Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 123 Tang Xuanzong's Fatal Blow

Li Linfu was ill and couldn't even get out of bed. The government affairs that Tang Xuanzong had originally handed over to Li Linfu were suddenly left unattended, so Tang Xuanzong could only do it himself.

After being lazy for more than ten years, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty has brought his tiredness to the extreme, and it has become a habit. He has just dealt with more than a dozen memorials, which has already made him feel extremely upset, and he slammed the memorial still on the desk.

"Your Majesty, Li Xiu asks to see you." Gao Lishi came in to report.

"Li Xiu?"

"Xuan..." Tang Xuanzong frowned, then put away the expression on his face.

After a while Li Xiu came in, saluted, and directly asked Tang Xuanzong to go to Li's house to see Li Linfu.

"When you are sick, you go to the doctor and ask for medicine. Why do you come to ask me?" Tang Xuanzong was very annoyed, and he didn't want to see Li Linfu at all.Ever since he became suspicious of Li Linfu, Tang Xuanzong no longer had the same trust in Li Linfu as before, and was even a little annoyed.

Li Xiu had a bitter look on her face, she didn't know if she should say it outright.

For the sake of his father Li Linfu, Li Xiu couldn't control much anymore.

"Your Majesty, my father is sick. He has worked hard for His Majesty for nearly 20 years—" Li Xiu didn't dare to be too straightforward, and mentioned that his father Li Linfu had already learned of His Majesty's promise to Yang Guozhong, saying His father had worked so long for His Majesty without complaining, and when he suddenly heard His Majesty's promise to Yang Guozhong, he thought His Majesty no longer trusted him, thought His Majesty had given up on him, and fell ill all of a sudden.

Li Xiu stated that as long as Tang Xuanzong could visit his father Li Linfu in person and say a few words of comfort, his father Li Linfu's illness might be cured.

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Tang Xuanzong was a little embarrassed, his old face flushed, and he seemed a little guilty.But he is the emperor after all, and he is used to being strong and domineering. He doesn't think that he is the one who caused Li Linfu to be bedridden for the sake of his own face. He thinks that Li Linfu's illness is because of Li Linfu's old age. .

Although I think so in my heart, he is the prime minister who has helped him with big and small things for more than ten years. He has worked hard without credit. He doesn't trust Li Linfu as much as before, but since Li Xiu asked him, he can't seem He is so heartless.

So in the end to go or not to go?

As far as Tang Xuanzong was concerned, Tang Xuanzong didn't want to go. A lot of government affairs made him extremely upset. Li Linfu was ill, and it seemed that his health was failing. It was impossible to continue to help him with these boring government affairs. The prime minister's idea is very firm, and he intends to belong to Yang Guozhong.

He didn't want to appear to be too ruthless to the old prime minister Li Linfu, but he also didn't want to make Yang Guozhong, the appointed new prime minister, think too much because of his going to comfort him.At the same time, Li Xiu implied that Li Linfu's illness was due to him. If he really went, wouldn't it be that he was sorry for Li Linfu as Li Xiu said?Where does he put the emperor's face?
All in all, Tang Xuanzong just didn't want to go.

"Uh, Gao Lishi, bring me the special binoculars that Li Fei gave me." Tang Xuanzong ordered Gao Lishi.

Li Xiu frowned slightly, wondering what Tang Xuanzong was going to do.

Soon, Gao Lishi took out a telescope that looked extremely gorgeous.

Tang Xuanzong ordered Gao Lishi to bring the telescope to Li Xiu.

"I'm busy with government affairs, so I don't want to go out of the palace at will. You take back my binoculars, and send someone to carry Lin Fu to the yard, and let him take my binoculars and look towards the palace. I will stand on the tall building of the palace. Waving a red scarf to Lin Fu, Lin Fu saw me through the binoculars as if I was by his side, and I still trust him." Tang Xuanzong said such a sentence.

Li Xiu opened his mouth wide, obviously shocked, and looked at Tang Xuanzong in disbelief.He still wanted to say something, but at this time, Tang Xuanzong had already waved his hand, indicating that he could retreat.

Li Xiu was helpless, he didn't have the guts to resist Tang Xuanzong's will, so he could only go back first.

After returning, Li Xiu told Li Linfu what Tang Xuanzong had said.

"Your Majesty, how can you be so perfunctory, Yan——cough, cough, cough——" Li Linfu's pale face flushed slightly, and then he coughed violently, and his whole spirit suddenly disappeared. It became sluggish, as if it was ten years older again.

Li Linfu didn't know that Li Xiu went to the palace to ask Tang Xuanzong to come and see him, but he didn't expect Tang Xuanzong to be so perfunctory that he didn't even come to comfort him in person.

However, Tang Xuanzong had instructions after all, and it was impossible to resist the decree.

Li Xiu and Li Linfu's wife and concubine watched the servants carry Li Linfu to the yard.

"Father, this is the telescope given by His Majesty." Li Xiu handed the incomparably gorgeous telescope to Li Linfu.

Li Linfu's hands were shaking all the time when he picked up the telescope, and he didn't know whether it was because of his weakness or because he was angry with Tang Xuanzong, maybe it was both.

As the prime minister, he had to help Tang Xuanzong deal with the mountainous government affairs every day. Li Linfu's mansion was very close to the palace. Even without binoculars, he could see the tall buildings in the palace. With binoculars, he could see the people and things inside clearly.

Li Linfu gritted his teeth and tried his best to look through the binoculars at the tallest building closest to the palace. Sure enough, he saw Tang Xuanzong ascending the tallest building accompanied by Gao Lishi.

Tang Xuanzong also took a telescope, after seeing Li Linfu in the yard.

"Lin Fu is looking at me." Tang Xuanzong smiled fakely, and really took out a red scarf and shook it at Li Linfu twice, just twice, and then put away the red scarf, as perfunctory as he wanted.

"No——" Li Linfu wanted to say shameless, but he didn't say the shameful word directly after all. His old face was flushed irregularly, his hands were shaking more and more, and the telescope could not be held firmly, and it slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

The sound of "snap" is like a death knell hitting the soul, very sad.

"Ahem, kowtow to His Majesty when you treat me—thank you!" Li Linfu said to the people beside him, suppressing the despair and sadness in his heart.

Li Xiu, Li Linfu's wives, a group of concubines, and other families bowed down towards the palace.

Looking up at the sky, Li Linfu felt as sad as he wanted, as desperate as he wanted. After nearly 20 years of hard work, he worked as a prime minister and helped the emperor Tang Xuanzong deal with a pile of government affairs that belonged to the emperor. In the past 20 years, the loyalty has not changed, but in exchange for today's results.

Granted, Li Linfu knew clearly in his heart that Tang Xuanzong really no longer had any trust in him, completely abandoned him, he was finished, and his era had passed.

Tang Xuanzong's perfunctory dealt the most fatal blow to Li Linfu. His body was already failing, so he did it again.

"Pfft!" Li Linfu spat out a mouthful of old blood, and his spirit became more depressed. He felt that his life was passing, and he couldn't last much longer.

"Father--"

"master---"
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(End of this chapter)