The two of them are two years apart.

When the two of them were young, Li Zhijie, the Marquis of Pingnan, had not yet garrisoned southern Xinjiang, and although Li Zhijie was already a general star of the Great Jin military at that time, the Li family had not yet reached the point of making friends with the prince.

Until thirty years ago.

More than 30 years ago, Li Zhijie broke through the gate of Nanshu, and finally stationed troops in Nanshu, the Li family jumped up and became one of the most brilliant generals in the Great Jin Dynasty, and Li Shen was also left in the capital to play Li Chun's role now.

Proton.

At that time, Li Shen was ten years old, and Chengde Tianzi Ji was twelve years old.

Emperor Wu only had one son, the son of Chengde, and the other heirs were all dead, so the son of Chengde in his youth was quite indulgent, and he could go out of the palace wantonly and make trouble everywhere in the capital, and the two met in the capital at that time, and eventually became a pair of friends.

When they were teenagers, the two of them did all kinds of bad things together, broke into the prison of Jingzhao Mansion, stole Emperor Wu's wine, and went to the Qinhuai River to peek at the Oiran together.

At that time, the two of them were the crown prince and the prince of the Hou Mansion, both of whom had the highest life experience, especially the Chengde Son of Heaven was the only seedling of Emperor Wu, two naughty young people, who did all the bad and ridiculous things they could do in their youth.

At that time, the Son of Heaven of Chengde thought that the two of them would eventually become a pair of monarchs and ministers, which will be passed down through the ages.

Li Shen also thinks so.

Until nineteen years ago, the Son of Heaven sat on the dragon chair.

Fourteen years ago, Li Shen left Beijing to succeed him as Marquis of Pingnan.

The two teenage playmates drifted apart.

Now, in the last period of Chengde's life, the two former young people are in Changle Palace, looking at each other by the flickering candlelight.

The Son of Heaven smiled, while Li Shen lowered his head.

"Your Majesty... I really didn't want to kill you. ”

Li Shen bowed his head silently, his voice trembling a little: "I haven't even moved this thought, I just want to...... I want the Pingnan Army to continue to exist, and I want my father's hard work to be preserved. ”

"But I don't want to."

The smile on the face of the Son of Heaven retracted: "This is where the difference between you and me lies. ”

Li Shen bowed his head silently and stopped talking.

The Son of Heaven stood up, looked around the Changle Palace, and sighed: "I still remember when I was a teenager, I once took you to the Changle Palace to steal my father's seal, and was finally caught by the palace guards, and finally I was beaten by my father, but you were safe and sound." ”

This is the first time that the Son of Heaven in Chengde has given up the identity of "I" and used the word "I".

He continued: "At that time, I once asked my father why he didn't punish you. ”

The Son of Heaven glanced back at Li Shen and said with a smile: "Do you know what my father said?" ”

The father of the Son of Heaven in Chengde is the greatest emperor in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, and he is also the emperor who led the Great Jin Dynasty to dominate the world.

Li Shen shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

The Son of Heaven said indifferently: "Father said that I can't discipline my son for Li Zhijie, it's best that my son will become more and more talented in the future, and Li Zhijie's son will become more and more unsuccessful." ”

The Son of Heaven sighed: "I have remembered this sentence for almost thirty years, and every time I think about it, it is like my father said it in my ear." ”

As he spoke, the Son of Heaven glanced at Li Shen and continued: "Sometimes I just think, if you are really as your father said, it is not a bad thing, you are in the capital, I will give you a first-class and second-grade official, and no one will dare to bully you, we are still like when we were young, and we will be the little overlord of Jinling." ”

Li Shen lowered his head and still did not speak.

"It's a pity."

The Son of Heaven shook his head: "It's a pity that you are not becoming more and more unsuccessful, but are becoming more and more powerful day by day, and in the end, I have nothing to do with you, you don't have any handle in the capital, and even make the momentum of the Pingnan Army in southern Xinjiang more and more."

When the Pingnan Army was in the hands of the old marquis Li Zhijie, it could only be regarded as "raising Kou for self-respect" at most, but when it came to Li Shen's hands, it was no longer as simple as raising Kou for self-respect, Li Shen had already allied with "Kou", and even to the point of collecting "Kou" for his own use, as the Son of Heaven said, the momentum of the Pingnan Army was more than twice as large as that of Li Zhijie.

Li Shen, there is no failure, but a very successful instrument, especially a successful instrument.

This led to an increasingly violent conflict between him and the Son of Heaven.

Li Shen was silent for a long time, and finally lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, my father once thought of disarming and returning to the field and handing over the Pingnan Army to the imperial court, but Emperor Wu had the intention of hiding the bow of the bird, Ye Sheng was silent for a long time after removing his armor and entering Beijing, and his father could not enter Beijing to die, and then after a long time, he completely offended the imperial court, and he never dared to have this idea again." ”

The Son of Heaven sneered: "Ye Sheng is still alive and well!" ”

Li Shen glanced up at the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty, ask yourself, if my father had returned to Beijing at the beginning, would Ye Sheng have survived? Will my Father live? ”

The Son of Heaven's face trembled, and finally said in a muffled voice: "You can't speculate on the first emperor!" ”

Li Shen bowed his head and said: "The temper of the first emperor, the minister has also been in contact, the first emperor wants to leave a clean country for Your Majesty, if my father returns to Beijing back then, the best outcome is only the fate of Ye Guogong now." ”

Speaking of this, Li Shen laughed to himself.

"So far, the Great Jin military is still the dominant family, and my Li Ye family has conquered the world for the Great Jin Dynasty, and in the end, most of them are Hou Gu's current fate!"

Hou Gu is now the father of Hou Jingde, the general of Yulin Wei Zuolang, who was also a general of the second grade before the old man, and was named a military marquis by the imperial court because of his outstanding achievements in the battle of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but it is a pity that the family is in the middle of the road, and now he is only a Lang general from the fifth grade to his son Hou Jingde's generation.

Hou Gu is Ye Sheng's right and left hand, and the Hou family was suppressed like this, which is inseparable from Emperor Wu's desire to weaken the Ye family.

The Son of Heaven said angrily: "This is the reason why your Li family deliberately rebelled!" ”

Li Shen got up, knelt down slowly, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Li family has never thought of rebellion, and today, all they want is to survive." ”

The Son of Heaven was emotional for a while, feeling a little dizzy, he sat back in his place, and after taking a few breaths, he looked at Li Shen coldly.

"Do you think the situation can last long?"

"If this continues, as long as my Ji clan does not die, it will be impossible to coexist with your Pingnan Army."

The Son of Heaven's eyes were cold: "The next emperor will not miss some of the incense in the past like me." ”

Li Shen knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the officers and men of the Pingnan Army are innocent after all, if Your Majesty is willing not to pursue the Pingnan Army, the minister is willing to disband the Pingnan Army..."

The Son of Heaven said coldly: "Impossible. ”

What the two people said today came from the bottom of their hearts, from the time Li Shen entered the Changle Palace to the present, neither of them has said a word of falsehood.

The Son of Heaven said coldly: "The Pingnan Army must be dispersed, I don't bother to deceive you, even if I deceive you, you won't believe it." ”

Li Shen kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, there are all living beings in the world who do not seek survival, the Pingnan Army has not done anything wrong, only because of the thoughts of some birds in the heavenly family, and some misunderstandings over the years, they have come step by step to the present, they don't deserve to die." ”

"If Your Majesty is bent on them dying, the minister can't do anything."

The Son of Heaven sneered: "But I haven't done anything to you yet, so you have done it to me." ”

Li Shen kowtowed and said: "When the minister and His Majesty were young, they were called brothers, and Your Majesty died because of the minister, and the minister was willing to accompany the burial of the emperor's mausoleum and guard His Majesty." ”