Chapter 43: The Eye of the Storm

There is a band of extremely high winds around the eye of a tropical storm, which can reach 100 meters per second, and there is a clear contrast between the relatively calm inside the eye of the storm.

In a person's life, anytime and anywhere, he may encounter all kinds of sudden storms. At such a moment, the top priority is to stay calm and calm, find the specific location of each 'eye of the storm' at the first time, and then protect the most important and critical things. Only in this way can the storm be followed by a sunny day...

This sudden crisis is like a storm, and the capital where Zhao Ta is is is the 'eye of the storm', the emperor's actions are all carried out in complete secrecy, and Zhao Ta's intelligence network in the capital has been concealed, and when the truth is learned now, it has reached a very critical moment.

"Lord Wang, what will be the evidence that the emperor is waiting for?" Junko asked, looking at the contemplative prince.

"Unless the emperor has a secret hand, he must come up with evidence if he wants to deal with me openly, and this bureau must be done satisfactorily, and there is still a key thing missing to make the emperor completely believe that I have betrayed the Song Dynasty!" Zhao Ta said, "It is said that hearing is false, seeing is believing, and now Wang Wei said that they are all ordered by Yan Xianye, so there is only the correspondence between me and Xianye, if you can't take this out, it will be difficult to convince the public!" ”

"The prince is right, but how can they get it, they won't go to the palace to copy it, right?" Junko asked again.

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of this, although I am familiar with Xie, but I have never exchanged letters, they can't go through this road, and I and Han are inseparable and go to the same end with others, and I have not had contact with them alone, so they can't catch my handle!" Zhao said with a smile.

"Then it can only be a Jurchen forgery of a secret letter. Throw out the false accusation at the right time! Junko thought for a moment and said.

"Well, there's a possibility. But according to what Wang Wei said, this should not be a secret letter between me and Xianye. It should be a secret discussion between me and Dajin Guo, so that the fake can come true and make the emperor convinced of treason! Zhao said.

"Yes, otherwise this matter seems to have a flaw, and it can't be justified, although the oblique is high and powerful, it can't represent the Jin Kingdom and the prince to set the matter of cutting the land and sealing the king!" Junko pondered for a moment and said.

"The question now is where is this edict, and how will it fall into the hands of the emperor?" Zhao said.

"Will it be in Wang Xiao's body, deliberately revealing flaws when he transferred it to the prince. Let the Emperor know? Junzi said along the prince's train of thought.

"No, Wang Wei sent Zhang Bangchang back to Beijing to meet with me in Zhaozhou, if he was on him, he would have handed it over to me at that time, and he deliberately let others know. Even if it is to be safe, he will find a way to let Zhang Bangchang see this edict 'inadvertently', and now that I am safe and sound, it fully shows that it will not be on Wang Wei! Zhao Tan shook his head and said.

"Where would that be?" Junko was also worried.

"If you want me to say, this letter is mostly on its way!" Miki said.

"Oh, tell me why!" Zhao Ta looked at Jianxi and said seriously.

"At first, the Jurchens just wanted to harm the prince by asking for hostages. So at this time, I won't think of using this method to frame the prince; In addition, the prince defeated them again and again, and refused to agree to their peace conditions, so the Jurchens wanted to transfer the prince from the front through a 'counter-plot' and reach a peace agreement as soon as possible to withdraw the army. Therefore, it was temporary, and it was impossible to have such a thing in his hand, so he used Zhang Bangchang's mouth to frame the prince; Later, the Jurchens saw that their treacherous plan had succeeded. successfully transferred the prince away and aroused the emperor's vigilance. will decide to use the knife to kill people and achieve the goal of completely getting rid of the prince! Jianxi said.

"Xiye said it well. Zhaozhou is thousands of miles away from Shangjing, and it takes time to come and go, and another emperor puts the prince under house arrest, which shows that he has the attitude of 'rather believe what he has, not believe what he doesn't', that is, if he wants to deal with the prince, he will also do it after the Jurchen withdraws the army, and the prince will not do it without the so-called foreign aid. Shunzi analyzed, "But now that the peace agreement has not been reached, the Jurchens are also afraid that the emperor will regret it, so it will completely destroy the emperor's intention to reactivate the prince, so he will think of a fake edict for the emperor to see before the peace agreement is reached, so Xiye is right, it should be on the way!" ”

"Hehe, I didn't expect to think about things now!" Zhao Ta looked at it and teased.

"The little one has followed the prince for so many years, how can he not grow a little!" Seeing Xi, he didn't seem to hear the meaning of the prince's ridicule at all, and said solemnly.

"Well, then let me ask you again, what will the Jurchens do to let the emperor see it?" Zhao asked with a smile.

"That's not simple, send the letter to Zhang Bangchang's bad guy, and he will present it to the emperor!" Jianxi said without hesitation.

"Ha Luha, you..." Zhao Tan smiled, although he was smart and heard and learned to play tricks by the side of the prince, he still knew very little about these secret operations, and he was afraid to ask again.

"The subordinates think that the Jurchens will not fake the hands of others, but deliberately let people find out on the way or in front of the palace, then the fake edict will be sent to the emperor through normal channels, and will never be sent to the prince!" Shunzi said, "This trick is too ruthless, even if the prince knows their plan, but it is really difficult to catch an unknown spy on the way of thousands of miles, who knows which way he will go, which city gate to enter, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack!" ”

"It's hard to catch him, otherwise the prince will be in danger, and the Jurchens' tricks must not be allowed to succeed!" Seeing that Xi was annoyed when he heard Junko's cry, he yelled with a white face.

"Xiye, don't be angry, I'm just talking!" Junzi hurriedly reassured Miki and said, "I immediately ordered to mobilize all the forces of the Gyeonggi Bureau of the Intelligence Department to search and arrest him, even if he gets into the cracks in the ground, he will be pulled out!" ”

"You people are not enough, as long as the Jurchens send people, he will eat and live, let all restaurants and mansions also pay attention to the people from the north, and everything suspicious must be kept!" Miki said.

"Seeing that Xi is right, such a large-scale search and search, it is far from enough to rely on the intelligence department alone, you must focus on the Yellow River crossing and the city gate of the capital, and also monitor the Jin State spies that we have mastered, there may be contact between them, and at the same time, I will let other bureaus assist in the search!" Zhao said.

"Yes, Lord Wang, my subordinates will do their best to complete the task!" Shunzi said solemnly, he hesitated for a moment and then said, "Lord Wang, one in ten thousand, once we fail to intercept the operation, I don't know what will happen to Lu Dao, please be prepared for the situation!" ”

"Hehe, in the nearly two hundred years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, no prince has been punished by the Ming Dynasty, and at most he has taken the title and degraded to a commoner!" Zhao said with a smile.

"The prince must not have such thoughts, I have said that I will not kill scholars, but after the new emperor ascended the throne, Wang Huang, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian and others all fell to the ground, although they should be killed, but they have also set a precedent, and they must be guarded against. And now there are hundreds of thousands of brothers under the prince, once the unexpected happens, it will fall apart in an instant, even if it is for everyone, the prince must take care, even if... Everyone will follow the prince too! ”

"Well, I will!" Zhao Ta nodded, Junzi's words really made his heart tremble, not only do he have relatives, but also this group of brothers who have followed him for many years from birth to death, there are too many people who make him worry...

After Zhao Ta returned from Junzi, he ordered Li Jun to investigate the situation of sending messengers through the Jinnai line, and sent people to contact the Hebei Bureau of the Intelligence Division, asking them to fully assist the Gyeonggi Bureau, and at the same time let Xue Hai lead the task force as a mobile force to secretly find the comer, and strive to destroy the Jurchen conspiracy halfway and get out of this crisis.

After the annual leave, Zhao Ta did not arrange another job, nor did he let him return to Hebei to continue his duties, so he was allowed to 'recuperate' at home. On the twentieth day of the first month, the emperor suddenly convened a grand court meeting, and all officials in Beijing asked to participate, and Zhao Ta was naturally invited. This kind of grand court meeting is usually held at the time of synod, and there must be a big event when it is held today.

Arranged to go to the hall, Zhao Ta looked forward and found that Tang Ke, the young master who had disappeared for a long time, and Zhang Bangchang, the Dazai who had been going to be a master, both appeared in the queue, and looked back at Nie Shan and Wang Yun also returned, but the attitude was not quite the same, Tang Ke was beaming, and the other two were frustrated and angry, like a defeated rooster. Zhao Ta chuckled in his heart, thinking that something must have gone wrong with the peace negotiation.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Huan took his seat, he announced that he had successfully negotiated peace with the Jurchens, and the two countries still demarcated the border line with the old border of Liao, and the New Year's coins also followed the old practice with Liao. The three towns will no longer be ceded to the state, but 2 million yuan will be paid to the Jin State every year for taxes and 10 million yuan for military expenses. However, the military expenses were not to be paid for gold, silver, and copper, but to be offset by grain, silk, and all kinds of goods. After the peace agreement was signed, all the Jin troops had already withdrawn from the country.

For this result, most of the courtiers were able to accept it, although the six states of Yanjing were gained and lost, but they finally did not cede the old land, paid money to buy peace, and thought that they could return to the good days after signing the "Yuanyuan Alliance" with Liao, they were really happy, and Zhao Huan was of course proud, and this result was more than a hundred times better than he expected.

Although Zhao Ta was also laughing, it was more bitter than eating two catties of Coptis chinensis, not to mention that his goal was not achieved, that is, to give Jin Jun 10 million taels of military expenses, if it was something that he would never do. What kind of concept is that, not only has the cost of the Great Song Dynasty been reported back and forth in the Jin Kingdom, but there is no need to worry about eating and drinking in the next few years, which means that the grain and grass of the Great Song Dynasty for the next Jin Kingdom's southern expedition are ready for others!

Zhao Tan opened his mouth and wanted to say what he thought, but he looked at the smiling faces in the court and swallowed the words back into his stomach... (To be continued......)