The Heavens: Reborn Xu Zhu, Recognizing His Father at the Beginning

Chapter 172 Ripped
In the palace, upon hearing the news from the Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Xu couldn't hide his excitement. With a long sword in his waist and hips, he led all his confidants towards the Chongqing Hall.

It has been nine years since his father passed away and he inherited the Great Song throne.

In the past nine years, although he was the nominal emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, the person who actually controlled the government was always his imperial grandmother.

Now, the Empress Dowager is critically ill and dying, and the world of the Northern Song Dynasty will finally be controlled by him personally.

Thinking of the scene where all the courtiers shouted "My Emperor's Holy Spirit", although Zhao Xu tried his best to look sad, the smile on the corner of his mouth revealed his state of mind.

As the team slowly approached, Zhao Xu's confidant guards and eunuchs slowly walked lightly, and came outside the Chongqing Hall to replace the original staff.

After coughing twice, Zhao Xu said loudly.

"Grandmother is healthy, grandson please see me!"

A faint voice came out, and the gray-haired imperial doctor hurriedly opened the door, and all the eunuchs and court ladies hurriedly left the hall under his eyes.

Zhao Xu straightened his back, like a tiger showing its claws, walked to Gao's bed with his head held high.

"Grandmother, the grandson is here. I don't know what the grandmother has to say?"

Gao Shi tremblingly wanted to do it, after Zhao Xu helped him up, Gao Shi panted for a while before speaking.

"Boy, the ancestors went through all kinds of hardships in the past to create this foundation, and generations of emperors worked hard to keep this foundation."

"But in your father's generation, public anger almost occurred and unimaginable disasters occurred. Do you know why?"

Hearing Gao's question, Zhao Xu lowered his head slightly, and a trace of disapproval flashed in his eyes.

"The child often listens to the emperor's grandmother scolding, but the father listened to Wang Anshi's slander and launched reforms without authorization, so that the people were destitute."

Gao shook his head slightly, but a shrewdness and pity flashed in his cloudy old eyes.

"Wang Jiefu, he is talented and knowledgeable. He and your father are naturally concerned about the people. They are not bad people originally, but"

Gao's breathing was a little short, and he slowed down for a while before continuing.

"However, your father is impatient. He only hoped that the reform would be successful as soon as possible. Many things were done in a hurry before he saw clearly, but in the end it was self-defeating."

"These two times, your father won't listen to the slightest bad words, but if the courtiers have any disapproval of him, they will either be dismissed from office or exiled."

Speaking of this, Gao Shi glanced at Zhao Xu, hoping that her grandson would not be like his father.

Zhao Xu stood up, turned his back to Gao Shi, but snorted coldly, disapproving of Gao Shi's words.

"That's right, the father's will has not been fulfilled, and all the good laws he implemented have been broken by the villain."

"But the grandson is different. The grandson will never be impatient. Let the good policies of the young crops method, the horse protection method, and the armor protection method created by the father in the past be carried out without haste."

As soon as these words came out, Gao's haggard face suddenly changed, looking at Zhao Xu, he felt that this obedient grandson in the past was very wrong.

I just wanted to speak, but I couldn't speak at all. I could only cough continuously, and it didn't stop until a long time ago.

"What good law? Who is the villain?"

"Aren't the reforms created by the father the way to enrich the country and strengthen the army? Aren't those rotten Confucians who tried to stop them just villains?"

At this moment, Gao realized that her good grandson, seeing that she was seriously ill, could no longer bear the ambition in his heart, and was about to show off his ambition.

Panting for a long time, Gao looked at the young emperor in front of him, and said slowly.

"Since you succeeded to the throne, you have been the emperor for nine full years, but I have always been in charge of the government during these nine years."

"No matter big or small, you have to do as I tell you. You hate me, don't you?"

Zhao Xu turned around and pretended to be concerned, and said in a strange way.

"Grandma became the emperor for me, for the sake of my grandson, lest I be exhausted. The people are used by grandma, the order is given by grandma, and the military power is also grasped by grandma."

"Grandson, I have a lot of leisure time. How dare I have the slightest resentment towards grandma, and how dare I hate you?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Xu pretended to cover Gao Shi with a quilt, and there was no trace of affection in his tone.

"Don't be angry, take a good rest, and be careful not to get angry."

Reluctantly breathing a sigh of relief, Gao looked at the grandson in front of him, only to see the shadow of his own son.

"You, like your father, always feel that you are smart and capable, and want to make some achievements. Can you hide the thoughts in your heart from me?"

"Don't...don't you think...I don't know?"

The corners of Zhao Xu's mouth turned up, showing a look of disapproval.

"Of course grandma knows that all the civil and military ministers in the court, the commander of the imperial forest army in the palace, and the chief eunuch in the house are all your cronies."

"On weekdays, even if I have a complaint, I will be beaten a few times by you. What else can my child do besides obediently obey your orders?"

Gao sighed deeply, with a trace of helplessness in his tone.

"You've been looking forward to today day and night, and you only hope that I will be able to show your talents when I pass away from a serious illness?"

Zhao Xu smiled calmly, then slowly shook his head, and continued talking.

"The child's success today is all due to your care, the emperor's grandmother. If you hadn't been in charge of the old man back then, it is not certain who would have the emperor's seat."

"However, isn't the imperial grandmother coveting that her grandson is young and wants to control the government herself?"

Gao Shi nodded slightly, only feeling that his body was extremely heavy.

"That's right, I have indeed personally controlled the government for the past nine years, but how have I managed the past nine years?"

The corner of Zhao Xu's mouth hooked, and he slowly took out a secret letter from his arms.

"Grandmother, Liao Kingdom has undergone major changes a few years ago, and now the Emperor of Liao Kingdom is Yelu Chongyuan, the Generalissimo of the Liao Kingdom in the past."

"The court of the Liao Kingdom changed blood. I wonder if the emperor's grandmother would like to hear what the civil servants and generals of the enemy country think of your old man?"

The Empress Dowager shook her head slowly, a look of disappointment flashed in her eyes.

"How about being slandered all over the world? I'm just an old woman waiting to die. It's hard to say if I can survive tonight."

"The court of the Liao Kingdom changed blood, what did they say?"

Zhao Xu opened the secret letter and began to recite it aloud. The praise in the letter made Gao's eyes flash with joy.

Especially when she was praised as Yao and Shun, Gao muttered to herself.

But after a while, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

"The Liao Kingdom exchanged blood, and Yelu Zhongyuan invited all the ministers to meet. Obviously, the foundation has been stabilized. No, they want to send troops south to bully you."

Hearing Gao's call, Zhao Xu didn't take it seriously, he only hated that the Liao Kingdom didn't send troops when its foundation was unstable, and wasted the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)