Chapter 249
Chapter 249
Chapter 249
The officials of the foundry bureau were all overjoyed when they got the imperial edict from the emperor, even though they were happy to be granted the fiefdom of King Zhenbei before.
But it's different now. Now it's rewarded by the imperial court. That is to say, the previous treatment was only valid in the Zhenbei King's fiefdom, but now the official uniform can be worn throughout the Song Dynasty.
These craftsmen thanked Sheng'en, and they all ran to kneel to thank Xiao Qi for his great kindness.
What happened these days, although these craftsmen are busy in the foundry all day long, how could they not know about the commotion outside!
These people are very clear that because of their affairs, King Zhenbei and those Confucian scholars have reached the point where they will never die.
As craftsmen with low status in the past, their gratitude to Xiao Qi was really beyond words, and they all swore to themselves that they would not hesitate to be the king of Zhenbei in this life.
After Xiao Qi received the imperial decree to award him, he was completely numb.
I thought that the second emperor had lost his mind?
Otherwise, how could they do such a nonsense thing!
At this time, Xiao Qi has a very good understanding of the various situations in the era.
In addition, in order to prevent someone from digging a hole for his daughter-in-law Zhang Xiu, he explained all the laws and regulations of the Song Dynasty to Zhang Xiu.
Of course, he also learned while explaining.
Xiao Qi remembered very clearly that the clan princes of the old Zhao family of the royal family could only be three-clawed golden dragons, and the four-clawed golden dragons were the prince's robes!
Isn't it nonsense to ask me to wear the prince's robes!
Not to mention that you, Zhao Shen, have a son, Zhao Dun, who will be the next emperor in the future. Are you making such a fuss to lay the groundwork for us two to fight to the death in the future?
Do you really think that boy Zhao Dun can kill me?
Or did Zhao Shen feel that Zhao Dun was not your own, and wanted to use my hand to kill him?
Xiao Qi resolutely refused to accept the imperial edict and told Zhang Cheng, who came to announce the edict, to quickly put away the imperial edict and go back to ask the emperor to burn it.
He didn't say that the emperor's decree was wrong, but that the author of the imperial decree wrote three claws instead of four claws, which would make the future prince misunderstand.
When Zhang Cheng returned to the palace with the imperial decree, he saw that the three sons of Zhao Shen's family had already run to the palace.
Needless to say, these three guys were still wearing the three-clawed dragon robe, and when they heard that the four-clawed dragon robe was given to their brother-in-law, they all came to ask about the situation.
On the other hand, Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen didn't care about it, they drank wine and chatted comfortably, even though the three little princes stood far away and felt uneasy.
Seeing Zhang Cheng's return, the three princes suddenly became anxious and sweating profusely. The messengers of the imperial edict had all returned, and there was another variable in the crown prince's position. Originally, the three brothers were competing for it, but now there is an additional brother-in-law competing for it.
When Zhang Cheng passed by the three of them, he comforted in a low voice: Princes, don't worry, King Zhenbei didn't accept the order!
The three of them heaved a sigh of relief when they heard this, but they became dissatisfied and refused to accept the imperial edict?
Is this brother-in-law's neck made of iron?
Dare to do such a thing as resisting the decree, what audacity!
Both Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou saw Zhang Cheng whispering to the three guys, Zhao Shen put down his wine glass and scolded: "Bold Zhang Cheng, if you don't hurry to hand in the decree when you come back, what are you muttering about?"
Zhang Cheng hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and said that Xiao Qi refused to accept the edict, saying that the author of the imperial edict had written the wrong three-clawed dragon and written it as a four-clawed dragon, for fear that the future prince would misunderstand.
Zhao Gou put the wine glass in front of him: "What's the misunderstanding? Who dares to misunderstand? This is the reward I want to give to my grandson-in-law!"
The three princes were immediately stunned.
Because the grandpa is not relative, is he going to give away the old Zhao family's country to others?
Zhao Shen looked at the appearance of his three sons and snorted coldly:
"Hmph! You don't learn how to govern the country at such a young age, you just think about multiple claws on your clothes all day long, look at your brother-in-law Xiao Qi.
Even though I am younger than you, I have already laid a huge foundation for the Song Dynasty. Do you really think that everyone wants to be on that throne? "
He took a bite of the food and ate it, then cursed: "My father warns you three today, whoever makes your brother-in-law unhappy in the future, don't want to be a prince!"
The three brothers were dumbfounded.
Isn't it possible to be a prince by currying favor with a good father?
Why do you want to curry favor with your brother-in-law, which one of you is your real father!
If Zhao Shen knew what these three guys were thinking, he would definitely throw them into the urinal and drown them, and then go to work on a son practicing trumpet.
Zhao Gou waved his hand to stop Zhao Shen's lecture, and asked Zhang Cheng what Xiao Qi said.
Zhang Cheng honestly repeated Xiao Qi's words, and said: "Back to the two sages, the king of Zhenbei said to thank the second emperor for his love. The four-clawed dragon robe is out of order, and it may become the source of future troubles. I implore your majesty to change it to a three-clawed dragon robe." .”
Zhao Gou waved and ordered Zhang Cheng to go down and re-draft the decree, changing the four-clawed golden dragon to three-clawed, and took off his jade belt casually: "I will give this thing to my grandson-in-law!"
Zhang Cheng stood up and then knelt down: "Report to the Second Emperor, King Zhenbei asks for an order to burn this wrongly written imperial order."
Zhao Shen was taken aback, and randomly glanced at his three sons with cold eyes, seeing the angry expressions on the faces of these three sons, he waved Zhang Cheng down to burn the original imperial decree and rewrite the draft decree before he proclaimed the decree.
After Zhang Cheng left, Zhao Shen waved away the guards around him, and asked his three sons to come forward and talk.
When the three princes came closer, Zhao Shen looked at them and asked, "Do you think your brother-in-law Xiao Qi is worried that you will hate him in the future and cause trouble for him, so he asked for orders to burn the imperial edict?"
The boss Zhao Xuan (Qi four times) nodded and said: "It must be that Xiao Qi is afraid that the children will know that he has violated the rules and punish him, so he dare not accept this reward, and even burn the imperial decree to destroy the evidence!"
Zhao Shen was furious, waved his hand, and there was a crisp sound of "pop", the sound was heard by the second son Zhao Kai and the third son Zhao Dun, and it was refreshing and sweet in their hearts.
Both of them knew that the fight for the crown prince was over.
As the emperor's father, he is peaceful and upright on weekdays, and rarely even curses, let alone beats.
Zhao Shen turned to the third child, Zhao Dun: "Do you think so too?"
Zhao Dunxin said: It's better to be the youngest!There are such obvious hints, how could I think so, it's not because I'm afraid of being whipped, it's about the throne!
Zhao Dun thought quickly and saluted Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen: "Huihuang grandfather and father knew that the child did not think so. The child felt that Xiao Qi's brother-in-law did this for the sake of the stability of the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty without leaving any flaws. of."
The second child, Zhao Kai, was anxious: Ask me!ask me!I thought so too!Father, you are too partial, aren't you?Why is it that people who are born in the middle in this world don't love grandma and uncle?
At this time, Zhao Gou finished the conversation and asked the boss Zhao Shu: "You know your father is beating you, why didn't the emperor stop you?"
At this time, Zhao Shu was already scared to pee.
In his heart, he always felt that he was the eldest son, and that the crown prince and the future throne were logically in his pocket. That's why he was so angry at the second emperor awarding Xiao Qi with a four-clawed dragon robe.
Now he has been woken up by Zhao Shen's slap, and when he heard Zhao Gou's question, he quickly knelt down and returned: "Grandson doesn't know, please teach me, grandpa."
Zhao Gou was very satisfied with Zhao Shu's reaction, nodded and glanced at the other two grandsons again, before saying solemnly:
"Your brother-in-law Xiao Qi is a disciple of a strange person in the world, and he would not have entered the power field that these superiors hate.
It's just that his father was injured and disabled for Da Song, and his father-in-law just died for my Da Song, so he was asked to move by your father.
For the Song Dynasty, we led the army to conquer the east and west. In just a few years, we not only made all the countries around the country surrender, but also secured a huge territory for the Song Dynasty. "
After finishing speaking, he picked up the wine glass that Zhao Shen had filled for him, took a sip, turned to stare at the three grandsons and cursed:
"How could such an expert covet the crown prince in the eyes of you mortals?
If he wants rights, your father and I are willing to hand over the entire country to him, and we are willing! "
The three princes were shocked when they heard Zhao Gou's words.
The third child, Zhao Dun, raised his head in surprise, and asked cautiously, "Is Grandpa Huang just teasing his grandson?"
Zhao Gou shook his head and smiled, helplessly said:
"You can see that since your father and I know how powerful Xiao Qi is, we not only gave him the most important military power in Song Dynasty.
Why do you still ignore the face of the royal family and force your sister to be his second wife?
This is all to leave a way for you to wait!
I am already old, and your father will eventually pass on the throne to one of you in the future. We are worried that we will grow old in the future.
If there is no relationship between the Zhao family of the Great Song Dynasty and Xiao Qi, then Xiao Qi will leave the Great Song Dynasty and drift away. At that time, I, the Great Song Dynasty, will lose my support! "
The three princes were all shocked by Zhao Gou's words!
Looking at his three sons who were stunned, Zhao Shen said: "Do you really think that your grandpa and I are both old and confused?
Only the prince can wear the four-clawed dragon robe. I, who was still the prince a few years ago, forgot so quickly?
You are so confused, your brother-in-law Xiao Qi is determined not to be emperor, even if I beg him! "
The three sons didn't dare to refute on the surface, but they were dissatisfied in their hearts. In their view, everyone in the world wanted to sit on that dragon chair, and the father and grandfather were just fooled by Xiao Qi's acting skills.
Seeing the appearance of these three cheap grandsons, Zhao Gou knew that what he had said before was in vain, and he was extremely disappointed in the three grandsons in his heart.
"Xiao Qi doesn't like political affairs, and doesn't care about the matter of opposing the crown prince, but I have already discussed it with your father.
Although your brother-in-law will not participate in the establishment of the crown prince, the prince that Xiao Qi dislikes will not be established as the crown prince! "
After finishing speaking, Zhao Gou flicked his sleeves, went back to his bedroom angrily, and went to play hide-and-seek with his concubines.
Although Zhao Shen knew that he had not discussed with Zhao Gou about establishing a crown prince, the expressions of his three sons just now made him understand why Zhao Gou was angry.
After the Supreme Emperor Zhao Gou left, the three princes and Zhao Shen were father and son after all, so they spoke more casually.
The First Prince Zhao Yan asked:
"Father, why do you and Grandpa Huang value Xiao Qi so much? Although he has studied for several years, the ministers are not willing to be with him in private.
Those ministers all thought that he was just a warrior, and his Jinshi was awarded by his father and not by himself, so he was not worthy of being a civil servant."
Zhao Gou had already left, and there were only four of them, father and son, left here, and Zhao Shen didn't have to twitch his mouth for others to see.
So he started the teaching mode of persuasion, from the time when Longxing went to the north to inspect the Northern Expedition, and saw the gun barrel in the blacksmith shop, to discovering Xiao Qi, a young man with infinite strength and extraordinary martial arts.
Because of a whim, Xiao Qi was given a seventh-rank official position, and he had the same background as a Jinshi in the Imperial Palace Examination, and he was given a battalion of five hundred soldiers and ordered him to fight against gold.
Since then, the Song Dynasty began to retreat from the successive defeats of the Jin people, and then the Jin soldiers who fought back returned to the north bank of the Yellow River, regaining the large tracts of land that the Song Dynasty had lost for decades.
Not only that, no one dares to easily provoke the Song Dynasty in the countries bordering the Great Song Dynasty. Annan in the south only caused chaos in several cities in the south of the Great Song Dynasty.
Xiao Qi led the Changsheng Battalion to destroy An Nanguo, and by the way, all the southern countries, all of which were placed under the territory of my Great Song Dynasty.
Having said that, Zhao Shen turned to look at his three sons, and said seriously:
"You can't trust the words of those rotten Confucians, what is just a martial artist is not a Confucian child, and what is said is not a civil official!
This time the Confucian scholars used the banner of Confucianism to make trouble against King Zhenbei, and the Confucian government hurriedly disassociated themselves from those scholars when they heard the news.
In order not to make your brother-in-law angry with the Confucian government, they did not hesitate to expel those Confucian scholars from the gate, has such a thing happened in thousands of years?
Those Confucian mansions that the rotten scholars relied on all their lives trembled in front of Xiao Qi, for fear that King Zhenbei might misunderstand them.
You guys still believe in the nonsense of those rotten scholars! "
The three princes were reprimanded for more than an hour before they were kicked out of the palace by Zhao Shen, and asked them to go back and reflect on themselves.
At the end, Zhao Shen sternly warned the three sons that if anyone provokes Xiao Qi for no reason, at least they will lose their qualifications to compete for the crown prince, and at worst they will abolish the status of prince and demote them to common people.
After leaving the palace, Zhao Min and his two younger brothers didn't speak to anyone. They were both confused now.
My father's words just now echoed in my mind: You don't know about others, but you should know about your sister Yongjia, right?
Since childhood, your elder brothers coaxed her to play, this girl is naturally weak and timid.
But what about now?
How long has it been since she married into the Xiao family? Not only is her martial arts extremely high, but this time she has also become the commander-in-chief of a hundred thousand soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who went south!
Even though you are all my sons, you are called princes, but the three of you together can't command a battalion of [-] permanent victories!
Xiao Qi is so important to me and your grandpa because as long as I have him in Song Dynasty.
In the Zhao family of my royal family, even a three-year-old child sitting on the dragon chair will have nothing to worry about!
The three guys who used to be proud and arrogant returned to their respective palaces without mentioning it.
Let's talk about Yongjia, who led an army of [-] troops divided into ten directions and went southward. At this time, more and more officials and scholars were arrested according to the list.
The interrogation results were gradually presented to her.
These days, the little girl has seen more and more plots against her man.
Although these tricks were just the beginning, most of them were caught before they were implemented.
But those cunning schemes made this 14-year-old girl feel fear and anger in her heart.
Seeing more and more tricks against his man, more and more vicious, the anger in Yongjia's heart became more and more intense.
Dear readers, this chapter is purely fabricated, just to highlight the importance the Zhao royal family attaches to King Zhenbei.The eldest of Zhao Shen's three sons, Zhao Shu, was loyal and kind, and was the favorite of Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen, but he was unlucky and died of illness at the age of 24. The second son, Zhao Kai, died after giving birth to two sons and had no heirs, so the throne was passed on. To the most useless youngest Zhao Dun.The author does not intend to confuse black and white, but just wants to tell everyone that virtue and talent are definitely the first choice for a powerful family to choose an heir, but longevity and being able to show off a few offspring are also very important.It's not that the youngest Zhao Dun is the most useless. Hundreds of years later, I, a useless author, still need to flatter him.
In addition, the author knows that the big bosses who like to read historical novels know history very well. The author is here to explain that he is also asking these big bosses not to be serious with the rookie author. The rookie writes an online article, just for everyone to read Happy, big guys please spray lightly, don't spray rookies with depression, thank you!
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