Zhao Huan, who was in Chang'an, continued to consolidate the power in his hands, and began to slowly intervene in this era and change it. At the same time, in the spring of the fifth year of Jingkang, in Lin'an City, his ninth brother Zhao Gou will encounter the biggest crisis in the years since he ascended the throne as emperor.

The mutiny, which was supposed to take place last year, will continue to follow its original trajectory, although it has been postponed for half a year.

After Zhao Huan returned to China, although the Yangzhou Mutiny and the Jin soldiers entered Jiangnan fiasco, Zhao Gou made some changes after all, cheered up on the surface, repelled several famous officials of the Lord and faction, and issued several edicts of resolute resistance to the war, which in a short period of time, it was very confusing to some people's hearts.

And because of Zhao Huan's attention in the First Battle of Fuping, he also invisibly delayed this mutiny.

But Zhao Gou is Zhao Gou after all, and any superficial change cannot make his cowardly heart stronger. His education since childhood, his upbringing, and everything he saw in front of him made him have no confidence in the confrontation of the Jin Kingdom. And everything that the enemy had carefully arranged, the peace talks with Zhao Huan, and the moderate pressure on him, made him worried, for fear that he would fall behind in the peace talks with Jin Guo, and even more made his already embarrassing position crumbling.

If the peace agreement is reached and Jin Guo releases his father Zhao Ji back, then the subordinates who originally returned the head to the two ends of the rat will definitely abandon him quickly and resolutely.

Whether in terms of ability or righteousness, he is not qualified to compete with Zhao Huan. For more than half a year, the nightmare of being forced to abdicate by his eldest brother's edict has been haunting him. The more Zhao Huan was in a hurry to attack him, the more uneasy he was in his heart, and he didn't know what the other party's intentions were and how to start.

He also once considered that it was better to retreat and ask for abdication as the emperor's younger brother with his great contribution to preserving the temple, which should not be a difficult thing.

In this way, even if the Emperor Taishang returns, he will not be embarrassed by him, but will preserve his position and reward him for his great achievements.

It's just that once you get in power, it's too difficult and too difficult to give up. Zhao Gou pushed the pillow late at night, thinking that he had changed from "Your Majesty" to "His Highness", and even more miserable and depressed in the future, he made up his mind, it was better for Zhao Huan to be arrested by Jin Bing again, and even die one day, that would be good!

So, after enduring it for a long time, and even obeying Zhao Huan's words, the other party asked someone to give it to him, and asked for money to give money for a period of time, Zhao Gou began to make small moves, arrears of money and support, forbidding the army to transfer to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and secretly repeatedly summoned his confidant ministers, explicitly hinting that they could not accept the edict from Chang'an, and all kinds of means emerged in an endless stream, just hoping to weaken the power of Zhao Huan and let him lose at the hands of the Jin State.

Just as he was feeling his hand, it was reported that the Jin State had released the captured ministers and retreated to all parts of Tongguan in Shaanzhou, even Henan and Shandong, but Zhao Gou was like five thunderbolts, terrified inexplicably.

If the agreement is reached, the most unlucky person will naturally be him. What frightened him even more was that Jin Guo actually mobilized troops to the Yangtze River, and judging by his movements, he actually had the intention of seeking peace on the western front and war on the southern front.

Contrary to what Zhao Huan was worried about, after Zhao Gou learned of this, he did not pretend to seek war to improve his prestige, but couldn't wait, and immediately reinstated Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and other lords and officials, and sent envoys across the river to get ahead of Zhao Huan and reach a peace agreement with the Jin State.

In this way, even if Zhao Huan and Jin Guo also reached a peace agreement, he also had the capital to bargain.

He did not care about the events that occurred in Chang'an, such as the establishment of military ranks, the actual position of an official, the full restoration of the Tang Dynasty's system of three central provinces, and the establishment of the Dengwen Division and the Pedestrian Division.

These subtle but important events, which changed the historical opportunity, slipped quietly before his eyes, and could not move him.

Because of the fact that he was dragged down by such a major event, several small disputes that broke out between some forbidden army generals in Lin'an City and Wang Yuan's dissatisfaction with the Privy Council were simply and rudely resolved by him.

And the grievances and struggles reported by several generals of the forbidden army were also concealed by the provincial guards around him, and the leader of the eunuchs, Kang Xu, who was close to him.

Under his rule, corrupt officials are rampant, eunuchs are dominant, the land south of the Yangtze River, known as the land of fish and rice, known as the land of two lakes where the lake is wide and ripe in the world, but the people are worried about eating and sighing, whenever the day of tax collection comes, the chickens and dogs jump in the villages, the officials sound gongs and sit in sedan chairs, and the evil officials are like wolves and tigers, and the people's meager production is snatched clean, which makes them feel miserable and difficult to endure anymore.

Originally, all of this was suppressed under the righteousness of resisting the Jin soldiers, and as soon as the news of peace broke, the repulsed Huang and Wang Zhiliu were like cold water injected into the boiling oil, and the entire Lin'an City was on the verge of exploding.

Winter in Jiangnan is different from that in the land of Ganshan.

It's cold, it's not crispy, it's sticky. And because of tradition, few people build fire pits at home like northerners, thicken and strengthen doors and windows, and even clothes, but they are careless and do not deliberately wear more.

In this way, in the spring of the fifth year of Jingkang, although nominally winter has left, the time for spring to bloom has arrived, and a light snow in the twilight, although not as overbearing as the heavy snow in the north, is to force the cold into the human body, and then meandering through the simple doors and windows to climb into the house, entrenched, making people feel cold and unbearable.

At this time, the population of Lin'an City was not as large as a few decades later, and it was not as lively and prosperous as it was many years after it was the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty. At this time, the emperor was only temporarily sheltered, and he did not think of staying here for a long time, and the officials and generals accompanying him did not regard this place as a place to settle down.

Although restaurants and brothels and other ******** had a little more business because of the increase in officials, when the time was approaching, the weather was cold and the people were scarce, and all the businesses on the street were closed and closed, only in the thin door panels, occasionally there would be a few voices and the shadow of the broken lights.

In such an environment, there was a group of people hurrying on the silent and deserted street. They were dressed in cotton robes, and their expressions were a little nervous, although they were still wearing green cloth coats, if you looked closely, there was a bulge at the back waist that could not be concealed.

There was no curfew in the Great Song Dynasty, and several teams of forbidden soldiers patrolling the streets met them on the road, but they only glanced at them a few times and didn't care very much.

The weather is so cold, the officials are lighting a fire in the house, eating cooked beef and drinking rice wine, while the soldiers are swearing white gas in their mouths, and the iron spears in their hands are cold and piercing, who has the heart to do a lot of things. I just look forward to getting off the value as soon as possible, and everyone will scrape together some money and sell some wine to keep out the cold.

"It's here!"

A group of seven or eight people walked around and finally stopped in front of a house near the palace. The middle-aged man at the head turned his head to look around, and saw that there was nothing suspicious, so he knocked on the door and said softly in a strong Hedong Shangdang accent: "Brother Liu? Brother Liu opened the door. ”

This mansion seems to be a large mansion with several enters, and its owner is either rich or expensive. In the middle of the night, a group of strong men with gloomy faces knocked on the door gently under the dim door lamp, but this situation was very strange.

After half a ring, the door of the house creaked open, and a man wearing a cotton robe with soft flippers knocked on the door for a long time, first shook the lantern in his hand, and saw that there were no outsiders, so he smiled and replied: "I am really anxious to wait." ”

The man who knocked on the door also smiled, but his expression could not hide his nervousness.

He slipped in and said to the man who opened the door, "These are all my henchmen. ”

He turned his head again and said, "I haven't saluted Liu Tong yet." ”

The men who came in behind him bowed together, clasped their fists and said, "The last general has seen the ruler of the lord." ”

Although they deliberately kept their voices down, because they had always been well-trained, their voices were uniform when they greeted them, and in the dark night, there was a lot of noise.

"Ah, no need to be polite. This is not the time to make such a fuss. ”

The one who opened the door was the leader of Zhao Gou's imperial camp and horses, and he was under the command of Liu Zhengyan. And with his henchmen, who came to Liu Mansion to see him, was also another subordinate with heavy troops, Miao Fu.

After Miao Fu's subordinates saw the ceremony, led by Liu Zhengyan himself, the group entered the main hall of Liu's mansion, everyone took off their cloaks, but they all took swords and swords, and then joined a group of generals who were waiting in the hall.

Although Liu Zhengyan was the master, he couldn't care about being polite to Miao Fu at this time, and as soon as he entered the room, he immediately said to Miao Fu: "Is everything all right?" ”

Miao Fu didn't care about sitting down, but said, "It's all right." Tonight will be decided to come here, and after a while, there will be more people coming, and before the court disperses tomorrow, at least 8,000 people can be mobilized. ”

After saying that, he looked around and suddenly laughed: "Look, Wang Shixiu, Zhang Kui, Wang Junfu, Ma Rouji, these are all the most respected generals of the current forbidden army, plus you and me, why worry about big things!" ”

The ancestor of Miao Fu, who was originally the commander of the pro-army in front of the palace, was deeply rooted in the forbidden army system, and was much stronger than Liu Zhengyan in terms of prestige and connections. In this incident, Miao Fu is the mainstay, Liu is the auxiliary, at this time, the mastermind is full of confidence, and the rest of the people are also excited, one by one, very excited.

But listening to Miao Fu said categorically: "Wu Zhan, the commander of the Chinese army, is my old subordinate, although he didn't say it explicitly, he also vaguely knew that I was going to do great things, punish traitors, and force the puppet emperor to abdicate." Let's kill Wang Yuan first, and then enter the palace, King Kang is unarmed, what can he do then, it's not at the mercy of you and me. ”

The generals were already excited, and at this time they knew that the great thing would be accomplished, so they all bowed down and saluted, saying, "Everything is subject to the general's orders." ”

His words were already contrary, and he didn't even call Zhao Gou His Majesty, but called King Kang.

Everyone knew in their hearts that if they didn't succeed, they would definitely be killed, so when they shouted, they all pressed their swords with their hands, and they were murderous.

Liu Zhengyan fought a cold war for no reason, looked out of the gloomy window, and said in his heart: "I don't know if tomorrow will be sunny or the snow will be endless." ”

Sorry for the late update.