When both sides were about to break out, Li Longji suddenly came to the door. Of course, Gu Qing would not naively think that he was here to pay his birthday.

The relationship is so wonderful now. Everyone knows that they are preparing for each other and are too lazy to pretend to be superficial.

Li Heng issued an order to the soldiers and horses of various vassal states to serve the king, and Gu Qing also ordered the Anxi army to set out in three directions to meet the enemy. In the capital Chang'an, 30,000 Shuofang troops were pressed into the palace by the left-behind Anxi army. Whoever dared to step out of the palace would be a bloody battle that would last forever.

The Uighurs failed to borrow troops, and the intention of Shi Siming's rebels to restrain them was also failed. In the end, even the despicable means of raiding and assassination were used, but the situation was still hopeless.

At the tense juncture, Li Longji's sudden visit was obvious that the relationship between the two sides had reached the stage of showdown. They each had put their chips on the gambling table, and the next thing was the winner and defeat.

"You are a Tang minister. The Tian family treats you well, so why are you aggressive and want to do something traitorous?" Li Longji sighed.

Gu Qing smiled, called the servants to present the wine and food, then filled Li Longji with wine and served him a glass.

Li Longji didn't move. Now their relationship is no longer a matter of sitting together and drinking. In this palace, Li Longji would not drink a drop of water or eat a bite of food.

Gu Qing didn't mind either. He drank a cup of wine and lit the bottom of the cup at Li Longji.

"Your Majesty only has the imperial power and the throne of the emperor. You only care who sits on it, but you don't care what you should do after sitting on it. I have to say that from the year I met Your Majesty, I am very disappointed with Your Majesty."

Li Longji was stunned. Few people spoke so rudely in front of him. In more than 40 years of Kaiyuan Tianbao, he became more and more accustomed to the flattery of court officials, and he became increasingly unhelpful to the honest advice.

Then Li Longji's expression became depressed again.

Yes, what others dare not say, Gu Qing dares to say. In terms of strength, Gu Qing and Li Longji are on par. In the near future, he may still be the gravedigger of the century-old dynasty of the Li Tang Dynasty.

"You are not the emperor, and you don't know what the emperor is doing. If you sit in that position, you will not do better than me and Heng'er, and maybe it will only be worse." Li Longji said coldly: "The king of a country faces thousands of court officials during court meetings. They each have their own thoughts. Some have their own party branches, some use any means for power, some have free positions, some have feasts, some seek fame, those who are favored, those who are incompetent, and those who are lip service..."

"I not only can't kill these people, but also use them to always plan to balance the court and to suppress and win over the court. The court is stable and the world is stable. I have been ascending the throne for more than 40 years. I have been doing this every day, and I have created a prosperous era with my own hands. Gu Qing, do you have such skills? Do you think you can do better than me if you sit in that position?"

Gu Qing sighed: "You are only considering the court, but forgetting to protect the world. You are too busy plotting against the people, but you can't see the sufferings of the people. The so-called prosperous era is just a tree planted by our predecessors. But you defeated the national foundation accumulated by the late emperors such as Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Wu of Taizong, which is obviously a very shameful thing, but why do you say it from you, but you are so complacent? Your Majesty, just a rebellion has caused the foundation of prosperous era to collapse. Why are you so fragile? Don't you understand this question?"

Li Longji was furious and creating the Kaiyuan prosperous era with his own hands was the only thing worth showing off in his life. This was his weakness and his reverse scale. Anyone who denied that the prosperous era he created was his irreconcilable enemy.

"You are arrogant! You actually said that my prosperity was planted by my predecessors? At the beginning of Kaiyuan, don't you know how hard I worked?" Li Longji slapped the table in anger.

Gu Qing was unmoved and said lightly: "The court sang praises all over the country, and sold children and daughters among the people. In the 14th year of Tianbao, before An Lushan started a rebellion, a poet passed by Fengxian County and saw the officials and landlords in the official offices feasted the hall, and starved to the ground in the countryside outside. So he wrote a poem, one of which was, 'The rich family smelled of wine and meat, and there were frozen bones on the road'..."

"Your Majesty, you should remember this poem deeply in your heart and savor it carefully. What is the prosperous age in your mouth? It should not be seen in the memorials of court officials that praise merits, and you just live in the prosperous age you imagine."

Li Longji's face turned pale, his nostrils wide open, and he was breathing heavily.

"I don't believe it! It must be your malicious arrangement and disrupting my heart. How could the prosperous era that I created with my own hands be like this?"

Gu Qing sighed helplessly: "Your Majesty, I don't want to have a quarrel with Your Majesty. When Your Majesty escaped from Chang'an City, did you not believe what you heard and saw along the way?"

Staring at Li Longji's eyes, Gu Qing said coldly: "Your Majesty, you are old. Just live your life in the palace with peace of mind. In the affairs of the world, I will share your worries with Your Majesty."

A thunderbolt seemed to explode in his mind, and Li Longji sat back with a pale face.

The unjust heart no longer needs to be concealed, so he said it without any scruples in front of him.

"Are you... really going to rebel?" Li Longji said with difficulty.

Gu Qing smiled bitterly and said, "Everyone in the world thinks that I will rebel, but I really don't want to rebel..."

He took a cushion and sat opposite Li Longji. Gu Qing sat cross-legged, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Li Longji, and said, "If your Majesty has time today, why not listen to me and say what I think?"

Li Longji was in a state of confusion and subconsciously took the wine, then drank it all in one gulp. After drinking it, he realized that he shouldn't have drunk this glass of wine. If Gu Qing poisoned the wine...

However, Gu Qing poured himself a glass of wine with a calm expression and drank it all in one gulp.

Li Longji's panicked eyes then relaxed. He looked up and looked at Gu Qing again, but saw a sarcastic look flashing in Gu Qing's eyes, as if he was ridiculing his villain's heart. Li Longji couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Yes, with his current strength, if he wants to usurp the throne, why should he use such despicable means of poisoning?

Sitting opposite Li Longji, Gu Qing said leisurely: "I was born in a mountain village in Shuzhou. I have suffered from poverty since I was a child. I was extremely hungry and could only go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables to fill my stomach. Fortunately, I later learned to catch fish, and then I accidentally created the ability to burn porcelain, and my life gradually improved..."

"I have always been a poor person. Even if I am now at the highest position and have a title of Prince, I have never forgotten my origin in my heart. I have always regarded myself as a poor person. I have been sitting in my current position for several years. As a poor person, I should find a way out for the poor people in the world and help them live a better life in the future..."

"I said I had ambition, I was rebellious, I was unjust, I said I was usurping the country, I said I was good at everything, everyone was drunk, I was awake, I knew what I wanted to do, my parents were once respected knights, their lives were not long, they did many things to uphold justice, and they died heroically. Some people once said that I was not as good as my parents, and I said that I must be better than them."

"A chivalrous heart can only save ten people and hundreds of people. There are so many unfair things in the world. What is the use of saving a few people? What I want to do is to save people in the world. This is my original intention and my ambition..."

A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Gu Qing smiled and filled a glass of wine for Li Longji, saying, "Your Majesty thinks that I have done so much over the years and have come to this point. I really just want to be the emperor?"

"Haha, if I wanted to be an emperor, I would have led the army to wipe out the emperor of Lingzhou as early as when Chang'an was recovered. Why should I wait until today? What I want is just a court without obstacles and constraints, allowing me to perform my best, reform and implement new policies, and benefit the people of the world, that's all."

Li Longji didn't believe it at all, and just sneered: "This nonsense is very sarcastic, but it can't deceive me. Whether you want to be an emperor or not, as long as you hold heavy troops, it will be a great threat to the court to the emperor. Even if you are not wrong, just holding military power is an irreconcilable enemy of the emperor. Besides, if you want to reform and seek new things, you want to implement a new policy. If you don't become the emperor, how can the new policy be implemented? Isn't this a contradiction?"

Gu Qing nodded and said frankly: "Yes, I originally wanted to be a powerful minister and implement the new policy in peace. When the world is rich and strong again, I retired to the mountains and forests. Later, I figured it out that you are too hindered and too noisy. To implement the new policy smoothly, you must first deal with you, otherwise the new policy will be difficult to achieve. To be honest, you and the emperor are not successful enough, but you are more than enough to fail. If you shut up, I can only be quiet."

Li Longji was furious: "Gu Qing, you are too arrogant! How can I tolerate you!"

Gu Qing smiled faintly and said, "If you don't want to let it go, you're going to be warned soon. Your Majesty, today is the last time that the minister and your Majesty will complain to each other. I have said good words, bad words, loyal words and ruthless words. Your Majesty can't listen. I'm just playing the zither to the cow, which is of no use..."

Suddenly he stood up, Gu Qing turned cold and said, "Since that's the case, we will see on the battlefield that life and death will be the fate of each of us. If I win, the Supreme Emperor will still be the Supreme Emperor, and the Emperor will still be the Emperor. But from now on, you must shut up. If you can't cure the world, then let me do it."

Li Longji was extremely angry, his face turned pale and gritted his teeth, "When I first met you, I regretted not having issued an order to kill you on the spot! Leave this disaster and usurp my country!"

"If the people knew that Your Majesty had not killed me back then, they would bow to Your Majesty in ten or twenty years, and thank Your Majesty for not killing me."

Li Longji's angry expression suddenly changed. He sat up straight, his face quickly calmed down, his eyelids drooped at the wine cup in front of him, and said softly: "Gu Qing, do you and I really want to fight together?"

Gu Qing also calmed down and said softly: "Your Majesty and the Emperor are willing to issue an order to withdraw the troops of the vassal states to serve the king?"

Li Longji didn't say anything, and Gu Qing didn't say anything.

The troops were sent away, the arrows were gone, and no one could turn back.

In the empty hall, the king and his minister sat opposite each other.

A cold wind suddenly blew into the room, rolling up the gauze curtains in the hall, and the gauze curtains swayed wildly in the wind. The white gauze curtains looked like white banners that summoned souls, mourning and crying for the creatures who were about to be buried on the battlefield.

Silently, murderous intent filled the hall, Gu Qing and Li Longji looked straight at each other, their eyes filled with killing and conquest.

The palace maids and maids who were standing outside the hall waiting to serve were inexplicably affected by the depressed atmosphere inside the hall. The palace maids were fascinated and their bodies were shaking. After a long time, a palace maid finally couldn't help but bent down and started vomiting with a wow.

At this time, the people confronting each other in the hall were no longer just the king and the minister, but the face-to-face confrontation between the two classes.

The ruler said that you must obey the king.

The grass people said, the sky is dead, you, come down!

After a long time, the cold wind had passed and the gauze curtain was closed.

Li Longji took the initiative to pick up the wine cup and toast Gu Qing.

"This glass of wine is toast my enemies. Drink it!" Li Longji finished speaking and drank it all.

Gu Qing also brought the cup: "This glass of wine should be given to all the people of the world."

After saying that, Gu Qing spilled the wine on the ground.

Suddenly flashed in Li Longji's eyes. After a long time, he laughed loudly at the sky: "Haha, okay! You will know the true nature of a hero with just one word. Gu Qing, you are worthy of being my enemy, and I will be honored even if I defeated you!"

After saying that, Li Longji got up and left, laughing as he walked.

Gu Qing stood in the corridor outside the hall, and looked at Li Longji calmly walking to the screen wall of the mansion.

Li Longji suddenly stopped and said without looking back: "Gu Qing, the outcome is unknown. If I win, I will cut down your head personally, and it will not be a waste of your enemy."

Gu Qing suddenly laughed, not only not angry, but bowed and bowed: "Thank you for your appreciation. It is my lifelong blessing to be an enemy of Your Majesty."

"No need to thank me. If I lose, I hope you can give me some pleasure and not humiliate or abuse me."

After Li Longji said that, he turned around the screen wall and left the mansion.

Gu Qing stood quietly outside the hall, still moving for a long time, with a complicated expression and wondering what he was thinking.

After a long time, Gu Qing suddenly showed murderous aura and shouted: "Where is Han Jie?"

Under the pillars outside the hall, Han Jie, wearing armor and holding a sword, flashed out and clasped his fists and said, "The last one is here."

Gu Qing said coldly: "I ordered Li Siye to arrange the Modao Camp outside Chengtian Gate at midnight. Tai Chi Palace will not allow one soldier and one soldier to enter and exit tonight. Those who violate the violation will be killed!"

Outside the palace, Li Longji, who had climbed onto the imperial chariot, sat alone in the imperial chariot, with his expression no longer as heroic as before. He stared at the pearl curtains in the chariot with dementia. When the chariot started, he finally recovered from his loss of consciousness.

Then, Li Longji suddenly cried with his arms in his arms, and the crying became louder and eventually turned into a cry of tears.

Gao Lishi, who was riding a horse outside the carriage, was frightened and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"

Li Longji in the car did not answer and still cried.

Gao Lishi asked anxiously several times before Li Longji choked and said, "I have nothing to do, I... I'm just sorry for my ancestors, I... I'm really afraid."

Gao Lishi vaguely understood something and sighed: "Your Majesty just said that the outcome is unknown..."

Li Longji cried and said, "General Gao, you are old and I will reward you with generous money. You will set off to return home tomorrow and enjoy your old age. I... don't need your service."

Gao Lishi was shocked and cried, "Your Majesty! How can I leave you? I will never leave until I die! Your Majesty, no matter whether you live or die, I am willing to take care of you with you. Please do not drive me away..."

When the carriage returned to Xingqing Palace, Li Longji cried so hard that he was exhausted. As soon as he was helped out of the car by Gao Lishi, he saw an imperial guard general who was pale and hurried over. When he walked to Li Longji, he didn't even care about salute. He said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, it's not good. One incense stick of time, there were troops outside the Taiji Palace. The Anxi Army surrounded the Taiji Palace. The Modao Camp was already in the front of Chengtian Gate of Taiji Palace."
Chapter completed!