Chapter 327: Conclusion
After Zhao Huan talked with Li Gangchang, I don't know if he figured it out or was afraid, so he connected three tables on the way back to Beijing. I have repeatedly thanked the emperor for his rescue, and thanked the emperor for his good intentions, but he has no heart to reset again. When the news spread, the direction of the government and the opposition changed greatly, and no one praised the King of Liao for his deep understanding of righteousness, and the turmoil of abdication disappeared invisibly.
On the fifth day of the first month of August, the Liao King finally arrived in Kaifeng, and the emperor Zhao Ta personally led a hundred officials and princes, and the clans above the prince went out of the city to greet each other, and the brothers met each other and exchanged great salutes. Zhao Ta held out the edict of abdication in public and asked his brother to reinstate. Zhao Huan insisted on resigning, and hundreds of officials stayed in the middle of the retreat, and Zhao Ta had no choice but to give up. Then the brothers took a car back to the city hand in hand, and after entering the city, the people knelt down all over the long street to greet each other, and the king of Liao couldn't cry at this scene, and everyone couldn't help but sigh.
The next day, the emperor decreed that Zhao Huan was renamed the king of Jin, with the title of Taishi, and ten thousand households in the palace, but he could ride a horse in the palace, and he did not worship the saint, and gave ten thousand taels of gold and a palace. The original concubine Zhu was a first-class woman; The original talented Di Shi was named the second rank of the woman, and the daughter born in the north was named the lord of Pingjiang County. Zhao Huan then took his wife and daughter into the palace to thank him, and went to Longde Palace to greet the Empress Dowager.
In the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived, and the emperor ordered a banquet in the Daqing Hall on the same day to congratulate the King of Jin on his return to China; Second, to celebrate that this year is another bumper year, and the new varieties introduced have been successfully expanded in the Great Song Dynasty; The three are basically the end of the peace talks with Kim, and the two countries have temporarily suspended their swordsmen. During the banquet, the ministers chanted poems, enjoyed singing and dancing, and enjoyed themselves. Zhao Ta looked at the Nanban clan and suddenly found that Zhao Gou, who had always refused to participate in this kind of gathering, was also among them. He forced a cheerful toast to his brothers, but it was difficult to hide his loneliness, frustration and fear......
In the past two months, Zhao Gou has once again experienced a ups and downs in his life. In order to regain the throne, he planned for several years and made careful arrangements. When the imperial court advertised that the King of Liao was about to return to China, he felt that the opportunity he was waiting for had come, but before he could make a move, there were rumors that the emperor would abdicate the throne in the streets and alleys, and then the Zhu family took action to win over the business community and ask the emperor to take back the holy order.
Zhao Gou didn't believe the rumors of the emperor's abdication at all, because if he really wanted to abdicate, he would never let the Ministry of Industry choose a site to build the Liao Palace, otherwise wouldn't he be slapping himself in the face. He knew that with the emperor's shrewdness and calculation, he would never do such a stupid thing to hide his head and tail. But he thought the turmoil could be used for his own purposes. So Zhao Gou gathered his henchmen and planned a series of subsequent royalist events.
Zhao Gou was very smart, and he knew that he was not an opponent when he attacked him head-on, so he took the enemy in a roundabout way, and forced him to surrender the throne to Zhao Heng from Zhao Tan's weakness. It's not that he wants to help his eldest brother, but that he has other intentions. He knew that Zhao Huan was cowardly and jealous, and if he was reinstated, he would purge his second brother from top to bottom, and the world would be in chaos, and he could take the opportunity to play the banner of reorganizing the dynasty and abolish Zhao Huan. Finally achieve the goal of being on top.
Zhao Gou's actions were very deceptive, because he played the banner of royalism, and he was hidden behind the scenes, making it difficult for people to find out what bad intentions were in it. And there are a lot of people involved this time, and it is difficult to find out about him as a down-and-out prince. However, Zhao Construct a thousand thoughts may have a mistake, he underestimated the IQ of the second brother and the mysterious team under his command. Just when he thought he had a plan to assassinate Zhao Huan and lead the spearhead to the emperor, Zhao Gou suddenly found that all the 'nails' around him had disappeared.
The emperor's unusual behavior suddenly made Zhao Gou realize that his intentions might have been exposed or that he had already suspected himself. Is he doing this to warn himself, or is he demonstrating to himself? Although Zhao Gou thought of these. But he is not afraid that the emperor will come to the door, and it will not be wrong for him to support him to continue to reign! So he decided to take a gamble, betting that the emperor had not yet discovered the secret of the outer village and his true purpose.
Therefore, Zhao Gou did not stop, but took the opportunity to pass on the news, and even lived in Zhuangzi in the name of collecting tenant rent. He did this because he wanted to tell others that he had a clear conscience, whether you sent someone to monitor it or no one to monitor it, it was no different from usual; The second is that he is also afraid in his heart, and having thousands of guards around him still makes him feel more stable in his heart, and once there is a change, he can also transfer troops to the nearest rescue.
But on the night of the day after Zhao Gou moved into Zhuangzi, the Special Operations Brigade of the Guards launched a surprise attack on Outer Zhuang. They attacked Zhuangzi with extremely covert movements, and captured the two heads of the protectors who were still asleep, and a fierce battle ensued between the two armies, but the leaderless guards were the opponents of the most elite special warfare brigade of the Great Song Dynasty, but they were defeated in half an hour, and when they wanted to escape, they found that Zhuangzi had been surrounded and exhausted.
The sound of guns rang out for half a night, in Zhao Gou, who was only three miles away from the outer village, naturally did not sleep all night, in the early morning he climbed the high pavilion in the manor to look, only to see that the outer village had been razed to the ground by artillery fire, he sent people to check that no corpse and a living person were found, as if tens of thousands of people had evaporated overnight. Zhao Gou understood that the emperor was already aware of what he had done, which was a warning to him, and the reason why he didn't move him was because he didn't want to provoke the tongue at the juncture of the return of the King of Liao.
Zhao Gou knew that the general trend of the road was gone, and returned to the city in a panic, borrowing wine all day to drown his sorrows, at this moment he had a glimmer of hope, that is, the killer sent could complete the task, and there was still the possibility of turning the tables. But the result disappointed him again, Zhao Huan returned to Beijing safely, and unexpectedly sent a thank you form, and said in public that he had 'given up' the reset. Zhao Gouzhi, who had exhausted the organs, said that he had lost this time, and there was no possibility of winning the throne again, and the only wish in his heart was to hope that the emperor would let him go.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the dust settled, and Zong Zhengsi dismissed his prince in the name of King Kang's misconduct and demoted him to the Duke of Chu, and his children, wives and concubines were all demoted and moved out of the palace for resettlement. Later, there was also news in the palace that the queen Zhu was sick and could not handle the affairs of the palace, and the concubine Yu Liyan was temporarily acting on her behalf. The emperor's eldest son, Zhao Qian, had reached the age of twelve, and instead of being educated in the palace as usual, he went to study in Zongxue. Zhu Yannian, the national abbot, said that he was old and wanted to return to his hometown to recuperate......
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With the return of Zhao Huan, the two sides reached a ceasefire, and the reinforcement army Hu General first withdrew from Liaoyang, and the other two generals also began to withdraw their troops from Kaizhou and Xuanzhou, and retreated to the Baozhou and Haoladian areas south of the Yalu River to rest and recuperate, and assisted the troops of the Five Kingdoms to build three cities along the river to defend against the attack of the Jin State.
In June, Zhao Yong suddenly received an order from the Privy Council, saying that the king of Liao had returned to the country, and the emperor wanted to abdicate the throne, causing protests from the government and the opposition, and Gyeonggi was in turmoil. Zhao Yong received the order to immediately mobilize the warships near the Korean Bay, requisitioned the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty to carry the two generals back to China, and at the same time met with Jin Fushi to hand over the Goryeo city occupied by the Song army.
The Song army has been in Goryeo for almost a year, and the Goryeo side is also under pressure, on the one hand, to provide part of the food and salary for the Song army; On the other hand, Goryeo was deeply frightened after seeing the fighting power of the Song army, and was worried that they would not leave. It's just that people have helped themselves, and they want to drive people away as soon as the war stops, which is a bit unspeakable. Now that the Song army took the initiative to withdraw the army, the Goryeo side was of course very happy, and the lord Wang Kai prepared a large number of things to reward the army, and prepared gifts for the emperor, and sent the crown prince and Jin Fushi to Bochuan to negotiate.
After the Battle of Xijing, the Song army moved forward, and most of the troops who remained in Goryeo were baggage troops, and they either transported the surplus materials or disposed of them on the spot, and the base could be returned to Goryeo. Therefore, the handover of Xijing, Shunzhou, Anzhou, Xichuan and Bochuan was very smooth. The gradually withdrawing Song army also gathered near Baozhou and Shenmi Island to prepare for evacuation by boat, and a dispute ensued.
"Marshal, your army has triumphantly taken Liaoyang City all the way and recovered a large area of land, since you are now withdrawing and returning to China, can you return the newly acquired land to our country?" Jin Fushi said.
"Where do you mean Lord Kim?" Zhao Yong was stunned for a moment and asked, he thought that the two sides would have a conflict because of the ownership of Baozhou, but now it seems that what Goryeo wants is not Baozhou.
"Dashuai, north of the Great Wall and south of the Yalu River, the Lazydian area has been occupied by my Goryeo since a hundred years ago, but it was later taken by the Jurchens and has not been recovered, this time it was recovered by the heavenly soldiers, please return it together!" Jin Fushi said.
"Lord Jin's words make Ben Shuai embarrassed, the Lazy Dian region is for the Five Nations Department to send troops to attack, and also occupy it, and the Song and Jin countries are negotiating the ownership of this place, which has not yet been resolved, so Ben Shuai cannot exceed his authority!" Zhao Yongyan said that this land had actually been decided a long time ago, and it was intended to be used as an overseas enclave of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was only temporarily put down for the sake of the smooth return of the Liao King, and it was not directly announced that it would return to the Song Dynasty.
"Oh, your country has withdrawn from all the occupied lands north of the Yalu River, and the Jurchens are still unwilling to give up their lazy place?" Jin Fushi said with some surprise, he knew that the Song Dynasty had made great concessions on the land issue in order to welcome back the former emperor who had been captured to the Jin State, but he refused to give in on the issue of Lazy Dian because he wanted to occupy it for a long time, and it seemed that it was not easy for him to claim back this place.
"Yes, the Jin State said that although the Lazy Dian was occupied by the Ministry of the Five Kingdoms, they were the rebellion of the Jin State, that is, their internal affairs, and there was no question of belonging to other countries at all, and my country thought it was the old land of the Liao State, and the Ministry of the Five Kingdoms did not recognize the Jin State, of course, whoever occupied it was who, so it was difficult to reach a conclusion for a while!" Zhao Yongyan said, his meaning is very clear that Lazy Dian is now a borderless land, either you say it's yours or yours...... (To be continued......)