"squeak--"

The middle door of Long En Gate was pushed open violently.

Chu You saw the Long En Hall directly in front of him at a glance. There were many officials outside the hall, facing each other with the emperor inside.

The emperor was surrounded by only a few Jinyi guards, and compared to the officials outside the palace and a group of Xiaoling guards, he seemed single and weak.

Between the two sides, even if there is no conflict of words or weapons for the time being, the tense feeling like lightning and thunder can be seen in the air.

The ear-piercing sound of pushing the door attracted everyone in the door to look towards Chu You, hundreds of eyes were all focused on Chu You alone.

Several people in the crowd shouted "Kang Wang" in complicated tones, one after another.

The first assistants Xiao Fengyuan and Li Yunxie also turned their heads to look over, Xiao Fengyuan was a man with a plan, and Li Yunxie had a bright and cheerful smile.

When their eyes met, Li Yunxie nodded slightly to Chu You.

It's done! It really did! Chu You pursed his lips and smiled, and a sharp light shot out from his eagle eyes.

Last night, he stayed up all night. On the way here, he was actually a little uneasy, worried that some uncontrollable variables would appear in their plan like it was 21 years ago, and worried that Li Yunxi would put himself in danger. accidental injury……

There is a saying that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He had persuaded Li Yunmai to bid farewell to the imperial mausoleum, but Li Yunmai insisted on coming, saying that only when she was here, the emperor would not be suspicious;

He knew that everything his daughter did was for him!

It wasn't until this moment, seeing Li Yunxie safe and sound, that Chu You's heart really settled down.

She's fine!

The eyes they met in mid-air were lingering, and Chu You's cold brows became as gentle as water when he stared at Li Yunxie.

The smile on Li Yunxi's lips deepened, revealing those familiar dimples, as if to say that he lived up to the trust of the king.

Chu You also nodded slightly at her, and then shifted his gaze to the emperor in the Long En Hall.

He fixedly stared at the emperor, and approached the Long En Hall with slow, firm and oppressive steps. During his steps, a kind of nobility and majesty burst out naturally.

It's a winning gesture.

Wherever he passed, the civil and military officials outside the hall automatically backed away to make way for him.

The inside and outside of the Longen Hall fell into silence, and everyone remained silent for a long time.

Chu You went straight to a place only three or four feet away from the emperor in the hall, then stopped, and announced with a smile: "Brother Emperor, you lost."

He spoke these six words extremely slowly, not light or heavy, but they were clearly heard by everyone present, as if he was not only speaking to the emperor, but also to the crowd present. Minister declares a fact.

The officials outside the hall couldn't help looking back and forth at the pair of brothers with very different appearances.

The emperor has passed the year of knowing his destiny, his body is thin, his temples are full of hair, and his face is wrinkled. With an unshakable arrogance.

The former is old and weak, while the latter is energetic and aggressive.

Xiao Fengyuan, the first assistant who stood with his hands down, looked at Chu You's cold side face, and frowned slightly.

In his opinion, Kang Wang is still a bit too radical, involving the overlapping of imperial power, he should do more grandly, so that outsiders can't find fault in the open.

For example, Emperor Taizong of the previous dynasty also inherited the throne from his brother, and he also left the phrase "the sound of the ax and the shadow of the candle" in the history books. The world questioned him by killing his brother to seize the throne.

If King Kang won the wrong position, even the courtiers who supported King Kang would become rebellious officials and thieves who were condemned by the people.

Xiao Fengyuan exchanged glances with Wang Kangyin and Pei Wenrui, both of whom were unhappy, but at this moment, it was inconvenient for them to accuse Kang Wang in public.

Li Yunxie at the back paid keen attention to the eyebrows and eyes of Xiao Fengyuan and others, his eyelashes trembled, his nails pinched his palms in the wide cuffs, and he thought to himself: These aristocratic families who are enough to challenge the imperial power really shouldn't exist.

"Brother Emperor," Chu You watched the emperor's gaze not shifting for a moment, smiled coldly, and continued, "For the sake of our brothers, I can give you the title of Happy King, so that you can live freely from now on." I, enjoy your old age in peace."

"Brother Huang, hurry up and write the edict of abdication."

Chu You urged me lightly, and said in his heart: Chu Qi is over half a century old. In the past few years, he has not only lacked energy, but also is weak and sick.

After he ascended the throne, Xu Chuqi will be a happy king, maybe Chu Qi can live a few more years, and it can be regarded as their brother's name as a brother and friend.

The big scene will flourish in your own hands!

The emperor raised his eyebrows noncommittally, his eyes passed through Chu You quietly, and fell on the five hundred tiger and ben army soldiers he brought behind him, with a deep and dignified look.

The five hundred soldiers temporarily stopped outside the Long En Gate to wait for orders, all staring at the Emperor and Chu You brothers, blocking the Long En Gate as airtight as an iron barrel.

The emperor slowly put his hands behind his back, his face was not happy, and he called his name indifferently: "Chu You, is this the person left by the late emperor?"

"That's right." Chu Youyi nodded calmly.

From the moment he was born, he knew that the late emperor favored him far more than his other brothers.

The first emperor personally enlightened him, taught him riding and shooting, taught him how to recognize people, and taught him to be scheming... These are the preferential treatment that his brothers did not have.

In fact, the late emperor gave him far more than what he had shown on the surface. This hidden tiger army was the most precious treasure left to him by the late emperor.

He has been hiding it for so many years, but today, he can finally tell the emperor this secret with his own mouth!

Chu You raised his thin lips, looked at the emperor proudly, and said in a slow tone on purpose: "This is the tiger and ben army left to me by my father!"

He didn't mind letting the emperor know about this, he just wanted to make the emperor jealous, to make the emperor unfair, and to show the frustration on his face that he couldn't ask for.

He just wanted to hit the emperor hard and destroy his will.

The emperor in the palace looked at Chu You fixedly, with a gloomy expression, heaved a long sigh, and asked again: "Nine years ago, your real purpose in going to Yangzhou was to accept this tiger and cardinal army, right?"

The emperor's expression looked very calm, even in the face of the current situation where swords and swords were facing each other, he was still neither anxious nor impatient, neither sad nor angry, as if he had given up struggling, and seemed to see through the world of mortals.

"Not bad." Chu You nodded again.

He smiled complacently, and he didn't think about why the emperor would ask such a question at all, he just wanted to vent the anguish and depression that had been suppressed this year.

No... No, it was the depression that had been suppressed for nine years.

Nine years ago, the first emperor decreed to grant Yangzhou to him as a fief, and asked him to go to Yangzhou to take over the fief and choose a site to build Kang Wangfu.

At that time, he was only an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, with a youthful spirit, traveling thousands of miles south, thinking of leading the Huben army to make great achievements.

Sometimes, he felt that the events of that year seemed far away and blurred, and sometimes he felt that everything was still in yesterday.

Under the blowing of the gentle mountain breeze, the pines and cypresses on both sides have emerald green ripples, and the mountain breeze blows the fragrance of pine needles.

The emperor raised his hand and brushed off a few pine needles that had fallen on his sleeves, sighed again, and abruptly changed the topic: "So, the late emperor couldn't tolerate Gu Ce?"

With such a short sentence, Chu You's complexion changed drastically, his pupils shrank sharply, and he blurted out: "Presumptuous! The first emperor is your father and me!"

Outside the hall, it was like a drop of cold water dripping into hot boiling oil, and the pot exploded in an instant.

The faces of the civil and military officials also changed greatly, and there was an uproar.

The emperor's words just pointed at the late emperor, as if he was saying that Gu Ce's crime of "surrendering the enemy" was a crime committed by the late emperor, which made people dare not think about it any further!

The emperor didn't care about the reactions of other people around him, his dark eyes sank, and his gaze was nailed to Chu You's face like a nail.

His usually warm eyes were so sharp at this time, as if he wanted to see through Chu You from the outside to the inside, and continued to say: "After thinking about it, it was really hard for Gu Ce to surrender the enemy in the battle of Tailing City in Yangzhou. It's kind of weird."

"According to what Yu Cunzheng said, although the situation in Tailing City is difficult, it is not at the point where we need to open the city gates to surrender the enemy."

Chu You's face was ashen, and he said angrily, "What's so strange!! It's clear that Gu Ce himself was timid and afraid of fighting, and forgot the dignity of the monarch and ministers, the righteousness of the family and the country..."

Chu You's voice subconsciously raised a few points, his whole body tensed up, almost hissing.

His gaffe was obvious.

"So, Gu Ce's death was actually because the late emperor wanted to cover up something for you?" The emperor interrupted Chu You coldly, with a questioning tone, but his expression was quite determined.

"..." The corners of Chu You's eyes twitched, and there was a sharp pain in his heart as if he had been stabbed by a needle.

Memories that he was about to forget flooded back to his mind.

His handsome face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, his thin lips were tightly pressed, and he did not answer the emperor's question.

Nine years ago, he went to Yangzhou to take over the Huben army, and quietly trained troops in Yangzhou. He hoped that the late emperor and queen mother could be proud of him.

At that time, Yangzhou was Gu Ce's territory, and the young Chu You thought he was hiding it, but he didn't want to hide the military training from Gu Ce's eyes.

Gu Ce came to him and wanted to borrow troops from him to resist the army of Yue.

But he flatly refused. The Huben Army is his trump card and cannot be leaked...

Every time Chu You thought about the past nine years ago, Chu You felt restless and his eyes darkened.

Seeing Chu You like this, Li Yunxie's heart ached so much, she bit her lower lip slightly: Obviously everything is Gu Ce's fault!

She really wanted to go to Chu You's side, but she only stepped out with one foot, and she retracted her foot when she caught sight of Xiao Fengyuan and the others out of the corner of her eye.

Kang Wang still needs aristocratic families for the time being, and these aristocratic families cannot tolerate her. At this critical moment, she cannot make those aristocratic families more dissatisfied with Kang Wang.

In ancient times, Goujian, the king of Yue, lived his life and tried his best. When King Kang successfully ascended the throne and his wings gradually grew, he and she would eventually have the ability to compete with the family!

"That's it." Chu You's cold voice seemed to be squeezed out from the crown, his voice was like ice.

Only he knew that these four words were not only for the emperor, but also for himself.

What happened nine years ago had a public opinion at that time, and the past has already passed, so it is useless to think about it.

Chu You clenched his fists tightly, and said to the emperor in a tone of absolute certainty:

"Brother Huang, hurry up and write the edict of abdication."

Chu You's piercing eyes quickly swept across the surrounding officials, the eyes were deep and cold, exuding a faint coldness, and he did not hide the menace in his expression.

Xiao Shoufu half-closed his eyes expressionlessly, showing no emotion.

The officials who followed him behind him couldn't hide their anticipation, their eyes were extremely hot.

And those Jin Yiwei still stood motionless in front of the threshold of Long En Hall, forming a human wall to protect the emperor, without flinching.

Meeting Chu You's cold and merciless gaze, the emperor sighed softly again.

In the gusts of mountain wind around him, his sighs were drowned out in the blink of an eye.

The mountain wind became stronger and stronger, as if it was roaring. The wind blew up the black embroidered gold dragon crown on the emperor's body, the cuffs and the skirt of the robe fluttered, and the strings of jade beads on the crown swayed endlessly, reflecting his eyes. The face and eyes are uncertain.

"Chu You, I don't want to go this far either."

The emperor's slightly hoarse voice sounded slowly, with a bit of helplessness, a bit of sadness, and a trace of indescribably complicated emotions.

Chu You only thought that the emperor just didn't want to abdicate, and his expression turned cold instantly.

"Chu Qi, do you really want to toast and not eat fine wine?!" Chu You called out the emperor's name coldly, pulled out the saber at his waist, and pointed it straight at the palace. The cold is oppressive.

Xiao Fengyuan suddenly opened his eyes, this time finally changed his face, and exclaimed: "Kang Kang!"

Blood must not be seen in the palace today, otherwise, it will not be clear in the history books in the future.

"boom!"

The sound of gunshots resounding through the sky interrupted the end of Xiao Fengyuan's words, hitting everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer, making everyone's hearts tremble.

With a "bang", the long sword dropped from his hand and fell to the ground.

Two or three female family members screamed: "Ah——"

The hysterical shouts almost toppled the roof.

There was a bloody hole in Chu You's right palm. The palm was pierced, and blood was flowing rapidly from the bloody hole.

Blood "tick, tick" dripped on the ground.

The silver long sword lying on the ground reflected Chu You's painful face like a mirror...

The 500 tiger and cardinal troops guarding outside Long En's gate drew their sabers in unison.

I saw ghostly soldiers holding flintlock guns and wearing black armor pouring out of the Long En Hall, on the roof, and on both sides of the Long En Hall. All the people inside and outside the hall were surrounded.

Those dark guns were all aimed at the courtiers of King Kang's party, such as Xiao Fengyuan, Wang Kangyin, Wang Nan.

In the hall, Chu Yi appeared next to the emperor at some point. He was wearing a royal blue flying fish suit and held a flintlock gun in his right hand.

The young man who was like the moon and the breeze smiled lightly, with a kind of clean elegance and nobility, which was incompatible with this bloody scene.

But there was a puff of white smoke from the muzzle of the flintlock in his hand.

There is no doubt that the shot that shot through Kang Wang's palm just now was fired by Chu Yi.

When the wind blows, the smoke dissipates.

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