Judgement

Chapter 39 Undercurrent Surges

Wang Ziqi smiled and said, "General Chu, you are here. Is the matter going well?"

The person who came to take off the black scarf was Chu Jiangfeng, the head of the Imperial Guard. "My lord, please don't worry, the imperial guard will be replaced by my confidant in three days. Zhao Shen has been in the Hall of Mental Cultivation these days and Zhang Jun and the others have been discussing plans to restore the country, and I can only wait outside the hall. There should be no problem, Lord Wang will send 64 guards to escort the birthday banquet three days later, and I have already arranged all of them."

"General Chu has worked hard, go back to the palace quickly, so as not to make people suspicious."

"Yes..." The man covered himself with a black scarf again, jumped out of the window and disappeared like a ghost without a trace.

"Father, is this Chu Jiangfeng reliable?" Wang Bao'er was extremely worried about the head of the Imperial Guard who had just joined him.

"Hehe, this Chu Jiangfeng is the son-in-law of Ma Ruchao, the commander of the imperial army. If Mr. Ma has a different heart, he would not dare to bring him here. I don't want to hide it from you now. Even if there are changes in the palace after three days, as a father You have your own way to deal with it.”

"Father, is there another ambush?"

"Silly boy, it's a rule left by the ancestors that officials can't support soldiers, and it's not like you don't know it."

"What do you mean, Dad?" Wang Baoer already looked at Wang Zi with admiration.

"Haha, Jin Shizong has dispatched [-] elite soldiers to sneak into Lin'an, and some of them will go south in plain clothes. If there is any change in the palace after three days, then the inside and outside should attack Lin'an in one fell swoop."

"Father, is Ma Ruchao's [-] forbidden troops safe?"

"Most of Ma Ruchao's forbidden troops have now been replaced by his cronies and direct lineage troops. Without the military amulet of the Privy Council, they can still raise troops. At the time of the garrison three days later, Lord Ma will raise troops to force the palace. Zhao Shen wrote the edict to pass on the throne, and then died suddenly after drinking very carelessly. Wang Huai went to Yangzhou again at noon today. Among the officials, except Zhang Jun, who would dare to oppose me. Hahahaha ..."

In the Qingyang Temple on the top of Guashan, the old Taoist Liu Minqi must come to the secret room every day to count the 10 taels of silver sent by Wang Ziqi one by one before he can rest assured.No, Liu Laodao opened the secret compartment under his berth before dawn, took out the key, turned the switch, lifted the one-foot-long iron plate, and got inside.

The secret room was two feet square, and there were shelves all around. On the shelves, there were gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings that Liu Laodao had accumulated over the years.At that time, his master Zhang Jixian told him several times, asking him to be quiet and ambitious, and to be indifferent to fame and wealth.But Liu Minqi's answer is that prosperity in the world is for fame, and hustle and bustle in the world is for profit...Zhang Jixian sighed, he was very disappointed knowing that he was talented and intelligent, but he was greedy for yellow and white things, so it would be difficult for him to realize the Tao in the future, and he was harmed by it instead.

Liu Minqi grew up in a poor family.My parents, brothers and sisters all starved to death on the way to escape from the war. Fortunately, I met Zhang Jixian and accepted him as an apprentice.So Liu Minqi is afraid of being poor, and only holding a lot of money is his lifelong dream.For Wang Ziqi's 10 taels of silver, he knew that he had violated the law of heaven and earth, but he was lucky...

After counting the treasures in the secret room, the sun is already rising outside.Liu Minqi smiled contentedly, and was about to leave the secret room, but he didn't know that there was a loud thunder, and it hit the secret room impartially.In an instant, all the gold, jade and jewelry in the secret room turned into ashes...

Looking at the empty walls, Liu Min was dumbfounded.Crazy planed the treasures that had been smashed into powder with his hands, but there was nothing but fly ash.Liu Minqi laughed wildly and said: "Money, a lot of money." His hands kept waving, as if he was going to grab something out of thin air, and there was a look of joy and anger on his face from time to time. Min Qi spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground dead...

Liu Minqi flickered and saw Bai Wuchang not far away smiling at him, with a chain of ecstasy wrapped around his neck.Bai Wuchang smiled and said: "Old Master Liu, Liu Zhuao said that gold is empty and silver is empty. After death, how have you ever held hands? Be it pearls or jade, I don't know how many masters have been changed. It's just because you are greedy for money. Now the case has been brought up. Touch Tianwei. Let's go, all the four divisions of the Netherworld are waiting for you. Hahaha..."

The thunder in Qingyang Temple did not cause any surprise to Yiren in the south of the Yangtze River, because the thunder in the summer and drought in the south of the Yangtze River was too frequent, so Liu Laodao had been lying in the secret room for three months before he was discovered.Even the cause of death is controversial. Some say that the old Taoist is Bigu ascended to immortality, and some say that he returned to his position and became a permanent residence. Anyway, there are all kinds of nonsense, and it is not clear whether it is true or not. The incense of Qingyang Temple It is getting more and more prosperous.

Closer to home, after the end of Song Xiaozong's early dynasty, only the old prime minister Zhang Jun was left.The two went to the imperial study together, Zhang Jun saw the melancholy look on Xiaozong Zhao Shen's face and hurriedly asked, "Why is Your Majesty so depressed?"

Zhao Shen said: "Before the court today, I received Wang Huai's letter from Feige." After speaking, he took out a letter sealed with three flames from the desk, and handed it to Zhang Jun.

When Zhang Jun saw that the three fire wax belonged to the urgent letter, he couldn't help sighing first, took out the letter and looked at it without being shocked...

It turned out that when Wang Huai, who was ordered to go to Yangzhou, left Huluwan and went down the canal, he found a large number of merchant ships gathering on the canal.Ordinary people would not be suspicious, but they met Wang Huai who was extremely intelligent.Wang Huai waited and watched hundreds of merchant ships, and on each ship were some unskilled sailors who vomited.Look at those boats have a deep draft, and the crew are all wearing hats on such a hot day.

Wang Huai sent his accompanying spies on a small boat to observe closely, but they were driven away by the merchant ship.According to the spies who came back, the people on the boat looked and spoke differently from the Central Plains people.Wang Huai guessed that the visitor was not in good spirits, so he sent an urgent letter of [-] to Lin'an.

Zhang Jun looked at it and said in a deep voice: "Old minister, in the past two days, I have also discovered that there are many foreign businessmen and travelers in Lin'an City. Could it be a fraud? It must be related to the prince's birthday banquet tomorrow. The old minister will tell you Leading troops to surround Yushifu and arrest Wang Ziqi, I don't believe that he did not recruit from the truth."

"Prime Minister, don't worry, I haven't got the real evidence of the prince's rebellion. Now that the prince has been entrenched in the court for more than [-] years, there are many cronies in the court and the opposition. If you are not careful, the widow will recruit their pens to criticize you. Where will you go?" Scholars who don't know the world at the time will have different ideas, and the achievements of the Great Song Dynasty will cut off their virtuous paths."

Zhang Jun worried: "Then don't put yourself in danger tomorrow, Your Majesty, and don't go to the banquet at the Imperial Palace."

"Hehe, it's okay. Fortunately, I was given the advice of the gods and men that day, and I still have 20 years to live. The prince will surely lose. I have already secretly dispatched the forbidden troops from the four prefectures of Shaoxing, Jian'an, Huzhou, and Pingyang to Beijing secretly. , and now soldiers and horses are camping five miles north of Lin'an City. It is this group of merchant ships on this canal that really makes everyone uneasy."

"My minister recommends a man, Zou Wei, who is a brave and resourceful general in horseback riding and water warfare." Xiaozong was overjoyed and hurriedly recruited Zou Wei into the palace.

At Chen Mengsheng's home in Qiantang Village, entrusted by Ying Xiaolian, Chen Mengsheng asked someone to make four gold-lacquered cypress plaques. The three members of Ying's family and the maidservant Xiaoju stood on the table.Ying Xiaolian was crying so hard at this time, she sobbed and said: "If parents know, tomorrow will be the end of the wicked Wang Ziqi's life, and the judge has promised to take Xiao Lian to see the end of that Wang Ziqi tomorrow. 15 years of grievances can finally be cleared tomorrow, parents, Xiaoju, you can finally rest in peace."

Chen Mengsheng who was on the side couldn't bear to tell her that Ying Wang and Ying Wang were still the old grudge of the ten generations.In this life, maybe the prince is really sorry for Ying Tianxiong, but when King Ying meets again in reincarnation, I don't know who owes whom...

After noon the next day, from Qingbo Gate, the imperial guards lined up on both sides until Liuhe Bay.It can be said to be five steps, one whistle and ten steps, one post. The soldiers pressed the handle of the knife with solemn expressions, and the arrows were fired.

The gate of Yushi Mansion is full of people now, and people who come to celebrate the birthday come in droves early in the morning, and the inside and outside of the mansion are paved with red silk and lanterns.Wearing a reddish-brown silk shirt with a picture of pine and crane prolonging the year embroidered on it, Wang Ziqi is welcoming the guests with a smile.

Just after the application time, Ma Ruchao, the commander of the Forbidden Army, rode a tall horse, followed by General Baqi of the Forbidden Army leading three thousand Forbidden Army as the vanguard.After the vanguard of the Forbidden Army, gongs and drums cleared the way, and 64 imperial guards on horseback escorted Emperor Xiaozong's dragon and phoenix chariot to Yushifu.In the end, the imperial guards lined up to protect each other, and the people on both sides of the street knelt down to see the royal demeanor. Zhao Shen and Concubine Xi nodded and smiled at the people on the roadside from time to time.

Outside the imperial censor's mansion, officials headed by Wang Ziqi and their family members fell to their knees.The internal affairs eunuch in charge of the canopy took away the large apricot yellow umbrella, and after the royal driver landed, he respectfully invited Xiaozong and Concubine Xi to come out.Emperor Xiao of the Song Dynasty smiled with Concubine Xi and said, "Wang Ailao is indeed a great sage of the Song Dynasty. At first glance, I still think he is in court. Half of the officials have come, haha. All chatters are flat, today There is no need to perform the etiquette of the emperor and ministers at the banquet."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, my king, long live, long live, long live." After everyone got up, the prince knelt down and said, "Today is a humble day, and Long Meng is deeply grateful for the grace."

"Haha, Wang Aichao. The sun hasn't set yet, why don't you let us bask in the sun outside your Imperial Palace?"

"Your Majesty and Your Majesty, please step up to the cold place to enjoy the cool and drink tea."

Xiaozong turned his head and said to Ma Ruchao: "Commander Ma, the [-] imperial guards lined up in Liuhe Bay today is to honor Wang Yushi's birthday, and it's all right now. You can take the imperial guards back. I only need to leave a few bodyguards."

"This..., I'm afraid it's not right. Your Majesty is a man of gold. If someone disturbs the holy driver, he will be blamed for death." Ma Ruchao didn't expect that Zhao Shen would send everyone away. The 64 guards are all sons-in-law Chu Jiangfeng's chosen one.

"You don't need to say too much, I've made up my mind. Leave the eight guards and go back. I'm visiting in casual clothes today, and I don't have so many honors for a monarch. Is it possible that Wang Yushi will harm me?"

These words made Wang Ziqi's expression change immediately, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you are going to scare this humble minister to death."

Ma Ruchao led the forbidden army back, leaving only eight guards including Chu Jiangfeng.As soon as Xiaozong and Concubine Xi entered the Yushi Mansion, they felt a burst of coolness. After a closer look, it turned out that the Yushi Mansion was wrapped in colorful cotton cloth with large chunks of ice, which was both absorbent and beautiful.

"Wang Aichao is a person who enjoys himself, haha."

The prince bowed and said: "Your Majesty misunderstood my minister. I know your majesty's thrifty style, so how dare I covet my comfort? This ice was frozen by my servants to carry water in winter. It has been hidden in the The cellar is just for His Majesty to enjoy the coolness. The silk, satin and cotton items in the mansion are also used by the people in the mansion, and I just make the best use of them."

Concubine Xi said happily: "I didn't expect Mr. Wang to be so careful. In the future, the harem can also emulate Mr. Wang."

Xiaozong said earnestly: "Yes, Wang Yushi really has good intentions..."

Everyone followed Zhao Shen into the house, but they didn't know that there was Chen Mengsheng crouching on the roof outside...