"Why, you have a body of ten thousand gold. How can I, a mortal from the Tang Dynasty, do anything to you? Your Majesty, I know you must be feeling very sad, saying that Princess Xinling and I don't listen to you. But, Your Majesty, please also Think about it, we are mortals and our abilities are low. I know what the emperor is thinking. He thinks that I am too beautiful and blessed in the Tang Dynasty. Also, he is concerned about the majesty of the royal family. He thinks that since he married Princess Qinger to me, he will You can no longer marry a princess. In fact, Your Majesty, you are wrong to think so. During the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, didn't Yao marry both of his daughters to Gun? What's more, I have only married a princess now. Your Majesty, After I went back, I thought about it for three days and three nights, and finally understood why the emperor didn't like me."

"What is it?" Li Longji was a little curious.

"Your Majesty, you cannot trust me. I am right, right?"

Li Longji smiled: "Since you know this and have been in the court for so long, you should know what to do and why you still offend me again and again."

"Back to the emperor, although I know that the emperor still can't trust me, especially after knowing my previous status in Nanzhao, I want to gain the emperor's trust through my loyalty to the king. I prayed for rain in Shandong earlier, and later Putting down the rebellion in Lingnan is to show the emperor that I am loyal to you. As for the matter of being a minister of Nanzhao in the past, it is indeed a helpless matter. Youdao is a hero, no matter how low your background is. I have made such a great contribution to the emperor. Can't you show your loyalty to His Majesty?"

"Haha, what's the use of talking about this? In the Tang Dynasty, it's useless for you to read poems and books when you were young. Why don't you understand this simple truth? In all dynasties, when the superiors choose talents, they always put their minds first, and secondly. Talent, no matter how great your merits are, as long as you deceive me once, it will be difficult for me to forgive you. I asked you to go to Shandong to pray for rain, demoted you to Lingnan, and did not pay military pay. All these are the fundamental reasons. Right here, kid, I didn’t expect that your smart Tianzong actually completed several tasks that I thought could never be completed. Hatred has already formed between us. Are you someone who ignores past grudges?"

"Back to the emperor, I have never resented your majesty. Even when I went to Shandong to pray for rain, I thought it was the emperor's training for me. If I think about it, even if I couldn't pray for rain at that time, the emperor would not really kill me. ,"

"You are wrong. I actually had the intention to kill you at that time." Tang Chao thought he would deny it, but he didn't expect him to admit it so readily. Damn, he did such a despicable and shameless thing, and he seemed to be doing it openly. Yes.

"Your Majesty,,,,,,," his voice was trembling. The Emperor even said these things. Could it be that he really won't let me go today?

He originally relied on Princess Xinling and he was already a couple in name only. The emperor would not kill him for the sake of Princess Xinling. How could he have imagined that he would not care about this at all now and tell such a big secret? , Under normal circumstances, the emperor would say that he was thinking about the world and was fair to all ministers, etc., but now Li Longji actually said it without hesitation.

"I know what you are thinking. You think I will let you go for the sake of this child, Xin Ling. No, I will never,"

"Your Majesty, the relationship between me and Xin Ling is settled, the raw rice has been cooked, there is no falsehood," Grandma said, risking everything. It seemed that he didn't believe it, and the Tang Dynasty finally went crazy.

It would be better to take the princess and escape back to Nanzhao last night than to die in the palace like this.

Li Longji's face turned livid: "Beast," he cursed, and Tang Chao's face was slapped so hot that it hurt to the bone.

Gao Lishi and Ma Zhengzhang were both old men who had followed the emperor for many years, but they had never seen the emperor become so angry. Fortunately, all the eunuchs on the left and right were sent out at this time. Only their two confidants saw it, but they remained alone. The shock in my heart was huge. Why was Li Longji so hostile to the Tang Dynasty?

"What is your crime?" Although Tang Chao tried hard not to take action, he no longer knelt but stood up. A strong temperament suddenly emerged. Even Ma Zhengzhang was surprised. After a long while, he stood up. Then he came back to his senses: "What are you doing, Tang Dynasty? Do you want to commit the following crime?"

But the Tang Dynasty did not move at all, and just said seriously: "Your Majesty, what crime do I have?"

He had already risked his life, knowing that even if he died in battle today, he would not be humiliated by traveling through time, and his eyes became sharp.

Li Longji was furious at first, but suddenly he realized that what he had just done was indeed too impulsive, and he had lost the grace of a leader of a great country. He sat down, took a breath, and did not say anything.

With his current martial arts skills, even when fighting and charging on the battlefield, he would not pant so violently, but now he was panting violently, which showed that he was too excited.

"Lishi, both of you, please go out. I have something to say to Tang Chao alone."

"Your safety, Your Majesty, the martial arts of the Tang Dynasty are extraordinary," Gao Lishi became worried.

"Go out when I ask you to," Li Longji said angrily again. Gao Lishi knew that he could no longer violate it, so he had to withdraw. However, neither Ma Zhengzhang nor he dared to go too far, just outside the door of Qinzheng Hall. Waiting, they were tens of meters apart, and with his and Ma Zhengzhang's ears, they could clearly hear what was going on inside. If there was anything wrong, they would immediately rush into King Qin.

But what surprised Gao Lishi and Ma Zhengzhang was that Li Longji suddenly closed the door. This door was very good and was the work of all the master craftsmen in the world. Once the door was closed, everything was isolated, as if it was completely isolated from the outside world. The space forms two worlds, and no one outside can hear the sounds inside anymore.

Tang Chao was also very surprised, but he sneered and said nothing. His intuition told him that Li Longji must have something confidential to tell him.

Sure enough, Li Longji had no intention of taking action now, and pointed to a chair next to him: "Tang Chao, you also sit down,"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." At this time, he no longer wanted to be polite to the Emperor, and sat down as soon as he asked him to sit down.

"Tang Chao, do you know that I am jealous of you? Really, I am jealous. That's why I want to kill you."

Only at such a time did Li Longji speak out what was in his heart: "Thirty years ago, my father did not pass on the position of prince to my eldest brother. Originally, although I had made great achievements in annihilating Wei, according to the ranking, I am the third eldest brother, and the eldest brother is the natural successor to the throne of emperor. However, the eldest brother knows that my talents are far stronger than him, so he recommended me to my father and made me the prince. My father knew that I had made such a decision. I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve such great achievements if I don’t become the prince, so I had no choice but to agree and I became the prince. Otherwise, the world today may not necessarily belong to me, Li Longji. My eldest brother asked me to do so because of me. His jealousy was too strong. He knew that if he became the crown prince, I might have to kill him, so he backed down. Later, Princess Taiping and I fought for several years. It was a life-or-death fight for both of us, one man and one woman. People with strong jealousy will naturally compete with each other for power. Finally, I succeeded in making him suspicious of her in front of my father. After all, I had the advantage. I am my father’s biological son. , What a powerful woman. Maybe my eldest brother has a reputation for being self-aware if he doesn’t become the prince. If he had become the prince, he might have died in the hands of Princess Taiping. What a powerful woman, she didn’t even hesitate to betray her appearance. I also want to gain the favor of my father. In the end, I launched a coup, killed her, and successfully ascended the throne..."

He kept talking, and Tang Chao was very puzzled, but then he understood that his jealousy was too strong, in other words, his desire for power was too strong, and he couldn't bear the existence of people better than himself in the world, thinking that he would never be able to ask for it in the world. He actually prayed for rain when it was raining, and also quelled the Lingnan rebellion without military pay. Li Longji must be aware of Meng Xiao's strength. People like me may not be weaker than he was when he was young. Moreover, my martial arts has reached a very high level, which an emperor cannot tolerate. Maybe he can tolerate Li Bai's arrogance in front of him, but he cannot tolerate the Tang Dynasty because Li Bai is not a high official. In his eyes, he was just a skilled man and could not pose any threat to him. But Tang Dynasty was different. He could feel his power. Even launching a coup was not impossible. I heard that there was a peerless master in his house named She. Damn, such a person, even if he is sent to the border, he must not stay with him.

He told the truth, and what he said was true. He had been holding these words in his heart and could not say them out. In fact, it was very uncomfortable. The reason why he closed the door and said these words to Tang Chao was to hide his heart.

"I'm jealous of you. Of course you're from Nanzhao, and I don't trust you, but you've climbed to a high position step by step, and you've been sealed by me personally. You force me to find ways to deal with you,"

Tang Chao shook his head: "Your Majesty, thank you for telling me the truth, but I don't understand why my ministers can't be a good thing if they are capable. They can share your worries and do many things for you, such as this In the Lingnan rebellion, if you sent an envoy who couldn’t lead troops, wouldn’t it be a waste of life and money?”

"No, others can, but you can't,"

"Why,"

"Because when I saw you, I thought of you when I was a teenager. You were just like me when I was a teenager. I can tolerate people like Li Linfu, Zhang Jiazheng, and Zhangchou Jianqiong, but I can't tolerate you."

His words seemed illogical, but Tang Chao immediately understood that he didn't want anyone in the world to be able to catch up with him, Li Longji.

What an arrogant person, but he is indeed capable of being arrogant, and he is indeed an amazingly talented person.

"I understand, the emperor hopes that no one in this world can ever catch up with you,"

"Haha, it's good to know. When I was young, I called myself 'Little Ah Man', but now, I no longer admire him. Although Cao Cao is considered a tycoon, compared with me, I think he is far behind," Li Longji said confidently, with a kind of arrogance that looks down on the world.

"Indeed, Your Majesty, the Tang Dynasty under your control has a unified territory. Although Cao Cao is powerful, he is only one-third of the world. You personally composed "The Song of Colorful Feathers" and put an end to Princess Taiping's rebellion. You are indeed an earth-shattering figure," Tang Although Chao was complimenting him, he did tell the truth, so he didn't feel ashamed.

"So, I have said all I have to say. You now have two choices, one is to die, the other is to accept my challenge. Let's fight. As I said, if you win, I will let you go. You can also marry Xinling in a beautiful way, and then become the protector of Anxi, and you will be entrusted with important tasks from then on. If you fail, you will die."

Tang Chao's eyes were solemn. He had already known that since Li Longji said such heart-wrenching words, he would never let him go. Now, as expected, he said calmly: "Your Majesty, why do you want to fight me personally and kill me directly?" It’s okay if you don’t,”

"Haha, if I wanted to kill you directly, I would have killed you a long time ago. But am I such a villain? Even if I die, I will make you die with conviction."

"Well, it seems that I have no choice. Your Majesty, Nachen has no choice but to accept the challenge," he said, clasping his fists and using the etiquette of the world. After all, the emperor used the duel in the world to solve problems. He himself We must also abide by the rules of the arena.
Chapter completed!