Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 51 Meeting Dad Late at Night
imprison?Zhao Yingluo smelled something bad about the coming storm.

"What is the charge?"

Li Gang told everything he had learned.

The edict was sent to Kaifeng half a month ago. It originally required the four of them to set off together, but in the end, Zhao Gou thought that no one in Kaifeng City was in charge of the overall situation, so he left Li Gang behind.

At that time, Zhao Yingluo was on her way to Pingyang Mansion, so she naturally did not receive the edict.

After Zong Ze and Lu Haowen arrived in Lin'an, they were soon stripped of all their positions and thrown into prison for interrogation by the Imperial City Division on charges of "travelling with foreign countries", "raising private soldiers" and "bewitching the emperor".

"Not only that, the officials have also ordered people to arrange for the Supreme Emperor to leave for Lin'an tomorrow, saying that he will take care of his old age. The Supreme Emperor has long had the intention of going south. Now that General Zong and Mr. Lu are in prison, no one in Kaifeng City can stop the Supreme Emperor from going south."

"When will we leave tomorrow?"

"It's time to set off! Go out from the south gate and go south along the official road."

"Okay, I already know about this. I will go to Lin'an with the Supreme Emperor tomorrow. I will leave Kaifeng City to Mr. Li for the time being."

Li Gang asked worriedly, "Now that the central government and the faction are in power, and even the highly prestigious Zong Lao General has been imprisoned, the princess's trip to Lin'an is like a moth flying into a flame! How could I give up all this money?" Take your goods and property to Hedong with your private soldiers. The Song Dynasty cannot exert influence there now. Although there are grass bandits and rebels mixed in, I believe that with the ability of the princess, she will be able to find a place."

Seeing that Li Gang was actually worried about her, Zhao Yingluo was inexplicably moved. She smiled lightly and said nonchalantly, "How can I live alone when my foster father and uncle are imprisoned? Mr. Li, don't worry. In my heart, when I go to Lin'an this time, even if I can't convince the officials to expel the Lord He faction from the court, I still have the ability to rescue my foster father and uncle."

Li Gang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I'm afraid the princess doesn't quite understand the character of the officials. Although the officials are afraid of the Jin people going south, they are even more afraid of the rebels in the Central Plains growing in strength and becoming a hidden danger to the court, so they try their best to suppress the warring faction..."

Zhao Yingluo nodded, "He is indeed such a person, otherwise he wouldn't have abandoned his hometown and gone to Jiangnan."

"So, the princess should listen to my advice, pack up your things early tomorrow morning, and go east across the river."

Zhao Yingluo smiled calmly, "I have my own countermeasures. You just need to keep an eye on Kaifeng and don't let the Jin people take advantage of it."

Li Gang was stunned for a moment and seemed to understand something, "Princess Princess, do you want to lead these tens of thousands of troops to the side of Qingjun?"

Li Gangke heard from many people that Princess Dongming had armed a 500-man firecrackers team for Yue Fei. The lethality of the firecrackers was extremely shocking. If she also had a large-scale firecrackers team, it would be unreasonable. It is really possible for Qing Jun to side with him, after all, this kind of combat power is extraordinary.

"I'm not interested in 'Qing Jun Side' or anything like that. I just want my adoptive father and uncle to return to Kaifeng to take charge of the overall situation. Sir, please go back to the house to hear the news. Within a month, I guarantee that I can bring back two people who are alive and well."

It's not that Zhao Yingluo doesn't want to "clear the emperor's side", it's just that it's still difficult to do so with her current strength. She doesn't want to have internal strife with her royal brother and let the Jin people pick up the slack.

When her strength truly reaches the point of crushing her, when that moment comes, what kind of Qingjun side will she be?That's Qingjun!
Li Gang saw that he was trying to persuade her, but she just couldn't get in, so he had to give up and left her mansion with uneasiness and fear.

【Hai Shi】

The Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, who had just finished his love affair with his concubine Jin Qiuyue, was about to go to bed when the escort came to report that someone asked to see him and brought an object.

It was a Tuanfeng hairpin inlaid with gold and jade.Huizong took it over with some doubts and looked at it under the dim oil lamp. His hands began to shake involuntarily. He rubbed his presbyopic eyes in disbelief and examined the hairpin carefully. When he saw When the word "yingluo" was engraved on the hairpin, I was even more sure that it was the one he personally ordered to be made for her on her 14th birthday.

Could it be that...this person knows the whereabouts of his daughter?

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji trembled in his heart, and while instructing the palace servants to dress him, he also ordered the guard to bring her to see him, "Quick! Send her to see her!"

【Funing Hall】

When Zhao Ji stumbled from the back room to the front hall, he saw Zhao Yingluo waiting.

What a familiar face, such a familiar smile, she, her beloved daughter, is now standing in front of her alive.

Zhao Ji rubbed his sore eyes and checked carefully before pulling Zhao Yingluo into his arms, "My son! You...you make daddy miss you so much."

His howl really startled the palace people. The son of the Supreme Emperor?Could it be that this extraordinary woman is actually a princess?

No wonder these palace people didn't recognize her, because when the Jin people released Zhao Ji to return to the south, they only released him and his concubines and princesses. As for those palace maids, all of them with good looks were given to the clan ministers as wives and concubines. , those with average looks were sent to the laundry to wait for odd jobs.

Zhao Yingluo felt a little ashamed. This cheap dad cared about her so much, but she never saw him. Isn't it a bit too much?
"Daddy is worried! I am not standing in front of daddy alive."

"Okay! Just stay alive, just stay alive! Daddy thought you had already encountered misfortune." Zhao Ji said with tears in his eyes.

After Zhao Yingluo finally comforted her father, she turned to the palace attendants and said, "Keep your mouths shut. If anyone spreads what happened tonight, the Nine Clan will be destroyed!"

The palace people broke out in cold sweat...

After all the palace officials left the hall, Zhao Yingluo told Zhao Ji everything about the Jingkang Incident. Of course, everything related to her rebirth was concealed.

Zhao Ji's mood was ups and downs as he listened to her narration. He never expected that the number one landowner in the Song Dynasty was actually his biological daughter.

"Dad, I came to see you tonight just for one thing. Zongze and Lu Haowen must be released to Kaifeng and their officials reinstated. If not, the Song Dynasty will lose a large area of ​​territory and even risk annihilation."

"Didn't the Jin people have a truce with me, the Song Dynasty?"

"The Art of War says, 'If you stop fighting and use force, the world will be safe, but if you forget to fight, you will be in danger.' What's more, the Song Dynasty is still under the threat of the Jin people. In addition, there is the traitor Liu Yu in the east who is eyeing him. The world is not settled yet and he will jail the ministers of the state. , is tantamount to breaking your humerus!"

Zhao Ji was a little helpless for a while. He had no great ambitions and loved calligraphy, painting and music. Only because his brother Zhezong Zhao Xu died young, he was forced to support the Queen Mother to the throne.

To other people, the throne was a piece of cake that couldn't be more fragrant, but to Zhao Ji, the throne was like a prison.

(End of this chapter)