Chapter 18 – The Son of Heaven is Sick

“In fact, there is no other meaning to going to Tanyu.”

The Emperor pushed his wheelchair to the corner of the Taiji Palace, the railing in front of him reflected an eerie white light in the night, and the sense of falling slightly a few feet in height from the square in front of him made the pair of monarchs and ministers who had been cooperating with each other for the longest time in the Kingdom of Qing and even in the world, and who had been the most terrifying to watch, sigh at the same time. The palace walls were tall, but they were not so tall compared to the vast plaza, with bits of starlight spilling down from the night sky in the far south.

“I just want to take a look.” The emperor said casually, “It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, and I don’t know if there are still as many fish there now as there were back then.”

“If I remember correctly, when His Holiness went to Tanyuu back then, it couldn’t quite be considered a county under our Daqing’s jurisdiction.”

“Yes, it seems to be closer to Tanyu State by boat from Dongyi, and if the north side of Tanyu State didn’t have such a large piece of dense forest that eats people and doesn’t spit out bones,…… Sigu Sword thought that it wouldn’t have given up such a good harbor.”

“Fortunately, thanks to that forest,” Chen Pingping said with a smile, “she was able to take a boat, and we were able to meet her at sea.”

The emperor fell silent, clearly not wanting to continue this memory. So Chen Pingping sighed and turned to say, “Your Majesty stands higher than the world and sees farther than the world, I don’t dare to doubt your judgment and decision, it’s just that …… I can’t figure out, if the eldest princess really has that mind …… How does she talk to move those two people.”

The emperor did not think twice and said directly, “There is no need to persuade, if there is a chance to stab me under the sword, such as the greatest temptation in the world, no matter whether it is the bitter lotus that bitter cultivator, or the four gu sword that idiot, I think it will not be able to miss.”

If Fan Xian was listening on the side at this time, he would definitely be overwhelmed by the fact that the emperor’s analysis at this time was so consistent with that old prime minister’s analysis in Wuzhou City, and that the Qing Kingdom had a lesser Lin Ruofu, so I wondered if the emperor would not feel a bit of pity in his heart.

Chen Pingping’s hands that had been caressing her knees slowly stopped, seemingly digesting His Majesty’s words, and after a few moments, slowly said, “If those two are really desperate, what should my Great Qing Dynasty hold back.”

“Soldiers to block.” The emperor said coldly.

“Who is the general?” Chen Pingping said calmly, “Ye Liuyun split half of the building in the south, other people can misunderstand him to be that idiot Four Gu Swords, I don’t see it that way, it’s impossible to count on him to make a move, and I’m afraid that he’s going to turn crazy in his old age.”

“Anzhi also wrote to say.” The emperor said indifferently, “After all, he is a member of my Great Qing Dynasty, it’s not good to collude with outsiders.”

“As for those two, after all, they are human beings not gods, I hold the world in my hands, why fear two pikers. And about the problem of the will ……” the emperor said lightly: “The old five is the first killing general of the world.”

Very plain words, very strong confidence, but the corner of Chen Pingping’s lips hung up a rather elusive smile, only he was sitting in front of the emperor, the emperor couldn’t see that odd smile.

“I will give Yun Rui a chance.” The emperor said coldly.

Chen Pingping was silent, but in his heart, he thought, I am only afraid that …… His Majesty is just going to give himself a chance, a chance to convince the Empress Dowager, and even to convince himself.

Just until now, Chen Pingping still did not know where this strong confidence of the Emperor came from, although he had been working hard towards the aspect that was closest to the truth, but the scene on the Hanging Temple that he wanted to show Five Bamboo because of Fan Xian’s horizontal insertion was not finished after all.

“Your Majesty.”

“Speak.”

“I want to know exactly how you have arranged things for the future.” Chen Pingping sighed and asked a question that she would never ask in the future.

The emperor seemed to be a bit surprised as well, and then smiled slightly, the beard under his jaw slowly fluttering in the night breeze, and his middle-aged man’s unique insightful eyes softened a bit. This is the first time in many years that Chen Pingping took the initiative to ask about this, the emperor’s heart moved slightly.

“Haven’t you always disliked paying attention to these things?” The emperor said mockingly, “Even in the past when I asked for your opinion, you were like an old rabbit, running as far away as you could.”

Chen Pingping deflated and said, “A bunch of children’s things, but after all, they are His Majesty’s children.”

The emperor understood the meaning in this sentence, and after thinking for a long time, he said in a calm but firm tone, “I have not thought about it yet.”

It was Chen Pingping’s turn to be surprised, and he couldn’t help shaking his head, sighing like an old man in the countryside.

The emperor slowly said, “Chengqian is too cowardly, the oldest is too pure, the second ……” he frowned, “the third is too young.”

Chen Pingping sighed again.

The emperor suddenly smiled, loosened his hands from the back of the wheelchair, negative to his back, and walked to Chen Pingping’s body. Across the alabaster railing, he looked at the broad square in the deep palace, seemingly gazing at the thousands of armies and horses, at everything under the sun.

“I know there are many people who think that I have pushed these children too far.” The Emperor’s back appeared a bit sullen, “Shu Wu once drank wine and even said it directly in front of me.”

Speaking at this point, the emperor’s tone finally brought a hint of hidden anger.

“But, is the emperor …… someone who can be anyone?” The emperor turned back and gazed at Chen Pingping’s old face, as if he was asking him, as if he was asking himself, or as if he was asking the several restless sons inside and outside the palace.

The palace maids and eunuchs in the distance looked at this party from afar, they could not hear what His Majesty and President Chen were talking about at all, and they were even less clear that His Majesty’s conversation with President Chen involved the ownership of the dragon chair many years later.

“As an emperor, one must not be ruthless or sentimental.” The Emperor turned his face away, “Those who are emotionless to their body and surroundings are emotionless to the world, and the world will be in chaos; those who are mercurial to their body and surroundings will be victimized, and the world will be in chaos when it loses its master.”

“I’m not a dim king, I want to build the success of the world, but also to have descendants to inherit before becoming, pick the emperor, always can not be all based on their favorite to pick.” The emperor smiled coldly and said: “I have watched the crown prince for ten years, he is a merciless in the mercurial, keep the success is still possible, only I go, the world must just begin to unify, the cause of the chaos is still in, he has no heart of stone, no powerful means, how to keep this great unification of the world for me?”

“Lao Er?” The emperor’s face cold smile still did not fade, “I start is valued him, these years and Chengqian’s fight, he did not fall in the wind, only later but let me some disappointment, one to mercurial cover up the ruthless road, he if on the throne, will be a generation of benevolent monarchs, but I’m afraid these sons …… didn’t have One can survive.”

Chen Pingping was silent, but in his heart, he was thinking that this world is really some indefinable, the second prince was also a handsome young man who only knows how to read, if he is not forced by you to this point, there is no such a big pressure and temptation, why would his heart become like this today? Your Majesty ah Your Majesty …… Raising a lion This kind of maneuver is really not very suitable for cultivating the successor of the emperor.

Emperor Qing Guo’s potential mind of letting his sons seize the throne all these years is very simple, it is difficult to take charge of the world, who can survive, this world is who’s, just that he didn’t think about it, not all the young people are used to standing in the ink-like river like him to enjoy the scenery of the river, he changed his sons a lot, just that in the end the result of this kind of change is only afraid that it is also not what he wants.

“How is the eldest prince?” The words that Chen Pingping said this evening had gone far beyond the ideas that he usually held.

So when the emperor listened to this, he was once again taken aback and his smile grew even more, as if he liked the fact that Chen Pingping had returned to this state of having a say back then, “I am not surprised that you would mention his name.”

The emperor smiled and said, “The lives of this mother and son are saved by you and Little Leaf, you naturally have more affection for him, I also love him …… just that he is too emotionally attached, and in this ferocious fight, whoever is soft-hearted may be in the middle of a thousand catastrophes.”

The emperor sighed, “Plus he is after all half Dongyi blood, it’s hard to convince the public, and more crucially, if he wants to blood-wash Dongyi City in the future, do you think he has the determination to do so?”

Chen Pingping sighed, this Lord Dean sighed a little more than all the time in the palace this night, it seemed.

“So he doesn’t have to think about it.” The emperor slowly said, “The old third …… age is still young, I can still see a few more years.”

Chen Pingping suddenly laughed oddly and said a proposal that might make the entire world begin to tremble.

“How about Fan Xian ……?”

The emperor slowly turned around, looking at Chen Pingping with a smile or not, not knowing how long he had been looking at her, but never answering this sentence. After a long time, the emperor suddenly laughed loudly, and the laughter then echoed in the empty corridor in front of the Taiji Hall, making those palace maids and eunuchs at the end of the corridor tremble with fear.

Laughter gradually quiet, the emperor slowly converged on the smile, calm but also indisputable said: “no doubt, he, is the most suitable one.”

Fan Xian’s temperament in this world fit the Emperor’s requirements for his successor, seemingly gentle and affectionate, but actually cold and heartless, but with a touch of compassion in the deepest part of his bones.

The emperor was always thinking that the hint of compassion in Fan Xian’s bones should have been inherited from her mother, right?

If the emperor’s words got out, I’m afraid that the entire court of Qing would shake, and even the entire world would undergo some sort of strong change.

“He has no name.” Chen Pingping said with an odd smile.

The emperor’s smile was also a bit odd: “Fame, it is just a word from me …… The people back then will always die clean one day.”

Chen Pingping knew that His Majesty was referring to the empress dowager in the palace, he gently coughed twice and said, “I think it’s better to forget it.”

The Emperor looked at him with a smirk, “Why? I’ve always thought that you disliked Fan Xian, but it seems that in these two years, you really do love him.”

“Loving is one thing,” Chen Pingping said with a leathery smile, “It’s one thing for me and Fan Jian to not be on the same page …… but in my opinion, with Fan Xian’s character, he doesn’t want to let both Fan Liu clans become underground because of him white bones.”

The emperor smiled faintly and did not say anything else.

Chen Pingping knew the emperor in front of him too well, and he sighed in his heart. If the emperor really wanted to foster Fan Xian to the throne, then before he died, he would definitely slaughter the Fan Liu two families cleanly, slaughter them cleanly at all costs, and this, for sure, was something that Fan Xian could not accept. What made Chen Pingping a bit more tired was that he had finally clearly confirmed that the Emperor had not placed Fan Xian on top of the succession list at all.

Standing in the middle, Chen Pingping knew that that path was not going to work, and he had to take the other path himself – His Majesty had an illness, an illness of the heart.

“I like Boss and Anzhi because I like their hearts.” The emperor stood in the night breeze of the palace, making a decisive choice about the ownership of the dragon chair, “What I want to see is the heart of these sons …… If there is no such thing, then it is fine, if there is, I want to see the heart of the crown prince and the oldest two, whether or not they are concerned about me as a father. ”

Chen Pingping did not make a sound, just indifferently thought, as a human father, do not cherish his son, and how to be qualified to ask the son to cherish the father’s love?

“The emperor’s vision should see further than all these people like himself.”

Fan Xian thought, at this time, he is like a monkey, climbed up the high mast, looking at the right hand side of the rising sun, greeted the slightly wet and salty sea breeze, shouted loudly and quickly.

Traveling on the sea, what kind of pleasant life, don’t have to pay attention to the dirty water in Kyoto, don’t have to pay attention to the trouble of the officialdom, don’t have to look at those dead heads of Jiaozhou, Fan Xian seems to return to the initial image of the hyperactive teenager in Tanyu State, climbing around the ship all day long, finally climbed up to the tallest mast of the whole ship.

He built a cool canopy and looked at the red and warm blocks of color in the distance, thinking to himself that he had already seen far enough, but still not clear on just how far the emperor had already seen.

The ship came from Jiaozhou and slowly sailed northward along the winding coastline to the east of Qing, toward Fan Xian’s hometown.