As the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, Zhao Kai was dressed in a military uniform, but he looked extremely heroic. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Beside him was a group of civil and military officials who took turns patting him on the back. These people are all middle and low-level, and they usually don't have contact with too high an environment, so they are in awe of Zhao Kai.

But although Zhao Kai was dealing with them with a smile on his face, he was a little anxious in his heart, and he didn't want to pay attention to everyone at all.

This place is the mansion of the great name of Hebei, and it is also the base camp of the expedition to Liao, where many military assets and armies from all walks of life will gather.

Although the envoys sent by the Liao State are still working hard, as long as they refuse to hand over the land of Yanyun, and at the same time revise the treaty between the two countries, and take the Song Emperor as their brother, then this war will inevitably be fought.

"It's coming!"

Just when Zhao Kai's patience was exhausted, he couldn't help but lift his spirits when he saw someone hurrying over.

Seeing this person coming, the surrounding civil officials and military generals also dispersed, and this person came to Zhao Kai, but his expression was a little gloomy: "The minister Wang Huang has seen His Royal Highness." ”

"Well, what's going on over there?"

Wang Hao shook his head: "The pirates are powerful, you can't do anything!" ”

"What about the Zhu family?"

"The Zhu family is still unhappy......"

Hearing this, Zhao Kai stroked his palm and patted Wang Hao's shoulder: "Since this is the case, then let the Zhu family do it!" ”

The Zhu family in his mouth is his own princess Zhu's father's family. This Zhu family is rich in beauties, not only Zhao Kai himself married the daughter of the Zhu family, but also the current prince Zhao Huan, who is also the daughter of the Zhu family.

At this time, Zhao Kai had the upper hand, and the only thing he was worried about was that Zhao Huan would join hands with Zhou Quan, so Wang Hao offered him a plan to use the Zhu family to provoke the gentry of the Beijing-Xu Railway and strive to meddle in the affairs of the Beijing-Xu Railway.

Of course, this incident made the relationship between Zhao Kai and Zhou Quan worse, but for him, the two of them had already torn their faces anyway, so it didn't matter. More importantly, it eliminated the room for Zhao Huan and Zhou Quan to join forces, so that Zhao Kai, as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, as long as he can recover Yanyun, his prestige is unmatched, and Wang Hao and others can come forward at that time to find an excuse to change the prince.

This is a conspiracy, even if Zhou Quan and Zhao Huan see it, they can't change it.

"It's still the Qing family's resourcefulness." patted Wang Hao's shoulder, Zhao Kai said with emotion. The cold light flashed in his eyes, and when he became the prince, the capital in the court would be far better than it is now, and he might really have the power to take Zhou Quan down.

"It's also the king Hongfu Qitian, now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!" Wang Hao smiled and said: "The minister came this time to send this east wind to the king." ”

"Oh...... You mean, that thing? Zhao Kai was surprised and delighted.

"Exactly, the imperial court formed the Shenlei Army, escorted twelve cannons, and is being escorted to the Daimyo's Mansion, the minister is just one step ahead, this matter is very important, in order to prevent leakage of news, no document has been sent to the king before, please forgive the king!"

Where would Zhao Kai mind this!

For him, this is a great joy, originally cut Liao, he had eighty percent certainty, and now this certainty is even more ten!

"Qing and Tong Gong are really meritorious, if it weren't for you, where there would be artillery, where would there be divine thunder!"

It was Tong Guan and Wang Huang who secretly developed artillery for the imperial court.

Zhao Kai was in the Daimyo's Mansion, but Tong Guan led the army to Xiongzhou. In his military tent, his grandson Tong gradually looked stunned and completely disbelievable.

"Grandfather, why ...... How so? He waited for a moment before he asked.

"Why is this the case?" Tong Guan is kind and pleasant, he has many children and grandchildren, but most of them have no prospects, they just rely on his power to be a rice worm. In his opinion, the only one who can inherit and grow the family business in the future is Tong Yan.

"You...... You are hiding it from Zhou Quan...... cast into artillery, and also formed the Shenlei Army, this matter, this matter was revealed, how could Zhou Quan not turn his face with my family? ”

"So what?" Tong Guan smiled: "Gradually, don't you understand, the wealth of our Tong family has always been on the royal family, not on his Zhou family!" ”

Tong Guan was still very puzzled, Tong Guan was very encouraging for him to interact with Zhou Quan before, and when Zhou Quan was in trouble several times, Tong Guan helped openly and secretly, but now, seeing that Zhou Quan has been crowned a public prince because of his merits, whether it is power or wealth, he has been extremely prosperous, but Tong Guan has done something that he secretly betrayed!

When he heard about the Divine Thunder Army, Tong Yan's first thought was to be bad, and he had to inform Zhou Quan quickly, and when he heard that this Divine Thunder Army was secretly trained by his grandfather, he was even more shocked.

"Grandfather...... Is it nice to do that, to do this? Even though Tong Guan explained the reason to him, he still asked timidly.

Tong Guan snorted: "What's wrong, I, Tong Guan, am the deputy marshal of the Great Song Dynasty, not the deputy marshal of the Zhou family...... You retreat, just follow the military counselor and military aircraft, don't do the rest! ”

Driving Tong away from him, Tong Guan rubbed his eyebrows, and the beard under his chin trembled with this action.

He is a eunuch, but he is a eunuch who can grow a beard, and his appearance is quite strange, which is an important reason why he can be reused by Zhao Ji.

The eunuch was parasitic on the imperial power, so between Zhou Quan and the Zhao family, he did not hesitate to choose the Zhao family. Now that the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty has also reached the time of change, sensitive people know that Zhao Ji's intention to change the prince is already very firm, and among them, Tong Guan has to add fuel to the fire.

Today's crown prince Zhao Huan is a pedantic and upright person, this kind of person is on the throne, Tong Guan and others don't want to have a good life, but Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, is very like Zhao Ji's temperament, if he can be pushed up, not only will he have the ability to make a decision, but also the future life will be better.

And when it comes to the origin, he has old grudges with Zhou Quan's uncle and father, when he first joined the Western Army, he was quite despised by Zhou Dong and Zhou Fu, but the other party was a small person, and Tong Guan forced them to leave the army and gave up, not to kill them all.

In terms of merit, the king who recovered Yanyun, with the character of the Zhao official family of the Great Song Dynasty, would not be crowned king in a big way, so Tong Guan and Zhou Quan would become direct competitors.

Zhou Quan's house, thinking that recovering the ten states and counties in the south of Yanjing would be enough to crown the king, he was still too naïve!

Thinking of this, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of Tong Guan's mouth. A Donghai Chamber of Commerce, although many forces in the DPRK and China are entangled together, but now, it is time for the Donghai Chamber of Commerce to disperse.

Of course, if Zhou Quan can retract his heart, hand over all the territory and army in his hands, and just concentrate on making money for everyone, then everyone can still tolerate him, and the Donghai Chamber of Commerce can maintain it, but with this guy's temperament, he will definitely not do this.

When the Beijing-Xuzhou Railway was built, it was the time when the Western Army marched eastward...... At that time, the Hebei Forbidden Army joined forces with the Western Army and the Beijing Forbidden Army, and Zhou Quan transferred his army from Jeju, so what could he do?

This guy has always been shrewd, but at this time, he is messing with the mud legs of the peasant association in the Central Plains, which is really unwise!

"Pass the order, tomorrow, beat the drum and gather the generals, and swear to attack Liao!" Tong Guan restrained his thoughts, as long as he won the Northern Expedition, after he went back, everything would be fine!

At this time, most of them, the bigwigs who knew the inside story, thought that Zhou Quan was entangled in the matter of the Beijing-Xu Railway, which was really unwise. But there were also people who paused and sighed at Zhao Huan today: "Your Highness, it is really unwise to be entangled in the affairs of the peasant association at this time!" ”

It was Lee Bang-yan who spoke.

Originally, Li Bangyan, like Wang Hao, chose to support Zhao Kai, but because he was frightened by Zhou Quan, as soon as Zhou Quan returned to Beijing, he immediately took leave and left Beijing, which made Zhao Kai quite disdainful. In addition, he and Wang Hao are close in age, and the two compete with each other, and Zhao Kai chose Wang Hao between the two.

This made him jealous, and he felt that Zhao Kai and Zhou Quan had completely turned their faces like this, and it was really a question whether they could succeed to the throne smoothly, so he came to burn the cold stove of the crown prince Zhao Huan again.

Zhao Huan's side, in addition to the conservative ministers, is Geng Nanzhong's three or two kittens, with the support of Li Bangyan, who is favored by his father, where can there be a sense of refusal, even if Li Bangyan has some habits, he and Geng Nanzhong can't get used to it, but now they can only endure it.

Hearing Li Bangyan's complaints, Zhao Huan disagreed: "This is not lonely, it is really Zhou Quan who is too domineering, and even the lonely princess's mother's family is bullied by that group of untouchables, is it tolerable, which is unbearable?" ”

Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai's princess are both from the Zhu family, and because Zhao Huan is the crown prince, the Zhu family is naturally more inclined to him, so Zhao Huan has used the Zhu family more than once to collect money for him.

Although Zhao Huan himself doesn't love money and playthings, he once smashed the glassware that Cai Jing gave him with his own hands, but the battle for the throne is so important, there is not enough money in his pocket to participate, where can he have a chance of winning!

Even in Xuzhou, he secretly communicated with a businessman surnamed Gong through the Zhu family, and made this person his agent, hitched a ride on Zhou Quan, and made a lot of money.

It is precisely for this reason that along the Beijing-Xu Railway, the Zhu family has some industries, and many gentry and official families are only the Zhu family's leaders, do not take the peasant union seriously, and try to seize the dominance of the railway and the countryside. In this trend, they became the key targets of the peasant association, and they gave more than ten lives to this end, but the members of the peasant association who beat people to death went to Xuzhou one by one, and were directly sent to Jeju or exiled by Zhou Quan.

There are even two of them, who are distant relatives of the Zhu family, and their family members cried and cried to find the Zhu family, and the Zhu family not only looked for Zhao Ji to complain, but of course they had to come to Zhao Huan to beg. Zhao Huan was furious when he heard the news, so he played again and again, asking Zhao Ji to punish Zhou Quan.

The unwise move that Li Bangyan said was precisely this matter.

When he heard Zhao Huan say this, he immediately smiled bitterly and said: "The humiliation suffered by Zhou Quan by the minister is well known to His Royal Highness, if the minister can't bear it, he has already gone with Zhu Mian as a companion!" The minister can even endure this kind of humiliation, and His Royal Highness can endure stinginess for big things, why not? Besides, now, His Royal Highness's important matter is not in Zhou Quan, but in the wall! Now that Zhou Quan and that one are incompatible, His Royal Highness should be reconciled, thinking that it is foreign aid, so why do this unwise thing! Although Nan Zhong and the others are upright people, they act broadly and squarely, and His Highness cannot use his words to the fullest! ”

Zhao Huan pursed his lips, Geng Nanzhong and the others around him only advised him to be cautious and self-controlled, and when he mentioned Zhou Quan, they were filled with righteous indignation, and it was really rare to see someone like Li Bangyan who gave him advice.

Could it be that he really wants to be like Li Bangyan said, bend his mind to marry Zhou Quan, and get through the current storage crisis first? (To be continued.) )