Chapter 98: The Situation
Ah Zi doesn't know how the people of Xiyou usually spend the New Year, although they don't make a big deal according to the ancestral system, but like now, they are in a hurry to find an inn along the way to settle down at night, and they don't have a bite of hot rice to celebrate, which must be extremely rare here.
She sat alone at the kang table in the room, picked up a tribute orange that the shopkeeper had just sent and played with it, thinking that when she was in the Medicine Immortal Valley, she and Master Huiniang gathered around a table to eat dumplings happily, and her eyes dimmed again.
Zuo Qiyang's knock on the door like a thunderstorm came, startling her to sit up straight.
Along the way, Zuo Qiyang almost **** would come to see her, sometimes saying something inconsequential, sometimes even leaving without saying a word, as if just to make sure that she had escaped from the team while she was unprepared, but she never smashed the door frame as recklessly as now.
Before Ah Zi came back to his senses, he had already pushed the door in, holding a pot of wine in his hand, his face was slightly drunk, and his feet were a little vain, and Wu Zi sat down opposite Ah Zi.
There was an awkward silence, and the air was filled with the smell of alcohol.
"I'll be in Xijing in two days." Zuo Qiyang said to himself.
Ah Zi lowered his eyes and did not speak.
"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the day to eat Chinese New Year's Eve." He said it again.
It was still like a stone sinking into the sea, and the voice entered Ah Zi's ears, and he couldn't even startle a ripple.
Zuo Qiyang frowned and hissed, turned to face Ah Zi, stared at her side face, and said, "Still thinking about your Ah Zi?" Still want to go to Dongyuan with him? ”
Ah Zi still didn't talk. The drooping eyelashes fluttered slightly, revealing her thoughts.
Zuo Qiyang snorted coldly, reached out and dipped it in the wine jug, and then drew a circle with a bowl mouth on the table.
"Since the 'Yuanmen Incident' that shocked the world in 583 in Dongyuan, Zhu Huishu, the king of Qi, has been the regent, monopolized the power of the Dongyuan court, and covered the sky with one hand. coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes to dismiss ......"
Zuo Qiyang was full of alcohol. The speech was methodical and eloquent.
Although he was full of doubts and didn't understand why he suddenly wanted to tell him this, Ah Zi's attention was unconsciously attracted to it. His eyes were fixed on the circle of wine stains on his fingertips.
"This has been going on for more than forty years. The king of Qi got rid of his eldest brother, Zhu Huiyuan, the eldest son of Empress Hui, through the Yuanmen Incident. A major obstacle has been removed. Left with his younger brother Zhu Huijian, who is a compatriot of his mother. Concubine Zhu and Emperor Gaotian gave birth to Zhu Huijian, who was thirteen years younger than his brother, and the huge gap in age and the disparity in status made him always grow up under his brother's halo. He is cowardly by nature and has nothing to fear.
"But thousands of calculations, the king of Qi did not count his three sons, and there was no one who became a weapon, but the weak and incompetent Zhu Huijian gave birth to a Zhu Ciyi, which was a hundred times stronger than his old son, Dongyuan 622, Zhu Ciyi, who had just passed the year of the crown, was named King Xin, not only won the favor of the eighty-four-year-old Emperor Gaotian at that time, but also let the emperor give him full authority to execute the demon hunting order. In other words, King Qi, who originally held the old emperor's life tightly so that he didn't have a moment of respite, now missed a move, and it actually made the Emperor Gaotian breathe an extra breath and came back to life with a game of dead chess. ”
Speaking of this, Zuo Qiyang drew another small circle next to the previous big circle, and continued: "King Xin's forces are chasing after each other, forming a trend of fighting against King Qi.
"Rao is like this, after all, King Xin is still young in the court, and he is not as extensive as the contacts that King Qi has accumulated in most of his life to lead the court.
"Not only did he take the post of the governor of the five armies, he commanded the three armies, and controlled most of the six departments, but even the old scholars of the Hanlin Academy were all in cahoots with him, and it can be said that his minions were everywhere inside and out.
Looking at the small circle next to the big circle on the table, Ah Zi thought that Zuo Qiyang was once King Xin's person, many years ago in Lixin City, it was because of King Xin's sudden visit that he ordered the streets to be cleared, and he was driven to the Luhe Mountain outside Lixin City and met Ah Brown.
And Zuo Qiyang appeared soon after, at that time, he was in Lixin City with King Xin, right? The reason why I want to take myself back is also because the execution of the "Demon Hunting Order" is in the hands of King Xin?
Later, Ah Brown was taken away by Zuo Qiyang, and he was also King Xin. But this Xiaoyuan, born next to the huge power of King Qi, what are the chances of survival?
As if hearing the question in Ah Zi's mind, Zuo Qiyang dotted two more points between the two circles, relative to the two circles above, these two points are like two isolated islands, hanging outside the two continents, Zuo Qiyang pointed to these two points and said: "In fact, in addition to the two major forces of King Qi and King Xin, there are two people who should not be underestimated, that is, Yan Chaoyang, the commander of the forbidden army, and Zhao Rucheng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.
"The Yan family is a hereditary noble family, but Zhao Rucheng is a cloth cloth who has been promoted all the way. Both of them were only under the orders of the old Emperor Gaotian, which could be said to be the last retreat left by the Emperor Gaotian.
"His most important guards used two people with foreign surnames, which shows that the old emperor, who has been reigning for nearly a hundred years, has been extremely disappointed in his flesh and blood relatives.
"And now, King Xin wants to win over King Qi, if he can win over these two people, the odds of winning will be much greater."
After that, Zuo Qiyang leaned back, crossed one leg, and found a comfortable posture to recline on the kang table, looking at ease, as if he had broken away from the Dongyuan Imperial Court, which was a great blessing in his life, thinking of this, the whole person was much more relaxed.
Looking at the circles on the table, he paused, raised his eyes to look at Ah Zi, knowing whose seat she wanted to find inside, smiled silently, and continued: "Let's talk about Tang Jiashan Old Man Tang, he is in charge of the six doors, that is, Tang Yinbrown's top boss, and he is also the younger brother of King Xin's mother, Tang Youling. He can be said to be King Xin's greatest help, in King Xin's grandfather Emperor Gaotian has long been old and confused, and his father Zhu Huijian is too weak and incompetent, this Tang Lord can be said to be like a teacher and a father to King Xin, and a teacher and a friend.
"Tang Yinbrown's surname 'Tang' was obtained because he recognized this old man as his father-in-law.
"Ke Rao has such a well-known father-in-law, Tang Yinbrown is a martial arts prodigy, and he is brave and strategic, but until now he has only met my shortcomings, and he has been a mere four-grade imperial history, and the jealousy of King Xin and the Tang family towards this halfway righteous son is obvious." (To be continued.) )