North."

Zhao Jiu shook his head and smiled again:

"Deyuan thinks too much. I am really not sarcastically teaching anyone, but I feel something from my heart... There is no way, people's hearts are just trying to be safe, scholar-bureaucrats just want to live in peace, officials just want to be dull, powerful and wealthy landlords just want to gain and lose for themselves,

It's just because I am still here in this monarchy-minister system that we can unite and speak in unison. And if there is no emperor who can make up his mind, even some loyal ministers and good generals will be wiped out by the overall situation... Think about it this way

, the so-called crossing the river to the north, recovering the two rivers, and annihilating the Jurchens, who else could I do? So, I am gradually getting better from my illness."

Lu Haowen had no choice but to move his hands forward: "I congratulate you on the official's recovery."

The other important ministers also pinched their noses and moved forward to congratulate him.

"Thank you all." Zhao Jiu put down the memorial and smiled easily. "After all the gossip, let's get down to business. I undoubtedly failed in trying to lure the snake out of its hole this time. In other words, everyone in Tokyo knows something about me.

It's hard to coax... However, there are still some interesting things happening elsewhere. Did you know that the medicine box sent by Queen Mother Yuanyou yesterday actually contained the autographed self-defense documents of the two supreme emperors?

"

The expressions of everyone in the palace changed greatly, but Ma Shen desperately held up his hands and said hastily: "Guan family! Empress Dowager Yuanyou is far away in Yangzhou and does not know the situation in the capital, and may not even know the truth between the two saints and the official family.

When the Second Saint begged her, it was hard for her to evade, and there was no possibility of collusion between the two parties."

"Yes, I think so too." Zhao Jiu replied casually. "But in that case, it would be better to ask Queen Mother Yuanyou to return to Beijing to live. Anyway, Yanfu Palace is a big place and there are still some free houses... Three of you

Being with the Queen Mother is not only convenient for me to fulfill my filial piety, but also to watch a movie and chat to relieve boredom. It will also save time and make it difficult to avoid it next time."

Ma Shen immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"There is a man named Cao Yong, who is said to be the fifth grandson of Cao Bin. In his early years, he went to Yangzhou with Empress Dowager Yuanyou's group of fugitive honor guards. Now he often travels between Nanyang, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Luoyang. Do any of you know him?

"Zhao Jiu asked again casually.

Someone actually knows him.

Prime Minister Zhao Ding thought for a while and then blurted out: "I knew this person when I was a scholar in Kaifeng Prefecture in his early years. He has always been cunning and cunning, relying on the influence of his ancestors to get around. He is an ordinary rogue... However, he had funded the current Jin Kingdom in his early years.

Qin Hui, deputy envoy to the Privy Council, later when Qin Hui became slightly more prosperous, he often showed off to others."

"No wonder..." Zhao Jiu said with emotion. "If I cut off Qin Hui's way back to the south, I would cut off his way. It's normal to have this shape."

"Such a scoundrel, who arbitrarily connects with the Tian family and alienates father, son, monarch and ministers, will be killed!" Ma Shen was particularly impatient, especially after hearing the name of his old boss Qin Hui, he became even more irritated... He didn't know where he was

, it was this person who went back and forth to deliver documents to the Second Saint and Queen Mother Yuanyou.

"What about Wang Ciweng?" Zhao Jiu mentioned another name.

At this moment, there was a sudden silence in the hall, and immediately, many important officials looked at each other.

After a while, Li Guang, the censor Zhongcheng, immediately asked Zhao Guanjia seriously: "Guanjia, what do you think this person is doing?"

"This person is the one who supported Cao Yong. Cao Yong went to several places, mostly from him, and sent letters to various places asking for smooth passage." Zhao Jiu answered calmly. "Looking at this person's resume, it seems that he has been there since before Jingkang.

Always opposed to raising taxes on the South?”

"Yes." Li Guang felt his throat was a little dry. "This man is from Jinan. He is known as a famous scholar. He ranked first in the first examination of the Ministry of Rites (a reexamination for officials and officials to avoid cheating). In the early years, the Maritime Alliance came out of the state. At that time, because of

Yanyun sent out troops to set up troops without paying his husband, so he..."

"He was very resistant and did not disturb the people in Daozhou, which made his reputation even more prosperous." Zhao Jiu looked at a memorandum in his hand and responded. "After the Jingkang Incident, he stayed in the southeast. Lu Xianggong (

Lu Yihao) replaced Li Gang to lead the southeast and recruited him to do things. When he saw Lu Xianggong raising taxes in the southeast, he left immediately. Later, Yue Pengju went south to put down the rebellion, and he ran back and forth between Jiangxi and the two lakes, accusing Yue Pengju.

Those who stationed troops to disturb the people... Ma Qing was the envoy of Jinghu North Road at the time, so he should know about this, right?"

"So that the officials will know that Wang Ciweng also loves the people and has good intentions..." Ma Shen also found it difficult to speak.

"Yes." Zhao Jiu had no expression on his face and raised his head with a sigh. "These kind of people who love the people so much and have good intentions will of course hate me to the bone for a king like me who extorts taxes and extorts money while sucking out the marrow. Then he longs for the Queen Mother Renxuan.

Reincarnate and live among the people... What did I say when I first came in?"

"Official family."

Ma Shen remained silent, and Li Guang tried his best to answer. "After all, this person has good intentions and has integrity..."

"How is this move different from Du Chong?!" At this moment, Chen Gongfu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, suddenly shouted angrily, which actually frightened Li Guang and made other important officials in the palace look at him in surprise. "Good intentions! Good intentions! Under the guise of good intentions.

Can a name be used to do such a thing? The national affairs have been agreed upon a long time ago and have not changed in six or seven years, that is, the use of troops and the Northern Expedition! The front is to be patient for the country, and the entire court and the entire country are working hard for the Northern Expedition.

He is dissatisfied with increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, so he should stop talking and stick to the principles of being a minister! Now that he is really doing this kind of thing, how can we keep him?! Ma Shangshu, Cao Yong, you just said that he hooked up with the Tian family without permission

, to drive a wedge between father and son, monarch and ministers, and now you are facing the mastermind behind the scenes, but your Ministry of Punishment actually has no explanation?!"

Ma Shen's face was pale, and he wanted to speak several times, but was speechless several times. In the end, he could only try his best to answer under the spotlight: "This person is involved in the Tian family, so naturally it is the officials who make the decision."

"Your Majesty, is Wang Ciweng the only one like this?" Chen Gongfu turned to Zhao Guan's house again under Li Guang's complicated eyes.

"How is it possible that there is only one person?" Zhao Jiucai said with a smile. "He calls himself a Taoist scholar, advocates living a good life with the people, and is not afraid of power. The so-called insiders advocate peace talks. There are many in the southeast. It's just that Wang Ciweng is more courageous, so that

Cao Yong can directly confirm that this person gave him the money. Wang Ciweng has always made friends with many people, so many people of the same kind cannot be dealt with. The only person who can be sure that he met Cao Yong with Wang Ciweng is Fan Tong."

"This man is Qin Huizhi's classmate at Taixue. He has always been dissatisfied with the heavy military force in the imperial camp." Ma Shen blurted out, then closed his eyes and sighed. "Please let the officials handle it themselves. I have nothing to say."

"I won't kill him..." Zhao Jiu glanced at Chen Gongfu, Ma Shen, and Li Guang, and then looked at the other prime ministers and ministers who were silent and silent. However, everyone in the audience couldn't help laughing in response. "Kill Du Chong.

It has been remembered so far that people often shout that I actually killed the civil servants and the country will be destroyed. What's more, this person just intervened in the private affairs of the Tian family and did not clearly violate the legal provisions? That's good, Wang Ciweng was exiled

Zhu Yajun (Hainan) and Fan Tong went to Xining (Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Province), so that they would never be together again in this life...Cao Yong, and Empress Dowager Yuanyou who was called Chen Yongxi's escort, were treated together.

Cut it off...and don't get involved with the rest, how about you guys?"

"The officials are generous." Lu Haowen quickly spoke at the right time.

Upon seeing this, the other prime ministers also expressed their opinions one after another, and Li Guang and Ma Shen also blended in with the crowd and fooled them.

"Da Zongzheng wants to comfort him and let his eldest son Zhao Bufan join the imperial army to do some serious work..." Zhao Jiu thought for a moment and continued. "The Ministry of War will make appropriate arrangements."

"I accept the decree."

Liu Ziyu spoke for the first time... Even Shangshu didn't have much chance to open his mouth in this kind of situation.

"I noticed that the national bonds sold very fast this month, and I am planning to issue more large-denomination bonds at the end of the year." Zhao Jiufu glanced at Lin Jingmo, the minister of household affairs beside Liu Ziyu, with a strange expression, but what he said was expected.

"Lin Qing, please prepare."

Moreover, as Zhao Guan's family went bankrupt in fishing and law enforcement, but has remained silent, perhaps because he was worried about purges, the treasury bond market in the twelfth lunar month was particularly hot... After all, treasury bonds cannot be copied... Then we can see each other, the year-end big bonds that will be issued soon

The government bond market should also be quite hot.

According to Zhao Guan's family's temperament, if he didn't take the opportunity to sell a wave of Northern Expedition treasury bonds under such circumstances, it would be wrong for him.

In response to this, although Lin Jingmo noticed the official's eyes, he could only respond calmly.

After this exchange, the palace became quiet again... As the small hall of Zhao Guan's palace, the fire dragon was obviously burning in the hall. Everyone stood there, feeling quite depressed, but still no one spoke.

After all, everyone knows that there are some things that have not been mentioned yet, and these words can only be said by Zhao Guanjia himself.

In fact, except for Lu Haowen, several prime ministers have not been very active and are just waiting for those topics.

"I have been thinking about the prince for a long time." Zhao Jiu finally sighed. "After having a son, I realized the difficulty of being a father... I want him to be wise and powerful, but I also want him to be dull and simple... However, this is not what I can do

It's decided. What I'm worried about is that if we establish a prince and give him an official in the East Palace, as time goes by, there will inevitably be trouble between father and son... Not to mention Wu Zetian, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian. In the past few years, Taishang Dao

Aren’t Emperor Jun and Emperor Taishang Yuansheng also having a huge quarrel? Especially since I am still barely half an emperor, there is no way there will be any bigger disaster.”

When these words were first spoken, many important ministers from Zhao Ding and other foreign dynasties immediately went to review the advice they had thought of, but before even saying a few words, these important ministers became helpless again.

Without him, this official likes to talk about some troublesome things casually... When he is sick, he is afraid that the Second Saint will steal the throne, and then fishes for law enforcement, forcing everyone to come out and shout to establish the crown prince, then establish the crown prince. When the illness is cured, the Second Saint will feel

You are no longer a saint, and if you don’t want to establish a crown prince, then don’t establish a crown prince. Why do you have to talk about father and son killing each other in everything?

"But if I don't stand, once I have a shortcoming, as I said at the beginning, how can we ensure that the great cause of the Northern Expedition is not in vain?" Zhao Jiu didn't seem to notice the helpless expressions of everyone, and just continued to sigh. "It's nothing more than this.

I need to have a confirmed heir who will serve the public, and then let those of you who are willing to inherit my legacy protect his Northern Expedition... Do you think that’s right?”

Now that the disease is cured, there is no need to talk about legacy and shortcomings... even Lin Shangshu can analyze the official's intentions behind his back. There is no need.

"That's it." Zhao Jiu really had no intention of letting these people answer. "I thought of a way... called secret establishment... that is, I wrote two wills, the same, and received one.

Go to the main hall of Wende Palace and hang it high on the beam in front of everyone, and ask Yang Yizhong to take a copy with me, so that no matter where I disappear, you can use it to establish a new king."

Everyone was stunned for a moment and then began to think seriously.

Immediately, Zhao Ding asked seriously: "The official idea seems to come from the "Old Book of Tang". Persia has always had this kind of system... But what if the two decrees of the official family are different?"

"It's really different. Of course, it's based on the Wende Hall." Of course Zhao Jiu didn't know anything about "Old Book of Tang". He copied it from "My Great Qing". As for who he learned from "My Great Qing"

It's none of his business. "However, I will not create two equally hidden princes. I must make sure that everyone knows, at least tacitly..."

At this point, Zhao Jiu turned to face Yang Yizhong, who was standing in front of the side door. The latter, who was holding two boxes, understood and immediately stepped forward, carrying the two boxes to the Prime Minister Lu Haowen in public.

Lu Haowen, who was obviously caught off guard, glanced at Zhao Guan's house, carefully opened the upper one, and then solemnly took out the bright yellow silk. Then Yang Yi Zhongfu held the second box in front of the provincial prime minister Zhao Ding.

Ding did not dare to neglect, and immediately followed the same method and took out the second piece of silk.

"That is my eldest son, Zhao Yuanzuo."

While the other prime ministers and ministers looked solemnly and looked at the two yellow silks carefully, Zhao Jiu did not give these people a chance to solemnly create a sense of ceremony, but directly handed over the answer to the riddle. "The current situation.

There is no reason to go around the eldest brother and go to the second eldest brother. Of course, if there is another explanation later and the secret order needs to be changed, I will naturally tell you again."

After carefully handing the silk in his hand to Zhang Jun, the prime minister beside him, Prime Minister Zhao Ding thought for a moment, but then responded seriously again: "I think the official's move actually means not to establish the East Palace? Not not to establish a crown prince?"

"Xianggong Zhao hit the nail on the head." Zhao Jiu answered frankly.
To be continued...