Fairy, please let me explain

Chapter 734 Shackles
"You want me to call you 'I' instead?"

"Ah."

"You are so bold, I thought you would directly change the dynasty."

"When facing the sect, the Prime Minister's Mansion needs the royal family. It needs an emperor surnamed Li who holds real power and is willing to continue Jiajing's policies as a partner."

"It's an interesting suggestion. Have you approached anyone else before?"

"Ah."

He looked her straight in the eyes, waiting for a reply.

In this golden palace, discussing such a treasonous matter, Li Qingyan's expression gradually became interested. He moved his gaze from Xu Yuan to the dragon throne on the golden steps, his slender eyes slightly curved, and he chuckled leisurely:
"This coveted throne has yet to be accepted by anyone. Changtian, why do you think this is?"

"As the ruler of the world, you must shoulder the responsibility of the world."

Xu Yuan did not hesitate about this question.

Although his father was similar to Wei Wu, the royal family of Dayan was not the emperor of the late Han Dynasty. It was completely nonsense to say that they were afraid of becoming a puppet emperor after ascending the throne.

With the imperial party at his side and the righteous cause on his side, no matter from which angle you look at it, the Emperor of Dayan is still the most powerful man in the world.

Hearing this, Li Qingyan frowned slightly and murmured:

"It seems that the person who rejected you before me felt that he was not qualified to take on the responsibility of this world."

Xu Yuan recalled briefly and said:

"Li Yucheng is a member of the royal family who was born in the wrong period. As for Li Yunqing, he should not have been born in the royal family at all."

"So, now you think that I am capable of shouldering the responsibility of governing the world?"

"Ah."

"it is good."

".ah?"

"I agree, what do you want to do?"

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The stone pillars are dim and the hall is dark and deep.

Li Qingyan was sitting at the low table with her hair draped over her red robe. Her phoenix eyes looked up at him with a smile, and her dark pupils were deep and mysterious.

This direct answer made Xu Yuan's thoughts freeze for a moment, but he felt relieved when he thought of the other party's temperament.

The person in front of him now is neither the self-protective Li Yunqing nor the self-aware Li Yucheng, but the Great Yan Killer God who dares to make a desperate attempt to attack the main camp of the enemy in a desperate situation.

After considering his words for a moment, Xu Yuan just opened his lips when Li Qingyan raised her hand to interrupt him. She asked this question not for him to answer, because he couldn't.

If you insist on answering, you can only make some empty promises.

Under Xu Yuan's gaze, Li Qingyan's calm voice rustled like the sound of turning paper:

"After returning to the capital and leaving the war, I couldn't rest, but I also had nothing to do, so I kept thinking about some things in the palace. I thought about the empire, the emperor's prime minister, my bloodline, and other things. I also thought about the possibility of me ascending the throne and becoming emperor. But guess what conclusion I finally came to?"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan's heart sank slightly and he asked:
"Are you going to refuse too?"

Li Qingyan did not answer the question directly, but talked about some miscellaneous things:
"Changtian, do you know why everyone from the imperial family to the cloth and clothing companies all consider it taboo to depose the eldest son and enthronize the youngest son?"

While Xu Yuan was pondering the motives of the woman in front of him, he replied:
"Every dynasty has its own ministers. No matter the merchants, retainers or nobles, they all need certainty. The primogeniture succession allows them to bet their entire fortunes on the gambling table without any worries. Without the primogeniture succession, the transfer of power in every dynasty and generation may lead to struggle and turmoil."

"Then why have neither your Prime Minister's Mansion nor my royal family followed this principle in this life?"

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Hearing this question, Xu Yuan frowned slightly.

The answer to this question is very simple. The prestige of the current emperor and prime minister is too great. Everything of the royal party and the prime minister's party revolves around the two of them. Even if the eldest son is deposed and the youngest son is enthroned, there will not be much resistance. But this is obviously not what Li Qingyan meant.

What she asked was something deeper.

In peacetime, everyone wants their own piece of land, but the foreseeable future will never be peaceful. As the two largest ships in the world today, both the prime minister's party and the royal family need a better helmsman to protect themselves and lead them to the dark future of turbulent waves.

In times of life and death, survival is the first priority, and ancestral rules, stability, and all ethical principles must take a back seat.

The ministers of the prime minister's party were not optimistic about Xu Changge, who was too strong and easily broken, and the royal nobles doubted Li Yucheng's gentleness and benevolence. This was the deepest reason why the prime minister's mansion and the royal family could be deposed without any hindrance.

If the emperor were to enthrone an infant, or if the prime minister were to enthrone the four daughters, no matter how prestigious the two of them were, the ministers and nobles below would be furious and refute it, saying, "This is a chaotic order, and there is no need to respect it."

Thinking of this,
Xu Yuan immediately understood the meaning of Li Qingyan's words.

There was no response, and no way to respond.

Li Qingyan could not get the support of the imperial party. In other words, she could not get the trust of the imperial party.

Even if Li Yaoxuan personally issued an edict to establish a female emperor, the imperial party would denounce it as a disorderly order.

Because he is Xu Yuan.

Because of his engagement to her.

The prime minister's office and the royal family jointly occupied the central government, and there were too many contradictions and conflicts of interest between the two.

It is clear that Xu Yuan is the future head of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
How brave the people of the imperial party must be to allow Li Yaoxuan to hand over the throne to the bedfellow of the future prime minister.

Listening to the silence around him, Li Qingyan slowly stood up from the low table, looked at the dragon throne, and sighed softly:

"There has never been a lack of alliances for marriages in the imperial empire. During the thousand-year reign of the Yan Dynasty, the emperor had welcomed the princesses of the Tartar Chao into the palace as concubines several times. But even when they were defeated and driven into the depths of the desert, the Tartar Chao royal court never agreed to send their goddess to the palace of our Great Yan."

Speaking of which,
Li Qingyan walked up the golden steps, his footsteps echoing, his eyes as clear as water, his words rippling:
"How can there be a marriage between an emperor and a princess in the whole world? You want me to call you "Zhen" instead. Have you ever thought about how you should deal with this?"

When she reached the top of the golden steps, she looked back at the man at the foot of the golden steps:
"Are you going to commit suicide, or are you going to set sail like my brother?"

Xu Yuan followed the woman's graceful figure closely and replied solemnly:

"This is the best solution. Otherwise, even if we work together to pacify the sect, the war between the emperor and the prime minister will break out again."

Standing on the golden steps,

Carrying the throne,
Li Qingyan suddenly smiled, so brilliantly that it captivated the whole country:

"I can listen to your description of the future in personal matters, but my country is no joke. Even if I want to believe you, others will not believe me.

"and,

"Changtian, no matter how much you hate Li Zhaoyuan, you shouldn't ask this question. Acting on impulse is totally inconsistent with your behavior of bearing the sins of the world in front of the palace."

The words fell,

The hole in the dome reflected a gloomy light, which was accompanied by a few drops of rain, falling on the body of the woman in red.

There was silence in the palace for a moment.
After a long while,

Li Qingyan looked at him as if he was considering a way out of the impasse, shook his head slightly, and said softly:

"Let's not talk about it for now. It's been a long time since we last met. Why don't you come with me for a walk?"

Hearing her quietly changing self-proclaimed name, Xu Yuan sighed lightly, but said nothing more, and stepped onto the golden steps:

"You are still the same, not changed at all."

Hearing this, Li Qingyan lowered his eyes and stared at the cracked hole next to the low table:

"You have changed a lot."

As he approached, Xu Yuan glanced at the empty dragon chair on the golden steps. As he followed Li Qingyan out of the Golden Palace from the imperial path behind the nine-dragon screen, he asked:
"Oh? What's changed?"

Li Qingyan walked beside the man, smiling slightly:

"Better looking."

Xu Yuan was somewhat helpless, glanced at her and said:
"shallow."

Li Qingyan shook his head, raised his slender hand and clenched his fist, tapped his heart lightly with the back of his hand, and said with a smile:

"I mean the inside, it looks better than before."

As they were talking, the two of them had already walked out of the Golden Palace through the Imperial Gate, and walked along the Imperial Corridor with carved beams and painted buildings into the harem.

Li Qingyan looked at the gloomy sky outside and asked leisurely:

"In the past, you always made people feel weird and untrustworthy. But when we met today, I no longer felt that way. Was this change because of the princess who died in the battle?"

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When Xu Yuan mentioned Li Junwu, his emotions surged and he was silent for a moment:
"Why are you talking about her all of a sudden?"

Li Qingyan looked at his profile and smiled:

"People who like to walk alone are taciturn and like to keep everything to themselves. You didn't have anyone to talk to before. The Sword Sect's first disciple has a cold personality. If he sees that you are sad, he will just stay by your side quietly. As for the Saint Girl, when it comes to matters between men and women, she might even say something harsh to you. As for the people in your Prime Minister's Mansion, the Prime Minister is also taciturn, and your eldest brother, forgive me for not being able to imagine how Xu Changge comforted you."

As the water trickled down the corridor, the woman gently pulled up his hand, her long, dense eyelashes trembling slightly, her voice slow and complex:

"Some things will always be pent up if you keep them in your heart. Talking them out can make you feel better."

(End of this chapter)