important characters left unkilled, if this is revenge, this revenge is inevitably too incomplete.

The Emperor said quietly, "I didn't say it, and neither of them asked. But I know that they are all a little unwilling in their hearts, and they all have resentment towards me......" The corners of his lips suddenly rose with a hint of self-deprecation, "But what can I do about this matter? But if you want to overturn the case for the Ye family, how will the Queen Mother deal with herself? Or is it ...... I have to abolish the queen and kill her, so that I can really be considered affectionate and righteous?"

What is very amazing is that even when the emperor talks about this section, his words are still so calm, without a trace of excitement, which makes Fan Xian, who is listening, admire. Of course, he knows that the so-called resentful "them" are, of course, his father Fan Jian and Dean Chen Pingping.

"As an emperor, it is impossible to travel all over the world without stumbling...... "If I really do that, I am a ruthless person, and what will become of the whole court?" ”

"She wanted a strong and prosperous Qingguo, and I did it. A hint of resoluteness appeared on the emperor's face, "Looking around the country, Qingguo is the first power in the world, and the people of Qingguo are happier than any other year in history. ”

Fan Xian was silent, and in the years after his rebirth, he often asked himself what kind of country Qingguo was and what kind of person the emperor was. Although after entering Beijing, he had a deeper understanding of this qiē, and finally touched the emperor's self-confidence, narcissism, arrogance, and masochistic heart...... However, he had to admit that even if there was a big flood the year before last and a snowstorm this year, the efficiency of the Qingguo bureaucracy, the wealth of the people, and the clarity of the government were many times stronger than the history books he had read in his previous life.

In other words, there is no doubt that the Qingguo at this time is a ruling world, even a prosperous era, and the emperor next to him at this time is undoubtedly a Ming monarch, or even a holy monarch - if the emperor's standard is only to feed the people.

She said that the court officials needed to be supervised, and well, when I was still the crown prince, I went to my father and set up a supervision court. ”

She said that eunuchs were pitiful and hateful, so I strictly abided by the rules since the founding of the country, strictly prohibiting eunuchs from interfering in politics, and at the same time asked the Inner Court Taichang Temple to approve the number of eunuchs, so that there were as few deformed people in the palace as possible. ”

Fan Xian nodded again and again, the number of eunuchs in the Qingguo Palace was much less than that of Northern Qi, which was undoubtedly a virtuous policy.

"She said that a Ming monarch should be able to listen to the advice, and well, I have allowed the power of the Imperial Court to discuss the matter. ”

The faster the emperor spoke, the more distracted he became, but Fan Xian couldn't help biting the tender meat in his lip, reminding himself not to think of the imperial historians in the court being beaten into pork belly by the court staff...... And laugh out.

............ "She said that she wants to reform, to cure the malpractices, okay, I will rely on her, I will change the yuan, reform the system, and implement the new policy......"

Fan Xian finally couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The first year of Qingli was changed to the Yuan, and the restructuring at that time was actually the third new deal, the military department was changed to the military department, and then changed to the current Privy Council.

Emperor Qingguo's life achievements are dazzling, but it is the three new policies before and after, but it is an absurd thing that is extremely difficult to avoid in his life. To this day, the people of Kyoto are still confused when they talk about these yamen, and they often have to report several names whenever they want to go to a certain place.

Such a chaotic new policy, if it were not for the strong deterrent power of the imperial power and the strong execution of the Qingguo officials, the court was reversed back to its original appearance, and only those discordant names remained...... I'm afraid that Qingguo will be in chaos for a long time.

The emperor looked at him and laughed self-deprecatingly: "You don't have to hide it, I know that this is a rare time in my life...... It's just that your mother is no longer there at that time, and I only know a rough idea, and it is inevitable to make some mistakes. ”

Fan Xian's heart moved slightly, secretly thinking that after his mother's death, the emperor still acted according to his words, from this point of view, I have to say that the emperor is still a loving person in this matter.

"Before your mother went, I listened to her a lot, but then I couldn't do anything for her......" The emperor closed his eyes and said quietly, "So after she went, I remembered everything she had mentioned to me back then, and wanted to realize it for her, which is also ...... Some kind of promise or guilt to her. ”

Fan Xian sighed and said, "If Mother is still alive, she must have an inexplicable affection for His Majesty. ”

"No, not a favor. The emperor opened his eyes and said calmly: "It's just affection, as for admiration, that's even more impossible, I just want to do something to sacrifice her spirit in the sky, and I don't want anything else." ”

The emperor suddenly laughed and said, "She used to talk about newspapers in a very regrettable tone, saying that there was no gossip to read, no lace news to read...... I asked the inner court to make a newspaper and draw some lace on it, and at this time, I thought that I was also a lot of nonsense. ”

Fan Xian was dumbfounded, the inner court newspaper is known as the most useless thing in Qingguo, it is inscribed by Mr. Pan Ling, a scholar and calligrapher, and sent to all states and counties, and is only kept by officials and magnates.

When he was in Shanzhou, he once stole the newspaper in the old house to exchange for silver flowers, and he was naturally very familiar with this newspaper, and he was very disdainful of the gossip content on the so-called "newspaper", and was very puzzled by the lace painted on the side of the newspaper, and the answer to this qiē turned out to be...... Mom wanted to read gossip newspapers and listen to lace news!

Fan Xian's face looked at the emperor a little strangely, and forcibly suppressed the words that were about to blurt out, he wanted to remind His Majesty that the so-called lace news did not refer to a few lace on the edge of the newspaper.

The emperor didn't notice his expression, and said more and more happily: "Your mother is most curious about Pingping's story back then, so in the fourth year of Qingli, I took advantage of the old dog's return to his hometown and let the inner court newspaper write it lively, if your mother can see it, she must be happy." ”

Fan Xian laughed, he also remembered this story, in the fourth year of Qingli, he went to Kyoto from Shanzhou, and the two biggest things in Kyoto at that time were the exposure of the illegitimate daughter of Prime Minister Lin Ruofu, and at the same time married the Fan family, and the second was that the editor of the inner court was not afraid of the authority of the Supervision Yuan, and exposed the youth story of Chen Pingping, the president of the Supervision Yuan.

The rì head on the seaside gradually rose, moving from the front to the back, hitting the shadows of the emperor and Fan Xian on the undulating sea surface from time to time, and the partial sea water also came to make fun, so that the waves cleared a little, and gradually contrasted like a calm, and the blurred shadows of the two people became clearer and clearer.

Fan Xian smiled and bowed his head, thinking that His Majesty was also a mortal after all, just as he never forgot Qingmiao, he also never forgot Shanzhou, probably in this life, only on the dock in Shanzhou, His Majesty would say so many words.

And it was this dialogue between non-monarchs and ministers that made Fan Xian have a little more good impression of this emperor, a deeper understanding, and more troubles.

He sighed and set his eyes on the sea, the troubles in his heart were in the future after all, and the troubles in front of him were terrible enough.

"What are you worried about. The emperor was in a more relaxed mood and asked casually.

Fan Xian pondered for a long time and then said, "Admiral Jiaozhou Naval Division...... He is a child of the Qin family. ”

The emperor officially went on patrol, and he didn't know how much honor guard was needed, even though Emperor Qingguo had always been known for his simplicity, but in terms of defense force, the imperial court also put a lot of effort into it. The state army on the land route is outside, the forbidden army is included, plus a master and the old monster of Gonggong Hong, which can be called a steel fortress.

On the waterway, several warships of the Jiaozhou Navy Division also arrived to guard against dangers from the sea. When Fan Xian said this, his eyes were slightly squinting at the sea, staring at the ships sent by the Jiaozhou sailors to escort them.

The emperor's face was calm, and he didn't seem to take Fan Xian's reminder to heart, and said: "I will eventually seek justice for you for the affairs of the valley, but the old general Qin is the cornerstone of the country, don't doubt it." Now that you have transferred the black horse over, you don't need to worry about the assault within a hundred miles, so why bother to be a lost dog in the end. ”

Fan Xian then thought that His Majesty's other identity that had not been used for a long time was a famous general who led the army, and he smiled and took the order, and said no more.