Chapter 250 Funeral
"How can the word "Xiake" bear your great achievements?"
Cao Shaoqin, who was white and old, shook his head and smiled, "You alone led to the great changes in China that have not been seen in thousands of years. The national strength is so strong that it is far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties! Qin and Han Wu are also eclipsed in front of you. How can the word "knight" be explained clearly?"
He sighed, "In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed. The scene of us fighting on the border of the desert is still vivid in our minds, just like yesterday! You told me that you wanted to do something, but I thought you were just greedy for power. Hehe, seeing you rise step by step, control the East Factory, and control the Jinyiwei, hold the emperor hostage, order all officials to reform the administration, kill unjust officials in the world, expand territory, conquer all directions, conquer all countries, and centralize the central government. We thought at that time, you should follow Wang Mang! But you actually retreated!"
When Cao Shaoqin said this, he looked surprised and confused. After so many years, he still had a little difficulty in understanding: "Brother Li, if you ascended the throne and became an emperor at that time, I guess the whole world would think it was a matter of course. No one dared to object, nor could he object, but you just stepped down!"
He exclaimed: "Faced with such a great temptation and not moved, looking at the past and present, China and abroad for thousands of years, I'm afraid you are the only one!"
Li Xiake smiled and said, "No rules can lead to a square and a rule. Everything must be ruled. Now I retreat. That is to set rules for future generations, so that they dare not foul or are not qualified to foul! The world is in a general trend, and the public opinion is ripe. After so many years of rules, if you want to change it, the difficulty will be no less than that of me changing the world from a white dick. But in the future, who can do this to me?"
Cao Shaoqin said: "Yes, who can do this to your level? Making contributions to the world, establishing words, and establishing virtues is for the saints. You have expanded your territory and expanded my Ming Dynasty to the whole world. Such contributions are greater than heaven! You have also reformed textbooks, have teachings without distinction, abolished all privileges, conduct newspapers, and publish free speech. This can be said to be arguing of words, but holding a great position without being arrogant, having imperial power in hand without being moved, and retiring after success. Such ethics are rare in ancient and modern times, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a moral integrity. Brother Li, Saint Kong is just a little bit empty, and you are a saint, who is real!"
Li Xiake laughed: "Brother Cao, I can't afford to say that. I can't compare with sages from ancient times!"
The sound of footsteps came not far away. Li Xiake turned his head to look and saw Wang Fu and Ankylossus walking over with white hair.
"Have you found it?"
Seeing the two, Li Xiake's tone was a little urgent: "Have you ever had some clues?"
The Ankylosaurus bent down and said, "Go back to the lord, some time ago, a child said he had met Lord Qiu... and his wife, but when we rushed over, it was already empty."
Li Xiake was silent for a moment, a little excited, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, you all retreat, she still doesn't want to see me!"
When he executed Zhou Huaian more than ten years ago, Qiu Moyan drew his sword against Li Xiake and wanted to have a duel with Li Xiake. She did not say that she was avenging Zhou Huaian, but just said that she was going to have a life-and-death duel with Li Xiake.
As early as when Zhou Huaian was named and rebelled, Qiu Moyan had already parted ways with him. Two people, one from the martial arts world and the other from the court, were destined to be difficult to get together.
Moreover, after Zhou Huaian was in control of power, he seemed to have become a different person, which made Qiu Moyan feel a great sense of strangeness, gradually turning from disappointment to despair, and then quietly left, no longer participating in anything about Zhou Huaian.
However, Li Xiake wanted to execute Zhou Huaian. Even if Qiu Moyan was a former friend, he could not leave his hands alone. However, there was no reason to save Zhou Huaian. Li Xiake's actions and Zhou Huaian's actions were compared with each other. Which one is higher and which one is lower, is clear at a glance.
Qiu Moyan was originally an extremely independent woman. Since Zhou Huaian rebelled, she also learned to look at the problem from another perspective. Then she realized that it seemed that Li Xiake was devoted to serving the people and the country. On the contrary, Zhou Huaian had a strong selfish desire. When she thought that she was obsessed with falling in love with such a person at that time, Qiu Moyan was ashamed. She said she was saving Zhou Huaian, but in fact she wanted to die at the hands of Li Xiake, and she would have finished it all!
Naturally, she was not killed later, and was let go by Li Xiake. She even hired her as a Jinyiwei Qianjia, who had the power to be proficient. Qiu Moyan did not disappoint her expectations. As a woman, she was in charge of the Jinyiwei, which was also very exciting.
The relationship between the two lasted for several years. One day, after a few nights of lingering with Li Xiake, they immediately left. Li Xiake searched from many places, but never found her trace.
"If you don't see me, just don't see me, just be alive!"
Li Xiake shook his head and smiled, and said to Cao Shaoqin: "Brother Cao, I have repaired my grave. When my deadline comes, you will send me to the grave."
Cao Shaoqin said funny: "The deadline has come? It's been decades. You are still the same as before, but how are we all old? I'm afraid that our group of old people will die, and you will still be lively!"
Li Xiake shook his head and said, "My family knows my family's affairs. It's only these days on my verdict! Call a few old friends over here and have a good chat!"
Three days later, the former Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiake, summoned his old subordinates to drink and reminisce about the past three days later, and died in the courtyard with a smile.
His death shocked the world. Countless people gathered in the capital and saw him off. Students, merchants, officials, whites, and blacks squeezed the entire city of Beijing into pieces, with mourning and crying.
Today, the son and the Prime Minister stopped the court for three days to show their condolences. Finally, according to Li Xiake's will during his lifetime, he was buried in Mount Tai.
I'm afraid there are only these five mountains. The towering Mount Tai, which is located in the Central Plains, is most suitable to be the mausoleum of Li Xiake.
On the way from the capital to mourn, countless people cried and cried, and many people fainted on the ground and felt in pain.
On a small hill next to Taishan Avenue, a woman led a young man to look at the crowd slowly escorting the coffin along the road not far away, with a sad look on her face. Both of them were wearing mourning clothes. The mountain wind blew, making the mourning clothes slam.
"Mom, is Daddy really dead?"
The young man in mourning clothes knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to the coffin in the distance, stood up and looked at the woman beside him: "Why don't we go to see him?"
The woman stood on the hill and was stunned. It was not until her son asked several times that she came to her senses and said, "What did you do when you see him? Do you still want to be the emperor?"
She whispered: "Child, you don't know his ambitions or his personality. If he knew that there was a child like you, he would probably not die now!"
Chapter completed!