King Zhou stood up slowly and narrowed his eyes.
a long time.
"It seems that you have been dissatisfied with me, my royal brother, for a long time. You must have been holding these words in your heart for some time."
Facing Zhou Wang's questioning, Zhao Yueming looked calm, lifted up the robe in front of him with his hands, and blew it into the wind.
His knees suddenly shook and he knelt down.
"Brother Imperial, do you still remember what you said? You are determined to help the country and revive the great Zhou Dynasty, but what about now?"
"Are you satisfied simply by achieving some achievements?"
"The army in the north is pressing down on the border, and wars continue. Smoke is everywhere in the remaining places. Peasant rebels attack cities and plunder land. The government extorts exorbitant taxes. Aristocratic families pile up grain and grass, manipulate grain prices, and make a fortune for the country."
"Those soldiers who died in battle, the oppressed people, and even the untouchables who fell into disgrace and became bandits, none of them are our citizens of the Zhou Dynasty. They will also have parents to support them, have families, children, and relatives. .”
"They are fathers, sons, and husbands. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't survive, who would be willing to put their heads in their belts, who would be willing to become the cold numbers in other people's mouths, they are also people of flesh and blood."
"If this continues, how can we face the ancestors of our Wu family, and how can we give an explanation to these people, soldiers and even the deceased heroes who have sworn loyalty to the Zhou Dynasty!"
Zhao Yueming's tone was generous and straightforward, without any delay, but the words he spoke were sonorous and powerful, and every word was heart-breaking.
"I, Zhao Yueming, serve as a minister and am the Supervisor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is my duty to fulfill my duties. As a son, I am the son of the late emperor. Although I am not included in the family tree, I still have the blood of the Wu family. I am the great Zhou Dynasty, and it is even more natural for me to do so.”
"But what about you, Your Majesty? Do you have any qualifications or reasons to retreat compared to me? Thousands of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty are waiting for our Majesty to provide them with justice so that they can have justice." If you can live a stable life and live well, if your Majesty doesn’t do these things, who else is qualified to do them?”
After saying these words, Zhao Yueming kowtowed hard to the ground twice, then put his head on the floor of the Imperial Study Room without saying a word.
King Zhou was speechless, just closed his eyes and meditated.
At this moment, Zhang Yuhang felt some sweat oozing out from his back.
Not daring to make the slightest move, just standing there quietly, not daring to make a single sound.
I do not know how long it has been.
King Zhou opened his eyes and slowly walked to Zhao Yueming's side.
He knelt down and helped Zhao Yueming up with his hands.
Zhao Yueming stood up straight in a daze, looked at the man in front of him, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, you..."
King Zhou didn't say anything. He just reached out and pressed his arm to stop him from continuing to speak.
"I know, I know everything."
After that, he walked to his desk again, turned his back to the two of them, and said:
"In that case, just go ahead and do it. If anything happens, I will take care of it for you."
Until now, even though Zhang Yuhang had written down the memorial and the person behind the deduction, King Zhou didn't even read it. He didn't know whether he didn't want to know, or he still had illusions about that person.
"I obey the decree!"
Zhao Yueming cupped his hands to indicate that King Zhou had already expressed his meaning in these words.
There is no point in continuing to press the question.
Zhao Yueming turned and left. Instead of forcing his royal brother to guess everything now, he advocated putting all the evidence on the table. If the time comes, if he is still so stubborn, then he will... ...
When Zhang Yuhang saw his master leaving, he quickly saluted King Zhou's back and wanted to follow him directly.
But who would have thought that before he could reach the door, King Zhou's voice sounded again:
"You stay here for now, I have something else to tell you."
Zhang Yuhang turned around after hearing this and saw King Zhou facing him at some point, looking directly at him.
"I wonder if your Majesty has any other instructions?"
Zhang Yuhang asked in a calm tone. At this moment, his heart calmed down a lot and he was no longer panicking.
What is coming will come sooner or later. You can't avoid it by hiding.
King Zhou nodded, thoughtfully: "You don't seem to be afraid anymore."
Zhang Yuhang: "Why should I be afraid?"
"Zhao Yueming is the heir of the former prince. No more than five people in the entire Zhou Dynasty know about it. He questioned me face to face and even showed disrespect in his words. What crime should he be punished according to the law?"
"Of course, he is my brother, and I will not kill him. What about you, do you think I will not kill you?"
King Zhou had murderous intent in his eyes at this moment, as if he would order Zhang Yuhang to be beheaded on the spot the next moment.
But Zhang Yuhang didn't have a trace of fear at this moment and said directly: "If your Majesty wants me to die, just one sentence is enough. If you want me to die, I have to die. Therefore, I will never worry about this."
"So, you dare to take advantage of me, and even have the guts to frame an illustrious prince's mansion, and ignore the overall situation just for your own personal grudges. Is this what you call loyalty to the emperor and patriotism?"
Zhang Yuhang: "What do you mean, Your Majesty?"
"What do you mean?" A sneer flashed across King Zhou's face: "Then I'll tell you."
"It's a great achievement that you found out who the Wei spies were trying to assassinate, but you don't want to stop there. You even want to use their hands to catch everyone in one go. In your words, this is called taking a long shot to catch the big fish. "
"But have you forgotten that your bait is me? You dare to use my life as bait. You are so bold. And is your purpose of doing this really just for me?"
Zhang Yuhang explained: "I am doing this to find out the traitor in the palace and the mastermind behind it. As for Your Majesty, you have been informed of this matter in advance. With the complete deployment, Your Majesty will never be harmed in the slightest." .”
King Zhou was angry but did not express his anger. Instead, he laughed loudly: "Yes, yes, you dare to lie in front of me. You are deceiving the king. To say that you are bold is to underestimate you."
Zhang Yuhang: "Your Majesty, minister..."
"That's enough!" King Zhou waved his hand, "I know what happened to you, and I also know that you hate those people in the Xingyong Hou Mansion, so in order to retaliate against them, you did not hesitate to use my hands to get rid of them and put them to death. I treat it as a knife in your hand, right?"
Zhang Yuhang: "I don't dare!"
"I don't dare, I dare not!" King Zhou's tone was not only filled with emotion but also sighing.
Immediately afterwards, he asked Zhang Yuhang another question: "Then Liu Wen should be coming to Kyoto soon. You used the title of Marquis of Xingyong to gather all these people in the Marquis' Mansion, and prepared Wei Guo's spies in my house." The combination of the assassination of me at the birthday banquet has created a graveyard large enough for everyone in the Xingyong Marquis's residence to bury them."
"If you report it to me as early as possible, and it can save you, you can take it out safely, and you can even direct and act on your birthday when the time comes. If you get injured because of the rescue, then everything that happened in Xingyonghou Mansion can be solved You don't touch me, after all, if you risk your life to save me from danger, why would you want to kill me?"
