Chapter 6: Zuo Shigong

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"Please be cautious!"

The man was wearing a purple and red deep robe, kneeling quietly and elegantly on the couch opposite King Zhao, with long dark hair reaching to the shoulders, his appearance was already pretty and extraordinary, and he painted a little light makeup, which was more like the national color and fragrance, his cheeks were like peach petals, his lips were like cherries, and he was full of women's charm, and his eyes were more like autumn water and the moon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

At first glance, he looks like a beautiful woman, but listen to his pronunciation......

It's a young man!

This person's name is Zhao Mu, a son of the Zhao clan, the grandson of the autocratic Anping Jun Gongzi Cheng during the reign of King Huiwen......

If Mingyue is here, she can naturally point out the name of this kind of person in the future generations: Pseudo-Niang!

From the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Chu Ling had a good Chu Shi thin waist, and in addition to the masculine and brave pre-Qin morale, there was also a sick aesthetic. That is the pursuit of a "delicate" feminine beauty by some aristocratic men, who wear powder on their faces, sachets on their waists, and walk with self-pity.

Similar people emerge in endlessly, Wei Linggong has Mizi flaws from time to time, Chu Xuan King has Chu Anlingjun from time to time, and in recent times, there is Longyang Jun who is favored by Wei Wangyu. Fen Tao and Longyang are handed down from this era, if you add the broken sleeves of the Han Dynasty, the three representatives of the gay circle will live together.

Zhao Guo is not exempt from vulgarity, and the university scholar Xun Guo complained when he returned to Handan: "The chaotic king of the world, the son of the country, is not beautiful Yao Ye, the strange clothes and women's ornaments, and the bloody attitude is intended for women!" ”

This Zhao Mu is the most beautiful person among the puppet mothers of Zhao Guozhong, coupled with his identity as the grandson of the Zhao family, not only the women in Handan City are crazy, but even Zhao Wangdan is very fortunate and trusts him. When he was the prince, he didn't dare to be presumptuous, and when he ascended the throne as the queen, he let Zhao Mu enter the palace every day to give him advice.

However, although this Zhao Mu is a gentleman, he also has some insight, he dissuaded the impatience of King Zhao, and asked him not to get close to any female and male pets during the filial piety period, make a sad look, reduce decay and food, and go to greet the Empress Dowager Zhao every day, won the name of filial piety, and passed the most sensitive period safely.

Unexpectedly, when he wasn't there last night, Zhao Wangdan couldn't hold his breath and went to say something in front of Empress Dowager Zhao that shouldn't be said.

After Zhao Mu heard the news, he hurriedly entered the palace overnight with the talisman given to him by King Zhao, and dissuaded him at this moment: "The king has been recognized by the queen mother as unashamed, and now he is shouting in the palace, do you still want to bear the notoriety of unfilial piety, give Chang'an Jun a mouth, and lose the crown on his head?" ”

Zhao Wangdan was startled, and he also knew that he was speechless, so he quickly covered his mouth and said, "Isn't it like this?" ”

Zhao Mu sneered: "Since Zhao Huanzi chased Zhao Xianhou to Gongzi Zhang's rebellion. In the history of the Zhao Kingdom, are there still few people who covet the throne as princes? In short, before the king was in power, the throne was not stable, and now the plan is to find ways to send Chang'anjun to Qi, as long as Chang'anjun leaves, no one can shake the king's throne! ”

Thinking of the Empress Dowager Zhao's concern for Chang'anjun tonight, and her indifference to herself, Zhao Wangdan's heart was full of resentment: "The widow also wants to drive Chang'anjun far away, but the Empress Dowager has already made it clear that there is a reply that Chang'anjun is a hostage who spits in his face, and it is useless for the widow to persuade him personally, and the queen mother is already oil and salt, how can this be good?" ”

Zhao Mu said: "In this matter, the king has done a bad job, and anyone can persuade him, but the king can't come forward." If you want to solve this matter, you still have to let someone come out in person......"

Zhao Wangdan leaned over and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"Zuo Shi touches the dragon!"

The left division and the right division are official positions established by King Wuling of Zhao, although they are very high, but they have no actual power, and they are only as advisers to the king on weekdays, and they have no sense of existence. In King Zhao's view, this is a redundant official who is used to treat the old ministers preferentially.

Therefore, Zhao Mu said that he wanted to invite Zuo Shi to touch the dragon to persuade the Empress Dowager Zhao, and King Zhao was a little strange.

"Yesterday in Fengtai, Xiang Bang Lin Xiangru, General Lian Po, Pingyuan Jun, Ma Fujun four people persuaded, the Queen Mother was unmoved, Zuo Shi touched the dragon and drooped old, the first king basically did not participate in the court meeting when he was alive, what use can he have?"

"The king, that's wrong."

Zhao Mu said: "This Zuo Shi touched the dragon, when he was young, he assisted King Wuling with Xiangbang Feiyi and my grandfather An Pingjun, and later became the master and Fu of the first king, and he is a rare old minister of the three dynasties in Zhao today. And with the temperament of the queen mother, the more the king and the important ministers of the court force each other on state affairs, the more stubborn the queen mother becomes......

"I see!" Zhao Wangdan was overjoyed, so he asked Zhao Mu to quietly go to visit Master Zuo tomorrow and invite him out of the mountain.

But after a while, King Zhao, who was in a hurry to achieve quick success, but looked forward and backward at the critical moment, hesitated again: "What if even Master Zuo can't persuade the Queen Mother?" So how should it be? ”

Zhao Mumei was like a fairy, but his heart was like a snake and scorpion, he lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, the king, if the queen mother refuses to send Chang'anjun to Qi State, resulting in Qi soldiers not coming out, and Zhao Guo losing the city and land, then all the mistakes have nothing to do with the king, but the queen mother and Chang'an Jun are to blame!" ”

"Abolishing the public for private reasons, resulting in the loss of the division, cutting the city and splitting the soil, when the time comes, public opinion in Handan City will be boiling, and the ministers will force the queen mother to return to the government in advance. And Chang'an Jun will also be discredited because of this, after the prince is in power, he only needs a verbal edict to expel him from the country, and he will never return, and the Zhao people will also applaud! ”

"In this way, no matter whether it is successful or not, the widow can lie down with his back and forth!"

Zhao Wangdan was so happy that he almost jumped up, his current henchman was in great trouble, that is, Chang'anjun, who was favored by his mother, and the few border towns captured by the Qin State were insignificant.

He affectionately took Zhao Mu's hand and said, "Zimu, the widow has you, just like Master Jian has Dong Anyu, and Lord Xiang has Zhang Mengtan!" If it can be done, the widow will definitely let you restore your ancestral Juelu and crown you as the king of Jianxin! ”

Zhao Mu is self-aware, and those who have made great contributions to Zhao have failed to get the position of king, how can he be the latter?

Then he smiled, lowered his head and said: "The king is loved, Mu doesn't dare to be, and I don't dare to hope for the king's affairs, I just ask the king to let me do the job of Langzhong, and often serve the king, Mu will be satisfied!" ”

……

Sleepy night bandits, to do things alone. In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Mu left the palace of King Zhao early in the morning, held the edict of King Zhao, and went to Zuo Shi Touchlong's house to pay respects.

At the same time, on the Fengtai, the eunuch Ling Miao Xian also got up, he was dressed neatly as usual, and commanded the people of the palace and maid temple to open the doors and windows, clean the corridor of the Taixie, and start a new day of busyness.

Just as Miao Xian was like a rooster rising in the morning, inspecting the palace with his head held high, coldly scanning the lazy slaves and maids, a clear voice stopped him.

"Eunuch Order!"

As soon as Miao Xian turned around, it was Chang Anjun standing at the door with a smile, although his eyes were a little bloodshot, but his demeanor was very good.

Miao Xian hurriedly bowed down and responded with a smile.

"The old servant is here, I don't know what the son commands?"

"No other, just wanted to ask one thing."

Mingyue looked at the weather and said to Miao Xian: "I heard that no matter the clan or important ministers, anyone who enters the palace to meet the queen mother must first be notified by the eunuch's order, is that so?" ”

"However, to deliver news inside and outside the palace and usher in the delivery, this is the duty of the old servant."

"That's it!"

Mingyue slapped her palm, her face was delighted, and then she saluted Miao Xian and said: "If Master Zuo touches the dragon and asks to see the Queen Mother, I hope that the eunuch will inform me in advance, how about it?" ”

……

Another day, when the sky is not clear, the capital of Handan is ten thousand pheasants, ten miles around, staggered in all directions, like an ancient beast, still dormant in the dark.

Among them, there is a murmuring water called Zhu River, which divides Handan into two, the southwest is the Zhao Wanggong of the character type, and the northeast is the main urban area known as the "Great North City".

There are also some large courtyards in between on both sides of the Zhu River, which are the backbone of the power pyramid of the Zhao State, the residences of the generals and scholars. If it is usual, this is already the time of the last dynasty, and there should be ox carts and carriages with torches driving out of various courtyards and rushing towards the Longtai of King Zhao's palace. However, because of the death of King Zhao Huiwen, King Zhao has not yet been in power, and the Empress Dowager Zhao cannot preside over the court meeting every day, so the banks of the Zhu River are still asleep.

However, one of the small mansions was lit up, and the seventy-year-old Zhao Guozuo Shi Touchlong was already dressed in court clothes, standing in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, looking up at the dark and unknown night sky, his face covered by his gray beard was like a pool of deep water without waves, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The people waited with bronze lamps, and the concubine who touched the dragon was half his age while tidying up his clothes and crowns, and complained: "The first king and the queen mother are preferential, and the husband didn't need to go to the court three years ago, why did he suddenly enter the palace today?" ”

Her face froze, and she asked in a low voice, "What did the people from the palace say to you yesterday?" ”

Touching the dragon but didn't answer, and after a while, he said slowly: "Li said, men don't talk about inside, women don't talk outside, you just take care of family affairs, don't ask about foreign affairs." ”

The concubine shut up at this time, but her heart was up and down.

During the reign of King Zhao Huiwen, the Zhao State had enjoyed a peaceful life for more than 20 years, and the land of Handan was unheard of for a whole generation. But he has only passed away for more than a month, but the Zhao State has changed dramatically, there is a Qin State coming to attack, and the country is not stable, and there are already some rumors in Lilu. What's even more terrifying is that some forces in King Zhao's palace seem to want to involve the dragon who has long been unable to ask about state affairs, how can she not worry?

After tying the jade huang around her husband's waist with her heart and inserting the jade gui into his silk belt, the zhu door slowly opened, and the foot of the dragon had already stepped out of the threshold, but he turned around and asked, "Is Shu Qi up?" ”

The concubine said: "It's already up, and I'm practicing swordsmanship in the backyard." ”

Touching Long's wife is dead, and the whole family respects this concubine, mainly because she is very competitive and gave birth to a young son Shu Qi for Touching Dragon. Shu Qi is 15 years old this year, which is the age when he is young and likes to play, but the old man Touch Long is extremely strict with him, and often mentions his face, so that Shu Qi will get up every day to practice martial arts, and do not give him time to play.

Hearing that Shu Qi is very diligent, Lao Touchlong smiled for the first time this morning: "The son can be taught...... I have a good son. ”

patted the hand of the concubine's room, he comforted her and said: "Don't worry, there is nothing big in the palace, there is the queen mother, there is Xiangbang and the general, there is the old man, Zhao Guoan is like a rock, no one can turn the sky!" ”

……

Half a moment later, sitting in the carriage slowly moving along the street, Zuo Shigong touched the dragon and closed his eyes slightly.

Yesterday, Zhao Mu of the Zhao clan came to visit with the token and oracle of King Zhao, although the dragon touched Zhao Mu's appearance like a woman, and the person who confused the king with color was extremely disliked, but what he said also made some sense.

"If Chang'anjun stays in the palace for a day, the hearts of Zhao will be uncertain for a day, and if Chang'anjun does not go to Qi for a day, then Zhao will be isolated and forced to force Qin. The internal strife and external difficulties are just around the corner, and Master Zuo will not come out at this time, but when? ”

Touching the dragon didn't have much impression of the son Chang'anjun who was spoiled by the queen mother, but he remembered that he was not weaned at the age of three, and he was taken by the queen mother all day long, and he didn't have much contact with the ministers outside the palace.

"The old decay can't watch the foundation that the previous king has worked so hard to build is ruined by the struggle for power and profit of his descendants......"

Stroking the jade gui on the top and bottom of the waist, touching the dragon sighed, he went from a local county official in the era of King Wuling, all the way to the imperial history of Zhao Palace, and later became the teacher and Bao of King Zhao Huiwen, it has been thirty or forty years.

Now that King Zhao Huiwen is newly mourned, Zhao is uneasy at home and abroad, and what is most worried at this time is the recurrence of the countless palace changes and seizures in the history of Zhao State.

Because, everything about him, including the family, has been inseparable from the Zhao royal family, one is prosperous, and the other is lost!

At this moment, the Emperor he trusted the most whispered, "Lord, the Plains King's mansion has arrived!" ”

The south bank of the Zhu River was originally the concentrated area of the mansion of the Zhao general, and when you go to the palace, you naturally have to pass in front of many people.

He lifted the curtain, and outside, the sky was still dark, even a little cold, but fortunately, there was a wall to block the car. Looking from inside the car, I saw the heavily guarded Pingyuan Jun's mansion, which was suddenly lit up at this time, and the vermilion gate slowly opened a gap, and someone looked out with a probe......

Pingyuan Jun is the younger brother of King Zhao Huiwen, the uncle of the current king, he is another world-famous son since the Meng Weijun of the Qi State, with more than a dozen mansions in Handan City, and 3,000 diners. Pingyuanjun has a wide range of contacts, is well-informed, and has his hands and eyes open to the sky, and Zuo Shigong's car passed by his door with open fire, so naturally he couldn't hide it from Pingyuanjun.

Not only Pingyuanjun, but also Xiangbang Lin Xiangru Mansion and Pingyang Jun Zhao Baofu where the carriage that touched the dragon passed next have been notified one after another, and they have lit lamps and candles, and the sparks are lit, as if they are watching the dragon enter the palace......

Everyone is an old acquaintance who has been in the political arena of Zhao for twenty or thirty years, and any wind and grass will be sensitively noticed by them.

This shows even more that the situation in Zhao is now very delicate.

Only the rugged general Lian Po's mansion was silent, and there was not even a doorkeeper to report the news, and General Lian was drinking and eating meat with the guests' private family members last night, and he was reclining on the couch and sleeping soundly at the moment.

"I really envy General Lian Po, I never need to think too much, I just need to recognize the king's seal and tiger talisman to lead the troops to kill the enemy......"

Touching the dragon smiled, put down the curtain, this is the end of this street, in front, is the palace of King Zhao!

At this moment, the eastern sky also revealed a hint of fish belly white, and at the north gate of Zhao Wanggong, Zhao Mu, who had been waiting here since the early hours of the morning, looked at the Zuoshi bus driving slowly in, revealing a trace of pride......

"Chang'anjun ......"

He sneered gloomily: "You borrowed from the Queen Mother, and the good days of staying in the palace have come to an end." ”