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The emperor entered Dongyu Mountain again.

"I walked the most on this path back then, but I didn't expect it to be deserted now."

He pointed to the hillside on the side and said: "There are the most rabbits over there. You only need to get a cover, and you can harvest a few the next day. At that time, I was not very good at cooking, but I was hungry and panicked at that time, and the half-baked ones were also good." It tastes delicious."

Everyone felt sympathetic, but the emperor looked very interested.

They turned around Dongyu Mountain and descended from the other side.

This side belongs to the hometown of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

More than ten officials waited respectfully at the foot of the mountain, and when they saw the emperor, they went forward to salute.

"I have seen Your Majesty!"

The emperor nodded, looked at the blazing sun, squinted his eyes, "Is there someone jumping on the beam in the old place of the Southern Zhou Dynasty?"

More than a dozen officials were shocked, and the leader said: "When the people mention His Majesty, they all say that he is a famous emperor through the ages. Some people even say that they are lucky to have returned to the Tang Dynasty, otherwise they would still be struggling in hell."

At that time, Sun Shi's New Deal failed, and the conservatives counterattacked and abolished all the New Deal, causing heavy casualties to the people.That is, after that, the rebellion in the Southern Zhou Dynasty continued continuously.

"Where are those unsuccessful scholar-bureaucrats?"

the emperor asked.

"This..." The official wanted to say the same, but he didn't dare to lie just thinking about the emperor's past, "Most of them are full of complaints."

"If they have military power in their hands, they will launch a rebellion. But if I am here, even if they have it, they can only shrink back! Now they still have some people in the officialdom. Go and tell those people that if you want to force the palace, you must do so as soon as possible." .There is no war now, I am a little bored, just use them to practice my hands!"

The emperor got on his horse and walked towards Chang'an. The officials watched him rein in his horse and stared at Dongyu Mountain for a long time. He suddenly raised his hand and waved his hand, as if saying goodbye to an old friend.

That demeanor is heartbreaking.

"It really is the hero!"

"How dare those people?"

"When these words are passed back, those people will be scared to hide at home and dare not go out."

"The world will be peaceful."

"Only Xijiang is left, but I heard that His Majesty is not planning to attack, saying that Duke Xing and Zhao Song don't have the guts to rebel."

"That's a world of peace."

"Yes! The world is peaceful!"

……

It was autumn when the emperor returned to Chang'an.

He accidentally saw Wei Linger and Nian Ziyue visiting the queen.

"I have seen Your Majesty."

Wei Linger took a bold look at the tanned emperor, while Nian Ziyue lowered her eyes, avoiding those eyes that impressed the emperor deeply.

"Your Majesty has worked hard all the way."

The queen smiled and said, "Hurry up and take a bath first!"

"it is good!"

When the emperor came out of the bath, the two daughters still left.

"What is this?"

the emperor asked.

The queen stood behind him, wiped his hair with a cloth towel, and said: "After you left, many officials posted the memorial, saying that the harem was empty. Then, many officials expressed something cryptically... want to send their daughters or The granddaughter sent it to serve you."

"The empty emperor's mind is probably not quiet." The emperor pointed to his temple, "Before I went to Yuanzhou, I was not quiet. But after I came back, I felt like sitting here for a thousand years."

"Is it not going well?"

"Shun, it's just that, the result makes me very... I am disappointed!"

"Can I know?"

"Why not?" The emperor leaned back, side by side with his wife, and said softly: "The late emperor wanted to make drastic reforms, and offended the most prominent forces in the Tang Dynasty. He thought that with the support of the emperor and empress behind him, he could at least fight It's a tie. I didn't expect..."

"I see." The queen put her chin on his shoulder and said softly: "So I don't like to talk about political affairs in the harem, and I don't like to get involved in political affairs. It's not that I'm incompetent, but that I don't want to give up. Your affection."

The emperor patted the queen lightly, "I know."

"No matter what, as long as it is mixed with interests, it will eventually change."

"Yes!"

The queen wiped his hair slowly until it was completely dry before putting on the crown for him.

"There has always been someone near Xiaohe Village, who belongs to the empress." The emperor said suddenly.

"What is this? Salvation?" said the Queen.

"Yes!"

The emperor nodded, then shook his head:
"But from the moment he was betrayed, I was thinking that the late emperor must have given up. He won't accept the redemption!"

……

"take away!"

Li Mi and Yang Songcheng were pulled out.

Both of their leg injuries were healed, but there were some problems left, and they walked with a limp.

The two walked slowly in the palace, the maids looked at Li Mi and lowered their heads.Someone also spat at him.

After leaving the imperial palace, you will find the imperial city. When the officials saw the two of them, they had various reactions.

"The way of heaven will be repaid. The sins of the past will finally be settled."

"I don't know how His Majesty will deal with them."

"Mostly it was pulled outside and beheaded with a knife."

"Then send the head to Gongling to sacrifice, so that it will be a happy enmity."

"The false emperor looked a lot thinner, and his energy was gone."

"Yang Songcheng is better."

"Your Majesty is down."

The emperor who had just returned to Chang'an set off again, but this time he was going to Gongling.

……

When we arrived at Gongling, the weather was a bit cold.

The surrounding fields and hillsides looked dusty, as if empty.

The soldiers guarding the mausoleum have already come out.

"I've met Your Majesty!" The leader's general, former horned dragon guard Shang Ze, led people to welcome the emperor.

"Thanks for your hard work."

According to the emperor's arrangement, the soldiers guarding the mausoleum are rotated every few years. In this way, guarding the mausoleum is not a drudgery, but a kind of rotation.The soldiers were very happy about this.

"The soldiers will clean up the surrounding area of ​​Gongling Mausoleum spontaneously. Look, Your Majesty, the surrounding area looks much neater now. And a lot of saplings have been planted. In just ten years, this place will be full of vitality."

"it is good!"

The emperor stayed in Gongling, got up in the early morning of the second day, took a bath and changed clothes, and prepared to worship the late emperor.

Probably knowing that his doomsday is coming, Li Bi was eating, but Yang Songcheng's expression was bleak, and he couldn't eat anything.

The two were locked in the same room, and Li Mi was devouring the food. Suddenly the door was pushed open. Lin Feibao glanced at them and said, "Eat more."

Immediately, Li Mi lost his appetite, squatted there retching, and then vomited out all the food he ate.

He vomited tears, knelt there and howled.

Yang Songcheng smiled miserably and said, "Do you think that evil bastard will let you go if you cry for a while? Look at where this is, it is Gongling. The son is his father Zhaoxue, and he brought his enemies to die in front of his father's tomb to comfort the souls of the dead. It is the biggest filial piety in the Central Plains for thousands of years. Hahahaha!"

Han Shitou's voice came from outside, "How can your Majesty execute them?"

The two listened blankly.

"Never."

"According to our thinking, it should be peeled and cramped."

"But this is Gongling, it's not good to make it bloody."

"Your Majesty is down."

"It's almost there." The emperor's voice sounded very relaxed.

"come out!"

A few horned dragon guards came in and roughly dragged the false emperor and Yang Songcheng out of the room.

"Forgive me!"

Li Mi was already paralyzed and needed two people to hold her up.

Yang Songcheng was better, but he was also struggling, and couldn't even speak.

The emperor looked at the two of them, "Today, all this should come to an end."

……

Walking slowly along the tomb passage, the emperor looked at the cypress trees on both sides and said, "Pine and cypress integrity, I think the late emperor liked it!"

In front of the mausoleum, the emperor stopped.

Someone sent three sticks of incense, and the emperor lit them with money paper.

"Aye, here I come again."

The emperor put three sticks of incense on the censer and looked at the inscription amidst the smoke.

"That year, you were ambitious and wanted to change your life for Datang, but in the end you ruined yourself."

"What you didn't accomplish, I continued to do. I beat those meat eaters so badly that they could only bow their heads, but I was not happy."

"Whenever one of my innovations succeeds, I will think of you. I was thinking, did you ever regret when you rushed towards those meat eaters?"

"At first I thought you would regret it, but then I felt that I was wrong. As proud as you, even if you are alone, you will still rush towards those dangers without fear."

"You know who is slandering yourself, I brought them today."

The emperor didn't look back and waved.

"Take it up." Lin Feibao said.

The four horned dragon guards supported the false emperor and Yang Songcheng and stepped forward.

"Uncle!" Li Mi howled, "I am Li Mi, it is Erlang! Uncle, please spare Erlang!"

The emperor smiled and said: "The pines and cypresses on the side are not bad, so let's hang them there."

"No!"

As soon as Li Bi opened his mouth, he was punched and knocked out all his teeth.

"Old man... old man..." Yang Songcheng finally went limp, "Ancestor, the Yang family was destroyed by this old man, and this old man made a mistake. If there is an afterlife, this old man will definitely stay away from Li Mi, old man, don't be greedy anymore...don't be greedy anymore... ..."

The emperor listened to the struggle, to the groaning of the branches, to...

The sound gradually fell silent.

"Aye, when Yang Lue took me to flee, A Weng and his grandmother sent good men to follow them all the way, and beheaded many good men sent by the Yang family. After I arrived in Yuanzhou, A Weng's people were nearby. Execute possible threats."

"They will definitely say that I have completed the redemption. But I know that you will not accept this redemption."

A flock of birds flew out from the forest in front, and Gongsun Jie was right behind Shang Ze. Shang Ze turned his head and looked coldly.

"It's not the old man, it's because they came out by themselves." Gongsun Jie said.

The flock of birds flew over the mausoleum, and the emperor took a look.

"Ah Ning, she is your daughter-in-law. I know she has always wanted to ask me, is she willing to accept this salvation."

"I think……"

The emperor shook his head.

"cannot!"

……

The emperor looked up at the birds.

Birds circled overhead.

The autumn wind blows through the pines and cypresses, whimpering.

"A Liang is a good boy, I know, A Ye, you must be worried that I will be fascinated by power and repeat the mistakes of Emperor Xuande and Empress Wu. But I think, I won't!"

The emperor knelt down and kowtowed...

"You have always hoped to create a prosperous Tang Dynasty with your own hands, but unfortunately, you died before you were born. I know you are unwilling, so I will come to your unfinished business!"

The emperor got up.

"This Great Tang will surely fulfill your wishes!"