Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The emperor rested at Daming Mansion that night. Wang Zhong waited for him to fall asleep, then walked out of the bedroom cautiously, took a long breath, and told the left and right: "Don't doze off and take turns to watch, and someone must be awake at all times."

After all, Wang Zhong was planning to find a place to sleep for a while, when he saw a eunuch with thick bones and a thin face standing outside under the eaves. Who is not his godson Peng Hanju? He was sent to Tokyo before, but he returned to the army so soon... Wang Zhong thought he would be waiting for everyone to return to the palace in Tokyo.

"Godfather." Peng Han bowed his hands.

Wang Zhongdao: "Follow me."

The two entered a wing room next door, Wang Zhong closed the door himself, pulled Peng Hanju's sleeve and walked a few steps in, then asked in a low voice, "Did you bring the words?"

"I did, but I didn't see the empress, I only saw Cao Tai." Peng Hanju said.

One is white and the other is sallow, and their skin colors are completely different. Wang Zhong is already a year or two younger, and he is white and fat. He looks much younger than his "son". Wang Zhong nodded and said, "That fellow Cao Tai joined the queen when he was in Yedu. At that time, the queen had just remarried to an official family, and she was not a queen... You told Cao Tai, and it was the same. Huh? Wang Jien stayed in Tokyo to wait for us, why didn't you stay with him, but came back?"

"My son just wanted to talk about this." Peng Hanju lowered his voice, and whispered, "My son thought about it, and decided that it's not too troublesome, so I have to run quickly. Because I think it's very strange."

"What's so strange?" Wang Zhong asked casually.

Peng Hanju said: "Before the godfather asked his son to bring the message, he mentioned that he had asked Wang Jien to deliver the letter. But Cao Tai said that he had never received the letter from Wang Jien. From my point of view, Cao Tai was quite surprised and suspicious of me bringing the message; so I think that what he said is true... Otherwise, he shouldn't be surprised when he saw me."

"Then Wang Jien is in Tokyo?" Wang Zhong asked.

Peng Hanju replied: "Yes."

After Wang Zhong pondered for a moment, he immediately cursed: "This is a food that eats inside and out!"

Peng Hanju also echoed, "Godfather scolded you well. He went back to Tokyo but didn't deliver the letter. Where did the letter go?"

"Fuck!" Wrinkles appeared on Wang Zhong's forehead, "I trust him too much! Go back and settle accounts with this guy."

...The emperor met Fu Yanqing twice in the Daming Mansion, and he continued to go south after not staying for long. The guards of honor and the army are a bit detoured here, but they can walk along the river; the emperor seems to really just drop by, after all, Fu Yanqing is also his father-in-law.

Starting from Xiongzhou, the army traveled for nearly a month before reaching Tokyo.

On the night when the emperor's carriage entered the palace, Wang Zhong immediately called someone to call Wang Ji'en over, and drove away all the idlers in the courtyard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For a moment Wang Zhong was angry. In this dimly lit courtyard, it would not be a big deal for him to kill an eunuch.

Seeing the appearance of his "godfather", Wang Jien, who had a big pie face, showed fear under his usual prestige, and first said: "I lost the letter, and I didn't dare to report back for fear of being punished by my godfather."

Wang Zhong was furious and scolded: "It seems that if I don't show you some color, you will be no big or small! Come on!"

Seeing this, Wang Jien's face suddenly changed, and he said coldly: "Godfather, you are so wrong, you shouldn't have written the letter yourself. Don't you think it's a real excuse? How dare you touch me?"

"What do you mean, threatening the miscellaneous family?" Wang Zhong was angry and anxious, "You are an unfaithful and unfilial thing, and you still have the face to call me godfather?"

Wang Jien straightened his back suddenly, looking like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water: "Wang Zhong! Why do you think you are called godfather? It's just that you have been with the official family for a long time and have been serving the official family for a long time. The official family trusts you so much. I don't vote for you and call you godfather. Is it okay?"

"Hmph." Wang Zhong made a sound.

Wang Jien said: "The official trusted you so much, but you betrayed him. If that letter fell into the official's hands, what do you think will happen?" Wang Jien suddenly said sternly, the official was betrayed by a trusted dog slave, and with his temper, he will kill you! "

After hearing this, Wang Zhong couldn't help showing a look of fear.

Wang Jien became even more proud: "The letter is no longer in the hands of the Zajia, it was given to someone else... Don't ask who it is, the Zajia will not tell you. If you push the Zajia into a hurry, or if there is something wrong with the Zajia, the letter will appear in front of the officials. Then it will be too late for you to regret it!"

"Dog thing!" Wang Zhong frowned, and suddenly felt that he was too negligent, and he really didn't expect his godson who had been with him for several years to be so insidious.

Then Wang Jien also plausibly said: "The disaster is imminent, and the officials trust you so much. Seeing that the backer is no longer good, don't you feel shy and want to vote for the new owner? The miscellaneous family is the same, but there is a slight difference: the miscellaneous family is not looking for the queen. What's more, if you take the same risk as you, how much good is it to be a miscellaneous family?"

Wang Zhong's face turned blue and white, but he was speechless to refute.

After a while, Peng Hanju carefully suggested: "We are all just poor people begging for food, why bother to fight each other?"

Wang Zhongdao: "What do you think about this matter?"

Peng Hanju said: "We do our business, Wang Jien does his work, well water does not interfere with river water, we pretend we don't know each other."

Wang Zhongdao: "Since you told Cao Tai about the secret letter, if you pursue it, what should you do if you don't get Wang Jien out to explain it?"

Peng Hanju said: "Cao Tai doesn't care about this matter, he doesn't even believe what we say. The first thing Cao Tai needs to figure out now is why his godfather wants to have a secret relationship with him, whether he really wants to rely on him, whether he can trust him or not. As for the secret letter I mentioned that day, it's not worth pursuing... Maybe we think it's because we want to show our loyalty."

Wang Zhong pondered for a while, nodded and said: "That's true. Even if you ask, just find an excuse to dismiss it." After finishing speaking, he looked at Wang Ji'en.

"Peng Gong's proposal is quite good." Wang Ji'en said, "As long as you don't deal with the miscellaneous family, the miscellaneous family will naturally turn a blind eye... The miscellaneous family will risk revealing your secrets, and it will not do any good to the miscellaneous family."

"Who did you vote for privately?" Wang Zhong couldn't help asking curiously.

Wang Jien didn't answer.

Originally, he didn't intend to fall out with Wang Zhong, but planned to step on two boats quietly. But now that the matter has been brought to light, he had no choice but to threaten him by breaking the jar.

Now that his identity has been exposed, Wang Jien plans to be more careful in the future for the sake of prudence, and will not contact his personal acquaintances unless it is absolutely necessary.

...But Wang Jien didn't expect that he would already be watched by people in turn wherever he was at every moment. He thought that before his identity was exposed, he had secretly met Zhao Pu as soon as the Imperial Army arrived in Tokyo.

In the study room of Zide Hall, Cao Tai is reporting Wang Jien's whereabouts these days and just now.

But the queen was reading a chess book and arranging black and white pieces one by one on the board, as if she didn't listen or care at all. But the eunuch Cao Tai didn't have to care whether the queen listened or not, she would listen naturally if she wanted to, and if she didn't want to hear a slight movement, Cao Tai knew to shut up.

Cao Taidao: "Madam, how should we deal with Wang Jien? It's not a good thing to let this guy mix in the palace, or find a way to send him elsewhere... That's not easy, Wang Jien is Wang Zhong's man, and the miscellaneous family can't get past Wang Zhong and send his good son away."

"He is really a good son." Fu Shi suddenly showed a sneer.

Cao Tai hurriedly echoed: "Those people have bad eyes, they really bite the dog..." At this point, he hurriedly said, "My family is wrong, I shouldn't have polluted my mother's hearing!"

At this moment, Fu Shi pointed to the chessboard and said: "I didn't play chess leisurely before, and I didn't have anyone to accompany me. I only started learning last year, and I have never played chess with anyone."

Cao Tai hurriedly said: "With the intelligence of the empress, those who have learned chess since childhood may not be able to beat the empress now."

Fu Shi laughed and said: "It's very simple, look, if you insist on using white stones to capture this area of ​​black stones; logically, Black will be forced to focus on this area to compete, and you will not be able to capture it in the end."

Cao Tai nodded and said: "That's the reason, unless the opponent is letting others go."

"It's okay to play chess, but can you let it go when you win or lose your life?" Fu Shi said, "The best way is not to move anyone. Just know what's in your mind, it's not time for us to move now; don't trap yourself for an unimportant place."

Cao Tai was thoughtful.

Fu Shi glanced at him: "You are usually a smart person, but once many things are involved, the more you are confused, the more you will be confused. Of course, Wang Zhong can't move. No matter what his idea is, it is always a good thing to show favor to us. You can find an opportunity to ask him not to stare at you everywhere."

"Yes, that's what your mother said." Cao Tai hurriedly nodded and bowed.

Fu said again: "You have to think about ten steps to take one step. Wang Ji'en can't move even more. If Wang Jien is dealt with, he and his accomplices may suspect that Wang Zhong did it; in this way, the secret letter mentioned by Peng Hanju will be exposed. Wang Zhong will be in trouble. Wang Zhongyi's unlucky reason is that he wants to join me...Of course this has nothing to do with us, but the officials will think that I have something on my mind. And Wang Jien's accomplices..."

Cao Tai was confused for a while, and his expression became bewildered.

Fu Shi glanced at him, stopped talking, and said, "That's all."

Cao Tai hurriedly said: "This servant is stupid, but as long as you are loyal to the empress with all your heart, just follow your orders."

Fu Shi ignored him, and suddenly muttered something, thinking that Cao Tai couldn't keep up with her. "Female talisman on behalf of the king... What a coincidence, but a wooden sign can fly to the emperor of Zhou; if everything can reach the emperor, is this world still like this?"

She thought for a while: "If I'm not wrong, after a while, someone will talk about the celestial phenomenon."

"How did the empress know?"

Fu Shi said: "There are allusions to the words on this sign. The prophecy in the Tang Dynasty was 'Tang Zhong is weak, and there is a female martial arts king'. According to the unofficial history that has been circulated, isn't the next thing to be a celestial phenomenon? The person who came up with the idea must be a civil servant. He has read a lot of books, including unofficial history and miscellaneous books."

Cao Tai hurriedly asked: "Then what should we do?"

"There is no way." Fu sighed quietly, "Sometimes things are like this, you know what people want to do, but there is nothing you can do."