The daily life of the retired devil

Gu Han of Zhongzhou Publishing House is an ambitious and strong woman. When she was less than 30 years old, she overwhelmed those useless men who struggled with qualifications and took the position of deputy editor-in-chief.

Although in order to get this position, she has been single for more than 30 years, and she has lived alone so far, but it doesn't matter. She loves work far more than she loves love and having babies. Power is the best aphrodisiac for women. As long as the position is high enough, a man is considered a fart? !

——Whenever Gu Han sat in her spacious and bright office, she would involuntarily have such thoughts that almost jumped out of her mind.

But at the age of 36, a certain "fart" called her.

"Hello, is this Editor Gu?" The voice over there was a little young and hesitant, like a college student who had just graduated from society, "My grandpa asked me to contact you at this number, saying that you invited him to write a memoir. It's done."

Gu Han immediately turned serious: "Oh? Excuse me, who is your grandfather?"

There are very few people who know this number, and even fewer people have been asked by her for "Memoirs"!

So...this statement...wouldn't be what she thought, would it? !

Gu Han felt that his hands were shaking with excitement.

And sure enough, just as she thought, the voice on the other side of the phone said calmly: "Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention - I am Zhao Pei, the fifth generation grandson of the Zhao family, and my grandfather is Zhao Feng."

The last living emperor in the world, Zhao Feng.

Half an hour later, Gu Han ran all the way, drove quickly, and arrived at a key residential area allocated by a certain country, boarded a floor under a certain state's key protection, met a certain person under a certain state's key protection, and took the key from the other party's hand. Respectfully took a thick notebook.

"Then, Miss Gu, you can do what you want. I'm an old man, I'm getting old and my body can't bear it all the time, so I'm going to rest now, but my grandson Zhao Pei will stay here. If you have any questions, just ask him gone."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Zhao, you go slowly."

At this moment, Gu Han felt that his behavior was like a dog's leg before liberation.

Look, even the young "college student" next to him cast a strange look.

However, Gu Han is a social person with a thick skin, so he turned a blind eye to this strange gaze, and after Zhao Feng left, he sat down on the sofa, and smiled impatiently: "If you think about it, Mr. Zhao doesn't mind if I read it in advance, right?"

Zhao Pei is speechless: Is this a senior social person? ?

Can't be bothered, can't be bothered.

"Don't mind... please..."

Gu Han smiled and opened the memoir.

【…

Few people know that I am actually not the No.1 choice for my father's adoption, because my biological father, Prince Zongli, my father's fourth younger brother, has only one child, and I am still my biological father's old son, so my father Emperor, he didn't want to take me away from my biological father.

But unfortunately, my biological father suffered irreversible damage due to years of hard work, and passed away early, so he entrusted me to my father before he died, and let me, as my nephew, be chosen by my father. The designated heirs grow up together.

In other words, until now, I am still not the heir chosen by my father.I just live in the same place as the heirs...

……

My father is a very long-lived person, and unlike what outsiders imagine, he is very amiable in private, occasionally making some funny jokes with us, and will strictly stop the children in the palace when they play tricks on the servants , telling us that servants are also human beings, and our small actions may cause irreparable harm to these servants.

One of the things that impressed me the most was my cousin Zhao Min.Zhao Min was the kid who liked to joke the most in the palace at that time. He would replace the shuttlecock with an iron block, pretend to be kicking a shuttlecock, and kick it at the servant. Mixed with steamed stuffed buns, rewarded to the first person to pay his respects to him, to see the appearance of the other party who was overjoyed but was quickly knocked bloody by the iron sand.

The kids in the palace didn't realize there was something wrong with it because we weren't doing anything brutal, we were just joking.Even if Master saw it, he wouldn't scold us for this matter.

But the father was very angry.

He was furious, and sent all the children sent by the clan mansions to choose heirs out of the palace, and no one would tell him it would work.

That was the first time I saw my father so angry, and I also believed that if my identity at that time was not the child of my father's brother who died early, but was just sent by the clan mansion to be the heir chosen by my father, I would He will definitely be kicked out of the palace like this.

Later, I was so frightened by my father's rage that I had a high fever for three days. Three days later, when I woke up, the first thing I saw was my father.

He came and for the first and only time explained to me the reason for his anger.

My father didn't tell me the big truths, but just told me how a servant usually works - running errands, sending messages, facing the command and accusations of the manager and various masters, and even not eating too much water and rice in order to avoid frequent trips to the toilet , hunger is normal, suffering is also normal.

This is the first time in my life that I have heard such a touching thing.

Later, my father told me that these servants who were sent to the palace were originally hard-working people who relied on their daily work to earn food.If we smashed his leg with an iron block, or injured his mouth, how would he run errands for the master in the palace, how would he send a message?If he is useless and unable to work, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs may not give him good food and good food. Without good food and good food, he will not be able to recover from his injuries. If he cannot recover from his injuries, he will die slowly .

——The servant is also a human being, how can we kill another person because of a "joke"?

Until then, I suddenly realized: Oh, it turned out to be like this.

Waiters are human too.

Of course I know this, but most of the time I don't realize it.

Because the palace is like this, with distinct classes.For those who are lower than your level, it is difficult for you to realize that he is a person, you only think that he is an object, so when you torture him, you don’t feel that you are torturing your own kind, but that you are teasing an animal. An ant or a grasshopper will not feel any apology for what they have done.

I think so, and those heirs think so too, but as the master of the palace and the world, Father doesn't think so.

He felt sorry for the servant he might never see once in his life.

So on this day, I understood - even if everyone in the world scolds the father for being tyrannical and ruthless, he will be stigmatized forever in the future, I still firmly believe that the father is a compassionate person.

Father's mercy surpassed all people in the world, even surpassed this era.

But the sad thing is that it is precisely because of this kind of compassion that he is extraordinarily intolerant.

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Gu Han looked at this paragraph, and for some reason, his heartstrings were suddenly touched, and he couldn't turn the page for a long time.

Originally, before coming here, Gu Han's attitude towards Zhao Zhengdi was the same as that of any legendary figure in history—it was nothing more than that this legendary figure was a little closer to our era, but it was nothing more than that.

But now, Gu Han suddenly felt that she might really know very little about Emperor Zhao Zheng.

Perhaps this world also knows very little about Emperor Zhao Zheng.

After calming down a bit, Gu Han continued to turn over.

【…

I grew up very quickly. At this time, my father was nearly a hundred years old, but he was still walking like flying, calm and relaxed.

Many times when I look at my father, I feel that this is not a majestic emperor, but a fairy with a sense of demeanor, which makes me feel ashamed.

But even so, as I got older and older, my ambitions for the throne also grew. I began to think: Since the emperor wants to find an heir, why can't the heir be me?

Why can't I come to be the emperor? !

For this matter, I went to ask my second father, who was the then General Zhen Guo.

The second husband understands me very well, and thinks that it is normal for me to want to be the emperor after I have been in the palace for so long, and if I do not become the emperor in the future, based on my experience over the years, it will be difficult for me to deal with myself in front of the new emperor in the future , so he went to his father and told him about it.

On that day, my father and my second husband had the biggest quarrel I know.

I stayed in my bedroom tremblingly, thinking that maybe I was dazed by my father's closeness over the years, and gave birth to thoughts that shouldn't be born, so I made my father angry... And then, it will happen Is it the father who ordered someone to read the will to let me move out of the palace?

I regret that I was restless all night.

But in the end, what I waited for was not the servant to read out the will of the emperor, but the emperor himself.

He looked at me and asked me two questions:

"Do you really want to be emperor?"

I answer yes.

"Then are you ready to be scolded by thousands of people?"

I was stunned.

I didn't expect this question, and I never thought about it, because—how could anyone dare to scold the emperor?

Although I know that outside the court of Zhao State, there are many people who are dissatisfied with the father, those gentry and country gentry who are unwilling to lose their power and land, those big businessmen who are unwilling to lose their property and long-term employment... Many, many people are all against their father. The emperor was dissatisfied, and news of the rebel army could be heard everywhere.

But I know that as long as the father and the second father are around, they will not be able to turn the tide.

Father Huang is the smartest person I have ever met, and Second Father is the most powerful person I have ever seen.Even if they are old now, they are not comparable to those young and frivolous guys, so I never thought about this problem, I just think that the emperor let them go, just playing a long line to catch big fish.As long as the father wants to, he can easily defeat those guys.

Later, the father said, tell me the answer after you think it over, and then left.

I thought and thought, I thought about it all night, thinking that my father might be telling me that the emperor is not so easy to be, the emperor will face many people and many things, even if he is as good as his father, he will be misunderstood and swearing... i think i figured it out

So I went to see my father and told him that I really wanted to be emperor.

Father looked at me and said, well, from today on, you can learn from me.But you have to remember that you can't blame anyone for the choices you make in the future.

At that moment, I was overwhelmed with ecstasy almost instantly.

I was ecstatic, so I didn't understand the deep meaning of the father's words, nor did I understand the meaningful sigh.

Later, after a long, long time, until I chose to abdicate in front of the new party and left the Zhao family's throne, I didn't think of this scene. I remembered that my father said to me before he died, "How pitiful, you will have to face it alone in the future." This world is over." What does this sentence mean?

Yes, it took me many, many years to understand that my father might have seen the day when the Zhao family would perish.

So he didn't choose to hand over the throne to me at first, because he didn't want me to be the "last emperor", because he had already seen what the new world looked like, and because he knew that there would be no emperor in this world Location.

But my stupid ambition made me choose this path, and my stupid mind promised my father not to blame anyone.

I actually didn't blame anyone...

Most of the time, I was actually just thinking about what kind of mood my father was in when he faced my ecstasy.

Father, you are really... You know that I am not as smart as you, let alone have such vision as you, so why didn't you say more to me back then?

If you had told me that this road was so difficult and would make people stagger and feel sad, I might not have chosen it.

Could it be that I found the second father that made you angry, father?

Maybe.

But I can't get the answer anymore.

……

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At this moment, an almost creepy excitement welled up in my heart.

Gu Han's face was flushed, his breathing was short of breath, he pinched the page tightly with trembling hands, and looked at this paragraph over and over again in disbelief——

Is that what she meant?

Really? !is it possible? ! !

Will the truth of history really be as shocking as she thought? ! !

But how is this possible?

Before the tide of history rolls in, how can anyone see its end? !

Even today's historians, when talking about the history of the founding of the new country, use the words "coexistence of chance and inevitability", so an emperor of a feudal dynasty, an emperor more than 100 years ago Emperor, how could he see the direction of the future? !

——In this world, there may be people who betray their own class, but how can there be an emperor who personally pushes his dynasty to the end? !

Too strong shock caused Gu Han's mind to be in chaos.

She felt that the education she had received in the past was completely overturned at this moment.

"Historical limitations", "weakness of the bourgeoisie", "stubbornness of feudalism"... and so on, all became a mess in Gu Han's head!

But at the same time, Gu Han felt that all this seemed inevitable.

Because of the emperor with compassion beyond the times, the emperor who would drive away all his possible heirs because of a small servant, the emperor who expanded the territory, advanced the policy, was praised by thousands of people, and was also reviled by thousands of people The emperor has such courage!

Because he always has! !

At this moment, Gu Han's whole body trembled with excitement.

She can't stay in this place anymore, at this moment, she can't wait to go home, and wants to read this thick memoir combined with Zhao Zhengdi's life, every word and every sentence!

The author has something to say: I was wrong

I surrender

I really can’t finish this episode in one breath_(:з」∠)_

Let's continue tomorrow TvT