Chapter 992: The Last Madness (2)
As soon as Su Mansion gathered, Zhao Zhen keenly felt that Su Jin seemed to have a feeling of guessing his own thoughts, he was a little weak-hearted, for most of the year, Su Jin was conscientious and never said much in the phase, even if he secretly deprived his generals of all their military powers, Su Jin didn't come to say anything to himself, but at the banquet that day, Su Jin covered his face with wine and openly laughed at his behavior, which showed that Su Jin no longer had the slightest fear of himself, which was another way to express his dissatisfaction - humiliation in public.
Zhao Zhen was restless, and the people and things that he couldn't guess were even more panicked, thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't wait any longer, Su Jin was like a big mountain pressing on his heart, the sooner he moved it, the sooner he would be comfortable; So Zhao Zhen secretly summoned Zhang Yaozuo and Han Jiang for several days, asking the two to find the right time, act in advance, and capture Su Jin in one fell swoop.
Zhang Yaozuo and Han Jiang mobilized manpower and began to secretly keep an eye on Su Jin's whereabouts, looking for an opportunity to start, originally with Zhang Yaozuo's temper, he led the troops to directly besiege Su Mansion and arrested Su Jin's whole family, but Zhao Zhen was worried that it would cause an uproar in the absence of excuses, and it was found that there were hundreds of guards near Su Mansion, once there was a slight delay and could not succeed, Su Jin would immediately make his commitment on the sandbar public, until the last moment, Zhao Zhen did not want to tear his face desperately.
Zhao Zhen's wishful thinking is to find an opportunity for Su Jin to slip away, kill him secretly, and the tree will fall and scatter, and other people on Su Jin's side will naturally weigh the development of the situation; He came forward to give Su Jin a grand funeral, not only to get rid of the big trouble, but also to win the hearts of the people in the world, to ensure that there would be no chaos in the court, and then slowly purge Su Jin's remnants.
Of course, if there is no such opportunity, then the manpower sent by Zhang Yaozuo and others to various places can be useful, and the second set of plans is to come directly and do it at the same time, even if it causes any trouble, it doesn't care.
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From the end of February to the end of February's conversation on the Mingzhou sandbank, Su Jin has been well aware of all Zhao Zhen's actions in the past nine months, Zhao Zhen has deprived his Northwest Army subordinate General Mingsheng of his military rights, secretly co-opted a number of senior officials in the DPRK and China, and sent forbidden troops to various places to be stationed in the name of patrolling the city defense, Su Jin is very clear.
Su Jin pretended to be ignorant of all this, and even when someone reminded him of this, he scolded the future mercilessly; Of course, Su Jin didn't have any illusions about Zhao Zhen, he just didn't want to shake the world, the Great Song Empire, which he had worked hard for for fifteen years, finally got to where it is today, and it must not be lost in his own hands.
A few months ago, Pan Jiang, Jingtai and others came to Beijing to implicitly promise Su Jin that if Su Jin wanted to abolish the emperor, whether it was to establish a new monarch or to stand on his own, they would lead the department to support him; At that time, Pan Jiang and Jingtai had jurisdiction over 300,000 soldiers and horses, and Wang Chao and Ma Han still controlled more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Praetorian Guard, so they were fully capable of turning things around.
The ministers who led the troops in the DPRK and China, such as Di Qing, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and others, are all old friends of Su Jin, they may not help Su Jin do this, but they will never lead troops to crusade against Su Jin because of this, at most they just turn a blind eye, because the contradiction between Su Jin and Zhao Zhen is a secret to the outside world, but in the hearts of these people, they know that sooner or later there will be an outbreak.
But Su Jin can't do that, although he is a person who has traveled through later generations, Su Jin's thoughts on likes and dislikes are somewhat influenced by thousands of years of Confucianism, once he takes that step, he will become a chaotic minister and thief in the mouth of the people, people will not care what you are facing at the time, they will not think that this is a rebellious move; Although Su Jin didn't care how the history books were written, he didn't want to be a chaotic minister and thief in the mouths of the people, that was not his purpose at all.
Later, in view of the suffering and ignorance of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Su Jincai gradually started from the details to improve the situation of the Great Song Dynasty and enlighten the people's wisdom a little; At present, it seems that the goal has been basically achieved, and Su Jin will never let his more than ten years of efforts be destroyed in the flames of war; Not only is it not good to be called a rebellious minister and thief, but also because he is afraid that the all-out civil war caused by this will lead to the collapse of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people will be miserable, which is contrary to his original intention.
There were more and more suspicious eyes around him, Su Jin knew that Zhao Zhen couldn't wait, Zhao Zhen was looking for an opportunity to start, Su Jin decided to give him this opportunity, give him a chance, and that was also the best chance for him to get out.
After the morning of November 18, Su Jin met Zhao Zhen and asked to take leave to return to Mingzhou, because the end of November was Mrs. Wang's 60th birthday, and Mrs. Wang stayed in Mingzhou with mild temperatures to avoid the cold, and Su Jin could only go to Mingzhou to celebrate his birthday, and Su Jin also clearly told Zhao Zhen that Su Ji's annual meeting would also be held at the same time, and at the annual meeting, Su Jin would announce the news that all Su Ji's industries would be handed over to the imperial court.
Zhao Zhen was ecstatic, this is an excellent opportunity to catch them all, not only the Su family will go to celebrate his birthday, but also the officials who have a good relationship with the DPRK and Su Jin will also rush to flatter, plus Mingzhou is a small coastal city, thousands of miles away from the capital, even if something big happens, the news can be blocked, which is the most favorable and stable way; According to the excitement in his heart, Zhao Zhen first comforted Su Jin with a gentle face, ordered Zhang Guifei to give him jade jewelry, and decreed that Mrs. Wang should be canonized as the honor of Mrs. Yipin, and promised Su Jin to return to Mingzhou to celebrate his mother's birthday.
After Su Jin left, Zhao Zhen summoned Zhang Yaozuo and Han Jiang as soon as possible, and ordered them to immediately lead the troops to Mingzhou before Su Jin to arrange, and the birthday banquet was the best time to start; Zhang Yaozuo and Han Jiang were excited, it would save a lot of hands and feet, and it would be exciting to do it on the birthday of Su Jin's mother, you can imagine that when the Su family was happily celebrating their mother's birthday, they brought a large number of Praetorian Guards into the mansion to order slashing, what kind of scene it was, it was exciting to think about.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Zhao Zhen wrote a secret decree ordering Han Jiang to go south to Hangzhou Mansion overnight, fully take over the command of the troops deployed by the soldiers and horses of the Liangzhejiang Road, and control the situation on the Liangzhejiang Road, so as to prevent the local civil and military officials who do not understand the matter from running out in confusion to stir up the situation.
Su Mansion began to pack up and go south, the shopkeepers of the shops in the capital of Su Ji and the elite guys in the store were secretly required to bring all their families and soft to follow, a team of more than 600 people went out of the capital to set foot on the national highway to the south, and the four hundred guards who accompanied them did not shy away from carrying the fire gun on their backs, Su Jin wanted to tell Zhao Zhen that what he said about the fire gun was not an exaggeration.
Zhao Zhen didn't mean to do it halfway, because that was already a decision, he only ordered people to stay away with the Su family's brigade to ensure that they would not fool themselves and not go to Mingzhou, but flee all the way south to Dali or other neighboring countries.
At the same time, the elite personnel of Su Jiquan's shops, mines, silver villages and other industries in the Great Song Dynasty also rushed to Mingzhou from all directions with their families, they only knew that they were going to attend the Su Ji annual meeting, but they didn't know why the big proprietors asked to bring their families and pack up the softness; But Su Ji's tradition is to implement resolutely, even if he doesn't understand, he still does it.
On November 26, Su Jin arrived in Mingzhou, Yan Biyun personally came to meet him outside the city, and the husband and wife got into the luxury carriage and had the following conversation:
"Ma'am, are the ships ready?"
"Twenty big ships have been completed, the speed of the workshop is too slow, the slave family spent double the price for them to invite craftsmen from shipbuilding workshops in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places to come to help, according to the husband's requirements, all of them are iron-clad building ships."
"Okay, the Northwest cargo can be delivered?"
"50,000 barrels of fire oil and 10,000 barrels of gunpowder have been shipped to the ship, and the list of personnel and items you listed have all been purchased and piled up on the dock, and Zhao Hu has taken 500 people to guard them day and night."
"Mrs. Hard, all the ships will be loaded from now on, and they must all be loaded in three days, and the distribution of food, water, vegetables and vegetables still needs to be bothered by Mrs.
"What did the husband say, you and I are husband and wife are of the same heart, we are living and dying together for a lifetime, even if you don't say where you want to live, the slave family fully believes in your arrangement."
Su Jin hugged Yan Biyun in his arms and kissed him gently: "The place we are going to is a wild land, although I haven't been there, but I know that he is there, the land there is as vast as the Great Song Dynasty, I still have many unfinished dreams in the Great Song Dynasty, where I will work hard to realize them one by one, the Great Song Dynasty is my homeland, I don't want to let this land fall into bloodshed because of personal life and death, so we must go, do you understand?" ”
Yan Biyun leaned into her cherry lips and kissed Su Jin, and said softly: "I understand, everyone understands, my uncle said, one pool is difficult to accommodate two dragons, and the husband is the dragon among people, neither can live under people for a long time, nor can he kill each other in the same room, so he can only open up a new world." ”
Su Jin said with a smile: "Lord Yan's words are finally to the point. ”