Since the last time Ren Dejing and Li Renxiao sent people to complain to Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin took advantage of the opening of mutual trade between the border and Xixia to send the Skynet Army action team to infiltrate Xixia.
Under the guise of doing business, what he actually does is collect intelligence and inquire about important military and political news.
Trade has such benefits. If you bring some high-priced luxury goods to trade, you will definitely be able to contact the powerful people in Xixia. Through business and trade, you can establish relationships with the powerful people in Xixia, and it will not be difficult to know the national affairs of Xixia.
And to be honest, sometimes, the level of secrecy in Xixia does not require spies from the Skynet Army to spy on it. Once many things happen, they will soon be spread all over the streets. You can hear the people of Xixia just walking on the road. Chat about the secrets of government affairs.
Ren Dejing bullied the emperor again, Ren Dejing bullied the ministers again, Ren Dejing became arrogant and domineering again.
This fully proves Xixia's high technical level and super high level of cognition in keeping secrets-as long as I don't have secrets, you can't pry into my secrets.
This once made the Skynet Army secret agent who had received strict training very uncomfortable, feeling that his professional level and hard training had been humiliated.
But there's nothing we can do about it, the information is out there on the street, and it's hard not to know.
This time, the information provided by the Skynet Army to Su Yonglin was that Ren Dejing, as the King of Chu, issued an order to spend 100,000 civilians to build a palace in Lingzhou City. Once the regulations were followed, they all moved closer to the Xixia Palace. His disobedience was clearly revealed.
Not surprisingly, this aroused extreme dissatisfaction among some party ministers in the court. The imperial censor, Reliant Gongji, wrote angrily to Li Renxiao to criticize Ren Dejing's behavior, and led a group of ministers to write to Li Renxiao, which attracted Ren Dejing. Jing was furious.
Then Ren Dejing began to mobilize his party members to accuse the opposition headed by Relan Gongji, preparing to kill them all.
Li Renxiao did not react much to this. He did not intend to support Hot Gongji, nor did he intend to accuse Ren Dejing. He acted as if he did not know about this matter, and continued to eat, drink, have fun, read and practice calligraphy in the palace, leisurely and at ease.
At this point, both parties are actually quite rational.
From Su Yonglin's point of view, what Ren Dejing did was still a test to test Li Renxiao's attitude towards him and the Xixia officials' attitude towards him.
If the opposition is not strong, he will push the envelope and continue to do more extreme things. If the opposition is strong and even triggers a strong backlash from Lee In-hyo, then he may be more cautious and restrain himself a little.
The opposition from Hot Gongji and others is actually to prevent Ren Dejing from taking more egregious actions. If Li Renxiao can be a little tougher and give Ren Dejing some warnings without any pain, perhaps Ren Dejing can be honest for a while. .
However, Li Renxiao's indifferent attitude towards the matter chilled the loyal ministers, which made Ren Dejing very satisfied, and the wolf's ambitions expanded even more.
So Ren Dejing went a step further, Luo Zhi falsely accused Rela Gongji and others of treason, and asked Li Renxiao to deal with it.
Li Renxiao once again lost the opportunity. Facing Ren Dejing's pressing step by step, all he could do was remain silent and ignore him, but silence could no longer satisfy Ren Dejing.
In the name of the Prime Minister, Ren Dejing directly bypassed Li Renxiao, arrested Rela Gongji and others, and threw them into prison. He felt that even if Li Renxiao did nothing, he could not let Rela Gongji and others continue to disobey him.
Although they cannot be directly convicted, it is still possible to put them in jail under unfounded excuses.
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So for a while, no one in the court dared to openly oppose Ren Dejing.
Ren Dejing was very satisfied, and his ambitions expanded even more. Gradually, he was no longer satisfied with being the king of Chu.
He discussed with his cronies and wanted to test Su Yonglin's opinion again and asked Su Yonglin if he supported him in replacing Li Renxiao.
Perhaps it is because he does not hide his ambition at all, so that it is known to passers-by. When Tianwang Army's spies are walking in the streets and alleys doing business, they can hear people talking about when Ren Dejing will replace Li Renxiao. Be the emperor of Xixia.
People spread all this, saying that Ren Dejing had planned to usurp the throne, and they wouldn't be surprised if he became emperor tomorrow.
The secret agent of the Skynet Army felt that this matter was not trivial, so he compiled everything he knew and let Su Yonglin know that he had a good idea.
Su Yonglin felt a little depressed after learning about it.
Why didn't you move when I didn't build the Yellow River? Not long after I started building the Yellow River, all sorts of things happened?
The grassland provoked him, and he finally solved the problem on the grassland. However, Ren Dejing started to make trouble again. Why couldn't he be given a stable environment for peaceful development?
After being depressed, Su Yonglin reluctantly admitted that it was impossible for him to have a stable environment for peaceful development in this era, and the plans he had set would inevitably encounter changes.
And he must accept this change and maintain the plan amidst the changes.
Since Ren Dejing made such a big noise, Su Yonglin felt that it was impossible for him not to react, and it was also impossible for Ren Dejing and Li Renxiao not to ask him about his attitude.
Sure enough, just three days after the intelligence was sent to Zhongdu, Li Renxiao's emissary arrived in Zhongdu first and secretly asked to see Su Yonglin and seek help from Su Yonglin.
The secret envoy was Li Lirong, a descendant of the Xixia royal family and the nephew of Li Renxiao. He had little presence on weekdays and was not easily found when he was gone, so Li Renxiao asked him to come to Zhongdu to ask Su Yonglin for help, asking Su Yonglin to help him and help him restrain him. Ren Dejing.
Li Renxiao really had nothing to do with Ren Dejing.
Su Yonglin was very troubled by this.
"Your uncle is the head of the country, the king of a country. He has been in power for more than twenty years and his position is stable. Ren Dejing is a minister. Why can't he restrict Ren Dejing? I can't figure it out."
Li Lirong knelt on the ground and complained in tears.
"Although Ren Dejing is a minister, he is treacherous and cunning. He is surrounded by a large group of accomplices who bully his uncle. He not only controls the government, but also controls the army. From the palace guards to the royal city guards to the army of Xingqing Mansion, they are all under his control. Under the control of the clan."
Su Yonglin shook his head.
"Soldiers are the place of life and death, and the path to survival must be observed. Why did your uncle let De Jing take charge of these military powers? I don't believe that your uncle never cared about these military powers."
"It turned out that these military powers were controlled by members of the royal family. My uncle trusted that royal family and respected him, so he did not touch his military power. Ren Dejing was able to take power by clinging to that royal family. Later, that royal family member died of illness. Ren Dejing took control of the army in a short time, and no one could react."
Li Lirong cried: "Ren Dejing became more and more arrogant and domineering after he took control of the military. My uncle tried to restrict his military power again and again. However, there were a large number of traitors in the court who worked with him to deceive the superiors and subordinates together, so that the royal power was not extended. Uncle I have no choice but to do anything!"
Li Lirong knelt on the ground and cried miserably, which made Su Yonglin sigh.
"In the final analysis, this matter is still your uncle's problem. If he had paid more attention to military power, he would not have been forced to this point. I heard that Ren Dejing built a palace in Lingzhou. The regulations are the same as the palace in Xingqing Mansion. There are such What's going on?"
"Even His Majesty knows about this matter, can it still be false?"
Li Lirong cried: "Ren Dejing is arrogant and domineering. He actually levied one hundred thousand civilians to build a palace for himself without authorization. The regulations even exceeded the palace of Xingqing Mansion. This not only violated the taboos of the Xia Kingdom, but also violated His Majesty's order. The rules set by the Xia Kingdom!"
Su Yonglin leaned back in his chair and was silent for a while, feeling that what Li Lirong said made sense.
Apart from anything else, my current identity is that of an emperor. The vassal kingdom under the emperor has its own set of kingdom regulations.
From a legal point of view, Ren Dejing, the King of Chu, is unknown and unrecognized. Only Su Yonglin has the power to be crowned king, and no one else has this power.
It was arrogance for Ren Dejing to be the king of Chu. Now he is not only the king of Chu, but his own palace is more luxurious than Li Renxiao's palace. This is even more naked ambition.
It is the so-called Sima Zhao's heart that everyone knows, and now Ren Dere's heart is also known to everyone.
Su Yonglin didn't want to wade into this muddy water so soon, but the current situation was like this. Even if he didn't want to wade into this muddy water, he had to wade into it.
