As a gourmet with several years of experience, Zhao Min was in a depressed mood, and his requirements for food were getting higher and higher.
When people are nervous and worried, they often have a loss of appetite. Just like when they have a cold or fever, even if they are faced with delicious food and the food they like to eat, they will not be able to eat it and cannot swallow it.
But there are too many humans, and there are always a few weird ones that stand out from the rest.
Zhao Min is such a weirdo.
He is the kind of person who needs a lot of delicious food to fill his heart the more nervous, worried, and depressed he is. The more uncomfortable he feels, the more delicious food he needs to eat.
In fact, he was not such a person before. He gradually became like this after Xu Tong's sneak attack on Lin'an.
Maybe he was too mentally miserable, so he needed something sweet and delicious to make himself feel better.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were still two main meals a day, plus one snack for the rich, while Zhao Min had three main meals, three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus two snacks.
He is an emperor, so of course his food must be sumptuous and luxurious, such as shrimp dumplings, crab meat buns, mutton pancakes, etc. Every meal is very sumptuous.
The two snacks are in the afternoon and late at night. Because he is diligent in government affairs and is still working near midnight in the evening, he especially needs a late-night snack to satisfy his appetite.
He also feels that he is becoming more and more able to eat, and he likes to eat more and more. He was not like this before, but now he always gets hungry soon after eating, and then he eagerly looks forward to the next meal, looking forward to eating again. Next meal.
His figure quickly swelled up like a balloon, and his whole body swelled a lot. The originally cut emperor's gown and regular clothes could no longer fit and needed to be replaced.
Some imperial doctors also warned him not to eat too much and to eat slightly less, but he always couldn't hold on and soon let himself go and ate whatever he wanted.
When Shen Gai and Zhou Linzhi rushed to the door of the dormitory with the palace guards commanded by Lu Yongyan, Zhao Min was attacking a roast chicken.
He doesn't like anyone watching while he eats, and only his personal eunuch is there to wipe his hands and mouth. He likes to enjoy the food silently, which is called eating alone.
Therefore, his eating posture was no longer as elegant as before. He grabbed a roast chicken with both hands and bit into it, chewing it with big mouthfuls. His hands and mouth were filled with oil, and he felt a long-lost pleasure from it.
While chewing the fragrant chicken, he felt that even if the Ming army would rush into the city tomorrow, he would still be holding the roasted chicken in his hands tonight.
happiness.
Then there was a noise outside, which made Zhao Xun very unhappy. He didn't like to be disturbed while eating, so he immediately ordered his personal eunuch Wang Chengen to go outside to see what was going on.
Wang Chengen also felt unhappy.
Emperor Xindao hates being nagged when eating. This is not the first time someone has been punished. Why can't he remember it?
He pushed open the bedroom door and began to scold the people outside at the top of his lungs.
"You've all been fooled by the oil, haven't you? Don't you know that officials don't like noise? They are actually making a lot of noise in the palace. You don't want... heads... bags... bags..."
Wang Chengen was speechless.
Because he saw something was wrong.
He looked at the soldiers standing outside the dormitory, slowly lighting up torches, and then many palace maids and eunuchs were kneeling, and some were lying with their bodies covered in blood.
The soldiers with torches looked at him coming out of the palace with a funny expression.
"Why did Wang Douzhi come out? I was planning to go inside to meet the officials. The officials are having a meal? Hahaha, the officials have such a good appetite. We ministers are not satisfied with our food and cannot eat anything. But the officials are not. It’s such a blessing to have a good appetite.”
Shen Gai walked up to Wang Chengen wearing neat official uniform.
Wang Chengen looked at Shen Gai in shock.
"Shen... Mr. Shen, you..."
"The officials are in there, right? I'm going to meet the officials."
Shen Gai waved his hand, and immediately rushed forward and several strong Forbidden Army soldiers dragged Wang Chengen down, and then killed him with a single blow before he could react.
Wang Chengen had ridiculed Shen Gai for his eccentric temperament many times, so Shen Gai disliked Wang Chengen very much. Now that the offense and defense were changing positions, of course he had to express his bad temper.
Wang Chengen was killed, and Zhao Yan in the palace also noticed something was wrong and hurriedly shouted: "Wang Chengen? Wang Chengen? Where have you been? Come back quickly!"
Shen should laugh.
Okay, I'm coming.
So Zhao Hao saw Shen Gai coming to him with Zhou Linzhi, Zhang Shi, Lu Yongyan and a group of strong and armed Forbidden Army soldiers.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment.
"Shen Gai? You..."
"The officials and ministers are here specially to ask you to abdicate."
Shen Gai bowed and spoke sincerely.
Zhao Min opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the half-eaten delicious roast chicken he was holding fell to the ground.
"You...what did you say?"
"I have come specially to ask you to abdicate!"
Shen Gai repeated it again, then stood up and said seriously: "Since your Majesty succeeded to the throne, the fortunes of the Song Dynasty have been declining day by day. They have lost their troops and lost their territory. Facing the Ming Dynasty, they have become less and less courageous. The army has been defeated again and again. This is really disappointing. It is suspected that it was caused by the official's misconduct.
Now the Ming army is outside Lin'an City. This is the third time since the officials took the throne that the capital has been surrounded by foreign enemy troops. The ministers are frightened and the soldiers have no fighting spirit, but the officials still force them to fight a war that is destined to be unwinnable. , which is not a good thing for everyone.
Even for the Song Dynasty, this was not a good thing. The officials assumed that since the Ming Dynasty proposed the conditions, it showed that the Ming Dynasty did not want to destroy the Song Dynasty. As long as the conditions were agreed to, peace could be negotiated and the Song Dynasty could exist. But the officials What he did was really chilling to the heart of the ministers. "
"Shen Gai, you..."
Zhao Xun finally realized what happened, slammed the table and said angrily: "How dare you rebel?! And you! Zhou Linzhi! Zhang Shi? Are you here too? Lu Yongyan! You! You actually betrayed me!! You guys! What a bunch of rebels! How dare you betray me!!"
"It's not that they betrayed the officials, it's that the officials don't care about their lives! They don't care about their efforts!"
With an angry look on his face, Zhang Shi said loudly: "If the king treats his ministers like his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart. If the king regards his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman. If his ministers regard his ministers as earth and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as king." Like a enemy!
The officials regard us as dirtbags and have no benevolence towards us. They often beat, scold, and even kill us indiscriminately. How can we not be devastated by such behavior? In this case, don't blame us for treating the officials as enemies! "
Zhao Min was furious.
"Zhang Shi! You are guilty of treason!!"
"What crime did my father commit? Why was he slaughtered?!"
Zhang Shi stared angrily, looking directly at the emperor who had no respect for him, and said angrily: "My father devoted himself wholeheartedly to the officials and the Song Dynasty, but he was slandered by the officials and killed by the officials!
The Yellow River embankment in the Ming Dynasty was planned privately by the officials and Yu Yunwen. Now that it has been revealed, the entire Song Dynasty will be held responsible for your sins and stupidity! What's wrong with us? ! "
"Zhang Shi! You... you are a rebellious thief! You have no regard for the country's grace! You are shameless! You..."
"Guan Jia, you'd better say less."
Shen Gai stepped forward with a calm face and interrupted Zhao Xin's output speech.
He pointed to the gauze wrapped around his head and the faint blood on the gauze. His face was full of coldness and no emotion.
"Guan Jia, the wound on my head that was hit by your own hands is still hurting and bleeding is still oozing out. Do you want to see it with your own eyes?"
