So what, it's just four words, but after uttering them from the king's thin and ruthless lips, it seems to have added layers of frost to the whole royal study, endless and endless cold Just like this, it was born out of nowhere, freezing all the glass windows, the mahogany trees, and the blue indoor potted plants. It seems that there is hoarfrost invisible to the naked eye, spreading on these things, and then spreading out, covering the entire cold Qin's imperial palace was enveloped, turning the cold into freezing, and the chill even pierced into the sky, attacking the gray clouds in the far east.
Yun Duo is like a frightened little animal. Shocked by the cold, his whole body shrinks sharply. He shudders, his color gradually darkens, and he has no choice but to squeeze out some of the moisture hidden deep in the thousands of miles of clouds.
The dampness condenses into water, condenses into rain, and slowly falls from the sky. In the gray capital, the imperial palace, all the people who had woken up squinted their eyes and looked at the cloud in the sky. Only then did they know that the first rain in early autumn had finally fallen, and the weather was about to turn cold.
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However, the chill on Emperor Qing's body was not overwhelming, it was a piece without the slightest gap, the color of his thin lips was not very pretty, and there was still a leeway left in his mind. Sitting in a wheelchair, Chen Pingping quietly looked at the master she had served for decades, quietly waiting for the other's next sentence.
Emperor Ruoqing never felt the slightest bit of guilt about what happened back then, and he didn't feel any pain in his heart. If his heartlessness and ruthlessness were really to the extreme, then he would be the most flawless person in the world. No matter who stood in front of this king, they would involuntarily feel a sense of submission and retreat, instead of looking at him indifferently like Chen Pingping.
The corners of Chen Pingping's eyes drooped. If His Majesty's heart is as cold as ice for a thousand years, then why bother to say those four words? Although they are the coldest four words, they are still words.
The emperor was just dissatisfied. In Chen Pingping's mind, he was not as good as Ye Qingmei, so he was really angry.
"Your Majesty, Ye Qingmei still cannot be a passer-by..." Chen Pingping sighed faintly, her eyes glanced over the emperor's shoulders, and she looked at the wall behind the imperial study, as if she was about to tear down the wall. Looking through, looking into a certain portrait.
His Majesty the Emperor laughed, his smile was light, indifferent, self-deprecating, painful, and complicated. After a long silence, he said, "I don't want to mention the past."
"Why didn't you mention it?" Chen Pingping squinted her eyes and looked at him, "I think she is too glamorous and has completely overwhelmed your pride, Your Majesty, so you have always felt uncomfortable from the bottom of your heart?"
The emperor smiled slightly, without explaining anything, just said: "Little Ye Zi has never been a person who likes to show her face."
"So you know it too." Chen Pingping chuckled, and Jiansha's voice contained a trace of growing resentment, "What can't you tolerate?"
"I can't tolerate it, or the world can't tolerate it?" The emperor slowly raised his head, looked directly into Chen Pingping's eyes, very indifferent and solemn, "Perhaps you people have never thought about this problem."
The indifferent voice came to an abrupt end here, and it was obvious that Emperor Qing didn't want to talk about anything related to that year, even in the face of his partner who had been with him for decades, even in such a situation, he still strongly maintained I don't want to touch the piece of dark soil in my heart.
However, Chen Pingping returned to Beijing today to die, in order to tear apart the veil in the heart of this middle-aged man, who seemed so strong and irresistible, and expose the wound that may exist in the other party's heart. Only in this way can the opponent be weakened!
Chen Pingping stared into Emperor Qing's eyes and said, "Is it the empress dowager's displeasure, is it the powerful reaction of the princes and nobles, or your pride that made you make such a cold-blooded and ruthless decision?"
Emperor Qing looked indifferent, and did not answer his question, but his pupils were gradually blurred, and the focus was drifting somewhere, and he changed the subject coldly: "Then what prompted you to make such a rebellious decision? Are you an idiot? Eunuchs, can they also like women?"
"Eunuch..." Chen Pingping slowly lowered her eyes, and said, "I said earlier that I will treat anyone who is kind to me. I will always keep in mind her kindness to me. The sorrow of her death must also die." I have been guarding it for decades, just to ask Your Majesty for her."
"Could it be that I treated you badly?" Emperor Qing flicked his eyes on Chen Pingping's old face, and said lightly: "I bestow upon you supreme glory, I bestow on you a status that ordinary courtiers would never have, I bestow on you ... trust, but you, because of a woman who has been dead for twenty years... want to ask me?"
Chen Pingping looked at the emperor with a half-smile, and suddenly said: "She treats me well, she treats me like a friend, Your Majesty treats me well, like a slave, can this be the same?"
The emperor waved his hand, a little tired, and didn't want to talk about this question that has no answer at all. The encounters in life are always extremely wonderful, especially the entanglements between these partners in Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid it will take three days and three nights to talk about it I can't tell.
Chen Pingping continued to say: "I'm just an eunuch in Prince Cheng's mansion, but she never disdains me because of my handicap. The treatment that I have never enjoyed, neither before her nor after her."
He suddenly smiled and said, "Fortunately, Fan Xian is more like her."
In the quiet imperial study room at this time, the name Fan Xian seemed particularly harsh. His Majesty the Emperor, who had always maintained his indifference with a strong mind, frowned very slightly when he heard the name Fan Xian.
"I don't want to talk about what Little Yezi has done for the Qing Dynasty, for the Li family, and for us." Chen Pingping sighed wearily. Yes, there is no need to talk about the past. In fact, it is accumulated in the hearts and minds of these partners. No one will deliberately remember it, but no one will forget it.
His voice was slightly sharp, and he said: "Yes, when you first came to the throne, the government was unstable, and you wanted to implement the new policy, and the backlash was too great. The Overwatch Council in my hand supervised the administration of officials, and it also made the whole capital unstable. Moreover, the Empress Dowager has always been afraid of that woman who refused to enter the palace, especially when she found out that the woman's influence on Your Majesty is far greater than her! That stupid empress just married you not long ago, even more so. I don't know why you don't stay in the palace every day, but you go to the Taiping Courtyard to climb the wall!"
"Ye Qingmei has helped you all. On the seaside of Danzhou, the picture scroll she once promised is gradually unfolding. The old Ye family has built three major workshops in northern Fujian, and the foundation of Qing Kingdom has been laid firmly. , she seems to have no effect on His Majesty anymore, on the contrary... She is the most unstable factor in the imperial court. If you follow her picture, Qing Kingdom will not be the Qing Kingdom today, but you, Your Majesty, are It is impossible to allow such a thing to happen, not to mention that in the process, you may offend officials and gentry all over the world."
Chen Pingping narrowed her eyes slightly, and said tauntingly: "To achieve indomitable achievements, one needs indomitable courage, but you don't have this kind of courage, and you don't want to give up everything you already have, as long as Ye Qingmei dies , you enjoy everything she bestows on you, but you don’t need to bear any dangers she brings.”
"One thousand reasons, ten thousand reasons, even if you have countless reasons, because of this dragon chair, because of this country, because of your own ambition, go and kill her." Chen Pingping pursed her lips and shook her head in disdain Said: "But this person is you, you have no qualifications to do this."
Emperor Qing's eyes were still blank, as if he hadn't heard Chen Pingping's heart-piercing questions at all, but said slowly: "Prince Jing's mansion still has the original text, I think you should remember it clearly, like her Such fanciful ideas that go against people's hearts, although beautiful, are poisonous flowers. Once they bloom in the fields of Qing Kingdom, I am afraid that the whole Qing Kingdom will fall because of it. As the king of Qing Kingdom, I must be responsible for the people of the world .”
"In my life, I cherish that woman the most." His Majesty the Emperor turned his head and looked at Chen Pingping indifferently, "I cherish that woman more than anyone else in the world."
"What does it have to do with the common people? Your Majesty and I are very clear about what kind of person Xiao Yezi is. She has never been a person who has empty ideas but is unable to put them into practice. What she said and the words she left behind may be just her words." What you want to keep." Chen Pingping looked at the emperor coldly, "But you were shocked by those terrible thoughts, Your Majesty, you suddenly found out that her thoughts have too much for this chair. Big damage, even if she doesn't do it now, but the kindling she left behind, maybe at some point, this rotten chair, which looks glamorous on the outside, will be burned to ashes."
"A rotten chair?" The emperor laughed strangely, looked at Chen Pingping and said, "I never thought that you, an old dog, would be such a character."
Chen Pingping didn't answer, just coughed twice, then continued weakly: "Your Majesty, why do you have to explain so much, it's not as good as the previous four words... You are just greedy for this chair, you have too many ambitions, or Speaking of ambition, you have to pay for it, how can you allow someone to endanger this process? Speaking of which, you just... can't let a woman vaguely suppress you forever."
After hearing these words, Emperor Qing was silent for a long time. He didn't know if this was acquiescence, or he was thinking about the most obscure inner activities of his year. After a long time, he said indifferently: "If I have any ambitions, isn't she giving it to me?" mine?"
"I was just an inconspicuous son of Prince Cheng's mansion back then. Although I had great ambitions, sympathized with the hardships of the people, and wanted to change everything in this war and dispute, but how can I achieve all this, and even dream of all this?" The emperor laughed slightly and said: "It's her, it's you, it's Fan Jian, it's all of them that made me step up to the Dragon Throne step by step, and have the possibility to dream and realize all of this."
Emperor Qing's gaze became sharper, his voice became calmer, louder, and he said slightly harshly: "Since I have sat on this dragon chair, I must complete the idea of the year, no matter who it is, don't try to stop it! "
"Thoughts back then?" Chen Pingping looked at him and said indifferently, "Your Majesty, do you still remember our thoughts back then?"
"I know what you old dog wants to say." The emperor sat on the soft couch, his two-sleeved dragon robe unfolded like a cloud, and a powerful and solemn aura emerged from his whole body, like a god among the clouds, Said in a deep voice: "I want to lay down a big country and unify the whole world, so that hundreds of millions of people in the Three Kingdoms will no longer suffer from wars and chaos for generations to come. Isn't this her wish?"
Emperor Qing's voice gradually rose, and he looked at Chen Pingping with a cold voice: "It's been a long time since I talked like this today, and I just realized that you, an old dog, are still a sad character, but Don't forget, I am the emperor of the Qing Kingdom. I don't care about the promises I made back then, and I don't care about what I have deviated from, but I... care about her, and I do everything I promise her. So... Whether it's you or Fan Jian, even if she comes back from the underworld and asks me what I have done in the past few decades, I can look at you with disdain and say, only I can do all this!"
Chen Pingping fell into silence.
"She is a mysterious woman, but she is a woman after all. She is very naive, but I never thought that you are also very naive." The emperor slowly closed his eyes, only those thin lips were slightly opened, His words were full of coldness, "Governing a country is not about helping flowers and weeds, not just that trash of King Jing complaining about himself every day. As a king, in order to achieve the goal, anyone can die."
"Anyone can die."
"So she died." Chen Pingping hunched over in a wheelchair, and said sadly: "All the causes of chaos in the Qing Kingdom can die, such as the queen, such as the eldest princess, such as the prince, such as many, many. But I just don't understand, What is the difference between today's Qing Kingdom and the former Qing Kingdom? What is the difference between this world and the world twenty years ago? Your Majesty, you said that you are the one chosen in this world, so for your goal, you can sacrifice Everything, but if one day it was your turn to be sacrificed, would you be willing to go for it?"
"I... will be the master of the world, the king of the world." Emperor Qing said indifferently: "One day with me, the world will be better off."
"It's still just a false name." Chen Pingping sighed, and said: "Your Majesty, you have extraordinary energy, your eyesight is as bright as a torch, and the administration of the Qing Dynasty is unprecedented, but what will you do after you die? People always die."
Immediately, the old lame man in a wheelchair waved his hand and said lightly, "Even if the flood is torrential after you die, I suddenly thought of this sentence. At the same level as you, after all, you are just an ordinary person whose whole body and mind is occupied by ambition, no matter whether you are a grand master or a generation of emperors, you still cannot escape this point."
The emperor was not very angry, but just looked at him and said lightly: "At least I have done what I promised her back then, one by one."
"Really? Before the old slave dies, can you listen to His Majesty's explanation, so that I can die with peace of mind, and treat it as His Majesty's last grace to the old slave."
The emperor noticed the sarcasm on the corner of Chen Pingping's lips. For some reason, the king's heart suddenly trembled, and countless anger arose. As an emperor, especially an emperor like him, the most unbearable thing was, It is to be ignored or deliberately underestimated the achievements made on this continent in this life.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said slowly: "I don't need to explain anything to you eunuch, after I die, I will naturally tell her one by one."
"Your Majesty, do you have the face to see her after death?" Chen Pingping is completely different from the past today. When a person is about to die, his heart is clear and his ambition is also strong. In front of the world's most powerful man, he is indifferent and mean. Scratching at the other person's heart, "I heard that at the Danzhou seaside, you once explained to Fan Xian the so-called... one by one, do you want to comfort yourself, or do you want to let the dark side through Fan Xian?" She forgives you?"
This sentence was very indifferent, but it happened to stab Emperor Qing's heart. Emperor Qing opened his eyes, the strange emptiness was still in his eyes, but his complexion was slightly pale.
"Why don't I dare to see her?" Emperor Qing suddenly laughed after being silent for a long time, and the laughter echoed in the imperial study room, "By the Danzhou seaside, in the old mansion of King Cheng, everything I promised her will be done. I have already done it, or I will do it, and everything I have done in this life is not what she has hoped for countless times?"
Chen Pingping just looked at him indifferently.
Emperor Qing's voice became low, and he said coldly: "She wants to reform and eradicate the abuses in the court, well, I will follow her, I will change the Yuan, reform the system, and implement a new policy."
"She explained that the king must listen to the advice, so I granted the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to hear rumors."
"She said that the establishment of a postal route system within the country will be of great benefit to business and people's livelihood. Well, I spared no expense on the national money and built postal routes throughout the country in the shortest possible time."
"She said that the eunuchs in the palace are pitiful and hateful." Emperor Qing glanced at Chen Pingping indifferently, "So I abolished the practice of sending eunuchs to the princes' mansions, scattered half of the eunuchs in the palace, and strictly prohibited Eunuchs intervene in politics."
"She said that the country would not be rich without business, so I vigorously supported businessmen and sent Xue Qing to station in the south of the Yangtze River to prevent the imperial court from interfering in private business affairs."
"She said that the country would be unstable without agriculture, so I vigorously built water conservancy projects, and specially set up the Governor's Office of the River Transport to repair the long embankment of the great river."
"She said she wanted a newspaper, so I will run a newspaper."
"She said she wanted lace, so I painted lace."
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The emperor spoke faster and faster, his eyes became brighter and brighter. In the end, he seemed a little emotional. Looking at Chen Pingping, he scolded loudly: "Whatever she wants, I will do. You, or why do you blame me!"
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Chen Pingping smiled, very satisfied, and smiled very strangely. He looked at His Majesty and said softly: "This passage is very skillful. I think you often look at that portrait in the small building, except on the Danzhou seaside. Talk to yourself, is this trying to comfort her in the sky, or is it trying to drive away the chill in your heart?"
Emperor Qing's complexion changed slightly, but Chen Pingping slowly sat up straight, looked at him and said word by word:
"Implementing the New Deal is not changing the year name twice! The reform is not changing the Ministry of War into the old Military Ministry, and then changing it into the Privy Council. It is called reform. Your Majesty, do you remember the earliest name of Taixue? Do you remember? There is a yamen that used to be called the Education Institute? Tongwen Pavilion? What is the transfer office? What is the transportation department?"
"The New Deal is either a new name or a New Deal!" Chen Pingping's sharp voice was like a whip, and it was slapped on the emperor's face. Do you know what the name of the yamen is called the New Deal? Are you deceiving the world, or are you deceiving yourself?"
"The Metropolitan Procuratorate heard rumors about the matter? Why did it end up being a mass of mud in the hands of the Princess Xinyang? They were allowed to discuss the matter without guilt? In the autumn of the fifth year of Qingli, since Zuodu Yushi, those Yushi doctors in official robes of Chu color, Because of Fan Xian, he was miserably punished by the imperial staff, this...whose order was it?"
"Not to mention the postal system! This is purely a joke. It costs a tael of silver to send a letter. Who can afford it except the sons and daughters of officials? Except for the lazy relatives who raised a large number of officials in the post station, this postal route What is the use?"
"It is strictly forbidden for eunuchs to intervene in politics? Then what is Hong Siitch? An assassin enters the palace and is involved in state affairs, but he has the right to preside over the investigation as the eunuch in command. Well, even if he has a special status, let me ask His Majesty, eunuch Yao is out." , A large number of officials of the second and third ranks have to bow to give way, what is this?"
"The imperial court vigorously supports businesses? Does the imperial court not interfere with private business affairs?" Chen Pingping's voice became more and more shrill, and she said contemptuously: "Why do the Ming family have so many powerful shares? If Your Majesty, you don't interfere with commercial affairs, Fan Xian will go to Jiangnan to do it." What's gone? The businessman... now it's just a flock of fat sheep raised by the imperial court."
"Building water conservancy and ensuring agricultural work?" Chen Pingping laughed more and more sarcastically, "... Hehe, the Governor's Yamen of Heyun is the darkest Yamen in the world. The old slave wanted to investigate many years ago, but Your Majesty, your emperor Mind tricks, knowing that half of the world's officials are hidden in this yamen, you don't want to shake the government, so you have to let it rot, and the result? How many people were drowned when the river collapsed? The winter in the fifth and sixth years of Qingli was frozen again How many people died? Even though Fan Xian and his wife put money into it in the past two years, they still can only maintain it."
"There's also the old newspaper, lace." Chen Pingping narrowed her eyes, and looked at Emperor Qing sarcastically, "The newspaper she said is something that enlightens the people's wisdom, but it's not a useless thing that comes out of the inner court. It should not only contain the story of my old black dog, but should have something else, Your Majesty, do you think I am right?"
The emperor's face became paler and paler, almost transparent, and he didn't hear Chen Pingping's last words at all.
"You may be able to convince Fan Xian, you can convince yourself, all these years, what have you been trying to do, what are you trying to make up for, and what are you practicing for the things in the Danzhou seaside and Chengwang's mansion?" Chen Pingping said harshly. Looking at His Majesty the Emperor, "But you can't convince her in the portrait, it's just that she can't speak now. But you can't convince me, Your Majesty, unfortunately, I can still speak now."
The emperor was silent for a long time, with his pale face and his slightly trembling fingers, it could be seen that his heart was filled with anger to the point of extreme hatred. He slowly raised his head, looked at Chen Pingping and said indifferently: "In my life, I actually did the worst thing. The most important thing is that when I was still the crown prince, I heard from her that the court officials needed an independent yamen for supervision, so I ignored everyone's objections and wrote to my father to forcibly set up the yamen of the Supervisory Yuan."
"I shouldn't have listened to her, let you, an old black dog that you don't know how to raise, this eunuch who smells like urine, to be the first head of the Overwatch Council." Emperor Qing's voice was very calm, The calm was mixed with an infinite chill.
After Chen Pingping was silent for a long time, she raised her head and said very calmly: "Even the Overwatch Council, which my old black dog has guarded desperately for decades, is probably not the Overwatch Council she wants to see."
The emperor listened to the old cripple and said quietly: "The Overwatch Council is an institution that supervises all officials, but it is not the monstrously powerful secret service agency today, especially this courtyard itself is your majesty's courtyard."
Chen Pingping suddenly laughed ugly, and looked directly at the emperor's face: "Do you still remember what was written on the stone tablet in front of the Overwatch Council?"
It was a section of large golden characters, always shining in front of the gloomy square building of the Overwatch Council, which attracted the attention of many people in Kyoto, but no one would really see these words clearly. The officials of the Overwatch Council memorized it clearly, but they didn't know the hidden meaning behind this passage.
The most important thing is that those people back then may know the full text of this passage, but whether it is the emperor or others, they may have forgotten this subconsciously. In the whole world, only Chen Pingping and the earliest members of the Overwatch Council remembered that passage.
"I hope that the people of the Qing Kingdom can become unruly people. When they are abused by others, they will not yield, when they are attacked by disasters, they will not be frustrated. Flattering jackals and tigers..."
These were the words Ye Qingmei left to the Overwatch Council, but this paragraph was not finished, and for some unknown reason, the following two sentences were just lost in the dust of history.
Chen Pingping looked at His Majesty the Emperor indifferently, her withered lips trembling slightly, and she said word by word: "I hope that every citizen of the Qing Kingdom can become a king and become the ruler of the territory called 'myself'." … the one and only King.”
"Your Majesty, my king." Chen Pingping's eyes were full of burning heat, and she was willing to give everything for it.
"The Overwatch Council... has been used to monitor you from the very beginning."
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(Sister Pingping’s last long speech to the emperor today made me satisfied, um, really satisfied. I didn’t want to spoil the mood at this time, but I still want to say something, everyone is satisfied, give me two monthly tickets .) (, If you want to know what happens next, please log in, there are more chapters, support the author, support the original!)