At this time, no one below dared to say anything, or even express an expression. The meaning of the emperor's words was too obvious. No one except the emperor's father would dare to inflict such great grievances on the emperor.
At this untimely moment, an inappropriate counselor's voice sounded: "The King of Xiliang, Lieutenant Li Siye has an audience!"
Li Siye entered the palace wearing a purple robe. He glanced down casually and found that everyone seemed to have tears in their eyes, and some looked at him with the eyes of enemies, as if he had just made them cry.
He stood at the foot of the steps, bowed and crossed his hands: "Your Majesty, Li Siye, is here to see you."
Li Heng shook his head while holding the wine glass and said with a smile: "Look, my great hero is here. Lieutenant Li has a great debt to me. When I was still the crown prince, I needed the lieutenant's help. You were in my most difficult time."
He helped me and also helped me recover the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, which can be said to be a great achievement."
Li Siye lowered his head and crossed his hands: "These are what I should do."
"Really? Hahaha." Li Heng laughed for a moment, then suddenly his face darkened, and he said to everyone at the banquet: "Anyone who doesn't care can get out of here!"
The clan members and ministers in various states of drunkenness stood up from their seats and fled out of the palace. Only Li Fuguo and his ministers were left standing in the palace.
Li Heng turned his drunken and red face towards Li Fuguo and said calmly: "Get out of here too."
Li Fuguo concealed the aggrieved look in his eyes, crossed his hands towards the emperor, and slowly exited the hall.
Li Heng sat cross-legged on the ground, holding a wine cup in his hand and saying: "Li Taiwei, go over and get a cup of wine."
He turned around and picked up an empty cup from the messy dining table, filled it for himself with a silver wine bottle, and then brought it to Li Heng to see how he spoke.
"I have three drinks to thank you for. This first one is to thank you for always looking forward to me and helping me secretly when I was in trouble. I still remember your maid Daorou, whether she is still by your side.
, she is my favorite maid, and I gave them all to you. This second one, I want to thank you for the several carts of property and three thousand dragon troops you gave me. Li Chongyun is just one of your adopted sons. Can you give these things to me?
Give it to me, more because of my three-point thinness."
He picked up the wine bottle, refilled the wine cup in his hand, held it with both hands and said: "This third wine, I want to thank you for helping me recover the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. Most of the situation I am in today is due to you.
of credit.”
"It's a pity that you are the Supreme Emperor's loyal minister after all, so I have to be wary. He has been the Emperor of Peace for forty years, but I have to put the country back together step by step in the midst of wandering. How unfair is the sky to me!"
He threw the wine cup to the ground and the glass shattered into eight petals. He smiled and said to Li Siye, who was holding the wine cup as if his face was paralyzed: "You and the Supreme Emperor are the only remaining figures of the past era. He is about to return to Chang'an.
I think we should send enough people to greet him. Where should we do it? Of course we should greet him at Maweiyi. It is very beneficial for him to walk to the sad place of the past and feel the pain of the past."
Li Siye couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Sure enough, the father's kindness and his son's filial piety hurt each other. He could come up with such an ingenious way to punish his father, and even sent himself, an old minister, to go there. All the sad factors were gathered together.
"I obey the decree."
"Ha, you agreed so easily." Li Heng said with a proud smile.
"In that case, I will retire." Li Siye crossed his hands towards him and slowly left the Linde Hall backwards.
Li Heng waved to the side, and Li Fuguo emerged from nowhere. The emperor shook the wine cup in his hand and said leisurely: "The people in your inspection hall are all around the Supreme Emperor, and they must monitor his daily life every day, especially
Find out what he and Li Siye said."
"Here."
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In the third month of spring, before the grass grew and the orioles flew, Li Siye led a group of personal guards and ministers of the court to stand at the west gate of Mawei Post to welcome the Supreme Emperor who had returned from Shu.
As the distant horse team gradually approached, the yellow chariot swayed in the mountains and forests and arrived at the foot of Mawei slope. Li Siye led a group of people and bowed and crossed their hands: "I welcome the return of the Supreme Emperor!"
The horse-drawn carriage stopped in front of the slope. With the support of two maids, the old emperor stepped out of the carriage tremblingly. When he looked up and saw Li Siye standing at the head of the queue, he subconsciously turned around and returned to the carriage.
Perhaps because he felt that this would not have any effect, he lowered his head and pursed his lips and said: "Li Siye, if you didn't save your strength and went to attack the rebels, why did you come here to pick up an old man like me?"
Li Siye wriggled his lips and replied: "We in the Tang Dynasty can recruit so many generals who are good at fighting. Why do we need a veteran general like me who has already achieved fame?"
The old emperor chuckled and said: "Even you can be called a veteran. Think about how many generals I had during the Kaiyuan Tianbao dynasty, such as Wang Zhongsi, Huangfu Weiming, Gao Xianzhi, Ge Shuhan, and so on.
The last you."
Li Siye replied abruptly: "The dead are the most important, and the living are not worthy of mentioning them."
The people standing behind him were so frightened that their hearts were beating fast. Even if the Emperor was no longer the emperor, he was still the emperor's biological father. How could Lieutenant Li dare to speak against him like this?
Li Longji just lowered his head and said hum. Even Gao Lishi, who had long gray hair next to him, had no special expression.
They followed Li Longji to the Buddhist hall of the inn. Judging from Li Longji's reaction, he didn't have much fear about this sad place. But as soon as he approached the pear tree, the old man's face couldn't help but become sad.
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Everyone stopped and stood at a distance. Only Gao Lishi supported the Supreme Emperor to the concubine's grave, held on to the pear tree and began to cry. Many people in the distance were quietly wiping away tears. Only Li Siye looked on coldly with his hands folded in front of his belly.
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After the Supreme Emperor finished crying and walked back on crutches, Li Siye stood beside him and crossed his hands and said: "The tomb is empty."
Li Longji turned his head in disbelief and looked at him with wide eyes.
"Before I went south with the order, I sent many cavalry scouts to various places in the capital. One of them once passed by Mawei Station. They saw a eunuch guarding the tomb, leading a dozen bandits to dig open the tomb of the imperial concubine.
Because the imperial concubine was beautiful, they wanted to take her body and give it to their dead boss."
Li Longji's body was shaking all over, and he gritted his teeth and asked: "Where is Yuhuan's body now?"
"I buried him in a Taoist temple in Lanzhou City. The Taoist priests will help to watch over him. No one will try to rob him..."
Gao Lishi came close to Li Siye, stared and whispered: "Don't talk too much."
"I am Longshouqu, have I lived in dung?" Li Siye put his hands in his sleeves and muttered to the sky.
Li Siye had a lot of resentment towards Li Longji, not only because he chose the wrong answer every time, but also because he refused to follow his own advice and stay in Shu, insisting on going to Chang'an to live in the secluded residence Li Heng designed for him.
So, a series of things that happened later were all because of this.
The Supreme Emperor waved up his sleeves and wiped away his tears. He glanced sideways at Li Siye and said to Gao Lishi: "You don't have to be familiar with him. He has been stripped of his military power now and is worse than us."
Li Siye never said a word to the old emperor again along the way. When they arrived at the West Bridge of the Weihe River, Li Heng personally came to greet them with hundreds of civil and military officials. The welcoming team alone amounted to thousands of people, with various flags flying and waving.
Li Heng looked forward to it with joy on his face. When he saw the frail old emperor stepping down from the chariot, tears immediately burst out of his eyes. He bent down and knelt on the ground holding the hem of his yellow robe: "The child is unfilial, causing the father to
The imperial boat was tired and traveled around a lot, and it was only my son's fault that I was able to return to Chang'an today."
The other ministers also wiped their tears and were so moved that Li Siye looked on with cold eyes. Everyone present was an actor, and some even choked with tears. It was really like a lump in the throat, a thorn in the back, and pins and needles.