Your Majesty, please draw the card

The king of Zhongshan, Liu Jing, was both happy and worried these days. Suddenly, he dreamed that he became the emperor, sitting on the dragon chair, and all the civil and military officials were kneeling before him.For a while, he dreamed that he had become a prisoner and was being stabbed alive by an executioner.Ups and downs, the feeling only he knows.

When he heard that the emperor was not stabbed to death by the assassin, he really panicked for a while.Fortunately, the emperor was still injured. If the Xiqiang man was telling the truth, as long as he was poisoned, the emperor would be dead. In fact, there is nothing to worry about.Is it just that the poisonous hair is really so slow?Didn't you say that seeing blood seals the throat?Liu Jing didn't know why the emperor was still alive.He didn't dare to think deeply, the only person who knew about toxicity was killed by him secretly and sank to the bottom of the well.

It was not easy to wait like this, especially what made Liu Jing angry was that Wang Ting's attitude suddenly became lukewarm these days.Wang Ting refused to disclose any news about the emperor's health, and the concubine who had been sent to contact him did not even leave the gate of the palace.Liu Jing hated and annoyed in his heart, but he didn't dare to offend Wang Ting. Everything had to wait until he became emperor.

It's just that without the support of the royal court, how can he enter the power center?Liu Xi is still young and has no heirs, but there are many royal families who are older than Liu Xi, let alone those who are of the same generation as Liu Xi.After all, who can decide who the position will pass to when Liu Xi dies?In the past two days, news spread that the little emperor summoned Hengyang King Liu Duan, who had only one breath left.

The civil servants have hit a snag here, and the generals have also encountered difficulties.Before setting off, Liu Jing thought about buying a certain guard in Chang'an City.But this matter was undoubtedly messed up by him, because the emperor did not die immediately, and the other party immediately repented. Although it would not be possible to betray him in turn, it is obviously impossible to use force to force the palace.His mother's family, the Li family, did hold some military power, but they were not near Chang'an.When he set off, he was afraid of being spotted by others, so he didn't mobilize the army, and it was too late to mobilize now.

Liu Jing sighed for the first time in the past few days. He deeply felt that the work of rebellion was not done by humans!

It's all about fighting for breath.His mother and concubine Li Shi refused to close her eyes until she died.Why did he give birth to a prince a few days later than the empress dowager, why can't he become a queen, why his son is obviously much better than the first emperor, but he can only be a vassal king...

Liu Jing still remembers that when the Empress Dowager Zhongshan died, she firmly grasped his palms. Those hands were once soft and boneless, but at that time only dry and wrinkled skin was left with bulging bones.

Liu Jing understood the meaning in his mother's eyes.What kind of thing is she, Queen Mother Chen Liu, she entered the palace later than his mother and concubine, and her status in the palace is two levels lower than his mother and concubine, and her son is even a short-lived ghost.There's no reason that short-lived ghost's son can be emperor, but he can't!

But now, even Liu Jing felt that his plan was full of loopholes, except that the assassination was half completed successfully, and he didn't even have a decent back move.He couldn't hear the news from the court, and he didn't know whether the emperor was dead or alive, and he didn't have any troops at hand.But the arrow had to be fired, even if one of his confidantes disappeared, making Liu Jing terrified, he still had to wait.

wait...

When seeing the famous Eunuch Gao, who was next to the emperor, walk into the post house, Liu Jing suddenly had a premonition that he finally got it, but this result was not the one he had been expecting all along.

The emperor asked Gao Lishi to send the decree is very simple.The emperor gave Liu Jing two ways.One is to commit suicide within half an hour, and the method is optional. After his death, he will leave a reputation of immorality, the fief will be confiscated, and his children will be demoted to ordinary people.The second way is to wait for the Dali Temple to arrest him vigorously and try him. The charge is treason, and the result may still be death, but there will be no whole body, and his children will have to accompany him on the road.

So there is really no choice at all!

Liu Jing, King of Zhongshan, had tears in his eyes, and asked if the emperor was well, and Gao Lishi's sneer was the answer——

"The emperor was only slightly injured, and he was able to walk around soon afterward. Don't Zhongshan King be misled by some rumors?"

Gao Lishi naturally knew that the reason Liu Xi was able to walk on the ground was due to the life-sustaining pill. This time Liu Xi escaped from death, but in front of the culprit, he didn't mind giving him a little blow.

King Zhongshan's face turned pale when he heard the words, and he slumped on a chair.

The emperor is fine!The emperor is fine!It turns out that all this is just a bureau!The emperor pretended to be poisoned, but in fact he was just collecting evidence, so that he could follow the clues and wipe out his power!

The more Liu Jing thought about it, the more he felt that the heavens were unfair to him, that the emperor was scheming, and why he always owed such a little bit of luck?

"Unwilling?" Gao Lishi asked with raised eyebrows.

"Gu is a hundred times wiser than that yellow-mouthed kid, but he became a great treasure because of the woman's words. Gu hates that God has no eyes! Ancestors of the Liu family, open your eyes and see! The world of Dayan is about to come to an end." I was ruined by someone with a foreign surname!" Liu Jing was crying and laughing, looking more like a madman than the rumored mad emperor.

Seeing him like this, Gao Lishi nodded in satisfaction: "It's right not to be reconciled. If you die happily, the miscellaneous family will be unhappy. The emperor asked the prince to choose within half an hour, and the prince will choose Grasp the time and choose slowly, you must know that there is a huge difference between this way of death and the way of death! Miscellaneous family specially asked someone to bring an hourglass over here. Come here, count the time for the prince to go on the road!"

"Longyou Shoal was caught by shrimp! Now even a eunuch dares to bully Gu!" Liu Jing cried loudly, beating his chest.He watched the pieces of self-cutting tools being placed in front of him, and his whole body couldn't help trembling. "Gu doesn't want to die! Gu is the emperor's uncle, you can't force Gu to death! You say Gu rebelled, but do you have evidence?"

"Evidence?" Gao Lishi smiled, "The miscellaneous family remembers that there is a long-faced attendant beside the prince. The prince hasn't seen him for a few days, right? The prince may as well guess where he is now."

"He...he..." Liu Jing opened his mouth wide, but couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Gao Lishi took something out of his sleeve and threw it on the table, but it was a bloody finger.

"The miscellaneous family just asked someone to pull out one of his fingers, and he recruited them all."

So far, Liu Jing's last hope has been shattered.He threw his head back into the sky and laughed loudly, picking up a glass of poisoned wine from the table.

Gao Lishi waited and waited, but he didn't see Liu Jing drinking the poisoned wine.After the sand in the hourglass had run out, he said impatiently: "The time has come, but what is the last word of the prince?"

Liu Jing shuddered suddenly and came back to his senses: "The Lonely King..."

Gao Lishi raised his hand to stop his words: "Hey! Even if the prince has a last word, the miscellaneous family will not be responsible for it. The miscellaneous family's responsibility is to watch the prince die, and hope that the prince will forgive me."

Liu Jing was almost paralyzed by Gao Lishi's anger, his face was red and purple, and he raised and lowered the wine glass, but he still didn't have the courage to drink the wine in the glass.

"The miscellaneous family can't bear to see the prince in such a difficult situation, let the miscellaneous family come to help the prince!" Gao Lishi waved his hand, "What are you still doing? Why don't you help the prince on the road!"

The guards around immediately held King Zhongshan down and poured poisonous wine into his mouth.

"You're lucky! If the emperor really had something wrong, the miscellaneous family wouldn't let you die so happily! You are a hundred times wiser than the emperor? I don't even know who you are!" Gao Lishi finally spat on Liu Jing's body, Then he got up and went back to the palace.

Liu Jing, the king of Zhongshan, died, and Liu Duan, the king of Hengyang, was still anxiously waiting for the emperor to summon him. Eunuch Zhang, who brought him into the palace, returned first.When Eunuch Zhang reappeared, he had a relieved expression on his face, and his attitude became subtly arrogant.Liu Duan didn't care about Eunuch Zhang's attitude. The other party was the chief eunuch who had served the two emperors. He was just a small vassal king, so this attitude was normal.He handed over a bank note at the right time, this time Eunuch Zhang did not refuse.

"Dare to ask Eunuch Zhang, why does the emperor want to see the lonely king?" Liu Duan, who was busy all the way, naturally did not know the turmoil in Chang'an city, and after he arrived, no one dared to tell him what happened under the emperor's nose.

"Hehe, it's hard to say about this miscellaneous family. I guess the emperor just misses the prince and wants to spend a new year with him."

Eunuch Zhang left happily.He already knew that the emperor was fine, although he might still stay in the palace with another emperor, after all, it didn't make him feel more at ease than following the current one.On the contrary, Liu Duan was even more puzzled when he heard the answer. He had never even seen the emperor's face. How could the emperor want to spend the New Year with him?

After waiting for another half an hour, Liu Duan finally saw the legendary emperor.The emperor was younger than him, but his appearance was the same as that of everyone in the Liu family, with a heroic air in his details.The emperor was accompanied by another father-in-law with sharp eyes, very extraordinary.Even the guards standing aside put an invisible pressure on Liu Duan.

"My minister Liu Duan has met the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live long live long live long live my emperor."

"Uncle, please get up!"

Liu Xi helped Liu Duan up with a smile.Liu Duan's facial features are very soft, and they are six to seven points similar to his current face.So much so that looking at Liu Duan, Liu Xi felt like he was looking at himself when he grew up.This feeling was very strange, and Liu Xi unconsciously got closer to this uncle.

Next, the emperor asked the king of Hengyang about the fiefdoms in detail, and the king of Hengyang answered them one by one.For the first time, the emperor discovered that managing a fief was not much easier than being an emperor.The King of Hengyang is a relatively talented feudal lord. He has put in a lot of effort for the prosperity of the fiefdom, and his handling of many problems has also inspired the emperor a lot.

Afterwards, the emperor had lunch with the King of Hengyang again, and the two chatted happily, and the King of Hengyang gradually let go of his words, and even talked to the emperor about his newly born son...

"In this way, the life of the emperor's uncle is much better than mine. To be honest with the emperor, because of some accidents, I didn't have time to hold a family banquet on New Year's Eve. Today, the emperor's uncle is here, just to make up for it." The emperor smiled. He turned his head and said to Gao Lishi, "Go and take a trip for me, inform the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, let Mi Tuan go out of the palace, and invite my grandmother, Mr. Pingyuan."

"According to the order!"