At this moment, it is the beginning of August, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers is wafting and fragrant in Tokyo.

An unprecedentedly grand triumphal ceremony was held outside the Nanxun Gate, and two hours later, Zhao Ta entered the city.

I went back to the palace first, settled everything, and entered the palace in the afternoon.

Five horses drove, straight up to the royal street, the golden spearmen opened the way, the long knife soldiers followed, the axe and Yue honor guards on both sides sang and avoided, and a hundred red cloaked jujube red horse guards followed at the end.

It is not like walking at the east gate of the imperial city in the past, but going straight to the Xuande Gate in the south, passing through the stairs and passing through the hall, and coming to the front of Yanfu Palace.

Zhao Ta held his hands behind his back, looked up at the plaque of Yanfu Palace, and the two little eunuchs hurriedly ran over to greet each other.

Not far after entering, Zhang Di came again, with a smile on his face, and said in his mouth: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, to exterminate the thieves and make immortal achievements." ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Little things, what a way." ”

While speaking, he went to the front of the Yanfu Palace, which is the main hall of the Yanfu Palace, with five doors and ten doors, and a red sandalwood frame. ”

Zhao Ta smiled, Zhang Di respectfully held the door, he dusted off his robe, and walked in in all directions.

In the middle of the hall, a scarlet carpet is laid on the ground, which is really scarlet, the color of bleached with the blood of hundreds of orangutans.

It is recorded in the Book of Rites that parrots can speak and do not leave birds, and orangutans can speak and do not leave birds and beasts.

At this time, there were still orangutans in the world of Kyushu, but because the blood of the orangutans was bright red and gorgeous, it was close to valuable things, so it was slowly captured and killed, and it did not exist in the future.

On both sides of the red carpet, there is a huge beast stove incense, and the sunken wood exudes a faint smell in it, which makes people's minds refreshed and their spirits doubled.

Zhao Ta stepped forward and saw that Emperor Daojun was sitting behind the imperial book, busy with something in his hands, and didn't seem to pay attention to his arrival.

But Zhao Ta had such eyesight, and after a glance, he found that Emperor Daojun just took the inkstone on the left to the right, and the pen on the right side was washed on the left, and a mountain and river were not left and right, and finally he reached out to touch the small wine cup next to him.

What is this foolishness? He didn't speak, and Emperor Daojun didn't speak, still tossing and turning there, pretending not to know that he was coming.

Zhao Ta pursed his lips, the two of them were so consumed, and finally a palace maid came in to send Xiao Tanghong, and Emperor Daojun had to raise his head and his eyes fell on Zhao Ta.

Zhao Ta hurriedly saluted: "Ah, Daddy! ”

Emperor Daojun's throat rolled: "Second brother, are you back?" ”

Zhao Ta's eyebrows raised slightly: "It's Daddy, the child is back!" ”

Emperor Daojun......

The two of them stared at each other, and they didn't feel a little embarrassed at the moment.

Zhao Ta's merits are too great, there is no seal, and there is no reward, but there must always be a saying, Emperor Daojun is troubled in his heart.

Zhao Ta didn't know what to say, Tong Guan put down the rebellion, he and Zhao Kai sat on the two wings, he defeated one of the thieves along the way, and recovered Hangzhou, and then defeated Fang La in Hangzhou, and then saw through Fang La's fake death conspiracy to hunt down overseas, not only killed Fang La, but also Fang Qifo, Lu Shinang, the real second and third people in the thief army were also planted in his hands.

Tong Guan and Zhao Kai suppressed the bandits, even if they killed more thieves, but the thief chiefs were not in their hands.

On that day, Emperor Daojun promised in the Golden Palace that there would be an increasing reward for capturing and killing generals at all levels of the thief army, but now how to seal it and how to reward it?

Emperor Daojun coughed dryly, poured a cup of small orange red for himself, and drank it all.

"Daddy!" Zhao Ta spoke: "The child brought back a gift for his father." ”

"Oh?" Emperor Daojun held a wine glass: "In addition to offering the head of the thief chieftain, does Wu'er have other gifts?" ”

Zhao Ta smiled: "The child brought back one million taels of silver to his father, ten boxes of gold beads and jade, and a number of land deeds for the shops in the land gardens and shops in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Emperor Daojun's hand shook immediately when he heard this, his wine glass almost fell off, and his eyes were faintly shining, it turned out to be money! What is he lacking most at the moment? Isn't it just money!

In the past two years, Tianhu and Wang Qing have been beaten, and the treasury has almost been emptied, even Genyue has no money to continue to fill and repair, and Fang La has drawn out all the bottom of the treasury, so he can barely provide grain and grass and other things, as for some of the rewards promised before, I don't know what to give, so I can't all change them to official positions, right? Promotions are also to be added!

"One million taels of silver, ten chests of jewelry?" Emperor Daojun smacked his lips and suddenly felt comfortable.

This is simply timely rain, it seems that it is right to send the second child to Jiangnan, the second child is not only good at fighting, but this is the ...... No, no, even this wealth is also a way, unlike the third brother, a few days ago, he returned to the DPRK from Hebei in a gray way, and he didn't even send the usual big money, which is really disappointing!

"Yes, Daddy!" Zhao Ta said: "Those land deeds are also worth a lot of silver, whether my father is willing to stay and charge into the royal family, or willing to sell them for cash." ”

"Good, good!" Emperor Daojun was just about to praise a few words, and suddenly doubts became in his heart, even if this second child has a way to regenerate wealth, not to mention some floating wealth, but where did the land deeds of the land garden and shops come from?

It can't be from the families of the slain warriors, right? Those things are not easy to move, and no one can do anything if they are killed by the thief army, but these lands will not change their surnames, after all, those scholars still have children as officials in the court, and they are not dead.

"Second brother, where did you get all these belongings? Could it be the Jiangnan Shi clan......"

Zhao Ta knew that Emperor Jun had such a question, so he spread his hands at this moment and said with a smile: "Daddy, the child killed Zhu Mian!" ”

He and Tong Guan did not report the killing of Zhu Mian, because he was afraid that the court and China would discuss it and cause extraneous branches, so he had to talk to Emperor Daojun in person.

"Huh?" Emperor Daojun was stunned when he heard this, and his face was slightly unhappy: "You, what did you do to kill Zhu Mian?" ”

Zhu Mian is still very thoughtful about him, and he has spared no effort for so many years, what strange flowers, plants, lakes and stones he wants here, Zhu Mian can dig out his heart to get them and transport them into Beijing, and no one else can replace this point.

"Alas......" Zhao Ta sighed: "The child also has to be killed, this Zhu Mian wants to rebel!" ”

Rebel? As soon as he heard the word rebellion, Emperor Daojun couldn't help but tremble, he was most afraid of hearing this word now, the rebellion in the past two years has been connected, and the momentum is getting louder and louder each time, and he almost has half his life.

Zhu ...... Zhu Mian rebelled? Emperor Daojun's face was ugly.

"Exactly!" Zhao Ta's voice was loud and said: "That Zhu Mian's family raised armor and died, not to mention that he exceeded the system everywhere, his son Zhu Ruli, who was white, actually wore armor and led the army, and the rebellion was witnessed by everyone, and ...... Jiangnan Yingfeng Bureau has a nickname, I wonder if my father has heard of it? ”

"What nickname?" Emperor Daojun pondered in his heart, this armor and soldiers are afraid that there is no reason for this, after all, Suzhou is also besieged by the thief chieftain, and the Zhu family was originally in charge of some soldiers, although they were demoted to white, but it is not good to say that they want to kill thieves, this is not a crime to death, let alone to destroy the door.

"Daddy, that should be called by the bureau...... The small court in the southeast. ”

"What!" Emperor Daojun was thinking about it, and when he heard this, his face immediately changed greatly, and he slapped the table suddenly: "What did you say, second brother?" ”

The corners of Zhao Ta's lips twitched, thinking to himself, why is this still called the second child? It's also ugly, I'm afraid it's not called that in my heart on weekdays!

He said loudly: "Daddy, that should be known as the small court in the southeast, everyone in the Jiangnan area knows, no one knows, from eighty decadent old men, down to babbling children, don't know about this matter!" ”

Emperor Daojun looked at Zhao Ta with a blue face, if the rest of the court said this, even if Cai Jing Tongguan, he didn't believe it, he just wanted to be jealous of Zhu Mian and attack each other, but his own children would definitely not tell this lie, because this country belongs to the Zhao family, and only his own family pays the most attention to this kind of thing.

Zhao Ta continued: "The child is afraid of long nights and dreams, so he doesn't do anything, leaving only two live people to secretly escort to the capital, and all the rest are killed on the spot!" ”

"As for the million taels of silver, as well as the jewelry title deeds and other things, they were all searched from Zhu Mian's house, and the child also heard about ......"

"What did you hear?" Emperor Daojun hurriedly asked.

"The child heard that the Zhu family is far more than these family wealth, but it has not been copied, and the child suspects ......"

"Suspect what?" Emperor Daojun pricked up his ears.

"The child suspects that the Zhu family has colluded with the Demon Sect of the thief chief Fang La, and the extra money has been given to Fang La's soldiers! Otherwise, why did Fang La have been in trouble for a long time, but Zhu Mian didn't report it, and kept it hidden? Isn't it for the sake of the thief chieftain to stall for time! ”

"That's what happened!" Emperor Daojun gasped, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it: "That...... Wang Hao also concealed the report, wouldn't he also ......"

Zhao Ta groaned slightly: "Wang Hao'er doesn't know, maybe he is good friends with Zhu Mian?" There is no evidence of thieves. ”

Emperor Daojun breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "But it can't be used anymore, it can't be used anymore." ”

Zhao Ta glanced at Emperor Daojun out of the corner of his eyes, and continued: "And there is another reason why the child killed Zhu Mian, it is for the sake of his father and third brother!" ”

Emperor Daojun wondered, "How can you say this?" ”

Zhao Ta said slowly: "Most of the Jiangnan Shi clan was slaughtered in Jiangning, and someone must ask for the guilt in this matter, although Wang Hanzhi is the pacification envoy of Jiangnan East Road, but above the Golden Palace, his father once ordered the third brother to sit in Liangjiang, he did not guard Jiangdong Road where there was a war, in order to strangle the thief road, but led the troops to run to the stable place of Jiangxi An, isn't this a dereliction of duty?" It would be fine if the Wushi clan were killed, but now that so many people have died, it is difficult to blame. ”

Emperor Daojun frowned when he heard this: "This ......"

Zhao Ta said with a heavy expression: "And there are so many scholars who have died this time, many of them are the families of important ministers of the court, and some local officials are also among them, these people will always ask for an explanation, how does Daddy plan to deal with it?" ”

Emperor Daojun frowned: "This matter ......"

Zhao Ta said: "Fang La's Jiangnan thieves, or by Zhu Mian's fish and meat people, skillfully robbed, rampant and tyrannical, or he is one of the thieves, deliberately disturbing the place, stirring up the people's uprising, so that the people of Li and the court are separated from morality, then the Jiangnan Shi clan was slaughtered, he is the real culprit, if there is no him, there will be no Jiangnan chaos, there will be no Jiangnan chaos, there will be no death of the scholars, and the father can only explain to the ministers of the court if he destroys him!" ”

"Not bad!" Emperor Daojun pressed the side of the case with both hands: "What Wu'er said is extremely true, this matter is just like this, Zhu Mian is the culprit, I will immediately make an order to say the reason, and then talk about it...... It was I who ordered Zhu Mian to be raided and disposed of on the spot, thinking that he would avenge the hundred officials! ”

"Daddy Shengming!" Zhao Ta saluted, and then fell silent.

Emperor Daojun looked at him and opened his mouth, and at this moment he couldn't help but think of the reward again, and immediately became embarrassed again.

"Wu'er has made a great contribution to the thief, what reward do you want?"

Zhao Ta looked at Emperor Daojun with a bit of a hard head, he was also helpless, the official was not promoted, as for giving money, do you have it? If I hadn't brought back a million taels of silver and jewels, I'm afraid the Western Army would not have been able to appease them.

"Child...... Don't be rewarded! Zhao Ta said this sincerely, and he really couldn't appreciate anything.

"Well, Rong Zhen think about it......" Emperor Daojun searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, and then coughed dryly: "Wu'er has great military achievements, and he will be transferred to the twelve, so he will seal Wu'er to the Pillar Kingdom." ”

Zhao Ta hurriedly thanked him, knowing that this was the case, and he couldn't seal any other tricks.

"As for ......" Emperor Daojun wanted to reward some more gold and silver, but this gold and silver jewelry was originally sent by Zhao Ta, and it was really embarrassing to reward it back.

"The child doesn't want anything else." Zhao Ta hurriedly said: "It is the duty of a child to contribute to the country and share the worries of his father, not to mention that there is no shortage of other things in the family, that is, the daughter of the Shezhou Zhu family mentioned by the child in the fold, wants to be admitted to the house, and asks her father to seal a decree, and she wishes the family brother to make a general judgment to show her father...... Grace to the Scholars! ”

"This matter is good, great good!" Emperor Daojun nodded and said, it doesn't matter what you seal, but it's embarrassing to take money out, he is really a little reluctant, this letter is a good thing, it doesn't cost money, but it can also buy people's hearts.

Seeing that Emperor Daojun agreed, Zhao Ta immediately retired, and then went to Zhengyang Palace to see Zheng Niangniang, let some small ones have time to go to his house to play, and then went out of the imperial city.

At this time, it was just over half of the afternoon, and it was still early, and after Zhao Ta returned to the house, he asked if he had any other affairs, and they all reported it, so he ordered someone to arrange a banquet in the evening, and let his subordinates who went to the expedition with him come over to drink.

Then I went to the back house, talked to Xiao Niang for a while, and talked about the things I encountered on the road, Xiao Niang went to see Zhu Xiuniang, and said that she had to take care of the materials carefully when she was pregnant, and she could not have the slightest slackness, she was usually leisurely, and she could take care of one or two.

Zhao Ta looked at her depressed, knowing that she had not been pregnant for a long time, and her heart was busy, so she said that this matter is not in a hurry, the coming day is long, and there is no hurry to meet at this moment.

Coming out of Xiao Niang, Zhao Ta thought about it, Xiao Niang is pure and kind, I don't know that Zhu Xiuniang has hatred for her family, it seems that she still has to tell her the truth about this matter, otherwise it will inevitably be embarrassing to speak, as for Zhu Xiuniang, he has to go over and see if he is a demon.

When I arrived at the yard over there, Zhao Ta walked in and saw that Hexiang was picking flowers in the garden, green apricots were gathering soil, and the two newly recruited maids were also busy.

Originally, Hexiang Qingxing was restored by him, and he wanted to let the two go when he returned to Beijing, but the two were unwilling, saying that there were no relatives in Hangzhou, so they brought them back.

At this moment, Zhao Tan saw that the four of them were actually in the garden, and couldn't help frowning slightly, he had told Zhu Xiuniang not to leave anyone, why did they all run out?

The four of them saw the ceremony, Zhao Ta asked, the four of them looked embarrassed, but they were supported by Zhu Xiuniang, Zhao Ta said that this is not allowed again, and no one can leave the house, so he took four back to see.

When I opened the door of the main house, I was stunned, only to see Zhu Xiuniang standing on top of the flower case, more than three feet from the ground, one hand on her abdomen, hesitating to jump down.

Seeing this, the maids were so frightened that they said "ahhh

Zhao Ta's eyes narrowed, and he said coldly: "Don't help her, let her jump!" ”

Zhu Xiuniang looked at Zhao Tan, her face suddenly turned pale, she bit her lip lightly, closed her eyes slightly, and said nothing.

Zhao Ta said: "Xiuniang, even if you jump, if the child's life is not damaged, and he can be born safely in the future, this king will tell him that his mother didn't want him like this, wanted to abandon him, and didn't want him to come to this world!" ”

After speaking, he looked at a few maids and snorted coldly: "No one is allowed to care about her!" ”

Then, he turned and slammed the door.

Zhu Xiuniang was on top of the flower case, looking at Zhao Ta's back blankly, and tears of grievance flowed down the two lines.

She was silent for a moment, carefully went down to the table by herself, and then returned to the couch in the inner room, holding her hands on her belly, her expression was full of remorse, and she said to herself: "It's my mother's mistake, you are the dearest person to my mother, mother, my mother will never be like this again......"

(End of chapter)