Wen Renzheng looked at Liu Mingzhi's face that gradually became sad. He took off the dry tobacco bag from his waist and filled it with shredded tobacco. He leaned over and lit the lantern in Liu Mingzhi's hand and took a few puffs silently.
"You returned to the capital lightly and simply in the hope of showing your goodwill and eliminating the gap between yourself and Li Ye.
It’s a pity that God doesn’t do what’s best!
After you entered the capital, your proactive gestures of stabilizing the government and purging officials did not soothe Li Ye's panic. On the contrary, they intensified his sincere fear of your powerful uncle.
Because your unrivaled appearance in the court reminds him of your domineering figure who dominated the Northern Expedition when he first ascended the throne two years ago, overwhelming the civil and military forces of the court.
Your original intention was to show your good will, express your loyalty to the court, and offer your best assistance to him.
But in his opinion, you have successively dealt with Ren Wenyue and other rebellious officials and traitors who took the blame, but you are demonstrating against him.
As a result, the relationship between the two of you has really reached a point where it cannot be eased, and both of you are worried.
This makes me have to mention your remarks at Dangyang Academy again.
When you talk about the fear from the bottom of your heart when you talk about historical events such as the birds disappearing, the good bows hiding, the cunning rabbits dying, and the lackeys cooking them up.
What happened next made you even more uneasy.
Li Ye is always worried that you will rebel like his uncles, and you are also worried that if you listen to Li Ye's will and take the initiative to hand over power, Li Ye will kill you, Liang Gongzang's ruthless Lift.
If this is the case, it is destined that things between you, the monarch and his ministers, will be incompatible.
This is the fundamental reason why Li Ye wanted to take back your rights, but you refused with various excuses. "
"Old man, since I have already seen clearly that the relationship between the emperor and the minister between me and Li Ye has become a fire and water, there is no possibility of easing it.
Why should I go into danger alone and wait until Li Ye comes to assassinate me?
Taking advantage of the unquenched morale of the millions of troops who came out to fight at that time, it would be enough to just raise troops to rebel.
After all, at that time, whether it was the Six Guards of the New Army, the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang, or the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions, because of my previous action of killing them first and then marching out to fight, they had already assumed the identity of my soldiers and horses.
At this time, I will directly raise troops to rebel, even if the generals of the Sixth Guards of Northern Xinjiang do not want to respond.
But because he had obeyed my order to go out to fight, he had quietly boarded the pirate ship.
At that time, I rebelled, and it was impossible for them not to follow me in rebellion.
The imperial court could not tolerate them. Perhaps because of the boy's strong military strength, the generals made a temporary compromise decision to appease them.
But after they helped the court put down the rebellion of King Yiyiyi, they would definitely be greeted by the court's reckoning.
I can see through things, how can Old Marshal Yun and the others, who have gone through several dynasties, not be able to see through things.
At that time, I could have rebelled directly. Why wait until the Fengyundu assassination later, when the king forced the minister to rebel, and the minister had no choice but to rebel? "
Wen Renzheng's sharp eyes knocked the ashes out of the cigarette rod against the soles of his feet, and shook his head with a chuckle.
“Because your heart is too big.
You have never regarded unifying the dragon, conquering the three kingdoms, and unifying the world as your lifelong goal.
After the end of the autumn period in the 26th year of Xuande's reign, you came to Beijing and met Yan He, the emperor and his ministers, and presented you with the nautical map of the West.
Your heart will become as far-sighted as Kunpeng.
To you, unifying the world is just an achievement that will last forever, but opening up new territories and expanding your horizons to the West are great achievements that will last forever.
If you take the initiative to rebel and learn from Wuming, you can successfully seize the throne.
But what happens next? There will be endless troubles that will take up your entire life to solve.
At that time, people's hearts were complicated, and the civil and military forces of the entire dynasty could not work together. It was difficult for you to unify the world. How could you talk about expanding your territory and looking forward to all the countries in the West?
So what if you unified the world with your extraordinary means?
Do you dare to send a large number of elite soldiers and horses to the western sea as you have no name and take the initiative to rebel?
After all, if the army goes out at that time, you will not have the strength to rely on, and a little manipulation by the Li clan, plus the secret response of the officials, will be enough for you, the polished emperor, to fall into a situation of no return.
As for the king forcing his ministers to rebel, it was Li Ye who was unjust to you, the loyal and loyal king, so you acted unkindly and raised troops to rebel. Not only did your senior brother become famous, but you also gained great righteousness.
And those soldiers and horses of the Six Guards in Northern Xinjiang who have accumulated prestige for a long time will feel the sorrow of the rabbit's death and the fox's death.
Although you may have to stop your rebellion because of military orders, you will not feel disgusted with your rebellion in your heart.
After you succeed in your great cause, they will not have too strong thoughts about restoring the previous dynasty.
If you then show kindness and kindness, you can easily and quickly secure the throne you have captured.
You have hundreds of thousands of elite border troops at your disposal. Eighty percent of the civil and military officials in the DPRK who do not recognize you are unwilling to do so and want to go all out to restore the previous DPRK. However, they have no soldiers and horses to use, and no power in their hands. If his heart is weak but his strength is insufficient, what's the use!
The general trend cannot be changed!
Yes or no? "
Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes with a painful expression, lifted the flask and drank the remaining wine in one gulp.
"Um!"
"The most important thing is that at this time, you still hold on to the slightest hope and don't want to get into a fight with Li Ye.
The reason is nothing more than Yan He and Li Baiyu's past kindness to you.
There was also the third princess Li Yan, the wife of Fu Zhengping, who calmed down. After you had a premonition that Li Ye had murderous intentions for you, you still returned to the capital without hesitation with only three thousand troops and horses, intending to preside over what Li Ye meant. immediate aftermath.
Even though you knew that this was most likely a trap set by Li Ye specifically for you, you still obeyed his will.
Because this decree is to have an affair with you... Well, because this decree was given by the Queen Mother Chen Jie.
You hold on to your last hope and accept the order to enter the capital.
But there is no possibility of easing the situation between you and Li Ye, who are incompatible with each other and do not understand each other.
Because you are suspicious of each other and it is impossible for you to give in for each other.
He is for the inheritance of his ancestors and the Li family, and you are for your own family and life, your wife, children, and children.
This situation where you, the monarch and your minister, both had their own reasons for having to resort to it, also led to the subsequent Fengyundu assassination.
Your refusal to hand over power made Li Ye think that you were disloyal. Li Ye pressed forward step by step and made you think that he wanted to kill you.
Then, under Li Ye's gradual pressure, all the previous momentum turned into the king forcing the ministers to rebel, and the ministers had no choice but to rebel.
In fact, you never thought about rebelling. Everything was just for self-protection, right?
I want to hear the truth! "
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand and rubbed his cheeks that were stiff due to the cold wind. He silently tied the bottomed wine gourd around his waist. He raised his hand to take the wine gourd in Wen Renzheng's hand and drank from it.
"Old man, whether you believe it or not, Liu Mingzhi wants to say that I, Liu Mingzhi, can say with a clear conscience that although I am constantly building momentum and strengthening my rights, everything I do is to have enough He used his strength to protect himself and never thought of rebellion.
Everything I have done is so that even if one day I hold a high position of power and cannot be tolerated by the emperor of the day, I will still be capable enough to protect my family, my wife, my children, and my children.
Liu Mingzhi is afraid of death but not afraid of death, but I have a family of dozens of wives and children, so why should I be guilty?
He actually wanted to follow me and suffer the risk of annihilation.
Father and brother are all very kind to me. Even though Li Ye did some things that chilled me for the sake of the throne, as long as he was not ruthless and wanted to get rid of the boy and the whole family, I still never thought of taking the initiative to rebel.
I don't deny anything you said, including looking to the West.
For the sake of Dalong Jiangshan, I am even determined to pacify the Jin Kingdom. Even if I use the wider territory of the West to compensate my little girl Luoyue in the future, I have never thought about taking the initiative to seize the thousands of miles of Jiangshan from Li Ye.
But as you just said, old man, Li Ye can't tolerate me.
My show of goodwill was regarded as a demonstration by him. In order to fulfill the important task of entrusting the emperor to my father and brother, I wanted to help him dominate the world. However, in his opinion, it was because I had a disobedient heart and wanted to support the army and stand on my own.
Old man, you know what I am like.
It is true that I dedicated the book of state affairs and the policy of governing the country to Li Ye, and it is also true that I did it to build momentum.
But I definitely have no intention of robbing the seedlings to encourage others. Instead, I really want to help this kid, Li Ye, secure his position in the country as soon as possible.
Others don't know my lazy temperament, but you do.
I just hope that one day the world will be unified as soon as possible, and when I am an idle prince, I can travel around the mountains and rivers, and let Li Ye and my children go to the West as soon as possible, this Pandora's box that was opened by the boy himself!
It’s just that I didn’t expect that Li Ye only learned the art of governing the country, the policy of governing the people, and the art of imperial power in the book of state governance and the policy of governing the country, and he used all the art of imperial power on my uncle and teacher. .
It was true that I was building momentum to protect myself, but what happened later was no longer something I could decide unilaterally.
Fire and water are incompatible, and they are suspicious of each other.
I dare not delegate power, let alone hand it over.
I'm afraid that Li Ye can't use any of the imperial power skills I taught him, so I'll use them against me! "
Wen Renzheng looked at Liu Mingzhi's grief-stricken and painful expression, sighed and nodded.
"You used the world as a chessboard and the Three Kingdoms as chess pieces to help Dalong unify the world, but in the end it became your own plan to seek the country.
It can only be said that things in the world are unpredictable. Li Ye’s experience is destined to make him unable to be like his father, with a magnanimous mind and continue the story of another generation of emperors and ministers with you, the pillar of the dragon. "
Liu Mingzhi nodded sadly: "Yes, if the emperor's brother Li Baiyu had been in power, today's situation might never have happened.
Unfortunately, as you just said, old man, everything in the world is unpredictable and fate has its way with people.
The root cause of the emperor's brother's untimely death was that my wife, Fa Yan, was behind the scenes and contributed to the situation that followed.
Many times, the boy can only lament that God's will plays tricks on people, and he can't help himself. "
"If - the old man said that if Li Ye had not committed the assassination in Fengyundu, would you have rebelled?"
"Won't!"
Wen Renzheng nodded happily when he heard the two words Liu Mingzhi blurted out without hesitation.
"Based on my understanding of you, I know that this must be your sincere words with a clear conscience.
But there are some things that cannot be changed without the human power of you and me.
For example, if you step on the seven stars, you will have your destiny. "
Liu Mingzhi was shocked and looked at Wen Renzheng in surprise: "You also know this?"
"It's hard not to understand what your father Liu Zhi'an did on the palace wall.
In fact, I still can't figure out what the so-called destiny is and what destiny is.
But you have never thought that the two books on governing the country that you taught him in Li Ye's hand are still the original policies that you wrote personally?
Li Ye went from being a new king who respected you, relied on you, and relied on you in everything to what he became later. Have you never doubted anything? "
Liu Mingzhi nodded with a painful expression, and silently took out two books wrapped in light yellow silk cloth from his arms.
Under the illumination of the candlelight inside the lantern, Liu Mingzhi handed the lantern to Wen Renzheng's hand, silently tore open the silk cloth, revealing the three characters "Book of Zhenguo".
After the two books were staggered, the three characters "State Governance" appeared in front of them again.
"After the situation stabilized, after the boy moved his family into the palace, he accidentally discovered these two crumpled books from the drawer of the royal study.
Some of the above has indeed changed.
Besides the original Demon Queen Ren Qingrui, who else can...sigh..."
Liu Mingzhi put the two books away with a look of helplessness and put them in his arms.
“With your feet on the seven stars, you will find your destiny.
Old man, you said that now that the overall situation has been decided, even if I know it well, what will happen if I figure out the cause and effect?
Nothing can be changed. I can only say that God’s will is in the dark! "
Wen Renzheng slowly stopped, raised the flickering red lantern high, and looked at the slowly flowing river with deep snow on both sides, mist on the water.
"It was here that you rescued this girl Shu'er from the river, so that she kept your return date for more than ten years and never married for a long time.
However, the world has changed, and despite the ups and downs, she still did not escape the fateful agreement you made between you in the end, and finally got married to you.
Perhaps, it really is God’s will in the dark! "
