Returning to Honglu Temple from the palace, Li Congshan brought Xiao Zuo over, the news of Lin Renzhao's treason was very important, and he felt the need to discuss it with this envoy specially sent by Li Yu to find out the Song Emperor's attitude towards the Southern Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, Li Congshan is already convinced. In his opinion, with the powerful military liliang of the Song State, coupled with the fact that the soldiers of the Shu State had just been destroyed, it was unstoppable, and it was only a matter of a snap of his fingers to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, and there was no need to use such a clumsy counter-strategy to get rid of irrelevant generals. In Li Congshan's heart, although Lin Renzhao has some skills, he is still inferior to Song Guo.

"Lord Xiao, how likely do you think Lin Renzhao is to join Song?" Li Congshan asked with a frown. Although he was convinced in his heart, the advice of the oracle Li outside the city gate made him dare not make a claim.

"Lord Wang, can't you see that Zhao Kuangyin made a counter-plan?" Xiao Zuozheng made trouble Since Zhao Kuangyin appreciated his suggestion, but stubbornly did not adopt it, this couldn't help but make him embarrassed that he couldn't recover the defeat from the root, which hurt his self-esteem even more. Could it be that he is really just a rookie who makes people laugh in front of these conspiracies of power and tricks?

Li Congshan shook his head and did not agree with Xiao Zuo's opinion, "Emperor Song has just destroyed the Shu Kingdom, and he is complacent, and it is reasonable to say that Lin Renzhao voted for Song for a while. Besides, with the strength of the Song army, it is not difficult to destroy our country, so why should he do anything more?"

Xiao Zuo sighed in his heart, he didn't expect that the Li brothers were afraid of Zhao Kuangyin to such an extent, I really don't know if the two of them had taken a big heel from Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning, so they would leave such a big fear in their hearts.

"General Lin is brave and brave, and he is like a god, if he defends the Yangtze River, the Song army has no chance to cross the river, so Zhao Kuangyin hates General Lin to the core, and wants to get rid of it quickly. The matter of this portrait must be his countermeasure, and the prince hopes not to fall for the tricks of others!"

At this moment, the only chance to redeem it is to convince Li Congshan that this is Zhao Kuangyin's conspiracy. Even if he looked down on Li Congshan's character, Xiao Zuo could only whisper at the moment and persuaded him bitterly.

Li Congshan is a cowardly person, and timid people have such a common problem, no matter how ridiculous things are, they would rather believe it is true. Because only when you take things as true, you will be prepared in your heart, and you will not be deceived and lose your life. He waved his hand at Xiao Zuo and said, "Lord Xiao, I didn't come to you to discuss the truth of this matter, but to hope that my lord would personally pass on all the reasons for this matter to Bixia." ”

The old guy is cunning, Xiao Zuo couldn't help but break his heart. Li Congshan is really a human spirit, he asked Xiao Zuo to pass on the letter, one is the hint of Li Shen's oracle before, Xiao Zuo should be the main one in this kind of thing, and the other is that Lin Renzhao voted for Song as true, so once the news reaches Bixia's ears as soon as possible, it will not attract the crime of knowing and not reporting, and if this is really Zhao Kuangyin's counter-plan, if something happens in the future, he can also let Xiao Zuo go to the top cylinder, and he can pick it up clearly.

No matter how you look at it, the old guy plays this hand beautifully, and it is reasonable, so that Xiao Zuo can't help but refute it, and it is difficult to stay out of it.

"I will definitely report this matter to Bixia in time, and the prince can rest assured. It's just that the lower officials hope that the prince will keep this matter a secret, so as not to leak the rumors, and it will not be good for Lin Renzhao to be on guard. For this kind of old slippery head, Xiao Zuo feels that all he can do now is to drag it out, and drag it back to Jinling.

"This king knows that the stakes are very high, and Lord Xiao must send a message back to Jinling as soon as possible, and don't let that thief take advantage of it. Li Congshan reminded.

Xiao Zuo stood up and smiled slightly, "Then the prince, the lower official will go back to repair the book, and immediately send a letter back to Jinling, and tell Bixia about this matter." ”

"I don't send it. ”

As soon as Xiao Zuo went out, Li Congshan spread out the pen, ink and paper, and then recorded all the things about Lin Renzhao and wrote a report. Li Congshan didn't know that Xiao Zuo deliberately dragged out the letter, but he was used to preparing with both hands. Let Xiao Zuo pass on the performance, out of respect for this secret leader, but as a prince, the emperor's own brother doesn't care about offending Xiao Zuo because of this.

Of course, he is not fighting for merit, the reason why he is doing the report in his own name is because he is afraid that Xiao Zuo's status is low, and Li Yu is suspicious after reading it, so he has this action.

After Zhao Guangyi came out of the palace, he got into a sedan chair and prepared to go home. After the good news of the subject country tonight, the fire in Zhao Guangyi's heart burned even more, and he became more and more eager to sit in that position worshiped by thousands of people, scolding Fang Xuan, and looking at the world.

Although when his mother Empress Dowager Du died, she left behind the alliance of Jinkui, and the emperor's brother and brother, but the edict of the shelved cabinet can really make him wish? If his brother disobeyed his mother's last words and made his nephew the emperor, it would also be a helpless thing, after all, Zhao Kuangyin was the emperor, and his words were more effective than anything else.

Even if Zhao Kuangyin abides by the agreement of the Golden Kui Alliance, with his current age, it is no problem to live for more than twenty years, and when he really returns to heaven, it is estimated that he will not be on the throne for a few years.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Guangyi felt that the supreme position was so close to him, but it was so far away, it all depended on a person, the brother he loved and hated.

He wants to take his fate into his own hands, so he constantly looks for talented people to take under his command, and Xiao Zuo is the one he likes very much.

Xiao Zuo's wit and talent made Zhao Guangyi believe that this was not a mediocre talent, but what made Zhao Guangyi even more interested was Xiao Zuo's identity, the disciple of Zen Master Yanshou, and the Buddha's dream he said.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yanshou has been the leader of the two sects of Buddhism, Chan and Jing, and his Buddhist scriptures have influenced many devout believers, and his status in the minds of the common people is sacred and inviolable. And if the theory that he was entrusted by the Buddha to dream is propagated to the world, it will definitely make the vast majority of the people return to their hearts, which is extremely meaningful for consolidating the ruling position of the Zhao dynasty.

Since ancient times, if the founder of the country wants to get the support of the common people, he will definitely make some prophecies and talismans of gods and ghosts to build momentum, and use visions and auspicious words to disguise himself as the pride of the heavens, and be ordered by him to rule the people. In this way, the name can be justified, and the empire that he has established will rule the subjects of the world legally.

Zhao Guangyi is very happy that God has sent him such a suitable person, if Xiao Zuo is used for his own purposes, when he plots in the future, he can use his identity to tell the world about the dream of the Buddha who prolongs his life, as long as the protagonist is replaced by himself, then why worry about the big thing.

Sitting on the sedan chair, because he was so happy to drink a few more glasses, he was a little drunk, and when he was about to arrive at Honglu Temple, he stopped the housekeeper and instructed his cronies to send a message to Xiao Zuo, asking him to go to the palace tomorrow.

As soon as the sedan chair fell, a breeze blew by, blowing the curtain in front of the sedan chair, Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but shudder, and was about to call Chen Ru next to the sedan chair to speak, but at this moment, a white light flashed, and a sharp knife stabbed at Zhao Guangyi's chest.

The assassin jumped down from the roof of the street, the cold knife in his hand was fast and urgent, and Zhao Guangyi did not bring personal guards with him today, so he was caught off guard for a while, which gave the assassin an opportunity.

Zhao Guangyi was shocked and woke up most of the time. Although his martial arts skills are not high, he is also from the military, and he is not a pampered person. Although he was flustered, he didn't lose his bearings, I saw him slam into the sedan chair layer, but I don't know where he got such a big liliang, this collision actually knocked the entire sedan chair to the ground.

A hint of surprise flashed in the assassin's eyes, but he didn't care, took a step back, stood firm, and then lifted the roof of the sedan with a forceful sword, and then slashed the big knife horizontally, about to slash at Zhao Guangyi's head.

These three actions are done in one go and occur in just one breath. At this time, Zhao Guangyi knocked over the sedan chair, was in pain, and just wanted to climb out, but saw the Xueliang big knife close at hand above his head, and was angry at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Tokyo City, and someone dared to blatantly assassinate the King of Jin under one person and above ten thousand people in his empire, and was terrified that he was going to die in the hands of this unidentified assassin today?

My life is at stake. Zhao Guangyi no longer had the time and courage to think, he couldn't stand up, and he couldn't dodge the head-on knife at all.

"A bold thief, he actually dares to assassinate His Royal Highness King Jin, the brother of today's Bixia!"

A roaring voice followed by a nimble figure whistling in the wind, and the figure hurried like the wind, and before the others arrived, they threw a stone at the assassin's knife-holding hand.

The assassin thought that he was about to succeed, but he didn't expect to bite the gold halfway, and was hit by the stone on the wrist, and he was in pain, instinctively withdrew his hand, and the big knife also retreated.

When the assassin was about to slash at Zhao Guangyi again, the figure had already rushed to Zhao Guangyi's side and protected him. The frightened Zhao Guangyi looked at the figure gratefully, and was surprised and delighted at this look, "Xiao Zuo, it's actually you." ”

"It's here, the prince is fine," the person who came was Xiao Zuo. He walked out of Li Congshan's room, panicked in his heart, and wanted to go out for a walk. As soon as I left Honglu Temple, I didn't go far, I saw Zhao Guangyi's sedan chair, and I wanted to find an excuse to find out how Zhao Guangyi's tone viewed Lin Renzhao, but I didn't happen to be aware of this assassination scene.

For Xiao Zuo, this is an opportunity to increase his weight in Zhao Guangyi's heart. Although he didn't know when Zhao Kuangyin would die, he knew that there were only a few years left, and the world would be the prince in front of him at that time. I have a good relationship with him now, and I will not be controlled by others in everything in the future.

"This king is fine, Xiao Zuo, you came just in time to take down this assassin for this king. Zhao Guangyi saw that his life was safe, and he made up his mind, so he thought about catching this bold thief.

Xiao Zuo nodded and said, "Don't worry, the prince will definitely tell him to come and go!"