The king behind the empress

Chapter 52
Hearing Zhang Yuan repeating these two sentences nonchalantly, Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu were also stunned.

"Murder in the court hall? And ransacked the household servant's house? Lord Hou, did you make a mistake?"

Zhao Chuan's eyes were wide open. Now he wondered if he had hallucinations. If he killed the minister in court, would he be able to rebel?

Zhang Hu's expression was also very surprised, but he didn't think so much like Zhao Chuan, he just asked subconsciously, "King Zizai, which king is Zizai?"

Zhang Yuan also suspected that he had read it wrong, and re-translated it twice before confirming that he had not made a mistake. After a long while, he let out a long breath, "Who else could it be? Zizai, His Majesty inherited the Datong after the death of the first emperor, and he was conferred the title of King Zizai."

"It's him?"

Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu were stunned for a moment, and then immediately exclaimed: "He went to the capital to seize power?"

In just a short moment, Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu made up a story of revenge for the ex-prince's seizure of the throne with no less than a million words in their brains. Make trouble, behead the rebellious minister, and regain the throne.

"It's not a power grab."

Zhang Yuan knew what they were thinking, shook his head slightly and vetoed their conjecture, and said slowly: "He and His Majesty are about to get married, so he should not have any intention of seizing power."

"Big marriage?"

It was the first time that Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu knew about this matter, and the impact of this news on them was no less than the news that Mo Zizai beheaded more than [-] ministers in the court just now.

"How could the two of them get married? His Majesty's throne was originally his. Can he swallow this breath?"

Zhao Chuan thought of the news that Zhang Yuan said that Mo Zizai killed more than [-] ministers in the court, and suddenly had a bad guess, "Could it be that he is using His Majesty's power to directly disrupt the court?"

"Okay, stop guessing, it's not what you think."

Zhang Yuan shook his head slightly, stopped Zhao Chuan from continuing to conjecture, and said: "Your Majesty appointed Mo Zizai as the head of the Yuzhi Division. Those people in the court did not want the Yuzhi Division to be re-established, so they wanted to die, but Mo Zizai was in the hall. Beheaded."

"As for Hu Xiaosheng, the servant of the household department, Mo Zizai copied more than 1000 million taels of silver from his home."

"More than 1000 million taels!!!"

Hearing this number, Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu lost their minds in an instant, and Zhang Hu said angrily, "Good kill! We even paid out the military pay, and this bastard is greedy for so much money. No wonder the treasury has no money. The dog thief has been corrupted."

But Zhao Chuan thought more, "Master Hou, with these more than 1000 million taels, will the brothers' salaries be paid?"

"Well, the imperial court has allocated 400 million taels as military supplies, and has sent people to escort it."

Zhang Yuan nodded. Although the issue of military pay was resolved, his expression was not overly happy, but rather worried.

"Great, with this silver, brothers will have no scruples in fighting."

Zhao Chuan looked very pleasantly surprised, and punched hard. Just when he was about to say something, he saw Zhang Yuan's expression and asked involuntarily, "Master Hou, is there anything wrong?"

"There are only salaries and no supplies of food, grass and soldiers. The imperial court said that they want to raise food for the disaster-stricken areas. Let us prepare food and grass to recruit soldiers by ourselves."

Zhang Yuan rubbed his temples with his hands, and said slowly: "That Prince Zizai has already offended all the officials in Jiangnan, and among the grain merchants, most of them are from Jiangnan."

"In addition, most of the tyrants in Xunyang City are closely related to the Ministry of Households. If they secretly obstruct, I am afraid that even if we have money, we will not be able to buy food."

"They dare!!!"

Zhang Hu became furious in an instant, "It's fine for this group of thieves if they refuse to pay. If they dare to obstruct, I will be the first to raid their homes!"

"Whose house are you raiding, and they won't come forward to obstruct it themselves, why do you raid the house without evidence?"

These powerful families are deeply rooted in the local area, and they don't need to show up at all. They just need to let the wind out a little, and no one will dare to sell them food and grass.

Moreover, most of the children in their family are well-known, and even the enlistment regulations in wartime do not work for them. If their homes are copied, the sky will be turned upside down.

"Then what should we do? We have fought desperately, so we can't be subject to their birds' anger everywhere, right?"

After Zhang Hu finished speaking, Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment, his eyes were flickering, as if he was thinking about something important.

After a long while, Zhang Yuan suddenly jumped up, slapped the table in front of him into pieces, and then cursed fiercely, "Go to hell!"

When Zhang Yuan was young, his personality was quite irritable, but now as he grows older, his energy-raising skills gradually improve, so he appears so gentle.

But this does not mean that he is a good old man now. In his bones, he is still Zhang Yuan who was nicknamed Xiashanhu back then.

The hungry tiger goes down the mountain, and the beasts retreat.

"Zhang Hu, bring pen and ink. I want to write a secret letter to His Majesty. After writing it, let Xinying take it back to the capital immediately."

In order to take the overall situation into consideration, he had been tolerant in every possible way before, but judging from the situation in the court, the empress seemed to want to turn the table. Although he didn't know whether it was the empress's intention or Mo Zizai's, he didn't care that much.

Anyway, the country does not belong to his family. He was able to go out of the mountains and defend the East Territory for three years at the age of more than 70 years old.

"Uncle, what are you writing?"

Zhang Hu quickly brought the pen and paper, and moved a new table.

"Write whatever you have, tell me about the lack of food, and then write down the process of the old man asking for these aristocratic families twice, as well as the old man's conjecture."

Zhang Yuan waved his bamboo pen, and quickly finished writing the secret letter. After sealing the secret letter, he threw the pen away, as if he had lifted a heavy burden, and his waist straightened a lot, "You guys at this table If you want to lift it, you can lift it, if you don’t want to lift it, you can pull it, you decide for yourself.”

"Anyway, the old man has tried his best, and he doesn't bother to worry so much."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yuan threw the sealed bamboo tube to Zhang Hu, and then went back to the inner hall to sleep.

"Uncle, what's the matter?"

Looking at Zhang Yuan who seemed to be a different person, Zhang Hu was a little confused.

Zhao Chuan could vaguely guess some. In the past three years, apart from guarding the city every day, Zhang Yuan also worried about the changes in the court every day. No matter what decision he made, he would always consider the reaction of the court.

As a result, this battle can be described as quite tiring.

So every time Zhao Chuan saw Zhang Yuan, he felt like a heavy mountain was pressing on Zhang Yuan.

But at this time, looking at Zhang Yuan's expression, it seems that the mountain that weighed on him has been unloaded?
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