Before the emperor could speak, Empress Zhou's breathing suddenly became rapid, and she quickly lowered her head as a cover.
Yuan didn't realize it, so he glanced at her quietly.
The emperor's expression didn't seem to change.
It's not because he's better at nourishing Qi, it's just that he can't control the muscles on his face now, even though his heart is turbulent, his face is still numb.
Only the horrified eyes revealed everything.
The question originally asked by Buwei hit the nail on the head and hit the emperor's lifeblood.
If he told the truth, let alone abdicate safely, the emperor even wondered if he would be treated as a demon by these ancients and burnt down.
But now his life is in the prince's hands, if he can't satisfy the prince...
The emperor was in fear, his whole heart seemed to be turning back and forth in a frying pan, worried and anxious at the same time.
Yuan Wuwei just stared at him lightly, without urging him.
After a long while, the emperor seemed to have finally made up his mind, and said half-truthfully, "Back then when I fled south, I was in a daze and saw a fairy dreaming."
The emperor used this statement to fool his ministers back then, "I was enlightened by the immortal", and so on. As for whether the ministers believed it, I don't know.
"Perhaps even the immortals couldn't understand my incompetence and ruined the great country, so they took my soul away and lived in a dream for a thousand years, witnessing the division of the country and the rise and fall of the dynasty... and woke up in just one night."
This kind of story, which refers to the fairy tales and has a warning meaning, is somewhat similar to "Huang Liang Yi Meng", but it makes the ministers suspicious.
Seeing the expressions of the crowd, the emperor felt his heart move.
He suddenly had a good idea, and hurriedly added: "The reason why I have such a repeated attitude towards the prince is precisely because of that fairy Yimeng."
As he spoke, he sighed and sighed endlessly.
He didn't need to say any more, the officials had already made up their minds automatically. Could it be that His Majesty saw the amazing leadership talent of His Highness the Crown Prince in a dream, but then the Crown Prince did something that His Majesty could not tolerate, so His Majesty delegated power while being vigilant and fearful
The emperor showed a bit of helplessness at the right time: "I didn't want to reveal the secret, but why..."
System 999: [This emperor can do it. Seeing his proficiency in whitewashing, the system almost believes everything he said. You have an expression of enduring humiliation in order not to reveal the secret, willing to be misunderstood by everyone without explaining it, and it also misleads everyone to think that you, the host, are a big bad person. ... It's really a white lotus.]
"Bai Lian?" Yuan Buwei asked curiously, "What do you mean?"
System 999: [Cough, it's actually a beautiful and innocent flower. Generally used to describe bad people.]
"Really? Then this flower is also very wronged."
System 999: […]
Seeing that his own host still has the mind to go wrong here, the system 999 is also speechless. The emperor is about to say that black is white, and white is black, and the host is not in a hurry
It's really not in a hurry.
From the subtle reaction of the queen who suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he judged that the emperor was probably lying. So I didn't interrupt, and let the emperor continue to make up.
After the emperor finished speaking, he opened his mouth in doubt: "Since father sees a fairy dreaming, what does the fairy look like, and what spells did he use? Why did he choose father as the only one among all living beings? Could it be that this fairy prefers to challenge?" something difficult?"
With his own strength, he could be revered as a fairy god in any world, so he would not be interested in the so-called fairy tale. I also feel that the "immortal" mentioned by the emperor is too spicy.
"... This immortal has become an immortal and still cares so much about the world. Why didn't he take action himself? Since he has the ability to lead his father to a dream for thousands of years, why didn't he warn in advance before the collapse of the country? Are there really immortals in this world? Father Is the emperor making up nonsense?"
Yuan Buwei blurted out the endless questions, but the emperor was beaten beyond recognition by him, and he was speechless, looking at Yuan Buwei with strange eyes.
... As a native ancient aborigine, how could this person believe in atheism more than him, a time traveler? Judging by his posture, is it possible that he wants to give a lecture on breaking feudal superstition on the spot? !
— Is this guy a devil? !
The few ministers next to him, who had been immersed in the imagination of immortals and gods, were sobered up by this series of questions at this moment, and their eyes showed doubts.
Amidst the incessant chatter, the emperor suddenly hugged his head.
He screamed in pain, and the pain even made his weak arm temporarily out of numbness, pressing firmly on his forehead.
Bedridden for many days, the poison had corroded his body and mind, and the torture of being locked up in a "small black room" some time ago, coupled with several stimulations by Yuan Buwei, the emperor's spirit had almost collapsed. Even the old headaches have recurred.
His spiritual world is like a piece of glass that has been scratched with countless traces, and is on the verge of complete shattering and disintegration.
It is really hard for people who have not experienced his experience to imagine what kind of torture the emperor is suffering at this moment.
The rationality and calmness he had been struggling to maintain collapsed at this moment.
But Yuan Buwei continued: "Father doesn't have to be like this. It's too... oh!"
He sighed deeply, heartbroken.
This was simply the last gap to tear the glass, and the emperor could no longer maintain his composure. There was a painful gasp in his chest.
"Ho ho... what do you know?! What I have seen is beyond your imagination. Have you ever seen a train that travels thousands of miles a day? Do you know what an airplane can carry people to the sky? Have you ever experienced it? Can everyone in the world communicate with each other at any time?!"
After saying a few words, the emperor was startled to make a slip of the tongue, but soon his drowsy mind covered up his rationality again, and he broke the jar instead.
"—ha, you don't understand anything!"
It wasn't because he wasn't angry at all, but he was very interested.
"A train is probably a tool similar to a carriage, similar to a magic weapon; it carries people and flies chickens? Is it a phoenix? As for people in the world to communicate at any time, there are sound-transmitting jade charms in the practice world, but ordinary people cannot use them..."
He pulled out the tool system and asked in his consciousness:
"The future this person said seems very interesting. An ordinary world without aura will develop so many interesting things after a thousand years. Is it possible for this world to have aura in the future?"
[... No, this is just an ordinary little plane.]
System 999 didn't know what to say for a while.
[Host, you may be thinking a little bit wrong.]
But this seems to be a good opportunity to correct the host...
[Those miraculous things that are inconceivable to the host are products of "technology". But the system cannot provide the host with this information. If the host is really curious, isn't there a ready candidate here?]
At this time, the emperor broke the pot and vented indiscriminately. Seeing that Yuan Buwei finally showed a very interested look, he came to his senses and realized where his real bargaining chip was.
—If you can impress the prince with real benefits and persuade the other party to let him go, wouldn't it be a hundred times more reliable than the so-called father-son relationship
The strong desire to survive suddenly woke him up, he braced himself, and suddenly said loudly: "Even if you don't believe in the fairy tales, I do know the future, and I know the historical trend of the next thousand years!"
"Prince, do you know that if I hadn't learned about the future, as early as ten years ago, you were supported by a group of powerful ministers who supported themselves and became the puppet emperor. Real power! After 20 years of fighting hard, you can send your troops to the north to recover the Central Plains... But after working hard for most of your life, you have been injured and sick, and you don’t even have a son and a half. How many days have you enjoyed the glory? Isn’t the throne cheap in the end? offshoot?!"
The more he talked, the more confident he became, unconsciously recalling the past.
As a puppet emperor, the prince in front of him wiped out the powerful ministers and regained the Central Plains with all his might. As a future generation, how could he not admire him
Not long after he fled, he was still eager to try, trying to rely on his foresight to fight a big battle, but he lost two battles, and he became more aware that he was not that material, and only the prince was the hope of ZTE in the future.
For this reason, he generously devolved all military power, and his support for the prince has reached the point of no brains. Even if there are slanderous ministers who say something, but as a person of later generations, he knows how many loyal ministers and dutiful sons in history were framed to death like this, so of course he would not believe it.
But how did it all come to this point
The emperor's eyes froze for a moment.
At the beginning of the time travel, when he came to this era, the distrust of the emperor as a modern person also existed in his heart. He knew all the experiences of Qi Xuan in history, and he knew very well that the future who would grow up The emperor, how deep-minded and decisive is he in killing.
—The opponent has all the excellent qualities that an emperor should have, and also has all the suspicious and cold temperament of an emperor.
Such a sense of crisis and distrust drove him to deliberately choose Qin Mo, a child, from the well-trained secret agents, and arrange him next to Qi Xuan—it wasn't that Qi Xuan had any malicious intentions, it was just an instinctive precaution. Occasionally pass some information around Qi Xuan.
It's a pity that ten years of emperor's career changed him after all.
The petty citizen who used to be only wary of being attacked by others started to attack others instead. Sitting on this emperor's throne, he did not learn the emperor's maneuvers, but instead learned the emperor's cruelty and selfishness.
After going north to the Central Plains, as the prince's military exploits became stronger and his reputation grew, his fear of the prince became more and more serious.
... With such a reputation, is the prince really willing to live in the position of crown prince
As long as he thinks of the original history, Qi Xuan, as a puppet emperor, endured the experience of overthrowing powerful officials and seizing military power for many years, and he knows how powerful the other party is, and he feels deeply disturbed.
This uneasiness deepened every day.
The emperor often worried that one day he would wake up, and the prince would surround the palace.
This uneasiness drove him to attack the prince.
Considering that the princes are young, the prince is also a generation of emperors he once admired. The emperor did not kill, but poisoned.
Once the prince loses his virtue, he can abolish the position of the crown prince without bloodshed and take back all the military power. At worst, he will give the other party an idle prince at that time.
It's a pity that all his ideas are now in vain, and he has to rely on the modern knowledge in his mind to save his life.
He simply said it in one breath:
"Do you know where you can find crops that yield a thousand catties per mu? Do you know how to deal with smallpox? Do you know how to prevent and control various natural and man-made disasters?"
"—and I know all this."
The emperor is not afraid that others will not believe what he said, after all, he has indeed tinkered with a lot of weird things over the years.
Facing the shocked and astonished gazes of the officials, he finally calmed down, looked straight at Yuan Buwei, and said in a firm tone, with a sure chance of winning: "The opportunity to create a prosperous world is in front of you, Prince, do you still want to attack me?"
The author has something to say:
It seems that there are still little cuties who are not clear, please help to clarify the timeline.
As mentioned earlier, on the way to flee south, the Hunjun tried to kick the Queen off the carriage, and the Queen was struggling, and the Hunjun knocked her head unconscious. The traverser crosses over.
1. In the original history without the traverser, the faint king died directly, and the fate of the queen can be imagined. Qi Xuan, who was only 13 years old, was supported by various powerful officials as a puppet. Refer to Han Xiandi. Then he defeated the powerful officials, seized power, and spent twenty years fighting hard to recover the Central Plains.
Such experiences have formed his deep character.
2. After the traverser crossed over, he unconditionally supported Qi Xuan, so he joined the army as a young man, victorious in every battle, and full of vigor. Because he was "protected" very well by the traversers, although he has outstanding military talents, his political talent has not yet been developed, so in this timeline, he is not very scheming, and his political level is not high. road.
[So, the queen is not purely in love, and the arrival of the traverser indirectly saved her life. is her talisman. Otherwise, she would be the murderer who killed the emperor. ]