Chapter 7: The Birthday Banquet
Lin'an Imperial City, the Prime Minister's Mansion, full of friends, full of guests.
All the ministers of the Song court are in the meantime, today is the birthday of Prime Minister Shi Miyuan, no official dares to be absent for no reason, those who can be qualified to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion are all officials above the fifth grade, and the five grades below must also send congratulatory gifts, otherwise you have to be careful of your official hat, the prime minister's great power leans towards the government and the opposition, which can be seen.
According to later generations, Shi Miyuan is a standard official of the second generation, his father Shi Hao is the prime minister of the Xiaozong period, quite talented, once wrote a book for Yue Fei to rehabilitate, advocated anti-Jin, recommended Lu You to the emperor, can be called a generation of virtuous ministers, and Shi Miyuan is the opposite, he is an opportunistic surrender faction, after the failure of the Northern Expedition to the Jin State during the Kaiju year, he united with the Empress Yang in the palace to kill the main battle faction of Han Yanxuan, thus becoming the prime minister and privy envoy of the Song State, holding military and political power, and the power is monstrous.
Yang Kang had seen Shi Miyuan before, when he was the little prince of the Jin Kingdom, and he had a natural sense of superiority over this powerful minister of the Song Kingdom, Shi Miyuan naturally didn't dare to offend him, but now he wants to accompany the smiling face and congratulate the Prime Minister on his birthday, fortunately, he has the identity of the King of Yi, and he doesn't have to be subservient like those officials.
His Majesty the Emperor looked at the officialdom in front of him, and felt that life was really interesting, when he changed his identity and changed his perspective, he would have different perceptions, and there was no need to care too much about the ups and downs of life, as long as he was alive, he still had the opportunity to start again.
Shi Miyuan didn't care too much about His Royal Highness King Yi, he was waiting for the crown prince Zhao Hong, he had heard of His Royal Highness the prince's comments on him, as a fifty-six-year-old man, this prime minister had experienced countless **, and he was able to control the Song dynasty for twelve years, and he was definitely a scheming person.
The so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing.
The Prime Minister believes in his eyes. Instead of hearsay news, those who deliver the news will always have such and such a purpose, not to be believed, not to be gullible, he wants to use this birthday banquet to see the attitude of His Royal Highness the Prince, this attitude will determine his next move. The abolition of the crown prince is a major national event, and there must be a reasonable reason, and the crown prince Zhao Hong is the emperor's own nephew, and he is not willing to move lightly unless necessary.
The crown prince Zhao Hong came belatedly and asked the chamberlain to send a congratulatory gift, which was a blood-red coral, crystal clear, and very ornamental. It stands to reason that this gift is so precious, and the Prime Minister should be happy, which shows that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince attaches great importance to the Prime Minister, but Shi Miyuan knows that this coral was dedicated to the palace from Enzhou, which belongs to the Guangnan East Road of the Song Kingdom, and later is Enping County in Guangdong, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is hinting that he will be exiled to Guangdong in the future.
The Prime Minister thanked His Royal Highness the Prince, but he already had a plan in his heart. Next, a decree came from the palace, and Emperor Zhao Kuo cared for his courtiers. The royal wine was specially given and all the ministers drank it freely, and the scene began to be enthusiastic, and Xie Yili and His Royal Highness King Yi watched around the coral.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really inappropriate to do this!" Xie Yili said in a low voice.
Xie Dacai was studying in the palace, so he naturally knew the origin of this coral, but he didn't expect the prince to give it over as a gift so blatantly. Zhao Hong didn't target Shi Miyuan so much before he became the prince, at that time he was just an idle prince, and national affairs had nothing to do with him, once he became the prince of the East Palace, he assisted the emperor in handling state affairs. Only then did he deeply feel Shi Miyuan's monstrous power, and even Emperor Zhao Kuo had to be at the mercy of him.
He is the future emperor, this Song Kingdom is his, not Shi Miyuan's, Zhao Hong sneered in his heart, after today, there will be no more Shi Miyuan, the reason why he chose this coral is not to imply that Shi Miyuan will be exiled, but because of the color of the coral, which is blood red.
Yang Kang was silent, he was paying attention to a maid, there were countless maids shuttling through the birthday banquet, but His Royal Highness King Yi only paid attention to one person, Xie Yili followed Yang Kang's gaze, and only saw an ordinary-looking maid, the maid was pouring wine, Xie Dacai expressed doubts about the aesthetics of this classmate.
Emperor Majesty felt that the maid seemed familiar, and from the way the maid poured wine, it should be a martial arts, the maid walked slowly with a wine jug, and the direction was Shi Miyuan, the prime minister of the Song Kingdom.
Yang Kang was annoyed, if I wanted to kill Shi Miyuan, I would have killed him a long time ago, and I was waiting for you to assassinate him, who would support me to become the emperor of the Song Kingdom, once Shi Miyuan died, the crown prince Zhao Hong's position would be stable, and it would be more difficult to get on the throne, he watched the maid pull out the dagger from under the tray, and watched her stab towards Shi Miyuan......
"Prime Minister, be careful!" shouted His Royal Highness King Yi.
It's too late, it's fast, the wine glass in the hand of His Royal Highness King Yi came out of his hand and threw it at the arm of the maid, this throw is also skillful, His Royal Highness King Yi doesn't know martial arts, so this throw can't use internal force, it can only be brute force, and it can't have a high degree of accuracy, if it just throws it on the dagger, I'm afraid it will cause suspicion, the range of the arm is large, easy to hit, and it can also change the trajectory of the dagger, and relieve Shi Miyuan.
The wine glass accurately hit the maid, the maid was originally stabbed to Shi Miyuan's heart, after the shoulder was hit, her hand shook and stabbed the prime minister's shoulder, blood splashed out, Shi Miyuan fell to the ground, there was a mess around, there were generals surrounding the maid, the maid secretly hated in her heart, and looked back at the person who destroyed her good deeds, but when she saw Yang Kang's face, she suddenly showed surprise.
"Is that you?" exclaimed the maid.
His Majesty the Emperor finally recognized from the eyes and voice of the maid that this was Murong Yan, a descendant of the Murong family who followed the prince Li Chengzhen of Western Xia, and the mask on his face was from Murong Yan's hand, no wonder she recognized it? At this time, Yang Kang was faced with two choices, one was to kill people, the other was to save Murong Yan and ask what was going on, she should follow Li Chengzhen to seek a plan to restore the country, how could she go to Lin'an Mansion to disguise herself and assassinate Shi Miyuan? What kind of conspiracy is behind this?
Murong Yan did not stop after recognizing His Majesty the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, but spread out his body to shuttle through the crowd, the assassins were not the only Murong Yan, the other disguised assassins also drew their sharp knives and rushed outside, for a while, the guests fell together, screaming continuously, and the birthday banquet of the Prime Minister's Mansion was destroyed in this way.
Yang Kang took advantage of the chaos to leave, followed Murong Yan, and hid her whereabouts for her, and finally the two faced each other in a small alley.
"Your Majesty, please save His Royal Highness the Prince, he has been captured by the Mongols. Murong Yan pleaded.
Mongolia, Western Xia, Shi Miyuan, Zhao Hong, Song State, Jin State......
His Majesty the Emperor concatenated these keywords together, and finally understood the purpose of this assassination, the Mongols wanted to make the Song and Jin kingdoms go to war, so as to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and the assassins who came this time were the masters of the Western Xia Kingdom. (To be continued......)