Chapter 342 Ren Dejing takes the initiative to seek death; Cao Meiren collapses and shows off
Liang Shicheng carefully handed Ren Dejing's copy of the memorial to Zhao Ji respectfully.
Zhao Ji took the piece of music, his brows were furrowed, his gaze was like a torch, and he scanned the eloquent text line by line, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
"As a humble minister, Si Hu of Xi'an Prefecture joins the army and is honored to serve in the army. I would like to show my loyalty and courage and piety to His Majesty's Holy Scriptures..."
"Haha..." Zhao Ji sneered. After reading the first sentence of Ren Dejing's memorial memorial, he almost felt sick to the point of vomiting.
Ren Dejing, a rebellious minister who rebelled against the Song Dynasty and defected to the Xia Dynasty in history, how dare he call himself "loyal and brave"?
Zhao Ji knows that in the seventh year of Shaoxing in history, Ren Dejing, who was the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture at the time, took the initiative to surrender to Xixia...
At this time, Zhao Ji did the math and found that Ren Dejing should be in his twenties or nineteen now. He was still a Sihu of Xi'an Prefecture and joined the army, and had not been promoted to the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture.
In the Song Dynasty, a state's chief household officer joined the army and was in charge of the state's household registration, taxation and warehouse; he was equivalent to the civil affairs director of a prefecture-level city in later generations, who also served as the tax director and the finance director.
Ren Dejing was very good at maneuvering. A few years before he rebelled against the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Xia Dynasty, he had been promoted to the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture.
Tongban is the abbreviation of "Tongban state affairs" or "Governor Tongfan".
In the early days of the Tongpan in the Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the supervision and control of local officials and prevent the magistrates from having too much power and becoming monopolistic, Song Taizu set up the post of "Tongpan".
Tongpan, assisting in state affairs, is equivalent to the deputy position of the magistrate, but has the power to report directly to the emperor. Orders issued by the magistrate to subordinates must be signed by the magistrate before they can take effect.
In addition to the prison prefecture, the general magistrate is in charge of all matters involving military affairs, money and grain, household registration, taxes and servitude, and the hearing of prison lawsuits. However, the documents must be signed by the magistrate for execution.
The general magistrate of a state in the Song Dynasty was equivalent to the standing deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city in later generations, but his actual power was even greater than that of later generations.
Zhao Ji secretly said: "The Song Dynasty respected Ren De very much, but he betrayed the Song Dynasty and defected to Xia. It is really hateful!"
He opened his eyes angrily, glanced at Ren Dejing's memorial, and saw that the second sentence of the memorial began with flattery:
"Your Majesty is so wise and powerful that he is powerful all over the world. Now, with the dignity of ten thousand chariots, he personally marches to the northwest. He is unstoppable and can defeat the enemy."
"The Xiping Mansion in Xijing, Xia Kingdom, has been an important fortress since ancient times. The city is difficult to break. However, under the power of Your Majesty, it fell apart in just a moment and became our territory in the Song Dynasty. This is truly the result of Your Majesty's divine power.
The national prestige of the Song Dynasty was so great that the whole world admired it and all the people celebrated it together."
"Your Majesty personally conducts military campaigns, makes decisions thousands of miles away, plans strategies, and wins decisive battles thousands of miles away. Even though I am far away in Xi'an Prefecture, I can still see your Majesty's grace and feel your majesty from a distance. Your Majesty's wisdom is like the sun and the moon passing through the sky and the rivers.
Wherever he goes, he shines on the world and moistens all directions. The admiration in the hearts of the humble ministers is like the endless stream of a river."
"Your Majesty's virtue is as towering as a mountain, and as vast as the sea. I am willing to devote my whole life to loyal to Your Majesty, to follow you to the death, and to do my best for the prosperity of the Song Dynasty..."
Zhao Ji frowned and looked at Ren Dejing's performance. Although Ren Dejing was full of praise for his personal expedition, it made Zhao Ji feel an inexplicable sense of false flattery and femininity.
Zhao Ji knew that Ren Dejing's heinous act of betraying the Song Dynasty and the words of loyalty and patriotism he wrote in the memorial were all hypocritical.
Zhao Ji unfolded the memorial, continued to the left, and browsed Ren Dejing's memorial from top to bottom...
"The merchants and common people in Xi'an Prefecture, upon hearing that His Majesty's Imperial Majesty personally conquered Xia, gladly donated their property..."
When Zhao Ji saw the sentence in Ren Dejing's memorial that "the merchants and common people in Xi'an Prefecture... all gladly and actively donated their property," he absolutely did not believe it.
Among them, it is most likely that Ren Dejing took advantage of his position to forcibly increase taxes on the merchants and people of Xi'an Prefecture, right?
From what Zhao Ji knew about Ren Dejing, a treacherous speculator who was good at amassing money in history, he was able to raise labor supplies and forcibly increase taxes on the merchants and people of Xi'an Prefecture.
Moreover, given Ren Dejing's character, it is very likely that he has engaged in corruption to enrich himself.
Zhao Ji made a note in his mind: He must investigate Ren Dejing...
"In order to be respectful, I sent my subordinates Ren Decong, Ren Degong, and Ren Deren to lead their subordinates and load twenty carts with the property donated by the people of Xi'an Prefecture to reward our Song Dynasty soldiers and generals..."
"Haha!" Zhao Ji couldn't help but sneered when he looked at Ren Dejing's memorial and mentioned the names of these three people:
"Okay! Ren Dejing's two younger brothers and his clan brothers are coming to work in the army!"
Liang Shicheng, who was waiting beside Zhao Guanjia, couldn't tell whether Zhao Guanjia was really applauded after seeing the official's expression.
In Zhao Ji's mind, a major event in the history of the Song Dynasty that he was familiar with came to mind:
In the seventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (i.e. 1137 AD), many state capitals in the northwest of the Song Dynasty had not yet fallen and were still under the control of the Song army. Li Qianshun, the fourth emperor of the Xixia Kingdom, saw that the Jin army forced the Song Dynasty
It was a good opportunity for the monarch and his ministers to cross south to seize the northwest land of the Song Dynasty.
In the spring of the seventh year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, Xia Emperor Li Qianshun personally led an army to attack the northwest border of the Song Dynasty that was not occupied by the Jin army, and surrounded Xi'an Prefecture with heavy troops...
Facing the Xia army's heavy troops, the magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture in the Song Dynasty urgently summoned more than ten senior generals in the city to come into the government to discuss how to prepare for war, hold on to the city, and fight against the Xia army...
However, at this moment, Ren Dejing, who was the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture at the time, took his two younger brothers Ren Decong and Ren Degong, his clan brother Ren Deren and a group of disciples, armed with sharp knives, and suddenly rushed into the meeting hall of the government office and went crazy.
The officials and generals of Xi'an Prefecture who were present were beheaded and killed...
In the blink of an eye, the unsuspecting participating generals and the governor of Xi'an Prefecture were all chopped down to the ground by Ren Dejing and the rebels, and their blood flowed into rivers...
These generals who were loyal to the Song Dynasty did not wait to fight against the Xia army, but they were all killed at the hands of Ren Dejing, the general magistrate of Honshu whom they usually trusted...
Later, Ren Dejing led his troops, opened the city gate of Xi'an Prefecture, and surrendered to the Xia Kingdom. He knelt down to welcome Xia Emperor Li Qianshun and his troops into the city...
Li Qianshun has been coveting Xi'an Prefecture, a well-defended military town for a long time. He never imagined that the Xia army had failed to capture the city of Xi'an Prefecture despite the sacrifice of many soldiers.
But this time, Ren Dejing, the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture in the Song Dynasty, helped him seize Xi'an Prefecture, the military center of the Song Dynasty, without any blood...
When Li Qianshun looked at the flag of Xia State and it was actually planted on the top of the city of Xi'an Prefecture, he felt like he was in a dream.
Li Qianshun, who was overjoyed, personally summoned Ren Dejing, the "great contributor" to the fall of Xia, and immediately promoted him to the acting magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture.
Ren Dejing burst into tears with gratitude, scolded the country of his parents, the Song Dynasty, for all the "evil deeds" against his will, and vowed to be loyal to the country of Daxia...
In order to further gain the trust and respect of the Xixia Emperor and seek greater power, Ren Dejing sent his seventeen-year-old beautiful daughter Ren to the palace in April of the same year, becoming the then fifty-five-year-old Xia The concubine of Emperor Li Qianshun.
Ren was beautiful, dignified and taciturn, generous and kind to her subordinates, and was deeply favored by Li Qianshun.
Although she entered the palace late, Li Qianshun still named her the imperial concubine, alongside the other imperial concubine Cao who entered the palace first.
Ren Dejing was a treacherous and snobbish man. He tried every means to please and bribe the ministers and royal family members of the court.
Bari Zuren, the imperial censor of the Xia Kingdom, received a heavy bribe from Ren Dejing. In the second year after the imperial concubine entered the palace, he suggested to Xia Emperor Li Qianshun that he should appoint the imperial concubine as his queen...
Bali Zuren cited the past and the present, quoted from many sources, and praised the virtuous and virtuous Princess Ren. He said that her family background was much better than that of the middle-aged Princess Cao...
In the thirteen years since his first queen, Yelu Nanxian, died of illness, Li Qianshun had not established a queen. He had to carefully consult the courtiers whether it was better to establish a queen after entering the palace, or to establish a queen who had just entered the palace for a year. How about Princess Ren?
Many courtiers accepted bribes from Ren Dejing. Therefore, many courtiers said that no one in the harem could match Concubine Ren in terms of family background or talent and moral character, and they all agreed to establish Ren as queen.
In the eighth year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty and the fourth year of Dade in the Western Xia Dynasty (AD 1138), in August, Emperor Qianshun asked the imperial censor Bali Zuren to hold the register and officially appointed Ren as the queen.
Ren Dejing was noble because of her daughter, and was promoted to the commander of the army in Jingzhou.
In June of the ninth year of Shaoxing and the fifth year of Xia Dade in the Song Dynasty (1139 AD), the fifty-six-year-old Xia Emperor Li Qianshun died.
Li Renxiao ascended the throne and was known as Xia Renzong in history.
In November of the same year, he honored his aunt as the empress dowager, and his biological mother Cao Xianfei as the mother of the country.
In 1140 AD, Xiao Heda, the commander of the Xiazhou army, rebelled...
Ren Dejing took the initiative to ask for troops to attack the rebels in Xiazhou...
He led his troops to regain Xiazhou and annihilated Xiao Heda's rebellion...
Ren Dejing was named Duke of Xiping by the emperor because of his outstanding military achievements, and was appointed commander of the Xiangqing Army.
In 1143 AD, Ren Dejing led his army to suppress peasant uprisings in Weizhou, Dingzhou and other places in Xia...
Because of his repeated outstanding achievements, Ren Dejing was promoted to Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, and Duke of Xiping...
In 1150 AD, Ren Dejingjin was appointed as the Prime Minister of the country.
In 1151, Ren Dejing's younger brother Ren Decong was promoted to the rank of Taiwei in front of the palace, and Ren Degong was promoted to the governor of Xingqing Prefecture in the capital. The power of the Ren family continued to expand. Ren Dejing was promoted to the title of King of Chu, and his entry and exit rituals were similar to those of the emperor. The Ren brothers were good at Xia government. They looked sideways at the court, but they dared to be angry but dared not speak...
Empress Dowager Ren was very worried about the sudden rise of her natal Ren family, and often warned her father Ren Dejing and his clan members, but they didn't listen...
In April of the sixth year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty and the first year of Qianyou in the Western Xia Dynasty (1170 AD), the Queen Mother died of illness at the age of fifty.
Because Li Renxiao had always been a virtuous person as the Queen Mother, she was buried with a grand ceremony.
After Empress Dowager Ren died of illness, Ren Dejing, who was over sixty years old, was still unsatisfied with the status quo. He even coerced Xia Emperor Li Renxiao to give him half of the country, leaving only Guazhou, Shazhou and other places in the Xixia Kingdom;
He appointed Dejing to separatize Lingzhou, Xiazhou and other places, and his wolfish ambitions were clearly revealed.
Ren Dejing held great power and arbitrarily bullied the Xia royal family, killed dissenters, and committed dangerous crimes...
One month after the death of Empress Dowager Ren, that is, in May 1170 AD, Xia Emperor Li Renxiao was forced to agree to Ren Dejing's unreasonable request to divide the land and establish the Chu State.
The young Emperor Li Renxiao of Xia could only tolerate it temporarily and assigned the Southwest Road, Lingzhou, and Luopangling areas of Wuwei to Dejing, allowing him to establish his own country with the name of "Chu".
Ren Dejing recruited 100,000 civilians to build the city of Lingzhou, and he used the former Xiangqing Army Supervisor as his palace. It was midsummer, and the servants were exhausted due to overwork, and there were many complaints.
After Ren Dejing established the country, he believed that the Xixia Kingdom must "execute the minister's ceremony" and regard the Jin Kingdom as the suzerain state. If he could not get the canonization and recognition of the Jin Kingdom, it would be difficult to convince the public.
Ren Dejing made an excuse to seek medical treatment from the Kingdom of Jin and made a formal offer in order to win over Jin Shizong Wanyan Yong, but he failed.
Jin Shizong returned Ren Dejing's memorials and gifts, saying: "Dejing has his own destiny, so why should he violate it?"
Ren Dejing's ambition was undying and he was thinking of tricks. He blatantly forced Emperor Xia to send an envoy to appeal to Jin Shizong and voluntarily let the Jin State take over the newly established Chu State...
Jin Shizong, known as "Little Yao and Shun", was so smart. He said to the envoy:
"How can the lord of a country be willing to separate the country from others for no reason? This will be forced by the powerful ministers, which is not the original intention of the Xia Lord. Moreover, the Xia Kingdom has been a vassal for a long time. Once it succumbs to the traitorous ministers, I am the lord of the four seas. How can I tolerate it? If Xia If the Lord is unable to take care of himself, the Kingdom of Jin should send troops to help him destroy his traitors."
Jin Shizong categorically rejected the request to confer Ren Dejing as Emperor of Chu, and returned all tributes from Xixia.
Ren Dejing coerced Xia Emperor Li Renxiao and sent envoys to Jin Shizong to request a title, but failed.
He instead sent envoys to secretly contact the Southern Song Dynasty to make an agreement to attack the Jin Kingdom...
Yu Yunwen, the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, replied with a secret letter of wax pills and set a date for attacking the Jin Kingdom.
As a result, the secret envoy was captured by the Xixia guards. Xia Emperor Li Renxiao obtained evidence that Ren Dejing was plotting treason. He then sent the secret letter of wax pills to the Kingdom of Jin, and Ren Dejing's conspiracy was exposed...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ren Dejing's ambition to split the Xia Kingdom has never died.
He conspired with his two younger brothers, Ren Decong and Ren Deren, and planned to send troops into the palace, following the example they had when they rebelled against the Song Dynasty and killed the magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture and a group of Song generals, killing Renzong first, and then becoming emperor himself...
Xia Emperor Li Renxiao, with the support of the Jin Kingdom's troops, designed to trap Ren Decong, Ren Deren and others.
In the sixth year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty and the first year of Qianyou in the Western Xia Dynasty (1170 AD), on August 30, Xia Renzong personally led the palace soldiers to raid the Ren Mansion and killed Ren Dejing on the charge of "conquering the Song Dynasty and attacking the Jin Dynasty". The entire clan was annihilated, and Ren Dejing's conspiracy to usurp power and divide the country was shattered.
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"Guan family?" Liang Shicheng was a little stunned when he saw Zhao Guanjia holding Ren Dejing's celebratory music, so he reminded him in a low voice.
Zhao Ji withdrew his thoughts. He had made up his mind to kill Ren Dejing, a treacherous scumbag who would cause harm to any country he was in.
His eyes glanced at the last sentence of Ren Dejing's memorial:
"I am a humble minister of Xi'an Prefecture, Sihu, who joined the army and was appointed to the army. I would like to ask your Majesty to pay attention. I am sincere and frightened. I bow my head and bow again. I wish your Majesty a healthy body and a long life. The Song Dynasty will be forever solid and the country will be long."
Zhao Ji secretly cursed in his heart: "Fuck you Ren Dejing! You are such a heinous and traitorous minister, how can you pretend to be loyal?"
However, he smiled on the surface, pointed at Ren Dejing's memorial, and said to Liang Shicheng:
"Sihu of Xi'an Prefecture joined the army and was appointed as a loyal minister. He is really a "loyal minister"! I want to call him here and keep him by my side for reuse!"
Liang Shicheng immediately flattered him and said: "The officials have a sharp eye and know the pearl..."
Zhao Ji smiled contemptuously and said:
"Senior official Liang has drafted an edict for me, announcing that Sihu of Xi'an Prefecture will join the army and be respected, and his subordinates will be Cong, Gong, and Ren. They are here together. I want to 'reuse' them!"
"Old slave obeys the order..."
Zhao Jicai was too lazy to write the edict calling Ren Dejing in his own hand, so he gave it to Liang Shicheng to write for him.
Under the dictation of Zhao Guan's family, Liang Shicheng first praised Ren Dejing and his three younger brothers for their loyalty and patriotism in the imperial edict, and finally recruited the "Four Rens" to come and entrust them with important tasks...
After Zhao Ji saw that Liang Shicheng had written the imperial edict, he ordered Liang Shicheng to step down and let him select the eunuchs and hundreds of imperial officials who would announce the edict. He also asked them to ride fast horses to Xi'an Prefecture, the faster the better, and quickly report to the emperor. He respectfully proclaimed the decree and quickly escorted him to face the Holy Spirit...
Liang Shicheng happily accepted the order and retired...
Zhao Ji knew that Ren Dejing had no relationship with the great eunuch Liang Shicheng, either in the current world or in history. As long as Ren Dejing held an official position in the Song Dynasty, he would not be able to curry favor with Liang Shicheng.
Now, Zhao Ji was on guard against Liang Shicheng, so that when Liang Shicheng selected his eunuchs as imperial envoys, he would not reveal that he, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, had any intention of killing Ren Dejing.
He had to do a complete show, which made Ren Dejing think that his celebratory memorial had really impressed Zhao Guan's family, and that he was about to rise to prominence.
'In this way, the cunning and treacherous Ren Dejing will obediently come to see me, and let him come to die with joy...'
Zhao Jiping withdrew the two palace maids who gave him massages, and separately summoned eight capable officers from the Imperial City Secret Service who were accompanying the army, and asked them to go to Xi'an on orders to secretly investigate whether Ren Dejing had violated laws and disciplines, or committed corruption and perversion of the law while in office.
Things……
The eight secret agents of the Imperial City Department gladly accepted the order and served as imperial envoys. They immediately secretly left the Lingzhou Palace and set off for the city of Xi'an...
Even if Zhao Ji had made up his mind to kill Ren Dejing, his two biological brothers and a clan brother, he would still have to kill them justly and nail them forever as deceiving the emperor, taking bribes and perverting the law, and being traitors.
On the pillar of shame!
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After Liang Shicheng arranged for the eunuchs and guards to declare the decree, when he returned to the palace to deliver the decree, he did not meet the eight Imperial City Secret Agents sent by Zhao Guan's family.
"The officials and slaves have all been arranged in accordance with the Holy Will. The imperial envoys and their entourage who have been appointed to pay homage to the Holy Face have all set off."
"Okay!" Zhao Ji said leisurely: "Thank you for your hard work, Senior Officer Liang!"
"Thanks to the official family, it's not hard for me. It's just..."
"Huh?" Seeing Liang Shicheng's hesitation, Zhao Ji asked hurriedly:
"Sir Liang, if you have anything to do, just tell me."
"Old slave obeys the order."
When the old slave returned to the palace and passed by the backyard, he saw the beauty that Xia Guojin presented to the official family, standing alone in the courtyard under the scorching sun..."
"If it hadn't been for Senior Officer Liang's reminder, I would have almost forgotten about the Cao family."
"Mr. Cao should not stay in the Lingzhou palace where I live. Senior official Liang, please put her in a separate courtyard outside the palace!"
"Huh?!" Liang Shicheng was surprised. He never thought that Zhao Guanjia could resist being greedy for a beauty like Cao?!
Instead of keeping Beauty Cao in this palace, the officials want to send such a charming beauty out of the palace to live in another courtyard?!
Liang Shicheng felt that Zhao Guan's family was becoming more and more mysterious.
Zhao Ji temporarily left Cao in the cold because he wanted to use the method of "boiling the eagle" to truly tame Cao's body and mind.
In addition, he also considered for his own safety, blocking the entrance of Yue Fei and other loyal ministers to remonstrate, and fearing that the Cao family was secretly pregnant with Li Qianshun's dragon seed, so he was not in a hurry to meet the beautiful Cao family.
"Liang Daguan, please choose two exciting old palace maids and two eunuchs to supervise and monitor the Cao family and take care of their daily life."
"Old slave obeys the order..."
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During the two quarters of an hour that Zhao Ji was resting, he planned and began to implement how to deal with Ren Dejing, the future traitor and traitor. He calmly asked Liang Shicheng to send the beauty Cao to a secluded residence outside the palace.
hospital.
Zhao Ji decreed that at the end of noon, the main generals of the Song armies who were attacking Xia entered the palace hall to discuss military matters...
Yue Fei also used his lunch break to unite with Zong Ze, Zhang Bin, Wang Gui and others to give a serious advice to Zhao Guan's family: Don't be lucky to see the beautiful Princess Cao presented by Emperor Xia...
However, when they rushed to the gate of Lingzhou Palace where Zhao Guan's family lived, they saw the eunuch Liang Shicheng leading a group of eunuchs, two old maids and guards, and they were 'escorting' Princess Cao, who had been presented by Xia Guojin, out of the palace...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, Zhao Ji asked Liang Shicheng to send a small eunuch in advance to find out when Yue Fei and others were coming to the meeting, and deliberately performed it for Yue Fei and others to see.
Zongze, Yue Fei and others asked Liang Shicheng why this was happening.
Liang Shicheng praised Zhao Guan's family in person for putting national affairs first, and did not want to keep the Cao family in the palace, but sent the Cao family to live in another courtyard far away from the palace...
At that time, Zongze, Yue Fei and others, who had already discussed how to admonish Zhao Guan's family, were immediately speechless and could only swallow all the words of admonition they had already thought of.
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In this military meeting, Zhao Ji notified the commanders and important generals of the Song armies in the expedition against Xia. He had already ordered Zhe Keqiu to lead his troops as the vanguard and set off for the expedition at noon today...
The generals were astonished...
A total of 150,000 Song troops participated in the capture of Xijing of the Xia Kingdom. According to Zhao Guanjia's holy will, they temporarily stayed in place for two days and then led their troops to conquer Xia according to the road opened by Zhekeqiu. They marched towards the capital of the Xia Kingdom.
Xingqing Fucheng...
The generals admired the officials' strategy of attacking Xingqing Mansion...
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On that day, at noon, Zhe Keqiu, the magistrate of Fuzhou outside the south city of Lingzhou, led Zhe's army to go on an expedition...
In the afternoon, Zhao Ji finished the military meeting and returned to the former temporary palace of Prince Pu. He reviewed some memorials sent from various places in the northwest...
At this time, the Cao family was arranged into a separate courtyard three miles away from the palace where the Emperor of the Song Dynasty lived.
She felt uneasy inside.
When the great eunuch Liang Shicheng was leaving, he said that Zhao Guan's family had decrees that after the guilty daughter Cao entered the Song camp, she should not be qualified to ride in a carriage or wear the royal concubine's fine clothes.
When Liang Shicheng left, he asked his men to drive away the luxurious carriage that Emperor Xia had given Cao, which she was riding in.
The beauty Cao looked at the simple room and couldn't help feeling sad in her heart.
Once upon a time, she was the favorite concubine in the Xixia Palace, enjoying endless glory and wealth, but now she has ended up in this situation!
She lamented that she had been ruthlessly abandoned by the Emperor of Xia, who actually used her natal family as hostage to threaten her, forcing her, the Princess of Xia, to enter the Song camp to seduce the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and then poison him after gaining his trust...
This is killing! The person he killed was the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!
Cao didn't even dare to kill a chicken and had never killed one before in her life. She couldn't imagine how she could kill someone, and the person she killed was the Emperor of the Song Dynasty...
Mr. Cao was in a simple hut in another courtyard, his thoughts were disordered and he was about to collapse mentally.
Two old palace maids with indifferent expressions came in, first took off Cao's Chinese clothes and skirts, and put her into the clothes of the palace ladies of the Song Dynasty...
Although Ms. Cao was unwilling and felt humiliated, she understood that she had no power to resist at this moment.
The two old maids prepared a meal for Cao that was hard to swallow...
She endured the discomfort and swallowed the simple food in small bites to satisfy her hunger.
As night fell, the lights dimmed in the small house in the courtyard, reflecting Cao's haggard and thoughtful face.
She sat in the simple hut and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
She listened to the rustling autumn wind outside the window and struggled in her heart...
'Even if the slave family acts according to Li Qianshun's secret order and poisons the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, the slave family will surely die, but will the slave family's natal family really survive? Not necessarily?'
'Emperor Xia Li Qianshun is ruthless and cruel, and the slave family will act according to his vicious plan. The body of the slave family will inevitably be defiled by Emperor Song. Emperor Xia values the chastity of his concubine the most. Emperor Xia will really treat the slave family's natal family as he promised. person?'
'However, Zhao Guan's family arranged for Nu's family to live alone in another courtyard. Zhao Guan's family had previously said in front of Nu's family that he would not summon Nu's family within three months. Wouldn't that violate Emperor Xia's five-day period?'
'Even if the Nu family was favored by the Zhao Guan family three months later, the Nu family also planned to poison the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and the Nu family's natal family would have been poisoned by Emperor Xia long ago...'
'Even if the slave family tried their best to seduce Zhao Guan's family within five days, if the slave family took the opportunity to poison Zhao Guan's family, would they be able to force the Song army to stop the war?'
‘Isn’t it possible?!’
'Even if the current Zhao Guan family suddenly dies, won't there be a prince in the Song Dynasty who can succeed him?'
'The new emperor of the Song Dynasty will definitely avenge his father and will redouble his attack on the Xia Kingdom...'
'If the Song army captures the capital of Xia Kingdom, the nine natal clans of the slave family will probably be wiped out by the Song army, right?'
'If the slave family confesses to Zhao Guan's family, the slave family can survive! The slave family's natal family may also survive...'
After a night of tossing and turning, Cao gritted his teeth and finally made a decision.
She shouted urgently:
"The slave family has something that affects the life of Zhao Guan's family. We must report it to the official family truthfully!"