Chapter 43 Transactions
Seeing this bloody and abrupt scene, King Zheng exclaimed in surprise "ah", and his hands tightly grasped the arm of the Empress Dowager Zhou. Although Empress Dowager Zhou's face was pale, she still stood up in front of King Zheng and shouted in a trembling voice: "Huang Shaowen, you dare to make trouble!"
Huang Shaowen turned Gao Long's body on the side a little, so that the direction of the wound was staggered from himself, and then he slowly pulled out the dagger, without letting himself be stained with a trace of blood. Then he casually wiped the dagger dry with the corner of his coat, and with a shake of his hand, he didn't know where he was hiding. So the whole person turned back into the old eunuch with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.
Huang Shaowen stepped over Gao Long's corpse, bent his knees towards the Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng, threw himself to the ground, and said respectfully: "The old slave doesn't dare." Let the king and the queen mother be frightened, the old slave deserves death! However, tonight is really the best opportunity for the king and the queen mother to get out of the cage, and the old slave can't bear to see the king and the queen mother end up in the fighting room, so they have to do this dangerous act, and I hope that the king and the queen mother will forgive their sins!"
"Get out of trouble?" Empress Dowager Zhou asked in disbelief, "You mean, those people outside?"
"Exactly! The people outside are loyal ministers who are loyal to the Zhou Dynasty, this trip turned to save the king and the queen mother from trouble, the old slave has already secretly agreed with it, as long as they can clear the outer guards, the old slave will be able to rescue the king and the queen mother!"
Huang Shaowen thought that the Empress Dowager Zhou would be overjoyed, but after her complexion changed several times, not only was she not surprised, but sneered: "Loyal ministers of the Zhou Dynasty? The Great Zhou Dynasty died fifteen years ago, where are there any loyal ministers! Although Zhao Kuangyin imprisoned my mother and son here, but after all, he spared our two lives, if we go out of this door, I am afraid that I and Wang Er will not be able to get the whole corpse if he wants it in the future!
Huang Shaowen, just say it, what price did those people in the outside world offer to let you betray my mother and son?"
Huang Shaowen sweated through his clothes, and kowtowed again and again: "The Queen Mother is angry! The old slave will never dare to do that deceitful thing, one of them is named Murong Longcheng, who was a general under Emperor Sejong in the past, and was loyal to Emperor Sejong;
When Zhao Kuangyin usurped Zhou, he wanted to raise an army to rebel, but he was usurped by his own rebels, and then he was imprisoned for many years, and he was in sympathy with King Zheng. Not long ago, he was rescued by Murong Longcheng from Dali Tianlong Temple, and the two planned together to save King Zheng from his predicament.
They promised that once they rescued the Queen Mother and King Zheng, they would immediately take King Zheng and the Queen Mother back to Dali. After Murong Longcheng helped Duan Yingsi regain the throne, Duan Yingsi was crowned King Zheng as the prince, and then the king's mother and son were no longer the prisoners of Zhao Song, but the real lord of a place, and the king could also have children and build a mansion to pass on the ancestry. ”
When Empress Dowager Zhou heard the last sentence, her face was finally moved.
King Zheng is not surnamed Zheng, nor is he surnamed Zhao, his surname is Chai, his name is Zongxun, he is the fourth son of Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, and the last emperor of the Later Zhou. And the Empress Dowager Zhou is naturally Chai Zhongxun's biological mother, Empress Dowager Fu.
When Chai Zhongxun was three years old, Hou Zhou was usurped by Zhao Kuangyin (note: here and for the plot of the novel, Chai Zhongxun's age was changed). At that time, in order to appease the courtiers of Hou Zhou, Zhao Kuangyin did not cut the grass and eradicate the roots of the old master, but named Chai Zhongxun as King Zheng, and Empress Dowager Fu as the Empress Dowager of Zhou, and the mother and son were moved to live in the mansion of King Zheng in Fangzhou.
But Chai Zhongxun is orthodox after all, and Zhao Kuangyin can't be completely at ease with him, so the so-called Zheng Wangfu is actually a heavily guarded prison, and the two personal eunuchs around Empress Dowager Zhou and Chai Zhongxun are the secret guards who monitor them at all times.
That's not all, as Chai Zhongxun gets older, he begins to have no self-knowledge of men and women, and the maids who serve King Zheng in King Zheng's mansion will have a special person to check the pulse every month. Therefore, when the Empress Dowager Zhou heard the words "give birth to children and build a mansion to pass on the ancestry", she would be moved. And this distraction also made her think seriously about Huang Shaowen's words.
Emperor Sejong and Duan Pingsi made a pact and made an alliance, and Empress Dowager Zhou knew it very clearly, and even Duan Yingsi tried to raise troops to fight against Zhao Kuangyin later, she also heard a little. But she didn't believe that Duan Yingsi would spend so much effort to rescue their mother and son simply because of the friendship of her father, let alone seal a prince.
But when she heard Huang Shaowen's answer, she was relieved.
Huang Shaowen said: "In addition to Duan Yingsi and Murong Longcheng, there are many Wenchen generals who are loyal to the Great Zhou behind this matter, as long as King Zheng succeeds in getting out of trouble, they will rush to Dali in a few days to help Duan Yingsi regain the throne, so Duan Yingsi promised the position of prince in return." ”
The Empress Dowager Zhou suddenly realized that this was actually more of a transaction, Duan Yingsi's rescue of their mother and son was just the beginning, and then he used the position of prince in exchange for the help of a former minister of the Great Zhou.
Thinking about this, she put her mind at ease, she had been through the battle of the heavenly family in the first half of her life, and she was accustomed to the four words ruthlessness of the heavenly family, she would never believe that any emperor in this world would take risks for the sake of such an ethereal thing as friendship.
As for whether Duan Yingsi will be like Zhao Kuangyin, like Zhao Kuangyin, to show grace to their mother and son, but in fact, she is wary of imprisonment, she is not worried about this.
Zhao Kuangyin is not worried about their mother and son, because they are the orthodoxy of the predecessor of Zhao Song - Hou Zhou, so their identity itself is a huge threat to Zhao Kuangyin.
But in Dali, the Duan family is the royal orthodoxy, and Chai Zhongxun has no appeal in Dali, so he will not pose any threat to Duan Yingsi at all, so Duan Yingsi has no reason to worry about their mother and son. The big deal is that he is mixing water in the return, for example, sealing a prince with a false title and giving a barren fief, but he is no longer a prisoner of the ranks, and more importantly, the woman who is pregnant with Chai Zhongxun's blood will no longer be "disappeared" for no reason.
"Okay! I promised!"
Before Empress Dowager Zhou could answer, Chai Zhongxun, who was originally shrunk behind her, had already rushed to say, it seems that he has long been scared of this stone prison called King Zheng's Mansion, and when he heard that he could go out and be a real prince, where was there any reason not to agree.
Empress Dowager Zhou sighed and nodded.
"Okay!" Huang Shaowen said with a happy face: "Please wait a moment for the king and the queen mother, and the old slave will go to clear the people in the house first." ”
When Empress Dowager Zhou heard what he said, she couldn't help but stop: "Wait! The people here finally serve my mother and son, spare their lives." ”
Huang Shaowen bowed and said: "The queen mother is kind-hearted, how dare the old slave disobey." He took out a small piece of dark red incense from his bosom and said, "The old slave used this incense to stun the people in the house, and then came back to answer it." ”
As he spoke, he jumped to the top of the stairs in two steps, and after opening the bracket, he gently and skillfully lifted the steel plate, where was he still injured and weak before. (To be continued.) )