Finally, one of the ministers thought for a while before saying, "Although there is a letter with the king of the north, it does not prove that we have betrayed the empress." Is it not permissible for us to send out letters that reject the king of the north, or letters that are false to him? ”

"Yes! It's just a correspondence, and it doesn't necessarily say that we betrayed secrets, or made eyes for the king of the north, and there is no real hammer, relying on a few letters to determine that we betrayed the empress, which is obviously unreasonable, as long as the empress talks about this matter, we explain it like this. ”

Although the ministers were relieved to each other, they were still not at ease, and finally one of the ministers said: "Although Her Majesty is usually lenient, this time after all, she was almost defeated by the king of the northern realm, and she must be very angry. Unless we do a double insurance. ”

"What double insurance?"

"Who is Her Majesty the Empress of King Kang? Once Her Majesty wants to liquidate us, and he intervenes, we will be fine. ”

Suddenly, the ministers' faces relaxed, and they said in their hearts that as long as the relationship with Zhao Gou is done, this is really a double insurance.

A few days later.

After Zhao Gou's victory, he returned to the capital, and on this day, he was surrounded by several ministers when he walked on the street.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! Borrow a step to speak. ”

Zhao Gouxin said that these people were finally still worried about their heads and the lives of the Nine Clans, and they came to him as lobbyists.

followed a few ministers into a wine shop, and when everyone left, they cried and knelt at Zhao Gou's feet.

"Lord Wang, you want to save us!"

Zhao Gou feigned surprise: "What do you mean by this? ”

The ministers were all possessed by the drama spirits, and they cried as they spoke: "Lord Wang, now that the king of the north is not the first to go, the court has won a complete victory, and Her Majesty the Empress has unified Dongying, it is originally a gratifying and congratulatory event, and we should not be sad." However, we have heard that among the things seized from the king of the north are the letters we exchanged with the king of the north······"

Zhao Gou just pretended to be surprised, and said with a smile: "I thought something was wrong!" What does it matter to these adults? You are all members of Her Majesty's Majesty, and you will definitely not correspond with the King of the North. ”

"Lord, we don't dare to have a trace of disobedience to Her Majesty the Empress, but we usually write letters with the king of the north, after all, before the king of the north did not rebel, he was also a nobleman in the court."

Zhao Gou suddenly jumped up and said, "Okay, you well-dressed guys, you really did so many small actions behind the empress's back!" You can wait! If there are your letters in the copyed papers, you should all wait to see them. ”

Zhao Gou felt that his acting skills were a bit exaggerated, and these people didn't know if they could see that he was acting.

But it seems that the effect is very good, and these people are kowtowing on the ground and begging for mercy one after another.

Zhao Gou realized that this is the beauty of acting, although the acting skills may be exaggerated, but when the emotions are there, no one can distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Zhao Gou saw that he was about to smash the bar if he couldn't find it, so he decided to leave at that time.

"How did this king say that his eyelids jumped when he went out, it turned out that he was going out to meet you dry bones in the grave, and he was unlucky!"

A minister suddenly hugged Zhao Gou's leg and didn't let go of it: "Lord Wang, there are two kinds of eyelid jumping, one is to meet those of us who are unlucky, and the other is to jump rich." Which one are you, my lord? ”

Zhao Gou said with a smile: "The two eyelids of this king jumped, could it be that I met you dry bones in the grave and still have money?" ”

The man just lost his hand, fell to the ground and said in a loud voice: 'If the prince can say a few kind words for us in front of the empress, even if he takes out all our family wealth to honor the prince, he will not hesitate to do so. ’

"Yes, Lord Wang, we would rather honor the prince with all the belongings of the family."

"The prince will give us a set of ways to live, that is, we will give all our life savings to the prince, if it is the grace of the prince."

"Lord Wang, please accept our belongings."

“······”

As soon as the man finished speaking, Zhao Gou fell into a voice that wanted to send him money.

"I have to say, you are still very smart, and you have found the right temple gate to worship the Buddha." Zhao Gou walked back with his hands on his back.

As soon as everyone saw this posture, they were happy, which meant that Zhao Gou could accept their property, which was equivalent to having promised them to intercede in front of the empress.

The rest is a matter of price.

The ministers rose up one after another to surround Zhao Gou, bowed to him one after another, and slapped him on the back with some beautiful words.

Zhao Gou's ears were calloused when he heard this, and he suddenly stopped them.

"This king is very short of time, and he doesn't have so much time to listen to you guys pat me on the back here. Let's get it straight, this number! Zhao Gou directly raised five fingers.

A minister was taken aback, and his eyes widened and he said, "Five, five million taels?" ”

At the beginning, Zhao Gou didn't know how much they could take out, but this person came up and took a seat and said the number of five million taels.

Zhao Gou was also surprised, he didn't expect that the number they could come up with was directly at the level of one million taels.

This time, I want to teach these grandsons a good lesson, that is, let them eat all the people's fat and people's ointment to Lao Tzu and spit it out.

"Lord, you are ripping our meat, we have always been law-abiding, with clean sleeves, where can we give you so much money?" A minister just looks like life is worse than death, so he said.

Zhao Gou smiled: "Since you are so stingy, then wait until you can live tomorrow before deciding." This king is not short of money, but if you don't cherish it, I can't do anything about it. ”

Saying that, Zhao Gou was about to leave again.

The ministers panicked, and one of them went directly over and grabbed Zhao Gou, and raised three fingers: "Lord, you should be honored, just leave us a little bit, and also give filial piety to the empress and the crown prince." ”

Zhao Gouxin said that these old foxes really could speak, and at this time, they actually took it out to the empress and the crown prince to do filial piety.

You give Lao Tzu a clever shake, right, Zhao Gou didn't say anything, just made a "six" shape on his fingers.

The ministers immediately regretted it, stepped forward and hugged Zhao Gou's hand, and finally said with satisfaction: "Lord Wang, five million is five million!" ”

Zhao Gou snorted coldly at this time, and left in style.

All the adults looked at each other for a while, their hearts were dripping blood, five million taels, which was the entire property of almost every one of them.

The Empress won a decisive victory in destroying the rebel group of the King of the North, and chose the auspicious day to behead the King of the North in public.

The empress ordered the body of the king of the north to be thrown in the downtown area, leaving the people to scramble for food.

The families and accomplices of the king of the northern realm were different according to the degree of their evil, including those who were assassinated, those who were confiscated, those who were imprisoned, those who were exiled, those who were confiscated, and so on.

After finishing all this, I saw that the people and officials applauded one after another, and they were very, very supportive of the queen's rewards and punishments.

The empress and Zhao Gou sat on the high platform together, and the elite soldiers were guarding the side like stars and moons, and the atmosphere was awe-inspiring.

Suddenly, the empress beckoned, that is, she saw the palace ladies bring up a box.

The people didn't know what this meant, only the officials with evil intentions knew that this was finally going to make a big move.

After cleaning up the king of the north, the person who exchanged letters between them and the king of the north was the next target to be liquidated.