Chapter 325: Obsession

Zhao Huan went back to the house to wash up again and put on a python robe and went out happily, he wanted to meet the scholars who came to petition with a full state of mind, and showed them that although he had been imprisoned in the northern country for more than ten years, the Jurchens had not been able to destroy his ideal of serving the country and the people, and he could work for another five hundred years. But as soon as the excited Zhao Heng reached the second gate, he was stopped by the guards on duty and forbade him to go out of the gate.

"Why did you stop this king?" Zhao Huan was stunned and asked sharply.

"Lord Wang, there is danger outside, and there are orders prohibiting you from going out!" The sentry replied.

"I am the prince of the dynasty, your little soldier dares to stop this king, and you are impatient!" Zhao Huan rushed up and shouted loudly, but in his heart he already believed that it was the ghost of Zhao Zhong who had just arrived. He knew from his son that Zhao Zhong had been in charge of the most elite guards in the Great Song Dynasty and was responsible for the security of the imperial city, so he must be the second hardcore henchman, and now everyone wants to restore him, of course he is not happy to see it, so he obstructs it in every way.

"Lord Wang, you are under the military order, you can't disobey it, please go back!" The sentinel turned a blind eye to the former emperor's anger and said with an unchanged face.

"What if this king has to go out?" Zhao Huan used to be angry with the Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom, and a small soldier could whip him at will, but now when he returned to his home, he didn't want to be angry anymore, and he was about to step out and plan to break in.

"King Liao, please respect yourself!" Seeing that Zhao Huan was going to be hard, the two sentries at the door were not ambiguous, they took a step back in unison, took the gun off their shoulders and put it in their hands, and the meaning was that the fool also understood the meaning, the subtext is that you go out and try it, see if we dare to shoot.

"You ......" Zhao Huan was taken aback. In the blink of an eye, his face turned white and red, and his hands trembled with anger when he pointed at the two of them. But he really didn't dare to put down his raised feet.

"The prince is angry, don't meet them. These people have all fought in battle, and they are very bold, and no one except the emperor cares about them! "The two attendants who followed behind were not good things, one was nagging in the back, but they refused to step forward and pull Zhao Huan down the steps.

"Go, go and call Li Gang for me!" Zhao Huan is neither advancing nor retreating, he simply stepped on the threshold and commanded loudly, but he also set off some waves in his heart. Even the two guards didn't buy the account of the emperor who was about to be reinstated, how many people in the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Song Dynasty could listen to him?

"Father, enter the courtyard quickly, close the door!" Just when Zhao Huan and the two soldiers couldn't hold each other, his son Zhao Huan ran over in a panic and pushed him to hide in the courtyard.

"What's the alarm, how can it be so atmospheric?" Zhao Huan saw his son's panicked appearance, and he was even more angry in his heart, and scolded.

"Father. The scholars outside are rushing to see their father, so get out of the way! Zhao Hui nodded and said.

"Why should the scholars want to see this king, why should they hide?" Zhao Huan stood still. There are some things that he can't say in front of outsiders, and he has to be more reserved, he said with a look at his son. The meaning is clear. Since everyone supports my reinstatement, you are the crown prince. How can you not see it, and besides, these people will be of use in the future.

"Father, you don't know. These scholars are against the emperor's abdication, if they want their father to give up the throne! Zhao Hui said with a wry smile, "When Erchen came over just now, hundreds of scholars had gathered outside the post house, and the guards couldn't stop it, and they were about to rush in......

"Ah......" Zhao Huan's red face turned back to a white face, and without waiting for his son to finish speaking, he turned around and left, not forgetting to let people quickly insert the gate to death, so as not to let the scholars rush in, which reminded him of the bloody night when the Tai students were on the book, how many inner servants were killed and torn apart by the scholars, and the deacons also saw one by one......

Qingzhou is a big city on the way back, Li Gang originally planned to rest here for a few days to replenish some baggage supplies before leaving, but after only five days, the King of Liao insisted on leaving, saying that he would not live any longer. It's not that Zhao Huan doesn't want to live, but he really can't live anymore, those scholars are guarding the door day and night and refusing to leave, while the Qingzhou officials who are responsible for peripheral security are not doing their jobs effectively, obviously stopping it, but secretly releasing water. Not only was his attitude ambiguous, but he also leaked his whereabouts to the scholars, so that he didn't even dare to go out.

And the royalist trend in Qingzhou has become more and more violent, not only the scholars, but even the peddlers and pawns have joined in and shouted that they can't let Zhao Huan, the king of the country and the people who have suffered from the disaster, be reinstated, go back to Liaodong, and commit suicide to thank the people...... and other 'great rebellion' words, and some people even burned incense and paper at the door of the post house to curse their early death. But the local government's ineffective suppression caused the 'mob' to break through the gate of the post house several times, if it wasn't for Li Gang's persuasion, the guards desperately guarded, Zhao Huan thought that he would have been killed a long time ago.

At the urging of Zhao Huan, he drove on the road again, and he also learned the lesson of Qingzhou, not to stay in the big state capital, but only camp in the small military state, so as to avoid being humiliated by the foolish people again. Sure enough, the situation has changed greatly, and there are no similar incidents, and he can walk around casually, so that he can go deep into the people to visit the poor and listen to the voices of the people.

But after a few private visits to Weifu, Zhao Huan had no interest in going out, and he found that the people seemed to have forgotten the Jingkang Emperor who had eliminated the six thieves, but what he often remembered was the current emperor, praising him for expelling the gold thieves, restoring the Central Plains, and encouraging industry and commerce, reducing taxes, and enriching the country and the people. Zhao Huan can only blame the people's reaction to the remoteness of the place, and the people have not been able to bathe in their holy grace, and he believes that the situation will be greatly changed when he arrives in Gyeonggi.

After stopping and walking, after more than ten days, the team finally came to Qizhou. According to the emperor's arrangement, they abandoned the car and boarded the boat to return to Beijing by water, and the group was divided into 100 large boats and sailed up the mighty river. Now the food and accommodation are on the ship, and the speed is much faster, but the trouble has not decreased, but has become more and more. Whenever they docked to replenish supplies, the merchants often could not buy even a grain of rice or a single vegetable leaf when they heard that it was a fleet to welcome the Liao king back to Beijing. There are some sections of the river where boats need to be towed by slender men, but no one wants to pull them for them......

The fleet entered the Yangsanbo River from the Jishui River to the Wuzhang River, and then the Gwangje River entered Gyeonggi. It is said that it is already at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but Zhao Huan found that the guard of the fleet has become more and more tight, he thinks that this is the second child in order to cut off his contact with the outside world, and he is very dissatisfied with this.

"Li Xiang, you said that the waterway is smooth, and the speed is fast and you can change to the waterway, why do you want this king to change to a small boat, and he can't go out of the cabin casually during the day? It's so deceitful! When Zhao Huan learned that he was going to change the passenger boat, the fire that had been suppressed for several days finally broke out, and he questioned Li Gangdao.

"Lord Wang, please move to the passenger boat is not Weichen's intention to be lazy, but there is news from Beijing that someone wants to be unfavorable to the prince!" Li Gang arched his hand and explained.

"Hmph, I'm afraid that there are other people who are not good for this king!" Zhao Huan snorted coldly.

"Lord Wang, since the rumor that His Majesty wants to give way, it has caused a shock in Beijing, and the Chamber of Commerce, Guozijian and local state governments have all written to ask His Majesty to stay in office, but His Majesty has made up his mind, and some people want to be unfavorable to the prince to prevent you from returning to Beijing. After His Majesty learned about it, he sent Zhao Zhong, the commander of the guards, to lead the troops to escort him, and arranged for the boats to be changed to waterways, all of which were for the sake of the prince. Li Gang frowned and said, "Asking the prince to change ships is also for the sake of the prince's safety, according to reliable information, someone has sent killers to ambush the prince's ship in front!" ”

"This ...... Who is this going to take the life of this king? Zhao Huan asked with a confused face when he heard this. To say that he is not afraid of death is false, if he is a slightly bloody person, he would have committed suicide and martyrdom long ago after suffering the shame and humiliation given by the Jurchens, but he has been starving in the Jin country for more than ten years, but he has interpreted that it is better to die than to live to the extreme.

"Lord Wang, it's hard to determine at this time!" Li Gang replied.

"Who hates me so much, and the hatred has not gone away for more than ten years?" Zhao Huan thought back and said.

"Lord Wang, speaking of which, this matter has nothing to do with hatred!" Li Gang sighed softly and said, he was very disdainful of Zhao Huan in his heart, he just got out of trouble and had not settled down, just based on a rumor, he thought that he could return to the throne, it was really incorrigible, if he really became the emperor, the Great Song Dynasty would have to lose in his hands sooner or later.

"Li Xiang, what do you mean by that?" Zhao Huan was a little confused, those people had no grievances with him, but they wanted to risk killing themselves, either they were overwhelmed, or they were a psychopath.

"Lord Wang, you have been hunting in the north for many years, and it is a matter of celebration for the whole country to be able to return to your homeland at this time. But now things have backfired, all the situations that have occurred on the way and some people want to assassinate the prince, in the final analysis, are all due to the abdication of His Majesty, and it is definitely not a personal enmity with the prince! Li Gang looked at Zhao Huan and said.

"It's all because of the abdication?" Zhao Huan was shocked.

"Yes, as soon as His Majesty's words of abdicating the throne came out, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and they begged the emperor to be unsuccessful, so there was only one way to solve the problem, that is, to prevent the prince from reinstating you!" Li Gang said.

"Even if the emperor deliberately abdicates the throne, it is my royal private matter, what does it have to do with others!" Zhao Huan said unconvinced when he heard this.

"Hehe, yes, this is indeed a royal matter, but this is related to the world, not just a royal matter, but a matter of the people of the world!" Li Gang said helplessly, no wonder he can't be the emperor, this kind of shameless words can be said.

"Li Xiang said that, right?" Zhao Huan said dissatisfied.

"Lord, the lord of the world has a virtuous person to live in, as soon as the emperor's words come out, up to the emperor, down to the peddlers and pawns, Shangshu Province has received a mountain of exhortations and recitals, and the students have been written several times to keep them, and the prince must have felt along the way, and who should be judged!" Li Gang, as an old minister of Jingkang, was already suspected of being disrespectful when he said these words, but he saw that Zhao Huan was obsessed, so he still couldn't hold back...... (To be continued......)