Chapter 512 The Ending of the Prime Minister
According to the book, the process of smelting the "Red Flame Saint Armor" takes at least several days to complete.
Zhao Duan has been struggling all night, and early the next morning, he glanced at the "recharge" progress bar and was very disappointed.
Simply instructed his stepmother and ordered his room to be blocked. No one was allowed to enter, leaving the holy armor to slowly swallow many "robberies".
He was calm and leisurely, and turned his head to go to the imperial prison.
The imperial prison was as depressed as ever, and it was still some distance away from the gray-black building, so I felt the temperature drop. "Sir." Zhao Duan took his hands and led Qian Kerou and Shen Juan to prison, the old man in the prison hurriedly came out to greet him: "Do you have any instructions?"
"Take me to see Li Yanfu." Zhao Duan said calmly.
As the first big man he met after coming to this world, he was also the first step to start his business since he was in a short while. Considering that the prime minister was about to die, he thought it was necessary to meet for the last time.
The dungeon is dark and stuffy.
As soon as I stepped in, a scream came from my ears. On both sides of the corridor, the cells were crowded with people. From time to time, the prison doors were opened. The prison guards rudely dragged the prisoners all over the bruised and wounded. "Most of these are officials who rebelled by the Li Party, and some of the newly imprisoned rebels in Qingzhou." The young secretary Qian Kerou explained in a low voice.
Shen Juan also grinned: "I saw the Zhao Prison being full last time, but it was after the Xuanmen coup."
Zhao Duan kept silent and walked slowly.
As he walked through the corridor, prisoners in the cells on both sides pounced beside the railings, poked out their hands and begged for mercy, begging Zhao Duan to report back to the emperor.
Faced with these officials from various departments who were still in power not long ago, the prison leader changed his flattery when facing Zhao Duan, with a fierce look. He whipped his whip in his hand, making a "pa" sound, accompanied by the prisoner's wail. "Shut up, I'll send you on my way today!" Zhao Duan glanced at the prisoners and suddenly said with some emotion: "Last summer, if I failed to make a contribution, I should have a cell here just because of Zhuang Xiaocheng's escape."
The three subordinates beside him looked at each other without looking at each other, not knowing how to respond.
Zhao Duan smiled, but said nothing, and continued to walk deeper.
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Li Yanfu was detained in the "A-size-size-fitting" cell in the deepest part of the imperial prison.
From opposite him, another prison cell was imprisoned by another senior official of the Li Party. The man was taken away yesterday, and King Heng and his son were replaced.
So, Li Yanfu learned about the news of the defeat of the Qingzhou rebels. "Bang!"
The iron door at the end of the corridor opened, with disheveled hair, wearing prison clothes, and meditating towards the vent of the cell, Li Yanfu opened his eyes.
Overside him, King Heng, who was covered in wounds, curled up on the straw mat, and Prince Xu Zudi were also awakened.
Three prisoners of A-sized font stood up at the same time, looked into the darkness of the corridor, and saw a familiar figure walking towards them.
"Haha, Xiang Li, Prince Heng, Prince Xu, are you still used to living?" Zhao Duan walked from the darkness into the fire with a smile on his face.
The pampered King Heng and his son were immediately scared and curled up back to the straw mat, with fear in their eyes, no longer as arrogant as before, nor the rebellious and domineering as royal relatives. "Zhao Duan." In comparison, Li Yanfu has to be much more calm.
The old man was wearing prison clothes, his gray hair was scattered, and his beard that had not been repaired for several days, making him messy.
The gaze that looked at Zhao Duan was heavy and had a complex meaning.
He sat on the ground facing the railing, with a calm expression of accepting fate:
"I heard that you led your army to defeat the Qingzhou army in one day, and they were triumphant yesterday."
"To be precise, it only took half a day to defeat these two wastes." Zhao Duan smiled, lifted the hem of his robe, squatted at the door of the cell, and looked at Li Yanfu.
The old prime minister, whose hair was gray and had become a prisoner, stared at him and suddenly sighed:
"Young people are terrifying. I have been in prison these days. I have been thinking about it all the most regretful thing. I should have listened to Yinglong's advice. Before you even took the initiative, I will get rid of you with all my strength!
It's a pity that there is no medicine for regret in the world. Who would have thought that my father and son of the Li family would die in a mere hand."
Zhao Duan squatted outside the prison room, staring at him with a smile, and shook his head and said, "The Prime Minister is wrong."
Li Yanfu raised his eyes:
"What's wrong? I have been in the officialdom for a lifetime and know the truth about success, kings and defeats. I don't regret launching a coup to seize power, but I just missed the return of Your Majesty, otherwise everything will be different."
Even at this moment, he didn't think he had done anything wrong, he just gave in.
Zhao Duan shook his head and said seriously: "You are wrong, you are an enemy of me."
Li Yanfu was stunned. At this moment, he looked at the flames reflected in Zhao Duan's eyes, suddenly losing all his strength.
Zhao Duan said, "Your Majesty has issued an order. Two days later, all the officials from the Li Party who participated in the rebellion were beheaded at the Caishikou, the capital, and the flag sacrifice to me.
Unexpectedly, today is the last time you and me meet. I have reminded the prison chief to add some wine and meat to your slaughtered rice, even if I asked Feng Jupan to bite you and falsely accused you, thus escaping the repayment of the fate of being exiled and beheaded."
Li Yanfu closed his eyes and suddenly said stubbornly: "My name will be in the history books."
This is the last sentence Li Yanfu said to Zhao Duan in this world.
Zhao Duan smiled and stood up and walked out.
Suddenly, in the cell next to him, the prince Xu Zudi knelt on the ground, walked with his knees, threw himself to the railing, grabbed the thick wooden pillars with both hands, and squeezed out to make a smile:
"Envoy Zhao, is Your Majesty calm? Please bring a message to Your Majesty and say that we know we are wrong. We are all family members, and the royal family is tragic, which is also a joke among the people of the world. Isn't it?
My father and I promised to retire and return to Qingzhou to be a rich man, and never interfere in the government affairs again, and ensure that we are obedient..."
Zhao Duan stopped, staring at this stupid guy with strange eyes, thinking that Lao Xu, your genes have been passed on to this branch, which is considered to be ruined.
He was too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy and smiled: "I almost forgot that you two will be on the Huangquan Road with Li Yanfu in two days."
After saying that, he left with ease.
Xu Zudi Ru was struck by lightning, her face looked like earth.
Behind him, King Heng, who was curled up on the straw mat, looked up in shock, suddenly got up like crazy, and roared loudly: "I am a royal family! She dares to kill me!? If she dares to kill her uncle, she will bear the eternal infamy! I..."
The footsteps are getting farther and farther away.
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"Bang!"
Zhao Duan closed the iron door of the A-shaped prison with his backhand, and dug out his ears that were so painful that he was yelling, and said lightly: "Cancel the slaughtered rice for King Heng and his son. If you can be so noisy, you will definitely not be hungry."
The prison head smiled: "Yes."
Qian Kerou and Shen Juan looked at each other and wanted to laugh a little.
Zhao Duan glanced at the two of them and said, "Give you two tasks, take Wei Xianzong away from the prison, send him to Shenji Camp, demote him to the Forward Camp as a small pawn, tell him that he would cherish his talents and give him a chance to redeem his sins.
If he can make military achievements on the front line, he will not hold his family accountable for the rebellion. If he doesn't grasp it well, he wants to escape, tell Shi Meng to kill the person directly.
Give him the way to live. If he doesn't understand, it means he is just a fool, and he won't be able to cherish his death." Qian Kerou and Shen Juan were stunned, and at the same time he clasped his fists: "As for order!"
Zhao Duan stepped out of the gate of the imperial prison, and looked up and let the sunshine of Xia Mi sprinkle on his face. He looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and the dazzling sunshine, feeling a hint of Xia Mi resonance.
Next, there is a tough battle to fight.
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The Huai River East Line, close to the Grand Canal and adjacent to the Binhai Road, a small town with a transportation hub is very lively recently.
Just because the rebels of Jianchengdao stopped their Northern Expedition to Beijing, they suddenly changed their previous offensive posture and instead built solid front-line fortifications based on terrain and traffic.
At the same time, officials from the Prince Jing's Mansion began to take over the territory of the Huai River East Line, digest and absorb local forces as quickly as possible.
In almost a few days, the notice of "protecting the country and safeguarding the people" was posted on the walls of major counties and even villages and towns.
In the city, there is a county government office.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
King Jing Xu Wen sat in the back yamen, looking through the latest information from the secret spy.
While he was in the two rows of seats on the left and right inside the house, there was a "civilian official and military general".
Everyone dared not breathe.
The prince Xu Jinglong and princess Lu Yan'er sat on the two chairs closest to Prince Jing.
"Bang!"
Finally, Xu Wen slapped the paper in his hand on the tea table, and with his palms pressed, the tea table was wailing. "Father, how is the situation in the capital?" Xu Jinglong asked boldly.
Xu Wen's face was as deep as water, and he said unhappy: "The female emperor returned in time and stopped the coup launched by Li Yanfu. The Li party was destroyed and the court regained the hand of the female emperor.
In addition, the lackey named Zhao led the Shenji Camp to defeat the Qingzhou Army and captured Xu Heng and his son alive, which was suspected to be a new type of firearm.
Now, Li Yanfu, Xu Heng and his son have all been beheaded and displayed in public. The next step, if there is no accident, would be the Beijing camp go south and rush to help Xue Shence. "
In just a few hundred words, the amount of information is huge.
The moment King Jing spit out the information, the whole hall was quiet for a moment, and the civil servants and generals under his command were stunned, and their eyes were wide open in disbelief, as if they had heard it wrong, or were hearing a fantasy.
Li Yanfu was defeated? The Li Party was lifted out of the roots? What about the largest force in the court that he had promised to win? The Li family in Huai River had a firm guarantee...this is it?
Xu Jinglong opened his mouth, and was deflated like a ball, and his expectations were greatly disappointed.
Have he returned to Beijing? He also led his troops to defeat the Qingzhou rebels? Princess Lu Yan'er clenched her fingers in her sleeves, her eyes showing a strange look.
I was happy that Zhao Duan was safe and sound, and my ancestors did not disappear, and I was also surprised at the news that he had led his troops to win.
"Qingzhou was defeated? So fast? Everyone knows that Qingzhou has the least soldiers and horses, and is not good at fighting, but it is not defeated so quickly, right? Then King Heng is a pig?!" A general was angry.
The vassal kings formed an alliance and King Heng was defeated. Without such a force to restrain the court, the pressure they had to bear would inevitably increase sharply.
"What new firearm? I think it's because Qingzhou soldiers are too useless. At least tens of thousands of people, even tens of thousands of chickens are enough for Zhao Duan to catch them for ten days and half a month, right?" Another aide also spoke angrily.
In the battle of Baihua Village, King Jing first learned about the news that the empress won a great victory.
Therefore, King Jing was also the first vassal king to realize that he should give up going to Beijing and become a separatist vassal king.
So, it was not surprising that everyone was killed by the empress in power. What really made them unacceptable was that Zhao Duan defeated the Qingzhou army.
It's so fast that it's unresponsive.
King Jing said lightly: "The detailed information about the new firearm will be sent back as soon as possible. Don't underestimate the carelessness.
At the same time, we sent all troops to block the news of Qingzhou's defeat to avoid the turmoil of the army. We sent all places to do the same. As long as we completely erode the captured territory and block the food channel of the Grand Canal, at most three months, there will be shortage of supplies in the capital, Linfeng and other places.
Even if there is blood transfusion in Qingzhou, we can hold on for more, but as long as we continue to block it, at the latest this winter, a single shortage of food will be enough to make the court collapse without fighting.
The final winner will be us."
The people are very energetic, and they all said yes, and stood up to take the order and left.
"Jinglong, wait a moment." Xu Wen called out to the prince who was about to leave, "What did you want to report before?"
Xu Jinglong said with an oh, and said:
"It's nothing, it's just that the people below reported that they were accidentally found a seriously injured and unconscious monk Tianhai by a river. His injuries were extremely serious and had not yet woken up. Please tell me what to do."
"Tianhai? That young monk who competed with Zhao Duan in the Buddhist and Taoist competition?" King Jing recalled and frowned:
"Since he is a disciple of Shenlong Temple, let's order people to find a temple to raise it."
He has no time to pay attention to a defeated and seriously injured monk in the present situation. "Okay, I understand." Xu Jinglong nodded.
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Linfeng Road West Line, Taicang Mansion.
In a military tent, Xue Shence carefully read the urgent report from the capital in his hand, and his eyebrows gradually stretched.
The "military god" of Dayu was exhausted in his eyebrows, but his eyes were so bright that it was scary.
The corners of his mouth raised, closed the letter, and smiled at several generals in the account and said, "You can see the great joy."
Soon, the letter was circulated one by one in the hands of the generals.
Everyone who has seen it has bright eyes and an excited expression: "What a big victory! We are missing this big victory!"
The most urgent report was the war report of Shenji Camp defeating the Qingzhou Army and capturing King Heng alive.
Xue Shence smiled and reminded: "You look down carefully and see who won the battle?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment before going through the letter below. After reading it, everyone was shocked.
"Zhao Duan? That newly-elected Prince Shaobao? The hottest celebrity in the capital in recent years?"
"What? He led the troops and defeated Wei Xianzong's Qingzhou army in just half a day in one battle? How is it possible?"
"He also captured King Heng himself? This..."
The crowd showed incredible expressions. A considerable number of people present were local generals, and they had heard of Zhao Duan's name.
But in my impression, I only knew that I was a famous person around the emperor, and I was good at poetry, martial arts, case handling and other things.
The bigger symbol is the identity of "the empress's face"... Well, now I have become the emperor, but it is quite different.
But just such a person defeated the enemy in half a day. Looking at the history of war, it is unprecedented.
"This... I see that the letter said that Zhao Shaobao is the title of "Guardian". I believe that there are other people who lead the troops to fight, such as Shi Meng, the commander of the Shenji Camp. I remember that he is quite a general. His military achievements are somewhat unworthy of their reputation in the name of Zhao Shaobao." Suddenly, a general in the tent analyzed calmly.
(This chapter ends)