Chapter 4 One-dollar Coin
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye. Although Qi Yu is not a person of this world, there is still a trace of reluctance in the depths of the palace that is about to leave the palace that has lived for seven years. He doesn't understand why he has reluctance to give up. He is not a person in this world at all. If he is reborn into a historical dynasty that has existed, it seems to be just a disorder of time, but now he is in a history that he doesn't know at all, both in time and space. What he doesn't know.
Qi Yu has also read some novels about time travel and rebirth before. Each protagonist can always turn his hands over the world and play the whole world. However, in fact, it is not as easy as described in the book. Although he has traveled into a prince, he can't do whatever he wants, even if you have 20 What about a century of talent and knowledge?
The oncoming wind was a little chilly. Qi Yu thought there would be a grand farewell gift, but it turned out to be that he simply said goodbye and walked away from the palace with Liumu without even a carriage. Liu Mu told him that the monarch was waiting for them at the north gate of the capital. Qi Yu had no good impression on the princess he had never met. Somehow, in his mind, he always felt that the princess was a very wayward daughter, and among all the girls, what he hated was the wayward girl. He liked that kind of gentle girl, just like Shen Yan. Same.
The streets of the capital are extremely wide, covered with heavy bluestone bricks. This is the first time Qi Yu has seen the world outside the palace, but somehow he is not too curious, but silently follows the flowing wood.
"Why don't you talk?" Liu Mu did not look back and still walked slowly.
"What did you say?"
"Just say something. We can't just stop talking all the way."
"I have a question for you." Qi Yu accelerated his pace slightly and paralleled to the flowing wood.
"Ask."
"Last time I heard from my father that you would send Lianzhen to protect his eldest brother to Lu. Why is his name Lianzhen?" Qi Yu actually had no problem wanting to ask Liumu, but as Liumu said, it was not a way to be silent, so he found a question that was not a problem. This is really typical of nothing to say.
"Why don't you call it Lian Zhen?" Liu Mu asked back.
"If your subordinates are called Lian Zhen, are there still greedy wolves, Wenqu, Pojun, Lu Cun, Wuqu, Giant Gate and so on?"
"How do you know these names?" Liumu suddenly stopped and turned his head to Qi Yu. Qi Yu saw doubts in his eyes. He wondered why he knew the name of the Big Dipper.
"Do you know what's wrong with these names?"
"No problem." After saying this, Liumu stopped talking, but Qi Yu could feel that there seemed to be an invisible wall around Liumu, which made people unable to approach.
About an hour away, Qi Yu saw a very luxuriously decorated carriage parked at the gate of the capital. Next to the carriage stood a man in gorgeous clothes but not flamboyant. From the perspective of Qi Yu's years of living in the palace, the slightly gray-haired man must be a prince.
"Mr. Liu, thank you for your hard work."
"It's naturally harder, but I'm also going to buy some good things in Luguo." Liumu said briskly, "Xiaobei was sent to Nanxia by me, so you don't have to worry, prince."
"That's good. I'm really worried that the child will do something stupid."
The smile on Liumu's face is stronger, but in Qi Yu's opinion, it's really a fake smile: "In fact, it's not a good thing to let Xiaobei go to Nanxia."
"Yes, the child is simple in nature. I hope you can take more care of him."
"Please rest assured, Princess Yiyan can be in the carriage?" Liu Mu glanced at the carriageway.
"According to the words, in the carriage, I heard that I was so excited to go to Cangguo that I didn't sleep all night. Now I should sleep soundly in the car." Then King Jinheng half squatted down and stroked Qi Yu's head and took out something similar to a silver coin from his arms. When Qi Yu saw the thing clearly, he was shocked and could hardly speak.
"This is the people, RMB..." Qi Yu stared at the one-dollar coin in the hand of King Jinheng, which only existed in the world he knew. "Where did this coin come from?"
Qi Yu held King Jinheng's hand tightly. No one could understand his mood at this moment. The moment he saw the coin, he had an inexplicable hope, but it was accompanied by a strange sense of fear. Why does this one-dollar coin appear in this world? Is it possible that there are other travelers besides him?
King Jinheng looked at Liumu and stopped talking, as if he was making some determination: "Mr. Liu, it's time for this child to know the truth."
Liumu half narrowed his eyes and looked light: "Yes, if you don't say it now, I'm afraid there will be no chance in the future. Tell him."
"This is what your mother left behind. Your biological mother is not Queen Shunde, but Princess Fengran, the current emperor's own sister..." King Jinheng stared at Qi Yu, "However, your biological father is Emperor Qi, so you are..."
"So I am the evil son born of evil fate." Qi Yu took over King Jinheng's words and said, "Compared with my father's romantic affairs, you still tell me what happened to this coin in your hand. Since it is left by my biological mother, where is my biological mother now?"
Liumu turned his head sideways and said to Qi Yu with a look that seemed to look at the monster, "Should I say that you are precocious, or what?"
"I don't know the origin of this coin. I only know that your mother took it as a treasure." King Jinheng said, "Hold this coin tightly before your mother dies and let me give it to you when you grow up."
"Dead?"
"Yes, your mother died as soon as you were born."
"Did she leave anything to tell you the origin of this coin?"
"She didn't tell me the origin of the coin, but she left a strange sentence before she died. She said that when seven stars shaped like spoons appeared in the sky, the coin would take you back to the original world."
"The original world? Is it..." Qi Yu knew that the original world refers to the 21st century, so his biological mother also came through time?
"That's how it is. I don't know what Feng Ran said, but I have told you everything. Child, maybe you don't know that this place will soon be involved in a bloody storm. This may be the last time we meet. King Jinheng showed a particularly desolate smile in Qi Yu's eyes, "Your father did what I wanted to do but didn't dare to do..."
Located in a restaurant in the capital of the State of Qi, more than a dozen court officials led by Zhao Shun gathered, who were secretly discussing the lifting of troops after January. Nearly half a hundred years old, he asked Shun to raise his glass and said, "This time we are making trouble, so you don't have to be afraid."
"That's right, but he is the emperor after all."
"Your Majesty?" Zhao Shun drank all the wine in the glass and said with a sneer, "What is there to be afraid of the emperor abandoned by the world, and I'm afraid you don't know that the fourth prince was not born to the queen at all."
"It's not born to the queen, is that?"
"The fourth prince is the son of the emperor and the former emperor, and the evil son born to Princess Fengran." Zhao Shun poured another glass of wine for himself, "You say that a monarch who is not even better than beasts will only destroy the country."
"Lord Zhao, but the Empress is indeed pregnant for ten months and gave birth to a child, which is what many people have seen."
"The queen did give birth to a child, but that child is Princess Yiyan, which is really a coincidence. The queen and Fengran actually gave birth to a child at the same time. When the child was born, the emperor replaced the two children."
"Your Excellency, how can you know such a secret thing?"
"How could I not know? This is what the Empress Dowager's mother told me. What can escape the eyes of the Empress Dowager's eyes?"
"So, this time it's the Empress Dowager..."
Zhao Shun put down his glass and was slightly proud: "Yes, this time the Empress Dowager will become our most powerful backer. After that, we elected the Empress Dowager's biological son, King Xingle, as the emperor. Then we are the first meritorious official, hahaha... Are you right?"
One of the officials filled Zhao Shun's empty glass and asked, "But King Jinheng will definitely oppose it. He holds 100,000 military power in his hand..."
Zhao Shun looked at the official who served wine for him with admiration and said with a smile, "Although King Jinheng has 100,000 military power, what's the use of the 100,000 troops in Yanzhou, hundreds of miles away? General Long's 70,000 troops have been stationed near Yanzhou. Once King Jinheng sent troops, General Long will use the 70,000 troops to stop him. On the side of the capital, King Xingle holds 8,000 elite soldiers, and General Lin also threw himself to us. It can be said that the whole palace has now obeyed the Empress Dowager.
Just as all the officials were proud and tried their best to flatter Zhao Shun, only a young official in his early 20s sat silently and did not attract anyone's attention. He looked coldly at the drunken officials, sighed slightly and said secretly in his heart: I'm afraid that it is not the Empress Dowager who controls the whole palace now, but Prime Minister Zhao, who is about to control the power of the whole State of Qi. Although today's emperor is cruel by nature, he has the momentum and prestige of being an emperor. However, Zhao Shun, the King of Xingle, who is ready to help him to the throne, is extremely weak. Even if he ascends to the throne, he is afraid of being a puppet.
The young official's name is Liu Zichen. No one knows that this young official, who is inconspicuous in the crowd, will become the prime minister who holds the power of the entire court of Qi decades later.