71Chapter 71: The Crown Prince and the Death of Emperor Jing
Liu Rong looked at his father with a look of surprise on his face. He was a little stunned and confused, as if he didn't understand what Emperor Jing said.
"Father...?"
But Emperor Jing no longer looked at him.
He turned around and said softly, "This is the best possible outcome for you. From the very beginning, you were not suited to this position, but I and your mother pushed you into this position, and in the end, you ended up like this."
Emperor Jing slowly closed his eyes. He would not transfer his disgust and hatred for Li Ji to his own children. Instead, he comforted Liu Rong and said, "Your mother's affairs... have nothing to do with you. Go to Liaodong!"
"In the bitter cold of Liaodong, you will change your name and surname and no longer consider yourself a descendant of the Liu family. Your brother will let you go. Before I die, I will explain this to him and inform Chen of this matter."
Having said that, Emperor Jing repeated it again.
"This is....the best ending for you!"
Liu Rong sat down in the East Palace, looking at the departing figure of Emperor Jing. There was a hint of fatigue and astonishment in his eyes, but in the end it slowly turned into a bitter smile on his face.
When all the smiles gathered on his face, Liu Rong looked very bitter at this moment.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
In this sentence, he no longer called himself "son" but "minister", and the one he thanked was no longer "father" but "Your Majesty". Liu Rong understood the good intentions of Emperor Jing.
If it were an ordinary person, how could he have such a good ending after failing in the fight for the throne?
Not only can you escape, but you can also go to Liaodong?
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The eighteenth year of Emperor Jingdi, between summer and autumn.
Not long after Li Ji died and the Li family was exterminated, the deposed Crown Prince Liu Rong suddenly fell ill for unknown reasons and died in the deep palace.
Because it was kept secret, the emperor did not even announce the death of the deposed prince, nor did he build a tomb for him. He only told everyone that the deposed prince had been expelled from the royal family jade disc and could not be buried as a royal family member after his death.
Many ministers became even more curious and suspicious about this.
What on earth had happened that made the emperor so angry that he even implicated his own son?
Yes.
By this time, everyone had reacted, no matter if they were smart or stupid. Even if they were stupid, they could see that Li Ji must have done something outrageous that night, otherwise it would not only implicate the previous dynasty, but also the prince!
Some even concluded that the crown prince's position was personally pulled down by Li Ji!
Some people even secretly lamented that the prince must have committed sins in his previous life, so he was held back by his mother in this life. However, others refuted this statement, saying that it was just the prince's karma and reincarnation.
The prince became the emperor's son because of Li Ji's pregnancy, and because of this reason he became the prince - he also lost his status as the prince because of this mother.
The cycle of nature.
When Emperor Jing heard such remarks, he was very angry and even fell into a rage. He began to order a thorough investigation into the source of such remarks, but in the end he only found a few Confucian scholars and could not investigate any further.
Because what those Confucian scholars did did not have any consequences or consequences.
but.....
Although the Confucians escaped this disaster, the emperor still remembered them.
Emperor Jingdi was never a man of great ambition. He was very dissatisfied when the Confucians dared to stand on the side of King Liang and compete with him for the throne. Even after he came to power, all of Jia Yi's disciples were exiled and even secretly sent to serve as officials in the tyrannical feudal lords.
Jia Yi's son inherited Jia Yi's official position and continued to serve as prime minister in the fiefdom. This was the fourth son of Jia Yi who died, and the reason for his death was the same.
They were all killed because they were dissatisfied with being crowned kings.
Although Emperor Jing openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the vassal kings, once the vassal kings sincerely admitted their mistakes and offered apology, he would say with emotion that these were his brothers, and even if they had only made some minor mistakes, what could he do?
The sentence "pick it up high and put it down gently" is expressed vividly.
Being remembered by the emperor is not a good thing, especially being remembered by someone like Emperor Jingdi who has a cruel and petty personality.
.... .....
"Your Majesty, this is really not possible."
Chen Xi held his forehead and sighed. He looked at Emperor Jing with a hint of melancholy on his face. "But it's coming soon. The disciples of my third uncle's lineage are researching and say they're about to create a new school of thought. Even though I don't quite understand what they're thinking, just from hearing about it occasionally, I think it's a great idea."
There was a smile on his brow.
In fact, the third branch of the Chen family was indeed studying ideas, wanting to learn from the lineage of "Confucius" to create a "Confucian" thought, and then rely on this thought to realize the grand dream of "a thousand-year family" again, adding insurance to their "family dream".
However, creating ideas is not something that can be done easily, so they have been stuck - when Chen Xi came again, he looked at the thoughts of those people, gave them a few pointers, and then they made "progress".
Now we are almost there to formally establish the idea.
Emperor Jingdi felt relieved when he heard Chen Xi's words, which didn't sound fake. He immediately said, "That's good, that's good."
He said with emotion: "Then I...will feel relieved."
... ....
Time passed little by little, and in the 19th year of Emperor Jing's reign, the emperor finally made up his mind to appoint the 14-year-old Liu Zhu as the crown prince - and changed his name from "Liu Zhu" to "Liu Che".
Not many ministers tried to stop it. After all, they wished the emperor would die right now so that the fourteen-year-old child could ascend the throne so that they could control the government.
Of course, in addition to this kind of thinking, there are also some people who really don't care about it.
After all, they knew that even if a fourteen-year-old child ascended the throne, it would not be them who controlled the government, so it didn't matter.
However, surprisingly, the emperor lived longer than anyone imagined.
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The 24th year of Emperor Jingdi's reign.
It had been five years since Emperor Jing appointed the Crown Prince, and it was not until the autumn and winter of this year... that Emperor Jing's last breath on his sickbed was finally exhausted.
He is about to die.
This time, everyone was there.