The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 77 To get rid of Zhao Kuangyin
Hearing this sound everywhere in the main hall, but Chai Rong disappeared. When Zhao Kuangyin was looking for Chai Rong, a huge suction came from nowhere and sucked Zhao Kuangyin up.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Zhao Kuangyin kept calling Chai Rong, and suddenly he opened his eyes, and it turned out that he was still lying on the bed.It was just a dream just now, but it was such a real dream, could it really be a dream, Zhao Kuangyin shook his head vigorously.

"Master, master and master are back and let you go." The voice of a servant at home urging him to get up came out of the door. It turned out that Zhao Xu, who had disappeared all night, came back. Looking outside, it was already dawn, and it turned out that he had slept in the study all night. Fortunately, there was a bed in this study at that time.

Zhao Kuangyin got up, washed up, ate something hastily, and came to the small courtyard where Zhao Xu was, only to see that Zhao Xu and Miao Xun were waiting for him.Miao Xun is now a junior officer in his army.

In fact, according to Zhao Kuangyin's intention, Miao Xun's talent can be his military adviser, but Miao Xun is not willing, only willing to accept a small official position, Zhao Kuangyin doesn't know why, unlike Zhao Pu who has been appointed as the secretary in charge of the army up.However, Zhao Kuangyin sometimes asked him about important matters.

"Father (Taiwei)." Seeing Zhao Kuangyin coming, Zhao Xu and Miao Xun stood up and saluted. Zhao Kuangyin nodded to Zhao Xu, but returned a salute to Miao Xun.It stands to reason that Zhao Kuangyin is Miao Xun's superior, no need, but he admires his talent very much, so he is very polite to him.

After Zhao Kuangyin sat down, he immediately said: "Xu'er, you went out in a hurry last night. I heard that you didn't come back all night. What's going on?" He gently picked up a cup of incense Ming, taste it.

Neither Zhao Xu nor Miao Xun spoke. Zhao Xu took out the secret letter that was taken out of the wax pill yesterday, and there were only a few words on it:

"Prime Minister and Master Han, the United Empress Dowager must deal with Master Doujian quickly."

Zhao Kuangyin frowned when he saw this. The prime minister was referring to Fan Zhi, Wang Pu, or Wei Renfu. Mr. Han, not to mention Han Tong of the Guards Department, was the current Deputy Commander of the Guards Department. They wanted to harm him.

Zhao Kuangyin still didn't believe it. He had been loyal to Da Zhou all his life, and he had no disobedience, nor did he feel sorry for the former emperor or the current emperor. Why did they treat him like this? He looked at Zhao Xu and Miao Xun with doubts. It means you have to give me an explanation.

Zhao Kuangyin was loyal, but he forgot that he was always a courtier, especially in the past few years when he was in charge of the army, he was almost invincible and became a god-like existence in the army.Chai Rong is not dazzling when he is around.

But now it has been a few months since Chai Rong passed away, and the current emperor is still very young. It has been a big plan since ancient times to rule the weak and the strong, and no one can tolerate such a minister.Under Zhao Kuangyin's gaze, Zhao Xu slowly talked about the reason for this incident.

When Zhao Xu got the news last night, he went to check it out. It was reported by a little eunuch in the palace. This little eunuch was a person who served the emperor in the palace. Zhao Xu checked carefully.

This time, Zhao Xu went straight to the mansion outside the palace of the servant Zhang Dejun. The eunuch Zhang Dejun can go out of the palace if there is no major event, so he has his own mansion outside the palace. After confirming the news from Zhang Dejun, Zhao Xu paid a huge amount of money. gold.But it's worth it.

It turned out that Prime Minister Fan Zhi went to the Dianqian Division to transfer troops, but was rejected by Murong Yanzhao. He said that there were no generals who checked them all, and the Dianqian Division was not allowed to dispatch a single soldier. Immediately send troops without saying a word, so that Fan Zhi will hate Zhao Kuangyin.

Originally, you, Fan Zhi, are the prime minister, and it has nothing to do with the military. If everyone could mobilize the army so casually, wouldn't the country be more dangerous? Murong Yanzhao's words are right. Of course, the emperor's order to mobilize other people does not need to be listened to.

Fan Zhi believed that Zhao Kuangyin's group of people had high achievements, they were arrogant soldiers, and no one except the first emperor could win them. He was afraid that he would be disadvantageous to the little emperor, so he discussed with Han Tong and others and told the Queen Mother how Zhao Kuangyin was. how.

What kind of political experience does the young Empress Dowager Fu have? He only remembers that her husband said that all the important affairs of the court should be followed by Fan Zhi and the others.

After Fan Zhi and the others said this, she also felt that this was the case. Zhao Kuangyin held the military power and had great prestige in the army. Those reckless emperors since the Five Dynasties became emperors in this way, so they had to guard against it.

So as soon as she discussed with Fan Zhi and the others, they wanted to slowly get rid of Zhao Kuangyin. Originally, according to the Queen Mother Fu's intention, it was enough to take away his military power, but Fan Zhi and the others said that if you beat a snake to death, you will be bitten by a snake.

A person like Zhao Kuangyin is so powerful that he can shock all countries. If he wants to go to that country, the monarch will reject such a talent, and he has to wait for it.If you want to do it, you must do it to the end. If you don’t do it, you will never stop, so as to completely eliminate this scourge. The person who said this is Fan Zhi.

You are seen as a literati, but he is not a simple literati. He is highly valued by Sejong Chai Rong, and Minister Tuogu ranks first. You talk about Chai Rong’s value to him, but he is still a bit of a person of.

When Shizong Chai Rong was dying that day, he wanted to use a scholar named Wang Zhu, who was a rescuer of his mansion in the Jin Dynasty, who was very talented. Chai Rong wanted him to be a prime minister very much, so he asked Fan Zhi et al said:

"The old man of Wang Zhufan's mansion, if I'm honest, I'll be my prime minister." Fan Zhi and the others nodded in agreement, and then withdrew again, and Chai Rong passed away that night.Later, Wang Zhu failed to become the prime minister, and Fan Zhi was to blame.

How can there be so many prime ministers, which is not good for me, just like now, although Wang Pu and Wei Renfu are also prime ministers, they don't have their own qualifications and dare not compete with themselves.It's better not to let Wang Zhu know about this matter. Anyway, only a few of us know what His Majesty said. As long as we don't say it, nothing will happen.

So he said to several other people: "You also know the work of the Hanlin scholar Wang. This person knows how to drink all day long and dare not be serious. Your Majesty wants to let him be a chancellor. How can such a person be a chancellor? Maybe it is His Majesty. Seriously ill and unconscious, we'd better not talk about it."

Your Majesty is not conscious, why did he say that when he appointed your prime minister, he said it when he was sober, and when he asked the king to be the prime minister, he said it when he was not sober?Who doesn't know what your idea is, but no one expressed any objection.In this way, Wang Zhu did not become the prime minister.

Is Fan Zhi public or selfish?It was Fan Zhi and Han Tong who agreed that they must transfer Zhao Kuangyin out of the capital, and then do it in other places. Of course, in order not to leave any troubles to the Zhao family, it is better not to leave anyone behind.

Empress Dowager Fu agreed without any opinion. Seeing that the little emperor sitting next to her became impatient, Empress Dowager Fu took the little emperor down and told Fan Zhi and Han Tong to take care of the matter.

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin sat there blankly, not knowing what he was thinking, maybe this incident gave him too much shock.Thinking that I went through life and death for the Great Zhou, and never complained, but in the end I couldn't escape being suspected and killed by the ruler.

Is this the so-called death of the cunning rabbit, cooking of the running dog, exhaustion of the birds, and hiding of the good bow?Sejong's bones are not yet cold, have these ministers started to deal with me, an old minister of Sejong?Don't they care about the great cause of unifying the world?
"Father, Zhang Dejun also told me that Empress Dowager Fu said at the time, after you have been eliminated, whoever will fight for the country will fulfill Sejong's last wish?" Zhao Xu had to speak when he saw Zhao Kuangyin bowing his head in silence.

Fan Zhi replied at that time: "Your Majesty is still young today, and we will unify the world when the emperor grows up. The most important thing now is to solve internal troubles. He regards eliminating you generals as more important than unifying the world."

Sure enough, after Zhao Kuangyin listened to it completely, a bright light appeared in his eyes.

"Besides, Sejong asked Wang Zhu to enter the cabinet before his death, but Fan Zhi concealed all these things."

Zhao Xu looked at Zhao Kuangyin and said another sentence: "Father, do you know why I can't lead the army?" When Zhao Kuangyin heard his son say this, his eyes were full of longing. After all, it was related to his son's future.

"Before Shizong died, he left a will, forbidding our father and son to command the army at the same time, for fear that our father and son's meritorious service will overwhelm the Lord."

After Zhao Kuangyin heard this, there was a little sadness on his face, and he treated Da Zhou with his heart. Started to attack us, is this the instruction of Sejong?
We are not boasting ourselves. If we are all relieved of military power, I am afraid that the strength of the Great Zhou will drop a lot. Not to mention the unification of the world, even whether the current Great Zhou can be maintained is a problem.

Think about the dream last night. Could it be that I really want to be the emperor? If so, wouldn’t I, Zhao Kuangyin, bully other orphans and widows? How will future history books evaluate me?How can I, Zhao Kuangyin, value love and righteousness like this?

But in that case, when will the world be peaceful, when will the people be able to live a prosperous life, now is a great unification situation, if I miss it, I don’t know what the consequences will be?

Thinking about his ambition, thinking about the wars since the Five Dynasties, thinking about the original intention of the Southern and Northern Wars, Zhao Kuangyin seems to have made a decision...

(End of this chapter)