Chapter 16: The Son
When Zheng Zhu stood at the gate of Fan Sui's house and laughed, Zhao Dan, who was far away in Handan, also had a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Father, father!" In the garden of King Zhao's palace, a boy with a strong childish face followed behind a young man, and ran towards Zhao Dan on his feet, completely ignoring the shouts of the palace people behind him.
As soon as Zhao Dan turned around and saw this scene, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and only after the boy ran in front of him with the boy did he reprimand the two with a smile: "Running so fast, I'm not afraid of falling!" β
This boy is Zhao Yan, the second son born by Queen Zhao for Zhao Dan, who is six years old this year.
And the boy who came with the boy was Zhao Yan's eldest brother, Zhao Dan's ten-year-old eldest son Zhao Heng.
To be honest, when Zhao Dan saw these two sons for the first time after the crossing, he was still a little weird and awkward in his heart, after all, these two sons were born to "that Zhao Dan", and he always felt as if he was taking over the plate and being a father...
But after all, today's Zhao Dan has fused the memories of the two Zhao Dans, and the body is also the body of the original Zhao Dan, plus every time he sees his two sons, the heartfelt fatherly love in Zhao Dan's heart is also gushing like a tide.
So after a few days, Zhao Dan completely accepted the setting of this father and entered the role, after all, in terms of blood, these two sons are indeed 100% Zhao Dan's sons.
Zhao Dan first talked with his youngest son Zhao Yan with a smile, and then turned his head to his eldest son Zhao Heng and said with a smile: "Heng'er, you have to bring Yan'er out to play more in the future, understand?" β
When Zhao Heng heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "Only." β
Zhao Dan's advice is really not just a casual talk.
In the early period of the reign of Zhao Dan's father, King Zhao Huiwen, the former crown prince Zhao Zhang was unwilling to fail and brazenly launched a coup d'Γ©tat, and killed the Xiangbang Feiyi of Zhao State at that time.
In this coup d'Γ©tat, the father of the living master (that is, the Emperor Taishang) King Zhao Wuling was starved to death in the Dune Palace because he harbored Zhao Zhang, and a large number of outstanding Zhao generals and officials such as Le Yi and Zhao Hao fled from Yan State in fear of crime, resulting in a large loss of talents in Zhao State, which greatly damaged the strength of Zhao State.
This is the extremely famous "Dune Palace Change" in the history of Zhao State.
It is precisely because he learned the lesson of the Dune Palace that King Zhao Huiwen was very good to several of his own brothers, such as Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, and Zhao Bao, the king of Pingyang.
And Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao were also vigilant, and they spared no effort to support and allegiance to their own monarch brothers, and this support and allegiance did not change in the slightest until his nephew Zhao Dan took the throne.
And after Zhao Dan succeeded to the throne, he also obeyed the will of his father King Zhao Huiwen, although he did not reuse his brothers, but at least he was quite friendly to these brothers.
Historically speaking, since the Dune Palace Change, the Zhao royal family, which had to kill each other in order to seize the throne, did not have any competition for the throne until it was destroyed by Qin Shi Huang, which shows how profound the understanding of the later Zhao kings was and how they tried their best to guard against this matter.
If you want to avoid this kind of brotherly estrangement, cultivating the relationship between brothers from an early age is actually a low-cost, high-reward, and quite effective method.
Therefore, Zhao Dan is very happy to see the situation of Zhao Heng and Zhao Yan's two sons, brothers and brothers.
In fact, Zhao Dan has now set his heir after his death, that is, this eldest son Zhao Heng.
In history, due to the fact that Qin detained Zhao Heng in Xianyang, it was the second son Zhao Yan who finally inherited the throne of Zhao Dan, but Zhao Heng not only did not compete with his younger brother after returning to China, nor did he take advantage of the younger brother's death when his nephew was young to regain the throne, but assisted his nephew wholeheartedly, which shows the gentle nature of this eldest son.
Such a gentle and generous heir is exactly what Zhao Dan wants to see.
In fact, the name Zhao Heng was actually changed by Zhao Dan a few days ago after the crossing, and the source of the word "Heng" actually comes from a very famous emperor in history, that is, Liu Heng, the emperor of Han Wen who created the "rule of Wenjing".
Zhao Dan hopes that his eldest son can be a benevolent and Mingjun like Liu Heng.
In Zhao Dan's view, in his lifetime, he must dominate the world like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, so it is actually a very necessary thing to choose a benevolent heir for himself who knows how to recuperate and recuperate like Liu Bang's son Liu Heng.
This is actually a kind of self-confidence of Zhao Dan, if Zhao Dan feels that he can't dominate the world, then Zhao Dan must cultivate an heir similar to Qin Shi Huang Zhao Zheng, after all, it is difficult for a benevolent monarch to play in this kind of contentious world in the late Warring States period.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves interrupted Zhao Dan's thoughts, and a knight galloped towards Zhao Dan from the distant meadow.
Zhao Dan smiled slightly, and took the hands of his two sons on the left and right: "Come, and let my father take you to see some novelties." β
Although Handan's palace city is not large compared to Guo Cheng, the area is only about a quarter or even less of Guo Cheng, but considering that Guo City needs to be lived by hundreds of thousands of people and the palace city only lives in Zhao Dan's family, the area of this palace city is actually very luxurious.
The per capita living area of people is calculated according to how many square meters, Zhao Dan is good, the average living area of his family is calculated according to square kilometers...
Therefore, the garden area of this palace city is very large, almost comparable to a small pasture, not only has water and grass, flowers and birds, but even raises some small beasts such as rabbits for Zhao Dan to hunt in his spare time, which is completely a camping resort that later generations dream of.
But Zhao Dan didn't come here today to camp, now there is a life-and-death battle on Changping's side that is related to Zhao Guo's national fortunes, and Zhao Dan will not relax at such a time no matter how big his heart is.
Zhao Dan came here today for a few extremely important things, and these things were being equipped on the knight's mount that was galloping at this moment.
A moment later, the knight rode up to Zhao Dan and pulled the reins of the horse hard.
"Phew!" The horse's front hooves soared into the air, and then came to a steady stop.
Zhao Dan showed a smile on his face, and praised the knight on the horse: "Uncle is so heroic, he is really as beautiful as before, and he has not lost what he used to be." β
The knight on the horse laughed when he heard this, jumped off his horse, and saluted Zhao Dan: "How dare Sheng be so ridiculous as a king?" β
That's right, this knight in a strong suit is none other than Zhao Sheng, the current Xiangbang of Zhao State, the plain king who is in his forties.
Although Zhao Sheng has many shortcomings, there is one thing that is very good, that is, the younger brother of King Zhao Huiwen has a very high loyalty to King Zhao Huiwen and Zhao Dan, the two generations of Zhao Guojun, and he can definitely be called loyal and has no two hearts.
Therefore, even after Zhao Dan crossed over, after rejecting Zhao Sheng's suggestion to exchange Zhao Kuo for Lian Po, his trust in Zhao Sheng in his heart did not decrease in the slightest.
It is precisely because of this that Zhao Dan dared to find his uncle in today's top-secret matter, because this matter is really important and must be kept strictly confidential, and Zhao Sheng is an excellent candidate for confidentiality.
If Zhao Sheng can leak secrets, then the sun will really come out from the west.
So after Zhao Dan smiled and talked to Zhao Sheng for a few words, he reached out and patted the horse that Zhao Sheng had just ridden, and asked, "Uncle thinks, what is the effect of this set of harness?" β
That's right, what Zhao Dan wants Zhao Sheng to experience today is this set of horse harness that has just been baked, and this set of horse harness contains two things that are enough to change the history of earth war in the feudal era, these two things are-
Saddles, as well as stirrups!