The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

On this day, King Zhao was reading a book in the mansion, when someone came in and replied, "My lord, the messenger sent by Master Liu Quan is asking to see you outside the gate of the mansion."

Zhao Wang hurriedly said: "Come in quickly!"

"As ordered."

After a while the man came in.I saw that his head was covered with dust, his eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles, he knelt down and shouted: "Go back to the prince. Thanks to the blessing of the prince, the flood peak has passed, and the embankment has been saved!"

Zhao Wang was overjoyed: "All of them have been saved?"

"My lord is so blessed! All of them have been saved, and none of them have broken the embankment!"

"Hahahahaha..." King Zhao patted the table and said, "Liu Quan made a great contribution!"

The man said: "Our lord can't go back to Handan for the time being, and the people in the four counties have to evacuate. Master Su of Yan State said that the evacuation of the disaster victims is the business of Zhao State, and she led the people of Yan State to go back directly. Our lord persuaded , let the civilian husbands under him go back to the country of Yan first, Master Su must have a cup of celebration wine before leaving. Master Su said, Master Liu wants me to help guide the victims back to their hometown. Our Lord laughed, Master Su is really a A person with a crystal heart and a glass heart. Help people to the end, and send Buddha to the west. Master Su has organized disaster victims to return home in Jiangxi, so he must have quite a lot of experience. Master Su agreed. Let her subordinates go back first, and stay to help."

Zhao Wang said with a smile: "their female officials are not inferior to men." Then he ordered the matter to be announced to the government and the public.

Two or three hours later, the streets and alleys of Handan were covered with notices, and the whole city knew that the floods had been eliminated this summer, and the officials and people were relieved.

I never thought that extreme joy begets sorrow.Zhao Wang happily drank two extra glasses of wine that night, and suddenly fell ill, and couldn't get up in just three or four days.The palace hastily sent people to Beijing to call the son to return to the country at night, and rushed to send a letter to Mr. Liu An.Zhao Shizi heard the report and couldn't take care of bringing his concubine, so he hurried back alone.Shizi was still one step too late after all.When he arrived at Zhao Wang's mansion, Zhao Wang will close his eyes.The prince wailed loudly, and a group of important ministers cried with him.

Now that the prince is gone, the funeral will naturally have to be dealt with.Yu Minzhong got up and left the house to prepare for the funeral.A man appeared from the crowd to tug at him, and called out in a low voice, "Master!" Yu Minzhong saw that he was the steward of the son's mansion who married his daughter and died.The steward said: "The concubine sent the villain back with the son, just to have something to pass on to the master."

Yu Minzhong frowned: "My lord is seriously ill, the capital is not far from Handan, she should come back with the son. What are you talking about?"

The steward said in a low voice: "The Regent of the Yan Kingdom entrusted his concubine to tell the master that he knows that the master is a pillar of talent, and it is a pity to stay in the Zhao country. Ask the master if he wants to go to the capital? The master knows the territory of the Yan country."

Yu Minzhong's body shook: "Nonsense! The prince just left, and the son-in-law is my son-in-law, can I go to another country?"

The steward sighed, and told in a low voice that the son Xiangxue was the false advertisement that Jia Cong and Kong Yunxian had made for him, that the couple became more and more at odds, and that the birth mother of the son was just a female actress and so on.At the end, he said: "The people around Shizi are arranged for him by Mr. Liu Quan, and the birth mother of Shizi was also rescued by this person. Then Liu Quan still has a relationship with General Guan. In this water control, all the people around him are Guan. The guards sent by the general. The concubine Shizi said, Lord Jia is a man of heaven, and when he heard the name of the master, he said that you will be an excellent minister and leave your name in history."

Yu Minzhong took a breath: "Really? How did the Crown Princess know?"

The steward said: "The concubine Shizi recognizes a woman who usually works in the Forbidden City. Her hands and eyes are as good as the sky. If the master doesn't believe it, you can find out if it is true or not."

Yu Minzhong stroked his beard and thought for a long time: "I know." He turned around and went to arrange for King Zhao's funeral.

So the audience was plain white, and the whole country mourned.All countries sent people to mourn, and the special envoys from the Chu countries came the fastest. The princes of Wei, Zheng, Zhou, and Cao came to Handan in person, and the king of Chu also came the next day.Yan Guozhi sent Su Cheng, who was still arranging post-disaster reconstruction in Zhao Guo, as a special envoy, and rushed back to Handan at the same time as Liu An.Dai Quan, the former head of the Daming Palace, was ordered by the Empress Dowager and the sage to come to offer sacrifices, Kong Yunxian, the son of Duke Yansheng, came to express his condolences on behalf of Duke Yansheng, and the rest of the Duke of Lu State ordered Liu Qian, Duke Huguo of Yue Kingdom Zhen Zangzhu and others came to the scene one after another.

On the first seven days, everyone came to sacrifice to the spirit.Seeing that all the kings were there, Grandpa Zhang suddenly knelt down in front of Zhao Wangling and cried, "Everyone thinks that the prince died of illness, but only the humble minister knows that the prince died of anger!"

Everyone was shocked.The prince immediately asked: "Master Zhang, why did you say that!"

Grandpa Zhang wiped away his tears, gave Yu Minzhong a cold look, and said, "Bring it up!"

I saw two strong men yelling and pushing up three men wearing magistrate's robes, all without official hats, and fell to Zhao Wangling.The three of them cried to Yu Minzhong: "My lord, this lower official is incompetent..."

Yu Minzhong was shocked: "Master Zhang, what's going on?"

Master Zhang smiled and said, "Your Excellency Yu has a big appetite. In just four years, he made disaster relief six times, and got 41 relief money for nothing." Nai clapped his palms twice.Someone outside brought in a pile of account books. "Your Excellency, let's see for yourself." He clasped his hands around again, "The special envoys of the lords also have a look. These are the white jade pillars and the purple golden beams of our Zhao Kingdom."

There was an uproar in the hall.Several Zhao Guo ministers really stepped forward to check the account books.It turned out that Yu Minzhong colluded with these three county magistrates and falsely claimed that he had been hit by floods and locusts.The county magistrate asked for help, and Yu Minzhong himself approved the relief funds and exempted them from taxes.In fact, there was no disaster at all, and the county government clearly collected tax account books.All the disaster relief money and taxes went into their pockets, and Yu Minzhong got the big head and the county magistrate got the small head.Yu Minzhong repeatedly complained that he was wronged.

A minister held up the account book and said: "There are all the evidences, so why should you be wronged? The prince's heroic spirit is not far away, so you might shout at the prince to be wronged?" Yu Minzhong was dumbfounded.

King Zheng couldn't help but whispered to the person beside him: "This Boss Zhang still has ideas."

The man smiled and said: "This matter is due to the villain. Jia Cong of the Yan Kingdom is not an ordinary person. He once mentioned the son's father-in-law, Yu Minzhong, when chatting with the son of Zhao Guo. He said that this person should not be an important minister. We want to make disaster relief. Coincidentally, there is a secret agent sent by the villain around the prince, so he sent a letter back. The villain hurriedly relayed it to the Zhang family to let them concentrate on investigating disaster relief, and it was found out." Zheng Wang snickered.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless for Yu Minzhong to talk more, and he is immediately taken to prison.Grandpa Zhang kowtowed to Zhao Wangling and cried, "Your Majesty, you can rest in peace."

Before the words were finished, another person shouted: "Your Majesty, why don't you rest in peace?" Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Mr. Li who had always been on good terms with the Zhang family.Mr. Li shook his head and said, "Although the prince was pissed to death, he didn't give in to the big one."

Elder Zhang was stunned: "Master Li, what did you say?"

Master Li sneered and said: "Master Zhang, Master Yu's case was just investigated two days ago, and he hasn't had time to return it to the prince. Why did you piss him off? Isn't it another matter to piss off the prince?"

Grandpa Zhang frowned: "How can there be another matter?"

Master Li said loudly: "Your Zhang family stole the dragon and turned the dragon into a phoenix, and exchanged your own son for the daughter born to the concubine!"

"Coax..." There was a commotion below.

Master Zhang was stunned: "Master Li, what are you talking nonsense about? Do you have evidence? Don't spit blood on people!"

"Evidence? Isn't the Taoist nun surnamed Wei in the Baiyun Temple in the capital the evidence?" Daren Li said, "She is Ling Erdi's concubine, the son's biological mother!"

Suddenly, another adult stood up and wiped his tears and said: "The prince has known for a long time. Due to the relationship between husband and wife, he has not exposed it. The prince is so wise and powerful, and the son is just a dude. As the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes. Master Zhang Er is so similar, he is not half like a prince."

Another one said: "The prince was desolate for a few years, because he learned about this matter." Nai sighed.

Zhen Zangzhu, an important minister of the Yue Kingdom, appeared in the crowd.This person looked honest and loyal, looked at them and said, "I confuse you. Did King Zhao die of illness or mad?"

Two shouted: "Die of anger!" The other two shouted: "Die of illness!"

Zhen Zangzhu said: "Is it the one who was popularized by the big people, or the one who was stolen and turned into a phoenix?"

Grandpa Zhang shouted: "Being popular with Da Yu!"

Lord Li yelled: "I'm mad at the Princess Zhang's family!"

"If you were pissed off by the concubine and the Zhang family, how did you 'know'? You have been desolate for a few years because of this, and you have recovered recently?"

The three were silent for a moment.The prince lazily said: "Can you collude the confession in advance? Who wrote this playbook that doesn't match the preface and the afterword?" He pointed to the pile of account books that had killed Minzhong, "I have to look into that thing. true and false."

Elder Zhang said coldly: "That's true, you don't have to worry about it anymore."

Before the son could answer, he heard Wei Wang sigh: "Brother Zhao Wang really knew about it a long time ago." Everyone looked over in an instant.An official next to King Wei took out a letter from his pocket.Wei Wang said, "Brother Zhao Wang has noticed that the illness is fierce this time, and he may have something wrong, so he wrote it to the lonely king." The official looked around a few times, not knowing who to give the letter to.

Su Cheng from Yan State said loudly: "Your Excellency, leave it to the King of Chu."

Anyway, Zhao State was separated from Chu State.King Chu hurried out.The officials of the state of Wei handed over the letter to the king of Chu.The king of Chu opened it and saw what was written in it: King Zhao knew that his son was the son of the Zhang family and could not inherit the state of Zhao, so he was willing to entrust the state of Zhao to the state of Wei.

Then they heard several people say in unison: "Fake!" The people around King Zheng, King Zhou, and King Cao all shouted, "King Zhao clearly entrusted the country of Zhao to our lord!"

The front of the hall was immediately lively.The three countries all took out the letters of King Zhao, all of which were entrusted to the country.The four letters are completely different, but they are all in King Zhao's handwriting, and all have King Zhao's golden seal.Of the five great clans in Zhao State, except for Yu Minzhong who had just been imprisoned, the other four supported one country each.Zhao Guo's ministers looked at each other and didn't know what to do. All the spectators were waiting happily for the excitement, and the king of Chu couldn't make a decision.

I saw the old eunuch Dai Quan slowly walking out of the crowd, and said: "Everyone, can I listen to the miscellaneous family?"

The king of Chu hurriedly said, "Please tell me, father-in-law."

Dai Quan said: "You can't listen to one side's opinion in everything. The miscellaneous family thinks, let the four adults explain the death of Zhao Wang and the story of stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix, and they should also listen to the son's explanation. What do you think?"

The king of Chu nodded and said: "The matter came in a hurry and was a bit messy. I really should let everyone speak." Then he asked the prince.

Shizi lazily said: "Let them talk first."

Zhang Jiadao, Zhao Wang made Yu Minzhong angry, the son was born by the princess Zhang, but he was useless, Zhao Wang entrusted Zhao Guo to Zheng Wang.Li Jiadao, Zhao Wang made the Zhang family mad, the son is stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix, Zhao Wang entrusted Zhao Guo to Wei Wang.The other two said that King Zhao died of illness, but they had already known that the son was a child of the Zhang family, and entrusted Zhao Guo to King Cao of Zhou respectively.Finally, the king of Chu asked Zhao Guoshizi.

The prince said: "I am not born of my mother and concubine." Many Zhao officials suddenly changed their faces.The son continued, "My mother is a roommate next to my father. Have you heard that the mother kept her son in the past?" He turned and bowed to Mr. Zhang, "Thank you Mr. Zhang for sending my biological mother out of the house. I I know that most of these women are dead."

The official of Weiguo said, "Does the prince have evidence?"

The son said: "Everyone knows that I am the son of my father and king. Do you have evidence to prove that I am not?"

The Zhou official said loudly: "The prince has no evidence, but our prince has a letter written by King Zhao!"

The prince smiled and said: "You mean, my father wrote four letters to the four princes, and entrusted them to Zhao Guo? Do you believe it yourself?" The four kingdoms immediately quarreled.

King Chu looked at the four letters in a daze.Zhen Zangzhu of Yue State suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, does anyone still remember the case in Wu State a while ago? First, an eunuch surnamed Guo next to King Wu faked King Wu's handwriting and imitated King Wu's golden seal. The state treasury defrauded 8000 million taels of silver, and no one has been caught yet." Looking at the four countries, everyone looked suspicious.Shikoku and Sijia hurriedly declared their innocence.

Kong Yunxian, the young master of Yanshenggong's mansion, pondered for a long time, walked up to the King of Chu and cupped his hands: "My lord, can I let Wansheng read those four letters?"

The King of Chu hurriedly replied, "Mr. Kong, please take a look."

Kong Yunxian took the letter and read it carefully for a long time and said: "Wan Sheng recently lived in the post house in the capital, and he is a neighbor of Zhao Guo Shizi, so he is very close. Wan Sheng once saw a fan in another place, which was stamped with the golden seal of King Zhao. The seal is complete."

The king of Chu was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by this, sir?"

"The gold seals on these four letters," said Kong Yunxian, pointing to the hook in the word "Zhao", "are a little thin here, as if the stamping force was a little weak. The seal on the folding fan of Prince Zhao is thicker .”

Liu Qian from the State of Lu had already walked up to the two of them, stretched out his head to look, and said with a smile, "These four seals are exactly the same. How can it be that when you seal each of them, your strength is weaker? The degree is the same? It is obvious that this is the same fake seal, and you will know it when you compare it with the one printed by Zhao Wangzhen." The faces of the four kings changed.

Liu Quan, Zhao's general political envoy, said loudly, "Where is the king's golden seal now?"

Liu Quan and Yu Minzhong are two important ministers of Zhao State.Lieutenant General Yu Min was about to be imprisoned, and without realizing it, the officials of Zhao Guo, headed by Liu Quan, responded one after another: "Get the prince's golden seal quickly!"

Su Cheng from Yan State said in a low voice: "I've never seen such excitement before, it's even more lively than flood control." She was a woman, her voice was more prominent, and many people around heard it and looked sideways.Su Cheng covered his mouth, a little embarrassing.King Chu couldn't help but look at her twice.Neighboring countries of Zhao State all sent important ministers to express their condolences, and the prince came in person, but Yan State only sent a young female official at random, which seemed a bit contemptuous.

Not long after, the eunuch Wang Gonggong, who had always been trusted by Zhao Wangping, came out with the gold seal.The four princes looked at this person with some doubts.