[Comprehensive] Emperor

Cian

In other words, when Li Tan came into this body, this body was too small, which directly caused him to be like a suckling baby, unable to do anything.However, a year later, that is, when he was seven years old and his actual age was five and a half years old, he could finally learn some so-called ways of governing the country from his master. But I have to pretend to not understand and re-learn.However, he was finally able to unobtrusively give favors to some young eunuchs who had just entered the palace.

In fact, it is very difficult to live as an emperor in this palace with a young body.

It’s true that there was no humiliating incident where the ministers turned their backs to the court, but every time he faced the pedantic and conservative and timid ideas of the ministers, he was full of anger, but he couldn’t say anything. Who made him now? There is only one thing to do, and that is to endure.

After the Empress Dowager Cixi completely controlled the Tongzhi era, her power in the palace was like a ten thousand-year-old tree, and there was absolutely no way to shake it, let alone pull it out.

Over the years, he played himself in the palace as a naughty little emperor who loves to play and has no talent for learning, but secretly always relies on his good martial arts to go out and find external forces that can be his own.

No way, who made the Empress Dowager Cixi so scheming and ambitious.It’s fine if he stays mediocre, but if the Empress Dowager Cixi discovers that he is talented and ambitious, I don’t know if she will just find a reason to abolish him and find a more obedient emperor, such as his The former emperor was Tongzhi Emperor.In fact, sometimes Li Tan also wondered why Cixi was so ambitious and wanted some puppet emperor to listen to the government behind the curtain, so he simply followed Wu Zetian himself and became a female emperor himself.However, every time he sees the Empress Dowager Ci'an who smiles tenderly at Cixi, Li Tan seems to understand something.

In the seventh year of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was seriously ill and was no longer listening to politics behind a curtain.Although the Empress Dowager Cixi was worried about Ci'an's illness, she still insisted on going to court, after all, the state affairs were too big.

At the end of the court that day, Empress Dowager Cixi was processing the memorial in the Cining Palace. Li Tan, who was still studying with his master, saw a young eunuch saying that Empress Dowager Ci'an wanted to see him.

Li Tan was a little surprised. The Empress Dowager Ci'an had always been indifferent to him, never cared about him, and never talked to him. Sometimes he even felt that in front of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, he was just a transparent person. people.Now, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was ill, but she asked to see him by name, which always gave him a very subtle feeling.

With all kinds of guesses in his mind why the Empress Dowager Ci'an was looking for him, Li Tan finally arrived at the Zhongcui Palace where the Empress Dowager Ci'an lived.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was lying on the bed with her hair disheveled, her cheeks were flushed even though she was already terminally ill, like a good person with no disease or disaster.I don't know if I really recovered from my illness, or... a return to light.

When the Empress Dowager Ci'an saw Li Tan, she waved to him: "Zai Tian, ​​come, talk to Ai's family."

Li Tan really didn't understand why the Empress Dowager Ci'an had such a good attitude towards him, but she also pretended to be a child and approached him innocently, with a ignorant look, which seemed very cute.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an lightly touched Li Tan's half-bald forehead, and asked with a smile: "Zai Tian, ​​Aijia asks you, is it okay to be the emperor?"

Li Tan actually didn't understand why the Empress Dowager Ci'an asked such a question, but considering his age and experience, Li Tan still pretended to be a child and said to Ci'an: "It's good to be an emperor, you can eat whatever you want , I can play whatever I want, but my husband is a bit annoying, and makes me recite things that are not easy to memorize every day."

The Empress Dowager Ci'an was a little confused by the child's answer, and he lightly poked Li Tan's forehead: "Sure enough, he is still a child... Remember to call yourself Zhen instead of me in the future, you, but the one of ten thousand people The most honorable emperor in the world, and those ordinary people naturally don't understand."

"I understand." Li Tan nodded, but his eyes showed ignorance.

"Hey, you are a sensible child. This country is all in your hands. Whether it is prosperous or subjugated depends on you, and what path you will take in the future." Li Tan expressed his confusion and ignorance. It was too obvious, which made the Empress Dowager Ci'an a little helpless, and seemed a little disappointed. She just wanted to say more, so that this child would not go the same way as Tongzhi.

Perhaps Li Tan's identity as the emperor was too ignorant, but it gave the Empress Dowager Ci'an a desire to confide.

From a beautiful girl to a concubine, from a concubine to a queen, and then to a queen dowager who listened to politics behind the curtain, so many things happened to her in the harem over the years, but no one could tell her, and no one was qualified to listen to her talk.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an has long retreated from the crowd. Facing the little Li Tan, she smiled softly: "Aijia knows that many people don't understand how Aijia, the Queen Mother of the East Palace, tolerates a Queen Mother of the West Palace, and how she messed up in this life. So...sorry, she is obviously a noble empress. After the first emperor left, she was also the empress dowager of the East Palace with the highest status in the palace. Why did she want to hand over all the rights to Cixi, the empress dowager of the West Palace. Some people thought it was the emperor who treated her In fact, they don't know that the first emperor left a will for the Ai family, and he could abolish Cixi's will at any time. But the Ai family tore it up in front of her. People in future generations may think that the Ai family was raped. That girl was deceived by her rhetoric, but Aijia at that time was willing to give everything to her."

Hearing Ci'an's words, Li Tan was shocked.He could understand that Empress Dowager Ci'an suddenly said something in her heart to him. After all, in Empress Dowager Ci'an's heart, he was just an ignorant child, even if he heard something, he still couldn't understand it.However, the amount of information in these words seems to be a bit large. Back then, he would have thought it was some kind of sisterly love, but... after going through so many things, he felt that this relationship was not pure.

No, Ci'an didn't care about the shock in Li Tan's heart, and began to babble about the story of the year: "When Ai's family first entered the palace, she was a maid beside Ai's family. Ai's family would not compete for favor or be liked by the emperor , the servants also stepped on the low and praised the high, only she has been protecting Aijia, Aijia just thought, if Aijia has a way out in the future, she will definitely let her enjoy the blessing." Empress Dowager Ci'an's face appeared like nostalgia Smiling, she took a sip of water and continued: "It's a happy thing to have someone to protect you in this deserted place. Every day you watch the intrigues, and you will never lose your heart if you have someone to accompany you. Later, the emperor fell in love with her." She, fortunate to her, she cried and begged me not to blame her, although my heart was sour, but it was more comforting - she became the emperor's woman, and she would stay in this palace forever, and Aijia would be able to live with her forever. She got together. Later, she was favored and conceived a prince, because the emperor only had the prince and one son, but the emperor also said that she was deep in thought, and asked the Ai family to guard against her, fearing that the Ai family would not be able to beat her, so he returned it to the Ai family. She left a will to abolish her identity."

Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Ci'an's face showed a bit of bitterness: "After the death of the first emperor, she has always treated me very well, just like when she was a court lady back then. The Ai family thought that she and I would continue like this forever. , and tore up the life-saving edict in front of her, but she never thought that she was ambitious, and everything she did was deception... But even if she was deceiving Aijia, she also admitted it. Aijia just didn't understand why she didn't How about cheating Ai's family with pride and going to Ai's family to die?"

The Empress Dowager Ci'an's expression was too sad and painful, but Li Tan didn't know how to comfort the woman, so he could only raise his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of the Empress Dowager Ci'an's eyes without saying a word.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an also seemed to realize that she had cried all night. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes vigorously, took out an object from her bosom and put it into Li Tan's hands: "That's all, let's not talk anymore. This is the late emperor The seal left behind was secretly left to the Ai family by the late emperor. You can use this seal to mobilize all the forbidden troops in the imperial city. This is the only thing the Ai family can give you. The Ai family has failed the late emperor’s entrustment. The Ai family can only expect you to be a good emperor if you can train that child from Tongzhi to be a good emperor!" As soon as the words fell, the Empress Dowager Ci'an fell on the bed and closed her eyes, with a serene smile on her face , but there were tears in the corner of his eyes.

Li Tan put the seal in his arms, pushed open the door and went out, said to the Empress Dowager Cixi who had just arrived at the door: "The Empress Dowager Ci'an is dead."

The expression of the Empress Dowager Cixi was fixed as if she had been hit by an acupuncture point. Thousands of thoughts flashed in her heart, and it took a while before she realized that her long nails pierced the palm of her hand, and the dripping blood fell to the ground: " She... didn't say anything?"

Li Tan felt sour when he thought of Ci'an saying those words to him when he came back to life.So it was rare for him not to pretend to be innocent, but said coldly: "She said that the thing she regretted most before she died was not seeing you."

The rabbit held in the arms of the Empress Dowager Cixi fell to the ground. It was a rabbit that had lived for many years and only one was alive.Li Tan squatted down and hugged the rabbit in his arms, and left without looking back.

The rabbit tilted his head and looked at the little emperor who was holding him. He always felt that the little emperor who had always been stupid and had no intentions, who was more like a rabbit than a real rabbit, looked a little handsome today. Brother Huang's face was very similar when he was young, but this time even his temperament is 100% similar.

But...if this child is really the emperor's brother now...the half-bald emperor's brother is really funny, he should be glad that he is a rabbit now, isn't he a human being?