Lin Jingmo finally returned to Nan Qi. Although he no longer had his sister and father here, this was his homeland after all, and everyone was familiar with him. Only...
Lin Jingmo sat alone at the window and looked outside. After all, Nanling's army was different from the Northern Army. The training methods they used were also different. I wonder if they could defeat the Northern Yan army...
Just as Lin Jingmo was thinking about it, someone from the palace suddenly entered the tent: "Miss Lin, your Majesty has summoned you."
Lin Jingmo followed the palace attendants to the emperor's tent and waited for the palace attendants to inform him inside before entering the tent.
After Lin Jingmo paid his respects, the emperor asked: "Jingmo, I see that you have lost a lot of weight. You have been away from home these days. Are you having a hard time?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I have indeed experienced a lot during this trip to Jingmo, but... I don't feel any pain when I think about the past. It's just that Jingmo doesn't understand why many things are obvious, but Your Majesty doesn't."
Are you always avoiding me?"
Qi Xuanzhou smiled lightly and said: "Indeed, even I know many things, but sometimes the checks and balances between the imperial courts are like this. I must do it, either to catch them all in one go, or not to alert the snake. After all,
In the future, my and Kong Qing’s children will inherit everything I have.”
Lin Jingmo asked: "Your Majesty, so to speak...Does...His Majesty know everything? It's just that His Majesty has been looking for ways to catch them all?"
Lin Jingmo couldn't help but murmur in his heart: Southern Qi may be destroyed soon, so how can we catch them all in one fell swoop?
Qi Xuanzhou replied: "What's the truth? Are you saying that Zhang Yiqian colluded with the enemy? Or that Chen Mian was secretly supporting King Zhao? Or that King Zhao was raising troops in Beiyan? Or..."
He paused, looked at Lin Jingmo meaningfully and said, "Let's talk... Shang Shixu..."
Hearing this, Lin Jingmo looked at Qi Xuanzhou in horror: Shang Shixu? Does he also know Shang Shixu's life experience?
However, Qi Xuanzhou appropriately stopped his unspoken words and continued: "The death of Lin Shangshu was not actually because he couldn't think about it for a while, but for another reason."
Lin Jingmo knew from the beginning that his father's death was by no means a simple matter. Shang Shixu also said before that his father had seen him before his death. What exactly they said, Shang Shixu never mentioned a word.
Could it be that……
Thinking of this, Lin Jingmo hurriedly asked: "What on earth... happened to dad back then? Does it mean that he must die?"
"It's not that you have to die..." Qi Xuanzhou replied: "It's just that at the beginning, there was no other choice."
Lin Jingmo thought of the tragic situation before his father's death, and his heart was filled with pain. Why did his father have to go through this?
She suddenly felt a palpitation in her heart, and finally asked again: "Your Majesty, after everything in the past, is it now time for you to tell me the truth?"
Qi Xuanzhou turned around, looked at the pale Lin Jingmo, and said: "This matter must start from three years ago. At that time, Lin Shangshu came to me with an article from a Gongsheng student. I looked at him.
The words of the article are sincere and the ideas are very original. He attaches great importance to Tao. In his view, the people are more important than the king, and the king must be diligent in the country. Although he is not a famous scholar, Lin Shangshu and I both think that he should write this article
The best thing to do is win the imperial examination in one fell swoop. So I hand-picked him to be the top pick."
Lin Jingmo thought for a moment and said, "This Gongsheng student...is Shang Shixu?"
Qi Xuanzhou nodded and continued: "At that time, I didn't know who he was. I only knew that he had an old mother and a cousin. But it was through this cousin that I found out that his uncle was actually his ex.
The brother of the Crown Princess! If you think about it carefully, it is indeed very risky to keep such a person by your side. At that time, he was already the Minister of Household Affairs."
"Your Majesty...it turns out that you knew his life experience early on?" Lin Jingmo continued: "Then why didn't your Majesty kill him and eradicate the roots?"
Qi Xuanzhou said: "It's because of Lin Shangshu."
"Dad?" Lin Jingmo asked in confusion: "Is it because dad wants to save his life? So does dad also know the identity of Shang Shixu?"
"I have many eyes and ears around me. Most of the affairs in the court come from your father. It was your father who found out that Shang Shixu was probably related to the previous court, and then reported it to me." Qi Xuanzhou looked at Lin Jing.
Mo looked surprised, shook his head slightly, and continued: "The reason why I am willing to spare his life is because of your father, and the reason why your father is willing to keep this man's life is because of you."
When Lin Jingmo heard this, he remembered that it was only after she married Shang Shixu that he had the opportunity to become the Minister of Household Affairs. Now it seems that although his father knew his identity at that time, because he was the husband of his daughter,
, his son-in-law, is that why he begged the emperor to let him go? Did he turn out to be the source of all this? Was his sister's death, his father's death, and the current predicament of Nan Qi all caused by himself?
Qi Xuanzhou looked at Lin Jingmo's expression and naturally knew what she was thinking, so he said: "Jingmo, do you still remember what Lin Shangshu is like?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "Dad has been honest and dedicated throughout his life, and he only serves the court and the people."
"Yes, Lin Shangshu has never done anything for himself." Qi Xuanzhou took down a book from the desk and said: "This time, it's the same, he didn't do it because Shang Shixue was his
It was because he saw Shang Shixu's articles and his attitude in handling official affairs that he suggested to me that he hoped to test Shang Shixu and then decide whether to keep it for his own use.
"
"Test?" Lin Jingmo asked, "How to test?"
Qi Xuanzhou replied: "At that time, Chen Mian was making some changes. Although I know that he wanted to support his son-in-law, King Zhao Qi Xuanzhou, to become the emperor, but his power was deeply intertwined. If they were to be punished forcibly, they would be outside Southern Qi.
Our army should join forces with Beiyan inside and outside. I am afraid that my life will be in danger."
It turns out that this is the case, so it’s not that His Majesty doesn’t know anything, but because he knows everything about them, in order to slowly remove the cancer, he has never torn their masks apart...
Qi Xuanzhou continued: "At that time, Shangshu Lin and I had been looking for a suitable candidate to be placed next to Chen Mianzheng. It would be best if he had no power and had reasons to successfully gain Chen Mianzheng's trust."
"The best candidate is Shang Shixu, who had just become the top pick at the time and had no power?"
"Not bad." Qi Xuanzhou handed the account book in his hand to Lin Jingmo.
This is... the account book she had seen before in Shang Shixu's study room...