Chapter 605 How can you sleep
What age are you?
The emperor repeated dryly: "What age?"
"Yes," Jiang Zhiyu said righteously: "People live to be a hundred years old. You are just over thirty now. If you hand over the power now, how will you live for the next seventy years? Everything will be handed over to others. What will you do? Sleep?"
"How old are you? How can you sleep?"
The emperor: "..."
"Besides, people are not immutable. Who can predict the changes in more than seventy years? What if he rots secretly? What can you do to resist?"
I don't know when, the two of them have become sitting opposite each other.
The emperor fell into deep thought, but Jiang Zhiyu did not give him a chance to think carefully. He said to himself: "At this age, your ambition should be doubled. The people of the world have suffered from wars for a long time! What are you going to do? You must solve the war from the source!"
"You should be able to conquer the world and unify the world!"
"You must believe that you are destined to be appointed by Heaven and live long and prosper!"
The emperor's heart was overwhelmed when he heard this, but he still struggled with the remaining consciousness and said: "The establishment of a crown prince is to prevent accidents. I am not going to abdicate. I can still do these things."
"Accident? What accident? There is no accident. With us here, nothing will happen to you," Jiang Zhiyu said firmly.
"Besides, Your Majesty's decision to appoint a crown prince is not just for precautionary measures, right?"
[You let my elder brother work day and night, is this the attitude of precautionary measures? This is the attitude of a capitalist! ]
[Just because you are a brother, it's fine. Brothers won't expose you, don't really fool yourself. ]
Emperor: "..."
"But if you don't appoint a crown prince, the government will be turbulent in the future, and I'm afraid of people with ulterior motives."
"Excuse me for being blunt, but it doesn't really make any difference whether you appoint one or not. Appointing a crown prince early is, first, for training, second, to avoid fratricide, and third, to avoid party disputes among ministers."
"But Your Majesty has only appointed one crown prince so far, and the attitudes of the remaining princes and ministers are obvious. On the contrary, if Your Majesty appoints a crown prince now, I'm afraid it will cause unrest among the ministers."
The emperor's eyes trembled slightly.
【In the eyes of the ministers, Xiao Mingye and He Yanting are definitely equally capable. As long as He Yanting's identity is not revealed, no one would think that he could become the crown prince. Now everyone thinks that even if he is not made the crown prince, Xiao Mingye will be the crown prince in the end.】
【But once it is announced, it will be different. The ministers will be divided into three factions, one for Xiao Mingye, one for He Yanting, and one for neutrality. You will see how it goes. No one will say a word.】
Emperor: "..."
He has considered this situation, but the emotion of announcing He Yanting's identity prevailed. Moreover, as long as He Yanting becomes the crown prince, he believes that He Yanting will be able to handle this situation.
It can also be regarded as a test for himself.
But he is not qualified.
The emperor sighed.
"To sum up, there is no rush for this matter. There is still a long time to come. My children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. If I don't have them, I will enjoy my own blessings. Everything will work out in the end. Your Majesty, please don't think so much about it."
"Compared to discussing these, what I'm going to say next is the key point."
...
In the carriage, Su Bai chattered incessantly, talking non-stop to hide his uneasiness.
"By the way, are you still keeping those people? If you want them to have a taste of the pain you went through, you should have fed them some Wu Shi San. You only broke their legs and are keeping them. You are not still thinking about their old friendship, are you?"
"You think so?"
"Really? Otherwise, why would you keep them?"
President He Yanting drooped his eyelashes: "Of course not, Master has already met them."
"You are keeping them to explain to your Master?" Su Bai suddenly realized: "But it's not your fault. No one wants to cause such a tragedy."
He Yanting shook his head lightly: "It's hard to judge the right or wrong of the past. I just don't want to add new misunderstandings."
"..."Su Bai paused, and comforted him awkwardly: "It's okay, I think Senior Chao must have realized his own mistakes, otherwise why would he say he would take your life but not do it."
He Yanting: "..."
Meeting his gaze, Su Bai laughed twice, then he lowered his head, covered his face with both hands, and his voice flowed out from between his fingers: "To be honest, I never thought that there would be a day of vindication."
"When you think about it carefully, we have some blood relationship with Concubine De. My parents are sentimental and have indeed received some favors from Concubine De before, so we have never been on guard against her."
"That's why we had no room for defense when she took action."
"To be honest, I still have resentment towards the emperor. He may not know the truth, but he definitely has no intention of finding out the truth for the Su family. Instead, he acquiesced and even helped to make things worse."
"After all, the financial resources of the Su family are enough to make him jealous."
He Yanting did not speak, but patted his shoulder.
Su Bai took a breath and said, "But he did not kill me. Although he issued an order to exterminate all nine generations of the family, many branches of the Su family were still spared, including me. If he was really determined, I would not have survived."
He Yanting did not comment.
Su Bai raised his face, his eyes were already a little wet: "The day I knew your identity, I had imagined that you would usurp the throne, and I would assist you. When you took the throne, the truth about the Su family would be revealed."
"But who would have thought that you didn't have this idea."
He Yanting pursed his lips and didn't answer.
Su Bai sighed again: "After all, we didn't know people well. Now it's useless to blame anyone. I would like to usurp the throne for my own selfish desires, but unfortunately I don't have the strength to do so."
"When the truth is made public, there will be an explanation in the underworld a hundred years later. If they are angry, I will kneel down and apologize."
...
In the study, with Jiang Zhiyu's words, the emperor's face became more and more gloomy. By the end, the emperor's face was as dark as ink.
"What a Defei, what a Xiao Chuji, they are really good at scheming!"
"Yes, they are so vicious, framing and slandering!"
Jiang Zhiyu echoed, and then said: "I wonder where Xiao Chuji is now, how the emperor will deal with him?"
"He is still in the prison. What he has done in recent years is complicated, and Shang Yizi has been investigating."
The emperor has never dealt with Xiao Chuji because every matter is linked to each other and it is time-consuming and laborious to investigate.
Now that this old case has been brought up again, the emperor is even more furious.
One by one, they are thinking of all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, and not focusing on the right path!
"I remember that the Su family treated Concubine De very well in the past. Keeping them will help Xiao Chuji in the future. Why would Concubine De do such a cruel thing?"
This is a plan to kill them!
"You should ask Xiao Chuji about this."