Zhao Guoxiang's Mansion.

Because the servants who were locked up by Guan Gao fled at night, the Prime Minister's Mansion was in chaos. Guan Gao immediately found the doorman after finding out, and the doorman said that he did not see the servant, and Guan Gao was anxious to send someone to dig out this person even if he was digging three feet into the ground. The servants did not dare to rest, and braved the snowflakes to find the horns, and after a search they did not find this person, they stretched the range to a hundred miles in a hurry, and found no useful clues from the morning to the afternoon. Guan Gao, who was in his sixties, stood in the wind and snow in the courtyard in a hurry, and his family hurriedly brought an oil umbrella, and Guan Gao angrily threw the umbrella on the ground and scolded the slave angrily, "If you can't find this person, you won't be able to sleep for three days!" "The blood swelled up coldly, and with a 'hum-', he went up the stairs and returned to the house. The slaves didn't dare to eat and continued to look for it, and they all knew that the 'this person' in Guan Gao's mouth knew too many secrets of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and if 'this person' couldn't find it and leaked the secret, maybe all the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion would not be able to escape the scourge of the clan. Mao Zheng, a domestic servant reported that he had found a dog hole in the latrine of the east wing, and that perhaps this person had escaped from there. Guan Gao hurried to the latrine, and when he saw that there was indeed a dog hole, he hurriedly asked the servant to try to climb out and climb in, and tried to allow one person to climb in and out. Guan Gao was shocked, this person could indeed climb the dog hole and escape. Shocked, Guan Gao hurriedly ordered someone to immediately invite Zhao Wu and others to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss.

After Zhao Wu and the others entered the door, they heard that Guan Gao's servants had fled at night, and at first they thought it was nothing, wasn't it just that the servants were dissatisfied and fled in humiliation? Guan Gao also said that a few days ago, the servant threatened him that he would report the assassination of the emperor, so he decided to kill him at the third watch of the night, but he knew about it and fled in advance, and it is possible that he had fled to Chang'an at this time. Zhao Wu was so frightened that he immediately stood up from the mat, opened his mouth wide and was slightly stunned for a long time, and asked nervously, "How is it now?" If the emperor finds out, how can we live? Guan Gao paced a few steps, bowed his head and thought for a long time, a deep old face was full of solemnity and melancholy, wanting to relieve everyone's tension, so he said, "Maybe the matter is not so serious, the old man will send someone to Chang'an to inquire about the news." ”

Zhao Wu asked again, "Do you want to talk to King Zhao about this?" ”

Guan Gao waved his hand and refused, "The matter has not been understood yet, so there is no need to add trouble to King Zhao." The disaster is the old man's breakthrough, and he will not embarrass King Zhao. After that, Guan Gao immediately sent someone to Chang'an to inquire about the situation.

Two days later, the palace of Zhao State was in the palace.

Zhao Wang Zhang Ao Fang was convening the Prime Minister Cheng and others to reconcile the taxes handed over by the people last year, everyone was very busy, these things were originally the masters of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but Zhao Wang Zhang Ao also participated in helping to check, looking at the dense numbers on the bamboo slips, Zhao Wang smiled, because these numbers were all the numbers he wanted, and the taxes paid by officials, ordinary people and businessmen and those artists increased nearly twice as much as in previous years.

"King Zhao, it's spring, do we call some geisha in Handan County to the northern suburbs to learn silkworm reeling?" An official asked Zhang Ao while checking. Zhang Ao said with a smile, "Not only geisha, but also some tenant farmers and hired farmers and other poor women from lower families have to go to the northern suburbs, and the queen will preside over them." Then he picked up another scroll of bamboo slips and checked them, and then said to the official just now, "You pick out a hundred tenant farmers and hired peasants to peacefully impoverished the families of the lower households, help them solve the problems of employment and poverty, take out the money from the palace to buy their freedom, and let them buy more fertile land, return to the fields, and weave men and women." ”

"Is the daughter of the Shangjia family going to the northern suburbs?" The official asked again.

King Zhao pondered for a moment, and said, "If you want to go, then you must ask him to buy a field to cultivate." Otherwise, it's just to learn to sell gorgeous clothes for a higher price. ”

While Fang was talking and laughing, a eunuch outside the hall ran in in a panic and said that there were people from Chang'an, and said that everyone who came was violent. Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, was quite stunned when he heard this, afraid that the emperor's father-in-law would send someone to scold him again, and he felt that he had not done anything to make the emperor angry, so he took a long breath and went to the outside of the palace to receive the order as usual. The ministers followed out of the palace, and as soon as they came out of the hall, they saw that the audience was the superintendent from Chang'an, and there were more than 100 people behind him, all of whom showed a fierce light, all wearing gray and black cloth clothes, very serious.

The superintendent took a step forward, first gave King Zhao a courtesy and gentle hand, and then took out the emperor's edict in the wide robe and big sleeves and read it aloud, "The emperor's edict: Zhao Wang Ao, Zhao Xiangguang, guests Zhao Wu and others have hidden two in their hearts, and they stabbed Yu in Bairen County, sat on the crime of rebellion and disrespect, and immediately sent to Chang'an to await trial. ”

The officials around Zhang Ao were all stunned and looked at each other for a while, feeling confused, and told Zhao Wangren to be kind-hearted, how could he send someone to assassinate the emperor? The officials suddenly exploded and discussed, some officials stepped forward to accuse the post supervisor of talking nonsense, the post supervisor looked at him coldly and ignored it, and some officials gathered around King Zhao to appease him. Zhang Ao closed his eyes and calmed down for a moment, and reviewed what he had done in the past two years, and did not remember that he had sent someone to assassinate the emperor. The superintendent said that he only served the edict, and the rest were not easy to ask, only saying that a Zhao Guoren entered the palace to denounce Guan Gao's assassination of the emperor that year, and the details were not clear.

Zhang Ao recalled the events of the year again, Guan Gao did have the idea of assassinating the emperor, but he tried his best to prevent the assassination of Guan Gao and others, and the emperor is fine now, so there is no Guan Gao's assassination, right? If it was the assassination of the emperor back then, how could it have dragged on until now? Why did the emperor take himself to Chang'an to ask for the crime, and who denounced Guan Gao? Zhang Ao's mind was in a mess.

Not long after, the news that Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, was going to be escorted to Chang'an to punish the crime, immediately spread like wings throughout the entire Zhao country. The upper part of Zhao Guo was in a mess, especially Guan Gao, he felt sorry for King Zhao, his heart was like a stone blocking in a panic, and he sighed and softened on the mat, stunned for a long time. The people he sent had not yet returned, and the people in Chang'an had already sent the emperor's edict, and it was obvious that the servant had really gone to Guanzhong to complain to the emperor. Guan Gao was in a hurry, and hurriedly asked someone to bring a cane, and hurriedly was helped into the palace of King Zhao in the heavy snow. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw the people and horses of Chang'an before seeing the face of King Zhao, and set up a hall, with a majestic and solemn momentum. Guan Gao pulled away the crowd with crutches, Zhao Wang was standing on the side of the reddish-brown case at a loss, Guan Gao saw King Zhao and couldn't care about his age and physical inconvenience, 'poof' knelt on the ground and cried to Zhang Ao, "The old minister is ashamed of the first king, ashamed of King Zhao......" hoarseness, crying so that everyone in the hall also had tears in the corners of their eyes.

Zhang Ao was feeling uncomfortable, seeing Guan Gao lying on the ground crying, Zhang Ao motioned to the two ministers to help him up, Guan Gao was ashamed and refused to get up. Zhang Ao came over and personally helped him up, and the old man burst into tears, saying that he was ashamed of the first king and ashamed of King Zhang. Zhang Ao appeased Guan Gao a little and asked him about the assassination of the emperor back then, Guan Gao no longer did anything to hide at this time, and told Zhang Ao all about the incident. All the ministers all 'whooped-' with different expressions. After hearing this, Zhang Ao was like five thunderbolts, and his mouth opened wide in shock, and he couldn't believe it with a blue face, but he felt that his body was weak and he sat down on the mat, and his face was expressionless for a long time.

"The old minister went to Chang'an with King Zhao to make it clear that he would not implicate King Zhao." Guan Gao said. Zhang Ao let out a long sigh and said that it had to be like this.

After Queen Zhao, Princess Lu Yuan, knew that her father had sent someone to Zhao to detain King Zhao, she hurried to the inner hall to ask Zhang Ao if the matter was true or false. After hearing this, the princess immediately felt that things were difficult to do, this was a major matter of rebellion against the clan, she knew her father's temperament, and King Zhao must be very dangerous when he went to Chang'an. The princess scratched her fingers anxiously, and the more she tried to calm down and come up with a good way to solve the matter, the more uncomfortable she was in a hurry, without the slightest thought, and almost fainted in a hurry. After all, Zhang Ao was responsible for a seven-foot man, so he appeased the princess a little. The princess thought about it again and again, and finally decided to go to Chang'an with King Zhao to intercede with her father, hoping to lose King Zhao lightly for the sake of her own face. Zhang Ao was also helpless at this time, and could only hope that the emperor would forgive him and Guan Gao for the sake of the princess, so he agreed to go to Chang'an with the princess.

Zhao Xiangguangao just returned to the mansion in shock, and immediately heard that Zhao Wu and others had something going on in the house, it turned out that Zhao Wu and others knew that the emperor sent people to Zhao to detain King Zhao, Zhao Wu felt sorry for King Zhao, so he decided to die first to thank King Zhao, and was pulled down by the slave before he died. After Guan Gao heard about it, he didn't have time to rest for a while, and immediately found Zhao Wu and the others in the snow, and excitedly scolded Zhao Wu and the others, "You are really cowards, who told you to commit suicide?" King Zhao was detained by us and others, and you know that he did not participate in the assassination of the emperor, but instead refuted the assassination of us. The success of the matter is attributed to King Zhao; If you fail, we will take responsibility. Now that you are waiting for death to be freed, who will defend King Zhao? If you die like this, you will be friends in vain. ”

Zhao Wu and the others were told this by Guan Gao, so they gave up for the time being, and decided to accompany King Zhao to Chang'an with Guan Gao to make it clear.