Damn it!
boom!
Click!
When Zhao Ming came to Funing Palace, he heard the sound of things being smashed before he even entered.
It turned out that after Cao Shuang left, Zhao Duan couldn't help but vent his anger when he thought of the two groups of ministers in the court and the situation facing the Song Dynasty!
After hearing the sound, Zhao Ming stopped going in and waited quietly at the door.
After a while, the sound of smashing in Funing Palace stopped.
Zhao Duan's voice with a hint of exhaustion slowly sounded:
"Someone, come in and clean up."
The palace maids and eunuchs who were driven out looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was standing at the door. Zhao Ming nodded slightly and got out of the way.
A group of palace maids and eunuchs immediately filed in with various cleaning tools, and soon exited with a pile of debris and broken items.
Zhao Ming then straightened his clothes, coughed lightly and walked in.
"Father! My son, please see your father!"
Entering Funing Palace, Zhao Ming immediately saw Zhao Duan standing in the center of the palace with his hands behind his back, panting slightly, obviously still angry.
Zhao Ming immediately raised his hands and saluted.
Hearing his voice, Zhao Duan's body visibly stiffened. When he turned around and saw him, his frown gradually relaxed.
"No gift."
Speak calmly.
Zhao Ming stood up and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhao Duan, who was still breathing slightly, to sit on a chair. Zhao Duan sat down without any resistance.
After sitting down, he touched his chest and then shook his head helplessly and sighed: "I'm old, I'm old!"
"My father is now in his prime, and he can still rule the Song Dynasty for another twenty years. How old is he?"
Zhao Ming said quickly.
Zhao Duan glanced at him, then looked away, his eyes full of vicissitudes of life, and said slowly: "You are old when you are old, and you have to accept it when you are old. At this time, he will not show mercy to you just because you are tough.
Today's Song Dynasty is just like me. I once thought that I could bring Song Dynasty back.
From my youth to now, I have worked step by step to make up for the shortcomings and eliminate the troubles of the Song Dynasty step by step.
However, I didn't expect that I would encounter such a situation just when I was about to succeed.
Prince, do you know why this is the case? "
Zhao Ming was stunned for a moment, but did not make a sound.
Zhao Duan sighed, and then continued: "You are soft-hearted, not cruel enough, and too anxious!
I know how deeply the Ding family has penetrated my country, the Song Dynasty. When I was young, I carefully cut off the wings of the Ding family little by little without daring to be careless.
Unexpectedly, he was impulsive and used the Xiongnu to give the Ding family a hard blow, which made them start to break their jars. He also gave the Song Dynasty a hard blow!
This has resulted in the current situation.
Normally, I should be careful to cut off all the tentacles of the Ding family one by one, and taking down the center in one last move is the surest way.
But I am anxious!
Because...I am old! "
Tears appeared in the corners of Zhao Duan's eyes, slowly sliding down his wrinkled cheeks, and murmured: "I can't wait any longer. I wanted to get rid of this big trouble in the Ding family for you before I left, but instead Acting too hastily brought the Song Dynasty to its current end.
I...I...I'm sorry for my ancestors of the Song Dynasty! Wuwuwu..."
Zhao Duan cried sadly. This was the first time for Zhao Ming to see his father like this.
For a moment, I didn’t know what to say to comfort me. In the end, I could only pat my father’s back and comfort him:
"Father was not wrong, he was only wrong in underestimating the viciousness of the Ding family.
I underestimated how low their bottom line was!
How dare you collude with the Huns and let your own work open the door for the Huns! So much so that the Huns surrounded Bianjing with overwhelming force! "
Zhao Duan's crying gradually stopped, and his eyes became firm again.
He grabbed Zhao Ming's hand and said solemnly:
"Prince! Listen to me!
I have a hunch that Bianjing will not be able to defend Bianjing for too long. The Ding family has planted so many spies in various cities. In order to retaliate against my Zhao family, it is impossible for them not to arrange spies in Bianjing.
It's just that those details haven't been revealed yet, I can't find them, they've been hiding in the dark!
But what I can see is that many people in the court have been bribed by the Ding family. Look at the ministers in the court who are making peace. There may be really stupid people among them, but I believe that most of them are It's the people from the Ding family who are adding fuel to the fire!
As for the secret guard, to be honest, I don’t believe it anymore!
In the past two years, I feel more and more that the secret guards seem to be increasingly out of control, and a lot of information that should have been received early is often found out behind others.
Everyone in the court knows that the secret guards are my eyes, so I conclude that it is very likely that they have placed spies among the secret guards.
That’s why this happens! "
Upon hearing that the secret guard might have been planted with an informant, Zhao Ming panicked at this moment and asked quickly: "Father, do you mean that Cao Da is accompanying him?"
Zhao Duan shook his head and affirmed:
"There is no problem with Cao Shuang, he is still loyal to me, but it is not certain whether his filial sons and grandsons are still loyal to him.
This is also the main reason why I no longer dare to trust the secret guards.
Nowadays, the only thing our Zhao family can trust is the 50,000 Longxiang troops staying in Bianjing!
The personnel arrangements for each of the four forbidden armies are made by me personally, and I never rely on others. These four forbidden armies are the only ones I can trust, and they are also the only ones I can trust in the hands of the royal family.
But not long ago, the emperor's uncle disappeared, and the Tianwu Army was ordered by me to search for his whereabouts.
As the people in the four southern counties rebelled, I sent out two other forbidden troops. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it was all a conspiracy of the Ding family!
This is because they are constantly weakening Bianjing's defensive strength to facilitate today's situation!
I was fooled. Although I reacted and immediately asked Cao Shuang to try to call back the imperial troops, but judging from the subsequent changes, I am afraid that those recall orders were not sent out at all, otherwise why would they not come back after so long.
Now Bianjing is probably blocked by the other side, and the only one we can rely on is Long Xiang's army.
I sent most of the Longxiang army to defend the city, but I left five thousand people. These five thousand people are the elite of the Longxiang army. Today I will hand them over to you. Once things are strictly enforced, they will I will take you to flee north!
Go find Lao Liu!
I can see that Lao Liu is a good boy. He will help you, help you return to Bianjing, help you ascend to the throne, and help us avenge the Song Dynasty!
Give! This is the military talisman for the five thousand people. You must take it and don't let anyone know. The palace is no longer safe at this moment!
I will let Cao Shuang tell you the location of the five thousand people. You must remember one sentence.
Keep the green hills and don’t worry about burning without materials!
Everything needs to be calm, don’t act too hastily! "
As he spoke, Zhao Duan took out half of the military talisman from his arms. It was half of a bronze dragon head, and the other half should be in the hands of the five thousand people.
Zhao Duan placed the military talisman in Zhao Ming's hand, his eyes full of determination!
Zhao Ming didn't understand why things developed to this point. He subconsciously held the soldier talisman in his hand tightly and asked:
"Has the father's matter really reached this point?"
Zhao Duan smiled miserably and asked, "Do you know why Zhang He fell ill?"
Zhao Ming shook his head, wondering what this matter had to do with his own problem.
"He was assassinated! Assassinated by a dead soldier of the Ding family!
After he fell ill, those capitulators showed up in the court! "
"What?!"
Zhao Ming opened his mouth in shock.
"But isn't Zhang He...?"
Zhao Duan shook his head: "He is one of my people, and he is also a chess piece that I buried in the court to secretly control the court. Now it seems that he has been exposed."
This time, Zhao Ming was really shocked to the point that his brain short-circuited!
The prime minister Zhanghe, who has been helping Lao Wu against himself, is actually his father's man?
Then in these years, Zhang He's fight with himself and his father, wasn't it just that his father and the two of them were playing a double act?
But then he remembered Zhang He's assassination, and Zhao Ming suddenly realized the reason why his father was acting abnormally today.
"My father is afraid that the Ding family will harm the palace...but the worshipers in the palace are not easy to deal with. How can the Ding family pose a threat to my father like they dealt with Zhang He?"
Zhao Ming couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure it out no matter what.
Zhao Duan patted his shoulder and said softly:
“Tomorrow, many things are not what they seem on the surface but are true.
The most important thing for a superior person is to have a pair of eyes that can distinguish between true and false.
Otherwise he would be just a puppet of the people below!
well……"
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(End of chapter)
