Zhu Liye, the monarch of the Ming Dynasty, was the son of heaven, and with the support of Gao Gonggong, he came to the other courtyard. He wears a Tai Chi robe and a purple dragon crown on his head, and the Son of Heaven cultivates the Tao, and when he is not dealing with government affairs, he is mostly dressed like this in the palace.

Zhu Liye is not a diligent emperor, he has been on the throne for 20 years, and he rarely has a personal government, but he uses a check-and-balance technique to play with the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and even Yuwen Tianlu and Li Chuntie have fallen one after another.

His appearance immediately made Lu Guogong panic, and he quickly knelt down, but Zhu Liye said impatiently, "Waiting for the order, I have something to say to Dean Li." ”

Gao Gonggong and Lu Guogong stood not far away.

Li Chuntie didn't get up, didn't even look at him, slowly poured the wine, and tasted it slowly. In Lu Guogong's view, this is a great disrespect to the Son of Heaven, if it is really investigated, it will be a loss of head.

This is the first time Li Chuntie has met Zhu Liye in a year.

Since returning from the Western Xinjiang and returning to the capital, Zhu Liye has taken over his rights, at first he just avoided him, until a few months ago, he was imprisoned by a holy decree. Although the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not discuss it clearly, there were many discussions in private, and even Lu Guogong and others listened to the news with Gao Gonggong, but there was no result.

But the number one henchman of the Son of Heaven, the head of the first spy of the Ming Dynasty, was imprisoned, which released an extremely strong signal that the Son of Heaven was going to make a big move.

Zhu Liye had a calm face, "In the past few months, you have not broken your own defense, and you have not asked for guilt, have you not explained to me?"

Hand over?

Explain what?

Li Chuntie knows that confessing is death, and not confessing is death. Dragging can protect people outside.

He looked at Zhu Liye and said calmly, "The old minister is worthy of it." ”

Zhu Liye was furious, "You mean I'm wrong?"

"You can't be wrong. ”

"Now that you know that I'm right, you and Yuwen Tianlu have teamed up to act in a drama for me for twenty years, don't you owe me an explanation?"

Li Chuntie smiled, ?" Which explanation does Your Majesty want to hear? Is it Wujing? Or Zhu Houyi?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Lu Guogong and Gao Gonggong, who were not far away, took a few steps back, silently recited in their hearts, did not listen or listen, Wang Ba recited the scriptures, and was still not at ease, so he retreated again until he reached the root of the wall, and there was nowhere to retreat, and he pretended to chat.

Seeing this, Zhu Liye shouted, "Get out!"

The two of them breathed a long sigh of relief, "Obey!"

This is the first time that the two of them feel happy because they have been scolded by the emperor, after all, the next conversation, no matter what the content is, will fall into the ears of the two, and it will become a trigger for losing their heads in the future.

It is normal for people to seek good fortune and avoid evil.

Zhu Liye's expression softened a little, and he sighed, "Back then, when I was still King Yong, I made you and Yuwen Tianlu conspire with the world, and I also thought to myself at that time, the three of us worked together to create a prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty, and we will also be like Tang Taizong, Wei Zheng, and the eldest grandson Wuji, and achieve a good story in history." Now, in the blink of an eye, twenty years later, it has ended up in such a field!"

These words were so emotional, but Li Chuntie's heart was like a wave of an ancient well.

He has served Zhu Liye for more than 20 years, removed too many confidants for him, done too many private things, and knew him too well.

Cold, ruthless, selfish, and happy, but also very fond of fame.

All the credit belongs to Zhu Liye, he wants to become the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, the first emperor of the ages. And the killing and blood in it are all the rebellious ministers and thieves.

If it were other courtiers, such as Lu Guogong, they would definitely be grateful, throw themselves to the ground, and then show their loyalty to the Son of Heaven, but Li Chuntie is not, and Zhu Liye's set is not easy for him to use.

From the moment he was locked up, he already knew his fate.

"For several months, I have not removed you from your position, and I have not embarrassed your subordinates, but in order for you to reflect here, as long as you are willing to explain, you are still my right-hand man, my minister, but ......" Zhu Liye said, "You have chilled my heart." ”

Li Chuntie slowly closed the book.

"Your Majesty, do you still have a heart?"

This sentence is not in a hurry or slow, but the words are like steel nails, piercing into Zhu Liye's heart. He trembled with anger and pointed at Li Chuntie, "It's a big rebellion." ”

Hearing this, Li Chuntie smiled.

This is Zhu Liye's true thoughts.

"Your Majesty, as the father of all officials and the father of all peoples, although you are the supreme, you are trapped in the capital, and you have refused to leave the capital for 20 years, what is Your Majesty worried about?" Li Chuntie asked, "Are you afraid of the people of the world? You should be hot, you don't care about their life or death, all you care about is yourself." You're afraid that someone from Shujian Mountain will come to you to settle accounts. Don't forget

What did you promise them in the first place!"

Zhu Liye said, "They broke the promise first! In the 20 years since I came to the throne, the world has been unified, the people have strengthened the country and become rich, and I have shocked all countries with a mighty army, have I not done enough? Haven't I done a good job?"

Zhu Liye's emotions were a little excited.

"What I ask for is nothing but for thousands of generations. They are just outsiders, why should they point fingers at me, what constitutional monarchy, what separation of powers, without me, this Ming would have died a long time ago!"

Li Chuntiedao, "The gentleman believes in his promise." ”

"I am the Son of Heaven, not a gentleman!"

Li Chuntie said, "When the first emperor was in power, there were 10,000 people in the world, 60,000 people, a martyrdom, ten rooms and nine empty, at the beginning of the dynasty, there were only 20,000 left, and after 20 years, it barely reached 40,000, which is the peaceful and prosperous era in His Majesty's mouth." At the beginning, when Your Majesty raised the flag, how high-spirited was you, waiting to seize the great treasure, but then reversed itself, how can Your Majesty let me believe in you again?"

"So this is the reason why you colluded with Yuwen Tianlu?"

Li Chuntie said, "Before Zhaoyao Mountain, I didn't know about that. It is swaggering on the mountain, some words are clear, and things are sorted out. ”

"Okay, then I will tell you that I have ordered the general to cut off Banshan and lead 200,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Dingzhou, and within a month, Dingzhou will be bloodied!"

Li Chuntie asked, "Just like twenty-two years ago?"

Zhu Liye exhaled angrily, "Slaughtering once is also slaughtering, and slaughtering twice is also slaughtering, there is no difference." ”

Li Chuntie gave a thumbs up, "Your Majesty is a good means." ”

"Let me ask you again, where is Zhu Houyi? Where is Wujing?"

Li Chuntie said, "The matter of the prince of the previous dynasty has always been the governor of Yuwen doing things for His Majesty, and I can't answer what His Majesty asks." As for the Martial Arts, when His Majesty killed the envoy of Shujian Mountain in the capital with a shocking array, I was not present and could not answer. ”

"Hmph. Zhu Liye sneered, "You have shirked everything." Okay, I'll tell you, I have the answers to these two things, and I came here today just to test you, whether you still have the same heart as me, whether you still remember the love over the years, Li Aiqing, you disappointed me. ”

Li Chuntie was still unfazed, he knew that this sentence was also a temptation, if he had already had the answer, with his character, he would definitely not survive the second day.

When a person who dares to kill even his own brothers and nephews will have affection? When he learns about Yuwen Tianlu's incident in Dingzhou, he doesn't even have a chance to explain to him, and directly orders him to be killed, where can there be affection?

The Son of Heaven and the monarch of the country have long been unable to be measured by the standard of "people".

He said lightly, "Your Majesty is afraid that you still don't know." ”

Li Chuntie has long put life and death out of the way, and the only person he cares about has already arranged for his old friends to put him out of the matter.

This kind of attitude that is neither salty nor indifferent completely angered Zhu Liye.

He casually took off the purple dragon crown and threw it on the ground, "Okay, I will tell you one more thing, when you went to the East China Sea to quell the chaos, Qi Tianxiu was raped in the house, and committed suicide with hatred, and afterwards I killed the thirty-six members of Jing Yuanbo's family to avenge you, do you remember?"

Li Chuntie was finally moved.

His life is worthy of heaven and earth, but he is ashamed of one person, and he is the only confidant in his life. When he was depressed and disheartened and ready to commit suicide, it was the girl who gave him a meal and pulled him back from the edge of the cliff. Later, she accompanied King Yong to fight in the south and the north, and this girl never gave up, and the only time she was separated was goodbye.

For this reason, Li Chuntie never married another person in his life.

"It's all in the past, why did Your Majesty mention this matter?"

Zhu Liye said, "Actually, that day, I went out of the palace for a private visit and went out to drink, and Uncle Jing Yuan was just an entourage and a guard for me." ”

Rumble!

Li Chuntie heard the fire on the top of his head, and with one punch, he smashed the stone table in front of him into powder. Because of this incident, he blamed himself for twenty years, and he couldn't imagine turning his head back, but the truth was so.

He looked at Zhu Liye with a cold look in his eyes.

In his eyes, he is no longer the son of the Great Tomorrow, nor the King of Yong, or even a person, he is just a brute.

In the courtyard, there is a prohibition under the Shocking Array, and the realm is limited, but it still can't hide his killing intent.

Zhu Liye disagreed.

"In the capital of the rivers and lakes, you are a dignified sword saint with transcendent martial arts, but in my eyes, you are vulnerable. ”

Twenty years ago, his martial arts had entered the Tongxiang, and after twenty years of practice, he had already touched the gate of the Heavenly Dao, and he was only one martial arts scripture away from the way of immortality.

As long as he has the martial arts, he will be able to spy on the heavens.

His ambitions are not limited to the emperors of the ages.

It is the only emperor of the ages.

What's more, there is also a shocking array here, and even the envoys of Shujian Mountain have returned, just a sword saint, he doesn't care about it at all.

As long as it wasn't for the Supreme Heavenly Dao to come in person, he wouldn't take anyone in his eyes.

Cough!

Bah!

A mouthful of thick phlegm ejaculated from Li Chuntie's mouth and spit on Zhu Liye's face.

He scolded, "Well-dressed beasts, shameless villains, eight lambs, the first unenlightened monarch in the ages, the great tomorrow, with you as the emperor, it is really a blood mold that has paralyzed him for eight lifetimes!"

Li Chuntie used his internal force and almost shouted out in a roaring manner.

The phrase floated through the palace.

Lu Guogong and Gao Gonggong, who were standing outside the door, were so frightened that they almost peed their pants, but both of them were old rivers and lakes, and they quickly adjusted their mentality.

"Hey, Guogong, have you heard any movement?"

"It was windy just now, and I lost my eyes and didn't hear clearly, maybe it was a night owl calling. ”

Gao Gonggong sighed, "Hey, people are old, their eyes are flowery, and their ears are back." But the old slave still wants to serve His Majesty for a few more years, and Ming'er has to go to the imperial doctor to ask for a few herbs. ”

Not far away, a forbidden soldier listened to it and couldn't help but laugh. The voice was very small, but Gonggong Gao turned around and said to the leader, "Pull it out and cut it." ”

Li Chuntie's scolding spread throughout the palace.

For a moment, the palace fell silent.

The side room of the eunuch Gong'e, who was lit in the distance, extinguished the candlestick with lightning speed, and a group of people got into the bed, covered their ears, and trembled.

Zhu Liye trembled.

He had never suffered such a humiliation in his life.

Even if he was trapped on the Yellow River by the soldiers and horses of the previous dynasty when he was martyred, he was never so embarrassed as he is today.

His teeth chattered, his fists clenched, and there was almost fire in his eyes, "I, to, chop, you!"

Li Chuntie scolded, and his heart was happy.

"The Son of Heaven has no way, and the important ministers should die. ”

Zhu Liye roared, "I not only want to kill you, but also drag the 100,000 people in your hometown of Quanzhou to bury you, and I will let the historian let you stink for a thousand years, no, ten thousand years!"

He didn't seem to understand his hatred, and shouted with red eyes, "On the tenth day of the first month of October, I will put you to death at the birthday banquet, in front of the civil and military ministers and envoys of various countries!"

"Someone!"

The forbidden soldiers deliberately stayed for a moment before pretending to trot all the way to the courtyard, "Your Majesty!"

"Put him in a water prison, soak him for ten days and ten nights, and serve him alive!"

"Yes!"

"Tell Xuanyuan a knife, I will kill this traitor Ling Chi, I will kill him with ten thousand knives, if there is one knife missing, I will really cut the flesh from him to pay for it!"

"Command. ”

Gao Gonggong and Lu Guogong stood cautiously at the door, bowing their heads and waiting. Zhu Liye was full of anger, and strode out.

The two of them followed out the door.

"Tell General Zhan that the eunuchs on duty in the palace tonight will all be killed, and if anyone talks about half a sentence, they will be killed. ”

The two of them shuddered, "Obey." ”

Zhu Liye stood in the palace, his chest heaving and rising, he took a few big breaths, and asked, "You two, do you also think that I am a faint king?"

Lu Guogong knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is the Emperor of the Ages, Ze has been eternal, and it is comparable to Yao Shun." ”

When Zhu Liye heard this, it seemed that there were still many Qingming ministers in this world, and his mood was much soothed.

He asked Gonggong Gao again: "What about you?"

There was no ink in Gao Gonggong's chest, and he knelt down and said, "Long live Your Majesty, long live!"

Zhu Liye frowned, "Read more books in the future, and be thinking about collecting money all day long." ”

Gao Gonggong said again, "Guarding Your Majesty's mountain of gold and silver is the greatest wealth of the old slave." ”

The words are not rough, and Zhu Liye is a little more comfortable. Before returning to the palace, he said, "I am an enlightened person, and I will not be disturbed by the words of shameless villains. ”

The decree reached the cabinet overnight, and then to the palace of the hundred officials.

That night, the hundred officials in the capital stayed awake all night, and they competed to write tomorrow's recital, which was comparable to the imperial examination back then.

The next morning, the entire court hall was filled with a sour smell and sycophants.

This is a good medicine to cure Zhu Liye's heart disease.