After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Chapter 392 Powers and Obligations

The south gate of the palace.

Hua Manting was standing in the Langfang at the entrance.

He was looking at Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow with his hands behind his back.

The snow was too heavy this time, and there were few pedestrians on Suzaku Avenue.

Hua Manting narrowed his old eyes slightly, but his thoughts drifted to Guangling City hundreds of miles away.

The same sky, is it snowing in Guangling City?

If Guangling City also had such a snowfall, Huaping Lake would have a different taste.

From March [-]rd to Guangling City, nearly nine months have passed in a blink of an eye.

These nine months have been very exciting, and they have witnessed many poems written by Li Chenan, a poetic fairy.

These poems are all superb, all can be included in "Ning Poetry Collection Yuan Baipian", and all can be ranked in the top twenty!
The Great Confucianists of the Taiyuan Academy and the Imperial College have mentioned rewriting "Ning Poetry Collection Yuan Baipian" in the past two days... Instead of rewriting, it is better to write a book for Li Chenan's poems, titled "Poems of Immortals", which is more appropriate .

When I thought of Li Chenan, I remembered that evening in Qianmo Academy, and I remembered the poem "Will Enter the Wine" that Li Chenan wrote while drunk.

Hua Manting stroked his long beard and smiled.

Just then, footsteps came from behind.

He turned around and saw Li Chenan and Amu walking over.

"Brother!"

"Brother!"

"It's my brother's fault for letting me wait outside in such a cold day!"

After saying this, Li Chen'an took out a golden dragon pendant from his bosom and handed it to Hua Manting, "From now on, if I'm still in the palace, you can enter the palace with this thing at any time."

Hua Manting looked at the golden dragon pendant, thought for three breaths and still took it.

"Your identity is different now, but you can no longer be as casual as before."

Li Chenan raised his eyebrows and curled his lips, "It's nothing different."

"Tell me the truth, being an emperor is hard work!"

"I just named myself a regent, every day is a lot of trouble!"

"Hey……"

"You didn't come in a carriage?"

"Get in my carriage, just my brother and I have a good chat, mainly because I want to vomit the bitterness in my stomach to you."

Hua Manting arched her white eyebrows, and immediately burst out laughing.

"The first snow this year, it's still early, how about we just walk in the snow like this?"

"...Okay! I'm just worried that you won't be frozen!"

"My brother can survive for a few more years, let's go, let's talk as we walk."

So, Li Chenan and Hua Manting walked side by side on the Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow, which made Amu a little nervous.

He followed behind the two of them, paying attention to the movements in all directions with extreme vigilance.

"I think, first of all, the working hours are unreasonable."

"work?"

"It's Shang Dynasty. It's such a cold day. It's just light at the end of Chenshi, but I got class at Maoshi..."

Li Chenan spread his hands together: "Wake up earlier than a chicken, sleep later than a dog,"

He shook his head, "This is not the life I want to live!"

Hua Manting laughed again, "Then what kind of life do you want to live?"

"Hey, me, I just want to sleep until I wake up naturally, and count the money until my hands cramp!"

Hua Manting glanced at Li Chen'an, "But if the people in the world were to choose, I'm afraid they would all want to be emperor!"

"Isn't it just for power? Brother, power should be matched with duty!"

"I mean that as much power as you have, you should fulfill as much responsibility as possible."

"The emperor is the most powerful person in the world, and his corresponding obligation is to let the people in the world live the best life!"

"Those who want to be emperors, they only value the supreme benefits that power brings to them, but they seldom think about how to use this power to create a bright future for the country and the people."

"So I'm not suitable to be an official, because I found that I still have a little bit of justice and conscience!"

"If you want to be a comfortable emperor, the best thing is to be heartless, lying drunk on the lap of a beautiful woman every day, living a life of debauchery, but I can't do it!"

"Hey... this damn conscience!"

"If it is eaten by dogs, I can perform 72 tricks in the palace!"

Hua Manting laughed out loud.

"You have a point in what you say."

"Throughout history, no matter which dynasty, the emperors who created the prosperous age all have the same characteristic, that is, they care about the world."

"And every emperor who subjugated the country also has the same characteristic, that is, he is arrogant and immoral."

"Those who care about the world, take the world as their own responsibility, regard the people as their parents, and think about the happiness and well-being of the people."

"As a result, the common people support it, the officials discipline themselves, and the soldiers obey their orders. The world is peaceful, the world is beautiful, and all directions come to court."

"And the licentious and innocent people, for their own pleasure, treat the people like cattle and horses, corrupt officials run rampant in the temples, and the frontier soldiers cherish their lives..."

Hua Manting sighed, and said while walking:

"The world is big, and there are so many countries in this world."

"When a country falls under the rule of the unjust, the rest of the country will rejoice, because what they see is a piece of fat that can be easily divided and eaten!"

"Their cavalry will step into this country. The people of this country will not raise their knives to defend this corrupt country. Even the army of this country will become vulnerable at this time , they will flee for their lives, and then become bandits."

"You... since you still have a little bit of justice and conscience, brother, I don't want to see the land of Ningguo being trampled by the surrounding powers after all!"

"Now that you are the Regent of Ning Kingdom, you have seized the authority of Ning Kingdom, and you should fulfill your due obligations."

Before Hua Manting finished speaking, Li Chenan raised his hand, "Stop!"

"Brother, my regent is temporary!"

"When I bring back the eldest son of the emperor and hand over this mess to him, I think it will be fine for us to be on Peach Blossom Island, Peach Blossom Mountain, or by Huaping Lake."

"Let's drink Huapingchun, talk about wind, flowers, snow and moon, and then recite poems and poems... You are a great Confucian, and I am a poet, and it is better to leave a famous poem through the ages in the world?"

Hua Manting stopped, turned to look at Li Chen'an, with doubts in his eyes:

"You are a capable person!"

"My brother knows that you love beautiful people more than Jiangshan, but after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness is cured, what can you do for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo?"

Li Chenan touched his nose, "It's mainly because I'm too tired."

"It's a matter of the world, who cares about tiredness for those who can leave their names in history?"

Li Chenan didn't say anything more, and the three of them just turned from Zhuque Avenue into Qifen Alley.

Facing Li Chenan's silence, Hua Manting thought it was his words that moved Li Chenan, and Li Chenan was thinking about it.

Li Chenan was indeed thinking.

But what he thought was different from what Hua Manting thought.

This discrepancy came from the precautions deep in his heart.

He doesn't mind fighting for hegemony, and he doesn't even mind being enthroned as emperor, but there is a prerequisite for all of this——

There is a group of loyal followers of their own!
There are a group of civil servants and generals who can make themselves a foothold in the temple!

And all of this requires my own heart to manage it, which takes time, and what I don't have at this moment is time!
Because the matter of Zhongli Ruoshui is above everything else!
He cannot be enthroned as emperor, this is his choice after careful consideration.

A rootless emperor looks like a puppet to him.

Besides, this matter is full of weirdness——

He and Xi Wei have never met each other, so why does he support himself as emperor?

What kind of conspiracy and calculations does he have behind this?

The Red Flame Army seemed to have obeyed his order to go to Wuya Pass, but Li Chen'an had never been so arrogant as to think that the Red Flame Army had really been loyal to him.

Although the Shenwu Army obeyed his order and went to East Quguan, but Mrs. Fan's last wish was to welcome back the eldest son of the emperor in Shuzhou and support him to ascend the throne as emperor!
If he really sat on the throne, I'm afraid the Shenwu Army would not be willing.

Therefore, the people in the capital couldn't understand why Li Chenan gave up the easy-to-get throne, and even the officials in the court had a lot of discussions about it, but Li Chenan was more sober than anyone else.

There are no pies falling from the sky.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

So all of this, after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness has a result, if the eldest son of the emperor is a good emperor, he will be happy to be a big businessman at ease.

If it's the other way around...!
(End of this chapter)