"The minister is a person from the Chu Palace, if it weren't for His Majesty's kindness, the minister should be in prison now, the minister is grateful to His Majesty's net opening, but he is in prison, after all, he is the minister's relatives, no matter what, the minister can't watch them being executed and be indifferent, right?" Zhao Qu said, "Your Majesty is a generation of Ming Jun, and he will not kill innocents indiscriminately, the so-called Yiren is responsible for doing things alone, and Zhao Ling's affairs should not implicate other innocent people!" ”

"Huh!" Emperor Zhou smiled coldly, "You have to remember one thing, it was not me who put the Chu Wangfu in prison, but Zhao Ling!" If he can obediently turn himself in, the Chu Wangfu will naturally be fine with the Jiang family, but if he is greedy for life and afraid of death, then don't blame me for being ruthless! Instead of persuading me, you should persuade Zhao Ling! ”

"What if we exchange the economic lifeline of the Great Zhou and ask Your Majesty to open up to them?" Zhao Qian raised his eyes, looked at Emperor Zhou and said coldly.

"Are you threatening me?" Emperor Zhou's gaze was even sharper and colder.

"Yes!" Zhao Qian swallowed his saliva, allowing himself to be fearless of Emperor Zhou's shocked gaze, "The minister and Zhao Qu's subordinates now control the economy of six or seven out of ten of the Great Zhou, if we make a move, the economy of the Great Zhou will inevitably collapse, and now that the Great Zhou and the Chen State are about to fight, if the economy collapses, with the deposit of the treasury, how long does Your Majesty think that you can support the military salaries of the soldiers in the front?" If there is no military salary, what does His Majesty think is the chance of winning the war with Chen Guozhi? It is self-evident how much Your Majesty has expectations in this battle, and if you are defeated, you are afraid that the consequences will be incalculable, is Your Majesty willing to gamble? Once the clues of defeat are revealed, it is difficult to guarantee that other countries around will not take advantage of the situation, and Da Zhou may fall into dire straits! Although we are only businessmen, it is enough for businessmen to do our part that we can now control the lifeblood of the country! ”

Emperor Zhou glanced at Zhao Qu with a calm face and asked, "You also think the same way?" ”

"That's the purpose of our entry into the palace together!" Zhao Qu said, "We feel that if the two of us are combined, what we say still has some weight!" ”

"Why did you betray me?" Emperor Zhou asked coldly, "I have high hopes for you!" ”

"Your Majesty might as well think about what you did to the minister, Your Majesty values the minister, and makes the minister very grateful, but Your Majesty killed the minister's mother, and the minister has to avenge the revenge of killing his mother!" Zhao Qu said, "The minister has been waiting for a long time to come to today's opportunity!" ”

"Aren't you afraid that I won't let you out of the palace?" Emperor Zhou asked coldly.

"Since we dare to enter the palace to threaten Your Majesty, we have naturally put life and death out of the way!" Zhao Qian said, "Your Majesty can also kill us and not accept our threat!" If Your Majesty can afford it, after killing us, the turmoil caused in the Great Zhou will be! Not only will the war with Chen Guo be affected, but the entire Great Zhou will be affected, and when the people are resentful, the nobles who are resentful because of His Majesty's new policy may take advantage of the situation, and it is also a great threat in comparison, Your Majesty is only afraid that it will fall into internal and external difficulties at that time, and before killing us again, we also hope that Your Majesty can think clearly! ”

"You're amazing!" Emperor Zhou laughed, "It's the first time I've met someone who dares to threaten me like this, and even the original eldest grandson Hu didn't dare to have such courage!" Even if I don't kill you today, do you know the consequences of what you do? ”

"All the consequences have been thought out in advance!" Zhao Qu said, "Aren't we having a better way to choose? If there is a better way, it will not be so risky, no matter what, the Chu Wangfu will be beheaded tomorrow, and now the plan has to be taken one step at a time! Although it is to drink to quench thirst, it is a last resort! ”

Emperor Zhou looked at them silently, the murderous aura in his eyes was overflowing, but he was suppressed by a strong calmness, he was never an impulsive person, and obviously now he was also estimating the consequences if he killed the two damned people in front of him.

"The whole world is not the king's land, even if I release them now, do you think you can go out of the Great Zhou?" Emperor Zhou said coldly, "Do you think you will be safe and sound by hiding in the Chen Kingdom?" ”

"Give it a try!" Zhao Qian said, "Since there is no way out, even if there is a cliff ahead, you have to try to jump or not!" ”

"I'll think about it!" Emperor Zhou said, "Kneel down!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister is leaving!"

Zhao Qian and Zhao Qu retreated, and after the two left the imperial study, they glanced at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, after all, Emperor Zhou was moody, and they were really worried that he would not be threatened and killed the two of them.

"Since I was a child, I have seen His Majesty have weak legs, and being able to say these words in front of him today can be regarded as using all the courage saved in my previous life for decades!" Zhao Qian said, "What do you say about putting life and death out of the way, but in front of Your Majesty, compared to being in front of thousands of troops, it makes me feel scared!" ”

"Why am I!" Zhao Qu said, "Don't hide it, my legs are still soft now!" ”

"What do you think Your Majesty will choose?" Zhao Qian asked.

"If Your Majesty doesn't let us go, he will kill us on the spot, since he said that he wants to think about it, he will naturally take over our threat!" Zhao Qu said, "What we have to think about now is to solve the next things, but we have been able to do what we can do, and next, it depends on the eldest brother and sister-in-law in their other forces in Beijing!" ”

Before dawn, when it was darkest, I couldn't see my fingers.

The defense of the city gate is extremely strict because Emperor Zhou gave a death order, and not all of these guards are people who protect the city, so Yu Sicheng does not dare to risk letting Jiang Shuai out of the city, it is worth taking a risk, once Jiang Shuai's whereabouts are exposed, I am afraid that not only will he not be able to get out of the city, but the next plan will be known by His Majesty!

Just as the guards were changing, a group of men dressed as night walkers quietly climbed up the city gate, killed several guards upstairs with lightning speed, and then quickly changed into their clothes.

In the night, there was a smell of blood, and a stream of murderous aura had slowly overflowed.

"What people!" With an exclamation, the sound of a hand-to-hand battle sounded, but the group of people who suddenly rushed out was desperate to break out, and opened half of the prison, and several people escaped at the same time.

Feather arrows shot from the upper floor towards the few people who fled, and the people on the horse fell to the ground one after another, only two escaped, and at the same time the defenders of the city desperately guarded, the open gate was closed, and the situation here also alarmed the surrounding reinforcements, before the reinforcements arrived, the remaining black-clothed people saw that they could not break out, and they all evacuated the city gate, and disappeared into the night in an instant.

The light of the morning sun gradually sprinkled in, and the soldiers guarding the city began to clean up the corpses, and some people saw that the person who took the lead last night turned out to be Yang Xing, so they quickly reported the news, and for the sake of His Majesty's anger, he did not say that one person had escaped.

Since no one escaped, then Emperor Zhou didn't care very much about this matter, after all, his thoughts were all on Zhao Qian and Zhao Qu now, he naturally wanted to cut the two of them with a thousand knives to vent his anger, but now is not the time, before the war with Chen Guo, anything that will affect the battle situation can not happen, so these two people can't die now, everything, including those guys who want to take advantage of the fire, those guys who are enemies with him, must be after the war, Slowly clean up one by one! Not a single one can be left!

After thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Zhou still ordered to release all the people from Jiangfu and Chu Wangfu in the prison, but they were not allowed to leave the capital, and Zhao Qian and Zhao Qu must stay in the capital to be monitored, once they leave the capital, they will be killed! Emperor Zhou must find someone to take down the economic rights in the hands of the two of them as soon as possible, and when they are no longer threatened by them, that is when they are worthless and can kill at will!

The people from Jiang Mansion and Chu Wangfu were released when noon was about to come, and everyone including Zhao Qu and Zhao Qian were imprisoned in the Chu Wangfu and heavily guarded, but although this result was not completely satisfied, in the end they still picked up a life!

"I knew we weren't going to die!" Zhao Quan said, "I know that the eldest brother and sister-in-law will not give up on us, and they will definitely find a way to save us!" It couldn't be better to be able to return to the Chu Palace! I don't know if there is a chance to meet the fifth prince, is he okay in the palace? ”

Jiang Yuan looked at the environment of the Chu Palace, and sneered: "Your Majesty did not pardon us, but just imprisoned us in another place, Zhao Ling will not be caught for a day, and when His Majesty remembers it that day, it is not possible to kill us at any time, what is there to be happy about!" We are now unable to protect ourselves, so we have less to worry about other people's affairs! ”

"No matter what, since we can get out of the prison, my sister and brother-in-law will definitely have the next step!" Jiang Haoran said, "I still want to believe that we will definitely be safe in the end!" ”

"Amitabha!" The third aunt said, "Yes, no matter what, now everyone is together safely, which is the most important thing!" ”

Concubine Liu also said: "Yes, no matter in the future, as long as we can be together in peace now, it is already their efforts!" It's just that the prince of our family is still in the palace now, and I don't know what the current situation is! ”

"Don't worry!" Zhao Qu said, "Father will be fine, everything will pass!" ”

"I hope so!" Concubine Liu said, "I hope Ling'er and Xiaoyu can also be safe!" After going through so much, I realized that it was really more important than anything else to be safe and tidy! ”