"Only when you have concerns, guilt, and regrets in your heart can you have a complete range of emotions and desires, and perhaps you can be considered a complete person. Otherwise, if everything goes smoothly, you may lose your true heart, right?
Although we hope to see a free and easy majesty who doesn’t care about anything, wouldn’t such a majesty become immersed in power and wine and lose his original expectations and persistence?”
Emperors throughout the ages have claimed to be the lords of the world, so they will want everything, and they will destroy what they can't get, so that others will not get it; so they will want to conquer everything, and kill what they can't conquer. In this way, no one will be dissatisfied; so they will want to make the world obey their orders. Those who disobey, maybe only have some faults, will be suspicious, calculating and persecuting, so that no one will disobey their orders. will······
Not only are there far-away places, but there are too many living examples nearby.
Those lunatics from the Gao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty were addicted to this desire to conquer, so they were cruel and easy to kill, causing trouble in the court.
Chen Xu, Emperor Xuan of Nanchen, was also indulging in such suspicion, so Chen Xuanhua's own childhood was always shadowed. If it weren't for Lechang's care and his later encounter with Li Xingchen, he might have been in such a shadow throughout his life. .
In his early years, Chen Xu was also ambitious.
It is a pity that the erosion of power and the repeated failures of Nanchen's foreign wars made Chen Xu fall into doubts about himself and the suspicion of foreign military commanders and important ministers in the court. This suspicion even directly or indirectly led to Chen Shubao's death. As the prince, he could only find ways to show that he didn't covet the throne too much, and all he could think about was sex, which prevented Chen Xu from casting suspicion on his son.
Let's look at those who clearly showed their ambition for the throne. Whether it was Chen Shuling or Chen Shujian, they were actually the targets of Chen Xu's suppression for a long time.
Chen Shuling was in Jiankang Mansion but had no real power. The power he had built in Guangling County could not stir up trouble in Jiankang Mansion after all, and he could only stir up trouble in the periphery.
As for Chen Shujian, he was directly thrown to Changsha County. Changsha County is located directly behind the southern Chen Jingzhou defense line. Chen Shujian not only has to bear the important task of hosting the logistics support of the war here, but is also under the surveillance of Jingzhou Chen Jun at any time, so that Chen Shujian finally They all had to give up their clearly stated ambitions and political demands and instead help Chen Shubao deal with Chen Shuling, so that they could have a good ending in the future.
Even his own children were suspicious of him, so it was natural that Chen Xu was suspicious of Li Xingchen, his cheap son-in-law, and the backbone of the dynasty such as Xu Ling and Wu Mingche.
However, the end result of this would naturally be for Li Xinchen to draw a clear line with the court early, and for the court officials to gradually fall in favor of Li Xinchen.
After all, not everyone can tolerate such unreasonable suspicion, especially when this suspicion may turn into a butcher's knife above the head at any time.
Your Majesty, you cannot lose your persistence and original intention and end up like this.
Chen Xuanhua murmured: "It was true that we thought it was too simple before."
It's always cold at high places. Your Majesty has been standing in this position for many years, shouldering pressure, enduring loneliness, and wandering between trust and worry... It's definitely more difficult than he lets on.
Sometimes they thought His Majesty was very happy, but now that they think about it carefully, it is possible that His Majesty simply wanted to make them happy or did not want them to worry.
Chen Xuanhua stood up suddenly.
Shen Wuhua reached out and pulled her sleeve: "What's wrong?"
"No, I want to go take a look!" Chen Xuanhua said directly.
Shen Wuhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Your Majesty won't do anything stupid. Let him be alone and don't join in the fun."
"But..." If it were anyone else, Chen Xuanhua wouldn't care. Just you, you have no right to stop me. But the one who is reaching out now is Sister Shen. Apart from Chen Xuanhua's own sisters in the harem, Shen Wuhua, the only person she respected and was willing to listen to, spoke, and naturally she hesitated.
"What stupid thing would I do?" As soon as I remembered the sound of footsteps going downstairs, Li Xingchen's voice floated over.
Shen Wuhua and the three of them all smiled and looked at the figure that appeared.
The soundproofing upstairs and downstairs doesn't look very good.
I wonder if Your Majesty heard what they said just now.
I'm embarrassed not to mention it. It's always a sin to criticize Your Majesty behind your back, even though I know His Majesty won't care about it.
Fortunately, Shen Wuhua stood aside and watched, not caring at all that he actually brought the whole topic to this level by himself.
Sister Shen has a transcendent status in His Majesty's heart, and Your Majesty will generally not do anything to damage her image in public. However, these two girls, Chen Xuanhua and Yu Chizhen, have always been "enforced by family law". When they saw His Majesty's expression, they felt that something was wrong. My butt hurt a little, and I subconsciously wanted to run away.
Unfortunately, their movements were still a little slow, and Li Xingchen had already pulled her into his arms one by one.
But this time there was no family law. Li Xingchen pulled them to sit down, winked at Shen Wuhua, and looked at his lap. Naturally, he meant that Sister Shen still had room here, would you like to sit down?
Shen Wuhua gave him a disgusted look and went straight to pour him tea.
Li Xingchen put away his smile and looked quietly at the little girl, who still had a look of concern in his eyes. After a long time, until Chen Xuanhua and the other two felt their hearts trembling, Li Xingchen finally said: " Thank you."
Chen Xuanhua and Yu Chizhen were speechless.
Shen Wuhua, who came over with tea, shook her hands slightly and sighed in a low voice: "Why did your majesty say this? The sisters in the harem should work together with your majesty to advance and retreat together."
Chen Xuanhua also nodded solemnly: "Your Majesty never lets us thank you, so naturally you don't want to thank us."
The little girl's eyes wandered and she looked at Yuchizhen: "It's Zhen'er. Your Majesty can thank her in another way. She should be looking forward to it."
Yuchi Zhen immediately blushed, turned around and wanted to run away.
Li Xingchen hugged her waist, leaned into her ear and said, "How do you want to thank me?"
Yu Chizhen said "Exhortation", and everyone collapsed in Li Xingchen's arms.
Shen Wuhua said helplessly: "It's still bright."
Li Xingchen immediately said seriously: "Yes, it's still early..."
His Majesty's eyes turned around.
Shen Wuhua's heart skipped a beat.
"How about we come together?" Li Xingchen smiled happily.
Several small fists hit him together.
Li Xingchen grabbed one on the left and one on the right, but two more appeared out of nowhere to tickle him. The two sisters-in-law knew the weaknesses of their brother-in-law, Jia Fujun, and they fought back cleanly. .