Zhao Tan was immersed in guilt, it seemed that he was really not a good husband, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his hands, and he controlled a big country, but he failed to bring a sense of security to his wife, so that he secretly did this harmful thing to society. 'Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world' themselves have not been able to manage their own homes, and they are still talking about governing the country and establishing a great harmony in the world.

"Your Majesty, don't blame yourself too much, the matter is actually just to keep the emperor at this step, even if it is a little radical, it is goodwill, but it is for their own interests, and there is not much political purpose." Li Jun saw that the emperor's expression was wrong, and he knew that he was in a bad mood when he heard that the queen was involved in this matter, and he couldn't help but say what happened next, "But then someone found out that this was an opportunity to subvert the society and bring down His Majesty, so they got involved, and things became complicated......

"Are there any members of the royal family involved?" Zhao Ta let out a long breath and calmed himself down and asked.

"Your Majesty is right, we found that the people of King Kang's Mansion and Zhongshan County Palace's Mansion have become active after the Chamber of Commerce has been registered, and there are signs of joining forces between the two mansions!" Li Jun said.

"Hehe, after so many years, it's not easy for him to hold back." Zhao Ta sneered and said, this good brother of his has not been idle for so many years.

"Your Majesty, King Kang is indeed not simple, he has made us relax our vigilance over the years, but secretly he has accumulated strength and caught us off guard." Li Jun said with some frustration that in the early days of the emperor's succession, because of the unstable foundation, those unstable factors have been closely monitored, and in recent years, the emperor's foundation has become increasingly solid, and it has always been very low-key. The strict control of it was lifted and it turned to daily surveillance. Unexpectedly, it made him take advantage of the loophole.

"Oh, what's going on?" Zhao Ta asked curiously. He understands that the temptation of the throne is so great, it can make people shed thousands of miles of blood, and it can also make fathers, sons and brothers become enemies, he understood that he had embarked on a road of no return on the day he ascended the throne, and knew that the contradictions between himself and Zhao Gou were irreconcilable, but he still showed mercy and did not kill him, he only hoped that he could keep to himself and realize his wish to be a free prince for himself.

"King Kang, he imitated what His Majesty did in Xiangyi back then, and bought a large amount of land outside Beijing to establish a manor. On the surface, it is used to collect rent from farming and subsidize the government, but in fact, there is another way! Li Jun said......

Power is like opium, once you have it, it's hard to let it go. Although Zhao Gou had only been the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses for a few months, he was also quite frightened and suffered a lot. But the feeling of the stars holding the moon, the supreme authority of King's Landing in the stage to control the life and death of hundreds of millions of people, made him extremely obsessed and unforgettable. Even after many years, every time I think that I am only one step away from the peak of power, my heart is as unbearable as being eaten by ten thousand ants.

Zhao Gou regretted his indecision very much, and did not immediately return to Beijing to succeed to the throne on the order of the deposed Empress Dowager when the Second Emperor of Bianjing City went north. As a result, Zhao Ta took the lead, got the edict of the cloth belt, rescued the queen mother, and seized the capital. Since then, he has been passive everywhere, and the power he has just built up is quickly disintegrated and divided by it, and it returns to its former state overnight. became a neglected prince.

In the tormented reflection again and again, Zhao Gou did not realize the mistakes he had made at the beginning, but attributed his failure to his bad luck and the disloyalty of his subordinates, as well as the insidious cunning of his second brother. As the confinement lasted for a long time, the resentment deepened. Even the benefits he had in the past had turned into a resentment. It became evidence that he had long been ill-intentioned.

Although Zhao Gou became more and more resentful of Zhao Ta, he admired his self-made experience very much. Determined to follow his example, accumulate strength, and wait for the opportunity to regain his own throne. But he also knew that as the 'number one' enemy of the second brother, he would definitely be closely monitored, so he closed his door and was silent for three years. When everyone had forgotten about him, he decided to implement his plan.

First of all, Zhao Gou bought a Zhuangzi in western Beijing under the pretext of subsidizing his family, and then bought all the large tracts of land in the vicinity in the name of others. In the eyes of ordinary people, a prince who has lost power and lives only on his fortune does not have so much money to buy so much land, so this did not attract the attention of the Intelligence Department, and avoided Zhao Ta's ubiquitous ears and eyes. But everyone overlooked a problem, Zhao Gou was once the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and he amassed a huge amount of wealth in this name, and after the marshal's mansion was forced to dissolve, the whereabouts of this money were unknown, but in fact it was in the hands of Zhao Gou.

Once Zhao had the land and money, he began to gather the old ministry and recruit frustrated politicians and scholars who were dissatisfied with the current emperor, and Zhao Ta's series of actions just gave him the opportunity.

In order to expand the army during the Jingkang period, the Shuaifu recruited a large number of village warriors, rout soldiers and green forest bandits, but after the Shuaifu was disbanded, these people were reorganized, some joined the state army, some returned to their hometowns, and some people were unable to bear the constraints of military discipline and fell back into the grass, and were active in the border area of the Song and Jin Rivers of the two rivers. But with the recovery of Yanjing, these people lost the foundation of their survival, and soon collapsed under the encirclement and suppression of the Song army, scattered in all directions, and some people were desperate, so they rejoined Zhao Goumen, buried their names incognito, and became an armed force under him.

After Zhao Ta ascended the throne, he rectified the rule of officials and solved the problem of redundant officials, and inevitably punished and dismissed a large number of corrupt officials and mediocre officials who were vegetarians; In order to consume and settle the idle officials who have accumulated over the years in the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty has not opened the imperial examination for many years, which of course has also caused dissatisfaction among some scholars who have studied hard for many years; In addition, his policy of attaching equal importance to civil and military forces has aroused the resentment of a number of scholars and officials who are crippled and inadequate. As a result, these people who were dissatisfied with the emperor became the targets of Zhao Gou's recruitment, and soon gathered a group of people under him and became his staff to advise him.

Although Zhao Gou put together the team, he is not stupid, and of course he will not act rashly when the opponent is in full swing. He placed most of his people in the manor, and recruited troops to carry out training in secret, as the capital of his own trouble. Some of the henchmen have been brought with them in the name of housekeepers and tutors. In addition to these, Zhao Gou also funded some scholars to send them to the academy to be taught by famous teachers, and tried to let them enter the Guozijian so that they could become their reserve strength and internal ,......

"Then the Tai student Fu Que Shangshu was initiated by King Kang's people in tandem?" After listening to Li Jun's report, Zhao Ta asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, after investigation, the leader is indeed related to King Kang's Mansion, and it was they who contributed to the initiation of the book, and the person who contacted the students of the state school to block the King of Liao's entry into Beijing is also related to them!" Li Jun replied.

"King Kang is getting more and more simple, and he actually thinks so far!" Zhao Ta couldn't help but sigh with emotion, it seems that desire and hatred can also make people progress.

"He is still far behind His Majesty, King Kang wants to emulate what His Majesty did back then, but he only has the form, and he doesn't know the essence!" Li Jun said with a smile, "The people they recruit are all thieves and giants, who are brave and ruthless, and they are good at killing people and goods, but in terms of marching and fighting, they are far behind, and the army trained by them can be imagined; As for those who have thrown themselves into his disciples, they have not seen any strange schemes, they are all corrupt and cynical, but they are just greedy for money and bought by King Kang! ”

"Don't underestimate these people, it is precisely because they have no loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness in their hearts that they will act without scruples, and they will be good at conspiracies and tricks, and they must be ruthless, and they must not be taken lightly, otherwise we will suffer!" Zhao Ta disagreed with his statement, and he reminded Li Jundao.

"Yes, my subordinates have been taught!" Li Jun hurriedly responded.

"How many troops can be used by King Kang's men, and how is the equipment?" Zhao Tan nodded and asked again.

"Your Majesty, because of the haste and the fact that they are heavily fortified, our spies do not have time to investigate in detail, and can only estimate that they can mobilize at least 3,000 troops based on the population. But the spies found that they were actually copying our Lianzhu guns, so they estimated that their combat effectiveness should be equivalent to the combat effectiveness of one of our brigades! Li Jun said.

"Hehe, don't worry about this, even if it's equipped with a repeater gun, it's just a chicken rib, but it limits its combat effectiveness!" Zhao Ta smiled and said that he had taken this issue into account when he brought this kind of cross-era weapon into this era.

In the early days of use, secrecy was not a problem because of the small number of people who had access to firearms, but after large-scale equipment, the management of tens of thousands of firearms became problematic. If you want to learn to use a gun, you must be familiar with the structure of the gun, and if there are many people who know the Tao, there will be no way to talk about secrets, and in addition, it is inevitable that there will be guns left behind in the battlefield and captured by the enemy, as long as you spend some effort to study, it is not difficult to imitate successfully.

But if there is a gun, there must be a bullet, and the firing of the bullet is powered by gunpowder, which has also appeared in this era, but the formula is very different from the formula used in the gun bullet. As long as Zhao Ta keeps the secret of the gunpowder formula, it cannot be deciphered with the level of science and technology of this era, so even if someone else makes a gun, he can only be a half-crippled, and the range and power will be greatly affected, and he will even be injured by the explosion. He had always kept the gunpowder formula a top secret, and it was much easier to keep it in the hands of a few people, so he didn't worry about the leakage of firearms-making techniques.

"Your Majesty, since this is the case, we have nothing to worry about, then King Kang must have also discovered the defects in their imitation firearms, so what does he want to do next?" Li Jun knew the power of firearms, and once the rebels were made in batches, it would be a great threat to them, and he was relieved when he heard the emperor.

"I guess he is also the one who has been instigated by some officials under his control to write books, and most of them do not know the truth and follow the trend to write to show their loyalty. So that the matter of abdication is known to the whole world, so as to force me to abdicate, and now if I give way, I have released the Lu, and he is waiting for the day when the edict of the Zen throne is issued......" (To be continued......