The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 341 The Secret of Promotion

Before Zhao Guangyi could react, Zhao Kuangyin arranged a higher position for him.

In terms of position, it seems that the official position is much higher than that of the prefect of Kaifeng. Knowing the affairs of the Privy Council is the second rank, but the prefect of Kaifeng is a bit higher than the general prefect.

But it's not just that a person from the third rank is two ranks less than the second rank who knows the Privy Council affairs.

Originally, Zhao Kuangyin said that he would be dismissed from his position as the governor of Kaifeng, and he felt really uncomfortable. Without this governor of Kaifeng, he would be just a prince.

There is definitely resentment in my heart, and I didn't expect that I would give myself a higher official position in the blink of an eye.

The more important thing is to master the military, which is what he hopes. Zhao Guangyi has never been able to intervene in the military, and now he just realized this wish.

After all, this is his own brother, it really is good for him, but he really wants to know what Zhao Kuangyin wants to do.

"I don't know what the emperor wants my younger brother to do, so my younger brother should be prepared?"

Zhao Guangyi must always know what the emperor wants to do.

"Guangyi is still that straight-tempered, so let me talk to you, Guangyi, do you know Guo Chong?"

Guo Chong is a general in Hou Zhou, known for his bravery, and he is also a meritorious official in the establishment of Hou Zhou, and Guo Wei attaches great importance to him behind him.

Later Zhou was replaced by Song Dynasty, so he naturally became an official of Song Dynasty, and Zhao Kuangyin also appointed him as Jiedushi.

"Your Majesty, I know this person. When Li Chongjin rebelled, our court sent people to appease him. What's the matter? Is there anything wrong with him?"

Zhao Guangyi naturally knew about this person, and he had seen it before, and now he is a Jiedu envoy. Could it be that he wants to rebel?

"He is such a person. Now he is serving as a Jiedu envoy in the local area, and he also has military power in his hands. It is said that he has signs of rebellion. If I want you to declare the decree, you dare to go."

The decree is to let a dignified prince go, which indicates that the Song Dynasty court attaches great importance to him, but this is also dangerous.

Zhao Guangyi also agreed to come down without any hesitation, and went down very quickly.

Zhao Kuangyin was the only one in Funing Palace, he looked at Zhao Guangyi's back and said to himself:
"Guangyi, you are the brother of my mother's compatriots, but you actually did such a thing, how should I deal with you, let me let you go out this time is a kind of punishment for you."

It turned out that Wang An's heart was broken after being slapped by the butler, and he couldn't live at all.

He lived only to tell Zhao Xu one thing, and finally Zhao Xu understood that this Wang An was working for others.

He didn't know the name of the organization, but the members all had flame-cloud tattoos on their left arms.

He has been in this organization since he was young, but he has not been to the core of this organization. He has done many things in these years.

The killing of Shi Leifei in the palace in the previous stage, and the killing of the doctor of the Ministry of Rites all have his shadow, but this time he was not sent by the organization.

But someone paid him to do it, because he has a killer hall in his hand, which is managed by Zhang Shaoqiang under his control.

These two lives are worth 1 taels, so he agreed. The reason for the death of these two people was actually because of the imperial examination.

In the end, Wang An told him that he had something in the place where he lived, in a crack, so Zhao Xu hurried back.

I quickly found what Wang An said, which recorded what Wang An had done these years.

Perhaps it was for his own peace of mind that he wrote this record similar to a diary. According to the above, this is a way for him to atone for his sins.

But there was a passage in it that caught Zhao Xu's attention:

"In September of the second year of Jianlong, a man came to me and asked me to help him get rid of a man. The reward was 5000 taels. After I asked clearly, it turned out that it was Shi Leifei, a new scholar called into the palace by the emperor."

"According to what they said, he knew something he shouldn't know, and he must die. I thought it was a trivial matter, so I agreed. As long as he took a little poison, Shi Leifei would die."

Wang An's record coincided with Shi Leifei's death, because it also recorded the detailed process and the final death.

But this is not the most important thing. It also records how he made people burn down the attic of the Ministry of Rites.

And how did they arrange for people to sneak into the Langzhong's house and kill his two servants, and then disguise themselves as his servants to kill the Langzhong.

Finally, when he said that he went to the Tai's womb to commit murder, he mentioned that it was commissioned by an adult surnamed Shi, and that it was a prince surnamed Zhao.

This is too obvious. It is estimated that the person who came to contact was deliberately showing off, so Wang An speculated that it was Shi Shouxin and Zhao Guangyi.

These are enough, and there is no need to say more about the others. There are also many secret events that happened in previous dynasties.

At that time, Zhao Xu showed it to Zhao Kuangyin without saying a word. Zhao Kuangyin also pretended to be okay, but in fact he believed it.

He also has a lot of intelligence personnel himself, and he knows some things, but there is not much definite evidence.

Now that he saw this, he believed it a little bit, but he couldn't show it too obviously, he could only pretend that he didn't know anything.

In fact, he didn't say that he had a piece of information about the Kaifeng Mansion, but he said that the Kaifeng Mansion actually allowed those heinous death row prisoners to fake their deaths and then go out to do some bad things.

What he said was all reasonable and well-founded, even if Zhao Kuangyin didn't believe it, who was the Governor of Kaifeng? That was Zhao Guangyi.

If I deal with him at this time, it will definitely cause turmoil in the court, and he is also very embarrassed.

At this time, Zhao Xu took out this thing, and Wang An also mentioned a few strongholds of spies from other countries, which gave Zhao Kuangyin a new idea.

Just take advantage of this time to remove Zhao Guangyi's governor of Kaifeng, and use the excuse that he is not good at handling affairs to take him down.

Then arrange a vacant position for him, and it will be resolved smoothly. As for Shi Shouxin, he is still in the back.

At this time, Zhao Guangyi thought that he was really taking advantage of him, and that his eldest brother was really thinking of him?

He took down his own governor of Kaifeng, but he really made a profit by letting himself be the second in command of the Privy Council.

But he didn't know the real reason for his "promotion" at all, and thought he was being taken care of by his elder brother.

It wasn't until he took office that he realized that he was simply an idler, and he didn't need to do anything, but by then the dust had settled.

It can be said that only Zhao Kuangyin knew the secret of his promotion, and he was promoted secretly!

(End of this chapter)