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A heavy rain is better than letting His Royal Highness King Qi bear the crime for nothing.

"Your Highness, what should I do now... who knows that the rain won't stop..."

Faced with the panic of the crowd, King Qi seemed relieved, "It's a good thing that the rain stopped. Anyway, the defenders have already gone out, let them come back after finishing the construction, Shen Zhui, can you shorten the construction period?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the rest of the materials have already been prepared. If all the troops work non-stop, it will only take five days. After that, we only need to let the garrison army gradually reinforce it."

Everyone only thought that Shen's pursuit of Zhongli was for the sake of Prince Jing, and he must have been sloppy in preparing the supplies, but they didn't know that he had already prepared a lot of things, and when they looked at him at this moment, their eyes were full of respect.

King Qi also showed approval, "Jingyan has recommended you to me many times...you can do it."

"You don't need to panic. If the emperor blames you, I will bear it alone."

----

Emperor Liang fell into a coma for several days. When he woke up, he saw Concubine Yue and the Empress kneeling at the door, trembling.

After asking, he found out that King Qi had summoned all the defenders of Jinling without authorization, and he was stunned for a while.

It has to be said that his handing over the power of supervising the country to Jing Yu was a kind of temptation for him, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to find out his faults.

But never imagined such a blatant disobedience.

Emperor Liang suddenly saw the sachet of Princess Linglong on the bedside.

Or... treason.

Emperor Liang shivered violently, and walked down to the ground barefoot, staggering and almost falling, "Where's Meng Zhi! Where's the forbidden army?!!!"

Meng Zhi stood guard outside the hall, and when he heard Emperor Liang's shout, he hurriedly entered the hall and knelt down, "All the forbidden troops are here, waiting for His Majesty to dispatch!"

Emperor Liang's eyes were about to crack, and his cold voice became thinner, "Where's Lin Shu? Are the Red Flame Army still in Jinling!"

"Red Flame Army?" Meng Zhi didn't seem to understand why Emperor Liang asked such a question, "Lin Shu should be in the mansion. The Red Flame Army has been practicing these days and never left the camp."

Emperor Liang hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Have the defenders returned?"

"...not yet."

Emperor Liang's eyes widened again, and he pointed out the window, "Not yet!? The sky is sunny, what excuse does Xiao Jingyu have to use my soldiers! The world is still not his! I'm sick! Do you think I'm dead! !!??"

"His Royal Highness King Qi is kneeling outside the hall...to be punished."

Emperor Liang did not expect King Qi to be outside the hall, "What is he here for? There must be a lot of ministers praising him, what is he doing here?"

"His Royal Highness King Qi came last night and has been kneeling."

Emperor Liang smashed the medicine bowl angrily, "That's what he is willing to kneel for the sake of his people!!"

Meng Zhi didn't dare to say any more.

"...Go down and tell King Qi to go too, and go back to his mansion."

Meng Zhi hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask, "Your Majesty... what about the defenders?"

Emperor Liang sighed resentfully, "...now recalled, Wanmin will be grateful for his kindness and resent me. Forget it, keep them, and let them go as long as they are willing to practice. It's fine if they don't come back. Meng Zhi, Ask Lin Shu to prepare the rest of the Red Flame Army and temporarily defend the capital. But the imperial city will still be guarded by you."

----

Three days later, Emperor Liang summoned King Qi.

There were only father and son, but they chose the Hall of Martial Arts.

In the empty Hall of Martial Arts, Emperor Liang was wearing an imperial robe and sitting on a dragon chair, looking down at his kneeling son.

After a long time, Emperor Liang opened his mouth, but his tone was neither hurried nor slow.

"Jing Yu, if you have anything to defend, just say so."

"My son has nothing to argue with. It is a serious crime to call the garrison of the capital without the emperor's order. My son asks my father for permission to leave Jinling with my wife and children."

Emperor Liang didn't seem to hear clearly, and leaned forward, "...what did you say?"

"Arbitrarily mobilizing the defenders without the emperor's order, no matter what the reason is, the son, as the prince, has violated the court's laws."

"Are you trying to test me?" Emperor Liang smiled angrily, "Then I tell you clearly, I agree, I will give you a fief with beautiful mountains and rivers, go there."

"..." King Qi knelt down, "I thank you, Father."

"Jing Yu!"

Emperor Liang stood up tremblingly, "Do you understand that you are not advancing by retreating, but cutting your own way?"

"Once you leave, there will be no chance to come back." Emperor Liang said again, "The position of the crown prince, the position of the crown prince, for you, there will be no chance again."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Liang almost stared at his son's face with a smile, trying to find a trace of annoyance or remorse on his face.

But he found nothing.

King Qi looked directly at his father, and said frankly, "...I know."

"Are you willing? You have been calling for the wind and rain for so many years, and now you have failed, and your success has fallen short."

"..." King Qi who was kneeling in the hall only felt cold all over his body.

"You will never be the prince! Do you understand!" Emperor Liang questioned hoarsely, with a cry in his voice.

He was crying as a father.

But as the emperor, he still doubted it.

No prince would be indifferent to the throne.

There can be no such person.

Especially King Qi.

He is so close to the throne, so close.

Even closer than his imperial brothers back then.

"When the son mobilized the defenders, he already knew this would be the result."

"But it didn't rain after all. You know the result, do you regret it?"

"My son can't gamble with [-] lives. No matter what the price is, this is something that must be done."

After finishing speaking, King Qi no longer waited for Emperor Liang to say anything, but deeply kowtowed, "I bid farewell to my father. May the state of Liang prosper and my father live a long and healthy life."

----

Emperor Liang sat in the imperial concubine's palace for two days, then the wind and cold got worse and he fell ill for two months.

For half a month, he had nightmares almost every day, and often woke up in a cold sweat at midnight, but he didn't know what he saw in the dream.

In his dreams, he often heard himself calling out for traitors and traitors.

But every time he woke up from the dream, he gritted his teeth and tried to remember, but he still couldn't remember the appearance of that traitor.

During that time, he was afraid of the night coming.

In every dream, there would be a man in a green shirt walking towards him slowly.

I really saw his appearance, but I didn't know who he was.

One day, Gao Zhan was waiting in front of Emperor Liang's bed, and heard Emperor Liang waving his hands in his dream, with a panicked expression.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

The awakened Emperor Liang opened his eyes wide in shock. After taking a few breaths, he suddenly grabbed Gao Zhan's sleeve and asked, "Do you know a man named Su Zhe?"

[Langya Bang] The First True [29] (Shu Yan)

After the edict denouncing King Qi was announced to the world, Jinling was full of uproar within these ten days.

No one among the officials of the Manchu Dynasty guessed that King Qi would ask himself to be guilty, and for this prince who was the most beloved in the past, Emperor Liang would really punish him so harshly.

Until the imperial decree came before them, there were still many people who did not believe that a generation of virtuous kings could easily miss the crown prince forever.

Freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, but no one can find the crux of the matter.

One by one, the ministers knelt on the Wuying Hall and sent memorials one by one to Emperor Liang's desk.

Emperor Liang turned a blind eye at first, but later he couldn't help being furious. After demoting several leaders, he gradually calmed down.

And during this time, Jingyan has been falling into a drowsy sleep, sometimes for half a day, sometimes for a whole day, accompanied by a high fever.

On cloudy and rainy days, the wound hurt especially badly, so the doctor in the family increased the dosage of the medicine according to the prescription given by Lin Chen, and asked him to sleep all day long to get through the terrible pain.

So when the people on the sickbed know the news, it's a done deal.

"Where are Lin Shu and Meng Zhi?" Jingyan asked hastily, and then couldn't help coughing.

Zhanying knew that Jingyan was worried, "Neither the Red Flame Army nor the Forbidden Army has ever mobilized a single soldier. Marshal Lin has been guarding Jinling City with the Red Flame Army under the emperor's order for the past few days, and he didn't return until yesterday after the defenders built the embankment. To the Lin Mansion."

"Although His Majesty is angry, he will not really hurt his own arm. This matter, the dust has settled."

Jingyan shook his head, Zhanying didn't know that in the past Emperor Liang had tacitly allowed Xie Yu to slaughter the [-] Red Flame Army, and even wanted to kill tens of thousands of rebels after the Jiu'an Mountain Rebellion, which one is not a useful arm, but as long as They may become swords pointing to the throne in the hands of others, and Emperor Liang will kill them without hesitation.

It's just that luckily Brother Qi managed to keep it.

----

On the day King Qi left, except for his acquaintances, all the other officials had been informed and did not come to see him off.

But on that day, the streets of Jinling were full of kneeling people who came to see him off, extending several miles outside the city. There were people from Jinling, as well as Qishui and other people who rushed over from nearby.

Lin Shu was ordered to send King Qi to Chuzhou where he was boarding a boat. He followed the convoy and looked at the pious people kneeling on the side of the road.

Emperor Liang didn't care about the lives of these people, he was just afraid of their voices.

But he didn't know that the emperor and the common people were born as human beings, if they didn't treat each other with sincerity, they wouldn't be able to get along with each other with sincerity.

All peoples are water, they will kneel down to support kings like King Qi, and they can also overthrow those kings who disregard human life in the rivers and lakes.

----

It took half a month to travel together, when Chu Shui parted, Prince Qi's son suddenly threw himself into Lin Shu's arms.

Lin Shu picked him up.

This child grew up like stars and moons in the favor of everyone since he was a child. Lin Shu thought that he would cry and be sad after this change, but he saw that he was still playing and laughing along the way, often teasing the depressed Princess Qi. He couldn't stop smiling, and even King Qi had a smile on his face.

"When we meet again, I will teach you martial arts as well as organs and formations.