Floating White
When a sage is away on a military expedition, he may encounter unexpected events.
The Queen Mother is ill, and it is still unknown when she will recover.
The Prince of Qi, the Prince of Ning, the Princess of Jinyang, and Concubine Xue each have their own confidants in the court.
The Xiao family, the Dou family, the Wei family, and other big and powerful families, it is normal for them to change their attitudes according to the situation and be indecisive.
The saint hates me, but values my brother's two sons.
I have a feud with the Xue family, but I can't bear to part with the bamboo branches.
Closeness or distance, temperament or warmth or coldness, are all tied to the ways of the world.
The Li family's Taiji Palace is in constant conflict, and the situation in Chang'an is pushing people's hearts to the side.
The Taiji Palace in Chang'an is covered with walls of wallweed and a forest of bamboos blowing in the wind.
The late emperor, when he was alive, he was my support; when he was dead, he was even more my stepping stone.
Grandpa Li is not my biological grandfather, but even if he is, I will still step on him.
I just wanted to vent my anger and didn't care about anyone else's reputation.
Concubine Xue worked hard for the Li family and gave birth to five sons for the late emperor. Coincidentally, the Li family was full of rebellious princes who had no descendants...
I was in the southern suburbs, digging the names of those rebellious kings out of the wasteland.
The fifth son of the Xue family should not be the princes of the previous emperor, but the descendants of the rebellious prince.
The matter of adopting an heir to the Li family should have been decided by those in power.
The affairs of our ancestors should be decided by the saints and the empress dowager. I, a foreign minister with a title, cannot handle it.
I am not a member of the Li family, so I need to use the Li family to deal with the Li family.
In the Li family, if we were to say who has the highest seniority, it would be the Princess of Liang.
The Princess of Liang became a nun when she was young. The princess's generation, counting from the generation of the saint upwards, is not enough on one hand.
The princess lived a long life.
In the past few years, I have accompanied the Crown Prince to the Guanyin Temple outside Chang'an City to deliver birthday gifts and celebrate the princess's birthday.
In the Li family, no matter whether there is a military coup, palace coup, political strife, or incident, anyone who wants to seize the throne must personally raise the Princess of Liang.
Anyone sitting in the Golden Palace who fails to take good care of the princess would be considered unkind, unjust, ungracious, and unfilial, and would be guilty of a heinous crime.
If the Princess of Liang has any request, the late emperor, the empress dowager, and the sage will all comply with it.
The princess is away from home, so she should not come to Chang'an and should seldom come to Taiji Palace.
In the north, there is only one person who is of high seniority, close by blood, and has a soft spot, and who can have a say in Taiji Palace, and that is Prince Xin.
The next day, I invited Prince Xin to the Taiji Palace.
I haven't spoken yet.
Prince Xin asked me how to deal with the Xue family.
I speak frankly and honestly, I am a foreign minister, and the Xue family is left to the disposal of the Empress Dowager and the Saint.
In front of King Xin, I mentioned the former King of Zhao and King of Zhou.
Prince Xin was imprisoned by Concubine Guo for many years. Once he left the royal residence, it took only five years. The king no longer gave up because of fear, and became the real younger brother of the previous dynasty and the legitimate uncle of the current dynasty.
Years ago, the king openly pleaded for the kings of Zhao and Zhou. Now, he has turned against me and feels bad. He even asked me, "Why did you mention those rebellious kings?"
The sage will return to Chang'an, and the queen mother will cure the disease with medicine. I am only afraid that the sword is merciless, and I am only afraid that medicine is ineffective. If Chang'an is in chaos and the Taiji Palace is without a monarch, I will recommend the King of Yue as the new monarch.
Xue's crime is so great that it cannot be redeemed even by death. I want to preserve the bloodline of the Li family for the late emperor, so I thought of adopting Prince Qi and Prince Ning as my heirs.
Nice words, calculating words, hypocritical nice words, rolled over in my mind thousands of times.
The words were on the tip of my tongue, and I actually said, "Last night, Concubine Xue cursed me all night long, and even said that when her son becomes a saint, she will kill me first... She won't let the five sons of the Xue family become descendants of the rebellious kings, and I can't swallow this..."
Prince Xin doesn’t understand, so I won’t beat around the bush.
"How can a nephew compare to a daughter, and how can a nephew-in-law compare to a grandson-in-law?" I said.
Prince Xin had two successive saints, gifts from two dynasties, and donations from court officials and nobles. Over the years, the wealth he accumulated was enough for the two princesses of Yuyang and Shouyang to spend for a hundred years.
The king has no son, and is even less willing to adopt a descendant of the Li family.
"If your uncle can follow my wishes, I will also do the same. Half of your property will go to Yuyang, and half will remain in Shouyang. I will never allow the Li family's sons to enter the Prince Xin's residence. What I cannot do, your majesty can do. What your majesty cannot say, I will speak to the Queen Mother on your uncle's behalf."
After finishing speaking, I stood up and thanked King Xin.
Li family, as long as it is useful, as long as it can be used, I will use it all.
When I saw Prince Xin off, the king asked me, "When will the war be over?"
"I don't know when Pinglu will be able to return," I said.
The king waved his hand and said hurriedly, "Who said Pinglu? I meant Chang'an."
The battle in Chang'an?
Chang'an is peaceful and stable. There's no need for war. Even if there are rebels, I have ordered them to be confined...
"When will the war between you and the Saint, and between you and He Nu, ever end? The discord between you and your subjects has caused panic in the Li family..."
Uncle Wang spoke frankly, and Ah Xiang relayed it to me word for word.
I stood there in a daze.
When will the war in Chang'an, the war between me and the saint, end?
The Li family doesn’t know, and I don’t know either.
I think by the time I leave Taiji Palace, the war will slowly subside...
"It's almost there, it's almost there, it's almost there," I said.
I am about to leave Taiji Palace, so it will be soon.
The next day, Prince Xin asked for permission, and I approved it.
Concubine Dong went to Prince Qi's residence, and Concubine Zhu went to Prince Ning's residence. Prince Qi and Prince Ning had to kneel down to receive the decree.
No matter how reluctant you are, you have to accept the order.
As for the court officials and cronies under the wings of the Xue family, Prince Xin was unable to say much. He just kept repeating this sentence: this is the Li family's family business... this is the Li family's family business, this is the Li family's family business.
The king spoke around Taiji Palace and shouted around Chang'an City.
It was clearly my idea to use the name of the Li family and the power of the Li family, and Prince Xin took full responsibility for it on my behalf.
The late emperor had seven brothers. Excluding Prince Xin, Crown Prince Guo, and Prince Guang, there were three more brothers.
Coincidentally, it happened that Prince Rong, Prince Liang, and Prince Rui were appointed.
Jiulang, Shilang, and Shierlang became sons to the rebellious kings.
The King of Qi and the King of Ning were naturally the grandchildren of the King of Zhao and the King of Zhou.
Who will vindicate those rebellious kings?
The fifth son of the Xue family was adopted, and the throne was getting further and further away...
The previous emperor's line of succession had died out, the royal family of Chang'an was extinct, and the throne came to the royal family of Luoyang, but the five of them were not counted.
Knowing that they were about to die, I still wanted to stab them in the heart. I stabbed the pain I suffered in my childhood, one knife at a time, into the concubine's heart.
Concubine Xue has worked hard all her life, giving birth to offspring for the rebellious princes of the Li family. She believes she has been wronged, but who can appeal to her?
The female official taught Prince Rong, Prince Liang, and Prince Rui not to call the Concubine Dowager "Mother" anymore, and then she stabbed them with a knife while they cried.
The concubine held me in her arms and begged me to take back my decision.
Her son became the descendant of sinful and rebellious kings. I smiled and said, "The one you gave birth to was already worse than a bastard, and now, he is even worse..."
I will repay her slowly, bit by bit, and torture her to death step by step.
I went through so much trouble just to see Concubine Xue kneel down and beg for mercy in front of me to avenge a grudge that had lasted for many years.
It's good to have power and influence.
Princess Jinyang, Princess Huaiyang, and the princesses of the Li family pointed at me and cursed at me.
"Fortunately, the Saint looks down on you. If you were to become the Queen, you would be a demon queen!"
I was sleeping on the saint's dragon throne, with my eyes closed, and I couldn't hear anything.
The princesses had enough of their scolding, so I opened my eyes and smiled, "You don't want to be the daughter of the late emperor, you don't want to be a princess? That's fine too... The previous king of Xiang is in need of two daughters. Princess, would you mind being the daughter of his enemy?"
The princess acknowledged Prince Xiang as her father and was demoted to a county lady.
Princess Jinyang could no longer recognize her father as her grandfather, so she kept silent.
Princess Huaiyang could no longer be a princess. The princess was stunned.
I "smashed" their knees, and everything I said and did was a punishment for their death.
Power is a really good thing. It can make all those you hate kneel down and beg for mercy.
The throne of a saint is comfortable.
Sitting on the throne, I was extremely arrogant at that time.
I never imagined that a few years later, with the world changing so much, I would end up in such a miserable state that I had to cry and beg for mercy.
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