"Li Shen, it's good that your father gave you this name."

Chengde Tianzi coughed and put his hands on the stove.

"From childhood to adulthood, you have closely respected this word of caution, with your temperament, if you think that you will die if you return to the capital, you will never come back."

The Son of Heaven sighed: "You are smart, you are sure that I will not kill you." ”

Li Shen bowed his head and said: "Thunder and rain and dew, it is not the grace of heaven, the life and death of the minister, the life and death of the Li family, are all in the mind of Your Majesty, at this time, Your Majesty only needs a word, and the minister will immediately die in front of Your Majesty, with full loyalty." ”

"A good one with all loyalty"

The Son of Heaven was finally angry.

"The loyalty of your Li family is to send someone to assassinate me"

"If it weren't for your other son Li Xin sacrificing himself to save me this time, I would be lying in the Zhaoling Tomb by now."

The rules of the Great Jin Dynasty, as soon as the emperor ascended the throne, he began to build the mausoleum, until the day of the funeral of the Son of Heaven put down the last handful of soil, because the Son of Heaven in Chengde likes to hunt, his mausoleum is on the other side of the North Mountain, named Zhaoling, and has been built for 19 years now.

Li Shen lowered his head, was silent for a while, and finally said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Li Xin is not the son of a minister. ”

"You're worried that I'll anger him and cut off another bloodline of your Li family, right?"

Li Shen shook his head and did not answer.

The Son of Heaven sneered: "I won't kill him now, I won't kill you, since you have returned to Beijing, I will also give you an official to do, and in the future, you will be an honest official in the capital, and don't go anywhere." ”

The Son of Heaven of Chengde put his hands in his wide sleeves and said coldly: "I tell you, since you have entered the capital, it is impossible for you to get out, and this time even if the rebels of Nanshu split the land and build a country, it is impossible for you to go out of the capital."

For this result, Li Shen was somewhat mentally prepared in his heart, and he bowed his head and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing." ”

"It's not that I won't kill you, it's that it's not good to kill you now"

His Majesty the Emperor had a cold face: "You wait in the capital, this knife that kills you will hang over your head, one year or two years, three years and five years, there will always be a day when it falls."

If the two of them hadn't played since childhood, most of them would have done superficial work at this time, and they wouldn't have said all these things that shouldn't be said, but the two of them knew each other very well, and the Chengde Tianzi was angry in his heart, so he explained it directly.

Li Shen still knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Minister, thank you for Your Majesty's grace not to kill for the time being." ”

After all, Emperor Chengde was not in good health, and he was a little tired after saying such a conversation, so he sat back on the dragon couch, reported a hand warmer in his hand, and then glanced at Li Shen with some wistfulness.

"Your father Li Zhijie only has such a son as you, when you were in Beijing and I was the crown prince, the first emperor told me many times that I wanted to find an opportunity to kill you."

The Son of Heaven closed his eyes and said: "When I first recited the mantra, I still remembered the old feelings, and I never did it, and in recent years, the court has been fighting more and more, and I want to collect Shu County in the Chengde Dynasty, but even so, I have never killed you." ”

Pingnanhou knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, no matter how the minister says, Your Majesty will not believe it, but Your Majesty should be able to think about it, and now in this situation, the minister can not return to the capital, and he can stay in Shu County in peace, but the minister is still back." ”

Li Shen's voice was low: "When the minister returns to the capital, he will not do anything else, but only kill him." ”

The Son of Heaven sneered: "You have the face to say this, if you are really willing to die, why do you want to let Li Yan out of Beijing"

General Zhuguo was silent for a long time, and finally bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, Li Chun can die, and the minister can also die, but the Pingnan Army left by my father did not commit a crime, they should not die, if the minister and Li Yan are both in the capital, the generals of the Pingnan Army, at most five or six years, will all die." ”

At this point, both of them threw away those pretenses and said very frankly.

The Son of Heaven took a deep breath and looked at the general of the Zhu Kingdom who was kneeling on the ground: "Li Shen, do you remember the words your father gave you?"

Li Shen knelt down and kowtowed: "The minister remembers." ”

Li Shen, the word Jinchen.

The Son of Heaven whispered: "Are you still a Jin minister now?"

The general of the Zhu Kingdom wept and said: "The minister will be the courtier of the Great Jin Dynasty in this life." ”

"It's just that the minister is not only Li Shen, but behind the minister is the family business left by his father, they are all living people, they don't deserve to die, and they don't want to die."

The Son of Heaven glanced at Li Shen coldly: "As long as you surrender, most of the soldiers of the Pingnan Army will not die."

"But the generals of the Pingnan Army will die."

Li Shen lowered his eyebrows and said: "They know this very well, so they will not surrender, and they will not be willing to surrender." ”

The Son of Heaven sneered: "So you will plot to assassinate me"

Li Shen shook his head and said, "This matter is Li Yan's nonsense, and it is definitely not the intention of the Li family. ”

He prostrated deeply.

"Today, most of the ministers' actions are involuntarily, and Your Majesty is also the head of the family, so you should have a deep understanding of it."

Every interest group will have its own subjective will, which will not be changed by the leader, but will change the leader.

Li Shen is the leader of the interest group of the Pingnan Army.

And the Son of Chengde is the leader of the Great Jin Dynasty.

When two interest groups clash with each other, it is inevitable that the two leaders will clash.

The two of them, twenty years ago, were indeed brothers and sisters.

But I don't know when it started, it's not for a long time.

Maybe it was when the emperor of Chengde was the emperor 19 years ago, or maybe it was when Li Shen left Beijing to succeed the Marquis of Pingnan 14 years ago.

The Son of Heaven took a few breaths, and finally stared at Li Shen deadly.

"You came back to the capital just to talk to me about this."

Li Shen bowed his head and said: "Just to ask for peace of mind, if Your Majesty kills the minister, the minister will not be sorry for the Pingnan Army of Shu County." ”

"Roll"

The Son of Chengde, who has always been gentle, was furious at this time, he picked up the hand warmer in his hand with both hands, and smashed it fiercely at Li Shen's head.

Li Shen does not dodge or dodge.

With a bang, the general of the Pillar State broke his head and bled out.

The loud noise in the warm hall immediately alarmed Chen Ju and others who were guarding outside the hall, when these people rushed in, the Chengde Tianzi collapsed on the dragon couch because of excessive force, and Li Shen was covered with blood, got up from the ground with difficulty, and knelt down in front of the Chengde Tianzi again.

"In accordance with His Majesty's orders, the minister will retire."

Regardless of the blood on his head, he slowly withdrew from Changle Palace.

The next day, the general of the Zhu State was named the secretary of the military department, squeezing out the position of the fourth prince Ji Huan.

Li Shen kowtowed again, then slowly got up and bowed out