end song

Chapter 700
The spring rains in Lin'an City are continuous.

The sky is gloomy, and the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River also looks dim.

It was still cold in early February, and the rain splashed on the body was icy cold.

In the inner palace city, the emperor Yijia was slowly heading from the inner lady's pavilion to the Yanhe hall.

Miyagi City is not very big, although this section of road is only about [-] steps, Yijia Lubo still arranges it very well.

There are 28 eunuchs carrying jade scorpions, those who drive in front, those who hold canopies, those who hold whisks, incense boxes, golden pots... There are always nearly a hundred people.

Finally, they safely sent the emperor into the Yanhe Hall without letting a drop of cold rain fall on the scarlet emperor's robe.

Zhao Yu wore red uniforms because Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty advocated a style of diligence and simplicity. The emperor's robes did not have too many patterns and embroidery. They were mainly pure colors such as light yellow, deep yellow, and red red, and the styles were simple and plain.

The warmth of the palace hits, and the spring is harmonious.

Jia Sidao stood up and said politely, "I've seen the officials."

Zhao Yu hurriedly apologized and said, "Mr. Jia has been here for a long time, and I am late in this annoying weather."

He sat down on the imperial couch, and Meiji stepped forward to serve him to drink.

Today, Cheng Yuanfeng, Ye Mengding and others asked to see them several times, but in this weather, Zhao Yu didn't want to see them, and excused that she was sick.

He had lost a son a while ago, and when he was sad, the chief executives were not easy to force him.

That is to say, when Jia Sidao came, he was willing to drink and have fun with him instead of persuading him with a straight face all day long, so he agreed to summon him.

When the dance and music started, there was another palace lady to accompany Jia Sidao to drink.

Only then did the monarch and his ministers talk about state affairs.

"Please mourn Your Majesty. The Ministry of Rites has designated Duke Chong's posthumous title as 'King Guangchongshan'. Is it possible?"

The first thing Jia Sidao mentioned was the funeral for Zhao Yu's eldest son who died young.

This is the most important event in the Song Dynasty today.

Zhao Xuan listened casually, only drinking.

He hadn't actually seen his son a few times.

I remember that it seemed that the year before last, which servant girl's stomach was enlarged, but I don't remember which servant girl.

At that time, King Rong and the first emperor were still there, so the incident got angry, but Zhao Yu could feel that they were actually very happy in their hearts.

At that time, only Ye Mengding and Yang Dong were really angry, saying that His Highness hadn't married yet, so what if the important event of succession broke down.

Fortunately, his biological father and brother killed the first emperor and made him the emperor directly.

As for that child, remember the one born early last year?
Little one.

At that time, I knew that I couldn't support it, and I didn't support it.

Rebirth is it...

When Zhao Xuan was drunk and in a good mood, Jia Sidao finally finished the tedious funeral.

After that, a brocade box was presented.

"The minister is deeply afraid that the officials will mourn, and specially ordered someone to visit a self-warming cup to warm the hearts of the officials."

"Okay, okay, let me have a look."

Meiji opened the brocade box and took out the jade cup.

The snow-white plain hands matched the jade cup, Zhao Yu couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and ordered Meiji to continue pouring the wine.

After drinking a glass of warm wine, he smacked his mouth, as if he suddenly thought of something, he quickly asked Jia Sidao to come forward and talk.

"Jia Xianggong, tell me quickly, what is the effect of drinking with this self-warming cup?"

"Reporting to the official family, there is a reason why this item is invaluable..."

Jia Sidao glanced at the surrounding Meiji, and leaned over to whisper a few words.

Zhao Yu was delighted to hear it, and his eyebrows danced with joy.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the officials, Jia Sidao secretly ridiculed Cheng Yuanfeng and Ye Mengding for being rigid.

It's really easy to grasp this official family, you just need to regard it as the stupidest, most perverted, and the most deceitful one in Lin'an's fun.

……

If it hadn't been for being framed by Li Xia, and then being suppressed and guarded against, Jia Sidao would have made Zhao Xuan his puppet long ago.

But even with such precautions, Zhao Xuan has gradually felt Jia Sidao's goodness recently.

Such a courtier, who is loyal and able to do things, speaks nicely, and is funny, is much stronger than the other ministers for Zhao Xuan.

"Jia Xianggong, it would be great if I handed over state affairs to you earlier."

Zhao Yu grew closer to Jia Sidao.

"A few days ago, the minister and the ministers all came to say that if I didn't follow their wishes, they would all have to resign, which made me very embarrassed..."

Jia Sidao suddenly turned his head to look at Guan De, and said, "Back off."

Guan De was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Zhao Xuan, and after he had managed to stabilize his mind, he unhurriedly apologized to Jia Sidao with a smile: "The officials are still talking, but Jia Xianggong actually ordered us..."

"Jia Xianggong told you to back down." Zhao Yu turned his head and cursed, "You all go down too, I want to talk to Jia Xianggong."

He only dared to be so fierce to eunuchs and palace people.

Guan De quickly lowered his head, his eyes were startled, but he had no choice but to lead the others out of the hall.

Jia Sidao smiled imperceptibly.

The holy family is set.

For more than a year, the people who really competed with Jia Sidao in the imperial court were not Cheng Yuanfeng, Ye Mengding and others at all.

It's Guan De.

It was Li Xia's power left in the court.

If it weren't for Guan De blowing in Zhao Yu's ear every day, after Li Xia left Lin'an, Jia Sidao might not have been able to get the imperial decree to drive away all the old stubborn people in a month or two after Li Xia left Lin'an.

How can Li Xia be given a year to recover Longxi, send troops to Dali, and recruit Guanzhong?
In other words, it was Guan De who stumbled secretly and dealt with Jia Sidao quietly, which gave Li Xia a year to rapidly expand his strength.

Sometimes Jia Sidao wished he could send someone to get rid of Guan De directly, but before he could do anything, Zhao Jin ran to him first and asked him directly, "Uncle wants to kill the servant left behind by the emperor?"

"Never mind."

At that time, Jia Sidao understood that it was the demon concubine who was behind the scenes.

Can't act rashly...

To put it simply, Li Xia's forces in Lin'an and Cheng Yuanfeng have been suppressing Jia Sidao all along.

This time, Cheng Yuanfeng fought with Li Xia, which gave Jia Sidao an opportunity.

On the one hand, the important officials forced the officials to get rid of Li Xia, and on the other hand, Guan De kept speaking for Li Xia.

There is only one result, and the two forces will inevitably make the officials feel disgusted and disgusted...

~~
Seeing Guan De being chased away by Jia Sidao, Zhao Yu grinned, feeling a little pleased.

He found that he had already started to hate Guan De.

A personal servant, if he doesn't take good care of him, he doesn't go to find more wine and beauties, and gets involved in state affairs all day long.

He, the emperor, doesn't want to deal with state affairs at all!
I'm so annoying.

But when the trouble got to this point, Zhao Xuan had no choice but to deal with it.

"What did I say just now? Oh, Cheng Xianggong said that Li Xia wanted to rebel. Jia Xianggong, I haven't asked you yet, what should I do about this?"

Jia Sidao responded: "The reason why I let Guan De back down is because I suspected that he had colluded with Li Xia."

When he talked to Zhao Xuan, he was always very direct, trying to use the most straightforward and understandable words.

If you use some metaphors like in the past when you were right with the first emperor, it will be very troublesome if the stupid official in front of you guesses wrong.

"Jia Xianggong also thinks that Li Xia is going to rebel?"

"Li Xia never listened to the imperial court's order in his work, and placed people around the officials. If it wasn't for rebellion, I couldn't figure out why he was? Did he want to be promoted? But the officials had wanted to promote Li Xia a long time ago. He I don’t want to, I just want to go to Sichuan and Shu, for the purpose of plotting rebellion, of course.”

The last sentence touched Zhao Yu's heart.

——Cheng Xianggong agreed to let Li Xia be the prime minister, but he refused, so what else is older than the prime minister?
Can't help but be a shock.

In fact, long before this, Zhao Yu's attitude towards Li Xia was already different...

brother?

He never had any brotherly feelings for Li Xia, not even a tiny bit.

It's just that before ascending to the throne, the only people you can trust are your biological father and brothers, it's as simple as that.

As soon as he took the throne, this trust has changed.

If it were any other emperor, it would have been time to kill someone.It's just that Zhao Yu only cared about having fun and didn't have time to think about it at all.

Li Xia didn't bother him either, she just said that she wanted to protect him and didn't let him think about it.

This is what he is most satisfied with.

Why are you satisfied?At first, Zhao Yu didn't know, but he was very satisfied anyway, and he only enjoyed the emperor's pleasure every day, very happy.

Recently, he suddenly discovered that, in his heart, he hated hearing Li Xia's name and seeing Li Xia extremely.

Such a person who is stronger than him in every aspect tells him as soon as he appears, "Your life experience will make you lose everything..."

As soon as Li Xia appeared, what he brought to Zhao Xuan was such disgusting broken news.

Then, Li Yong killed King Rong with one axe, and settled the matter...

Zhao Yu thinks this is very good, and he can be the emperor again.

But what is it like to experience this?
Feeling very bad.

The emotions Li Xia brought to him were jealousy, hatred, jealousy, and fear, incomparable fear.

He just wanted to know nothing, buried his head in the beauty's arms, and pretended nothing happened.

~~
"So, Li Xia really wants to rebel? But, I...but I... really don't want to do anything to the hero. I told Cheng Xianggong not to provoke Li Xia, but Cheng Xianggong refused to listen... Li Xia is very dangerous."

Zhao Xuan shrank his head, recalled the scene of King Rong's death, and shivered again.

He felt that Cheng Yuanfeng, Ye Mengding and others were too stupid to make trouble out of nothing.

Jia Sidao saw the fear in Zhao Yu's eyes, and there was a satisfied expression in his eyes.

Because I like such officials.

"The right prime minister really can't do things, he sent someone to get rid of Li Xia."

"Get rid of it?" Zhao Yu was overjoyed, and asked, "Then Li Yong got rid of it?"

"No." Jia Sidao shook his head, "Today, the news from the right minister has not come back, but Li Xia sent an urgent memorial, questioning why Ma Qian, the pacifier of Kuizhou Road and also known to the Chongqing government, killed the official. Haven't you seen the right-hand man at home?"

"belch!"

Zhao Yu turned pale with shock, the drunkenness dissipated in an instant, and said in shock: "What?! That's not what I meant...I didn't! I, Zhen, Zhen... I said I would ask Li Xia... No, no... Cheng Yuanfeng is critical kill me!"

Jia Sidao closed his eyes.

He couldn't take it anymore.

The emperor does not have the bearing of an emperor, and Cheng Yuanfeng sent someone to attack Li Xia. As a result, Li Xia's memorial has arrived, but Cheng Yuanfeng's news has not yet arrived.

Relying on these wastes to save Da Song Sheji?

Ugh.

"The right minister did not do it properly, but he is right. If Li Xia is not eliminated early, Li Xia will kill Lin'an sooner or later..."

"No, Mr. Jia, you don't understand." Zhao Yu murmured, "You don't understand, maybe Li Xia doesn't want to rebel, I... I am very close to him... Mr. Jia, you don't understand..."

"I understand."

Jia Sidao suddenly looked deeply at Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan was startled again, and hurriedly said, "You don't understand."

"I understand." Jia Sidao's tone was sincere and full of loyalty, and he said slowly: "Please trust me, the officials, today's affairs, only the officials and the ministers know, there is no third person."

"you you you……"

"I am loyal to Your Majesty, please trust me."

~~
Outside the hall, the wind and rain are like darkness.

Guan De paced a few steps anxiously, feeling even worse in his heart.

As Li Xia was mentioned more and more recently, Guan De could already sense that Zhao Xuan's attitude towards him had changed.

Eyelids twitched violently, seeing that the official family and Jia Sidao had no intention of finishing their conversation in a short time, Guan De finally gritted his teeth, turned around and hurried out of the palace.

"Quick! Take me to Wushan..."

~~
Inside the hall, there is warmth.

The self-warming cup is placed on the imperial table, emerald and shiny.

The clear water was poured into the cup, and a wisp of smoke rose up, gradually warming up.

"despair."

A drop of blood falls into the cup.

Then, another drop.

The two drops of blood gradually approached in the small jasper cup, and finally, they merged together.

Zhao Xuan's eyes widened in disbelief.

"This, this... Could it be that I... Could it be that I belong to you..."

(End of this chapter)