Chapter 30: Dai Yun

Dai Yun's former loyalty turned into resentment. Just as the tide of anger broke the embankment, when loyalty was wrong, Dai Yun's heart was only cruel and vicious. Although in order to appease him, Qian Chuanqian adopted his son as an adopted son, made the prince honorable, and awarded him the 'Tiger Fu Seal of the Generalissimo of Wu Yueguo's Soldiers and Horses' that he should have mastered, but in his opinion, these are no longer important. Dai Yun realized that only by reaching the pinnacle of power could he ensure that the Dai family would enjoy eternal glory.

When Qian Hongxu began to assist his father in dealing with court affairs, Dai Yun could no longer suppress his anger and poisoned and killed Qian Hongxu. After doing such a thing, Dai Yun had no way back, he didn't do anything, and sent people to set fire to the palace and eliminate the Qian royal family to replace him. But the goal was not achieved, because of the hard work of the forbidden army, the loss of the palace was not large, and no one in the Qian royal family was burned to death and burned by the fire. However, the camp of the forbidden army, which was stationed around the palace, suffered heavy losses, and the fire spread to nearby houses.

That night, the city of Hangzhou was in flames, and innocent people were killed and injured. But the earth-shattering cry did not awaken Dai Yun's conscience. Because at this time, Dai Yun has changed from a loyal and patriotic brave general to a murderer and arson.

After the fire, Qian Chuanqian became ill with grief, and Dai Yun finally waited for the opportunity to seize power. He instigated his cronies to make a statement to Qian Chuanqian and appointed his son Dai Feng (Qian Hongyu), who was also Qian Chuanjun's adopted son, as the son of the heir, so as to inherit the throne of the king. Dai Yun did not succeed, but he made Qian Hongzuo, the son of the Fujian State and his concubine Xu, who was originally very far away from the throne, ascend the throne at the age of fourteen. However, Dai Yun didn't take this little hairy child in his eyes. Although Empress Dowager Xu is the daughter of the general of Fujian, has the identity of a princess of Fujian, and is the link of the alliance between the two countries, since Dai Yun can assassinate Qian Hongzuo, he is also confident that Qian Hongzuo will die. Dealing with this pair of orphans and widows, in his opinion, is much easier than dealing with the former king Qian Chuanqiang, who has been in power for many years.

For Dai Yun, rebellion is a last resort, because the Qian royal family is deeply loved by the people of Wu Yueguo, they call Wu Yueguo and King Qian together 'King Wu Yue Qian', which is almost the only exception in countries where military generals usurp power and seize the throne frequently, Wu Yue only recognizes King Qian. Although Dai Yun is the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, it is easy to mobilize troops and horses to resist foreign enemies, and let the generals of various states come to attack Hangzhou. Moreover, Wu Yue had a civil war, and the result could only be that the Dai family and the Qian royal family were both defeated, and Wu Yue Kingdom would be annexed by the Tang State, which had been watching for a long time. He rebelled against Dai Yun, probably as a wedding dress for others. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, Dai Yun does not dare to openly rebel. Fortunately, he has a son Dai Feng who is also named Qian, who is not only surnamed Qian in name and is the prince of the Qian royal family, but also holds the power of soldiers and horses on the border with the Tang State.

Since Qian Hongzuo ascended the throne, Dai Yun has been busy with only two things, one is to raise dead soldiers and find an opportunity to assassinate Qian Hongzuo; Another thing is to continue the embezzlement of the treasury that he had begun in the later years of Qian Chuanjun's reign. Because Dai Yun has the best plan, that is, after Qian Hongzuo was assassinated, he helped his son Qian Hongyu (Dai Feng) to become the king; There are also worst preparations, in case the royal family deals with him, the Dai family will retreat to the place where Dai Feng led the troops to garrison and establish himself as the king. Dai Yun used his cronies, Xu Wei, the head of the household department, to embezzle money from the national treasury for the Dai family to recruit troops and horses, raise dead soldiers, and establish themselves as kings in the future. The huge expenditure prompted Dai Yun to take risks, and did not hesitate to make up various names, without the consent of Empress Dowager Xu and Qian Hongzuo, and asked Xu Wei to allocate funds from the household department.

Of course, some of these grants will be awarded to Xu Wei. On the one hand, Xu Wei is greedy for money, and on the other hand, he also thinks that the royal family is afraid of the Dai family's military power and does not dare to turn against the Dai family. Even if the matter is revealed, it is a big deal to rebel with the Dai family, or flee to other countries with the money. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, due to the political turmoil and hostility of various countries, it was not uncommon for ministers to defect. It is precisely because of his scruples that Xu Wei spared no effort to promote his Dai Yun.

Before the accounts of the household department were seized, Dai Yun had always been comfortable dealing with Empress Dowager Xu's mother and son. The first king Qian Chuanqian appointed two ministers as ministers to assist the mother and son of the Empress Dowager Xu. But these two, although with the support of Empress Dowager Xu, gained the power of the prime minister, but they died one after another in the assassination of Dai Yun. As long as Qian Hongzuo is dead, there will be basically no one who dares to oppose Qian Hongyu (Dai Feng)'s accession to the throne.

After that, Dai Yun sent the strongest martial arts soldier to end Qian Hongzuo, who was already isolated. The Assassins almost succeeded, but Qian Hongzuo narrowly escaped the catastrophe. When Empress Dowager Xu and the ministers swore to kill the mastermind behind the scenes, Dai Yun intuitively felt that Empress Dowager Xu had found out that he was the mastermind behind the scenes. He transferred his most trusted general, except for his son, to Qiantang County in the name of reinforcing Haitang in the name of reinforcing Haitang, in case of contingencies. But the Empress Dowager Xu's subsequent performance made him a little confused, and the Empress Dowager Xu was still polite to him, and she didn't have any suspicion, and she actually put her energy on choosing a queen for her son.

Dai Yun originally thought that Empress Dowager Xu wanted to win over the ministers of the DPRK and China after the election. Unexpectedly, the last one to be selected was his daughter Hoopoe Man. The hoopoe man was born to Dai Yun's original wife, because he lost his mother at a young age, Dai Yun was very pampered to her. And Dai Yun's wife who filled the house was originally a slave maid in Dai Mansion, but because of Dai Yun's favor, she changed from a concubine to a house. She didn't dare to discipline the hoopoe man and other children born to Dai Yun's original wife, which made the hoopoe man even more unscrupulous and rude. And the Qian royal family is strict in governing the family, and it is impossible to choose such a person as the queen, so Dai Yun instructed the hoopoe man to ask for the throne token seven-star sword at the birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager Xu, and he was extremely arrogant. But I didn't expect that Empress Dowager Xu ordered to summon the hoopoe man to live in the rather meaningful prince/palace, which is equivalent to clarifying the identity of the future queen of the hoopoe man. Dai Yun didn't know if Empress Dowager Xu was really stupid or pretending to be confused. But no matter what, there is no loss to the Dai family. The hoopoe man will become the queen in the future, if she can control Qian Hongzuo, then it means that Qian Hongzuo has become the puppet of the Dai family; If she can't control Qian Hongzuo, it will be easier to murder Qian Hongzuo with the identity of the hoopoe male queen and her martial arts.

Dai Yun put his mind at ease, and he let Ju Buji, who had been stationed in Qiantang County, return to his original station. However, not long after Ju Buqian left, there was an incident in which the accounts of the household department were seized. Qian Hongzuo, a little hairy boy who rarely spoke in the court, suddenly showed the fangs of the evil tiger.

Xu Wei, the head of the household, is like the Dai family's financial resources, and is the most important sphere of influence of the Dai family in the imperial court. Under Xu Wei's control, it almost reached the point where the treasury was the Dai family's treasury. But today in the court, Qian Hongzuo cut off this source of wealth like cutting off one of Dai Yun's hands with a knife. Zhen Fu and Dai Yunping, who succeeded Xu Wei, were just nodding friends, and it was impossible to listen to him. Dai Yun urgently summoned all his cronies to discuss the matter, but he was angry about whether Qian Hongzuo wanted to deal with the Dai family, or just because Xu Wei refused to raise money for the forbidden army to renovate the house, and wanted to rectify Xu Wei. If Qian Hongzuo wants to deal with the Dai family, then the Dai family has to make all preparations. Dai Yun even thought of it: in the name of inspecting the troops of various states, he would first hide from the capital Hangzhou, and test the possibility of the soldiers and horses of each state rebelling with him. But if Qian Hongzuo just wants to change the head of the household department, then he can take back the power of the household department by bribing or assassinating Zhen Fu. Because he couldn't guess Qian Hongzuo's true intentions, Dai Yun thought of the hoopoe man in the palace, and urgently asked her to go home to ask her about her relationship with Qian Hongzuo, so as to guess Qian Hongzuo's true purpose.

When Dai Yun saw the hoopoe man who returned to the marshal's mansion drunk, it was obvious that she was having a good time in the palace, and when she heard her toast to Qian Hongzuo, Dai Yun's heart settled. It is expected that Qian Hongzuo has no intention of dealing with the Dai family, but Dai Yun and his cronies still feel that Xu Wei is dismissed and still feels that the problem is very serious. Because of the financial resources of the household department, it is too important for the Dai family.