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Chapter 871 Wu Chengsi's Secret

Wu Chengsi was obviously unwilling to listen.

He was only in his forties, so how could he be bound by the throne and official position in the court?

Is this the future that Wu Chengsi wants?

He suddenly stood up, flicked his sleeves, and swaggered towards Wu Sansi who was kneeling in front of the guillotine.

After all, they were brothers, so before sending Wu Sansi away, he wanted to say a few final words to Wu Sansi as "brothers".

"Your Highness Prince Jin, what are you going to do?"

Zhang Jianzhi quickly stood up, trying to stop it.

"Give him a last ditch effort. You don't think I'm going to rescue Wu Sansi alone, do you?"

Wu Chengsi replied, took two steps at a time, and came to Wu Sansi's side.

At this moment, Wu Sansi, who knew that he was going to die, had an indifferent expression on his face and looked down on everyone equally. Even when his cousin Wu Chengsi, who had always suppressed him, came to his side, he still looked at Wu Chengsi with a half-dead expression.

Wu Chengsi glanced down at Wu Sansi, and after confirming that Wu Sansi could not break free from the rope, he sat one meter away from Wu Sansi.

"How does it feel to be emperor?" he asked calmly.

"Are you speaking to me, Your Highness the Prince of Jin of the Great Zhou?" Wu Sansi responded, "Or are you speaking to me, your younger brother, as your elder brother?"

"I think no younger brother would disobey his elder brother, even if he became the emperor and called himself the solitary king."

"Hahaha, cousin, you are so lucky. You have done a lot of great things in the past few years."

"I'm fine, but now I'm talking about you. How do you feel after becoming emperor? Are you comfortable being an emperor?" Wu Chengsi said lightly without looking at Wu Sansi.

"As for the feeling, it's naturally comfortable. After all, I'm the emperor. The power of life and death rests in my hands, and everyone kneels before me." Wu Sansi twitched his lips. "Although it's only been a short month, it's enough to make me feel very good. The history books will record that I, Wu Sansi, the Great Emperor of the Great Wu, passed away in the first year of the Wansui Tongtian era of the Great Zhou."

"..."

"To borrow the words of Your Majesty, all the ministers are at my feet, and the world is at my feet!"

"But you're dying."

"Even though I, Wu Sansi, am about to die, I have already had a taste of the emperor's life before I die. And you, my dear cousin, your love for the throne far exceeds mine, yet you have not become emperor."

Wu Sansi finally showed a slight change in his mood, as if he was mocking Wu Chengsi at this moment.

In this battle for the throne between the heir of the Li family and the prince of the Wu family, there are only two winners. One is Li Cunxi, who will become the future emperor, and the other is Wu Sansi, who has already become the emperor.

Apart from these two, anyone who participates in the battle for the throne is a complete loser.

Even if Wu Sansi was defeated in the end, he was still the emperor.

Wu Chengsi glanced at Wu Sansi nonchalantly, chuckled, and said:

"But you've also forgotten that in the first year of the Sisheng era, I completely withdrew from the political center of the court. I didn't even interact with anyone, and I stayed away from the fight for the throne."

"You think I'm a loser, but in fact, I've been betting on my beloved disciple from the very beginning."

"Hehe, no matter who wins this battle for the throne, I, Wu Chengsi, will not be the loser."

Wu Sansi half tilted his head back, recalling every detail of the past.

He had a deep impression of Wu Chengsi's withdrawal from the political center of the court. In the first year of Sisheng, Wu Chengsi was still the Internal History. The emperor promoted him to the Left Prime Minister of Wenchang, but Wu Chengsi turned around and disagreed and started staying at home.

Wu Chengsi, the head of the Secretariat, was unwilling to handle government affairs, so all government affairs fell on Wu Sansi. After that, Wu Sansi took control of the Secretariat.

Wu Sansi's real road to wealth began here.

As for Wu Chengsi's betting on Li Cunxi, he only knew that Wu Chengsi treated Li Cunxi very well during the Youzhou case, and even gave Li Cunxi the golden token.

"Yes, you did bet on Li Cunxi. I remember your golden token." Wu Sansi said.

Wu Chengsi quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, no, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about earlier, in the first year of Yongchun, when my beloved disciple was four years old. That year, Di Huaiying was exiled for saving him and had to go to Jiangnan Road. He was also sent to the Di Mansion in Taiyuan."

"..."

Wu Sansi thought about it carefully and finally remembered.

The second year after the Yue King Rebellion broke out was the first year of Yongchun.

That year, Li Cunxi was four years old. He was taken to the Di Mansion in Taiyuan by Di Renjie's eldest son Di Guangsi and handed over to the care of Di Renjie's eldest brother Di Renxian.

At that time, Di Renxian had just resigned from office for a month and was enjoying some free time. When he saw his eldest nephew bringing home a fat boy, he thought that his nephew had an illegitimate child outside.

Later, Di Renxian learned that this was the eighth son of Huang Guogong Li Ai, so he took Li Cunxi with him to take care of him.

However, that was fifteen years ago.

"You had already planned this fifteen years ago?" Wu Sansi asked in an incredulous tone.

"Sixteen years ago, on the fifth day after Li Cunxi was hidden by Di Huaiying, I sent someone to keep an eye on him."

Wu Chengsi let out a breath.

This was a secret he had kept for sixteen years.

When he realized he had committed an unforgivable crime, he decided to do something to make amends.

At the beginning, many civil and military officials in the court knew that Di Renjie was secretly hiding Li Cunxi. Even when Di Renjie was demoted later, everyone guessed the reason.

After Wu Chengsi realized that Wu Zetian did not intend to kill all of Li Cunxi, he began to send people to secretly protect him.

Among this group of people, quite a few survived the Youzhou case.

This brings up another question: Why did Wu Chengsi protect Li Cunxi?

This has to do with Wu Zetian's thoughts. She would rather demote Di Renjie than find Li Cunxi. Everyone understands.

Wu Chengsi continued, "The people I sent to protect him didn't die until the Youzhou case came."

"So some of the people who fled from Taiyuan to Chang'an are your people?"

Wu Sansi was extremely surprised, but he deliberately lowered his voice.

When the Youzhou case broke out in the past, Li Cunxi discovered the people who were monitoring the Di Mansion in Taiyuan and reported it to the emperor.

Xiao Qingfang, who was then the chief of the Inner Guards, led his men to intercept and kill a group of men in black who were heading to Chang'an to tip off the government.

Until later, no one knew the identities of those men in black.

"Looking at you like this, there are still some of your people."

Wu Chengsi said with an expression of "I guessed it a long time ago":

"Besides my people and yours, there are also His Majesty's people, Li Lingyue's people, and Li Xian and Li Dan probably sent people as well, but I can't find any evidence."