I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 196 Are you ready?
At dusk, Liu Sheng came to Tianziqi's bedroom as scheduled, but found that Tianziqi had already entered a busy working state.

She was still wearing the yellowed white underwear, and her hair was still bundled up perfunctorily, but on the imperial case in front of Emperor Qi, there was a pile of 'mountain of bamboo slips' half a person's height.

——Even if you are on vacation, Tianzi Qi, you still haven’t forgotten your work...

"Come and sit;"

After a sudden greeting, Liu Sheng finally walked forward slowly, and knelt down in front of Tian Ziqi's table.

But seeing that the emperor didn't lift his head, he leaned over to look up a memorial, and he didn't forget to greet again: "Speak;"

"What happened during the day?"

Tian Ziqi's overly casual attitude was undoubtedly a little bit beyond Liu Sheng's expectation;

Ben planned to describe it in detail, and even prepared a written report. Seeing Tianzi Qi's posture, he completely relaxed.

Quietly hid the bamboo slips in his hand back into his bosom, then bowed his hands to the emperor Qi.

"My ministers heard Zhi talking about the eldest son of the emperor, Li Ji, Li Ben, and officials of the crown prince;"

"Although I haven't been able to figure out what happened in Chang'an recently, but from these words, I roughly speculate that it should be related to the appointment of the crown prince."

"—In addition, the eldest brother has already made the king and became a vassal, and the father is determined to establish a son."

"That's why I deduce that I'm afraid this matter has something to do with Erchen..."

The brief summary report still failed to make Emperor Qi raise his head from the front of the case, and only let out a muffled 'hmm'.

"Go on."

Seeing that Tianzi Qi was still concentrating on his work, Liu Sheng couldn't help lowering his voice a little;

The tone of voice became more and more peaceful.

"Eldest Brother has not been registered as Crown Prince and Crown Prince, but the Empress has been childless for many years. In the past, both inside and outside the government believed that it must be Eldest Brother who will finally be appointed as Crown Prince."

"Since this is the case, there must be many people who will get close to Big Brother in advance for the future."

"—Right now, the father crowned the eldest brother as the king, and made it clear that he did not appoint the eldest brother as the crown prince. This will greatly disappoint those who moved ahead of time;"

"He may even be labeled as the 'Emperor's eldest son' because he was close to his elder brother in the past."

"So, if these people are unwilling, they will most likely make the final struggle by slandering and slandering their ministers."

"And among these people, there will be some people who fish in troubled waters, trying to get the crown prince registered, and then there will be some variables that are beneficial to them..."

"—Li Ji's elder brother, Li Ben, is powerless and must do this;"

"But apart from Li Ben, and those subordinate officials of the Taigong who 'bet in advance', I am afraid that everyone else has other purposes..."

Listening to Liu Sheng's previous words, the emperor Qiben was still noncommittal, just nodded from time to time, and occasionally said 'hmm'.

But when he heard Liu Sheng's last sentence, the nib of Tianzi Qi's review of the memorial quietly stagnated;
Frozen in mid-air, after five breaths, Tianzi Qi raised his head with a half-smile and glanced at Liu Sheng.

Seeing Liu Sheng kneeling and sitting in front of him with his usual expression, Tianzi Qi laughed again;
Putting the pen in his hand aside, he immediately leaned his upper body forward, propped his elbows on the table, and looked at Liu Sheng meaningfully.

"You mean, someone doesn't want you to be the prince?"

Liu Sheng nodded without thinking.

"Then, who could it be?"

"Who doesn't want you to be the prince?"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng took a deep breath, then slowly shook his head.

"It stands to reason that unless they are certain that they cannot establish a relationship with me, the first thing that comes to most people's mind when they learn that Father Emperor intends to make me the crown prince must be how to get close to me."

"Just like Li Ben, and those subordinates of the Taiwomen—knowing that he is already the eldest brother, it is impossible to gain my trust, so he broke the boat and made the last attempt."

"But apart from such people, I really don't understand: Is there anyone else who would not want my son to become the crown prince."

"—After all, in the past, although my son did a lot of ridiculous things, he never made any enemies;"

"In addition to the teacher's face, even people who have never met me will always look a little closer to me for the sake of the teacher..."

Seeing Liu Sheng's increasingly suspicious face and his gradually frowning brows, there was only a touch of playfulness on Tian Ziqi's face.

"I didn't expect that?"

"—Still don't want to think about it?"

"Or, it's obvious that you thought about it, but you dare not tell me?"

The question full of deep meaning only caused Liu Sheng to shake his head with a sad face.

"There is no evidence, my son, so I dare not speculate."

"Although it makes sense, there is no conclusive evidence..."

"—Jun~"

"—no proof needed."

Before Liu Sheng finished speaking, he saw Tianzi Qi suddenly leaning his upper body back, and his tone of voice suddenly raised.

"The king's doubts about his subjects do not need evidence."

"As long as you have doubts, you can investigate;"

"As long as the evidence found is not enough to clear the suspicion, sir, you can punish the minister."

"—doubtful, certainly;"

"When you have doubts, the only function of evidence is to dispel doubts;"

"Not~"

"Certified charges..."

Listening to Tianzi Qi's inexplicable melancholy, but clearly a little smug tone, Liu Sheng frowned subconsciously;

Doubtful, ever?
What kind of reasoning is this?

When this idea appeared in Liu Sheng's mind, Tianzi Qi finally stood up from his seat.

Looking down at Liu Sheng, he smiled inexplicably.

"The 'criminals' encountered by the monarch will not be small things such as cockroaches, robbers, murder and robbery;"

"These little things that can be 'unsuspected' don't need to be handled by the monarch himself—Tingwei, that's what he does."

"However, the monarch's doubts about certain people are often: Is this person trying to bring disaster to the country?"

"Is this person trying to subvert the ancestral temple?"

"—Such doubts must, and can only be, 'suspected crimes'."

"It's better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go. This is what I'm talking about."

"Because of such a thing, even if the monarch suspects wrong, he will only die in vain;"

"But if the monarch is right in his suspicions, but fails to eradicate the threat in advance because there is no evidence, it will eventually lead to the death of tens of thousands of people—thousands of innocent people..."

Said, Tianzi Qizhong shook his head and smiled again, and then saw his body turned sideways;
Walking to the wooden frame not far away, he grabbed a roll of bamboo slips, flipped through them, and said casually, "Of course;"

"It's just a suspicion, and it doesn't have to be dead."

"Being suspicious of everyone at all times is a must-have ability for a qualified emperor."

"so······"

"—Since you have thought of it, let's talk about it."

"No matter how vicious I am, I will never send you bastard to Ting Wei, and then you will be punished for 'defamation'..."

The slightly joking words only made Liu Sheng take a deep breath slightly uneasy;

After thinking about it again and again, he finally gritted his teeth secretly.

"My son believes that in the current situation, the only people who oppose me becoming the crown prince are those who want to become the crown prince themselves."

"And there are only a handful of such people in the palace..."

As soon as Liu Sheng finished speaking, a brilliant flower bloomed on Tian Ziqi's face;

Although his back was facing Liu Sheng, there was a hint of admiration in his tone of voice.

"Cheng Ji?"

"Or is it Wang Meiren?"

Seeing Liu Sheng heard the words, he got up from his seat without even thinking about it, and stepped forward to Tianzi Qi's side.

"According to what my father said just now, if you remain suspicious of everyone, then both Cheng Ji and Wang Meiren are likely."

"But I'm sure: it won't be Cheng Ji."

"——Earlier, when the son asked the father why he wanted to appoint the son, the father once said: the eldest brother, the second brother and the third brother cannot be crowned princes because of Li Ji's reasons;"

"And the fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, and eighth brother are all because of their own flaws."

"These flaws are known to the emperor, the ministers, and both inside and outside the court."

"Cheng Ji, it's impossible not to understand this..."

Hearing this, Tianzi Qicai finally turned sideways, and put a smile on his face in front of Liu Sheng without concealing it.

But on his lips, Tianzi Qi still didn't forget to ask: "What else?"

"Besides Cheng Ji and Wang Meiren, who else did you miss?"

"Who else, maybe because he wants to be the crown prince, he hopes that you can't be the crown prince;"

"Who else might have such an idea, such a motive, but probably won't be suspected by you..."

Hearing this question, Liu Sheng was silent.

Liu Sheng could understand that what Tianzi Qi wanted to talk about was Liu Sheng's elder brother Liu Pengzu.

Liu Sheng also wanted to tell Emperor Qi: Brother, I won't do this!
But every time Liu Sheng plucked up his courage, raised his head, and wanted to tell Tianzi Qi, what Tianzi Qi said earlier always appeared in Liu Sheng's mind inexplicably.

——Your Majesty, no proof is needed;
——Jun, you only need to doubt.

——The only function of evidence is to remove the suspicion before the "jun" suspects;
——instead of being accused...

"My child..."

"Erchen..."

"—King Liang, is also the brother of my mother and compatriots~"

"—but in front of the reserve, what is Liang Wang's face?"

Seeing Liu Sheng lowered his head hesitantly, Tianzi Qi still had a smile on his face, but there was a little sternness in his tone of voice.

"You and your elder brother have the same mother, and grew up together;"

"I and King Liang, isn't it the same?"

"In the early years, the hardships and hardships I and King Liang suffered together in Daidi, isn't it better than your two brothers to accumulate a deep brotherhood?"

"The result, so what?"

"Didn't King Liang completely forget the brotherhood and the difference between monarch and minister in front of the reserve position?"

"Don't you use everything to the extreme, want to live a 'Liu Han emperor' addiction?"

He asked several questions one after another like a machine gun, making Liu Sheng more speechless, but Tianzi Qi's brows were vaguely cold.

"I told you earlier: If you have a love for your son and daughter, you will make the whole world lose the opportunity to have a love for your son and daughter."

"This sentence is what the late emperor said when he admonished me."

"The original words of the first emperor are: What the king gains, the world loses."

"—for every extra piece of meat the king eats, the whole world will eat one less grain of rice;"

"—For every extra hour the king sleeps, the whole world has to work an extra hour;"

"—Every time the king wears a new piece of clothing, people all over the world have to wear the old clothes on their bodies for another year;"

"—The king only favors one woman, and all the people in the world will have their wives and children separated;"

"——The king trusts a brother, and all the people in the world will turn against each other, and their families will be ruined..."

When it came to the end, Tian Ziqi's tone was filled with an inexplicable solemnity;

Kneeling down, looking up at Liu Sheng's gaze, there was also some kindness and expectation indistinctly.

"Can you understand these words?"

"Can you understand what is on your shoulders?"

"——Do you know how many people in this world are counting on you to make them eat more and wear new clothes?"

"are you ready······"

The more earnest voice made Liu Sheng more hesitant;
And Tianzi Qi's gaze towards Liu Sheng is more and more hopeful and hopeful.

The emperor is afraid;
I was afraid that Liu Sheng would not believe it when he said he was ready.

The Son of Heaven worries;

Worried that Liu Sheng said he was not ready, and he would be disappointed.

But even so, Tian Ziqi looked at Liu Sheng with more and more expectations.

Because Tianzi Qi knows: I will never misjudge anyone...

"My son, I don't know..."

"My son, I don't know if I'm ready..."

huh~~~
Tianzi Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

Tian Ziqi didn't know why he was like this.

It's just that when Liu Sheng said the word "I don't know", Tian Ziqi had an inexplicable feeling: This, perhaps, is the answer I want to hear the most...
"Hey;"

"Stinky boy..."

"—at least honestly?"

Hey smiled and stood up straight, with his hands behind his back, strolled back to his seat and sat down;
After a while, Liu Sheng also knelt down before the case again.

Looking at Tian Ziqi's eyes, he couldn't help but be full of bitterness.

"My son can understand what the late emperor meant when he admonished his father."

"I also know that to be an emperor, you must treat the people of the world well, and you must become a qualified king, so that all the people in the world will have enough food and warm clothes."

"—but I don't know what to do to achieve this goal..."

"No one has ever taught my son: what to do to feed the world;"

"How to do so that people in the world can wear new clothes."

"In the past, the son-in-law was just a prince who thought that in the future, he would definitely become a clan vassal;"

"Whether it's the gentlemen in the palace or the dead teachers, they just taught me: to cultivate one's morality, to be loyal to the emperor; not to be extravagant and extravagant, and not to make large-scale construction projects."

"As for how to govern the people, what I heard was only one sentence: Give all the power to the king, and watch and learn more from the side of the king..."

Sad, self-deprecating, and full of helpless words, it also provoked Tian Ziqi to smile bitterly;
However, Liu Sheng took a deep breath, and bowed to the emperor calmly.

"My son, I want to become a qualified king."

"But my son, I don't want to be a king like my father, who is cruel to his brothers, siblings, and his own mother;"

"My son also knows that he cannot become a sage king who is loved by the people of the world like the first emperor."

"——But now, my son really doesn't know what to do to become the king he wants to be;"

"I don't even know anything about my father's plan to appoint my son as the crown prince..."

The extremely calm words also made the emperor Qihe laugh and shake his head;

He let out another long sigh full of sentimentality, adjusted his face a little, and smiled at Liu Sheng.

"Back then, the late emperor also asked me this question."

"Ah······"

"——Zhen, there is no such thing as a bastard like you~"

"I told the first emperor: My son, you are ready..."

"Do you know what the late emperor said?"

He asked a question with a wry smile, and when Liu Sheng shook his head in confusion, Tianzi Qicai straightened up, stretched out his hand, and pulled Liu Sheng in front of him from the neck;
The father and son were separated by a wooden table, their foreheads were pressed against their foreheads, one was at a loss, and the other was full of self-deprecating smiles.

"The first emperor, just grab my neck like this, and look straight into my eyes;"

"—Tell me: remember what you said today!"

"From now on, no matter who asks, even if you ask yourself, you must remember!"

"Tell everyone who doubts you, including yourself: I am ready..."

"I have long been ready·········"

The deep and forceful words only made Liu Sheng raise his head with a stiff smile, and moved his forehead away from Tian Ziqi's face;

After Tianzi Qi also sat back in his seat, Liu Sheng shrugged helplessly.

"My son, did you disappoint the emperor?"

"--Ah······"

But Tianzi Qihe lowered his head with a smile, thought for a moment, then picked up the pen casually, and without warning, entered the working state again.

It's just that Tian Ziqi's next words became a precious treasure that Liu Sheng never dared to forget in his life.

"Frankness is a very good quality~"

"But for a king, lies, and seeing through lies, are even more indispensable abilities."

"I said so~"

"Zhen, I am not a talented emperor;"

"I never thought of letting you become a king like me or the late emperor."

"—You, will become a king like yourself."

"It's not like the first emperor, nor like me, nor like the descendants."

"You, will become a unique monarch."

"But you still have a lot to learn..."

"There are many things I want to teach you..."

···
"Go;"

"During the time in Ganquan Palace, take the time to read Jia Yi's "Security Policy"."

"After returning to Chang'an, come find me again."

"At that time, I will tell you again: Why can't a qualified king have feelings..."

Said the last words calmly, Tianzi Qi finally looked up from the front of the case;
Staring deeply into the depths of Liu Sheng's gaze, he suddenly smiled.

"You, will understand."

"——you will understand faster and more thoroughly than me;"

"You will become a better king than me..."

(End of this chapter)