Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 60 Guo Kai's Abacus

In the troubled city of Handan, the matter of Xu Cheng's escape to continue his post as a fake internal historian became somewhat irrelevant, and basically did not come into the sight of many people.

At this time, Li Mu can be regarded as Zhao Guo's giant pillar. In the past few years, he even achieved the record of annihilating [-] Qin troops in the Battle of Yi'an. Without him, Zhao Guo's situation might be even more severe than it is now. .

Guo Kai, who accepted the bribe, was not in a hurry to go to the Zhao Palace to speak to the King of Zhao. He knew the way of ministers deeply, and he knew that it would not be possible to overthrow such important officials as Li Mu in a short while, especially The first person to participate in the examination may be punished by the monarch, thinking that he has no tolerance.

Therefore, after Qizuo Chaotang restored Xu Cheng's official position, Guo Kaixian followed Xu Cheng's suggestion and widely spread rumors about Li Mu and Gongzi Jia throughout Handan City.

When the rumors became popular, he cleverly let King Zhao hear the rumors in Handan City by chance through the mouth of the servants in the palace, and first planted a seed of doubt in King Zhao's heart.

The second step was to test it out. For several days in a row, he arranged for his middle and lower level officials to impeach Li Mu above the court.The first two impeached were naturally punished by Zhao Wangqian for slandering the minister, but the latter were punished more and more lightly when they continued to impeach.

Guo Kai understood that at this time, Zhao Wangqian's doubts about Li Mu had deepened.No longer punishing those who were impeached showed that he already had a faint feeling in his heart that Li Mu might have betrayed him.

Just at this time, news came out that the son Jia had escaped from Handan.

In Guo Kai's opinion, the time has come!

Immediately, Guo Kai ordered people to prepare chariots and horses, and headed towards Miyagi.

However, what Guo Kai met was not Zhao Wangqian, who was already suspicious of Li Mu, but he went straight to see Zhao Wangqian's mother, the current queen mother.

The mother of Zhao Wangqian, later called Zhao Mourning Queen and Changji, was originally a prostitute in Handan City, and later married a member of the Zhao royal family by chance. After her husband died, she was beautiful and graceful. For the former king Zhao Mourning, King Zhao was accepted as Ji's concubine, and later gave birth to son Qian.

Later, under Changji's ears, King Zhao Yuxiang abolished the original prince Jia and changed Zhao Qian to be the prince. Only then did King Zhao become the present king.

At that time, when King Zhao Mourning accepted Zhao Changji as his concubine, Li Mu once opposed her on the grounds that her birth was wrong, disrupting the blood of the Zhao royal family, and even leading to the overthrow of the country, but it failed.

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Wangqian came to the throne, the Queen Mother Zhao planned to avenge Li Mu and kill Li Mu when he died.It's just that since the new king came to the throne, there have been constant wars, and Li Mu has to rely on Li Mu to lead the army. No reduction.

"Why does Guo Zhenxiang have time to sit here with the old man?" The Queen Mother Zhao lazily knelt down in front of the case, tasting a bottle of sweet wine in one hand, and said lazily.

Behind him were two pretty maids of about fifteen or sixteen who were rubbing his shoulders.

The ancients gave birth earlier. Although the Queen Mother Zhao claimed to be old, she was only 38 years old, which is the age when her charm still exists. Moreover, due to her good maintenance, the appearance of the Queen Mother Zhao, who has been well-clothed and well-fed for a long time, looks younger than her actual age.

Although the weather turned cold, several burners had already been lit in the palace where the Empress Dowager Zhao lived, making the hall as warm as midsummer.She was only wearing a near-transparent deep garment with a curved train, with her fragrant shoulders half exposed.Even the hakama on the body is a little faintly visible through the coat.

The autumn wind floats by, and a wisp of clothes is accidentally lifted, which is even more beautiful.

Guo Kai was not surprised to see this scene.Knowing that this is the queen mother's usual style, she even heard the rumor that the queen mother had sex with Chunping Jun after the king died of illness.

After swallowing hard, Guo Kai lowered his head and said, "The empress dowager is not doing well!"

"When can it be, isn't the Qin army still coming to Handan?" Queen Mother Zhao took a sip and said calmly.

"What Guo Kai said was not about the Qin army. Although the Qin army is strong, our country of Zhao has its own warriors who can resist it. Before that, the Qin army had repeatedly besieged Handan and returned without success. What I am talking about is the disaster of the elbow and armpit!" Guo said Said seemingly sincerely.

Although the Qin army had failed to return to the city of Handan several times before, Zhao's national strength was still there at that time, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops. Naturally, it was difficult for Qin's army to swallow it all at once, but now Zhao is extremely weak. Not only did Li Muwai lack famous generals, but even his army was running low.

After hearing this, Queen Mother Zhao frowned, "What did Guo Jiaxiang say?"

"Queen, have you heard the rumors in the city recently?"

"I've heard it a little bit, but I just don't know if it's true or not." Li Mu can be said to be her enemy, and Gongzi Jia is even more likely to threaten the status of herself and her son. Some got serious.

"Queen Mother, just now I received an urgent report that Young Master Jia had quietly escaped from Handan with a group of rebellious ministers who were loyal to him last night, and his whereabouts are unknown!"

As soon as Guo Kai finished speaking, the wine bottle in Queen Mother Zhao's hand fell to the ground with a "snap".

Ignoring the happy moment, he stood up abruptly, strode up to Guo Kai and said, "What's the matter, where is that bastard, Young Master Jia, please tell me clearly."

Guo Kai couldn't help but glanced at the exposed snow, swallowed again and said: "There are rumors all over the city, I wanted someone to investigate, but this matter involves Young Master Jia and Li Mu, both of whom are high-ranking and powerful, it is difficult to verify.

He then ordered people to go to the residence of the two of them every day to check. Early this morning, he sent a general to report to Prince Jia's mansion. The mansion was already vacant. After inquiring about the city gate guards, he learned that Prince Jiahe's mansion had brought a group of traitors with him. He went out of the city at the north gate yesterday evening, the city gate guard did not dare to stop him because of the noble status of Gong Zijia.

I didn't dare to delay after finding out this matter, so I immediately went to the palace and reported it to the Queen Mother. "

"Well, you did a good job in this matter, and you will be rewarded when you are old. You should step down first."

"No, Guo Kai resigns."

As he walked away slowly, Guo Kai faintly heard the order from Empress Dowager Zhao to summon King Zhao to come.

Young Master Jia's escape can be said to have done Guo Kai a great favor. It would take a lot of scheming to plan successfully, but his escape is equivalent to fulfilling all the crimes and not allowing others to splash dirty water.

In the eyes of everyone, since Young Master Jia fled in fear of crime, the rumors that Li Mu and Young Master Jia planned to abolish the current king of Zhao should be true.

When Guo Kai returned to his mansion, he immediately recruited his confidant Zhao Liang.He took out a letter from the army and handed it to him, asking him to enter the palace immediately and hand it to King Zhao.

This letter was written by Zhao Lin, the supervisor of Li Mu's army. When Guo Kai saw this letter, he immediately withheld it. In his opinion, the submission of this letter would only increase Zhao Wangqian's heart. Doubt will not play a bigger role, and presenting it at this time can completely become the last straw that crushes Li Mu.

(End of this chapter)