I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 244 The Sacred Heart is unpredictable~
After Liu Sheng responded, Emperor Qi, who was sitting on the imperial couch, was silent for half a stick of incense.

Liu Sheng obviously had no idea what Tianzi Qi was thinking during this half-burning of incense.

But what Liu Sheng can be sure of is: these things that even he can think of, it is impossible for Tian Ziqi not to think of them.

Therefore, during this brief silence, Tian Ziqi should not be thinking about whether Liu Sheng's words are reasonable or not.

Eliminating this possibility, Liu Sheng had a vague guess in his mind: Tianzi Qi should be making an assessment in his heart based on his own answer, reaction, and how he faced Zhou Yafu in Beiying today... ···
"Even if it's not 'excellent', it's at least qualified, right?"

Just when Liu Sheng was secretly thinking that even if he couldn't be rated as "the best" by the emperor, he could at least get a "no comment" evaluation. Finally, the emperor came back from his thoughts and gave an answer in due course. .

"I, I know."

"You don't have to worry about these things."

"—I warned you before, to avoid some prime ministers;"

"Today, I want to emphasize to you again: you don't care about anything related to the prime minister."

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"As I said before, the matter of money will not be discussed until the matter of food is finished;"

"Now that the price of food has been stabilized, we can start to prepare money."

"Um······"

"—There is no need to rush."

"There is no rush about money."

"After going back, I'll think about it myself, and then make two more trips to the Shaofu;"

"With a clear idea, write down the actions and ideas, and then come to see me with the memorial."

As soon as Emperor Qi finished speaking, Liu Sheng got up quickly and bowed to Emperor Qi.

And from Tianziqi's attitude, Liu Sheng could easily see that Tianziqi's assessment of his performance against Zhou Yafu in Beiying today was indeed 'no comment'.

For this result, Liu Sheng was secretly relieved, but he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But what Liu Sheng didn't know was that the emperor's evaluation of the crown prince was not exactly the same as the court's auditing place.

——Chaotang audits counties and counties, which are divided into two types: most and palaces, and "no comment" in the middle, that is, neither good nor bad.

In the feudal era, the emperor's evaluation of the prince often had only two results;

Temple, and 'No Comment'.

For the crown prince in the feudal era, it was already the best result not to be regarded as a "temple" by the emperor.

As for the 'most', it will never appear in the evaluation report of the emperor and the crown prince...

"No comment, no comment;"

"At least it's better than being scolded."

So comforting himself, Liu Sheng straightened up, and bowed his hands to the emperor calmly.

"There is one more thing that needs to be shown by my father."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor Qiwen smiled, then lowered his head with a smile, and looked at the bamboo slips in front of him again.

While looking it up, he said casually: "Since in your eyes, 'cousin Dou Ying' and 'Wei Qihou Dou Ying' cannot coexist~"

"Um······"

"Go back first."

"Tomorrow, I will go to Changle in person and discuss it with my mother..."

With one last word, Tianzi Qi pulled himself together and focused all his attention on the bamboo slips in front of him.

But after Liu Sheng paid homage and resigned, only three or five breaths later, Tianzi Qi quietly raised his head again;

Squinting the corners of his eyes slightly, feeling behind him, he took another deep breath, and immediately lay down on the couch exhausted.

At the same time, the eunuch Ling Chuntuo, who was standing beside the imperial couch, also walked into the hall on his own, and sent all the palace people back.

In the end, Chuntuo didn't go back to the imperial couch at all, just bowed and stood in the gate of the palace without saying a word...
"Zhou Yafu, it's difficult for me..."

"Originally, I thought it would be enough to remove the military power;"

"But now it seems that I'm afraid I have to remove the head..."

In an inexplicable and desolate tone, he said the words that were enough to shock anyone in the world, and Tianzi Qi let out another long sigh, and then quietly closed his eyes.

And behind the imperial couch where the emperor Qiping was lying, the familiar voice sounded at the right time, which made the depression in the emperor's heart dissipate a little.

"The minister has already checked."

"In the past, between Marquis Tiao and King Linjiang, there was never any contact, friendship, or even meeting each other a few times."

"—Before the Wu-Chu Rebellion, Marquis Tiao was still a lieutenant, in charge of the guards of the Northern Army;"

"Because of this, the King of Linjiang has always been very taboo about dealing with Zhou Yafu, even if he meets him on the road, he will deliberately avoid it."

"Zhou Yafu has never had any contact with King Linjiang, King Hejian, King Changshan, or the Li family."

"Your Majesty's previous worries should be dispelled..."

The low and peaceful tone of the man in black only made Tianzi Qi's frown slightly loosen.

After a while, I saw Tianzi Qi let out a long breath, then shook his head and smiled wryly inexplicably.

"Is it cancelled?"

"Even if it's cancelled..."

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"If the situation is really what I guessed, then I should feel annoyed."

"That's not the case, and I really should turn my worries into joy, so I don't need to worry about it anymore."

"But at this moment, I am extremely hopeful: my worries are right..."

"—At least that way, I won't have to worry about it anymore;"

"Don't feel guilty about Zhou Yafu for the future..."

The obscure words only made the man in black stagnate for a moment, and saw the emperor turned sideways with a smile and looked straight at the man in black.

"What I'm worried about is not that Zhou Yafu did these things because of Rong Rong;"

"If Zhou Yafu really did this for glory, I would be happier."

"—If that's the case, at least I don't have to worry about: what crime should be used to punish Zhou Yafu?"

"But now, I have learned from you that what Zhou Yafu did has nothing to do with Rong."

"This is really difficult..."

The man in black hurriedly lowered his head when Tianzi Qi stared at him with a little sigh, but couldn't hide his tired and troubled eyes;
After hearing Tian Ziqi's words, the man in black thought for a while, but raised his head again.

"I think that His Majesty does not need to be troubled by this."

"—No matter why Zhou Yafu did it, as long as he did it, it was wrong;"

"Your Majesty should punish the minister for doing something wrong."

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"It is true that Zhou Yafu did this not because of his personal friendship with King Linjiang, nor because he got some undue promise from King Linjiang."

"But no matter what Zhou Yafu thinks in his heart, just looking at what he is doing, after all, he wants His Majesty to establish a leader—that is, to establish Linjiang King."

"So, I think..."

"Uh, I think: Whether Zhou Yafu has received certain 'promises' from the mouth of Linjiang King is only in your Majesty's mind..."

"—Only when His Majesty says there is no, is there really no;"

"But if His Majesty says there is, then there must be..."

After the meaningful words came out, the man in black lowered his head again and remained silent.

But on the imperial couch, Tianzi Qi took a deep look at the man in black, and frowned and thought for a long time;

In the end, there was only a long sigh leisurely.

"It's not that far yet."

"Rong, after all, he is still my bloodline heir, the elder brother of that little bastard."

"If you can stay, try to stay alive..."

Said with a sigh, Tianzi Qi turned over again, flattened his body again, and closed his eyes again.

The long silence also means long thinking, and the emperor's complicated thoughts.

Zhou Yafu's increasingly unacceptable behavior has obviously broken through the bottom line of Tian Ziqi;

But regarding how to deal with Zhou Yafu, or how to deal with these bad things, Tianzi Qi was quite hesitant...
"Um······"

"Destroy the old and establish the young..."

"Li Xiao..."

"Lichang?"

Lying peacefully on the couch, gently closing eyes, murmured a few times;

When he said the last word 'Li Chang', Tianzi Qi quietly opened his eyes again, already thinking about it.

"So, what Zhou Yafu did was just to force me to withdraw my order and change to Lirong?"

"The other way around: as long as Rong is completely unable to become the crown prince, Zhou Yafu will also be able to understand my intentions and retreat in spite of difficulties?"

It seems to be asking the man in black, but also like asking himself two questions in succession, which only makes the man in black nod numbly;

Seeing Tianzi Qi frowned slightly, he finally thought about it for a while before finally sitting up from the couch.

"In that case..."

"Well, let's mourn."

"—call Hejian King and Changshan King into the court, and go to the mother's funeral."

"As for the king of Linjiang, he doesn't have to and is not allowed to enter the court."

"You can only cry fifteen times in the morning and evening in Fengguo, and it is enough to cry for fifteen days."

"Once the fifteenth day has passed, mourning clothes shall no longer be worn;"

"Even within fifteen days, no one is allowed to cry or mourn in the palace except Linjiang King."

Saying these words with a firm expression, most of the distressed look on Tianzi Qi's face has disappeared, and the dark brows have also loosened.

Sitting up, hanging his legs under the couch again, turning his back to the man in black, he muttered to himself mockingly: "The next prime minister, I will have to choose carefully..."

"It's only been a few years since the throne?"

"—Less than four years in total, this is the second one."

"Hey······"

There was a bit of resentful whining, but it didn't attract the man in black's attention.

At this moment, the man in black was reminiscing about the sentence of "bereavement" by the emperor Qi, and his forehead could not help but break out in cold sweat!

In just a moment, the man in black felt overwhelmed, but he still tried his best to calm down, raised his head slightly in a panic, and said tentatively, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

"I don't seem to have heard of Li Ji..."

"Uh, could it be that the minister was busy with other things in the past few days, and didn't, didn't receive any news?"

Pretending to be puzzled, but the tone of the question was obviously a little frightened, only to provoke Tianzi Qi to turn his head with a half-smile;

He glanced at the man in black behind him out of the corner of his eye, then laughed inexplicably, continued to look down at the bamboo slips, and said nonchalantly, "What?"

"Could it be possible that I have to go there myself?"

"—just do it;"

"It's not the first time..."

As soon as Tian Ziqi said this, even before, he had already vaguely guessed Tian Ziqi's intentions, and the man in black couldn't help but feel his heart sink.

But in the end, the man in black still took several deep breaths with the weakest voice possible from an angle that Tianzi Qi could not see;
After taking several deep breaths in a row, the black-clothed person finally calmed down, and bowed silently to Tianzi Qi's back.

"Minister, obey the order..."

"Just now, Li Ji lives in Changle Palace;"

"Your Majesty may discuss this matter with the Queen Mother in advance..."

"—Well, I know that."

"—Just let it go and do it."

Tianzi Qi said another word indifferently, but the man in black took another deep breath to suppress the horror in his heart.

Just when the man in black was about to leave quietly, go back and do a good job of psychological construction, and then "finish" the things that Tian Ziqi explained, or when he "did it well", Tian Ziqi rarely turned around;

One leg was hanging under the couch, the other was draped over the couch, sitting sideways and looking at the man in black behind the imperial couch.

"Just now, you should have heard what that bastard said, right?"

"how do you feel?"

"—The prince I have chosen, does he have the appearance of a king?"

"This ancestral temple and the country are entrusted to this son, so what will happen?"

Asking without warning, the man in black was stunned on the spot, and after he realized it, he quickly knelt down again!

"minister······"

"minister·········"

Trembling and talking to several 'officials', but still unable to explain why, the man in black simply buried his head deeply, and prostrated himself behind the imperial couch.

Earlier, when the emperor Qi explained the "bereavement" of the man in black, the man in black was a little frightened, and it took a lot of effort to calm down.

At this moment, Tian Ziqi asked such a question again, which naturally made the man in black unable to maintain his composure, and could not even express his refusal to answer the question.

Seeing the reaction of the man in black, Tianzi Qi turned his body around a little more nonchalantly, and raised his hand carelessly at the man in black.

"Hi~"

"Anyway, he is also the Jiuqing of the court, and he is also the prince of Chehou with the golden seal and purple ribbon;"

"—Still kneeling back and forth in front of me, how decent is it?"

"Get up, get up and talk."

Man Man spoke with ease, helped the man in black to stand up slightly, and Tianzi Qi raised his head at the man in black with a relaxed smile.

"Tell me."

"—My Prime Minister Zhou is already forcing me to appoint another prince~"

"The same family with the surname Zhou, your courage is much smaller than the prime minister?"

"what?"

Tianzi Qi spoke softly, with a relaxed smile on his face, which made the man in black stand up nervously;

Before he had time to straighten his back, and heard that Tianzi Qi said that it seemed to be teasing, but also had some deep meaning, the man in black could only smile stiffly and cup his hands.

"The minister's 'guts' are indeed inferior to Tiaohou."

"The feudal state of the minister is not a marquis state."

"The surname of Zhou, Chen, has nothing to do with Tiaohou - Chen is from Rencheng, Dongping County, and Tiaohou is originally from Feng County, Peijun, and grew up in Chang'an since childhood."

"Chen and Tiaohou, even going back to the three generations of their ancestors, they have never had any relationship..."

Seeing the time spent by the man in black, he began to disregard the relationship between himself and Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, and Tianzi Qi couldn't help but smile.

Although he nodded with satisfaction in his heart, he waved his hand nonchalantly on his face: "Hi~"

"I didn't tell you anything..."

"It scares you."

Said with a smile, Tianzi Qi leaned his upper body forward, stretched out his hand and pulled the man in black's wrist, and sat down on the inner side of the imperial couch.

"I am not asking Lang Zhongling."

"I'm asking you as an old friend and best friend for many years: How is the crown prince I chose?"

"—If that's the case, you don't even want to answer~"

"Then from now on, I won't treat you as a friend..."

Pretending to have a slightly regretful expression, Tianzi Qi's scrutinizing gaze quietly locked on the man in black - especially the worried face.

On the inside of the imperial couch, the man in black who only dared to 'hang' half of his butt on the couch, heard Tianzi Qi's seemingly sincere words, but fell into a burst of extreme entanglement.

Be friends?
Be friends with the emperor Qi?
——The man in black really wanted to say to Tian Ziqi: Thank you, Your Majesty!
Thank you Your Majesty for not treating me as a friend!
But under Tianzi Qi's deep gaze, the words that the man in black rushed to his lips were swallowed back intact...
"His Majesty;"

"The appointment of the crown prince is not something that foreign ministers can criticize, or even anyone other than the queen mother and your majesty, can easily comment on it."

"—Emperor Taizong Xiaowen only allowed the ignorant people to talk about state affairs at will, except for the defamation order."

"Nowadays, Tiaohou disregards the respect of the emperor and his ministers, and relies on his own meritorious service and the entrustment of the late emperor to Tiaohou, to point fingers at the appointment of the crown prince;"

"This is something that makes people feel horrified."

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"Just like what His Majesty said: the same surname is Zhou, but this minister, Lang Zhongling, is not even a tenth of the courage of a Marquis."

"Tiaohou's courage is so big that he can tell the prince, but the minister's courage is so small that his majesty says one, but never dares to say two, or even dare to think about two."

"——The prince's character, the minister absolutely dare not evaluate;"

"But His Majesty asked the minister to evaluate, and the minister dared not to evaluate at all..."

"Um······"

"I have to say the last sentence..."

"I vaguely feel: Recently, Your Highness seems to be more and more like His Majesty?"

Carefully raising his head, looking at Tianzi Qi's face, he said this refraining word very carefully, the man in black still didn't dare to blink his eyes;
He looked at Tian Zi Qi intently, as if he was afraid of missing any change in the expression on Tian Zi Qi's face.

But after the man in black gave the answer, Tianzi Qi was slightly taken aback;
After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and sighed, turned around and sat in front of the royal case.

He lowered his head, looked at the bamboo slips in front of him, and said to the man in black what he had said to Liu Sheng before.

"I, I know."

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"Go."

"Li Ji's business should be handled more beautifully."

"—I have nothing;"

"Just don't let the little bastard get some unnecessary stigma because of this..."

　It will be better in the afternoon, let’s do an update today, and then depending on the physical condition, see if it will resume the 2 update tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

　　The day after tomorrow at the latest, back to normal 2 more.

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(End of this chapter)