The results of the investigation into the assassination of His Royal Highness King Chen came out quickly. Sure enough, as Zhao Yao and He Lianfang expected, the final result was that he was killed by the rebel army, and the Southern Wei Dynasty was not involved.
The Eighth Prince and the others were impeccable in their work and could not leave any clues pointing to the Southern Wei Dynasty. Even if the Eighth Prince and the others accidentally exposed some clues pointing to the Southern Wei Dynasty, the emperor would not announce to the public that it was the Southern Wei people who did it.
The word "Southern Wei" was a taboo not only in the previous dynasties, but also in the Zhou Dynasty. However, not many officials and people in the Zhou Dynasty knew about the existence of the "Southern Wei". After all, the Southern Wei Dynasty was exterminated in the previous dynasty, and their existence was basically erased after that.
Nowadays, the only people in the court who know about the existence of Southern Wei are officials from aristocratic families.
The family has a long history, and they know many things that have disappeared or been lost, and even know some unknown secrets of the royal family.
Although the aristocratic families knew about the Southern Wei Dynasty, they did not dare to mention it. In addition to avoiding taboos, there was another reason: they felt it was unlucky.
Zhao Yao and He Lianfang found out some things about the Southern Wei Dynasty, which were all superficial things. They did not find out the true secret of Southern Wei. The real Southern Wei Dynasty was even more... amazing than they imagined!
The emperor did not mention the Southern Wei Dynasty, not because he disliked the bad luck of the Southern Wei Dynasty, but for other reasons. Of course, the emperor did not like Southern Wei, it could even be said that he hated it.
Even if he knew that the culprit behind the assassination of His Royal Highness King Chen was a Southern Wei person, the emperor would pretend not to know. He fulfilled the wishes of the Southern Wei people and passed the mastermind behind the incident to the rebels.
It cannot be said that the assassination of His Royal Highness King Chen had nothing to do with the rebellion. The people who assassinated him were indeed rebels, and they were subordinates of the once notorious Jiao Shan.
Jiao Shan was a notorious rebel in the previous dynasty. In the name of rebellion, he burned and looted everywhere. His methods are very cruel. Everywhere he goes, he will slaughter everyone in the place, even the infants. When there was no food in the previous dynasty, he still raised "vegetables".
Before the emperor got rid of him, he was very powerful in the Hebei area. He proclaimed himself emperor and used his surname "Jiao" as the title of his country.
At that time, many rebels took refuge in Jiaoshan. Jiao Shan accepted everyone, and those who followed Jiao Shan became cruel.
The emperor originally led the four generals, namely Shen Hu and others, to annihilate Jiao Shan and others. Of course, Jiao Shan's group was no match for the emperor and the others, and they were quickly wiped out. However, some of his men took the opportunity to escape.
Over the years, Dazhou has eliminated many rebel armies, large and small, but they have not been completely eradicated, and some have slipped through the net. These fish that slipped through the net became useless and became bandits or horse bandits.
The bandits who assassinated His Royal Highness King Chen were a small group of rebels who escaped from Hebei. They have been hiding in the mountains for these years and come out to rob from time to time.
The people of the Southern Wei Dynasty knew of their existence, so they cooperated with them and let them assassinate His Highness King Chen.
This group of people originally hated Da Zhou, and they were very happy to learn that Da Zhou's prince was going to be assassinated.
Of course, after they assassinated His Highness King Chen, they were all killed, not a single one was left alive, and the bodies disappeared. The emperor sent people to search for these rebels but could not find them.
Many ministers in the court did not believe that His Royal Highness King Chen's death was caused by the rebel army. They suspected that the assassin was someone else, but they did not expect that the final result of the investigation was that the rebel army was responsible.
The emperor ordered the people from Tingwei's Mansion to investigate, and there was no way he could fake it. Besides, even if Tingwei Mansion was given 10,000 courages, they would not dare to hide the truth.
The ministers were surprised at first by such a result and couldn't believe that the truth was really like this. Then they felt relieved. If the truth turns out to be as conspiratorial as they suspect, they will be restless. Now that they know that the mastermind behind the assassination of His Royal Highness King Chen is really the rebel army, not someone or some people in the court, then they don't need to worry. Especially the Third Prince and the others.
The court, which had become somewhat depressed due to the death of His Highness Prince Chen, is now back to normal. The officials in the court once again focused their attention on the King of Chu's return to Shu.
After finding out the truth behind the assassination of His Highness King Chen, His Highness King Chen was buried. Because he was a prince during his lifetime, he could not be crowned a prince after his death, so he could only continue to be buried with the standards of a prince's funeral.
Zhao Yao had no feelings for His Highness King Chen, his sixth brother. Zhao Yao had no sympathy for his death, because His Highness King Chen had also colluded with King Youxian a few years ago.
After learning about this incident, Zhao Yao finally understood why the emperor was indifferent to King Chen's death.
If King Chen is still alive, he will use the power of King Youxian to seize the throne from other princes in the future. By then, I am afraid that several cities on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be given to King Youxian. Of course, this is Zhao Yao's guess. They had no way of knowing what agreement there was between King Chen and King Youxian.
"Second uncle, do you think my father knows about the existence of Southern Wei?" Also, does my father know about Bage?
He Lianfang glanced at Zhao Yao and said calmly: "Why don't you ask your father personally."
"Uh..." Zhao Yao wrinkled his face with a distressed expression, "I can't ask."
"It's hard to ask?" Hearing this, He Lianfang raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Why is it hard to ask?"
Zhao Yao scratched the back of his head with a confused look on his face: "This... is a bit hard to explain..."
He Lianfang was very surprised by Zhao Yao's reaction. He asked with interest: "Why is it so hard to tell? What happened between you and your father?"
Zhao Yao considered his words: "I feel a little awkward and can't ask."
"awkward?"
"In the past, I always felt that my father did not love me as my youngest son, and I also thought that I did not please him."
Hearing this, He Lianfang's expression suddenly became very strange.
The emperor doesn't like him? Where did he see it?
Zhao Yao continued: "I also think that the mother and concubine are the same, and then I think that if we, mother and son, want to live well in the palace, we have to pretend to be harmless and useless, so as not to get involved in the emperor's affairs. My brothers were trying to win over me, so I did a lot of things secretly."
Only then did He Lianfang understand why Zhao Yao had done so many things secretly at such a young age.
"I feel that my father doesn't like my little son, so I don't like him either. Then I don't have to please my father. When I become a queen, I will go to my fief. At that time, I will be far away from the capital and my father." The emperor is far away, and we can be a father and son who are inseparable from each other."
He Lianfang held back her laughter and said, "Do you really think so?"
Zhao Yao said with some embarrassment: "I really thought so before."
"Generally speaking, if your father doesn't like you, shouldn't you try your best to please your father? Why are you unwilling to please your father?" Children will try their best to please their parents and elders. This is the first time I have seen Zhao Yao's love and attitude like "If you don't love me, why should I please you?"
Zhao Yao asked: "Why should I bother to do such a thankless thing?"
"You should know that there will be many benefits if you please your father. For example, it will make your life in the palace easier for you and your mother and concubine."
"It's not surprising. My mother-in-law and I just want to live well in the palace and don't want to attract attention."
When He Lianfang heard this answer, he was slightly stunned, and then he asked with a somewhat inexplicable expression: "You don't care whether your father likes you or not?"
Zhao Yao shrugged and said: "I don't care, because I have known for a long time that my father is not my father alone. He has ten sons, and a bowl of water must not be equal. Besides, ten fingers are still long or short." He used to He really didn't want to please his father. He wished that his father never paid attention to his youngest son. "When others are good to me, I will be good to others. If others are not good to me, why should I be good to others?"
He Lianfang's mood was a little complicated at the moment, but it didn't show on his face. He asked again: "How did you know that your father is not as unloving to you as you thought?"
"It was that time Concubine Rong sent people to assassinate Concubine Ying in the Taoist Temple. Then I was implicated and almost killed by the assassin. Four secret guards suddenly appeared. From that time on, I learned that my father had been sending secret guards secretly. Protect me." Zhao Yao scratched his face and said, "I just realized that my father doesn't care about my little son."
Hearing this, He Lianfang asked with some confusion: "You know your father cares about you so much, shouldn't you be happy? Why do you feel awkward?"
"I am happy, but I also know why my father doesn't express his love for me openly, so I have been pretending not to know anything in the past few years and continue to treat my father as before."
Hearing this, He Lianfang figured out what Zhao Yao was having trouble with.
"You don't dare to get close to your father?"
Zhao Yao nodded first, then shook his head.
He Lianfang was confused by Zhao Yao and asked angrily: "Do you dare or not?"
"Second uncle, this is not a question of whether you dare or not, but..." Zhao Yao scratched his head in embarrassment, "I have not been close to my father since I was a child, and suddenly he asked me to get close to him. I can't do it, and it's really difficult. awkward."
He Lianfang had never seen Zhao Yao getting along with the emperor. However, when he heard what Zhao Yao said, he somewhat understood what he meant.
"After all, you still don't dare to get close to me."
After hearing this, Zhao Yao was slightly startled, and then he put his hands on his shoulders and said, "It's possible. In fact, I'm not afraid of my father, but if you want me to say everything to my father, just like me and you, my second uncle, I I can't do it, I just feel weird." He knew that his father loved him, but he just couldn't be as close and honest with him as he was with his second uncle. "To be honest, I would rather my father not care about my little son as I thought before."
He Lianfang laughed at the emperor in her heart. He must tell the emperor these words.
"So, my son seems to be very ungrateful." However, he really felt strange.
He Lianfang took a deep look at Zhao Yao, and then said to the point: "You are just afraid, afraid that your father's love for you is fake, afraid that your father's love for you is temporary, and you are also afraid that you and you After your father got close to you, your father didn't get close to you, so you would rather your father never doted on you."
"Is that so?" Zhao Yao had never thought this way.
"You said you don't care whether your father loves you or not, but that's not the case. When you were a child, did you really never think about why your father didn't love you? You really never thought about getting your father's favor like King Dai did. ?”
Zhao Yao was asked. He said after a while: "Maybe I have thought about it." However, he did not remember. He suffered a serious illness that year, and with the memory of another person in his mind, he couldn't quite remember what happened before he fell ill.
"There is another reason why you are afraid, and that is because your father is the emperor." He Lianfang said, "Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, so you dare not get close to your father."
"Ah, is that so?" Zhao Yao thought for a while and felt that what He Lianfang said made sense.
He Lianfang sighed in her heart: I didn't expect this child to be so wary.
"There's nothing wrong with you thinking that."
"Then am I right to think so?" Zhao Yao didn't say these words to Liang Bin just now.
"That's right." He Lianfang said with a smile, "How you treated your father in the past is how you will treat him in the future. There is no need to change your attitude."
Zhao Yao felt that what He Lianfang said was right, but it seemed wrong.
"Second uncle, is it really okay for me to treat my father like this?" He felt a bit like a wolf.
"Very good." He Lianfang persuaded Zhao Yao, "You have to know one thing. Your father is the emperor of Zhou Dynasty first, and then your father. Even if you are close to your father, you can't talk to him about everything. He said."
Zhao Yao somewhat understood it, but also didn't quite understand it. However, what the second uncle said is right.
"I understand." It's still the same as before. He doesn't need to go out of his way to get close to his father and ask him something.
"You don't dare to get close to your father, how dare you get close to me?" He Lianfang thought that he did not seem to be an amiable person. Most people would be afraid of him when they saw him, and few people dared to approach him.
"I think you have a kind face, Second Uncle."
"I have a good face?" He Lianfang never expected that one day, someone would say that he had a good face.
Zhao Yao said with a smile: "To me, second uncle, you are so kind-faced that I can't help but get close to you."
His words brought back He Lianfang's memories. He remembered that when he met his lord for the first time, what his lord said to him was, "This child looks kind-faced and is destined to me."
"I'm not kind."
Zhao Yao nodded and agreed: "To other people, you, my second uncle, must not be kind to you."
He Lianfang didn't want to talk about his lack of kindness anymore, so he changed the subject to talk about the Jingyang Marquis Mansion.
During this period, the Jingyang Hou Mansion was in a miserable state. The tiger fell to Pingyang and was bullied by the dog, and the Jingyang Hou Mansion was bullied a bit miserably.
Although the retainers of Marquis Jingyang were clever, no one except the concubine's eldest son listened to him. Furthermore, no one else would listen to the words of the concubine’s eldest son.
The eldest son of a concubine has no dignity in the Jingyang Marquis Mansion and cannot control others. In addition to being bullied by other aristocratic families, the Jingyang Marquis Mansion also had internal strife among its clan members. Other concubines wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize power, and people from other branches also thought the same.
While he was talking, the housekeeper walked in and handed He Lianfang a note.
After He Lianfang looked at it, he frowned and said, "Jingyang Marquis Zhongyong's retainer was kicked out of the house."
"What, you were kicked out of Jingyang Hou Mansion?"
He Lianfang said meaningfully: "The eldest son of the concubine is ill, and the Jingyang Marquis Mansion is now controlled by the fourth son."
"No surprise." The eldest son of the concubine of the Marquis of Jingyang has no prestige. It is normal for other concubines to disobey him, and it is not surprising that they want to replace him. "It seems that a big show was staged in the Jingyang Marquis Mansion today." I don't know if Bage and the others have found any evidence that the Jingyang Marquis Mansion colluded with the Huns.
After chatting with He Lianfang for a while, Zhao Yao left.
After he left, He Lianfang immediately conveyed his words to the emperor in the palace, and laughed at the emperor fiercely.
After the emperor saw it, he angrily scolded Zhao Yao for being "little heartless".
"Your Majesty, what did His Highness do to make you so angry?"
"This brat told He Lianfang that he would rather I didn't love him." The emperor felt angry and aggrieved.
"It's impossible. How could His Highness say this? It must be the one who is instigating discord."
"That must be the case." The emperor said through gritted teeth, "I will go find him now."
When he saw the emperor appearing in front of him, He Lianfang was not surprised at all and laughed at him very loudly.
Zhao Yao: It’s really weird.
Emperor: Brat, where is the blame?
He Lianfang: In your son's heart, you, the father, are not as close as me, an outsider, hahaha...
Emperor: So angry.
In the end, I still asked the veterans for monthly tickets!
