Qin Lei didn't know that before he set out for his mission, there was a fierce dispute in the Cining Palace in Zhongdu City two of the most noble people in Daqin...

In that simple Zen room, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang of the Great Qin and Emperor Zhaowu of the Great Qin were sitting opposite each other. The two were talking seriously, but the content of the conversation was the prince who had been detained by the State of Chu. At this time, the old empress do not know that Qin Lei was going south too.

But the fact that the prince was detained by Nan Chu was enough to make the old empress dowager furious. She saw her eyelids drooping and her voice was muffled: "Why do you do this?"

Emperor Zhaowu's usual pale face actually showed a few blush. He held his hands tightly and loosened his knees several times, obviously suppressing the excitement in his heart. After hearing the question from Empress Dowager Wenzhuang, he actually asked back: "Why can't I do this?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang glanced at her strange son and said slowly: "You don't even have any tiger poison... Besides, the prince is not at fault." Anyone can hear the alienation in his voice.

Emperor Zhaowu's face tightened and he said calmly after a long time: "My mother has been dominating all her life, so naturally she should know that it is difficult to tell the things in this world by right or wrong." As he said that, he narrowed his long and narrow eyes and said word by word: "Since I have given birth to him and raised him, I have given him half a lifetime of glory. Now... it's time for him to serve."

The old lady was silent for a long time before she suddenly said, "It's for Qin Li..." As she said that, she pulled the Buddhist beads in her hand and said to herself, "I'm old and have a slow mind."

Emperor Zhaowu remained silent for a long time, and finally nodded slowly and said, "This is a must," and sighed, "This is also no choice. Who has given only one crown prince throne..."

The old lady looked at him with a look of difficulty and said softly: "So you want Qin Ting to get out of the seat?"

"I have an agreement with the boss. Now I have to fulfill it." Emperor Zhaowu nodded and said, "The time for the decisive battle is coming. I need the Longxiang Army, otherwise I will not be able to form an absolute advantage." He did not say a word: 'Actually I still need the Jingshan Army...'

"The crown prince is the crown prince, and the movement is unknown." The empress dowager still did not give up the last glimmer of hope: "How can it be changed easily?"

Emperor Zhaowu said with slight pride: "In a short period of time, I will not establish another prince. I believe that if this step is done, the eldest brother should be satisfied." He first made the second prince the prince to show the officials that he was incompatible with the Li family, effectively curbing the fence-riding faction to move closer to the Li family... As it turns out, all fence-riding factions were eventually subordinate to Wen Yanbo...

At the same time, he secretly ordered the eldest prince to break up with his family, causing him to be deeply aggrieved and devoted himself to the arms of Grandmaster Li. The eldest prince really gained Li Hun's trust. He reported to Emperor Zhaowu through secret channels two years ago that he had completely mastered the Longxiang Army.

Even the upcoming military exercise was designed by him a few years ago. Imagine what would happen if an army in the other side suddenly turned against each other during the military exercise? In addition to losing, there is no doubt that it will be defeated.

If you use the momentum of great victory to force Li Hun to step down, you can solve the last big trouble without bloodshed. If old Li Hun resists stubbornly, then you can just destroy him!

By then, there will be five imperial guards on his side, plus one Jingshan Army, while Li Hun only has three troops. The two sides have a 2-to-1 military force ratio. Will such a large advantage still be transformed into a victory? At least that's what he thinks.

His Majesty, the emperor who doesn't like riding horses and can't fight, obviously thinks about war too simply. But at least now, everything is developing according to his ideas, how can he not be proud of it?

"You shouldn't do this," Empress Dowager Wenzhuang obviously disagreed with her son's idea and frowned slightly: "Their conflict was raised by you, and now you have to send one of them into the mouth of the tiger... As a father, you can't be so... cold-blooded." After hesitating for a moment, the old empress dowager still said the last two words.

Hearing this, Emperor Zhaowu suddenly became angry and glared at his eyes rarely, even his eyes were clearly visible: "Why am I so cold-blooded? That's because I have a more cold-blooded mother!" As he said that, he clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth and said, "What qualifications do you have to blame me? My fifth brother and I were both your flesh and blood, why did you blindly favor him? Even his son!"

In the past, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang was reluctant to say much whenever she mentioned this question. But this time, she also changed her color and shouted in a low voice: "That child is also your son! Don't forget the poisonous oath you made in front of the spirit of the ancestors!"

Emperor Zhaowu's mouth twitched, and he smiled shrillly: "If you hadn't forced me with the throne, how could I recognize his son?" The scenes of the past appeared before his eyes. When he thought of the unbearable past events, his thin hands couldn't help but tremble, so he had to put them into his sleeves, take a deep breath and said, "My mother... do you still remember the nest of thrushes?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang suddenly realized that some danger had come to Qin Lei's head. Her eyes suddenly became dim, but she still said lightly: "What thrush?"

Seeing that the old lady was obviously in a bad mood, she recalled her years with herself. Emperor Zhaowu said slightly disappointed: "Yes, you were busy fighting and jealous at that time, so you must not remember it, but I remember it very clearly." As she said that, her eyes looked out the window, as if looking for the thrush in my memory: "I was six years old that year, and we were still living in Changxin Palace. At that time, there was a big willow tree outside my bedroom, and there was a pair of thrushes on the tree branches. In spring, they made nests on the tree branches, chirping every day, and were very happy. My greatest pleasure at that time was to see this family live happily, hoping that the little thrush would be born quickly."

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang didn't say anything, but listened to her son continuing: "Later one day, a bigger bird came. The bird was yelling in the cuckoo cuckoo. I thought it was going to steal the bird eggs and wanted to go out and drive away the bad bird, but you stopped it."

Under Emperor Zhaowu's nagging story, Wenzhuang finally remembered the old past that was forgotten in the corners and nodded, "It's a cuckoo bird, it just wants to lay an egg."

Emperor Zhaowu smiled nervously and said, "Yes, it really only needs to lay an egg. Although it took away an egg from the thrush in order not to be discovered. But I believed that I thought my mother would never lie to me, so I didn't interfere."

"Later, the pair of thrushes came back, and they did not find any abnormality. They were still happily coming and going, waiting for the child to come. I naively thought that there were still so many eggs, which would not affect their happy life..." When he said this, he stared at the old lady with his eyes faintly, and his voice became cold: "But what happened? That egg became the source of the tragic fate of this family... It was born before other birds, so it should be their righteous brother, but do you know what the first thing this righteous brother did when he was born?"

"In order to reduce competitors, he actually pushed other bird eggs out of the bird's nest and made a shrill and unpleasant cry to eat." Emperor Zhaowu was completely immersed in his own world, with his expression as if he had to eat the little cuckoo: "That pair of thrushes may be the first time they have been parents. They didn't know that this ugly monster was someone else's child. When they heard the cry, they went out to catch insects and feed it. This thing had an amazing appetite. One of them was the food of four or five birds. If they had the food, they would naturally grow faster. With the strength, they would work harder to push their younger brothers and sisters out of their nests."

"As a result, it was only one of the bird eggs left in a bunch. It didn't take long to be as big as the adoptive parents. Although the poor adoptive parents felt something was wrong, they could not cruelly leave their adopted son who had been raised since childhood, and they still worked hard to catch insects to feed them. Until the whole spring passed, the guy was several times older than his adoptive parents, so he left satisfied and never came back. And the poor thrush, who worked hard and worked hard, ended up losing all his children and gaining nothing!" After saying a long paragraph, Emperor Zhaowu's voice became hoarse: "Mother, I am such a thrush! But I don't want to be deceived by you again..."

"So you want..." Empress Dowager Wenzhuang closed her eyes, her voice tired and sad.

It seemed that he would like to see this scene. Emperor Zhaowu spread his hands and said, "I want to push the cuckoo down before it surpasses me!"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang trembled all over, her white hair drooped weakly from her forehead, and her spine was slightly bent, as if she had exhausted all her strength. Her voice was like a source of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs: "Who swears to God that he will "receive him as his own, never harm him" in this life? Are those who have no faith worthy of being an emperor? Aren't you afraid of being punished by God?!"

"I have not betrayed my oath! How dare I break my promise to my heavenly father?" Emperor Zhaowu laughed nervously and said, "Has I harmed him? No! I sent my own son first, the crown prince of the current dynasty, to Chu State, and then sent him there. Isn't this considered 'treat as my own'? Let him go back to welcome the prince, share the worries of the king and father, and solve the problems for his brother. Isn't it what he should do? Even if Nan Chu really detained him, who can say that I harmed him?! So I did not violate the oath! No one could say that I was not here." The pride on his face was beyond words, and it seemed that he was very satisfied with the idea of ​​killing two birds.

"Shameless!" When she heard that Qin Lei was going to Chu State, the old empress dowager could not suppress her anger and looked at him with a disgust. This was the first time she had expressed her likes and dislikes to him so clearly. Although she had always known that he was selfish, she never thought that he was so selfish that he thought the whole world owed him.

There is no doubt that she was ashamed of this son, so she had been silently tolerating his offense. But this time, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang no longer tolerated it. Her white hair slightly opened and her turbid eyes suddenly became clear, like two sharp arrows, piercing Emperor Zhaowu's heart, and roared in a lioness-like voice: "Even if the Ai family didn't let you down back then, how did your throne come from? Did it fall from the sky?"

Emperor Zhaowu could not answer this question and said slightly annoyed: "Now we are talking about Qin Yutian, not about me and my fifth brother!" The so-called "reason" is like a chamber pot for some people. They can be pulled over if they can be used, and throw it away if they don't need it. They don't know what shame is.

"Okay! OK! OK!" said three good words in a row. The old empress dowager growled: "Then let's talk about Qin Yutian! You replaced him without telling the Ai family and took advantage of your son to be promoted to Qi. It can be said that from the day he was born, he has been working hard for you! After he came back, he relied on his great wisdom and courage to make great contributions to you... Whether it is pacifying the south, shocking the court, or fighting alone in Wen Li, building a strong city, nothing is not to defend your imperial power!"

The old empress dowager became more and more angry as she spoke. Finally, she spat in front of Emperor Zhaowu, lifted up the scattered silver hair on her forehead, and sneered coldly: "If there was no Yutian, would you think you could defeat the Wen Party and take charge of the court? Be your dream of Qingqiu! Without him, you would still be the cowardly emperor who was suppressed by the two powerful ministers!" She slapped the rosary to the ground, and the old empress dowager shouted: "How could you treat him like this?"

Emperor Zhaowu was speechless after saying righteous words. After a long time, he said softly: "He is not my son..."

"All nonsense!" The old empress dowager said sternly: "Since the genealogy has been changed, he is your son!" In this era, whether the son is his own depends on how the genealogy is written. If the brother adopts his son to his younger brother, he will change the genealogy. After the modification, the child is his younger brother's, and the relationship with the brother theoretically cut off.

All the excuses of Emperor Zhaowu were ruthlessly exposed by the old empress dowager, and finally pulled off the veil of hypocrisy, and said in anger: "Okay, I admit that he is my son! But even if he is his biological child, I will still treat him like this!"

Feeling the old face hot, Emperor Zhaowu stood up irritably, and paced around the hall with his hands behind his back and forth, "You are just talking about his achievements, but why don't you talk about his guilt?"

"What's the crime of Yutian?" The old empress dowager said hard: "I didn't see it!"

"You didn't see it, I'll tell you!" The long-standing anger finally erupted. Emperor Zhaowu said with his teeth and claws: "He despises everything and is arrogant and uncontradictory! He doesn't take the laws of the court seriously at all. He actually killed hundreds of imperial guards in the street. He chased and killed the imperial officials in the court. After he arrived in the south, he acted recklessly, gathered his party members, cultivated power, and excluded dissidents! Later, he even openly instigated the south to disobey the imperial orders, did not pay taxes, paid grain, did not charge, and did not obey the orders. The two southern provinces have actually been independent from the court, and they have a faint sense of independence!"

Seeing that Empress Dowager Wenzhuang looked grim, Emperor Zhaowu spitted and said, "And then, he actually had an affair with foreign countries, evaded tariffs, and carried out a smuggling journey! Do you know that more than 70% of the foreign goods in Zhongdu City are transported into Zhongdu through his commercial car shop! What is the madman making money crazy? He has a lot of plans!"

The conversation turned into a critical meeting. Emperor Zhaowu said sternly: "I know I owe him something, so I can tolerate it, and if I can tolerate it, I will tolerate it. Who would have thought that he would have to do it and tolerate it to the point of setting fire to the city and siege the palace," he said with deep meaning and looked at Empress Dowager Wenzhuang with a deep impression and sneered: "He actually dared to cut off the head of the prime minister of the dynasty and throw it into the moat... If such a madman is not eliminated as soon as possible, he will definitely burn the palace in the future and cut off my head!"

Finally, he said proudly: "It would be great if this is the case. Sending him to Chu State will not hurt his life or ruin the relationship between father and son. You can also be with his second brother... Anyway, this is not the first time he has been imprisoned."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang kept lowering her head slightly. After Emperor Zhaowu stopped his mouth and rested, she sneered and said, "If you want to add a crime, you have no choice. Don't tell the Ai family these things you didn't know before!"

Anyway, since he had already said this, Emperor Zhaowu lost his Yaxing, who wanted to be a bitch and a archway, so he simply said straightforwardly: "Yes! It turns out that I didn't move him because he was still useful. Now I want to move him because he was about to lose his tail! So I can't let him make contributions again. If he really lets him win the military exercise and bring down Li Hun, what's the point of getting the position of the Imperial Marshal? It's just a younger and stronger Li Hun stands up!"

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang suddenly giggled and said, "You are afraid! You can no longer deal with Yutian, so you are conspiring again. What the emperor who only knows how to use conspiracy and tricks is the most afraid of is the real power!"

"So what if I'm afraid?" Emperor Zhaowu said without shame: "Can he escape from heaven? As long as he leaves and never returns, will all the civil servants and military generals under him belong to me?"
Chapter completed!