How could Zhao Heng have imagined that Dou Shenbao, who had just taken over Liu Chenggui's position a few days ago, had already been bribed by officials from the "Nan Shou" faction headed by Wang Qinruo? He thought that this person was as loyal to him as Liu Chenggui. Therefore, Dou Shenbao was sent to the
After leaving, he began to seriously think about the specific arrangements for his whereabouts.
During the court meeting in the morning, Chen Yaozi proposed to go to Shuzhong, which once made him hesitate. But now, he thought that it would be good to leave Huazhou as soon as possible. In fact, it didn't matter where he went.
Although Shuzhong is good, Shengzhou, as an option to move the capital, is much earlier than Shuzhong and is more fully prepared.
In addition, most of the palaces of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Shengzhou City are well preserved and can be used with a little modification.
In this way, when he arrives in Shengzhou, he will not have to curl up in the narrow and closed state government office from morning to night as he does now.
As for Shuzhong, he can choose the second option. If the climate or other aspects of Shengzhou do not satisfy him one day, he can also take a big boat up the Yangtze River and reach Chengdu!
Thinking this way, his mood improved a lot.
The heater that had just been installed in the house lived up to its reputation. It quickly burned the white copper shell and part of the chimney to a bright orange color.
The heat quickly turned into a heat wave, causing his face to turn red, and the coldness that had accumulated all over his body turned into sweat and rolled out.
"The officials, Privy Wang and Magistrate Liu have arrived and are waiting for the call outside the palace!" Just as he was about to instruct the eunuchs not to burn the stove too brightly, a cold wind suddenly blew in at the door, followed closely by Dou Shenbao's
The voice rang in his ears.
"So fast? Announce it, announce it immediately!" Zhao Heng was shocked when he heard this, and quickly put away his thoughts about the future, and ordered with a smile.
"Yes!" Dou Shenbao agreed and walked out quickly. After a while, he brought Wang Qinruo and Liu Yuan into the imperial study.
Zhao Heng's heart was filled with excitement. Therefore, the emperor and his ministers had just finished their greetings, and without any greetings, he went straight to the topic, "After thinking about it today, I still feel that it is the best choice to go to Shengzhou to escape the cold for the time being. However, Kou Zhun tried his best to stop me, and I
They have known each other for many years, and cannot bear to have his past achievements wiped out because of his stubbornness. Therefore, I would like to ask the two ministers to help me figure out a way to transfer Kou Zhun to Chanzhou first, and then we can do things more conveniently."
Wang and Liu had already discussed how to deal with it on the road. Therefore, after pretending to "meditate" for a moment, Wang Qinruo took the lead in giving the answer, "Let me inform the officials that the Liao army has been attacking the city very urgently recently.
Old General Li Jilong was wounded by a cold arrow again. The government should send important ministers to Chanzhou to visit Old General Li, and at the same time encourage the entire army..."
Before Wang Qinruo could finish what he said, Zhao Heng waved his hand and interrupted, "Dou Shenbao has mentioned this to me. But what should be done specifically so that Kou Zhun will not be suspicious?"
"Tomorrow morning, if there is an urgent military situation coming from Chanzhou, Kou Zhun will definitely continue to urge the officials to cross the river to Chanzhou to boost the morale of the troops. Next, the minister will come forward and try his best to prevent the officials from putting themselves in danger and use words to provoke them.
Yes!" Wang Qinruo and Kou Zhun have been colleagues for many years, and they have already figured out where the other party's shortcomings are. After thinking about it, he added with a smile.
"Emergency military information? Since it is an emergency military information, how can it be possible to come as soon as you say it?" Zhao Heng seemed to understand, and he frowned and pointed out the flaws.
"The Privy Council receives dozens of military reports every day, and occasionally treats general military reports as urgent military reports. This is an unintentional mistake." Wang Qinruo smiled again and answered easily.
Now, Zhao Heng completely understood.
Now that Wang Dan has returned to Bianliang to take charge, the Privy Council is temporarily under the complete control of Wang Qinruo. He reports a military intelligence that may not be very important as an urgent military intelligence report. Who would suspect him of falsification?
And Kou Zhun's temper has always been upright. If someone asked during the court meeting why he kept encouraging officials to go to Chanzhou, but he stayed south of the Yellow River, there was a high probability that he would volunteer on the spot and rush there first.
Chanzhou.
At that time, as long as he nodded, the big stone Kou Zhun would be moved away.
Just doing this was a bit sorry for Kou Zhun's solitary loyalty. Therefore, Zhao Heng felt a little hesitant in his heart.
However, Wang Qinruo only used three sentences to make him make up his mind.
"Guan Jia, according to the inspection sent by Wei Chen, the ice on the south bank of the Yellow River has extended half a foot wide to the center of the river. And according to Qin Tianjian's speculation, there will be another heavy snowfall in the next few days. If Guan Jia
If we don’t leave, the Yellow River will definitely freeze within half a month.”
If the Yellow River freezes, the Khitan cavalry can step on the ice and reach the foot of Huazhou City. By then, it will be too late for Zhao Heng to leave.
Therefore, he sighed and nodded, "Forget it, tomorrow morning, I will act according to your plan. I believe that Kou Zhun will understand sooner or later that I am also for the country and the people!"
The second half of the sentence was purely self-deception. However, Wang Qinruo and Liu Yuan were moved and bowed repeatedly.
After the salute was completed, the two began to plan the entire steps to deal with Kou Zhun in detail in front of Zhao Heng.
These two guys are incapable of dealing with the Liao army and their own people, but they seem to have divine help.
The court held a meeting the next day, and with little effort, the bandits were ordered to enter the situation.
Kou Zhun was probably a little disheartened. After taking the initiative to go to Chanzhou and getting Zhao Heng's approval, Kou Zhun escorted the food and baggage onto the big ship across the river that afternoon.
As soon as he left, Zhao Heng immediately lost his strength. In the evening of that day, an emergency court meeting was held overnight, and officials above fourth grade were summoned to the temporary palace again to discuss the matter of moving the capital.
Zhongshu Tongping Zhangshi Bi Shi'an realized that Kou Zhun had fallen into someone else's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. He quickly stood up and argued.
However, his prestige and eloquence were far inferior to Kou Zhun's, and his temperament was not as stubborn as Kou Zhun's. Therefore, after fighting and arguing, he and Wang Qinruo and others had to take a step back. For the sake of the safety of the official family, they first withdrew the emperor to Bian.
Liang, wait and see what will happen after the Yellow River freezes.
"According to the prediction by the Qin Tianjian, there will be a heavy snowstorm in the near future. Therefore, without further delay, the officials can be escorted by the Japanese army early tomorrow morning and leave Huazhou first." Feng Zheng was well prepared. Seeing Bi Shi'an begin to give in, he immediately took advantage of the victory.
Press.
Most of the senior officials present originally supported the "Southern Hunting". However, most of them were unwilling to take sides between Kou Zhun and Wang Qinruo.
Since Kou Zhun was not present at this moment and Bi Shi'an failed to stick to the bottom line, everyone immediately acted according to the prevailing situation and agreed with Feng Zheng.
As a result, Bi Shi'an wanted to change his story, but it was too late. He had to postpone the date of leaving Huazhou on the grounds of "rush of time and lack of preparation for driving".
Wang Qinruo knew that he was delaying time to wait for Kou Zhun to return from Chanzhou, so of course he refused to agree. So, the two of them had another quarrel. Finally, they each took a step back again and postponed the departure time from the early morning of the next day.
At noon it depends on the weather conditions.
From the evening of that day to the noon of the next day, there were seven or eight hours in total. If Bi Shi'an left the palace now and sent someone to take a speedboat to cross the river to find Kou Zhun, there would still be a chance to catch Zhao Heng's car before it left Huazhou.
Kou Zhun, please come back.
Therefore, Wang Qinruo had an idea in his mind and simply came up with a lot of negotiable and non-negotiable matters and asked Zhao Hengsheng to judge them.
Zhao Heng wanted to leave, so of course he had to cooperate with him fully. He immediately handed over this trivial matter to the ministers present for discussion one by one.
As a result, it was not until midnight that Bi Shi'an was finally able to leave Zhao Heng's temporary palace. If he wanted to send someone across the river to ask for Kou Zhun, it would definitely be too late.
Maybe God was really tired of Zhao Heng and his ministers continuing to mess around. The next day, it turned out to be a rare Indian summer.
I don't know when the north wind turned to the south wind, and the sun was as warm as charcoal fire.
The ice that had formed on the streets yesterday melted rapidly. In the clear blue sky, several groups of wild geese fluttered their wings and flew south, making cheerful calls to each other.
Seeing this, Zhao Heng became more and more convinced that he had made the right choice.
There was still more than an hour before noon, so he urged Gao Qiong, the commander in front of the palace, to prepare his vehicles and lead the Japanese troops to escort him, Wang Qinruo and others to set off.
And Gao Qiong also changed his enthusiasm from the past few days. He carried out Zhao Heng's oral instructions to the letter.
Zhao Heng, Wang Qinruo and others got on their carriages and headed straight to the south gate of Huazhou. Along the way, they heard the loud cries of the people, but they all thought they were seeing them off.
In a blink of an eye, they left the city gate and drove onto the road. Zhao Heng finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He ordered Dou Shenbao, who was waiting on the car and protecting him personally, to open the curtain and was about to turn around and take another look at the scenery along the Yellow River.
But suddenly, he discovered that the motorcade started to turn slowly not far ahead.
Instead of continuing south along the official river road, we turned a corner at the fork in front of the road and quietly turned around to the east!
"What's going on, Dou Shenbao, why did the car turn? Go, hurry up and tell Gao Qiong to come see me." Zhao Heng, who was already suspicious by nature, immediately realized that something was wrong, shouted an order at the top of his voice.
"The official, the humble minister Kou Zhun, please kindly request the official to move to Chanzhou!" Before Dou Shenbao could respond, Kou Zhun's voice suddenly came from outside the car window.
Immediately afterwards, Kou Zhun's figure, also carried by a horse, appeared in Zhao Heng's field of vision. With his hands clasped in fists, his posture was extremely respectful. There was no expression on his haggard face!
