Chapter 0232: King Zhao
The development of the situation gradually exceeded Zhao Bufan's expectations, and he never expected Yang Jian to suddenly appear.
But if you think about it carefully, this matter will definitely not be determined in the near future, Yang Jian must have been completely sure of it a long time ago, otherwise Tong Guan launched a mutiny during this time, how could he have the time and ability to complete this, and now he is seizing this special moment like today, obviously he also wants to take advantage of Emperor Zhao Ji's happiness to finalize this matter in time.
What's more, Yang Jian must be scared in his heart, Tong Guan has been knocked down, and my biggest enemy is gone, Yang Jian knows very well in his heart that after I bring down Tong Guan, the next person to deal with must be him, so he strikes first and tries to seize the opportunity.
Thinking so in his heart, Zhao Bufan gradually figured out Yang Jian's inner thoughts, but he was not prepared to deal with it now, so naturally he would not rashly make other moves, so the best way was to follow the trend.
Making this decision, Zhao Bufan quickly took the initiative to laugh and said: "Congratulations to the emperor and the queen for recovering the lost prince, I didn't think that today is not only the traitor Tong Guanfufa, but also the return of the royal family's widow, it is really a joy and joy, and the national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely go to a higher level in the future!"
Although Zhao Bufan felt a kind of unconcealed anger in his heart when he said this, it was difficult to see anything from his face.
Empress Zheng next to her looked carefully, and she couldn't see anything from his face, but she didn't know why, she just felt a deep uneasiness in her heart, and she didn't even feel particularly happy about the determination of the prince's identity, but had more and more doubts.
Emperor Zhao Ji on the other side naturally didn't have so many ideas, at this moment he was just happy about Tong Guan's death and the return of the prince, and when he heard Zhao Bufan's congratulations, he smiled even more and strode over.
"Extraordinary, I already know about you, you are an orphan picked up by your master, suspected to be my emperor, I have heard about the cause and effect during this time, in fact, when I first got the news, how much I hoped that you were, but I have the fate of a monarch and a minister with you, but there is no fate of father and son.
I already knew about the harem back then, which really made me feel heartache, but it has been many years, and it is useless to investigate it now, but my emperor was fortunately secretly rescued by the head of Han in the palace back then, and it can be regarded as God's mercy, and this tragedy did not happen to me.
Now that Mr. Han has also been found by Yang Jian and brought back my emperor, he has finally let this secret room that has been hidden for many years be revealed to the world, which can be said to be a great joy, and the misunderstanding on your side, I also want to have an end today, because I like you very much, and the queen also likes you very much, so I plan to openly accept you as a righteous son!"
"Your Majesty !!" Yang Jian was shocked, he never thought that Emperor Zhao Ji would make such a decision, and hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the matter is very important, please consider it carefully." ”
As soon as the words fell, an old voice suddenly came from outside the door of the inner courtyard.
"The emperor has the heart to accept Zhao Bufan as his righteous son, what does it have to do with you President Yang, why are you so concerned?"
With the words, Cai Jing, who was belated, walked into the courtyard, didn't look at Yang Jian, and raised a big gift to the emperor and empress.
"The minister knocks to see the emperor, knocks to see the queen!"
This time, Tong Guan was forced to launch a mutiny, all relying on Cai Jing to be in danger and strategize, so that he could stabilize the situation in time, which naturally made Emperor Zhao Ji feel more grateful to him in his heart, and his status in the court can also be said to be a further step.
Emperor Zhao Ji even stepped forward to help him get up.
"You are old, so you don't have to bow down in the future!"
"Thank you to the emperor, how can the minister dare to accept such a heavy favor?"
Cai Jing ignored it and forcibly kowtowed to Zhao Ji, and then stood up tremblingly.
"Shengshang, the minister thinks that Lord Zhao has made outstanding contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, both civil and military, but he has no father and no mother, it is really a pity, His Majesty accepted him as a righteous son, it is extremely appropriate, and the old minister strongly agrees!"
Yang Jian looked at him sullenly, did not argue with him, but bowed to Emperor Zhao Ji and said: "Your Majesty, the status of the righteous son is extraordinary, it is by no means a trivial matter, if this precedent is opened, it will have a very far-reaching impact on the future, think twice!"
"No need!"
Emperor Zhao Ji waved his hand, his words seemed very affirmative, he didn't look at him, and instead stared at Zhao Bufan's eyes.
"The queen planned to accept you as a righteous son many years ago, I have a lot of worries, and I have always hesitated, but today I will officially accept you as a righteous son, one is that I and the queen really like you, two because you are an orphan, three because you are his apprentice, and fourth because of your bizarre background, I can find the emperor, this is also the fate of you and me, are you willing?"
At this moment, Zhao Bufan really didn't know what to say.
It is an indescribable irony that a true father and son have become a righteous father and son.
Now he doesn't want to say anything at all, and he doesn't even disdain the identity of the prince, but the emperor's words can't help but reply, and the inquiry is even more meaningless, who dares to answer that he is unwilling?
Who does the emperor want to accept as a righteous son, this is not only in front of the people on the scene, it is almost equivalent to in front of the whole world, if you say you don't want to, then wouldn't it be in front of the whole world to slap the emperor's face, then you really don't want to live, even if it's okay for the time being, you won't be able to run away in a few days.
There's no choice at all.
At this time, he didn't know how much courage he mustered to suppress everything in his heart, forced himself to keep himself calm, and stepped forward with a smile and bowed: "Thank you emperor, the ministers will do their best to protect the Great Song Dynasty in the future!"
Zhao Ji smiled, nodded with satisfaction, waved his big hand, and ordered loudly: "From now on, Zhao Bufan is the righteous son of me and the queen, Jin King Zhao, and the official Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, although he is not included in the royal family genealogy, but his position is equal to that of the prince!"
"Emperor Xie!" Zhao Bufan bowed.
Emperor Zhao Ji, who was in a good mood, turned his eyes to look at the surrounding courtyards, and soon looked at Cai Jing and said: "Taishi Cai, you can find a suitable mansion around the palace in the inner city as soon as possible, as the palace of King Zhao, and find Liang Shicheng for the expenses you need, and everything will come out of the palace." ”
"Obey the order!" Cai Jing quickly responded.
After that, Emperor Zhao Ji didn't say much, and sent someone to call the imperial doctor to detoxify Zhu Lian's daughters and Fei Fengwei, and soon left with Empress Zheng, who was full of doubts, Cai Jing and Yang Jian and others naturally did not stay for long, and left together, and the courtyard soon quieted down.
In the next half month, Zhao Bufan really had a peaceful life.
The matter of clearing Tong Guan's remaining sins was transferred to the Criminal Department, and the restoration of order in Kaifeng Mansion was also handled by Qin Hui and others, but he had nothing to do, he just practiced all day long, and waited for the imperial court to recover from the short-term chaos.
If the biggest thing is to say, it is probably that Cai Jing quickly found him a huge mansion.
The location of this mansion is not far from the palace, not far from the Kaifeng Mansion, the most important thing is that it is large enough, and the interior decoration is also very luxurious, although it is not as good as Cai Jing's own mansion, but compared to the current Zhao Mansion, it is really several times better, even the Zhu Mansion can't catch up.
Emperor Zhao Jibai gave the things, of course Zhao Bufan would not refuse, and after going to visit, he moved in directly the next day.
The plaque on the door of King Zhao's mansion was also hung up.
The people of Tokyo City all know that the famous Zhao Bufan ascended to the sky in one step and directly became the prince, and he is not only a prince with status, but also a prince with real power, in charge of the imperial history platform, sitting in Kaifeng Mansion, and the power is chasing Cai Jing, and this news is still spreading throughout the entire Song Dynasty at the fastest speed.
Unfortunately, this relaxed day did not last long, and when order was restored in the court, Emperor Zhao Ji soon sent an order.
Continue to thoroughly investigate Cai Xue's case!
Although there was no such order, Zhao Bufan would have investigated it, but he really didn't expect Emperor Zhao Ji to be so concerned, he had just found Tong Guan to be dead, it stands to reason that it would drag on for a while, even he was not in a hurry, he planned to wait for Zhu Bocai to come back, and he really didn't understand why Zhao Ji was in a hurry.
However, the most surprising thing for him was not this, but that the emperor Zhao Ji was actually recommended by Cai Jing, and he did not plan to let him lead troops to quell the rebellion at all, but instead used Zong Ze as the Xuanfu envoy of the Liangzhejiang Road, and Li Gang as the Xuanfu envoy of the Jiangnan East Road, so that the two of them could lead the army to recruit the Fangla rebellion, and the most annoying thing was that this time not only 100,000 elites were recruited, but even the Liangshan Army of the Northern Army was also recruited.
This really made Zhao Bufan a little confused, but he couldn't do anything, even if Liangshan Army was his descendant, but the imperial court wanted to recruit and transfer to beg for thieves, and he couldn't stop it, fortunately, the leading generals were Zong Ze and Li Gang, he was still more assured, just the ability to command the war, these two people may not be worse than him, and even exceeded, so at least they will not let Liangshan Army go and not return,
But the situation of Liang Shanjun is very special, if he doesn't arrange it in advance, there will definitely be a big mess, so he immediately asked Shang Kunyang to personally send a letter to the north, instructing the generals to obey the dispatch, and also made a lot of detailed arrangements.
After doing this, Zhao Bufan was ready to start investigating Wanhualou, intending to use the culprit of Cai Xue's case, that is, the turtle duke, as a breakthrough to investigate this organization to the end, which is also the experience obtained after overthrowing Tong Guan, instead of fighting with these people slowly in the court, it is better to directly fight the weakness of the other party, the minions they control in private are indeed terrible, but the most ferocious place is often the weakness.
Zhao Bufan firmly believes that as long as Wanhualou is investigated, he will definitely catch Yang Jian's death hole, and even find out the old bottom of the fake prince, and he also knows deeply that Yang Jian is far easier to deal with than Tong Guan, and he doesn't think it will be difficult to get rid of Yang Jian.
The situation of Wanhualou, he is not particularly clear at present, but there are not many people who know, Cai Jing is one of them, but this time he does not plan to pass through Cai Jing, because of Tong Guan's death, Cai Jing has a great credit, and now he has swept away the previous decline, and even touched the Privy Council, he is already a person who has to focus on the embankment, so he plans to find Zeng Kun of the Imperial City Division.
I wanted to go to the Imperial City Division in person, but I found that Zeng Kun was not there at all, but I quietly learned from Zhu Bocai's henchmen that Zeng Kun had already gone to Xiangzhou, and before he left, he collected information about Wanhualou in the Imperial City Division, and it was speculated that he should go to check Wanhualou.
At the same time, the people of the Imperial City Division also told Zhao Bufan a lot of news about Wanhualou, one of the most important points is that the main hall of Wanhualou has always been suspected of being in Xiangzhou, but no one has ever found it, and it has always been a mysterious killer organization in the hearts of people in the rivers and lakes.
After learning these news, Zhao Bufan did not hesitate at all, and immediately decided to go to Xiangzhou.
Although there was a war going on over there, and Liu Zhongwu was leading his troops to attack Wang Qing, in Zhao Bufan's opinion, this situation was better, and the more chaotic it was, the more opportunities there were......