Chapter 581: The Edict of the Son of the Son

That night, in the heart of the Qi army camp, there were heavy troops guarding it outside an ordinary tent.

There was a dim oil lamp in the tent, and under the lamp was a young man and an old man with short beards and short hair.

The young man held a steaming wooden basin and placed it at the old man's feet, whispering: "Father, it's time to wash his feet."

The old man with white hair and hair was Emperor Zhaowu. In just a few months, he seemed to have been aged for dozens of years, not only with wrinkles on his face, but also with a hunched waist. It seemed as if he had been from the age of destiny to the end of the year of the wind.

Emperor Zhaowu just said "hmm" lightly and stopped moving.

The young man was naturally Qin Zhan. He bent down and knelt down, removed his shoes and socks for his father, and then tried the water temperature with his hands, so he immersed his feet in the basin. He asked in a low voice: "Father, are you hot?"

Emperor Zhaowu slowly shook his head but still stopped talking.

Qin Zhan had no choice but to stop and carefully rub his father's feet. The tent was very quiet for a moment, and only the sound of squeaking water was heard.

After a long time, Emperor Zhaowu said softly: "Tomorrow, will they use my life to threaten Hulao Pass?"

Qin Zhan froze and nodded, "It seems...yes."

"Oh..." Emperor Zhaowu sighed, his voice full of bitterness and self-harm. He lowered his head and said, "I have become the eternal sinner of the Qin Dynasty..."

"The father is so bad," Qin Zhan stood up straight and said with a dissatisfaction: "You are talented and have great martial arts. You have defeated the yummy Duke who has been undefeated for decades and won the Hulao dangerous pass that several generations of late emperors had dreamed of. If it weren't for the traitor, there would be no king or father, how could we fall into such a field?"

He said with anger: "The real sinner of eternal times is my fifth brother! Not your father!"

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't know." Emperor Zhaowu shook his head and said, "The responsibility for defeat this time is all about me, and it has nothing to do with others."

Seeing that the flattery was not right, Qin Zhan quickly changed his words and said, "As long as Hulao is locked in our hands, I will still make a profit this time, and my father will still make contributions."

"Hulao Pass is in danger." Emperor Zhaowu continued to shake his head and said, "Li Zhuo and Huangfu Xian will not be indifferent when they see me being killed."

"Two generals are loyal and righteous." Qin Zhan said in his heart, I'm right to follow you, right?

"What kind of loyal and righteous people?" Emperor Zhaowu shook his head and said, "They are all people who come before themselves, but they are just afraid that they will be punished by the court for being punished and beheaded."

Qin Zhan was completely speechless and thought to himself: "If I don't speak, you won't shake your head again, right?"

"I have no face to see my ancestors," but I saw Emperor Zhaowu... slowly shook his head and said, "It's better if I don't deserve this emperor." He said, looking at Qin Zhan and said slowly, "Will you go to announce the imperial edict tomorrow?"

"It seems... yes." Qin Zhan nodded and said, "It was me in the last two times, so I probably won't change anyone else this time."

Emperor Zhaowu nodded slowly, and after another silence, he whispered: "Go and tell them, I may be dead tomorrow. I want to take a shower and go on the road cleanly."

With a strange expression on his face, Qin Zhan stood up and said, "I understand." Then he went out to find the guards of Qi and said to Emperor Zhaowu's request.

This requirement is reasonable and there is no need to ask for instructions. The guards went to carry a bathtub, carried a few more buckets of hot water, and then retreated.

He brought the brazier to the edge of the bathtub and surrounded the bathtub with a screen. Qin Zhan began to pour boiling water into the bucket.

Amid the sound of water, Emperor Zhaowu began to slowly remove his clothes. After taking off his cotton robe, he exposed his underwear full of red letters.

In Qin Zhan's gaze, Emperor Zhaowu took off the underwear and said in a low voice: "Put it on and read it in front of everyone in the pass tomorrow."

Wiping hands on his body, Qin Zhan hesitated to take the underwear and asked in a low voice: "What is this?"

"My blood letter of guilt is my edict." Emperor Zhaowu said word by word: "I have decided to abdicate and pass the throne to... your fifth brother Yutian." Looking at his stupid appearance, afraid that the defenders outside the tent would notice it, the emperor lifted the wooden barrel with his own hands and poured water into the bathtub with difficulty.

"It is difficult for my son to be called." After a while, Qin Zhan held the blood letter and kowtowed: "The father has nothing to do with virtue. It's just a dragon wandering in shallow water. Sooner or later, why do you have the will to abdicate?" After hearing Zhao Wujiu's arrangement, he also counted on the resourceful Duke Yusheng who could help him inherit the throne of Emperor Zhaowu.

"This is not something you should worry about." Emperor Zhaowu said lightly, pouring water in his hand without any impact: "Just just send the order."

"Then...then it can't be passed on to the fifth brother?" Qin Zhan was confused and said nothing was disguised: "The elder brother is here, the eldest brother is here, the prince is here, the talent is here, the third brother is here, and the filial piety... the son minister is not much inferior. Why should he pass it on to him? The son minister can't figure it out!"

Emperor Zhaowu controlled the speed of pouring water. He did not pour the water until he finished speaking, and threw it away: "He is the most suitable, and the eldest and second brother will not have any objections." Then he stepped on the stool and sat in the bathtub and whispered: "Rubb your back."

It took Qin Zhan to come back to his senses for a long time, soaked a towel in the water, and rubbed Emperor Zhaowu's back silently. After a while, he couldn't help but say, "Why is the fifth brother the most suitable one? He is disrespectful to you several times!"

Emperor Zhaowu sighed and said, "Qin Li is too tough and does not understand the way of Zhang Chi. If he is too strong, he will exhaust the country from being strong and powerful; Qin Ting is too soft and cannot be the emperor like me, and he cannot control the arrogant soldiers and generals of the Qin Dynasty at all; Qin Lin is too stupid, fortunately he is still afraid of Lao Wu, so he will not do anything stupid."

"Only Qin Lei is both civil and military, and has a gap in his chest. He still knows that the overall situation is the most important thing. If not, with his arrogant temper, I have never known how many times he has killed him." Emperor Zhaowu's face was very complicated. He looked at the old man spots on the back of his hand and said, "I originally planned to win this battle, so I gave him to death. But I made things like this. For the sake of the country and country of our ancestors, I could only let him come out to clean up the mess."

The emperor's mind is not something that normal people can understand. Emperor Zhaowu hated Qin Lei so much that his teeth were itchy, but he kept knocking and not trying to kill him. It was not because His Majesty the Emperor was compassionate, but because he wanted to leave a safe for the Qin Dynasty. If the situation was corrupt and the emperor was powerless again, it would be better if someone took over the mess and continued, so that he would not completely ruin his ancestors' foundation.

It turned out to be really used.

It might as well imagine another possibility. If Emperor Zhaowu was not captured but returned to Qin State, he could still eat Qin Lei tightly for the rest of his life. Who made him his father?

From this point of view, Qin Lei is still far from being an emperor.

If Emperor Zhaowu was not blinded by the good situation and rashly led the army to fight in person, Qin Lei's miserable life would not last long.

But there is no if in this world, only one mistake can lead to eternal regret. Looking back, it has been a hundred years...

Seeing that his father commented on everyone, he just didn't say he was, Qin Zhan's face turned green and suppressed his anger and said, "Where is the father who thinks he is a son?"

After glanced at him, Emperor Zhaowu said lightly: "Don't think about what is missing, I have to survive. Just be a prince of Taiping with peace of mind."

Qin Zhan nodded without saying a word, then put the bloody clothes close to his body, wiped Emperor Zhaowu dry, put on his clothes, and bowed and left.

"Okay, Brother Fifth, you won again." Looking at his son's back as he angrily left, Emperor Zhaowu sighed.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Wujiu really sent Qin Zhan to the city to issue an ultimatum.

Sitting on the hanging basket to Hulaoguan City, Li Zhuo and Huangfu Xian welcomed the Sixth Prince at the top of the city.

The three of them have met quite a few days ago, but they just got to the point.

Qin Zhan asked anxiously, "Do you two care?"

The two of them shook their heads and said, "There are far away from home, and the 800-mile rush back and forth is as fast as six days. Even if the Beijing area is retaliated after receiving the revenge, it will not be received tomorrow evening."

"Oh, I can't wait." Qin Zhan rubbed his hands anxiously and said, "That guy Zhao Wujiu was going to cook his father at noon today. How could he wait until tomorrow?"

The two generals looked at each other, and Huangfu Xian said in a deep voice: "It is clear that the old thief Zhao doesn't want to give us a chance to ask for instructions!"

"Yes, we all have the responsibility for whether to agree or not." Li Zhuo sighed and said, "Then let's do as agreed."

Huangfu Xian nodded and said, "That's all." Then he said to Qin Zhan, "Your Highness asks you to tell Zhao Wujiu that we can return to Hulao Pass, but we must exchange it for Your Majesty!" At least this is a meritorious service to save the Lord, and the most important time it is to redeem merits and demerits, so we will not be punished for this.

"Please tell Zhao Wujiu that if you don't let Your Majesty go, we can only take on this huge relationship, even if you apologize for death," Li Zhuo said in a deep voice: "I will never let him threaten the mainland again!"

Qin Zhan said solemnly: "Xiao Wang and the two generals Gao Yi, let's go and pass the message now." Then he sat down from the city in a basket and returned to Zhao Wujiu's central army tent.

From beginning to end, he never took off his guilt and came to show the two generals.

"Grandpa, grandson is back." Qin Zhan kowtowed as soon as he entered.

"How is it?" Zhao Wuji said with a smile: "Have they agreed?"

"I agreed," Qin Zhan said indignantly: "But they still have a condition."

"explain."

"They want us to let Emperor Zhaowu first." Qin Zhan curled his lips and said, "I think it's so beautiful."

"It's really beautiful." Zhao Wujiu laughed and said, "I'm a knife and a fish, but he's a fish, so he still has to make the conditions?" As he said, he slapped the table and said, "Come on! Let's cook the emperor and play with it!" Zhao Hu responded in a deep voice and strode out to prepare.

After a while, a large pot was set up under Guancheng. Qi Jun lit the firewood at the bottom of the pot, and quickly heated the water in the pot with a raging fire.

Two strong strong men, carrying Emperor Zhaowu tied to the bamboo pole, trembled to the pot and held high above the pot. The steam quickly enveloped the emperor's whole body, making the officers and soldiers in the city look so bright that their eyes were broken, and some even burst into tears.

"Li Zhuo Huangfu Xian on the city listened. My grandfather said that it was noon in the last twenty breaths. If you are still crazy and ignore the emperor of your country, then we will be really cooked." Zhao Hu's full voice resounded around, allowing everyone on the city to hear clearly.

"Fifteen breaths left..."

"Ten breaths, nine breaths...six, five, four, three..."

"Wait, let's join the city!" A roar full of resentment and helplessness finally came from the city.
Chapter completed!