Qin Hui and Zhao Ding had been in the Funing Hall for many days, and they had been imprisoned here and were not allowed to go out.

However, their living conditions are much better than they were half a month ago.

When they were imprisoned by the Jiangnan Imperial Camp soldiers, they ate the leftover cold rice left over from the Jiangnan Imperial Camp soldiers every day, and they often did not have enough to eat. Now they have fish and meat for every meal, and they can eat to their heart's content.

In addition to fish and meat, they can also ask for some pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and they can read and write in the Funing Palace.

The sun was very bright in the morning, and Zhao Ding was standing at the door of the Funing Hall at the moment, watching the scene outside.

"I wonder how our family is doing now?" Just listen to Zhao Ding's leisurely words.

"I don't know, I hope they're safe." Qin Hui said.

At this moment, Qin Hui was sitting at a table, writing with a pen.

His handwriting is very good.

In the early years, when Song Huizong was in power, Qin Hui was the left secretary of the imperial history platform, he found that the official font across the country was different, so he used his official leisure to study various fonts, and later created a unique font on the basis of imitating Song Huizong Zhao Ji's thin gold font. The font is neat and easy to learn. He used this font to write the fold for Song Huizong, after Song Huizong saw it, he was greatly appreciated, so he ordered Qin Hui to send his writing template to all parts of the country, and asked officials all over the country to write official documents and folds in accordance with the template font, this font is the famous "Song style" in later generations, which was invented by Qin Hui.

At this moment, Qin Hui was writing in Song style, and he stopped after a while.

Zhao Ding came to Qin Hui's side, looking at a pair of words on the table, a sneer appeared on his face.

"I am born to be useful, and I will come back when my daughter is gone! Lord Qin, you are really ambitious! We're being imprisoned here, and you still have such ambitions! Admire! Admire! Zhao Ding said.

"When Emperor Jianyan was alive, the world was divided, and I didn't do many big things. Now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, Emperor Xuanwu rules the world. From now on, my strength in Da Song has increased greatly, and I can also show my ambitions, which is really good to think about. Qin Hui said with a smile.

"Loyal ministers don't care about the two masters! Both of us are courtiers of Emperor Jianyan, and now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, even if we don't die to be martyred, we must not do anything for Emperor Xuanwu. Zhao Ding said.

"Lord Zhao, I don't dare to agree with what you say! Emperor Xuanwu was originally the crown prince of Emperor Taishang, and he had a jade seal in his hand, so it was a matter of course for him to ascend the throne and be called emperor! On the contrary, it is Emperor Jianyan, he is just a usurper! I escaped from the Jin Kingdom and fled to Jiangnan, I had no choice but to do things for Emperor Jianyan, in fact, I always wanted to go to Guanshan and join Emperor Xuanwu. Qin Hui said.

"You, shameless!" Zhao Ding said angrily.

Qin Hui smiled, and he was about to open his mouth to argue, when his face suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ding said with some surprise.

"Listen!" Qin Hui pointed outside and said.

Zhao Ding listened attentively, and after a while, his face changed slightly.

Outside, there was the sound of countless bowstrings pulling, swishing constantly, and in the end, the Funing Hall was filled with such sounds, and almost no other sounds could be heard.

"What happened?" After a long while, the sound of the bowstring vibrating stopped, and Qin Hui said with a pale face.

"I don't know." Zhao Ding's face was also pale, and he shook his head.

After a while, bursts of bloody breath came from outside.

"It's so bloody, how many people are going to die here?" Qin Hui said.

"Why did Emperor Xuanwu kill people?" Zhao Ding muttered.

Both of them were restless at the moment, Qin Hui strode to the door of the palace, and was immediately stopped by two soldiers.

At that moment, Qin Hui took out a piece of silver from his arms, handed it to the soldier, and said with a smile: "This strong man, do you have something to ask for advice below?" ”

However, before he could finish his words, the soldier had already put the silver into his hand again, and the soldier's face turned cold.

"This ......" Qin Hui was stunned.

"We and other Great Song soldiers will never accept bribes from others! If you dare to do this again, you're welcome! The soldier said coldly.

"Ahh It turned out to be so! Zhuangshi, I just tried you just now, and see how the military discipline of the soldiers under Emperor Xuanwu is! Now it seems that it is really a mountain of military discipline! Qin admires, admires! King Kang, that traitor, his soldiers and horses are chaotic, far inferior to you. Qin Hui smiled.

"This is natural, how can King Kang's subordinates be on a par with us?" The soldier's face changed for the better, and he smiled.

"I wonder what's going on out there?" Qin Hui said again.

"General Wu has an order, and you can't tell you anything outside." The soldier shook his head.

Qin Hui asked two more questions, the soldier simply closed his mouth and said nothing, Qin Hui had no choice but to return.

After going back, Qin Hui praised: "Emperor Xuanwu's soldiers and horses are really extraordinary, you see them standing there, motionless, it has been almost two hours since morning, and none of King Kang's rebels can do this!" ”

Zhao Ding said coldly: "Lord Qin, Emperor Jianyan used to be our king, don't talk about him like that!" ”

Qin Hui smiled and said no more.

Throughout the morning, the bloody atmosphere became thicker and thicker.

In the afternoon, the blood was thicker, and the faces of both of them became more and more unsightly.

******

The sky had gradually darkened, and the lights and candles had been lit in the Funing Palace.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside.

"See Your Majesty!" The soldiers at the door had already knelt down at this moment, Qin Hui and Zhao Ding hurriedly looked outside, only to see that Zhao Chen was surrounded by a group of generals and soldiers and came here.

After not seeing him for many days, Zhao Chen has not changed much, he is still a heroic appearance, as if he is always full of vitality and energy.

"Let's all be flat!" Zhao Chen said casually.

At that moment, the soldiers at the door stood up, and Zhao Chen had already entered the Funing Palace.

"Weichen Qin Hui see Your Majesty!" Qin Hui had already knelt down and said.

Zhao Ding was just stunned, did not kneel, and kept standing there.

"Qin Aiqing, let's get even! Zhao Ding, when you saw me come in, why didn't you kneel? Zhao Chen looked at Zhao Ding and said.

When Qin Hui heard the words "Qin Aiqing", he was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately stood up, with a respectful expression on his face. As for Zhao Ding, he looked at Zhao Chen with a complicated expression.

"I, Zhao Ding, am a courtier of Emperor Jianyan, not Your Majesty, so I won't kneel!" After a while, Zhao Ding said.

Zhao Chen smiled, he didn't care about Zhao Ding not kneeling, he found a chair and sat down by himself, pointed to the rest of the chairs in the Funing Palace, and said, "You find a chair to sit down by yourself!" ”

"How can there be a seat for a micro-minister in front of Your Majesty?" Qin Hui hurriedly said.

"I'll let you sit down, and you'll sit down!" Zhao Chen drank lightly.

"Your Majesty is generous, and he is really a benevolent monarch through the ages!" Qin Hui sat down at this time.

"Emperor Xuanwu, I want to know what happened today?" Zhao Ding was still standing there, thinking of the smell of blood he smelled today, he couldn't help but say.

"It's not a big deal, in Lin'an City, someone tried to set up a new monarch, usurped the throne and rebelled, and I just killed him!" Zhao Chen said.

"What?" Qin Hui and Zhao Ding both stayed there.

"How is that possible? Your Majesty, your 100,000 army is in Lin'an City, and who dares to establish a new monarch? How can there be such a confused person? Zhao Ding said in disbelief.

"There are such foolish people in this world! On that day, I was assassinated in the West Lake, Yang Shi, Li Tong and others thought that I was dead, and they actually found a person among the descendants of Taizu and appointed that person as the new king! This morning, they took that person to the Taimiao, and then they actually took that person to the palace! Among the six ministers of the Jiangnan Imperial Court, many people followed this group of clowns to mess around and establish a new monarch. Zhao Chen sneered.

"There is such a thing? I see, Your Majesty, you deliberately pretended to be assassinated, didn't you? You are so despicable! Zhao Ding said.

"I didn't pretend to be assassinated! My assassination is true, and I didn't let people say that I was dead, but they thought I was dead, and they had to make a new king! Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Your Majesty, how are you going to deal with these people who have made a new king?" Zhao Dingdao.

"Qin Hui, you say, how to deal with them?" Zhao Chen said.

"They are rebellious, so naturally they should kill the Nine Clans!" Qin Hui said.

"Not bad! That's what I did! Yang Shi, Li Tong, Luo Congyan and others all killed the Nine Clans! Six tribes obey the rebellious people, and all nine tribes will be killed! Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, you ...... How could such a thing be done? Mr. Yang, they are all well-known Confucians in the world, shouldn't you do this? Zhao Ding said.

"Scholars pay attention to loyalty, they rebel against usurpation, disloyalty and injustice, shouldn't they be killed?" Zhao Chen said.

"They're just confused! They just thought that His Majesty was dead, and the country could not be without a king for a day, so they wanted to make an emperor! Your Majesty should spare them! They are all great Confucians, Your Majesty, if you kill them, aren't you afraid that everyone in the world will rise up against you? Aren't you afraid of reading books and rebelling? Zhao Ding said.

"Reading people rebelled?" Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"What is Your Majesty laughing at?" Zhao Dingdao.

"I once heard a poem that said, 'The pit ash is not cold and the Shandong is chaotic, Liu Xiang didn't study'. Qin Shi Huang ruled the world, and he was most vigilant about readers, he thought that readers could cholera the world, so he burned books and pit Confucianism. Who knew that the ashes of the pit had not cooled down, and the world began to be in chaos. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, who led the rebellion, none of them were scholars. Since ancient times, there has been no reason for reading books to rebel. Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Since ancient times, there has been no reason for reading books to rebel? Your Majesty, this is too much to look down on the world's scholars, right? Zhao Ding said coldly.

"I'm not looking down on readers, I'm just telling a fact! Since ancient times, there have always been only two kinds of people who rebel, one is the poor people who can't survive, such as Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Liu Bang and others, and the other is the aristocratic ministers, such as Xiang Yu, Cao Cao, Li Yuan, Li Shimin and others. Zhao Ding, you are knowledgeable, you can find me an example of reading and making rebellions, let me listen to it. Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding was stunned and speechless.

"Listening to His Majesty's words today, it is really better than reading a book for ten years!" Qin Hui was already praising on the side at the moment.

"I came here today to ask, you are all important ministers in Jiangnan, now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, and I unify the Great Song Dynasty, are you willing to serve me?" Zhao Chen stopped talking about this topic and said now.

"Weichen Qin Hui is naturally willing to be loyal to Your Majesty! Your Majesty is the orthodoxy of my Great Song Dynasty, King Kang was a usurper back then, and Weichen did things for King Kang back then, so it was also a last resort! In fact, Weichen has always been in Cao Ying's heart in Han, and Weichen has always wanted to take refuge in His Majesty! Qin Hui had already spoken.

"Good!" Zhao Chen nodded.

Although this Qin Hui is the first traitor in history, he is outstanding. He was admitted to the Jinshi in his early twenties, and was favored by Wang Qi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty at the time, and married his granddaughter to Qin Hui. After that, Qin Hui became Taixue Xuezheng before the age of twenty-five, and became the Zhongcheng of the Great Song Dynasty Imperial History before the age of thirty. Before the Jurchen invasion, his actions were commendable and quite impressive. It was only after his return from the Jurchens that he changed dramatically. Zhao Chen is now in Jiangnan, and he is the only one, whether he is a traitor or a loyal minister, the first thing he values is talent. As long as you are talented, as long as you are willing to take refuge in Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen can use it. Zhao Chen has generals and soldiers in his hands, and since ancient times, he has been out of power from the barrel of a gun, and he is not afraid that these people have other thoughts. In the future, it is natural that the system will be used to completely bring these people's talents into the right track.

Moreover, in this era, Qin Hui did not have the bad deeds of killing Yue Fei, and it was the decision of the entire Jiangnan Imperial Court to negotiate peace with the Jurchens, especially the will of Zhao Gou, the emperor, which was not something that Qin Hui could decide alone, so Qin Hui had no reason to kill.

Hearing that Zhao Chen was willing to use himself, Qin Hui was overjoyed.

Zhao Ding was standing there at the moment, looking to the side, without saying a word.

"Zhao Ding, are you unwilling to do things for me?" Zhao Chen smiled and said.

"Loyal ministers don't care about the two masters!" Zhao Ding said coldly.

"Loyalist? Loyalty has great loyalty, there is small loyalty, I don't know if you Zhao Ding is a big loyalty or a small loyalty? Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

"Oh? What is Dazhong? What is Xiaozhong called? Zhao Ding was curious.

"When the country is in crisis, stand up and shed blood, sweat and even sacrifice for the country, this is called great loyalty! The sage once said that the people are precious, the monarch is light, the society is secondary, and the country and the people are the people, this is great loyalty! The so-called Xiaozhong, also known as foolish loyalty, no matter whether an emperor is right or wrong, he is loyal to this emperor, this is Xiaozhong! Even if this emperor harms the people and colludes with foreigners, he must be loyal to the emperor. After the death of the emperor, the people applauded, but he had to observe the festival for the emperor. For example, the original king of Shang was tyrannical and harmed the people, King Wu of Zhou hanged the people for crimes, and Bo Yi and Shu Qi actually dissuaded King Wu of Zhou with the words of their father, regardless of the safety of all the people in the world, this is Xiaozhong. Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding was stunned.

"Since the Jurchen invasion, the people of the world have suffered poison! Now that I have come to Jiangnan and unified the Great Song Dynasty, it is the time when talents are needed! You ostensibly do things for me, but in fact you do things for all the people of the world! Zhao Ding, the Great Song Dynasty gave birth to you, and the people took out their harvest to become taxes, and these taxes provided for you and became your money! The Great Song Dynasty and the people are kind to you, and you are talented, but now the Great Song Dynasty and the people need you, but you are not willing to come out to do things. It's called ingratitude. Zhao Chen said again.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding's expression became more and more complicated.

"Zhao Ding, I have one more sentence to tell you, 'The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband'. I don't think you're as good as a puppet. Zhao Chen said coldly.

"I ......" Zhao Ding opened his mouth, wanting to defend himself, but he couldn't speak.

"Think about it! I'm here today to discuss with you the strategy of stabilizing Jiangnan! Qin Aiqing, what are your good ideas? Zhao Chen looked at Qin Hui and said.