"Ninth brother, I know that you are unwilling, and I also know the bitterness in your heart!" Zhao Yougong comforted Zhao Gou, and said anxiously: "But now it's not about the past to entangle and worry, if we can't complete the things that the Emperor Taishang explained, we really live up to the entrustment, so what should we do?" ”

Zhao Gou muttered: "I really don't want such a country!" ”

"If you don't want it, you have to ask for it!" Zhao Yougong said undoubtedly, "This is what the Emperor Taishang has been looking forward to, if you really want to avenge the Emperor Taishang, or fulfill his wish, you must ascend to the throne and become the Ninety-Five." ”

"This is the path you have to take, and it's predestined from the moment you return from a big victory. If you want to escape, you can't escape, this is your destiny and your responsibility. If you don't be the emperor, who will be the emperor, then you can guarantee that he can support you unconditionally, and he won't think nonsense, whether he will be a mediocre and incompetent king. ”

"You can do it!" Zhao Gou looked at Zhao Yougong seriously and said, "If the second brother becomes the emperor, he will definitely support me unconditionally to resist the Jin soldiers, and he will not bow his head in front of the Jin people, and he will not back down for half a point." ”

"Ninth brother!" Zhao Yougong scolded, "You are the concubine of the Emperor Taishang, and you have the qualifications to inherit the unification, I am just a collateral descendant, not qualified enough, and not capable enough to deter the court." Now that the Second Emperor has been captured, only you can be safe and sound. ”

Zhao Goada didn't want to be the emperor from the bottom of his heart, and he wanted power just to protect himself. Without real power, his dream would not have come true. If there is a big battle with the Jin soldiers, if such a thing happens again, how many soldiers will die in vain.

However, Zhao Gou knew in his heart that he held great power, not to inherit the throne. If you really want to be the emperor, you will show it as early as when Zhao Ji is the emperor, then nothing will happen. There are many things to be the emperor that you don't want to do, you have to consider the overall situation.

What if you have the power of life and death, what about holding the Great Song Dynasty, you have lost your freedom and your happiness, what does it mean to be an emperor. Living in a cold and impersonal palace, and sitting on a high dragon chair, everyone looks at you, everyone has to obey your will, but you can't be free, you have to gain and lose.

If Zhao Gou agrees to be the emperor, then he has lost his former freedom, in the face of power and freedom, Zhao Gou really wants to be free, but he can't help himself, so he can only choose to be the emperor. After thinking about it, Zhao sighed, and he nodded in agreement.

Zhao Yougong was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Ninth brother, I still have something to give you!" ”

"What?" Zhao Gouhu said suspiciously.

Zhao Yougong smiled mysteriously: "If you want to ascend the throne and become the emperor, it would be unjustifiable without this object!" ”

"Heirloom Jade Seal!" Zhao Gou exclaimed.

Zhao Yougong nodded and said, "Yes, it is the heirloom jade seal!" ”

"Isn't the heirloom jade seal in the palace again? How is it with you? Zhao Gou didn't understand even more, the jade seal of the country was obviously in the box in the imperial study, how could it be here in Zhao Yougong, which made him really not understand.

"The heirloom jade seal in the palace, compared to this thing, it is not a grade at all, and it cannot be compared!"

Zhao Yougong laughed, he quickly left the room, and after another moment, there was an extra brocade box in his hand. When Zhao Gou opened the brocade box, he saw a crystal jade with a whole body, four inches in circumference, with the seal of the five dragons on the New York, and there was a corner on this seal that was repaired with gold.

When he flipped it over, what caught his eye was the eight words engraved by the small seal "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang", surrounded by a double dragon play bead pattern, with three sharp wavy lines at the bottom, and bilateral again, the inner line is thinner, and the outer edge line is thicker.

"This ...... This is ......" Zhao Gou was stunned when he saw this thing.

Zhao Yougong said with a smile: "Yes, this is the jade seal that the First Emperor has been handed down, and it is not the same as the jade seal in the palace." The jade seal in the palace is the two sides of the 'Emperor's Divine Treasure' seal handed down by Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and later the Emperor Taishang added ten seals by himself. ”

"Even so, it is not as important as this seal. That holy decree was also stamped with this seal, so that you could rightfully ascend the throne as the emperor. ”

Zhao Gou was dumbfounded, he played with the heirloom jade seal in his hand, unbelievable.

Legend has it that when the first emperor got the Heshi Bi, he ordered Li Si to use this object to carve the jade seal of the country, which later became a symbol of the orthodoxy of the emperors of all dynasties. According to records, after the Later Jin Dynasty Emperor Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan army to Luoyang, the late Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Congke held the national seal in his arms and climbed the Xuanwu Tower to self-immolate, and the national jade seal disappeared.

"Second brother, how did my father get this heirloom jade seal?"

Zhao Yougong frowned and said, "This matter is related to you, the day you led the army to defeat the Liao army, my father was also in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. In fact, since the beginning of Emperor Taizu, our dynasty has not stopped searching for the jade seal of the country, and heard rumors that the jade seal is in the Liao Dynasty, so my father led the people of the mountain villa to search in the Liao Dynasty for several days, and finally found this jade seal in the palace of the Liao Dynasty. ”

"My father said that when they found it, the jade seal was thrown away in the treasure house as if it were a miscellaneous item. There are many treasures there, none of which are priceless. But compared to this thing, those are not important, but the Liao lord actually doesn't know things. ”

It is precisely because the emperor of the Liao Dynasty did not know the goods and did not find that this thing was the heirloom jade seal, so that it has been lying in the treasure house of the Liao Dynasty palace. If they were discovered, where would they have been robbed, they would have been taken away a long time ago.

Zhao Gou said in a deep voice: "In this way, the historical record is wrong! ”

"I don't know much about the specific situation, so many years have passed, how do you know what it was like at that time." Zhao Yougong shook his head and said: "However, my father guessed that Shi Jingjiao should have obtained the jade seal of the country, but he did not announce it to the public, and later ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao, that is, when the Houtang treasury was looted, the Liao people took it together." ”

Of course, there is another speculation, even if the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty set himself on fire, this thing will not be burned. It's just that it was smoked, and when my father found it, it was also pitch black, and I couldn't see what it was, if I didn't refer to historical records, I was afraid that I would have missed it. ”

Zhao Gou didn't know how to say this, in a word, he held the jade seal of the country in his hand, that is, the important weapon of the country, and he was "ordered by heaven". If it is lost, then "the number of qi is exhausted". Although this seal is just a seal, it is of great significance and should not be underestimated.

Zhao Yougong also obeyed the last order of the Emperor Taishang and handed over this thing to Zhao Gou intact. Even if there is no edict of succession, with Zhao Gou's power and means, coupled with this seal, it is comparable to the edict of succession. Now, both are complete, which means that Zhao Gou is the real son of heaven in the Great Song Dynasty and has been protected by God.

(End of chapter)