"The king of the town left the capital last night in front of the gate of the city?" After hearing the news, Zhao Weiji's eyebrows were all wrinkled together.

What does it mean for him to leave the capital at this juncture? Give up? Obviously not, although he has an overall advantage, but it is not yet the time for him to despair.

Besides, if you really take the initiative to give up, it won't be over when you leave the capital in a bright way, why do you want to leave Beijing at night? Zhao Weiji, who really couldn't figure out this, had to bury this matter in his heart for the time being, and then continued his family banquet.

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Three days later, the imperial court finally announced the news of Zhenzong's death, and the whole country entered a state of national mourning.

At the same time, since King Zhen had already left Beijing, Zhao Weiji, who had basically cleared the way, was also declared as the candidate for the next emperor by Empress Zhenzong Guo.

The enthronement ceremony will be held in three months, and Zhao Weiji will temporarily handle the government with the prince's affairs.

The reason why the enthronement ceremony was postponed for so long, in addition to the uncertain factors such as the king of Zhen's hurried departure from Beijing, the most important reason was that Zhao Weiji had to wait for his wife and children to return to the capital before he could be crowned.

Otherwise, the emperor and queen are still out of town, so it won't look good.

Since he became the prince, he should move into the palace to live, but because the concubines of Zhenzong in the palace have not been properly settled, Zhao Weiji has to temporarily live in the East Palace belonging to the prince. And the routine court meeting was also changed to the East Palace.

Originally, the other officials who were still waiting and watching wanted to see how capable this Zhao Weiji could be through the first routine court meeting, but they didn't expect this person to come up and follow the whole Xiao Gui, and Zhenzong's policy must not have changed. even handed over most of the things to Kou Zhun to handle. I hid by myself.

In fact, it's not that Zhao Weiji is incompetent. Or he doesn't want to make any changes, he has a lot of governance plans in his stomach to be implemented.

It's just that there are still hidden dangers that have not been eliminated, and he has not yet ascended the throne, and Zhao Weiji doesn't want to rush it. However, Zhao Weiji's slowness confused some people who were still wavering, and they thought that since Xiao Gui Cao followed, it would not touch their vested interests, so they put their hearts down.

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Time has passed like this, and the news of Zhao Weiji's family, who is looking forward to the return of his wife and children every day in the East Palace, has not yet arrived, but the news of the king of the town has come out.

After the town king returned to the fiefdom. As soon as the imperial court announced the news of Zhenzong's death, they erected a counter-flag. The slogan he shouted was that Zhao Weiji and Kou Zhun took advantage of the opportunity of the Liao army to lure Zhenzong into the expedition, and deliberately did not open the city gate at the first time after Zhenzong was injured and fell off the horse, and finally caused Zhenzong to not be able to get treatment as soon as possible, so that he died.

These two people acted in an organized and premeditated manner, and they were the biggest traitors in the Great Song Dynasty, and everyone was punished for it.

And this guy also found Cao Can as his witness and general, and gathered 50,000 horses to kill Chao Bianliang.

After Zhao Weiji heard the news. Rubbing his temples with a headache, he knew that this thing would not live in peace. It's just that I didn't expect his ability to be small, and he actually gathered a team in such a short time.

"What's going on with this Cao Can." Zhao Weiji took the chapter and asked the people standing in front of him, in addition to Kou Zhun and the original Zhao Weiji's staff, there was one more person, this person was Zhang Zhibai, who was originally arranged by Zhao Weiji to Zhao Heng's side, and later participated in political affairs.

After Cao Can's person was seriously injured in Zhenzong, he was dismissed from all his positions and idle at home, and due to the urgency of the war, he was not dealt with more for the time being.

After the battle, the court began to fight for the inheritance of the great unification and stand in line, and gradually forgot about this person, if it wasn't for the rebellion of the king of the town, it is estimated that no one can remember that there is such a number one person waiting to be punished.

In the face of Zhao Weiji's inquiry, Lai Kou Zhun couldn't come up with a suitable answer for the time being, who would have thought that such a product would now jump to the center of the stage and start to influence the situation.

Looking at the people below looking at each other speechlessly, Zhao Weiji also died of the heart to ask what was going on, but Lailong couldn't ask, the context had to be figured out, how should this person's words be dealt with, he still had to ask: "Okay, I won't ask you how you got it by Zhao Yuanwei, but you have to tell me what he said, what should we do?" ”

What did this person say that made Zhao Weiji pay so much attention. In fact, he didn't say anything, he just confirmed what Zhao Yuanwei said, don't look at it, it was just true, but as the person who stayed by Zhenzong's side after he was seriously injured, he had the most say in what happened on the battlefield.

He said that the city guards deliberately did not open the door, that is, they deliberately did not open the door.

"What he said ......." To be honest, this also made Kou Zhun scratch his head a little, after all, he did prevent the guards from opening the door to welcome Zhenzong back, but that was because the Liao army had already arrived in the city at that time, and once the door was opened, the city might be broken by the Liao army.

But now that the battle has been fought, if someone says that it is just an excuse made by Kou Zhun to deliberately not open the door, Kou Zhun can't refute it with favorable evidence, and basically has nothing to do.

Thinking of this, Kou Zhun knelt down in front of Zhao Weiji with a puff: "Lord Wang, Zhun is indeed blocking the first time to open the door to welcome the retreat of the emperor, this is a fact, no matter the reason, the fact is the fact that there is no way to refute." Ask the prince to resign and die, so that he can quell the rebels of the king of Zhen, and no longer give them a reason to raise troops. Second, it can be regarded as atonement for the death of the former emperor. ”

After speaking, Kou Zhun kowtowed on the ground three times.

When Zhao Weiji saw Kou Zhun's actions, he was moved and angry. What moved was that Kou Zhun did not hesitate to sacrifice his life in order not to be blamed and for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty not to stop the smoke of gunpowder. The angry thing is that if he dies, he will undoubtedly lose a heavy minister, and he really can't make it, even if he fights, will the forbidden army and the Northwest Army who have just defeated the Khitan Iron Cavalry be afraid of Zhao Yuanqi's rabble.

Zhao Weiji hurriedly got up and helped Kou Zhun up, and then said, "Ping Zhong, it's not worth it. Everyone knows that you stopped the door from opening the door for the first time for the people of the city, and you are not responsible for the death of the emperor. Besides, even if I put you to death, do you think they're going to stop marching? Thinking about Chao Cuo and the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, Ping Zhong should also know that even if you die, they should still rebel. ”

As soon as Zhao Weiji said this, Kou Zhun gave up the idea of sacrificing himself. That's right, back then, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu shouted that it was a mistake to kill Chao, and the Qing monarch was on the side. As a result, after Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty killed Chao Cuo, didn't the people who should have rebelled still not stop.

"That's the case, but what to do now?"

After Zhao Weiji thought about it, he smiled coldly: "Since you Zhao Yuanwei are famous, I will go to your name first." Let you taste the power of public opinion warfare first. ”

"With obscurity, give me a decree, in the name of the empress (that is, Guo's, because Zhao Weiji has not yet ascended the throne, so he can only be called the queen for the time being) to write a condemnation of Cao Can, counting how he did not protect the emperor well, causing the emperor to accidentally be attacked by the Liao army, so that he was seriously injured and died."

"Yes."

After giving Zhang Zhibai the order, Zhao Weiji asked Guo Bailuo to go to "Shilin Daily" to find a few pens and let them write a large number of articles condemning Zhao Yuanwei, the king of the town. The central idea of the article is, since you have a large number of soldiers and horses, why didn't you lead your troops to Qin Wang when Bianliang City was besieged by the Khitans, but instead the Liao people rebelled after they retreated.

None of Zhao Weiji's two orders were issued in response to the other party's public opinion attack, because the matter of being splashed with dirty water is generally more and more black, and sometimes the truth can finally be discovered by the masses without explanation.

As soon as these two orders came out, the people who were still discussing whether Zhao Weiji, who was about to ascend the throne, really colluded with Kou Zhun and murdered the former emperor, and all of a sudden they all pointed the finger at Zhao Yuanwei, the king of the town.

If Zhao Weiji's first order to condemn Cao Can was a little painless, the criticism of Zhao Yuanwei in the newspaper was a bit fatal.

Whether the death of the former emperor was premeditated is actually opened by the common people is to satisfy their own gossip psychology, after all, as long as there is no longer a war, whoever is the emperor should eat the nest head or eat the nest head.

But the things that the newspaper said are different, if Bianliang is really broken, it will not be a matter of eating the nest, in the face of the brutal Khitans, whether the life can be saved is two words.

Such a matter related to vital interests is not as simple as looking at gossip. Since you Zhao Yuanwei have heavy troops, why didn't you come to save Bianliang City in the first place, is it really like what the newspaper said in the article, it is for self-protection, once Bianliang City is broken, you will tear the ground and become the king.

In this way, in the face of the imminent rebels, the people in Bianliang City are unprecedentedly united and share the same hatred. And the people in other states and counties of the Great Song Dynasty began to stop believing Zhao Yuanwei's propaganda after seeing these articles.

After all, they didn't see whether Zhao Weiji really murdered the emperor, but it was a fact that they brought troops back to King Qin and repelled the Khitans.

Although it is not as painful as the people in Bianliang City who did not come to the rescue of Zhao Yuanwei, the feeling of being abandoned can still be experienced.

After such a toss by Zhao Weiji, Zhao Yuanwei found that the prefectures and counties along the road that had opened the city gates to him had begun to resist, and his banner of rebellious revenge for the emperor was not so effective, and even deserters began to appear in the ranks. (To be continued......)