The happy life of the devil and the devil

One month after conquering the King's Capital of Suluo, Ling Yucheng handed over the land to the follow-up personnel sent by Yuan Shao, and was ordered to be a teacher.

This time, there was no way of coming.It was midsummer when it came, and the scorching sun was in the sky, and when the teacher's order was received, the autumn grain had already been harvested.If you go all the way north, go through Hirano and Xiangping, and then turn southwest to enter the pass and return to Beijing, you may be confronted with the first heavy snow outside the pass as soon as you arrive in Xiangping.

Ling Yucheng had planned it long ago.In a secluded corner of Suluo, although the land route is thousands of miles away, it only takes one day's water journey from Hansan City down the river to Jichuan Port by the sea.As soon as Hanshan City was captured, it was a mere port, and it fell in anticipation.

Suluo has always paid tribute to Yuxia by sea, and has trade relations with Beiliang, Yuxia, Sutai and other countries.When Ling Yucheng Feige delivered the letter, he had already mentioned to Yuan Shao in the letter that the royal family of Beiliang had requisitioned dozens of huge boats, and they set off from Qingzhou, covered the sky and covered the sun, and floated over the sea.

At this point, the army that conquered Suluo parted ways. The White Mountain Guard, the Black Water Guard, and the Haixi savages who had obtained enough spoils and rewards turned around and headed north. Except for the army designated by Yuan Shao to station in Suluo, the rest returned to their original places—— The bases of the two armies were originally in the north of Xiangping.Guangwuwei and Xuanjiawei of Lingyucheng arrived at Jichuan Port in batches and boarded a ship to return.

This journey is much easier than before.If you go back the same way, it will take more than ten days to change horses all the way without changing people, day and night. If you walk slowly, you may not be able to reach the place in two months.You know, among those prisoners, some are so delicate that they have to walk slowly in a car, but this speed is infinitely slow...

Ling Yucheng took a deep breath of the salty sea breeze, only to feel that his chest was bright, and he wanted to scream for a while.The sea and the sky in front of him are the same color, there is no dust, and the snow-colored sails are full of long winds, leading the entire fleet to break through the white waves and move forward at full speed.The smooth railing soaked in the sea water felt slightly hot in the palm of the hand, and several white seabirds were flying up and down the waves, their slender wingtips skimming the sea surface again and again.

"How many days will it take to arrive in Qingzhou?"

"Three days, my lord." Unfortunately, He Liu got seasick and couldn't get up.There were quite a few Xuanjiawei who were seasick like him, and even Xiao Shiyi, who went out to sea with his master for the first time, lay sleepy in the cabin, and had no chance to see the scenery of the sea.At this time, it was Ding Bai who stood behind Ling Yucheng, his face pale and unsteady, and he tried to stand up straight and replied:

"There is a favorable wind all the way. From Jichuan to Qingzhou, it only takes five days to arrive at the port. In this season, there will be no big storms that will blow the fleet off the route. Even if there is a headwind, it will only take ten days at most."

"Three days..."

In three more days, you can set foot on the land of Qingzhou.After months of exhausting thinking and sleeping under armor, finally, I can get a good night's sleep.

"That is to say, in three days, we will be able to receive news from the capital..."

According to the calculations, it was 20 days ago that the last group of couriers left the capital.In Yuan Shao's last letter, the courtiers of the two factions had just been scolded to be quiet by him, but now, in the capital, I don't know what kind of situation it is...

Ling Yucheng, who was looking at the sky from the bow of the boat, didn't know that the capital city at this moment was breaking up a stormy sea that was much more dangerous than his sea surface.

The team sent by Yuan Shao to Xichuan to escort all the criminals and witnesses in the assassination of General Heishui had returned to the capital three days ago.

Yuan Shao personally interrogated the two younger brothers of General Heishui.At the beginning, the two men complained about their grievances, even denying that they were responsible for the assassination of General Heishui. However, under the questioning of veteran case handlers from the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, those excuses were full of loopholes and were vulnerable to a single blow.

Then, it was the turn of the Eastern Palace subordinates who had been secretly detained long ago.

There are warrants, jade pendants, confessions from the members of the Black Water Department, and there is no record of entering or leaving the palace during that time when he was supposed to be working in Beijing... The subordinate officer finally spoke.

Although it cannot be proved that the assassination of General Heishui was ordered by the prince, the prince deliberately concealed the fact that the head of the Heishui clan was about to die from a stroke, and secretly sent someone to contact the younger brothers of General Heishui to authorize them to handle the affairs of the clan. Inescapable fact.

Three days of interrogation.Stacks of confessions, a personal testimony...every word, every single sentence, is indisputable.

Yuan Shao finally fell silent.

Looking at Li Minxing, who was kneeling before the table, with his back straight like a young bamboo, he pondered for a while, but finally he didn't speak.Seeing that he was silent, the Dali Temple official who was in charge of asking questions held the file in his hand and read the questions one by one according to the plan drawn up in advance.And the child who rushed back to preside over the overall situation when his father was seriously injured answered every question very fluently without hesitation.

"Whose idea is it to put this matter on the record?"

"It's mine!"

"Nonsense! You are just a pawn of the Xuanjia Guard up to now, and even the Black Water Guard is under the control of the Queen. How could you not ask the Queen for instructions on such a big matter?"

"I just didn't ask for instructions!" The 15-year-old child straightened his back even more, raised his head, and his cheeks, which had lost weight rapidly these days, were flushed under the light:

"The news of my father's serious injury was reported to my lord, and I walked on the road for two days. I was ordered to set off immediately, and arrived in Pingye two days later, and arrived in Xichuan a day later. It took a total of five days! I learned the inside story that night. , Interrogated overnight, got the statement the next morning, and I sent a memorial to the capital at noon!"

The sound of flipping the scroll kept ringing.The more Li Minxing spoke, the more confident he became, and his voice gradually became high-pitched. If he hadn't knelt on the ground, he would have put his finger on Dali Siqing's nose:

"If you don't believe me, let's see if I have time to ask your lord for instructions during the time when you pass the letter to a pair of adults flying pigeons, and when I send out the memorial!"

"...Okay." Yuan Shao lightly raised his hand, interrupting the follow-up questioning of the Dali Temple officials.He stared at Li Minxing, gently twitching the memorial with his fingertips, his voice was gentle, but with a coolness that chilled people to the bone:

"Why didn't you ask for such a big matter?"

"……I can not."

"Don't dare?!"

"Your Excellency will not allow it! Even the Eleventh Prince has smallpox, and His Excellency did not continue to investigate. Father——Father is just a courtier!"

In an instant, Yuan Shao's whole body shook violently, as if someone had punched him in the face.

Looking around, the courtiers who caught his gaze all lowered their heads reflexively, not daring to look up.

...they all know it.

That's right, seven of the eight companions contracted smallpox at that time, and four of them came from noble families such as the clan and the Hussar Guard clan, the Xiaowuwei Bu family, and the Xingwuwei Shen family... The collateral branch, even though it is a partial branch, in the capital, where does the real secret come from.

No one mentioned it before, but because he didn't want to pursue it.In fact, who doesn't have a steelyard in their hearts.

To murder a younger brother is not fraternal or benevolent.Now, disregarding the overall situation, when the battle is fierce, he shoots at the frontline generals and destroys the Great Wall...

Who can bear such a lord?Who would support such an emperor?

"My lord has my own difficulties. But as a son of man, Min Xing must seek justice for his father even if his body is broken to pieces!"

The next day, Yuan Shao decreed that the crown prince should be abolished as King Boling, and moved out of the East Palace, secluded in a garden outside the city.Wives, concubines and children are under confinement together.

The imperial edict shocked the capital.

The prince is not an ordinary prince. Your old son, the emperor, gave this son an extra Zhuangzi, and gave that son tens of thousands of taels of silver to build a palace. Put on casual clothes, love to eat and drink, how the emperor raises his son is his own business.

The abolition of the crown prince has a bearing on the foundation of the country.

Once a matter is elevated to the height of the country, it is not like Tang Gaozong who wanted to establish his father's concubine, which can be prevaricated by saying "this is a private matter of the heavenly family".The emperor wants to give an order to the world, to give civil and military officials, and the people of the world a reasonable reason, and the ministers also have good reasons to express their opinions on this, so as not to be sprayed in the face by the emperor:

"What's the matter with Guan Qing!"

Before the palace gate closed that afternoon, Yuan Shao's desk was filled with memorials from the six departments.Even Li Minxing, who made a public announcement to ask the emperor for justice for his father, also wrote a letter to Fu Que with fear and sincerity, saying that the crown prince is the heir apparent after all, and he will abolish him because he hurts his father. sorry...

Pooh!I can't afford you to make such a big fuss!

If he saw this memorial on the same day, Yuan Shao would definitely throw the note on Brother Min's face immediately.However, on this day, he didn't have any intention of going to the court to be a director, but he and the prince—oh, it should be called King Boling now—closed doors and closed doors, sitting face to face all day long.

On the long table between the two of them, a sumptuous lunch could not dissipate any heat, but no one was in the mood to move their chopsticks.

"I remember, your... wangfei is already three months pregnant?"

"Father has always been wise."

...Does this have anything to do with Yingming?

"When she is full of confinement, your family should go to Boling. Although the fief is not as prosperous as the capital, there is still enough for daily expenses. When you get there, as long as you don't mess around too much, you will always be able to spend your whole life. You can... die in peace."

The last few words were difficult, as if a rough file had been scraped across the throat, and every sound radiated the smell of blood welling up from the depths of the chest.

"-Father!"

"how?"

"Father, are you going to abolish me just because of a black water general?--I didn't intend to kill him!"

"Finally you didn't say in front of me that the person was not sent by you, the document was forged by someone else." Yuan Shao's tone was light, but his eyes were so sharp that the deposed prince opposite had to bow his head. "The pride of my Tie Le royal family has not been thrown away by you yet."

Yuan Qin's face was pale, and there were two obvious bruises under his eyes, which made his complexion extremely ugly.Since the beginning of Li Minxing's performance, for more than [-] days in a row, he woke up in a nightmare every night - on the contrary, on the day when the prisoner arrived in Beijing, he returned to the East Palace and fell asleep. He wakes up.

"I know that I am sorry for my father's expectations...but my father, my son will make such a bad plan, and I am forced to do nothing!"

"You are my prince, who dares to force you?"

"Father!" Yuan Qin jumped up indignantly, just stood up straight, saw Yuan Shao's heavy gaze, and sat back down with his head down. "Ever since that Ling Yucheng came, Father, you have been displeased with me. No matter what you do, you protect him and suppress me! This is how my people were when he tied them back from Qingzhou. People from the Naiman Department It's the same when I get into trouble, even when I'm assassinated!"

"Habayashi Wei, Xiaowuwei, and Xingwuwei are all close to him. The military art class once every five days, all the generals in the capital rush to listen, and even the son of General Heishui is a bodyguard by his side... he And Xiao Shiyi, my father is in his prime, ten or twenty years from now, what will happen to me?"

"So you're going to assassinate General Blackwater?"

"I don't want to kill him! I just want to drag him down, so that he won't get credit in Suluo, and when Li Jinxing dies, General Heishui won't be able to get the position of patriarch! I just want the new patriarch to lean towards me a little!"

"Damn things!"

Yuan Shao endured and endured so that he didn't overturn the table with his palm.He tried his best to calm down, and felt the twitching in the corners of his eyes gradually stopped, so he calmed down his voice as much as possible, and explained to his son calmly—after all, this was the last time.

"Do you know that there is a war on the front line? Do you know that General Blackwater is one of the four armies that marched into Suluo? Do you know that if something happens to him, the entire battlefield may collapse? Do you know that the previous dynasty died in order to conquer Suluo? How many people have passed, do you know that Yu Xia's previous dynasty was to defeat this country three times, and even the country was destroyed for it!"

"Do you know that what you did will cause the [-] troops in Suluo to die together on the battlefield! There is also your brother there!"

"You are the crown prince! You are the prince of the country! You are the one who will take over the country! — No matter what the reason is, a person who does such a thing is not worthy of this country!"

Amidst the roar, the blood on Yuan Qin's face faded away.Seeing that he didn't know how to refute at all, Yuan Shao sighed heavily and lowered his eyes.

"I really regret that I didn't teach you a lesson last year. When Little Eleven contracted smallpox... Now that I think about it, I missed you. If I had disciplined you ruthlessly at that time, maybe you wouldn't have come to this point? "

"Father, my son is not..."

"I didn't investigate further at the time because I thought you were already an adult. To save your face, you should know how to reflect on yourself. It's also because, even if it was really you who did it, it doesn't mean that you can't be a good emperor. People who have always killed brothers and brothers There is no shortage of wise masters among the emperors, but none of the emperors who murdered generals and destroyed the Great Wall by themselves can bear the evaluation of wise masters—even fatuous masters!"

"When Li Min went to perform, how I wish it was him who framed you..."

Having said this, Yuan Shao finally choked up his voice, grabbed the jug on the desk, couldn't wait to pour the wine, lifted the lid and gulped it down.At the same time, with a plop on the opposite side, Yuan Qin had already left his seat and knelt down on his knees.

"Royal father, throughout the ages, there has never been a good end to deposed princes—Royal father, do you really have the heart to put your sons to death, to put your eldest grandson and unborn grandchildren to death?"

The voice trembled slightly.The young man on the opposite side of the food table knelt on the ground, raised his head, and stared at him eagerly and beseechingly.Yuan Shao really wanted to reach out to help him up, but after moving his fingers twice, they finally fell down and lay flat on his lap.

Abandoned prince... Abandoned prince.

Looking at the history books, these deposed princes ended up worse than their brothers who did not get the status of prince.Either he was bestowed to death by his own father, or he died at the hands of his successor brother.Even if they were not assassinated, the long-term confinement and the butcher's knife that might fall from above their heads at any time would not allow them to last much longer.

"I still have at least 30 years to live. As long as I have you, you will be safe. As for after I close my eyes...the royal family has never been very busy. Three to forty years have passed, as long as you stay in peace In the fiefdom, the new monarch will not think about cutting grass and roots."

This is the last thing I, as a royal father,...as a father, can do for you.

A throne, a salary, guarantee your status and life.A remote and remote fiefdom will give you the freedom that you cannot enjoy under confinement in the palace, and it will also prevent you from having thoughts you shouldn't have, and live in peace.

"Go ahead."

The author has something to say: "Han Shu Wu Xing Zhi Xia Xia": "The heart, the big star, is also the king of heaven. The former star is the prince; the rear star is the bastard." The latter is because the former star refers to the prince.