Jiangnan East Road, Jiankang City.
Standing in front of the tombstone of Jianning King Li Tan, Li Mi held the Buddha dust in his hand and sighed deeply.
Li Chu, whose eyes were red, shouted angrily: "Queen Zhang and Li Fuguo are all villains! If such evil spirits are not eliminated, there will be no peace in the country!"
Li Mi swept the whisk, shook his head and said, "Prince, please be patient and don't be impulsive."
Li Chu: "That Queen Zhang killed Li Tan first, and then it was my turn. Can't you see that, sir?"
Hearing this, Li Bi said: "It was your Majesty's fault to kill King Jianning by mistake. I will go to the palace today to reason with you. The prince will be safe."
Li Chu: "My father loves Queen Zhang deeply, will he believe it?"
Li Mi held the fly whisk in his arms and said to Li Chu: "If he doesn't believe it, the prince can follow me to practice Taoism in Jiugong Mountain."
Li Chu was stunned: "This..."
Li Mi looked at the expression on Li Chu's face, smiled slightly, turned and left.
In the palace office, Emperor Li Heng of the Southern Tang Dynasty was correcting memorials when he suddenly heard an eunuch coming to tell him that it was Li Mi who wanted to see him.
Hearing this, Li Heng hurriedly got up, left the desk, and came out.
When Li Mi saw Li Heng coming to greet him in person, he was a little moved, but he said: "Your Majesty, I am here to say goodbye."
Li Heng was taken aback and asked anxiously: "But who in the palace has neglected you?"
Li Mi: "The water overflows when it is full, and the moon waxes and wanes. If your Majesty treats me too well, it will attract resentment from others. This will harm me."
Li Heng said angrily: "Whoever dares to harm you, I will kill him!"
Li Mi: "What if that person keeps slandering His Majesty?"
Li Heng: "I won't believe those slanderous words."
Li Mi: "What if the person who slanders you is your close relative, and there is more than one?"
Li Heng froze on the spot, thought for a moment, and asked Li Mi: "I did not follow your advice and insisted on sending a three-pronged army to march north to Chang'an, resulting in heavy casualties among the soldiers... Is it because of this that you are still resentful?
I?"
Li Mi shook his head and said, "That's not the case."
Li Heng: "What's that?"
Li Mi: "I dare not say."
Li Heng said angrily: "I didn't expect that you would be so suspicious of me. How could I kill you? I am not King Goujian of Yue, so I would not kill the hero Wen Zhong!"
Li Mi looked at Li Heng seriously and said, "Your Majesty mistakenly killed Li Tan, the king of Jianning."
Li Heng was stunned on the spot, frowning and said: "Although Li Tan is my beloved son and has made great contributions in times of crisis, he was instigated by a villain and wanted to murder the prince Li Chu, so I had to get rid of him as a last resort.
He, how do you know my difficulties?"
Li Mi: "If King Jianning Li Tan has the intention to murder the prince, the prince should resent him. But every time the prince talks to me about this matter, he cries bitterly and keeps saying that King Jianning is wronged. I have decided to leave your majesty now."
, that’s why I dare to talk about it.”
Li Heng: "Li Tan, the king of Jianning, once held a banquet, invited Li Chu to attend, and arranged sword and ax hands behind the screen. Don't you know?"
Li Mi: "Your Majesty, did you go to the banquet held by King Jianning in person?"
Li Heng said blankly: "Never."
Li Mi: "Have you ever seen the swordsman and axeer at the banquet with your own eyes?"
Li Heng frowned: "No."
Li Mi: "Since you didn't go to the banquet and didn't see the swordsman with your own eyes, why did you swear to tell the story and kill King Jianning on this grounds?"
Li Heng finally noticed it at this time, covered his forehead with his hands and said, "Maybe I made a mistake."
Li Mi continued: "The reason why I talk about this matter is not to ask His Majesty to admit his mistake, but to ask His Majesty to learn from history."
"In the past, Empress Wu had four sons, the eldest of which was Prince Li Hong. Empress Wu was seeking the throne and hated Prince Li Hong's cleverness, so she poisoned him to death and appointed her second son, King Yong Li Xian, as the crown prince. Li Xian was worried, so he wrote "
"Huangtai Gu Ci", hoping that Empress Wu would remember the love between mother and son and spare his life, but Empress Wu refused to listen, and Li Xian finally died in central Guizhou."
"The poem "Huangtai Melon Ci" says this... Plant melons under the yellow platform, and when the melons are ripe, the seeds will separate. One pick will make the melons good, another pick will make the melons thin, three picks will make the melons still good, and four picks will make them return with vines.
"Your Majesty has already picked a melon. If you continue to pick melons like this, there will be only vines left in the melon field!"
Hearing this, Li Heng finally realized that he had made a big mistake. Tears welled up in his eyes, and he assured Li Mi that no matter how others slandered him, he would never pick melons and kill his children again.
Just when Li Heng was regretting it, the chamberlain Li Fuguo hurried in.
When Li Heng saw this, he stopped crying and asked, "What happened? In such a hurry?"
Li Fuguo glanced at Li Mi, knelt down and lamented to His Majesty: "The prince-in-law Zhou Jun caused chaos in Liangzhou, proclaimed himself a prince, knew the three princes, and... put the emperor under house arrest!"
When Li Heng heard this, his face turned pale.
Li Mi was stunned at first, and then asked Li Fuguo: "Where is the envoy sent by your Majesty?"
Li Fuguo: "Pang Chaoming and other courtiers were ordered by Zhou Jun to cut their bodies into pieces with knives, and even the intact bodies could not be saved!"
Li Heng was shaky and almost fell to the ground.
Li Bi, with quick eyes and quick hands, helped Li Heng.
After he stood upright, Li Heng's body was trembling and he said angrily: "One An Lushan died, and another Zhou Jun came! The Tang Dynasty has a lot of bad fate, and the world is in endless chaos!"
Li Bi looked solemn and asked Li Fuguo: "Did Zhou Jun do anything beyond the control of the Supreme Emperor?"
Li Fuguo: "It's just house arrest, and I haven't seen any violations of the rules yet."
Li Mi nodded slightly.
Li Heng grabbed Li Mi's sleeve and said sadly: "The Tang Dynasty is about to fall, and it is difficult to know whether the emperor will live or die. How can you, sir, be alone and stay out of trouble?!"
Li Mi sighed: "Zhou Jun's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty was as bad as Anlu Mountain."
Li Heng cried: "Sir, please help me! Save the Tang Dynasty from water and fire!"
Li Bi closed his eyes and said softly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will just stay here."
That night, Li Mi sat in front of the desk, lighting up the lamp and reading the records of Zhou Jun's life.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Halfway through, Li Mi took out the Taoist Tianluo Territory and kept calculating something.
At the end of the day, Li Mi's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he muttered to himself: "That's not right."
As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from the window: "Little friend, what's wrong?"
When Li Mi heard this voice, his body trembled, and he quickly stood up and shouted: "Master Luo?"
Luo Gongyuan, who was an immortal Taoist, held a wine bottle in one hand and pushed open the door with the other. He smiled and said to Li Mi: "If you don't practice Taoism in the mountains, why are you here?"
Li Mi first bowed respectfully, and then said: "The road goes in the opposite direction, and those who practice it should join the world to protect it."
Luo Gongyuan opened the cork of the bottle and took a sip of wine: "The heaven and the earth move on their own without being pushed, the sun and the moon shine by themselves without being burned, the stars sequence by themselves without being arranged, and the animals and beasts emerge by themselves without being made by man. This is what nature does, so why bother with man?" ?”
Li Mi: "The heaven, earth, stars, sun, moon, and beasts are the way. But the way of the world is man-made. Once the world cannot be rectified, then it is time for the way of the world to be corrected."
After hearing this, Luo Gongyuan smiled and shook his head: "You are determined to correct the path, aren't you worried that things will backfire and be counterproductive?"
Li Mi asked doubtfully: "What does the real person mean by this?"
Luo Gongyuan took another sip of wine and asked Li Mi: "You entered the world and threw yourself into Li Heng's court. What is your purpose?"
Li Mi: "Of course, it will bring peace to the world and restore prosperity to the world."
Luo Gongyuan: "Then what you are saving is the world or the Tang Dynasty?"
When Li Mi heard this, he was shocked and couldn't help asking: "What's the difference between saving the world and saving the Tang Dynasty?"
Luo Gongyuan picked up the jug and was about to pour another sip of wine into his mouth, but found that the jug was empty, with not a drop of wine left.
Luo Gongyuan was surprised at first, then looked gloomy, and finally looked at the wine bottle in his hand and sighed helplessly: "The time for poor Taoism has finally arrived."
Li Mi asked further: "Zhenren Luo hasn't answered my question yet."
Luo Gongyuan: "Your Taoism is still shallow...the correct answer cannot be explained in words. You can only slowly understand it yourself."
After saying that, Luo Gongyuan tied the wine bottle around his waist, waved to Li Mi and said: "Old Taoist originally wanted to talk to you in detail about enlightenment, but unfortunately the time is approaching and it's time to go back to the mountains."
Seeing that Luo Gongyuan was about to leave, Li Mi quickly asked: "Zhenren Luo, Zhou Jun's fate is different. Whether it is Dou Shu or destiny prediction, it is all a fog. Do you know the reason?"
Luo Gongyuan ignored Li Mi, stepped out of the room, and quickly disappeared into the night.
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Three months later, there was a rumor in the Floating Cloud Temple in Qingcheng Mountain that Luo Gongyuan was found dead in the temple, and his body was not rotten. The Taoists in the temple all said that Luo Zhenren became immortal and ascended to heaven.
This chapter has been completed!