Chapter 61: There is no hatred in Ruojiao's eyes
Since Er Zhu Shilong threw himself into the air from the ingot torch, this mood has been difficult to calm down. The emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty was changed from Yuan Ye to Yuan Gong, although he was only the emperor on the surface, and the Northern Wei clan was weak and could only be slaughtered by the Erzhu clan.
"Master, don't be angry, Miss Yan is a girl after all, when she encounters this, she naturally hides and refuses to see anyone" Fu Bo sighed helplessly. He knew that Er Zhu Shilong's behavior was not only to find a lover for Er Zhu Yan, but more importantly, to take the opportunity to win over the Yuan Bao Torch.
"Ah Fu, you also watched Yan'er grow up, in my eyes, he is like the old man's own daughter. However, after my cousin died, Yan'er and I also had a disagreement. The reason why I asked Yan'er to marry the king of Nanyang is nothing more than for the glory of my Erzhu family. Although Du Zi and Liujuan are born to the old husband, they are not a perfect match for the king of Nanyang. If we support the king of Nanyang to ascend to the throne in the future, my two daughters can only be concubines, and the throne of the East Palace must still be Yan'er."
What Erzhu Shilong said was not false, but he was too clear about the conduct of his two daughters. The eldest daughter Du Zixiu Yahui is resourceless, the younger daughter Liujuan is dignified and intellectual, although she has courage but is born with asthma, and the two biological daughters are virtuous but none of them have the proper strategy of Zhu Yan. If one day, the ingot torch is really the person who is destined to return, at least Er Zhuyan will be able to protect these two daughters if she has the only position to be in the sisterhood.
When the housekeeper Fubo heard this, he instantly understood the hard work of this old father. "The master paves the way for the two young ladies to pave the way for us as parents, but it's a pity, the two young ladies don't understand your hard work, sir."
Er Zhu Shilong shook his head helplessly and said, "That's it, as for the fate, it depends on the creation!" After speaking, he looked up at the night sky and said, "Ah Fu, Ah Zhao, where is there any information coming?"
Hearing this, Fu Bo shook his head slightly slowly and said, "Master, it's strange to say, in the past few months, not to mention Young Master Ah Zhao, even the eldest master has not sent any letters."
Erzhu Shilong looked at the sparse stars in the sky and couldn't help but sigh, "Is it a blessing or a curse to let Gao Huan go this time?"
"It seems that the master doesn't like Gao Huan as a person," Fauber said
"It's not that I don't like him, the old man has been in officialdom for many years, and there are not 10,000 people in half his life, but 8,000. It's just that this person has always made me unpredictable, Ah Zhao's kid is just unforgiving, and he never has too many eyes. Last time Yuan Ye was killed, I always felt that all this was too much of a coincidence, as if all this was pushed and had to move forward"
Erzhu Shilong finally muttered to himself, as for why he was able to get such a conclusion, Erzhu Shilong couldn't say, recently, he could always dream of Erzhurong, Erzhurong always told him to let him go in his dreams, as for what else he wanted to say, he really couldn't guess. However, combined with Er Zhuzhao's recent actions, although he still respectfully calls him an uncle on the surface, he actually does not pay much attention to it.
Among the princes and kings of the Erzhu family, his power is the weakest, if it weren't for the fact that he is extremely old in the Erzhu family, I think that Erzhu Zhao and Erzhu Tianguang would have eaten him raw. Now, Erzhu Shilong has a clearer understanding of himself, he is no longer a young and vigorous young man, and he doesn't force much as he wants military power or anything. It's just that there is one thing, he has been panicking, he vaguely feels that Erzhu's qi is weakening little by little, but where the rest of the princes and kings are, they are still taking credit for themselves, and they don't know anything about the hidden dangers.
The housekeeper took out a cloak and draped it over Erzhu Shilong, seeing that he was still sad, the housekeeper said: "In this world, there are all kinds of things that can't be seen clearly, since you can't see clearly, don't think about it."
"I hope what I'm worried about won't happen," Erzhu Shilong looked at the starry sky with a worried face, but the sparse stars couldn't give him an answer for a while.
Since Er Zhu Yan secretly left yesterday, Yuan Bao Ju also left Er Zhu Shilong's mansion with him.
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In a tavern, Yuan Bao Torch was holding an ancient book and was watching carefully, and Yuan Song walked in cautiously...
"Childe, Zhuge Gongzi went to Luoyang, do you think we still have to leave?"
After hearing this, the "Luoyang" ingot torch slowly put down the book. The bottom of the eyes is full of sorrow, and the Jin Dynasty Zuo Si wrote "Sandu Fu" and said: Cuihan has the emperor's house, and Heluo is the king's house. Everyone in the world says that "Luoyang leyline flowers are the most suitable, and peonies are especially strange in the world", but now, the peony is withering, the walls are all sudden, and the thorns are towering to the sky.
"That's it, let her go!" Yuan Bao Ju got up slowly, compared to the previous image of a wise man who strategized to win thousands of miles, Yuan Bao Ju was more willing to be like a widow, if Haiyan Heqing who was willing to secretly plan in the corner where he did not see the light of day.
Yuan Bao Ju picked up the book and flipped through two pages, but Yuan Song was still standing in place. Seeing this, Yuan Bao Ju slowly turned around and asked him, "Zizhi, do you still have doubts in your heart?" ”
Yuan Song froze in place and did not come back to his senses, and when Yuan Bao Torch saw this, he didn't know when he had been standing by his side. When Yuan Song turned around, he was really startled.
A few days ago, a spy came to report that Gao Huan had already broken with Er Zhu Zhao, whether it was Gao Huan in power or Er Zhu Zhao in power, it was definitely not a good kind for the Yuan family. But when I thought of Gao Huan, once he was in power, Zhuge Muqing, who was the Erzhu clan at that time, would go at that time. But looking at the expression of the ingots torch, it seems that there is not much sense of attention, thinking of this, Yuan Song didn't know whether to say it or not for a while.
"Childe, there is one thing. The subordinates don't know whether to talk about it or not."
"But there's a problem in the Eastern Capital," Yuan Baoju put down the book and glanced at Yuan Song
Hearing Yuan Bao Ju say this, Yuan Song instantly looked at Yuan Bao Ju in surprise, only to feel extremely shocked. He hurriedly complimented: "Childe God counts, it's true"
"Alas," Yuan Bao Ju let out a long sigh and said, "It's only a matter of time before Gao Huan and Zhu Zhao turn against each other, and I don't have anything to be curious about about this." Not to mention that Er Zhuzhao himself is stubborn and conceited, brave and unscrupulous. This He Liuhun himself is good at calculation, and with the wisdom of Erzhu Ying'e who plans for him later, it is only a matter of time before he rebels against Erzhu Zhao. Speaking of this, the ingot torch actually has a feeling of watching the excitement.
"This matter is getting more and more interesting" said this, Yuan Baoju actually showed a long-lost smile on his face, but this smile couldn't help but make people shudder.
"What does Childe mean by this" Hearing this, Yuan Song looked at the Yuan Bao Torch with a puzzled face, and he didn't understand what he meant.
Seeing that Yuan Song didn't quite understand, Yuan Baoju said with a smile on his face: "Do you know where this Gao Huan comes from?"
Yuan Song shook his head when he heard this: "My subordinates don't know."
Hearing Yuan Song say this, Yuan Bao Ju shook his head slightly and smiled, slowly picked up the strong tea in his hand, blew it a few times, and then slowly put it into his mouth.
"O son! Do you know what your biggest flaw is? Yuan Bao Ju glanced at Yuan Song with an indifferent face.
Seeing this, Yuan Song immediately bowed and said: "My subordinates know that they are stupid, and I ask my son for some advice."
Yuan Baoju looked at him, poked Yuan Song's shoulder helplessly and said: "Why are you a solid eye, you can't just look at one place, you can't just care about the surface"
After Yuan Baoju finished speaking, Yuan Song still looked confused. Seeing this, Yuan Baoju could only say slowly: "As early as when Er Zhurong was alive, I saw that Er Zhuyan was in love with Gao Huan, although Er Zhurong was spurned and abused by tens of thousands of people, there is only one thing that is respectable, he and his favor Er Zhuyan, the eldest daughter born to the princess of the Northern Wei Dynasty, otherwise you think that in the contemporary era when the wind of the Wei and Jin dynasties prevailed, who would let women learn the matter of military affairs." Thinking that in Er Zhurong's heart, he must have raised Er Zhuyan as a man. Although Er Zhuyan knows Gao Huan's thoughts at a glance, what kind of person this Gao Huan is, how can Er Zhurong not know. He would definitely not marry his eldest daughter to Gao Huan just because Er Zhuyan intended Gao Huan, and I am afraid that Gao Huan's appearance family would have been investigated by him a long time ago."
When Yuan Song heard this, he scratched his head as if he didn't understand. Therefore, Er Zhurong did not marry his daughter to Gao Huan because Gao Huan's family was simple and difficult to deal with the Taiyuan Palace. Or maybe the housewife deliberately blocked it, so he chose an important position for Gao Huan in the army, waiting for him to become famous."
Hearing this, Yuan Bao Ju instantly became relieved, and he didn't expect Yuan Song to be very good. Yuan Bao Ju took out a fan and knocked Yuan Song with the handle of the fan and said: "The child can be taught, but only one is for it."
After speaking, he quickly turned around and said: "Gao Huan's family is indeed cold, and in the early years, he had to rely on his sister and brother-in-law who had already married for relief. But this is by no means the point, but Gao Huan married a wife in his early years. Er Zhurong loves his daughter very much, and the head of the house is a relative of my Yuan clan, so naturally she will not agree to let her eldest daughter live in the concubine room, so this matter can only be stopped."
After hearing this, Yuan Song said with a sad face: "Yes! If an ordinary family has a solid house, they will never allow their children to be concubines, let alone the nobles of the palace."
After analyzing Gao Huan's experience with Yuan Song, compared to whether Gao Huan would turn against Erzhu Zhao in the future, not to mention, Yuan Baoju was more worried that once the Erzhu family was uprooted, this Miss Yan, who was once very favored by the Erzhu family, was estimated to be unable to escape. Thinking of this, Yuan Bao Ju thought inexplicably, this feeling, Yuan Bao Ju himself didn't understand why he had such thoughts about Er Zhu Yan, who only had a few faces.
Seeing that the Yuan Bao Torch began to be silent, Yuan Song walked to the side of the Yuan Bao Torch, and saw that he was going to refresh himself with strong tea, and Yuan Song stopped the Yuan Bao Torch. "Childe's night is deep, and it is better to drink less strong tea"
Seeing that Yuan Song was blocked, Yuan Baoju didn't have the idea of pushing the cup and changing the lamp at the moment, he picked up the book on the table again and was in a daze.
Seeing this, Yuan Song knew that at this moment, Yuan Bao Ju absolutely didn't care about Yan Ruyu in the book, what he cared about was the world outside the book. So Yuan Song whispered to Yuan Bao Torch: "Childe, isn't he worried about Zhuge Gongzi"
"Nonsense"
Seeing this, Yuan Bao Ju replied to Yuan Song without paying attention, and then continued to read
After Yuan Song read Yuan Baoju's reaction, he secretly rejoiced in his heart: "Since Childe is not worried, why let our secret agents follow Zhuge Gongzi all the way, it shows that Childe is still worried in his heart"
"This game of chess has not yet fallen, and the winner is still indistinguishable. Since she is the pawn chosen by the king, I will never allow anyone else to slaughter her until this game is finished."
After speaking, Yuan Bao Ju looked at Yuan Song and said, "You send someone to keep an eye on Er Zhu Ying'e, this woman is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp." Recently, this kind of ominous premonition has become more and more serious, I always feel that she and Gao Huan are plotting something, you keep an eye on her for me, don't let her make waves at a critical moment"
When Yuan Song heard this, he secretly said in his heart: "It's not that you can't give up Zhuge Gongzi in your heart, why do you have to find so many reasons" Yuan Bao Ju saw that he was still in place, so he looked at him with a little doubt:
"Don't do it yet"
Yuan Song said: "Childe, could it be that you think too much, here Zhu Ying'e and Zhuge Muqing are sisters after all, there is no need for her to frame her own sister!" ”
"There is no bloody competition in the harem, have you seen less? I promised the imperial brother to take good care of Er Zhuyan, and I will never break my word. When the day of the revival of the royal industry, I will definitely let this Zhu Yan personally go down to be the companion of the royal brother."
When Yuan Ziyu was mentioned, Yuan Bao Ju's eyes were full of bloodshots. He remembered everything Yuan Ziyou did for Er Zhuyan, but Er Zhuyan ran away from marriage, and Yuan Ziyou, who originally had no idea about the throne, was sent to the guillotine by the Erzhu family, which Yuan Baoju can never forget. However, now, Yuan Baoju is very angry with his current self in his heart, obviously he hates the Erzhu clan very much, but he has an inexplicable feeling about this Erzhu Yan.
Since the last time he was in Erzhu Shilong's mansion, he saw Erzhu Yan's beautiful appearance when he wore women's clothes, and he couldn't forget it in his mind. Since he recovered his status as the prince, he has his own mansion, and the emperor has always taken special care of his food, clothing and daily life, and specially arranged several beautiful concubines for him to serve. Thinking about it carefully, he is also twenty-five this year, and there are not twenty or thirty women around him, fifteen or sixteen is more than enough, but for some reason he has a sense of confusion about Erzhu's amiable little girl.
In Er Zhu Zhao's mansion, Er Zhu Yan knew that Er Zhu Zhao had the heart to divide the princes, so he hurriedly came to dissuade him. Since ancient times, both kings and princes have longed for a vast feudal state and a unified ideology. However, Er Zhuzhao wanted to learn from Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, to divide Kyushu, not to mention that the Northern Wei Dynasty was now under the Yuan clan, and he was extremely reluctant to act as a king or a prince. If he really divides the Yuan court to meritorious generals according to what he said, even if it will win the hearts of the people for the time being, it is by no means a long-term solution.
The danger is in front of the eye and is familiar, and the short-term plan is difficult to settle down. But he never thought that once he was alienated from the clan relationship, then he would be attacked by the enemy. "What did you say, what's wrong with He Liuhun with the troops?"
The sergeant stumbled and replied: "Back to the general, Gao Huan, rebelled"
"Rebellion" Er Zhuyan heard such a thing as soon as she got off the horse and entered Er Zhuzhao's mansion, and along the way, the thing she was most worried about still came. Now that Erzhu Mansion is in a panic, and people's hearts are even more uneasy, Erzhu Yan entered the door and looked at it, and saw the small people in the mansion preparing for a while. In a hurry, Er Zhuyan grabbed a small group and learned that Er Zhuzhao planned to raise troops Gao Huan.
Hearing the news of Gao Huan's rebellion, Er Zhuzhao's whole popularity rushed to the crown, and he smashed his cup and angrily reprimanded: "This traitor deceived me, come here, immediately rectify the three armies, get up tomorrow morning, and march into Yecheng with me."
"Ah Zhao, what happened, why did you want to enter Yecheng" After entering the meeting room, Er Zhu Zhao was giving orders to several generals. Seeing this, Er Zhuyan immediately rushed in, only to see that Er Zhuzhao didn't have too much energy to chat with her at the moment.
"Yan'er, you came back just in time, Ajuan is about to give birth, you stay here to accompany her." After speaking, Er Zhu Zhao planned to support Er Zhu Yan to continue to discuss the conquest.
Seeing that Er Zhu Zhao deliberately dodged, Er Zhu Yan grabbed his arm and asked, "You haven't answered my question yet, why do you want to enter Yecheng?"
Facing Er Zhu Yan's relentless questioning, Er Zhu Zhao lowered his head a little ashamed. Seeing this, Er Zhu Zhihu, who was standing on the side, hurriedly pulled Er Zhu Yan to the side and said, "Sister, don't worry about it, Gao Huan is too deceitful, this time, I will let the thief pay for his life."
Er Zhuyan listened to Er Zhu Zhihu's words and seemed to understand the essence of this. She hurriedly grabbed Erzhu Zhihu and said, "Ah Hu, what happened to Sister A."
Hearing Er Zhuyan say this, Er Zhu Zhihu subconsciously looked up at Er Zhu Zhao, he swallowed his saliva with some trepidation and said, "This matter has to be considered in the long run..."
Er Zhu Zhihu slowly told Er Zhu Yan about Er Zhu Zhao and Gao Huan during her trip to Nanliang:
"A few days ago, the eldest brother asked the princes for advice on how to break the matter of surrendering troops, and Gao Huan suggested to the eldest brother that he would surrender troops and drive them to Yecheng..."
A few months ago...
"Waste, waste, let you think of a foolproof plan, I haven't been able to say anything about it for a long time, it's really a bunch of waste" Er Zhuzhao cursed a group of generals who followed him in the mansion. Seeing that Er Zhuzhao was so angry, Gao Huan admonished.
Gao Huan said: "The troops of the six towns are rebelling, and they can't kill them all, the king, you should choose your confidants to lead them." If there is any rebellion, blame the generals, and you can't kill a large number of soldiers every time. "
The rebellion in the six towns has been going on for a long time, and it is nothing more than because of the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the barren fields, which have led to natural and man-made disasters, and the fields have no harvest, and the people are not allowed to raise troops to rebel. In previous years, the imperial court put down the rebellion mainly by giving relief, but the disaster relief silver was deducted layer by layer, which eventually led to frequent disasters.
Hearing Gao Huan's suggestion, Er Zhuzhao also felt that this suggestion was very good, so he inspected the generals in the hall and asked, "Generals, who can go and supervise the reconstruction of Yecheng." ”
None of the generals answered, except for Erzhu's cronies. First, the regulatory function is significant, and secondly, Yecheng has a mixed population since ancient times, which is really difficult to manage. Thirdly, Erzhu Zhao did not trust his subordinates. Who knew that during the banquet, He Paoyun borrowed wine to deliberately offer Ji Er, and Zhu Zhao sent Gao Huan to go.
In fact, what Er Zhuzhao didn't know was that all this was deliberately arranged by Gao Huan, he pretended to let He Bayun speak to Er Zhuzhao in the words of a third person, and then he pretended not to know at all. In this way, a bitter trick made Er Zhuzhao let down his guard against Gao Huan. In addition, the surrounding maids have already been replaced by Er Zhu Ying'e as their own people, and they have been pouring Er Zhu Zhao wine during the banquet, and when the time comes, they can also lead Er Zhu Zhao to obey under the pretense of wine.
Seeing this, He Bayun immediately walked to Er Zhuzhao's side and said: "The king, the minister has a plan, the situation in Yecheng is complicated, the princes are young and should not go out, and the minister has one person who can recommend it to the king."
Seeing this, Er Zhu Zhao was busy pushing away the delicacies fed by the maid on the side, since Pu Juan had a body, the things that usually attended the banquet and entertained guests were received by Er Zhu Zhao's newly received Yingteng. When Er Zhu Zhao saw that He Bayun recommended a suitable person to him, he hurriedly asked, "It's Ah Ni!" Who is Ah Ni's recommendation?"
He Bayun looked up at Er Zhuzhao and said, "Hussar General He Liuhun"
"He Liuhun"
"He Liuhun"
After He Batyun finished speaking, for a while, the guests were shocked, the relationship between He Liuhun and He Batyun was the most cordial, and today he made such a remark, and everyone turned their eyes to Gao Huan.
Seeing this, Gao Huan immediately pretended to be angry, he got up and punched He Baiyun with a punch that made He Baiyun's mouth full of blood, and his front teeth fell to the ground, Gao Huan scolded when he saw this: "Ruzi Xiaoer, how could I have been ashamed of you to make you hate me so much." When the king of Taiyuan (Er Zhurong) was alive, he said whatever he wanted, but now that the king of Taiyuan is dead, everything in the world listens to the king (referring to Er Zhuzhao), what are you, the king didn't speak, it was your turn to say irresponsible things! ”
After speaking, Gao Huan grabbed He Bayun and beat him severely, and when everyone saw this, they stepped forward to stop him. "He Liuhun, He Liuhun, Ah Ni This is also nonsense, don't be angry!" Hu Sichun stepped forward and grabbed Gao Huan
Seeing this, Hou Jing hurriedly went up to stop Gao Huan and said, "Yes! Oh, yes! You see that the king didn't say anything, why is he so angry?"
Originally, these were all conspired by Gao Huan and others to see with Er Zhuzhao, but he didn't expect Er Zhuzhao to be very moved after reading it, and felt that Gao Huan was loyal to him, so he took advantage of the wine to announce Gao Huan as the commander of the troops surrendered in the six towns. In this way, Gao Huan's plan was accomplished, and he rushed to office overnight.
The next day, Er Zhuzhao reacted and regretted it very much, but the words had already been spoken, and he was powerless to refute more. He thought that he and Gao Huan had already become brothers of the opposite sex, and Gao Huan naturally couldn't betray him.
After Erzhu Zhihu finished speaking, Erzhu Yan looked at the generals in Erzhu's mansion with anger after hearing about it and said:
"Nonsense" Er Zhuyan said angrily: "How can you kill the surrendered troops, the pre-Qin God of War general Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao State, and the result is still criticized." Li Guang, the general of the Western Han Dynasty, exhausted his life, and still failed to pay homage to the prime minister, is it because the great cause has not been accomplished? It is an imperial taboo. Abba told you what to do in this life, and to give preferential treatment to the soldiers, and this is how you obeyed the teachings. Saying this, Er Zhuyan looked at Er Zhuzhao in disappointment and shook his head frequently:
"How do you behave like this, and how do you not teach people to be cold? In addition to the Xianbei nobles, there were also many Han people, Huns, Gaoche people, Di people and Qiang people. Even if you can't tolerate them, it's good to persuade them to return to their hometowns, how can you let them gather in one place, let alone relocate them to Hebei. The uprising of the displaced people in my dynasty has been intensifying since the Zhengguang period, and the first one who has been plagued by the chaos is the Yebei region, Ah Zhao, are you confused? How can they be brought together in one place. What's more, they were originally surrendered troops, and if they were brutalized by the soldiers stationed there, they would repeatedly rebel against the people's hearts and would be difficult to govern! ”
Er Zhuyan is every word, and every word is reasonable. She angrily scolded Er Zhuzhao for not knowing how to save the people, and completely ignoring the lessons of the strategists, which led to such a disaster. So far, Er Zhu Zhao didn't want to say anything, he said impatiently to Er Zhu Yan: "Nevertheless, so what, I am not afraid of any rebellion of the displaced people for Er Zhu Zhao to be able to keep this world."
"Ah Zhao" Er Zhuyan heard this, she couldn't help but feel a little sad, the brother who originally loved her and respected her had already been surrounded by the heart of the world and the heart of utilitarianism, and now Er Zhuzhao in front of her was no longer the brother she could say quietly.
"I've made up my mind, Yan'er, it's better for you to stay in the house" After speaking, Er Zhuzhao left quickly.