In the middle of the night of December 18, 425 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the lights in the Taishou Mansion of Cangyuan City were bright, and the body of the Taishou Zhao Mincheng was parked in the largest hall of the Taishou Mansion, and the main civil and military officials of Cangyuan City had already received the news that the Taishou Zhao Mincheng was assassinated and died, and rushed to the Taishou Mansion overnight, at this time more than a dozen civil and military officials were gathered in this hall of the Taishou Mansion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the side of Zhao Mincheng's corpse, there was an official in his thirties, this official looked sick, and Zhao Zhong, the general of the Taishou Mansion's guards, stood respectfully behind this official, this official was not only the long history of Geshan County, but also the eldest son of Zhao Mincheng, Zhao Ce.

The long history can be said to be in the yamen of the county government, the status is only under the Taishou, before Zhao Ce occasionally felt cold, has been recuperating in the Zhao family's ancestral house in Cangyuan City, even when the Liukou siege the city, Zhao Ce has been staying in the Zhao family's ancestral house, and now Zhao Ce's illness is not good.

Lord Bo He Qi walked to Zhao Ce's side, sighed and said to Zhao Ce: "The eldest prince's festival mourns and changes, I didn't expect that He Qi had just left the Taishou Mansion at night, and such a thing would happen, alas-"

At this time, the partial general Mu Zhen also came over and asked in a deep voice: "Lord Changshi, do you know where those assassins came from?" The courage is too great, and he dares to assassinate the Taishou appointed by the imperial court, could it be that Zhang Ding's gang of gangsters did it? ”

Zhao Ce, who looked sad, arched his hand to He Qi and Mu Zhen, "Ahem, my father was suddenly killed by a traitor, and our Cangyuan City has just been besieged by the Liukou, and this official still needs to take care of his father's affairs, the safety of the city and the political affairs of the government, and there are two more hard work, cough cough, as for the identity of the assassin, there are no clues, and there are two female assassins who escaped at that time, and General Lao Mu has to send troops to carefully search in the city." ”

Mu Zhen nodded and said: "Lord Changshi, rest assured, his subordinates have mobilized soldiers and started to search and arrest in the city, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they will catch the two female assassins who escaped!" ”

He Qi continued: "Don't worry, the political affairs of the government in the near future, if there are no particularly important things, the subordinates will deal with it, and they will not bother the eldest prince, but at present, in addition to the aftermath of the Taishou and the arrest of the assassins, the most important thing is to let the eldest prince succeed to the position of the Taishou, we must hurry up and carry out activities through the connections in the court, so as not to have many dreams at night, you must know that Sun Zhoumu of Wanzhou, but he has been thinking about the position of the Taishou of Geshan County for a long time, I have always wanted to take away the official position of Geshan County Taishou from our Zhao family. ”

The selection of officials in the Great Jin Dynasty adopted a recommendation system, in which officials at all levels first recommended candidates, and then the imperial court conducted an assessment and then appointed to an official position.

For example, the position of the Taishou of Geshan County only needs to be recommended by a minister with a high official position in the imperial court, and the imperial court will evaluate this candidate, and once there is no problem in all aspects, this person can serve as the Taishou of Geshan County.

If there are several candidates recommended, the best of the best will be selected, and the best person will be selected to serve as the Taishou of Geshan County, of course, with the current situation of the Great Jin Dynasty, whoever has a more powerful background and who does the work more in place, who can serve as the Taishou of Geshan County.

Zhao Ce coughed vigorously, then nodded and said: "Tomorrow, the official will send his henchmen to the capital, the position of the father, others don't want to get involved!" In the future, I have to ask General Mu and He Zhubo to continue to assist the officer! ”

Mu Zhen and He Qi quickly nodded one after another, but the two nodded differently, He Qi has been loyal to the big house of the Geshan Zhao family, belonging to the retainers of the Geshan Zhao family, after Zhao Mincheng died, Zhao Ce is already the head of the Zhao family's big house, He Qi's object of allegiance in the future will become Zhao Ce, and Mu Zhen is only a subordinate official of Geshan County, if Zhao Ce becomes the Taishou of Geshan County, Mu Zhen must of course obey Zhao Ce's orders.

Zhao Ce took the time to call Zhao Zhong to the side room of the hall and retreated, then Zhao Ce coughed, and then sighed and said to Zhao Zhong: "Although my father has never told me, I know that you are also my father's own son, so to speak, we are also brothers, and now that my father has been killed, our brothers must work together to make our Zhao family house survive this difficulty, except for you and me, no one in the Zhao family can be of great use!" ”

Zhao Zhong said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, the eldest prince is the Zhao family, and the death is the ghost of the Zhao family, now that the head of the family is killed, the eldest prince does not blame Zhao Zhong for protecting the unfavorable and disposing of Zhao Zhong, Zhao Zhong is grateful, and from now on, he will definitely look forward to the eldest prince." ”

Zhao Ce said with a smile: "It's good to have a younger brother, hurry up and take a break, and tomorrow you will wear linen and filial piety with me, and your identity should also be known to everyone." ”

When Zhao Zhong heard Zhao Ce say this, he couldn't keep calm anymore, and a trace of excitement suddenly flashed in his eyes, "Thank you, eldest prince, I ......"

"Don't call me eldest prince in the future, call me eldest brother!"

"Big ...... Eldest brother! ”

Zhao Ce then returned to the hall with Zhao Zhong, Zhao Ce looked at the corpse of his father Zhao Mincheng again, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Father, now that the Great Jin Dynasty has sunset, I have been persuading my father to prepare early, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, our Geshan Zhao family should seize this opportunity, but unfortunately my father has not been able to make up his mind, now that his father is gone, when the son completely controls the entire Geshan Zhao family, the son will definitely lead the Geshan Zhao family to embark on a different path, please father bless his son in the spirit of heaven!" Bless our Geshan Zhao family! ”

In a tent in the camp south of Cangyuan City, the unconscious Zhou Lanqi had already woken up, and then Zhou Lanxin, who was depressed, told her sister what happened after Zhou Lanqi fell into a coma.

"Sister, you all blame me, I didn't understand whether you were poisoned or not, so I put everything in our Zhou family, as well as our two sisters, on board, sister, what do you think we should do next?" Zhou Lanxin's regretful intestines are green at this time, if there is a regret medicine for sale in the world, Zhou Lanxin will definitely buy one back at any cost.

Zhou Lanqi smiled bitterly and said: "Lan Xin, I can't blame you, before my sister fell into a coma, she thought that the crossbow arrow that shot her was coated with poison, who would have thought that the crossbow arrow was only coated with the drunken fairy grass with paralyzing properties, alas-if our sisters swapped, my sister would definitely do the same thing, Lan Xin, you don't have to blame yourself." ”

Zhou Lanqi listened to Zhou Lanxin's narration, and she didn't know what to say, although such an oolong thing was completely caused by her sister, but her sister was also in a hurry to save herself, so she didn't find out whether she was poisoned for a while, and Zhou Lanqi couldn't blame her sister Zhou Lanxin.

After a pause, Zhou Lanqi sighed and said: "Now that our sister was taken out of Cangyuan City by that Captain Liu safe and sound, and my sister can be regarded as being rescued, we can only keep our promise." ”

Zhou Lanxin suddenly lowered her voice and said, "Sister, why don't we escape quietly?" Anyway, there is no written evidence, as long as we leave this camp, we will not admit it, presumably that Liu Ji has no way to take our sisters! ”