"Absolutely not!" came a hurried cry, followed by a gray-haired old man walking quickly surrounded by a group of people.
"Bigan?" Looking back, Zu An frowned. The remaining memory had an impression of this person, it was Wang Shu Bigan.
He looks like someone who is concerned about the country and the people, very similar to the appearance of some common loyal ministers in pre-time travel TV series.
"Why not?" Zu An was dissatisfied. This guy didn't seem to be of the same mind as him.
Bigan stood in front of Jichang and said anxiously: "Xibohou is the leader of the Western princes, how can he be subjected to this death penalty for no reason? Doesn't this put all the princes in the world in danger?"
"For no reason?" Zu An sneered, "They killed my sister... Aunt Sancai, how can it be called for no reason? Killing for life is a matter of course!"
Bigan was stunned, obviously he did not expect such a problem. At this time, Pei Mianman roughly told the story of the three colors. She also knew that Uncle Wang Bigan had a very high prestige in the court. If he could be brought into the same position, camp, things will be much easier to handle in the future.
Bi Gan obviously knew about Sancai's marriage back then, and he frowned upon hearing it.
However, he still said: "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this. If we kill Xibohou again, Princess Sancai will not be able to resurrect her life. What's more, the Sancai marriage was to ease the relationship with the Western Zhou Dynasty. Now, if we kill Xibohou, how can it be done? Didn't Sancai die in vain? Strictly speaking, Sancai also committed suicide back then, and it was not at the hands of Xibohou."
Zu An laughed when he heard this: "According to what Uncle Wang said, Sancai's death is her fault?"
Bigan replied: "That's not what I meant. I just want you to put the overall situation first and don't act out of emotion."
Zu An said coldly: "Uncle Wang keeps talking about the overall situation, but now we are completely at odds with each other. Even if Ji Chang is let go, he will not appreciate our kindness. After he goes there, he will definitely study how to destroy Shang." , this is called letting the tiger return to the mountain, Uncle Wang is really too pedantic."
After saying that, he didn't bother to talk to Bigan anymore, and directly ordered: "Where is the executioner? If there is any further delay, he will be chopped into meat paste along with Xibohou."
He was extremely angry at this time. At this time, he was too lazy to consider the overall situation and make long-term plans. He was not afraid of changing history by doing so. The only thing he wanted to do now was to avenge Sancai.
At this time, the jailers did not dare to neglect and hurriedly took Ji Chang out for execution.
Bigan was so anxious that he said, "Your Majesty, you must not do this! This will definitely cause disaster."
Zu An became impatient: "Are you Uncle Wang from Dashang or Zhou people? Your elbows are turned outward all day long." After saying that, he was too lazy to pay attention to him and left the cell directly with Pei Mianman.
"You...you..." Bi Gan was so angry that he was shaking all over and was choked to the point of being speechless.
The anger value from Bigan is +733+733+733...
Ji Chang was eventually killed. The next day, the government and the public were in an uproar, and countless ministers wrote letters to remonstrate.
Ji Chang was quite a good person, with the air of an elder, and had good relations with all the dignitaries in the capital.
Throughout the whole process, Zu An had been quietly observing the factions in the court. He found that some of them were led by Wang Shu Bigan, and some were led by another Wang Shu Jizi. The attitudes of these two people were very close, and it seemed difficult to divide and disintegrate.
Another faction is his own brother Wei Ziqi. Speaking of it, Wei Zi Qi is also unlucky. They obviously have the same father and mother. However, because his mother was not the queen when she gave birth to Wei Zi Qi, Wei Zi Qi is a bastard. When the younger brother was born, the mother became the queen, so the younger brother became the legitimate son and inherited the throne.
Knowing this relationship, Zu An knew that the relationship between Wei Ziqi and him was definitely not much better. Sure enough, in the court, he and Bi Gan Jizi had sprayed him bloody before.
Prime Minister Shang Rong and Second Minister Xin Jia led the ministers to attack him in various ways.
There is also another faction, Prince Wu Geng, which is painful to say, because he already has an adult son in this world.
He naturally has no feelings for this cheap son, but fortunately he is relatively filial and is one of the few who speaks for him.
Wu Geng was born to Empress Jiang. Zu An had seen her before in the harem, a gentle woman, but now Zu An had no intention of looking for flowers. All his energy now was on how to avenge Sancai, and Complete this trial with Pei Mianman.
Seeing that the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty were basically against him, Zu An had to despise King Zhou for being such a failure that he even had to tear up his pen and end up personally. It seemed that it was time to re-establish some confidants.
After a day of chaotic quarrels, the court finally began to study a practical problem, how to deal with the Zhou people's counterattack.
It is conceivable that Ji Chang and his son were chopped into meat paste. With such deep hatred, the people of Zhou Dynasty would definitely turn against each other completely.
So for the next period of time, Zu An and Pei Mianman have been rectifying military affairs, waiting for the Zhou people's revenge.
Unfortunately, a few months passed, and the imagined army of the Zhou people did not come. Just when Zu An was wondering, an urgent military situation suddenly came from the northwest, and the Li Kingdom in the Taihang Mountains was attacked by the Zhou people.
Li State was the gateway to the northwest of the capital of the Shang Dynasty. It had been on good terms with the Shang Dynasty for generations, but it was actually destroyed by the Zhou people.
Zu An Lei was furious. He didn't receive any news from the beginning to the end.
He sent people to investigate and found that Li Guo's letter asking for help had been forgotten with Prime Minister Shang Rong.
Although Shang Rong had a very legitimate reason to say that he had nothing to do with it, Zu An had been an emperor in the trial for so many years and had long been able to see through everything. He was the one who did it. Except for the Prime Minister, no one has such great authority. Intercept such urgent military information.
He was about to imprison the other party, but Shang Rong got the news in advance, escaped from the capital with his direct subordinates, and ran to the Taihang Mountains to become bandits. Then he claimed to be persecuted by King Zhou and the enchantress Daji, and accepted all kinds of people who could not stand Zhou. The king's rebellious people defected to him.
The secondary prime minister Xinjia was also very dissatisfied with this. He directly yelled at Zu An in the court, then resigned and left. Later I heard that after he left the capital, he fled westward and became a guest of the Zhou people.
Zu An was so angry that his balls ached. It was clearly these guys who betrayed the country, but the current public opinion was that he was too cruel and forced the minister to leave.
After all, the power of public opinion is in the hands of the royal family and nobles headed by Bigan and Jizi.
He had to lament that King Zhou had failed so much as a human being in recent years, which had led to so many people rebelling against their relatives.
However, he did not try to ease the relationship with Bigan and others, because he knew that the interests of both parties were destined to be irreconcilable.
Having been a Shang king for several times during the trial, he has already clarified many practical issues. Because of the conflict between the two ways of passing the throne from brother to brother and from father to son, the relationship between the various factions of the royal family is quite tense; at the same time, the position of the high priest is often controlled. In the hands of those princes and nobles, they used the power of divine power to compete with the royal power of the Shang king.
So he began to re-establish his team from other classes. Some small nobles, poor people, and even some down-and-out slaves were his chosen targets.
Finally, after Pei Mianman's observation and screening during this period, a group of talents were selected.
Fei Lian and Evilai are father and son. Feilian is good at walking and extremely fast; Evilai is extremely brave and can be said to be an enemy of ten thousand people on the battlefield.
Fei Zhong has terrible personal ethics, but he is resourceful and a rare talent.
Jiao Ge, a captive of Dongyi, was very good at doing business and making money.
Seeing these familiar names, Zu An had a strange look on his face. He vaguely remembered that except for Jiao Ge, these seemed to be famous traitorous officials in history books. He did not expect that he would still follow the same path as King Zhou of Shang.
But now he has no choice. He has no one available, so he can only use these people to drink poison to quench his thirst.
Fortunately, these people are really capable. Through their joint management, the national strength of Dashang, which is now riddled with holes, has gradually been restored.
Zu An had already begun discussing with Pei Mianman the plan to take the initiative to eliminate the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Unfortunately, problems arose again in the court. Fei Zhong and others rose to the top and entered the center of power of the court, causing dissatisfaction among a series of old nobles headed by Bigan.
Then he collected a lot of evidence of corruption and bribery to impeach a few people, and then implicitly criticized the king for appointing villains.
Zu An also had a headache. The personal ethics of Fei Zhong and others were indeed poor. In addition, they were born in the grassroots and suddenly gained power, making it easy for them to benefit themselves.
It's not that these old nobles like Bi Gan are not corrupt, but their family background is there, there is no need to have any ugly appearance, and their way of making money is more obscure and skillful, which has been going on for hundreds of years. How can people like Fei Zhong, who has an unstable foundation, learn from what has been accumulated through inheritance.
If it were in the past, Zu An might have slowly resolved the hatred between the two sides, but now he has no time to spare. His only goal is to solve the Western Zhou Dynasty and pass the trial.
Although people like Bigan were of noble character, they were destined to be unable to be used by him. On the contrary, people like Fei Zhong, although their personal ethics were not very good, still tried their best to serve him. He finally understood why there were so many foolish kings in history. We need to appoint traitors...
Next, he cut through the mess quickly and used people like Fei Zhong to pour dirt on Bigan. For these villains, they were the best at deceiving people.
Soon Bigan was so angry that he resigned. Zu An was worried that he would also defect to the Western Zhou Dynasty, so he sent someone to put him under house arrest in his residence. After all, he was not so cruel to kill such a minister with a perfect personal ethics.
But because of his house arrest, there were various rumors and even some outrageous remarks outside, saying that Daji had a heart disease and needed to be treated with Bigan's Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, and Bigan died after having his heart cut open.
Zu An was very speechless and sent people to investigate who was spreading such rumors. Unfortunately, the source could not be found at all, and instead it got worse.
Another uncle Wang, Jizi, saw his thunderous methods and was worried that he would make the same mistake again, so he resigned and went to pretend to be crazy in his hometown.
Zu An naturally knew his tricks, but the departure of these people in the court made it easier for him to do things, so he did not retain them.
For the next period of time, he and Pei Mianman were reorganizing government affairs and training the army. They had very little rest time all day long because they knew that time was running out.
Not long ago, Jifa of the Western Zhou Dynasty held a conference in Mengjin
The eight hundred princes in the world looked like they were going to fight Shang decisively.
The relationship network that the Western Zhou Dynasty had developed over hundreds of years exploded with terrifying energy. Most of the vassal states in the world had good relations with it. In addition, they were dissatisfied with the rule of the Shang Dynasty, so many of them attended the conference.
However, Ji Fa was not carried away. He also realized that Shang's strength seemed to have improved and he was not completely sure, so he gave up the decisive battle and waited for the right time.
Zu An didn't pay attention to the eight hundred princes. He knew that his opponent was always the Western Zhou Dynasty. As long as he defeated the most powerful Zhou people, the other princely countries would naturally surrender.
Both sides are preparing for the decisive battle with tacit understanding.
After a while, Dongyi suddenly invaded the territory of the Shang Dynasty.
Since the founding of the Shang Dynasty, it has been conquering the east and west, with the Qiang people in the northwest, Guifang in the north, Dongyi in the east, Huaiyi in the southeast, and Bafang in the southwest...
From the perspective of later generations, this laid the foundation for unifying the world, but for the time, this was a bit militaristic.
Among them, Dongyi was the most stubborn enemy of the Shang Dynasty. They were defeated several times in hundreds of years of war, but they were never able to completely surrender.
Originally, Zu Anhe paid special attention to his relationship with them and spent a lot of effort to win them over, but unfortunately they still turned against him.
The Manchu civil and military officials proposed to send troops to Dongyi, but Zu An did not refuse and asked General Fei Lian to lead the main army to the east to deal with Dongyi.
Ji Fa, who had been waiting for an opportunity, was overjoyed. He mobilized all his troops and marched eastward to attack the capital of the Shang Dynasty.
Because the main force was far away in the east, the capital was extremely empty. In a hurry, Zu An could only use a few direct descendants to organize an army of slaves, promising to restore their freedom after victory.
Then he brought Er Lai and Fei Zhong Yujia to fight in person, and the two sides launched a decisive battle in Muye.
Looking at the slave army he hastily organized, Ji Fa felt that he had a chance to win, so he moved out of the way to surround the merchant army and was about to completely annihilate it.
Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed at the critical moment. Fei Lian suddenly appeared with the main force of the Shang army and surrounded the Western Zhou army.
Ji Fa was shocked because various intelligence showed that this army should fight Dongyi in the east.
Zu An sneered. He knew from the beginning to the end that the Dongyi people were just suffering from scabies, but the Western Zhou people were the ones with the most fatal disease.
So he ostensibly sent the army to the east, but in fact he secretly ordered Feilian to go around and bring the army back.
Ji Fa quickly calmed down after a brief period of confusion and said coldly: "How long will it take for you to do something?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a commotion suddenly broke out in the merchant army. It turned out that the army under Wei Ziqi suddenly turned against the enemy and attacked Zu An's army.
In addition, a new army rushed out, which turned out to be the former Prime Minister Shang Rong's army in the Taihang Mountains.
Changes at the critical moment gradually tilted the balance of victory towards the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Zu An sighed: "I have expected this a long time ago."
Ever since he knew that Wei Ziqihe had missed the throne, how could he not be on guard against this person.
With a wave of the command flag, Pei Mianman rushed out with an army.
The world didn't expect that Daji, who was famous for her foxy charm, could be so fierce, but how could they know that this woman was actually the war goddess of the Shang Dynasty?
Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was gradually developing in a favorable direction, Zu An felt that something was wrong. Ji Fa was too calm. Could it be that he had some back-ups?
And all the time, he always felt that he had overlooked something. He closed his eyes, completely abandoned the fighting on the battlefield, and began to review all the details. Suddenly, he thought of the murals he had seen in the secret realm before. After understanding some of the past events that Mi Li told him, his heart suddenly became cheerful.
He turned to look at the prince not far away, and saw his hand slowly raised, as if he was about to make a gesture.
Zu An said loudly: "Wu Geng, let's have a chat."
After hearing his words, Wu Geng was stunned, obviously hesitant, but he still drove the carriage to Zu An and bowed respectfully: "Father, do you have any orders?"
Zu An waved his hand to tell everyone around him to go away, and then sighed: "Actually, you and I both know that we are not father and son, so why bother pretending here."
Wu Geng's expression changed: "I don't know what you are talking about."
Zu An looked at the fierce battlefield aside and said calmly: "Did you just plan to have your men fight back?"
Wu Geng remained silent and did not answer.
Zu An looked at him: "Should I call you the traitor of the Shang Dynasty, or the builder of this secret trial realm?"
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The two chapters are combined together, so please forgive me if there is a little bit missing.
I had a cold and had a stuffy nose. I couldn't sleep with my nose blocked all night. In the morning I found that raising the pillow had a miraculous effect...
Everyone should pay attention to their health. Driving too much can make you weak, and you can easily catch a cold every spring and winter.
