The south gate of the Royal Palace.

Hua Manting stood in the Langfang at the door.

He was looking at Suzaku Avenue in the snow with his hands behind his back.

The snow was so heavy that there were few pedestrians on Suzaku Avenue.

Hua Manting's old eyes narrowed slightly, but his thoughts drifted to Guangling City, which was hundreds of miles away.

It's the same day, is it snowing in Guangling City?

If such a snow also falls in Guangling City, Huaping Lake will have a different taste.

March 3 to Guangling City, nearly nine months have passed in a blink of an eye.

These nine months have been very wonderful, witnessing many poems by Li Chen'an, a poet immortal.

These poems are all superb, and they can all be included in the "Ning Poetry Collection of 100 Articles", and they can all be ranked in the top 20!

The great Confucians of Tai Academy and Guozijian have mentioned the rewriting of "Ning Poetry Collection Yuan 100 Articles" in the past two days...... Rather than rewriting it, it would be more appropriate to write a separate book for Li Chen'an's poems, called "Poetry and Immortal Anthology".

When I thought of Li Chen'an, I remembered the dusk in the Qianmo Academy, and remembered the poem "Will Enter the Wine" written by Li Chen'an when he was drunk.

Hua Manting stroked his long beard and smiled.

Just then, footsteps were heard behind him.

He turned around and saw Li Chenan and Amu coming over.

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"It's such a cold day, it's my brother's fault to let my brother wait outside!"

Saying this, Li Chenan took out a golden dragon pendant from his arms and handed it to Hua Manting, "In the future, if I am still in the palace, you can enter the palace at any time with this thing." ”

Hua Manting looked at the golden dragon pendant, and after thinking about it, he took it.

"Your identity is different now, and you can't be as casual as before."

Li Chen'an raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips, "It's no different." ”

"Tell me the truth, it's hard work to be an emperor!"

"I'm a self-appointed regent, and that's a lot of every day!"

"Hey......"

"You didn't come in a carriage?"

"Get into my carriage, it just so happens that my brothers and I have a good chat, mainly because I want to spit out the bitter water in my stomach to you."

Hua Manting bent his eyebrows and immediately laughed.

"The first snow of the year, it's still early at this moment, why don't we just walk in the snow like this?"

“…… All right! It's just that I'm worried that you won't get frozen! ”

"Brother's body can survive for a few years, let's go, let's talk while walking."

So, Li Chen'an and Hua Manting walked side by side on Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow, which made Amu a little nervous.

He followed behind the two of them, watching the movements of the Quartet with extreme vigilance.

"I think it's unreasonable to go to work in the first place."

"Going to work?"

"It's the last dynasty, such a cold day, the end of the hour has just dawned, but you can get the class ...... when you are old."

Li Chenan spread his hands: "Get up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs,"

He shook his head, "This is not the life I want to live!" ”

Hua Manting laughed again, "Then what kind of life do you want to live?" ”

"Hehe, me, I just want to live the kind of happy days when I sleep until I wake up naturally, count the money and count until my hands cramp!"

Hua Manting glanced at Li Chen'an, "But if you let the people of the world choose, I'm afraid they will all want to be the emperor!" ”

"Isn't that for the power? Brother, power should match obligation! ”

"I mean that with great power comes great duty."

"The emperor is the most powerful person in the world, and his corresponding obligation is to let the people of the world live the best life!"

"Those who want to be emperors, they only see the supreme benefits that power brings to them, but they rarely think about how to use this power to seek a good future for the country and the people."

"So I'm not fit to be an official, because I find that I still have a little bit of a righteous conscience!"

"If you want to be a comfortable emperor, the best thing is to have no heart and lungs, get drunk and lie on the knees of beautiful people every day, and live that day of drinking, but I can't do it!"

"Hey...... This damn conscience! ”

"If it is eaten by a dog, I can play seventy-two tricks in the palace!"

Hua Manting laughed.

"You have a point."

"Throughout history, no matter which dynasty, the emperors who created the prosperous era have the same characteristic, that is, they are concerned about the world."

"And every emperor who has died in the country also has the same characteristic, that is, all the absurdity and immorality in the eyes are empty."

"Those who care about the world take the world as their own responsibility, regard the people as their parents, and think about the happiness and well-being of the people."

"So the people support, the officials are self-disciplined, the soldiers use their lives, the world is peaceful, the four seas are splendid, and the eight directions come to the court."

"And those who are immoral and unscrupulous, for their own pleasure, regard the people as cattle and horses, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant in the temples, and the soldiers of the border army are all sparing their lives......"

Hua Manting sighed and said as he walked:

"The world is big, and there are so many countries in the world."

"When one nation decays under the rule of the unenlightened, the rest of the nations rejoice, for what they see is a piece of fat that can be easily divided!"

"Their iron horsemen will step into this country, and the people of this country will not raise their swords to defend this rotten country. Even the country's armies become vulnerable at times like these, fleeing for their lives and becoming bandits. ”

"You...... Since there is still a little bit of justice and conscience, brother, I don't want to see this land of Ning Country being trampled on by the surrounding powers after all! ”

"Now that you are the regent of Ningguo, you have held the authority of Ningguo, and you should fulfill your obligations."

Before Hua Manting's words fell, Li Chenan raised his hand, "Stop!" ”

"Brother, my regent is temporary!"

"When I take the eldest son back and hand over this mess to him, I think, when the time comes, it will be good for the two of us to be on Peach Blossom Island, on Peach Blossom Mountain, or on the shore of Picping Lake."

"Let's drink the spring of the painting, talk about the wind and snow, and then chant poems...... You are a great Confucian, I am a poet immortal, when you leave a famous article in the world, isn't it better? ”

Hua Manting stopped, turned his head to look at Li Chenan, and was very puzzled between his eyebrows:

"You're a capable person!"

"Brother knows that you love beauties more than Jiangshan, but after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness is cured, you can't do anything for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo?"

Li Chenan touched his nose, "The main thing is that I'm too tired." ”

"In the world, who cares about being tired of anyone who can leave a name in history?"

Li Chenan didn't say anything more, and the three of them just turned from Suzaku Avenue to Qifen Alley.

In the face of Li Chenan's silence, Hua Manting thought that his words moved Li Chen'an, and Li Chen'an was thinking about it.

Li Chenan was indeed thinking.

But what he thought was a little different from what Hua Manting thought.

This discrepancy comes from the defense of his heart.

He doesn't mind competing for hegemony in the world, and he doesn't even mind ascending the throne as the emperor and becoming the emperor, but there must be a premise for all this-

Have a loyal following of your own!

There are a group of civil servants and military generals who can make themselves stand in the temple!

And all of this needs to be managed by oneself, which takes time, and the last thing I have at the moment is time!

Because Zhongli is like water, above all!

He could not ascend the throne as emperor, which was his choice after careful consideration.

An emperor without roots seemed to him to be like a puppet.

Besides, this matter is weird everywhere-

He and Xi Wei have never met, why did he support himself as the emperor?

What kind of conspiracy and calculation does he have behind this?

The Red Flame Army seemed to have obeyed his orders and went to the Endless Pass, but Li Chenan was never arrogant enough to think that the Red Flame Army was really loyal to him.

Although the Shenwu Army also obeyed his orders and went to Dongqu Pass, Mrs. Fan's last wish was to welcome back the eldest son of the emperor in Shuzhou and support him to ascend the throne as the emperor!

If he really sat on the throne, I was afraid that the Shenwu Army would not be willing.

Therefore, the people of Kyoto couldn't understand why Li Chenan gave up the low-hanging throne, and even those officials in the court had a lot of discussions about it, but Li Chenan was more sober than anyone else.

There will be no pie in the sky.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

So all this, after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness has a result, if the eldest son of the emperor is good, he will be happy to be a big businessman.

If it's ...... the other way around!