Tutor Wang looked towards the direction of the imperial palace with a terrifyingly cold look in his eyes.

last night,

Palace Dungeon,

"Wang Zuonian, you are still quite strong even though you are old."

Emperor Mingde smiled as he looked at Master Wang, who was being severely punished but still refused to confess.

"You are my teacher. You have always known that I am the most impatient. If you don't tell me the will of the late emperor and the Dragon Guard Order, you can wait for your descendants of the royal family to collect your bodies."

"Half of the late emperor's Dragon Guards belonged to the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince burned himself in the East Palace, and the Dragon Guards were lost. The other half of the Dragon Guards protected the late emperor. The Crown Prince went on an expedition to the East, and I was seriously ill at home. It was you, Your Majesty, who personally attended to the late emperor in his bedroom. The last person to see the late emperor was not me, but Your Majesty. Your Majesty knew all this, so why did he ask me for any will?"

Emperor Mingde looked at Wang Taifu with a half-smile. This old man was smarter than Zhuge Liang. He didn't believe a word of what the old man said.

Speaking of his deceased father, who founded the Great Qi and was like a god in the eyes of the people, Emperor Mingde felt mixed emotions.

When he was a prince, he was the most mediocre among his brothers. But he was the only legitimate son born to the queen. Naturally, he should be made the crown prince.

But the emperor was still hesitant until his son Yan Donglai became famous at the age of three. Only then did the emperor decide to make him the crown prince.

Emperor Mingde smiled bitterly. He might be the most ridiculous prince in the world. The only reason he was made the prince was that he had a good son - Yan Donglai.

Yan Donglai was monitored by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau as the reincarnation of Ziwei Star, the Son of God.

Yan Donglai was taken into the palace by the late emperor when he was three years old, and was personally taught the art of being an emperor. He even began to help his father handle state affairs when he was six years old.

In front is the father of the founding emperor, and behind is the son of the Son of God.

He, the dignified Crown Prince of Qi, is just a decoration and a joke.

Emperor Mingde's expression was distorted, and he couldn't help but think of the night ten years ago when his father stared at him before he died.

"My son, when you ascend the throne as emperor, you must never depose the crown prince."

Damn my father, until his death, all he thought about was his grandson Yan Donglai, but he never had eyes for his son.

Damn it, all those who looked down on him, damn it.

Whether it is my father, the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, or the Grand Tutor Wang in front of me, all these people deserve to die!

Emperor Mingde stared at Tutor Wang with a gloomy look, but he could not refute the old man, nor could he find any loopholes in his words.

"Your Majesty, please order the execution of our entire Wang family."

Wang Taifu's sleeves were torn, his white hair was stained with blood, but his eyes were still bright, like an old pine tree that had been through frost.

"My knowledge is all taught by you, teacher. You asked me to kill my teacher so that I would be laughed at by the world. You asked me to kill your entire family so that all students in the world would be alienated from me. Teacher, your plan is really a good one. But I will not do as you wish."

Emperor Mingde laughed loudly. In the dim dungeon, there were only him and Wang Taifu on the execution pillar. He did not let anyone in. He had finally waited for this day.

The three mountains that weighed on his head, the late emperor, the crown prince, and the Duke of Zhenguo, all collapsed. They all died at his hands.

The only one left is the frail and frail Master Wang.

Hehe, Emperor Mingde laughed coldly.

"Teacher, I know that what I did can be hidden from the world, even from my shrewd father. But I can't hide it from you. You are really too smart, but, teacher, haven't you heard that the more people know, the faster they die. As smart as you are, you shouldn't be so talkative."

"When the crown prince went on an expedition to the east, you took the opportunity to kill the seriously ill late emperor. After you came to the throne, you were afraid that your brothers and sisters would not obey you, so you killed them again. Now, you even kill the crown prince and the emperor's grandson, your own son and grandson. Such a mad man. What's the use of becoming the emperor? If the world is not satisfied, and the scholars are not satisfied, sooner or later-"

Wang Taifu stopped talking, the corners of his lips curled up.

"You old thing, you were the one who kept provoking my father to not make me the crown prince. You said that I was stupid and narrow-minded, and that I had failed the world. You urged my father to directly make the crown prince the heir. Tell me, in this world, throughout history, how many dynasties have directly made their grandsons the heirs instead of their sons?"

"You are a vicious person who killed his father, his son, his brother and his sister. You look crazy, but in fact you are a coward, a coward who is afraid and irresponsible."

"Well, the one who understands me is my teacher."

Emperor Mingde sneered, "But, teacher, you scolded so harshly. It's just that you want me to give your Wang family a quick death. It's pitiful. The wisdom of your Wang family for several generations has been taken up by you alone. Teacher, you have been smart all your life, but don't you know that the ancient sages often said that too much wisdom will shorten your life, and too much wisdom will lead to death. You have taken up the wisdom of several generations of your family. Therefore, your Wang family has no more talents since you, and everyone is mediocre."

Emperor Mingde knew his teacher too well and knew how to make the old man suffer more.

"All your children and grandchildren are mediocre. And what about you? You are unwilling to see that the kingdom that I helped the late emperor to build is not enjoyed by you Wang family members. That's why you are wholeheartedly training your granddaughter to be the Crown Princess, and deliberately training your little daughter to be the Princess of Yan. You also want to train your great-granddaughter to be the Consort of the Crown Prince. Your sons are not good enough, so you want your daughter to control the harem and share the world with our Yan family!"

Emperor Mingde laughed with contempt.

Damn old man, you really think you are so smart. Are all people stupid? Little do they know that things will turn into the opposite when they reach the extreme. Being too smart will lead to a dead end.

"Teacher, I will not kill you. Nor will I kill your entire family. You are not the Duke of Zhenguo. I want your entire family to be exiled. You will have to watch your descendants become commoners and lowly slaves."

It is better to destroy the heart than to kill someone.

Especially for two generations of imperial tutors like Wang Taifu.

As an emperor, he couldn't openly kill his teacher. It would be shameful for students all over the world.

"But I want you to wear the shackles and go barefoot, shouting that I am guilty, that I instigated the prince, that I gathered people to rebel. I want everyone in the world to see that it is you, Wang Younian, who has failed the title of Grand Tutor and the trust of the late emperor. You are a real opportunist, a hypocritical profiteer. You are not a role model for the world's literati."

Emperor Mingde smiled meaningfully, "If you don't want to do it, well, I've got a new concubine tonight, her name is Wang Yanyu, she's young but very lovely."

Emperor Mingde saw the flash of regret in Wang Taifu's eyes, "Well, I plan to make her a royal concubine and I will pick her tonight. Before she goes to bed, I have to ask Eunuch Qian to give her a bowl of Chapter 68 sterilizing medicine. Teacher, aren't you loyal to the late emperor and the prince? We are teachers and students of the same mind. I will never let your Wang family's daughter give birth to my prince. This way, your Wang family can wholeheartedly assist the prince, right?"

"Is Concubine De infertility caused by you rather than the harem's competition for favor?"

Wang Taifu's eyes were deep and his emotions could not be seen clearly.

His eldest daughter had been married to Emperor Mingde, who was still a prince, as his concubine more than ten years earlier. She was infertile and frail for many years. She died tragically before Emperor Mingde ascended the throne.

He had always thought that his eldest daughter died at the hands of a woman in the inner house, but it turned out that -

"The Grand Master must be loyal to the Crown Prince for his entire life, and the daughter of the royal family must not give birth to a child of royal blood."

(End of this chapter)