Chapter Ninety-Six: The Wrath of the Monarch
With the arrival of heavy snow, the temperature plummeted, and the capital was already a piece of cold and frozen, and the roofs, buildings, flowers and trees, as well as the peaks in the suburbs, were already covered with white snow.
In such weather, people naturally rarely come out, there are few pedestrians on the street, most people take this opportunity to invite three or five friends, scald a pot of wine and a small gathering, but also have a good time, life is not moist.
However, at such a time, some people stayed restlessly in the house, but climbed to the top of the mountain to blow a cool breeze.
"Oh, roar, roar—"
In the western suburbs of the imperial city, on the Lion Tiger Mountain, with a long roar, a figure slid straight down from the snow peak, and when he got closer, he found that the person was holding a wooden stick with both hands, but he was stepping on a wooden board with a warped head, the wooden board was specially designed, the surface was polished, extremely slippery, and the front was installed with a few nails, tied with cowhide, so that the human foot stepped on it, the cowhide could be tightened, and the human foot was tied, and under closer inspection, it was actually a real snowboard!
"Hahaha, fun, hahaha, Xiao Yu'er is really a genius, she can come up with such a delicate thing, hahaha-"
Zhu Houzhao slid to the bottom of the peak, while untying the cowhide that tied his feet, he laughed, reached out and took a sip of tea, and then said to the eunuchs under him: "Hurry up, move me to the peak again, I still have to ski!" ”
As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he took the lead in climbing towards the snow peak, and those little eunuchs had to hold wooden sticks and skis to follow closely.
"Hey, I don't know how Xiao Yu'er is, I really miss her a little," Zhu Houzhao took the lead in climbing to the snow peak, unconsciously facing the mountains, and sighed for a while. It turned out that his skis were also something that Xiao Yuer had told him when he was in Beijing. At that time, Xiao Yuer first let his artist make a skateboard, and then he felt unhappy, so he asked Xiao Yuer if there was any other way to play, Xiao Yuer told him that when winter came, he could ski, and then told him in detail what the skis looked like, how to ski, Zhu Houzhao wrote them down one by one, and now that he saw the snow, he couldn't help but make the snowboard, and then he practiced it, mastered the essentials, and slid down, he didn't feel that he was happy, and soon fell in love with this sport, At the same time, I miss Xiao Yu'er even more, and I hope she can come back soon.
"Oh ha, I'm coming—"
With another long scream, Zhu Houzhao slid down the snow peak again, drifting all the way, so unhappy.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty—"
Just when Zhu Houzhao came to the bottom of the snow peak again, he saw Gao Fengzheng, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, running over breathlessly, panting, as if he had something to report.
"Gao Feng, what's wrong? What's the matter? Don't tell me that it's Jiao Fang who asked me to go to the meeting, you tell him that I've been very busy lately, and let him discuss the disaster relief with the people in the household department, don't bother me," Zhu Houzhao said to Gao Feng while disassembling the skis.
"No, no, Your Majesty, it's a big deal, it's not a good thing!" Gao Feng gasped for a long time, then bent over and said.
"What's wrong? You guys like to be alarmist, let's see, I want to see what you can say," Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, the former army of Ulzhou reported urgently, the county lord of Weiyuan was robbed and killed by thieves when he drove to the Hengshan Mountain Range, and now the whereabouts of the county lord of Weiyuan are unknown, and something happened in the army, and something happened in the army, Wei Bin was assassinated by thieves, died in battle, and died in martyrdom-" Gao Feng said.
"What? What did you say?! ”
Zhu Houzhao didn't care about Wei Bin's affairs at all, but it was impossible for him not to care about Xiao Yu'er, so he immediately fried the pot, rushed up and grabbed Gao Feng's collar and said, "Are your words serious?" Xiao Yu'er, what happened to Xiao Yu'er?! ”
"Your Majesty, the county lord, the county lord, she doesn't know where she is for the time being, the person who led the soldiers to rob and kill the car driver is the county lord's father Liang Hong, so the slave guesses, the slave guesses, the county lord has probably been rescued by her father," Gao Feng said nervously.
"Bastard!" Zhu Houzhao's face turned purple, and he roared and overthrew Gao Feng to the ground, and then he was so angry that his hands trembled, and after a while, he shouted: "Come on, drive back to the palace, and Liu Daxia, the cabinet minister and the secretary of the military department, enter the palace immediately to see me!" ”
"Yes, yes, Your Majesty drove back to the palace-" Gao Feng got up from the ground, hurriedly shouted, and then stepped forward to help Zhu Houzhao and walked down the mountain.
"Okay, you Liang Hong, you have a good time, you have a good time, you have a good time!"
Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists tightly as he walked down the mountain, gritting his teeth with hatred.
"If I don't give you some color to see, I'm ashamed of the big tomorrow, this is what you forced me!" Zhu Houzhao felt a little difficult to breathe, walked to the periphery of the leopard room, and found that Luan Jia was already waiting there, so he couldn't help but sit upright and prepare to go back to the palace, but as soon as everyone lifted him up, he suddenly waved his hand and said, "Wait a minute, I want to bring something back!" ”
Zhu Houzhao's actions made the attendants a little curious, and then they saw His Majesty the Emperor hurrying into the leopard room alone.
Gao Feng hurriedly followed, and after entering, he found that the emperor had turned to a side room, and after entering the room, Gao Feng found that the room was actually an armory, and there were many knives, guns, swords, and halberds against the wall, among which a dark red long knife on the table on the back wall was the most eye-catching. The long knife looked like a peerless weapon, although no one moved it at this time, it even faintly emitted the sound of a dragon's groan, and it seemed that the knife had a soul, and it was waiting for the blood of the eating person very much.
Zhu Houzhao stepped forward, grabbed the handle of the knife, lifted the long knife one by one, and then roared, swinging the knife and slashing it, actually splitting a good ebony table in two.
Gao Feng was stunned for a while, not knowing what His Majesty the Emperor was going to do, but then he heard Zhu Houzhao say coldly: "Liang Hong, do you remember this knife?" This is your weapon, you wait for it, I will use this knife to cut off your head myself! ”
As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he turned around awe-inspiringly, grabbed a scabbard casually, put the long knife away, and walked quickly outside.
An hour later, in the living room on the side of the Jinluan Palace, Jiao Fang, Yang Tinghe, Li Dongyang, Liu Jian, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and other ministers knelt in a row, all with gloomy faces, they had also received the news and knew about the former army of Ulzhou, of course, the thing they were more worried about was about the county lord of Weiyuan. This little girl with infinite grace was actually robbed by thieves, they didn't have to think about it, they could know what Zhu Houzhao's anger had become at this time.
However, after a while, when they saw the emperor enter the living room with a sword on his shoulder, they were still a little shocked. Zhu Houzhao's face turned blue, and the fingers holding the handle of the knife trembled, looking at that appearance, he felt that he would pull out a knife and kill people at any time.
Seeing this situation, after several people kowtowed to the mountain and shouted long live, they each stood with their heads bowed, not daring to say a word.
Zhu Houzhao walked to the seat and sat down, glanced at these people, and then snorted coldly, this cold snort shocked several people's hearts, and a cold sweat broke out on Jiao Fang's forehead, after all, it was his strategy to let the county lord of Weiyuan go to Ulzhou to recruit the thief army, and now that something happened to the county lord of Weiyuan, he could not escape the responsibility.
"Why don't you speak? I ask you, why don't you speak?! Zhu Houzhao glared at them and asked.
"Your Majesty, the old minister deserves death, it's all the old minister's bad, if it weren't for the old minister's proposal to let the county lord go to the front line in Ulzhou, it wouldn't be, there wouldn't be such a thing, the old minister asked His Majesty to punish him-" Jiao Fang knelt down and pleaded guilty.
"Oh, I remember, you brought this matter up first, yes, you are guilty, but this matter is put on hold for now, I will settle accounts with you later, you don't care about anyone's responsibility now, think about it for me, what to do now, think about it quickly, I don't have much patience!" Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, several old ministers couldn't help frowning and thinking about it, and after a while, it was Yang Tinghe who spoke first: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Liang Hong is bold and reckless, despises the emperor's grace, and knows that His Majesty sent the county lord of Weiyuan to Ulzhou to recruit him, but he still openly led the thief army to rob and kill the county lord, and forcibly took the county lord back, so the old minister thinks that the only way at the moment is to quickly lead the Ulzhou front army into the mountains to suppress the thieves, these thieves are stubborn, we can only succumb to them if we are afraid of them! ”
At this time, Yang Tinghe's heart was happy. It was the first time in so many days that he had heard good news, and he couldn't help but be happy when he heard it.
Yang Shen did a good job, although he didn't kill the little girl, but she was robbed back by the thieves, which cut off the opportunity for the little girl to enter the palace again, in addition, Wei Bin was assassinated, in this way, the army of thieves can be under Yang Shen's full command, it is a large force, a full 30,000 people, including two battalions of Shenji Battalion, advanced equipment, hehe, in this way, as long as Yang Shen masters this army, he will not lose power in the court, not to mention the matter of the county lord of Weiyuan going to Ulzhou, It was Jiao Fang who proposed it, and now that something has happened, Jiao Fang will not escape the blame, so as long as he operates properly, he may be able to bring down this old fox and put himself back in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.
"Yes, Yang Aiqing's words are very agreeable!"
Sure enough, the emperor also openly supported Yang Tinghe, and Yang Tinghe smiled for a while, and he almost jumped up.
"In this case, the minister immediately ordered someone to notify the former army of Ulzhou to launch an encirclement and suppression of the thieves!" Hearing this, Yang Tinghe didn't pay attention to Jiao Fang, as if he was already the first assistant of the cabinet, so he couldn't help but take the idea on his own and was ready to do something big.