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Published at 5th of October 2022 08:13:11 AM


Chapter 81

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The situation in the South has been generally stable. Xiao Zhige's purpose is to resettle the young people who are willing to join the army, and to escort a group of criminals back to Beijing to recover their lives. After all, it was Emperor anqing who ordered him to put an end to the chaos, and he killed a lot of people, which moved the interests of many people in the court. Yejing and his party may have difficulties and obstacles, but he must.

If he had followed his earlier plan, he would not have shown his edge so much. It would have been better for him to pollute himself and disgrace his name, so as to make the name of the king of Northern War even higher. At that time, he lived in the dark and watched the prince fight with the third prince. At last, he took advantage of the situation and forced emperor Anqing to pass on the throne to him. After all, he had a lot of ways to win the throne. It is undoubtedly the easiest way to reap profits. But with an Changqing and two children in succession, he is not ready to do so.

If he's all alone, he doesn't care about fame. But now he has a family. If he ascends to the top, then an Changqing will stand beside him. Two children are their successors. Since ancient times, the tyrant's side is full of demons and concubines, and the destruction of the country and family is the crime of disaster. What's more, an Changqing is still a man. He can almost imagine that if he is infamous, he will bear the brunt of the crime.

He is willing to bow down and hold him in the supreme position, and overlook Daye River and mountain side by side with him, but he is not willing to be criticized by later generations of history books because of himself.

He can lead the cavalry to level the broken rivers and mountains, and he can also lift the floating mountains and rivers with his own hands. He wants to have a good name for the future emperor and empress, which will be passed down through the ages among the population after the history books.

So at this time, it is not enough to worry about the prince and the third prince directly. It's just more difficulties and more efforts.

Daye people are still immersed in the Spring Festival, Xiao Zhige with his own soldiers, already from Yanzhou to Yongzhou.

Yenan three states, Qingzhou zuoqiu, Yongzhou Kanghong have all died, Qingzhou surface is zuoqiu deputy general take over, in fact, Zhou Helan in secret control. When Kang Hong died in Yongzhou, his ministry took the initiative to surrender, which was also under the control of Xie Ling.

The only thing left is to stay in Huaiyi. Suhuai Yisu came to listen to Dazhu Guoshi Lezheng. Shi Lezheng is used to be a loyal face, and has never been involved in the struggle of seizing the throne. However, according to an Changqing's dream, Shi Lezheng later supported the abandoned prince to summon refugees to besiege Yejing, but there was a wolf's ambition hidden under his loyal face. At this time, Shi Lezheng already had some friendship with the prince. In that case, most of suhuaiyi also favored the crown prince.

Daye 13 states, Suzhou, Qizhou, prion state, Yuzhou four state Gongwei Yejing. Zhao Yue in Qizhou was the Party of the crown prince, Shu lingting in Yuzhou was a close aide of the imperial concubine Shu, Shen Tuxu in Suzhou was a confidant of the emperor, and Su Huaiyi in Suzhou had never participated in the court disputes, which seemed impartial, but at this time, it was very likely that he had secretly voted for the crown prince.

Of the four states, the prince occupies half.

Now, in Yejing, Emperor Anqing is holding on to his illness to deal with state affairs. Although the crown prince has not been punished or scolded, concubine Shu has returned to her favor. The third prince has made some great contributions and promoted several officials of the third prince's party. Seeing that the scenery of the former crown prince's supervision is no longer there, I'm afraid I can't help it with the crown prince's mind.

Xiao Zhige's heart turns, but he is not in a hurry to pull out the nail of Su Huaiyi. Qingzhou and Yongzhou have already fallen into his hands, but they are not afraid.

All the refugees in Yongzhou have been settled properly. Many young people have joined the army in exchange for land. Xie Ling will not refuse anyone who comes and will accept all the orders. After that, they were disorganized with the original soldiers in Yongzhou, and then they were reorganized into Wu. They began to practice according to the training method in Yanzhou.

There is no war in the south, and the generals are tired and lazy. Even though the Yongzhou army is much better than the Qingzhou army, it is also a tall one among the dwarfs, which is not worth mentioning to the Yanzhou army. Originally, the Yongzhou ministry had some complaints about this. But after Xie Ling told the 20000 Yanzhou soldiers to show off, they all shut up.

They are all generals after all. They are used to speaking with fists. Now that Kang Hong has committed suicide, the rest of the generals always have to vote for Mingzhu to seek a good future for themselves. Originally, they only heard about the fierce name of the king of the Northern War. Although they admired him, they never longed for him. After all, it is not easy to get along with a general who kills people like that. Can really wait to see Xiao Zhige, experienced the momentum of Yanzhou army, they finally understand the terrible rumors.

It is true that the king of the Northern Warlords was like a cold faced Shura, but he was not bloodthirsty. They treated their subordinates with clear rewards and punishments, and treated the common people with kindness. Many worries were dispelled. After some deliberation, these people completely surrendered to Xiao Zhige.

When Xiao Zhige arrived in Yongzhou, he read Xie Ling's official documents and letters, and called these people to discuss their merits and offer rewards, which completely reassured them. After that, he assigned all the affairs of Yongzhou to these generals.

At this point, Yongzhou affairs were all over. On the 25th of the first month, Xiao Zhige, with 20000 Yanzhou troops, escorted a group of criminals and evidence back to Beijing.

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it was in February when we arrived in Yejing. Spring wind turns snow and everything returns to spring. Twenty thousand Yanzhou troops were stationed a hundred miles outside Yejing city. Xiao Zhige, king of the Northern War, took 100 soldiers to escort the criminals back to the city.

On this day, the emperor of Anqing was sitting on his throne. From time to time, there was a dull cough."Xuanbei war king." But half a year later, he was quite old, and even his voice was feeble.

One by one, one by one, the eunuch on his side shrieked and sang, all the way out of the hall.

He handed the gun to the servant. Then Xiao Zhige took off his armor and strode to the main hall.

The courtiers in the hall are divided into two columns. In the middle of the corridor is covered with a carpet of dark gold dragon. Xiao Zhige strides in, his face is calm and calm. A group of courtiers look at him secretly. Suddenly, they are surprised that after Wang Zicheng of the northern war went to Yanzhou again, his anger is fading, and he has the bearing of the emperor.

Not to mention the prince and the third prince, even when anqing emperor was young, he was not as good as his son.

Ji Anmin, the imperial historian in the front row, also nodded secretly. Others may not have noticed, but he found that after Xiao Zhige's whole body was violent, he became more and more like emperor Taizu in his middle age.

A sword that comes out of its sheath and has no return is not frightening. But when this sharp blade has its own will and knows how to restrain its edge, it is time to be on guard.

Sitting on the throne, Emperor anqing narrowed his eyes and looked at his more and more strange son. He straightened his back and stabilized his weak voice and said, "the second one is doing very well this time."

Xiao Zhige knelt on one knee and saluted: "fortunately, I didn't disappoint my father."

Emperor anqing gave an ambiguous smile. His eyes were like a dying beast. After praising Xiao Zhige, he asked: "although you have made great contributions to the peace, I have received a lot of impeachment. Let's see for yourself."

Then the eunuch next to him handed him a pile of impeachments.

Xiao Zhige knows what is written on it without having to look at it. No matter Zuo Qiu or Kang Hong, they are all backed by big trees. If he killed someone directly, there must be someone to blame. What's more, many aristocratic families in the middle of Beijing have to rely on the powerful landlords in the south to offer sacrifices every year to maintain their respectable scenery. Now the pig is slaughtered directly by him, not to mention, it has been sliced off. I want to know that these people are gnashing their teeth behind their backs.

After pretending to turn it over, Xiao Zhige threw the fold aside and said in a deep voice, "why do you want to add the crime? Zuo Qiu fled in the face of the battle and abandoned the people of Qingzhou. He turned into a city general in vain. If he didn't kill the people, it was not enough to calm the people's anger. As for Kang Hong, he kept private soldiers, colluded with and incited the vagrant uprising, intended to rebel, and there were both human and material evidence. What does he have to do with his children's ministers when he committed suicide? "

Then he said: "although Kang Hong has committed suicide, a group of accomplices have been escorted to Beijing. There are many suspicious points in the case. In order to prevent Kang Hong's party members in the court, my son's ministers are willing to join hands with the Minister of Dali temple to thoroughly investigate this matter and never tolerate it!"

Kang hongnai was the direct Department of Xue Mo in Dazhu state, and he and Shu lingting in Yuzhou were both Xue Mo's right-hand men. And Xue Qizheng's wife is Shu Guifei's aunt. It's no secret. Xiao Zhige wants to thoroughly investigate this matter, but actually he wants to take the opportunity to threaten the third prince to shut up.

After all, Kang Hong did not have the courage to support the private army. If you really want to investigate, the third prince must be involved.

After the Qingzhou Yongzhou incident, both the prince and the third prince must have hated him. And seeing his fame rise in the market, they naturally have a sense of crisis.

Although it is reasonable to say that Xiao Zhige married a man's wife, Emperor anqing would never let him succeed, but Xiao Zhige had a heavy hand and had to be vigilant. The so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend. If they want to come to xiaozhige and return to Yejing, the two forces will have to temporarily cease fighting. They will join xiaozhige first to destroy his prestige.

It's just that you have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder.

Xiao Zhige had a plan to deal with it. In a word, the third prince and his party shut up. The officials of the crown prince party, who had been fighting with the third prince for many years, subconsciously stepped on it. One after another echoed the theory of thorough investigation.

This short-lived alliance collapsed in a flash.

An Qingdi is noncommittal about the thorough investigation. He is becoming more and more incompetent in the affairs of the court. He is more concerned about his own interests. With a pair of muddy eyes fixed on Xiao Zhige, Emperor anqing said in a dumb voice: "this matter is handled by the Minister of Dali temple, so you don't have to participate in it. I heard that You copied Shijia? Shi Jia is a great master of Daye. I look at the number of gold and silver treasures sent back to Yejing The wealth of the stone family should be far more than that? "

The wealth of the Shi family is what he is most concerned about.

It is impossible for the imperial court not to be moved to put such a large piece of fat meat of the Shi family there. It's just that emperor anqing wants money, but he can't give up his face and doesn't want to swear. Although he covets the huge wealth of the Shi family, he can only watch it these years.

It is said that when Xiao Zhige copied the Shi family, he seldom felt that the second son, who was not pleasant, had a happy event, but did not want to copy the confiscated property. After it was transported into the national treasury, Emperor anqing was surprised and angry when he looked at the account book.

But he could not say that he felt that his second son had swallowed the wealth of the stone family, so he could only question him in the court.

Xiao Zhige scoffed in his heart, but on his face he was solemn: "my father is a good example, and my son's officials also have this question when he was copying his family. All the property seized by the Shi family are registered. The fields were used to appease the refugees. Half of the gold and silver was used to relieve the victims and fill the Treasury. Most of the remaining gold and silver and rare utensils were sent back to Yejing. "Then he asked the eunuch to pass on the account book of Qingzhou's pacifying refugees and relieving the victims, and asked the Minister of Taifu temple to check it. Mr. Li, the Minister of Taifu temple, was an honest man. When he was in the hall, he asked someone to read it roughly. He replied, "if you look at it roughly, you can check the amount. If you want to check it carefully, it will take a few days to finish it."

An Qingdi was silent and his face was ugly.

However, Xiao Zhige said: "as for the wealth of the stone family, my son had doubts about it, so he ordered someone to investigate it. Later, it was found that Shi Kairen, the owner of the Shi family, raised countless beautiful concubines and gave birth to many girls. He gave these daughters to many officials as concubines. It is said that when they got married, they all got married with a large amount of money.... "

In the middle of what he said, the face of the prince's party changed.

Not to mention others, isn't there a stone lady in the east palace? Isn't it because she has great interests behind her that she is the crown prince Liangdi? Not to mention the fact that in order to spread the net widely, the Shi family sent many common girls out in addition to the legitimate daughter of the east palace. At this moment, there is a beautiful concubine of the Shi family standing in the court

On the court hall, the needle can be heard, Xiao Zhige's eyes can be seen in a circle, and the corners of his mouth bend slightly.




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