At night, the spring breeze begins, and the night outside the house is whistling. From time to time, something is blown off, making crackling sounds, and the branches are creaking. Everything can be guessed based on hearing and guessing. It is known that it must be a scary thing, but it is still invisible and cannot be seen. It is hidden in the darkness where you can't see your fingers.

The night in the capital was shrouded in such a strange atmosphere. Even on the second day of the Lunar New Year and the Empress Dowager's birthday, the whole country celebrated, but only the wind was left. The night cold was forcing people, and two or three stars were the rare light in Kyoto...

"Has the emperor left the mansion?" Li Ye gritted his teeth and sat beside the bed.

Yue'er nodded, the little girl was obviously afraid of the emperor.

"Qiu'er, Yue'er, go and make a basin of hot water." Li Ye ordered the two little girls to do it quickly.

At this time, Wei Chaoren stepped forward and whispered: "Just just now, I really worry. The prince shouldn't contradict the emperor like this. You are still young and don't know what the emperor did back then..."

Speaking of this, his voice was low, as if he was a little scared, and his voice lowered a little: "Your Majesty is not a kind person who tolerate love and tolerate you. Even if you love the reincarnation of the prince, you should not be favored by yourself.

The prince didn't know that in addition to King Lin, Shufei, there was another son named Xie and Feng Ping. He was considered to be the uncle of the prince, and he was the third prince in our dynasty except Prince Xiao and Prince Kang. It can be seen that His Majesty loves him seriously.

But in the spring of the sixth year of Chengwu, someone secretly reported to King Ping to rebel. His Majesty believed it and immediately confiscated the Prince Ping's Mansion. He killed all three hundred words. King Ping was under house arrest for three months and was also sentenced to death..."

Speaking of this, Wei Chaoren was also full of fear: "Most of the old ministers who have experienced this and have lived until now dare not mention this matter again."

"There is still ten years of Chengwu, which is the year when King Xiao passed away. The King of Wu caused rebellion. After King Xiao was dragged down by his death, General Yu of Zhongdaoyu was able to return. At that time, I led the Northern Xiang army of Guan to obey the orders of the general and went south to serve the king, and besieged the rebellious army to surround the fertile plains outside Wu Pass.

At that time, there were nearly 60,000 rebels. The leader of the thief, King Wu, died in battle, and had no fighting spirit and wanted to surrender.

As a result, His Majesty went to Wuguan in person and agreed to them first. Once the rebels surrendered and took away the swords and weapons, he ordered them to be killed..." Wei Chaoren said this and seemed to recall the scene. His eyebrows were raised and his nostrils were enlarged. Obviously, even he was really afraid.

"Although I have been guarding Guanbei for decades, I have fought many battles of all sizes. I have seen all kinds of storms and waves. I have slaughtered 60,000 unarmed people, and many executioners have slaughtered for several days..." He said that, and shook his head slowly: "Don't contradict Your Majesty again. I am really worried in my heart, afraid that one day..."

Both juniors, the Wei siblings were stunned. It was obvious that Wei Chaoren had never told them these things before...

"Why did the emperor kill so many people?" Wei Xingping couldn't figure it out at all.

"It may be to vent your anger or to intimidate evil people. The power of heaven is unpredictable. Who knows?" Wei Chaoren shook his head: "What I said today, you must not go out to show off, otherwise you may be killed. Remember, remember..."

Li Ye frowned and nodded: "The emperor is indeed someone I can't afford to offend, and I will be careful in the future."

Qiu'er and Yue'er just came back from hot water. Li Ye stood up and everyone realized that the gauze on their back had been dyed red. This was the reason why he asked the two girls to fetch water. Everyone hurriedly helped him reband it.

He seemed casual just now, but in fact his spirit was in a highly tense state of rotation. His heartbeat accelerated, his blood circulation accelerated, and his blood vessels were under increased pressure. The new wound quickly cracked again, so he could not move and could only sit by the bed. Facing everyone, no one could see it, and the wound was exposed as soon as it moved.

Li Ye has rich experience in negotiation and interrogation. From a psychological perspective, people are most likely to expose their true thoughts under three emotions, namely anger, fear and pride.

If he was facing the king of a country, Li Ye would not be able to make him afraid or proud, so he could only make him angry. Moreover, he had something to rely on because he saved his life, anger would not bring about very serious consequences.

Unfortunately, he still underestimated his opponent, and his opponent was beyond his imagination. Even when facing Degong, Li Ye could deal with it calmly. Many times, although he did not act deliberately, as long as he talked casually and observed his expression, he knew Degong's general thoughts and emotions in his heart.

But these didn't work for the emperor. He showed almost no useful information from beginning to end to remove a scary face.

The emperor did not get angry when he should be angry, and did not express anything when he should be compromised. The key is that Li Ye seemed to be aggressive in this bloodless confrontation, but in fact the emperor always firmly grasped the initiative.

In the first half, Li Ye tried to anger him and took the opportunity to spy on his inner emotions and intentions. Unfortunately, he did not see any performance on the emperor's face. Even at the worst, there was no available micro-expression for him to guess the emperor's inner emotions. He was just a scary face, and there was nothing else.

Key points for judging emotions with micro-expressions: the distance between the upper and lower eyelids, the height of the eyebrows, the changes in forehead wrinkles, and the changes in the diameter of the nostrils, and he almost didn't show anything.

At that time, Li Ye discovered that the emperor in front of him was probably the most powerful person he met after coming to this world.

The worst thing is that since the emperor said he wanted to send troops, the initiative was completely out of his side. He didn't know what the emperor meant, whether he was determined to send troops, but he could only take the lead. The call he said was very deep and tried to confuse the emperor.

Is Li Ye’s suggestions useful?

Of course it is useful, but any strategy is risky, it is just a matter of the size of the risk.

If the Suzhou prefect wants to rebel if he tries his heart to fight back, acts decisively and ruthlessly, he will directly kill the ambassador to appease the control of the ambassador?

What if the ability to appoint a pacification and control ambassadors is insufficient to stabilize the situation and cause a more severe rebound?

Any kind of cultural style will appear at that time, the ministers will die and the prestige of the court will be lost, but the problem will not be solved at all.

Li Ye has his own selfish intentions. He wanted to help his sister-in-law's family, but he didn't want to let so many innocent people in Su and Lu suffer. So he could only choose to set up a plea and control ambassadors to say the benefits.

But for the emperor, the younger sister-in-law's family, the Su or the Lu people, if they can really stabilize the country, he will most likely not care about life or death...

The most difficult thing is that he first explained many benefits and made it clear. He Zhao, the young man, felt it reasonable and agreed, but the emperor did not make any statement, and even showed no expression. He could not tell whether he was in favor of approval or opposition...

Li Ye didn't know what the emperor was going to be, and Li Ye didn't know what the emperor was thinking, so he could only be anxious, but the only thing he knew now was that the emperor had the basic qualities of a good decision-maker and was a difficult person to deal with.

Anyone who is sober here can realize a fundamental problem: Li Ye is just an unnamed prince and is not qualified to intervene in such national policy-level decisions.

So his only chance is to confuse the public, deliberately show, elevate himself, use his amazing performance to disrupt the thinking logic of the people present, and then have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

It turned out that he was half successful......

Because He Zhao, the straightforward boy, actually stood up to support him...

He Zhao was fooled by Li Ye so much that he forgot that he was the prefect of Kaiyuan, a second-rank official in the court, and a chief executive of Kyoto. This decision to whether to send troops was a national policy level, and only those at least third-rank or above had the right to speak.

And what is Li Ye? He is a little prince who is nameless, has no political status, has no actual power, and has no protection from his parents. To put it bluntly, he only has one mouth, cannot bear the corresponding responsibility, and is unable to be responsible for his own words.

He is noble in his identity, but when it comes to power and political status, he has nothing.

Although half of the success, it’s a pity...

The emperor was awake from beginning to end.

So no matter how he performed, no matter how he spoke, even if He Zhao stood up and spoke for him, the emperor finally said nothing and didn't take his words seriously.

This is what made Li Ye desperate. The emperor did not confuse his thinking logic because of his life-saving grace, his scattered rhetoric, and his attempt to provoke emotions. He was very sober from beginning to end...

If you deal with such a person, you will be numb, exhausted, and powerless.

Want to make money with nothing? It doesn't exist.

As soon as the emperor left, Li Ye could no longer hold on. In addition to his fatigue and hard work, he rebanded it and fell asleep...

Li Ye slept, but the night was particularly long.

.........

In the palace, the empress dowager's birthday was not over, and everyone dared not tell the old empress dowager what happened in the city during the day. After all, she was old and afraid that she would be frightened, so she only said that the emperor would come back late when he patrols the city.

It was not until the sky was getting dark that the emperor returned to the imperial city. The concubines who knew the situation in the palace all burst into tears, but they did not dare to publicize the matter.

The emperor didn't say anything after being scolded by the Queen Mother. While accompanying the Queen Mother, he summoned many ministers overnight.

The three departments and six departments of the left and right were judged by the department, Yang Hongzhao, the commander in front of the hall, Zhao Guanghua, the commander in the cavalry of the guards, Tong Guan, the commander in the infantry of the guards, He Zhao, the chief minister of Kaiyuan, the commander in charge of the political affairs of Yu Cheng'an, the commander in the branch office Xue Fang, the commander in the salt and iron envoy Lu Jie, the commander in the Ministry of Revenue Tang Zhouwei, the deputy commander in the Privy Council, Wen Daoli, the commander in the Privy Council, Zhong Daoyu, the commander in the Privy Council, and the commander in the Privy Council, Wang Yue, the serving secretary of the Eastern Palace, Li Chengping... etc., entered the court to discuss matters.

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Chapter completed!