The capital, in the imperial palace.

It was almost late autumn, and the sky was getting colder, Zhao Yizhi put a mink fur coat on his body, and smiled to himself: "Heh, this is a real thing, in the future life, I will never be able to wear it this time in my life, it is really warm." ”

Wang Zhenliang stepped in and said, "Your Majesty, Taifu Chen Song asks to see you." ”

Since the last time Zhao Yizhi left the palace, nothing major happened, and Zhao Yizhi said this matter several times in the court. Chen Song also shrunk his neck and stopped talking, and was stable for several days.

"I haven't seen Mrs. Chen for a few days, why did you come again? Come in! Zhao Yizhi said casually.

"Your Majesty, Nanhuai's annual tribute has not yet been delivered, and the treasury is empty...... Your Majesty, where are you going? Chen Song came to see Zhao Yizhi to report the emptiness of the treasury, and when he saw Zhao Yizhi wearing a big fur, he couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"It's okay today, I want to go to the barracks. The old lady wants to be together? Zhao Yizhi replied.

After the last incident, Chen Song didn't want to mention the matter of not letting him out of Beijing again, and now when he heard Zhao Yizhi asking, he thought that he was deliberately using this matter to squeeze himself, and he was a little unhappy in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the old minister will not go, this is the account of the treasury, please read it for Your Majesty." After speaking, he handed over a thick dozen books, Wang Zhenliang took it and presented it to Zhao Yizhi. Chen Song owed a debt and retreated to the door.

"Your Majesty, Taifu is also kind..."Wang Zhenliang wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhao Yizhi picked up the accounts and flipped through them quickly, not paying attention to Wang Zhenliang's words at all. turned faster and faster, and his brows became deeper and deeper: "There are tens of thousands of taels left in the treasury, how is this!" Why haven't the New Year's tributes from all over the country been sent yet! ”

"Your Majesty, I have received news that Donglu's tribute has been robbed by the exiles; Sichuan and Shu have been raining heavily recently, and the plank road has also been broken, and it has been repaired in a hurry; The tribute of the Northland is still on the way... As for a few other places... Ah, by the way, Xigui's annual tribute will probably arrive the day after tomorrow! Wang Zhenliang reported on the situation of the tributes in various places.

"Oh? The day after tomorrow? Zhao Yizhi was quite surprised, "The highlands of Xigui Mountain are dangerous, and even the 100,000 kings of Shanxi can turn over?" Loyalty is commendable! By the way, how is Nanhuai? This is the big head of the year's tribute. ”

Wang Zhenliang shook his head, lowered his head and didn't dare to speak, Zhao Yizhi didn't ask, closed the account and said, "Okay, just put it here, and I'll look at it when I come back." ”

Wang Zhenliang stepped forward to sort out the accounts, and followed Zhao Yizhi to accompany him.

Zhao Yizhi just took two steps, suddenly stopped, and said to Wang Zhenliang beside him: "Manager Wang, you go first, I'll come right away." ”

Although Wang Zhenliang didn't know why, he also complied, and when he left the imperial study, he thoughtfully closed the door, waved away the eunuch guards at the door, and waited outside the door alone.

Zhao Yizhi was still quite relieved of Wang Zhenliang, walked to his desk, opened the drawer, took out the black cover of "The Imperial God", opened it, and there was only one opening and the first chapter in it, and there was nothing behind it.

"It's better to bring it, go to the barracks and knock on the side, and Zhou Ziru will know some about this book." Zhao Yizhi thought in his heart and took "The Royal God" into his arms.

The car drove Zhao Yizhi to the barracks with a familiar car, but this time it was not as fanfare as big as last time, and it was very low-key when he came to the barracks. Because he came once, this time Zhao Yi went straight to Zhou Ziru and Pang Fang's big tent.

"Your Majesty, why do you have time to come here today?" Zhao Yizhi directly opened the curtain and came in, Zhou Ziru was looking at the map, and when he looked up, he got up to greet Zhao Yizhi when he came in.

"It's okay, you're busy with you, isn't Commander Pang here today?" Zhao Yizhi said with a smile.

"Alas, the military rations are urgent, and Commander Pang went into the city to fight with the money and grain officials." Zhou Ziru sighed helplessly.

Zhao Yizhi frowned: "Taifu Chen Song also handed over the treasury accounts to the palace, it is miserable, there are only tens of thousands of taels of silver left in the imperial court, and it is not as rich as the rich merchants in the city." ”

Zhou Ziru pointed to Nanhuai on the map and said, "If Nanhuai's New Year's tribute can arrive, it will be able to solve the urgent need..."

"The day after tomorrow, Xigui's annual tribute will arrive, which can alleviate the embarrassment for a while." Zhao Yi is the emperor of the Great Apocalypse, but there is no way to take this kind of thing, a penny is difficult to defeat a hero.

The two were chatting casually, when suddenly an outsider announced: "Lord Huang Baihuang asks to see you." ”

"Cork?" Zhao Yizhi was startled and looked at Zhou Ziru, Zhou Ziru put his hand on his forehead, and pretended not to see it with a desperate gaze.

"Call in!" Zhao Yizhi reported to Yu Linjun, and then hid behind the screen of the big tent, wanting to hear what Huang Bai was doing here.

Huang Bai rushed in from outside the door, saluted Zhou Ziru, and said, "Zhou Xiang, the lower officials have informed the king of Nanhuai according to your instructions that the imperial court has the heart of cutting the vassal. It's just that... The king of Nanhuai did not raise an army to rebel against the imperial court, and the lower officials received news that they had a fight with the Nanhuai family..."

Zhou Ziru frantically glanced at Huang Bai, but Huang Bai was timid, and he had been trembling since he entered the barracks, and he didn't dare to raise his head in the big tent at this time, and he didn't see Zhou Ziru who was crazy at all.

Zhao Yizhi walked out from behind the screen and asked, "Zhou Xiang, Lord Huang, what's going on?" ”

Huang Bai was shocked when he heard that there was a third person present, and when he looked up, he saw Zhao Yizhi walking out from behind the screen, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, "Your Majesty..."

Zhao Yizhi stepped forward and asked, "Lord Huang, why are you back alone?" What about the easy knife? ”

Huang Bai swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at Zhou Ziru in front of the handsome case, and was speechless. Zhou Ziru had no choice but to stand up again and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen is guilty, please ask Your Majesty to punish the crime." ”

Zhao Yizhi walked to the handsome case, sat down, and said, "Tell me, what are you hiding from me?" ”

Zhou Ziru couldn't hide it, so he said: "When Weichen asked Lord Huang to leave Beijing, he took the opportunity to act. If the king of Nanhuai escorts the annual tribute, it will be fine, if the king of Nanhuai refuses to escort the annual tribute, he will tell the king of Nanhuai that the court intends to cut the feudal domain! ”

Zhao Yizhi's face was as usual, he couldn't see joy and sorrow, and asked lightly: "What about the motive?" ”

Zhou Ziru pondered for a moment, and shouted outside the tent: "Come on, take Master Huang down and find a tent for him to settle down." ”

"Thank you Zhou Xiang, thank you Your Majesty!" Huang Bai saw the donkey getting off the slope and thanked him again and again, but he was not nervous at this time.

Outside the tent, Yu Linjun took Huang Bai away, and Zhou Ziru said: "Let Huang Bai go and inform the Nanhuai Wang's court that it intends to cut the domain, just to force him to rebel." Only when he pulls up the anti-flag, can the imperial court justifiably cut the feudal domain! ”

Zhao Yizhi shook his head: "But now that the imperial court only has tens of thousands of taels of silver, how can you cut the feudal domain?" ”

"That's why we want to force him to rebel, Nanhuai rebelled, and we will order the king of Qin, and the vassal kings of all over the country are either different-minded or loyal, just try it. And Nanhuai has been rich since ancient times, and it is difficult to guarantee that other vassal kings will not be moved. At that time, the feudal kings of various places enthusiastically competed for merit, and Nanhuai went down with a drum. Zhou Ziru said with a smile, "If the imperial court recovers Nanhuai, the other vassal kings will not dare to have an opinion, and Nanhuai is a lesson from the past!" We can slowly encroach, and the world can be determined. ”

Zhao Yizhi cried and laughed: "Mr. Zhou, is he thinking too simply..."

Zhou Ziru sat down on the chair at the bottom and replied: "If you have ten points, you can score nine points!" If you want five points, you can only score five points. Planning is about setting the best possible outcome. ”

Zhao Yizhi pondered Zhou Ziru's words, but it was quite reasonable: "What Mr. Zhou said is not unreasonable, but why did Huang Bai come back alone?" ”

Zhou Ziru shrugged his shoulders: "This... I'm afraid I'll have to ask Master Huang to find out..."

"Someone, bring Lord Huang Baihuang over." Zhao Yizhi shouted at the Yulin Army outside the tent.

"Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life." Huang Bai was taken back and forth, scared in his heart, and when he saw the tent, he knelt down and crawled to Zhao Yizhi's side, hugging Zhao Yizhi's thigh and mourning.

Zhao Yizhi helped Huang Bai up and said, "Let's get up first, I ask you, Yi Xiaodao and the others went with you, why are you the only one who came back?" What about them? ”

Huang Bai's feet weakened after hearing this, and he knelt on the ground again: "Yi Daxia... I heard that he went to Yicheng, persuaded Yijia and the two cities to quit the army, and also took the soldiers of the two cities to Hangzhou..."

"I know all this, I want you to tell you the ins and outs of going to Sioux City! As a court doctor, can't you even speak? Zhao Yizhi interrupted Huang Bai's outdated news.

Huang Bai knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty spares your life, Weichen deserves to die." In the south of Sioux City, the king of Huai was gracious, and he feasted all day long, Weichen..."

Zhou Ziru stroked his forehead helplessly, turned around, Zhao Yizhi took a few deep breaths, and then resisted the urge not to drag him out and behead him, waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down." ”

"We're retiring, we're retiring." Huang Bai was amnesty, kowtowed a few times, and hurriedly retreated.

Zhao Yizhi looked at Zhou Ziru, who turned around and pretended to look at the screen, and said helplessly: "Mr. Zhou, what should I do now?" ”

Zhou Ziru turned around and said with a wry smile: "Nanhuai's Sui Gong is missing, Huang Bai ran back alone, Yi Xiaodao is also missing, and I don't know what happened to Nanhuai..."

"Report! Report to... Your Majesty, Zhou Xiang, Nanhuai Urgent! The messenger rode all the way into the barracks from the outside, and came directly to Pang Fang's tent, and climbed into the big tent.

"Read." Zhou Ziru turned around and said, Zhao Yizhi picked up the teacup from the handsome case, poured it full of tea, and handed it to the messenger.

The messenger was stunned, and when he was about to retreat, Zhao Yizhi said softly: "Drink." ”

The messenger glanced at Zhou Ziru out of the corner of his eye, he was indeed hungry and thirsty at this time, he could still withstand hunger, he couldn't stand his thirst at all, and he didn't care about the difference between dignity and inferiority, so he picked up the teacup and drank it. After drinking, he took out the bamboo tube from the inner lining, took out the letter and reported loudly: "Your Majesty, Nanhuai urgent!" Li Rongqi, the king of Nanhuai, was assassinated by unknown people, and Li Rongqi's eldest son, Li Yaoyang, slaughtered the patriarchs of the Nanhuai clan, attacked the throne without authorization, and proclaimed himself the king of Nanhuai. A large number of scouts were dispatched in Nanhuai to search for the murderer. Although the three cities of Yicheng, Jiacheng and Hangzhou have experienced wars, they have not caused disaster to the people's livelihood. The Lingyue Pavilion of the martial arts sect in Nanhuai has been disbanded, but the grapevine says that it has been merged into Xiufanfang, and the two factions have merged into one. ”

"But any other news?" Zhao Yizhi asked.

The messenger hesitated for a moment, then replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there is still a lot of gossip that has not yet been verified..."

"It's okay, let's talk about them one by one."

"The Sui Gong in Nanhuai is rumored to be a group of beggars looting, and some village people report that they saw Sui Gong being escorted to the direction of Licheng. There is a person named 'Yi Xiaodao', who claims to be an envoy of the imperial court, and said that he moved Li Rongqi, the king of Nanhuai, to escort the annual tribute, solved the dispute between Yicheng and Jiacheng, and conspired with the Nanhuai family to assassinate Li Rongqi, the king of Nanhuai. The messenger reported the gossip as well.

"Yi Xiaodao assassinated Li Rongqi, the king of Nanhuai? How is this possible? Zhao Yizhi frowned and said, although he and Yi Xiaodao only met for a short time in the courtyard he gave him, he could see that he was not the kind of sinister and cunning person who was scheming.

Zhou Ziru said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, put aside the matter of Yi Xiaodao for the time being, what did you say just now?" Nanhuai's tribute was transported to Licheng? ”

The messenger shrank his head and replied: "Zhou Xiang, it was the villagers from the countryside who came to report it, and the gossip has not been investigated yet..."

Zhao Yizhi smiled: "This is easy to do." ”

As soon as the sun set, a group of hidden guards swept out of the barracks, and disappeared without a trace as soon as they left the barracks.