Chapter 42: Their Truth and His Truth
Many of the ministers present were familiar faces, and not only did Li Deqian meet them every day at the court meeting, but Li Deqian would also send someone to give them gifts during the New Year's holidays.
However, these people are now here, and there are a few people who Li Deqian feels loyal to him.
Therefore, Li Deqian felt that his heart had been seriously hurt. He was trembling so badly now, and if he could, give him a knife, and he would kill everyone present.
Even if the other party will call someone to kill him first, it doesn't matter. These people are moths, burdens that hinder the progress of Annam. As long as they are still there, then Annan will never go to the next level.
The reform of the imitation Song official system is of great significance to Annan, and if the Song people do not intervene this time, then after the completion of the reform, Annan will naturally move towards a stronger and more prosperous level, and these opponents will also learn the real benefits of the reform after this.
The Song State's system of paying fewer officials and more salaries is very worthy of reference. No one is going to have trouble with money, and even more so officials. The high salaries from the state will only make them smile from ear to ear and not be dissatisfied at all.
However, the arrival of the Song people completely disrupted Li Deqian's plan, and in the middle of the reform, the Song people invaded Annan strongly. And these short-sighted rats actually colluded with foreign enemies to cause trouble in Annan.
Li Deqian ignored the cynicism of these people, and said in a deep voice with his hands behind his back: "Doesn't your conscience hurt? Do you think there's nothing wrong with what you're doing?
Do you think that you will not be punished after you have done these things?
What will the innocent people of Thang Long City think when they learn the truth? What will the surviving people think of you? If you think that you will pull me down in this way, and then one of you will be the emperor, you are very wrong.
Not to mention which of you will be the emperor, the people who know the truth will not let you beasts with beast hearts go.
Before, I wondered why you persecuted the merchants of the Western Regions to such an extent, but now I have figured it out.
I advise you, it's too late to stop. I don't dare to anger the people, why do you dare to do this?
Have the people done anything to be sorry for you? How deserve to be treated like this! If you are not satisfied, just come to me alone.
Now it is an eventful time for my Annan country, there are Song people in the north, Zhenla in the south, and the Champa country in the south is annexing the land of my Annan country, and now is the time when we need our monarchs and ministers to unite as one!
But look at what you're doing now? You colluded with the Song army to cause trouble in Annan, and what you destroyed was not a single Thang Long City, but the entire country of Annan! How foolish you are, but if you have a long-term vision, you will be able to think of what will happen after that.
That's why I use Li Changjie instead of you, just because...
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"Shut up!"
Li Deqian was still questioning at first, but in the end, it unconsciously turned into bitter persuasion. And his last sentence also successfully angered the Minister of Military Aircraft.
"The old man learned calligraphy at the age of three, read at the age of four, and memorized the "Art of War" at the age of six. The surname is Li, the old man, and ask you, what is there that the old man is not as good as that eunuch? Is it because he lacks two taels of meat under his crotch that you rely on him more?
The old man has no ability, but there is no place to show it, do you know how aggrieved and unhappy the old man has been over the years? !
You know! You will only rely on your own identity, high up and commanding. You're just going to say some high-sounding, nourishing!
What do you say the people are innocent? Then the old man asks you, twenty-five years ago, how did the people of Yongzhou in the Great Song Kingdom offend you?!
When you come here, the people are innocent, and when you come to the Great Song Kingdom, you deserve it? Li Deqian, you don't have to pretend to be a holy lord Mingjun.
Who doesn't know here that you are a brutal person in your bones.
When you were eight years old, just one year after you succeeded to the throne, you forced the Empress Dowager Shangyang, who listened to the government, to be martyred for the first emperor. Such an unfilial bestiality, you have already done it when you were eight years old.
Everyone was telling you not to do it, but you just got it. You can imagine how cruel your nature is.
It is already unfilial piety to force the Empress Dowager Shangyang in the palace, in order to cover up your own ugly deeds, you have set up Concubine Yilan as the Empress Dowager. Do you think that by making your biological mother the queen mother, you can make everyone think that you are very filial?
In our eyes, your actions are just trying to cover up!
In the fourth year of Taining, when you were only nine years old, you took it upon yourself to provoke the border. Although we did not object, after this, Li Changjie's wanton massacre of the Song people in Yongzhou was covered up by you.
Li Deqian, you have today, and you are completely to blame! Don't deserve the slightest sympathy from others! ”
The accusation that hit the soul reminded Li Deqian of something he never wanted to think about, he was silent, he remembered how the Empress Dowager Shangyang begged him not to let her die, she was even willing to listen to herself, but she refused.
The Empress Dowager Shangyang drank the cup of poisonous wine with a sad expression in his mind, but unfortunately Li Deqian did not have any guilt in his heart at all.
If she doesn't die, she won't be able to monopolize power. Only when she dies can she become the only master of this Annan country.
Li Deqian was like a deflated ball, he stood in the lobby, as if he was standing on a wasteland. It was dark, but the ground was bright. The cracked earth was like his heart.
He leaned over and looked into the cracks in the land, looking left and right, all of them were the sad face of the Empress Dowager Shangyang.
He saw the Empress Dowager Shangyang
He stretched out his hand, and when it was on his ankle, he was suddenly startled, but by this time he was already covered in cold sweat.
"Li Deqian, don't worry. No matter how we say it, they are also the courtiers of the Kingdom of Annam. We won't let you die, but every day of the rest of your life will be spent in nightmares. ”
The prime minister looked at him indifferently, the Empress Dowager Shangyang was her cousin, which was something that few people knew.
Subsequently, Li Deqian was taken down by two guards in a state of confusion. He was housed in a firewood house in the middle of the village, alone, without anyone else to accompany him.
Li Deqian sat in the firewood room with his knees crossed, recalling everything he had done since he succeeded to the throne. Some of them are in line with current events, and some of them are not meant to be. But in the process of his recollection, he tore off the mask of his kindness, revealing his cruel and unkind true face.
He no longer regards himself as an emperor, and after taking himself out, many things can be seen more clearly. And judging from the current situation, it is impossible for him to continue to be the emperor, and the rest of his life may be an eternal prisoner.
So when Li Deqian was taken to a side room and looked at the man who looked ninety percent similar to himself lying on his queen's body, he didn't feel particularly much.
From the moment he left the lobby, he was no longer Li Deqian. He can be any Li of Boss Li and Li Er, but he will definitely no longer be Li Deqian's Li.
Li Deqian felt that he was having a long nightmare, and he suddenly thought that it would be great if he was not born in the emperor's family.
Listening to the painful and happy moans of his concubines, Li Deqian silently returned to the firewood room and continued to have his nightmare.
However, there is always a time to wake up from a dream, and it was no one else who woke him up from the nightmare, it was the Song people who brought him into this nightmare.
The clash of blades came from a distance, followed by the sound of thunder that was still fresh in his memory.
It was the sound of the Song people's gunpowder exploding.
After that, the shouts of killing got closer and closer. Li Deqian's dull eyes suddenly had some light.
He pushed the door open, and the two guards outside the door were long gone. He picked up a stick from the wood-chamber and walked straight to the chamber where his queen was.
An unknown man hurriedly ran out with his pants and a knife, and happened to be staggered with Li Deqian.
Li Deqian walked in silently, and after closing the door reflexively, the sound of the woman's screams was mixed with the shouting and killing outside, and it became inaudible.
Not long after, Li Deqian walked out of the house with a body full of blood. The stick he was carrying in his hand was broken, but that didn't affect what he was going to do next.
He looked at the other room, where there should also be a concubine of his own. So he strode towards the chamber......