And King Wen obviously played tricks on the darkness under the lamp.
But Li Chen was still worried.
He continued to ask: "But your father is dead. If he trusts your father, will he definitely trust you?"
Nangong Shouzhong said sadly: "How do you think my father died?"
This rhetorical question made Li Chen frown.
In just one sentence, there seems to be unimaginable bloodshed and conspiracies mixed in.
Nangong Shouzhong continued: "For a person like King Wen, although my father is the most trustworthy person around him, King Wen has never trusted anyone in his life. Your Highness may understand what the common people mean?"
Li Chen said indifferently: "I can understand that the only person he truly trusts is himself."
It's cold at high places, whether it's the Zhao Xuanji he saw, the teachings from Emperor Daxing, or the subtle changes Li Chen himself is making, it's all the same.
As an extremely powerful person, you cannot completely trust anyone.
In this world, the only one you can trust is yourself.
Emperor Daxing used facts to profoundly teach Li Chen this truth.
And Li Chen himself, at this moment, asked himself, who can he completely trust?
Su Zhenting?
Xu Changqing?
neither.
Li Chen only had limited trust in them.
Nangong Shouzhong said sadly: "This is indeed the truth. My father has gained prosperity and wealth for decades because of this thing, but he also lost his life because of this thing. In fact, my father already knew it on the first day he got it.
To determine one’s own ending.”
"But my father was unable to break free. In order to save the whole family, my father could only walk on the path that King Wen had already destined for him, and put all his hopes on the common people."
"Now the common people also present it to His Highness for the sake of the lives of the whole family."
Taking a breath, Li Chen said: "There are rumors among the people that seven out of ten will be changed, one vertical hook will be changed into a curved hook, and another emperor will sit on the golden throne... I didn't expect..."
Speaking of this, Li Chen changed the topic and his tone became extremely cold, "How did this thing fall into the hands of King Wen?"
Nangong Shouzhong replied in a trembling voice: "Back then, the late emperor felt that the end was approaching, so he planned to call all the princes back to the capital to completely determine the new king and avoid turmoil in the country."
"But at that time, all the princes had reached their age. Except for the current emperor, all the princes had been enfeoffed. Even those who were not enfeoffed were not in the capital due to various matters."
"The Holy One accompanied the late Emperor every day. Originally, everyone thought that although the late Emperor's health was deteriorating, it would not be a problem to persist until the end of that year. However, at the end of October, the late Emperor suddenly passed away, and then the Holy One passed away as quickly as possible.
Speed to the throne.”
"Almost no one who participated in the events back then is still alive today. Everything has been buried in history."
"But only the personal eunuch who served the late emperor at that time witnessed with his own eyes that the late emperor suddenly suffered from an old illness that night, coughed up blood and fainted. The imperial doctor had not yet arrived, but the present emperor arrived first."
"After that, the personal eunuch was kicked out of Qianqing Palace by the current emperor, and within half an hour, news of the late emperor's death came."
"The current emperor came out to announce the bad news with the late emperor's succession and his edict, but the personal eunuch knew that the edict in the hands of the current emperor must be false, because the late emperor had just handed over the real throne before he coughed up blood.
The edict was written and handed over to him to stamp the national seal..."
