Chengyuan is the residence of the important minister Xiong Lao in the court during the Zhenzong Dynasty, after the Xiong Lao is old, the beggar bones return to his hometown, this garden is also returned, Zhenzong has given countless mansions in the hometown of the Xiong Lao.

Chengyuan covers an extremely wide area, there are dozens of acres, outside the Chengyuan Garden today, but there are nearly 100 soldiers stationed there, there are armor-clad soldiers patrolling back and forth, the beautiful name is to worry about the anti-thieves going back and forth, to protect the safety of the Hou Mansion, but what is the actual purpose, Gu Er knows it.

It's just that now Gu Er's mind is full of the words of Fang Cai Wang Chong, but it is like smashing down a boulder weighing tens of millions of catties again on the already rippling lake, setting off monstrous waves.

Just like the Gu family, for the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, Gu Er used to respect the little Qin family as if he were his own mother, but he worked hard for more than 20 years, and even began to plot before he married into the Gu family······

"Yes, scramble, when is the head!" Gu Er couldn't help but sigh.

Now that the Gu family is temporarily stable, who can guarantee that such a thing will not happen again in the future.

Gu Er, who was in a heavy mood, returned home, Zhang Guifen had been waiting for a long time, and was relieved to see her husband come back with all his beards and tails.

"It's worried about the lady!" Gu Er hurriedly comforted Zhang Guifen.

Zhang Guifen said: "It's good if the officials have nothing to do, and it's good if they have nothing to do!" ”

"Just now, my mother has sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that everything is fine at home, and telling me not to worry."

"Don't worry, my father-in-law is the pillar of the court, and he has a heavy army, no matter what, at least for now, I don't have to worry about the safety of my mother-in-law and uncle."

It seems that the Gu family and the Zhang family have been running in the army for many generations, let alone a mere Empress Dowager Cao, even if the first emperor is still alive and wants to deal with it, then he must come up with sufficient evidence and convict him of death, otherwise, he will definitely not be able to convince the public.

"What's going on out there now?" Zhao Guifen asked worriedly.

Gu Er sighed and told Zhang Guifen everything he knew, no matter how big or small, everything he knew.

Zhang Guifen's face changed after hearing this, and she was shocked.

Zhang Guifen said in disbelief: "Where did the thief come from, he can have such a great ability, and even the palace can enter?" ”

Gu Er shook his head and said, "Anti-thieves are just some cover-up statements, and anyone with a discerning eye knows what this is all about." ”

"The official is saying, the Queen Mother?" Although she already had a guess in her heart, Zhang Guifen still couldn't believe it.

Gu Erdao: "If it weren't for her, why would she summon so many military generals and officials in charge of the military into the palace last night?" If it weren't for her, why were only the officials and the queen assassinated last night? If it weren't for her, why was it that the people who were assassinated last night were all important officials who wrote several times to persuade her to return to the official family? ”

"How dare she do that?" Zhang Guifen was puzzled: "Isn't she afraid of causing a backlash from the courtiers?" ”

Gu Erdao: "Power is the easiest thing to get lost!" ”

"Isn't my stepmother a good example?"

Speaking of Xiao Qin's family, Zhang Guifen couldn't help but be speechless, more than 20 years of husband and wife, Zhang Guifen couldn't understand why Xiao Qin's family was so ruthless to drug her father-in-law just for the inheritance of the title and for the sake of the Gu family's family business.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Guifen knows the friendship between her husband, the official family and King Huan, and she also knows her husband's temperament, so she asked such a question.

Looking at each other, Gu Er remembered Wang Chong's words before parting, and said frankly: "Things shouldn't be like this!" ”

Zhang Guifen looked at the honesty and firmness in Gu Er's eyes, and also saw the concerns in Gu Er's eyes, reached out and took the initiative to hold Gu Er's hand, met Gu Er's gaze, and said firmly: "Just do what the officials want to do, don't worry about the family, I will take care of Sister Herong, Brother Chang and Brother Tuan." ”

Gu Er's eyes flickered, grabbed Zhang Guifen's hand, took it into his arms, let Zhang Guifen's head rest on his shoulder, and his tone became more and more gentle: "I'm sorry!" It's me who is so selfish! ”

"No!" Zhang Guifen struggled out of Gu Er's arms, straightened up, raised her eyes and looked directly into Gu Er's eyes: "Some things always have to be done, rather than stealing a living, it is better to be vigorous, no matter how the officials choose, I support it." ”

On the other side, Wang Chong did not go home, but went straight to Jiying Lane and went to Sheng's house.

Mrs. Sheng was taken back to Tokyo by Changbai a few years ago, but fortunately, the mutiny only lasted one night and came to an end, and the Sheng family was not implicated.

However, Wang Chong's trip was not to visit Mrs. Sheng, Wang Chong's purpose was Changbai, or the goal.

In the outer study, Yu Chuer and Khan Niu were guarding the door, and all the people around were dismissed, and in the study, the two sat opposite each other, and there was still steaming tea on the table.

"What do you think of last night's change?" Wang regained the point and asked directly.

Changbai's face was expressionless, and his voice was a little dull: "How else can you look at it, facts speak louder than words." ”

Wang Chongdao: "When does Zecheng like to play the front!" It's not like you! ”

Changbai didn't look at Wang Chong's eyes, but lowered his head, looked at the steaming tea on the table, and said, "What do you want me to say?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "Zecheng thinks, what is the difference between Emperor Yao Shun and Emperor Qin and Han Wu?" ”

Changbai paused with the teacup and raised his eyes to look at Wang Chong: "Why did you suddenly talk about the second emperor of Yao Shun?" ”

"Since Xia Qi replaced Boyi as the second emperor of Great Xia, the public world has become a family world, Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, to the east of the Qin State, the King of Qin swept Liuhe, since then the six kings have been Bi, the four seas have been one, after two Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, since the Sui unified the world, the Tang Cheng Sui system, the country Zuo three times the year, and then there are five dynasties and ten countries, and to our dynasty.

Thousands of years ago, the world was divided and merged, and all dynasties and dynasties fought for the position of the ninety-five and caused brothers to fall apart, and there were few examples of father and son killing each other? How many innocent people have died in the struggle for power and profit, didn't Zi Zecheng think about why this happened? ”

Changbai said: "Naturally, it is for the supreme right!" ”

"When the Son of Heaven is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed!" Wang Chongdao: "In all dynasties, the founding monarchs are often virtuous people, but they can not be passed on for five generations, the monarch is more dim, the Shang Dynasty is tyrannical, and the princes of Zhou Youwang Fenghuo play, just for the Pomeranian to laugh, is as wise as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and in the twilight of his life, he has become mediocre and suspicious!" ”

"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in dispute, and then the five chaos were chaotic, and the princes fought endlessly, since the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the war was endless, and the people suffered in the end!"

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, there are frozen bones on the road, Xing, the people are bitter! Death, the people suffer! The cycle goes on and on, never stopping, didn't Zecheng think about why? ”

Changbai's expression has changed, no longer the expressionless calm in front of him, but looking at Wang Chong with some solemnity: "What does Zihou want to say?" ”

Wang Zhong said straightforwardly: "Doesn't Zecheng think that the authority of the Son of Heaven is too heavy? The Son of Heaven was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed! And the people of Li are as bad as a mustard, how unfortunate! How unfair! ”

Changbai frowned and looked at Wang Chong with a worried expression: "Does Zihou know what he is talking about?" ”

Wang Chong met Changbai's gaze and said straightly: "I know! I always knew, I understood what I was saying, and I was sober! ”

"Then you still ······" Changbai was only halfway through his words, but he was blocked back by Wang Chong's hot gaze.

Wang Chong didn't mean to stop, but looked at Changbai and said straightly: "Zecheng, you said that one day, the monarch's power is restricted, the emperor does not have so much power, he can't decide life and death with one word, and he can't use the wealth of the whole country for his own use, the Son of Heaven violates the law, and he will be punished for the same crime as the common people, do you tell me if there will be some different changes in this world?" ”

Rao is Changbai's heart, and his face can't help but show shock.

Changbai is so smart, Bowen and strong memory, almost has the ability to never forget, quick thinking, how to not understand the meaning of Wang Chong, but Changbai has received the Confucian education of the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, and the class concept of the monarch and the father and son has long been engraved in the bones of the Changbai, and how can Wang Chong change it in a few words.

"Whew!" Changbai breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Wang Chong and said with a solemn face: "These words come out of the king's mouth, into my ears, and no third person will know!" ”

Wang Zhong said: "Mencius said: The people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light, do you sincerely think that Mencius's words are a big fallacy? ”

Changbai said: "Tang Taizong once said: Jun Zhou and the people's water, water can carry boats, and can also overturn boats!" ”

Changbai did not directly answer Wang Chong's question, but quoted Tang Taizong's words, saying that the relationship between the boat and the water, the monarch and the people is interdependent, not antagonistic.

Wang Chongdao: "In the pre-Qin period, Meng Tian rejected the Xiongnu in the north, and the champion of the Han Dynasty was named Wolf Juxu, and in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, Li Ji and others successively defeated the Turks, Tubo, and Goguryeo, but in our dynasty, the sixteen states of Yanyun fell into the hands of the Khitans for more than 100 years, and then Li Yuanhao occupied the land of the Hetao, established himself as the king, occupied the Silk Road, and blocked the trade between our dynasty and the Western Regions.

What is the reason for these results? Is it because the soldiers of the border army refuse to use their lives? ”

Changbai was speechless by Wang Chong's question, since Emperor Taizu, the imperial court has implemented a highly centralized system, especially military power, and the generals under it do not have much autonomy at all, and they must obey the emperor's orders when marching and fighting.

In the battle of the Gaoliang River, hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated, and the situation between the imperial court and the Liao State immediately changed from offensive to defensive, and then repeatedly defeated, not to mention the loss of troops, and a large amount of ordnance, grain and grass were wasted.

It was not until Fan Wenzheng was the prime minister that the imperial court won the war with the Liao State, but Rao was like this, and it still failed to change the offensive and defensive momentum of the two countries.

After a moment of silence, Changbai finally held back a sentence: "Eat the king's lu, bear the king's worries!" ”

When Wang Chong heard this, he said straightly: "Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment!" ”

Looking at each other, Changbai looked stunned, and his eyes were full of shock.

Wang Chongdao: "Zecheng think about what I said today, and I'll come back in a few days!" ”

After that, he picked up the tea cup on the table, drank all the tea in the cup, and then got up and walked out briskly without looking back.

"Lord!" Yu Chuer saw Wang Chong walking out quickly, and hurriedly bowed to Wang Chong.

"Go back!" Wang Chong's footsteps did not stop, Yu Chuer bowed his hand to the sweat cow next to him to say goodbye, and immediately hurried to follow Wang Chong's footsteps.

Seeing Wang Chong leaving, Khan Niu hurriedly entered the house to serve, but saw Changbai kneeling on the edge of the long case, staring at the tea cup on the table, stunned, not knowing what he was thinking.

It took a long time for Changbai to come back to his senses, and he muttered something like 'people's fat and people's ointment', and he didn't dare to ask more.

The next day, several news spread rapidly in Bianjing City, saying that all the anti-thieves and assassins were fabricated, and the real killers of the emperor and empress and Han Daxianggong and others were not others, it was the Empress Dowager Cao, and it was also said that it was because Han Daxianggong led the ministers to persuade the Empress Dowager Cao to return to the official family, which would cause the disaster of killing.

However, less than a day after the news spread, a large number of soldiers and horses of the city defense battalion went around arresting people in an attempt to stop the spread of rumors.

But rumors can only be easily stopped if they become more and more powerful.

Moreover, the Chinese martial arts are not fools and blind people, and the things that happened on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve were so blatantly done, how could they hide from everyone's eyes.

On the same day, there were several excerpts in the imperial history, kneeling in front of the palace gate to ask the Empress Dowager Cao to give them an explanation.

Empress Dowager Cao was furious, and even if she put those imperial historians in prison, she didn't want her to do this, not only did not play a role, but aroused the dissatisfaction of the courtiers even more.

In particular, more than a dozen important members of the court led by Han Zhang, who was the chief of the court, were killed, and their families were also slaughtered, how could Empress Dowager Cao's frenzied behavior not cause dissatisfaction among the courtiers.

In Tokyo, it is not only the Cao family that holds the military power, but there are also many Zhao clans in Gyeonggi Zuojin, although their official positions are not high, and they do not have much power in their hands, but their status as royal clansmen is real.

On the eighth day of the first month of the first month, headed by the British Duke, General Zheng Lao, Ningyuan Marquis Gu Tingye, Yongchang Marquis, Ling Guogong, Zhong Qinbo and other more than a dozen noble military generals who served in the army gathered in the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion.

A group of civil servants led by Wang Chong also rushed to the Marquis Mansion of Ningyuan, and everyone gathered in the main hall of the Marquis Mansion.

The British Duke was the first to discover: "Today, the old man is presumptuous, and he invites you to come with his son-in-law, just for one thing, what is it that you must also know it, the old man only asks you, we are the emperor's grace in the world, do you want to watch the country and the society fall into the hands of foreign surnames now?" ”

Gu Er also immediately stood up and said: "In the past, we asked the Queen Mother to be regent, because Emperor Renzong had just died at that time, and there were frequent accidents in the court, which was a helpless move to stabilize the situation and calm people's hearts, not to create another martial artist!" ”

"I invite you to come here today for one thing!"

Gu Er's sharp gaze swept over everyone, and he said loudly: "······"

(End of chapter)