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Chapter 707 My King
Wushan, the princess mansion.

Hu Zhen held a basket of needles and money in his hand, wore coarse clothes, and smeared his face yellow, pretending to be a weaver, followed the maidservants through the pavilions, and walked into a Taoist temple in the princess mansion.

She used to run Fenglianlou, and since Dong Songchen was around, Guan De has been in charge of her.

After Dong Songchen died, she still listened to Guan De.

For more than a year, Guan De only asked her to inquire about market intelligence, and the business was getting worse and worse... Finally, she couldn't continue.

Today, it should be the last time I come to the Princess Mansion.

The Taoist temple is not big, it looks plain and simple from the outside, but inside it has everything you need.

Turning to the small pavilion on the second floor, behind the bead curtain, a beauty in plain clothes is leaning on a soft couch, with a snow-white cat lying in front of her.

"..."

"Jiang Shaoqing didn't know what Jia Sidao wanted us to do. Before he left, he heard that if there was something unresolved, he could ask the concubine, so Jiang sent Si Mingnu's family to come."

"Wait for me to look for it."

Yan Rong recruited a maidservant and ordered: "Go, bring my booklets, the one with 'Shuo Zui Lang Zhong' written on the cover."

After a while, a roster was handed over to Hu Zhen.

"This is?"

Yan Rong smiled slightly, and said: "When Ding Daquan was appointed as Prime Minister, there were not only those 'Ding Party' who took refuge in him, ministers who directly advised him, and those who took money and used them as mouthpieces. Forget death, frame me... Li Jieshuai, anyway, the evidence is all in it, take it."

"Yes." Hu Zhen replied: "After this matter is settled, my family will go to Sichuan and Shu, please take care of the concubine..."

"what?"

"Emissary Jiang asked the servants to sell Fenglian Tower and go with Guan Gechang."

"Why?" Yan Rong was displeased, stood up, his beautiful eyes were full of prestige, and said: "Why can I take you away?"

"Toffee calm down..."

"Don't call me the concubine! Don't forget who is your benefactor."

Hu Zhen hurriedly bowed down and explained: "I dare not forget my family, but Jiang envoy said that my family is a humble family, and it is too conspicuous. I will stay in Lin'an and be killed by the Jia Party sooner or later."

"What about me? Li Xia never thought about my safety?"

"Emissary Jiang Siyan, the benefactor is the emperor's family, and Jiang Shaoqing is an official, so there is no danger, so first..."

"Humph!"

Yan Rong became more angry, picked up the soft pillow on the couch and threw it on Hu Zhen's body, then kicked his feet sullenly.

"Benefactor, calm down, slave family..."

"Let me ask you, is Li Xia going to give up Lin'an eyeliner?"

"Emissary Jiang said that... Lin'an is full of smog, and there is nothing to explore..."

"Then what should I do?" Yan Rong interrupted without waiting for Hu Zhen to finish speaking, and cursed: "I'm afraid he has forgotten who has been stabilizing the situation in the court for him for more than a year. Didn't I help him with the promotion and honor? If he loses his conscience, he can't throw it away if he wants to use it up? If he dares not take me away, I..."

She didn't know how to threaten Li Xia for a while, so she picked up another soft pillow and threw it at him.

Hu Zhen didn't avoid it either, and replied: "My benefactor, please listen to the slave's family. Li Jieshuai has already sent a letter. Jiang envoy asked me to send it today."

"You didn't say it earlier, give it to me quickly."

After Yan Rong read the letter, she turned her back and smiled lightly.

"It seems that he has not completely lost his conscience."

"Yes, the benefactor is a noble person, unlike the slave family and the Guan Pavilion chief who can get away easily, it is better to arrange it properly first, so as not to leave future troubles and make people gossip."

"When will the arrangement start?"

"First ask the benefactor to send a confidant maidservant to see Jiang Shisi. After Li Jieshuai is crowned king, he will start to arrange..."

After seeing Hu Zhen, Yan Rong was in a good mood, held the letter paper and looked at it for a while, lay down on the couch, raised her slender legs to admire, and cursed softly while talking to herself.

"ungrateful."

……

As Yan Rong said, every time Li Xia was promoted, she more or less contributed to it, and it was no different this time.

Three days later, Zhao Jin sent someone to find out the news.

For some reason, just hearing Li Xia's official name, Yan Rong, who used to be a noble concubine, felt her heart tremble, as if the series of false positions were more prestigious than the emperor...

Conferred the title of hero who worked diligently to serve the country, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, inspector Shaobao, Zhenxi Army, Yongxing Army, and Jianxiong Army. Xingjun Road military, and concurrently in charge of internal persuasion envoys, named Pingling County King.

~~
On the tenth day of March in Lin'an, there was a lot of scolding.

"At the age of 21, he became a king with a different surname, which has never happened since the founding of the country! Jia Sidao is frivolous and loses the dignity of a minister; Li Xia has ulterior motives and has the ambition to overstep, and everyone in the world is deaf..."

Li Xia's reputation in the court took a sharp turn for the worse.

After hearing this, the officials who originally thought that Li Xia should be rewarded for his contribution to recovering Longxi and who opposed the framing of meritorious officials thought that this reward was too heavy.

Not only was it too heavy, it was downright ridiculous.

It doesn’t matter if you are inspecting the school, the minor security guards, or the three armed forces, it’s just a vain job; Dali Xinping, it’s okay to add a review envoy; it doesn’t matter for the time being when you lead Guanzhong... In short, it’s all dispatches.

Conferring a king and founding a mansion are really too much, just recovering Longxi, Zhao Kui also recovered the three capitals; as for conferring titles, it should not be so rewarding.

It can be seen from this that Li Xia's intention to seek rebellion has been clearly expressed.

scold!

Chaotic thief!

On the contrary, those officials who accused Li Xia of treason at the beginning, a large part of them fell silent and refused to comment...

~~
"There is nothing to do."

Jia Sidao closed the imperial edict in his hand, his eyelids twitched, and murmured: "There are infinite paintings in the world, and a piece of sadness cannot be painted."

This poem is about the collapse of the society in the late Tang Dynasty.

And the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that followed were the cruelest times in the world.

He had to think of the Anshi Rebellion that turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

Now, forbearance is for the country, in order to avoid another rebellion.

Jia Sidao also knew that the Song Dynasty is far inferior to the Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion.

That's exactly what makes it even more frustrating.

"Kaifu Yitong Sansi and Fengwang are the conditions proposed by Li Ni; as for the post of Sichuan and Shanxi Disposal Envoy, it is the same whether it is given or not; giving some other vain posts is not only to match his county prince, but also to show that the court Chong'en, if he wants to rebel in the future, he will fail the king's kindness."

"Yes." Liao Yingzhong said: "Mr. Pingzhang has put in all his good intentions."

But Jia Sidao was still talking to himself, muttering: "The king of Pingling County... I have carefully considered the fiefdom of Pingling. Fenzhou in Shanxi is neither under Li Ni's rule, nor is it far away. The imperial court entrusted him with the hope of recovery. This made the Mongols more concerned about Li Ni’s threat, and if the Mongols go south again in the future, they should attack Li Ni first.”

"Mr. Pingzhang thought it over..."

"It is I who asked the officials to reward Li Xia, and I am the king of Pingling County. Otherwise, how can he conquer him if he establishes himself as the king of Qin?"

When Jia Sidao said these things, his tone of sigh was somewhat similar to that of Cheng Yuanfeng.

He's been getting a bit older lately.

I can't be free and easy anymore.

Liao Yingzhong was about to say a few words of comfort, the next moment, Jia Sidao turned his head and stopped sighing.

"How is Li Zengbo?"

"He wrote nonsense again." Liao Yingzhong said: "He has a very good personal relationship with Wu Qian. When Wu Qian was dismissed, he wrote a poem as a gift, 'I am sorry for the hero's white hair, and the sable fur is empty', so it is taboo I hate Ping Zhanggong and deliberately make things difficult."

"What did I say last time?"

"Order Zhang Ruohui to impeach Li Zengbo and tell him to dismiss him from office."

Jia Sidao lightly tapped on the table and murmured: "Of all the commanders along the border, only Li Zengbo and Zhao Kui's prestige is enough to restrain Li Xia, right?"

Liao Yingzhong said: "Mu Zicai once said, 'Shu ends at the end of Wu, tens of thousands of miles away, and now the two Huaihe Rivers are only Pingzhanggong, and Jingshu is only Li Zengbo'. Li Zengbo is indeed capable of suppressing Shu."

"When did Mou Zicai say that?"

"Three or four years."

Jia Sidao shook his head and said, "I don't want to use Sanjing to bring trouble down, and I'm also afraid that Li Zengbo will collude with Li Xia."

"Of course not. Although Li Zengbo doesn't know how to flatter, he is loyal to the country."

"Let's play it."

Jia Sidao picked up a memorial and handed it over.

Liao Yingzhong took a look and saw that the official seal of the Son of Heaven had been used on it.

"Tiao Li Zengbo to set up an envoy for the pacification of Longxi, and also know the Gongchang Mansion..."

As far as Jia Sidao was concerned, after losing to Li Xia twice in a row, he also made reflections and changes, and was willing to give a promotion to his political opponent who he did not deal with.

It is better than using Wang Jian.

Forbearance is the country.

After finally dealing with Li Xia for the time being, Jia Sidao leaned back on the grand master's chair and seemed to fall asleep.

In this life, it is the most frustrated recently.

But I'm afraid it won't work if we don't cheer up. The "Pingling County King" is probably still accumulating strength in Sichuan and Shu.

Jia Sidao rubbed his face and became firm again.

"Stop mentioning Li Ni's matter to me in recent days, abolish Hebuy, issue gold and silver customs, implement public land law as soon as possible... first confiscate my [-] mu of fertile land, and advocate for public land."

~~
Ciyuan Hall.

Quan Jiu sat there, her face covered with frost.

She seldom shows her emotions on her face, and she is not angry or angry on weekdays, and always has that dignified appearance.

"Queen calm down, Lord Pingzhang said that he had no choice but to persuade the officials to appease Li Ni. The trouble is that Cheng Xianggong secretly ordered Ma Qian to act rashly. Lord Pingzhang has tried his best..."

Quan Jiu still responded with a cold face.

She actually understood why Jia Sidao did this, but she was still inexplicably angry.

It wasn't Jia Sidao who was angry, but...Pingling County King.

As the empress of Zhao Yu, she could feel most deeply that the authority of the majestic Emperor Zhao Song was probably far inferior to that of the Prince of Pingling County.

When the evidence of Li Xia's treason was revealed little by little in front of her, when Li Xia became the king and opened the mansion, Quan Jiu suddenly thought that the decision to marry Zhao Yu was so ridiculous.

For what?
The mother of the world?

Back then, the man who only met once was named the Duke of the county, but she, the empress of the world, was the first to lose confidence in Zhao Family Sheji...

She suddenly wanted to know what the officials thought about such a big event.

He got up and headed towards the palace where Hu Guipin was. Quan Jiu was about to get off the chariot when he stepped on the soft stool with one foot, and he heard cheerful laughter inside.

"Haha, another one, another..."

Quan Jiu closed her eyes, letting two lines of tears flow down slowly...

~~
On this day, Hu Zhen had left Lin'an by boat with Guan De.

The boat traveled up the Yangtze River for more than [-] days, and Hu Zhen was unhappy all the way. She was reluctant to part with the bustling city and the family business that she had worked so hard for half her life.

As far as Sanshan, Lin Hanjian is austere, and there are often tall apes shouting.

Then to Qutang Pass, Kuimen, where the mountains on both sides of the river are facing each other, and the water is turbulent and roaring.

The boat in front docked first.

Suddenly, all the soldiers in Guancheng cheered.

"King Hejun opened the mansion and built teeth! Make another achievement and sweep away the dust!"

"Create another achievement, sweep away the dust!"

"..."

The passionate voice echoed on the cliffs on both sides of the strait.

Hu Zhen got off the boat all the way, and when he saw Li Xia standing on the Guancheng in armor, he felt a sudden increase in momentum.

It's night, and the army celebrates.

Hu Zhen, who hadn't danced or danced in the past 16 years, was a little drunk, and suddenly became interested. He threw away the small wine glass brought from Lin'an, snatched the big bowl in Guan De's hand, and took a swig. After gaining courage, he ran to Li Xia. .

She was in a drunken frenzy, and said loudly: "Today we know where the stability in the south of the Yangtze River came from for decades. My family will sing a song for the county king and the soldiers, okay?"

"Good! Good!"

The lieutenant soldiers clapped their hands and cheered.

Hu Zhen was overjoyed. As soon as he lifted his skirt, he danced and sang.

"..."

"The king went out of the three rivers and followed the five lakes, and the buildings and boats crossed the sea to raise the capital..."

The old prostitutes who sang have long since passed away, and their singing voices are not as melodious as they were in the early years, and they are more heroic.

I don't know if it's because I was too drunk, or it's just the style, so I can't compare with Liu Susu and failed to become the oiran of the year.

"It's hard to turn back when the long wind hangs the mat, the sea moves and the mountains fall and the ancient moon destroys."

"Look at the emperor's son floating on the river, how does it look like a dragon leaping out of the gorge..."

Maybe it was because he wanted to show his loyalty to Li Xia, or maybe he was really happy. At this time, he was in a completely different style from Jiangnan. Hu Zhen had thrown away all the shackles, and just borrowed Li Bai's poems to sing out his emotions.

"My Wang Loujian is light on Qin and Han, but it looks like Emperor Wen wants to cross Liao."

"..."

"At the beginning, I opened Zhu's mansion from Yunmeng, and even took Jinling as a hill."

"Try borrowing the king's jade horsewhip to command the soldiers to sit at the Qiongyan banquet."

"The south wind sweeps away Hu Chenjing, and enters Chang'an westward to the edge of the sun!"

(End of this chapter)