The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 360
"Bago, you are still angry with me." Zhao Yao sat by the bed and smiled flatteringly at King Wei, "Bago, you are seriously injured now. You can't be angry. What if the wound bursts?"

King Wei was too angry to pay attention to Zhao Yao.

Seeing that King Wei had been ignoring him, Zhao Yao deliberately made all kinds of funny and funny faces in front of him, making King Wei laugh.King Wei wanted to be angry with Zhao Yao again, but he couldn't get angry anymore.

Seeing King Wei smile, Zhao Yao also laughed, very silly.

"Bago, you still look good when you smile. It's really scary when you don't smile. It really scared me to death just now." After saying this, he put on a scared expression.However, this scared expression was a bit funny, which made King Wei amused again.

King Wei laughed for a while, and the wound on his abdomen hurt when he laughed, making him gasp in pain.

Zhao Yao lay down and blew on the wound on King Wei's abdomen.While blowing hard, he said deliberately: "Blow it, and the pain will fly away, and the myna will no longer be in pain."

King Wei raised his hand and gently hit Zhao Yao on the back of the head, and said angrily: "You want my wound to burst."

"How is that possible?" Zhao Yao straightened up and said to King Wei with a smile, "Bago, you finally talked to me."

"Humph." King Wei snorted coldly, "You still know that I am your eighth brother."

"Bago, what you said, I haven't lost my memory, how could I forget that you are my Bago." Zhao Yao said, raised three fingers and said seriously, "Even if I lose my memory and forget myself, I won't forget you." I will forget myna."

Listening to Zhao Yao's "sweet words", King Wei showed a look of helplessness and doting on his face: "Then why don't you listen to me and stay in Yangzhou honestly." King Wei glared at the playful Zhao Yao, " I told you, no matter what happens in Jinling, you don't come back, but you turned a deaf ear to my words and ran back to Jinling." Jinling is in the most dangerous time now.

"Bago, something happened to you and fourth brother. Do you think I can stay in Yangzhou indifferently?" When he mentioned King Chu, Zhao Yao's face fell. "Bago, did something really happen to fourth brother?"

King Wei did not answer, but asked: "Do you think something happened to him?"

Zhao Yao said without any hesitation: "Of course I hope nothing happens to the fourth brother, but everyone is saying that the fourth brother is dead."

"He is not that easy to die." King Wei saw Zhao Yao's little face full of sadness, his heart softened, and his tone became softer, "He is not dead. After seeing you, he left Jinling .”

Hearing what King Wei said, Zhao Yao's little face immediately showed a smile: "I knew that the fourth brother would not die."

Seeing Zhao Yao's happy look, King Wei couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.

"You really care about him."

"Bago, I care about you too. You see, when I heard that you were injured, I rushed to see you immediately." When he mentioned King Wei's injury, Zhao Yao wrinkled his face and looked at King Wei with resentment. "Bago, your health is not good to begin with. The last time you saved the prince brother, your vitality was damaged and it took several years to recover. Now you are seriously injured again. I don't know how long it will take to recover this time."

"The injury this time just looks serious, not as serious as last time." King Wei did not lie. The injury was just for show, "I will not make fun of my body."

"I hope what you said is true, Bage." Zhao Yao didn't quite believe what King Wei said.King Wei's injury this time was definitely not serious, but it was not as serious as last time.Even if Ba Ge wants to show off, he must be serious, otherwise the prince and Duke Zhen will not believe it.

"Now that you know that King Chu and I are fine, please return to Yangzhou as soon as possible." King Wei said in a very strong tone, "You will return to Yangzhou early tomorrow morning."

"Brother..."

"If you don't leave, I will have someone tie you up and escort you away." King Wei's expression was very stern and his tone was unquestionable.

"Okay, okay, I'll leave early tomorrow morning." Zhao Yao felt that if he didn't agree, Bage would probably be tied up by him now, and then someone would send him away.

Seeing that Zhao Yao agreed, King Wei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"When my injury is healed, I will go to Yangzhou to see you."

"Bago, your injury is healed, why don't you return to the capital immediately?"

"Let me see you before returning to the capital."

Zhao Yao looked at King Wei. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he did not speak.

Seeing Zhao Yao's hesitant expression, King Wei chuckled and said, "Just say what you want to say."

Zhao Yao hesitated before speaking: "Bago, will you be in danger when you return to the capital?"

When King Wei heard Zhao Yao's question, he immediately frowned and his face instantly became serious.

"Who told you that?"

"Grandpa told me," Zhao Yao said, "Grandpa said that something will happen to you after you return to the capital."

King Wei frowned slightly and said with some dissatisfaction: "Prefect Liang, why are you telling you this?"

"Bago, fourth brother went to Pengcheng to investigate the theft of copper, right?"

"You don't care what he does in Pengcheng."

"Bago, everyone is talking about the fourth brother investigating the theft of copper in Pengcheng. The whole of Yangzhou is talking about it." Not only Yangzhou is talking about this matter, but even Jinling is also talking about it. "They also say that the prince's brother stole the copper." .”

"Who did you hear?"

"Everyone in Yangzhou is talking about this. When I came to Jinling, I heard others say this on the boat."

King Wei glanced at Yu Hai, who nodded lightly towards him.

Zhao Yao continued: "Everyone is saying that the prince brother sent someone to kill the fourth brother, because the prince brother did not want the fourth brother to return to the capital alive to tell his father the truth about stealing copper." It is estimated that it is not only Jinling and Yangzhou, but also other places Also discussing this matter.It is impossible for Bage to send someone to spread this rumor, so there is only one person, Seventh Brother.

"Myna, is what everyone said true?"

King Wei looked at Zhao Yao, sighed softly and said, "Tenth brother, this is not something you should care about. You just need to know that he is not dead."

"Bag, the fourth brother was assassinated by the prince brother. What about you?" Zhao Yao said angrily, "When you return to the capital, the prince brother will treat you as a scapegoat."

"You are still a child. What are you doing when Taishou Liang tells you this?" King Wei did not want Zhao Yao to know these things, but he did not expect that Taishou Liang would tell him.

"Bago, although I am not an adult, I am your younger brother." Zhao Yao said, crotching his shoulders with a look of dejection, "I know I am useless and can't help you. You dislike me, so you don't tell me this. Things." "What nonsense." King Wei lowered his face and said in a deep voice, "When did we think you were useless? We don't tell you these things just because we don't want you to worry. We will handle these things, no. Something will happen."

"really?"

"You don't believe us?" King Wei said in a very unhappy tone, "Do you think we are useless?"

Zhao Yao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No."

"In that case, don't worry about it." Seeing that his harsh tone had frightened Zhao Yao, King Wei quickly softened his tone to appease Zhao Yao and said, "The prince will not use me as a scapegoat, but the Zhenguo Guild will do this. But I won’t let the Duke of Zhen get his wish.”

After hearing this, Zhao Yao nodded obediently, did not talk about it, and changed the subject to ask King Jing.

"Bago, did seventh brother bully you?"

"No, seventh brother doesn't like me, how could he bully me?"

"That's right, Seventh Brother has always looked down upon us." Zhao Yao said with a puffed face, "When I came to Jinling, everyone was praising Seventh Brother for his greatness, saying that Seventh Brother made the imperial examination go smoothly and so on. They also said that Seventh Brother Serving the virtuous corporal, encouraging the children of poor families, and so on."

Zhao Yao said with a very high pout: "They were all deceived by Brother Qi. Brother Qi was just pretending."

King Wei laughed and said, "You don't care what Brother Qi does."

"I'm afraid that Seventh Brother will bully you, but it's good that Seventh Brother doesn't bully you." Zhao Yao said, clenching his fist and waving it fiercely, "If Seventh Brother bullies you, I will definitely help you teach him a lesson."

"How can you help me teach him a lesson?"

"Put a sack on Brother Qi and then beat him up."

King Wei: "..."

After talking to King Wei for a while, Zhao Yao left after seeing that King Wei looked a little tired.

"Your Highness, are we really going back to Yangzhou tomorrow morning?" Tongxi asked, "Don't you have other things to do when you come to Jinling this time?"

"I have to pretend to go back first, and then quietly return to Jinling halfway."

At this time, He Lianfang, who was far away in the capital, received a letter from Zhao Yao.

The letter sent by Zhao Yao this time was very thick.He Lianfang opened it and found that in addition to the letter, there were several maps inside.

A few days ago, Zhao Yao did a lot of things after being sent back to Yangzhou by King Wei.He had previously asked the two Japanese people to draw a map of Japan based on their memories, as well as a sea voyage map to Japan.

The two Japanese people revised and revised this map and the sea plan many times. They finally dared to hand it over to Zhao Yao after they finally determined that there were no major problems.

Liang Run was afraid that the two Japanese people had evil intentions and made mistakes in drawing the wrong map and sea plan, which would cause their entire army to be annihilated.Zhao Yao is not worried about this, because he will take two Japanese people to sea to Japan.If they really dare to do evil in secret, they won't survive.

Furthermore, these two Japanese people have lived a good life in Dazhou these years, and they do not want to return to a life of dire straits.Also, they have no affection for their hometown.They only hate their hometown of Japan, and they cannot be willing to lose their good life in the Zhou Dynasty for the sake of Japan.

However, these two Japanese people did not read books when they were in Japan, so they were not smart people.The maps and sea plans they drew cannot be fully trusted.Zhao Yao told He Lianfang in the letter that this map and the sea map can only be trusted five points.

He Lianfang first opened the sea map and looked at it carefully.He had never been to sea and had no idea what was wrong.He would send people to the fishermen on the Soochow coast to ask. Some of them had gone out to sea and entered the waters of the Japanese country. Although they did not reach the Japanese country in the end, they knew more or less about the route to the Japanese country.

He first made a rubbing of the sea voyage map that Zhao Yao gave him, and then sent the sea voyage map to Soochow.

Zhao Yao also told He Lianfang in the letter that it was no longer suitable to go to sea to Japan this year.At this time, there are typhoons on the sea, which is when people call the evil wind the most.Waiting for next spring, when there are fewer typhoons at sea, we will definitely be able to reach Japan smoothly.

Since there is no rush to go to Japan this year, let’s prepare some things.

Many years ago, Zhao Yao asked his uncle to build merchant ships in Qingzhou.The ship to Japan was actually transferred from Qingzhou.It was all done as early as two years ago, and the test was successful, but Zhao Yao was not satisfied.It has been revised for the past two years, and it was finally improved at the beginning of this year.

When going to Japan, in addition to preparing enough food, you must also prepare weapons.

Zhao Yao has been struggling with the matter of weapons.He was wondering whether to get out the firearms, such as fire, medicine, and muskets.

He had previously decided to wait until he came of age to go to Lingnan and quietly make fire and medicine.Wait until the right moment to bring out the firearm.But now we are going to the Japanese country. If we don't prepare some firearms, can the people sent there be able to deal with the Japanese pirates?
If you take out firearms in order to go to Japan, there will definitely be a storm.He, the tenth prince, would be trapped in the capital and would never be able to go to his fiefdom.

Zhao Yao specifically asked two Japanese people about the weapons of the Japanese country. When he learned that the weapons of the Japanese country were far behind those of the Zhou Dynasty, he felt relieved and no longer struggled with whether to make firearms in advance.

Although he could not make fire and medicine in advance, Zhao Yao improved the bow and arrow and made a more powerful crossbow.

In terms of crossbows, he has made several types that are small and easy to carry, such as crossbows hidden in sleeves and crossbows carried in the arms.

He also transformed other weapons, such as knives, axes, daggers, armor, spears and swords.These weapons are sharper and lighter than the previous ones.

He Lianfang once marveled at Zhao Yao's talent in weapons, because the power of the new weapons he made was really amazing.

Zhao Yao also asked He Lianfang in the letter to send people to dig out more black oil and load it on the ship to Japan.Although you cannot use fire or medicine to deal with Japanese pirates, you can use black oil.Setting fire to black oil can burn a lot of things, and the black oil fire is not easy to extinguish.

Speaking of black oil, Zhao Yao felt that it was overkill for burning things, but currently there was no technology to make good use of black oil, so he had to deal with it.

After talking about the preparations for going to Japan, Zhao Yao talked about things in Lingnan.

In addition to the chieftains controlling various tribes in Lingnan, there are also local officials who collude with bandits.Some of these bandits are from various tribes, and some are Shanyue people.

Compared with the tribesmen, the Shanyue people are more brutal and cruel.Over the years, various tribes in Lingnan have been fighting Shanyue, but they have never been able to destroy the Shanyue people.

Zhao Yao wrote a letter asking He Lianfang to send someone to investigate the situation of the officials in Lingnan. Of course, the most important thing was to find out the details of the Shanyue people.

He used to think that the tribes in Lingnan were difficult to deal with, but now it seems that the Shanyue people are even more difficult to deal with.However, the Shanyue people have good fighting skills, and if they can be recaptured, they will be a good team.

(End of this chapter)