Wishful Things

"Now that I think about it, Father probably already knew what Eldest Brother was doing in secret, but he didn't mention half a word to me at that time..." The eldest princess' voice was hoarse: "Father just told me that the current situation is as it is. , there is no second choice, he said that although the second brother is warlike, he has never fought against his family, if the eldest brother is really willing to implement benevolent government, the second brother will definitely be a good courtier, and he will definitely help the eldest brother stabilize the foundation of Daqing."

He must be a good servant...

Xu Mingyi remained silent and did not speak.

The first emperor saw the second son very clearly, but is this bullying a sensible child?

It seems to have noticed the ambition of the eldest son, knowing that the eldest son wants to rob, but the second son does not, so he unconsciously prefers to consider the eldest son——

If the second son does not rob, he is destined to be a good courtier, and his life and death are controlled by others.

The eldest son was ambitious, so he gave him everything, wanting to fill the opponent's ambition at once.

With such an arrangement, it seems that "everyone takes what they need", but can they really live in peace?

Did the former emperor ever think that some people's ambitions cannot be satisfied?

Even though he got the biggest piece of meat, he still doubts that others will come to grab it. Such a person has never thought about the so-called "benevolence" from the very beginning, and his mind is full of killing it——

Therefore, as soon as the first emperor left, he couldn't wait to lay hands on Yan Wang's mansion, causing Yan Wang's concubine "one dead body and two lives".

Immediately afterwards, the king of Yan was sent far away from the capital, and placed in the barren and difficult northern land. In the past eighteen years, he never stopped thinking of taking the life of the king of Yan.

Did the late emperor think of all this?

Or thought of it.

That's why the will was left behind, in the hope that if there is a day, there is still a possibility to prevent everything from going to the worst——

But is it really possible?

Just like in the previous life, this will was buried with the Eldest Princess long ago, and no one even knew of its existence.

It can't be said that the first emperor's method is too weak, but the situation is always unpredictable, and it seems that the world's events are not predictable. The real plan is exhaustive, and the blessing of luck has always been indispensable.

And at that time, no matter what the Emperor Xian did, it was already too late, and at most he could only make up for it.

As her grandfather once said to her, the real fault of the former emperor was that he did not appoint a prince in time. His vacillating attitude nourished the growth of too much ambition. This is the source of all the bitter fruits .

Mentioning this, grandfather always sighed and said, the late emperor was also a man of great talent and strategy, but he couldn't figure out the family affairs - so when it comes to having children, you really can't have too complicated ones. Are there not enough lessons from the past and present?

"...According to this, the death of the second sister-in-law in childbirth may not have nothing to do with the emperor's brother." Recalling the past eighteen years ago, the eldest princess guessed with chills down her spine.

"Princess Yan's dystocia is exactly what the emperor did."

The girl's tone was firm, and the eldest princess looked at her in shock.

"Someone has proved this matter—" Xu Mingyi explained Qiao Bingying's matter to him.

The eldest princess' fingers trembled when she heard it.

When the emperor's brother attacked her, she only thought that she had been sitting on the throne for a long time, and her heart was hardened...

But looking at it now, long ago, from the very beginning, her imperial brother never had half of humanity in his eyes!

All benevolence and kindness are all illusions for the world to see!

Tears flickered from the corners of the eldest princess's eyes, and a sad laugh came out of her voice: "...if the father knows the truth, what kind of mood will he be in? I think that even if you put aside your selfishness, the father is also the same. It had to be done. At that time, the second elder brother was on an expedition, and the palace and the capital had already been controlled by the elder brother... If the father does not issue an order to pass it on to him, and tear his face, there will definitely be a change in the palace..."

And many things, once the light has passed, it is easy for people to ignore them. If there is a real mess, the courtiers who support the second brother, the empress dowager, and the Yan Palace... I am afraid that they will all be wiped out.

She knew her father well and believed in her father. The reason why her father chose to suppress the cause of her own death must be a stable situation and she had the idea of ​​preserving Yan Wangfu.

The imperial decree to pass the throne was like appeasement, trying to appease the beast that had quietly opened its bloody mouth.

However, the appetite of the beast is not satisfied!

"My own elder brother, I grew up with him, and I haven't seen through it yet, let alone the father who has always owed him..." The princess's tone was both sad and ironic: "Now that I think about it, He has always been the best at taking advantage of his father's indebtedness... After his mother passed away, he became more reticent, but made his father feel more guilty. Have the same weight as the second brother in your heart?"

Now that she thinks about it, the elder brother's filial piety, kindness, and the embarrassing helplessness of the eldest son in those years, she just feels sick!

After his mother passed away, was he really as depressed and pitiful as he appeared on the surface?

Probably just using his mother's death as a play to plan his own way out!

In terms of liking, the father naturally likes the second brother more, the second brother is smart, courageous and capable, straightforward and popular——

But her eldest brother always has a way to win the apology from the father, so as to shake the father's judgment.

Every word and deed is full of calculations!

However, no matter whether it is the empress dowager or the second brother, they were all deceived by his pitiful and reticent appearance back then. On the contrary, everyone was taking care of his emotions... How could he be able to defeat him if he was so intentional and unintentional, and kind to malicious? ?

Hearing the words "heart of indebtedness", Xu Mingyi sighed slightly.

What did the first emperor think he owed?

Was it because marrying the empress dowager made the woman who had been with him through thick and thin all of a sudden be in an embarrassing situation?

Or, if there was no empress dowager, he would have regarded that woman as his wife.

And with the empress dowager, she and her son became inferior existences.

Therefore, the first emperor felt indebted, especially after the woman died of illness, even when she died without a title.

This was probably a heart problem of the first emperor, the empress dowager who has always been magnanimous must have seen this in her eyes, so she agreed to the posthumous title.

The late emperor was very guilty, and he should indeed feel guilty for this——

But it's his own fault.

What did the empress dowager and her child do wrong?

Back then when he married his first wife, did someone use a knife to force the late emperor to marry him?

The Empress Dowager was born in a famous family, and her whole family almost gave up everything to help the late emperor achieve great success. The brothers in the Empress Dowager's family also threw their blood and lost their lives in order to protect the late emperor——

What did they do wrong?

In the end, the empress dowager stayed in Beijing as a hostage because of the late emperor's debts and vacillations. In the last life, she was poisoned and died. The concubine Xianyan was murdered and almost killed two people. Wu Chao never dared to say anything in the Wu family for many years True identity, the father and son have not seen each other for eighteen years; King Yan sticks to the north alone, suffering from heart disease due to depression, and has to be on guard every day, always on the edge of the abyss.

The former emperor's guilt caused him to die at the hands of his own son, and made the empress dowager and Yan Wang's family even more implicated.

This is indeed a benevolent person, but this "benevolence" was given to the wrong person.

Although it is not possible to deny everything about the late emperor, it is obvious that the late emperor did lack a lot in dealing with family affairs.

Especially when a man of ordinary background suddenly ascended to the throne, everything was just groping, and in the process of groping, he chose to confuse family affairs with state affairs——

He wants to be a good father.

This can be seen from the will left behind.

He wanted to balance the situation as much as possible, and he wanted to save every child.

It was precisely because of the thoughts that an ordinary father would have that he lost his original determination and chose the wrong path.

As a parent, even when the facts are in front of you, you will always find reasons for your children, and seldom think that your children are really evil and hopeless. Maybe the so-called benevolent government will be implemented...

Xu Mingyi was silent for a long time.

In the final analysis, these are all things of the past, how the late emperor considered it, and what kind of mental journey he went through, outsiders can't make a judgment, and it's hard to say whether it's right or wrong——

At the moment, the most important thing is the word stop loss.

And, let the real murderer pay the due price, so as to end all mistakes as soon as possible.

"I was so stupid back then, I actually believed that after he got the will, the second elder brother was no longer a threat to him, and he would never kill me or the second elder brother..."

Princess Jingrong's eyes gradually became cold but determined: "If someone must disappear completely to stop all this, it should be him."

Xu Mingyi agrees with this sentence.

"When will I need to come forward?" the eldest princess asked.

"Everything is still under deployment, and I will inform His Highness when the time is right."

She came here today to persuade the eldest princess, and the current progress is much smoother than she imagined.

This is the best result.

The eldest princess nodded: "Yes, it needs an appropriate timing."

The persuasive power of the will, in addition to the will itself, also requires the ability to control the overall situation.

Otherwise, it would be tantamount to handing over the trump card early, and then waiting to be charged with forging the will.

"...Thanks to Miss Xu who came in time, I am not afraid of Miss Xu's jokes. A few days ago, I heard that my third brother was escorted to Beijing. The emperor intends to punish him with death, so I have already thought of showing the will." The eldest princess said : "If there is another big change, there is no guarantee that I will not take it out rashly."

Xu Mingyi was surprised when he heard this.

"Could it be that the edict is still in the hands of His Highness?!"

The eldest princess nodded: "Yes."

"The one that His Highness led the Emperor to find...is it fake?"

"No, it's true too."

Xu Mingyi was surprised, but slowly came to a realization.

Therefore, the first emperor left two identical edicts to the eldest princess back then!

"Father told me back then that if Brother Huang realized the existence of the will, he would let me try to hand over one to avoid his suspicions, and then secretly hand over the other to a trustworthy person." The eldest princess said: "After I became ill, Although everything is relatively stable, but the emperor still made people secretly pay attention to the movement of the princess's mansion, so I have not found the opportunity to take out another will."

She was also afraid of handing things over to others, and if she showed them too early, it would lose its original meaning.

For one thing, it is still worthwhile to give full play to its maximum effectiveness.

Because of her cowardly temperament, she was able to guard for so many years under the suspicion of the emperor, perhaps because of this day.

And now, she was finally able to hand it over.

"Also ask Miss Xu to come over by ear—"

Since she still needs to wait a while, in order to prevent another accident, she has to tell the girl in front of her where the treasure is hidden.

Xu Mingyi leaned slightly to listen.

"..."

The eldest princess's voice was so low that only the two of them could hear it.

Xu Mingyi nodded lightly: "This junior has written it down."

Princess Yufeng outside the window couldn't hear it, and she was not very curious about it. The shock of what she heard just now overwhelmed everything else.

But these amazing old things are just old things after all, and it seems that what she needs to worry about most now is herself.

Hearing that Xu Mingyi in the room had got up to leave, she also hurriedly dodged away from the window.

Xu Mingyi came out, and she hurried forward to meet her.

"Finished? I'll see you off."

At this time, a voice came through the window——

"Xie Jiaojiao, why don't you come in?"

The voice was a bit lazy, and the end of the sentence was faint, but Princess Yufeng heard a rumble in his head.

Is this really "coming back"? !

If the major event has not been accomplished, don't think about it... Shall I pretend again?

Her complexion changed, she forced a laugh, and replied, "I'll go see Zhao Zhao off—"

Saying that, he quickly took his friend's arm.

Xu Mingyi took her hand lightly, and said, "No need, I know the way."

Princess Yufeng stared wide-eyed—a man in charge?

But the person in front of him had an expression of "I'm doing this for your own good".

——At this time, the eldest princess is still in the torment of first learning the truth of the old things, and she can't lose her temper much. If she takes the opportunity to comfort her, she may be able to pay off her merits and expose her past evil deeds.

Therefore, Xu Mingyi gave Princess Yufeng a self-seeking look, and left mercilessly.

She didn't know whether Xie Jiaojiao's arm had been pinched or her ear had been twisted in the yard behind her, but thinking about it, she was doomed to leave unscathed.

...

On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow fell in central Beijing.

Along with the snow came a report from the north.

Different from the past, this report is not about which city the King of Yan has captured again, where the conscription has been resisted by the people, or the dispatch of food and grass is not timely enough, but that since the capture of Cangzhou a month ago, the army of the King of Yan has There was no more movement.

This is undoubtedly abnormal for the Yan army, who is in a hurry to join the Wu family army.

It is not suitable to march in snowy weather?

Stationed in Cangzhou to recharge your batteries?

Or is there another conspiracy?

It can't be that seeing the end of the year is approaching, you want to stay in Cangzhou for a new year, and then continue to fight after the new year, right? ——It doesn’t have to be so ceremonial!

The courtiers speculated a lot about this, and Xie Shoufu sent orders to various places in the Northland to investigate the inside story of this matter in detail.

After another ten days of waiting like this, King Yan's army remained silent, and a new secret letter had already been sent back.

"..."

In the cabinet, all the ministers were surprised by the content of the letter.

Something happened to King Yan!

(3[▓▓] good night