Chapter 23: The New Emperor's Road to Revenge
In that competition, the only thing he miscalculated was his own heart.
Naturally, he also underestimated the new emperor.
His Royal Highness King Rui was lifted by the king, which is naturally quite a good thing for the people in King Rui's mansion, and His Royal Highness King Rui has been lingering on this bed for a long time, and finally there is a slight improvement after January, naturally Zhou Xiaochuan is above this court, and he also observed the change in the face of the new emperor.
If a person has a weakness, even if he is like a god, he has a weakness.
Cintiq is no exception.
Who is his weakness, there are very few people who know it above this court, and if you have to find the best of them, it is naturally the young general Zhou Xiaochuan of the General's Mansion.
This person, he had hoped that he would have died better, and he also planned the fall into the water when he was not noticing.
At that time, he was young, so he was naturally sharp, although he got along quite well with Zeshi, but it was not the same with other people, even if Zhou Xiaochuan was his attendant, not to mention that he was afraid of him.
Yes, his Zhou family has made indelible contributions to the successive monarchs of the Great Xia Kingdom, and he is also in charge of military power in this Great Xia court. The Zhou family is full of loyalty, and the family style and martial arts are quite well-known in this Great Xia.
And the sister-in-law of General Zhou, who was just born, was praised by everyone as the hope of General Zhou's mansion, which had to make him a little jealous.
Yes, he of the Zhou family has made great contributions to the Great Xia Dynasty, and he is also the eldest son of several generations of the Zhou family.
However, this still can't hide the problem of the Zhou family's excessive power. If there is a person who is both civil and military in the Zhou family, with the prestige that the Zhou family has accumulated in the army over the years, although it cannot be said that it is a hundred responses, it can also make this Great Xia Dynasty turbulent for a long time.
He couldn't let General Zhou's family develop like this.
He did not regret the matter of ordering someone to push the young son of the general into the water that week, even if he once held the young child, he felt that the child was so lovely, but he still could not shake his firm heart.
If the youngest son of General Zhou's Mansion is a slightly weaker person, he can be truly peaceful in this life, and he will naturally protect the glory of the Zhou family. But the things in this world are mostly impermanent.
Zhou Xiaochuan was abolished, but he was not dead, and he was one step closer to him because he was not afraid of death. It also broke the convention of the Zhou family as generals in the past dynasties, and became a civil official in the prince's mansion. But even if he is a frail person, he is quite brilliant as a civil official, his views are very novel, his methods are effective, and more importantly, he can check and fill in the gaps in time for every place that goes wrong, and do not give others the slightest opportunity.
In this way, there was a bit of impermeability around him, but he admired such deeds, if nothing else, and it was quite in line with his wishes to act vigorously and resolutely.
If Zhou Xiaochuan is not the eldest son of General Zhou's mansion, when he wants to get along with them, he is more willing to give him the opportunity to rise.
But that's not possible now.
Thinking about this in his mind, he picked up the military fold in his hand and watched to see if there were any victories coming from this frontier land. It's a pity that he saw the joint performance of many generals in the border land: asking the imperial court to allow Zhou Xiaoxiao, the daughter of General Lizhou, to be a general.
All right! It's really good.
He was here to guard against Zhou Xiaochuan, but he never thought that this was a place to save Zhao, and the thoughts he had spent on Zhou Xiaochuan for many years were in vain. I never thought that the reckless men at the border pass would actually count General Zhou's daughter. Now that these many soldiers are playing together, he, as the king of a country, naturally can't stop it with a big wave.
General Zhou doesn't have to be someone else, and General Zhou's eldest son is weak and unable to inherit General Zhou's mantle, this Great Xia is well known in the country, and now the Zhou family is finally looking forward to it, Zhou Xiaoxiao is now on this battlefield, brave and good at fighting, not much better than men, and now seeing that the Zhou family now has something to rely on, he naturally hopes that the emperor can open the net.
Taking a step back, even without the joint performance of these soldiers, this week Xiao smiled on the battlefield, and he, as the king of Great Xia, had to give her a chance to speak upright.
After all, she won this battle.
And this victory is obvious to all, so it is naturally impossible for him to turn a blind eye.
But they did it quite arrogantly.
Heaven is inviolable.
On the second day, Zhou Xiaochuan received a secret order: let him take over the position of the commander of the dark guard.
The letter even stated that in order for him to better integrate into the dark guards, he also needed to train with the group of dark guards in the secret guard forest, and if he could convince everyone, he could take over the position of the leader of the dark guard.
Zhou Xiaochuan followed this secret decree, with a sneer in his heart.
This new emperor has found a unique and good place for him, the commander of the dark guard, and the three-month period, even if he Zhou Xiaochuan has not set foot in the secrets of this royal family, he still knows the existence of this secret guard.
The dark guard is a dark force subordinate to the Great Xia royal family, and most of the military power in this world is in the hands of the king and generals, but this relationship is mostly in the hands of this dark guard. If you look at it from Zhou Xiaochuan's point of view, this is a group of people with strong martial arts, they have never fought each other, Zhou Xiaochuan doesn't know what the specific situation is, but he knows that in this secret guard, in addition to this martial arts, there is the ubiquitous network.
A few days ago, he Zhou Xiaochuan designed a few fireworks and willow alleys for the new emperor to end, which are the intelligence collection points of the secret guards, and naturally the intelligence collection points in all aspects naturally do not have to report to the king one by one, and that incident is also related to His Royal Highness King Rui.
Although His Royal Highness King Rui has a lot of time to monitor him, but the king did not order His Royal Highness King Rui's life, so they knew how His Royal Highness King Rui was gone, and they still needed to ask the new emperor, and because the bustard master in the building did not know the appearance of Lord Rui, but he brought people in, this matter can only show that there are still many places where the dark guard needs to be improved, this is their negligence, and naturally they recognize it themselves.
Those broken relationship networks are also because of their lack of qualifications, so they will poke such a basket.
And these ghosts who are active in the dark night, although they are quite important to the royal family.
They deal with the dark and bloody past of the royal family, and they can assassinate any family as long as it is ordered by the king, so that they will carry it out without hesitation. Until the king has done what the king has told them to do, this is the whole of their lives.
Seeing that they are a group of ghosts who can't see the light of day, if they enter this secret guard, this body can only walk in this dark night like this, and when they can't see the light of day, if so, one day, this secret guard is noticed by others, or when the mastermind of those pickled things is exposed, I think they are naturally willing to take the initiative to stand up, and this Great Xia King is also willing to calm down many tongue-in-the-people and give an explanation to all beings in the world, and destroy them to block the mouth of Youyou.
In this matter, the new emperor did it.
And at that time, if he Zhou Xiaochuan was for the leader of the secret guard, naturally all the blame would be borne by him alone.
If it is peaceful, he Zhou Xiaochuan will be the leader of the dark guard who can't see the light of day all his life, groping forward in the dark, and there will be no daylight, and if there is a slight mistake, he Zhou Xiaochuan will be the first scapegoat.
But he couldn't refuse.
It's just that the new emperor gave him three months to take over the position of the commander of the dark guard. There is not the slightest room for maneuver in this sentence itself. The new emperor did not give him a second path to choose from.
He Zhou Xiaochuan smiled.
He, Zhou Xiaochuan, is a fragile person who is rumored to be powerless in the outside world, but it makes the King of Great Xia place such "high hopes" on him, and he is actually forced to cooperate with him, asking him to gain their trust within three months with the group of people who have been practicing martial arts since childhood.
This is no less than a fantasy.
Or maybe the new emperor was afraid that something was wrong, so he thought that he would die naturally earlier.
He is not afraid of this, he is now using the technique given by Lou Xi, and he will try to guide the meridian into a state of blockage on weekdays.
Just to bury him when he has martial arts.
If Zhou Xiaochuan follows the wishes of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and assists His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wholeheartedly, he will naturally have a destiny to spend this life in peace.
But he didn't want to.
How willing he Zhou Xiaochuan is to let himself be such a powerless and useless scholar.
If so, the reason for this incident is because he Zhou Xiaochuan was able to keep to himself, and calculated the weakness of the new emperor, which made him have such a strong killing intent. He Zhou Xiaochuan ruined His Royal Highness King Rui, who had always been the new emperor who thought he was extremely well protected. But he never looked back to think about it, and the harm he had done to His Royal Highness King Rui that day was full of words for his good.
If he Zhou Xiaochuan can survive in this March training, he Zhou Xiaochuan swears that he will never die with the new emperor, between them, poke each other's vital points, and they are also injured by each other, so that both sides are covered with scars, just to not die.
In this way, it is naturally better. He Zhou Xiaochuan can't kill the monarch, if he kills the new emperor to avenge himself, he will go to the glory of the Zhou family's loyal martyrs, Zhou Xiaochuan doesn't care about that, he doesn't want to be loyal to such a monarch for a lifetime.
However, his father could not do this, and in his eyes this was the kingdom he loved, the faithful king.
He couldn't give it all up.
I can't give up the belief that the Zhou family has been passed down from generation to generation.
But he won't take another step back, and he Zhou Xiaochuan will recover the blood debt of the Zhou family.
He, Zhou Xiaochuan, will inevitably accompany him to the end.