Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 317 What will you do?
Today, Qian Hongchu's younger brother, Qian Wu, was killed in the street by people from the Huaxia Weifu. What does this mean?mean what?What would Qian Hongchu, king of Wuyue Kingdom, do?
The friendly relationship between Wuyue Kingdom and Song Dynasty is likely to be completely ruined by this incident.It even changed the relationship between Wuyue Kingdom and Song Dynasty from a friendly and neighborly relationship to a deadly enemy.Great Song has strong soldiers and strong horses. Although they are not afraid of Wu Yue, if Wu Yue and Southern Tang join forces to fight against Song, it will be very troublesome.Even if these two countries can be wiped out one day, how many more people will be killed by the Song army and how much more food will be spent.

You know, the two strongest naval forces in the world are those of Wuyue Kingdom and the Southern Tang Dynasty. Originally, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty also thought about borrowing the navy divisions of Wuyue Kingdom when they fought against the Southern Tang Dynasty, and even asked Wuyue Kingdom to send troops on both sides. Attack Nan Tang.Now it seems quite likely that the opposite is true.

At that time, that scene happened on the main street of Luguan Town, where there were many pedestrians, and many people saw it. If Ye Chen didn't come with a hundred black cavalry afterwards, he could still plant it on the Maitreya Sect or the Holy Church, but the one hundred The signs and movements of the Black Cavalry are too obvious, and this matter is destined to be impossible to hide from the world.

After Ye Chen returned to the Huaxia Wei Mansion and knew the true identity of the old man who was killed in Luguan Town, he frowned tightly.Even for Zhang Jiye's body, he asked Han Hu to send it to Kaifeng City for verification by people in the palace, but he didn't show up.

Ye Chen thought about it all afternoon, heaved a long sigh, and prepared to go to the palace and take the initiative to report the matter to Zhao Kuangyin.Unexpectedly, just as he was at the gate of the city, he ran into Wang Ji'en who sent an order to let him enter the palace.

Ye Chen hurried into the palace. Before entering the Chongzheng Hall, he saw the deputy envoy of Wu Yueguo who was crying outside the hall. His heart froze, and he finally affirmed that Qian Wu's appearance in Luguan Town itself was a conspiracy by Shangguan Bingyun. A plot to kill two birds with one stone.It's just that they don't know how Shangguan Bingyun lured Qian Wu to Luguan Town.Or Qian Wu himself is a member of Maitreya Sect.

Ye Chen walked into Chongzheng Hall, saw Zhao Kuangyin's unusually ugly face, and Cao Bin's worried face, Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat, thinking that this matter might be more serious than he expected.He suddenly remembered that this incident seemed to involve the dignity and face of a country, as well as the face and dignity of Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor, and Qian Hongchu, the lord of the country.Thinking about it this way, he found that this matter might be more difficult to solve than he expected.

In addition to the Son of Heaven, there were Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Pu, Xue Juzheng, Lu Yuqing, Shen Yilun, and Cao Bin, the six important ministers of the Song Dynasty in the Chongzheng Palace.Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Pu looked at Ye Chen with worried faces, but there was a hint of joy and pleasure deep in the former's eyes. Zhao Pu's worry was not about Ye Chen, but about the trouble and overall interests that this matter would bring to Great Song. Xue Juzheng and Shen Yilun frowned and didn't know what to think about. Since Lu Yuqing fainted from vomiting blood at the court meeting a few days ago, he has been staying behind closed doors these days.But today, after he heard that Ye Chen's people had killed Wu Yuezheng envoy Qian Wu, he ran to the Chongzheng Palace voluntarily, but in front of the emperor, he couldn't express his misfortune, But everyone knows what he thinks in his heart.

"Ye Chen! How did your Huaxia Weifu do things? Why did you kill Qian Wu?" Before Ye Chen could salute, Zhao Kuangyin shouted angrily. Ye Chen could feel the anger in Zhao Kuangyin's heart.

Zhao Pu, Zhao Guangyi, and Cao Bin next to him saw it in their eyes, and couldn't help sighing in their hearts. If this matter was placed on someone else's head, even if it was placed on Zhao Pu, Zhao Kuangyin would have already thrown the jade ax on the imperial table and hit him in all likelihood. Hitting people with a jade ax has always been a habit of Zhao Kuangyin when he was furious.At the same time, they also knew that if this matter were placed on ordinary court officials, Zhao Kuangyin would definitely execute the person in charge and those who participated in it to explain to Qian Hongchu, the leader of Wuyue.If the two governments are important officials, they will be imprisoned if they are serious, and they will be dismissed from office if they are light.

As for what Zhao Kuangyin would do with Ye Chen today, Zhao Pu, Zhao Guangyi and the others were speculating, but also full of expectations. They also wanted to see how much the emperor favored Ye Chen through this matter.

Ye Chen kept his posture low because he wanted to keep the six subordinates who killed Qian Wu.

With a thud, Ye Chen knelt down directly. With Ye Chen's current status, he usually doesn't need to kneel when meeting the emperor, but now he knelt down directly. This attitude of admitting his mistake is indeed very good.

"Your Majesty! I am about to report this matter to Your Majesty. It is true that Qian Wu was killed by our Huaxia Weifu, but that Qian Wu was also the one who helped Zhang Jiye escape, so he was killed by my Huaxia Weifu." Ye Chen solemnly Said.

Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin frowned deeply, and said, "You mean that Qian Wu is a member of Maitreya?"

Ye Chen said: "Your Majesty! It is still uncertain whether Qian Wu is a member of the Maitreya Sect, but it is very certain that Qian Wu participated in supporting Zhang Jiye."

Zhao Kuangyin's face suddenly became a little heavy. If Qian Wu is really a member of the Maitreya Sect, doesn't that mean that Wuyue Kingdom may have also been infiltrated by the Maitreya Sect.

"Ye Chen! What's going on here? Tell me about how Qian Wu accepted Zhang Jiye." Zhao Kuangyin said with a gloomy face.

Ye Chen immediately said the speech he had prepared in advance.From intentionally releasing Zhang Jilai out of the city, and using Zhang Jiye as a bait to trap and kill Shangguan Bingyun, he said without reservation, but he did not expose Zeng Shangfei, but simply used Zhang Jiye's disguise as a commoner to sneak out of the city.He focused on predicting in advance that the Huaxia Weifu would predict that people from the Maitreya Sect would meet Zhang Jiye in Luguan Town, so he sent people to ambush Zhang Jiye in Luguan Town. Unexpectedly, the person who came to meet him was Qian Wu, the envoy of Wuyue Kingdom, and this Qian Wu Dressed in casual clothes, the people of Huaxia Weifu naturally didn't know Qian Wu, so he was killed by Shangguan Bingyun, a person of Huaxia Weifu.

After the narration, seeing Zhao Kuangyin's frown getting deeper and deeper, Ye Chen added: "The minister originally set up a net around Zhang Jiye, which is enough to arrest or kill Shangguan Bingyun, my great enemy of the Song Dynasty. Because of the appearance of Qian Wu, it caused a panic, which made Shangguan Bingyun alert in advance and finally escaped with serious injuries."

Hearing this, Zhao Guangyi was overjoyed, and hurried out of the shift and said, "Your Majesty! My Kaifeng mansion can also testify to this point. At that time, the people in my Kaifeng mansion also tracked down Zhang Jiye's traces, and the people sent by the minister also witnessed the money. The scene where Wu responded to Zhang Jiye. Moreover, the people sent by the minister participated in the battle to capture Shangguan Bingyun and a group of Maitreya masters together with the experts from the Huaxia Weifu, and twenty arresters were killed in the battle. According to the report from the minister The subordinates narrated that if Qian Wu's sudden appearance hadn't made Shangguan Bingyun aware that something was wrong, otherwise Shangguan Bingyun would definitely die this time."

When Ye Chen heard this, he sighed in his heart and didn't say anything. In order to protect his six subordinates from being forced by Zhao Kuangyin and the court to hand over to Wu Yueguo for Qian Wu's life, he could only temporarily acquiesce to what Zhao Guangyi said just now.

He knew that Zhao Guangyi took the initiative to speak to help him for two purposes.One is that Ye Chen already knew from Zhang Jiye that he had a secret son in the palace, so he took the opportunity to buy a favor from Ye Chen, just to make Ye Chen proud and not tell the emperor about it.The second is to take this opportunity to force Ye Chen to no longer mention what the people he sent at that time really did, but to confirm what he just said.At that time, even if Ye Chen wants to tell Zhao Kuangyin what he heard from Zhang Jiye, he can still refute it with today's conversation.

What Ye Chen and Zhao Guangyi said made Zhao Kuangyin's anger towards Ye Chen and Huaxia Weifu slightly subside, and he fell into deep thought.

Ye Chen has already said everything that needs to be said, and the attention that should be diverted has also been diverted. It depends on how Zhao Kuangyin handles this matter.

After a while, Zhao Kuangyin looked at Ye Chen and said, "I will give you half a day to figure out the real relationship between Qian Wu and the Maitreya Sect, is it because Qian Wu was used by Shangguan Bingyun, or is Qian Wu himself a member of the Maitreya Sect? One thing has to be clarified."

Ye Chen hurriedly bowed and said yes.

Zhao Kuangyin added: "However, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Wuyue Kingdom has been a subordinate state of our Great Song Dynasty. Wuyue's monarchs and ministers have always been very respectful to our Great Song Dynasty, and the offerings are very expensive every year. No matter what the relationship between Qian Wu and Maitreya Sect is, Qian Wu As the official envoy of the Wuyue Kingdom, he came to the territory of the Song Dynasty and was killed by the people of the Huaxia Weifu. This matter is ultimately to give Qian Hongchu and the Wuyue court an explanation."

Lu Yuqing suddenly came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty is holy, the Deputy Envoy of Wuyue Kingdom is still crying outside to ask His Majesty to give an explanation. If this matter is not handled properly, it will definitely make Wuyue Kingdom and our Song Dynasty turn against each other. And after this matter spread, In the past years, other countries that I have paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty may have some ideas that are not conducive to my Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, I think that the murderer who participated in the killing of Qian Wu in the Huaxia Weifu should be handed over to Wu Yue Kingdom, which can be regarded as an explanation to Wu Yue Kingdom."

Hearing this, Ye Chen glanced at Zhao Kuangyin's face, and knew that the latter had been tempted, so he couldn't help frowning.

To be precise, Lu Yuqing guessed exactly what was in Zhao Kuangyin's mind and spoke out for him.After all, the six killers of the Huaxia Weifu who killed Qian Wu can be regarded as obeying the orders of their superiors, and they can also be regarded as doing business for the public. If they are handed over like this, it must be a dead end, and if the emperor takes the initiative, it will be bad for Zhao Kuangyin's reputation .Lu Yuqing saw this for sure, so he said what the emperor thought.

Sure enough, Zhao Kuangyin pretended to ponder, and said: "Lu Qing's words are reasonable. Although my Great Song Dynasty is not afraid of Wuyue Kingdom, this matter really needs to be explained to Wuyue Kingdom. Hand it over!"

Ye Chen's face was extremely ugly, and he said: "Your Majesty! Let's not say that these people are the top experts in our Huaxia Weifu, and some of them have made great contributions to the attack on the Southern Han Dynasty and the pacification of the Sichuan and Sichuan Rebellion. If only this If you sacrifice them like this, it will be difficult for the ministers to convince the public, and the people below will definitely feel chilled. In the future, if the ministers let them deal with the Maitreya religion and the church, or even spy on the enemy on the battlefield, I am afraid that they will not do their best. "

What Ye Chen said, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't think of it, but compared to not letting Wu Yueguo turn against each other, in his opinion, these are nothing, and he feels that Ye Chen is exaggerating the seriousness on purpose.

Zhao Kuangyin snorted coldly, and scolded: "Ye Chen, can't I think of these things you said?"

(End of this chapter)