Chapter Ninety-Seven: A Game Within a Bureau

"Okay, forget these courtesies, you are not sincere......" Empress Dowager Gao's voice came from the imperial chariot, her voice was hoarse and weak, and she was obviously lacking in qi. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It should be so, although Gao has lived four years longer than in history, but now she is nearly seventy years old, and she is about to reach the age of old age; she should be in her old age, but she still has to deal with the government and do everything, how can this not make her weak and heart failure?

I only heard her say again: "The reason why this palace locks you up is to let you reflect on yourself, should you directly send troops to attack the Western Xia envoys." And you don't regret it, this time you want to see this palace, just to give this palace a dismount?" She also saw that Su Mu and Liu Song were both injured at this time, if Ling Yufeng hadn't arrived in time, they would have been more than lucky.

"I'm not wrong!" Zhao Xu said, "The Western Xia Tartars invaded the territory of my Great Song Dynasty and arrested the people of my Great Song Dynasty, if you don't give them some color to see, will I really be a toothless tiger in the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Aren't you calling this a matter of defending the homeland and defending the country! Isn't the exchange between the two countries child's play? If you don't first send a minister to negotiate with you, but directly send troops to attack, aren't you afraid that the Western Xia will attack on a large scale?"

"Those who offend my Great Song Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away! If they dare to come, they will be allowed to come and have no return!" Zhao Xu was arrogant at this time, and he had the courage to send troops to attack the Great Song Dynasty in Western Xia, and he would definitely drive the expedition in person and go into battle to kill the enemy.

Empress Dowager Gao was obviously angry by his words, he covered his chest with his hands and kept taking deep breaths. When the minister Han Shouen saw it, he hurriedly came behind her to help her calm down.

It's no wonder that the Queen Mother Gao is so angry, Zhao Xu thinks about national affairs too simply. In history, shortly after the collapse of the Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Xu vigorously attacked the Minister of Yuan You, and even under the instigation of Zhang Dian and others, he directly accused the Empress Dowager Gao of being a "traitor and trespassing", and wanted to abolish her title and treatment of the Empress Dowager. In Zhezong Zhao Xu's political ambitions, there is a strong personal emotional factor, which makes his life more tragic, and also makes the division between the government and the opposition clearer.

Ximen Qing is also worried about this, and now he is a little unsure whether it is wise to help Zhao Xu seize power......

After a while, Empress Dowager Gao relieved herself and said, "So you planned this incident?"

"I am the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Queen Mother, you have always been the sole power. If you hadn't placed me under house arrest, I wouldn't have been in a hurry to plan this. So it's time for us to wrap it up today!"

"Well, what should come will always come!" Empress Dowager Gao sighed, "It's not impossible to give up the power to you, as long as you give up the reform, this palace can hand over the jade seal to you today!"

"No, the system must be changed!" Zhao Xu was obviously a little excited, and his voice trembled: "I don't need your charity, I will take the jade seal back with my own hands!"

"Hey, grandson is confused!" Empress Dowager Gao sighed again and again, her face was full of sadness, and said: "You always want to change the status quo, but you don't know that the Great Song Dynasty now has a great Liao tiger in the north, and there is a Western Xia for the tiger......

Empress Dowager Gao held her forehead with her hand, obviously a little tired, but she still insisted on speaking: "Serious illness still needs slow medicine!"

Zhao Xu saw that the Empress Dowager Gao was so haggard, although he felt a little unbearable in his heart, but there was no turning back when he opened the bow, the matter has come to this, there must be a result!

"Grandma, you're wrong! Shen still needs a strong medicine!" Zhao Xu only said this sentence, and then said no more. The two have different political views, and it is useless to say more!

"Then do you think you have succeeded? There are only four people around you now, and there are indeed countless forbidden soldiers here in this palace, in addition to the injured Su Mu and the lightly injured Liu Song, there are also three martial arts masters in this palace: Ling Yufeng, Wen Bin, and Cheng Yinan...... You don't have any chance of winning, grandson!"

Empress Dowager Gao told the current situation between the two sides, and then she looked at the four of Ximenqing, but she was a little puzzled, "Why didn't you see Sima Du's commander, isn't he your favorite general? Why don't you see him at the critical moment?"

Zhao Xu stretched out his hands to both sides, shrugged his shoulders, smiled mysteriously, and said, "He has more important things to do, so he can't come for the time being." ”

Hearing his confident tone, Empress Dowager Gao couldn't help frowning, feeling a little uneasy in her heart. However, she then suppressed the apprehension in her heart, thinking: The advantages of this palace are so obvious, no matter how much they toss, they will not be able to make waves!

Empress Dowager Gao wanted to say something more, but at this moment a change happened. The forbidden soldiers on the periphery of the square, including Li Dutou, were all weak and swaying.

"Oops, my eyes hurt so much!"

"My throat hurts too!"

"Why am I so tired?"

......

Then, only to hear the sound of "clanging" armor collision, the forbidden soldiers all fell to the ground and fell into the stagnant water.

Zhao Xu and Empress Dowager Gao have been verbose for so long, and their purpose is to delay time and wait for the poisonous attack of Ximenqing's 'sad and crisp breeze' scattered in Funing Palace!

The eunuchs, palace maids, and Li Dutou and other forbidden soldiers who came with Empress Dowager Gao were really recruited without knowing it.

However, the expressions of Zhao Xu, Ximenqing, and the others did not soften, but became more solemn! There was no other reason, it was that Ling Yufeng and the other five martial arts masters did not fall to the ground and lose their combat strength; they were still standing there dignified, obviously not poisoned.

Empress Dowager Gao also sat on the imperial chariot safely, only to see her stretch out her thin palm and take out something from her nostrils tremblingly, which was a ball of cotton. The cotton was yellowish in color, apparently drugged.

Seeing this, Ximenqing secretly sighed in his heart: Sure enough, Empress Dowager Gao also knew everything about Suzhou, she not only excavated the poison of Western Xia, but also obtained its antidote through secret channels.

"Hehehe! disappointed, right?" Empress Dowager Gao smiled, her wrinkles on her face huddled together, looking even older.

Zhao Xu's lips were pursed tightly, and he did not answer.

"When you sent Sima Bai to Suzhou to defeat Helian Enko, this palace knew that there was still a colorless and odorless poison in the world. Yes, Sima Bai's subordinates have cronies from the palace!" Empress Dowager Gao still treats Zhao Xu as a child who has not grown up, and tells the truth.

Empress Dowager Gao kept the antidote to the 'sorrowful and crisp breeze' with great care. She didn't make the same mistake as Sima Bai, except for the five martial arts masters around her, the others, including her favorite minister Han Shouen, didn't know that there was this medicine in the world. This is also the reason why the surrounding forbidden soldiers were poisoned, but only the Empress Dowager Gao, Ling Yufeng and other six people were fine.

But Zhao Xu was unusual, and he was not discouraged because of the failure of the strategy. He shook his spirits, turned his head to look at Ximenqing, and complained: "It's been more than half an hour, what kind of secret medicine is your medicine good?"

Zhao Xu didn't say that it was okay, after saying this, Cheng Yinan, Su Mu, and Liu Song on the opposite side couldn't help but reach out and cover their stomachs, and they all felt a little pain in their stomachs at the same time, and the pain continued to intensify, and the pain was unbearable after a while.

Ximen Qing laughed when he saw this, and said to Emperor Zhao Xu: "I didn't lie to you, right?