In a dangerous environment, just like playing chess with God, if you don't think about it a little, you will lose your life directly, and you don't even have a chance to regret the chess, at this time, Zhao Ta was involved in a conspiracy but didn't know it, and it was just a few tongues that wanted to destroy him...

The spring of the seventh year of Xuanhe arrived, Zhao Ji was nostalgic for the mountains and rivers of Genyue every day, writing a few words, painting a few paintings, beauties and beauties surrounded by him, the days were very comfortable, and he was still intoxicated with the dream of recovering Yanyun, but he didn't know that the Great Song Dynasty at this time was like a rotten persimmon, just a little poke by an external force, it would fall to the ground with a bang.

"Shimei, how did you do with Jin Guo's claim for Yunzhou?" After playing football with Li Bangyan for a while, his body was hot, Zhao Ji returned to the pavilion and drank a few sips of tea, remembering the matter of Yunzhou and asked.

"Your Majesty, the Jurchens have not yet concluded the war in Yunzhou, and they have refused to deliver it to our court for a long time!" Li Bangyan picked up an apricot from a few and said that after he resigned for his father's funeral and reinstated, he was at odds with Wang Hao, and colluded with Cai You and others in private, attacked Wang Hao and stopped, worshiped Shaozai, but there was nothing to build, but the sycophant Bai occupied a seat, and the people of Kaifeng, Tokyo regarded him as the "prodigal prime minister".

"The Jin people are too untrustworthy, and the grain and grass have been given to you in full, but they still shirk in every possible way, so that Ma Kuo will step up his demand!" Zhao Ji put down the teacup and said unhappily.

"Father, the son has an idea!" At this time, Jiawang Zhao Kai suddenly interjected.

"What can San Lang do, let's hear it!" Zhao Ji twisted his face and asked.

"Father, the second brother heard that the second brother and Jin Guochen are also very close to each other, and they are privately called brothers, such as sending the second brother to envoy Jin Guo. It will be done! Zhao Kai said.

"And this matter, how did the second brother know him. Why don't I know? Zhao Ji was stunned and asked, the second boy didn't mention this matter in his letter!

"Your Majesty. You forgot, the oblique army was defeated in Yunzhou, chased and killed by the Khitans, and avoided the east of the river, Prince Yan took in him as the priority of state affairs, and took care of it in every way, and responded to his requests. It is said that when Prince Yan sent him back to the Jurchens, the two of them shed tears and said goodbye, high-fived each other as a vow to help each other in the future! Liang Shicheng wiped the beads of sweat from the emperor's forehead with a sweat towel and said.

"Oh, there's such a thing!" Zhao Ji frowned and said, "Erlang is just young and fun, and he doesn't understand external etiquette!" ”

"Yes, Prince Yan has been in the northwest for a long time, and he often deals with those Tibetan people and barbarians, so it is inevitable that he will be contaminated with some of their habits. The old slave heard from the people from the northwest say that the princess of Xixia was rejected because of her affiliation, and she had the cheekiness to find Prince Yan's mansion to recognize her relatives, which was really funny! Liang Shicheng said with a smile.

"Aha. The hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, Prince Yan is not shallow, and there is actually a princess who comes to the door and sticks it upside down. Interesting! Li Bangyan is known as a beautiful woman who has played all over the world, and he is both envious and jealous of Zhao Ta's affair.

"Huh. The imperial sister-in-law is in the capital, and the second brother lives alone in the northwest. There must be no woman around this day to endure ah, the princess of Xixia sent it to the door, it is the sheep into the mouth of the tiger, I heard that the party woman is gorgeous and coquettish, and the second brother must be happy and tight! Zhao Kai also joked.

"It's not a long time ago to make peace with Xixia, why is Erlang so unconscious..."Zhao Ji, who has always been most interested in this kind of anecdote, didn't gossip with them this time, and said thoughtfully, but didn't notice that Liang Shicheng, Zhao Kai, and Li Bangyan behind him looked at each other and smiled...

In fact, the reason why Liang Shicheng and others were jealous and hateful to Zhao Ta, but they dared to be angry and dare not speak, the key was not only that Zhao Ta received too much favor from the emperor, but that they felt that Zhao Ta had too much power in his hands and posed a threat to himself.

As early as when Zhao Ji was the prince, Liang Shicheng and others had already formed an alliance with Zhao Kai, and they had always been wary of Zhao Ta, who had inserted a pole. They thought that after squeezing Zhao Tan out of the capital, it would be difficult for him to do anything away from the emperor's protection, but to their great surprise, Prince Yan not only defeated the Western Xia, but forced them to sign the alliance under the city.

Seeing Zhao Ta's chaos, how could Liang Shicheng and the others sit still, now he not only controls more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but also has an invincible 'private army' in his hands. This is not counting their discovery, the business in the Yan Wangfu is also getting bigger and bigger, almost all over the state and county, although it is also deliberately concealed, but people with a heart can always find that there is the shadow of the Yan Prince's Mansion behind these big businessmen, and their accumulated wealth is enough to cover the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty for a year, and everyone knows what they can do if they have soldiers and money.

The most terrifying thing now is not only his control over the army. Now Hedong Zhao Ta has completely controlled the Hedong Army, and even let the Hedong civil officials obey him, everyone is the only one who looks to him, and the people he sent back then have been squeezed out of Hedong, and now he has a connection with Western Xia and Jin, how dare they despise him.

Although Liang Shicheng is cunning and digging into the corners of the emperor's walls, he still knows who his master is, and understands that he is a monkey on the emperor's big tree that occupies the top of the tree, so he is still loyal to the emperor, and he should warn the emperor whether it is public or private, so that the emperor can curb the expansion of Prince Yan's power, of course, it is best to eradicate it as soon as possible.

Of course, Liang Shicheng is cautious, and he is a person who is very deep in the city, and he will not be uncomfortable when Prince Yan's holy grace is in his prime, let alone easily expose his intentions. But that doesn't mean he doesn't do anything, he can use his influence to incite his subordinates to do it. But what puzzled Liang Shicheng and others was that the emperor didn't seem to care about this, no matter how Prince Yan tossed in the northwest, he didn't interfere, but just agreed to transfer several senior generals in the loyal army, but he didn't know what the emperor wanted to do?

Now Prince Yan is getting more and more outrageous, not only 'colluding' with the party members, but also getting involved with the Jurchens, which is not enough to have a relationship with the Yisheng Army, and in the face of Zhao Ta, who is growing stronger, Liang Shicheng can't sit still. If he was allowed to develop, one day it would be impossible for the emperor not to pass on the throne to him, so he found Zhao Kai, who was also uneasy, and found a way to pull the crown prince Zhao Huan.

Liang Shicheng knew that the prince of Lu Dao had always tried his best to defend his younger brother, and he also knew what his idea was. He wanted to cultivate his own team, use the power of Prince Yan to fight against those who threatened his position, and pave the way for himself to ascend to the throne one day, and it was not easy for him to destroy the 'Great Wall'. And he also knew that his relationship with the prince was like fire and water, and there was no way to communicate directly, but he had his own way to pull him into the water, and this intermediary was Geng Nanzhong, the prince's mansion.

Geng Nanzhong can be said to have fulfilled the responsibility of a teacher to the prince, standing by Zhao Huan's side in the most difficult moment, maneuvering from it, and even surrendering his identity at the expense of Li Bangyan to resist Wang Huang's squeeze on the prince, it can be said that whoever threatens the prince will not hesitate to pounce. With such a loyal protector, Liang Shicheng only needs to reveal Prince Yan's actions to Geng Nanzhong through various channels, intentionally or unintentionally, to achieve his goal.

And this purpose was easily achieved, just after Zhao Ta entered the Daizhou school review and interfered in the Yisheng Army, Geng Nanzhong found an opportunity to enter the concert alone, and solemnly told the emperor: "Prince Yan is a frivolous and impetuous person, and his power is too prosperous and prone to treachery. Now he controls more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the east of the river and in the river, and he meddles in the affairs of the righteous victory army. ”

For the prince's counterattack, as a Liang Shicheng who has been in the palace for half his life, he is not surprised, the ancients often say that they are born from the same root, so why be too anxious to fry each other. But the fact in the palace is often: it is the same root that will be anxious. And the source of his self-confidence in being able to provoke a war between several brothers is actually very simple, that is, the heart of comparison.

Whether it is Liang Shicheng's jealousy of Tong Guan or Zhao Kai's contempt for Zhao Ta, in the final analysis, it may be a comparison of hearts. Zhao Kai felt that Zhao Ta was more prosperous than himself, maybe Zhao Huan would also feel that Zhao Ta was the most sacred, so he would express their grievances and anger by demolishing each other. stirred up the resurgence of the court and the various contradictions between them, to put it bluntly, but in fact, because of the same background, they have a strong desire to overpower each other.

The same origins provide the strongest comparability, and the similarity of comparison leads both sides to wear an equally unreliable set of colored glasses, which in turn reinforces the same distorted sense of competition, so that the beggar is not jealous of the rich, but only of other beggars. At the end of the day, people are sometimes unhappy, not because they are not successful, but because of the success of others...

In fact, Zhao Ji is not unaware of the development of Zhao Ta's potential, and some of them have even been realized with his connivance, and the reason why Zhao Ji chose Zhao Ta to know Hedong is because he feels that he owes him something, and second, he feels that Zhao Ta grew up in the countryside and has not been contaminated with the habits of officialdom, and he is still young, his background is relatively simple, and his maternal status is humble. Moreover, he is also his own son, and he is still 'young', and he is not enough to pose a threat to his throne.

Today's Zhao Ta is no longer the little prince who is difficult to get into the elegant hall, but a hot heavyweight in the imperial political arena, controlling the two feudal officials, forming a small group with him as the core in the northwest, although he did not collude with the ministers of the DPRK and China, but he maintained a good relationship with foreign peoples, and established different forms of interest relations with them through various channels.

Listening to a few people chewing their tongues in his ears, Zhao Ji suddenly realized that his son might have posed a threat to him... (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )