The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 571 The Harem Is Restless
In the Zide Hall, Zhang Yongde served beside the bed and personally served the decoction.

After several imperial doctors worked together to diagnose and treat him, and used acupuncture to dredge the meridians, Chai Rong's cough was greatly relieved. However, his face was sallow and his lips were bloodless, making him look like he had not recovered from a serious illness.

The candles burned and made a slight "beep" sound. The hall was very quiet, and Chai Zongxun was sleeping soundly on one side of the bed.

After drinking a bowl of decoction, Chai Rong let out a long sigh of relief, sat up and said with a smile: "My disease comes and goes quickly. After a few injections and a bowl of concoction, the effect will be immediate.

Now I feel relaxed all over, my hands and feet are strong, and my energy is full. "

Zhang Yongde said worriedly: "As the saying goes, an illness is gone like a thread, so Your Majesty still needs to rest quietly."

Chai Rong said: "If you don't believe it, ask someone to bring the horse, and I will have a gallop on the snow with you!"

Zhang Yongde had a wry smile on his face and cupped his hands: "I would never dare to do so. When His Majesty's dragon body is healthy, I will definitely have fun with Your Majesty."

"Let's call Zhu Xiu again. That boy's Jinshan Horse King is very powerful. I've long wanted to compete with him! Unfortunately, Zhongjin is far away in Huainan, and the Black Tornado under his crotch is really extraordinary."

Chai Rong raised his head, looking forward to one day being able to race horses with Zhu Xiu, Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde again.

Zhang Yongde couldn't express the sadness in his heart, so he forced a smile and said: "The imperial doctor said that your majesty's dragon body is already recovering, and it won't be long before I can hunt the Forbidden Garden with your majesty."

Chai Rong smiled and said suddenly: "I want to expedition to the north of Khitan in the beginning of spring."

Zhang Yongde hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "Your Majesty's dragon body has not recovered yet. This is definitely not a good opportunity for the Northern Expedition. I hope your Majesty will think twice!"

Chai Rong was silent for a moment, "I received a secret report from the Wude Department. Yelujing, the Lord of the Liao Dynasty, had a dispute with Yelvtalie, the king of Nanyuan, because of his heavy use of the Wugu people. Yelujing used an excuse to execute Yelumo, the governor of Youzhou Jiedu. This Yelumo was Yelu Talie's close confidant was recommended to serve as the governor of Youzhou.

Yelujing appointed his brother-in-law Xiao Siwen as the governor of Youzhou. The king of Nanyuan, Yelu Talie, returned to Beijing. The fight between him and Yelujing was difficult to subside in a short time.

This Xiao Siwen is unknown, with little qualifications and prestige, and it is difficult to convince the public. There is serious strife among the various tribes and factions in Youzhou, and the land of Yannan is even more empty for defense. It is a good time to enter the army! "

Chai Rong's eyes shone brightly, "I have studied and judged many times. Now the situation in Youzhou is very favorable to our army. I am confident that we will take over the land of Yannan. Yingzhou, Mozhou and Sanguan can be decided in one battle!"

If things go well, it will be possible to capture Youzhou in one fell swoop!This opportunity is not to be missed~"

Zhang Yongde also knows a little bit about the current turmoil in Youzhou. Common sense says that now is indeed a good opportunity to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

But Chai Rong's condition was serious, and no one could guarantee whether there would be any accidents during the Northern Expedition.

Compared with the safety of the emperor, Zhang Yongde would rather miss this opportunity of the Northern Expedition.

"If your Majesty wants to make the Northern Expedition, I am willing to lead the army! Your Majesty only needs to sit in Kaifeng and wait for the news to come back!" Zhang Yongde said solemnly.

Chai Rong smiled and said seriously: "Baoyi, you have been with me the longest and know me best. Youyan is the biggest obsession in the hearts of the late emperor and me. I want to finish the things that the late emperor left unfinished back then."

Shi Jingtang handed over Youyan Sixteen Prefectures to the Khitan people, and I will take them back with my own hands!

I want to go to this battle myself! "

"Your Majesty." Zhang Yongde wanted to persuade again, but Chai Rong just waved his hand:
"I know my health well. I am just commanding on the spot, and I don't have to go into battle to charge to kill the enemy. It won't be a problem to hold on for more than half a year.

I promise you that when I return from the Northern Expedition, I will have a good rest and try not to leave the palace for two or three years."

Zhang Yongde smiled helplessly, His Majesty had already mentioned this, what else could he say.

"I request you to go out with me on the expedition!" Zhang Yongde said.

"Haha~ That's natural. You, Zhu Xiu, and Zhao Kuangyin are all my capable generals. For such a major war as the Northern Expedition to Khitan, of course you three must stay with me." Chai Rong said with a smile.

Zhang Yongde added: "Your Majesty, please promise that if you feel unwell during the expedition, you will immediately break off and return to Beijing. You will definitely not be able to support it!"

Chai Rong smiled and nodded: "I promise you."

In this way, Zhang Yongde barely showed a smile on his face.

After talking for a while, Zhang Yongde left the palace.

Chai Rong stood up and walked to the bed where Chai Zongxun was sleeping, gently tucked in the quilt, stared at his son's tender face, and seemed to see Fu Jinzhan in his eyes.

"Alas~" Chai Rong sighed softly and walked back to the dragon bed with gentle steps.

After taking just two steps, he felt a dizzy feeling coming over him. Chai Rong hurriedly held on to the bed mast and bent down to gasp for air. His whole body felt hot and cold, and dark shadows flashed before his eyes.

After a while, the feeling of exhaustion eased. Chai Rong sat on the edge of the bed, his whole body soaked in cold sweat.

"Could it be that the Northern Expedition is really bad for me?" Chai Rong murmured to himself.

Soon, he shook his head slightly, gritted his teeth and whispered: "I don't believe that heaven will treat me so poorly! Youzhou, I must take back Youzhou!"

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In Funing Palace, there was a sound of breaking porcelain and jadeware for a while before it stopped.

Fu Jinwan's hair accessories were scattered, and her luxurious dress was torn with scissors, revealing the white underwear she wore underneath.

Fu Jinwan fell to the ground, hugging her head and crying, her delicate makeup was completely smeared with snot and tears, like a woman hurt by love and acting hysterically.

The love she had for the Emperor of Zhou was completely shattered today, and the position of Empress of Zhou that she dreamed of seemed to be getting further and further away from her.

All her fantasies and expectations came to nothing today.

She couldn't understand that in terms of beauty, she was the most outstanding of the six Fu sisters. Why did the emperor dislike her? How could she not compare to Fu Jinzhan?

"Your Majesty." A palace maid who was serving her boldly approached her carefully, trying to help her up.

The moment the palace maid leaned over, Fu Jinwan suddenly raised his head. His long hair covered his face and his face was like a female ghost. His eyes were full of malice and ferocity.

Fu Jinwan raised her hand and slashed the maid's cheek with the scissors in her hand. She heard a scream. The maid covered her face and fell to the ground, rolling and crying.

On her cheek, there was a horrible wound more than two inches long, and her face was bloody.

This palace maid has been serving Fu Jinwan for more than half a year. She has always been cautious and has never made any mistakes, but now she was used to vent her anger.

"Your Majesty, please calm down!" At the entrance of the palace, a dozen eunuchs and maids crawled to the ground in fear.

Fu Jinwan stood up, kicked hard at the disfigured palace maid, and said sternly: "Come here! Drag this cheap maid down and kill her with a cane!"

Several eunuchs looked at each other, hurriedly got up, dragged the poor palace maid out of the hall, and found sticks to torture her.

The screams accompanied by the muffled sound of the stick hitting the body made the palace people in Funing Palace terrified.

Everyone knew that the palace maid was not at fault, but the imperial concubine wanted to use her life to vent her anger. No one dared to get into trouble again, and no one wanted to die, so they could only kill the palace maid.

Listening to the mournful wailing of the palace maid, Fu Jinwan closed her eyes, her expression actually showing some enjoyment.

After a while, the howling subsided, and there was no movement at all. The stick was swung down heavily, as if it was slapping a piece of rotten meat, and the sound was horrifying.

Fu Jinwan waved her hands in disgust, and several eunuchs dragged the palace maid's body down. Some palace servants brought buckets and towels and knelt outside the hall to wipe away the blood.

Fu Jinwan walked through a piece of broken porcelain and came to sit down in front of the dressing table. Her cold and resentful face was reflected in the bronze mirror.

She took out several letters from the interlayer of the drawer, but they were not signed. Judging by the handwriting on the letter paper, they were all written by the same person.

These are all letters that Zhao Kuangyi wrote to her through Wang Jien over the past six months. Some expressed the pain of lovesickness, some asked about her well-being, and were concerned about her living conditions in the palace.

Before, Fu Jinwan sneered at these things.

Erlang of the Zhao family is a good man, handsome in appearance, with a bright future, and he also admires her wholeheartedly.But how can it compare with the Emperor of Zhou and the Queen of a country?
Fu Jinwan knew very well how to choose.

But now, the emperor has made it clear that he will not accept her and will only allow her to enter the palace. He will only continue to maintain the marriage relationship with the Fu family.

Everything she had imagined before had come to nothing.

Fu Jinwan cut the imperial concubine's imperial edict to pieces with bloody scissors. The originally beautiful face was now reflected in the bronze mirror, but it was so hideous and terrifying.

She knew that she was destined not to be favored by the emperor, and if she wanted to survive in the depths of the palace in the future, she could only rely on herself.

"Come here, please invite Wang Jien, the chamberlain's servant, to come over." Fu Jinwan ordered calmly.

A eunuch took the order and hurried down.

Half an hour later, Wang Jien hurried over.

"My maid, please come to see your concubine!" Wang Jien had a flattering smile on his face, and his feminine voice was even shriller than many women's.

Fu Jinwan changed into a white dress and sat in front of the dressing table to comb her hair.

"Servant of the King, please come closer and speak." Fu Jinwan said with a low smile.

Wang Jien walked quickly with his waist bent, "I wonder what your orders are?"

Fu Jinwan stared at him with her beautiful eyes and whispered: "Do you know how your Majesty's condition is?"

Wang Jien's face was full of horror, he knelt down on his knees, and said in fear: "My slave has a low status and does not serve in front of the emperor. How can I know about these big things?"

Fu Jinwan snorted coldly: "You don't know, I'm here to tell you! Your Majesty is seriously ill, and I'm afraid there is no way to save him."

"This~" Wang Jien's eyes widened and his whole body was trembling, as if he was extremely scared.

Fu Jinwan looked down at him coldly: "I know that you are a confidant arranged by the Zhao family, and you are also a smart person.

In the future, when His Majesty dies and the Emperor's eldest son takes the throne, I, as the adoptive mother of the Emperor's eldest son, will naturally be honored as the Queen Mother.

Instead of surrendering to the Zhao family, it is better to be loyal to this palace. In the future, I will ensure that you will be a third-grade eunuch, and you will be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life! "

Wang Jien's eyes rolled around and he asked tentatively: "May I ask your Majesty, does your Majesty have any intention of canonizing your Majesty as the Queen of the Palace?"

Fu Jinwan's eyes showed annoyance, and he gritted his silver teeth and shouted: "Your Majesty is seriously ill and unconscious, so I haven't mentioned this matter yet. However, as a noble concubine, I temporarily command the harem on behalf of the queen. It is only a matter of time before she becomes the queen." .”

Wang Jien is such a good person, he can tell at a glance that Fu Jinwan has no confidence, and the so-called canonization of the queen is nothing more than a mirror.

Wang Jien's eyes flashed with sarcasm, but he kowtowed heavily: "I wish the empress will get her wish as soon as possible! The Queen of Zhou Dynasty must be the empress! I am willing to swear allegiance to the empress to the death and serve the empress for the rest of her life!"

The corners of Fu Jinwan's lips curled up, and she nodded: "You really know the current affairs, very good!

I have a letter here. You can take it out of the palace and give it to Chief Zhao. From now on, you will continue to be responsible for the communication between me and Chief Zhao. "

Wang Jien took the sealed secret letter with both hands, glanced at it carefully and put it in his arms.

Fu Jinwan said calmly: "What the Zhao family can give you, I will give it to you ten times in the future. You have to weigh it yourself clearly."

Wang Jien said hurriedly: "I understand what the empress means. I will continue to obey Master Zhao's orders from now on. But in fact, the empress is the master of this slave. I can understand clearly what I can let Master Zhao know and what I cannot."

Fu Jinwan giggled and said: "Yes, he is a smart and good slave. No wonder Mr. Zhao trusts you."

Wang Jien's face was full of flattery: "To be valued by my mother is a blessing that I have cultivated in several lifetimes. This servant is willing to go through fire and water for my mother, and I will die!"

Fu Jinwan felt that she had coaxed and threatened Wang Jien, a little slave, to surrender, and she was a little complacent. This feeling of controlling others is really wonderful.

"Your Majesty approached the Imperial Medical Office, may you have obtained reliable information?" Fu Jinwan asked.

Wang Jien thought for a while: "The servants of the Imperial Medical Office have ways to do it, but His Majesty's palace is heavily guarded. I will only be afraid of difficulties for a while. Those forbidden soldiers cannot get in, so it is really difficult to bribe them."

Fu Jinwan said hurriedly: "From now on, you will step up to inquire about His Majesty's condition from the Imperial Medical Office, and the imperial guards will try their best to bribe him. There is a lot of gold, silver and jewelry here in this palace. Feel free to use it."

Wang Jien was overjoyed, and his mouth was full of gratitude: "My Majesty trusts me, and I have nothing to do in return. I can only risk my life to serve my Majesty!"

Fu Jinwan was very satisfied with his loyalty and immediately ordered someone to pack a box of gold and silver jewelry and hand it to him.

Wang Jien thanked him profusely and left.

After leaving Funing Palace with the heavy jewelry box in his arms, Wang Jien looked back at the majestic palace in the dusk, spat on the ground, and cursed in a low voice:
"You're a slut who doesn't follow the rules of women, and you deserve to be the queen? Bah~~"

Wang Jien opened the crack in the box and took a look, swallowing greedily.

I'm afraid this box is not worth 10,000+ dollars.

"Take a little secretly, just a little. The father-in-law won't find out, right? Hmm, probably not, just take a little."

Wang Jien muttered, hugged the box tightly, looked around cautiously, and quickly disappeared into the shadows along the base of the palace wall.

Two days later, there was an inconspicuous house on the west side of Kaifeng Waiguo City.

Zhao Kuangyi and Wang Jien met secretly here.

"Wan'er still can't let me go in her heart~" Holding the letter written by Fu Jinwan, Zhao Kuangyi read it several times and held it to his heart with great comfort.

"I didn't expect her situation in the palace to be so dire."

Zhao Kuangyi murmured to himself, worried and heartbroken.

Thinking of what Fu Jinwan mentioned in his letter, Zhao Kuangyi cheered up and whispered in a low voice: "Your Majesty is really vomiting blood again? What did the imperial doctor say?"

Wang Jien said respectfully: "The imperial doctor claimed that His Majesty's condition is recovering, but in fact, since the beginning of winter last year, His Majesty's condition has been recurring and has not improved. The matter of vomiting blood is extremely secret, and the servants took great pains to find out. "

Zhao Kuangyi opened his eyes wide and said in a low voice, "In this way, His Majesty may not be alive soon?"

Wang Jien swallowed his saliva and nodded his head.

Zhao Kuangyi took a deep breath with a "hiss", and his mind started working quickly.

If His Majesty dies young, the court will inevitably be in chaos.

The authority of the Great Zhou court may collapse in an instant.

The emperor's eldest son is only six or seven years old, and the young master of the country is suspicious, and the world will inevitably change!

Zhao Kuangyi paced with his hands behind his back, walking faster and faster.

He quickly realized that for the Zhao family, under such a big change, it might not be an opportunity to reach the pinnacle of power!

Zhao Kuangyi punched his palm hard. No matter what, he wanted to see Fu Jinwan first.

Fu Jinwan is the adoptive mother of the emperor's eldest son, and is very likely to become the queen mother in the future. If she can gain her support, it will be extremely beneficial to the Zhao family.

In addition to the personal relationship between men and women, the cooperation between the two people is also related to the ownership of the supreme power in the future!
Zhao Kuangyi whispered in Wang Jien's ear: "Go back to the palace immediately and meet the imperial concubine and tell her..."

Wang Jien's eyes rolled and he kept nodding.

(End of this chapter)