Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty-Three: Brother and Brother
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After returning to Daliang, Zhao Hongrun separated from his Sixth Uncle Zhao Yuanli. After all, this Sixth Uncle was very busy with social activities. Tonight, the legitimate son of a wealthy family invited Prince Yi to a banquet.
The Feast of a Hundred Chickens, or the Feast of a Hundred Ji, if you think about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun thinks it is more likely to be the latter.
"What a luxury..."
Zhao Hongrun mocked rather sourly.
Zhao Yuanli laughed when he heard this and joked: "How about Hongrun and Uncle Liu go together?... I believe that the owner of the family will be delighted to be able to ascend to the throne of Prince Su."
I have to say that this was a quite tempting invitation, but after Zhao Hongrun thought about it carefully, he politely declined.
After all, the aristocratic circle with which his uncle Zhao Yuanli interacts is what Zhao Hongrun plans to severely weaken in the future. If he goes with Zhao Yuanli today, the owner of the family will certainly entertain him warmly. In this way, Zhao Hongrun will
You may not be able to bear to do it in the future.
As the saying goes, eating people is short of mouth and taking advantage of others is short of hand. In order not to make himself feel guilty when he weakens those people in the future, Zhao Hongrun tries his best not to have contact with those people.
In fact, before and after Zhao Hongrun left the imperial court and opened his own house, there were many noble families in Daliang City who came to congratulate him. However, Zhao Hongrun did not want to have any contact with these people, so he just returned all the gifts.
Over time, it became a common understanding among the aristocratic circles in the capital that Prince Su was not easy to get along with. Gradually, no one was looking for trouble.
Different from Zhao Hongrun's attitude towards life, his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanli often refused to accept such things. Therefore, although this uncle Wang had almost no rights in the court, his connections were great, no matter it was
It’s no exaggeration to say that I have close friends and close friends all over the country.
After bidding farewell to Sixth Uncle Zhao Yuanli, Zhao Hongrun habitually thought of sitting in the Smelting Bureau, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up this plan.
After all, he had to play the role of the angry King Su right now. Otherwise, how could the people from the Bingzhi Bureau and even the Ministry of War take the bait?
Don’t you, the Military Foundry Bureau and the Ministry of War, not want our Smelting Bureau to get involved in the business of casting weapons? Then our Smelting Bureau will simply quit and you can go and have fun on your own! Anyway, you will not be able to finish casting those 130,000 sets of weapons by the end of this year.
Equipment, you are the ones who are being trained and punished.
What? Your Ministry of War and the Military Casting Bureau invited my Smelting Bureau to cast those weapons and equipment together?
Sorry. Once you withdraw, our Smelting Bureau will no longer be involved.
What? Apologize?
If an apology is useful, then we need to call the police... Well, in short, our Manufacturing Bureau will not accept your apology and will send you off!
All in all, Zhao Hongrun had made up his mind and decided to ask the grandsons from the Ministry of War to ask his grandfather and grandma to invite their Smelting Bureau back in a big way.
After all, as Uncle Sixth Prince Zhao Yuanli said, it is impossible for a single Weapon Manufacturing Bureau to build 130,000 sets of weapons and equipment within the time limit. Zhao Hongrun has a winning chance in this matter, so there is no need to rush.
Even though the Smelting Bureau had voluntarily quit before, as long as the Bingzhu Bureau understood their current situation, they would shamelessly seek help from the Smelting Bureau, and they might even be willing to give generous compensation.
This is called retreating in order to advance, playing hard to get.
In this matter, I have to say that Emperor Wei's way of handling things was much smarter than that of Zhao Hongrun.
However, it can also be seen from this that the education method of Emperor Wei was very different from that of Zhao Hongrun's uncle Zhao Yuanli.
For example, Zhao Yuanli would analyze the pros and cons to Zhao Hongrun in detail, so that Zhao Hongrun would be convinced. However, Emperor Wei's education method was that he took the initiative to arrange everything for Zhao Hongrun, but he would not tell Zhao Hongrun personally. He would let Zhao Hongrun understand it on his own.
Really... I will die if I explain a few words?
Zhao Hongrun muttered in his heart.
However, Zhao Hongrun also had a vague understanding of this: it seems that after he defeated the 160,000-strong army of Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo and won the agreement between men and men with Emperor Wei, his father, Emperor Wei, His requirements are much higher than before.
For example, the ceremony of worshiping heaven.
This is most likely because Emperor Wei gradually regarded his son Zhao Hongrun as an adult instead of just a naughty boy as before. Therefore, the way he treated Zhao Hongrun and his expectations have changed significantly compared with the past.
This is why Zhao Hongrun feels that it is too "low price" to lose face and mess around with Emperor Wei now.
This form of change has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that Emperor Wei will pay more attention to the suggestions made by Zhao Hongrun and trust his son more. The disadvantage is that if Zhao Hongrun cannot keep up with Emperor Wei's rhythm, it will happen again. It was a "sharkless" thing like this time: Emperor Wei was obviously helping secretly, but Zhao Hongrun was misunderstood because he only focused on superficial phenomena.
Today, why not go to Ningxiang Palace and sit down...
An idea popped into Zhao Hongrun's mind. After all, his father would come to Ningxiang Palace for meals from time to time, so maybe he would meet him.
As a result, Zhao Hongrun changed his itinerary and went straight to the palace instead of returning to Prince Su's Mansion.
Before leaving, he sent his clan guard Mu Qing to the Smelting Bureau to inform Wang Fu, the chief minister of the Smelting Bureau: He would reject all requests from the Bingzhu Bureau in the next few days! Moreover, there was no need to give favors to those guys. Look at the face.
Wang Fu is a smart man, and he should be able to accurately grasp what Zhao Hongrun means. Zhao Hongrun is relatively reassured about this.
In short, if I don't ruthlessly slaughter the Bingzhu Bureau and even the Ministry of War, I'm really sorry for myself, sorry for Zhao Yuanli, the uncle of the Sixth Prince who solved his doubts for Zhao Hongrun, and also sorry for the Emperor of Wei who secretly helped him.
When Zhao Hongrun led Shen Yu, Gao Kuo and other clan guards to the south gate of the palace, he was surprised to find that the dilapidated carriage belonging to Zhao Yuanzuo, the third prince of Nanliang, which he had just seen in Shiliting, was parked in the palace at the moment. Outside the door.
This discovery made Zhao Hongrun's heart move slightly.
In fact, his third uncle Zhao Yuanzuo once had a palace in Daliang, but it is said that the palace has been banned.
But even so, the third uncle and his family of three still have a place to stay in Daliang.
Of course, it was not in the post house in the city, but in the Zongfu.
However, the carriage of the third uncle Zhao Yuanzuo appeared outside the palace gate at this moment, which meant that Zhao Hongrun and his father had summoned the former third brother. This made the fire of gossip in Zhao Hongrun's heart suddenly burn brightly.
After all, that was the third uncle, the one who had a civil war-level conflict with his father when they were competing for the throne.
After seventeen years, I don't know how my father and I will feel when we see the third uncle who once competed with him for the throne again.
Slowing down his mount, Zhao Hongrun slowly stopped outside the palace gate.
It is a pity that even he is not qualified to ride directly into the palace now.
"His Royal Highness King Su!"
Guarding the south gate of the palace was Jin Ju, the commander of the imperial guards. He and Zhao Hongrun were familiar faces with each other. Therefore, when Zhao Hongrun rode his horse to the gate of the palace, the commander of the imperial guards took the initiative to greet him.
Come up.
"Commander Jin."
Zhao Hongrun got off his horse and saluted Jin Ju.
Immediately, he calmly glanced at the shabby carriage of his third uncle Zhao Yuanzuo, and asked with a smile: "Commander Jin, just now, did an important person enter the palace?"
"..." Jin Ju was stunned, and said with a puzzled expression: "What did His Highness King Su say? I don't understand.... The general has been on duty here and has never seen any of the big shots that His Highness King Su was referring to."
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This guy...
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes. If he hadn't been so impressed by that dilapidated carriage, he might have been deceived by Jin Ju.
"I am referring to the owner of that carriage." He glanced at Jin Ju, who was pretending to be dumbfounded, and said angrily: "To be honest with Commander Jin, I and my uncle Liu Wang were just outside the city.
The Ten Mile Pavilion welcomes that one..."
Jin Ju had a somewhat unnatural and strange look on his face, but he still seemed not to give up. He said innocently: "General, I really don't know who you are referring to, Your Highness, Prince Su."
Zhao Hongrun felt like he was really about to roll his eyes. He shook his head and clarified his words helplessly: "King Nanliang!"
"..."
Hearing this, Jin Ju suddenly showed an expression of embarrassment. He looked at Zhao Hongrun and apologized in a low voice for a long time: "Your Highness, Prince Su, don't be surprised. This matter is really closely related. General..." At this point, he
In order to prove the credibility of his words, he lowered his voice and revealed: "Your Highness, does he know who is here to greet that person?"
Seeing Jin Ju's expression was very strange, Zhao Hongrun asked curiously: "Is it the East Palace?"
"He is the leader of the President of the Three Guards Army... Lord Li Zheng!"
"Who is that?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned and asked in surprise.
"..." Jin Ju stared at Zhao Hongrun with wide eyes. Then he explained in a low voice to His Highness Prince Su.
It turns out that the Presidential Leader of the Three Guards refers to the generals of the three major armies of the Imperial Guard, namely Bing Wei, Imperial Guard, and Lang Wei. They are the immediate superiors of Jin Ju, commander of the Imperial Guard, and Zhou Ji, commander of Lang Wei, and others, Li Zheng.
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According to Jin Ju's cryptic revelation, Li Zheng, Baili Ba, Xu Yin, Sima An and others were once the Zongwei during the reign of Emperor Wei. Moreover, this person was the Zongwei chief, just like Shen Yu next to Zhao Hongrun.
quite.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Zheng controlled the military forces near Daliang on behalf of Emperor Wei. He was not a general of the Sixth Battalion, but he had more power than those generals.
There is still a Zongwei in the palace who was his father's son when he was a prince?
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, it was not surprising. After all, such an important position as the President of the Third Guard Army was naturally reserved for the most trusted Zong Wei.
If Zhao Hongrun gains power one day, he will also hand over the most important position to his most trusted Zongwei Chief Shen Yu. In turn, this is also the goal of all the Zongwei.
This is the very foundation of the clan system and is a matter of course.
However, Li Zheng, the president of the Three Guards Army, personally greeted Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Nanliang, at the gate of the palace. What does this mean?
Zhao Hongrun felt that the fire of gossip in his heart was getting stronger and stronger.
Do you want to take a peek?
Zhao Hongrun licked his lips, seeming a little ready to move.
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