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

Eunuch Yao went through the difficult time on Dadong Mountain with His Majesty, and after the sacrifice of Old Man 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 performance, no one had any doubt that Fan Xian would have supreme power in the future.

Fan Xian whispered something in Eunuch Yao's ear, Eunuch Yao's face was slightly suspicious, he didn't dare to question Fan Xian's order, and at this time he couldn't ask His Majesty in the East Palace, so after a few thoughts, he took a group of people outside the East Palace to the periphery, and kept 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 saying 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 sake, because only a few people in the world 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 yin and private affairs in those palaces, no one would be happy.

Fan Xian pursed his dry lips. looked at the East Palace with worried eyes. I want to be soft on the outside and strong on the inside, but I'm afraid that I will have to walk the same path as the second child after all. Think about it. In fact, he is really a bit complicated, and he is the one who forced the prince to a dead end. It's just that...... Who would have thought that things would develop like this. He and Chen Pingping did those things secretly. It seems to drive wolves and tigers. Unexpectedly, in the end, a real dragon shook out in the world.

for a few years. All the people around His Majesty passively or actively stood on the opposite side of His Majesty's land, and Chen Pingping and Fan Xian finally succeeded in turning His Majesty into a loner. However, it is lonely and lonely. is outnumbered, but he is still the top one in the world. And once the momentum was full of vomit. to swallow the sun and the moon. made Fan Xian feel cold.

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The situation in the East Palace was not the same as Fan Xiandi guessed. The emperor and the crown prince, father and son, did not say a few words at the beginning, and fell into some kind of hysterical family and vernacular quarrel. Truly royalty. There will never be such an agitator as Ma Jingtao. Some are just apathetic. Chill depression. Calm down. Cold.

The emperor sat at ease on the stone steps. The legs were extremely open, looking at the door of the East Palace. Thinking about many years ago. Waiting outside the palace gate for the good news of the queen's birthplace. There was a lot of joy in the palace that day. The Queen Mother was very happy. But his mood is a little more solemn than joy.

It wasn't until the pregnant woman outside the palace sent a letter that he became happy, knowing that the other party was really not an ordinary woman in the world. He never took the dragon chair to heart at all, 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. This unhappiness has long since become a forgotten emotion. Only occasionally he was on the small building of the harem. When looking at the woman in the yellow shirt in the painting. I can't help but complain a few words, An Zhi is your child, isn't it my child?

Twenty years. The child, who was destined to be the successor to the throne of Qingguo as soon as he was born, has grown up. He was sitting beside him at this time, his long hair supple behind him. There is only calm and resignation between the eyebrows.

And the woman outside the palace is a child in the womb. At this time, it was outside the East Palace. I don't know where I was standing, watching the movement of the East Palace.

The emperor subconsciously went up from the front of the steps. Took the teacup that the prince drank from the ground. Brought it to his lips and took a sip. But they don't know whether it's hot or cold.

"After all, I Daqing was not long after the founding of the country. "For some reason, the Emperor chose to speak from here. Said slowly: "Although the Northern Qi is only the second generation, he inherited the Great Wei Zhizuo, but the internal stability is much more stable. More than ten years ago, the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty died violently, and the empress was young. The prince is young, if he is placed in my Daqing, I am afraid that the forced palace will become a ...... 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.

"That's why. It's because I'm Daqing from the battlefield. The military is powerful and accustomed to reasoning with the sword. Etiquette and imperial power are not very convincing. The emperor's gaze was a little indifferent. "So if you want to be the monarch of Daqing, you don't just blindly be lenient. It is necessary to have iron and tenacity. ”

He turned to look at his son. He said, "You grew up in the palace since you were a child, but when you were eight years old, you had a Renming ......," he said. 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, and the world has been in dispute for 50 years. The old royal families everywhere will not be convinced, and they will be half a hundred years old, but they will lay the foundation of ten thousand years...... I only had time to conquer this country. But I want you to guard 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 things in the next few decades as early as more than ten years ago.

"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 had his eyes closed, as if he were telling a distant story on the way, "That's why I have a firm idea of passing on the country to you." Just in those years. Your performance is really disappointing to me, lingering in the flower shop. Singing every night. It's not like a bone in your own body. ”

Li Chengqian laughed at himself, and finally slowly spoke: "Father." I was fourteen or fifteen years old. First acquaintance with personnel. I thought you were going to abolish me. Night and night in fear. I had to find some feeling in the fat powder pile. ”

Somewhat surprisingly, the emperor did not get angry when he heard this. Instead, he smiled and said, "Cheng Ze is too restless."

Bright. I finally saw what I was thinking. But he had no choice but to keep going. In this sense. Your second brother is a deep heart. ”

"The knife may be sharpened. But without grinding, it can never be sharp. The Emperor opened his eyes. Calmly looked at his son. said: "The second child didn't grind you, but dulled you, and it happened to be in Kyoto......"

Li Chengqian laughed. I thought of the first time I saw Fan Xian outside the courtyard, when he was the crown prince. He Zeng looked at this son of a squire in his eyes. Who knows the son of this squire. In the end, he became his own brother. It has become the hardest whetstone in the tempering of the imperial succession.

"You've improved a lot in the last two years. The Emperor sighed. Said slowly: "I don't know if I'm getting older." Yun Rui has taught you a lot of things, the government and the opposition have recognized your status as a prince, and your performance has made me very satisfied. ”

Hear the word Yunrui. The corners of Li Chengqian's lips couldn't help twitching, and then he opened his heart, smiled with great courage, and said, "You let me follow my aunt to study political affairs, which naturally has some effect. ”

The emperor was not angry. just said lightly: "The so-called political affairs." It's good to have two scholars to teach you, in fact, you know it. I let you learn from Yunrui. It's a trick of trickery. Look around the world. I couldn't find a better teacher than Yun Rui. ”

"How nice it would be to go on like this. The emperor said softly: "There are still many things that you can't learn, and when you get old, you should also see a lot of things, and in the end, the emperor's mind should also be proficient." At that time, I was relieved to pass on this piece of land to you. ”

Li Chengqian was in a strange mood. Although he has been a prince since childhood. But his father has always been more than strict with himself. lacks warmth, so he developed his own cowardly temperament. Although his temperament has changed a lot in the past two years. But he sat with his father like this, and told each other...... But it seems to be the first time.

"Yasuyuki told me everything about Kyoto. The Emperor said gently, "You have behaved well, and you have behaved well in the rebellion. There are just 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. You don't need any warmth, you don't need 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 teaching him one last time, he said, "As long as someone stands in the way, just kill." At this point, you might as well be safe. ”

The emperor then said: "The two scholars of the sect, as well as those scholars, if you don't kill them, what effect can this play? This is the biggest mistake you have 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 the land, 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 immediately a picture appeared in his mind, on the way to Nanzhaodi, the Qingwan who had been faintly following the mission, said in a slight startle: "Fan Xian?"

He knew that Wang Shisanlang was from Fan Xian, but he didn't know why Fan Xian did this, until the emperor pointed out at this time, and he couldn't help but have infinitely complex emotions in his heart, he didn't know that the private affairs between himself and the eldest princess were broken by Fan Xian. Repeatedly smacking in my heart. It is also reminiscent of the beginning of the failure. Fan Xian was about to start escaping from the palace, and couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "An Zhi is a real person. Same as you. Occasionally, there is also a true temperament. ”

"I'm not as good as him. After a long silence. The crown prince let out a long sigh, and then he stood up, kowtowed to the emperor with great seriousness, and said solemnly, "Father." The child has always had a grudge against you in his heart. Today, I can listen to my father's instructions. My heart is much better than that...... But the child had a word before he left...... Enough of the family has died. I also ask my father to be merciful to those who are still alive. ”

Kuanren. The meaning naturally is that the emperor's previous methods were too harsh. The emperor's face suddenly turned cold. But when I heard these three words before leaving, I don't know why. The emperor was not angry. Instead, he looked at Li Chengqian with an extremely complicated look. He spoke slowly, "I will answer you. ”

A gust of early autumn night breeze poured in from the north of the Imperial City. Along the corridors and gardens of the palace, the still water roars by. Add a little sadness.

"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 man his father was, and the emperor looked at it first. Since I have betrayed once. Then you will no longer be able to gain the trust of the other party. Not to mention the affairs between himself and his aunt. has already killed the opponent's scales. Although why this is a reverse scale. No one knows.

has been imprisoned all his life, Li Chengqian will not take over, as a man from Li Jiadi. There is always a place for 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 rebels and rebels. Everybody gets it. colluding with foreign enemies to defile the court...... You are a glorious king. You didn't do anything wrong. Whatever is wrong is someone else's land. ”

The Emperor's face had returned to calm. Quietly listening to Li Chengqian's indifferent tone. And the words that go to the bone.

"But you seem to have forgotten one thing, no matter how it is scribbled in the history books, but always remember that in this month of the early autumn of the seventh year of the Qingli calendar. How many people died in Kyoto, and a grandmother died in the Li family. Dead queen. The eldest princess died. A crown prince and a prince died. ”

Li Chengqian sighed. Use one for the first time. He even looked at his invincible father emperor above him. It will be the first emperor of the ages in the history books. And you're around. It's so clean, so clean that there is no one, won't it be lonely?"

The emperor looked at him indifferently. Didn't say anything. The corners of his lips chuckled. It seems to indicate that the gods of the earth above the nine heavens care about the loneliness on the top of the clouds and the liveliness of the world.

Then he stood up. walked out of the gate of the East Palace. At the palace gate, my heart moved slightly. Take a letter out of your sleeve. This letter is the suicide note of the second prince. It was previously given to him by the Imperial Palace.

The Emperor took out the thin piece of letterhead. Look at your second son on the verge of death. What exactly do you want to tell yourself.

On the letter were two lines of extremely scribbled words. The pen and ink are withered. It is obvious that it was made in a hurry. However, 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 testament, he shouted to his high-ranking father that the meaning was similar to that of the prince, but the words were more harsh. More snarky. Especially the last four words.

"Widowed!widowed!lonely!"

Old and without a wife is for widowhood. No one in the world is close to him, and he is a widow. Losing one's mother is to be alone. Old and childless...... It's for the only one!

Dadong Mountain extended the battle of Kyoto, and Emperor Qingguo broke the two great masters of the world in a row, induced to clear the restless factors in the royal family and the army, and singled out the thieves in the court, laying the great cause of unifying the world in the future in one fell swoop. This has been a reality for decades. There is no doubt that it is the most glorious time in Emperor Qing's life.

However, the queen died, and the woman who was in the land had already died, and the queen mother died. accompanied the emperor for twenty years. The eldest princess who paid for him also died. The crown prince died, the second prince died, and all the earthlings died.

Only the emperor was left alone, and he was alone.

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

A dull ache flashed in his eyes. The brows were furrowed extremely tightly, and the words of the two sons before they died pierced deeply into the heart of this king, and the gray hair on the middle-aged man's temples became deeper and deeper. His eyes gradually dimmed, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be wet. Yet his body was still so tall and strong.

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The door to 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 abolished crown prince Li Chengqian would inevitably be spent in this deserted palace, but at some point, the palace bell rang again, or it was disdainful to ring, and he just watched him die indifferently.

The emperor dispersed all the underground people, leaving only Fan Xian alone, and silently walked 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 where no one had come for a long time.

The father and son did not go upstairs or look at the portrait in the middle of 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, his heart was heavy, there was no need to disguise, it was really heavy. Vaguely, he could guess the mood of His Majesty the Emperor at this time, so many relatives had died one after another, although these relatives were the enemies he had to get rid of...... But no one can get rid of flesh and blood.

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

The successive deaths made Fan Xiandi'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 middle of 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 he 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 he felt better and better about this son, coupled with what the prince 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 by the land, and when he was about to say something, he found that the emperor had turned around and left.

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Back in the imperial study, after some supper, the emperor was a little tired, Fan Xian wanted to leave 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, and asked Fan Xian to go back to the house to rest and enter the palace tomorrow. Fan Xian took the order and came out, but on the corridor outside the gate of the imperial study, he heard an extremely familiar voice, 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 expression, bowed deeply to the old man on the floor of the wheelchair, and said, "You are here." ”

Chen Pingping finally returned to Kyoto, returned to the Imperial Palace, and returned to His Majesty the Emperor's land, just when His Majesty the Emperor 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 ...... It's too hard to push these sons to the ground. ”