Chapter 120: Secret Fight

Zhao Gou grew up in the deep palace, although he was still a child at that time, he was already able to distinguish between right and wrong, and he already had a strong insight. His mother Wei was just an ordinary palace maid at the beginning, and her talent was not outstanding, just because Zhao Ji drank too much wine and gave birth to the dragon species after a night of romance with her, it must have been neglected, and it was rare to see his father in a year, but what he saw the most was his mother's long sigh every day, and he was also rare in his father's favor, no brothers and sisters were willing to be with him, he was the loneliest person in the palace!

All this left an indelible trace in Zhao Gou's young heart, and the lack of family affection made Zhao Gou gradually become indifferent; Tremendous pressure was sharpening his will; The treacherous living environment makes him sensitive and cautious. It also made him aware of the importance of power.

Since then, Zhao Gou began to secretly practice literature and martial arts, hoping to show his face in front of his father one day to attract attention, which also shows the depth of his scheming, and he is good at disguise, and his political ambitions are deeply hidden. But Zhao Gou's first appearance was achieved with the help of his current biggest enemy, Zhao Tan, and he was made a general, when he was only a teenager.

Later, the Jin army invaded the country and wanted to take the prince as a hostage, Zhao Gou felt that this might be a turning point in his political career, so he asked to take the initiative to pledge, but because his performance was too 'excellent' and Han couldn't retreat, but this also made him win the reputation of sharing worries for the lord and the country, daring to act, and he was listed with the eldest brother, leaving the impression of a virtuous king in the court and the opposition.

The Jin army retreated, the emperor returned to Beijing, and the performance of the new emperor Zhao Heng made him very sad, making him once again deeply understand the truth that the heavenly family has no flesh and bones, and the biggest benefit winner of his own life is the eldest brother sitting on the throne. He is just a dispensable pawn in his hands, and his status cannot be changed at all. He is still a disactive ornament in the court, but this also makes him understand. Only by gaining more power can this pattern be changed.

Therefore, when the Jin army went south again, Zhao Gou became less active in the second pledge, and he reluctantly embarked on the road of pledge under the grace and power of the official family, which made him mature again, and understood that only by sitting on that high chair could he truly control his own destiny.

Soon after leaving Beijing, Zhao Gou was besieged in Bianjing, and the embattled imperial brother entrusted him with the important task of commanding the world's soldiers and horses, which gave him great power and also made him see a turn of fate. When I learned that Bianjing City was broken. After the second emperor traveled north, Zhao Gou knew that the spring he had been looking forward to for a long time was coming, and just when Zhao Gou was full of confidence and was ready to choose the most favorable time to return to Beijing to inherit the unification, he made a journey to bite the gold halfway!

Cao Xun informed Zhao Gou that the King of Qin raised troops in Hebei and Henan to intercept the Jin army, and obtained the edict of the Emperor Taishang! This news seemed to shatter Zhao Gou's dream for many years and his efforts in an instant, making him full of resentment towards the second brother he had always admired. Why didn't he appear sooner or later, but he appeared at the moment when he was about to become emperor...

Zhao Gou is very aware of the gap between himself and his second brother. Let's talk about my background first, my mother was only named a virtuous concubine in order to make herself pledge in Jinying; The second brother's mother is a real queen. In addition to the only son-in-law of the official family, and it is the second line, whether it is about the concubine or the eldest and youngest. I don't have the slightest advantage on my own.

In terms of strength, let's first talk about the financial resources of the Qin Palace. Everyone in the government and the opposition knows that King Qin has a way to make money, and on the bright side, the Xiangyi Wangzhuang alone brings him a huge amount of wealth every year. Not to mention the glass and perfume it produces, and there are several caravans in its house, which are said to be very profitable in the business of going from south to north. It is rumored that the Qin Wangfu also secretly controls the production and sales of Qingbai salt in the northwest, and the profits can be imagined. But his Kang Wangfu is 'one poor and two white', there is neither a big deal nor a mother clan with strong financial resources, so he can only live the life of the moonlight clan by relying on money and rewards!

Speaking of talents, the Qin Wangfu is full of talents, not to mention He Qufei, Yang Shi, Xu Jingheng, Chen Guoting, Zhou Xingji These great Confucians, even the little guys who used to be playmates in the palace were trained by him to become a good general for a while, and they followed him loyally. After he returned to Beijing, he pledged the Jin Battalion to let them regroup and wave their troops into the Central Plains, and beat the invincible Jin army to the ground, which was extremely combative. And in addition to a few servants who can't get on the stage, where are there trustworthy people in King Kang's Mansion, these pieces of Shuaifu also have their own thoughts, and Deputy Marshal Zongze has obeyed King Qin's orders and betrayed himself.

The gap between the two mansions was too big, and a group of rabble under his command were almost powerless in the face of the Qin Wangfu, Zhao Gou suddenly felt that he was forced to a dead end, and the gap from the sky to the ground made him sad, and tears flowed down his eyes.

"Why is the king so sad?" Receiving Zhao Gou's summons, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan hurried over, and when they saw King Kang crying bitterly, Huang Qianshan hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Zhang Bangchang misunderstood me!" Zhao Gou handed the edict brought by Cao Xun to them, and the two of them cried.

"It's really better to be a human being than heaven, I didn't expect King Qin to get an edict from the emperor!" Huang Qianshan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and said with a sigh.

"Where is King Qin now?" Wang Boyan asked with a deep groan after reading it.

"The second brother is now in Hebei, and he has relieved the siege of Zhongshan, and he is really scheduled to fight in Hanli!" Zhao Gou sobbed and said, "I want to go north to find the King of Qin, and join forces with him to rescue the Second Emperor and return to the capital!" ”

"The king must not!" Huang Qianshan was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly stopped, "The Holy Lord ordered the Great King to control the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, but we are stagnant, if the Holy Lord escapes, how can he let you go!" ”

"Lord Huang, what do you mean by this?" Zhao Gou didn't cry after hearing this, wiped the tears on his face, looked at Huang Qianshan and asked, he first went to Daimyo from Xiangzhou, then to Juye, until the current Jeju, it was mostly the idea of these two people, and now that the tree has not fallen, is it possible that the monkey is about to disperse, and you want to carry the crime of avoiding war?

"That's not what Weichen meant!" Huang Qianshan was glared at by Zhao Gou's murderous gaze, trembling in his heart, and secretly gave Wang Boyan a look, this King Kang's words implied killing, he killed himself as a scapegoat in a fit of anger, claiming that he was held hostage by them to this place, then he and King Qin are brothers, naturally believe in him, and he will not be able to live in peace when he dies.

"The King. Lord Huang meant that he must not go to the King of Qin, otherwise he would not only invite death. Wouldn't it be a pity to lose this great opportunity to restore the country! Is this what Lord Huang meant? Wang Boyan's brain turned fast. Immediately found a seemingly perfect excuse, he had already seen that Zhao Gou had the intention of ascending the throne, but because of the etiquette, he was still in the end, and now that the matter was brought out, he regretted it in his heart, and of course he himself was not willing to lose the opportunity to soar.

"It's... This is what Weichen meant, King Qin has always been scheming, he first cheated his death and withdrew from the court, and the Jin army went south. The second emperor was martyred, and he suddenly jumped out again, indicating that he also intended to be a great treasure, so Cao Xun might want to pass on the book to the king, and he was coerced by him, so he had to do it as a last resort! Huang Qianshan said, he is not stupid, how can he not know Zhao Gou's thoughts.

"Well, in the style that King Qin has always had. He did the matter of falsely passing on the emperor's edict, as long as Cao Xun told the truth, then the king of Qin would be ruined and commit the crime of rebellion! Wang Boyan said.

"No, it won't. The second brother is both loyal and righteous, how could he do such a thing? Zhao Gou shook his head again and again and said.

"Your Majesty, the heart of the people is unpredictable. This is exactly the cunning of the King of Qin, who is ostensibly subservient to the officials. But he beat the ministers in the court and teased the rulers. Everyone is complaining about it, but they dare to be angry and dare not speak, if they are allowed to be the country, they will definitely cause chaos to the dynasty and harm the Great Song Dynasty, and the first official will not agree! Huang Qianshan saw that Zhao Gou was still behaving, although he looked down on him a little in his heart, but he still hurriedly climbed the pole, this is his golden job in the future, and he can't smash it.

"King, for the sake of the people of the country, you must not let the King of Qin inherit the unification, in this time of crisis, you are the pillar of the country, the hope of the people!" Wang Boyan turned over and knelt down and said with tears in his eyes.

"The two ministers are really good ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, the king's Le Yi and Guan Zhong, now the Great Song Dynasty is ruined, and the two emperors are going north, and the hatred of this country will be borne by this king!" Zhao Gou looked up to the sky and sighed and said leisurely.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!" When Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan heard the joy, they prostrate on the ground and shouted long live...

Now that we have made up our minds, we must first defuse the current crisis. To do extraordinary things, there must be extraordinary means, and the king and the emperor are one step away, and then, naturally, there is only the procedure of Zen Rang.

Now the Generalissimo's Mansion is not without cards to play, now the Jin army has returned to the north, Zhang Bangchang has abdicated, Zhao Gou still has the Empress Dowager Meng's edict and the persuasion table of the ministers, and it has been announced to the world, and Zhang Bangchang will also present the jade seal of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is logical to inherit the unification.

Although Kaifeng is now controlled by Zong Ze, he is still nominally the deputy marshal of the Generalissimo's Mansion, and he should obey the orders of the Generalissimo, and there should be no problem in returning to the capital. The Song ministers who stayed in the city could be regarded as rebellious, and they could take the opportunity to give an edict to appease, win their support, and take them for their own use, control the imperial court, take the initiative in public opinion and form, and create a fait accompli.

On the other hand, for Cao Xun sent by Zhao Tan, if he is willing to submit, he will just use it, and if he is unwilling, he has never seen the edict, let alone Cao Xun himself. For the king of Qin, he can be appointed, and he is not required to obey the edict, as long as the people in the world know that he accepted the title of the generalissimo's mansion. If he disobeys the order, he can be labeled as disobeying the order and intending to rebel against himself. For the Qin King's subordinates, they can be bribed, awarded to high-ranking officials, divided and co-opted, and disintegrated the Qin King's camp!

In terms of military affairs, Zhao Gou decided to go to Bianjing with the troops of the Generalissimo's Mansion, and now he has 80,000 elite soldiers under his command, and it is reported that there are only 5,000 people in the Beijing division, and the rest are all volunteers recruited and incorporated by Zong Ze, and they are by no means his opponents. And the main forces of the King of Qin are all in Hebei to deal with the Jin army, and they have no time to take care of the Beijing Division, even if they get the news, it will be too late to return to the army to help, but they will be saddled with the notoriety of refusing to rescue the second emperor!

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Zhao Ta did not wait for Cao Xun's reply to Jeju, but instead received a letter from Zhao Gou, saying, 'He was deeply pleased to learn that the King of Qin had started an incident in Hebei, and named Zhao Ta as the deputy marshal of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the envoy of Yanjing Road'.

After seeing Zhao Ta smiled, King Kang not only ignored his edict, but also detained Cao Xun to show that he did not know about the edict of the road, and then came to an anti-guest, although he did not call me in the letter, but in the letter in the letter, the tone has already regarded himself as the emperor, and it seems that he has to take the first step to claim the emperor.

Now the struggle for the throne of the Great Song Dynasty is still unfolding under a fig leaf, this cloth is 'deep understanding of righteousness, continuation of the national lineage, restoration of the country and rejuvenation of the Song Dynasty', the struggle between the two of them cannot tear this fig leaf, whoever tears it first will be unlucky. Zhao Gou's current behavior is an obvious act of tearing the fig leaf. This is unpopular.

In fact, Zhao Ta has known since he was in Xiangyi how hard it is to be a manager. At that time, he was 'young', but he had to worry about everything. As the stall gets bigger and bigger, there are more and more things, and the pressure continues to increase. And when he was in charge, if it were not for a group of capable subordinates such as He Qufei, Huang Jingchen and Xu Jingheng, he would not know how to deal with the mountains of cumbersome official documents.

And the king of a country, to manage thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, hundreds of millions of subjects, I don't know how many major events will happen in a day, think about how terrifying it is to deal with so many things every day. Zhao Ta felt that his scalp was numb, and he really didn't want to fall into it, but there were countless people who fought for it, and they didn't hesitate to turn their relatives against him, and the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses were like mountains. What's more, his father and eldest brother left him such a ragged mess, which can be said to be dead:

A soldier is not like a soldier, but like a gang of nouveau riche businessmen. The officers and men wore silk and satin and drank fine wine. Even when he confronted the banks of the two rivers with the Jin army, Liang Fangping, the guard general stationed in Liyangjin on the north bank of the Yellow River, was still drinking every day. The next day, when he found that the Jin army had captured Xiangzhou, he fled in a hurry and handed over the initiative to the Jin people. Entrust the burden of defending the country to such an army. It's undoubtedly a dead end.

Officials are not like officials, but more like ruffians and hooligans. Prime Minister Li Bangyan is the most representative. He started by playing and singing, and his mouth was full of meat jokes. Bo Huizong's smile is his specialty, and he is known as the "prodigal prime minister". Others, such as "Six Such as Giving Things" and "Four Exhaust Chinese Books", are all shameless people, usually acting as a blessing to the people, and when they see Jin Bing, their feet are weak, and they only care about their own wishful thinking, Zhao Huan listens to these bastards, and it is understandable that he died ugly.

But the kingdom is not like a kingdom, like a nest with eggs. The Song army on the front line has been defeated and retreated, and the country is still in turmoil. There was an invasion of the enemy country in the past, and then there was a peasant uprising, and there were wars everywhere. If such a situation is not called a dead place, there is nothing that can be called a dead place.

In such a place of death, did you die and be born? The facts tell him, no! Although Zhao Huan, who was in the place of death, was conscientious, he did not realize his danger, but instead sank in this dangerous situation, grabbed power, fought for merit, saved his life, and prayed to God, built a very ridiculous stage, invited a group of lame gods, politicians, corrupt officials, and corrupt officials, and directed a very ridiculous farce!

Zhao Huan's faintness is not under Zhao Ji, the two bastards dominate the family and country, only focusing on pleasure, not knowing sorrow, only greedy for money, reluctant to buy people's hearts, only seeing immediate interests, not seeing the coming of tribulation, only knowing how to flee for their lives. Zhao Ta couldn't figure out what power was, there was so much magic power that made people still kill each other in the face of death. Treat money as life, but in the end it is empty-handed. If the emperor wants to be like this, it is really better to die!

Zhao Ta does not actually need this fig leaf when he is in power, he has already controlled the capital Bianjing, Xijing Luoyang, Hedong, Hezhong, and most of Henan, and Hebei is now also under his own military authority, essentially controlling half of the Great Song Dynasty, exercising the duties of acting national leader.

The most important thing is that Zhao Ta has soldiers in his hands, and the soldiers are majestic and invincible, and the power comes out of the barrel of the gun, and the more guns there are, the more the right to speak, and it is much more convenient to do what he wants, but he doesn't want to be under the current enemy, and his own people will kill the blood like a river, and he hopes that the regime can be handed over peacefully, which requires more brain cells to die by himself.

Now that Zhao Gou has made the first move, he can't help but follow! Since he pretended not to know the way, then he gave him another order, which is actually not an order, but a 'cooperation'.

Now that he is busy repairing Han Li's ability to rescue the captured clan, the next step is to find a way to get that unlucky father back, so the task of saving the eldest brother can only be handed over to Zhao Gou, the generalissimo of soldiers and horses. And Zong Han was chased by Zhao Yong at this time and fled into Shandong, he happened to be close to the water and the tower to get the moon first, and sent troops nearby to save people!

Now on the Bianjing side, after Zong Ze presided over the work, he just hit some flies first, and those tigers, including Zhang Bangchang's 'dragon', did not move, and their wages were still paid, but they were just confined to their homes and not allowed to go out casually, and they were actually in a state of waiting for crime.

Considering that Zhao Gou wanted to return to Beijing to claim the emperor, he would inevitably entrap these traitors, so Zhao Ta gave Zong Ze an order to punish the traitors in advance. Disobedience: Zhang Bangchang, as a minister of state, cannot die in the face of difficulties, and the power of the people who hold money hostage, Yi surname Jian, south is the emperor, severely punished according to the law, and admonished for eternity. Discussion of false orders: There are great changes in the country, and there are few people who are dead, but there are countless people who follow the orders of thieves and accept false officials, and those who receive false orders are convicted of six degrees to stimulate morale and demonstrate righteousness. And for the ministers who are the country's death festival, they should be given a generous burial, posthumously given a nickname, and their descendants will be shaded!

At the same time, let the Bianjing side prepare to welcome the Empress Dowager back to Beijing to listen to the government, and this matter should be made with great fanfare and create momentum. Zheng Hongmei is the queen mother of the dynasty, and she has a very good reputation, she is quite prestigious in the government and the opposition, her father is not there, and her mother happens to be in charge. And there are a few mothers in the world who don't want their own sons, but prefer 'outsiders', so Zhao Ta fully believes that his mother, with her intelligence, can handle those tricky things for herself... (To be continued......)