"So, what do you think of the remnants of the Xiao family?"
When this sentence came out of the mouth of Emperor Wei, the expressions of the eunuch Tong Xian and the Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao suddenly became serious.
However, as the object of attention, Zhao Hongrun's expression still seemed quite relaxed. He walked to the closet, lowered his head slightly and glanced at a priceless jade toad on the shelf.
"How do you think about it..." Zhao Hongrun reached out and touched the jade toad, then turned to look at his father sitting on the dragon throne, and said categorically: "It was the evil party who provoked the war between Wei and Chu and killed the Minister of Punishment.
The traitor who is trying to overthrow our great Wei!"
"..."
Wei Tianzi crossed his hands and fingers on the dragon table. When he heard his son's words, his hands and fingers relaxed slightly.
At this moment, I heard Zhao Hongrun suddenly ask: "Since my father mentioned this matter, can you answer my question?"
"Ask." Emperor Wei said calmly.
I saw Zhao Hongrun playing with the jade cicada and asked seemingly casually: "According to what I know, everyone inside and outside the palace, and in the government and the public, said that Xiao Shuai was because her father refused to pardon Xiao Boyuan, the former Nanyan general, for his rebellion.
and
Choosing to commit suicide, the strange thing is that Yulong said such words in that ruined palace today... I am very curious about the truth of that year, whether "Xiao Shuai's death" came first or "Xiao Boyuan was executed"
What first?"
Hearing this, Tong Xian's expression changed, and Emperor Wei even narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhao Hongrun with a gloomy expression, which made Wei Jiao beside him panic.
However, Zhao Hongrun seemed not to have felt the direct gaze from his father at all, and was still playing with the priceless jade cicada nonchalantly.
After a long time, Emperor Wei took a deep breath and asked: "Which comes first and which comes last, will it affect your attitude towards the remnants of the Xiao family?"
"Of course not." Zhao Hongrun gently stroked Yu Chan's smooth back with his index finger and said seemingly casually: "No matter what the cause is, it cannot change the fact that those people have become a serious problem for me, the Wei Dynasty... trying to subvert my country.
Wei's vicious gangsters will not be tolerated by me!"
"Oh?" Emperor Wei stared at the son not far away who was growing more and more mature even though he was not growing taller, and said with a half-smile: "That is Yulong's uncle's power..."
Zhao Hongrun chuckled and said lightly: "Yulong is Yulong, and the Xiao family is the Xiao family... I will not be like a certain person who entangled the love and hate of one person and transferred it to another person..."
"His Royal Highness King Su..."
Tong Xian's wrinkled old face couldn't help but twitch a few times. How could he not hear the irony in these words?
He secretly glanced at Emperor Wei, and sure enough he found that Emperor Wei's face was gloomy.
"Do you mean Yulong?" Emperor Wei asked coldly.
Zhao Hongrun turned his head and glanced at Emperor Wei, grinning and said: "What a surprise... I thought my father was thinking of Chen Shu'ai."
"...Smelly boy!"
The corners of Wei Tianzi's eyes twitched twice.
Suddenly, Emperor Wei burst into laughter: "Hehehe, hahahaha... Is this what you call 'harmlessly calling me a disgrace'?"
Under the nervous gazes of Tong Xian and Wei Jiao, Zhao Hongrun made a gesture of thanks, full of ridicule: "How do you feel, father?"
"Hehehe, I wish I could ask the sect to send someone to lock you in the meditation room again..."
"No way? The government and the opposition will be in turmoil because of this."
"You want to talk about the 200,000 troops under your command?"
"No, no, no, the son refers to Sanchuan, Shangshui County's nearly two million vassals of the Wei Dynasty... without the son in charge, there will be trouble."
"Is this what you rely on? Shangshui Green Crow? Or should I say, Yangxia Black Crow?"
"Perhaps this is Zongzheng of the Yuan Zongfu who should be called my third uncle?"
Listening to the seemingly inconsistent conversation between Wei Tianzi and Zhao Hongrun, although Tong Xian and Wei Jiao did not quite understand what the father and son were talking about, it did not affect their understanding of the strong sense of confrontation in the conversation.
However, at what looked like an extremely tense moment to onlookers, the father and son parties involved, Wei Tianzi and Zhao Hongrun, suddenly laughed in perfect harmony.
After a long time, Emperor Wei smiled and nodded, saying: "That's right, I can't touch you now... My wings are full, and the trend has been achieved..."
"Wherever I am, my achievements today are all due to my father's permission..."
The father and son changed the topic, and the resulting conversation made Tong Xian and Wei Jiao somewhat confused.
But one thing Tong Xian could tell was that Emperor Wei was no longer as tense as before. No, even his sitting posture became much more relaxed.
"It is a good thing that you have grown up, but you should not interfere with the remnants of the Xiao family." Looking at Zhao Hongrun, Emperor Wei said sternly: "This is my business. In your words, this is against me."
My war should be fought by me... I am not old enough to need your support yet."
Zhao Hongrun shrugged upon hearing this, spread his hands and said: "Since I have said so, how can I not obey it? Then... regarding the doubt raised by the minister just now, I wonder if my father is willing to clear it up?"
Emperor Wei looked at his son for a while, then suddenly said lightly: "Of course...it's just like the rumors...As for what Yulong said, haha, when that woman died, Yulong was less than two (weeks) old, maybe she
Mistaking a dream for reality? Huh?"
"...It seems like this is true."
Zhao Hongrun also looked at Emperor Wei, smiled and agreed: "Yulong has missed his mother and been afraid of his father since he was a child. It is really not surprising that he would have that dream."
"Well, as long as you understand." Emperor Wei nodded and told Zhao Hongrun: "If I guessed correctly, you and Yulong have probably talked nonsense in front of your mother and said a lot about me, right?
"
"Who allowed that palace to have many things that can evoke memories of Yulong's childhood..."
"Well." Emperor Wei pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Turn back and explain it to your mother and concubine for me, so that she will not have random thoughts. You know, she is not in good health..."
"My son understands."
"As for Yulong..." After glancing at Zhao Hongrun, Emperor Wei thought for a moment and said, "I won't blame her for such a trivial matter, and you don't have to rush her to Shangshui to avoid trouble... But
, don’t take her around again, lest she get lost again and go to a place she shouldn’t go.”
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Emperor Wei in surprise and cupped his hands: "Yes, I have remembered it."
Perhaps seeing the surprise in Zhao Hongrun's heart, Emperor Wei glanced at him twice, as if to clear up his doubts, and took a long breath and said: "Don't be too suspicious. If you two didn't get lost today, you shouldn't have gone."
In this place, I have no time to pay attention to you juniors..."
"Huh?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned and asked doubtfully: "Did something important happen in Daliang that deserves my father's attention?"
Emperor Wei shook his head and corrected: "It's true that the big thing happened, but it didn't happen in Daliang... But, come and see for yourself."
As he spoke, he took out a letter from the dragon case and threw it casually on the case.
Zhao Hongrun stepped forward with confusion, picked up the letter and glanced at the signature on the envelope, only to see the words "King of Nanliang, Zuo" written on it.
There is no doubt that this is a letter sent by Zhao Hongrun's third uncle, Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Nanliang.
Zhao Hongrun opened the letter and took a look at it, and then he learned that the Wei family of Longxi Ji was already moving her family to the Wei State, and had now entered the western part of Sanchuan County.
What does this mean? It means Longxi is lost!
Longxi, the birthplace of the Ji clan in Wei State, has been captured by the Qin people!
How to deal with the relationship between the Zhao family and the Wei family, and how to weigh the relationship between the Wei State and the Qin people, all of this has become a major matter that the Wei State has to carefully consider with the migration of the Longxi Wei family to the Wei State.
"Father, is it really unavoidable to start a war with the Qin people?"
"It can be avoided as long as I, the Great Wei, agree to the request made by the Qin envoy."
"Qin envoy? What Qin envoy? The Qin people have already sent an envoy?"
"Not yet... However, when the Wei clan from Longxi arrives in our great Wei Dynasty, the Qin envoy should arrive soon... Therefore, I don't have time to discipline some disobedient juniors."
"..."
Zhao Hongrun nodded and left the Chui Gong Hall with Wei Jiao, the chief of the imperial guards.
Although he had received a satisfactory answer from his father, his mood was not much comfortable.
On the contrary, he became more and more uneasy, as if he had a premonition that the Wei Kingdom was about to usher in a turmoil.
That night, in a secret room somewhere unknown, Zhao Hongrun's sixth uncle, King Yi Zhao Yuanli, was drinking alone in the room silently.
Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at the portrait hanging on the wall in front of him. He saw the woman in the painting, wearing a gauze skirt, sitting sideways on a stone beside the pool, looking at her with a calm expression.
Fish in the pond...
"...Huh? This woman is...Lao Wu, do you recognize her?"
"...Could it be the old man's newly recruited concubine? Hahaha..."
"...How is it possible...Lao Liu, why don't you speak?"
"……Well……"
…
"...Your Highness King Yi, I would like to ask you a favor?"
"...You, get up...what's going on?...Are you crazy? Brother Yonko..."
"...I don't understand why you guys...are obviously brothers, why winning is not enough, you have to kill them all...wuwu..."
"...You...don't cry, I...I'll just help you. But, this is just this time, I won't do it next time. Sister-in-law, if it involves you, Brother Yonko has no sense at all..."
"...Why did the Sixth Prince say these things suddenly? I have written it down. From now on, I will look after my husband and raise my children, and will no longer interfere with matters outside the Youzhi Palace...Sixth Prince?"
"...Huh?"
"……Thank you."
"...Ha, it's not too late to thank you after everything is done."
…
"...His Royal Highness King Yi, something big happened while you were away."
"……What's up?"
"...It's Xiao Shuai..."
"...What's going on?"
"...It is said that Xiao Boyuan, the general of Nanyan, plotted a rebellion. Xiao Shuai's pleas to His Majesty were in vain and she committed suicide in the palace..."
"...kill yourself?"
"...Uh, yes."
In the quiet secret room, under the dim candlelight, Yi Wang Zhao Yuanli drank glass after glass of wine.
Suddenly there was a clatter, and he turned the empty wine glass upside down on the table. On his usually smiling face, his eyes were particularly sharp.