Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 608: Huizong's Strange Path

At this time, Zhao Mu let go of the struggling Queen Wang, picked up the white silk, and slowly walked towards Zhao Ji.

When Zhao Ji saw the white silk in Zhao Mu's hand, he was so scared that he stepped back repeatedly.

Zhao Ji shouted in horror: "Uncle! Your Majesty! No! I don't want to die yet!"

Zhao Mu snorted coldly and said, "This matter is not up to you!"

As he said this, he rushed over and wrapped the white silk around Zhao Ji's neck in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Mu was not in a hurry to kill him. He asked, "Do you have any last words?"

But at this moment, because of the feeling of suffocation and fear, Zhao Ji couldn't utter a word. He just kept grabbing the white silk in Zhao Mu's hand, trying to catch his breath.

At this time, Queen Wang, who had come to her senses, saw the situation and hurried forward to pull Zhao Mu away.

She grabbed Zhao Mu's wrist and cried, "Your Majesty! Please ask the emperor to plead for mercy. The emperor may spare my husband for the sake of brotherhood. As long as Your Majesty is willing to help, I will serve Your Majesty wholeheartedly from now on!"

Faced with the beauty's pleading, Zhao Mu did not show any mercy. He looked at Queen Wang and said, "Do you think His Majesty really doesn't want to protect him? But His Majesty cannot offend the public and must set an example. If it weren't for protecting Queen Dowager Xiang, Prince Duan wouldn't have to die. Queen Dowager Xiang, in order to protect herself, also put all the blame on Prince Duan in her confession. And you all know how many ministers in the court are members of the Queen's party."

"If Prince Duan is to survive, there is only one way, and that is to pass on the blame for usurping the throne. But who else can take the blame on himself except him? Now that he is dead, it is the best and least costly solution to this matter. If they pass it on to others, their fate will be the same as Prince Consort Wang and General Gao. At the very least, they will be exiled, and at the worst, all three clans will be executed! And there are not many people he can pass on now! If he doesn't die, guess whose family will be the first to be buried with him!"

Hearing this, Queen Wang slowly loosened her grip on Zhao Mu's hand, then turned her back, not daring to look at Zhao Ji's face again.

Queen Wang knew that if Zhao Ji did not take the blame, then the only thing left to do was to pass the blame for the usurpation of the throne to the ministers he had appointed, saying that they had instigated Prince Duan to usurp the throne.

By then, the people who would die would be the ministers he had appointed. Among these ministers, the first one to die would definitely be her father, Duke Rong Wang Zao. If he wanted to execute the ministers, it would not just be killing one person.

Faced with such a huge entanglement, Queen Wang was unable to make a decision for a moment.

She naturally didn't want Zhao Ji to die. She also didn't want to see her entire family buried with him. Moreover, in order to protect her family, she had already sacrificed her chastity and devoted herself to Zhao Mu. If she sacrificed her three clans, what was the point of her previous endurance of humiliation?

Seeing that Queen Wang let go, Zhao Ji looked ashen and was completely desperate.

Zhao Mu no longer held back at this time, he slowly increased his strength.

Not long after, the infamous Song Huizong Zhao Ji was hanged to death by Zhao Mu himself.

Even though Zhao Ji was already dead, Zhao Mu was afraid that he was not dead yet, so he still refused to let go.

Zhao Mu was a little nervous after strangling Zhao Ji with his own hands, and his hands were shaking slowly.

Because he personally brought the culprit of the Jingkang Shame to justice. He personally strangled the famous Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

This feeling made him both excited and scared.

What made him excited was that in this time and space, he personally avenged the Han people of his original time and space, and completely erased the shame that had lasted for thousands of years from the root.

What is frightening is that he "killed the king" like Sima Zhao, Cheng Ji and others.

Zhao Mu didn't know why he was a little scared. Perhaps it was because he knew that the purple-faced, dead Zhao Ji in his hands was the king of a country. Or maybe he was afraid that he would be infamous for regicide.

However, this feeling of fear only stayed in Zhao Mu's heart for a moment before it was completely suppressed by his excitement.

Zhao Mu was immersed in the joy and excitement of strangling Song Huizong with his own hands. Even when he was dead, he refused to let go.

Finally, the white silk was torn apart by Zhao Mu, unable to withstand his pulling. As the white silk was torn apart, the body of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, fell heavily to the ground.

Hearing the "plop" sound, Queen Wang turned around quickly.

Looking at the long-dead Zhao Ji, tears couldn't stop flowing from her eyes.

Then she fell in front of Zhao Ji's body and began to cry.

Looking at the "deep love" between Queen Wang and Zhao Ji at this time, Zhao Mu couldn't help but snort.

He picked up the broken piece of white silk on the ground and wrapped it directly around Queen Wang's forehead.

Queen Wang was very scared at first. When she saw Zhao Mu coming towards her with a white silk, she thought Zhao Mu also wanted to hang her. But Zhao Mu just tied the white silk around her head.

After Zhao Mu tied her up, he patted her shoulder, then slowly walked out of the prison door with his hands behind his back.

At this time, Zhao Mu turned around and looked at Queen Wang, who was dressed in wedding clothes and had a white scarf wrapped in mourning on her head, and sneered again.

Zhao Mu arrived at the gate of Tianlao at this time and motioned Eunuch Hu and others to go in to verify his identity.

Eunuch Hu and others also hurried in to check.

After they confirmed Zhao Ji's death, they left with peace of mind, and then returned to the palace with a smile on their faces to report back.

The officials from the Zongzhengfu had already been waiting in front of the Tianlao gate.

Although Zhao Ji was sentenced to death for treason, his elder brother, Zhezong, still gave him some grace and some last bit of dignity.

That was to give Zhao Ji a "grand burial". The officials of the Zongzhengfu were there to bury Zhao Ji.

Because Zhao Ji was a criminal, his funeral naturally could not be as grand as that of other kings and princes.

Although he could not hold a grand funeral, Zhezong still kept the rituals for the death of a prince for Zhao Ji. Whether it was the coffin or the burial objects, Zhezong was not stingy at all.

Even the things used to pave the bottom of Zhao Ji's coffin were some of his favorite paintings and calligraphy by famous artists.

As the officials of the Ministry of Rites carried out Zhao Ji's body and placed it in the coffin for burial, Queen Wang also walked out of the prison in a state of dismay.

When Queen Wang walked in front of Zhao Mu, she looked at Zhao Mu.

But Queen Wang’s expression was very complicated.

There was a dead heart and resentment in her eyes, but there was no hatred towards Zhao Mu.

Because now she has no right to hate Zhao Mu anymore.

At the final moment, she chose to sacrifice Zhao Ji and save everyone.

In this way, what is the difference between her and those officials in the court who took advantage of others' misfortunes, and the Queen Mother Xiang who put all the blame on Zhao Ji? Although she still hated Zhao Mu, at least on this point, she was not qualified to hate him.

She walked up to Zhao Mu, looked back at Zhao Ji's remains, then tore off the white silk on her head and said, "Your Majesty, let's go back!"

(End of this chapter)