CHAPTER XLV
Zhao Yichen was wearing a Xuantian pigment robe today, and the sash on his head was a little loose and he didn't bother to retie it, hidden in the moonlight, and he had a heroic spirit.
"You are worried that some people in the DPRK and China will form a party for personal gain and mistreat the DPRK government." The wine was a little upset, and Song Zhi didn't want to think about whether it was a vain discussion of government affairs.
Zhao Yichen nodded, and his body relaxed, "I ascended the throne, and there are many opposing opinions in the court, including the empress dowager's cronies, if there is an opportunity, they will definitely choose to support Zhao Yitai." And I haven't finished any of the things that my father entrusted me with before he died, and I am not willing to quit like this. ”
Looking down from the city wall, Jinzhou City is still lively at night, thanks to Zhao Yichen's protection.
At the beginning of his reign, the first thing he did was to reduce taxes, increase the income of the Lebanese people, and also retried the edict and released hundreds of wounded or elderly prisoners, all of which were his achievements.
He fought alone in this court without gunpowder, with a fog in front of him, and some wild wolves staring at him when he turned back. It was these courtiers who pushed him forward, and it was the responsibility he took on that drove him not to stop.
Suddenly, Song Zhi saw his slightly trembling shoulders, and some sourness welled up in his heart, "You have done a good job." ”
She gently hugged Zhao Yichen in her arms, the misunderstandings and humiliations they had in the past seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and Song Zhi still had some woody aroma from the library on his body, which was extremely calm.
The two sat leaning on each other for a long time, Zhao Yichen drank too much wine, was a little drunk, and muttered: "When the lotus leaves are born, spring hates life, and when the lotus leaves are dry, autumn hates them." I know that I am in love for a long time, and I look forward to the sound of the river. ”
The voice was very small, but Song Zhi still heard the words in his mouth clearly, from Li Shangyin's "Traveling Alone in Qujiang in Twilight", which is a work of mourning for his deceased wife.
Song Zhi was a little relieved, she was glad that she didn't fall in love with Zhao Yichen, and Zhao Yichen never had her place in her heart. If the two of them can spend their lives like this in the future, it will not be a bad thing.
However, Zhao Yichen also said later, "I want to forget her." ”
The voice of this sentence was too small, and Song Zhi deliberately kept some distance from him after hearing the poem clearly, so he didn't hear it at all.
In the Helan family ancestral hall, Helan Zhuo's knees were already a little swollen, and he clenched his fists and slammed them on the ground.
"Childe, Madame is back." The little maid who was guarding the family ancestral hall also felt a little sorry for him, and reminded him in a whisper.
Helan Zhuo knelt for a day and a night, his legs were already numb and sore, and when he got up, he didn't stand firm and almost got up, and the little guy on the side hurriedly came over to support him.
He shook off the little servant's hand and secretly swore that he would repay this revenge and double it all.
Helan Zhuo limped back to his room, and saw the man who looked like a butcher standing in his room, he should have been waiting for a long time.
"Why are you here again?" Helan Zhuo sat heavily in his chair, his tone full of exhaustion.
"That Taoist priest I don't know where to know, now the demand is getting bigger and bigger, and I can't supply it here, don't you see there is any other channel?" The butcher rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, perhaps trying to find an excuse to shirk the errand.
"How much do you want to add?" dragged out his exhaustion, He Lanzhuo just wanted to rest early, too lazy to mediate with him, and directly provoked.
"Hehe, it's still a generous child, I don't want much, add five taels!" Seeing that the negotiations were promising, the butcher even smiled a little cheerfully.
Helan Zhuo casually took out a coin bag from his shirt, "It is loose silver, and the official seal of the Helan family is not engraved, it should be more than five taels." You can give as much as he wants, if it is not enough, those flowers and willows are more, and you can go to any courtyard to kidnap one. ”
"Thank you, thank you, Childe." The butcher took the money bag and disappeared in front of Helan Zhuo's eyes in an instant.
Helan Zhuo lay on the bed, staring blankly at the sky, and it was not until morning that he made a decision.
The night was dark and windy, and a butcher's knife stretched out like a devil's claw into the geisha courtyard.
In less than an hour, a whole sack of heavy objects was dragged out of the house, and the blood on the ground was hidden in the darkness, and it was impossible to find it unless you looked closely.
And the whole bag of heavy items was sent into the backyard of the kitchen.
The next day, an unsigned report letter appeared in the inspection hall.
"Helan Yan, the son of the Helan family, conspired with unscrupulous Taoist priests to kill the people's daughters by torture without permission." Zhao Yichen gritted his teeth and read the report letter, and then slammed it on Helan Kangnian's face.
"This is the good son taught by my uncle!"
"Your Majesty is angry, the child had a high fever in his early years, which caused confusion, and some children have a temper, and it is not known if the people next to him are wrong." Helan Kangnian still hadn't woken up a little, standing next to Zhao Yichen and nodding.
"Xu Xingzhi, give me a check! Find out the results, whether good or bad, and never tolerate them! ”
"Obey."
The efficiency of the inspectorate is one of the best in Jinzhou, and within an hour, more than a dozen female corpses were found from Helan Mansion, and eight or nine out of ten only saw white bones, no flesh and skin, and one of them was lying on the board in the kitchen of the second lady.
And that Helan Yan and the Taoist priest were sitting at the table, enjoying the flesh and skin of the young woman who didn't know it was again.
To avoid someone going out of the house to report the news, Xu Xingzhi took hundreds of people to surround Helan Mansion, and he took the cook who cooked for the two of them back to the palace to resume his life.
"Uncle's evidence and physical evidence are all there! What else do you have to quibble! Zhao Yichen endured his nausea and read the chef's confession, and threw the confession in front of Helan Kangnian.
"This, this king really doesn't know."
Helan Kangnian picked up the confession from the ground and read it carefully from beginning to end, he really didn't expect that his son, who was only two or three years old, would do such a cruel thing, and this thing happened under his nose, but he didn't notice it at all.
The cannibalism incident between Helan Yan and the Taoist priest just opened a hole for Zhao Yichen's suppression, and with this incident, Zhao Yichen can no longer take care of the face of his mother, so he can remove Helan Kangnian's official position and start dealing with his henchmen.
Zhao Yichen is still kind after all, "I think you and my mother are of the same clan, and you are my own uncle, I just dismissed you from your official position, and tomorrow I will take your eldest son and go to a place I can't see!" ”
"Thank Your Majesty for not killing." Helan Kangnian's hanging heart finally fell, he didn't have any lofty ambitions, he loved to covet beauty more than officialdom, even if he was relegated to a remote place, as long as he had such a nephew who was the emperor, he would not worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
The will to depose the exile was to arrive in Helan Mansion one step earlier than Helan Kangnian.
Helan Kangnian was willing to accompany Helan Yan to exile, but the eldest grandson Qinglu, who was used to being respected, was unwilling, and before Helan Kangnian entered the door, she flaunted her onion-like nails and slashed Helan Kangnian's face.
"It's all your fault for being disrespectful, you still have to force a concubine at the age of sixty or seventy, and now you are causing such a mess, you have to go yourself, I don't want to go to the place where birds don't!"