Chapter 292 Zhang Fu Is Assassinated

If the person presiding over the court meeting today is Zhao Zhen.

Perhaps, there will be some tolerant policies, hoping to reduce the murder of the Liao envoy from a major incident to a trivial matter.

But no matter what, Wei Yuan will not be handed over.

It is a pity that the person presiding over the court meeting today is the Prince of Jianguo, the man who said a few years ago that he would be the emperor immediately.

Wei Yuan's teachings to him since he was a child can be summed up in eight words, 'If you want to fight, fight, if you don't obey, fight.'

Of course, in addition to this, there are also some thoughts of patriotism and love for the people and thoughts that focus on the development of weapons.

All in all, compared to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Xi is definitely a monarch who is not afraid of fighting and fighting.

After the court meeting, Zhao Xi invited Yanda, the commander of the Imperial City Division, to the Xuanzheng Hall and asked:

"Commander Yan, can I trust you?"

Hearing this, Yanda was shocked, "Your Highness, I was promoted by the official family. I am loyal to the royal family and the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Xi shook his head and asked, "Can I trust you?"

Yanda looked up and saw Zhao Xi's fiery gaze.

He didn't respond, just nodded solemnly towards the other party.

Seeing this, Zhao Xi smiled and said: "From now on, the Imperial City Division will only do three things."

Yanda listened carefully.

Zhao Xi slowly said:

"First, send some manpower to protect Master Wei in the south of the Yangtze River. Remember, it is protection, not surveillance. If Master Wei makes the slightest mistake, I will take care of you."

When the Liao envoy died, he was worried that Wei Yuan might encounter something unexpected.

Although there are tiger guards protecting Wei Yuan, he is basically safe, but the tiger guards are tiger guards, and the nature of the people sent by Zhao Xi is different from those of the tiger guards.

He was also worried that Wei Yuan would think too much, so he repeatedly reminded Yanda that it was protection, not surveillance.

"Second, closely monitor Liao Xia's every move."

When Zhao Xi said these words, Wang Anshi was standing next to him.

The latter looked at the former with a somewhat complicated look, mixed with emotions such as relief and distress.

Fortunately, the prince has become more mature, but sadly, the prince should not have matured at this age.

But he was the prince and had no choice.

"Third, strictly investigate those who are powerful and powerful in the capital and have liaisons with enemy countries."

After Zhao Xi finished talking about the three points, Yanda hesitated for a moment and asked in a deep voice,

"May I ask, Your Highness, to what extent do you want to investigate?"

Zhao Xi said word by word: "There is no upper limit, no matter who is involved, even if they are relatives of the emperor, princes and princes, they will be killed without mercy!"

Yanda was struck by lightning.

He has worked for Zhao Zhen for many years, and he understands Zhao Zhen's character.

If Zhao Zhen is allowed to do this, the most he can do is go to jail and he will not kill anyone.

However, Zhao Xi wanted to kill.

The two protagonists have completely different personalities, and I don’t know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Yanda bowed solemnly and said: "Your Highness, please rest assured. I despise your position and will thoroughly investigate the traitors in the capital!"

After that, he left the hall.

Zhao Xi looked at his leaving figure and said to Wang Anshi beside him:

"Master Wang, I want to raise a big prison, why don't you advise me?"

Wang Anshi smiled and said: "I also want to see a strong leader come out of our country."

Zhao Xi clasped his little hands and asked expectantly: "If we start a war, can we win?"

Wang Anshi thought about it seriously and said, "It should be possible."

Zhao Xi's eyes lit up. At this moment, he seemed like a child instead of a prisoner.

"Can the sixteen states of Yanyun be recovered? Can I personally conquer them?"

Wang Anshi was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "To recover the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, we should focus on cannibalization. It will take more than one generation to achieve success."

Not a generation?

Zhao Xi said dissatisfied: "Master Wei said that we cannot leave everything to the next generation. Only this generation can regain the sixteen states of Yanyun!"

At the same time, in the residence of Marquis Zhongyong.

Zhang Guifen and Minglan were playing with Brother Zhuang and Sister Jing.

When teasing Brother Zhuang, he behaved very lively. Sometimes he would pull Minglan's hair tightly without knowing the severity, making Minglan scream in pain.

As for Sister Jing, when teasing her, she just pursed her lips and smiled, and seemed to like Minglan very much.

Not long after, Xu Changzhi sent a message to Zhang Guifen about what was going on at the court today.

After hearing this, the latter became panicked and said angrily: "Those officials, what do you mean? They are eating the food of the court and the royal family, but they are helping the Liao Kingdom to speak?!"

Minglan stood behind her, patted her back gently, and tried her best to comfort her:

"Didn't His Royal Highness reprimand those people severely?"

Zhang Guifen sighed, "Fortunately, His Highness the Crown Prince is still here. If the Crown Prince is not here, those people in the capital may not know how to deal with your uncle."

Minglan wondered: "My uncle always does things for the country and the people. Why do those people target my uncle in every possible way?"

Zhang Guifen turned around and held Minglan's hand, and said sincerely: "It's precisely because your uncle always puts family and country first no matter what he does, including Southeast affairs and the reform of the Yanbian military system."

"We women don't understand these things, but it is precisely because of these things that your uncle has offended so many people."

"They want your uncle to fall completely, and they want me, Dazhou, to be bullied by the enemy forever."

After hearing this, Minglan also became sentimental.

"Others only saw my uncle's glory. They never thought that his success was achieved by fighting with his sword and gun."

Having said this, she took off a hairpin from her hair, squatted in front of Zhang Guifen who was sitting on the stone bench, held the hairpin in both hands, and said with moist eyes:

“I have never seen my uncle since I can remember. My mother always told me that my uncle is a genius. He is better than ordinary people in reading, writing and martial arts.”

“My mother also said that my uncle has never seen me because he joined the army, but he always wrote letters to my mother. I have read those letters. My uncle writes several letters every month.”

“The letters are all about me. My uncle asked my mother in the letters whether I can walk, talk, and whether I am naughty on weekdays. He also said that he wanted to see me and hug me, and said that his niece would "I must be the most beautiful woman in the world."

"At first, my mother didn't tell me about the letter written by my uncle, until one day, a general gave my mother this hairpin bought by my uncle, saying that it was for me. That time, except for the hairpin, no letter was left. "

"I was still young and ignorant at that time. When I grew up, I knew that my uncle was imprisoned and in danger of his life, but he still wanted to give me, his niece, a hairpin. "

"My uncle is the best uncle in the world."

As she spoke, Minglan shed two lines of tears.

Zhang Guifen hugged her in her arms, "No wonder you didn't take all the precious hairpins I gave you, but took this hairpin your uncle gave you."

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In the seventh year of Jiayou, the beginning of October.

The Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji announced to the world that he appointed Yelu Renxian as the commander and Wanyan Wugunai as the deputy commander, and called them the million lions to attack Daizhou.

On the tenth day of the same month, Li Yuanhao ordered Li Liangzuo to lead 300,000 lions to attack Helan Mountain.

On October 13, Zhong Yan led the first army and three divisions to garrison Helan Mountain and deploy defensive fortifications.

On October 14, Han Jiang, Duke of Kangguo, led the second Yanbian army to station at Changchengling, forming a horn with the first army.

On October 15, the seventh and eighth divisions of the third army stationed in Shilijing, and the war was about to break out.

On October 17, the Battle of Yanmen broke out, and Liang Da, the commander of the Daizhou militia, personally guarded Yanmen to prevent the Liao army from invading.

At that time, in Bianjing, on the court.

The prince was late.

The officials were discussing,

"How many troops did Liao send?"

"Didn't they say a million lions?"

"What a joke, can they send a million lions?"

"Yesterday I asked Duke Han, he said, at least 500,000 troops."

"500,000? Hiss!"

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Liaoxia moved too fast, and they were stunned.

Who would have thought that the armies of Liaoxia and Xia would come so quickly?

They thought that it would take at least a period of stalemate before the war broke out.

While they were discussing, Duke Yingguo Zhang Fu, who looked solemn, and Duke Fuguo, Duke Hanguo and other old dukes with real power slowly walked into the hall.

Seeing this, many officials who were originally in a panic, at this moment, seemed to have taken a reassurance pill, and felt much lighter in their hearts.

"Duke Ying is here."

"Hello Duke Ying."

"Hello dukes."

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Many civil officials bowed deeply to them.

Only in wartime, when the situation is critical, can they show respect to these military heroes with titles.

There is an unwritten rule in the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is, during war, the first military hero to go up will die first.

Fan Chunren bowed deeply to Zhang Fu and said, "I feel relieved to see you come to the palace."

At this moment, everyone regarded Zhang Fu as the pillar of the country.

It seems that with him, no matter how fierce and fierce the Liao attack is, it doesn't matter.

Zhang Fu stood at the head of the military hero team and nodded to Fan Chunren. Then, a eunuch brought a chair and asked him to sit down.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, only two people can enjoy the right to sit on the chair when they go to court.

One is Han Zhang, and the other is Zhang Fu.

Even the current prime minister Fan Chunren has no right to sit on the chair.

After Zhang Fu sat down, he closed his eyes, as if he was ignoring the world.

After an unknown amount of time, the prince who presided over the court meeting still did not come, and some officials could not help but get anxious.

"Minister Wang, you are close to the prince, why hasn't the prince come yet?"

"Yes, it's been several hours."

"Although the prince is young, he is the regent after all, and it is inappropriate for him to be late for the court meeting."

"Today, no matter what, we must discuss a way to resist Liao and Xia."

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In the past few days, the Imperial City Division relied on the regent order to kill people in the capital.

Hundreds of Liao and Xia spies, officials and merchants who had close contact with the two countries, etc. were all killed.

This made Bianjing, which was originally a little impetuous, completely fall into anxiety, especially now that the war has already happened.

But Zhao Xi believed that he had done nothing wrong.

If we don't kill the traitor now, when will we?

Soon.

All the officials were suddenly stunned.

I saw the prince Zhao Xi supporting the pale-faced and skinny Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Great Zhou Dynasty who was walking slowly.

Seeing this, Zhang Fu and all the officials bowed together,

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

"Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

After three cheers.

Zhao Zhen, whose eyes were already lifeless, slowly looked at the ministers.

He saw many familiar faces.

"My dear ministers, long time no see."

After saying that, Zhao Zhen suddenly coughed.

Some ministers immediately burst into tears and knelt down and kowtowed:

"Your Majesty, please take care of your health!"

"Your Majesty, please take care of your health!"

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Hearing this, Zhao Zhen waved his hands feebly, looked around the ministers, and finally laid his eyes on Zhang Fu, and asked weakly:

"Can you win?"

Prince Zhao Xi was worried that Zhang Fu had not heard it, so he recounted Zhao Zhen's words again.

Hearing this, Zhang Fu nodded firmly and said: "Yes."

At this moment, in the eyes of the two of them, it seemed that there was no one else around except this pair of monarchs and ministers who had been going through ups and downs for decades.

Zhao Zhen said: "I believe in you."

Zhang Fu clasped his fists, "Old minister, I can only do my best and never embarrass Your Majesty!"

He didn't say anything about winning or conquering.

He just said that he would never embarrass Zhao Zhen.

Because he understands Zhao Zhen.

In the later years of his reign, such a monstrous war broke out. If he was defeated, how would the history books be written?

Zhao Zhen didn't want to be criticized by the world because of this.

He nodded towards Zhang Fu, then looked at the ministers, and said in his loudest voice:

"The fight against Liao and Xia is all decided by Zhang Fu. The six ministries and nine divisions will do their best to help each other without any violation."

"In addition, the prince will still supervise the country."

After saying that, Zhao Zhen stood up from the dragon chair tremblingly.

Seeing this, Prince Zhao Xi quickly helped him.

Zhao Zhen first looked at Fan Chunren, shook his head slightly, sighed, and said:

"Fan Qing, let Han Zhang help you."

Then, he held the prince's wrist and made him sit on the dragon chair in front of all the civil and military officials. He smiled and said:

"My son, I shall be like Yao and Shun."

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "I'm tired. The prince will continue to preside over the court meeting."

Then, in full view of everyone, he was supported by Manager Zhu and left the place.

Zhao Xi watched Zhao Zhen leave.

Then, in a childish voice, he said seriously:

"Your Majesty, my father believes in you, and I believe in you too."

"From this moment on, you have the right to mobilize all our armies."

"Help my father, help me, help the people of Zhou Dynasty, beat Liao Xia hard!"

After the meeting.

Zhang Fu came to the Ministry of War and began to mobilize troops and generals.

Late at night, when returning home, the Minister of War wanted to send more people to protect Zhang Fu, but he refused and said with a smile:

"The Imperial City Division has killed so many traitors and enemy spies. At this moment, there is no safer place than Bianjing."

In two days, he would lead part of the army northward, and wanted to go home to arrange some things before then.

He is already old and worried that his body will not be able to bear it anymore.

But at this moment, in this critical moment, no one except him and Wei Yuan can carry the flag.

However, Zhao Zhen refused to let Wei Yuan return to Beijing, and there was nothing he could do.

The British Duke's Palace is located on Jinliangqiao Street. Walk out of Imperial Street and head west, and you will be back home in a short time.

On October 18th, the seventh year of Jiayou's reign, at the end of the Chou period, Zhang Fu was assassinated and was seriously injured and dying.

The capital was in chaos, and all the officials were in panic.