"They are my relatives!"
After a while, Liu Qi suddenly stood up, pulled out the sword from his waist with his backhand, and split the table in front of him into two halves with a fierce sword blow, breathing heavily.
His two eyes stared at Chao Cuo with murderous intent, as if he was a beast ready to choose someone to devour.
"Your Highness, are those people under Suiyang City not relatives of Gaozu?"
Chao Cuo gritted his teeth, then pressed against Liu Qi's pressure and whispered.
"Your Majesty is already old. Isn't His Majesty the successor? The Han Dynasty can no longer withstand the chaos of the Six Kingdoms. Please think twice before taking action!"
After Chao Cuo finished speaking, he knelt on the ground and refused to get up for a long time.
"If it weren't for Liang Guo, the rebels would have already arrived at Chang'an City at this time!"
Liu Qi was breathing heavily, but these words seemed more like he was trying to convince himself.
"Your Highness, Zhou Yafu has received your Majesty's secret order before leaving. What the Han Dynasty needs is a weak leader, not a vassal state that is the best in the world!"
Chao Cuo gritted his teeth and once again revealed a shocking secret.
"But, he and I are brothers!"
The sword in Liu Qi's hand couldn't help but tremble.
"Your Highness, Emperor! No brothers!"
Chao Cuo also had a cold sweat on his forehead. The words he said today were all taboo words.
"Dang-cang-"
Liu Qi's body couldn't help trembling, and his values really completely collapsed today.
The emperor actually showed him this memorial. Doesn't that mean he acquiesced in Tao Qing's statement?
The reason why he asked Chao Cuo to talk to him was to let Chao Cuo fulfill his responsibility as the emperor's master for the last time.
"What about Liu Deng? Could it be that because Dai Guo has made such an unparalleled contribution this time, I will also wield the butcher's knife?"
Liu Qi almost shouted these words with a roar.
"Bang-dang-"
Outside the door, suddenly there was the sound of something falling.
"Who's there?"
Chao Cuo suddenly got up from the ground, opened the door and rushed out.
Several trembling little eunuchs were kneeling there, starting to tremble all over.
"Come here, drag him out and kill him!"
Chao Cuo gritted his teeth and said gloomily.
"My lord, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!"
The two young eunuchs were immediately frightened and hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, but Chao Cuo's eyes were so cold.
Immediately, several guards from the East Palace rushed up and dragged them away without any explanation.
"Gag their mouths!"
Chao Cuo roared angrily.
The guards hurriedly bent down, grabbed a large handful of dirt from the ground, and stuffed it into the mouths of the little eunuchs.
"Anyone who dares to come close within three hundred steps will be killed without mercy!"
Chao Cuo must have been the former prince's retainer, and now he has become the royal censor of the imperial court. There are really not many people in the East Palace who dare to disobey his orders.
"promise!"
Immediately, another pair of guards rushed over and began to clear away the surrounding people.
"I want to enter the palace to meet my father!"
When Chao Cuo arranged everything and returned to the study again, Liu Qi finally calmed down a little and said while sorting out his emotions.
"Your Highness, no one asked you to wield a butcher knife against His Highness the King of Dai, but this world cannot continue like this..."
Chao Cuo also had a wry smile on his face. With Liu Deng's unparalleled achievements, if he were to kill him, I'm afraid no one in the world would dare to serve the imperial court from now on.
Han Xin back then had already brought infamy to the great ancestor Liu Bang I.
Nowadays, Chao Cuo naturally does not dare to let Liu Qi bear the charge of unjustly killing the hero.
"Even if the imperial court doesn't save him, can you guarantee that Liu Deng won't save him?"
Liu Qi took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and said while crying.
"A copy of this memorial will be sent to His Highness the King..."
Chao Cuo was silent for a long time, and then said again.
"Hahaha!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
…
Liu Qi was crying and suddenly laughed, but the laughter was so sad. At this moment, he realized that even as an emperor, there are still many things in this world, even if he is not willing to do them, But it must be done.
Yes, what Tao Qing and the others said was indeed correct.
If Zhou Yafu and Liang Wang cooperated internally and externally, perhaps this battle could be won more easily.
But from now on, with the unparalleled military exploits of His Majesty the King of Liang, the entire Liang Kingdom will further expand. In a few years, the energy consumed by the Liang Kingdom in this battle will be restored again.
After one or two generations of inheritance, when the blood and family ties slowly fade away, who can guarantee that the next King of Liang will not be today’s King of Wu...
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Liu Qi's smile turned into crying again, while Chao Cuo knelt quietly in front of Liu Qi, slowly waiting for Liu Qi to regain his composure again.
This was a lesson he should have learned a long time ago, but even he himself has been unwilling to do so.
But from the moment he got this memorial, he had to do it whether he wanted to or not.
Chao Cuo actually knew in his heart that from now on, the relationship between him and Liu Qi as a master and disciple would be gone.
He personally built Liu Qi's values as a humble gentleman, but now, he had to destroy it himself.
By the time Liu Qi put away his tears, the sky had slowly darkened. He stood up slowly, picked up his sword, and walked out of the study expressionlessly, never saying a word to Chao Cuo from beginning to end. .
Looking at the table that was split in half on the ground, Chao Cuo suddenly felt that this seemed to be the master-disciple relationship between him and Liu Qi...
If the table is destroyed, it can be repaired, but if the favor is gone, can it really be renewed?
After a long time, Chao Cuo slowly stood up, picked up the letters for help written by Prince Liang from the ground, and then put them all into the brazier bit by bit...
His Royal Highness has already finished his explanation, but I don’t know what Liu Deng will choose...
When he walked out of the study, Chao Cuo was extremely reluctant to close the door of the study. Chao Cuo knew very well that this was probably the last time he would set foot here in his life.
Looking at the gloomy sky outside the window, Chao Cuo couldn't help but smile bitterly. The tears that had flowed out would never flow back no matter how hard you blinked.
Just like the desk in the study that was barely put together, if it is broken, it is broken. No matter how much it is repaired, it will never be intact again.
At midnight, Liu Deng finally returned to Jinyang City, but as soon as he entered the city, he saw Zhang Tu waiting worriedly at the gate of the palace.
