Forty years in the world, the vicissitudes of life.

As a living emperor, Liu Che's reign can be said to be the longest reigning emperor since Zhou.

This year, he was already seventy years old.

In the huge Chengde Hall of Weiyang Palace, Liu Che was dressed in a red robe, as if he had fallen asleep, and his white hair made him look like an old farmer in the field, and the wrinkles and furrows at the corners of his eyes described the old man of the Han Emperor in great detail.

"Your Majesty, Li Guang, the Marquis of Chengji, and Sima Qian, the Taishi Ling, are waiting outside the palace."

Outside the hall, the voice of the eunuch came from within.

Liu Che seemed to be awakened.

He opened his slightly relaxed eyes and said, "Let the two of them come in." ”

"No."

A moment later, Li Guang and Sima Qian, who were also full of white hair, entered the main hall.

He who does not raise his head prostrates:

"Minister Li Guang/Sima Qian, knock to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live."

"Alright, keep your head up, and get out of your way." Liu Che's thin old arm, which looked like old bark, was gently lifted from the wide red embroidered robe.

Li Guang and Sima Qian raised their heads at this time.

It is also this rise.

The two of them looked at the old man in red who was lying on the large dragon chair.

Sima Qian unconsciously lowered his head again, not daring to look directly at all.

Even Li Guang, who had a natural physique, just glanced at Liu Che and felt the majesty of that invisible existence.

My heart trembled slightly.

It's not complicated.

Today's Your Majesty, although he is old, but in his old age, he is completely like an old dragon.

Meiyu was gaseous, and he only needed to move slightly, so that he, the celestial general, also felt the pressure.

All this is because the martial arts achieved by Emperor Wu since this dynasty are too strong.

Emperor Wu, these two words are almost no longer unexpected, they are the title of the emperor of this dynasty.

The expedition to Korea in the east, the Baiyue in the south, the Xiongnu in the north, and the Western Regions in the west, in less than a hundred years, expanded the territory of the Han Dynasty by three to four times!

The territory is the country, the country is the national fortune, and now the national fortune on the old man in red is the Xia, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties several times, and no emperor of any generation can compare with him.

"I just had a dream......

When Li Guang and Sima Qian were thinking about things in their hearts, they heard the old man in red who had the appearance of an old dragon and said softly on his back:

"Do you know what I dreamed of?"

"I don't know." Li Guang and Sima Qian spoke at the same time.

Liu Che exhaled deeply, looked at the beams and pillars of Weiyang Palace above his head, his cloudy eyes were slightly moist, and said, "I, I dreamed of two old people forty years ago, one is called Wei Qing and the other is called Huo Quzhi...... I dreamed that they were galloping on the grassland, the Huns who fought were far away, the Monan who fought had no royal court, the Xiqiang who fought surrendered, the Korean vassals that were beaten, and the Western Regions surrendered to our Celestial Empire. ”

Sima Qian and Li Guang were speechless.

Especially Li Guang.

Mixed feelings.

Emperor Wu's dynasty was a dynasty that opened up the territory, and after Wei Huo, he obeyed Emperor Wu's orders and continued to send troops out.

But the truth is.

The monstrous martial arts achieved by this dynasty were almost entirely established when Wei and Huo were still there.

After Wei and Huo helped the dynasty to expand its territory three times.

Although Li Guang finally became the first person in the army to lead the army and establish a lot of merits, he spent forty years, and he could not overshadow everything that Wei and Huo had done in just seven or eight years.

"Your Majesty, the two generals have spirits, and they should be able to sense your thoughts about them." Sima Qian bowed his head and said.

"Nine Springs has a spirit?"

The old man in red suddenly lifted his upper body from the dragon chair, leaned forward, stared at Sima Qian with dead eyes, and his voice was loud:

"You really think they're dead?"

Sima Qian felt the sudden dragon power of the old man in red, his heart leaked half a beat, his face turned pale, and he felt as if an old dragon roared at him.

But this sky-shattering coercion only lasted for a breath or two.

Ahem!

The old man in red coughed violently.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Li Guang and Sima Qian were shocked at the same time:

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body!"

"Hehe, take care of the dragon body, I can't take care of myself."

Liu Che's head was buried, his messy white hair blocked his face, and his voice was hoarse:

"Wei Qing and Huo Quai, they should still be alive, but I am going to die."

"No, no, Your Majesty is the body of a true dragon, and he will never ......" Sima Qian's old face was anxiously comforted.

"Nothing never!"

The old man in red waved his sleeves, and then coughed a few times:

"I already knew about this day, to be precise, I knew when I was going to die when I was sixteen, so I was not afraid of this day when it came, because I had spent fifty-four years preparing and waiting, and I was lucky."

"Your Majesty." Li Guang didn't persuade like Sima Qian, because he could also see the dead qi on this old dragon's body, and said directly: "Your Majesty, do you want to explain something to the minister?" ”

Sima Qian also understood.

For a moment, there was silence in the hall.

Then, the old man in red spoke, looked at Sima Qian, and said:

"The book you wrote with half your life, I read it, I got sick, you affirmed the merits of the first half of my life in the book, but said that I didn't do it right in the next ten years, and said that I shouldn't have spent my whole life fighting abroad, until today, the Han has been fighting for more than 50 years, and you said that the life of the common people is very hard now."

Sima Qian was still a little frightened when he heard Emperor Wu's previous words, but when he heard the latter words, he slowly closed his eyes and said with an attitude of treating death as home:

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, offended Your Majesty, please kill the minister, but dare to ask Your Majesty to know that the people in the world today really can't fight anymore, especially in the last ten years, the world is close to the place where the people are not able to make a living."

"You want me to kill you, and then let me sit on the name of a tyrant, and I don't have what you want."

Liu Che looked at Sima Qian and sneered:

"You are a member of the Taishi family, and you comment on this dynasty with the words of a family, but do you really think that you know me very well?"

Sima Qian greeted Liu Che's eyes, deep, gloomy, and incomparably deep.

He could only bury his head: "The minister doesn't dare, and he is indeed not qualified to comment on His Majesty." ”

"If only you knew!"

Liu Che said in a deep voice:

"You are just a mortal, many things, in the end, only the descendants of heaven and earth know and comment, and future generations will know my life and what I am doing, they may say that I am a tyrant in my old age, but they will not forget that I have made my country and nation strong."

Sima Qian prostrate his head: "Your Majesty is a plan for future generations, Weichen is short-sighted, if Your Majesty is not satisfied with Weichen's Taishi book, the minister will delete the chapters that Your Majesty is dissatisfied with." ”

"No need, do you think I was forty years ago? Forcing you to rewrite the ending of Wei Huo? ”

The old man in red propped up his body, lay on the dragon couch, and said:

"I am dying, but I have this self-confidence, and many things are enough for future generations to comment."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Sima Qian slammed his head on the floor of the hall, bleeding blood and blurring his vision, but his voice was excited:

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Keep kowtowing.

"The last thing you said, I'll go out of the palace to see......"

The old man in red finished.

finally looked at Li Guang and said:

"After Sima Qian's matter is finished, you Li Guang are left, Li Guang, do you know what I want to say to you?"

Li Guang shook his head and said, "Weichen doesn't know, please show your majesty." ”

"I want to take back your military power, and from today onwards, put you back to your hometown and retire." The old man in red said lightly.

Li Guang was shocked in his heart, and immediately knelt down and buried his head: "Your Majesty." ”

"Li Guang, how old are you this year?" Liu Che asked, "Is it a hundred years old?" ”

Li Guang already knew what the reason was, closed his eyes, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is one hundred and five years old this year, and based on the life span of three hundred years in the world, the minister can live another hundred and ninety-five years." ”

"Yes, you can live for more than a hundred years, but I will die this year, after I die, if you don't dismiss the military power, what will I do with Fuling?" Liu Che closed his eyes and said indifferently: "Even if you are loyal to my Han Dynasty, will you be so loyal to the descendants of the Li family?" When the time comes, will this Jiangshan be surnamed Liu or surnamed Li? ”

Li Guang slammed his head on the ground and said: "The minister immediately dismisses all military powers, and is willing to swear by himself that he will be loyal to the Han in this life, and if he disobeys, he will be destroyed!" ”

"Don't be wronged." Liu Che said lightly: "I have issued an order to kill Fuling's biological mother, Mrs. Gouye, in order to clear all obstacles for him, but for you, I still remember your merits, so I only let you return to your hometown." ”

Li Guang's heart was shocked.

Mrs. Hook!

Suddenly, his back went numb.

I'm also scared in my heart.

Because he knew perfectly well that if His Majesty wanted to kill him, even if he was a celestial, he would be completely lifeless.

Only one holy decree was handed over to the Taixue Palace, and any one of them could rely on the power of national fortune after the holy decree to suppress themselves to death.

"You roughly think that I even killed my own woman, too ruthless, it is undeniable, Mrs. Hook is a good woman, but ......"

The old man in red said slowly:

"She is not a person from a clean background, she thinks I don't know, what her origin is, and wants to emulate the Empress Dowager Dou back then, but unfortunately, I am not Emperor Wen, I am an emperor who has experienced too many lessons from heaven and man, and I knew that she must have been born in a certain faction of the hundred families of all the sons, in vain to try to be in charge of the future women, and listen to the government."

Click!!

As Liu Che finished speaking, in the Hook Palace behind Weiyang Palace, a thunderbolt swept across the clear sky.

Mrs. Hook was put to death.

Heavy rain fell.

In the clouds, there was a faint shadow of the Heavenly Gate flashing, and a woman floated into the Heavenly Gate.

That night, this heavy rain also announced the end of the only remaining flying general of the Han Dynasty, Cheng Jihou Li Guang.

After January.

Someone came to report that Mrs. Goya's body was parked but not stiff, and the fragrance had been permeating for a month.

Somewhere in the Central Plains.

The station of the Yin Sect.

A group of old people sighed.

"The saintess who has stepped into the realm of ascending to heaven has been forced to be autopsied, the primordial spirit has soared, and she can no longer stay in the world, the hateful Liu Che, she is dead, and she has put us together."

"It was also our bad luck to meet Liu Che, an emperor who combines the fortune of the world!"

"It seems that our generation's hope that women will live in the palace is not complete, but at least we have accumulated experience for future generations, and I believe that sooner or later there will be women from our Yin Sect who will be able to occupy that big seat!"

…………

On this day, Liu Che came to a village outside Chang'an City with his dying body.

When the emperor's chariot and horse came here.

The whole village was in a stir.

Dozens of old people burst into tears of excitement and rushed towards the car.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"The old man finally sees His Majesty again!"

Liu Che looked at the toothless old man kneeling at the front, and couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, and stepped forward and asked, "Have you seen me?" ”

The old man's face was red with excitement, and he stepped forward and said proudly: "Your Majesty, I was a pawn under the command of the hussar general back then, after the conquest of the Xiqiang tribes, you gave me a medal on the Vermilion Bird Street in the capital, Your Majesty, you are a ruthless person!" I'll never forget that day in my life! You said that we want to lay a big territory for future generations!! ”

"Your Majesty, I also participated in that battle!"

Liu Che looked at the large number of old people kneeling on the ground, shocked, some with broken legs and some with broken arms.

"Your Majesty, our village is a famous meritorious village in Chang'an City, and there is an inscription from the imperial court!"

The old people excitedly and proudly pointed out to Liu Che the glory of their village for a lifetime.

But Liu Che looked at the tattered clothes on these people, but he was heartbroken, and said, "How have you lived like this all these years?" ”

"Your Majesty, everyone has been like this, and we are the same, all for our Han Dynasty!" The old people said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, can you go to my house and sit down?" The lame old man said excitedly.

"Well, look at ......," Liu Che said with his eyes closed.

When he entered the homes of these old soldiers, he saw the embarrassment of the children with no clothes and leaking air on all sides.

The old man in red couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

He raised his head, and his heart ached: "After so many years of fighting, it turns out that my people are living such a life? ”

In an instant, his eyes went dark and he fainted.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

A group of people hurriedly took Liu Che back to Weiyang Palace.

The next day, Liu Che woke up.

But only three days later did he choose to meet with the courtiers.

In the next two days, he was reading the history book of Natai compiled by Sima Qian.

The thoughts in my heart are turning over the river and the sea.

Sima Qian, Sima Qian, is this what you want me to see?

Day 3.

Liu Che had already made a decision, and he chose to call the four people to the dormitory.

Huo Guang, Jin Riyan, Shangguan Ji and Sang Hongyang.

The four of them entered to meet them.

Liu Che couldn't open his eyes anymore, and said: "I'm going to die, the reason why I called the four of you to come in is to entrust the four of you with a heavy responsibility, after I die, the four of you will be the auxiliary ministers, with Huo Guang as the head and auxiliary regent, and Kuang Fu Young Lord." ”

"Your Majesty, ten thousand years! Don't say that! The four of them hurriedly kowtowed.

Liu Che waved his hand and said, "There are two edicts here, one is the edict of Lifuling to succeed to the throne after my death, and the other is the edict of sin. ”

Guilty of his own edict.

When the four of them heard this, they were all shocked, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, you are the emperor, how can you offend yourself, you can't issue this edict!" ”

Liu Che only echoed the figures of the veterans of a hundred battles outside Chang'an City, and laughed miserably: "I really didn't expect that the life of the people in the world is so difficult and difficult now, although I have laid a big territory for future generations, but it has been hard for three generations.

As the emperor, but let the people of this dynasty live in dire straits, I am sorry for the people of my dynasty, I want to sin myself, but I don't have time to change it, let this edict be issued, and give an explanation to these three generations......"

"Your Majesty!!" The four ministers prostrate.

"I've finished explaining the affairs of the living."

Liu Che's voice was as thin as a gossamer, old and weak, and slowly said the last sentence:

"Now it's time for me to give an account to those underground......"

Bang!

On the land of the Central Plains, a thunderclap sounded.

this day.

It is Liu Che's eleventh year name.

February 14 of the second year of the Later Era.

In the long river of history, the Han emperor, who played the dignity and backbone for the descendants of the Han people, and expanded the territory of the Han family mountains and rivers by nearly four times, died in the Wuqi Palace and was buried in Maoling in March.

It is known as Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty in history, also known as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Although he has left the world.

But with the gains and losses of his life's achievements, his soul went straight down and came to an underground palace.

What awaits him is true immortality. (End of chapter)