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Chapter 1814: The Inspector Becomes the Emperor

"Hahaha, this is so funny!" In a place unknown to Zhao Da and Zhao Er, a guy with a bad taste was watching the live broadcast and laughing wildly.

From this we can see that although this clone of Liu Xu has undergone certain repairs by Patriarch Hongjun, which has reduced some of his bad character, he is still a much worse guy in essence. Now, apart from revenge, what he likes to watch the most is these things that are full of evil tastes.

For example, watching Zhao Da, Zhao Er and Guo Rong perform their deep brotherhood.

Just as Zhao Er said, when Liu Xu was reflecting these characters, he deliberately made some changes to the memory. The memories of the generals reflected on Guo Rong's side were retained when Guo Rong died, while the memories of the people on Zhao Da's side were retained when Zhao Da died.

However, there is one person whose situation is special, that is Zhao Er. Zhao Er's memory is preserved when he killed Zhao Da and killed Zhao Da's two sons, when he was most satisfied. By the way, there is no memory of the Gaoliang River Car God. Liu Xu will count on this fun in the future.

So, this Liu Xu is simply a guy with a very bad taste.

Time then moves forward, and about three years later, which is the ninth year of the serialization of "Stealing Song", after the Later Zhou Dynasty's diligent governance, Guo Rong finally came to the end of his life.

In May, when Guo Rong was defeating the Liao Kingdom and was preparing to recapture Yanjing, he suddenly fell seriously ill and had to lead his troops back to Kaifeng. When Guo Rong returned to Beijing, he was already dying.

As a result, when returning to Beijing, Guo Rong encountered an extremely bad thing. He found a wooden board stuck in the ground. The board was two or three feet long with a hexagram written on it, with five big characters "The Inspector Will Become the Emperor" written on it.

This discovery made Guo Rong very uncomfortable. Dianjian was an official position, and its full name was Dianjian of the Palace, who controlled the most elite troops in the entire Zhou Dynasty.

The army of the Later Zhou Dynasty was roughly divided into two parts. One part was the local army, also known as the Ya Army. It was a force controlled by the local Jiedushi. Generally, it was the private army of these Jiedushi and only accepted the command of the Jiedushi. The reason why the dynasties changed so frequently during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was largely because these Jiedushi had too many private armies and could rebel at will.

The other part is the imperial guards, or the central army, which is directly controlled by the court and is the key to the court's ability to suppress the local areas.

After Guo Rong ascended the throne, he felt the strength of the local army. In order to suppress the intentions of these local warlords, Guo Rong began to continuously strengthen the imperial guards.

This strengthening is two-fold. On the one hand, the number of imperial guards is continuously increased so that the total number of imperial guards can overwhelm the local troops. In this way, there is naturally no need to worry about rebellion by local troops.

On the other hand, in order to increase the combat capability of the Imperial Guards, Guo Rong selected the most capable and brave soldiers from the Imperial Guards, who were absolutely elite soldiers, one in ten, to form a separate army.

This army is the Palace Front Inspection Office, which is equivalent to the special forces in the Imperial Guards. Although the number of people is only 1/4 of the Imperial Guards, their combat power is extremely terrifying.

The other part of the imperial guards was also called the Imperial Guards, which were under the control of the Imperial Guards Division. Although the two armies had different numbers, they were basically equal in combat power. As long as Guo Rong gave the two armies to two different trusted men and let the two trusted men check and balance each other, there would be no need to worry about the imperial guards rebelling.

The one who controlled the Palace Army was Guo Rong's brother-in-law, Zhang Yongde, the husband of Guo Wei's daughter. Although Zhang Yongde was actually an honest man and had always been trusted by Guo Rong, if Guo Rong saw this wooden board at ordinary times, he would probably have it burned.

But now Guo Rong was about to die, and he had to think about what would happen after his death. Then Guo Rong had a chilling feeling. The Palace Guard Division controlled by Zhang Yongde was the most elite imperial guard, and Han Tong of the Imperial Guard Division had a good relationship with Zhang Yongde. If these two were connected, would his son still be able to sit firmly on the throne?
Although Zhang Yongde is only Guo Wei's brother-in-law and has no blood relationship with him, he is also Guo Wei's adopted son, and his blood relationship is not much better than Zhang Yongde's. Zhang Yongde might have some improper thoughts.

So, in order to reassure himself and to protect Zhang Yongde, the first thing Guo Rong did after returning to Beijing was to order the removal of Zhang Yongde from his post as the Inspector General of the Palace, and then gave the position to his most trusted brother Zhao Kuangyin.

Originally, this position had always been held by Guo Rong's relatives, but perhaps because he was afraid that his relatives would be qualified to seize the throne, Zhao Kuangyin, an honest and decent outsider, seemed particularly pleasing to the eye at this time.

So in June of the sixth year of Xian De, Guo Rong died suddenly in Kaifeng after arranging his own affairs after his death, and handed the throne to his 7-year-old son Chai Zongxun.

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"Alas, now that I think about it, I wronged my brother-in-law. This inspector who became the emperor was clearly you, Zhao Kuangyin? What's even funnier is that I personally drove Zhang Yongde down and promoted you to the position!" After reading the chapter about his death, Guo Rong once again had an emotional outburst. He brought fine wine to find Zhao Kuangyin, wanting to drink with him and talk about what happened in the past!

The flesh at the corners of Zhao Kuangyin's mouth twitched slightly. In fact, he had someone stick the sign of the emperor into the ground in order to get rid of Zhang Yongde, the annoying guy, and become the inspector of the palace. After all, being able to stick a wooden sign of unknown origin in a place that Guo Rong could see was actually a very simple thing for Zhao Kuangyin, who had always been guarding Guo Rong. However, Guo Rong obviously did not think of this.

"Yes, I wrongly blamed Zhang Yongde back then, but this guy was lucky. When I died, he was still alive and well!" Zhao Kuangyin said with a wry smile.

"Hey, so it seems that you and I are the same, both died suddenly in our prime!" Guo Rong suddenly said in amazement, and Zhao Kuangyin's expression instantly stiffened.

Guo Rong lived to be 38 years old, and Zhao Kuangyin lived to be 49 years old. In this sense, they both died suddenly in their prime.

However, unlike Guo Rong who had various pre-existing symptoms but did not take them seriously, Zhao Kuangyin never had any health problems. Zhao Kuangyin only remembered that he was drinking with his younger brother Zhao Guangyi on the night of his death, and he even sent him out of the palace. As a result, when he woke up, he saw Liu Xu.

So how did he die?

(End of this chapter)