Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 513
It seems that there is a common understanding. After the court meeting to adjust the position of Handan county guard, even if Zhao Xie did not give orders or hints, several of his cronies chose to stay, and left the Han court with the officials to build a building for Zhao Xie. After the King Zhao's palace, they ran to the apse to meet Zhao Xie, and were immediately summoned by Zhao Xie.

Except for the eunuch Ling Xu Xiang, Zhao Xie's cronies are all members of the Zhao clan. He asked directly: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask you, you asked me to replace Li Yuan as the governor of Handan, but what important things are you going to do?"

Although he had struggled to make up his mind, Zhao Xie was obviously hesitant when asked directly, he hesitated for a while before shaking his head, and said: "Don't get me wrong, the widow promoted Li Yuan as a fake, really just want to There is no particular reason for rewarding him for his ability in governing the county and his ability to caress the people. As for letting you serve as the governor of Handan, I want you to have more experience, so you should work hard and manage Handan County for the widow."

Zhao Han, Xu Xiang and the others exchanged glances with each other, also hesitated for a while, and then Zhao Han said again: "Your Majesty, forgive me for speaking bluntly, although changing Handan County is our own business, it has nothing to do with the court and the emperor. However, Li Yuan was appointed by the imperial court after all, and if he took away his real power for no reason, I am afraid that the emperor and the imperial court will become suspicious of you if they find out."

Zhao Xie fell into silence, and suddenly said after a long while: "If I don't do this, won't the emperor and the court have any doubts about the widow?"

Seeing Zhao Xie speak so blatantly, everyone present was startled again, Zhao and others who were in charge of collecting taxes asked directly: "Your Majesty, did you hear something?"

Zhao Xie didn't hesitate this time, just shook his head, and then said: "You don't need to hear any rumors, can't you see the emperor's arrangement? First, I deliberately let the widow restore the capital to Handan, the only giant deer that the widow can directly control before leaving County, to separate the widow from the king of Yan, that shameless villain Jiao Wen tried his best to encourage the widow to let Li Yuan and Zhao Hui exchange positions, and now the emperor is looking for an excuse to increase troops in Hengshan County, what is he trying to do? You really can't guess come out?"

Zhao Han, Zhao and others all gasped, and only then did they understand why Zhao Xie would rather arouse the suspicion of the Han court than make such an important personnel adjustment, and then Zhao and the others hurriedly said: "My lord, although These signs are indeed somewhat suspicious, but we can't rule out that it's just a coincidence, if the emperor and the court really don't have that kind of intention, then you may really make the emperor and the court suspicious of us if you do this."

"The widow has already considered it carefully." Zhao Xie said frankly: "The widow has not slept well for several days, and has been thinking about this issue all the time. These things may really be just coincidences, but if it is not a coincidence, If the widow does not prepare in advance, when the knife rest reaches his neck, he will not be able to escape even if he wants to."

Zhao Han and the others nodded hesitantly, and they also knew that if Xiang Kang really planned to attack Zhao Xie, Zhao Xie would have a hard time escaping if he didn't make some precautionary preparations in advance.Then, after hesitating for a while, Zhao Han simply asked directly: "Your Majesty, what do you want your servant to do? After taking office, will you immediately assemble the army and directly attack?"

"Of course it can't be so direct." Zhao Xie quickly shook his head and said, "Li Yuan has served as the governor of Handan County for several years, and his people must be everywhere in the county. That man might still be able to fight directly, Xia Yue and the widow are not completely of one mind, they just need to join hands at that time, without the court sending out troops, just the troops in their two hands can deal with us."

After negating Zhao Han's impulsive plan, Zhao Xie said again: "So after you take office, you can only find a way to replace the people left by Li Yuan one after another, and replace them with our people. Once we have real power, we can discuss what to do next.”

When Zhao Han nodded, the eunuch Xu Xiang opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me for speaking bluntly. If you let Junzun Zhao act like this, not only will you have no hope of success, but you will only bring disaster upon yourself. As for the reason, It's also very simple. The court is not a fool, and our emperor is not a fool. Seeing that you first replaced Li Yuan, and then replaced the officials left behind by Li Yuan, how could you still not understand what you want to do, Your Majesty? At that time, the court will only need to find someone Using an excuse to strike first, and Xia Shuo, Li Yuan and Yan Yao are inside to help, how can you resist, Your Majesty?"

Zhao Xie, Zhao Han and the others were silent together, and after a long while, Zhao Xie asked: "In Ai Qing's opinion, what should I do?"

"Either don't do it, if you want to do it, you have to do it like a thunderbolt, catching the court by surprise!" Xu Xiang replied decisively, saying: "If you have really made up your mind, my lord, now we have only one way, and on the one hand is to send someone Contact Yan King Zang Tu to seek foreign aid, while looking for excuses to summon the court people in Handan City, take them all in the palace, and seize their seals and ribbons. Fight to the death!"

Zhao Xie's face turned pale, and Zhao Han, Zhao and others also had uncertain expressions. After a while, Zhao Xie said cautiously: "Are you sure about doing this? Handan County has been controlled by Li Yuan before. If the widow directly raises troops, what if the other counties in Handan County refuse to respond?"

"Of course I'm not sure, but if you want to survive, my lord, you can only gamble like this." Xu Xiang replied: "Fortunately, Handan is not very far from Julu. Even if you can't succeed, you can immediately flee to Julu. Lu, your Majesty has been operating there for many years, and Junzun Zhao of Julu is loyal to you, as long as we get to Julu, we still have hope."

Zhao Xie made some calculations, and then asked Zhao Han and the others: "My loves, what do you think?"

After all, they are all rich and young, not like Xu Xiang who has no children and no family and no reason. Zhao Han and the others dare not express their views on this matter lightly. They just exchanged glances with each other and said one after another: " This is a big matter, and the ministers and others can only ask the king to make a decision himself."

Zhao Xie's temper was indeed not decisive enough, he hesitated for a moment before saying: "Then let the widow think carefully before making a decision."

Zhao Han and the others quickly agreed, but Xu Xiang refused to let go, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the news from Handan is reported to Xianyang as soon as possible. It will only take five days at most, and it will only take five days at most for the imperial court to respond." You can send the order to Handan, we don't have much time left, if we stop, we will surely bring disaster on ourselves, I hope the king will make a big plan early, so as not to regret it too soon."

Of course, Zhao Xie also knew that time was precious, but Zhao Xie didn't dare to make a decision casually on such a matter that related to the lives of the whole family. After hesitating for a while, Zhao Xie nodded and said: "I know, I will make a decision as soon as possible." idea."

Fortunately, in the afternoon of that day, when Zhao Han came to the Handan County Governor's Mansion to replace Li Yuan, Li Yuan not only handed over the letter of seal and ribbon to Zhao Han without hesitation, but also ordered the Handan County Governor Officials of the official temple must obey Zhao Han's orders, and respect Zhao Han as much as they respect themselves. Most of the county temple officials appointed by Li Yuan obediently saluted Zhao Han. There was no accident during the handover process. There is no difference between ordinary and ordinary official changes.

This only reassures Zhao Xie and others, because everyone knows that although Li Yuan handed over his official position as Yinshou, his influence in the Handan County Shouguan Temple is absolutely impossible to eliminate in a short period of time, as long as he With a simple squeak, Zhao Han, the new sheriff, can be completely emptied immediately. If Zhao Han wants to truly grasp the power of Handan sheriff, it will take countless time and energy to do so.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Xie had to spend another sleepless night when he was indecisive. In the early morning of the next day, in order to prevent the Han court officials in Handan City from becoming alert prematurely, he still hadn't made up his mind. The determined Zhao Xie insisted on continuing to hold the routine court meeting, but after entering the main hall, Zhao Xie's bloodshot eyes only glanced at the hall, and immediately realized that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly asked the eunuchs who were already waiting in the hall. Xu Xiang asked: "Eunuch Xu, where is Xia Xiangguo? Why didn't you see him come to the court meeting?"

"Report to Your Majesty." Xu Xiang replied with helplessness in his tone, and said, "Xia Xiangguo just sent someone to ask for leave, saying that he is ill and cannot come to serve the King for the time being. Please allow him to rest at home for a while."

The main hall became completely silent again. Many officials of the Zhao court were looking at their noses and noses and their hearts. He was also a member of Zhao Xie's power minister, Chen Yu, who had never really stood by Zhao Xie's side. Now at the critical moment when Zhao Xie took over power, Xia Shuo suddenly said that he was ill and would not go to court, and the danger signal contained in it was self-evident.

Of course, Zhao Xie also understood this truth very well, so after hearing Xu Xiang's helpless answer, Zhao Xie's head was still dizzy for a while, and after a long while, he managed to force a very ugly smile, and said with a forced smile: "So it's In this way, tell the person sent by Xia Xiang that the widow knows, let Xia Xiang rest at home, and if you need medical and medicinal materials, you can feel free to tell the widow."

Xu Xiang insisted on agreeing, and Zhao Xie forced a smile and said: "Let's discuss the matter, dear friends, if you have something to do, play it early."

After hastily ending the court meeting, Zhao Xie of course hurried back to the apse to wait, and then not long after, Zhao et al., Zhao Han and other Zhao Xie's cronies also rushed to the apse to ask for an audience, and then everyone just arrived Qi, Zhao Xie immediately asked, "Xia said, what are you doing?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know." Zhao and the others who were in charge of secretly staring at the officials for Zhao Xie shook their heads helplessly, and said: "I only know that Xia said that after returning home yesterday, he immediately declined to see the guests. Yesterday evening, I met with Li Yuan and sent some people out of the city, but the ministers have no way of knowing where the people he sent out of the city went and what they did."

Hearing such an answer, Zhao Xie was of course terrified in his heart, but he had no choice but to sigh and say, "No wonder you, this is not a giant deer after all, it's normal that you can't keep an eye on Xia Shuo."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to hesitate any longer." Xu Xiang hurriedly said: "If there is no accident, Xia Shuo and Li Yuan will definitely send their own people to report the situation in Handan to the imperial court, and the people Xia Shuo sent out of the city will definitely go to replace him. Contact the garrison he has at the local level, and if we don’t act first, it will be too late when the court and the Xia people are ready.”

Zhao Xie's face became extremely ugly again. After hesitating for a long time, Zhao Xie asked, "Should we take the risk?"

Several confidantes had different expressions, and none of them dared to express their opinion on this matter lightly. Seeing the disappointment, Zhao Xie changed his mind and said: "If none of you have the guts, forget it and pretend that this matter never happened." But, after a while, I just need to find an excuse for Li Yuan to be the governor of Handan again."

"Your Majesty, we didn't turn back!" Xu Xiang became anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly reminded: "If the matter has reached this point, if we turn around and go back, it is tantamount to binding our hands and letting the court slaughter us. As long as you find any excuse and send an edict to Handan, Xia Shuo and Li Yuan will definitely take you down immediately and take you to Handan for punishment!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Xiang turned to Zhao Han and the others and said, "My lords, you also have no way out. The reason why you are able to enjoy the glory, wealth, and high officials and rich salary is all because you are all the king's siblings. Once the king has What an accident, you all have to die with the king! You never think about it, once the king is taken down by the court, how could the new King Zhao reuse you like the king? How could the emperor and the court want to kill the grass? Let you go?"

Considering that he and Zhao Xie share weal and woe, Zhao Han was the first to make up his mind, raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, you decide. As long as you make a decision, I will definitely support you with all your strength! I will follow you to the death!"

After gritted his teeth, several other Zhao Xie's cronies also expressed their views in the same way. Zhao Xie, who refused to be arrested without a fight, finally made up his mind and said through gritted teeth: "Then use Xu Eunling's method to find an excuse to arrest the people in Handan. Xuanzhao entered the palace, took them all, and at the same time surrounded Xia Shuo's mansion with the imperial army, took him down too, and then raised troops directly, and fought with the imperial court to the death!"

Seeing that Zhao Xie had made up his mind, Zhao Han and the others clasped their fists and sang promises together, although their hearts were still flustered, and vowed to follow Zhao Xie to rebel against the Han. It may be very difficult to succeed alone. The best way is to send someone and King Yan Zang Tu to explain to him the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and persuade him to join forces to respond to us and join forces to fight against the court. Only in this way can we be sure of success."

"You don't need to spend so much talking, just send someone to say hello to Zang Tu." Zhao Xie said coldly: "To tell you the truth, as early as when the widow restored the capital to Handan, the doctor of Yan Kingdom sent by Zang Tu Zhang Sheng has already quietly persuaded the widow and Zang Tu to join forces, now we only need to raise the flag of righteousness for the first time, and Zang Tu will definitely raise troops to respond immediately!"

"Is there such a thing? King Yan already had this plan?"

Zhao Han and the others were overjoyed when they heard that, and quickly asked Zhao Xie for the details. In order to boost morale, Zhao Xie told several cronies about the process of Zang Tu sending Zhang Sheng to test him. Foreign aid can be relied on, and confidence has been greatly increased. In addition to applauding, they quickly discussed how to proceed in this way, and soon decided to do it at the court meeting the next day. All civil and military officials who placed the Han court in Handan Take him down, and at the same time, in the name of Xia Shuo's rebellion, dispatch the Imperial Forest Army including Xia Shuo's mansion to take him down, and then use the influence of the Zhao clan in Zhao to organize the people to rebel, and fight the tyrant Xiang Kang to the death!
It was also a coincidence that just after discussing this action plan, before Zhao Xie and others decided on the specific candidates to lead the army, there was a report from Huangmen outside the back hall, saying that it was Handan County's censor Shi Shaoping who came to the gate of the palace to ask for an audience , asked to meet with Zhao Xie immediately, and said that important events should be interviewed with Zhao Xie.

As mentioned earlier, Shao Ping was personally arranged by Xiang Kang to supervise the reconstruction of the King Zhao Palace for Zhao Xie. At that time, because there was no estrangement between him and Xiang Kang, Zhao Xie and Shao Ping had a very close relationship at one time. After the completion of the palace, Shao Ping was renamed the censor of Handan County. He was responsible for supervising the government and military affairs of Handan County for the Han court. He continued to stay in Handan City and still met with Zhao Xie from time to time.

If it were in normal times, Zhao Xie, who had a good impression of Shao Ping, would certainly not refuse Shao Ping's request to see him. Said: "Go and tell Shao Yushi, just say that the widow is exhausted, and if there is anything to do, we can wait for another day."

To Zhao Xie's surprise, the little Huangmen who came to report sang promises, but said: "My lord, I didn't say it carefully just now. Shao Yushi came to visit you this time. He is wearing plain clothes and wearing white shoes. , It seems that there is a funeral. In addition, Shao Yushi also said, please, my king, you must meet him anyway."

"Plain clothes and white shoes? Something happened to Shaoping's house?" Zhao Xie was puzzled.

"Your Majesty, why don't you just meet up?" Zhao et al said, "You usually have a lot of contacts with Shaoping, but now that he comes here wearing mourning, if you don't see him, it will inevitably arouse suspicion from others, and may even lead to a People like Xia Shuo and Li Yuan are vigilant and strengthen their precautions in advance."

After thinking about it, Zhao Xie nodded and said, "Well, it won't take much time anyway, I'll just meet him. You go to the side hall to discuss the rest of the matter, and wait for the widow to tell you This Shaoping has been sent away, and I will arrange tomorrow's major events with you."

(End of this chapter)