Father can be an enemy to the country

Chengyi's Mansion is located on a narrow bluestone street outside the Xi'an Gate of the Imperial City.

Although Liu Ji's title was not very prominent among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the people in the capital liked him the most and even renamed the bridge in front of his mansion "Liu Junshi Bridge".

Liu Bowen's Earl's Mansion is also a small courtyard, simple and tidy, and looks somewhat similar to Hu Weiyong's Prime Minister's Mansion.

At this time, in the backyard bedroom with a strong smell of medicine, Zhou Yuan asked Liu Bowen to look around, packed the medicine box, and followed Liu Bowen's eldest son Liu Lian to the outside to prescribe medicine.

In the bedroom, only Liu Bowen was lying on the bed and Hu Weiyong was sitting beside the bed.

Liu Bowen coughed from time to time and looked tired. Obviously, Hu Weiyong's arrival did not cheer him up.

"Mr. Liu, do you think that the person who came should not be his true self, but should be a Korean man?" Hu Weiyong said sourly.

However, he also knew that he was indeed not good enough in front of these two founding giants.

"Hu Xiang thinks too much. The old man's family has already been depleted. It would be nice to have someone to come and take a look. How can he be picky?" Liu Bowen said with a faint smile.

"It seems that Mr. Liu is still angry with the truth about the affairs of the Foreign Inspection Department." Hu Weiyong was not in a hurry to get to the point. He enjoyed the feeling of having an equal dialogue with Liu Bowen.

Never before, because he was not qualified.

"Shouldn't the old man be angry?" Liu Bowen coughed twice and said, "The enclave of Tanyang with no care has always been a den of bandits. The world has been settled, but the people there are still being poisoned by bandits. They are really desperate, so they arrived I’m pleading at my door.”

"I really couldn't bear it, so I made an exception and asked Liu Lian to come to Beijing to celebrate the emperor's birthday. He made some foreign talk and suggested setting up an inspection department there to eliminate the problem of bandits forever. This will allow Hu Xiang’s wolf dog smelled the smell and made up something. I saw that Tan Yang has a royal spirit and that in the future it will be the land of Longxing, so I want to build ancestral tombs there to seize the opportunity!"

As he spoke, he laughed angrily and said, "Can it be more nonsense? Hu Xiang?"

"It's really nonsense." Hu Weiyong said with a smile without changing his face: "So I didn't care about the truth. I knew that the superior would not believe it if he saw it for thousands of miles. But I didn't expect Mr. Liu's reaction to be so big, and he immediately went to Beijing to explain to the sage. I never dare to go back to my hometown again.”

"It's about the life of the whole family, so we can't take any chances. Besides, you can tell autumn by looking at a leaf. You can escape me once, but twice or three times? Apart from returning to the emperor's nose, I have no other way to protect myself. Liu Bowen coughed again.

"Liu Bowen, the great military advisor, has become so humble. It's really pitiful." Hu Weiyong couldn't help but said proudly after hearing this:

"I wonder if you, sir, will regret that you chose the wrong Yang Xian? If you weren't implicated in the Yang Xian case, and with your decision-making ability, as for the fact that you only picked an earl, would you still be less sincere? I don't know how to show off the thorns in the position. Tickle you?"

"Sincerity and sincerity are very good." Liu Bowen shook his head.

"If Sir, someone else had taken over, how could the East Zhejiang Party thrive and die? Sir, it wouldn't be like no one cares about it, right?" Hu Weiyong continued to provoke him.

"I'm not wrong about Yang Xian." Liu Bowen said quietly:

"The emperor asked me at that time, whether Yang Xian is suitable to be the prime minister? I said that he has the talent to be the prime minister, but he does not have the courage to be the prime minister. A person who is a prime minister must maintain a calm mood like water and use justice as the standard for weighing things. , and you can’t mix your own subjective opinions, Yang Xian can’t do it.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Hu Weiyong and said: "Of course, you can't do it. The prime minister is like a horse driving a chariot. You will overturn Zhongshu Sheng's cart."

"Only Mr. Hu can do this in the world of love?" Hu Weiyong sarcastically said, "It's a pity that the superiors chose you, but they didn't choose you!"

"You are wrong again. When the emperor was considering replacing Mr. Han, he wanted to use me first, but I refused." Liu Bowen was tepid, as if he was talking about trivial things.

"Why?" Hu Weiyong was stunned. He didn't believe that anyone would refuse the temptation of the position of prime minister. But he also knew that Liu Bowen would not lie.

"Because I don't want to die, let alone hurt my descendants." Liu Bowen looked at Hu Weiyong with deep eyes, as if he were looking at a dead person.

"Sir, are you cursing me?!" Hu Weiyong was furious. If the other party hadn't been Liu Bowen, he would have cursed her directly.

"No, this is a kind reminder." Liu Bowen shook his head and said sincerely: "Xiang Hu, Zhongshu straddles the inside and outside, covers the sky and the sun, and has too much power to be tolerated by a saint."

Hu Weiyong, however, couldn't listen to a word and just retorted: "At least Mr. Liu can't see his true death date."

As he spoke, he straightened up, put on a business-like look, cupped his hands toward the east and said, "I have given you an order to bring your imperial doctor to visit Uncle Chengyi and ask you something!"

"Really...the emperor asked you to come?" Liu Bowen, who had been in a state of despair, finally changed his expression.

"How dare I pretend to pass on the imperial edict?" Hu Weiyong raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Liu Bowen like a cat playing like a mouse.

This most intelligent man in the world must know what this means.

Sure enough, Liu Bowen's energy and spirit seemed to have been completely drained away, his expression was withered, and there was nothing more sorrowful than heartbreak.

"The Emperor asked!" Hu Weiyong turned a blind eye and his tone became more and more fierce.

"I respectfully listen to the Holy Inquiry." Liu Bowen struggled to get up and knelt on the bed.

"Liu Ji, was it you who instigated Yang Xian to persuade Liao Yongzhong to sink his boat?!"

"No." Liu Bowen became even more exhausted.

"Did you know anything about it beforehand?"

"Not aware."

"Did you contact Liao Yongzhong afterwards?"

"No." Liu Ji shook his head and said cautiously: "But after I retired and when I first returned to Beijing, he sent me tonics twice, but he returned them both times."

"You two have nothing to do with each other. What did he give you?" Hu Weiyong asked coldly.

"If I ordered him to sink his boat, he would hate me before it was too late, so why would he give me something again?" Liu Ji asked rhetorically.

If Hu Weiyong continued to ask questions, instead of beating Liu Ji to death, he might lead himself into trouble. I couldn't help but secretly sigh, after all, it was Liu Ji, and his thinking was extremely clear no matter what time.

He stopped asking questions and finally said: "Take your medicine on time so that you can take care of yourself."

After speaking, he cupped his hands and said, "The emperor has finished asking questions, and I have also left."

"The last eight words are also an edict?" Liu Ji raised his head.

"The truth has been said that the imperial doctor is sent by the emperor, what do you think Mr. Liu?" Hu Weiyong asked back, ended the visit, and left with Zhou Yuanxuan.

Liu Lian saw off the guest and returned to the bedroom, only to see his father with tears streaming down his face and a copy of "Astronomical Book" in his hand.

"Father, what is this?" Liu Lian suddenly felt an ominous premonition.

The second brother Liu Jing, who was kneeling beside the hospital bed, choked up and said: "Father said that he is going to die..."

"Ah?" Liu Lian was stunned on the spot.

"Not bad." Liu Bowen nodded, handed the "Astronomical Book" to his son and said:

"After I die, you must present this book to the emperor immediately without any delay; from now on, don't let our descendants of the Liu family touch this fatal thing again..."

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