The atmosphere in the Dongnuan Pavilion became more and more solemn, although several old princes were still sitting there, but where could they still sit still, they didn't expect His Majesty to tell the prince so straightforwardly, so they were caught off guard by the emperor's backhand move for a while.

"Your Majesty."

King Han stood up again, he was the oldest among several people, so several other people also looked at his face, of course, they were all willing to make him the first bird, King Han also fought with Li Chengtang's father for the throne, losing was not fate, but his ability was indeed inferior to Li Chengtang's father.

This person once smelled the smell of power nearly thirty years ago, when Mu Zhaotong promised him to propose the king's auxiliary government, what did that mean? Meaning he's going to be regent!

In his opinion, what is the great deal about the wife of the first emperor Li Chengyuan, who was the queen at that time, just a woman, Li Xiaoran, the son of King Xin, is only a few years old, and he is naturally at the mercy, he has even formulated a relatively long-term plan, he wants to gradually grasp the power of the court, and he has failed once in the fight for the throne, but he is not really convinced.

He conceived that the first step was to gain the trust of the queen, and little by little to make the queen alienate and suspicious of Mu Zhaotong, as long as he grabbed the two cards of the queen and the prince in his hand, he would be able to squeeze Mu Zhaotong out of the center of power within a few years.

In the second step, after Mu Zhaotong cannot take charge of the cabinet, he will personally take over the cabinet, as the prince and the first assistant scholar of the cabinet, at this moment, the power of the DPRK and China is in his hands.

The third step, he has actually roughly figured out that the death of the first emperor Li Chengyuan is somewhat related to the queen, Li Chengyuan can be regarded as a very good emperor, but he is particularly mean to women, because the queen did not give birth to a child for him, so he has been thinking about how to abolish the queen and replace her, the queen is panicked every day because of this, in fact, not only the queen, there is no one left for him in the harem, but Li Chengyuan seems that others can't have children, but the queen can't.

So at that time, King Han speculated that Li Chengyuan died violently, maybe it was the queen's plan after the move, for the queen, both are bad choices, so choose one of them is slightly better.

If Li Chengyuan doesn't die, sooner or later she will be abolished, and she will be given a trumped-up charge, if she can leave Weiyang Palace safely, it will be fine, but in fact, which queen who has been abolished throughout the ages can have a good end? Even if the emperor doesn't kill him, the new empress will find a way to kill her, and she knows Li Chengyuan's ruthlessness, and she will definitely die when Li Chengyuan makes up his mind.

King Han knew these things, and many people knew about these things, but these things could not be exposed in front of the people of Daning.

Of these two bad choices, one is to be at the mercy of Emperor Li Chengyuan, and it is not good to count his fate if he dies.

The second is to kill Li Chengyuan, Li Chengyuan has no heirs, none of them, so he must choose one from the children of the kings, as long as she has a little contact with Mu Zhaotong, Mu Zhaotong will inevitably help her, Mu Zhaotong is already a great minister, how can he go further?

That's the prison country.

Moreover, it was precisely because Li Chengyuan was gradually weakening the power in Mu Zhaotong's hands at that time that Mu Zhaotong would conspire with the queen, and Li Chengyuan was not a fool, of course, he knew that a cabinet leader and scholar who leaned towards the government and the opposition was equivalent to taking away most of the imperial power, and the imperial power could not be left behind.

King Han sent someone to check at that time, which was probably similar to his speculation, although there was no conclusive evidence to prove that Li Chengyuan was murdered by the queen and Mu Zhaotong, but King Han knew that his opportunity had come.

So his third step is to tell the story of the queen and Mu Zhaotong's murder of the emperor after he has a lot of power, how fast will this kind of thing spread? It won't be long before the whole of Daning will fall into a condemnation.

He stands on the moral high ground, and also stands on the high ground of power, and after abolishing Mu Zhaotong, he will abolish the queen, so what qualifications does Li Xiaoran, the product of the queen's power, have to sit on the throne?

At this point, his fourth step can begin.

He doesn't intend to be emperor himself, that will be the target of public criticism, but he can make his son emperor.

In this way, the throne of Emperor Daning has been transferred from Li Chengyuan's line to his lineage, which is all the Li family, but the Li family and the Li family are not the same.

So later, when Li Chengtang, the king of Liuliu, suddenly became the heir to the throne, suddenly he had the support of swords and soldiers, and suddenly he also had the support of the forbidden army, how could King Han accept it? He was killed in the cradle before the overall situation was unfolded, this kind of grievance can only be experienced by himself, at that time, Li Chengtang returned to Chang'an and wanted to ask a few of them to come out to help, how could he agree?

This kind of help is not the auxiliary government of the kings, it is nothing more than being sent by Li Chengtang, so he will not do it.

At this moment, he once again stood in front of Li Chengtang, and the grievances and grievances of thirty years ago seemed to have returned to him all at once.

"Your Majesty!"

King Han took a deep breath and told himself not to be impulsive and not to be rash, he no longer had the ambition he had thirty years ago, he only wanted to protect the purity of the Li family's bloodline at this moment.

"At this moment, there are no outsiders."

After King Han said this, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly knelt down on the table: "The minister has words like a fish in his throat and does not vomit unpleasantly, Your Majesty, rumors from the outside world say that the general Shen Leng is His Majesty's child, and the minister doesn't know if this is true." ”

The Emperor's eyes narrowed slightly.

King Han knelt there: "Your Majesty, please listen to the minister's words...... Shen Leng's background is unknown, and it should not be certain until now, even if it can be determined, it is impossible for a prince who has been drifting outside for so many years to return to the Li family tree, once his identity is confirmed, how many people in Daning will scold Your Majesty? After scolding? This kind of ugly thing must not be spread out, it is a matter of royal decency. ”

"So Your Majesty doesn't care what Shen Leng is, as long as he doesn't return to the family tree, the ministers will have no objections and there will be no obstruction."

He raised his head and glanced at the emperor: "Besides, the second prince's life experience, if the second prince is really born to Concubine Yi and the guard named Gong Tian, the second prince does not have the slightest royal blood of the Li family, and the minister knows that this matter cannot be conclusive, so he begged His Majesty to investigate thoroughly, and find out that this is wronged Concubine Yi, then what should be done, if it is found out to be true?" ”

King Han lowered his head: "The minister hopes that His Majesty will think twice...... His Royal Highness the Prince, loyal and virtuous, regardless of knowledge, character or ability, is the best choice, His Majesty said, the prince and the ministers are deep in private, but Your Majesty, the prince is the eldest son of His Majesty, and he is also the grandson of the ministers, is it a sin to have more contacts? ”

The Emperor listened very carefully, and sat down behind his desk, although his eyes did not look at King Han again, but he heard every word that King Han said clearly.

"Uncle Huang."

The Emperor's gaze retracted from the window and fell on King Han.

"You said before that you had to have an explanation, you had to have an explanation."

He looked at King Han's face: "This explanation and this explanation are ...... It doesn't matter whether Shen Leng is a prince or not, and it doesn't matter if Shen Leng's identity is determined whether he can be included in the family tree or not. ”

The emperor's hand was placed on the table, seemingly casually, but the blood vessels on the back of his hand seemed to be beating lightly one by one.

"Do you know why I'm fighting so hard?"

The emperor said: "When I needed your help, you all hid, and I realized that family affection in the royal family is unreliable, you are all my uncles, my father's younger brothers, speaking of which, there are not many people in this world who are more intimate than this kind of care, you don't help me when I am struggling to move forward, and now I need you to point fingers in front of me?" ”

"I have never been a saint who has never been blamed in the past, on the contrary, I am a person who will repay me, what did you say just now, Uncle Huang? said that as long as Shen Leng does not return to the family tree, you will not be hindered by how I reward him, you ...... Can you manage it or can you stop it? ”

King Ding smiled: "Your Majesty, what you said is so hurtful. ”

"I just don't want to be hurt to have so many things!"

The emperor's hand slapped on the table, and the old princes trembled at the same time.

"If I hadn't been thinking about love, how many imperial uncles would still be able to sit in front of me and talk to me as elders?"

The emperor sneered: "The people of Daning are talking about me being lenient, and the enemies who have been defeated by me only dare to kneel down to thank me for my kindness, but are I really lenient?" Were the emperors of Daning really lenient? ”

He looked at King Han: "What you planned back then, I didn't forget, I just thought about love." ”

King Han's face turned pale, and it looked extremely embarrassing to kneel there, just now he knelt down as a loyal minister and a loyal person, so he felt that although he knelt, he was strong, but at this moment, his qi was not strong, and he was not straight.

The emperor got up, walked to the kneeling King Han and squatted down, and looked at King Han's eyes so closely: "I will make my words clear today, I have worked hard to have everything now, no one is qualified to point fingers in front of me, I have fought until now, if there is anyone else pointing fingers in front of me, then I have lost, have I lost?" ”

No one dared to speak.

"Again, I'm not a kind person, and my heart isn't so soft."

He raised his hand and tidied up the collar of King Han's somewhat wrinkled clothes: "Uncle Huang, you really look like a person who is loyal to the monarch and loves the clan, but you are not, you have always been, have you forgotten how ugly you were when you fought with your father and the emperor back then?" You can still wear the prince's brocade clothes and enjoy the awe of most people, and that's just because your surname is Li, and you have to thank yourself for your surname Li. ”

The emperor stood up: "I have already dismantled the Taimiao Bell, if anyone in the future threatens me as an elder of the imperial family, persecutes me, or persecutes me, I can make the Taimiao Bell abolished, and I can also let such a person not be surnamed Li, this is my right to sit on the throne, you were right to oppose me entering Beijing at the beginning, let me sit up, you will never come out." ”

"Let's go, don't kneel in front of me, they're not good people, whoever doesn't understand anyone, the play will be boring."

The emperor said as he walked to the desk: "They are all surnamed Li, the people of the Li family are not ruthless, and the methods are not ruthless, or the Li family?" Back then, the Li family was not just competing with Chu, it was the Li family who stood up by stepping on hundreds of rebels in the Central Plains, are you really worthy of being born with this identity? ”

The Emperor sat down again and opened the recital.

"Uncle Huang, it's been a few years, why don't you live well?"