Jianye Inner City

In an alley near Xiangguo Temple, a group of three people took advantage of the night to quietly walk to the back door of a large mansion, and the person in front looked at both sides cautiously, stretched out his hand and patted the door twice.

After a while, a crack opened in the two small wooden doors, and the people inside glanced at the knocker and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"The seventh young master of my family has something to find the third young master of the house," after speaking, he handed over a letter of worship.

"Please wait a moment, the villain will go back immediately." After saying that, the man took the prayer post and closed the courtyard door again.

A rush of footsteps faded away.

After a while, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps in the courtyard, and the door was half opened, and a person came out of the door, did not say anything, just bowed deeply, and then bowed down to invite someone in. The person who knocked on the door also stepped to the side, and at this time, the person behind him glanced at the people in the house, nodded slightly, and entered the courtyard door first.

The man who led the way led the person into the main room in the backyard, and the two people who followed stood directly outside the door.

"I didn't know that the king of Chu had arrived, and the minister had apologized to the king of Chu here."

"Yuanfu is serious, this king came, he didn't inform him in advance, it was abrupt, there was indeed something, so he could only disturb it at night." Zhao Ye, the king of Chu, hurriedly pulled Yuanfu, who knelt down on the ground, and prevented him from making this big gift.

Yuan Fu hurriedly asked the king of Chu to sit down, and did not ask anyone to wait, and made a cup of tea for the king of Chu himself.

The king of Chu also asked him to sit down, "Yuanfu, we don't care about these small sections, if Yuanfu is convenient, can we invite Lord Wang to come, the situation is really urgent, and we have to come and disturb." ”

Yuan Fu knew that this was not the time to doubt, the king of Chu came privately late at night, there should be something urgent, and he didn't ask anything anymore, so he said a faux pas to the king of Chu and walked quickly to the front yard.

It was only half a tea time, Yuan Fu followed a person in, and when the king of Chu saw someone coming, he quickly got up and hugged his fists to salute, "Give Master Wang a salute, this king really can't, so he can only ask for help." ”

Lord Wang also hurriedly took a step forward, and hurriedly gave a courtesy, "The king of Chu is serious, the old minister is polite here, and he doesn't dare to be the king of Chu, as long as the old minister can do it, the prince will order." ”

After seeing the ceremony, several people sat down, Yuan Fu began to think about whether it was convenient for him to be present, and when he was about to say goodbye and leave, he was directly retained by the king of Chu and sat under his father.

Lord Wang Shiwang, the current Zuodu Imperial History of the Supervision Yuan, the seventh in the second class in the eighth year of Shaoning, has successively served as a scholar, a scholar, a lecture, a Taoist imperial history, a supervision of the imperial history and other positions, Yu Xining three years of the Supervision Yuan Zuodu Imperial History, in the eighteenth year of Shaoning to the twenty-third year of Shaoning to the princes as a professor, so the king of Chu will call him a master.

The king of Chu no longer hesitated, and directly told the situation.

This time the matter has to start with the king of Shu, as the new policy in Shu has been constantly shelved and abolished, the continuous repetition of the government has also made the people more opposed and confrontational, and even some small officials have joined it.

The king of Shu was really helpless, so he could only ignore the decree of the court and forcibly suspend the implementation of all new policies in Shu, and at the same time impeach Tan Zongwang, the inspector of Shuzhou, disregarded the people's livelihood in Shuzhou, appointed private individuals, and used the new policy to prey on the people.

The conservative officials led by Xu Fang and Xu Renchang, scholars of the Qilin Pavilion, once again launched an attack on the reformers led by Cheng Yu Weichen, and strongly demanded that the Holy Majesty decree stop the attempt of the new policy in several states and never implement it, and the two sides fought endlessly in the court for several days.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with the king of Chu, and somehow, more than a dozen officials led by Zhu Fantao, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, actually played and asked the saint to issue an order to the two princes of Chu and Qi who stayed in Kyoto to conquer Jingzhou and Qingzhou.

Suddenly, there was another scuffle in the court, and then many other questions were raised, and a single word could not be described.

Xining is the name of Zhao Chun, the fifth emperor of the Xia Dynasty, Zhao Chun is the eldest son of Emperor Youning, because Emperor Shaoning reigned for twenty-seven years, so by the time Emperor Xining ascended the throne, it was already forty and three, and now nine years have passed, Zhao Chun's health has become worse and worse in recent years, and it took almost ten days to go to the last dynasty.

Emperor Xining had seven sons and three daughters, and the second and sixth sons died young.

The eldest son, Huai Wang Zhao Hong, was born in Shaoning for three years, proficient in the art of war, excellent martial arts, first worshiped the general of Yulin Town, and then crowned the king of Huai, and the royal city was stationed in Huaiyang. King Huai has been very fond of martial arts since he was a child, and hopes to fight the world immediately, so at the age of fifteen, he followed Yang Zhixin, the general of the former Duwei, to learn from his teacher and train in Duwei.

From the twenty-fifth year of Shaoning to the fifth year of Xining, he has led the troops to fight against the thorns in Yulin Town, first with General Yang, and then became an independent army, and has experienced countless large and small wars in eight years.

Once, in the face of the thorn general's offense, he personally led 20,000 light horsemen under his command to go deep into the grassland for 300 miles, annihilating the 30,000 thorn army, including the thorn general did not spend money, and the border army was shocked for a while, and was specially named the king of Huai by Emperor Xining, and the army under his command was independently named the Huai army.

The third son of Shu King Zhao Can was born in Shaoning eight years, since childhood intelligent, gentle and elegant, four books and five classics memorized like a stream, very young in Xining Emperor around the court to listen to the political affairs, from time to time occasionally put forward their own opinions, deeply appreciated by the scholars, even Zhao Chun is very fond of this son, just because of the identity, had to be in Shu two years ago.

The fourth prince Wu Wang Zhao Jiong was born in Shaoning in the ninth year, since he was a child, he was frail and sickly, and often stayed in the palace, but this also gave Wu Wang more time to study, whether it was the Four Books and Five Classics, poetry and songs, or the Art of War, civil policy is a good hand.

When he became an adult, he specially took the initiative to go to other places to cultivate because of his own health, and he didn't want any throne or royal city.

Emperor Xining couldn't resist this son he liked very much, but he had nothing to do about King Wu's illness, so he could only agree to King Wu's request, and at the same time did not agree to King Wu's request, canonized Zhao Jiong as King Wu, and chose Huzhou not far south of Jianye.

The fifth prince Zhao Shuo, the king of Qi, was born in the eleventh year of Shaoning, and his mother was the daughter of the Lin family in Zhangzhou, and was canonized as a concubine after giving birth to Queen Qi. The daughter of the Lin family is dignified and graceful, proficient in poetry and writing, but her personality is a little weak, and she is a person who does not have any sense of struggle in the palace, so Zhao Shuo's personality is relatively weak after birth.

The mother family is not obvious, and there is no support in the court, the mother and son are walking on thin ice in the palace, and King Qi has become the most neglected prince.

Zhao Ye, the seventh prince of Chu, was born in Shaoning in the seventeenth year, just turned 20 years old this year, his mother was born in the Zhang family of Shanyang, the Zhang family is also a thousand-year-old family, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, there have been high-ranking officials in the court, to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the five dynasties have also produced one or two equivalent to the prime minister.

The Zhang family not only has clansmen in the court, but also many protégés and former officials have also entered the government at all levels because of the relationship of the Zhang family. Zhao Ye also had a close relationship with many important ministers in the court because of the relationship between his mother family, and he also became a popular choice for a while.

The king of Chu really didn't want to go to Jingzhou to become a vassal domain, although Jingzhou is also the land of fish and rice, west of Shuzhou, south of Tanzhou, the people in the territory live and work in peace and contentment, is the Xia Dynasty is the most stable and wealthy state.

But as the third-ranked prince, the king of Chu is unwilling to leave Beijing easily under the current situation, which is also the purpose of his visit today.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the old minister took the liberty to say, you are in a hurry, panicked, this shouldn't be!"

Wang Shi glanced at the King of Chu and pointed out without hesitation that the King of Chu's mentality was wrong.

"Think about it, who are these people, and what do you want to do, and then think about the reasons behind the new deal, don't you understand!"

After listening to Wang Shi's words, the king of Chu was stunned.

There is also one person who didn't sleep well tonight, and Zhao Shuo, the king of Qi, was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and his mind was muddy all the time.

He also didn't want to go to Qingzhou, Qingzhou was full of bandits, there were a lot of bandits, mountain bandits, and the people's livelihood was also strong, and he would be hard with the government at every turn.

But there is no way, he is not as good as King Huai, his writing is not as good as King Wu's poetry and songs, his politics are not as good as the King of Chu, and the people can't keep up with the indoctrination of King Shu, so he is simply a waste who eats and waits for death.

Zhao Hui originally wanted to secretly go out to discuss with someone, but he was cautious by nature and timid, so he really didn't dare to go out rashly, besides, he really couldn't find a particularly reliable and powerful character with a personality like him who didn't love his grandmother, as for those guys who fish in half a bottle of water, he can't look down on it himself, it's good not to make trouble for himself.

Alas, the fifth prince is really aggrieved, if he is in a good place like King Wu, the ghost is willing to stay here, be a leisurely prince, travel in the mountains and rivers, and be at ease, isn't it much more comfortable.

On the morning of July 14, as soon as the courtiers on both sides were standing, some ministers came out of class and began to urge the Holy Lord to make a decision in response to several proposals made a few days ago, but as soon as he finished speaking, several courtiers on the other side began to directly refute them, and the scuffle began again.

Zhao Chun's head hurts terribly these days, and he is in his fifties, and his energy can't keep up. He wondered, those old ministers who usually look old, and even walk swaying, at this time are full of red light, quoting scriptures, talking about the head is the Tao, how can they not be angry to death!!

Now he didn't even bother to look at it, leaning back on the dragon chair, clapping his hands while closing his eyes to recuperate. These ministers, one day they will kill a few people, and they know about infighting every day, and they don't do anything serious.

When the ministers were making a fuss, a eunuch suddenly heard from outside the door.

"Long live Qiyu, an emergency war report came from Yangzhou, the pirates landed on the four prefectures of Yangzhou at the same time last night, burned and looted, Yangzhou patrol envoy, Yangzhou Prefecture commander envoy applied for emergency rescue of Yangzhou Guards."

This shout suddenly quieted down the court.

Zhao Chun was also surprised, he knew about the pirates, this was one of the three major events in this dynasty, the border was restless, the implementation of the new policy and the robbery of the pirates, each of which could not be relaxed.

It's just that in recent years, after General Peng was stationed in Zhangzhou, he adopted strong suppression measures against the bandits, and for a time, the bandits along the coast of Zhangzhou were almost extinct, which made the Manchu court, including the emperor, breathe a sigh of relief. This is also the case, some court officials are not as resistant to the implementation of the new policy as seriously, if the bandits were unjust at the beginning, where would there be room to allow the new policy to experiment.

The emperor hurriedly summoned the messenger, including the messenger, and inquired carefully about the details.