As soon as the emperor mentioned the crown prince, his eyes suddenly became complicated, and his face became gloomy.

The reason why the emperor decided to appoint Zhao Heng, the eldest son of the emperor, as the crown prince was actually the result of a balance reached by the four parties under the compromise between the radical Wenchen, the Shaozhuang military forces, the conservative Wenchen, and the foreign relatives group who relied on the support of the powerful forces of the old scholar clan. Zhao Heng has passed the age of standing, he was already a handsome young man at that time, and he has reached the age of sensibility. It has been more than 16 years since he was canonized as the prince of Great Xia. Sixteen years is really not a short time, Zhao Heng is afraid that one day someone will replace him, and he has been walking on thin ice during this long time. There is not a day when you are not trembling, and there is not a moment when you are not careful.

In good conscience, Zhao Heng, the emperor's father, who grasps the big and lets go of the small, is not so easy to serve, he has been acting for trivial civil affairs for many years, and he has never had too much grudge with anyone. What kind of purgatory-like ordeal is it to be able to do this for 16 years? This is quite an achievement in itself. It is recognized by the world for Zhao Heng's reputation as "diligent and benevolent", and it is indeed worthy of the name, and it is very marketable among the war-weary conservative forces such as Wei Su and Shen Zitong, and is widely praised and respected.

It is precisely because of this that the crown prince designed the emperor this time, if it weren't for the fact that he was still so hot in his heart, the emperor would have already settled even if he had ten old lives. The crown prince has always been submissive in front of the emperor, and he didn't even dare to breathe, but he suddenly took risks and staged a live drama of grabbing class and seizing power. Yang Zhi can fully imagine that the emperor went from being incredulously shocked and angry to being determined to deal with his own son, and the pain of his change of heart is really difficult to describe in words.

It doesn't matter whether the court is right or wrong, and the success or defeat of the king is the eternal last word. Yang Zhi had no intention of carefully studying the deep meaning of the emperor's cold words, and continued to talk eloquently on the prescribed topic: "Brother Weichen was reused by the emperor to manage the country's finances, of course, he would not know what happened when Weichen rushed to Shandong in the name of inspection that day. Wechen is vigorously rectifying the waterways and coastal defenses in Shandong, and the matter of setting up a government office to collect taxes is only a slight eyebrow, if it is not for the urgent call of the righteous brother, he will never resolutely leave everything at hand and rush back to Beijing. After the three brothers met and discussed secretly, several confirmations were confirmed. It was undoubtedly believed that the prince was trying to rebel, and some countermeasures were also agreed. ”

"When Weichen heard that the emperor was very ill, he faintly felt that there was something strange about it. Immediately afterwards, I heard that General Zhou was seriously ill almost at the same time, thanks to the eldest brother who saw the opportunity early. Timely treatment is the only way to keep you alive. The eldest brother considered the situation at the time, General Zhou was obviously the biggest stumbling block for the prince's party to seize the forbidden army, and it was reasonable to suspect that he was poisoned and assassinated by the prince's party. And Weichen always felt that this matter was not so simple, but he couldn't say why. Later, intentionally or unintentionally, I probed the second brother's tone. I heard that Qin Gong was very unfortunate and fell ill. As Weichen said, it is said that the Duke of Qin, who was recuperating in bed behind closed doors, should have secretly sneaked out of Chang'an and personally rushed to Zhongzhou, thousands of miles away, to answer the holy car. Because your true illness is always a crucial link in determining the direction of the situation, Wechen formed such a vague outline in his heart at that time: it cannot be ruled out that you have the possibility of setting up a situation from the beginning. ”

The emperor sneered contemptuously: "You three brothers are brilliant and have their own strengths, although they can all be called dragons and phoenixes among people, only Wenhan has a sincere heart of public loyalty and concern for the country, as for you and Kongyun, hehe!" The rumors outside to create momentum for pulling the prince off the horse must have come from your handwriting, if it weren't for the power of the Qin clan. It will never be so popular. The Qin clan's wanton hoarding of grain must also be a matter of public and private affairs. ”

Duke Qin had already reminded Yang Zhi that the emperor's shrewdness was no worse than yours. Yang Zhixin's heart is bright: the conscience of heaven and earth, these two are Xu Wenhan's ideas. It is true that Lao Xu Gong is loyal to the country, but it may not be the kind of dead-eyed fool who went all the way to the black as the emperor said. Whether it's spreading rumors or hoarding grain, don't you know what it's for? If there was no nod from Duke Qin for such a big event, would Qin Kongyun have done the master? The emperor deliberately promoted Xu and suppressed Yang and Qin, which implied to provoke the bad water of divide and rule, which was to guide Yang and Qin to keep up with Xu Wenhan, who had no desires and no desires. What's more important is to start buying room for bargaining later.

The emperor is all on Yang Zhi's head, and he doesn't care much anyway. Carrying it down now will be beneficial to Xu Wenhan's situation in the future. If you carry this wrong, you will carry it, and you will settle a righteous one. This little bit of pediatric righteousness is still there.

Yang Zhi laughed at the emperor's mean words and did not argue with them. simply got cheeky and said: "The emperor is clear, Weichen dares to use his head to vouch, it is definitely public and then private." If you have the best of both worlds, why not? Profit-making is the foundation of the Qin family, and Weichen is also a merchant child. Naturally, he didn't dare to forget his roots, even if the emperor talked about it, there was a section of Weichen who also took this opportunity to say that it was refreshing: Qin's grain hoarding incident was hasty and costly, and the silver was not able to raise and dispatch for a while. If you can get lucky enough to earn a few taels of broken silver, you hope that the emperor will raise his noble hand and not be exhausted. Do you think, even in a small place like Xinyang, Weichen's hometown, you have to take care of food and pay for a short-term job, right? ”

is the so-called come and not be rude, Yang Zhi is to use the way of others to govern his body, one is to cut off the emperor's tongue, as long as you are not a fool, you can think that this time to hoard grain and raise the price of food must be hugely profitable, afterwards you don't care if you beat the autumn wind of the Qin family, if you want to beat my idea is not to talk. The second is to turn to the emperor to show that he has no dissenting intentions, I have the intention of pursuing profit and have no intention of seizing power, you just have to rest assured.

The emperor smiled dumbly and said, "You are a little thick-skinned, but fortunately, I am used to it." ”

The emperor has always been a master of playing Tai Chi, neither said yes, nor said no, and did not entangle too much with Yang Zhi in this section. With a smile, he said proudly, "Let's not break up the talk." The Duke of Qin and I have been friends for decades, and when they should be moved by the wind, they have a tacit understanding with each other. In addition to looking away at my own son, I am still a little confident in employing people, and only I know Zhou Ting's ability. Otherwise, how could the command of the 200,000 elite forbidden army in Great Xia be lightly delegated? Oh, you've always been lazy, you're not a person who sticks to etiquette, and now you're not playing right with the court's courtiers, so you can speak casually. ”

When Yang Zhi heard the emperor say this, he became more and more aware of it. A mouthful of micro-ministers was indeed uncomfortable, and nodded and said: "General Zhou is indeed wise and foolish, I dare to say that he is the first person to react." The emperor is calculating, why not Zhou Ting? In any case, the dead will never be able to pledge their allegiance to the emperor. Now I think that the prince's party may poison and assassinate in order to control the forbidden army, but Zhou Ting is seriously ill and can't afford to be willing to take poison to confuse the enemy. My eldest brother only saw that he was ugly, but he couldn't see a man. ”

In retrospect, Zhou Ting can be called a model figure who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger. Xu Wenhan and Yang Zhi were shrewd, they were both deceived by Zhou Ting's honest bird-like appearance, and they actually quietly took Yang Zhi as a gunman! It's really the best of the best!

Originally, I thought that my hard work performance was wonderful, but now that I look back, it is really lackluster. Yang Zhixian's idea of putting on a show is no longer boring, and he is no longer bored, and only said a word about what happened later: "After that, all the matters are interlocking and planned, and the emperor must know everything at this moment, so I don't need to repeat them one by one." When I led the troops out of Tongguan to meet the saint, I unexpectedly tried the emperor several times, but I found nothing. Although I was secretly annoyed, I was not completely dead. ”

"It's just that there are still four questions in my heart at that time: First, Qin Gong secretly sneaked out of Chang'an, and it is impossible to do nothing. What will he do? What did you do? The second is that I am divided into two routes in Shandong, that is, I sent my entourage named Liu Er to the hometown of the Southern Tang Dynasty to search for the emperor's traces all the way, and ordered him to report to me as soon as he has news. But once it goes, it will be like a yellow crane, what is the reason for this? The third is that there is no shortage of people in the world who are cool and cool, and it is not difficult to find a person who can be used as a stand-in to raise the generals in case the emperor needs them from time to time. Fourth, I have seen with my own eyes that there is indeed a miraculous disguise technique in this world. It is no accident that the Holy Driver was attacked several times on the way to the class, couldn't the Duke of Qin take advantage of the chaos to receive the emperor and get out? ”

When Yang Zhi said this, he took a deep breath and said: "In order to personally verify that the prince has a ghost in his heart, I blocked him outside Tongguan City, and arranged a special guard of honor for him, so that the soldiers and horses of the two armies of the two armies were tense and almost clashed. However, none of these four questions in my mind can be verified. At that time, I had no good reason to prevent the prince from entering the pass, and there was no other way than to persuade Ye Chuang to fully cooperate and leave the 20,000 escort soldiers and horses in Tongguan City. ”

Liu Er's coercion of Wang Ergou to talk to him, many sergeants saw it with their own eyes, and they couldn't hide it, so they simply didn't hide it from him: "It wasn't until I escorted the holy driver Luanyu and the prince back to Chang'an, and received the code words from my entourage Liu Er, that I woke up to the emperor's secret escort under the secret escort of the Duke of Qin and Liu Er, and he had already returned to Chang'an in the white dragon suit." If Liu Er's actions are against the holy will, please remember that he has meritorious service, and for my sake, the Emperor will forgive him for his innocence. ”

"Since I am sure that the emperor is safe and sound, I naturally can't act rashly and stir up trouble without authorization, so as not to alarm the prince and make it self-defeating and ruin the emperor's affairs. It's not that I'm alarmist here, after the prince returns to Beijing, he has a ready-made emperor who is not used, which means that everything is ready and only owes Dongfeng. If the emperor shows up and ascends the throne from time to time, I am afraid that the situation will become more and more difficult to control at that time. So I expected that the day when the crown prince returned to Beijing to breathe would be the time when the emperor appeared on the throne to look at things. So I generously handed over the military power, and just took this opportunity to go back to the house to rest for two days, waiting for the emperor's summons at any time. ”

Yang Zhi's propositional essay was over, and there were very few false words compared to usual, but the emperor did not seem to be very satisfied. After listening to him quietly, he said coldly: "I have said everything, I heard you explain that all the reasons are useful in the future, your words are inevitably not detailed, I will spare you for the time being." It's too early for me to agree with Zhou Ting, and I'm idle left and right, so I'm not in a hurry. Don't you have four questions? After I have cleared your mind first, we will talk about anything else. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )