"Officials, no!"
"Officials, King Wu has been arrogant and proclaimed emperor for nearly ten years, and now he wants to hold all the rich lands in the southeast in his hands. He is so cruel!"
"The official family, it would be fine if they could divide the southeastern land into more than a dozen parts. Now they can create a great Wu Kingdom... The Wu Kingdom has nine roads in Huaihe, Liangjiang, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Fujian. The household registration , The taxes are probably more than the land under the jurisdiction of the imperial court! The tail is too big to lose!"
"Yes! Officials should think twice!"
"The official family cannot agree to King Wu. I am willing to level Jiangdong for the official family!"
"I am willing to collect the southeastern half of the wall for the official family!"
When Zhao Kai announced his decision to generally accept the surrender conditions proposed by Zhao Huan in the main hall of Yaochi Palace, the entire hall was drowned by the sound of shouting and beating.
The ministers were all upset. They originally had a good idea and went to the southeast to make a fortune. Why don't we fight now?
If Zhao Huan surrendered unconditionally and was "invited" to become a rich man in Beijing, it would be fine to live in fear every day in the shadow of the ancestral medicine. But now Zhao Huan "surrendered" on the condition of receiving the land of Huaihe, Liangjiang, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Fujian.
This condition is no longer generous, but it is appeasing and fostering adultery!
Of course, none of the ministers under Zhao Kai are very good people. They are all treacherous. How can one really believe that Zhao Kai will appease Zhao Huan? Even if there is such a thing as brotherly love, you can't compete with them!
Who in the court doesn't know that the two of them started fighting when they were teenagers, and they have been fighting for more than 20 years when they are in their thirties... Where is the brotherhood?
Moreover, it was Zhao Kai who started the fight between Zhao Kai and Zhao Huan. Zhao Kai, the second son of a concubine, actually wanted to compete with his eldest son for inheritance rights.
Is this something a good person can do? In fact, Zhao Kai himself knew that this was wrong, so he kept claiming to "reopen the Song Dynasty" instead of inheriting the throne.
So Zhao Kai must be pretending to be a good guy now, and wants the ministers below to be the bad guys...just do it! We are all loyal and good people, so why not cooperate with the officials in their performance?
Zhao Kai's face darkened when he saw the ministers below shouting and killing him, and then he coughed heavily.
The ministers below knew that Zhao Kai was about to tell lies, so they quickly shut up and looked at Zhao Kai with blinking eyes, wanting to hear how he deceived... deceived Zhao Qi and Zhao Zhi.
Zhao Qi and Zhao Zhi are also standing in the Yaochi Hall now, and they are both ministers of Zhao Kai now. Zhao Qi was originally a minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, but now he has "jumped" to join Zhao Kai's court, and was appointed as the transit envoy of Jinghu South Road and also known to Ezhou. Zhao Zhi is now the Southeast Envoy, equivalent to the "Minister of Internal Affairs"... Well, a very important official position!
Zhao Kai looked at the minister below angrily and said calmly: "King Wu is my brother! If I use troops against King Wu, it will be fratricide. How can I bear it? If I really do this How will the people of the world view me? How will the late emperor’s spirit in heaven view me? Do you want me to be a ruthless and unjust tyrant?"
The ministers were all ashamed. It turned out that Zhao Kai was such a kind and benevolent king!
They always thought that Zhao Kai was an out-and-out tyrant... Of course, in the eyes of his ministers, Zhao Kai was a reasonable and principled tyrant!
According to Zhao Kai's principles and principles, Zhao Huan should be deprived of his territory, captured and imprisoned in Shuntian Prefecture.
The reason is very simple. Zhao Huan was sitting in the rich and prosperous land of the ten southeast roads (including Jinghu South). He did not send a single soldier to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains for eight years, and just watched his ancestral land being ravaged by the iron hoofs of the barbarians. Isn't this sin big enough?
If we really want to talk about it, Zhao Huan's crime was greater than Zhao Gou's. Zhao Gou was killed, so Zhao Huan still wanted to live well?
Seeing that the ministers were all ashamed and speechless, Zhao Kai sighed again and said to everyone: "Now the late emperor's Zi Palace is still in Jinling, and my aunt, Queen Mother Zheng, is also in Jinling and is being supported by King Wu. Most of my brothers and sisters also live in Jinling... If I send a large army to attack the King of Wu, we will inevitably be destroyed by the sword. If the late Emperor Zi Palace is destroyed, and the Empress Dowager Zheng and my brothers and sisters are not killed in the rebellion, I How can you bear it?"
Zhao Qi and Zhao Zhi both nodded vigorously - Jinling City not only has Zhao Ji's coffin and house-filling wife, but also a bunch of Zhao Kai's brothers and sisters, and his sister-in-law Zhu Lian!
The eldest brother Zhao Huan is not a good person, but his sister-in-law is good!
When the ministers below heard this, their eyes lit up, and they all knew how to proceed with the play.
I only saw the King of Yan, Zhao Yu, who had replaced Zhao Zhen as the transfer envoy of Shandong Road as the Da Zongzheng, leaving the class to perform.
Zhao Yu is the twelfth son of Emperor Shenzong, the younger brother of Zhao Ji, and the elder of the Zhao Song royal family... He is actually not very old, only in his early fifties, but he looks a bit thin and energetic. Not very good, not the same species as his brother Zhao Ji.
"Guan family, my ancestral mausoleum is located in Yong'an, Luoyang. The late emperor's mausoleum was completed not long ago, but the late emperor's Zi Palace is parked in Jinling. It has been unable to be buried for a long time. It is really inappropriate...Old Clumsy I am willing to go to Jinling for the official family, welcome the late emperor Zi Palace and go north to the Yong'an Imperial Mausoleum for burial."
As soon as Zhao Yu raised his head, the people below immediately knew which direction to take the topic.
Zhao Yu's younger brother, the Luoyang left-behind and Shanling envoy, Zhao Si, the Yue king, who came to Beijing to report on his duties, also stood up and spoke, "The official family, Empress Dowager Zheng and the late emperor's concubines, as well as the princes and princesses, are now living in Jinling. It is extremely inappropriate. King Wu should be asked to send them north as soon as possible. They can be allowed to live in Luoyang first, and then they can be moved to Shuntianfu after the new city of Shuntianfu is built."
Zhao Kai nodded lightly, "It's time to invite the late Emperor's Zi Palace and concubines, as well as my brothers and sisters, to come north. But...who should be responsible for such a big thing as the late Emperor's Zi Palace going north? Woolen cloth?"
Zhao Yu said with a smile: "Of course King Wu has to escort him personally! King Wu is a filial son, and it is natural for a filial son to send his deceased father's coffin back to his hometown and bury it in his ancestral grave!"
Zhao Si also nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, King Wu should escort him personally. This is only natural and right!"
As soon as the two princes sang in harmony, they set up a trap for Zhao Huan, and the ministers below also followed suit.
"What the two great kings said is absolutely true. King Wu should go north to the palace of the late Emperor Zi!"
"If King Wu is a filial son, this is what he should be like! If he refuses to go north to serve the late Emperor Zi's palace, then he is not a filial son..."
"Officially, if King Wu doesn't come, I would like to raise 100,000 troops to invite him to come north!"
"Han Liangchen!" Zhao Kai gently glared at Han Shizhong who said he would lead one hundred thousand troops to invite Zhao Huan, and then said to Zhao Qi: "Sixth brother, don't listen to Han Liangchen's nonsense. Even if the eldest brother doesn't come, I will We will not send Han Liangchen to lead troops to capture him."
Who should be sent to arrest him?
Zhao Qixin said: You won't send Yue Fei, right?
Zhao Kai said warmly: "If it's inconvenient for me, eldest brother, to accompany the late Emperor Zi Palace to the north, then I'll work hard and go to Jinling in person to welcome the late Emperor Zi Palace and Empress Dowager Zheng back north... How about that?"
Oh, go catch it yourself! Yue Fei is so fierce and has already killed Zhao Gou. Do you still want him to kill his elder brother Zhao Huan?
He catches his own big brother...and doesn't cause trouble to others. What a good brother!
Of course Zhao Qi agrees with such a thing!
"The third brother is really thoughtful," Zhao Qi said with a smile. "The eldest brother has been ill for a long time and it is really difficult to travel thousands of miles north. It is better for the third brother to go to Jinling to welcome the late emperor Zi Palace."
What he said...Zhao Zhi beside him frowned. What does "it's really difficult to travel thousands of miles north"? After he is caught, if he is not taken to the north, how can he be given medicine on the spot?
Zhao Kai nodded and said: "That's okay. Sixth brother, twelfth brother, and twelfth uncle, you can go to Jinling together and explain this matter to the eldest brother.
In addition, let’s talk to my eldest brother about the arrangements for the delivery of the Jinghu South Road and the transfer of tribute to the north... In the past, there was a Six-Road Shipping Envoy who was in charge of this matter. Should we set up a Wu Guoda Shipping Envoy now? Now that the capital has been moved to Shuntianfu, water transportation is blocked. Tens of millions of pounds of goods a year had to be transported by sea, and the sea transport had to pass through the doorstep of the gold thief. It would not be possible without Wu's naval escort. Therefore, this large shipping department had to be jointly organized by the imperial court and the State of Wu. "
There is a conspiracy!
Zhao Qi and Zhao Zhi immediately smelled a conspiracy!
Zhao Kai wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of establishing the Wu State Shipping Envoy to infiltrate the Wu State, especially the Wu State Navy!
The most valuable asset of Wu State is actually not the industry and commerce on Southeast Ninth Road, but the navy!
Because even if the Wu Kingdom's industry and commerce were robbed by the soldiers, their vitality would be severely damaged, and they could still be restored.
But if the Wu navy escapes, it will be in trouble... In history, Zheng Ming, a pirate regime that occupied an island, tormented the Qing Dynasty for decades, and in the end resorted to killing a hundred enemies and damaging himself. The three-thousand-strong sea ban completely destroyed the southeastern navigation and large wealthy areas along the coast, and only then killed Zheng Ming, who had a population of only a few hundred thousand.
Zhao Huan's world's best navy is about to sneak out and become the world's best pirate. How much effort will Zhao Kai have to put in to deal with them?
Maybe by the time he defeats the world's number one pirate queen, Zhao Kai himself will be old enough to die... What will he do about colonizing the world?
"Third brother," Zhao Zhi already understood what Zhao Kai meant, "Eldest brother also has hundreds of thousands of land and water troops. I'm afraid he won't be so easy to talk to!"
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "Since the eldest brother has pledged himself as a vassal and is guarding the rich and gentle land in the southeast, then what happens next is not up to him!
Sixth brother, twelfth brother, and twelfth uncle, please talk to King Wu carefully. I have no intention of harming him... He is not in good health now, and the country of Wu is large and difficult to cure. It is better to Wouldn't it be nice to divide it among the sons early and divide it into nine small kingdoms? Is he still worried that his sons will not be filial to him? "
It’s very good! I declined the favor and saved Zhao Kai from sending troops to attack, so everyone was really happy.
