such as Yue Linyuan

Si Yuanting always felt that there was an invisible shackle on his body. He locked Chu Yuezhi with an iron chain, and he was also bound by a heavy iron chain. The iron chain was very long, and it was circled year after year. Binding him tight again and again, and dragging him down.

He has always hated his status as an eunuch, and he has always believed that the filth on his body can never be washed away, so he can't let go, can't identify with himself as an eunuch, and is constantly being tortured invisibly.

Until Chu Yuezhi came to him, and then recovered his memory and handed himself over to him completely, hugging him again and again, filling in the part of him that he lost with himself.

Chu Yuezhi worked so hard to undo the shackles on his body, heal the layers of wounds on his body bit by bit, and then personally wash away the filth that seemed to have soaked into his bone marrow.

He vaguely remembered that in the second year after Chu Yuezhi went to war, one day he made the old eunuch unhappy and was whipped, and then knelt outside the old eunuch's room all night. There was a heavy rain that night, and the torrential rain hit On his body, blood from the whip wounds smeared under his body, but he felt happy, and he thought that it would be great if this rain could wash away all the shame and filth on his body.

But it turns out that what can really save him is neither heavy rain nor death, but Chu Yuezhi's hand and unreserved love for him.

Chu Yuezhi smashed his shell that had been strengthened layer by layer over the years, and made him shed tears that he hadn't shed in 21 years; then he carefully picked off the rotten flesh that was bleeding from old wounds that hadn't healed for many years, and kissed His wound and soul had long been numb from the pain; but now, Chu Yuezhi finally removed the shackles that trapped him, and untied the iron chain from him.

Holding Chu Yuezhi's hand stroking his face, Si Yuanting lowered his eyes with a low smile, let out a breath slowly, and said, "No need, Chu Qi, I don't feel pain anymore, I accept... all these years of being a eunuch and even The existence of the eunuch himself and the company does not need to be erased. The company is also me. What I have experienced in the past 21 years and I have worked hard for it. My pain and struggle will always be a part of me. Before tonight, I have always felt inferior. I got you so I am even more afraid of losing you. You are so good and clean in my heart. How can I be worthy of you as a eunuch. Until just now, you made me understand that I don’t need to underestimate myself because of my status as a eunuch, eunuch So what, can't the eunuch be able to achieve something? I have tried my best to prop up the Daheng Kingdom these years, and everything I have done for the Daheng Kingdom will not and should not be denied and erased just because I am an eunuch. "

Finally, he can truly face himself, all the embarrassment, despair, incompleteness and pain.

Tonight, to be truly accepted by him as a part of himself.

Chu Yuezhi felt a burst of soreness and dampness in his red and swollen eyes. He couldn't explain why he wanted to cry again. Isn't it a good thing that Si Yuanting is willing to let go?

"Really, can you accept it? Really, won't you feel ashamed because of your status as a eunuch for 21 years?" Chu Yuezhi looked up at Si Yuanting, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, "Chu Qi I've never been disgusted with it, Si Jiu taught Chu Qi when I was a child, the hero didn't ask where he came from, how could he forget it? Seeing you hurt yourself all the time, it hurts me too!"

Chu Yuezhi didn't want to show his weakness at this moment, so he tried slightly to withdraw his hand to cover his embarrassed appearance, but Si Yuanting refused to let him, instead he held his hand even tighter, saying: "I have You, from now on, I will no longer despise myself, and my status as a eunuch will not hurt me any more. I will wait for you, and after I ascend the throne, I will rehabilitate the Si family and let me go to the court under the real name of Si Yuanting. Chaotang."

"Yes, I will let everyone know about the loyalty and benevolence of the Si family, Si Yuanting's hard work and hard work, and Si Zhuxi's perseverance." Chu Yue insisted on the promise in words, paused again before continuing softly: "Marry Zhuxi is the princess, and it is only my idea to make her queen in the future. In the end, I still have to respect Zhuxi and your wishes. After all, it is the two of you who have been wronged. If Zhuxi is unwilling, we will find another way. In short We can't let Zhuxi do anything against her will again."

Letting go of Chu Yuezhi's hand, wiping away the tears for him, and then gently pinching the bridge of his nose, Si Yuanting said, "Are we the only ones wronged? You won't be wronged? Your family has been sent to the Jiaofang Division for many years, this is a humiliation to you in the eyes of the officials and the people. What's more, you have been tortured by me for no reason tonight, and you have been injured all over your body."

"What kind of humiliation is this? Regardless of the recent recovery of my reputation among the people, Chu Yuelei's gift of marriage will only make more people see his narrow-mindedness and be more inclined to me. The matter of marrying Zhuxi alone As far as I'm concerned, if I hadn't broken my sleeves and liked you, Zhuxi is such a good and strong woman, I would have fallen in love with him at first sight and offered to marry me." Only Si Yuanting was the only one Chu Yuezhi was angry with at the wedding ceremony. The malice and injury of Si Zhuxi, as for himself, Chu Yuelei's suppression is nothing to him.Don't look away, Chu Yuezhi pulled down his sleeve to cover the injury on his forearm, and said unnaturally: "If you care about tonight, then next time, please be gentle, don't, don't teach me that it hurts again. .”

"No, I won't treat you like that again." Si Yuanting hugged his still hot body tightly, apologetic in his eyes and words: "In the future, I will only let you get happiness from me." Yu, I will never make you hurt again."

"Then, that's enough." Chu Yuezhi said in a low voice. After all, he was shy about talking about such a thing. After finishing speaking, he changed the subject again before waiting for Si Yuanting to answer, saying: "I received Yunxiao's letter today. According to the letter, he and Huangfu went all the way to a remote village and found a den, but some accidents happened, and Huangfu was seriously injured."

Si Yuanting was slightly surprised when he heard the words, "Huangfu's martial arts are not inferior to yours and mine, how could he be injured?"

"It seems that because Yunxiao was unable to deal with ordinary people, Huangfu was injured in order to protect him." Chu Yuezhi said, Wei Yunxiao did not elaborate on the specific situation in the letter, but only explained the situation of the village. "Yunxiao mentioned in the letter that he and Huangfu tracked down all the way and found that the abducting and selling of well-educated boudoir women and buying wives and having children were only things in the capital and the thirteen provinces. After leaving the villages after the thirteen provinces, most of the poor people People will sell their daughters at a low price in exchange for money or food, and the more remote the place, the more common it is to sell daughters to survive."

Si Yuanting's face became serious, and he said in a deep voice, "This is not surprising. Daheng Kingdom's governance strategy for hundreds of years has destined the regions outside the capital and the thirteen provinces to be poor and weak. Although the capital and the thirteen provinces Prosperity, but the power of the king and courtiers are also concentrated in the capital, which is centralization. Although there is a governor system of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Governor of each place will not go out of the thirteen provinces at the farthest, and the best merchants are all To be handed over to the imperial court, the best materials are also concentrated in the capital, and the lives and development of the people outside the thirteen provinces cannot be managed and improved, and they have to pay taxes continuously, so they will inevitably fall into the plight of becoming more and more poor and backward."

"Indeed, whether it was when I went to war or when I returned to the court, the life of the people in Daheng has been like this for many years. The thirteen provinces to the capital are prosperous, singing and dancing all the way, but outside the thirteen provinces, people are living more and more to the frontier. The more impoverished. In this way, the people in remote villages will choose to keep more laborers, that is, male children, and abandon female children who are not dominant in heavy labor such as farming. In their concept, this It's the most normal thing." Chu Yuezhi braced himself in Si Yuanting's arms, wanted to straighten his back, and said seriously: "So the focus of human trafficking is not just on the surface of women's status. , the root cause of the problem lies in the way of ruling the Daheng Kingdom, which has led to defects in economic development and other systems.”

"This kind of centralization system originated from the pre-Qin period, which established the supremacy of imperial power, the Sangong Jiuqing, and the local county system. Over the past few thousand years, it is undeniable that small farmers can achieve self-sufficient production and reproduction, and can also eliminate local separatists. To ensure the unity and stability of the country. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Daheng Kingdom abolished the power of the prime minister and divided it into six departments, and set up a cabinet; , and vigorously developed the economy." Si Yuanting said that in these years in the court, he knew the disadvantages of Daheng Kingdom's current governance the most, "but such a system is also the most prone to tyranny. If the incumbent is a Mingjun, he can indeed It makes the country stronger, but if it is a foolish king, it will easily lead the country to perish. Moreover, excessive centralization of power also makes bureaucrats protect each other so that corruption is difficult to eradicate, and even worsens."

With the guidance of Si Yuanting, and recalling the advice of Si Laoshangshu back then, Chu Yuezhi also saw the blind spot that he hadn't discovered in the past: "That's why Si Laoshangshu made repeated admonitions back then, to make Daheng Kingdom open-minded. , and you have been working hard to lift the sea ban and restore overseas trade in the past few years. Because if the people do not have their own ideas, society and culture will stagnate or even regress; cutting off business with overseas exchanges such as East and West will block the economy. Development, and second, will completely block the Daheng country, thinking that it is strong, but actually falling behind."

"Father once said that the biggest disadvantage of stereotyped examinations is that most of the officials who seek officials are bookworms with rigid ideas. With the power in his hands, he naturally only thinks of himself, and then thinks about clinging to people with greater power to seek greater benefits for himself; but those who really have ideas and have people in their hearts can only be depressed, isn't it If you fail to become an official, your official career will not go well. In the end, the king will be surrounded by useless ministers who deceive his superiors and subordinates and specialize in crony disputes. Can not decline." It was only after entering the court that Si Yuanting understood his father's worries more and more. Centralization of power was for better rule, but once such rule went astray, the country would be destroyed.

"Before, I thought the problem was too simple and one-sided." After receiving the news from the carrier pigeon today, Chu Yuezhi reconsidered those problems that he hadn't noticed in the past, and it is precisely because of this that he finally saw human trafficking. The real evil that lies beneath.

Raising his hand to check the temperature of Chu Yuezhi's forehead, Si Yuanting carefully picked him up and left the dark room, carried him back to the bed in the inner room, covered him with a quilt before sitting down beside the bed, and held his hand Said: "Reform will encounter many obstacles, so it is even more important to set the course before the reform, otherwise the evil forces below will unite and become a terrible resistance, which will eventually lead to the failure of the reform. This is not something that can be explained in a few words. It is also the real problem we have to face in the future. You are still having a fever, so take a good rest, and when you get better, we will continue to discuss how to go next."

"Hmm." Chu Yuezhi did not have the energy to continue talking. There was no comfort anywhere in his body. He forced himself to concentrate and said so much, but now he really couldn't hold it anymore. He lay on his side facing Si Yuan. Ting, after Chu Yuezhi was sure that Si Yuanting would not leave, he fell into a coma almost as soon as he closed his eyes.