The graceful flying snow drifted for several days, and the entire Guanzhong was draped in white cotton clothes, wrapped in silver and wrapped in the world of Yuqiong, a pure white. The cooking smoke in the village invites dancing in the flying snow, the cooking smoke churns in the air smartly around the flying snow, and the flying snow naughtily bypasses the cooking smoke and falls lightly, harmonious and quiet.

Xueli rode at a high speed and was rushing from Zhao Guo to Guanzhong Chang'an. The man on the horse was ragged and anxious, and from time to time he looked back to see if there were cavalry chasing behind him, and he did not dare to relax for a moment and galloped with his horse whip. When he arrived at the Pubanjin ferry port of the Yellow River, the man had frozen his lips purple but did not dare to slack off, and looked back from time to time to make sure that no one was chasing, so he hurriedly prepared to cross the river, but saw that the water was not thin and not thick ice, and the man did not dare to be careless, so he crossed the Yellow River in a boat, and there was no place to rest for a while and then trotted to Guanzhong. The man did not eat all day long but did not dare to stop on the street, did not dare to quench his hunger and thirst, and went straight to the palace sweating profusely without even changing his clothes. The tea kung fu has arrived at the east gate of Chang'an, and the west gate should be taken, but the law stipulates that civilians can only go through the west gate, and high-ranking officials can go through the east gate. As soon as he arrived at the east gate, he was stopped by two guards, who saw that he was dressed in rags and looked like a treacherous evil and scolded him to leave quickly.

The man had a serious face, jumped to the guard's side and scolded angrily, "Zhao Guo is about to mutiny, do you still want to stop it?" Get out of the way! If you miss a big thing, you can't be spared! ”

The two guards were stunned, and when they saw the man's solemn appearance, they didn't dare to take this matter lightly, and looked at each other suspiciously, and one of the guards asked his companion to look at it first, and he went first to report to Zhou Bo, who was inspecting the Beijing Division. Zhou Bo hurriedly came out to see this person after hearing this, roughly asked the man a few words, and then took the man to the front hall of Weiyang Palace to wait for the emperor's summons, Zhou Bo came to the front hall to see that the emperor was not there, so he asked the eunuch urgently, and the eunuch saw that Zhou Bo looked like a military urgency and hurriedly said that the emperor was visiting the emperor in Liyang Palace. Zhou Bo immediately instructed the eunuch to go to Liyang Palace to call the emperor, and said that something had happened to Zhao Guo. The eunuch was shocked when he heard this, and immediately ran to the Liyang Palace without stopping, and the eunuch hurriedly explained to the confessor of the Liyang Palace that General Zhou Bo had an urgent matter to ask to see His Majesty. The confessor entered the inner hall of Liyang Palace, at this time Liu Bang was sitting in front of the couch to pinch his father's shoulder, and accompanied the emperor to speak, and Empress Lu and the prince were also waiting in front of the couch.

The confessor entered Liu Bang and reported to Zhou Bo in front of the palace to ask for a meeting. Liu Bang asked him why Zhou Bo was in a hurry, but the confessor shook his head and didn't know, only saying that the eunuch was waiting outside. Liu Bang called the eunuch to come in and ask Zhou Bo what was going on, but the eunuch didn't know very well when he came, and secondly, he heard Zhou Bo's report about Zhao Guo, and the eunuch didn't dare to talk nonsense, showing an inconvenient expression. Seeing his expression, Liu Bang's face was suddenly full of suspicions, and he couldn't see others looking like they had something to say, so he got up from the couch and walked to the eunuch's side with a dark face, "Say!" The eunuch was so frightened that he trembled and whispered to the emperor, "General Zhou said that something happened to Zhao Guo. ”

"What?" Liu Bang was shocked, immediately locked his eyebrows, clenched his teeth, thought for a moment and hurried to the emperor's couch, "Imperial father, my son has something to deal with, come and see you another day." The Emperor waved his hand and told him to hurry up and get down to business.

When Empress Lu saw him like this, she knew that something big must have happened, so she asked, "Your Majesty, is something wrong?" Liu Bang didn't care about paying attention to Empress Lu's question, so he hurriedly put on his robe, and instructed Empress Lu as he walked out, "Father, I have worked for you here." Then he was gone.

The front hall of Weiyang Palace.

Zhou Bo asked the man about Zhao Guo again, saying that this matter was very important, and he must not frame it indiscriminately for his own selfishness. The man nodded firmly, saying that what he said was true, and there was no deception. While the two of them were talking, Liu Bang came in in in a hurry, with a solemn and worried face, and when he saw Zhou Bo, he asked urgently, "Junhou, what happened to Zhao Guo?" Zhou Bo saw that this matter was serious, and when he saw that Liu Bang was in a hurry to ask, he couldn't take care of the etiquette of the monarch and ministers, so he brought the man next to him to the emperor and asked the man to explain to the emperor himself. It was the first time for a man to be so close to the emperor, his eyes glanced up and saw Liu Banglong's quasi-dragon face, a look of an emperor, a jade bead crown on his head, wearing a black dragon robe, and the emperor was black-faced at this time, the man was a little frightened, his mouth was dry, his hands were trembling, his head was blank for a while, and he couldn't speak.

Liu Bang was anxious, and glanced at Zhou Bo, who knew that the emperor was about to get angry, so he hurriedly said to the man, "Don't be afraid, and tell the emperor what you just said." ”

"Say it! If you miss a big thing, I will cut off your head! Liu Bang couldn't wait any longer, and a stream of qi and blood surged into his head, so he glared at the majestic fire-breathing dragon eyes and roared at the man. Suddenly, the man was even more frightened, and he knelt on the ground automatically with a 'poof', but his head returned to normal, and his thoughts were forced to be clear, and he hurriedly told the emperor what he had heard in Zhao State, "Zhao Guocheng Xianggao once tried to send someone to murder the Holy ......."

After the man said something, Liu Bang did not immediately get angry, but suppressed his anger and lowered his voice and asked, "How do you know?" ”

The man recounted all his experiences in Zhao State. It turned out that the man was Zhao Xiangguang's retainer, and he was not promoted to the prime minister by Guan Gao after following Guan Gao for several years, and he was quite complaining. A month ago, he committed an accident in the Prime Minister's Mansion, because he had an affair with Guan Gao's concubine, not to mention that Guan Gao was more than sixty years old, but the concubine was very young, and she was only a twenty-year-old lady of flowers. After they were discovered by Guan Gao, the concubine was demoted to the maid of the mansion, and the man was punished by Guan Gao, and the scars were all over his body and Guan Gao's anger was still not solved, so Guan Gao ordered someone to detain him in the black room and torture him slowly. The man was afraid, so he opened the wooden window and jumped out at night, hating Guan Gao in his heart, and evil thoughts arose spontaneously in his heart, and it happened that Guan Gao sent thirty dead soldiers to hide in the wall of the cypress people to prepare to assassinate the emperor, and one of the thirty dead soldiers was a man. Thinking of this, the man suddenly smiled hatefully, and decided to report the fact that Guan Gao and Zhao Wu were planning to murder the emperor back then. The man said that Guan Gao had always been angry at the emperor's unfair treatment of King Zhao, and that the emperor had passed through Zhao twice, and each time he was rude to King Zhao and scolded him badly.

When Liu Bang passed through the Zhao State from Pingcheng in the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, the king of Zhao stripped off his clothes and sleeves, and personally served the emperor's diet in the morning and evening, with a humble and cautious attitude, and the courtesy of his son-in-law was fulfilled. Liu Bang sat on the ground with his legs crossed, and scolded him very impolitely. Guan Gao and Zhao Wu were guests of King Zhao at the time, although they were in their sixties, they were real fierce and bloody husbands, and they couldn't see King Zhang being insulted by the emperor so disregarding outsiders, and he lost the dignity of the king. So he persuaded King Zhang to kill the emperor while he was still in Zhao State, Zhang Wang did not allow it, bit out the blood of his finger and coerced Guan Gao and others, and told them that his father was chased by Chen Yu and died in the country, but it was dependent on the current emperor to restore Zhao State, and the emperor's kindness and descendants were all from the emperor's power, and King Zhao resolutely did not allow Guan Gao to assassinate the emperor. So the emperor was not killed and returned to Guanzhong safely. Afterwards, Guan Gao Zhao Wu and others discussed, they all thought that King Zhao was benevolent and kind, so they refused to assassinate the emperor, and their principle of doing things was not to be insulted, and now King Zhao was humiliated by the emperor, which stimulated Guan Gao Zhao Wu and others to have the intention to assassinate the emperor, so they made an oath, and the matter was successful, and the credit went to King Zhao; If things fail, you take responsibility.

In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang returned from Dongyuan and passed through Zhao for the second time. Guan Gao and others launched an assassination plan against the emperor, and hid the assassin in the middle of the emperor's stay, but the name of the emperor's accommodation was Bai Ren, Liu Bang felt that Bai Ren was persecuted by others, so he did not stay overnight, and left that night.

After listening to what the man said, Liu Bang also recalled that he was indeed rude to King Zhang back then, and scolded him very much, and when he was in Bairen, he saw that Guan Gao and other people were full of murderous aura in their eyes, and there seemed to be a net around them, but fortunately, he found it in time, and used the far-fetched reason of Bairen to leave Bairen County. When I returned to Guanzhong and thought about what I had encountered in Bairen County, I felt that something was wrong when I thought about it, and I encountered a lot of Kanto affairs in Guanzhong, so I didn't continue this matter anymore, and I didn't think that today's man told him that it was the place where he was almost killed. Liu Bang immediately became angry, gritted his teeth and glared at the man, and when he gritted his teeth, he became angry, "Zhao Dizhuzi dared to send someone to assassinate me, how can he relieve his anger if he doesn't kill him?" "One step to the side of a few cases and waved his hand to turn a few cases into the sky, which shook the hall with a 'poof', and all the eunuchs and palace maids were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.

Liu Bang flicked his sleeves and stood with his back to Zhou Bo, Zhou Bo thought about this matter a little, and after thinking about it for a long time, he stepped forward and carefully persuaded, "Your Majesty, this matter still needs to be investigated, the minister thinks that King Zhao does not dare to send someone to assassinate the emperor, King Zhang is the son of King Zhang Er of Zhao first, and Zhang Er has always been famous all over the world, how can King Zhang do something that insults the door and goes against the rules?" The minister looked at King Zhang's humility, deference, benevolence and kindness, not like such a person who dared to kill the king, and this person said that he had an affair with Guan Gao's concubine, and he was jealous of Guan Gao, so he came to Chang'an to report the matter, and he inevitably had some resentment. And this person said that King Zhao did not allow people to assassinate the emperor by Guan Gao, which shows that King Zhao has no two intentions to be unfavorable to the emperor, and hopes that the emperor will think twice. ”

Liu Bang's anger was unabated, his eyes were full of anger, he was angry at this time, he couldn't listen to this, he turned to Zhou Bo angrily and said, "What is King Zhao's thoughts, I understand, when I stayed in Bairen County in Zhao Di that day, I felt that there were murderous opportunities, if it wasn't for Guan Gao's order from King Zhao, how could Guan Gao and others assassinate me?" Time has changed, will people's hearts remain the same? "This ......" Zhou Bo was speechless for a moment. Zhou Bo understood that once someone said that it was a rebellion of the princes and kings, and whether it was true or not, the emperor would definitely make the first reaction of this kind of anger, and the emperor would naturally have a heart of precaution in his heart, because this kind of proverb is related to the survival of the country or his own survival, and the emperor cannot take it lightly, he would rather believe that there is, and he would rather be prepared than remedy it when the disaster comes.

Zhou Bo was speechless to the emperor, and asked the man after being silent for a long time, "Gong, when you come out, what is the movement of the Guangao Mansion?" ”

The man thought for a moment, "Xiaomin just jumped out of the window to escape, and didn't notice any movement. But once Guan Gao found out that Xiaomin had escaped, he would definitely send someone to hunt him down, because I know everything about him, Xiaomin was unwilling to endure the pain of the black house that day, and threatened to report that he had assassinated the emperor, so he decided to kill me at night. Xiao Min was fortunate to have a friend who was a high-end tea slave in Guan, and when he heard that Guan Gao was going to kill me, his friend came to tell Xiao Min to run, so that he had the opportunity to go to Chang'an to tell the truth, and His Majesty was clear. ”

Zhou Bo was silent for a long time, and felt uncomfortable in his heart, Zhou Bo respected Zhang Er as a person, and he didn't believe that Zhang Ao would rebel against the emperor, so he didn't speak for a long time. Liu Bang seemed to have verified his thoughts, and said coldly, "Does the prince understand? He knew everything about Guan Gao, otherwise why would Guan Gao kill him, Guan Gao knew that this person would inevitably affect King Zhao if he was alive, so he was eager to hunt down and kill this person. ”

Zhou Bo's heart was like a mess, and he gritted his teeth in a hurry. Now I really hope that Chen Ping is here, maybe he can come up with some ideas. Fang Zai was in a hurry, and heard the man tremble and said, "King Zhao doesn't know about this matter, and Guan Gao and others are hiding it from him." Zhou Bo looked at the emperor with joy on his face. Liu Bang shook his hand, "What happened in his fiefdom, the good things that his prime minister did, have nothing to do with him, don't talk about it." ”

Zhou Bo risked his life and once again suggested that this matter should be re-examined, after all, it is a major matter related to whether the monarch of Zhao State conspired against his courtiers, and the matter of dealing with King Zhao will definitely spread to all parts of the country, so he must be cautious, and it is recommended to send someone to Zhao State to check it out first, see what moves Guan Gao and King Zhao have, and then carefully investigate the affairs of the year, and then quickly send someone to summon Prime Minister Xiao Cheng and other important ministers into the palace to discuss this matter. Liu Bang was angry in his heart, he couldn't swallow this breath for a while, and blocked other statements out of his thoughts, taking it for granted that King Zhao and Guan Gao were originally monarchs and ministers, and Guan Gao's rebellion was of course the fault of King Zhao.

Liu Bang stood at the door of the hall with a black face and instructed the eunuch, "Pass on the post." "The superintendent of the post and the lord of the post was arrested and urged to rent some soldiers. Without a cup of tea, a few superintendents stepped into the main hall and saluted. Long before they came, Liu Bang had written an edict summoning King Zhao. When he saw the superintendent, he handed over the edict in his hand to him, and said majestically, "Hurry to the Zhao State and arrest the king of Zhao, if you resist, kill!" ”

The post superintendent was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly took the order to go out, and immediately gathered people and horses to go to Zhao State.