Chapter 224: The Death of the Trapped Beast

When he arrived in the evening, Hu Fulang's carriage finally returned to Yu's house, and Yu Zhiniang, who was anxious, saw his father's drunken appearance, and couldn't help but complain about Li Yilao, who was helped in by his father, and said: "Why let him drink so much wine!" ”

This was the first time she spoke to Li Yilao, and Li Yilao was stunned and didn't answer for a long time. But Yu's father, who was so drunk, waved his hand: "What you don't do is a saint...... The wine advised by the sage, the official family drank with me, hehe...... Hehe! ”

Yu Zhiniang was stunned, and then continued to complain: "It's too drunk to look good!" ”

"It's not drunkenness, it's really an official wine." Hu Fulang smiled: "As for the details, let me tell you." ”

Yu Zhiniang's heart was pounding, why did Hu Fulang and Li Yilao come, how could she have countless hearts in her heart, but she definitely didn't expect that for her marriage, she could alarm the Son of Heaven. She glanced at Li Yilao in surprise, Li Yilao scratched his neck, laughed twice, but didn't know how to say it. With such an appearance, Hu Fulang shook his head: Why did this kid he picked up on the street look like a mouse seeing a cat in front of Weaver Niang.

It can only be attributed to the fate of the underworld.

After sending Hu Fulang and Li Yilao away, Yu Zhiniang cooked a sobering soup and served Yu's father to drink it. After Yu's father finished drinking, he was still drunk, and when he saw his daughter busy in the house, he unconsciously smiled: "Weaver Niang." ”

"Daddy, what do you command?" Yu Zhiniang thought he was going to eat, and asked while squeezing a towel.

"For the father, I promised you to pass with that Li, that child is a great character, I didn't know it before for my father, but now I know." As Father Yu spoke, his voice became lower and lower, and after a while, he snored like thunder.

There are happy events in the Yu family, and there are also happy events in the family of the Son of Heaven, and as the autumn deepens, the concubine Yang begged to return by boat. According to Zhao and Ju's meaning, the ship they were on was a steamship.

In April, the first steamship Zhangyu sank, Xiao Bolang and Hu You were unwilling, and after finding the cause of the problem, they began to develop the second and third steamships. The two were carried out at the same time, the second was converted on an old ship, equipped with a dark wheel and a steam engine, and the results of the second test were very satisfactory, from Tamsui to Keelung, which originally took a day, and this steamship could be reached in half a day regardless of the wind direction. After more than two months of testing, after confirming that the steamship had practical value, except for the occasional failure of the steam engine, the third ship was also created. Yang Miaozhen insisted on returning to Lin'an on this new ship despite everyone's dissuasion, so everyone had to send out all two steam ships, and two sailing ships followed. After twelve days, the four ships arrived safely in Lin'an.

When the smoke-spewing, loud noise, but no sail of the sea ship appeared in Lin'an, even the Guards sailors couldn't help but be shaken, Zhao and Ju Wenxun were even more personally greeted, he knew what the success of the steamship meant, human navigation will be free from the shackles of the monsoon, and his plan to develop the South Seas and New Continent can be carried out in advance.

"Really...... Incredible, incredible, Your Majesty, can this ship really sail on the sea without the power of the wind? ”

"Cui Qing saw it with his own eyes, why don't you believe it?" Hearing Cui He's words, Zhao Youju laughed: "This is heaven to help me, I am about to be stationed in Nanyang and Xinzhou, so I have such a sea boat, from Xinzhou back to my Song Dynasty, along the way to supply coal water and food, it only takes about two months, and now Xinzhou and Nanyang are no longer places to go to and cannot be returned." ”

The people of China are very particular about the difficulty of leaving their homeland, and they are really unable to survive in their original places unless they are in war or encounter major disasters, and there are very few people who are willing to leave their homeland. Officials also regard remote frontier areas as debasement, so even if Zhao and Ju came out of the carrot that was judged by the best when they were in charge of the ministry, there were still not many people who were willing to go to Nanyang and Xinzhou to become officials, and they were all young and inexperienced officials. Now this is not the case, with steamships, no matter what the wind direction, it will be convenient and fast to travel between Nanyang and Xinzhou, and there will be more officials who are willing to go.

Of course, what makes Zhao and Ju even happier is that Yang Miaozhen came back safely, she is already four months pregnant, and her belly is obvious, but her spirit is still very good, and her actions can't be seen to be affected by the big belly. The two haven't seen each other for April, so naturally some of them are lovesick, and some of the courtiers who can't see it want to admonish, but they are driven back by Cui He with a stern gaze.

"I heard that there was a rebellion near Rilin'an at this time?"

After returning to Ouchi, Yang Miaozhen asked Zhao Heju. In fact, it was when she heard the news of the rebellion that she decided to return to Lin'an ahead of schedule.

"It's settled, it's okay." Zhao Youju didn't want her to worry more about this, so he lightly brought one of the words.

"You're generous, if you change me, hum!"

Yang Miaozhen's "leniency" does not mean that he treats ordinary people who join the rebels because they have no plan to make a living, but that he refers to the generals of the forbidden army who were involved in this incident. These forbidden army generals were not scholars, on the contrary, literati doctors had an instinctive vigilance against them, and after this incident, they were even more criticized, and the punishment agreed upon by Cui and others was that all men were beheaded, and women were not official prostitutes. Of course, this punishment is on the heavy side, but Cui He and others deliberately handed over this punishment to the Son of Heaven, and then the Son of Heaven reduced it, so that the benevolence of the Son of Heaven can be reflected.

This is also the way for the ministers to share the infamy for the Son of Heaven.

Zhao and Ju sure enough, except for the generals who colluded with Shi Songzhi and the executions themselves, their families were only sent into exile and moved to Nanyang and Xinzhou together with those rebellious people. However, according to his plan, before these people go to Nanyang and Oceania, they have to stay in Liuqiu for half a year, first, through Liuqiu's more perfect brainwashing method, educate them, let them understand that they can live, it is already the grace of the Son of Heaven, and reduce the possibility of their rebellion as much as possible; The second is to get them accustomed to a disciplined life, under strict discipline, even the last toilet needs to be reported, and when they go to Nanyang and Xinzhou, it is impossible for them to collude privately to rebel again.

All combined, there are more than 40,000 people who will be exiled this time. In Yang Miaozhen's opinion, those chaotic people have a fate, and those forbidden army officers are simply heinous, not to mention execution, even if it is a matter of course, even if it is full of beheading, who let them take advantage of her absence to want to calculate the Son of Heaven!

"Fourth lady, let's pray for our children." Zhao Youju said with a smile.

Hearing Zhao and Ju mention the child, Yang Miaozhen's face flushed, and then she showed her softness to be a mother: "Sister Ayu, is this good for her?" ”

"Isn't she coming?" Zhao and Ju gestured forward, only to see Han Yu slowly walking over with the help of the two palace maids, she was even more nostalgic, Yang Miaozhen waved her hand happily, and the two held hands and asked each other, all of them are women's words about how the child in your belly is in my belly, Zhao and Ju listened with a smile next to her, and did not feel bored.

However, just when his family was happy, Xie Daoqing saw Li Yunrui shaking outside the courtyard. She frowned slightly and turned to Zhao and Ju, who didn't notice her at all, still listening intently as the two women bit their ears.

Xie Daoqing glanced outside again, and saw that Li Yunrui summoned an inner attendant, who seemed to be saying something, but the inner attendant had a difficult face. Li Yunrui's expression was cold, but he looked like the Son of Heaven when he was serious, and after a while, the chamberlain still shook his head, and Li Yunrui said loudly: "Your Majesty, Weichen Li Yunrui asks to see." ”

Zhao Heju frowned for a moment, Yang Miaozhen turned his face sideways and glanced outward: "Li Jingwen, what are you yelling about, just come in if you want to see it, how many times has Your Majesty treated you as an outsider?" ”

Yang Miaozhen's words were just timely, Zhao Heju's brows stretched in an instant, and Xie Daoqing's heart jumped suddenly.

Yang Guifei is not as scheming as she seems on the surface.

"Sister Ayu and I are going to rest for a while, Your Majesty must come over when you are done." Yang Miaozhen glared at Li Yunrui again: "Li Jingwen, you are so dishonest, next time you have something urgent to find Your Majesty, just ask to see you, and rub outside for a long time, when Sister Ayu and I are women who don't know the general situation?" ”

Li Yunrui was dejected by her, but he didn't distinguish between them, which made Xie Daoqing even more surprised. Li Yunrui had not been in the front of the palace for a long time, and it was about the time when Yang Miaozhen went to Liuqiu, but Xie Daoqing noticed that his reputation among the guards from Liuqiu was higher than Qin Dashi, Long Twelve and Xing Zhiyuan, and when he reprimanded those guards, those guards were really angry and didn't dare to take a breath. But when Yang Miaozhen reprimanded him, he was also unceremoniously, and Li Yunrui was not only not convinced at all, but was a little happy.

"Your Majesty, Shi Songzhi has already found it, but ......" After the idle people and others were all held back, Li Yunrui said in a low voice: "He is dead." ”

"Dead?"

Zhao Youju frowned, this is not good news, he hopes to catch the living Shi Songzhi and find out his comrades.

"Exactly, he died in Zhenjiang and committed suicide." Li Yunrui said: "Huo Chongcheng's spy discovered him first, and after being surrounded, he couldn't escape and committed suicide, and the spy searched carefully and did not leave any words. ”

"Hmm......"

Zhao Youju can be sure that in the past few months, from the money shortage in Lin'an to the food price turmoil, to the civil uprising in Huating Mansion and the instability of the Japanese army, they are all related to Shi Songzhi, but with only Shi Song alone, it is unlikely that such a big turmoil will be stirred. Moreover, Shi Songzhi is good at planning and knowing military affairs, but he may not know the way of the economy, in the money shortage and the turmoil of food prices, although the means of the hands behind the scenes are still a little jerky, but they are by no means people who do not know the way of the economy and have no research on the market can play.

And Shi Song's death means that no one can prove whether the mysterious hat man is Shi Songzhi or someone else.

Zhao Youju himself tends to have someone else, this person should be familiar with the affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, it is very likely that he is one of the important ministers in the court, and his figure is also related to the "Jinghua Secrets" incident at the beginning of the year, so to speak, the Jinghua Secret Incident is just a rehearsal for him to plan this big deal in the second half of the year.

Shi Songzhi's death was a heavy blow to that person, but it may not be able to break that person's thoughts, if he is not turned out, he will be like a hibernating poisonous snake, no one knows when to get out of which hole to bite someone.

Li Yunrui was also troubled by this matter, the emperor asked him to be responsible for carrying out some arrest and torture, so far, except for his contribution to the arrest of Huang Shaobin's son, he has almost nothing to gain. Compared with Li Ye's achievements in Xuzhou, and even compared to Qin Dashi's achievements in Lin'an for several years, he was not satisfied with his achievements. If it weren't for Zhao and Ju strictly ordering him not to participate in the secret investigation, he would have wanted to leave Huo Chongcheng alone-perhaps because of his long-term practice, he didn't trust Huo Chongcheng very much.

"Your Majesty, Zou Yinglong of the Criminal Department asks to see you."

Xie Daoqing's voice came outside, Zhao Heju waved his hand to signal Li Yunrui to leave, and then said, "Let him come in." ”

Zou Yinglong was sweating on his forehead, and trotted to Zhao Youju, seeing him like this, Zhao Youju said softly: "Zou Qing, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

"Your Majesty, an urgent official document came from Zhenjiang, and the traitor Shi Songzhi committed suicide in Zhenjiang." Zou Yinglong said.

He got the news a little slower than Huo Chongcheng, and Zhao Youju nodded, indicating that he knew about it. After a while, Zhao Youju asked, "Zou Qing, what do you think of things?" ”

"Shi Songzhi must have a fellow party, the minister expected that Shi Songzhi was responsible for liaising with Shi Miyuan's remnants in the army, and someone else was responsible for strategizing, and someone was responsible for monitoring the news in the court." Zou Yinglong said: "Moreover, the minister sent someone to check Shi Songzhi's residence in the suburbs of Lin'an, and also sent someone to Qingyuan Mansion to search the Shi family's mansion, and he got a little gain, so he came to see Your Majesty." ”

Zou Yinglong's words lifted Zhao Heju's spirits, and he realized that he paid too much attention to the news from Huo Chongcheng's secret spies, and forgot the official source of Zheng'er Bajing. Secret spy reconnaissance is sometimes miraculous, but when it comes to real news channels, it is far less extensive than that of the government.

Zou Yinglong was about to present what he had found, when he suddenly thanked Daoqing and said, "Your Majesty, Ge Hong, the governor of the council, asks to see you." ”

Zhao Heju took the thing in Zou Yinglong's hand, and was slightly stunned when he heard the words, Ge Hong was the least asked to see him alone among the three Zaifu, Huo Chongcheng was the most suspicious of him, someone specifically stared at his actions, at this time, what did he do?

Before he could pass on Ge Hong, he heard Xie Daoqing again: "Your Majesty, Zheng Qingzhi of the Ministry of Industry, and Qiao Xingjian, the priest of the country, ask to see you." ”

"It's lively today...... Zhao Heju smiled: "Zou Qing, guess who else will come to ask to see." ”

Sure enough, after a while, Xie Daoqing said again: "Your Majesty, Wei Liweng of the Ministry of Household and Cheng Jue of the Ministry of Rites ask to see you." ”

"It's a small pilgrimage." Zhao Heju snorted coldly, and he said loudly: "Tell them to wait in Boya Building, and I will arrive later." ”

When Ge Hong saw Qiao Xingjian, he smiled bitterly, and then shook his head, while Qiao Xingjian didn't seem to see anything, just glanced at Cheng Jue. I heard Xie Daoqing say that the Son of Heaven saw them in Boya Building, and his own attendant led them to Boya Building. After waiting for half an hour, the Son of Heaven did not wait, but Cui You, Xue Ji and Yue Ke were waited.