Zhu Gaojiao cupped his hands and said: "Second brother, I don't want to say much. I just want to say goodbye to my brother. I just want to say that the days are long and we will see you in the future."
After speaking, Zhu Gaojie turned and left without waiting for the King of Han to say anything else.
"Wait..." King Han raised his hand and hesitated, looking at King Qi leaving with complicated eyes.
With the distance between the two brothers, it would be better to leave it at that.
After a long time, the King of Han sighed.
Before King Qi took over the British military power, he and King Qi had always had a good relationship. They often sat together drinking, talking and laughing. King Han missed those days very much. In this cold and bitter world, there was still such a brotherly love that could comfort his heart.
Just as King Qi said, they are all brothers with the same father and mother. Even if they kill each other because of power, they are still blood relatives and compatriots who grew up in the same courtyard of Prince Yan's Mansion.
This is just like before, King Qi and King Han were enemies, and King Han and King Zhao were allies, but this did not affect the harmony between King Qi and King Zhao at all.
This is the only human touch left.
When the King of Han stood there in deep thought, Su Qing, an aide of the palace, came over in a hurry, saluted and reported: "Prince of Han, Ji Gang is dying to attack Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong under King Qi, and the trial of the three divisions will continue."
"The result of the joint trial of the three divisions has nothing to do with us." King Han said quietly, "The most important thing we have to do now is to think about how to quickly establish a foothold after arriving in Shandong. No matter how lively the fighting in Jinling City is, it is still The matter between King Qi and the Crown Prince."
"Well..." Su Qing nodded and comforted, "Prince Han, even if we arrive in Shandong, we can choose another good opportunity to cultivate our power. This is not a bad thing. Prince Han must not lose it."
"Do you need to say this?" The King of Han said coldly, "In the past, the old man was able to fight from Shuntian to Jinling City, so I might as well live in peace..."
The King of Han did not finish his words, but his eyes were full of ambition.
Su Qing was silent, knowing that it was unnecessary for her to worry about whether the King of Han would fall into a trough due to his fall in the capital. The Han prince's fanaticism for the throne has reached the point of being insane.
The emperor kept deceiving the King of Han by saying, "The prince is sick, you should encourage him." This planted the seed of ambition in the heart of the King of Han. Under the influence of power, this seed took root and sprouted, and now it has grown into a towering tree with branches and leaves. prosperous.
He doesn't want to be some bullshit prince, he wants to sit on the supreme throne and look down on the world like a winner!
If not, the King of Han would rather die!
"How many men do we have left in Jinling City?" King Han suddenly asked.
Su Qing smiled bitterly and said: "There are not many left. The trees have fallen and the hozens have scattered. Those who ran away and those who fell have fallen. During these days, the East Palace has been cleaning our people unscrupulously. Everyone is hiding, for fear that the prince will be killed if he is not careful." Even the bones were eaten. There are still some residual forces left in the Jin Yiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but I'm afraid they will be purged by the prince soon."
This is human nature. In the past, the King of Han was arrogant in his fight with the prince. Many people felt that the King of Han could succeed, so they chose to invest in advance, including the powerful Prince Consort and the Marquis of Yongchun Wang Ning. But it was only later that everyone realized Realizing that something was wrong, the king of Han made more and more money. Wang Ning, the Hou of Yongchun, fell over and died in prison.
Now that the King of Han has fallen, most of the former Han King's party members have fled, either to King Qi or to King Qi, and choose another good master to serve him. Even the Jinyiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which had the largest concentration of Party members of the King of Han, have now begun to escape control, and those who remain are all diehard loyalists of the King of Han.
The King of Han said without hesitation: "Tell them that after I leave the capital, I can obey King Qi's orders and seek asylum from King Qi. Whether I am working in the Jinyi Guards or the Inspectorate, King Qi will not refuse."
Su Qing was stunned: "Prince Han, why should we help King Qi?"
"Do you think I am helping King Qi? I just don't want the prince to become big." The King of Han sneered, "This time I will become a vassal. Most people in the court have gone to the prince. Now let the party members in the court follow. King Qi not only gives these people who are loyal to me a way out, but also allows King Qi to fight with the prince. The harder they fight, the more I can settle down in Shandong and cultivate my power. In the end, it will be a snipe and a clam fight. Isn’t it wonderful for the fisherman to gain something?”
Su Qing was in awe. The King of Han was a man with brains, but he didn't use it very often. It was really not easy for him to act rationally like he did today.
Our Prince Han is finally willing to use his brain!
only……
Even if he beat the King of Han to death, he would not have thought that he had finally developed his brain to the extreme and used his strategy. In fact, King Qi was secretly guiding him.
…
When Zhu Gaojie returned to Prince Qi's Mansion, he saw Su Wu standing guard in front of the door with a frown on his face, wandering in place and not even noticing that his prince had returned.
"What are you thinking about?"
Zhu Gaojie tapped Su Wu on the shoulder, which startled the young man. He only recovered after seeing that it was his own prince.
"Your Majesty." Su Wu said with a wry smile, "The three divisions held a joint trial, and Ji Gang fought back before his death. It would be difficult to handle this unless he dragged Mr. Lu and Mr. Yang into collusion and conspiracy."
Officials of the third rank of Zhongzheng and above could all guess that Ji Gang was lying. Although he was lying, it was an obvious conspiracy. Ji Gang's conspiracy was completely false, and it was purely arranged by Luo Xiu. But now Luo Xiu has been hacked to death by King Qi without any evidence. There are many people in the court who are angry at Ji Gang, the commander of the Imperial Guards. Now that Ji Gang has fallen, everyone is adding insult to injury, even the emperor. If he thinks about pushing Ji Gang out to be the scapegoat, he will definitely die.
But Jigang fought back before his death, which caused another disaster.
Of course, the princeling was happy that Ji Gang could drag the two generals from Prince Qi's palace with him before he died, and add fuel to the flames. If Wuzhong, who was presiding over the trial that day, had not had such thoughts, no matter how much Ji Gang said in the hall, it would still be just nonsense.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current courtroom has become a partisan struggle between King Qi and the Crown Prince. There are only a lot more overt and covert attacks between the two parties than the previous three-legged confrontation.
"I have known about this for a long time." A smile suddenly appeared on Zhu Gaojie's face, "Don't worry, someone will help us save Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong."
"Huh?" Su Wu asked doubtfully, "Who has the ability to snatch meat from the tiger's mouth of a princeling?"
"Of course, this person is Prince Han, isn't he?" Zhu Gaojie said slyly.
"King of Han?" Su Wu thought he heard wrongly, "My lord, are you kidding me?"
Zhu Gaojie said meaningfully: "The princeling's move this time may seem sinister, but in fact it is just to bully us. Prince Qi's Mansion has no one in the Third Division. As long as we have one person in the Third Division who can stand up and speak, we will not The princelings would be suppressed so calmly. A dead camel is bigger than a horse. Although we have no one among the three divisions, the King of Han has someone. In the Imperial Procuratorate, although Zheng Zhichang, the censor of the right capital, was demoted to the minister of punishment , but the members of the Han Dynasty still have a strong voice in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In this way, it is not difficult to protect Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong. After all, Ji Gang is just making empty slanders. He has no substantive evidence. "
"Although that's what he said, why does the King of Han have to help us fight against the princelings? He wishes that all of us in Prince Qi's Mansion and the East Palace would die." Su Wu said helplessly.
Zhu Gaojie shook his head: "No, he will."
Su Wu didn't know why Zhu Gaojie was so confident.
…
Zhu Gaojie's previous deployment was not in vain. He placed people in Dali Temple to keep an eye on the three divisions. Originally, he wanted to prevent the King of Han from resurrecting before his death. Unexpectedly, what awaited him was Ji Gang's revolt before his death.
Ji Gang couldn't have done this because he was idle, there must have been instructions from someone behind the scenes. In fact, Zhu Gaojie did not have much hatred against Ji Gang. The person Ji Gang hated most was probably the King of Han. This dear friend was tricked by the King of Han and Luo Xiu, and was tricked from the high-ranking commander of the Jinyi Guards into the Zhao Prison. Zhu Gaojie would definitely not let Ji Gang cheat his subordinates in the palace, and Ji Gang had a deep hatred with the King of Han. Thinking of this, the person behind the scenes had automatically surfaced - the prince.
Zhu Pangpang is good at calculations, and he plays this skill very beautifully. Unfortunately, Zhu Gaojie is also good at calculations and will not sit still and wait for death.
He had been staring closely at the Tribunal of the Three Divisions, and went to the Han Palace as soon as he got Ji Gang's deathbed counterattack. This was a struggle for time. Although the Han King's Party did not pay much attention to the Trial of the Three Divisions, they were There are people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they will get the news no slower than Zhu Gaojie.
After rushing to the Han Dynasty Palace first, Zhu Gaojie has been guiding the Han Dynasty to use the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to fight against the prince, in order to protect Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong. However, during this process, Zhu Gaojie did not mention the four key words "Duchayuan", "Prince", "Lu Chaoyang" and "Yang Rong" in one sentence.
From beginning to end, the few words he said were all impartial and polite.
Based on the relationship between Prince Qi's Palace and Prince Han's Palace, if Zhu Gaojie asked the Prince of Han's Palace to help, it would definitely be over. He knew Prince Han very well, and Prince Han was definitely not the kind of person who was willing to help others. He was the kind of person who would add insult to injury and be cunning. Cruel person.
Zhu Gaojie's appearance only invisibly guided the King of Han to think like a "snipe and a clam fighting".
The King of Han would not have thought that he, who controlled the Metropolitan Procuratorate, would get the result of the joint trial of the three divisions slower than King Qi. If Zhu Gaojie went to the Han Palace after the King of Han learned the results of the three-division trial, the suspicious character of the Han King would definitely not let Zhu Gaojiu's wish come true.
The combination of many factors, countless intrigues, and calculations on human nature have created the perfect result.
Whether it is Zhu Gaojie, the prince, or the king of Han, they have used calculations to the extreme. You guess my thoughts, I guess his thoughts, he guesses your thoughts, you guess his thoughts... As long as there is a sword, there is no problem. If you guess correctly, you will be completely destroyed.
(End of chapter)
