Iron Armored Emperor

As Di Qiye approached, Gu Lie finally saw the serious expression on his face.

Gu Lie had seen this expression once before.

In a certain court debate in the previous life, Di Qiye reluctantly stood at the head of the officials and did not speak. Gu Lie deliberately asked him: "What do you think of the Marquis Dingguo?"

Di Qiye smiled coldly: "I have no opinion."

With his appearance, it would be a ghost if he didn't have an opinion. Gu Lie was a Buddha, and he was forced to get angry by him, and said with anger: "Mr. Dingguo has something to say, you might as well say it."

"Your Majesty," Di Qiye lifted the royal robe directly, and knelt down on the ground in an incomparable style, "Then please forgive me for the crime of disrespect first."

The civil servants and officials suddenly became energetic, and they had a premonition that they would not have to worry about what to write in the memorials for the next three months.

Gu Lie's heart went cold on the spot.

"Tell me," Gu Lie gritted his teeth.

Di Qiye first bowed to Gu Lie respectfully, and then said honestly, "Then I'll say it."

"I believe that the imperial court is a den of thieves who seize people's wealth, and His Majesty is the leader of the world's thieves!"

"presumptuous!"

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The golden steps are the steps leading to the dragon chair. They are low and wide, with low screens painted with gold and dragons on both sides.Three steps up the golden steps is the golden platform where the dragon chair is located.

Just as Di Qiye sat down on the golden steps, he suddenly heard Gu Lie laughing in a low voice.

He was sitting sideways against the screen, the Azure Dragon Saber was placed in his hand, he met Gu Lie's gaze as soon as he raised his eyes, and said angrily, "What are you laughing at?"

"What are you not laughing at?" Gu Lie looked down at him, "Why are you sitting there?"

Di Qiye stretched out his long legs, and lightly touched the ground under the golden steps with his soft boots: "Yang Ping died there, dirty."

Gu Lie shook his head and smiled.

"Gu Lie." Di Qiye looked at him seriously.

Gu Lie agreed with a hum.

Di Qiye said solemnly: "You want me to go to court to participate in politics, have you ever thought about my ideas that are incompatible with this era, have you ever thought about the 100% differences between me and you, have you ever thought about... ...What will we do on the day when you and I are totally different?"

Of course Gu Lie has thought about it, and he has thought about it for two lifetimes.

But Gu Lie still wanted to hear more from Di Qiye, and wanted Di Qiye to tell him everything he had kept silent about in his previous life.

So Gu Lie asked back: "Are you so sure that between you and me, there will be something completely different?"

Di Qiye sighed helplessly.

He actually didn't want to say some empty words that don't have much meaning to this era, but the matter has come to this point, it is impossible not to confess to Gu Lie, Gu Lie has brought him to an unavoidable situation, if he continues to avoid it, the impact will not only be It was himself, including Gu Lie, including his subordinates, including the entire Great Chu.

Di Qiye is used to controlling fate in his own hands. He has always been a strong man of fate, but Gu Lie asked him to submit to the kingship and be a real ancient courtier.

If you want to fight, there is only one way, and that is to deliberately betray your relatives, completely turning yourself into the target of the great Chu court, and walking towards the fateful ending of a famous general since ancient times.

However, today, Di Qiye has to accept a reality, that is, Gu Lie has broken into his destiny and has become a part of him that he has to consider.

Wanting to accompany Gu Lie down the road means to a certain extent betraying his principles and compromising with the kingship.

And Di Qiye was not sure how much compromise he could bear, it was a test of how much he and Gu Lie could trust and fully communicate with each other.

Therefore, on this night when Gu Lie ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he had to say something that Gu Lie would never like to hear.

"What I say later, you will definitely be angry when you hear it," Di Qiye warned in advance, "but if I don't say it tonight, you will be even more angry in the future."

Di Qiye on the battlefield rarely looked so serious, especially in the memory of his previous life, after the Great Chu came to power, Di Qiye had always presented himself as lazy and self-willed, for fear that officials would not come to join him.

The moonlight was cold, which made this fair-skinned person look like a beautiful woman.

In the previous life, although Di Qiye carried the title of "God of the Great Chu Soldiers", due to the strange cause of his death, there were few sacrifices and offerings. Gu Lie felt sorry for it.

Only later did he hear that the folk girls in Dachu had already made a convention that every Qixi Festival, they would put melons and fruits at night to worship the small statue of Di Qiye. They were not asking for marriage, but asking Di Qiye to bless them to grow up and be more beautiful. , making Gu Lie dumbfounded.

Come to think of it, these women in the boudoir knew that if they imitated Di Qiye's style, they would definitely not be able to marry Mr. Ruyi.

Thinking about this joke that he didn't know how to evaluate, Gu Lie nodded and said: "You say."

Di Qiye didn't know why Gu Lie was in such a good mood, and gave Gu Lie a strange look, but thinking about Gu Lie's enthronement and proclaiming himself emperor in the Chou Family's Palace tonight, it was only natural that he should be in a good mood, so he put this idea aside and pondered for a while , finally opened his mouth.

"No system is perfect, and the progress of civilization also has a process of development and change. I am not trying to catch fish in this era, but I want to explain to you why you and I will be in opposition in the end."

"Speaking of confrontation, it doesn't mean that I must find trouble with you, but it may be worse than trouble with you."

"Gu Lie, I can be your subject, but I will never truly submit to the kingship."

Before he finished speaking, Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie's eyes, and found that those eyes thicker than the night were full of darkness, but they were lifeless.

Di Qiye lowered his eyes and continued: "I may be a lucky person. The era I lived in was not a peaceful era, so I was able to fight for a place in the vanguard camp."

"However, even in wartime, the fundamental difference between my era and this era is that even if I am a general, I am equal in personality to my soldiers and ordinary people."

"This means that I have a fundamental disagreement with absolute monarchy."

Di Qiye paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about how to explain it, and then continued: "If you don't understand, this may be similar to the ancient Confucianism in the pre-Qin period. It's repulsive and suspicious."

"It is true that it is not a complete and mature thought, but it has a natural respect for the individual and human nature."

"However, in order to seek the favor of the emperor, Confucianism in later generations flattered Confucian classics, and the unified dynasty was even more Confucianism outside and law inside. Aggregation, emphasizing being a loyal minister of the emperor."

"In our era, there are no superior emperors. In theory, each of us has equal rights and obligations."

"If you want to establish a powerful Chu Dynasty, you are a wise king, so you will inevitably become kingly."

Di Qiye smiled helplessly: "Maybe it's too empty to say so. I'm not trying to convince you with ideas that don't apply to this era. I just want to tell you that I don't take it for granted that you are right. "

"I will not agree with your views and actions just because you are an emperor. I will never consider whether something is right or wrong from the perspective of factions and interests. For me, right is right and wrong is wrong. Since you If you want me to be a courtier, if you want me to stand in the court, you have to be ready."

"I may not be able to interfere with your decision, and I have no intention of forcing it. But you must also understand that I will never change my principles. I can compromise for you, but I cannot guarantee that I will compromise for you. How many……"

"In the eyes of others, I won't be an obedient minister, not a pure minister, probably, just a favored minister who is highly praised by you and sometimes speaks outrageously."

Di Qiye blankly looked at the night sky outside the hall.

Then, he turned his head to look at Gu Lie: "Even so, do you still want me to stand in the hall?"