For the emperor

Except for the initial eye contact, Cang Jinglan did not make eye contact with Cang Tiansu for the second time during the New Year's Eve dinner, and even turned his head to the other half of the venue from the beginning to the end, quite deliberately avoiding it.

For his reaction, Cang Tiansu actually breathed a sigh of relief. Although Cang Jingdi himself seemed to be brooding about the relationship between the two of them who had been drugged, and even looked extremely haggard, at least he didn't look like he was going to die. Meaning to make him responsible.

In the current situation, keeping a distance from each other is the result that Cang Tiansu is most happy to see. Emperor Cang Jing's status and even his personality determine that he is definitely not a good match for Cang Tiansu.

The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom understood a long time ago that the relationship between two people can be gradually cultivated, but it is difficult to reverse their personalities.

Just like him and Duan Yu, at least four years of military career, life and death in the same boat, has established a deep friendship and trust in each other.

But looking back at Cang Jinglan, not to mention the lessons learned from the past, Cang Tiansu will not even give him the most basic trust now, and the relationship between the two is a joke that is not ridiculous at all.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Cang Tiansu really loved the emperor to death, he would choose to withdraw rationally after weighing the pros and cons.

Things had already turned in his favour, so Cang Tiansu and his officials drank the sparkling liquid in the cup, and wished the emperor a healthy body, good luck and prosperity in unison.

Satisfied, he was planning to go out of the palace with Daliu again, and before he boarded the carriage, he saw Li Quan's very familiar chubby figure.

The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom was silent for a while, and almost looked up to the sky and sighed, why did he come again, he didn't feel very pleasing to see this chief eunuch recently.

Li Quan also seemed to know that he was not very popular, and his forehead was a little sweaty, but there was no sense of far-fetchedness in his smile: "Eldest prince, the emperor announces that you will go to Zhaori Palace."

Not Panglong Hall but Zhaori Hall?Several courtiers who were fortunate enough to overhear nearby exchanged glances with each other, but I didn't expect that Li Quan didn't come to find Cang Tiansu alone this time. , the emperor announces the two together."

Oh, so you didn't pull the eldest prince to brush alone?Prime Minister Zuo is Concubine Yi's biological father, and he felt that he had a closer relationship with the emperor, so he asked one more question: "Eunuch Li, do you know what's going on?"

Li Quan sighed, glanced at Cang Tiansu without a trace, and put on a face of worrying about the country and the people: "Chengguo and Yueguo are fighting, the news just received yesterday, the emperor dragged his sick body to support Woke up."

In other words, if there was no news of the war between the two countries, Emperor Cang Jing would still have to pretend to be dead now—who will host the year-end dinner?Prime Minister Zuo couldn't help but shift his eyes to the side, the eldest prince remained calm, his side profile looked so handsome under the soft candlelight that he was very angry.

The location of Zhaori Hall itself is relatively remote, and the four of them had only walked half the distance while talking, but just after hearing the news of the renewed war, everyone was not very interested, so they didn't find any more topics, and they walked to Cangtiansu in silence. The gate of the palace where I lived as a child.

Prime Minister Zuo took a look and felt chills in his heart, Li Quan must not shake him, why is the emperor inside without even lighting the candles?The light is too dim, and the waiters are not afraid of being overwhelmed by the name of disrespect, which is too careless.

Li Quan cautiously pushed open the door of the palace. The inside was as dark as it looked from the outside, and only four candles at the four corners were lit symbolically. Half of Emperor Cangjing's face was hidden in the darkness, so he couldn't see it at all. real.

Cang Tiansu squinted his eyes, and after saluting, he sat on the seat given by the emperor.

Emperor Cang Jing was obviously not very interested, he raised his head to signal Li Quan to give a general account of the matter, and shrank himself in his seat, the old god closed his eyes and rested.

Li Quan had already explained what happened on the way here, but the emperor ordered him to explain it in detail, so he cleared his throat and said in a low voice: "Three days ago, the emperor of Chengguo formally reported to Yueguo. He wrote the book of war, and took the lead in capturing the six cities at the intersection of the two countries, including the famous town of Woye, before the Yue army was mobilized."

The left and right prime ministers are not military generals, they are outright civil servants, although they look dignified on the surface, but in fact there are not many concepts in their minds. The so-called famous towns are just two unrelated words put together composed of unfamiliar names.

Unlike them, Cang Tiansu's expression changed immediately, and he even leaned forward slightly, pretending to be listening carefully, waiting for Li Quan's next words.

Li Quan was about to continue talking, but seeing the emperor cheer up, he took up the words without any warning: "The news has not spread yet, and I have no plans to make it public for the time being. I just asked you to come today. Listening to the opinions of the three, I want to take this opportunity to form an alliance with Yue and declare war on Qi at the same time."

The atmosphere in Zhaori Palace was still for a long while, and the Prime Minister stood up and said: "Your Majesty, since King Cheng... the rebellion by the rebellious ministers did not cause a big wave in the end, but my old man was also hurt, and the people's livelihood was ruined. Ju Xing, at this time of the year, I think that we should not use war rashly."

A gang of mobs burned, killed and looted almost broke the capital of Jingjing, not to mention that Cang Jingcheng, driven by boundless hatred, took the path of killing one thousand enemies and destroying two thousand, and almost all the occupied cities were scrapped. Especially affected areas included Jinzhou and Yunzhou, which included almost all the rich areas of Cangguo.

Not only did the Prime Minister on the right disapprove, but also the Prime Minister on the left, there was really no chance of winning. Ren Chengguo was fighting with Yueguo, and he didn't involve Da Cang, so why bother to involve himself?

However, Prime Minister Right has already spoken directly, and for the sake of the Emperor's face, Prime Minister Zuo made it more tactful: "Your Majesty, due to natural and man-made disasters, I heard that this year's harvest is not good, and the Northwest is going to harvest grains." If there is no harvest, it is true that the three armies go ahead without using food and grass, it is better to accumulate food and grass widely, and then plan for the future."

It is indeed a bone-shattering injury. It is simply wishful thinking to recover without eight or nine years of recuperation. Under such a major premise, do you still want to fight?It should be thankful that Cangguo's food reserves are enough to survive the first few years when it can't make ends meet.

Having said that, the two prime ministers are full of apprehension. Naturally, they should be cautious about offending their superiors, but this time the matter is so important that they dare not pretend to be stupid.

Being refuted twice in a row, according to the usual situation, the emperor should lower his face and get angry, but what surprised the two of them was that Emperor Jing didn't mean to get angry at all. Instead, he nodded and waved his hand to signal that they could go.

What does this mean, the emperor is using this to test our loyalty?The left and right prime ministers looked at each other, both a little puzzled.

Although I don't know what the boss's plan is, but he has already chased him away, and there is no reason to dawdle. The left and right prime ministers stood up tentatively, and Cang Tiansu naturally did the same, patted his buttocks and prepared to leave.

The three of them had already reached the door, and Emperor Jing had been pinching his right hand with his left hand. When he saw that the eldest son was already halfway out of the palace door, he finally couldn't help but opened his mouth, but he didn't make any sound. After changing for a while, he still lowered his head with a little sadness.

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Cang Tiansu came out of the palace gate, and was extremely surprised to find that Liu Quan, who was honestly waiting beside the carriage, had a tightly sealed prison carriage, and there was a faint crashing sound coming from inside.

Cang Tiansu raised his eyes to look at Liu Quan, who smiled wryly: "My lord, this is the convict wife Liu." Emperor Jing had already announced at the New Year's dinner that he would deprive him of his queen's status, so Liu Quan changed his words.

Rao Cang Tiansu had already had a deep understanding of Cang Jingdi's unreasonable playing of cards, but he still paused before saying: "Then why is she here?" Looking at this posture, Cang Tiansu actually already had a guess.

"It was Eunuch Li who came over just now to pass on an order to Liu Shi from the emperor. I wish you a good time." Liu Quan replied.

It turned out that it was for this reason that he was held back just now, thinking about it, no matter how unreliable Emperor Jing was, he would never do something like giving his ex-wife as a favor to his son in front of civil and military officials.

Although he slandered in his heart, Cang Tiansu was still in a good mood. After all, strictly speaking, the empress was his big enemy. The entire Liu family could be said to be a piggyback. Now that the empress fell into his hands, Cang Tiansu also accepted Emperor Jing in his heart. This favor.

There was no longer any further delay. His Royal Highness, Prince Yong Qiansui, returned home. In order to prevent accidents, Liu Quan specially asked Liu Quan to transfer Zhang Kun with a warrant and a 100-meter personal soldier as a gift.

In the past, this kind of thing was handed over to Duan Yu. Cang Tiansu closed his eyes and felt melancholy for a while, then regained his energy and sat on the main seat, watching Zhang Kun with a blank expression. The tattered queen was dragged out of the cell and thrown into the open space in the center.

"Cang Tiansu, you son of a filthy whore, you bastard who killed a thousand knives, I am the queen of the Great Cang Kingdom, how dare you be rude to me?" The clothes on the queen's shoulders were all worn out, and the exposed skin It wasn't white, but cyan, and there were sporadic bleeding wounds. It was obvious that she had bumped into the cage very hard on the way to Prince Yong's Mansion just now.

Cang Tiansu's thin lips twitched slightly, and made a slightly sarcastic smile: "Are you joking, you are also qualified to call yourself the word 'Bengong'?"

He said sarcasm, but he chose to use honorifics, and the queen's face turned red like fire, and she scolded with red eyes: "Cang Tiansu, you must die!"

"Under the world, there are tens of thousands of people who expect this king to die badly. This king is waiting for the day when the retribution will come." Cang Tiansu looked down at her with a calm expression, with the unique arrogance of a victor showing from the corners of his eyes and brows, "You It might be due to the loss of yin virtue to be able to have today, or how can we say that there is a certain destiny in the dark?"

Even five years ago, Cang Tiansu couldn't even imagine that there would be a day like this, where the whole body was comfortable.

Cang Jingcheng heard the news and hurried over, he was always ready to help his elder nephew who had a [-] in [-] chance of softening his heart to solve future troubles and eradicate the roots.

The queen lay on the ground trembling all over for a long while, then suddenly burst out laughing, raised her head and laughed madly: "How clean do you think that bitch is? Let me tell you, your mother is just as good as she can be." The whore, I can kill her, even if it is bad for her, and she dies at the hands of you little bastard, I will not regret it!"

Cang Jingcheng's face was so gloomy that he could drip water. The queen saw him, the hatred in her heart deepened, and the pride on her face became even heavier: "Do you know how I entertained that bitch after she died? More than 20 guards , came again in turn, if she hadn't died, she would have screamed with joy, right?"

The surrounding guards all lowered their heads, wishing they could cut off their ears, Cang Jingcheng's eyes flashed with mad hatred like a wounded beast.

The teacup in Cang Tiansu's hand shattered at the sound, he clenched his fist tightly, the fragments penetrated deeply into the flesh, the largest piece directly pierced the palm of his hand, exposing a section on the back of his hand.

The scene was silent for a while, Cang Tiansu sneered: "Go, bring my third brother over here, this king will reward you all."

Zhang Kun suddenly fell to his knees on the ground, with cold sweat all over his face, the sky never dared to send him off, but he really didn't dare to take it.

Cang Tiansu was right when he thought about it, he raised his hand and unbuttoned his clothes: "Then the king will bear it by himself, and the empress will watch it after trouble."

"I'll go find some beggars under the overpass, and the empress will also enjoy it." Cang Jingcheng immediately said.