Chapter 333: Borrowing Grain
In fact, similar rumors have not been broken since Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne, and everyone said that the reason why he was able to succeed to the throne was because he falsely passed on the will of the queen mother and fabricated a golden alliance, which surpassed Zhao Kuangyin's many sons and became the emperor himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The so-called Jinkui Alliance, to the effect that Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi's mother, Empress Dowager Du, saw that the Zhou lord Shaoguo was suspicious, so they lost the country, so they asked their brothers to agree that if Zhao Kuangyin died, the prince was young, and the throne would be passed to Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Guangyi would be passed to Zhao Guangmei, and Zhao Guangmei would be passed on to Zhao Kuangyin's son, so as to ensure that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty would always be an adult.
But in fact, when Zhao Kuangyin died, his eldest sons were in their twenties, and there was no doubt about the lord and the country, but Zhao Guangyi was still the emperor, and the reason for this is somewhat intriguing.
And there is also a folk saying that the reason why Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly was because Zhao Guangyi assassinated him in order to compete for the throne.
Although there is no basis for this statement, many people still believe it, and no one knows who is right and who is wrong.
But in any case, Zhao Guangyi's ruthlessness is well known, after he succeeded to the throne, his younger brother Zhao Guangmei was killed by him because of rebellion, and Zhao Kuangyin's sons also died one after another, everyone can see that this is what Zhao Guangyi did.
As for why he did this, it was naturally to kill everyone who could inherit his throne and pass it on to his son.
As a result, Zhao Guangyi's reputation among the people is not very good, and even some places are notorious.
It can be seen that although the descendants of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi did not explicitly oppose him, they must hate him in their hearts.
And today, after Zhao Guangyi's Northern Expedition, he couldn't wait to go west, and so many people were killed by Yi Dechao, which greatly consumed the national strength, and there were Sichuan Gorge riots and Zhending natural disasters one after another, and these old royal family members found an opportunity and began to make waves again.
Don't underestimate these people, their ancestors and fathers are either emperors or vassal kings who guard one side, and they still have secret strength, and no one knows whether the officials in the court have their people, and no one knows how much wealth they have gathered.
If something happens in the Great Song Dynasty one day, the strength of these people may be enough to turn the situation around.
Zhao Guangyi saw that even a high-ranking official like Li Fu had heard those folk rumors, and he knew that this matter had become known to everyone.
He began to panic, compared to Zhao Gulai, he was more jealous of his nephews and nephews, these people are all members of the royal family, in a general sense, they also have the right to inherit the emperor's throne, which is a great threat to Zhao Guangyi.
No, the disaster situation in Zhending Mansion must be resolved quickly.
Thinking of this, Zhao Guangyi suddenly said: "I thought about it for a while, Zhenla is also a strong country, if you can take advantage of the matter of receiving grain, and have in-depth exchanges with them, it is also good, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the future to jointly resist natural and man-made disasters is also a beautiful talk." ”
The ministers were a little stunned, what do you mean, Your Majesty? In just a few moments, turning your face is the same as flipping a book?
But except for Mu Gong, in fact, the rest of the people were already accustomed to Zhao Guangyi's neurotic treatment of the court Dafa, so they quickly turned around.
"But the emperor, even if we want to borrow grain from the Zhenla country, the Zhenla country may not necessarily borrow it! And the rations of hundreds of thousands of people are not a small number, can the country of Zhenla come up with so much food? Another governor Lu Duandao.
All the ministers nodded, and all looked at Zhao Guangyi, waiting for his decision.
"Ahem, this matter ...... You still need to run it well, it's a big deal that we can give them more gifts, silk, gold and silver, etc. Zhao Guangyi said slightly unnaturally.
Seeing this, the ministers all sighed in their hearts, dignified China, perhaps has never done such a low-voiced thing since ancient times!
And the most important thing is that Zhao Guangyi said such things without any psychological pressure at all.
How thick is this cheek!
"I'm afraid that this matter is indispensable for Zhuo Guogong to go in person, since he knows that Zhenla has grain, he must have some understanding there." Mu Gong said.
All the ministers nodded, although these people were conceited to read poetry and books, but the Zhenla country was far outside the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and few people went there, so naturally there were not many records, so they only knew that such a country existed, but they didn't even know the basic direction.
"Let Zhao Gu go?" Zhao Guangyi thought for a while: "Okay, then let him go, pass the decree to Zhao Gu, let him be the messenger of Zhenla, if he can borrow food this time, if the disaster relief is successful, I will make him the king of Zhuozhou County." ”
Even if the provincial officials under the door issued a holy decree, they would not dare to delay such a major event.
The decree was sent out in an instant, and the ministers began to discuss where to transfer food to postpone the disaster.
Although the ministers were discussing this matter, they were thinking about another thing in their hearts, that is, why was Zhao Guangyi so generous this time, and he actually wanted to crown Zhao Gu as the king of the county?
Naturally, they didn't know that Zhao Gu's family was all in Zhao Guangyi's hands, let alone a county king, even if it was a prince, he dared to seal it, because he expected that Zhao Gu would not be able to run out of his palm.
When the holy decree arrived at the Zhending Mansion, the Zhending Prefect breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed to Zhao Gu to the ground: "This time it's all up to the Grandpa Guo." ”
Zhao Gu smiled: "It's okay, it's just doing things for the country and the people." ”
That night, Zhao Gu set off and boarded the carriage under the send-off of the prefect of Zhending.
According to the advice of the prefect of Zhending, Zhao Gu will board the ship directly in Cangzhou, and then go all the way to Zhenla country, and will not take the land route again.
Cangzhou is located on the border of Hebei Province and has a long sea horizon, although it is not famous, and even in later generations when the marine foundation was widely developed, it is undeniable that it has a sea and a wharf.
The prefect of Zhending did not expect that although Zhao Gu got on the carriage and his carriage had been heading to Cangzhou, he himself was not in the carriage, but returned to Zhending Mansion on the night of the second day.
In fact, Zhao Gu gave Zhao Guangyi two purposes, one of which was to borrow grain, enrich the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty, and get the grain seeds of Zhenla to improve the genes of the grain seeds of the Great Song Dynasty, but the most important purpose was to secretly Chen Cang.
The so-called Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang means that this is being done on the surface, but in fact it is another goal.
This time, the person sitting in his carriage is Hao Bai, who will go to Zhenla on behalf of Zhao Gu to borrow grain, while Zhao Gu will go all the way north and enter Liao.