Chapter 10: Mount RenoChapter 1280: The Secret From Back Then

This explanation... is perfect.

Li Chen couldn't find any flaws.

Reverse thinking is usually the most surprising.

And Wen Wang obviously played "light under the lamp" to perfection.

But Li Chen was still uneasy.

He pressed on, “But your father is dead. If he trusted your father, will he trust you”

"Your Highness," Nangong Shuzhong said with a choked voice, "do you know how my father died"

This rhetorical question made Li Chen raise an eyebrow.

A single sentence, seemingly hinting at unimaginable bloodshed and intricate plots.

Nangong Shuzhong continued, "For a man like Wen Wang, although my father was the most trusted person by his side, Wen Wang never trusted anyone in his entire life. I believe Your Highness understands this, right"

Li Chen said indifferently: "I understand, the only person he truly trusts is himself."

The cold up high is inescapable. Whether it's Zhao Xuanji that I see, the teachings that Emperor Daxing constantly reminds me of, or even the subtle changes happening within Li Chen himself, they are all the same.

As the apex predator, one cannot fully trust anyone.

In this world, the only one you can trust is yourself.

The Great Emperor taught Li Chen this lesson through concrete facts.

And Li Chen himself, at this very moment, asked himself, whom could he completely trust

Su Zhenning

Xu Changqing

None of that.

Li Chen only had limited trust in them.

"Indeed, this is the truth. My father gained decades of wealth and honor because of this thing, but he also lost his life because of it. In fact, on the day my father received it, he already knew his fate."

"But my father was powerless to break free. In order to protect his wife and children, he had no choice but to follow the path that King Wen had already ordained for him, placing all his hope on the common people."

"Now, your humble servant, for the sake of his family's lives, offers it to Your Highness."

Taking a deep breath, Li Chen said: "There's a rumor circulating among the people, 'Ten changes become seven, one vertical becomes a curved hook, and another emperor sits on the golden throne... I didn't expect...' "

Speaking of this, Li Chen's tone changed, becoming extremely cold. "How did this thing end up in Wen Wang's hands"

Nangong Shuzhong trembled as he replied, "Back then, when the late emperor sensed his impending demise, he decided to summon all the princes back to the capital, in order to firmly establish the new ruler and prevent turmoil in the kingdom."

But at that time, all the princes had reached adulthood. Apart from the current emperor, all the princes had been enfeoffed to other domains. Even those who were not enfeoffed were absent from the capital due to various reasons.

"The Emperor had been with the late Emperor every day. Everyone thought that even though the late Emperor's health was deteriorating, he would make it to the New Year. But at the end of October, the late Emperor suddenly passed away. Then, the Emperor ascended the throne as quickly as possible."

"Back then, almost none of the people involved survived to the present day. Everything was buried in history."

But only the eunuchs who served the late emperor closely that year witnessed firsthand that night. The late emperor suddenly had a relapse of his old illness, coughed up blood and fainted. Before the imperial physicians arrived, the current emperor was already there.

After that, the eunuch who was close to the emperor was driven out of the Qianqing Palace by the current Emperor. Within half an hour, news arrived that the previous emperor had passed away.

“The current emperor was holding the imperial edict, passed down by the late emperor, to announce the bad news. But the eunuch close to him knew that the edict in the current emperor's hand must be fake, because before the late emperor coughed up blood, he had just finished writing the real imperial edict and gave it to him to seal with the national seal...”on of Minister of War (兵部尚書) was a pinnacle that most officials who had spent their entire lives navigating the treacherous waters of imperial service could never reach.This spot, if it's said to be p...