Reincarnation of the powerful minister

"Since King Yu is ill, it's okay to answer while lying down. I won't punish you for the crime of disrespect in front of you." Emperor Jing Long was not angered by King Yu's rude posture, picked up the crooked rose chair next to him, and went to the bed. There is an open space, sit on it, "I also brought two imperial doctors, let them diagnose and treat you."

The two judges of the Supreme Hospital came in according to the order, and King Yu stretched out his hand to check their pulse indifferently.

After reading, hearing and asking, the two imperial physicians discussed and gave the answer that was almost the same as what Chen Shiyu said before. The insomnia is caused by evil fire attacking the heart and depression.

The imperial doctor retreated to prescribe prescriptions and boil medicines.The emperor ordered them to close the gate of the palace, and ordered the Jin Yiwei outside the gate not to enter without permission.

Instead, he asked King Yu: "What is this evil fire in your heart? Where is the stagnation?"

King Yu replied brazenly, "Brother, why do you need to ask questions knowingly?"

The emperor's face darkened, "Have you been out of the capital recently?"

King Yu asked back, "What if you haven't been out, so what if you've been out?"

"If you haven't been out, nothing will happen; if you have, I will move that boundary marker to the gate of the capital, and even move it outside your Prince Yu's mansion." The emperor said lightly, "You broke the contract first, so don't blame me for not talking about it." Brotherhood."

King Yu sneered: "Brother Huang wants to force me to my death. A glass of poisoned wine and a dagger are enough. What kind of brotherhood is there?"

The emperor patted the armrest and shouted: "Zhu Xujing! I don't care about your repeated offenses because of your illness, but my patience has a limit. If you lie down and refuse to talk properly, then go to the Taimiao and kneel." speak."

King Yu didn't know that it was extremely unwise for him to speak against the emperor and be disrespectful to the emperor, but at this moment, the turbid air in his chest was oppressed, the evil fire was flying around, and his thoughts began to be confused, and he just wanted to vent his anger regardless of the consequences.

Seeing that he was silent, the emperor's complexion became more pale and ugly, his heart softened slightly, and he softened his tone: "I just want to hear the truth from you, and I don't want to call those Jin Yiwei to investigate. It's to save face for you. Night falls on the [-]th day , where are you?"

King Yu vaguely heard the flute sound like a ghost crying again, and the restless energy and blood rushed through his meridians, causing the veins on his forehead to throb, and even his face was distorted ferociously: "Where the emperor wants me to be, I will be there." Alright, the brothel Chu Pavilion, the official’s bed, or the secret meeting place with a certain traitor, whatever the emperor arranges, the subject should recognize it as soon as it is!”

The emperor wanted to call Jin Yiwei in for a moment and drag him to the Taimiao.He forcibly held back his will before uttering his will, and took a deep breath, feeling that his self-cultivation and self-cultivation would be destroyed by this messy younger brother.

He reached out and grabbed King Yu's disheveled skirt, pulled his upper body out of the bed, and splashed the remaining wine in the wine jar next to him on King Yu's face.

The ice-cold drink made King Yu shiver, and his confused eyes seemed to be somewhat sober.He wiped the alcohol off his face, and moaned in a low voice: "Brother Huang..."

The emperor got close to him, and he suddenly saw an inconspicuous tooth mark on the base of his neck. The degree of healing seemed to be a few days ago. It must have been bitten quite hard at that time, and there is still a vague wound left.Looking carefully, there is also a tooth mark on the tiger's mouth on the right hand.

"Who bit it?" The emperor condensed his voice into a blade of ice, with restrained ominous anger burning on the tip of the blade.

King Yu smiled mockingly and complacently, "Who else could be? He looks flirtatious, but he is sharp-tongued and courageous. It's very fun to play with. The opposite is hugged in his arms*, scratching and scratching like a wild cat. Biting, begging to let go, while clamping his legs tightly. Kneeling*, covering his mouth to prevent scolding, he bit his hand, and the water flowed more than tears—”

The flesh on the thigh, which had been soaked in tears, ached like burning.The emperor couldn't bear it anymore, and no longer cared about etiquette and demeanor, he slapped King Yu hard on the face, turning his head away, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

King Yu coughed a few times, and laughed softly, like a broken pot, but also full of malice: "My brother is wrong, I forgot that my brother has tasted him all the time, and he is still playing tricks."

"Zhu Xujing, you... really let me down!" The emperor said coldly, "You have accumulated grievances for many years, you don't abide by etiquette, you don't respect the monarch, and you use playing with officials as a means of revenge on me. The admonishment is all because of thinking about the brotherhood and family relationship with you, and thinking about your loyalty and bravery when you sacrificed your life to save each other. But I didn't expect that you would make mistakes again and again, and become such a dirty and despicable villain!

"I really regret that when you molested Su Yan for the first time in Dongyuan, I didn't severely punish your evil deeds because I took the face of the clan into consideration. So much so that you took advantage of your power and status to harass Su Yan repeatedly, and finally made a big mistake , forcibly raped him on the eve of his departure from Beijing, and even shamelessly wrote letters to humiliate him! See for yourself, what you are doing is a human thing? You are not as good as a beast!"

King Yu's eyes widened. Under such severe reprimands, he actually showed a childish sense of grievance, "He went to sue? Obscenity, molestation, rape, humiliation... Is that what he said?"

The emperor almost couldn't hold back and slapped him again, "Why, do you still think it's because you are in love with each other? Zhu Xujing, are you fake and naive, or are you really shameless? , actually hate you deeply?"

There was a buzzing in King Yu's head, which made him dizzy.He lay on the edge of the bed and retched for a while, panting like he was dying, as if no amount of anger and punishment from the emperor could match that person's piercing "hate".

After the love affair in Shuixie, Su Yan didn't look for death or life. Although he scolded fiercely, he didn't really draw his sword at him. He even got jealous of him and Shen Qi on the carriage back home, which gave him a kind of jealousy. The other party was simply an illusion... Now that I think about it, there is no jealousy, it was clearly because he was worried that he would suspect the relationship between the two, so he beat him back and designed to clear Shen Qi.

After returning to Beijing, Su Yan talked to him calmly, making him think that the other party had already resigned to his fate and accepted it, and the struggle and resistance during intimacy were just a little trick for fun and seduction.But he didn't want the other party to turn around and hand over the evidence to the emperor, and gave him a blow to his heart at his most painful and chaotic moment.

Su Yan... really hated him so much, from the beginning to the end, he never had any affection for him, or softened his heart?

King Yu wanted to laugh.

He hung half-hanging on the edge of the bed in an extremely embarrassed posture, his hairpin fell to the ground, his long hair was loose, and he laughed out of his heart, which was worse than crying.

How is he, Zhu Jincheng, worse than Zhu Jinkai, and what is wrong with him? He will be deprived of everything that belongs to him again and again: name, military power, fiefdom, freedom... the only person who is tempted and longed for. .His imperial brother even wanted to tear off the last fig leaf, not even leaving him with dignity.

Maybe he was really wrong.After ten years of promiscuous flowers, he habitually used the posture and means of plucking flowers and plundering beauty to treat that young official with a sharp knife wrapped in silk, and he was bound to be cut bloody.

For Su Yan, it was his own fault.But for the emperor's elder brother Zhu Jinkui, he has no regrets in his heart, and only has a heart full of anger and resentment that cannot be overcome in ten years.

This resentment has been suppressed by brotherhood and the way of monarch and minister for a whole ten years, and now it is like a prairie fire that can no longer be contained, burning fiercely among his internal organs.

King Yu laughed enough, he raised his head suddenly, his falcon-like eyes were filled with cold light, and he looked at the emperor unabashedly from between the two jet-black hair curtains hanging down his face.

"I don't regret that I gave my life to save Brother Huang, but I regret that I survived." He gritted his teeth and said.

The emperor's finger flicked like a needle prick, "Do you want to die?"

"I want to die at that time, on the body of the emperor, so that you will always be indebted to me and your mother, and feel guilty for the rest of your life. In this way, in your heart, I will always be that loyal fourth brother, and you in my heart, How nice it is to always be the second brother who loves each other dearly?"

"...Are you accusing me of being heartless and ungrateful?"

"Brother Huang is not unfeeling and ungrateful, but the heart of the emperor. After 15 years of cultivation on the dragon chair, he has cultivated into a statue that preserves the laws of heaven and destroys human desires. How to govern the country, herdsmen, and check and balance the court has always been your primary consideration. For this reason, you are guarding against feudal kings and relatives, civil servants and military generals, internal officials and guards, and even guarding against the queen mother and the people next to you, and you have never really trusted anyone."

King Yu sneered, "Even if it is your favorite prince, isn't every move under your supervision? Su Qinghe, who has surpassed the distinction between monarch and minister with you, you love and value his temperament and talent, and let him show off Ambitious, caring about his safety and sending personal guards to drive thousands of miles away, do you really trust him unreservedly in your heart?

"If you really trusted me, you wouldn't have come to ask me where I was on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month—that day I was in the Palace of Compassion and Serenity, serving my mother for dinner, have you forgotten?

"No, you haven't forgotten. You just don't want to believe that Su Yan is hiding something from you, and would rather plant it on me according to his wishes. This is a disorder that makes your heart flustered, but it's not a kind of Zhuang Gong's misfortune." Your favor? Brother Huang, what are you doubting and what are you guarding against?"

Emperor Jinglong's face was as cold as frost, and he said in a serious voice: "Zhu Xujing, do you want to trust me?"

"Do you think that I cut your military power because I suspected you of disobedience from the very beginning, fearing that you would support the soldiers and even try to usurp the throne?"

Speaking of this, King Yu had no scruples on the contrary, he got up and got out of bed, relying on his stature to be taller than the emperor, he deliberately approached.He sneered: "Isn't it?"

"If so, when I first ascended the throne, I should have decreed to seize your military power. How can I let you continue to sit on [-] heavy armor for three full years?"

"Because the imperial brother put his ministers at the last place to cut the vassal. King Liao, King Wei, King Gu, King Ning... In three years, the imperial brother cut off the military power of the princes in the town one by one, and banned them. In the vassal land. It was the younger brother's turn at the end, and the younger brother should be grateful for the grace of heaven, after all, one mother and one sibling, so they are different from other brothers?" King Yu replied sarcastically.

The emperor suppressed his anger and said: "The late emperor's edict, did I show you?"

"Yes."

"Does trusting the king and plotting rebellion conform to what is said in the will, 'If among the kings there are those who support soldiers and refuse to be ministers, the border control system of vassal kings should be abolished, and the military power of the kings should be collected and returned to the court'?"

"...Yes. The only one who can be rebellious is Xin Wang. No matter how much the emperor suspects other vassal kings, he should always trust me!"

Zhu Jinkui was seven years older than him, and since he was a child, he loved to run after his second brother's back.In Prince Qin's mansion, his father was away fighting all the year round, so he hardly cared about them; his mother had to manage the mansion, and fought with his side concubine Mo Shi for several years, and in the middle was heartbroken because of the strange death of the third brother, and it was impossible to devote all her energy to the palace. on their two sons.

He and Zhu Jinkai grew up supporting each other, and when they were older, they followed their father and grandfather to the Northern Expedition and continued to watch and help each other on the battlefield.

So many years of deep feelings, how can it be yesterday because one party has become a great treasure and valued the stability of the country more than Mount Tai?

Perhaps in Zhu Jinkai's eyes, he is the emperor first, and his father, son, brother and husband second.But in his Zhu Jincheng's eyes, Zhu Jinkai is his elder brother first, and the emperor second.

——Because of this, the queen mother said to him a long time ago: "Cheng'er, my mother tried her best to let your father make Wei'er the crown prince. After your father ascended the throne, the mother insisted on making him the crown prince. Not only because the seniority is orderly, but also because he is more suitable to be an emperor than you.

"You are a man of temperament, free and easy to come and go, likes and dislikes idealistic, and easy to act emotionally. Your second brother is different. He knew at a very young age how to choose between responsibility and selfish desires, and he also knew that the only way to do justice is to carry out punishment by hand. Only by governing the ministers under the two handles and caring for all the people instead of loving only one person can one become a wise and wise ruler of the world."

"Mother also knows that you think I favor him, and he thinks I favor you, but this mother's heart is actually the same."

If a bowl of water is uneven, how can parents be indifferent to their children?If the queen mother really loved him, how could she just watch him being trapped in the capital by the emperor's brother for a whole ten years without saying a word of persuasion?

King Yu's eyes were red, and he looked directly at the emperor's brother who was wearing the ochre-yellow [-]-pack dragon gown in front of him. The strong emotions in his heart were like a volcano and a torrent that was about to erupt. In the end, it only condensed into a hot sentence: "We are the same mother Brother who came out of here!"

The emperor looked at him with his hands behind his back, which reminded him of the portraits of the former emperors in the cigarettes lingering in the Taimiao, with solemn and majestic expressions.He seemed to catch a ray of compassion and helplessness from the emperor's reddish eye corners and moist eyes, but it was fleeting, as fast as an illusion.

"The military power of all the kings has been dismantled, and you are the only one left. What will the world think? The emperor is partial to his younger brother, and he does not hesitate to correct the edict and show extravagance. Then how will the laws and regulations issued by him be implemented in the future?

"Furthermore, even if I trust you, how can I trust your [-] Jingbei Army? They only have the commander in their eyes, only military orders, and no emperor or court law."

King Yu was about to retort, but the emperor raised his hand to stop him, and continued: "There is one thing that I don't want to say, I just pretend it never happened. But if you don't say it right now, you won't accept it—"

"Ten years ago, I just ordered you to return to Beijing to take care of my mother's illness. The reorganization of the military system is still under discussion, and rumors have spread to Datong, saying that the emperor suspected that the Dai Wang had a heart of disobedience and wanted to trick him into returning to Beijing." According to the theory of treason, the entire Jingbei Army will be regarded as a traitor, and no one will be spared.

"The commander-in-chief is not here, and rumors are spreading everywhere. Under the instigation of some generals who don't know the truth, the Jingbei Army almost mutinied because of your grievances. If you hadn't heard the news and hurried back halfway to appease you, after the Ganzhou mutiny, There will be a Datong mutiny!"

King Yu was stunned, his expression changed.

"The difference is that the soldiers in Ganzhou are chaotic soldiers and are easy to suppress, but your soldiers in Datong are elite cavalry with one heart! If you couldn't suppress it at that time, your subordinates would directly raise their flags to rebel in the name of supporting you. Throwing the yellow robe on you, how will you end up riding a tiger? And how should I face these two difficult situations?"

King Yu's face turned pale.He never expected that the flames that he extinguished in the army ten years ago before they burned up were not as secret as he thought—the emperor knew everything.

"If this happened to any other vassal king, I will push the boat along the way and give him a dream, and finally let the rebels and careerists go to the guillotine together! But it is because of you, Zhu Xujing, that I put this matter to rest." He suppressed it, secretly ordering the important ministers who knew about it to shut up. Finally, he found another reason and executed those generals who incited the morale of the army.

"You said, I don't trust you enough? I'm partial to you? What I'm defending is not a certain person, but people's hearts!"

King Yu staggered back and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"So the emperor still avoids me and guards against me after all. Even if he knows that I have no intention of fighting for the throne, he must avoid losing military power. That being the case, why did he say the big lie of 'you and I will rule the world' back then? Don't you think you are hypocritical? "

The emperor took a deep breath and tried to put his palm on his shoulder.As if being stabbed by this body temperature, King Yu struggled slightly, and heard his elder brother say: "At that time... I was sincere."

What about now?King Yu didn't ask.He knows what is right and wrong, what is involuntary, and what is too cold at a high place.Anyway, he didn't have this ambition, and he never expected to be the emperor. What he wanted was not Jiuding, but freedom.

But the identity of the vassal king, he is destined to be either captive in the feudal palace, or imprisoned in the capital palace. The world is vast and far-reaching, where is his freedom? !

"So I hope that even if you are in the capital, you can help me manage the country and use your talents to other places besides the battlefield.

"In the past few years, in all the meetings of the court, which time have you been left on the political list? But how many times have you been here?

"I want you to do some practical things, but you are angry with me. Not only do you refuse to take over any errands, you also indulge in sensuality and debauchery, thinking that self-indulgence and self-defilement will make me let go of my guard. You know that I have those snowflake-like impeachment papers , Disappointed with you again and again, headache for you?

"Sharing worries for the king, serving the country, and pleading for the people, isn't this another sense of 'governing the world'?"

King Yu was like a piece of charred ebony, silent under the palm of the emperor.

Emperor Jinglong sighed: "Fortunately, there is a Tiangong Academy. You are willing to take over this job, and you still do it well. Although I haven't publicly praised you, I am very relieved. I hope this is a good sign. It can slowly resolve the depression in your heart. I also hope that you will reform yourself and stop venting your grievances on innocent courtiers and officials.

"I want you to sincerely repent, to apologize to Su Yan, and let him punish you until he forgives you."

King Yu suddenly raised his face, with a desperate and sharp expression, like the halberd that pierced through his heart back then, "——what about after apologizing?"

"Everyone goes his own way, and there is no intersection."

King Yu's hand clenched the sleeping sheet into a ball, his knuckles bulged due to too much force, the veins on the back of his hand were exposed, and he gritted his teeth word by word: "Forgiveness, difficulty, obedience, fate!"

The emperor raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "You still don't give up? He is hard to get rid of you now, and treats you like a scourge. You are such a stalker, what is your demeanor, what is your face?"

"The grievance is hard to get rid of, and I will get rid of it myself; if I treat him like a scourge, I will make him change. But if the emperor uses the power of the king to force the younger brother to give up, the younger brother has no choice but to resist the order!"

"Presumptuous! Zhu Xujing, do you know the fate of resisting the imperial edict? If you despise the emperor, even if you are a clan, you will not be able to protect you."

"The end...will you give me death? My brother is not afraid of life and death." King Yu smiled miserably and opened his clothes, revealing many old scars on his chest. Why don’t you just do it right here, so you don’t have to issue a decree to convict him, order someone to arrest him, and go to war.”

He pulled out the short sword "Hook Fish Gut" from under the pillow, and stuffed the hilt into the emperor's hand.

The emperor's face was ashen, and he scolded: "Are you asking for death? This is forcing the king with merit. Do you have any conscience to be a minister and a younger brother!"

King Yu tightly grasped the emperor's hand and the hilt of his sword, and slammed the sharp edge of the sword into his heart, "If you have a conscience, you will know if you cut it out. Su Qinghe is right on the tip of my heart. How to break up?"

The point of the blade pierced into the flesh, and the blood flowed meanderingly. The emperor was once again trembling with anger from his guilty brother, "Look at your character, you don't look like a prince, you are clearly a soldier and a rascal!"

King Yu tasted the pleasure of doing what he wanted from the pain of cutting his flesh, as if the evil spirit flowing in his body also gushed out along with the blood.He laughed loudly and said: "In this world, if love can't love, what's the point of living yourself as a heartless and desireless god, even if the world is in your hands--you think so, Brother Huang?"

In a remote corner of Prince Yu's Mansion, deep in the shadows covered by the night, Yin Fu coughed suddenly, spat out black blood, staggered two steps forward, and pressed his hands on the jagged rocks.

The crane bone flute held between his fingers was splashed with blood spots.

He worked hard to exercise his energy and adjust his breath, and it took a while for him to stand still.

In the past few days, unless King Yu left the mansion, the sound of the flute never stopped every night.Send it to the ear of the target person with the method of sound transmission.

Last night at Honglu Temple on New Year's Eve, a mesmerizing flying sound that manipulated four people at the same time consumed too much of his true energy, and before he had time to accumulate it, tonight saw the opportunity again, knowing that he could not help but make a move, causing the blood to rush , hurt the heart and lung meridians.

Yuwang Junwu was born with a firm will, so he can only take it slowly, and rushing ahead will arouse the suspicion of the other party, which will lead to failure... Yin Fu warned himself this way.

He hid the crane bone flute close to his body, wiped off the blood on the corners of his mouth, and after taking a deep breath, his figure emerged from the darkness and returned to the dimly lit path.

After walking a few steps, a voice behind asked, "What are you doing here?"

Yin Fu's heart trembled slightly, he turned around quietly, and said softly, "Commander Han."

Han Ben walked over with his waist knife in his hand, and looked him up and down, "Your face has been ugly for the past few days, and your diarrhea hasn't healed yet?"

Yin Fu smiled, "Commander Xie is concerned. I'm fine."

"You have something to do." Han Ben said, "On New Year's Eve, the guards on duty had a New Year's Eve dinner together, why didn't they see you alone? You left your post without authorization, where did you go?"

Yin Fu lowered his head and didn't speak, trying to avoid Han Ben.

Han Ben blocked his way, "If you don't speak clearly, you can't leave. Do you want to explain to me, or confess in front of the prince?"

Yin Fu rushed from left to right, but was blocked by the opponent, unable to escape, so he lowered his head and said in a nasal voice, "I want you to take care of it!"

"Of course I have to take care of the responsibility." Hearing his soft nasal voice, Han Ben felt a little distressed, but couldn't help but want to press him further, "Say! Where did you go last night? What did you do?"

Yin Fu was forced to cry, and said helplessly, "I'm going to worship my parents! Back then, my family was wiped out on New Year's Eve, and the bones of my parents were never recovered. I don't know where they are now. The heart of the Son of Man. After speaking, can I go?"

Han Ben was silent for a moment, and said, "Sorry, I offended."

With tears in his eyes, Yin Fu lowered his head and was about to leave when one accidentally bumped into him.Han Ben subconsciously stretched out his hand to support him, and when he got close, he could smell the faint smell of blood on his body.

"Are you injured?" Han Ben asked.

Yin Fu said, "No."

"Then the blood energy in your body is... Guishui?"

Yin Fu was stunned, and then shook his fist: "You are the woman!"

Han Ben held his fist and smiled lightly: "The deceased is gone, don't be sad. Let's go, brother will have a few drinks with you."

Yin Fu was carried away by his shoulders, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.