My surname is Wang, my neighbor Wu Dalang

Chapter 211 Zhao Huan wants to ask Gu?
Let's talk about the emperor's nine sons, Zhao Gou, the king of Guangping County, who took a thousand forbidden troops all the way to visit the mountains and rivers, and finally arrived in Daming, Hebei this morning.

Qiu Renjie led a group of officials from the Daming Mansion out of the city to meet him.

Zhao Gou was bored at first, casually dealing with the local officials who came to greet him, but suddenly saw a familiar figure at the gate of the city.

Zhao Gou's eyes lit up, he immediately put aside Qiu Renjie and the officials of the Daming Mansion, urged his horse to gallop to the gate of the city, got off his horse, and bowed respectfully, "Go, I have seen the master!"

Wang Lin laughed, jumped off the horse, and helped Zhao Gou up: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Your Highness, please come and be safe!"

Zhao Gou smiled and stood beside Wang Lin. Wang Lin patted him on the shoulder casually, then took Zhao Gou's little hand and led him into the city.

One big and one small, very close.

The onlookers Qiu Renjie and the officials and people of the Daming Mansion were stunned.

The majestic Ninth Prince actually called Wang Lin his master and performed the ceremony of disciple!
Moreover, Zhao Gou also rejected Qiu Renjie's ardent arrangement for him to live in the government office, and directly moved into the post house where Wang Lin was.

The judge, Peng Jun, lowered his voice and said, "My lord, these nine princes have such a close relationship with Wang Lin? Didn't they say that Wang Lin belongs to the prince?"

Qiu Renjie frowned: "This residence is not very clear...whatever it is, I will hold a banquet later, and take the opportunity to ask when they will leave the Daming Mansion and send away these two plague gods, so that we can deal with Lu Junyi's case." thing."

When Qiu Renjie remembered that the Lujiazhuang where the Lu clan was imprisoned was taken by Wang Lin's subduing tiger army, his heart became more solemn.

Lu Junyi has become a sharp sword hanging above their heads all the time, and it will fall down at some point.

There was also Wang Lin who was staring at him without knowing why. It was like two huge rocks pressing on Qiu Renjie's heart, making him unable to breathe.

post house.

Wang Lin chatted casually with Zhao Gou, and in a few words, he found out a lot of valuable information from the capital from Zhao Gou, a 12-year-old boy.

Wang Lin has always been suspicious. Going to Qingzhou to represent the Song court to welcome Jin Guo's envoy and the country's prime minister, Wu Qibu, is really a major national event. No matter what, it shouldn't be handed over to an underage child, right?

Why did Zhao Gou, a playful little kid, be sent here? There must be a lot of articles in it.

"Originally Lu Xiang suggested that the three emperors go to Qingzhou, but they were strongly opposed by Li Xiang and Wu Xiang. Li Xiang meant that Wu Qimai was the heir of the Jin Kingdom, and we should have the prince brother represent the Song Dynasty. They argued No more, I heard that they had been arguing in the hall for several days."

"That day, my father suddenly called me to see me, and asked me if I would like to go to Qingzhou to stay for a few days, I said yes, I just went to play with my master."

"So you're here?" Wang Lin's mouth twitched.

"Yes, I'm here. This is the first time I've been out of Beijing, but I didn't expect that, master, you would come to Daming Mansion, Hebei to pick me up."

Wang Lin was silent for a while, and then said: "The matter of welcoming the gold envoy is related to the state of the Song Dynasty. Even if it is proposed by the officials, the ministers in the cabinet may not be able to agree? Besides, isn't there still His Royal Highness?"

"They didn't agree, but there was no result after arguing and fighting, so the father became angry and said: Since you can't argue, I will make the decision. I ordered the king of Guangping County to act as the envoy to welcome the gold, and immediately led the guards. Go to Qingzhou!"

"At that time Lu Xiang objected, saying: Officials, the king of Guangping County is still young, and he is afraid of embarrassing this important task. Li Xiang, Wu Xiang, including Zhang Shuye also raised objections, and the father was annoyed. He looked around and pointed at the officials: Gu There is Gan Luo Twelve as the prime minister, and now my nine sons are also twelve years old. God is blessed and intelligent, and he is also good at riding and shooting. He can read the four books and five classics, and can open the hard bow in the army. Why not share my worries? Could you dare to wait? Can't you underestimate the nobles of Tianhuang?"

Zhao Gou imitated Zhao Ji's expression and tone, walking back and forth with his hands behind his back.

Wang Lin suppressed a smile: "Then, before you left Beijing, did His Royal Highness Yun and Dong Gong both talk to you once? What did they say?"

"Well, Brother Sanhuang just asked me to send a message to Qiu Renjie, the magistrate of Daming Prefecture, saying that Concubine Qiu is well and well in the capital, please don't read it."

"As for the prince, he asked me to write a letter to you, master, but he didn't say anything else, he just told me not to neglect state affairs, be careful, and personally hand this letter into your hands, master, etc. I didn't say anything about it."

As Zhao Gou said, his eyebrows danced with joy: "Master, this famous mansion is not interesting, why don't we set off for Shandong tomorrow morning, I want to go to Qinghe County, and go to Jingyanggang where you used to hunt tigers!"

Wang Lin couldn't help but laugh: "You just made a detour around Hebei for this?"

Zhao Gou nodded seriously: "Yes, I am very yearning for Master to fight the eye-catching white-fronted tiger for the people in Jingyanggang that day!"

Wang Lin's complexion changed suddenly, and he asked again: "You went from Tokyo to Qingzhou, and you didn't pass through Hebei Daming, but King Yun asked you to give Qiu Renjie a message... Could it be that King Yun knew about you before you left Beijing? Do you want to detour around Hebei?"

Zhao Gou also frowned, and thought for a while: "I don't know. I haven't told him that I'm going to detour to Hebei. Maybe he thinks I will detour to Hebei? It's just a message, and it doesn't matter. , it doesn’t matter if you don’t get it.”

Wang Lin fell silent.

Zhao Gou also seemed to realize something was wrong, so he just sat beside him without saying a word, only waiting for Wang Lin's reaction seriously.

Wang Lin thought to himself: Has the battle between King Yun Zhao Kai and Crown Prince Zhao Huan for the heir apparent heated up?

With the current structure of the Song court, Zhao Huan's position as the crown prince has gradually stabilized. Most of the important officials in the court are on Zhao Huan's side, and more importantly, Zhao Huan controls the military power. Wei Zhang Shuye is in command, and Zhang Shuye is the most die-hard princeling.

Without military power, and with the support of the civil society group alone, he competed with Zhao Huan based on this. If Zhao Kai hadn't lost his mind, then he must have other deep-seated schemes.

To seize the throne, one must have military power.

In addition to the imperial army of the Beijing camp, the elite of the Imperial Army of the Great Song Dynasty were mainly concentrated in the Western Army in the east and west of the river, and there was also the Hebei army in the breeding division. In fact, most of these were soldiers and horses separated from the Western Army in the breeding division. .

There are Zhejia among the cultivators. Could it be that Zhao Kai is connected with these local military commanders?
But this is only one possibility.

Wang Lin felt that it was really too difficult for Zhao Kai to use the two chief generals for his own use.

Even if Erzhong was on his side, the border guards would not be of much help to Zhao Kai's struggle for power, right?

Wang Lin believed that with the strength of character of the two kinds, it was absolutely impossible for him to disregard his own duties, abandon the frontier defense, and lead the army to the capital to support King Yun's bid for the throne in order to go along with the fight for the heir apparent.

Wang Lin frowned and thought hard, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be many people on Murong Yanda's bribery blacklist at the moment who were Zhao Kai's wings.

And Murong Yanda has been operating in Qingzhou for so long, privately mining silver mines for several years, and also engaged in sea trade smuggling, so the huge amount of wealth he has amassed will not be hidden and kept in private pockets, and a large part of it must have flowed to other places, such as... For example, Yun Wang and Zhao Kai.

If he guessed correctly, this Qiu Renjie, like Murong Yanda, was a white glove for King Yun and Zhao Kai to collect money.

Before he left last time, he taught Prince Zhao Huan the secret account book. Could it be that Zhao Huan didn't follow the plan to find out all kinds of hidden dangers?

Wang Lin frowned, if Zhao Huan was careless and ignorant, and now Zhao Kai jumped out to compete with him for the crown prince, it would be his own fault.

"Your Highness Ninth Prince, bring me the letter from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

With a groan, Zhao Gong took out a letter from his bosom, which was sealed with a fire sign.

Wang Lin took a deep breath, didn't shy away from Zhao Gou, and opened it to see.

In fact, it is a seemingly ordinary letter.

In Zhao Huan's letter, he recounted the old days and chatted about ordinary things, but he didn't mention a word about the government.

At the end of the letter, he only said in a very flat tone that he would play the official Zhao Ji in the near future, and change the name of Zhao Chen, the son of the concubine Zhu Lian in the seventh year of Zhenghe, Zhao Ji's only grandson, to Lin.

Zhao Huan is currently such a son.

The eldest son of the prince, who is also the future third generation prince.

Zhao Lin?

Wang Lin's heart turned cold.

Let the future crown prince and his ministers have the same name, and do it deliberately... This is simply impossible, breaking the etiquette, violating the system, even if Zhao Ji agrees, the imperial officials and officials in the court will never agree.

Zhao Huan said this specifically, just to show his attitude.

Wishing his son to regard Wang Lin as his father, just like when Liu Bei entrusted Zhuge Liang to Gu Zhuge Liang before his death, he ordered Liu Chan to worship Zhuge as his father.

At the same time, in this way, Wang Lin was pushed to the fire pit to be roasted, so that there was no room for him to relax with King Yun's faction.

Of course, this is just some kind of calculation by Zhao Huan, and it may not necessarily be carried out. It only shows that Zhao Huan can't wait any longer. To protect the life of his young son and wife.

Wang Lin frowned.

Ordinarily, Zhao Huan shouldn't be so anxious to usurp power. After all, he is the legal heir, and he just needs to wait patiently for Zhao Jilongyu to return to heaven.

Sooner or later the throne will be his.

This also explains Zhao Huan's current situation.

It must be in danger of having to die and survive.

Wang Lin was actually not interested in these court dramas where father and son fought each other and brothers fought against each other. It's just that the current Song Dynasty can no longer have civil strife. Such bloody political struggles and violent dynastic changes can only accelerate the demise of the Great Song Dynasty.

The internal turmoil and undercurrents in the capital were beyond Wang Lin's expectations.

After deliberating over and over again, he felt that he could no longer waste time in the Daming Mansion. He had to rush to the capital immediately to stop this palace coup that might happen at any time.

Thinking of this, he grabbed Zhao Gou's little hand and whispered a few words in his ear.

Zhao Gou hesitated for a while and said: "Master, after all, this Qiu Renjie is Brother Yun's relative and Concubine Qiu's father, what if..."

"No case!"

Wang Lin waved his hand resolutely: "Qiu Renjie is full of evil. He expropriated and swindled the people's wealth in a big name. The people's grievances are boiling. His Highness has come here on behalf of the sky patrol. In response to the wishes of the people, why not eliminate this corrupt official and enforce discipline?!"

Zhao Gou stared blankly at Wang Lin, not knowing what to say for a while.

(End of this chapter)