"I have seen my father."

Li Chuan knelt down and bowed a big gift to Li Ming.

Li Ming watched Li Chuan kneel on the icy ground. Only his father and son were in the hall. Li Ming remained silent. After a long time, he said, "I heard that you were injured, right?"

"Report to the emperor, it's okay."

Li Chuan made a sharp glance, and Li Ming was silent. After a long time, he slowly said: "I called you over today to talk to you. You, my father and son, have not spoken well for many years."

"Yes, Erchen listens carefully."

Li Chuan knelt on the ground without raising his head at all. Li Ming listened to his words and said, "You blame me."

"Erchen doesn't understand what the emperor father is talking about."

"I know that you blame me in your heart and feel that I prefer Cheng'er. You are kind and virtuous by nature, and you are righteous from the middle palace. In terms of identity, character, and ability, you should be my best son, but I am right. You are suppressing everywhere, so you are already dissatisfied."

"Erchen dare not think about it like this. Thunder, rain and dew are all good graces, and Erchen knows that the father is just a little stricter because he is afraid that his son will relax."

Hearing this, Li Ming laughed. He raised his finger to Li Chuan and clicked in the air several times, before finally turning into a sigh: "You, you look like me when I was young."

Li Chuan didn't say anything, Li Ming stood up, he walked slowly from the high platform with his clothes in one hand.

He walked very hard. It was obvious that he was exhausted. Li Chuan didn't look up, so he listened to him and said, "Back then, I talked to my father in the same way. Unlike you, I have six brothers, so I I'm always worried that when I wake up, I won't be the prince again."

"It took me many years to become the emperor. After becoming the emperor, I understood the difficulties of my father. Chuan'er, I don't want you to be a prince. It's not that I don't like you. You are actually my favorite one in my heart. My child, I don’t want you to be a prince, precisely because I know that if one day you become an emperor, it will be the greatest suffering in your life."

After he said this, he stopped in front of Li Chuan. Li Chuan could only see the corners of his clothes embroidered with gold silk. He didn't dare to look up, so he heard Li Ming ask in a low voice: "But now I can't tolerate you anymore. You can only climb up. Do you know what is the most important thing about an emperor?"

Before Li Chuan could answer, Li Ming told him: "It's ruthless."

"You and I share the Li family's blood. I am the person closest to you. Today, I will give you a chance," Li Ming knelt down, he looked at Li Chuan, "A chance to ensure you become the emperor."

Li Chuan didn't say anything, he slowly raised his head to see that Li Ming had taken out a decree from his hand.

"This is a will, with your name written on it," Li Ming stared into Li Chuan's eyes, "As long as you promise me, go to the school to thoroughly investigate the assassination of King Su on the campus, and capture all the envoys behind the scenes. I will leave it to you."

Li Chuan and Li Ming looked at each other quietly in the main hall, and the moonlight fell on the black marble floor, flowing like a cold stream.

Li Ming stretched out his will: "Don't you? The throne is at your fingertips, don't you want it?"

Li Chuan set his gaze on the "legacy" and watched quietly without speaking.

Li Ming laughed: "Do you think I'm harming you? Stupid boy, I'm paving the way for you. The Shangguan clan is already too prosperous and under their control. You will become the emperor in the future. Sooner or later, you will do something against them. I'm still here. , You do it, even if you are on my head. When you become the emperor, you will move to the Shangguan clan, kill your mother, kill your uncle and die, Chuan'er, your reputation in the history of youth will be over."

"My father meant," Li Chuan said slowly, "If I were the emperor, I would definitely kill my mother and kill my uncle and sister, right?"

Li Ming did not speak. After a long time, he lowered his eyes: "Chuan'er, if you are tougher or too weak, you may not be able to make this step. But you just happen to be smart and not smart enough, and weak and not enough. Weak, tough and not tough enough, you are just a slightly smarter ordinary person, and I know too well what it feels like in this position. You have to sit in this position, Shangguan, you must die."

"Erchen understands." Li Chuan took a deep breath, and Li Ming was relieved. When he was about to speak, he saw Li Chuan raise his hand.

He raised his hand to unlock his hair crown, took off the nine-bead hair crown representing the prince, and set it aside.

Li Ming frowned: "What are you doing?"

Li Chuan didn't say anything, he stood up, took a step back, and then fell to his knees.

"Emperor father, my son doesn't know what he will be like in the future, but now, my son is indecisive, affectionate, and righteous. He can't have the unfeeling that the emperor should have. If he has failed the emperor's importance, please forgive him. If the prince’s actions are not in line with the prince’s way, the father and the emperor can abolish the prince, so let the prince abolish.

After speaking, Li Chuan bent down, put his hand in front of him, bowed his head, and stepped back.

His actions were so smooth and smooth, and when he walked out the door, Li Ming reacted and shouted, "You stop!"

"Li Chuan, you are the benevolence of a woman! I will give you such a great opportunity, what do you want?!"

"I want to," Li Chuan turned his back to Li Ming, looking at the dark clouds hoarding in the distance, "become a person different from his father."

Hearing this, Li Ming was stunned. Li Chuan stepped out of the hall and walked away quickly by the moonlight.

When Li Chuan was out of the palace, Su Ronghua looked at the tea bowl in front of him, and his shadow was reflected in the tea bowl. It took him a long time before he finally calmed down.

"Is this dream real or fake?"

"I tested it," Su Rongqing looked down, "Really."

"So this is the reason you and Concubine Rou have joined forces, in order to prevent the crown prince from enthroning?"

Su Ronghua raised his eyes to look at Su Rongqing, and Su Rongqing answered, "Yes."

"Because you killed His Royal Highness and destined His Highness Hepingle as an enemy, so you gave up His Highness Pingle."

Su Ronghua was sure to speak, Su Rongqing squeezed his fist, and after a long time, he still responded, "Yes."

"What a pity? You know the future, why don't you try to change?"

"How to change?" Su Rongqing couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Brother, how can I change? Is it my Su clan sorry Li Chuan? Or is my Su clan too powerful? Li Chuan, as the monarch, is empty. Ambitious, but reckless, ignorant, reckless!"

"He is so overjoyed. He is about to advance to the Northern Expedition. He is a courtier who is greedy for life and fear of death, but I don't know it is because I know the imperial filth, do not clear up the evils, and start a war recklessly. How can he win? But he insists In the end, the national treasury was exhausted, and there was no military payment in the middle of the battle. After that, the south was flooded as usual, and there were no more disaster relief funds.

"He doesn't want to repent, he just treats it as the family's accumulated abuses, blindly implementing reforms, and causing years of war. He favored the poor family officials and acted recklessly. When he became the throne, Daxia had a registered population of 130 million. Eight years later, the number of registered people was insufficient. 80 million, 40 million people," Su Rongqing looked at Su Ronghua, "Where do I start to change?"

"He also had the same temper back then. He seemed to be virtuous and kind. Brother, I am His Royal Highness Aipingle." When this sentence was said, Su Rongqing fixedly looked at Su Ronghua, "But I also have my bottom line."

Su Ronghua didn't speak, he picked up the tea and took a sip.

"Rong Qing, have you been to the north?"

Su Rongqing didn’t know why Su Ronghua asked so suddenly. He was stunned. Su Ronghua put down the tea bowl, and his voice was very soft: "You were a kid in Huajing, and you have never been to other places. As far as you are concerned, the lives are just numbers, one million. Ten million. I have been to the north. When I was there, I saw the battlefield with my own eyes and saw the people being slaughtered like pigs and dogs. In my heart, I had the same idea as His Royal Highness. Daxia must stand up and expedition to the north."

"Can't be in such a hurry."

"When are you not in a hurry?" Su Ronghua looked at Su Rongqing with a calm expression, "You said that His Royal Highness is reckless with reality, then tell me, what is the reality?"

Su Rongqing was silent, and Su Ronghua smiled transparently: "The reality is that there are many families. In order to protect their own interests, everyone is unwilling to send troops, and in order to protect their own interests, they are unwilling to pay. The family relationship is so complicated that it is cronyism and corruption is difficult to cure. I guess the biggest reason for the failure of the Northern Expedition is that the money won’t reach the soldiers when it reaches the north, but whose fault is this? Is it his Royal Highness?”

"Rong Qing, in fact, we don't have to say our reasons so grandiosely," Su Ronghua looked at Su Rongqing with a bit of sadness in his eyes, "Admit it, the family is the cancer of Daxia, sooner or later, we will be submerged in the long river of history. , Our so-called noble lineage is born with original sin."

Su Rongqing looked at Su Ronghua, and the two brothers looked at each other for a long time. Su Rongqing finally said: "The meaning of the big brother will still assist Li Chuan in the upper position, right?"

"I don't help anyone," Su Ronghua put down his teacup, "I just don't want you to get involved in these things too much. If you have time, go out of Huajing to see the battlefield in the north and see the floods in the south. Rong Qing, seeing it with my own eyes and listening to others are two different things. Reading ten thousand books is worse than traveling ten thousand miles."

"You rest first," Su Ronghua stood up and turned to go out, "I'll go to my father."

Su Ronghua opened the door and walked out. At this time, in the princess's mansion, Li Rong laughed softly while listening to Pei Wenxuan's question.

"Go to Qingzhou, isn't this already set?"

Pei Wenxuan heard this and sighed: "It seems that I am still not charming enough to keep your Highness. It's okay," Pei Wenxuan raised his hand and scratched Li Rong's chin. "His highness is so charming. Stabilize here, I will resign and go to Qingzhou for a soft meal."

"Okay, I have three thousand faces," Li Rong laughed, "Let you be the boss."

"His Royal Highness," Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong's decision, still a little worried, "Really gone?"

"Your temperament is not someone who likes idle clouds and wild cranes. Staying in Qingzhou, I'm afraid you will be bored."

Li Rong is different from Li Chuan. Li Chuan does not love power and is forced to that position. But Li Rong is greedy for the sense of control brought by power from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, it is improper for her to keep a good princess, and she needs to establish a supervisory department; the same was true in her previous life.

Li Rong leaned against Pei Wenxuan. She held the warm bag that Pei Wenxuan gave her and sighed: "What can I do? I can't fight with Chuan'er. I love power, but if you die or die with outsiders, and Li Chuan..."

Li Rong paused: "Forget it, I'm upset when I see it."

"Then you go, still the same as before, do you go by yourself?"

Li Rong did not speak.

Before, she thought that Shangguanya and Su Ronghua were proactively seeking pleasure out of desire. Although they understood, they were always disgusted.

Now that after listening to the whole process, she didn't even know for a moment whether it was Shangguan Ya and Su Ronghua who were pitiful, or she and Li Chuan were pitiful.

I couldn't hate, and there was nowhere to be scolded, like a fateful sense of powerlessness, which caused her to smash the cotton with a fist, and in the end only pity and sadness remained.

"I do not know either."

Li Rong shook her head: "You can figure it out."

Pei Wenxuan smiled: "Then I will notify the people of Shangguan's family when you leave the city and let them prepare early."

Li Rong was weak, and responded.

Just as Pei Wenxuan was about to say something, he heard a message from outside: "His Royal Highness, Your Highness, Your Royal Highness is down."

Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan looked at each other, and Pei Wenxuan immediately said: "You go to sleep, I will pick him up."

"Let's call in," Li Rong thought for a while, "He is here now, it shouldn't be a trivial matter."

After all, Li Chuan was still wounded. He just met, so he wouldn't be so anxious to come here.

Pei Wenxuan responded, but he was worried that Li Rong was embarrassed, so he let people carry in the screen and received Li Chuan outside the screen.

As soon as Li Chuan entered the room, he saw the standing screen, Pei Wenxuan smiled peacefully, and only said: "His Royal Highness has fallen asleep and is unwilling to get up, so he set up the screen."

Li Chuan pretended not to know Li Rong's estrangement, he responded blankly, Pei Wenxuan greeted him to sit down and smiled and said, "His Royal Highness is here now. Why?"

"Li Cheng is afraid that it will not work," Li Chuan said directly, "Tonight my father summoned me into the palace and asked me to exchange A sister and Shangguan, and he let me ascend the throne."

"Oh," Pei Wenxuan nodded, he glanced at Li Chuan's empty head, "His Royal Highness must have refused."

"Yeah." Li Chuan didn't say much, "but when Li Cheng died, I was the only heir. The father and the emperor would not let A sister and Shangguan clan. Taking advantage of the time now, A sister hurriedly and her mother, Uncle discussed and figured out a way to get out of the city. Sister Sister will be able to get to Qingzhou in three days."

Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan's hand trembled. Before he could answer, Li Rong's question came from behind the screen: "Leave tonight?"

"The sooner the better."

"Okay," Li Rong replied decisively, "then let people prepare horses immediately, I will set off immediately, hurry up and rush to Qingzhou as soon as possible."

"Just make it," Li Chuan nodded, and his siblings came back and forth to make the decision. At this time, Pei Wenxuan finally reacted and said loudly: "No, absolutely!"

Both Li Chuan and Li Rong looked over, and Li Chuan frowned, "Why not?"

"His Royal Highness can't run around like this," Pei Wenxuan's face was serious, "not to be quicker, she needs comfort now, even if she goes out, she can only walk slowly to Qingzhou with a carriage."

Hearing this, Li Chuan couldn't help but teach Pei Wenxuan: "When is it, why do you still have so many broken problems? Pei Wenxuan, this is an escape, not an outing. A sister agreed, and you still babbled. What?"

"That's right." Li Rong agreed with Li Chuan behind the screen, "It's okay to keep things simple."

"It's okay for you," Pei Wenxuan watched the two men sing together, a little anxious, "but Pei Xiaobao can't."

"Who is Pei Xiaobao?" Li Chuan was a little at a loss. When Li Rong heard this name, her heart beat suddenly. She couldn't believe it, and she stammered a bit when she spoke: "You said Pei...What is it?"

"That's what you have in your stomach."

Pei Wenxuan stood up and turned his head into the screen. He half-kneeled in front of Li Rong, put his hand on Li Rong's belly, and looked up at her: "Here."

Li Rong was stunned and looked at Pei Wenxuan. Seeing Pei Wenxuan turn in, Li Chuan suddenly learned that he had a nephew, and his heart was itchy. He couldn't help turning to the side of the screen and peeking at Li Rong.

Li Rong was in a daze, and seemed shocked for a while. Pei Wenxuan saw Li Rong's appearance and couldn't help but smile: "It was diagnosed by the doctor in the morning. You have fallen from the cliff and your fetal gas is unstable. Having said this affects your judgment, you can't see your heart clearly, so I didn't tell you."

"So," Li Rong paused, looking at Pei Wenxuan, "I can't go to Qingzhou?"

"Qingzhou can't go, go to a closer place and pretend to be Qingzhou."

Pei Wenxuan's eyes fell on Li Rong's stomach: "I will solve it as soon as possible."

"Everything is solved for you, what am I doing?"

Li Rong raised her hand to Pei Wenxuan's hand, a little embarrassed. Pei Wenxuan smiled: "Take care of my daughter."

"Do you know it's a daughter again?"

Seeing Pei Wenxuan's determination, Li Rong couldn't help being a little funny. Pei Wenxuan sighed, "It's okay to be a son. A daughter is better."

"That one……"

Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan were talking, Li Chuan held back for a long time, and finally hid behind the screen, speaking nervously.

He knew that Li Rong wouldn't wait to see him, but he still couldn't help it. Seeing the two of them came over together, he looked at Pei Wenxuan enviously: "That... can you let me listen to Auntie's belly?"

"His Royal Highness is thinking?" Pei Wenxuan was a little at a loss, not understanding why Li Chuan made this request.

Li Chuan was a little shy: "Just...I want to hear how he kicked people."

Li Rong: "..."

Pei Wenxuan was stunned for a moment, looking at the seventeen-year-old Li Chuan, it was quite difficult to say a word.

"His Royal Highness," Pei Wenxuan couldn't help reminding him, "He hasn't been three months yet."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Li Chuan didn't quite understand, Li Rong glanced over with a cool look, "When you were three months old, like a stillborn baby, what do you kick? Take your mind?"