On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, Yong Wang Hongyu personally came forward to refute the rumors for Su Wang Zhao Run, causing Qing Wang Hongxin to secretly scold "raising tigers is a danger". However, when the matter reached the ears of Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, it made this man deeply affected in recent days.
His Highness, who was troubled by the rumors, was greatly relieved.
On the same day, Zhao Hongrun invited his aide Jie Zigong to the study and praised the latter. He mistakenly thought that it was Jie Zigong who persuaded Zhang Qigong, Yongwang Hongyu's aide, so that the latter and Yongwang Hongyu no longer doubted his original intention.
Jie Ziyu couldn't express his sorrow. Although he knew what Zhang Qigong had in mind, he couldn't tell his highness clearly, so he smiled very reluctantly.
However, Zhao Hongrun also said: "Jiezi, do you think this king would like to clarify the situation? King Yong has testified for me. I believe that my words can be accepted by more people, right?"
Jie Ziu tried his best to persuade his highness.
At this time, the concierge came to report that Zhang Qigong, an aide of King Yanyong Hongyu, came to visit again. At that time, Zhao Hongrun happily asked the latter to be invited to the study.
After a while, Zhang Qigong, led by two Su Wang guards, arrived at Zhao Hongrun's study.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun's impression of Zhang Qigong was biased. After all, as far as he knew, Zhang Qigong was cruel and ruthless, which he did not like.
But this time, it cannot be denied that Zhang Qigong did Zhao Hongrun a big favor.
So when meeting Zhang Qigong in the study room, Zhao Hongrun showed a rare smile and said with a smile: "I would like to thank Mr. Zhang for speaking out."
Zhang Qigong observed the expression of King Su in front of him without leaving any trace. Seeing that the joy on the latter's face seemed to come from the bottom of his heart, he became even more convinced: King Su really had no intention of competing for the throne!
Then he took a peek at Jie Ziyu, the aide of Su Wang Zhao Run, who was in the study. Seeing that the latter looked a little ugly, Zhang Qigong secretly sneered: Do you think you have convinced me?
Secretly sneering twice, Zhang Qigong cupped his hands and said to Zhao Hongrun: "I am ashamed to praise His Highness King Su. In fact, Zhang came here this time to plead guilty to His Highness King Su."
After hearing these words, Jie Ziyu was slightly shocked: Could it be...
"Why did Mr. Zhang say this?" Zhao Hongrun asked with a frown.
I saw Zhang Qigong glance at Jie Zizi without leaving any trace, and handed over his hands to accuse him: "Yesterday, it was not the wise brother Jie Zi who reminded me. King Yong and I didn't know that His Highness Prince Su and the eldest prince had cooperated in the Shangdang. This..."
"oh."
Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized that he understood that Zhang Qigong was referring to "Jiang Bi's appointment as Shangdang guard".
He is not very sensitive to temple politics, but there are some things that he can still see with his intelligence, such as "Jiang Bi's appointment as Shangdang Guardian". Among them, Yong Wang Hongyu tacitly approved Qing Wang Hongxin's treatment of the eldest prince Zhao Hongli.
Suppress this matter.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun was really dissatisfied with this matter, because not only would he suffer a loss in profits due to Yong Wang Hongyu's actions, he would even be involved in the struggle for profit between Qing Wang Hongyu and the eldest prince Zhao Hongli.
But this time Yong Wang Hongyu took the initiative to clarify the rumors for him. Zhao Hongrun thought that he owed the former a favor, so it was not easy for him to get angry.
After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun frowned and said, "I won't do this next time."
Hearing this, Jie Ziyu hesitated to speak, but finally endured it.
When Zhang Qigong was leaving, Jie Ziyu took the initiative to ask to see him off.
On their way to the gate of Prince Su's Mansion, Jie Ziyu said in a bad tone: "Brother Zhang, what a good trick."
In Zhang Qigong's eyes, there was a trace of complacency that could not be detected. He also felt quite proud that he could outperform a learned man like Jie Ziyu in playing tricks.
However, he was content with himself, and he did not want to offend King Su's staff too much. After all, in front of King Su Zhao Run, the two of them were still close and distant. If Jie Ziyu had a grudge, he would say a few words about him or others in front of King Su Zhao Run from time to time.
Bad words about King Yong are not a good thing for King Yong Hongyu and Zhang Qigong.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qigong said with rare sincerity: "Brother Jiezi, there are some words that Brother Yu will stop talking about... With the loyalty and bravery of His Highness King Su, we are indispensable in the Wei Dynasty. When His Highness ascends the throne in the future, he will never treat Su ill.
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, what kind of thing did he do to "escape the birds and hide them"... King Yong is not good at military strategy. In the future, we, the Wei Dynasty, will have to rely on His Highness King Su for foreign affairs? Please don't let me, the wise brother of Jiezi, get ruined because of his own selfishness.
I have planned the Wei Dynasty for decades."
After listening to Zhang Qigong's words, Jie Zizi was secretly surprised: How could King Yong allow King Su Zhao Run to retain his current power? This magnanimity is really admirable.
But in the final analysis, this is just Zhang Qigong's one-sided statement. How can Jie Zizi believe it?
What's more, Jie Ziyu believed that Zhao Run, the king of Su whom he was loyal to, was more suitable to be the king of Wei than Hongyu, the king of Yong.
But at the moment, there was no need to argue with Zhang Qigong, so Jie Zizi said patiently: "Jie Zi is taught."
Zhang Qigong glanced at Jie Zizi's expression and knew that the latter probably hadn't given up yet, but it didn't matter. As long as he knew clearly the attitude of Su Wang Zhao Run, Jie Zi's problem was not big. What's more, this time Yong Wang Hongyu chose to believe Su Wang Zhao Run
, but it is not certain that Qing Wang Hongxin will continue to tolerate it, just as Zhang Qigong said to Yong Wang Hongyu: The next thing will be left to Qing Wang Hongxin.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qigong said nothing more and said goodbye and left Prince Su's Mansion.
At the gate of Prince Su's Mansion, Jie Zizi watched Zhang Qigong leave in a carriage, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart. After all, he, who prided himself on being extremely intelligent, was beaten repeatedly by Zhang Qigong, ruining the big thing he was planning.
, which made him feel really bad.
"I really underestimated this Zhang Qigong..."
Feeling secretly, Jie Ziyu returned to Zhao Hongrun's study.
It's funny to say that although Jie Zigong's secret plan was destroyed by Zhang Qigong, Jie Zigong was praised by Zhao Hongrun instead, which really made Jie Zigong feel dumbfounded.
"Jiezi, you did a good job this time. In the future, you can handle this kind of thing for me."
Zhao Hongrun, who didn't know what was going on, immediately promoted Jie Ziyu and made him responsible for the communication between Prince Su's palace and the outside world. Jie Ziyu thought for a long time and didn't know what adjectives to use to describe his experience.
As the middle of May approached, the rumors about "Su Wang Zhao Run's intention to fight for the throne" were somewhat suppressed because Yong Wang Hongyu came forward to refute the rumors for Su Wang Zhao Run. However, the main reason was that the imperial court was about to deal with the Song Dynasty.
Compared with the rumor that "Su Wang Zhao Run participated in the fight for the throne" was just a fresh rumor, the Wei people in Daliang were more concerned about the court's treatment of the Song Dynasty and the rebel general Nangong Yao.
Especially the nobles in the country, whether they are the Yongwang Party, the Xiangwang Party, the Qingwang Party, or the Suwang Party, the nobles who are attached to these princes all agree on the matter of dealing with the traitor Nangong Yao: they must not be tolerated!
In fact, these nobles didn't really care about Nangong Yao's life and death, they just cared about Nangong Yao and the wealth of Song Dynasty.
In this huge war from last year to this year, the nobles in Wei State suffered losses in human and financial resources to varying degrees in order to support the country in resisting foreign enemies. But now that the war is over, Wei State has escaped the threat of collapse. The greed of these nobles will inevitably resurface.
Because of this incident, Anling Prince Zhao Shen, Anping Marquis Zhao Tan and others also ran to Prince Su's Mansion.
The purpose is very simple, it is nothing more than to ask Su Wang Zhao Hongrun to support sending troops to conquer Song County and conquer the rebel general Nangong Yao.
Regarding this matter, Zhao Hongrun was not in a hurry to express his position, but through the fact that "the original imperial guard Shen Yu decentralized Shangshui County to command the Shangshui Army Reserve", we can also vaguely see the attitude of His Highness King Su towards the Song Dynasty.
In mid-May, the Daliang court officially confirmed the identity of "Nangong Yao" as a traitor - led by Xu Guan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and approved by King Yong Hongyu of Chui Gongdian, who was supervising the country on his behalf, Nangong Yao was officially removed from the original "General of the Sixth Battalion of the Garrison" He dismissed the "Suiyang Army", designated Nangong Yao as a "national traitor", and petitioned the Emperor of Wei to issue an edict to exempt the "Song County Autonomy" from that year.
All of these are preparations for the Wei State to send troops to conquer the Song Dynasty after the autumn harvest.
Two days later, the Jiabu Department under the Ministry of War sent hundreds of messengers to various parts of Song County and posted notices in big cities and small counties to let the people of Song County know what happened and prepare for the future imperial court to send troops to conquer Nangong Yao and take back the entire Song County. .
This incident not only caused panic among the people of Song Dynasty, but also caused some problems in the negotiations between the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Song Yun, the leader of the rebels in Song Dynasty.
Anyone with some discernment can see that the purpose of the Wei court this time is not just to conquer Nangong Yao. It is very likely that they want to solve Song County in one go - including the local force in Song County, "Song Yun" The rebels he led officially incorporated the entire Song County into the territory of Wei.
In this case, Nangong Yao has only one way to die. The only difference is how he dies. But if Song Yun is smart, he should accept the imperial edict in time to avoid ending up like Nangong Yao. .
After all, the Wei court showed goodwill to him not because they were afraid of the latter's strength, but because Song Yun had assisted Wei in resisting the invasion of Nangong and Chu, and they did not want to fall into the trap of "burning bridges across the river".
But at this time, a shocking news suddenly came back from Song County: Nangong Yao, who had been designated as a "national thief", was actually defeated by his subordinate "Huan Hu", and the general Chen Shou under Huan Hu was killed. Killed Nangong Yao with his own hands on the battlefield.
When this news reached Daliang, both the court and the nobles were a little confused - the "national thief" Nangong Yao died like this? Then the court still returned Song County to the country under the banner of conquering Nangong Yao ?How can the nobles go to Song County to fight against the autumn wind and occupy territory under the slogan of eliminating rebellion?
For a moment, the court was speechless and quite at a loss. However, the name "Huan Hu" spread throughout Daliang City, and the people in the city were talking about the man who killed the national thief Nangong Yao, secretly guessing about his origins.
Within a few days, Huan Hu, who took charge of Suiyang City, sent someone to send Nangong Yao's head to Daliang, in order to ask for a title from the court, hoping to replace Nangong Yao's former position as the general of the sixth battalion of the garrison.
After learning about this incident, the Wei court was displeased, and even the nobles in the country were furious - they finally had the opportunity to legitimately take over Song County, Huan Hu, you bastard who came out of nowhere,
How dare you do bad things?
As a result, before the court could make any statement, the indignant nobles discovered the details of Huan Hu, such as "the traitorous general in Korea", "the murderer who attacked His Majesty Yu Chenggao", "the intruder in Yang Yang"
"Zhai, Shangshui and other evil parties" and so on - in the face of interests, the domestic aristocrats showed intelligence gathering capabilities that were not inferior to those of the Green Crows, which greatly amazed Zhao Hongrun.
"Seeking death..."
That night, Zhao Hongrun thought about this in his bedroom and couldn't help but sigh to himself.
Huan Hu, a villain, was still fresh in his memory - he had not forgotten the scene when Huan Hu beheaded Wang Ming, the youngest son of the Wang family in Zhengcheng, with one knife when he was threatened by him. He was so decisive
People feel horrified.
Even later, Huan Hu attacked Shangshui and kidnapped Chen Shou. Zhao Hongrun was quite surprised by his courage and ability.
In his opinion, the ability of Huan Hu, the Korean traitor general, is probably on par with the "Top Ten Heroes of Beiyuan". Even if he is not as good as Li Mu, Le Yi, and Lian Pi, he should be comparable to Ju Xin, Sima Shang, and Bao Yuan.
The level is at least much better than Feng Ting, Jin Mao and others.
It's a pity that Huan Hu doesn't seem to be good at political affairs. He actually killed Nangong Yao to claim credit from the Daliang court, but he never thought about how the Daliang court and the nobles in Wei would fight against the traitors if Nangong Yao died.
The banner brought the entire Song County into its hands.
"I'm afraid there will be some twists and turns in recovering Song County..."