MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 608 abdication edict
The emperor was extremely angry at every word the prince said, so even in front of Gu Shaoyu, he reprimanded loudly.
"Shameless! Despicable! Our Xie family has been completely disgraced by you and your father. You are indeed a **** born from a concubine. I should have told you that my father drove all of your family to death!"
Before the prince could say anything, the emperor started to curse furiously.
Probably he also knew that with Gu Shaoyu's help, he would not be able to escape this time, so he cursed regardless.
The prince stood there indifferently, looking at him as if he were watching a joke.
Until the other party was exhausted from scolding, fell to the ground, and began to cry with tears and runny nose, he said lightly.
"When my grandfather conquered the country, he handed it over to the late emperor who he thought would take good care of him. However, the late emperor did not attend court seriously for more than 20 years, and later died because of his greed for elixirs. How could such an emperor go? How rare is it to stand up straight when you are in front of your grandfather?"
“Hmph, you’re a rebellious minister and a traitor, how dare you bring up my father’s affairs?!”
The emperor sat with his head straight, looking at the two of them with red eyes, wishing he could scratch them with his eyes.
"And you, if Marshal Gu and Duke Shang knew that a rebel like you was born, do you think they would crawl out of the graveyard and strangle you to death?"
Gu Shaoyu has long been immune to such words. If he was really afraid, he would not have had such thoughts in the first place, so when he looked at the emperor, there was even some pity in his eyes.
"Grandpa Guo devoted his whole life to you. After working for him all your life, you ruthlessly kicked him to Jinling City. Even the Queen Mother and the children and grandchildren of the Guo family lived in fear because of you. Mr. Wen devoted himself to making suggestions for you. There is no credit but hard work. How did you hunt him down so that he had to choose another wise master? And our Tiger and Guard Army, who fought for many years to save Cezhou and the thirteen cities on the border, and how did you seize the rightful son? When we were here, we protected you and the peace in all directions in Sui'an City, so that you could ascend to the position of emperor without any worries. But what have we got now? Excluded to Wangzhou, we also have to let those unworthy members of the Royal Army Things come to eat us, it’s a joke, when you did these things, did you ever think that Emperor Kai Zong and Grandfather Guo would crawl out and strangle you to death?”
Gu Shaoyu has always been a man of few words.
When he spoke such a series of words, the emperor was completely confused.
"I am the emperor, and I have the right to decide the fate of you ministers. If you are so capable and capable, why don't you rebel against heaven and take my position? By supporting this trash, isn't it just to use the emperor to control the princes? ?What, you don’t dare to admit it?”
When he said this, he meant to attack his heart.
He had experienced all this before, so he had reason to believe that after the Prince of Binzhou came to power, he would also be wary of the powerful General Gu, so he smiled very viciously, as if he was waiting to see them suspicious of each other. scene.
However, a quarter of an hour passed by.
When the sky outside was as dark as splashed ink, I couldn't see the fluctuation in Xie Daoyun's eyes. He was as calm as a clear spring. On the contrary, the emperor became even more angry at his "compassionate" eyes!
"Hmph, I'm just pretending to be a bitch! You can't just sit on my dragon chair if you want to. If you dare, kill me. I won't even write an abdication edict! I want you two to do it! People will be in disgrace for thousands of years, and they will be called usurpers, traitors and traitors from generation to generation!"
The emperor became more and more excited as he talked, and he laughed like a maniac. His laughter seemed particularly lonely in the empty palace. Tears fell down his face as he smiled, as if everything over the years was in vain.
He thought he had more things, but in the end, none of those so-called things and people were with him. Instead, the people he pushed out appeared in front of him like a fleeting horse.
In particular, my grandfather's voice and appearance and his past teachings gradually emerged in my mind. But for some reason, the admiration and respect I had for him when he was the prince gradually turned into suspicion as he ascended the throne. and disgust.
Until the end, when he saw the news of his grandfather's death, he didn't even feel any regret or regret. Instead, he felt that it was too late and that the old man had died long ago.
Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, the emperor regained consciousness from those memories.
He has long been eroded by the throne and has forgotten his original intention, so how could Gu Shaoyu be able to wake him up with just a few words of scolding, so when he raised his head again, he deliberately held his head high, and now he is still proud.
“It’s a pity. If your majesty’s pride could be used in political affairs, I’m afraid our Daxing would have been the foundation for a strong government by now.”
When the prince said this, he meant it sincerely.
He actually doesn't care or yearn for the throne that much, but it would be a pity for the people to live in the hands of such an emperor in the future. Therefore, if he has the ability to change but doesn't do it, he is afraid that in the future Even if you die, you will feel uneasy.
It is precisely because of this that he agreed with Gu Shaoyu's idea and joined forces to rebel against the world.
In order to avoid causing large-scale casualties, they planned from the beginning that this time the forced palace and the seizure of the throne would be carried out quietly.
If the emperor wakes up and writes an edict to abdicate, it is not impossible for him to survive and live peacefully, but if he is still so crazy, then we cannot blame him for being ruthless.
"Who do you think you are? A rebel and a traitor who is qualified to tell me how to improve the livelihood of the people?!"
When the prince heard this, he frowned, and then didn't say much. He just talked about everything that happened in Binzhou in the past five years in an understatement.
"Punzhou is poor and the people are weak, but they can still struggle out of such a situation. I have good land and good people in Daxing. Why can't I provide them with a better environment for their lives? Your Majesty said that I am a rebel and I am not worthy to talk to you about how to improve the people's livelihood. , then you, the emperor who was destined by destiny, have achieved nothing remarkable since you have been on the throne for seven years?"
The prince hit the nail on the head and made the emperor speechless.
Of course he wanted to retaliate, but in recent years he has been busy weakening the power of the old ministers and balancing the situation in the court, and the mentality of controlling the concubines and sons in the harem has become quite sad.
The common people, the core of the uprising and fighting for the first emperor, seemed to have never entered his eyes and heart, let alone formulating any good strategies for them.
