Chapter 141

Li Chengjing went into the palace and asked nothing.

The father and the son knew that the second prince had just left, but no one mentioned it, and they avoided the topic.

The emperor held his forehead in one hand. Li Chengjing saw it and asked, "Your Majesty, are you suffering from head disease again?"

The emperor sighed and said, "it's better if you don't bother. You'll have a headache if you move your brain."

Li Chengjing heard frown: "Your Majesty, my son, this is for you xuantaiyi."

The emperor waved his hand and said, "it's no use. It's an old problem. It's useless for Taiyi to come. Look at Jiangnan Road. It's your turn. "

The emperor picked up a book and handed it to Li Chengjing. The eunuch next to him caught it with a plate and presented his hands to Li Chengjing.

Li Chengjing picked it up, opened it and glanced at it. Most of the words in it were praises for him.

Li Chengjing's eyes moved. When he put down the memorial, everything became traceless again. Li Chengjing returned the fold to the emperor and said, "it's wrong to patrol the road, but I'm ashamed of it. My son's visit to the south of the Yangtze River would have been so smooth, and I would not have been praised by all the adults if he had not the face of the emperor. "

The emperor threw the folder back to the pile he had read. The old God said, "you don't have to be modest. There are no modest people under the reputation. So many ministers praise you. Even the people in the south of the Yangtze River also offer you the monument of longevity. Naturally, you do a good job. What do you think of this letter

The emperor threw another one. Li Chengjing took it and found that it was Yan Guan who impeached the queen. This minister wrote a lot about it. From Zhou of Shang Dynasty to the death of Prince Huaimin of Renzong Dynasty, he was accusing the emperor of conniving the imperial palace to interfere in politics, and the Yang family of troubling the imperial platform and murdering the former queen. Now that the Yang family has been punished, the daughter of Yang Fucheng is no longer qualified to be the head of the harem and become the empress.

Li Chengjing looked carefully this time. In fact, he finished the scan very quickly, but he still read it word by word and put down the memorial after counting the time: "this man is a speech officer of the imperial censor's station. He can't tolerate sand in his eyes. Almost none of the civil and military officials has never been criticized by him for his improper personal morality. Now the affairs of the Yang family are at the top of the storm. He has aimed at the queen. Although he is disrespectful, he can be excused. "

"Oh?" The emperor answered with joy and anger and asked, "what do you think?"

Li Chengjing drooped his eyes, gathered the look in his eyes, and said plainly: "it's about the queen, and my son dare not speak in vain. For the sake of the public, the government should not stick to one pattern in the selection of personnel, and they should be treated equally in terms of merit and reward. When dealing with disputes, we should deal with things, not people, and right and wrong according to the law. "

According to the law, the emperor put his hand on the fold and said in a deep voice, "you are still young, full of enthusiasm and determination. But the world is not black or white, for the king, see is not right or wrong. You know, there are people outside the law. "

"Naturally, my son knows that there is a relationship between life and the world, and that human relations are irresistible. However, since the law has been established, we should fulfill the obligation that the law is the most public in the world. "

The emperor was a little angry. He didn't show his face and asked in a deep voice, "so you agree to dispose of the queen and abolish her position?"

Li Chengjing's eyes were closed, but his silence was a statement. The emperor waited for a long time, but when he saw Li Chengjing speak, he became more and more angry: "I thought you were cautious and steady, but I didn't expect you to be so radical. For the prince, when benevolence, for the king, more when the overall situation, the eyes of the sand

Li Chengjing heard the emperor's comments and did not move for a long time. He had known for a long time that his words would annoy the emperor, but he did not expect that the emperor's evaluation of him should be like this.

He was silent for a long time, looking up at the Emperor: "Your Majesty thinks I'm not benevolent enough?"

The emperor felt that his eldest son was not satisfied. He contributed most to the Yang family. But the emperor's guilt was like a spray, which disappeared after a roll in the flood. The emperor still solemnly said, "your efforts over the years are in the eyes of your father, but you take them for granted. What is right? What is wrong? Legal principle is human feelings. It is right to conform to the interests of most people, and it is wrong to make most people dissatisfied. Empress, she has been in the palace for nearly 20 years, giving birth to children for me, presiding over the harem, and being the biological mother of your second younger brother. When it comes to etiquette, you should call her mother. You're a family. It's time to close the door and say, "it's not interesting to move out of the law."

Family? Li Chengjing's face was calm, and his eyes looked at the emperor deeply: "but your majesty, not long ago, you ordered that Yang's family be killed, and the property of Yang's family be confiscated. You will never reuse Yang Fucheng and Yang Shilong. Even Dou, the niece of the Yang family, was demoted as a commoner by your decree. You treat the nieces of the Yang family so heartlessly. Why do you care about your family when you face empress Yang? "

The emperor was annoyed and frowned, "wanton. How can the Yang family and the queen be confused? Of course, it is time to eliminate the Yang family's control of the government and its disorder. However, the queen married the royal family and served me for many years. How can she ignore the Queen's many years of hard work and shake her position as the right wife because of the affairs of the Yang family? "Li Chengjing has been listening quietly, hand unconsciously clenched into a fist, Qingjin burst up. Even though the Emperor didn't like empress Yang very much, he was his own woman. The Emperor didn't have the heart to make her too embarrassed.

What about him? What is he?

Li Chengjing couldn't help laughing in his heart. How ridiculous, because the emperor did not abolish his crown prince for many years, Li Chengjing was moved and full of pressure these years. He constrained himself by the standard of crown prince everywhere, and did not slack off one day for several years. However, when he was about to fulfill his promise to his mother, his father, his monarch, denied all his efforts in a word.

The emperor said he was unkind. Inhumanity is a fundamental negation of a prince. It has nothing to do with ability. I don't even need to work hard any more. As a prince, I'm not benevolent. What's the need to work hard.

Over the years, Li Chengjing's feelings towards the emperor have been tangled and complicated. For his father, he was eager by nature, and there was pressure from the foreign court, but the emperor always insisted on making him the crown prince. Li Chengjing was very grateful in his heart, and even more did not dare to slack off. But from his son's point of view, he has a grudge against the emperor.

As for the empress, it's not that he won't die in exile.

Over the years, he was so grateful and resentful, eager and restrained. It was also for this reason that he refused to call the emperor's father.

Because care, will be uncomfortable. It's like the emperor or Cheng Yu doesn't care about her family.

Now Li Chengjing feels a piece of cold in his heart. It turns out that the fatherly love he longed for for many years but did not dare to approach is just a shadow he imagined.

In the emperor's mind, he or empress Yang is just a symbol. As the son of the emperor, he had to work for the emperor. The emperor said that if he was asked to stop, he would have to stop his hatred with his mother for many years. The emperor eradicated empress Yang's family. Finally, he asked empress yang to be a good wife. She could not be resentful because of her family, and could not be lazy in managing the harem because she had no hope.

He, the Yang family and empress Yang are nothing but tools of the emperor. All they did was to satisfy the image of the family and court in the eyes of the emperor. If someone overstepped it, they should get rid of it.

In the emperor's heart, he is the center of everything. Everyone should have no emotion, for his use, together with him to play the king as minister Gang, father and son filial drama.

Unexpectedly, he longed for the emperor to have feelings for him and felt guilty for Empress Zhong. It's so naive and funny.

Li Chengjing's heart became cold, and his tone was gradually cold: "Your Majesty now cares about the relationship between husband and wife, what about my mother? She is also his Majesty's wife, and she died in vain? "

"Presumptuous!" The Emperor gave a loud drink and slapped the table hard. The eunuchs who served inside and outside knelt down one after another, fearing not to come out. In the Qianqing palace, the needle fell for a moment. The emperor stared at Li Chengjing angrily, and Li Chengjing stood upright all the time.

In the end, Li Chengjing did not admit his mistake, but raised his hand and bowed, saying, "my son is leaving. Your majesty, take care of yourself. "

Li Chengjing turned and walked out of Qianqing palace. Behind him, he could hear the sound of clapping the table and the flattering voice of eunuch.

He walked out of the door without stopping or looking back. After walking out of Qianqing palace, the sun was shining down, shaking people dizzy.

After all, he and the emperor came to this stage. The monarch, the minister, the father and the son were suspicious of each other.

In the first month after the death of Empress Dowager Yang, the emperor slowly discovered that the original feeling of supremacy and the original power without restriction were so fascinating.

What the emperor wanted to do no longer needed Yang Shoufu's consent, and where the harem wanted to go no longer had to worry about empress Yang's face. Even he didn't have to bear with anyone any more, and he didn't have to bear the respect and good-bye to empress dowager Yang in the past 25 years.

There was no one to restrain him. The emperor gradually indulged in this sense of power, but his health was getting worse and worse, and his headache from time to time restrained most of his energy.

The emperor suddenly, like many old kings, began to yearn for immortality.

The second prince ran to the palace day by day, and asked the emperor about the cold and the warm, taking tea and medicine. And Li Chengjing here, it was a bit stiff.

If the emperor has a headache and can't manage politics, he will have to do these things. Memorials can never be approved, and emergencies and trivia emerge in an endless stream every day. None of them can be delayed.

The emperor enjoyed the power of the emperor, but all the responsibilities and obligations were transferred to Li Chengjing. The second prince was filial to the emperor every day. Li Chengjing had to deal with government affairs and discuss affairs with his courtiers. At most, he took time to go to the Qianqing palace to ask. It is clear at a glance which is more important and which is closer.

Li Chengjing never said these things, but Cheng Yujin was particularly distressed when she saw them. After Li Chengjing came back in the middle of the night again, Cheng Yujin brought him hot tea and knelt down on the couch to knead his forehead.

"Your Highness, you have worked so hard, but there is no feeling. King Shou is filial to his majesty every day and says some specious things. It's said that his majesty has been complaining these days. He thinks that you are not loyal and filial because you are obsessed with power and resourceful. "Li Chengjing sighs, holds Cheng Yujin's hand, pulls her into her arms, and naturally puts her forehead on Cheng Yujin's shoulder. "I'll do my duty, be fair and free, and let him go with some rumors."

"Let him go?" Cheng Yujin raised her eyebrows and said, "Your Highness, if my child and I are said to be unlucky, I'm afraid we'll cause trouble in the palace. Do you follow these rumors?"

Li Chengjing raised his head, cold eyes, no tired color: "who said it?"

"I said it myself." Cheng Yujin sat down and moved to Li Chengjing. Although she was still very arrogant, her hand quietly pulled Li Chengjing's sleeve. "I'm just giving you an example."

"Is this a random analogy?"

Cheng Yujin stares at him, suddenly turns her head and says, "Your Highness, have you noticed that you have changed recently?"

Li Chengjing looks slightly, obviously tense up.

Cheng Yujin still looked at him askew and said, "you used to be reserved and introverted, and treat people as deeply as jade. But now, when you speak, you never worry about the reaction of the other party. You are quite sharp and aggressive."

Li Chengjing is stunned. It seems that she didn't expect Cheng Yujin to say so. A person's change is imperceptible to him. Only the people around him can understand it.

When Xu Shi saw Li Chengjing's silence, Cheng Yujin suddenly chuckled and took the initiative to encircle Li Chengjing, saying, "Your Highness, do you think I blame you for your change? People always have to change. When I was in the Cheng family before, everything I said and did must be smooth, and I didn't dare to offend anyone. But now, when I say to shake my grandmother's face, you don't blame me for my arrogance. "

Li Chengjing reacts and wants to show her face. But Cheng Yujin took the initiative to hold him. He couldn't resist. Li Chengjing held Cheng Yujin's waist coldly and restrained. He still taught her with a cold face: "nonsense, even my jokes?"

Cheng Yujin thought to herself that if you were really angry, you would get away from her. She put her arms around her and pretended to be with her. Cheng Yujin, taking into account his Highness's face, nodded and said, "yes, it's me. Your highness, please forgive me this time? "

"How dare you next time?"

"Yes."

Li Chengjing couldn't help laughing. He had no choice but to pinch his eyebrows. The tiredness of the day seemed to dissipate. Seeing that he finally had a smile on his face, Cheng Yujin slowly took back her hand and sat back to her original position. You're too tight these days. I don't think I care about your change at all. It's just that you're fighting with yourself. "

"I care too much about being a qualified prince. In the past 20 years, that's all I believe in. I thought I did. Now, it doesn't seem to be. "

Li Chengjing has some feelings. These words, these doubts, he never exposed in front of the courtiers, in the face of Liu Yi and others, he has always been a well-established, dignified prince. Only in front of Cheng Yujin can he show his true heart.

In every sense, they are very similar. People who have not experienced it will not understand how much a person can berate himself, let alone the pressure behind their perfection.

For Li Chengjing's exclamation, Cheng Yujin is very clear, she even knows where the crux comes from. But although she understood, she could not say.

In fact, the reason is very simple. One mountain does not allow two tigers. How can one country accommodate two kings?

Li Chengjing is so tired these days, it's not because he has to deal with the Court Affairs and take care of his father's sensitive imperial heart. After Li Chengjing changed the fold, he had to send it to Qianqing palace for the emperor to see. The emperor would have a headache if he worked too hard, so the so-called "trivial and meaningless" folds were handed over to the crown prince. After Li Chengjing screened them, they were handed over to the emperor.

The emperor is a typical example of not being in charge of his own affairs but also conducting blindly. He was obviously not good at doing these things, otherwise he would not have been controlled by Yang Shoufu for 20 years. However, now that he was in power, the emperor was addicted to the world and would not let go. The emperor's disorderly command made him happy. Li Chengjing had to clean up the rest of the mess. Recently, not only Li Chengjing has been tired, but also the cabinet and the six ministers.

But that's the emperor. Who dares to tell the truth to the emperor. They had no choice but to answer and smile. After the emperor was addicted, they worked overtime to make the mistake come back. At least, there is a division of labor among the six ministers. Each of them is responsible for a part, but Li Chengjing is in charge of everything here.

Just think about how tired Li Chengjing should be. If all matters were decided by Li Chengjing alone, the efficiency would be much faster.

Cheng Yujin understood, the cabinet understood, most of the ministers understood, and Li Chengjing himself understood.

How can Li Chengjing not know where the way to break the situation is now? However, this kind of words will offend Tianwei and make a taboo.

For today's plan, we have to wait. Li Chengjing knows everything in his heart, but he has undertaken it alone for a long time. Occasionally, he needs to talk with himself.

After Li Chengjing finished, he waited for a long time, but he couldn't help dropping his eyes and staring at Cheng Yujin: "if you don't go on the road, can't you take more time?"

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