When Zhao Yuanxi's first batch of horses arrived at the Song-Liao border, the other three actually knew about it. But along with the problems that came arose, two of the three wanted to make some articles out of it.

Zhao Guangyi's reaction after knowing this incident was anger and pain, he didn't expect that his son, who did everything possible to protect, would really stab himself in the end. Once the Liao State is meticulously made with the entry of horses, it will know everything in the north in detail, so that if the Liao State fights against the Song Dynasty again, once it reaches the territory of the Song Dynasty, it will have twice the result with half the effort.

But Zhao Guangyi can only deal with this matter quietly, because once this matter is exposed, not only will Zhao Yuanxi's life not be reported, but also the face of the royal family will be lost.

But the other two don't think so, Zhao Weiji, who is bent on letting Zhao Yuanxi fall into the abyss of no return, is the only thing that the Khitans will get through this matter How much information on the Great Song border will be, as for the face of the royal family, that is definitely not something he has to consider. Because he is a modern man at heart, he doesn't have much gratitude for his royal status. This identity has a lot of restrictions on him.

Another person, Zhao Heng's opinion on this matter is even more complicated, on the one hand, he hopes to use this matter to completely pull Zhao Yuanxi off the stage, after all, although he has real power now, he has no name, as long as he can't sit in the position of prince for a day, he can't feel at ease for a day, after all, there are many dreams at night.

But on the other hand, Zhao Heng also hopes that this matter can be resolved safely, after all, it is about the glory of the royal family.

In this way, there are contradictions between the three of them, but they all have points of convergence of interests. The contradiction is that Zhao Weiji wants Zhao Yuanxi to die, but Zhao Guangyi wants to save Zhao Yuanxi's life, and Zhao Heng does not want Zhao Yuanxu to step down safely. The convergence of interests is that the three of them don't want Liao to get anything out of this matter.

In this way, a new round of political games has emerged.

First of all, the smuggling of horses was quickly strangled on the border line, and Zhao Weiji ordered the beggars to put croton in the diet of the horses, but the horses could not move forward normally at all, and dragged down the actions of the Liao State.

Immediately after Zhao Heng's men arrived, his men detained the horses on the grounds of anti-smuggling, and ignored any so-called legal procedures indicated by the Liao State.

But just when Zhao Heng wanted to bring Liao Guo's fine work back to the capital with the horses, he encountered robbers on the way.

This group of robbers was the forbidden army under Zhao Guangyi in order to bring the secret of the fine work back to the capital, hoping to hold the greatest evidence in their hands.

Of course, at this moment, it is Zhao Guangyi who plays the most beautifully, as long as he is meticulous in his own hands, then there will be no evidence for other accusations that may pose a threat to Zhao Yuanxi. When the time comes, he will find another excuse to remove Zhao Yuanxi from the position of the prince and put him under house arrest, and the matter will be over.

But although he thinks well, another person will not let him be so wishy-washy, this person is Zhao Weiji. Because Zhao Weiji already had another piece of evidence in his hand at this time, a piece of evidence that was more terrifying than Liao's meticulous work.

Just when Zhao Heng was having a headache and only got back some broken horses with diarrhea, an anonymous letter was delivered to King Xiang's mansion. The letter recorded in detail some of the various illegal transactions carried out by Zhao Yuanxi over the years, including those with the party nobles and the Khitan.

"Don't wonder who I am, and don't think where I got this from, if you want the royal family to avoid the biggest loss, then grant me two requests. First: Zhao Yuanxi must not survive. Second, we can't let the officials know about the deal. If you agree to these two requests, then hang two red lanterns outside the Xiangwang Mansion before the next day, and all the ledgers will reach you in a few days. ”

If this letter was seen by Zhao Guangyi, he would definitely be able to quickly guess that the person behind the scenes was Zhao Weiji, but Zhao Heng didn't know about it, because Zhao Heng happened to be not in Beijing when it happened. After the incident, the whole thing was quickly sealed by Zhao Guangyi. So Zhao Heng didn't know that the person who wanted Zhao Yuanxi's life was Zhao Weiji.

At this time, Zhao Heng was in trouble, and what was in front of him now was definitely an excellent opportunity, because after losing the Liao State Fine, this was the only possibility for him to immediately bring down Zhao Yuanxi. But the other party's request was a little difficult for him to accept, and the other party asked Zhao Yuanxi to die.

It's not that Zhao Heng is reluctant to Zhao Yuanxi, the matter has reached this point, and the so-called brotherhood is already nonsense. But this kind of thing Zhao Heng can't bring up to Zhao Guangyi. Because the only way to solve this matter without damaging the face of the Great Song royal family is for Zhao Heng to go to Zhao Guangyi to force Zhao Guangyi to abolish Zhao Yuanxi by way of transaction after obtaining the complete account book. However, Zhao Heng could only mention the request to abolish at most, and could not ask Zhao Yuanxi to die.

Zhao Heng knew where Zhao Guangyi's bottom line was. Zhao Guangyi has always been burdened with the black cauldron of killing his brother and usurping the throne. He couldn't have wanted his son to kill his brother for the sake of the emperor's throne. If this is the case, Zhao Heng believes that his position as the prince will not last long, after all, he still has a younger brother.

In fact, Zhao Weiji didn't want to block Zhao Heng like this, but if Zhao Weiji made the account books public or directly got Zhao Guangyi, there would only be two results, and if Zhao Yuanxi died, Zhao Guangyi would be able to deduce his existence from it. If you want to eliminate your sense of existence, you can't ask Zhao Yuanxi to die.

No matter which aspect it is, Zhao Weiji is unwilling to accept it, and he remembered Zhao Heng when he was in a dilemma. Zhao Weiji knew that Zhao Heng didn't know much about the assassination. So he decided to take advantage of Zhao Heng Since you are going to sit on the position of the prince, then please worry about this matter.

As for whether Zhao Heng would agree to Zhao Weiji's request here, but not implement this kind of thing as required, Zhao Weiji didn't think about it, but he was not afraid. Because even if Zhao Yuanxi survived, Zhao Weiji would get rid of this person by means of assassination. At that time, the biggest suspect in Zhao Guangyi's eyes will only be Zhao Heng, not Zhao Weiji. Because Zhao Guangyi will understand that you Zhao Heng personally overthrew Zhao Yuanxi, he is not satisfied, and he must be put to death to feel at ease.

Zhao Heng also thought of this, he had considered the two-faced approach from the beginning, but later had to give up this approach, because when he asked Zhang Zhibai, Zhang Zhibai said this:

"If the king of Luoyang suddenly dies after you ascend to the throne of the prince, what will the official family think?"

That's right, if after I ascended the throne of the prince through this means, the other party directly killed Zhao Yuanxi, the biggest suspect that my father suspected could only be himself.

So instead of this, it is better to find a way to kill Zhao Yuanxi without disgusting his father, and there will be no worries.

But what to do?

I don't know how many times Zhao Yuanyi has touched Zhao Guangyi's bottom line because of all the things he has done during this time, but because he is sorry for the Yin family, Zhao Guangyi has never done anything to Zhao Yuanyi. At this time, how to make Zhao Guangyi make up his mind to execute Zhao Yuanxi is the key.

Although Zhao Heng couldn't think of how to make Zhao Guangyi make up his mind to execute Zhao Yuanxi for a while, he couldn't miss the opportunity, so he still decided to get the account books in hand now.

So that night, two red lanterns were hung at the door of King Xiang's mansion. On the tenth day after the lantern was hung, the account book was in Zhao Heng's hands, along with the way the account book was interpreted.

This account book has always been well hidden by Zhao Yuanxi, but once Zhao Yuanxi drank too much, and when he took the account book to look through it, it was seen by the spies who turned out to be placed by Zhao Weiji's side. When Zhao Weiji knew that Liao Guo's fine work had been kidnapped this time, he immediately understood that this was Zhao Guangyi's move to report Zhao Yuanxi. Therefore, he sent someone to steal the account book from Zhao Yuanxi's palace according to the information provided by the original spy.

When they first saw the account book, Zhao Weiji and his staff didn't see the reason, because the account book was written in a password. But with Zhao Weiji's careful inspection, the password of this account book was easily cracked by Zhao Weiji.

In fact, the password is very simple, that is, the numbers recorded on the odd-numbered pages are used to correspond to the order of the words in the articles written on the even-numbered pages, and as long as they are corresponded one by one, the content of the entire account book can be easily interpreted.

When Zhao Heng decoded the entire account book according to the interpretation method provided by Zhao Weiji, Zhao Heng knew that as long as this account book was handed over to Zhao Guangyi, then Zhao Yuanxi would die.

The contents recorded in the account books were so shocking that most of the officials in the DPRK and China had an affair with Zhao Yuanxi, and the amount of transactions between Zhao Yuanxi, Zhao Pu and the party was so huge that Zhao Heng could not believe it. The reason why no trace of these horses was found in the Central Plains was because Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu did not trade many horses in the Central Plains at all, but sold most of the horses to Jiaozhi.

After Jiaozhi became independent, it was unable to recover by force three or four times, and one of the important reasons was that Jiaozhi suddenly had cavalry, and this group of cavalry that appeared inexplicably caused great trouble to the Song army.

Zhao Heng knew that Zhao Yuanxi would not survive just by virtue of this. But why can Zhao Heng see these doorways, but Zhao Weiji can't see it. Because Zhao Weiji had not crossed over when Jiaozhi was independent, Zhao Weiji at that time was still the real Zhao Weiji. After Zhao Ji crossed over and occupied Zhao Weiji's body, Jiaozhi was already independent, and Zhao Weiji's main mind was on the Khitan and Liao States in the north, so he did not pay too much attention to Southeast Asia.

When Zhao Heng decided to rely on the account books to start acting, Zhao Weiji didn't have the heart to take care of the capital anymore, because Wang Dayuan came back, and he also brought back a special guest.