Fan Xian walked out of the East Palace, turned around and personally closed the two heavy palace gates, and glanced at the dense crowd around the East Palace, his face was calm, but his heart was full of unknown love. After calming down a little, he beckoned to Eunuch Yao at the front of the crowd.

Eunuch Yao spent a difficult time on Dadong Mountain with His Majesty, and after the sacrifice of the old husband Hong for the country, he naturally became the number one person in the Qing court, but Fan Xian still waved casually as usual.

Eunuch Yao leaned over and respectfully stepped forward to listen to the order, judging from this appearance, no one had any doubt that Fan Xian had supreme power.

Fan Xian whispered something in Eunuch Yao's ear, Eunuch Yao was slightly suspicious, not daring to question Fan Xian's order, and at this time he couldn't go to ask His Majesty in the East Palace, and after a few thoughts, he took a group of people outside the East Palace to the periphery, keeping a long distance from the East Palace.

Fan Xian also walked with them to the side of Xiaolin in the palace, looking at the quiet East Palace from a distance, guessing what His Majesty and the crown prince were talking about at this time. Letting these people in the palace retreat farther away was actually for the sake of safety, and he didn't know if the emperor would say something he would never want people to know once he became angry.

This is even more for his own consideration, because there are only a few people in the world who know the real reason why His Majesty is bent on abolishing the crown prince, and this matter was originally woven by him. The emperor knew his cultivation, and if he stayed outside the East Palace and heard the yīn selfishness in those palaces, no one would be happy.

Fan Xian pursed his lips, looked at Donggong with worried eyes, and thought to himself, he was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, but he was afraid that he would have to walk the same path as the second child after all, thinking about it carefully, in fact, he was really a bit complicated, and it was he who drove the prince to a dead end, but he ...... Who would have thought that the situation would develop like this, the things he and Chen Pingping did in secret seemed to drive wolves and tigers, but in the end, a real dragon was shocked in the world.

In the past few years, all the people around him have passively or actively stood on the opposite side of His Majesty, Chen Pingping and Fan Xian finally succeeded in turning His Majesty into a lonely person, but he is lonely, and he is still the top one in the world, and once he vomited his momentum, he actually wanted to swallow rì yue, which made Fan Xian feel cold and afraid.

............ The situation in the East Palace is not the same as Fan Xian's conjecture, the emperor and the crown prince father and son did not fall into some kind of hysterical family and vernacular quarrel on the first few words, in the real royal family, there will never be agitators like Ma Jingtao, some are just indifferent, cold, calm, and cold.

The emperor sat comfortably on the stone steps, his legs wide apart, looking at the door of the East Palace, thinking about the good news that he had waited for the Empress to give birth outside the palace gate many years ago. That day, the palace was full of joy, and the Queen Mother was very happy, but her mood was a little more dignified than the joy.

It wasn't until the woman outside the palace who was also pregnant sent a letter that he became happy, knowing that the other party was really not an ordinary woman in the world, and he had never taken the dragon chair to heart, nor did he think of saving the seemingly tempting throne for the child in his womb.

It was this attitude that made the emperor a little faintly unhappy. Twenty years have passed, and this kind of unhappiness has long become a forgotten love, but occasionally when he is on the small floor of the harem, when he looks at the woman in the yellow shirt in the painting, he can't help but complain, An Zhi is your child, isn't it my child?

Twenty years have passed, and the child who was destined to become the successor to the throne of Qingguo at birth has grown up, and he is sitting beside him at this time, with his long hair falling smoothly behind him, and there is only calm and resignation between his eyebrows.

And the child in the womb of the woman outside the palace was outside the East Palace at this time, not knowing which corner she was standing in, watching the movements of the East Palace.

The emperor subconsciously took the teacup that the prince had drunk from the front of the stairs, brought it to his lips and took a sip, but he didn't know whether it was hot or cold.

"After all, I Daqing was not long after the founding of the country. I don't know why, the emperor chose to speak from here, and said slowly: "Although the Northern Qi is only two generations, he inherited the Great Wei Zhizuo, but the internal is much more stable, more than ten years ago, the Northern Qi Emperor died violently, the queen is young, the prince is young, if it is placed in my Daqing, I am afraid that the forced palace will become...... Even if the bitter lotus comes forward, it can't be done. ”

Li Chengqian's gaze fell on his father's hand holding the teacup.

"The reason why this is so is because my Daqing was originally defeated from the battlefield, the military is powerful, and I am used to reasoning with swords and courtesy of the emperor, and I can't convince people. The emperor's gaze was a little indifferent, "So if I want to be the monarch of Daqing, I must not be blindly lenient, but must have iron-blooded means and tenacity." ”

He turned his head to look at his son and said, "You grew up in the palace since you were a child, but you have a benevolent ......name when you were eight years old," Speaking of this, the corners of the emperor's lips showed a hint of mockery, "It's just to help a few injured rabbits wrap their feet, and those minions blindly please the queen mother, saying that you must be a benevolent monarch in the future." ”

"Blindly forgiving is cowardice, and I Daqing will dominate the world, fifty years of disputes in the world, the old royal family everywhere will not be convinced, half a hundred years old, but to lay the foundation of 10,000 years...... I only have time to conquer this country, but I want you to defend this country. The emperor retracted his gaze and said, "A benevolent monarch, a cowardly monarch, how can he keep these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains?"

Li Chengqian glanced at his father, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of his lips, only then did he understand that his father had been thinking about what would happen decades later than ten years ago, and he had the confidence to dominate the world, but he had to think about how this country would continue after a hundred years.

"So I carried Cheng Ze out to fight you in the ring. The emperor closed his eyes and said slowly, "Now that I think about it, the two of you were still young at that time, and I seem to have been in a bit of a hurry. ”

Li Chengqian still did not answer.

"Ben also wants to see if Chengze's child can be promising, but then he ...... In just one year, I saw that his mind was too hypocritical, and as an emperor, he should have an awe-inspiring atmosphere, and he ...... But not. The emperor still closed his eyes, as if he was telling a distant story on the way, "So I have determined the idea of passing on the country to you, but in those years, your expression has really disappointed me, lingering in the flower shop, singing every night, and making your body and bones unkind." ”

Li Chengqian laughed at himself, and finally slowly spoke: "Father, I was only fourteen or fifteen years old at that time, and I first met people, and I thought that you were going to abolish me, and I was afraid every night, so I had to find some feelings in the fat powder pile. ”

What is a little surprising is that when the emperor heard this, he didn't get angry, but smiled and said: "Cheng Ze is too restless, but he is smart, and he finally sees clearly what I think in my heart, but he has already come out, so I have to continue walking. ”

"A knife may be sharpened, but if it is not sharpened, it will never be sharp. The emperor opened his eyes, looked at his son calmly, and said: "The second child did not grind you, but dulled you, and it happened to be in Kyoto ......"

Li Chengqian laughed, thinking of the first time he saw Fan Xian outside the courtyard, when he was the crown prince, how could he have looked at this son of the squire, who knew that the son of the squire finally became his own brother, and became the hardest whetstone in the tempering of the imperial inheritance.

"You've improved a lot in the last two years. The emperor sighed and said slowly: "I don't know if you have matured in age, or Yun Rui has taught you a lot of things, the government and the opposition have recognized your identity as the crown prince, and you are also very satisfied with your appearance." ”

Hearing the word Yun Rui, the corners of Li Chengqian's lips couldn't help twitching, and he immediately let go of his heart, smiled slightly with great courage, and said, "You let me follow my aunt to learn political affairs, which naturally has some effect. ”

The emperor didn't get angry, but said lightly: "The so-called political affairs, it is good to have Shu Hu and two scholars to teach you, in fact, you also know that what I let you learn from Yun Rui is the art of power and strategy, looking around the world, I can no longer find a few better teachers than Yun Rui." ”

"How nice it would be to go on like this. The emperor said softly: "There are still many things that cannot be learned, and when I am old, you should also see a lot of things, and the last emperor's mental skills should also be proficient, at that time, I can rest assured that this piece of country will be passed on to you." ”

Li Chengqian's mood is a little weird, although he has been the prince since he was a child, but his father has always been strict with him, and he lacks warmth, so he has developed his own cowardice...... But it seems to be the first time.

"Anzhi told me everything about Kyoto. The emperor said gently: "Your cousin is good, and your cousin in the rebellion is very decent, but there are a few problems. ”

For the last time, Li Chengqian, as the crown prince, knelt beside the emperor and bowed down to ask for advice.

"The struggle for power in the world does not need any warmth, no need for any jealousy, He Zongwei led the imperial history to disobey the court, and you should be killed as a court staff. ”

The emperor's gaze was extremely cold: "An Zhi persuaded the Chinese courtiers of the dynasty to fight you in the ring at the enthronement ceremony, and you should kill you." ”

He looked at his son, as if he was teaching him one last time, and said, "As long as someone stands in the way, just kill, you might as well be safe." ”

The emperor then said: "The two scholars of the middle school, as well as those scholars, if you don't kill them, what effect can this play? This is the biggest mistake you made in the Kyoto incident...... If Yun Rui handled this matter personally, instead of you and the queen mother discussing it, maybe Kyoto would have been settled long ago, and the court would have been washed out of blood, and Fan Xian would not have had time to launch it at all. ”

Li Chengqian smiled bitterly, let out a long sigh, looked at his father and said softly: "Father, do you know why I can't bear to kill those ministers?"

Without waiting for the emperor to speak, Li Chengqian said quietly: "Maybe you have forgotten that at the beginning of your intention to abolish the reserve...... It is these old ministers who have courageously stood up against your will and stood behind me to support me...... The child may not be a very powerful person, but a person who knows how to repay his kindness, although Hu Shu and the two scholars support the child for the sake of the country, but I am ...... I can't bear to do it to them. ”

The emperor was silent, not knowing what he was thinking, but after a while, he suddenly spoke: "When I decided to abolish you, there were still people who were trying to redeem you. ”

Li Chengqian was taken aback, and a picture immediately appeared in his mind, on the way to Nanzhao, the Qingwan who had been faintly following the mission, said in a slight shock: "Fan Xian?"

He knew that Wang Shisanlang was Fan Xian's person, but he didn't know why Fan Xian did this, until the emperor pointed out at this time, and his heart couldn't help but have infinitely complicated feelings, he didn't know that the private matter between himself and the eldest princess was broken by Fan Xian, and he repeatedly smacked and touched it in his heart, and thought of the beginning of the defeat, Fan Xian was ready to let himself escape from the palace, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "An Zhi is a real person, just like you, and occasionally has a true affection. ”

"I'm not as good as him. After a long silence, the crown prince sighed, then he stood up, kowtowed to the emperor very seriously, and said solemnly: "Father, the child has always had a grudge against you in his heart, and now he can listen to his father's instructions, and his heart is much better...... But the child had a word before he left...... The family has already died enough, and I ask my father to be more lenient to these people who are still alive. ”

Kuanren, which naturally means that the emperor's previous methods were too harsh, the emperor's face suddenly became cold, but when he heard these three words before leaving, for some reason, the emperor did not get angry, but looked at Li Chengqian with an extremely complicated look, and slowly said: "I promise you." ”

A gust of early autumn night breeze poured in from the north side of the imperial city, and the still water whistled along the corridor and garden in the palace, adding a bit of sorrow.

"Survive, I ...... It can be as if something didn't happen. The emperor opened his mouth and said something that surprised Li Chengqian.

A miserable smile appeared on Li Chengqian's face, he knew what kind of person his father was, the emperor first looked at his heart, since he had betrayed once, he could no longer gain the trust of the other party, not to mention that the matter between himself and his aunt had already killed the other party's reverse scale, although why this was a reverse scale, no one ever knew.

A lifetime of seclusion, Li Chengqian will not take over, as a man of the Li family, there is always the courage to kill himself, his eyes calmed down, looked at the emperor and said softly: "What's the point of saying such things at this time?"

"I asked earlier how this passage would be recorded in the history books. ”

"Now we are rebellious ministers and rebels, and everyone is condemned for it, colluding with foreign enemies to defile the court...... You are a glorious generation of kings, you have done nothing wrong, everything is someone else's. ”

The emperor's face had already returned to calm, and he quietly listened to Li Chengqian's indifferent and deep words.

"But you seem to have forgotten a little, no matter how much it is smeared in the history books, but you must always remember how many people died in Kyoto in this month of the early autumn of the seventh year of the Qingli calendar, and the Li family died a grandmother, a queen, an eldest princess, a prince, and a prince. ”

Li Chengqian sighed, and for the first time, he looked at his invincible father with an equal, even superior gaze, and said: "You will be the first emperor of the ages in the history books, and your side is so clean, and there is no one who is clean, won't you be lonely?"

The emperor looked at him indifferently, didn't say anything, and chuckled slightly at the corner of his lips, as if to show that the gods above the nine heavens could care about the loneliness on the top of the clouds and the excitement of the world.

Then he stood up and walked out of the gate of the East Palace, and when he was at the gate of the palace, his heart moved slightly, and he took out a letter from his sleeve, which was the suicide note of the second prince, which was previously handed to him by the palace coder.

The emperor took out the thin piece of letter paper and saw what his second son wanted to tell him when he was dying.

On the letter paper are two lines of extremely scribbled words, the pen and ink with dry silk, obviously hastily made, but the turn is powerful, like a sword piercing the back of the paper, full of anger and unwillingness.

Emperor Qing threw the first whetstone in the court, the third prince Li Chengze, in the last suicide note to his high-ranking father, who was similar to the prince, but the words were more piercing and more scathing, especially the four words at the end.

"Widowed!widowed!lonely!"

Old and without a wife is for widowhood, no one in the world is close to is a widow, widow is widowed for motherless and alone, old and childless...... It's for the only one!

Dadong Mountain extended the battle of Kyoto, and the Emperor of Qingguo broke the two great masters of the world in a row, induced to clear the restless factors in the imperial family and the army, singled out the yīn thieves in the imperial court, and laid the great cause of unifying the world after Rì in one fell swoop.

However, the empress died, the woman of the year died a long time ago, the empress dowager died, she accompanied the emperor for twenty years, the eldest princess who gave him her green chūn years also died, the crown prince died, the second prince died, and everyone died.

Only one of the emperor is left, and there is only one lonely person.

Emperor Qing looked at the letter indifferently, his fingers trembled slightly, and the letter paper suddenly turned into a pile of white powder, which slipped from between his fingers, and was blown by the autumn wind at the entrance of the East Palace, and was scattered in all directions, like a bleak snow.

A faint pain flashed in his eyes, his brows furrowed extremely tightly, the words of the two sons before they died, pierced deeply into the heart of this king, the white hair on the middle-aged man's sideburns became deeper and deeper, his eyes gradually dimmed, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be wet, but his body was still so upright, strong and unmoving.

............ The door of the East Palace was closed tightly again, and no one knew what was going on inside, but everyone knew that the last days of the deposed crown prince Li Chengqian would inevitably be spent in this deserted palace, but at some point, the palace bell rang again, or it rang with disdain, and just watched his death indifferently.

The emperor dispersed all the subordinates, leaving only Fan Xian to accompany him, and walked silently towards the depths of the harem in the middle of the night, all the way through the Chen Corridor, through the cold palace, through the vines and barren grass, and again came to the front of the small building that had not been visited for a long time.

The father and son did not go upstairs or look at the portraits in the building. The emperor only glanced at the small building silently for a few moments, but then resolutely turned around and walked away, following the path of autumn grass, to a place where no one was.

Fan Xian silently followed three steps behind him, and his heart was heavy, there was no need to disguise it, it was really heavy. Vaguely, he could guess the mood of His Majesty the Emperor at this time, so many relatives died one after another, although these relatives were enemies that he had to get rid of...... But no one can get rid of flesh and blood.

His Majesty is like a god, but he is still a mortal person, and he can forget his feelings in the world, but if he is really too high, why struggle in this world?

The successive deaths made Fan Xian's mood depressed, not to mention the emperor, no matter what, this middle-aged man with a somewhat tired face, he was a father, a brother, a husband, and a son after all.

The two of them stood in the knee-deep grass, maintaining a tacit silence, looking at the quiet palace at night. The emperor didn't speak, and Fan Xian naturally didn't dare to speak, just cautiously paying attention to his side expression.

The emperor was silent for a long time, and never spoke, he had a lot of things to say to people in his heart at this time, but Fan Xian was just his son.

"Let's go back to the palace. ”

"Yes. ”

Fan Xian responded, his face was heavy, the emperor turned around and saw this look, his heart darkened slightly, and his feelings for this son became better and better, coupled with the words that the prince had said before, he couldn't help but make the emperor fall into contemplation again.

After pondering for a moment, the emperor waved his hand a little weakly and said, "If you are still unwell, come to the palace and ask me." ”

Fan Xian was shocked, knowing what this sentence meant, and when he was about to say something, he found that the emperor had turned around and left.

............ Returning to the imperial study, after eating some supper, the emperor was a little tired, Fan Xian yù left the palace, but was stopped by the emperor, it seemed that he needed someone to accompany him at this time.

After a while, Eunuch Yao came in and whispered something, and the emperor nodded, letting Fan Xian go back to the house to rest on his own, and then enter the palace to discuss matters. Fan Xian took the order and went out, but on the corridor outside the door of the imperial study, he heard an extremely familiar sound, which was the sound of a wheelchair rolling on the ground.

He knew that His Majesty was watching him from behind, and in the dim light of the imperial study, he showed a gentle face, bowed deeply to the old man in the wheelchair, and said, "You are here." ”

Chen Pingping finally returned to Kyoto, to the Imperial Palace, and to the side of His Majesty the Emperor, just when His Majesty was the loneliest and most in need of people.

There was silence in the imperial study, and the emperor looked at his most loyal courtier, his most intimate friend, and his most reliable comrade-in-arms, closed his eyes and said, "I ...... Pushing these sons too hard. ”