Xianxia version of Water Margin

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With Zhao Huer and four other concubines agreeing to mediate, with Gao Qiu's family being handed over to Jiang Hongfei and his ministers by the Zhao and Song dynasties, and with Zhao Huan and his ministers presenting maps of Shandong, Hebei, and Hedong to Jiang Hongfei, the ownership of these three places has been completely determined. , although the Dayuan Empire still did not agree to negotiate peace with the Zhao and Song Dynasties, it was no longer as aggressive as before.

In the view of Zhao Huanjun and his ministers, Jiang Hongfei should have forgiven Zhao Huan for his previous actions of tearing up the peace treaty.

Zhao Huan breathed a long sigh of relief, and his attention began to shift from the Yuan Dynasty's march south to conquer the Song Dynasty to another thing - that is, to deal with the threat from his father Zhao Ji.

In fact, as early as when Zhao Huan and his ministers, as well as the soldiers and civilians of Zhao and Song Dynasty, were actively preparing for war and preparing for "the Yuan Empire's southward attack on the Song Dynasty", Chen Dong wrote a letter saying:

"I secretly learned that the emperor had already set up the Boshe, and Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Gao Qiu and others in the southeast commanded hundreds of thousands of troops. I thought deeply about these thieves and led the emperor to meander south. If something happens, it will be really heartbreaking. Cover the southeast. There are thousands of miles of fertile land, and the supervisors, state and county officials are all thieves and disciples. At that time, the traitors and powerful men and villains in the market were all attached to them. In addition to Song Huan, the shipping envoy, it was Jingzi You's wife who was in charge of the party yesterday. Bandits, there are many people who are benevolent, and I have heard that they are raising dead soldiers for private purposes, so I am afraid that after a few thieves cross south, they will pretend to be the emperor's power and raise their arms, and the evil people will respond and alienate His Majesty and his son. Things will be very difficult. "Speaking of the words, I hope to pursue the thieves quickly and punish them according to the law. I will not choose anyone who is loyal and can be entrusted. I will serve the emperor like Bo, so that I can protect the ancestral temple with the kindness of your majesty and his son."

Chen Dong's worries cannot be said to be unreasonable. His memorial also revealed part of Zhao Huan's concerns as a minister, and even touched on Zhao Huan's faintly uneasy heart.

However, Zhao Huan had just ascended the throne at that time, and "the Yuan Empire was going south to conquer the Song Dynasty again." Zhao Huan could not take care of dealing with this "internal concern."

Now that the external trouble of "the Yuan Empire went south to conquer the Song Dynasty" seems to have been resolved, Zhao Huan's monarchs and ministers, especially Zhao Huan, began to focus on the "internal trouble" of Zhao Ji.

It has been more than three months since Zhao Ji took refuge south.

After Zhao Ji arrived in Zhenjiang, he did three extraordinary things: first, he suppressed all the news in the southeast and was not allowed to be sent to Bianliang City in Tokyo to be handed over to Zhao Huan; second, he was not allowed to allow the hundreds of thousands of troops in Tong Guan's hands to go north to rescue King Qin. The third is to intercept all the money and grain from the southeast and detain it in Zhenjiang.

Zhao Ji did this, partly out of Zhao Ji's original intention, and partly out of the intention of Tong Guan and other ministers around Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji concluded that if Jiang Hongfei went south to attack the Song Dynasty, the Song army would definitely not be able to withstand it with its current strength, so he deliberately prepared for a long-term resistance against the Yuan Dynasty and asked Tong Guan and other ministers to prepare early.

Tong Guan and others did not want Zhao Ji, who was still in good health in his forties, to take a back seat, especially after they heard that Zhao Huanjun and his ministers wanted to liquidate these traitorous officials.

Furthermore, judging from the actual situation, Fang La's rebel army, the Yuan Empire's forces in the southeast, and Wang Qing's Da Chu Kingdom have not yet been wiped out. They naturally need army money and food to continue fighting.

However, in the eyes of Zhao Huan, Zhao Ji's actions meant that Zhao Ji wanted to restore power in Zhenjiang.

This caused great concern and worry among Zhao Huanjun and his ministers.

Many ministers of Zhao Huan's dynasty believed that Tong Guan and other treacherous ministers were continuing to deceive Zhao Ji, and they must be eliminated and Zhao Ji returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo, otherwise the Zhao and Song dynasties would be in danger of splitting.

Zhao Huan firmly believed in this statement.

Moreover, Zhao Huan, who grew up in the royal family, was not good at both internal and external affairs, but he was still very capable when it came to playing politics.

The key is that as he has been an emperor for a long time, Zhao Huan finally understands that the joy of being an emperor is unimaginable by others.

In other words, Zhao Huan is no longer the crown prince who cried and shouted that he did not want to ascend the throne, but the emperor who does not want anyone to snatch his throne or even restrain him.

Zhao Huan quickly decided to send Nie Shan, the governor of Kaifeng, to replace Song Huan as the transportation envoy for Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other roads. He ordered Nie Shan to go to Zhenjiang to watch Zhao Ji and the group of traitorous ministers around Zhao Ji. If there was a chance, , and captured Zhao Ji and the group of traitorous officials around Zhao Ji.

Nie Shan was very courageous. He asked Zhao Huan to issue him an edict to kill the traitorous ministers, and he hoped to bring dozens of envoys from Kaifeng Prefecture to accompany him.

This matter happened to be encountered by Wu Min.

Wu Min advised: "The sins of these people cannot be forgiven. However, during Nieshan's trip, I am afraid that the court will not handle it in this way. In the past, Suzong wanted to find Li Linfu's tomb. Li Mi admonished him: How can he be like the Ming emperor? Suzong hugged him Bi Jing cried and said, "I can't think of anything like this. If Shan Shan's plan comes true and the Tao Lord is alarmed, it's your Majesty's worry. If the plan fails, a few people will find it and take the Tao Lord to restore it in the southeast. What will your Majesty do?"

After hearing this, Zhao Huan suddenly woke up and asked hurriedly: "How should we deal with it?"

Wu Min replied: "The trip to the mountain clearly shows the blame for Tong Guan's family. Your Majesty sent an edict to Cai You, and ordered you to persuade Dao Lord to go and send a few people here to return to Luanyu early, so that the matter can be settled without any trouble."

Zhao Huan accepted Wu Min's suggestion and did not let Nie Shan go south. Instead, he sent people to instigate Cai You and asked Cai You to persuade Zhao Ji to return to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

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Zhao Ji already knew about Zhao Huanjun and his ministers' suspicions about him.

Zhao Ji felt aggrieved by this.

Zhao Ji felt that he had done a very thorough job in passing the throne to Zhao Huan, even without reservation.

As for the interception of money, food, troops and horses from the southeast, there was a reason for it.

Zhao Ji didn't want to cause Zhao Huan to misunderstand, so he specially wrote a memorial to Zhao Huan, explaining that he did this just because he didn't want to capitalize on the enemy, and wanted to leave a fighting force for the Zhao Song Dynasty and preserve the country and country of the Zhao Song Dynasty. .

Zhao Ji hoped that through his explanation, he could get Zhao Huan's understanding, and then the father and son would work together to preserve the country of the Zhao and Song dynasties, instead of still fighting among themselves when the Zhao and Song dynasties were already like this.

Moreover, Zhao Ji took the initiative to express his willingness to take all the royal family and clan members of the Zhao and Song Dynasties back to Bianliang City in Tokyo to avoid the split of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Of course, the reason why Zhao Ji made such a decision was that during the recent period, Fang La took advantage of the chaos within the Zhao and Song dynasties to organize a major counterattack and took back some of the prefectures and counties in Hangzhou.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji and the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties all realized that the southeast was not safe either.

Soon, Zhao Ji led many royal families and clan members of the Zhao and Song Dynasties on their way back to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

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Zhao Ji also knew that Zhao Huan was unkind and unrighteous by nature and was not close to his father.

Let's put it this way, if Zhao Ji hadn't been frightened by Jiang Hongfei's intention to go south to attack the Song Dynasty, and completely denied everything he had done before, he would not have hastily passed the throne to Zhao Huan.

Combined with Zhao Huan's performance after he ascended the throne, Zhao Ji regretted passing the throne to Zhao Huan more and more.

But now that the matter has come to this, Zhao Ji can only make mistakes, hoping that Zhao Huan can be like the subjects of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, an eternal sage like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who can help the building to collapse and turn the tide before it falls.

Whether as a father or as the original emperor of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji sincerely hoped that Zhao Huan could make up for the mistakes he had made and revive the Zhao Song Dynasty.

However, in the face of the goodwill released by Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan never responded positively.

This made Zhao Ji feel uncertain and even a little uneasy about whether Zhao Huan could understand what he had done before, whether he could put aside past grudges, and whether he could be a loving father and a filial son.

Therefore, on the way back to Beijing, Zhao Ji always stopped and stopped. When he reached Nanjing, he stopped completely.

Later, Zhao Ji wrote to Zhao Huan and asked Zhao Huan to send Wu Min to Nanjing.

Zhao Huanjun and his ministers didn’t understand what medicine Zhao Ji was selling in his gourd?

In the end, Wu Min guessed Zhao Ji's thoughts and wrote: "The Taoist Lord wants to teach me to go there, and he wants to know the affairs of the court. I am willing to go to welcome you, as if I have been given the right advice by the Taoist Lord, I will state your Majesty's thoughts in detail. To clear up the doubts between the two palaces, there is no need to worry about anything else.”

Zhao Huan is ready to play.

Wu Min traveled south to Nanjing to meet Zhao Ji.

After the meeting, Zhao Ji learned about the situation of the Zhao and Song Dynasties in detail from Wu Min, and explained to Wu Min the starting point of his actions in Zhenjiang.

Zhao Ji even tested Wu Min, asking him to stay in Nanjing and not return to Bianliang City in Tokyo, okay?

Wu Min urged Zhao Ji not to stay in Nanjing, saying that Zhao Huan missed Zhao Ji day and night and hoped that Zhao Ji would return to Luanyu soon to support him.

Wu Min also said that if Zhao Ji did not return to Bianliang City in Tokyo, the already extremely powerful Zhao and Song Dynasty would probably fall apart and perish.

In order to prevent the Zhao and Song dynasties from falling apart because of mutual suspicion between their father and son, Zhao Ji finally decided to return to Bianliang City in Tokyo to retire.

Zhao Ji told Wu Min to prepare for returning to the court, and he then took the royal family and clan members of the Zhao and Song Dynasties back.

Soon, Wu Min returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo and told Zhao Huanjunchen that Zhao Ji was willing to come back for retirement.

On that day, a group of prime ministers from the Zhao and Song dynasties met in Yanhe Hall to discuss the ceremony to welcome Zhao Ji.

A fierce quarrel broke out between Wu Min and Geng Nanzhong.

Geng Nanzhong suggested that all the internal servants on Zhao Ji's left and right should be removed from the palace gate, and those who dared to stay should be killed. At the same time, the advance team searched for Zhao Ji's carriage, and then sent a large army to escort the carriage to see Zhao Huan.

Obviously, Geng Nanzhong wanted to imprison Zhao Ji to prevent Zhao Ji from usurping Zhao Huan's power.

Wu Min objected. He believed that Zhao Huan should treat Zhao Ji with filial piety instead of showing suspicion like this. He also said that Geng Nanzhong should assist Zhao Huan in the way of Yao and Shun instead of using conspiracy to drive a wedge between Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan's father and son. Regarding the relationship between them, he even said rudely that Geng Nanzhong was dark and suspicious and should not be the prime minister.

Geng Nanzhong was furious and walked away.

A few days later, Zhao Ji and his party returned to Bianliang City as scheduled.

Zhao Huan personally led all the civil and military officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties out of the city to welcome Zhao Ji back to the court.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, Zhao Ji deliberately took off his dragon robe, put on a jade and peach crown, and a gold and red Taoist robe, showing to the world that he was no longer an emperor, but a Taoist monk, the leader of the Zhao and Song Dynasty. There is only one emperor, and that is Song Qinzong Zhao Huan.

And Zhao Huan treated Zhao Ji with utmost respect, like a filial son.

This scene of father's kindness and son's filial piety moved many people. Zhao Ji felt even more relaxed and no longer doubted Zhao Huan.

Accompanied by Zhao Huan, Zhao Ji returned to Longde Palace.

Next, under the orders of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, all the royal families and clans of the Zhao and Song Dynasties returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo one after another.

Longde Palace is the place where Zhao Ji grew up, and it is also the place where Zhao Ji prepared for himself to retire.

Zhao Jiman thought that after he retired, he could live happily in Longde Palace.

But what Zhao Ji never expected was that after the last royal family and clan members of the Zhao and Song dynasties returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo, Zhao Huan suddenly demoted all the servants around Zhao Ji, and even killed them, eradicating them without leaving any one behind.

At the same time, Zhao Huan sent his trusted eunuchs to take charge of Longde Palace.

Zhao Huan told outsiders that this was to take better care of Zhao Ji.

But everyone with a discerning eye could see that Zhao Huan was doing this to firmly control Zhao Ji.

Obviously, Zhao Huan finally adopted Geng Nanzhong's suggestion and prepared to keep Zhao Ji under house arrest until his death, just like Li Shimin kept Li Yuan under house arrest and Li Heng kept Li Longji under house arrest.

Zhao Ji was very sad about this and regretted passing the throne to Zhao Huan, his good son.

But Zhao Ji, who had already passed the throne to Zhao Huan and returned to the city of Tokyo Bianliang, what else could he do except accept his fate?

In order to make his life a little better and more dignified, Zhao Ji could only put down his airs and often rewarded the people who guarded him with some property.

After Zhao Huan learned about this, he ordered the confiscation of all Zhao Ji's property and severely punished all those who had received Zhao Ji's rewards.

It can be said that Zhao Ji was completely put under house arrest by the ruthless Zhao Huan, unable to escape, and even cut off from the outside world.

Zhao Ji also thought about saving himself. He heard that Jiang Hongfei had never accepted Zhao Huan's request for peace, so he sent someone to tell Zhao Huan that Jiang Hongfei would definitely go south to attack Song, and that Tokyo Bianliang City was not safe. He advised Zhao Huan to either move the capital to Jinling or Chang'an, or Zhao Huan would stay in Tokyo Bianliang City to govern the country, and he would go to Jinling or Chang'an to help Zhao Huan manage the army. The father and son worked together to save the country of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

But Zhao Huan had taken great pains to trick Zhao Ji back, so how could he let this confidant leave his sight again?

Not long after, Zhao Ji celebrated his 42nd birthday.

In order to show his filial piety to the world, Zhao Huan led all the civil and military officials to celebrate Zhao Ji's birthday.

Zhao Ji hoped to take this opportunity to resolve the suspicion between them and ease the cold relationship between them.

So, Zhao Ji asked someone to bring a pot of imperial wine, and poured out two cups of wine from a wine pot. He drank one cup first, and then picked up the other cup to toast Zhao Huan.

Seeing this, Geng Nanzhong immediately came to Zhao Huan and whispered in Zhao Huan's ear: "Be careful, the wine is poisonous."

Zhao Huan didn't even hesitate to put down the wine cup and left.

Seeing that Zhao Huan treated his biological father who abdicated the throne to him like this, Zhao Ji returned to Longde Palace crying.

Some people saw this scene and whispered that Zhao Huan was extremely unfilial.

After Zhao Huan heard such a rumor, he ordered a yellow list to be placed in front of Longde Palace, which said: "Catch those who dare to alienate the two palaces, reward three thousand spiritual money, and make a white body Chengxinlang."

Seeing that Zhao Huan was going to investigate the matter, no one dared to speak up for Zhao Ji anymore.

From then on, the relationship between Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan completely reached a freezing point, and they even seemed to have no contact with each other until death...

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