Even though Li Zhai's collar bone was locked by the technique and his cultivation was wasted, his ferocity and anger were even stronger than before, like a sick tiger that has never seen the sun. He laughed coldly and said, "I hate you, of course I hate you. I wish I could peel off your skin and bones, beat you to death, and hang you on the city gate."
The emperor walked over, looked down at his son who was sitting on the ground with weak muscles, and said, "He really looks like me."
"But, Li Zhai."
"I gave birth to you and I raised you."
"And you think that my power is earned by the blood of the people."
"Then everything you have had since childhood was provided by me. Isn't it all stained with the blood of the people, so dirty?"
A trace of pain flashed in Li Zhai's eyes.
The emperor spoke calmly, and after sweeping his sleeves over him, he sat down on the luxurious bed in front of Li Zhai, looking at his son who was like a sick tiger and full of anger, and said:
"Since you were young, I have given you silks and satins, many treasures, fine clothes and delicious food. I had someone teach you martial arts, and I also found the leading military strategists of previous generations to teach you the art of war bit by bit. Li Zhai, even if I have let down the world, I am confident that I have never let you down, right?"
"You are my son. I taught you to be a good person, but now you turn around and kill me."
"You and I are neither a king nor a minister, neither a father nor a son."
After all, Li Zhai grew up under the traditional moral concepts of Kyushu. The painful struggle in his heart is far more intense than what he shows on the surface. To sacrifice one's own relatives for the sake of justice is the most impartial and just thing in the world. Because of this, people are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? When drawing the sword, one can go forward without hesitation, but after all, one cannot be without pain and struggle.
Under the gorgeous clothes, the chains specially designed for military strategists and generals trembled slightly, making a faint whistling sound.
The emperor sat on the bed and looked down at his son. There were delicate patterns on the hollowed-out windows. The sunlight poured in. No one had been here for a long time. It was as if there were beams of light. The emperor's eyes were cold and indifferent. In this light, he said lightly: "Today should be the last time we see each other."
"Li Zhai, you are my son. I don't want you to go on this journey with so much confusion."
"If you have anything to say, ask now."
"From now on, I won't tell any lies."
Li Zhai was not surprised by what happened next. He sneered and looked at the emperor in front of him casually, saying, "I just want to know which existences you colluded with when you did things back then. Did the invasion of the demon country and the blazing sky have anything to do with you?!"
A strong murderous intent lurks.
Even before death.
The chief military strategist wanted to know who should be killed.
The emperor did not answer directly, but asked in a cold and indifferent tone: "What would you do when you see someone wantonly torturing and killing people?"
The leader of the military strategists said in a hoarse voice: "Kill him!"
"What if you saw someone killing a whole city?"
"Kill him!"
"What if you kill the lives of an entire state just for money?!"
"kill!"
"If someone stood in front of you and wanted to stand with those who killed the people, what would you do?"
The chief military strategist’s answer was unquestionable: “Kill!”
The emperor looked at him for a long time, and then said: "...This is the choice you will make, and the words you will say."
Then he said calmly: "I think so, and I do so."
The emperor did not wait for Li Zhai to speak, and said slowly: "There are immortals who want to step into a higher realm, and they need to be assisted by rituals and ceremonies. The creatures of the world, not just humans, are just a part of their rituals. There were more cases of wanton killing of civilians when I was your age."
"And my father, your grandfather, was killed because he fought back against them."
"Although alive, because of its damaged foundation, it is no longer able to bear the fate of humanity."
"At that time, I was thinking, why are all the creatures in the world so miserable and sad? Why? I decided to kill the immortals and gods, while your uncle decided to offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth to protect the human world. The conflict between us became more and more serious, and finally it reached a point where it could not be stopped. It broke out in Jinzhou."
"The Jinzhou incident was not handled by me. How do you think I could handle such a big event?"
"The scorching heat and drought were caused by the God of heaven and have nothing to do with me."
"The demon tribe has a powerful person who can raise a holy fetus and join the game. It has nothing to do with me."
"And I just followed the trend and eliminated the prince who wanted to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth and coexist with all the gods and immortals at this time."
The seventh prince Li Zhai clenched his fists and roared in a low voice: "So you just let the monsters slaughter the people?!"
The emperor said coldly: "It's just a simple calculation and trade-off."
"How many people do you think can be rescued with the participation of the gods and great saints and the 600,000 cavalry?"
"How much more will it be than it is now? One million, or two million?"
"After losing 600,000 cavalrymen, who will guard the border and who will defend against the demon tribe?!"
"I'll tell you another story. I once had a meeting with the Star Lord of Heaven. I know that the demon race needs to be brave and strong in desperate situations to nurture a holy fetus. The 600,000 iron cavalry rushed in recklessly, fighting fearlessly. And when the people of Jinzhou saw the iron cavalry in despair, these two desperate bravery, to what extent will the holy fetus of the demon race be nurtured?"
"If another great saint from the demon tribe invades our borders, how many people will die?"
"Have you calculated it?"
"In order to save the people of Jinzhou, even some of them, the people living in the border areas were displaced."
"Jinzhou is a people, but the people at the border are not people, or are the people who died there not people?"
The emperor's tone was calm and cold: "Li Zhai, you are just like your uncle. Justice and mercy cannot be used to govern the country. What I have to face and be responsible for is the whole world, the nine states and ten territories. Weakness cannot govern the country; mercy will only bring greater disasters. Only under iron and blood can there be a brief peace in the remaining eight states."
"And what I have to do is to gather the power of the entire human race and defeat the heavens."
"This path is correct. The people and descendants of the future will appreciate our generation's determination and bravery. However, there will inevitably be some sacrifices in the process. But when the world changes, no one survives."
He looked into Li Zhai's eyes and said calmly, "You should have noticed that the military pay and supplies for the border generals have never been lacking, and are even better than before. And the world has spread the reputation of my light taxes and levies."
"I changed the old poll tax and distributed the tax evenly according to the number of acres of land. I suppressed the noble families in the world and collected taxes from them. I also ignored the opposition of the noble families and opened up the imperial examinations to recruit talents from the common people. Go and see, in the past thousand years, which emperor did better than me."
"You can go and look at the files. If you really see them, you will find that the people under my rule are better off than those under the rule of the previous emperor."
"With light taxes and levies, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the population is growing rapidly."
"In less than ten years, the number of people who died in Jinzhou will be compensated, or even several times more."
"For twenty years, under the prosperous rule, the palace is magnificent and grand."
“And the holy fetus of the demon race will not be raised. Only the human race under the rule of a prosperous era can subdue the four directions and draw the sword against the gods in the sky. But before drawing the sword, you must lie dormant and endure, just like you did to me, lie dormant and endure, and then that gunshot can come unexpectedly and shock the world.”
"What the emperor needs to do is not mercy, fairness, or justice. He is not responsible for one person or one state. The emperor wants only one thing, and that is the overall prosperity of the human race." The emperor looked down at him calmly and said, "If you kill me, who else can suppress those aristocratic families now? Who else can control all the civil and military officials in the court?"
"The emperor has passed away, and you have broken the unshakable position of the imperial power. The five surnames and seven families will fight each other for the throne."
"To fight and kill, you need money and silver, to draw blood from the people, to plunder the people, to force them to join the army, and then to fight and bleed each other. Li Zhai, in order to seek justice for those who died in Jinzhou because of the gods, you want to drag this era into chaos, and make people who used to live and work in peace go to the battlefield, and die ten times, a hundred times more people."
"And decades of fighting and civil strife will exhaust the energy and spirit of our people. The demons are heading south, what have my descendants done to me?"
"How short-sighted."
"You really don't have the qualities to be an emperor."
There was a kind of regret and sadness in the emperor's eyes, but it was also mixed with a hundred times indifference, which was not as complicated as a substitute. When he stood up and turned away, Li Zhai's mind was shaken behind him. The emperor drew his sword, overlooking the shocked Li Zhai, and suddenly moved his wrist, and a cold light slashed towards Li Zhai.
Clicking sound.
The chain on Li Zhai's wrist was chopped off and fell to the ground.
The emperor looked at him and said indifferently: "The crown prince was deposed, the fourth prince took the throne, and the King of Qin came with his family feud."
"The capital is going to be in chaos."
"You are also the son of the enemy who killed your father. The King of Qin still has the arrogance and murderous aura of our family in his bones. If you follow him, you will not have a good ending. If the world is in chaos, there must be a general guarding the border. No matter what happens here, don't look back."
The emperor threw down his sword, turned around, walked towards them step by step, and said, "This is the last time we will see each other."
"Go back, you don't fit in here."
"Go to the border, ride fast horses, and fight as much as you want."
"Then, never come back."
"son."
The emperor whispered one last sentence, then pushed open the door and never closed it again. There was a token under the sword. Li Zhai was at a loss. The brave general who was willing to sacrifice his own relatives for the sake of justice was shocked at this moment. He watched the emperor go away, unable to come back to his senses. The emperor walked in front of him, and the loneliness in his eyes was quickly swallowed up by indifference and arrogance.
…
In the heaven, where the Ox resides.
The Zuo Fu star god from the Ziwei Palace in the North Pole of the Zhongtian came hurriedly. If the Ziwei Emperor was compared to the emperor on earth, then he was the left prime minister of the Ziwei Emperor. This is how the titles of Zuo Fu and You Bi in the world came about. After chatting with the two star gods, Altair and Vega, their expressions changed slightly and they quickly looked for the girl.
Yunqin tried her best and used the method taught by the uncle in black to hide from a very serious person.
In addition, he had the experience of dodging that he had honed from being chased and taken to class by [Danhua Fuying Yuanjun] for many years.
What's more, Zuo Fu Xingjun didn't think that a little girl could avoid him. He didn't even think Yun Qin would avoid him. The three Xingjuns rushed to nothing. They looked at the clouds spreading on the bed and the words written carefully on the white paper - [Dear mother, Yun Qin is going to study, don't worry about me]
【Don’t miss it】
Zuo Fu, Altair and Vega, the three star gods looked at each other in astonishment.
The Great Emperor of the South Pole came with Zhu Ling to confess his crime.
It was also an important moment when the contemporary Beidizi appeared in front of the public for the first time.
Son of the Northern Emperor.
Gone? ! !
Zhinu Su was so angry that she laughed: "Well, well, my good daughter, you have become more capable!"
At the same time, Yun Qin quietly circled around the Altair several times, skillfully completing a method similar to fixing her fate, and then she happily avoided it, letting the sky be high for birds to fly and the sea be wide for fish to leap - she was in a carefree mood, as the Northern Emperor's son had been selected, and there would surely be a lot of rituals to follow, and she didn't want to stand there like a wooden man.
What's more, after it's over, the mother, as the former son of the Northern Emperor, will definitely give him some advice.
Alas!!!
No way!
Yunqin had just arrived at the secret base and was relaxing. Suddenly, she heard a noise nearby. She was stunned and subconsciously turned around. She saw the handsome Da Daojun in black squatting in the bushes. He was also wearing the same magic concealment method. So the two of them, one big and one small, stared at each other.
"???"
“Uncle!!!”