In the alley not far away, there was an occasional flash of sword light, as if someone was ambush.
Quan Yongjian has already entered the palace.
He walked through the corridor and entered Zhao Fu's study.
This trip was not easy. Ye Mengding, Yang Dong and others were on guard against others approaching King Zhong.
Even King Zhong himself was unwilling to meet his foreign ministers alone.
In the end, it was Quan Yongjian who, in the name of discussing the marriage, told Ye Mengding that the Quan family had already married Prince Zhong, and that the ultimate plan was to consider Prince Zhong before entering the palace.
"His Royal Highness, can we talk privately?"
Zhao Yu was holding a book and reading it, but the book was upside down.
He glanced at Quan Yongjian guiltily and gave instructions to the servants around him. After that, he refused to talk to Quan Yongjian and buried his face in a book.
"You are not allowed to leave, I won't talk to him."
Quan Yongjian had no choice but to persuade him: "Your Highness, my sister-in-law is about to marry King Zhong. We are a family and we will never harm Your Highness."
This is also true. Even brothers Zhao Yun, Zhao and Rui were raised by the Quan family. They were already the closest relatives, let alone now they are even closer to each other.
But Zhao Fu muttered: "I can't talk to you in private, I won't agree to it."
Quan Yongjian turned around and looked around, only to see that the waiter in the room refused to leave.
He had no choice but to grit his teeth and move forward to get close to Zhao Fu's ear.
The servants around him were startled. They didn't expect His Highness' brother-in-law to be so bold, and they hurriedly stepped forward to pull him away.
But Quan Yongjian whispered: "Your Highness, you were deceived by Li Xia. The officials know it. I am here to save Your Highness..."
Zhao Yu's expression changed in shock.
He actually remembered that Li Xia said that he could not listen to other people's flattery and deceit.
He is a bit stubborn and firmly believes in this truth. He has never wanted to see outsiders.
Only this sentence, "The officials know about it," really frightened him.
"Don't pull him, don't pull him, get off, get off."
Quan Yongjian glanced at the door being closed and then spoke in a low voice.
"Your Highness, the officials already know it. Your Highness took Li Xia to kill Prince Rong, right?"
Zhao Fu began to tremble again, glanced at Quan Yongjian bitterly, and lowered his head.
But don't speak.
He remembered that he couldn't speak, so he shut his mouth tightly again.
"Does Your Highness know the truth?" Quan Yongjian said: "Your Highness is truly the biological flesh and blood of King Rong! It was Ye Mengding who colluded with Li Xia and deceived His Highness..."
Zhao Fu didn't believe it, but he saw with his own eyes that his own blood and Li Yong's blood were fused together.
Quan Yongjian was still talking.
"I have found out clearly that it was Ye Mengding who arranged for Li Xia to enter Prince Zhong's Mansion, pretending to be His Highness's attendant, and then arranged for His Highness to go see Prince Rong."
Zhao Fu was stunned for a moment and finally asked in surprise.
"gentlemen?"
"Yes, the ghost of Wei Guansun that His Highness saw was actually Li Xia pretending to be one. It was Ye Mengding who was helping Li Xia and deceiving His Highness, so that His Highness saw that scene. Your Highness, you are innocent!"
When Quan Yongjian said this, he was afraid that Zhao Fu wouldn't understand and kept talking.
All of this was given to him by others, but he didn't understand it himself. He asked Quan Jiu to explain it for a long time. At this time, he was still confused when talking to Zhao Yu.
"His Highness is a bloodline of King Rong and a nephew of the official family. This is an indisputable fact. The official family is willing to believe in His Highness. His Highness is innocent and was deceived by Ye Mengding. The ghosts and auspiciousness are all a result of their joint efforts. Your Highness
I have always been unaware...
Officials have found Li Xia and reported it to them. Jia Xiang is worried about implicating His Highness, and is stepping up his efforts to find out the evidence that Ye Mengding deceived His Highness, fearing that His Highness will be implicated. At the moment, only Jia Xiang can be trusted. Only when His Highness is invited, will he be sure?
The important thing is that Ye Mengding asked Your Highness to go see King Rong and arranged for his entourage. Your Highness really saw the ghost of Wei Guansun..."
Zhao Fu had already understood. He glanced at Quan Yongjian secretly and saw that this idiot was still stumbling to explain, as if he was afraid that he wouldn't understand.
He licked his lips quietly, shook his body deliberately, and rolled his eyes.
I was still scared, but I was still a little proud.
Hey, you all want to protect yourself as emperor?
…
"Your Highness, do you understand?" Quan Yongjian asked with his mouth dry and worried that Zhao Fu wouldn't understand.
"You mean Jia Xiang? Then replace the gentleman with Jia Xiang... what can he give me?" Zhao Fu asked, his eyes a little greedy.
Quan Yongjian was stunned.
He was truly shocked and couldn't believe that the fool in front of him suddenly asked this.
But he wasn't ready yet and couldn't answer for a while.
No one has discussed this issue with Quan Yongjian yet.
Who would have thought that a fool could ask such a question? Isn’t it said that you can only speak when you are seven years old?
Zhao Fu pulled Quan Yongjian's sleeve and asked with fear and expectation: "I became the emperor... I don't want to study... I want many, many women... I want to accept the Hu family..."
"Your Highness...blood...bloodline..." Quan Yongjian murmured, "Your Highness...regardless of life experience..."
Zhao Yu buried his face in the book again.
Only then did Quan Yongjian react and said: "Here, what does Your Highness want? Mr. Jia can give it to you."
Zhao Yu finally revealed his eyes from behind the book.
At first glance, his eyes seemed very innocent, but upon closer inspection, they were mixed with too much fear and longing, but without any emotion.
Like a child, he commented, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
"Mr. Jia Bi is better."
~~
At this time, the chamberlains who summoned Zhao You into the palace arrived outside Prince Zhong's Mansion.
Li Xia had left the palace city, walked through the streets of Lin'an alone, and turned into Tao's alley.
The door creaked open, and Liu Jinsuo and Nian'er came forward with anxious expressions on their faces.
"Commander, something happened!"
Li Xia looked around and saw that Nian'er's face was full of tears, so he knew something was wrong.
"Shortly after the Marshal left, I was about to go out with my two young ladies. Someone came from the palace, saying that Ji Xiuyi in the palace was in love with the Tang family as sisters, and wanted to invite the Tang family to the palace to reminisce about the past. I didn't agree, but Tang
Everyone said that if she doesn't go, we can't leave quietly, I, I..."
"After she left, Ji Xixi's people didn't care about you?"
"yes."
"I know, there's a time difference." Li Xia muttered to himself.
He looked up at the sky and said calmly: "It's okay."
He hugged Nian'er and whispered: "Nothing happened, just scare yourself. Your girl is just going to meet Ji Xixi. I will pick her back up later."
"Really? Wuwu... I don't know what happened to Nian'er. Liu Tongzhi looks very anxious, as if the girl can't come back... Wuwu..."
"It's okay. Liu Jinsuo is just nervous all day long. He just went to the palace to accompany Ji Xixi. Weren't we all good sisters before?"
"No, they are not good sisters..."
"Your girl has received a gift, so she also has to reminisce about old times. Don't you believe me?"
"Well, Mr. Nian'erxin."
"Don't worry, go and clean up. I'll pick up your girl and we'll go back to Sichuan."
Li Xia is very calm.
Nian'er felt at ease because of this.
In fact, she didn't know what happened. She was really frightened by Liu Jinsuo's nervous look.
Li Xia comforted her and quickly walked into the lobby.
"Call everyone here."
After a while, several confidants gathered over.
Li Xia put down the water glass calmly and said, "The best strategy failed."
Everyone was stunned.
Yang Shi spoke first and asked, "How can Alang remedy this?"
"It's not a remedy. There's nothing easy to remedy." Li Xia said.
The more important things happened, the calmer he appeared, and his words comforted others.
"Don't worry, listen to me.
Our goal is to return to Sichuan and Shu and serve as commander in a stable position. To this end, the emperor's distrust of me must be eliminated.
First of all, Zhao Yurui must die. He is one of the reasons why the emperor does not believe in me. He is an unavoidable knot. Killing him is the first step in all plans, and he must be killed.
The best option is to conceal the matter of killing him and continue to gain the emperor's trust.
This trust must be very thin, it has always been very thin. We tried our best to maintain it, but it was still lightly broken and shattered. But it doesn't matter..."
~~
Li Xia's speech was neither urgent nor slow, and he thought a lot while speaking.
His best strategy was not to lose at the hands of Wen Yunsun.
Never.
Jia Sidao made it very clear from the beginning that the political system of the Song Dynasty for more than three hundred years was filled with two words - precaution, precaution, precaution!
Its cornerstone is formed to protect the ancestral temple and the country of a family and a family.
Yue Fei, Meng Gong, Yu Jie and others have no rebellious intentions and are still under suspicion. What's more, Li Xia really has treasonous intentions and dares to kill the emperor's half-brother.
Jia Sidao was smart and noticed it first, but he was unwilling to come forward to expose it personally. However, he could easily find a scapegoat to expose the matter.
Even if Yun Sun was not heard, there were many people in the court who dared to come forward to reveal the matter.
But it was because Wen Yunsun was smarter and more courageous that he became the first discoverer.
Fortunately, Wen Yunsun was not pedantic, knew how to adapt, took the situation in the southwest into consideration, and was willing to visit Li Xia and ask Li Xia, "Do you have something to hide?"
If it were other people, such as Rao Huchen, Mou Zicai and other upright people, they would directly write a piece of paper and let Li Xia's head disappear before he realized it.
Are these people at fault?
No.
Why do they think you, Li Xia, are right to rebel?
Just because you, Li Xia, are capable? There are many capable people.
However, after serving in the army for three years, there is no need to compare with Yue Fei.
What's more, if everyone accused the Song Dynasty of its stubborn abuses and determined to change the dynasty, the world would have been ruined long ago!
Is it so easy to change dynasties?
If millions of people can't produce a founding king, why should people believe in you?
Changing dynasties is contrary to heaven, and one always first makes enemies of the world.
You have always broken the peace of the entire world first and been criticized by thousands of people...until a turning point appears and let the world admit that you can make the people of the world live better than before.
Li Xia is a long way from this turning point.
Before that, he was a thief and a heinous criminal.
He admits it.
He had to be willing to endure this heinous crime until he allowed the world to live a better life.
If he doesn't survive that day, he is willing to be nailed to the pillar of shame and be reviled by all generations.
Without such ambition, what kind of rebellion is there?
Of course, Li Xia knows that his current strength is still far behind, so he can only hide his strength and bide his time.
Therefore, he tried his best to make Zhao Yun trust him.
But Zhao Yun was not a fool, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were not fools.
Zhao Yun could no longer trust him.
…
"But it doesn't matter, we are not unprepared mentally."
Li Xia said, reaching out and tapping a table in front of him, which was filled with information and documents.
"For example, we are playing against the emperor and the courtiers at this table, trying to convince them of my loyalty. Unfortunately, we failed. There are many reasons. I admit that I can't beat Jia Sidao when playing tricks. However,
I also reminded him what I would do if I lost."
Having said this, Li Xia casually lifted the table and overturned it.