"… "
Gu Mang didn't say anything, he just thought it was ridiculous.
However, Gu Mang was not the only one who thought it was absurd. Mo Xi also thought that His Majesty's remarks were too ridiculous.
precious
Don't want to lose
Abandoned like stubborn shoes, eager to be dismissed... It is almost a thorn in the eyes of the king, who would believe it.
Seeing that Gu Mang was silent, Your Majesty turned his head and suddenly asked, "Gu Shuai, what kind of person do you think Gu is."
Gu Mang's lips moved, and then they pursed tightly again.
"Actually, if you don't tell me, I know it in my heart. You all think Xiankao is a virtuous monarch, and you are willing to give the monks from slave backgrounds a chance to make achievements. In your eyes, Xianjun is tall and far away. And Gu? ?" Jun Shang smiled, "Gu is a jerk and a stubborn stick."
He looked at the water curtain trickling down from the corner of the eaves, and after a while he said, "But have any of you ever stood in a lonely position and thought about the lonely situation."
"There is no other way to be alone." Jun Shang sighed softly, "Gu Shuai, you came from a slave background, and all the way to where you are today, you have encountered all kinds of criticism and countless setbacks. In your eyes, the most important thing is not admiration. , It's not pity, but empathy. Because your path and mine are the same, it's not easy to walk. I'm destined to bear countless infamy and accusations."
"… "
"No, in fact, being alone is not as good as you. Anyway, you still have Xihe-kun who can be with you, and a group of lonely and brave warriors who swear allegiance to you. What is alone? Mengze? Yanping... or Murong Lian." As he said that, he laughed lightly at himself, "It's a huge royal city, with many relatives and relatives, but none of them have nothing to do with Gu. Do you know why?"
Gu Mang shook his head.
Junshang said: "Because the road to the throne alone has been splattered with the blood of brothers and sisters."
As he spoke, he looked up at the sky that was turning over ink: "... Gu tell you a rumor. No... It should be considered forbidden. But the world is the most difficult to restrain, Gu think, this legend, Gu Shuai may also I've heard of it."
Gu Mang didn't say a word, Jun Shang paused for a while, and then said, "It happened a long time ago, when Gu Cai was just born..."
"As we all know, Gu is the eldest son of the Wang family and should be established as the heir, but the battle for Chonghua's succession is not without precedent. As long as there is no official enthronement, anything can happen. Therefore, on the day of the full moon of Gu, the mother concubine Secretly searched for the illustrator to occupy the scorpion, and calculated a hexagram. The hexagram is dangerous, and the physiognomist said that the lonely fate will have a catastrophe.
"This hexagram has made the mother and concubine uneasy to sleep and eat, and she has been seriously ill for several months. After she recovers..." Your Majesty paused for a moment and closed her eyes, "I don't know why, all the babies born by concubines and concubines in the palace will never be born again. No one can live to a full year."
Mo Xi knew that what Your Majesty said was right. He often entered the palace with his father when he was young, and he saw only one young prince from beginning to end... that was the present Majesty. Moreover, he clearly remembered that there was a gentle concubine and aunt in the palace who was good at making cakes. Every time he came, he would specially make two boxes for him to take home. The concubine was weak and weak, and later became pregnant, she worked hard to give birth to a child.
Is a son.
At that time, Mo Xi still remembered that his father had discussed with his mother what gift to give, but before the gift was finalized, the death knell in the palace rang through the entire imperial capital—the young master died prematurely.
The specific cause of death, because Mo Xi was too young at that time, and the time passed was too long, so he could not remember clearly, it seemed to be a kind of acute illness for children. The most unforgettable thing for him was that the concubine, the concubine, was devastated by the death of her youngest son. A few days later, while the maid's guard was unprepared, she hanged herself.
This bizarre incident has spread throughout Chonghua, and except for this concubine, the other ladies are also in danger, but after that, something has happened. It is not a good thing, but a curse.
I don't know how many mother's tears and the souls of unjust deaths were condensed in these piles of murder cases back then, but to really sum it up, it's really just such a simple sentence.
Jun Shang looked at the vast rainy night, his eyes were very blank, as if he saw his flesh and blood brothers who had not grown up in the rain.
He said softly: "Whether these things are coincidences or really what the concubine did, it's up to you to guess. However... everyone thinks that Gu came on a blood-stained road, so those concubines of the first emperor... Who are you? Will they look forward to being alone? Which of their crony relatives would really be willing to be with Lonely."
"They didn't submit to the loneliness, and they did not return to the loneliness. What's more, when the ancestors died, they thought about abolishing the loneliness - adopting Murong Lian. How safe do you think the position of the loneliness is?"
Gu Mang: "…"
After the lord said, Beiji bit his lip, and the light in his eyes was dim and uncertain: "So it's not because I don't want to follow the way that my predecessors have developed, and it's not because I really think you are duckweed. It's because..." He closed. Closing his eyes, "Gu has no other choice."
"Gu Chu was in power, with internal and external troubles, and everything was unstable. You seem to think that as long as a group of Gudanzhu and a group of Chonghua matters, they can decide everything. Bie Yuan can't do it. This is the situation of Chonghua Xinjun - you see how ridiculous."
Gu Mang: "Luomei Bieyuan is just a prostitution house, why can't it be banned?"
"Prostitution Chu Pavilion..." Jun Shang sneered coldly and looked up at Gu Mang, "Gu Shuai knows how deep the water is behind this prostitution Chu Pavilion? When you don't move it, you only know that it is Wangshu. When you really want to uproot it, you will find that its root system spreads over most of the royal city. When you move it, those interests buried in the depths of the soil are all demonstrating to you. You cry in pain and go against you."
"There is only one Luomei Garden, and it has been involved in the protection of officials, selling stolen goods and taking bribes... This is just a prostitute. Today's Chonghua, doing one thing alone has 10,000 pairs of eyes staring at it, and a thousand mouths saying No, one hundred arms are eager to push Gu back to his seat, so if Gu wants to change the system of the Si Litai, the military machinery department, or even completely change the national system of Chonghua? What kind of situation will it be?"
The wind was blowing and the rain was slanting, and there was rushing rain that slanted into the golden platform, and no one spoke for a while. Whether it was Mo Xi, who was on the sidelines, or a pair of courtiers at the time, they all fell into silence.
After a while, the king said again: "Retreat to the old-fashioned, not lonely, but a strategy that has to be done alone, and a responsibility that has to be shouldered."
A policy that has to be done... a responsibility that has to be shouldered...
The two sentences were driven into Gu Mang's heart like nails, causing his heart to tremble.
"Gu Shuai."
Gu Mang raised his head suddenly.
Admiral Jun put his slender fingers on the edge of the dark red carved fence and whispered: "Do you know what Gu wants to do most in this life?"
"… "
"I want to let those old nobles who are smug and gouged learn to shut up, I want those waste pustules to spit out all the meat in their mouths - Shen Tangxin is wrong, and with Liaoguo, some people feel that A cultivator who is a slave is definitely not desirable. But when the father Wang Xin is right with Gu Qing, Chonghua has an iron general against the Liao Kingdom. In this world, there will be Hua Podang, you will have Gu Mang, and he will have Lu Zhanxing. "
"Xianjun chose the right path, but Guxiang has gone further than him."
He paused, his eyes narrowed, and his fingers slowly clenched unconsciously, as if he was about to face something utterly disgusting.
"Those crony ministers, those old nobles... They don't see Chonghua as a country at all, only what awards his family has won today, and what titles will they have tomorrow, if they really want to go to the battlefield, it's all on paper and a bunch of trash! It's been so many years. … By virtue of Hua Po An’s treason, he refused to let the capable and insightful come forward, and some monks from slaves came to the fore. In the Storm Pavilion—"
Not to mention Gu Mang, even Mo Xi was shocked.
How could Your Majesty ever speak so many words in such a breathless and emotionally undisguised manner
What's more, when he said these words, his eyes gradually flickered with agitation, and the light seemed to crack the invisible thick shell outside him. At this time, he really looked like a spirited young man who scolded Fang Qiu.
"They are afraid of Chonghua's restructuring, afraid of understanding the black magic spell, afraid of all unknown changes, and just want to live a life of comfort until death. They don't want to think that the country may break down in a hundred years, and the family may die, and they just want to be happy and refreshed overnight— This is the noble of Chonghua. My brother." The king finally said.
"… "
"But you are different. My brothers and my comrades, those who have the same blood as me in their bones, Cheng Risuke thought about how to drink more blood from Chonghua and become a more glorious overlord. Gu Shuai, You are different."
"Your brothers, your army, is a sharp sword that Chonghua has not forged for hundreds of years. Gu said, whether you believe it or not, it is a treasure of loneliness."
The moths, trapped in the night rain and unable to escape, danced wildly beside the candlelight, and finally rushed towards the firelight. Suddenly, a tongue of fire rushed up, giving off a pungent burnt stench... The moth finally died and fell into the center of the candle pool.
"In this life, I not only want to inherit the way of my father, but also want to cut down the powerful, demote the nepotism, and even want to take risks that the predecessors dare not take. Zhonghua is not used to the way of black magic, but he must master it and know it! What is there to be ashamed of if you don't do injustice? If Chonghua was able to learn more about the three forbidden arts before, why would Lu Zhanxing be here!"
Gu Mang's body trembled suddenly.
"Gu Shuai, one Lu Qing is enough... I don't want to see the second one. The third Lu Qing was harmed by the black demon and no one noticed."
He looked at Qionglu, and at this moment, another electric light flashed across the sky.
Not long after, there was a muffled sound of thunder and thunder.
Junshang's eyes were extremely bright with the light of thunder, and he murmured: "The sky of Chonghua, it's time to change..."
The wind and clouds were rolling, and in the dark night, most of the candles in the inner courtyard of the deep palace were extinguished, and only the golden platform standing on the top of the royal city was still lit faintly in the whistling wind. It is like a cold sword, pointing straight at the high sky, breaking through the thick clouds.
"Gu Qing, Gu needs a person, he needs to be loyal enough, brave enough, and smart enough. Gu needs such a person to break into the Liao Kingdom, pass information for Gu, and become the leader of the Liao Kingdom and the old nobility. poison."
Gu Mang is not stupid, Gu Mang has vaguely understood the reason why the king invited him to see him on the golden stage today.
Sure enough, Jun Shang then said: "Gu Qing. Are you willing to bear the burden for Chonghua?"
Gu Mang was silent for a while, then said, "Your Majesty wants me to deceive me?"
Very silent.
The sound of the wind and rain pouring on the roof of the roof tiles almost penetrated the eardrums. For this answer, Gu Mang was waiting, and Mo Xi was also waiting, as if the bowstring of a jade bow had been stretched to the extreme, and only the last inch of strength was needed.
The king closed his eyes and said, "...Yes."
As if the bowstring snapped with a bang, the residual string kept shaking and trembling...
Even though he was in the jade slip, he was just a bystander, Mo Xi still felt that the desolate wind and rain of the night had penetrated into his bones and blood in an instant. When he heard Xuan Bing, he seemed to be frozen by this sound. All limbs and bones lost consciousness.
Cold, really cold.
But maybe he has been waiting for this sentence to be rehabilitated, the truth of this sentence of treason, he has waited for eight years, been sad for eight years, suffered for eight years, and despaired for eight years.
When he really heard these words and knew that Gu Mang was really secretive, and even that Chonghua was a pawn in Liao Kingdom, all the emotions in these years turned into grief and heartache in an instant...
Report your favor on the golden stage, and bring Yulong to die for the king...
How ironic.
Only those who have truly stepped onto this high platform, which is envied by thousands of people, will know what an "important minister" is.
The so-called "important ministers" do not face the sky or the ground. All the intrigues, tricks, and sacrifices go out of the mouth of the king and into the ears of the ministers. Since then, the bright and sincere smile has been drenched in blood from the face, and one cannot help you. The selected skin is stuck firmly on your face.
When the blood dries and the scar fades, you look up, but you can no longer see your face in the bronze mirror.
The so-called "hero", perhaps for a dream, perhaps for a goal, perhaps for a person to agree with one word, nod his head on a rainy night.
Since then, I have paid for it all my life, and there is no way out.
The wind blew his broad sleeves, and Gu Mang lifted the shattered hair on his temples and said, "Your Majesty wants to prove that he is right, and wants to make a great cause, so as to make the old man who can't convince him. The nobility can see clearly whether you are a waste to the throne by stepping on your flesh and blood, or a king who stands above the sky. Is that right?"
"..." His words were too quiet, as if he was trying his best to suppress some emotions, so Your Majesty didn't answer immediately.
"Your Majesty's desire to be a wise ruler and to change the fundamentals of Chonghua is naturally a good thing, and Gu also admires it very much."
Hearing him say this, Your Majesty heaved a sigh of relief and was about to answer when Gu Mang said:
"But Your Majesty, I have died 70,000 times, the scars on my heart have not yet healed, and the 70,000 heroic souls have not yet been buried. Yes, I am willing to be your sharp blade, the poison you poured into the belly of Liao Kingdom, and the The spy who collects information about the Dark Demon for you will be your sacrifice to appease the old nobles."
"I can promise all of these, and I'm willing to do them all. I just want you to leave my brother alive for the sake of the 70,000 dead."
"… "
"I'm not a god of war, I'm just one of those 100,000 slave monks. I'm willing to be your appointed traitor and bear a lifetime of infamy, but I implore you to give them the justice they deserve."
The king slowly closed his eyes, seeming to be disturbed by his words in pain and unease.
He whispered: "Gu will not let you suffer in vain, one day... Gu Qing, one day, Gu will reconcile your injustice for you, and on that day, Gu will personally match you with a blue gold pendant, and Gu will announce The whole Chonghua announces to every commoner who lives in peace and contentment, telling them that you have made such a sacrifice to have such a world..."
Gu Mang's eyes flickered with light, but in the end he was not moved by the future described by Your Majesty.
He is still awake, awake and biting on what he believes will not let go.
He stared at Junshang's face and said word by word, "What about Lu Zhanxing?"
Lord Jun looked at him, the confrontation between them was an invisible competition, and in the end, Lord Jun was defeated in this panic-stricken silence, he closed his eyes and whispered: "Gu Qing, Lu Qing is broken. There is no way out."
The author has something to say:
Jun Shang: I heard that my speech yesterday did not win the trust of the comment area, so I decided to try harder.
Gu Mangmang: You can persuade me first, I think they are smarter than me, you persuade me first, then persuade them 23333333