Han: The witchcraft disaster begins, I fight against Emperor Wu of Han

Chapter 35 I don’t want a cowardly king!
"Liu Ju!"

Liu Che glared at him, "You are still making excuses until now? Have you ever felt sorry for your mistakes?"

"I ask you..."

"It's only because Jiang Chong and others found out the Paulownia doll you buried in the mansion, cursing your father and the king, but you have already asked your son, my grandson, to offer the auspicious sign!"

"You have already made preparations and have a way to deal with it. Why do you want to release the prisoners and open the arsenal..."

"I have returned from Ganquan Palace. It rained today. If this auspicious sign is real..."

Liu Che looked at the empty hall and realized that there were only father and son here. He suppressed his voice and finally shouted out the six words he least wanted to shout out.

"Why do you want to rebel?"

Liu Ju looked up. He didn't understand whether the emperor in front of him really didn't know or was doing it on purpose.

Doesn’t he explain the cause of the incident? Doesn’t he explain the cause and effect?
Or, even now, should we make him admit his mistake before punishing him?

At this moment, Liu Ju thought that he had sent people several times before, but the other party simply ignored them, and the same was true for Wang Bi, the palace attendant.

Now that I'm called here, there is only one answer.

humiliation!

Let him admit his mistakes, and then once again demonstrate that he is a tolerant father and an emperor who is always right!

But now, how can I fulfill your wish?
Therefore, at this moment, Liu Ju did not answer but asked instead. With just this one sentence, Liu Che was stunned where he stood.

"Why does father believe in witchcraft?"

Liu Ju looked up and looked at the silent Liu Che.

"Why did father believe that Prime Minister Gongsun He would plant a witch on the road to curse the monarch of a country?"

"Why does my father believe that there are babies in the world that are born after fourteen months of pregnancy?"

"Why did father change the name of Lady Gouyi's residence to Yaomu Palace? Why did father call the Han Dynasty the birthplace of Yao? Then what am I? What is a prince of a country?"

"Why would father believe that I, the crown prince, and my mother, would use witchcraft to murder his own father?"

At this moment, with the emergence of problems one after another, Liu Ju's attitude seemed to be getting more and more pressing.

The questions here include those that Liu Jing had asked before and those that he had just mentioned.

But Liu Ju didn't feel that he was repeating himself!
Instead, he was answering the other person's question.

"I am asking you, why are you rebelling?" Liu Che grasped the handles on both sides of the chair tightly with his hands, and his voice was loud and clear, as if he was roaring at Liu Ju.

"I'm answering your question!"

Liu Ju suddenly took a step forward and asked, "Until now, father still thinks that I am plotting a rebellion?"

"Wrong! I'm saving myself."

"If they don't save themselves, Gongsun He's family will end up like the Crown Prince's Palace!"

"If I don't save myself, Fusu of the Former Qin will end up like me, Liu Ju!"

"If we don't save ourselves, the Han Dynasty will suffer the same fate as the Former Qin Dynasty!"

Liu Che stood up angrily.

He laughed out of anger, as if he felt it was extremely absurd!
"You mean the Han Dynasty that I supported with my own hands? Since I ascended the throne, I have transformed the Han Dynasty, which had suffered from the Xiongnu for seventy years, into the powerful Han Dynasty that is now famous far and wide..."

"I have expanded my territory and now encompass the four seas. All the kings have submitted to me and all the powerful enemies have been defeated..."

"Now, in your mouth, it has become the end of the Former Qin Dynasty?"

Liu Ju replied excitedly:
"The Qin Emperor unified the world with the merits of six generations of Qin. How powerful was he? But he was only fourteen years away from destruction!"

"How dare you!" Liu Che pointed at Liu Ju angrily, "Are you denying my achievements?"

"Are you going to confuse right and wrong, and use merits as guilt, to refute your father?"

"You have been like this since childhood, you have been like this since childhood..."

"With just this one sentence, I can depose you as the Crown Prince!"

Seeing Liu Che so shocked and angry, Liu Ju laughed.

"Father, this is the real answer..."

As soon as these words came out.

Liu Che, who was angry just now, suddenly calmed down.

He looked at his son quietly, with thousands of words in his mind, but in the end, they were just condensed into one sentence. He burst out in anger!

"The son is not like the father!"

……

"I have never been a prince since I was young. I am not the queen's son, nor am I the eldest son. I am the tenth son. My mother is just a beauty in the palace, and she does not have the same family glory as my mother. If nothing unexpected happens, I am just one of my father's fourteen princes, an ordinary king of my Han Dynasty."

"But even so, it was Father, your grandfather, who discovered me with those eyes."

"Since I ascended the throne, I have witnessed the weakness of the Han Dynasty for the past seventy years. I have seen how servile and fawning the Queen Mother of the Han Dynasty was when faced with the ridicule of the Xiongnu King!"

"I saw the broken defenses of the Great Wall. Facing the foreign Huns, they were like paper. I could only allow them to invade my land again and again, plunder my people, humiliate my children, and massacre my people!"

"I saw how the officials of the Han Dynasty were afraid of the Xiongnu. I saw that the prestige of the Han Dynasty was completely lost!"

"So after I ascended the throne, I first dealt with my relatives, then dealt with the so-called meritorious generals, and dismissed those corrupt old ministers!"

"I have the ambition to change the world and conquer the four seas!"

At this moment, when Liu Che talked about his past feats, he looked heroic, his eyes were nostalgic for the past, and his spirits were high.

"I want to tell everyone in the world that from now on, whether the Han Dynasty advocates war or peace is in your own hands, and I will be the only one who decides!"

"No one can influence me, and no one can stop me from expanding the territory of the Han Dynasty to all directions, to the four seas visible and invisible to the naked eye!"

"I want everyone in the world to remember that the Han Dynasty became strong because of me."

"We, the people of the Han Dynasty, will not bow down to the Xiongnu, the Western Regions, or anyone else because of me!"

"I will support the backbone of the Han Dynasty. I will fight for ten, twenty years, or even longer!"

"What I am doing is a great cause that will create a new world and bless future generations!"

……

"Liu Ju, as my son, why don't you look like me?"

When he said the last sentence, Liu Che had already covered his chest, and his eyes revealed deep pain and disappointment.

"You are my eldest son! I dared to overturn the opinions of all the ministers, depose Queen Chen, and make your mother the queen! You are the only heir to the throne of the Han Dynasty, and you are my only choice!"

"Since you were born, I have given you whatever you wanted. I have hired the best teachers in the world for you. I have learned from past experience and never put any restrictions on you. I want you to be like your uncle Wei Qing and my general Huo Qubing..."

"Just do it, be bold!"

"The whole world is at your disposal, and you can express your opinions on the political affairs of the entire country. When I am not in Chang'an, I will entrust all state affairs to you."

"Even now, when they say you want to use witchcraft to curse me, I still let you stay in Chang'an and do what you want!"

"Liu Ju!"

"What I want is an emperor who can inherit my legacy of expanding territory. What I want is an emperor who can make Tianhan even more powerful!"

At this moment, Liu Che walked closer to Liu Ju, his old eyes looking at the prince from top to bottom and from left to right.

"Everyone told me, including your uncle, that we should rest and recuperate from now on, and let the rule of inaction that Emperor Gaozu followed be restored to our Han Dynasty."

"Yes, I agreed, and I agree."

"But... I don't want to surrender. I have been strong all my life, and I have made the Han Dynasty many times stronger..."

"Now, we have to go back to the past? Go back to the Han Dynasty and ask for peace with the Xiongnu, and let my Han princess marry again, so that the people of our great Han Dynasty will never fear the powerful enemy again?"

"Is there no way to have the best of both worlds?"

His face was filled with misery, and he shouted with almost all his strength:

"I don't want a cowardly king!"

　Sorry this chapter is late.

　　The main difficulty is in guessing Liu Che's thoughts and writing dialogues that are consistent with his identity.

　　After some revisions, I finally finished this chapter.

　　In addition, all the psychological activities of the characters in this book only serve the plot and make it smoother. So there will be some changes, I hope everyone understands.

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