South Gate of the Royal Palace.

Huamanting stood in the Langfang at the door.

He was walking down the Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow with his hands behind his back.

The snow was so heavy that there were few pedestrians on Zhuque Avenue.

Hua Manting's old eyes narrowed slightly, but his thoughts drifted to Guangling City hundreds of miles away.

It’s the same sky, is it snowing in Guangling City?

If such a snow falls in Guangling City, Huaping Lake will have a different flavor.

Arriving at Guangling City on March 3rd, nearly nine months passed in the blink of an eye.

These nine months have been wonderful, witnessing many poems by the poet Li Chenan.

These poems are all excellent, and they can all be included in the "Hundred Poems of Ning Poems", and they can all be ranked in the top twenty!

In the past two days, the great Confucian scholars from Taiyuan University and Guozijian have mentioned rewriting the "Collection of Ning's Poems"... Rather than rewriting it, it would be more appropriate to write a separate book for these poems by Li Chen'an, called "Collected Works of Shixian". .

When I think of Li Chen'an, I think of that evening in Qianmo Academy, and of the poem "Journey into the Wine" written by Li Chen'an when he was drunk.

Hua Manting stroked her long beard and showed a smile.

At this moment, footsteps came from behind.

He turned around and saw Li Chenan and Amu walking over.

"Brother!"

"Brother!"

"It's my fault to let me wait outside in such a cold weather!"

Saying this, Li Chenan took out a golden dragon pendant from his arms and handed it to Hua Manting, "From now on, if I am still in the palace, you can enter the palace at any time with this thing."

The garden was filled with flowers and I took the golden dragon pendant after thinking about it for three breaths.

"Your status is different now, so you can no longer be as casual as before."

Li Chenan raised his eyebrows and curled his lips, "Nothing different."

"Tell the truth, brother, being an emperor is hard work!"

"I've just appointed myself a regent. It's a lot of trouble every day!"

"Why……"

"You didn't come in a carriage?"

"Get in my carriage. It's just a good time for me and my brother to have a lively chat. The main reason is that I want to vomit the bitterness in my stomach to you."

Hua Manting arched her white eyebrows and burst into laughter.

"It's the first snow this year. It's still early. How about we just walk in the snow?"

"...Okay! I'm just worried that you won't get frozen!"

"Brother, my bones can survive for a few more years. Let's go. Let's talk as we go."

So, Li Chenan and Hua Manting walked side by side on the Suzaku Avenue in the heavy snow, which made Amu a little nervous.

He followed behind the two of them, paying extremely vigilant attention to the movements in all directions.

"I think, first of all, the working hours are unreasonable."

"work?"

"It was such a cold day in the last dynasty, and the sun was just shining at the end of the day at Chenshi, but it was so late at Maoshi...".

Li Chenan spread his hands: "I get up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog."

He shook his head, "This is not the life I want to live!"

Hua Manting laughed again, "Then what kind of life are you thinking about?"

"Hey, hey, I just want to sleep until I wake up naturally, and count money until my hands cramp, that kind of happy life!"

Hua Manting glanced at Li Chenan and said, "But if we let everyone in the world choose, I'm afraid they would all want to be the emperor!"

"Isn't it just for the power? Brother, power should be matched with responsibility!"

"What I mean is that with the power you have, you should fulfill your obligations."

"The emperor is the most powerful person in the world, and his corresponding obligation is to let the people of the world live the best life!"

"Those who want to be emperors only benefit from the supreme benefits that power brings to themselves, but rarely think about how to use this power to seek a great future for the country and the people."

"So I am not suitable to be an official, because I found that I still have a little conscience of justice!"

"If you want to be a comfortable emperor, it's best to be heartless, lie on the lap of a beautiful woman drunk every day, and live a life of debauchery, but I can't do it!"

"Hey... this damn conscience!"

"If it is eaten by a dog, I can play seventy-two tricks in the palace!"

Huamanting laughed loudly.

"What you said makes sense."

"Throughout history, no matter which dynasty, the emperors who created a prosperous era all have the same characteristic, that is, they care about the world."

"And every emperor who has lost his country also has the same characteristic, that is, he is arrogant and dissolute."

"Those who care about the world take the world as their own responsibility, regard the people as their parents, and all they think about is the happiness and well-being of the people."

"So the people support it, the officials are self-disciplined, the soldiers obey their orders, the world is at peace, the world is beautiful, and people from all directions come to court."

"And those who are dissolute and immoral treat the people like cattle and horses for their own enjoyment. Corrupt officials are rampant in the temples, and everyone in the border army cherishes his life..."

Hua Manting sighed and said while walking:

"The world is very big, and there are so many countries in the world."

"When a country declines due to the rule of the unscrupulous, other countries will be very happy, because what they see is a piece of fat meat that can be easily divided and eaten!"

"Their cavalry will step into this country, and the people of this country will not raise their swords to defend this decadent country. Even the country's army will become vulnerable at this time.

, they will run for their lives and then become bands of bandits.”

"You...since you still have a little conscience of justice, I don't want to see this land of Ningguo being trampled by the surrounding powers!"

"Now that you are the regent of Ning State, you have taken over the authority of Ning State and should fulfill your obligations."

Before Hua Manting finished speaking, Li Chenan raised his hand, "Stop it!"

"Brother, I am a temporary regent!"

"When I bring the eldest son of the emperor back and hand over this mess to him, I think we can be on Peach Blossom Island, on Peach Blossom Mountain, or by Huaping Lake."

"Let's drink Huapingchun, talk about romance, and then recite poems and compose poems... You are a great Confucian and I am a poet. Isn't it better to leave famous poems in the world for all time?"

Hua Manting stopped and turned to Li Chenan, with confusion on her face:

"You are a capable person!"

"Brother, I know that you love beauty more than country, but after Zhongli Ruoshui's illness is cured, what can't you do for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo?"

Li Chenan touched his nose and said, "It's mainly because I'm too tired."

"In the affairs of the world, who cares about being tired if his name can go down in history?"

Li Chenan said nothing more, and the three of them just turned from Zhuque Avenue into Qifen Alley.

Faced with Li Chenan's silence, Hua Manting thought that her words had moved Li Chenan, and Li Chenan was thinking about it.

Li Chenan was really thinking.

But what he thought was somewhat different from what Hua Manting thought.

This discrepancy comes from the defense deep inside his heart.

He doesn't mind fighting for hegemony in the world, and he doesn't even mind ascending the throne and becoming an emperor, but all this must have a prerequisite——

Have a group of loyal followers of your own!

There is a group of civil servants and generals of your own who can make you stand in the temple!

And all of this requires you to manage it with your heart, which requires time, and the last thing you don’t have right now is time!

Because the matter of Zhongli Ruoshui is above all else!

He cannot ascend the throne as emperor. This is his choice after careful consideration.

An emperor without foundation is like a puppet to him.

Besides, this matter is full of weirdness——

He and Xi Wei have never met, so why should he support him as the emperor?

What kind of conspiracy and calculation does he have behind this?

The Red Flame Army obeyed his orders and went to Wuya Pass, but Li Chenan was never so arrogant as to think that the Red Flame Army was really loyal to him.

Although the Shenwu Army obeyed her orders and went to Dongquguan, Mrs. Fan's last wish was for her to welcome back the eldest son of the emperor in Shuzhou and support him to ascend the throne as emperor!

If he really sat on the throne, I am afraid that the Shenwu Army would not be willing to do so.

Therefore, the people of Kyoto did not understand why Li Chenan gave up the throne that was so easily available to him. Even the officials in the court had a lot of discussions about this, but Li Chenan was more sober than anyone else.

Pies will not fall from the sky.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

So all this will have to wait until Zhongli Ruoshui's illness comes to an end. If the eldest son of the emperor is a good emperor, he will be happy to be a big and carefree businessman.

If it's the opposite...!
Chapter completed!