Daily life of captives

It was another late autumn, Li Shao was sitting in the imperial study room where he and the emperor were alone, but looking at the fallen leaves falling from the trees outside the window, thinking that when he returned to Changsun's mansion, he would stop by Wei's restaurant to buy two roast chickens.

Looking back at the emperor, Li Shao only hoped that he would finish speaking quickly.

Compared with the previous years, the emperor looked much older, and he was no longer as vigorous as before. He sat behind the imperial case and frowned, no longer confident, no longer strategizing, and no longer decisive. He only looked at the sword in his hand. The memorial said a lot to Li Shao, but after finishing talking, he couldn't make a satisfactory decision.

"Sanlang, what do you think should be done about this matter? Cough cough..."

Li Shao got up, picked up the cloak that the emperor took off half an hour ago, and covered the emperor with his hands: "For the diplomatic matters with Ding Lingguo, my father should ask the elder brother."

Hearing this, the emperor sighed and said: "If he can think of any good ideas, why should I call you into the palace? And now that he has learned to form cliques and form cliques for personal gain, what he said in front of me, I will not He can only listen to three points, and the remaining seven points are taught to him by those dubious people around him, which is of no benefit to the country."

Where did he go wrong?In the past two years, everything was not going well, even Zheng'er was out of his control, and only Saburo was still by his side.

"Brother Huang is just eager for success, because he doesn't want to disappoint his father, so he is eager to make some achievements to show his father." Li Shao walked back to his seat and sat down again, casually comforting the emperor.

The emperor looked like he hated iron, and snorted coldly: "If he really doesn't want to disappoint me, then he should listen to me and do what I say. I am his father, and I will treat him better than those who are obedient and vicious. Is his courtier bad? But why is he just not obedient?"

Li Shao secretly smiled in his heart.

At that time, he was willing to obey his father, and it was only because he was still young. When he grew up and had his own ideas, it happened that his father also felt that he had learned a lot and could have his own little ideas. The shackles were loosened a little.And brother Huang was brought to him by his father after he became an adult, how could he receive the so-called teaching of his father?

"Brother Huang probably just wants to prove his ability. The ministers of the imperial court are all around you, so it's enough for Emperor Father to let Qing Lang watch more."

The emperor stared at Li Shao, and suddenly asked: "Sanlang, do you... want to go back to the court?"

Li Shao was taken aback, raised his head to look directly at the emperor, and shook his head after a while and said with a faint smile, "I don't want to."

"Don't want to?" The emperor looked at Li Shao suspiciously, "Then you are willing to be sneaky like this for the rest of your life?"

"It's so leisurely, I can spend more time with Boyi." Li Shao lowered his eyes again.

Isn't it all thanks to his father that he entered the palace secretly?Now that Li Zheng is disobedient, does Emperor Father think of him again?He will not return to the court, even if it is to embarrass his father, the price he has to pay for returning to the court is too high, it is not worthwhile.

The emperor looked at Li Shao and said in a deep voice: "Sanlang, you have changed. If you were in the past, you would definitely choose to share my worries, but now you value the kid from the eldest grandson's family more than me, my biological father." .”

"How could it be?" Li Shao looked at the emperor and smiled calmly, "If the emperor needs the ministers, just call the ministers into the palace, no matter what the matter is, the ministers will definitely handle it properly for the emperor. But let’s forget about the matter of participating in the court administration. My son has not been in touch with those things for a long time, and he is a little rusty, not to mention that the eldest brother has always had a grudge against his son. If his son enters the court to participate in politics again, the elder brother should be angry. "

As soon as Li Shao talked about Li Zheng, the emperor lamented: "I don't know who that child is like. He is narrow-minded, eager for success, greedy for money, and lustful. How can I trust Li's country to the world like this? he?"

Just in the past few years, how many disasters has Zheng'er caused?Even though he followed Zheng'er closely, he didn't have time to clean up all the mess for Zheng'er. Seeing the prosperous world he created with his own hands was declining day by day, he was in a hurry!

Seeing that the chatting like this would be endless, Li Shao hurriedly said: "Father, don't be in a hurry, or I should go to talk to other brothers and ask them to persuade Brother Huang."

After thinking for a while, the emperor nodded and said, "Alright, you can go."

"Yes," Li Shao stood up immediately, "The minister there will take his leave."

The emperor closed his eyes wearily, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out which step he had taken wrong.

Li Shao quickly left the imperial study room, after thinking about it, he went straight to the direction of leaving the palace.

What Li Zheng is doing now is not a matter of "disobedience" at all, Li Zheng is not giving real power to his father, because he is afraid that his father is still thinking about making him the heir, so he is in a hurry to win over the courtiers , Take away the power in the hands of the father little by little, so that the father can no longer change his mind.Who can advise on this matter?Why should he bother.

If it had been a few years ago, Father would have noticed Li Zheng's ulterior motives long ago, but there were too many things that went wrong in these years, and Father showed his timidity and learned to deceive himself and others.

After leaving the palace, Li Shao first detoured to Yongfu and sneaked into Yongning's study.

Yong Ning happened to be in the study, and was startled when he heard the noise, but turned around and saw Li Shao.

"Your Highness?" Yong Ning hurriedly stood up, "Why is Your Highness here? But is there something urgent?"

"It's nothing urgent, you can sit down," Li Shao also unceremoniously found a seat to sit down, "I just came out of the palace and stopped by to ask you something."

Yong Ning sat down as he said, and looked at Li Shao worriedly: "What does Your Highness want to ask?"

"What's the matter with the father's illness?"

Yong Ning's eyes flickered, he stared at Li Shao, stood up again, turned around and opened the hidden compartment in the bookcase behind him, and took out a box from inside, after opening the box, Yong Ning took out the box again A black-skinned booklet was turned around and handed to Li Shao.

"This is the news from the palace."

Li Shao was not in a hurry to accept the booklets, but instead stared at the box in Yongning's hand: "How many papers are there in that box of yours?"

Yong Ning was taken aback, and snapped the lid of the box on: "I can't tell His Highness about this for the time being. When His Highness comes down to ask, I will naturally show it to His Highness."

"Wait for me to ask?" Li Shao raised his eyebrows.

Yongning put the box back into the secret compartment, sat down on the chair again, and answered Li Shao: "I will definitely inform His Highness of the things that must be known to His Highness, but some things seem to be very important to His Highness. But it is not necessary, if His Highness comes to ask, it means that His Highness is doing something related to this, and he has to know the details, but if His Highness doesn't come to ask, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't know these things."

Li Shao curled his lips and said, "Don't tell me your theories, I feel a headache."

After saying this, Li Shao went to the table and took away the booklet that Yong Ning had put on the table before, and went back to his seat to read it carefully.

The booklet was very thick, and it recorded in detail the physical condition of the emperor in the past two years, including the diagnosis results of the imperial physician and the prescriptions the emperor had taken. At the end of the booklet was Yongning's comment, which only wrote three words : Chronic toxicity.

When he saw this comment, Li Shao's heart was unexpectedly calm, not shocked, heartbroken, or even sad.Only then did Li Shao feel that he really had no feelings for the emperor at all.

"Did Li Zheng do it?"

"It is impossible to say whether Li Zheng knows about the person who is the queen, but the queen and Li Zheng's mother and son have always been close. I think Li Zheng probably knows about it."

Li Shao closed the booklet, and asked Yongning again: "Then how long do you think the father can last?"

Yong Ning thought for a while, and said: "If they don't increase the dose of drugs, His Majesty can probably last for a year. If they increase the dose, it will be hard to say. I will let people watch."

Li Shao nodded and said: "Be careful, if there is danger, don't go to inquire. This is a fight between the two of them, let them fight, they will decide the winner sooner, we will I can leave Chang'an one day sooner."

Being poisoned without knowing it, the father has no chance of winning the battle between father and son, and once the father is not around, he can go wherever he wants, Li Zheng has nothing to fear.

"That's right," Yong Ning let out a long sigh of relief, "All the subsequent things have been arranged, just wait... just wait for them to decide the winner."

Yong Ning wanted to say that he was only waiting for the emperor to die, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind.

"Have you told General Changsun about this?" Yong Ning looked at Li Shao worriedly, "If you want to leave Beijing, that boy Changsun Boyi will definitely follow you, and he has nothing to worry about in Chang'an City. But General Changsun, he..."

"I will find an appropriate time to talk to General Changsun," Li Shao smiled lightly, "For General Changsun, it is very difficult to abandon the country of Li, but General Changsun has three sons. What's more, in today's world Li Guo, even a general, can't defend his home and country anymore."

The royal father's reputation has been ruined in the past two years. Because of his obstruction, the things that Anbu wanted to do did not go smoothly. The royal father was finally caught by the tail, and the assassination of courtiers gradually became more and more difficult. Being found out and advertised to the world, even if no one can find out the hard evidence, this is enough to make the prestige of the father in Baixin plummet.Li Zheng has been dishonest in the past two years, and his father was eager to clean up the mess for Li Zheng, but in the end he caused more disputes.

The state of Li is no longer as good as it used to be, and now being an official in the court can only help the tyrant and abuse him. If he is really dedicated to serving the people, he should resign and leave Beijing to find another way out.