Compared with Liu Xiu's people, Liu Ye, who is the prince, is much cleaner, and it stands to reason that as the prince, he should be more busy here, but in the deep courtyard of the East Palace, there are many people who want to come here, but there are not many people who are qualified to come here.

Those who can come here are all some high-ranking big people.

But at the moment, he is not in this East Palace.

Looking at the middle-aged man who struggled to get up on the bed, Liu Ye hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Father, it's good for you to lie down. ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand, forced him to sit up, and looked at the gauze curtain on the top of the bed, layer by layer, like a morning fog.

Panting heavily, it seemed that just getting up was exhausting all the strength of his body.

This middle-aged man, who seems to be terminally ill, is only in his forties this year, but he has been sitting on this throne for seventeen years.

I also looked down on the world for seventeen years.

Emperor Liyang, Liu Yan.

"You, you're just too soft-hearted, you can't be like an iron stone, how can you be a good emperor. ”

Listening to Liu Yan's voice, Liu Ye was also a little helpless, these days Liu Yan always told him this and that, said a lot of things, just like other ordinary old people, he listened very carefully, even if he was distracted sometimes, he also made a serious appearance of being distracted.

"Father, you see what you said, people's hearts are flesh and blood, you have been the emperor for seventeen years, and you have turned a blind eye to some small mistakes made by your sons, you really can't do it at most with two reprimands, and I haven't seen when you were really hard-hearted, and you didn't become this generation of Ming Jun?"

Liu Yan smiled and pointed to Liu Xiu's forehead and said, "You, you, are really different from your other brothers." This year, you will sincerely come to see me as a father. ”

Hearing this, Liu Ye also smiled, and silently kneaded his shoulders for his father, who was the emperor.

A while ago in the East Palace, he had to receive countless secret letters every day, this one said that General Wang Li fell to the fourth brother, and that said that the northern feudal towns had a heart of disobedience, which made him anxious, and sometimes he was curious about how these ministers were so well-informed, and in desperation, he had to hide in this Daming Palace, so that he could be clean for two days.

Although it is the scorching sun in July, the heat is unbearable, but a large number of ice cubes have already been placed in this Daming Palace, the sun shines through the window, yellow and clear, with a trace of coolness, and it is very comfortable to sit in it.

also saw his son's thoughts, Liu Yan also sighed, and said seriously: "There are some things that can never be solved by hiding, and you will have to face it one day, no matter how cruel this problem is." ”

Liu Ye showed a bitter expression on his face and said, "Why do you have to do this?"

"Why?" Liu Yan smiled self-deprecatingly, where is there, the royal brotherhood is so cheap, just this dragon chair can make all the good things fall apart, and said coldly, "I can't even do this, how can I hand over the throne to you in the future! If he dies at the hands of your fourth brother in the future, it can only mean that he is more suitable to be the Emperor of Liyang!"

As soon as he was excited, Liu Yan coughed violently, looking at the busy imperial doctor in front of him, Liu Ye's face was as pale as paper.

Looking at the father in front of him who kept coughing, his heart had already said to this point, in that case, why did you still make me the crown prince and drive me directly to the frontier to be the same as those brothers?

But in the end, Liu Ye still held back all the words in his stomach, looked around, and suddenly realized that there was nothing to go in the huge Chang'an City.

Looking at the direction in which his son's back disappeared, Liu Yan raised his head again, silently looking at the veil of the mountains, as if he was looking for something through time.

He thinks about it sometimes, and I should say he's been thinking about it for years.

When he was still a prince, the situation he faced was different from Liu Ye, but it was similar in nature.

He remembered very clearly that although he hesitated at the beginning, in the end he still killed his eldest brother with a knife in his hand, and it seemed that he didn't even hesitate to do this kind of thing afterwards.

He has been in power for 17 years, not to mention that he has done anything great, but he does not dare to slack off in dealing with government affairs every day, and it can be regarded as the peace of the country and the people, Liu Yan thought like this, he just felt that just sitting here for a while had already consumed a lot of energy, was he really going to end?

It's been seventeen years.

Liu Ye still raised his head, his eyes blank.

Queen Wang slowly walked out from behind the screen, looking at her husband in front of her, inexplicably a little distressed.

walked to the bed and squatted down slightly, and said softly: "Your Majesty, where can Ye'er be the emperor with this temperament, I don't ask him what he can do in the future, just ask him to be safe, it's really not good, it's better to divide Ye'er to a distant place to be an idle prince, so that you can have no worries for a lifetime." ”

"Nonsense!" Hearing this, Liu Yan's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "What do you know about a woman, it's a matter of national affairs, so you don't get involved." ”

The woman's face in front of her showed a sad look, and tears swirled in her eyes, but they did not fall.

Liu Yan sighed, coughed lightly, and said softly: "You mother, you really don't know your son at all, if I really divide him to that distant borderland, he can also fight back with soldiers, do you believe it or not?"

Thinking of this, Liu Yan also showed a smile.

He really deserves to be his own son.

Queen Wang didn't believe it, in her heart, her precious son was so kind-hearted, how could she do such a rebellious thing?

Will Liu Ye bring the troops back, as long as he is not divided into the border for a day, no one can say clearly, he who has returned to the East Palace picked up the file on the table again.

Flipping through the pages one by one, what I thought about was the swords and swords in the rivers and lakes.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door in his ears, like the sudden beat of the drum, which startled Liu Ye, and the brush in his hand fell on the rice paper on the table, printing a large ink spot.

His brows furrowed slightly, the door creaked, and he saw a tall old man in a Confucian shirt walking in, slightly stunned, and then hurriedly got up and saluted, and said respectfully: "Master Li, why are you here?"

"Why, I can't come and see my students yet?"

"Yes, who dares to say that I can't, I'll take someone to raid his house right now!"

The corners of Liu Ye's lips raised a smile slightly, he was really happy to see the old man in front of him, Li Shi is probably one of the few people in this world who can let himself pour out his heart and lungs and say a few words, but what makes him puzzled is that the old man is open-minded and upright, in order to avoid suspicion on weekdays, even if he invites him, he will not come to this East Palace for half a step, what is the matter today, he actually took the initiative to come to him, a nominal student.

Li Qingshan shook his head with a smile, he was quite relieved to see Liu Ye like this, picked a comfortable chair and sat down, and reached for the teapot on the table.

"Master Li, what kind of wind is blowing you here today. ”

"I just went out to take a look, and if I'm not mistaken, it's the east wind blowing today. Li Qingshan pretended to be serious, he was really happy to pick up this disciple, because here he didn't have to think about anything, he didn't have to worry about Confucianism, the court, and the world, just an ordinary idle old man.

sighed slightly and said, "Actually, I didn't want to come to you, and you should understand the reason, so I won't go into details, but if I really don't come here, the disciples and grandchildren under my hands will start to worry about this and that, thinking if Confucianism sees Liu Xiu as powerful, and wants to break off the relationship with you, the crown prince, and go to the king of Jing'an." ”

Liu Ye knew that Master Li was reminding him, but he was not worried, the status of Confucianism in Liyang was of course important, and it could be said that nearly half of the officials in the entire Liyang officialdom were Confucian children.

But I don't know why, as long as the middle-aged man in Daming Palace who coughs all day is alive for a day, he just can't worry.

"Teacher, you come to hide with me, I don't know where to hide?" Liu Ye looked bitter as if he had eaten a big mouthful of Coptis chinensis, and said with a frown, "A few years ago, I remember that every time the fourth brother came back from outside, he would bring a lot of new things to our brothers. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Ye smiled slightly, as if he had fallen into a good memory, but seeing this, Li Qingshan's brows were slightly wrinkled.

"But now, the fifth and sixth have gone to the edge of the sky, I don't know if there is a chance for brothers to see each other again in this life, and the fourth child is now living outside the palace, but he began to squeeze his scalp and try his best to drill into this palace, what is good about this palace, he has not lived!"

Liu Ye frowned and began to become a little angry.

"And this throne, my father has been the emperor for seventeen years, and I haven't seen him happy, because he worries about state affairs every day, and he is tired and sick, can't they see it, why do they still want to be the emperor!"

After saying it in one breath, Liu Ye suddenly felt a little happier all over his body, but he was also a little lost, looking at Li Qingshan in front of him, the Confucian leader, the Tang Dynasty National Teacher, bowed slightly, hugged his fists and said, "I'm sorry, Master Li, I lost my temper." ”

Li Qingshan waved his hand, looked at the child in front of him, and wanted to say something, but in the end he held back, the emperor's family affairs, how can it be explained in three or two sentences.

He was just a little worried about his apprentice, how could he win over his fourth brother who was proficient in everything with such an idea?

"You know better than anyone else, but there are some things that can't be finished once they start. ”

Liu Ye naturally knew that he just wanted to vent, and at this point, whether it was him or his fourth brother, no matter who stopped, they were destined to be crushed into pieces by the wheel lock of history.

They are like wild horses, they are born to gallop in the vast wilderness, and once they embark on the journey, they never look back.