Ten years later

Early the next morning, after the medical officer came, Li Yuan left the Hall of Yanying.He first walked in the direction of the harem. Li Lian had told him earlier that there were no concubines in the harem, so he walked in the palace with confidence.

When he arrived at a gazebo, he looked at the black flag waving on the wall of the palace in the distance——Water Virtue is still black, and Dazhou emphasizes Fire Virtue, and all use crimson flags——The mountains and rivers change their flags, so publicized.

After a while, he got up and walked towards the south, following the path in his memory, deliberately walking towards those secret offices.He has entered the palace many times, and he knows that the rules in this palace are strict, and he is not allowed to move around without an edict.But now the guards and palace servants are following him, but no matter where he goes, they will not stop him.

Li Yuan let out a long breath, and his thoughts drifted to nowhere.He has almost got the answer he wants to know, but he feels that it is better not to know.

But no matter how unacceptable the truth is, it has to be faced.He was not an indecisive person, and after making up his mind, he walked straight towards the Wude Hall.

It was almost noon at this time, and finally finished dealing with the political affairs, and sent back all the ministers who came to discuss the affairs one by one. Li Lian heard the guard report that his brother came straight here.

There was a thump in his heart, secretly thinking that something was wrong.After coming out from his elder brother yesterday, he realized that he had exposed a lot of flaws in his answer, and his elder brother might think it was wrong, but he didn't expect his elder brother to see it so quickly.Maybe my brother didn't see it, but...

It's just that, no matter what the reason is, I have to stop my brother now.

It's a pity that it was a step too late. As soon as he ordered to go down, Li Yuan had already arrived at the place where the courtiers stood when they had an audience.

Li Yuan stood in the corridor and said loudly: "My subject, Li Yuan, please see Your Majesty."

The guards were also concerned about Li Yuan's identity, so they didn't dare to stop him, but said to him: "My lord has important matters to attend to, so I'm afraid I won't be able to see you."

Seeing this, Li Yuan took another step forward and asked, "If I really want to break in, would you dare to stop me?"

Li Lian in the hall heard his elder brother say this, so he knew that Li Yuan was completely sure, otherwise with his temperament, he would never have said such a domineering word.Sure enough, Li Yuan's voice came again: "Why don't you dare, why hesitate? The owner is inside, trespassers shall be beheaded."

Li Lian closed his eyes in despair, opened them again after a while, and walked out of the palace gate to meet Li Yuan.

Li Yuan bowed respectfully and said: "My subject Li Yuan, I have seen Your Majesty."

"Brother." Li Lian's heart sank to the bottom, and he bowed in return.

Li Yuan didn't raise his head, but asked, "Is your majesty free now? I have something to discuss with your majesty." In front of all the guards, he regarded himself as a courtier and was very polite. After all, he didn't hurt Li Lian's prestige.

Li Lian didn't dare to answer. He followed his elder brother and never felt that the road from Wude Hall to Yanying Hall was so long, and it seemed to have no end.

After entering the Yanying Hall, Li Lian dismissed the servants in the hall, closed the hall door tightly, turned around and saw Li Yuan sitting on the main seat, looking at him with a half-smile.He smiled bitterly: "Brother saw it so quickly."

Li Yuan asked him: "Why did you hide it from me?"

Because I'm cowardly, Li Lian thought in his heart, knowing that if you shrink your head, it's also a knife to stretch your head, but he just doesn't have the courage to stretch your head.But he didn't dare to say those words, so he could only lower his head a little more.

"Why don't you talk anymore?" Li Yuan snorted coldly, obviously annoyed by his silent behavior, "I still can't teach you a lesson?"

"Don't dare," according to the law of etiquette, the relationship between the monarch and his ministers comes first, and Li Yuan really can't punish him.But now that Li Yuan was angry, Li Lian was afraid of adding fuel to the fire, so he quickly knelt down, leaned over and kowtowed, "You are the elder brother, and the younger brother will naturally respect you. It's just, just,"

Li Yuan smiled inappropriately and asked him: "Just what?"

"It's just that there will be a court meeting in the future..." Li Lian gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, please don't slap your face."

"Look up," Li Yuan laughed angrily, "Why don't you explain a few words?"

Li Lian raised his head and straightened his body, slowly lowered his upper body, and when his buttocks touched his calves, seeing that Li Yuan didn't stop him, he took it as his elder brother's acquiescence to his move.So he put his hands on his knees peacefully, put on a very cute expression by the way, and asked Li Yuan: "There are a lot of things in these years, and I don't know how to speak. Brother, why don't you eat first, and then I will Tell you."

"I'm not in a hurry. I'll wait for you to finish." How could Li Yuan fail to see that this was a means he used to delay time, and he refused politely, "I don't know what to say? Let me ask first, is Jiaping What is your year name, and what is your country name?"

The eldest brother's reaction was also expected by Li Lian. He tried to calm himself down and replied, "The name of the country is success."

Li Yuan nodded in understanding, no wonder Li Lian wanted to hide it, he knew what was going on as soon as he heard the country name.Ask again: "What you told me before, are they all true?"

Li Lian nodded: "Everything you said at the time is true. If you don't believe me, brother, you can ask other people for proof."

Seeing that his elder brother didn't express anything, he recounted the events of these years.

After Li Yuan's death in the war, he saw the court's bad attitude, so he chose to pretend to be crazy and act foolishly to protect himself.

Afterwards, the imperial court retreated steadily in the northern border, and military power was no longer something that people rushed to, but instead became a hot potato.At that time, the flames of war had already spread outside the city of Lingzhou, so he stood up in due course to fight against foreign enemies.

At that time, there was really no one available in the imperial court. He won several battles, and after regaining the south of Qijiang, the title and official position was placed on him like someone who didn't want money.He opened the private treasury of the Duke's government to raise soldiers, and he didn't care about everything in Beijing.At the same time, Emperor Yin, who ordered to murder his elder brother in Beijing, was murdered by treacherous ministers, who supported Emperor Gong Chen Zhao to succeed him, and Chen Zhao beheaded the treacherous ministers.

Not long after Emperor Gong succeeded to the throne, he was in charge of peace talks.After the peace talks were successful, the central government of Beijing ordered him to enter the capital several times, but he refused to listen. Instead, he asked himself to reduce the military power in the hands of the southeast military envoys.At that time, no one in the imperial court could restrain him, so he had no choice but to allow him to play. In this way, he gathered the military power on the southeast border.

In the fourth year of Yuan Yi's reign, he raised troops from the southeast and entered Chang'an within a year.It took less than two years to confer the title of Jiuxi, accept the throne of Zen, and ascend the throne to change the Yuan Dynasty, and calm down the Quartet.Half a year later, Chen Zhao hanged himself, and everything related to the previous week seemed to have disappeared.

After listening to these words, Li Yuan was silent for a long time, and asked him: "Do peace talks have to be done, or do you want to keep your troops?"

"There are no generals and no soldiers, and there are natural disasters in the country, so we have to negotiate peace." The elder brother fought with the Dianfu people for nearly half his life, and Li Lian naturally knew what he was concerned about, so he replied, "I will never dare to collude with foreign countries because of selfishness, and because of internal affairs. And abolish border defense."

Li Yuan's expression softened a little, and he asked him again: "Emperor Gong Chen Zhao, is that Chen Wulang you met? Did he really hang himself?"

"It's him," Li Lian smiled wryly, "I won't let him go."

He knew Chen Zhao when he was traveling abroad as a young boy, and even brought him to Lingzhou secretly, so his elder brother knew that he had friendship with Chen Zhao.

But he concealed one thing. After his brother's accident, Chen Zhao, who was still in the fief, once spoke up for his brother.At that time, there were too many people who fell into trouble and very few people who gave charcoal in the snow. Regardless of other things, but with this kind of friendship, it was impossible for him to attack Chen Zhao.

Even so, he did not dare to say that Chen Zhao committed suicide and had nothing to do with him.

"It's quite skillful," Li Yuan said with a three-point smile on his face, "How did I teach you before?"

Li Lian knew that his elder brother was about to get angry, so he quickly bowed his head and pleaded guilty: "Lian is unfaithful and unrighteous, and has failed my elder brother's teachings, so I ask my elder brother to punish me."

Li Yuan said again: "You keep saying that you want me to punish you, but do you really think you did something wrong?"

Li Lian has always been like this. When he is found out when he has done something wrong, he admits his mistake faster than anyone else, but in his heart he doesn't feel that what he did is wrong. Next time, he still refuses to correct it.

Li Lian raised his head, looked him straight in the eyes, and said very stiffly: "Lian is not wrong."

He has always known that what he has done is disloyal and unrighteous—it is disloyal to punish the emperor, and it is unrighteous to avenge kindness.He thinks he is daring, so he doesn't care if others call him a traitor and plot to usurp the throne.

But he never thought he was wrong.What about infidelity?The king treats his ministers like grass, and the ministers treat the emperor like a bandit.The court of the Zhou Dynasty treated his elder brother and the Li family like that, how could he be a courtier who did his best and regarded the king as the sky?

"Come on, come on," Li Yuan sighed twice, "I can't control you now."

"Brother." Li Lian thought that he was extremely disappointed in himself, so he called him in a low voice, trying to save one or two.