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Chapter 109 Li Yan's Analysis

Li Yan pondered: "The emperor is old. If he wants to do something, he will definitely not be able to hide it from the people closest to him. Tulichen must have known something, but due to the rules, he couldn't say it openly, so he deliberately revealed these flaws. He didn't say anything, but his behavior indirectly showed that the matter was suspicious."

"As long as the person involved can calm down, he will definitely be able to find these flaws!"

Wu Sidao nodded silently, and then continued: "But after the emperor's serious illness in the past month or two, the critical situation has been laid out, and everyone's nerves are stretched to the extreme. The throne is vacant, and everyone is secretly rubbing their hands, ready to make a move."

"Add to that the urgent call from the palace in the middle of the night, and everyone will think that the important matter will be decided tonight."

"So everyone is nervously making all kinds of arrangements, especially for those princes who are determined to take the throne. They have worked hard for many years and endured hardships just for this day. They must be desperate and make a desperate move!"

"How can I have the calm mind to care about anything suspicious? Who would have thought that His Majesty would joke about his own life and death!"

"The wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold. The hero will never return once he leaves!" Li Yan added with a somewhat dejected look. Not to mention other people, perhaps he felt the same way at that time.

The old man has designed and arranged things like this. If I make a mistake one day, even if I have extraordinary abilities, I won’t be able to turn the situation around!
Sure enough, ginger is still spicy.

Fortunately, with Lao Wu's reminder, I adjusted my strategy in time and made the old man the biggest target instead of other brothers.

That's why we didn't fall into the trap at the critical moment.

Li Yan had another reason, which he didn't say. When he and Tulichen walked to the door, he suddenly thought of the scene in the original drama when Zhang Wu Ge came to pick up Lao Si. At that time, both of them were wearing thick cotton-padded clothes to keep warm.

Then I thought that when Kangxi passed away, it should have been winter in Changchunyuan, but now it is summer in the Forbidden City.

Although Li Yan's grades were not good, he loved reading history and remembered reading a story in a history book.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there was a rumor that the emperor of a southern country had passed away. An ordinary prince guarding the border, who had a large army under his command and was full of ambition, took a risk by rebelling.

When they reached the capital, the seriously ill emperor appeared on the city wall. When the high-spirited siege troops saw the old emperor, all the soldiers put down their weapons and fled like birds and beasts. The prince was also taken to the capital and beheaded.

When watching it at that time, Li Yan secretly admired him. Maybe the emperor did it on purpose to eliminate those ambitious people who might not obey the new emperor. Every emperor liked to do this kind of thing before his death. The most famous one was Zhu Yuanzhang, who started with a bowl. He killed people so badly that blood flowed and everyone was terrified.

Almost all the founding heroes were wiped out, so that when his grandson succeeded to the throne, he could not find a general who was capable of fighting.

I don't know why, but I suddenly thought of this story. Then I associated it with recent events, and it was like a bolt from the blue. I was so scared that my soul scared to death and my hair stood on end.

Out of caution and prudence, Li Yan returned to the mansion and took away the general's order and gold medal left with Wu Sidao. He also ordered that the mansion door be closed after he left, and no one was allowed to leave the mansion in the middle of the night or take any action.

Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan with a complicated expression: "Didn't the Tenth Master ever think that if the situation at that time was true, he would miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and would never be able to take the throne again?" "Haha, opportunity?"

"What is opportunity? Time is something that is hard to come by but easy to lose. Opportunity is something that is lost but can never be found!"

"Since opportunities are rare, why was this opportunity presented so calmly, slowly and orderly to all the princes, allowing everyone to fully mobilize their forces and make advance deployments. Even the Fourteenth Prince, who was far away in the northwest, came to the capital with 10,000 cavalrymen to seize this 'opportunity' thousands of miles away!"

Li Yan smiled faintly: "I once heard a saying that truly skilled hunters often appear in the form of prey!"

"Let's not talk about the fourth and eighth princes. Even the fourteenth prince who has always been hiding in the dark thought he was a hunter, hunting for the throne that the emperor sat on. But he didn't expect that the prey that everyone thought was actually a wise hunter who treated all the princes as prey and killed them all at once."

"I just know that given the situation at the time, the risk of going all in was too great!"

"Everyone thinks so. The fourth brother has 20,000 troops from the Infantry Commander's Office, and the eighth brother has 100,000 troops from the Fengtai Camp. Even if the fourteenth brother's 10,000 cavalrymen don't show up, I won't gain any advantage with the 50,000 troops from the Xishan Ruijian Camp. At most, I can maintain a situation of equal strength."

Li Yan said decisively: "Since we can't win with an overwhelming advantage, it's better not to move."

"As long as I don't move, I'll always have a chance!"

"You know what! Mr. Wu, even though the Emperor is very old and looks like he is about to die, I would rather face the Fourth or Eighth Son than stand in front of the Emperor who is still breathing. He is the wise emperor who has sat on the throne for sixty years. He is a towering and majestic mountain. Just thinking about it makes me despair!"

Li Yan was speaking from his heart. No matter if it was the fourth or eighth brother, if they sat in that position, they would have a chance to turn the tables, even without the 50,000 men from Xishan. As for the old Kangxi, Li Yan had never underestimated him. Whether it was his wisdom or the resources he had, he was doomed to have no chance of winning.

This is why when Kangxi appeared on the city wall last night, he didn't say a word, and tens of thousands of troops surrendered without a fight. Even the Fourteenth Prince did not put up any resistance, because it was impossible.

That is the suppression from the soul!
Wu Sidao said with admiration: "After all, even if the emperor had a perfect plan, you still found out the flaw and became the final winner."

"It's not that I won, it's just that they lost."

As soon as Li Yan said this, Wu Sidao was stunned, thinking about this sentence. After a long time, he nodded silently, agreeing with Li Yan's statement.

"I believe that the emperor's favorite successor is actually my fourth brother. The name written on the edict of succession is undoubtedly my fourth brother. This means that between me and my fourth brother, the emperor still chose my fourth brother. It's just that he was too impatient and wanted it too much, so he lost his way and was blinded by greed, and ultimately failed in this test."

"So the emperor chose me in the end. In fact, this was not just a helpless move of the emperor, but also a kind act. If he had chosen the fourth or eighth brother, the other brothers would have suffered heavy casualties, which is something a father would never want to see. But if he chose me, they could survive."

“Maybe I won’t be in power anymore, but I can live in peace!”

(End of this chapter)