On the day when Wu Da led his army into the capital of Wa State, Ping An Jing, a major event also happened on the Central Plains.
The eighth emperor of Song Huizong Zhao Ji... was assassinated!
The assassination of the emperor was definitely not a trivial matter. A single stone caused a thousand waves of waves. Da Song, the most powerful spy agency, the "Inspectorate," hidden in the dark, launched a secret investigation under the personal leadership of Yuan Zun Ding Mao.
The ins and outs of the matter were quickly revealed under the powerful operation of the Inspectorate, but this truth shocked the entire Song Dynasty and the whole country!
The culprit of the assassination of Song Huizong was actually the eldest son of Song Huizong, His Royal Highness, Kaifeng Mu, and Zhao Huan!
In history, Zhao Heng was the next ninth-five king of the Great Song Dynasty. In fact, according to historical records, Zhao Heng had already ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in 1125 AD, but unfortunately, with the advent of Wuhan University, the wheel of history It has long since changed, and Song Huizong does not have a Zen position, so Zhao Heng is still just the prince of Song Dynasty.
As the old saying goes, "If I don't die for a day, you can only be the prince!"
According to common sense, although Song Huizong did not have a Zen position for a long time, since Zhao Heng was the prince, he would sit on the dragon chair sooner or later, and there was no need to send someone to plot to assassinate Song Huizong.
However, as the so-called world is impermanent, Zhao Heng... can't wait!
Although Zhao Heng is a prince, his position as a prince has always been precarious, especially the strong rise of the three princes, Zhao Kai, has seriously threatened Zhao Heng's position as a prince.
The history books describe Zhao Kai like this:
"Extremely addicted to painting, a lot of accumulation. Good at painting flowers and birds, extremely delicate. Also good at ink and flowers, but the use of ink is not vivid."
Zhao Kai is the highest standing scholar in history!
He once secretly participated in the imperial examination in the first year of Chonghe. Because of his extraordinary literary talent, he was invincible all the way and entered the palace examination. He played even better in the palace exam and won the first prize. After posting the list, Zhao Kai told Huizong the truth. When Huizong was happy, afraid of gossiping among scholars, he ranked Wang Ang, the second place (second place) of the year, as the champion.
In addition to Zhao Kai, only Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty also secretly participated in the imperial examination and won the third place (Thanhua), but he was not the champion after all, so Zhao Kai became the highest-ranking champion in Chinese history.
In the past, Zhao Kai, like Song Huizong, had accomplished a lot in piano, chess, calligraphy and calligraphy, and was fascinated by mountain ink painting. Did not care about Zhao Kai.
However, as Zhao Kai went to Yanyun on behalf of Song Dynasty, he personally went to congratulate the king of North Yan Wuzhi on the day when Wuzhi became king, and afterwards facilitated a series of trade agreements between Song Dynasty and Yanyun, Zhao Kai gradually became The sharpness is exposed.
He, who had been favored by Song Huizong, gradually emerged in the court.
The most feared Prince Zhao Heng was Dongguo Taixun, the commander of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army who had once been envoy to Yanyun with Zhao Kai, and the forces of Qin Hui gradually moved closer to Zhao Kai.
If it was just these, perhaps Zhao Heng could continue to wait, but the development of things far exceeded his imagination.
Zhao Heng suddenly "ascertained" that Zhou Dong and the forces of Ding Mao, the Inspectorate hiding in the dark, had also secretly taken refuge in Zhao Kai's command!
Zhou Tong's appeal in the Great Song Dynasty is too strong. These lords of the imperial court and the Forbidden Army together are enough to control the court. As long as they truly support Zhao Kai, then Zhao Heng's crown prince will change hands at any time.
Of course, Zhao Heng didn't know. All these were just Zhou Dong's cautiousness, a little bit, deliberately showing his feet, the purpose was to persecute Zhao Heng and make Zhao Heng, the Prince of Song, jump the wall in a hurry!
In addition, Song Huizong has indeed been protecting and reusing the three prince Zhao Kaiduo recently. Instead, he severely reprimanded the prince Zhao Heng several times, and Zhao Heng went completely into madness.
As the saying goes, evil tends to grow out of the guts, so Zhao Heng made a dangerous move today and sent people to assassinate Song Huizong while Song Huizong was out hunting!
Unfortunately, he failed after all.
The reason is simple. It was Zhou Dong who pushed him to this point step by step. It was also Zhou Dong and Ding Mao's joint arrangement that gave Zhao Heng the opportunity to assassinate Song Huizong. However, Zhou Dong absolutely did not allow Zhao Heng to really kill Song Huizong!
Because Zhou Tong's purpose is very simple, he just wants to abolish Zhao Heng's crown prince!
Zhou Tong, an old fox, has a very careful layout. He has been very close to the three princes Zhao Kai recently. Anyone who is interested may think that Zhou Tong has already taken refuge in the three princes Zhao Kai, and it is precisely for Zhao Kai to ascend the crown prince. Dong will arrange today's killing game to abolish the current prince Zhao Heng.
No one knew that all of this was just a smoke bomb released by Zhou Tong.
To abolish the prince Zhao Heng, this is indeed what Zhou Tong wants to achieve, but he definitely does not want to support Zhao Kai as a prince. He just wants to vacate the seat of the prince of Song Dynasty so that all the princes will be vacant. In order to fight for this position and fight and fight.
Only in this way, one day, Zhou Tong will be able to fish in troubled waters, win the chaos, and support the children of Wu University and Li Shishi... to be crowned prince!
Even, directly board the dragon chair of the Nine-Five Lord!
This was originally the fundamental reason why Zhou Tong ordered Li Shishi to enter the palace.
It's just that Zhou Tong has been ignoring this magnificent plan, and has tolerated it until now, before finally revealing its grandeur!
Song Huizong was assassinated and was rescued by the Inspectorate. Although he was not dead, he was also frightened, especially after learning that the mastermind was his eldest son, Prince Zhao Heng, he was furious and furious.
Although everything has not settled, Zhao Heng has not been executed yet, but in any case, Zhao Heng, a beast who kills the king and kills his father, is bound to be unable to inherit the grand prince and is bound to be taken as the prince.
The three princes, Zhao Kai, was extremely happy in his heart, but on the surface, he was still very heavy. While comforting his father, Song Huizong, he had to carefully intercede for his elder brother Zhao Heng, showing that he respected his father. The emperor, but also emphasized the feelings of brotherhood, for a while, the praises of Zhao Kai from the court were endless.
Song Huizong also expressed his gratitude, sighing and saying: "Let's give birth to a child like this!"
However, even so, Song Huizong still did not immediately deal with the prince Zhao Heng, and did not directly designate Zhao Kai as the new prince.
After all, Zhao Heng is his eldest son. Although he is ruthless in the heavenly family, he does not mean that he can kill his dear relatives. Moreover, Song Huizong is not a fool. He always feels that this matter is a little weird.
Therefore, after many ministers who came after hearing the news retired, Song Huizong directly ordered his most trusted eunuch Li Yan:
"Proclaim the decree, order Sagong Shangfeng to rush back to the capital in secret to investigate this matter carefully! I... need the truth!"
"The slave obeys the order!"