At this time, Lian Wang Jingzheng was looking at the letter sent by Beiyang in his hand. Since he had a gap with King Xia, a grievance with King Rui, and the instigation of the Zhou family, he thought in his heart that King Xia was old and mediocre. And Beiyang Zhao's sincere invitation inspired his ambition. He relied on his own means to put Zhao Erze's 10,000 people into hiding outside the city. These people, together with their own soldiers and horses, can effectively control Chengping and let themselves ascend to the throne of their dreams.

King Lian Jingzheng has to take out the sword he wore during the march every day these days and wipe it again, the red tassel on the hilt of the sword has already faded a little, and he ordered someone to replace it with a new red tassel. As if he was always ready to go to the battlefield, his heart was like a rushing river, full of surging. The gloom was swept away.

Zhou Shangshu sat on the side, looking at King Lian with a determined expression, and he was also quite satisfied. This grandson will not let him down. King Jingcheng of Xia is scheduled to carry out the coronation ceremony of the prince before the beginning of Xia, hmph, that will be a joke! Zhou Shangshu thought about it, and couldn't help but nod himself with the corners of his mouth raised.

Zhou Shangshu happily entertained Zhao Erze, who came with the troops at noon, and his joy made him and Zhao Erze come to eat meat and drink wine, and Zhao Erze was also arrogant, one bite of "How is my eldest brother", "My nephew will be the king of Beiyang in the future", Zhou Shangshu felt that the nine sons of the father were different. His behavior is indeed very different from that of his brother and sister. You may be brave on the battlefield, but you really can't hide things in your heart politically. It's not that you're wise and stupid, it's that there's really a string missing in your head. Zhao Erze had a beard and big eyes, and he breathed when he spoke. However, powerful families sometimes need such brainless and loyal people, perhaps because of this his sister Queen Zhao, he is very fond of him, so that his second brother has a prestigious title of general.

Zhou Binzhao felt that everything was in his hands.

"What do you think?" He asked King Lian, who was watching the hollow lacquer carved eight-sided box on the side. "For the sake of the throne, in order to prevent His Majesty from interfering in the power struggle between Gu Zi'an and Gu Chongwu in Beiyang, they actually took a tortuous road. Send troops to us, let us become the king of Xia, remove the eight thousand escort soldiers and horses, and do not interfere in their court affairs. Zhou Shangshu said, his eyebrows still raised.

"Isn't that what I want? 10,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard force, besieged the Inner Imperial City and the Rui Palace. My troops are on guard outside! Beiyang's troops have no relationship or feelings with the people here, and they are more neat in their work. We're going to hurry, the horses in my stable want to fight!" King Lian felt that his mind was clear and to the point.

"Nonsense!" Zhou Shangshu whispered, but suddenly felt that the etiquette was inappropriate, and said slowly: "Because Gu Shizi was assassinated three times a few days ago, King Xia felt that the safety of the capital was lacking, so he strengthened the inventory and increased the curfew. There is no urgency. ”

"Why can't you be in a hurry, if Zhao Erze runs away with someone, we will be busy in vain!"

Zhou Shangshu explained carefully: "If he wants to leave, we can categorically annihilate them, and then tell King Xia that you personally led your troops to destroy the enemy invaded by Beiyang." Although in that case, we will tear our faces with Queen Zhao of Beiyang. But this can be used as a reason and opportunity to threaten, he Zhao Erze entered our hinterland alone, so he must listen to us. The corners of his eyes showed smugness, "I've sent someone to keep an eye on him." ”

"Your Excellency."

Someone shouted outside the door.

"Come in."

A housekeeper walked up to Zhou Shangshu respectfully, presented a small cylinder made of cowhide with both hands, and then bowed and retreated, closing the door. Zhou Shangshu took it apart and took a look: "Look, Zhao Erze is also urging us." As he spoke, he shook the note and placed it on the table.

King Lian also smiled, agreeing with what Zhou Shangshu had said to him.

"After all, you have ascended the throne, and General Gai has withdrawn his troops, so that they can keep the throne. It's just that this Zhao family......" As he spoke, Zhou Shangshu shook his head and did not continue the rest of his words. And what he wants to say, King Lian also understands.

Alas, the people of the Zhao family are really far worse than themselves and their grandfather, and they are not enough to succeed and more than to fail. It seems that it will be up to you to dominate the world in the future.

And yesterday, the mother concubine Fu Guifei sent someone to deliver the news that Ambassador Yan Rong and King Xia were discussing the matter of peace, and King Xia wanted to give Princess Yan Rong to King Rui Jingchi. "What a villain who sees the wind and rudder, wait until I ascend to the throne and see how I humiliate you." King Lian had secretly tried to use the power of the king.

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The mission and the army finally drove into Zhaojun, and the people looked at the long procession and remembered that in order to maintain peace and stability, Beiyang sent Gu Zi'an to Daxia as a proton. Now that the king of Beiyang is seriously ill, the king of Xia authorized Gu Zi'an to return to China to take care of his father in order to fulfill his filial piety.

And the people of the Zhao family were arranged into the official post and the county government early. The news that Gu Zi'an was seriously ill and about to die was also sent to the palace in Yangshang early. Zhao Chai woke up from a dream when he learned about this. Seeing that his son was about to ascend the throne, he specially gave Gu Chongwu a few days off so that he didn't have to study, and he was happy in the palace.

Originally, Gu Chongwu still had questions, saying that the queen mother let me study all day, but now I can relax.

Zhao Chai looked like he had done a great job, thinking that he no longer had to pretend in front of others, and now his son was the righteous king of Beiyang. Thinking about it, she is very proud and proud, and finally she has got everything she wants to belong to herself. Zhao Chai has no time to care about where Gu Zi'an's mother fled to, she wants to fill her palace with beautiful orchids and let all countries come to court.

But be careful to make a 10,000-year-old ship. Zhao Yien also understands this truth, and they need to verify it in many ways before they can start the final celebration. Before Gu Zi'an and his party entered the county government, they had already cleared out a bunch of irrelevant people, and the people prepared by the Zhao family could only look at Gu Zi'an, who was surrounded by layers. However, they still paid attention to the official post. A few people intentionally or unintentionally got close to the Great Xia soldiers and the idle people of the Beiyang Mission, and no one was explicitly forbidden to discuss the matter of Gu Zi'an's serious illness. So people thought it was the people of Zhaojun who were broken and enthusiastic, and began to talk about what had happened in the past few days.

"We don't know exactly what's going on, but ...... It may be that Gu Shizi is seriously ill. I haven't seen him for the past few days. ”

"But no, I heard a scream from his personal maid that day. I wanted to see what was going on, but no one could figure it out. ”

"Have you seen it, there are several straw 'ten-petal chrysanthemums' hanging on the car. I don't know what's wrong with Gu Shizi, people will only place this kind of flower around people who are seriously ill. ”

A few people said with their heads bored, "Gu Shizi is such a good person, and he also helped us clear out the bandits who ransacked Delin City." I only hope that the auspicious people are in heaven. Then the soldier let out a long sigh.

No one knows exactly what's going on.

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