Yang Huairen knew that he had fabricated the lie of the "Nine Heavens Xuantie", and Zhao Xu would definitely be able to know it from the palace maids or chamberlains beside the Empress Dowager Gao, and the only thing he was worried about was to let Zhao Xu know that he had made up this rebellious lie.

Who would come up with such a strange thing and make up such a similar story? And why did he make up such a story?

It's terrifying to think about it, its ambitions are so big, and its bad intentions are intolerable to any emperor.

Yang Huairen never thought that what was just a small lie to defraud profiteers of money has now become his biggest weakness and his biggest burden.

So, even if he gritted his teeth, he couldn't admit that he recognized these one-dollar coins.

"Your Majesty, what is this? It's so shiny that it looks good, but what's the matter with the outside sealed with wax? ”

Zhao Xu told Yang Huairen the story of these Nine Heavens Dark Iron, and told him that these things were the secret relics of the Empress Dowager Gao, and the old woman ordered the internal guards to search all over the world to search for this thing, in order to collect seven pieces of Nine Heavens Dark Iron, so as to summon the divine dragon to come out and realize her wish.

Yang Huairen pretended to be very curious, but after listening to the whole story he made up, he still smiled very naturally, "Where did any divine dragon come from in this world?" No one has ever seen it.

Besides, even if there is, the official family is the Son of Heaven, and the Shenlong should be sent by God to protect His Majesty's Jiangshan Sheji, how can it be subverted with its words? Not credible, not credible......"

Zhao Xu listened to Yang Huairen's speech casually, and there was nothing unusual in his eyes staring at him during the period, which made Yang Huairen feel relieved.

He said in his heart, fortunately, what Zhao Xu knows is still limited, after all, Empress Dowager Gao and Ye Gonggong, the core person of the internal guard, only know the details of the whole incident, but these two are now buried in the imperial tomb.

This secret can be regarded as kept, but about the secret of the internal guard, Yang Huairen still decided to find a suitable time to tell it, in case Zhao Xu misunderstood that he was secretly raising private soldiers, it would be impossible to tell.

Zhao Xu asked casually, "When the Empress Dowager set up the internal guard, it was used to convey the news when she was plotting a rebellion, and to kill the king and seize the throne at a critical time.

Zhiyi, you were once recruited by the old woman to join the internal guard, do you know some details of the internal guard? ”

Yang Huairen didn't dare to show too much hesitation, which made Zhao Xu suspicious, so he replied happily, "Minister, know something." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Xu's face was overjoyed, "I remember that day the old woman sent the guards around her to go out of the city to deliver news to several battalions of the forbidden army, and according to my understanding, she was able to order about 20,000 soldiers of the forbidden army to clash with the palace without knowing it.

You also know the meaning of the things later, Grandpa Su next to me is a double-faced spy, pretending to be the eyeliner that the old woman planted next to me, but in fact he is my confidant, and he is just a fake surrender to the old woman.

At the critical moment, he had insight into the old woman's conspiracy, so that I had the opportunity to send the letter out, and thanks to the Tongyuan border army entering Beijing to be rewarded, you and General Yang Shihu led the troops to guard the city gate, which gave me time to destroy the old woman's conspiracy.

Now that I think about the experience of that day, I feel as if I walked through the ghost gate, and even now, I still dream of the fear of that day, and I often wake up in the middle of the night. ”

Yang Huairen saw that Zhao Xu had revealed his true feelings for him, so he arched his hand with a serious expression and said, "Your Majesty is blessed with all the heavens, this is the will of heaven, so Your Majesty does not have to worry about that day in the future." ”

"Well," Zhao Xu took a deep breath, "maybe God let me go through this, so that I can grow into a real son of heaven." Now, I'm no longer fettered and can show off my skills. ”

Yang Huairen hurriedly replied, "This is the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty and the wealth of the people in the world." ”

Zhao Xu smiled sincerely, "It's just that there are some things I haven't figured out yet, the old woman's internal guard organization should not only exist within the palace walls, just those two or three hundred eunuchs, they can't do anything big."

I guess that in addition to these people in the palace, the old woman should have recruited some talents outside the palace, like when you passively became a member of the internal guard when you couldn't resist, so these people should still be there. ”

The more Yang Huairen listened, the more he felt a cold sweat on his spine, and he calculated in his heart, if he told the truth that he was now adapting the internal guard, I don't know what Zhao Xu would think.

Zhao Xu didn't stop talking, and continued, "You don't have to worry, I know that although you are in the internal guard, you are indeed loyal to me, and those people outside the palace who passively joined the internal guard in the same situation as you, I have no intention of settling accounts with them.

Instead, I want to find them out and form a new secret organization to help me collect some information that the court can't hear. ”

Yang Huairen's heart suddenly had mixed feelings, joy and sadness.

The good news is that Zhao Xu did not pursue these people's plans, but thought that Empress Dowager Gao recruited them because they were talented, and as Yang Huairen thought, she would reorganize these people and let them do other things.

But sadly, Yang Huairen has a feeling that he can't understand Zhao Xu more and more, and he entered the palace today and said so much to Zhao Xu, which made him feel that he suddenly didn't seem to know this person so well, could it be that people in high positions are really the same?

Yang Huairen's adaptation of the internal guard into Fengshenwei was an intelligence organization that was originally similar to that of an external force and used the Song Dynasty to spy on intelligence.

But in Zhao Xu's consciousness, it should be the same as what the Empress Dowager Gao thinks, the internal guard is a spy organization in his eyes, and there is no difference between the arrangement of them and the Empress Dowager Gao in the future.

If Fengshenwei really came into the hands of Zhao Xu, I am afraid that it would just be a change of name, and in the end it would become a tool for him to play with power and collect or fabricate evidence for him to attack different parties in the party struggle.

Yang Huairen suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his heart, and that disappointment enveloped him in an instant, making it difficult for him to breathe.

He wanted to sigh, he wanted to roar, the supreme rulers of this nation kept saying that they wanted to be a wise king, and they said in a high-sounding manner that they wanted to serve the country and the people, but in the end, what they cared about most was the power in their hands.

Zhao Xu didn't see the threat of the Great Song Dynasty from the outside, and when the Empress Dowager Gao was there, he also used this matter in private to secretly criticize the Empress Dowager Gao.

But now that he is in power, how do he do it? The army of Western Xia was only for the merits of an emperor, for fame, and for the sake of adding another brilliant gem to his already shining golden crown.

He seems to have begun to look more and more like an emperor, and more and more like his grandmother, for the sake of power, he wants to use internal guards to secure the interior, so that the storm in the court that has been fighting for a long time will rise again.