Chapter 255: King Rui's Choice (2)
"Why?"
Zhao Hongrun couldn't understand it.
A princess of Qi abducted the best Ji children of Daliang and even Dawei?
"King Qi persecuted you?"
Zhao Hongrun's eyes were a little angry, you must know that among the brothers, the one he respects the most is the sixth brother in front of him who has both ability and integrity, followed by Yongwang Hongyu and Yanwang Hongjiang, as for the others, including Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, they are just strangers in his eyes.
Therefore, he couldn't bear it, and the sixth brother he respected was forced to stay in the Qi country because of some threat.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongzhao seriously corrected Zhao Hongrun's words: "No, Hongrun, King Qi did not threaten his brother, respecting him for his brother is the same as respecting his father......"
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Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth in astonishment, because he didn't expect that the sixth brother in front of him would actually put Lu Xi, the king of Qi, at the same height as their father, this is simply, simply incredible!
After staring at Zhao Hongzhao for a while, Zhao Hongrun asked inexplicably, "Is this ...... Your choice? ”
"Well, that's my choice." Zhao Hongzhao repeated calmly.
"It's ...... Absurd! Zhao Hongrun shook his head self-deprecatingly, he really couldn't understand his sixth brother's thoughts, but since this was his sixth brother's choice, and not coerced by Lu Xi, the king of Qi, Zhao Hongrun couldn't say anything against even if he felt uncomfortable.
After all, that was the choice of the sixth brother, and it was the life he decided with his own will.
Zhao Hongrun is not qualified to interfere.
"When are you going to see your father?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongzhao smiled bitterly: "A little, give Brother Wei some time to think about the wording......
Zhao Hongrun glanced at the sixth brother: "In the half month in Huaxian County, haven't you thought about it yet?" ”
The wry smile on Zhao Hongzhao's face became even stronger when he heard this, and he shook his head. Diverted the topic: "Hongrun, my Great Wei needs allies." ”
"......" Zhao Hongrun frowned and glanced at the sixth brother.
As if seeing through Zhao Hongrun's thoughts, Zhao Hongzhao shook his head and said: "It's not a small country that is attached to my Great Wei like the Wei Kingdom, but a strong country that can help my Great Wei resist Korea in the north and Chu in the south!" ”
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but joke when he heard this: "Sixth brother, in fact, you are the chief envoy of the Qi State who visited my Daliang, right?" ”
Zhao Hongzhao shook his head and ignored his younger brother's ridicule. He said in a deep voice: "Hongrun, in fact, there is a lot of uneasiness in my Great Wei. ”
"For example?"
"For example, Nangong in Song Land."
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Zhao Hongrun frowned: "What do you mean?" ”
Zhao Hongzhao took a sip of the teacup and said slowly: "According to rumors, the general Nangong tried to restore the Song Kingdom, I thought it was just some rumors released against the Wei people of Nangong, but when I was in Linzi, the King of Qi affirmed this matter to me. ”
"Nangong is trying to restore the Song Kingdom?" Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "Lord of the Song Kingdom." Didn't he strangle him with a bowstring? ”
"That's right." Zhao Hongzhao said solemnly: "At the beginning, Nangong hoped to gain the trust of my Wei people, but it turned out that not only did the Song people hate him to the core, but even my Wei people were extremely shameful of him!" …… General Sima An of the Dangshan Battalion, when Guling Jun Xiongwu's army invaded the Song Land, stood by from beginning to end, do you know? ”
"Sima An......
When he thought of the general of the Dangshan battalion, Zhao Hongrun seemed to have a picture in his mind: he saw the majestic general Sima An who was prancing horses and raising swords. Standing on a high slope, he shouted, 'Those who are not of my race will have different hearts,' and then ordered his sergeants. Kill all the people in front of you except the Wei people.
If General Xu Yin of Fencheng Sai simply hated the Chu people, then Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Battalion, seemed to be a pure racist.
Therefore, the great general ignored the army of Guling Jun Xiongwu to attack the Song Land, ignored the request of the great general Nangong from the Suiyang army, and stood by from beginning to end. Zhao Hongrun is not surprised.
Perhaps in the eyes of the general, the people of the Song region were just Song people with the name of the Wei people, and it was not worth sacrificing their lives with the Wei soldiers who formed the elite army under his command.
And the Suiyang Army and its general Nangong, not to mention: surrender the army, surrender the general.
may have noticed Zhao Hongrun's strange expression. Zhao Hongzhao waved his hand and said: "Brother is not to argue whether General Sima An's move is right or wrong, in fact, Nangong has never gained all the trust of the imperial court since he surrendered to my Great Wei. And he, apparently, is aware of this......"
"He thinks that by restoring the Song Kingdom and supporting the descendants of the Song lord, he will be able to get the support of the Song people?"
"I don't know about this matter, but ...... You have to pay attention. Glancing at Zhao Hongrun, Zhao Hongzhao said in a rare serious tone: "Keep an eye on Nangong and find a way to replace the Suiyang army with an army!" …… However, it is important not to cause war, in the end, those original Song people have also been incorporated into our Wei State and become the subjects of my Great Wei, and try to appease them as much as possible. ”
Zhao Hongrun just wanted to nod when he heard this, but suddenly he was stunned in his heart, and asked puzzledly, "Why did the sixth brother tell me this?" ”
I saw Zhao Hongzhao looking at Zhao Hongrun deeply, and said: "Because my brother thinks that you are the only one among my brothers who is purely for the sake of my Great Wei Fuqiang, not for the sake of power and profit, and to spy on the prince whose father is located." ”
Speaking of this, there was a bit of inexplicable look in his eyes, and he said softly: "I hope you can shoulder the responsibility of being a child of the Ji clan that your brother has not fulfilled." ”
"The only one...... What?'
Looking at Zhao Hongzhao, who was still thinking about their Great Wei at this moment, Zhao Hongrun really couldn't say anything to accuse this sixth brother.
The two chatted a few more words, and Zhao Hongrun felt that he had nothing to talk about, so he got up and said goodbye, because staying here made him feel very sad.
"The sixth brother should go to see his father and concubine Wu first, and take the sixth sister-in-law."
Zhao Hongzhao smiled, and he didn't know whether he was ashamed or self-deprecating, he said angrily: "I know for my brother!" ”
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun arched his hand and got up to say goodbye.
Looking at the back of Zhao Hongrun's departure, Zhao Hongzhao sighed slightly, and went to the inner hall to invite his newlywed wife, the concubine, to meet his father and mother.
He did not go to the Vertical Arch Palace, but went straight to the Mei Palace, the bedroom of his mother Concubine Wu.
Because Zhao Hongzhao knew very well that as the eyes of his father, Emperor Wei Tianzi, the eunuchs in the inner chamberlain monitored the entire palace, whether it was he who took Qi Jiang Tian to the Zichen Palace to stir up the Ministry of Rites and talk to those Chu people, or he brought his newlywed wife to enter the palace, all of this could not be hidden from his father's eyes.
If he expected it to be true, he would probably be able to see his mother, Concubine Wu, and his father, Emperor Wei Tianzi, who was waiting for him to appear there.
And it turned out that Zhao Hongzhao's judgment was accurate, and when he took his concubine to the Mei Palace, Wei Tianzi and Wu Guifei were really waiting for his son to appear in the Mei Palace.
Moreover, for Concubine Ji, whether it was Wei Tianzi or Wu Guifei, they were not too surprised.
Obviously, his father, Emperor Wei Tianzi, had told Wu Guifei what he had learned in advance, because Zhao Hongzhao could vaguely see that there were traces of tears in the corners of his mother's concubine Wu Guifei's eyes.
In the inner hall of the Mei Palace, Wei Tianzi and Wu Guifei sat on the chairs, and in front of them, Zhao Hongzhao and Concubine Ji made up the etiquette as sons and daughters-in-law in a regular manner.
After that, Concubine Wu Gui led Concubine Ji to her bedroom, leaving time for Wei Tianzi and Zhao Hongzhao to talk alone.
I have to say that the atmosphere in the hall is very embarrassing, so embarrassed that the father and son don't know what to say.
In the end, it was Wei Tianzi who broke the strange silence with a joke.
"Are you worried that your mother will be unfavorable to the daughter of the King of Qi?"
"How so." Zhao Hongzhao smiled and shook his head.
"That's not for sure." Wei Tianzi sighed slightly, and said in a tone that seemed to be ridiculous but was actually very melancholy: "After all, that woman is about to abduct her best son, causing the mother and son to ...... apart" Speaking of this, Wei Tianzi couldn't help but sigh again: "Qi Wangxi is really good at it, and he kidnapped my best son like this......"
Zhao Hongzhao opened his mouth, a little dumbfounded, but after a while, he smiled and said, "How can the emperor be the best son of his father?" Hongrun is the best among my brothers! ”
"Really?" Wei Tianzi shook his head, revealing an expression of 'I dare not agree': "The most interesting thing about that bad son is to come up with all kinds of ways to kill me half to death!" I don't know what evil I created in my last life. ”
Zhao Hongzhao couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, after all, the way his father and his eighth brother Zhao Hongrun deepened the relationship between father and son was sometimes really incomprehensible.
I have to say that although Wei Tianzi tried very hard to create a relaxed atmosphere, this relaxation could not last long.
Just like Zhao Hongrun felt that there was nothing to talk about when he chatted, Wei Tianzi gradually felt that he didn't know what to talk about after chatting with his son for a few words, and in desperation, he had to lead the topic to the question he didn't want to ask in detail, but deep down he desperately wanted to know: "When are you going to ...... Set out? ”
Hearing this inquiry, Zhao Hongzhao's reluctantly squeezed relaxed smile couldn't be maintained, and he said inexplicably: "General Tian Tan will stay in Daliang for a few days to discuss the alliance with Lord Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as for the emperor's ...... Three or five days. ”
"In such a hurry?" Wei Tianzi frowned, and there was a faint hint of anger on his face, which was obviously aimed at Qi Wangxi.
"It's not that King Qi is urging, it's just ...... It only adds to the sadness. Zhao Hongzhao glanced up at Wei Tianzi and said with a wry smile.
"......" Wei Tianzi was silent, he obviously understood what his son wanted to express.
After the father and son sat quietly for a while, Wu Guifei led Concubine Ji back to the inner hall, and looked at Ji Ji at this time, although her face was shy, her face was a little more relaxed.
At the same time, there are also a few more precious ornaments on her hands and hair bundles.
That night, Wei Tianzi did not go to Ningxiang Palace, but in the Mei Palace, accompanied Wu Guifei, and talked with their son Zhao Hongzhao all night, chatting about what their son saw and heard in Qi State.
In fact, neither Wei Tianzi nor Wu Guifei were really interested in those things. (To be continued.) )