Chapter 202: The Golden Alliance
Xiao Gui aimed the wax skewer at Zhao Er's action, and the two of them could see it at a glance.
One person is Xu Yongzhi, he has been with Xiaogui for so many years, and he knows what Xiaogui is thinking.
The other is none other than Zhao Kuangyin.
He is a master with a gun and a stick, and the action and murderous aura when a person is ready to attack, the master can see it.
Zhao Kuangyin didn't open his mouth to stop it, and at that moment, Xiaogui and Zhao Guanjia had a little subtle tacit understanding.
But someone stopped me.
Xu Yongzhi gently pressed Xiaogui's other hand.
Xiaogui lowered the candlestick secretly.
Blood spattered in the Empress Dowager's bedroom, even if the emperor wants to pardon you, can he find a reason? Zhao Er is a hateful guy, but what kind of person's life is worth exchanging for Xiaogui's life?
At this time, the old queen mother sighed and finally spoke.
"Emperor, can you promise me this old bone?"
As we said before, whoever uses a self-proclaimed title like "old bones" is going to kidnap you emotionally.
Zhao Kuangyin sighed.
"Mother, my son promised you."
"Seriously!" The old lady was helped to the bed by Xiaogui and Xu Yongzhi, but her words were pressing step by step.
"You don't joke." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"I want witnesses." Empress Dowager Du looked at the people around her.
"Come on." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"No, don't be a person surnamed Zhao, and ask neighbors and relatives to witness the affairs of the family." Empress Dowager Du said.
She grabbed Xu Yongzhi and Xiaogui, looking as if she had used all her strength.
"Xu Jin, you come to write, Xiaogui and you have to draw."
Xu Yongzhi looked at Zhao Kuangyin.
"Listen to the Queen Mother." Zhao Kuangyin gave up resistance, and promised the old lady at this time, and then he would find a way.
"First, after a hundred years of the official family, the throne will be passed on to Guangyi."
"Second, after a hundred years of Guangyi, the throne will be passed on to Guangmei."
"Third, after Guangmei's death, it was passed back to the son of the official family, and the throne will not be out of the long house from now on."
Zhao Kuangyin held the hand of the Empress Dowager Du and nodded in agreement.
"In addition, you must give the witnesses Xu Jin and Xia Xiaoguidan book iron coupons, and you must not add to the crime." Empress Dowager Du looked at these two people and added another sentence.
Zhao Kuangyin also agreed.
"Since the two of them are witnesses, today's covenant is called the Noble Alliance." The old queen mother said.
Xu Yongzhi wrote the covenant, Xu Jin and Xia Xiaogui testified, and Zhao Pu also endorsed.
"Mother, don't worry." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"If you want to draw a charge, your mother can rest assured." Empress Dowager Du said.
"I won't draw this kind of bet, I can only promise to do it." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Then you swear."
"I swear to my mother that if I don't listen to my mother in this matter, I will let me die in vain." Zhao Kuangyin said.
This is already a heavy statement.
"Second child, you also have to swear that you will pass it on to Guangmei." Empress Dowager Du said.
Zhao Er was actually not afraid to swear.
True atheists, bold.
But this man still wants to gamble on a toothache curse when he gambles on a curse.
"The son swore to his mother that if he didn't listen to his mother's arrangement in the future, he would make Zhao Guangyi's body difficult to heal, and his descendants would die of hunger!"
These words are full of charlatanism.
"Let me be a stray arrow"
"Let Zhao Guangyi be in the middle of the arrow.
If he changes his name, such as Zhao Guangyu and Zhao Guanglan, he will not be Zhao Guangyi.
As for the descendants of later generations who died of hunger - some of the princes and grandsons were hacked to death and poisoned, but which one would freeze to death and starve to death?
Xiaogui understood it, and was about to say a reminder, but Xu Yongzhi patted her, and she didn't speak.
Xu Yongzhi also understood that Zhao Er was playing tricks on his mother and eldest brother, which was boring.
If you want to talk about cheating, Zhao Kuangyin has walked the rivers and lakes, experienced a hundred battles, and has seen a lot, which town in the north has he not been to? The more Zhao Er is clever, the more the eldest brother can see it.
The Queen Mother didn't hear anything, and nodded with satisfaction.
Then, she pulled Zhao Pu over.
"You are the elder brother, and you want to assist the two brothers."
Zhao Pu knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.
In the end, the old queen mother pulled Xu Yongzhi closer and whispered in his ear:
"Jin'er, the old mengniang knows what is going on with the Xu genealogy."
Xu Yongzhi was taken aback.
"You kid is righteous, if you can protect the children of the Chai family, you can protect the children of my Zhao family." The old queen mother said.
She raised her voice, "Protect your brother for me!" ”
Empress Dowager Du's finger pointed at Zhao Kuangyin, then slid towards Zhao Guangyi, and then suddenly fell straight down.
Xu Yongzhi looked at the Queen Mother.
The old lady couldn't speak, and poured out her breath one by one, and those words just now should be a return to the light.
Xu Yongzhi and Zhao Kuangyinyu report:
"Official, call Guangmei and Dezhao in to say goodbye."
When the sun came out, Empress Dowager Du, a heroic and eventful old lady, passed away suddenly with the dream of "Mother of the Three Emperors".
She is heroic, reckless, distressed, and talented, but she meddles in many things that she doesn't understand.
There is a contemporary biologist named Dawkins, who wrote a book called "The Selfish Gene", biologically speaking, there is no difference between the intimacy of a brother and a son, both are half genetic.
So in the eyes of the old lady, her sons are all her sons, and her grandsons are also her grandsons, and she doesn't care.
But under the patriarchal system, the two brothers are two families, and as for the sons of Zhao Da and Zhao Er, they are even more estranged.
The key is that the future King of Dezhao and Jin will both have their allies and subordinates, and they will turn against each other for the sake of the throne.
What Empress Dowager Du didn't know was that her covenant today would affect the political situation of the Song Dynasty in the next hundred years.
The palace was busy with the funeral and needless to say, but it was said that Zhao Pu at this time, he invited the four people of the official family, King Jin, Xu Jin and Xiaogui to the reception room outside.
"Minister Zhao Pu, I implore the official family to burn this covenant."
Zhao Kuangyin hesitated.
Zhao Guangyi bowed his head and was silent.
"This is the Queen Mother's chaotic life before she died, and she can't count it." Zhao Pu said.
Zhao Pu is taking away Zhao Guangyi's status as the crown prince, but Zhao Guangyi is now surrounded by people from official families, and he can't seem to say a single "no".
"Yongzhi, what do you think?" Zhao Kuangyin slowly turned to Xu Yongzhi.
"The minister thought that this covenant should be burned immediately." Xu Yongzhi said.
Zhao Guangyi gritted his teeth with secret hatred.
"Why?" Zhao Kuangyin said.
In fact, it is very simple, if Zhao Guangyi continues to insist on being the emperor's younger brother, then Xu Jin and Xiaogui will have no choice but to kill him, or at least take him down, the style of the five dynasties is like this.
Zhao Pu called the two of them in, in fact, this is what it means, the emperor can't fight, Xu Jin and Xiaogui are two people to deal with Zhao Er, that is an absolute advantage, foolproof.
But this kind of truth cannot be said, it is too undignified.
Zhao Kuangyin is unwilling to threaten the second child, let alone kill him, what he wants to change is the brutal atmosphere of the five generations. But someone has to make this stupid brother retreat, and Xu Jin has to do it.
"The words of the Son of Heaven carry more weight than all covenants, since the official family has promised the Queen Mother, there is no need for this covenant to exist, stay, I don't know who will use it one day." Xu Yongzhi said.
These words gave Zhao Er leeway, he nodded, and the person could leave, and then go to be his prince, and the previous collusion with Li Lianqiao should end here.
Zhao Er stood there, not saying a word.
Zhao Kuangyin looked at his younger brother and didn't speak.
They were at a stalemate for a whole stick of incense.
At this time, Xiaogui took the covenant from Xu Yongzhi's hand and put it directly on the candle.
Sometimes breaking the deadlock requires some of the methods given by Ollie.
Zhao Guangyi hurriedly snatched the paper, but most of it had already been burned.
"Bold woman! This is the last souvenir left by the Queen Mother to the official family! ”
Zhao Guangyi was angry, but he didn't dare to make a move, he didn't know what his combat power was when Xiaogui didn't have a sword, but Xu Yongyi would definitely not be able to afford to fight the landlord Zhao Er.
"This is not the queen mother's handwriting, the three people who drew the charge on it are all in this room, if the king of Jin likes it, he can ask my husband to write it again, and then I and Lord Zeping will draw the charge again." Xiaogui said.
Zhao Pu secretly picked his thumb, Xiaogui, Mrs. Wu Guo, was not sealed in vain, it was too powerful.
Of course, Zhao Guangyi couldn't get Xu Yongzhi to write another covenant.
He sighed and kowtowed to Zhao Kuangyin.
"Official! The younger brother has no other thoughts, just misses his mother! Zhao Er's tears flowed down his eyes.
This miss may be true, when the queen mother really died, the king of Jin changed from a power strategist to a real filial son.
Zhao Kuangyin picked up Zhao Er.
"You still have to be your prince well, and Kaifeng Mansion is still under your control, but you have to go all out to hunt down that woman, and don't associate with that kind of dangerous person anymore."
"Brother obeys."
At present, the court is busy doing the white affairs of the old queen mother, Xu Yongzhi also returned home to recuperate, and everyone in the Shanzitang in Kaifeng Mansion also returned the seal ribbon and returned to the Xu family, and the Xu family also has a shed of white things to do, and a funeral for Xu Taishi is to be held, but unfortunately his bones are not left at the scene of the explosion, so he can only be buried with a mound of clothes.
"Official, what should I do with this fragment?" Zhang Dejun asked Zhao Kuangyin in a low voice.
Zhao Kuangyin picked up the broken covenant.
"What a noble league, what a noble league, old lady, old lady, I really love to give me problems." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Go and get the gold box in my study, and save the fragment of this document, since it is placed in the golden box (golden box), it is the ultimate fate of the Golden Kui Alliance."
Zhao Kuangyin's sentence made most later generations write this document as "Jinkui Alliance", in fact, the original meaning is the name of the two witnesses - it is the noble alliance, which records the Queen Mother's requirements for the inheritance of the throne of the first Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Dejun carefully brought the gold box, and Zhao Kuangyin read the covenant and smiled lightly.
Xu Jin is smart.
Xu Jin wrote:
In the second year of Jianlong, Empress Dowager Du demanded the following, a hundred years after the official family......
As long as there is no official painting of this covenant, it is the self-talk of the Empress Dowager Du.
Xu Jin made a choice between the old mengniang and the eldest brother.
Big brother, of course.
The eldest brother gave him everything now, and the eldest brother is the one who really saved the Central Plains and pacified the world.
"Passing the decree," Zhao Kuangyin locked the covenant into the gold box and said to Zhang Dejun, "Xu Jin has made meritorious contributions to rescuing the Queen Mother and leading Lin Quan's assassination history." His wife Duan Meimei was named Mrs. Yuguo, Mrs. Xia Xiaogui and Mrs. Wu Guo, each gave Tang Muyi 300 households, and the Xu family gave Danshu iron coupons, and the descendants were exempted. ”
Zhao Kuangyin first fulfilled the old lady's request.