Chapter 1581 Sad
The emperor looked down at the queen, and the couple looked at each other with tears in their eyes. Seeing the tears in the queen's eyes, the emperor nodded and said with a sob: "He is our son, so of course he will listen to Zi Tong."
The queen finally breathed a sigh of relief and hugged the emperor and cried.
The couple hugged each other and cried for a while. They felt that their two sons were really not happy in any way. After thinking about it, they thought their daughter was the best.
So the emperor wiped away his tears and asked Gu Zhong to pick out a lot of things from the warehouse and send them to Princess Mingda, Changyu and others.
The queen felt a little tired after crying, so she lay down and ignored him. Anyway, these things would be given to the children in the future, so she just gave them to them.
The emperor gave a lot of things, but he still felt unhappy. He looked outside and saw that the sunset was about to set, so he simply took Gu Zhongzai for a walk in the garden.
When he arrived at the Queen Mother's palace, he couldn't help but stop. Seeing that the palace was a little quiet, he asked, "What is the Queen Mother doing?"
Gu Zhong immediately bowed and went to find the aunt who was in charge of the Empress Dowager's palace.
The emperor did not go to see the empress dowager, but stood in the corridor in a daze.
A female official with gray hair followed Gu Zhong. She was Aunt Chen, the empress dowager's personal servant. She was a few years older than the emperor. She had taken them out to play when the emperor was a child.
Later, she married the steward of the palace. She died in battle while following the late emperor in his campaigns. The child she gave birth to also died of illness. The empress dowager took pity on her and specially summoned her into the palace to be a female official. Usually, she only needed to chat with the empress dowager and was served by palace maids. She didn't have to do anything special.
However, the emperor remembered that in the past two years, the empress dowager preferred to be served by smart and beautiful palace maids, so Aunt Chen rarely visited the empress dowager.
At this time, Gu Zhong went to call someone, and since the person he called was Aunt Chen, it meant that she was now favored by the Queen Mother again.
Aunt Chen saluted the emperor respectfully.
The emperor asked, "Why is the Queen Mother's palace so quiet?"
Aunt Chen lowered her head and said, "The Queen Mother is not in good spirits, so she doesn't like the crowds. She is resting in the house right now."
The emperor then asked about the empress dowager's daily life. The empress dowager's health had not been good since the death of the King of Yizhou last year. In the past six months, her condition had been up and down, but her spirits were indeed much worse.
She came to Daming Palace to escape the summer heat. Usually, apart from the queen bringing two princesses to visit her, only the prince would come to visit her occasionally.
The emperor lingered at the door of the empress dowager's main hall for a while, but did not go in. Instead, he turned around and left.
The emperor wandered aimlessly in the Daming Palace. He didn't know when he reached the foot of Longshouyuan Mountain. He simply went up the mountain.
Gu Zhong wanted to say something but stopped himself. Thinking about what happened today, he didn't dare to stop it. He just turned around and gave someone a wink, then immediately followed the emperor up the mountain.
Yin Li happened to be in the Imperial Guard. Upon hearing this, he immediately dispatched a team and personally led them up the mountain to protect the emperor. The emperor was standing on a protruding platform halfway up the mountain, looking down at his Daming Palace, his palace city, and even his capital and his empire...
The emperor watched all this with tears in his eyes, his chest rising and falling rapidly...
The emperor stood there thinking a lot. When he came back to his senses, there was only the orange sunset on the horizon. The sun had already set completely.
But the sky was still very bright, perhaps because the weather was too clear. Orange-red clouds were rolling where the sun was setting, in large clumps, with different colors entangled together, slowly changing into various shapes with the wind.
The emperor's suppressed thoughts began to churn again. He turned around and found that Yin Li and his guards were standing behind him.
Seeing him turn around, Yin Li also withdrew his gaze from the horizon and bowed, "Greetings, Your Majesty."
The emperor waved his hand and said, "Come forward and take a look. From here you can see the entire palace city and Daming Palace."
Yin Li stepped forward and stood one step behind the emperor, looking at everything at the foot of the mountain. His eyes fell directly on the East Palace.
The emperor was also looking at the East Palace.
He said, "I remember when I was first named Crown Prince, Wei Zhi accused me of violating the ancestral calendar. I staged a coup to seize the throne. I'm afraid there will be no more Crown Princes who can ascend the throne smoothly in the future of our Great Jin Dynasty. I set such a bad example that even my brothers would kill each other for the throne."
Yin Li listened in silence, then heard the always confident emperor mutter, "Shoujie, do you think I was wrong?"
Yin Li knelt on one knee, lowered his head and said in a resounding voice: "Your Majesty is right!"
He raised his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Zhi, who once said this, is now your Majesty's loyal minister!"
The emperor was silent for a moment and then said, "I never thought he was right, but after meeting Sanlang today, I think Wei Zhi is not entirely wrong."
Although Prince Gong did not say some of the words conveyed by the eunuch, the emperor still guessed them.
He was imitating him, so the emperor was not only sad and disappointed, but also vaguely regretful. However, he did not think that he had done anything wrong back then. Perhaps, he should not have killed the third brother?
If we don't kill, how can the world be at peace?
The emperor felt a tightness in his chest and couldn't help coughing violently.
Yin Li immediately stood up and walked forward with Gu Zhong to support him worriedly. The emperor waved his hand and sat down on a stone beside him while holding Yin Li's hand.
Seeing that the emperor was in a bad mood, although Yin Li didn't know what had happened, he knew from listening that it must be related to the princes.
Otherwise, the emperor would not have said, "Even brothers will kill each other." You know, when the emperor asked him to dispatch troops to Yizhou last year, he did not say that he would spare the life of the King of Yizhou.
It’s best not to get involved in such matters, so Yin Li remained silent.
The emperor was in a really bad mood today. Seeing that no one could answer him, he sat on a rock and stared blankly.
Seeing this, Gu Zhong was extremely worried and could only keep winking at Yin Li.
Yin Li didn't answer and continued to stand with his head down.
Seeing that the emperor didn't speak for a long time, he couldn't help but look up, and saw that His Majesty looked dazed, with tears in his eyes.
Yin Li couldn't help feeling uncomfortable. He was younger than the emperor and had joined the army at the age of sixteen to fight behind the emperor.
Because he was younger than everyone else, he was always at the back, whether it was charging into battle or making plans.
However, he was the only one who always stayed by the emperor's side and never left, no matter how many times the army was divided.
When the emperor was forced into a desperate situation and sneaked back to the capital to kill the first three princes, he was by his side. That was how he became the youngest marquis in the capital after the emperor ascended the throne.
Yin Li suddenly felt a little sad. He knelt before the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, among the princes of the late emperor, no one can compare to you in terms of ability and love for the people. You are the emperor because the people want you to be the emperor. Moreover, you led us to conquer this half of the country. Why shouldn't you be the emperor?"
I'm going up the mountain, so I decided to update the afternoon as well.
(End of this chapter)
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