"Actually, going to Danzhou has no other meaning."
The emperor pushed his wheelchair to the corner of Tai Chi Hall. The railing in front of him reflected a faint white light at night, and there was a slight gap of a few feet from the square in front of him. A pair of monarchs and ministers sighed at the same time. Although the palace wall is tall, it is not so high compared with the vast square, and a little bit of starlight shines down on the night sky in the far south.
"I just want to go and have a look." The emperor said casually, "I haven't been there for a long time, and I don't know if it is still the same as it was back then, with so many fish."
"If I remember correctly, when Shengshang went to Danzhou, it wasn't completely under the jurisdiction of Daqing."
"Yeah, it seems closer to Danzhou by boat from Dongyi. If there wasn't such a large dense forest in the north of Danzhou...Si Gujian would not give up such a good port."
"Fortunately, there is that forest," Chen Pingping said with a smile: "She will only take the boat, and we will meet her at sea."
The emperor was silent, obviously not wanting to continue this memory. So Chen Pingping sighed, and said instead: "Your Majesty stands taller and sees farther than people in the world. I dare not question your judgment and decision, but... I can't think of it, if the eldest princess really has that kind of thought... How did she move those two people."
Without thinking about it, the emperor said directly: "There is no need to say anything, if there is a chance to stab me under the sword, this is the greatest temptation in the world, no matter whether it is the ascetic monk Ku He or the idiot Si Gu Jian, I must be reluctant to miss it." .”
If Fan Xian was listening by the side at this time, he would definitely be amazed that the emperor's analysis at this time is so consistent with that of the old man in Wuzhou City. Qingguo lost Lin Ruofu, so I don't know if the emperor would be upset It will be a pity.
Chen Pingping's hands that had been stroking her knees stopped slowly, as if she was digesting His Majesty's words, and after a while, she said slowly: "If those two are really desperate, what should Da Qingchao use to block it."
"Soldiers are coming to block you." The emperor said coldly.
"Who is the general?" Chen Pingping said calmly, "Ye Liuyun hacked half of the building in the south. Others may misunderstand him as that idiot Si Gujian. Crazy."
"Anzhi also wrote in a letter." The emperor said indifferently, "After all, he is from our Daqing Dynasty, so it is not easy to collude with outsiders."
"As for those two people, after all, they are humans or not gods. I hold the world in my hands, so why be afraid of two people. As for the general..." The emperor said lightly: "The fifth is the number one killer in the world."
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Very plain words, very strong confidence, but Chen Pingping's lips had an elusive smile, but he was sitting in front of the emperor, and the emperor couldn't see that weird smile.
"I will give Yun Rui a chance." The emperor said coldly.
Chen Pingping was silent, but she was thinking in her heart, I'm afraid... His Majesty just wanted to give herself a chance, a chance to convince the Queen Mother, and even herself.
It's just that until now, Chen Pingping still doesn't know where the emperor's strong confidence comes from. Although he has been working hard to get closer to the truth, because of Fan Xian's meddling in the Xuankong Temple, he wants Wu Zhu to see After all, the play was not over.
"His Majesty."
"speak."
"I want to know how you arrange things in the future." Chen Pingping sighed and asked a question that she would never ask in the future.
The emperor also seemed a little surprised, and immediately smiled, the beard under his chin was slowly fluttering in the night wind, and the middle-aged man's unique insight into the world's eyes softened a little. This was the first time in many years that Chen Pingping asked about this matter on her own initiative, and the emperor's heart moved slightly.
"Didn't you always dislike these things?" The emperor said sarcastically, "Even when I asked for your opinion in the past, you were like an old rabbit, running as far as you could."
Chen Pingping pursed her lips and said, "It's about a bunch of children, but it's His Majesty's children after all."
The emperor understood the meaning of this sentence, and after thinking for a while, he said in a calm but firm tone, "I haven't thought it through yet."
Now it was Chen Pingping's turn to be surprised. He couldn't help shaking his head and sighing like an old master in the countryside.
The emperor said slowly: "Chengqian is too cowardly, the eldest is too pure, the second..." He frowned, "The third is too young."
Chen Pingping sighed again.
The emperor suddenly laughed, released his hand from the back of the wheelchair, put it behind his back, and walked in front of Chen Pingping. Through the white marble railings, looking at the vast square in the deep palace, it seems to be watching thousands of troops and everything in the world.
"I know that many people think that I have forced these children too hard." The emperor's back looked a little sad, "Shu Wu once drank, and even said it directly in front of my face."
Speaking of this time, the emperor's tone finally carried a trace of hidden anger.
"But, the emperor... can anyone be it?" The emperor turned his head and stared at Chen Pingping's aging face, as if he was asking him, himself, or the palace. Those restless sons inside and outside the palace.
The maids and eunuchs in the distance looked at this side from a distance, they couldn't hear what His Majesty was talking with Dean Chen at all, and they didn't even know that the conversation between His Majesty and Dean Chen involved the ownership of the dragon chair after many years.
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"As an emperor, you must not be ruthless or sentimental." The emperor turned his face away, "If you are ruthless to the world around you, you will be ruthless to the world, and the world will be chaotic; , also chaotic."
"I'm not a foolish king. If I want to make achievements that will last forever, I also need to be inherited by future generations. You can't choose the emperor based on your own preferences." The emperor sneered and said: "I have been watching the prince for ten years. He is a ruthless and sentimental person, and he can keep his success, but when I go, the world must have just begun to be unified, and the cause of chaos is still there. He doesn't have a heart of stone, and he doesn't have any powerful means. How can he defend this great unity for me The world?"
"Second brother?" The sneer on the emperor's face still didn't fade away, "I valued him at first, and he didn't lose out in the battle with Chengqian all these years, but he disappointed me later and blindly went for sentimental love. Walking on the ruthless road of concealment, if he is in power, he will be a benevolent king of the generation, but these sons of mine... I am afraid that none of them will survive."
Chen Pingping was silent, but she was thinking in her heart that the world is really unclear. The second prince was also a handsome young man who only knew how to study. If you hadn't been forced into this position by you, there would not have been such great pressure and temptation. How did his mind become what it is today? Your Majesty, Your Majesty... The method of raising lions is indeed not very suitable for cultivating the successors of the emperor.
Emperor Qing's underlying intention of allowing the princes to seize the throne these years is very simple. It is difficult to rule the world. Whoever can survive will own the world. It's just that he has never thought about it. Not all young people are as accustomed to living in Moji as he is. Standing in the ordinary river and admiring the scenery by the river, he changed his sons a lot, but the final result of this change is probably not what he wanted.
"How is the eldest prince?" What Chen Pingping said tonight has far exceeded his usual philosophy.
So when the emperor heard this, he was taken aback again, and smiled even more, as if he liked Chen Pingping's return to the state of talking and saying: "I'm not surprised that you will mention his name. "
The emperor smiled and said: "You and Xiao Yezi saved the lives of the mother and son. You naturally have more affection for him. I also like him... It's just that he has too much affection. In this dangerous fight, Whoever has a soft heart may fall into a catastrophe."
The emperor sighed: "Plus, he has half Dongyi blood after all, so it's hard to convince the public. What's more, if he wants to bloodbath Dongyi city in the future, do you think he has the determination?"
Chen Pingping sighed. In the palace tonight, the dean seemed to be sighing more than ever.
"So he doesn't have to think about it." The emperor said slowly: "The third child... is still young, I can watch it for a few more years."
Chen Pingping suddenly smiled strangely, and said a proposal that might make the whole world tremble.
"Fan Xian...how is it?"
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The emperor turned around slowly and looked at Chen Pingping with a half-smile. He didn't know how long he looked at it, but he never answered this sentence. After a long time, the emperor suddenly laughed loudly, and the laughter echoed in the empty corridor in front of the Taiji Hall, making the ladies and eunuchs at the end of the corridor tremble with fear.
The laughter gradually calmed down, the emperor slowly suppressed his smile, and said calmly but unquestionably: "There is no doubt that he is the most suitable one."
Amorousness is always annoyed by ruthlessness, Fan Xian's temperament in this world just fits the requirements of Emperor Qing for his successor, seemingly gentle and affectionate, but in fact he is ruthless, but born in the deepest part of his bones, there is such a thing. A breath of compassion.
The emperor was always thinking, the aura in Fan Xian's bones should be inherited from her mother, right
If the emperor's words spread, the entire court of the Qing Kingdom would be shaken, and even the whole world would experience some kind of strong change.
"He has no status." Chen Pingping said with a strange smile.
The emperor's smile was also a little weird: "Fame is just a word from me... People back then will always die clean one day."
Chen Pingping knew that His Majesty was referring to the Queen Mother in the palace, so he coughed lightly twice and said, "I think it's better to forget it."
The emperor looked at him with a half-smile: "Why? I always thought you didn't like Fan Xian, but in the past two years, it seems that you really love him."
"It's one thing to love you," Chen Pingping said with a fake smile, "It's the same thing to be wrong with Fan Jian... But in my opinion, with Fan Xian's character, he doesn't want to let the Fan and Liu clans fall in love because of him. The relationship between them has become a white bone in the ground.”
The emperor smiled slightly and said nothing more.
Chen Pingping knew the emperor in front of him so well, he sighed in his heart. If the emperor really wanted to support Fan Xian to the throne, then before he died, the Fan and Liu families would be slaughtered at all costs, and this was definitely unacceptable to Fan Xian. What made Chen Pingping even more exhausted was that he finally clearly confirmed that the emperor did not put Fan Xian on the succession list at all.
Standing in the middle, Chen Pingping knew that that road would not work, so she had no choice but to take another road—His Majesty has a disease and a heart disease.
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"I like Boss and Anzhi because I like their hearts." Standing in the night wind of the palace, the emperor made a decisive choice about the ownership of the dragon chair, "What I want to see is the hearts of these sons." ... If there is no such thing, it is fine, if there is, I want to see whether the hearts of the crown prince and the second child cherish my father."
Chen Pingping didn't make a sound, but thought coldly, as a father, if he doesn't spare his own son, how can he have the right to ask his son to cherish his father's love
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"The emperor's vision should be farther than that of people like himself."
As Fan Xian thought, at this moment, he was just like a monkey, climbing up the high mast, looking at the rising sun on his right hand, facing the slightly humid and salty sea breeze, shouting loudly and happily.
Traveling by sea, what a pleasant life, don't care about the dirty water in the capital, don't care about the troubles in the officialdom, don't have to see those dead heads in Jiaozhou, Fan Xian seems to have returned to the restless boy in Danzhou Image, he climbed up and down on the ship all day long, and finally climbed to the top of the highest mast of the whole ship.
He put up an awning, looked at the red and warm color blocks in the distance, and thought that he had seen far enough, but he still didn't know which step the emperor had seen.
The boat came from Jiaozhou, and slowly sailed north along the winding coastline in the east of Qing Kingdom, toward Fan Xian's hometown.