Day after day, time passed imperceptibly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, and the Eternal City was already filled with the spirit of the New Year.

Under the will of His Majesty, the imperial court suffered a great purge, but people knew what His Majesty was investigating, but they didn't know what His Majesty was going to investigate.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and gradually there are rumors that His Majesty is looking for a mysterious woman, and it seems that the matter that His Majesty is investigating is related to the late Prince Yu.

There were some old courtiers and big families who knew the truth about some of the events of the past, and after these rumors came out, everyone chose to keep silent and wait for the changes, and no one dared to say anything.

It's just that Pan Yun and Princess Dilan have never found any clues about the daughter of Prince Yu.

No one knows what her name is, no one knows what she looks like, no one knows whether she is in the imperial capital or not, it can be said that it is completely impossible to find someone in such a situation, and after the death of Count Cyril and Spiegel, there is no clue about her.

None of the dead soldiers and strong men she had captured who had secretly trained with Cyril and Spiegel knew about her, and no other powerful forces had any contact with her except Cyril and Spiegel.

However, Pan Yun and Princess Dilan, in this purge, found out many corrupt officials and corrupt officials......

In the face of such a situation, His Majesty was still very calm and calm, and even Princess Dilan didn't know what his plans were.

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On a very uneventful day at the end of December, His Majesty Leaned on the column called Di Xue to the imperial study alone, and asked Di Xue a very prosaic question: "Xiaoxue, do you want to be the emperor?"

Di Xue was very silent, her face was very calm, but her eyes were very strange and she looked at the leaning column who was leisurely sipping warm tea, Father is so strict with his question, you just crossed your legs and sucked the tea...... Is it really good?

Leaning on the railing, His Majesty waited for a while and didn't see Di Xue answer, and said a little seriously: "Actually, I wanted to ask you for a long time, but I forgot to ask too much recently, uh, it's not too late now, if you want to be, I will make you the prince in the New Year, and if you don't want to be, I will make you the prince." ”

Forgot to ask...... If you want to be the crown prince...... If you don't want to be a prince, you can be crowned...... Father, are you sure you're not telling a bad joke? You're really bored and making fun of me?!

Let's be serious!

Looking at Di Xue's increasingly weird eyes, Leaning on the railing, His Majesty finally put down the teacup, and said very seriously: "I am serious. ”

Hearing this, Di Xue fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he did not answer His Majesty's question first, but asked rhetorically: "Then the father and the emperor...... Do you want your sons to succeed you?"

Leaning on the railing, he smiled, beckoned to Di Xue and said, "You come here." ”

Di Xue walked to the side of the leaning column, and leaning on the column spread out a long scroll of long pictures on the table, which was the territory of the empire.

The Manhua Empire, which is composed of three major provinces, is located in the center of the map, and together with the Arctic Ice Sheet and the Extreme West Desert, it forms the entire Red Sea continent, and the southeast is a vast and endless ocean except for the East China Sea Islands.

Leaning on the railing, his finger wandered on the map and said: "Except for the Arctic Ice Sheet and the Arctic Desert, which are harsh and uninhabitable by humans, my Manhua Empire rules all the places that human footprints on the Red Sea Continent can reach, but the empire is not without enemies.

Your trip to the Fog Forest should feel the danger of a forbidden area for humans like the Xiyue Fog Forest, and among the thirty-two provinces of the Empire, there is far more than the Fog Forest. There are also the Arctic Ice Fields and the Extreme West Desert outside the borders of the empire, these two barren regions, except for the Warcraft and some barbarian tribes, have unimaginable sinister depths, and they are places that no master-level powerhouse wants to set foot in.

These threats on the Red Sea continent are actually secondary, and our empire has two biggest enemies, the nearest ......"

Glancing at Di Xue, he leaned on the fence and continued: "The first one is my empire itself!"

Historically, the biggest crisis of the empire has never come from the rise of other alien races, but from the internal division of the civil war, which has caused the entire empire to collapse several times, and the war has burned all over the continent, so the most worrying thing for our imperial clan has never been the threat of foreign races, but the empire itself.

And the second greatest enemy of my empire ......"

Leaning on the railing, His Majesty's hand left the continent map on the table: "It's the continent on the other side!"

The current continent on the other side is very similar to the church era on the Red Sea continent in the past, the church rules the entire land on the other side with the supreme divine right, and hundreds of countries under the church compete with each other, the strength of the church under this theocracy system will not be much worse than a unified continent, although the most powerful kingdoms on the other side of the continent are far from being comparable to our empire, but there will be development with competition, and there will be struggle with oppression, and if the church unites all kingdoms together, it is definitely a force to be reckoned with.

Moreover, the land on the other side has now developed a civilization that is very different from our Red Sea Continent, and their current civilization is more reflected in the overall national strength and military strength of the country, rather than the individual force of magic or vindictiveness......

The explosion in the airship case, as well as the explosion when the mirror committed suicide, should be caused by the product of the continent on the other side, the Brotherhood of Light recently cleaned up the Dark Brotherhood on the Red Sea Continent, and found that the strongholds of the Dark Brotherhood are basically set up with this kind of explosives, and they also have some weapons that we have never seen, those weapons do not need magic or vindictive control, ordinary people have a very powerful power in their hands, but unfortunately after the stronghold of the Dark Brotherhood is discovered, it will be detonated and self-destructed by the people of the Dark Brotherhood, so the Brotherhood of Light has not yet obtained that kind of explosives and those strange weapons。

The Church of God has never given up the idea of returning to the Red Sea Continent and destroying our empire, I think that they have not fought until now, not because they are not capable of fighting, but just waiting for the day when they think they can completely destroy our empire. ”

Di Xue had been quietly listening to her father's words, only leaning on the column when he mentioned the mirror of the platform for a while, leaning on the column majesty xià finally said: "I tell you this, I just want to tell you, being the emperor is not a simple matter, the Haohao Empire, there are too many things to worry about, there are various power struggles inside, and there are external threats that need to be guarded against.

Xiaoxue, you have a rare talent in cultivation, and Master Tina has high expectations for you, but if you want to succeed to the throne in the future, you must no longer be distracted by magic cultivation as you are now, and even concentrate on political affairs from next year.

Of course, I don't care that there is no more strong cultivator in the imperial family, we are a royal family, not a family of cultivators, and the world always says that there is no peerless strong person in my imperial family since Emperor Xiaotian and Emperor Chen...... Hehehe, that's true, but what does my imperial clan need to be a strong man for? My royal clan only needs to rule the strong!

What I care about is how you want to choose? Your life, you choose yourself! Don't ask me if I want you to succeed to the throne, I don't want my hope to become a burden for you to choose your life. ”

If there were other subjects of the empire here now, they would definitely be amazed by the open-mindedness of His Majesty, but Di Xue was not surprised by his father's words, he had long been accustomed to his father's unconventional cards.

In fact, the question asked by His Majesty was not unthought about by Di Xue.

Di Xue knows that his character is not suitable for being an emperor, being an emperor must not only be wise and wise, but also ruthless enough, when he needs to kill, he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, such as leaning on the fence to destroy Prince Yu Manmen back then, not entirely because of hatred, but also to completely cut off the troubles, what is the situation of endless troubles? What the daughter of Prince Yu has done recently proves that as an emperor, His Majesty can't joke with the lives of his relatives, and he must be ruthless when he should be ruthless.

But Di Xue can't do such a thing, especially when he is facing people close to him.

Ever since that time when he and his sister Dilan found the daughter of the Emperor or Prince Yu and wanted to plant a seed of suspicion for him, he couldn't help but wonder if one day in the future, he really encountered a situation where he would have to fight against his brother for power......

Phantom Xiao is still young and ignorant, but what about the future? Will he be unwilling?

Di Xue himself has always had no feelings about being an emperor, he was born with a weak temperament and no ambition, but he was born in the royal family, this is not a question of whether you want to or not, but a kind of responsibility that you are born with.

However, looking at the current tone of His Majesty, it seems that it really doesn't matter whether it is him who bears this responsibility or not, let him choose for himself.

And Di Xue does have what he wants to do.

He wants to become strong, to find a way to communicate with the Heroic Spirit, and to try to concoct a healing elixir to resurrect his mother, who should not be disgraced, she is such a beautiful and kind person, she deserves the happiness and joy she deserves.

The empire also needs a strong man to protect, a master strong man has an immeasurable role in the empire, not just as simple as force deterrence, he has a rare magical talent, maybe fate is destined to fulfill his responsibilities as a royal child in this way.

And also...... Taylor is a disciple of Master Herris, and is the leader of the future Brotherhood of Light, and the Brotherhood of Light is not allowed to interfere in politics, even if Master Herris did not explicitly object to him being with Taylor after the last time Red Maple Town was not, but if he is the emperor, there is really some trouble for Taylor to be his queen, there are Conservative Party in any organization, and some elders of the Brotherhood of Light may not be willing to agree.

Therefore, not long after the words of His Majesty fell on the column, Di Xue said very decisively: "Erchen invites his father to give Erchen the position of prince." ”

Leaning on the railing, His Majesty looked at Di Xue with deep eyes: "Have you thought about it? This road is actually harder and more dangerous than being an emperor." ”

Di Xue did not hesitate: "Erchen is willing to go, although he does not expect to become a peerless figure like Emperor Xiaotian or Emperor Chen......"

His Majesty suddenly interrupted him: "Why can't you? If you want to do it, you have to be the strongest! My cultivation realm is not high, but I know that without the strongest heart, I can never become the most powerful person! My empire is the most powerful empire in the world, and my imperial clan is the proudest bloodline in the history of the mortal world, and if the children of the imperial family specialize in cultivation, they will definitely be able to become the strongest in the world and even in the higher realm!"

Emperor Xue was like an initiation: "Sons and daughters remember the teachings of their father!"

Leaning on the railing, His Majesty nodded with satisfaction.

After coming out of the imperial study, Di Xue came back to her senses and thought about it, and suddenly her face collapsed.

At first, the tone and attitude ...... In fact, my father didn't want to succeed to the throne himself, my father wouldn't have known that his temperament was not suitable for being an emperor, and he didn't realize it at the time......

Forget it, anyway, it's still early for my father to be in middle age, and he may have any plans and plans, anyway, the emperor is such a drudgery, who loves whoever wants it!

In Di Xue's opinion, his sister Di Lan is more suitable to be an emperor than him......