King Anqing has an incomparably superior background, so many connections and forces, and such a high noble status, but Zhao Gonglian, a rookie in officialdom who has no foundation, can only watch the young man of the enemy family soar steadily step by step. Even if he hated it so much, he braved the condemnation of the world, and brazenly instructed several times to take assassination, poisoning, interception, cheating, killing and other means, but in the end, he only filled hell with all kinds of underworld right-hand men under his hands, and strengthened the power of King Yama, but King Yama may not be grateful to him. And Zhao Gonglian can always be safe and sound, and there is no danger again and again, which proves from the side that Zhao Gonglian is not a scholar who only has an open mouth, but also proves that Zhao Zhuang people can resist Liao's brave and good fighting real ability and tough and powerful style.

Playing insidious, playing too much, will inevitably reveal some flaws.

Kaifeng Mansion solved the case, and the clues of several cases were summarized, and the murderer behind the scenes vaguely pointed to King Anqing himself. King Anqing almost set himself on fire.

That is, as a royal Zongzheng, his identity was too special, and the Kaifeng Mansion at that time did not dare to investigate to the end, lest a shocking scandal break out, and the world was in an uproar and could not be cleaned up.

Change the object, the capital arrest is suspected of blocking the door early and even locking it directly, tortured, under Miki, what truth can't be tried? The vague clues can immediately turn into ironclad factual evidence, showing how a prince of the royal family can murder the most dazzling rookie official of the imperial court in disregard of national law and the royal system for personal gain.

For a delicate and noble person like King Anqing, he can't stand the pain of walking a little or sweating, how can he resist the punishment. As soon as the wolf-like servant lit up the torture instrument, King Anqing was paralyzed with fear, and he only whipped it, and he was afraid that he would obediently move if he ate the pain. But it was precisely because it was the powerful prince of Zongzheng that he knew that the government did not dare to track him down, and King Anqing dared to do it again and again.

Zhao Gonglian also actually found out the truth from the captured murderer in several distresses, but he just killed the confessor and handed over the case to the government for handling, pretending not to know that it was King Anqing who committed the murder. At that time, he was not qualified to fight with someone like King Anqing, otherwise he would lose the royal face and hate the emperor if he made a fuss, so he could only choose to pretend to be confused and endure it first.

But both sides know it, and the private feud is even deeper. This indirectly led to the third reason why King Anqing brazenly resold the Divine Arm Crossbow.

The sudden rise of the female straight, with a small force, but the huge and arrogant Liao State was defeated again and again, regardless of his head. This made the Song court, which was used to being bullied by the Liao State and was aggrieved and ruthless, very happy. The Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces suddenly burst with confidence, feeling that the Khitans had already been decayed to the point of vulnerability, and they were actually beaten by a small savage tribe, so wouldn't it be if my Great Song Dynasty made a move...... It seems that the force of the Great Song Kingdom has soared all of a sudden, and its courage has grown, and for a while, the clamor of Lianjin and Liao to take revenge and recover Yanyun rushed to the sky.

At the same time, Cangzhao strongly promoted the unprecedented economic prosperity formed by the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, with unprecedented food and national finances, and unprecedented national strength. On the one hand, the people are suffering from the widespread corruption of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and on the other hand, under the propaganda of vested interests, they are also confused and intoxicated by the vanity, glitz and prosperity of a powerful country, ........and cannot extricate themselves for a while. It seems that the wealth and strength of the Great Song Dynasty are all due to the governance of the country by these Confucian scholars, as if the scholars only need to open their mouths and wave their hands in a dashing manner, the invincible and powerful enemy of the Great Liao State will be wiped out in a blink of an eye. It seems that the situation of the Song Dynasty is very good, the future is limitless, and the bright future of the Celestial Empire is within reach.

But the flip side of the equation is:

The internal officialdom of the Song State was eroded, and the emperor to the bureaucrats, gentry, landlords, and their children competed to see who was more extravagant and arrogant. The inland army is a piece of waste, worse than anyone.

Even the most elite Western Army has experienced a sharp decline in overall combat effectiveness.

The soldiers were either numb or resentful of injustice, and had been fighting with the Western Xia for decades, but there was still no hope of an end, the war was endless, a stable and happy life was out of reach, and the war-weariness was becoming stronger and stronger. And the generals, whether they are in the DPRK or at the border, are greedy for life and fear of death and take credit, and they are accelerating their decay and degeneration.

Especially the generals of the Western Army, the soldiers are tired of war, and they don't want the Western Xia to perish.

If there was no threat from the Western Xia, how could the imperial court spend sixty or seventy percent of its financial support for the Western Army every year, and where would the glory and wealth of the generals come from?

It is precisely because of the existence of the small but threatening Western Xia that the Western Army has a special status and can maintain a proud posture towards the imperial court, and even the emperor has to look at the face of the Western Army, so that every family can be rich, and some can even be rich and rival the country. At this time, the generals of the Western Army as a whole already had an obvious mentality of raising self-respect, which was no longer reliable.

Exterior of the Song Dynasty:

To the west, the small Western Xia Kingdom still weighed down the Song army. In the north, the so-called vulnerable Liao army is still unscrupulous every year to burn and loot everything needed, come and go as much as you want, the Northern Army of the Great Song Dynasty may win a small battle against Liao Kou except for the Cangbei Army, and every battle will be lost, and there is nothing to be done about Liao Kou as always. In the east, pirates wantonly threatened and plundered all the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty. Under the deterrence of pirates, the Song State did not even have the power to produce sea salt, and it was related to the loss of salt guarantee for everyone in the Great Song Dynasty, and if they wanted to eat some salt, they had to look at the eyes of the pirates. Fortunately, the pirates did not frantically use the monopoly to engage in sky-high salt prices to loot the Song Kingdom.

Internal: There are many robbers and thieves, and there are constantly people among the people who are forced to join the ranks of rebellion, and the vast majority of gangs or individuals who want to rebel against the Song Dynasty or have become rebels have flowed away, joined and rapidly expanded the pirates, and continue to pursue a stable and normal life for the people, but with this way out, it has also indirectly greatly reduced the number of domestic thieves, reduced the social harm, and made the situation of the thieves appear less critical and serious, and the Great Song Dynasty can still indulge in the illusion of singing and dancing. The remaining anti-thieves were all extremely vicious and wanted to kill people and commit murder and plunder, and gathered to a few big anti-thieves, and finally formed Wang Qing, Tian Hu and others, who had the power to split the territory and divide the territory, openly established the country and claimed the king, arrogant, but the court was powerless to exterminate it.

In short, the Song Dynasty was ostensibly full of flowers, but in fact it was in extreme danger of cooking oil by fire.

In the Great Song Dynasty, when the landlords and wealthy businessmen and the ruling class of power colluded closely with each other to collectively indulge in the prosperous world, frantically plundered the people, desperately dug up the foundation of the country, from the king to the small officials below and the wealthy merchants and gentry joined forces to attack Zhao Gonglian and the pillar behind it - Cangzhao Commerce, in a vain attempt to embezzle the wealth of Cangzhao and enrich himself, King Anqing, who has been trying to wait for an opportunity to seize power and ascend the throne, but because of his ambition and bystandership, he became a very rare sober person in the high-level of the Song ruling group.

As the saying goes, it is your enemy who knows you best.

The civil and military forces of the Great Song Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty did not believe that the small Jurchen tribe could shake the huge Khitan Kingdom, and they all listened to Zhao Gonglian's prediction of the Jurchen as a big joke on the day, and treated it as nothing more ridiculous than this prophecy.

He believes that a small Cangzhou village that has grown up and exploded in danger and suffering, but with his supreme power of the prince, he can't clean it up, and can only watch Cangzhao become stronger and more glorious. So similarly, once the Jurchens who grew up in one race broke out, they might not be able to rectify the behemoth, and the Liao State collapsed.

Although Zhao Zhuang has the protection of the background of the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, he has no support and protection from the government at all, and he is isolated and helpless, and has always been fighting against the Liao Kou with his own strength, but the Liao State has no teeth to gnaw at this little Zhuangzi. Zhao Zhuang relied on nothing more than unity and bravery, not afraid of death. Then, if the Jurchen tribe, who live in the white mountains and black waters, fight with fierce beasts all day long for the right to live, live more dangerous and miserable, and are not afraid of death, if they are united, that kind of power will definitely be more considerable and terrifying, and they will have more power and qualifications to compete with the Liao State.

Moreover, in the fight against the Liao State, Zhao Zhuang was lonely, but the Jurchen people were not lonely.

The Khitan has a large population, great power, and occupies the north, with an astonishing territory, ruling many nomadic races, not only brutally exploiting and continuously suppressing and weakening the Jurchens, but also suppressing and exploiting other northern races too greedily and excessively, and has long become public indignation, but there has been no leader and strength to resist, if the Jurchens can fight against it, it will definitely cause a chain reaction, and there will be many ethnic tribes that the Khitans disparatively call Zahu to follow or secretly support. The Jurchen resistance to the Liao is not alone, and it has the potential to overthrow the Liao State.

King Anqing couldn't clean up Zhao Gonglian, and he didn't dare to underestimate this upstart son of the people from a poor background, and he also didn't dare to underestimate the Jurchen anti-Liao.

Compared with the court civil and military who lived in Tokyo, King Anqing believed more in the vision of Zhao Gonglian, a wizard around him, to look at Jurchen.

Later, the Jurchen really defeated hundreds of thousands of Liao troops with incredible combat effectiveness in Hubu Dagang, and the Liao State lost its arrogance and courage in the first battle, and settled the Jin State, and the King of Anqing realized that the Jurchen was terrible, and he was more convinced of Zhao Gonglian's vision. The opponent that he can't even clean up King Anqing is really not a mortal.

The first large-scale defection of the Song people to pirates also made the king of Anqing realize how unpopular the rule of Daojun Zhao Ji was.

Cai Jing and his ilk are rare ministers who can govern the country in Zhao Ji's eyes, but King Anqing knows very well what Cai Jing is. He was also the first person in the Song State to realize that pirates were a great threat to Song rule, and he took it seriously, and was not surprised or surprised that the Song people frantically defected to the pirate state.

He was also aware of the threat posed by the Jin State to the Song State, which was approaching the Song Dynasty as the Liao State was increasingly defeated.

Considering the situation at home and abroad, King Anqing was pleased to see the opportunity and hope of waiting for an opportunity to seize power from Zhao Ji's hands.

He resold the Zhenguo weapon to the Liao State for a variety of purposes.

Huge monetary benefits are one thing.

In addition, he hoped that the Liao State could use the sharp weapon of the Divine Arm Crossbow to effectively restrain and kill a large number of Jin troops, so as to achieve the goal of both Liao and Jin suffering heavy casualties and huge consumption. He believed that this was a brilliant trick to kill people with a knife, to raze and control raze, and to maintain the safety of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and that it was a flexible embodiment of the essence of the Han people's broad and profound political wisdom, and he was proud of it.

In addition, he also wanted to use the hands of the Liao army, who hated Cangzhao, to shoot Zhao Gonglian, who always loved to go into battle in person, with an unexpected divine arm crossbow and destroy Zhao Zhuang.

Killing Zhao Gonglian is not only to take revenge, but also to cut off Zhao Ji's powerful arm, which can make the country lose its ability to control the country and make it more chaotic and the situation worse, Zhao Ji's rule is more weak, and it is more unpopular, the government and the opposition are opposed, Zhao Ji's position is unstable, and his chances of ascending to the throne are greater.

King Anqing has always believed that Zhao Gonglian is a diehard member of Zhao Ji. Otherwise, the Cangzhao family would not have been able to help Zhao Ji, a powerful country with an emperor, so generously.

He also admitted that Zhao Gonglian was a rare genius in governing the country, but he could not use it, it was a waste wood that got in the way, and he had to get rid of it.

He calculated everything, but he didn't expect that the Divine Arm Crossbow would enter Yanshan Mansion smoothly, but it could be touched by Zhao Lao Er and robbed by chance.

He also did not expect that because of the quiet loss of skilled craftsmen who would be the supervisors, there was a lack of manpower, resulting in a deficit in inventory that could not be pieced together. With his noble status as a prince, how could he pay attention to the situation of lowly craftsmen. This negligence leaves irreparable hidden dangers. He found out and dealt with the insiders in time, and it felt seamless, but who knew that there was still a loophole, and the only remaining insider was also a high-ranking official who he couldn't extinguish King Anqing, the Ministry of Industry Shangshuhui, who confessed to him.

He didn't expect that this year's wave of military and civilian defections that almost led to the direct death of the Great Song Dynasty would occur, and he didn't expect that the Beijing army would mobilize so many divine crossbows on a large scale at once, and there was no return, and the Hebei army swept away the sharp weapon reserves at the border and defected, which eventually caused the exposure of the problem of inventory deficit.

He didn't expect that such a big guy as the dignified Ministry of Industry Shangshu said that he would be arrested, and he would be secretly arrested without any warning, even if he was well-informed, he learned in time and sent someone to the prison to warn the Ministry of Industry Shangshu to keep his mouth tight, and tried to assassinate him, completely extinguishing his mouth, but he was unsuccessful, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu was also a soft bone, and the judge dared to go directly to the punishment, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu immediately couldn't bear the hard tricks, and the emperor immediately believed the results of the interrogation.

King Anqing was nervous this day, and he didn't feel good, but he wasn't too scared.

He understands Zhao Ji's indecisiveness, vanity and self-confidence, and believes that even if the Ministry of Industry is recruited, the emperor's trust and friendship with him may not be believed, and even if he believes, he may not be dealt with with heavily.

It's a big deal when he had to admit it, he pretended to be pitiful, pleaded guilty and cried, knelt down to Zhao Ji and honestly admitted his mistakes, was reprimanded in private, at most he gave the right to the sect, and ordered to be confined in the house for a few days as a punishment. He believed that Zhao Ji would definitely hide this scandal in order to protect the face of the emperor and the imperial family, and deal with it in a low-key and secret manner.