Chapter 240
Chapter 240
Before the outcome of the siege was decided, they hurried back to Beijing, which surprised all the ministers and their relatives, and inevitably made some people complain when they were not full of interest. The war in the Western Regions broke out again, which is really unlucky.
Emperor Zhengde returned to Beijing and immediately summoned some civil and military ministers to discuss.
"The Kingdom of the Moon attacked the West Mansion, Qing and others must have heard about it. I want to send troops there. I wonder which Qing family is willing to take command and lead the troops?" Emperor Zhengde sat in the Golden Luan Hall in military uniform without changing his clothes.
"Your Majesty, I wish to lead the troops there!" A general stood up.
A civil servant immediately stood up and said: "Think twice, Your Majesty. The northern border has just won a great victory and the treasury is empty. It is time to rest and recuperate. Your Majesty can send someone to negotiate a peace and postpone it for a while."
The general scolded after hearing the words: "It's a joke, the northern border has won a great victory. Why should I be afraid of the small countries in the Western Regions? If you dare to offend our border, you must teach them to pay the price, so that they know how powerful our dynasty is. Harassing our borders, bullying the people on our borders, what is the majesty of my Great Zhou?"
Emperor Zhengde stood up when he heard the words, and said: "Liu Aiqing is right. Since I ascended the throne, the border countries have bullied my youth and repeatedly violated the border. Is it tolerable or unbearable? Liu Aiqing obeys the order!!"
The military commander immediately knelt down upon hearing this.
"I named you Marshal Zhengxi, leading 5 horses to protect the western territory of my Great Zhou!!"
"Your Majesty will live up to His Majesty's high expectations!!"
"Okay." Emperor Zhengde stepped down from the dragon steps and helped the general up.Looking around, the rest of the generals lowered their heads.
"Jing Qiao, do you still have someone to choose for this campaign?"
Hearing this, Jiang Jingqiao stepped forward and said: "Brother Huihuang, Zhao Ninglang, last year's champion in martial arts, is worthy of use."
Emperor Zhengde looked at Zhao Ninglang when he heard the words, and also remembered last year's champion of martial arts, and said: "Zhao Aiqing, I named you the pioneer of conquering the west, do you dare to take on this important task?"
Hearing this, Zhao Ninglang hurriedly stepped out of the queue and knelt down on one knee, saying: "I am willing to put on armor for your Majesty, for the Great Zhou and for the people, and I will not hesitate to die!"
"Okay, Erlang is strong, I didn't misunderstand you." Emperor Zhengde stepped forward to help him up, "You go to the barracks immediately with Liu Aiqing, and you can choose the soldiers in the camp. I will climb the city wall to see you off at tomorrow's hour!!! "
"I take orders!!" General Liu and Zhao Ninglang responded loudly, took three steps back, turned around and left the Golden Luan Hall, and rushed to the barracks without stopping.
The ministers in the hall were talking in low voices, wars need money, and no country can afford to keep fighting!
What the ministers knew, Emperor Zhengde naturally knew too, his stern eyes swept all over the crowd, and slowly walked up to the dragon steps.
"For this spring hunt, I feel more chilled than angry. How many of these standing upright are from my officials, and how many are from Huaiyin?"
These words were quite serious, and all the ministers knelt on the ground to show their loyalty.
"Okay, is it my official, whether it's true loyalty or false loyalty, I will see clearly sooner or later." Emperor Zhengde sat back on the dragon chair and looked at the eunuch beside him. The crimes of the people must be clearly listed today, and after they are announced to the world, the offenders of the Zhao and Song families will be taken to the execution ground at noon tomorrow and beheaded immediately. The rest of the Zhao and Song families will be exiled for thousands of miles, and all their property will be confiscated!!"
As soon as this remark came out, Zhao Dongxi and Zhao Ningbo in the court hall couldn't help being dumbfounded.
Jiang Jingqiao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brother Huang, the Zhao family is not fully aware of what Zhao Dongxin committed."
Emperor Zhengde remembered it when he heard the words, glanced at Jiang Jingqiao, and said leisurely: "It doesn't count if you split up the family."
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Dongxi and his son breathed a sigh of relief. The family split doesn't count, that is, the evil done by the third room itself has nothing to do with the second room.
In the evening, the bulletin board outside the Ministry of Punishment was covered with all the crimes of Zhao and Song embezzling official money and so on. At the same time, the real identity of the dead fake prince was also found out.
The person who reported the funeral carried the body to the Duke's Mansion. When Zhao Dongxu saw the body of his son Zhao Ningde, he couldn't believe his eyes.
"Ningde, Ningde, my son." Zhao Dongxu rushed to the corpse, "What's going on? What's going on?"
"Master Zhao, Jiang Jingcheng escaped from the spring hunting ground today. To deceive others, he found a substitute so that everyone would think that he was killed on the hunting ground, and Mr. Ling is the substitute of King Cheng." The person who reported the funeral said Then he put down the corpse, "Master Zhao, please make arrangements for Young Master Ling's funeral as early as possible."
Zhao Ningde stood up frantically when he heard the words, grabbed the visitor's arm and said, "Why did my son appear in the hunting ground? My mother is sick in bed. I have already asked for leave to take care of my mother at home. I should not be on the spring hunting list." Father and son's first and last names are the ones."
"Young Master Ling was not there during the spring hunting trip. How Master Ling appeared in the paddock is still a mystery, but it was Mr. Zhao's younger brother, Zhao Dongxin, who helped Duke Sheng escape from the paddock." leave.
With these few words, Zhao Dongxu immediately understood that his son had become a stepping stone for some people to make meritorious deeds, and his son's death had nothing to do with Zhao Dongxin.
The good son died like this, Zhao Dongxu couldn't bear it anymore, he went back to the room, drew his sword and headed towards the chair song hall.
At that time, Zhao Yong was writing a letter to King Ning in his house. His beloved son was imprisoned, and he tried everything to save him.
"Grandpa, cough, cough, Dongxin's treachery, he deserves what he deserves, what else are you going to save, cough cough cough." The old lady Zhao said while coughing, Sanfang even Ningxuan Ziyin was arrested, there was nothing to hope for, but She still has sons and grandchildren, and she is left with Zhao Yong.
Zhao Yong couldn't hear Mrs. Zhao's schadenfreude, he held the pen tightly, he didn't have time to deal with the old bastard now, he just picked up the pen and continued writing, but he heard the door knocking, and then saw his own The eldest son Zhao Dongxu rushed in with a sword in hand.
"Dongxu, what are you doing???" Zhao Yong scolded angrily.
Zhao Dongxu raised his sword and pointed at Zhao Yong, walking towards him step by step.
"Son, what are you doing? He's your father, cough, cough, cough." The old lady Zhao stood up to stop her, regardless of her discomfort.
"Mother!!!" Zhao Dongxu yelled, "He, he is not worthy of being my father."
"Son, no matter how dissatisfied you are with him, ahem, he is also your father. You can't kill him. If you kill him, ahem, you are finished. Listen to your mother. The third room is finished, and the entire Zhao family will be yours from now on. And Ningde's." The old lady held her son tightly.
Zhao Dongxu said in grief and indignation: "Where do I have a son? Mother, Ning De was killed." Zhao Dongxu said and put the sword on Zhao Yong's neck.
Hearing this, the old lady let go of her son's hand, and tightly clutched her heart, her face became paler and paler.
"Bastard, did I kill Ningde?" Zhao Yong said angrily.
"Your son killed my son!!!" Zhao Dongxu yelled, "He took my son to be Jiang Jingcheng's stand-in!!!"
In a word, Zhao Yong suddenly understood, his lips trembled whitely, he knew the plan of Huang Xing and his third son, but he didn't expect that those two people would ask Ning De to be a substitute, what kind of substitute is this? This is sending Ningde to die.
"Come here!!! Surround the Zhao family, and take all the third house of the Zhao family and the first house of Zhao Yong to prison!!" The voice of the Imperial Forest Army came from outside, and the screams of servant girls came from various places when I was young.
Hearing the voice outside, Zhao Yong stood up tremblingly, and dropped the pen in his hand to the ground: "It's over, it's over."
Soon, people from the Imperial Forest Army rushed into the room, and the leader saw the half-written letter to King Ning on the book case, and directly picked it up and said, "Come here, tie up Qin Guogong and his wife and escort them to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."
"Mother, mother." Zhao Dongxu hastily stepped forward to stop her, "My mother has been reclusive all the time, she has committed no crime, no crime."
"Lord Zhao, you will only know after the trial whether you have committed a crime. I advise you to get out of the way immediately. Your Majesty did not order you to be arrested, which is considered kind to the Zhao family."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Dongxu looked at his mother and said, "Mother, don't be afraid, I'm going to ask His Majesty for mercy, and I'll go right away."
Zhao Dongxu didn't care about the pain of losing his son, so he hurried to the palace.
Zhao Yong, Mrs. Zhao and Zhao Dongxin's wife were all imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. In the prison, Zhao Yong saw his unkempt son Zhao Dongxin, and couldn't help crying.
People are like this, no matter how bad they are, they will always show their true feelings to the people they care about, but for those who don't care, such as grandson Zhao Ningde, let alone tears, there is no half sad word.
"Son." Zhao Yong called out oldly.
Zhao Dongxin raised his eyes, saw that it was his father, and sighed slightly: "My son is sorry for my father."
"It's okay, it's okay, winner and loser, it's so powerful." Zhao Yong stepped forward to comfort him.
Mrs. Zhao felt sad when she heard the words, her cough became more and more severe, and she felt more and more out of breath. When the father and son embraced each other, she tried her best to pull him away, and raised her hand to pinch Zhao Dongxin's. neck, "You bastard, pay Ning De's life."
Seeing this, Zhao Yong stepped forward and pulled the old lady Zhao away. The old lady couldn't stand still, and fell directly on the wooden door of the cell. She got up and couldn't get up again. Her eyes became more and more blurred. In the blurry figure, Mrs. Zhao curled her mouth and said, "You two will die badly, and die badly."
After speaking, Mrs. Zhao stared and swallowed.
"Old lady?" Zhao Dongxin's daughter-in-law stepped forward to touch her breath, and fell to the ground in fright, "She, she is dead."
There is no sadness in Zhao Yong's eyes. He has always thought of his wife's death all these years, but at that time he still needed the support of the other party's natal family. Now that this woman has finally passed away, he just feels refreshed.
But just after enjoying himself, he saw his son beside him, and he was heartbroken again.
"Son, father is sorry for you." Zhao Yong said in shame.
As soon as Zhao Yong finished speaking, he heard a shout from the head of the cell, someone was visiting the prison, and when he looked up, it was his second son, Zhao Dongxi's family.
"Father." Zhao Dongxi called out.
"Heh, what are you doing here?" Zhao Yong said coldly.
"Father, the Imperial Forest Army presented the letter you wrote to King Ning to His Majesty, and His Majesty decreed that at noon tomorrow, you and your third brother will be executed together."
Zhao Yong said without blinking his eyes when he heard the words: "Why did you come to see me making jokes with your third brother?"
"My son doesn't dare. The fate between father and son in this life is coming to an end. The son just came to say goodbye to his father. I don't know what his father wants to eat tomorrow. The son will prepare it for his father to send to the execution ground tomorrow."
"No, you don't need to come to see me." Zhao Yong said coldly.
Zhao Dongxi was puzzled and said, "My son doesn't understand, why does my father hate me? What did my son do wrong?"
"You didn't do anything wrong, it's just because your little lady refused to listen to me and poisoned that bitch. Do you know that bitch used her natal power to make me have to attack the woman I love? I hate that bitch, and your little lady Not listening to me disgusts me even more."
After Zhao Dongxi heard these words, his dull heart suddenly felt less sad. After bowing to Zhao Yong, he left with his three sons.
Zhao Yong looked at the backs of his second son and three grandsons, and his eyes softened. The second son's official position was neither high nor low, and the two grandsons were young and promising. This kind of offspring was originally promised by him when he was young, but this expectation The target is his third son.
"Although I am going to die, even though you hate me, you will never get rid of my blood, you will always be my descendants of Zhao Yong!!! Hahahaha." Zhao Yong held the wooden stake with both hands, facing outward shouted.
Zhao Dongxi sighed and continued walking out.
作者有话要说:感谢在2021-07-0111:41:56~2021-07-0211:18:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~
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