Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1269 Li Shimin

The emperor took the elixir, and his whole body was in an abnormal state. At the beginning, he felt dizzy, dizzy, and even had a headache, but soon the emperor felt the long-lost joy, then had hallucinations, and finally reached an almost numb ethereal state. meditative state.

The various diseases and pains that had tormented him and prevented him from having a moment of peace were all separated from him at this time, and his sluggish spirit was also rarely lifted up.

He knew that this elixir of Tianzhu Huseng had problems, had great side effects, and even became addictive.But for today's emperor, even a moment of tranquility and temporary upliftment are what he is eager to pursue.

This is simply drinking poison to quench thirst.

But for a person lost in the desert and extremely hungry, he would want to drink even salty water.

next to.

Xu Hui watched the emperor's eyes finally recover, so he reported in a low voice, "His Royal Highness is begging to see you outside, and has been kneeling for a long time."

Li Shimin sat up.

Xu Hui quickly picked up a brocade robe for the emperor and put it on for him.

Li Shimin's movements changed sharply, and his eyes sparkled.

"Go and call Wu Mei."

"Let the prince come in!"

The closed door of the palace was finally opened, and the servant bowed beside the prince to pass the message in a low voice, and stretched out his hands to help the prince who was kneeling with numb legs and feet.

Chengqian pushed away the servant.

He didn't stand up, and walked directly into the hall on his knees.

"I am ashamed of my father, I know I was wrong!"

Chengqian walked all the way to Li Shimin on his knees, stretched out his arms and hugged the emperor's leg, crying bitterly.

Li Shimin just stood there coldly, looking down at his son.

"I'm not dead yet, are you in such a hurry?"

"When you were a teenager, you liked to play Turkic games, dressed up as Turkic people, and took the subordinates of the Eastern Palace to check out horses and sheep in the mountains. Huh, I thought you grew up, but I didn't expect you to never forget the Turkic people Even Turkic people have learned the traditions of adopting concubine mothers. But even Turkic people, only after the death of the father, the youngest son who keeps the business is eligible to inherit the father’s tribe, livestock and women.”

"I'm not dead yet, am I?"

Chengqian kowtowed on the ground to plead guilty, "My son is wrong!"

Li Shimin kicked Chengqian over, then turned and sat down.

"Qin Lang taught you to come here and cry?"

Chengqian knelt down on the ground, "I know that I have made a big mistake, so I asked the teacher how to repent. The teacher said that if you make a mistake, you must admit it, and you must stand upright when you are beaten. Let the minister come over and repent seriously to the sage, and ask the sage to punish him severely." .”

"Humph!"

Li Shimin looked at his son coldly, if it wasn't for this sick body, he really wanted to kill this unfilial son at this moment, Li You dared to rebel against him, but he didn't dare to steal Lao Tzu's woman like Cheng Qian.

At the beginning, he really should have gritted his teeth and abolished Chengqian, and it would be impossible for Wei Wangtai to have such a thing happen.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine, and now there is no choice.

Looking at the pretentious Cheng Qian, Li Shimin lamented in his heart that my Great Tang Dynasty will be handed over to such a thing.

In the past, I only thought that Chengqian's character was a little impulsive, but I didn't expect that he was simply the second Yang Guang.

Is it the best choice for my country to be handed over to him?
But Qin Lang's attitude today made Li Shimin understand that he had no second choice at all. Even Qin Lang, who had become estranged from Cheng Qian, did not relax in the slightest on this issue. How big of an obstacle.

Changsun Wuji might not even agree.

He ran out of time, and Datang couldn't afford it anymore, so let's just leave it at that.

"Are you wrong? Do you still know it's wrong?"

"Father, my son is really wrong!"

"I have sent someone to call Wu Mei over, how do you want me to deal with her?"

Chengqian knelt down on the ground, unexpectedly Qin Lang would have guessed that the emperor would ask this question, if not for Qin Lang's reminder, he might subconsciously break his arms to survive at this time, and would say the words to kill the Wu family.

But now.

Turning his mind quickly, Cheng Qian still planned to listen to Qin Lang's suggestion.

He knelt down a little lower, almost lying on the ground, "Father, all this is my son's fault. At the beginning, my son was obsessed with the opportunity to molest Wu Cairen and threatened her afterwards. Later, my son threatened her." She, she is just a forced victim."

"I have done something wrong, and I am willing to bear the punishment alone. I beg my father to spare Wu Cairen."

"Hmph, can I spare her? Fornication in the harem, how serious is the crime?"

"I would like to ask my father to be lenient. My father can send a martial artist into the cold palace of Yeting, or drive him out of the palace and make him a monk in a nunnery in Zhaoling. I will never have to see her again, but please keep her One life."

"Hmph, I didn't expect you to think of pleading for her at this time, which surprised me a little. It seems that you really care about her."

After a while, Li Shimin asked again, "Isn't this what Qin Lang taught you just now?"

Chengqian said, "I am sorry for Wu Cairen, my son is stupid and arrogant, I am sorry that my father also harmed Wu Cairen, and I am even more ashamed of my mother's spirit in heaven."

"Shut up, you don't deserve to mention her." Li Shimin stood up angrily, his eyes widened, and he scolded his son loudly.

Cheng Qian fell on the ground and kept silent.

There was a long silence in the hall.

Until Xu Hui brought Wu Meiniang in.

These days, Wu Meiniang was also almost under house arrest. This smart woman immediately realized that something might have happened, especially after she knew through Xu Hui that the prince hadn't shown up during this period, she understood even more.

She stepped into the hall and saw the prince kneeling on the ground.

Cheng Qian's buttocks were raised high, his head was on the ground, and his body was still trembling slightly. Looking at this young man's cowardly appearance in front of that old man, Wu was very disappointed.

Seeing the emperor's sword-like gaze sweeping towards her, she didn't evade and back down, and even went straight to meet her gaze. This was the first time she had looked directly at the emperor's gaze in the past ten years since entering the palace.

Once this was a person she feared and admired.

But at some point, he became a man she hated.

All the people in the world worshiped him, and even the barbarians from all over the world knelt down at his feet.

But Wu Mei hated him.

She hated this man for possessing her violently, and also hated that he had no feelings for her at all. She disdainfully despised this man's weakness.

People outside only saw the man's brilliance, but she saw the side of him that others saw.

Being with Cheng Qian, at first he was insulted, but after careful consideration later, it was Wu who intentionally flirted with Cheng Qian, making this man want to stop.

why?
Maybe revenge, maybe ambition.

She was unwilling to be reconciled to being only in her early twenties, so she had to spend her whole life on the body of the old emperor who was about to die. For a lifetime.

Why?
Chengqian is the crown prince, this arrogant man appeared just right, just the ferry that took her out of the sea of ​​suffering, although she had naively fantasized about Qin Lang and imagined that he would not marry in this life, but after nearly ten years in the palace, she finally Let her completely dispel those innocence.

She knew that she could not go back in this life.

Between the bad old man emperor who was about to die and the young and arrogant prince, she finally chose Chengqian.This is not her choice, but since it is already the case, then she can't be like those stupid women who only blame themselves, right?

In the past, she was unable to make decisions for herself, and could only obey the arrangements of her parents and family, and let the emperor and the court manipulate her, but now, she wanted to make decisions for herself.

Li Shimin was surprised to feel this gaze that even contained hatred.

But he was not angry, instead he felt a little guilty. Just now Chengqian took all this scandal on himself, which made Li Shimin feel that this woman is actually just a victim. She is very weak in front of the crown prince who is the heir of the empire. .

So at this moment, Li Shimin felt that her angry gaze was justified, because he owed her.

The emperor looked away.

a long time.

"Originally, this kind of scandal can't be tolerated in the palace. But I think in Wu Mei, your father is also a hero of Wude and Zhenguan dynasties, your mother is also a descendant of a famous family, and several concubines and concubines in the palace are also your relatives. In addition, you have been in the palace for many years and are in charge of the Shang Palace Bureau, and you have some credit, this time, I will forgive you."

With a sense of guilt, Li Shimin finally made the final disposition to Wu Meiniang.

In memory of Empress Wende's eldest grandson, an imperial edict was issued to build the Daci'en Temple in Chang'an. Three hundred people from the palaces in the two capitals who volunteered to become nuns were selected from the palaces of the two capitals to worship the gods and come down to practice the Tao.

The talented Wu Meiniang became a nun in Daci'en Temple.

"Go back."

Wu Meiniang was in a daze, she thought she would definitely die this time, so just now she was able to look directly at the emperor fearlessly, but who would have imagined it, it turned out to be this result.

Li Shimin said to Wu Meiniang, who was in a daze, "Chengqian, this bastard, is sorry for you. I apologize to you on his behalf, but this bastard still knows the basics of being a human being, so he pleaded hard for you just now. I know that this can't make up for his wronging." You did something wrong, I hope you can be peaceful in Chang'an for the rest of your life."

Wu Meiniang glanced at Cheng Qian who was still lying on the ground, and suddenly felt that this man did not seem to be useless, she never thought that at this time, he had such a manly side.

"Sinner Wu Mei resigns!"

Wu shi withdrew slowly.

The moment she stepped out of the palace gate, she smiled in her heart.

The emperor didn't kill her, but just asked her to go to Chang'an Daci'en Temple to become a nun, and it seems that Chengqian didn't lose his position because of this.

Then her future is not over.

She is very clear about the state of the emperor, he won't live long, and when Cheng Qian takes the throne, it's not like she can't come back.

in the temple.

Li Shimin felt that his spirit was getting weaker.

The emperor had to rely on a few.

"Remember today."

"Also remember Qin Lang's help to you. I haven't been here for a few days. This time I specially summoned Qin Lang back to assist you. I know that you had some conflicts before. When you inherit the throne, you will rely on Qin Lang a lot. "

"Also, after this Eastern Expedition is over and Koguryo is destroyed, I hope you can let Datang take a good rest and recuperate. In the land of Koguryo, you can set up prefectures and counties, but Baekje depends on the situation. Among the children of the Baekje royal family, a submissive one was conferred the title of Governor of Baekje, with Baekje as the governor's mansion..."

"I hope you can promise me that in your lifetime, you will never take the initiative to conquer Silla, Linyi, Baekje, Japan, Tamra, Gaya, Chenla, Persia, Pyu, Tianzhu, Rome, Dashi, Boni, The countries of Gantuoli and Kamaluva.”

Li Shimin listed fifteen countries that would not be conquered.

In the end, he proposed the names of Qidan, Xi, Hanhai, Lusong, and Yaochi, etc., so that Chengqian should not take the initiative to break the existing relationship, but maintain the border and system.

"Although the country is strong, it will die if it is warlike. The current territory of the Tang Dynasty is large enough to maintain the current situation. Don't be too conceited. It is not easy to maintain the current situation. Ask Qin about government affairs. Lang and Changsun Wuji relied heavily on Li Ji, Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin, Niu Jinda, Xue Wanche, and Li Daozong in the military."

When Li Shimin said this, he was already in the tone of confessing his future affairs. He had no energy left to get angry with Chengqian any more. He only hoped that Chengqian could listen to a few words, so that the Tang Dynasty could continue to prosper.

"All the new policies since the Zhenguan Dynasty have been painstakingly worked out by me and the virtuous ministers from Zhenguan. They have all been tested in practice. Don't make random revisions. Xiao Gui and Cao Sui will surely bring the Tang Dynasty to a higher level!"

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