The south gate of the palace.
Huamanting stood in the Langfang at the door.
He was looking at Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow with his hands behind his back.
The snow was so heavy that there were few pedestrians on Zhuque Avenue.
Hua Manting's old eyes narrowed slightly, but his thoughts drifted to Guangling City hundreds of miles away.
It’s the same sky, is it snowing in Guangling City?
If such a snow falls in Guangling City, Huaping Lake will have a different flavor.
Arriving at Guangling City on March 3rd, nearly nine months passed in the blink of an eye.
These nine months have been wonderful, witnessing many poems by the poet Li Chenan.
These poems are all excellent, and they can all be included in the "Ning Shi Ci Yuan 100 Chapters", and they can all be ranked in the top twenty!
In the past two days, the great Confucians at Taiyuan University and Imperial College have mentioned rewriting the "Collection of Ning's Poems"... Instead of rewriting it, it would be more appropriate to write a separate book for these poems by Li Chen'an, called "Collection of Poems of Immortals". .
When I think of Li Chenan, I think of that evening in Qianmo Academy, and of the poem "Journey into the Wine" written by Li Chenan when he was drunk.
Hua Manting stroked his long beard and showed a smile.
At this moment, footsteps came from behind.
He turned around and saw Li Chenan and Amu walking over.
"Brother!"
"Brother!"
"It's my fault to let me wait outside in such a cold weather!"
Saying this, Li Chenan took out a golden dragon pendant from his arms and handed it to Hua Manting, "From now on, if I am still in the palace, you can enter the palace at any time with this thing."
Hua Manting looked at the golden dragon pendant and took it after thinking for three seconds.
"Your identity is different now, but you can no longer be as casual as before."
Li Chenan raised his eyebrows and curled his lips, "Nothing different."
"Tell the truth, brother, being an emperor is hard work!"
"I've just appointed myself a regent. It's a lot of trouble every day!"
"Why……"
"You didn't come in a carriage?"
"Get in my carriage. It's just a good time for me and my brother to have a lively chat. The main reason is that I want to vomit the bitterness in my stomach to you."
Hua Manting arched her white eyebrows and burst into laughter.
"It's the first snow this year. It's still early. How about we just walk in the snow?"
"...Okay! I'm just worried that you won't get frozen!"
"Brother, my bones can survive for a few more years. Let's go. Let's talk as we go."
So, Li Chenan and Hua Manting walked side by side on the Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow, which made Amu a little nervous.
He followed behind the two of them, paying extremely vigilant attention to the movements in all directions.
"I think so. First of all, the working hours are unreasonable."
"work?"
"It was the last day of the dynasty. It was such a cold day, and the sun was just shining at the end of the morning, but it was so late at Mao..."
Li Chenan spread his hands: "I get up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog."
He shook his head, "This is not the life I want to live!"
Hua Manting laughed again, "Then what kind of life do you want?"
"Hey, hey, I just want to sleep until I wake up naturally, and count money until my hands cramp, that kind of happy life!"
Hua Manting glanced at Li Chenan and said, "But if everyone in the world were to choose, I'm afraid they would all want to be the emperor!"
"Isn't it just for the power? Brother, power should be matched with responsibility!"
"What I mean is that with the power you have, you should fulfill your obligations."
"The emperor is the most powerful person in the world, and his corresponding obligation is to let the people of the world live the best life!"
"Those who want to be emperors only see the supreme benefits that power brings to themselves, but rarely think about how to use this power to create a great future for the country and the people."
"So I am not suitable to be an official, because I found that I still have a little conscience of justice!"
"If you want to be a comfortable emperor, it's best to be heartless, lie on the lap of a beautiful woman drunk every day, and live a life of debauchery, but I can't do it!"
"Hey... this damn conscience!"
"If it is eaten by a dog, I can play seventy-two tricks in the palace!"
Hua Manting laughed.
"What you said makes sense."
"Throughout history, no matter which dynasty, the emperors who created a prosperous era all have the same characteristic, that is, they care about the world."
"And every emperor who has lost his country also has the same characteristic, that is, he is arrogant and arrogant."
"Those who care about the world take the world as their own responsibility and regard the people as their parents. All they think about is the happiness and well-being of the people."
"So the people support it, the officials are self-disciplined, the soldiers obey their orders, the world is at peace, the world is beautiful, and people from all directions come to court."
"And the dissolute and immoral people, for their own enjoyment, regard the people as cattle and horses, corrupt officials are rampant in the temples, and everyone in the border army cherishes his life..."
Hua Manting sighed and said while walking:
"The world is big and there are so many countries in the world."
"When a country declines due to the rule of the unscrupulous, the other countries will be very happy, because what they see is a piece of fat meat that can be easily divided and eaten!"
"Their cavalry will step into this country, and the people of this country will not raise their swords to defend this decadent country. Even the country's army will become vulnerable at this time. , they will run for their lives and then become bands of bandits.”
"You...since you still have a little bit of righteous conscience, brother, I don't want to see this land of Ningguo trampled by the surrounding powers!"
"Now that you are the regent of Ning State, you have grasped the authority of Ning State and should fulfill your obligations."
Before Hua Manting finished speaking, Li Chenan raised his hand, "Stop it!"
"Brother, I am a temporary regent!"
"When I bring the eldest son back and hand over this mess to him, I think we can be on Peach Blossom Island, on Peach Blossom Mountain, or by Huaping Lake."
"Let's drink Huapingchun, talk about romance, and then recite poems and compose poems... You are a great Confucian, and I am a poet. Isn't it better to leave famous poems in the world for all time?"
Hua Manting stopped and turned to look at Li Chenan, with confusion on his face:
"You are a capable person!"
"I know you love beauty more than country, but after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness is cured, what can't you do for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo?"
Li Chenan touched his nose and said, "It's mainly because I'm too tired."
"In the affairs of the world, who cares about being too tired if his name can go down in history?"
Li Chenan said nothing more, and the three of them just turned from Zhuque Avenue into Qifen Alley.
Facing Li Chenan's silence, Hua Manting thought it was his words that moved Li Chenan, and Li Chenan was thinking about it.
Li Chenan was indeed thinking.
But what he thought was somewhat different from what Hua Manting thought.
This discrepancy comes from the defense deep in his heart.
He doesn't mind fighting for hegemony, and he doesn't even mind ascending the throne and becoming an emperor, but all this has to have a prerequisite -
Have a group of loyal followers of your own!
There is a group of civil servants and generals of their own who can establish themselves in the temple!
And all of this requires you to manage it with your heart, which requires time, and the last thing you have right now is time!
Because the matter of Zhongli Ruoshui is above all else!
He cannot ascend the throne as emperor, this is his choice after careful consideration.
An emperor without foundation is like a puppet to him.
Besides, this matter is full of weirdness——
He and Xi Wei have never met, so why should he support him as the emperor?
What kind of conspiracy and calculation does he have behind this?
The Red Flame Army seemed to have followed his orders and went to Wuyaguan, but Li Chenan had never been arrogant enough to think that the Red Flame Army was really loyal to him.
Although the Shenwu Army obeyed her orders and went to Dongqu Pass, Mrs. Fan's last wish was for her to welcome back the eldest son of the emperor in Shuzhou and support him to ascend the throne as emperor!
If he really sat on the throne, I am afraid that the Shenwu Army would not be willing to do so.
Therefore, the people of Kyoto could not understand why Li Chenan gave up the throne that was so easily available to him. Even the officials in the court had a lot of discussions about it, but Li Chenan was more sober than anyone else.
There will be no pie in the sky.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
So all this will have to wait until Zhongli Ruoshui's illness comes to an end. If the eldest son of the emperor is a good emperor, he will be happy to be a big and carefree businessman.
If it's the other way around...!
