reborn on the happy hall

Chapter 113

The crisis in the capital was resolved, and the invading [-] Hu tribe was almost wiped out, so the pressure from the garrison in the capital to the remnant soldiers in northern Xinjiang dropped sharply.The imperial court began to arrange the dispatch of troops to recover the lost land in an orderly manner, and the situation in Beijing was also changing subtly.

Of course, these have little to do with Lin Yun and Xia Han, since the two of them returned to Xia's house, their days have become peaceful.Even though the outside world is still turbulent, but without the threat of Hu Bing outside the city, the Xiaoqi Battalion guarding the capital has pulled out its hands and feet to patrol and control, and those assassins who were so arrogant that they were full of people have disappeared. It was enough to keep it out of the house.

All in all, the two of them lived a peaceful life for half a month, reading books, practicing martial arts, admiring flowers and fish every day, and their lives were so chic.After half a month passed by like this, Lin Xiao, who also disappeared for half a month after entering the city, finally reappeared in front of the two of them.

The Major General's face was exhausted, his eyes were still black and blue, and he seemed to have lost a lot of weight.Only one pair of eyes is still shining brightly, and compared to when he first entered the city, he looks a lot more relaxed. It must be that the busyness of these days has finally paid off.

After returning to the Xia Mansion, he called his family over, and the four of them gathered together. Only then did Lin Xiao talk about what happened in the past half month——

Half a month ago, the Hu people were defeated, and the closed gates of the capital were finally opened.Only the Hu people were defeated by the Qiang people, and the garrison in the capital did not participate at all, so the news in Beijing is not very well-informed.They still didn't know that the third prince led by the Hu clan was captured alive by Lin Yun, and now he was in Lin Xiao's hands. This was Lin Xiao's biggest bargaining chip in entering Beijing this time.

At that time, the black hands in Beijing who planned everything behind the scenes had not yet surfaced.

Because Xia Shilang is Xia Han's father, and because he has a good reputation as an official, Lin Xiao chose him to cooperate and confessed the matter of the third prince to him.The two of them spent most of the half month running around, secretly colluding with many ministers in the court, especially the poor guard who was slaughtered, and finally everyone learned the identity of the traitor from the mouth of the third prince .

Coupled with the incriminating evidence obtained from the third prince, the ministers finally launched an attack in the past two days and dragged him out!

Unexpectedly and seemingly reasonable, it is not a few princes vying for the throne, nor an ambitious clan, who hooked up the barbarians, but Zhao Taishi, who is usually quiet in the court!It's not that Grand Master Zhao is not very powerful. In fact, one of the three grand masters is definitely a high-ranking Grand Master. It's just that he is too low-key on weekdays, which makes it difficult for people to notice him.

Of course, there is another reason why Taishi Zhao has never been suspected.That is, in this turmoil, the only prince Jin Wang who was wiped out all over his family married his daughter.

Who would have imagined that Taishi Zhao, who lost his beloved daughter and was so sad that he almost turned his head overnight, was the one who planned all this with his own hands?

Lin Yun and Xia Han both felt sorry when they heard this. They were both lucky. They met parents who doted on them and an elder brother who protected them. How could they know that there are such cruel and resolute people in this world? Father?

It's just that the two still didn't understand, so they asked Lin Xiao, "Why does Grand Master Zhao want to communicate with foreign countries? Even if he married his daughter to King Jin, bet on him, and stood in line, there is no need to do this." So-so, right? He was already a high-ranking official, not to mention that King Jin died under the massacre of his slain soldiers, not even bringing his daughter and grandson behind."

Speaking of this, the expression on Lin Xiao's face became a bit cloudy, and he sighed after a long while: "Master Zhao is originally from the Hu family."

Then there is another story of the past——

It turned out that Taishi Zhao was originally from the royal family of the Hu people, and he was originally a nobleman, but unfortunately his mother was a Han female slave captured from the border. In addition, he was born more like a Han, so it was very difficult to live in the royal court when he was young. .Later, when he was a little older, his father listened to the advice of the counselor and sent him to the Central Plains, originally as an internal spy.

After more than [-] years, with the intentional or unintentional support of the Hu clan forces, Grand Master Zhao finally became an extremely human minister.

It's not that he is obsessed with his blood of the barbarians, let alone that he still cares about the so-called father's affirmation at this age.It's just that if a person stands tall, his ambition and desire will grow wildly in his heart, not to mention that he is born as a member of the royal family and feels that he is superior to others.

The chaos this time was almost entirely caused by Taishi Zhao. Although he married his daughter to King Jin, he was not willing to just support this person to ascend the throne.So even if everything goes well, one day his grandson will ascend the throne smoothly, but what does that have to do with him?What he wanted was to ascend to that position by himself, so he did not hesitate to sacrifice the soldiers in northern Xinjiang, the people along the way, and also his daughter and grandson!

The Hu family is just a knife in his hand, he wants to use it to attack the capital to get rid of the current royal family and those forces that refuse to attach to him.Afterwards, he didn't intend to let those Hu people go, as long as the other party relaxed their vigilance, he had a hundred ways to keep them forever.And then push a dead prince to take the blame, no matter the king of Qin or the king of Han, if you help him bear this infamy, he can be the one who turned the tide for nothing.

The throne of power and power is at your fingertips, and the hearts of the people are not lacking. What is it to sacrifice a daughter and a few grandchildren?

Taishi Zhao has planned too much, even the Hu family behind him has also been calculated into it, which became a boost for him to ascend to the throne.But he didn't expect that despite his efforts to hold back the defenders, the barbarian army was still defeated, and even the only third prince who knew his identity was captured alive!

Time is fate, Taishi Zhao fell by accident like this - in the end, it was only because he captured Lin Xiao and Di Xuan under Xinzhou's men, but locked them together.Otherwise, the Xinzhou Rebellion would not be calmed down so easily, the General's Mansion would not marry the Qiang people, and the Hu people's army approaching the city would not be blocked by the Qiang people, and finally failed under Di Xuan's medicine.

Up to now, Taishi Zhao's conspiracy has been exposed, and the resistance has been fruitless, and he has been captured and thrown into the prison.In order to check the power of his party members, there will still be chaos in the court for a while, coupled with the removal of external worries, the old emperor is still seriously ill, and the remaining kings of Qin and Han will probably have to fight.

All in all, the chaotic court could not calm down for a short time, but the chaos had nothing to do with them.

Lin Yun and Xia Han sighed again. They had discussed before that they would not stay in the capital for a long time and would return to Xinzhou to hold the wedding again.But now that he knew who was behind the scenes, and remembering the past revenge, Lin Yun decided to wait for Grand Master Zhao to be executed before leaving in the capital.

Of course, Xia Han had no objection. In fact, she hated Zhao Taishi no less than Lin Yun, and the two happily decided to wait for the revenge of the big hatred before starting a new life-in fact, Lin Yun made a mistake. Capturing the key third prince alive with her own hands, in exchange for Grand Master Zhao's current fate, it can be regarded as her own revenge for herself who was once plotted to fall to death.

Leaving aside these new and old enmities for now, Xia Han and Lin Yun also asked with concern: "Before the capital did not open the city gates in the face of reinforcements, it must have been the work of Grand Master Zhao. Now he has been imprisoned. What does the court say about the credit for this?"

As a Qiang person, Di Xuan obviously cared about this too, hearing this, she also cast her eyes on Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao smiled, with a relaxed look in his eyes: "The Qiang people are so brave and good at fighting, and the imperial court actually didn't want to provoke them. It was indeed the influence of Grand Master Zhao before that the imperial court's attitude was so bad. When we returned to Xinzhou, Axuan can help explain a thing or two in front of her father-in-law and brother-in-law." After speaking, she continued: "Now the King of Qin and the King of Han have promised that they will reward the Qiang people of King Qin for their merits."

King Jin is dead, and now only the second king remains in the original three kings' struggle for the throne, and these two princes have pledged again, so Lin Xiao is of course relieved.It's just that this verbal promise will probably not be realized until the old emperor dies, or the situation between the court and China is completely stabilized.

For now, everything is fine, at least it is developing in a good direction...

After another half a month, the situation in central Beijing gradually became clearer, and it was not convenient for Lin Xiao and Di Xuan to stay in central Beijing for a long time. After confirming the imperial court's rewards for the General's Mansion and the Qiang people, they bid farewell to Lin Yun and left Beijing first. Shinshu.

In another month, the situation between North Korea and China was stable.The king of Qin, who was born in the first line, was supported by all his ministers. When the old emperor was seriously ill and comatose for a long time, he finally obtained the power of supervising the country and became a real and unknown prince.The power of King Qin's family increased greatly, including all the officials who were vaguely inclined to King Qin, and they all benefited more or less.

Later, regarding the case of Taishi Zhao's treason, it was finally brought to the court to discuss and make a decision-it was also because the emperor was not there, and the king of Qin had something wrong with his reputation, otherwise the case would have been settled long ago.

In the end, the three divisions interrogated, Zhao Taishi was convicted of treason, and he was sentenced to Ling Chi himself.

When the truth came to light, this man was resented by the common people, especially those who had relatives serving in the army in northern Xinjiang, and they wanted to eat his flesh raw.On the day of the execution, Lin Yun and Xia Han also went to the execution ground, but they only took a look at it from a distance before leaving. However, the people around the execution ground really hated it so much that they bought Zhao Taishi Ling Chihe from the executioner. The flesh and blood of the undergrowth was swallowed!

That scene was so bloody that it would be a nightmare just to look at it.So Lin Yun and Xia Han not only didn't stay longer in the execution ground, Lin Yun even covered Xia Han's eyes and left, and felt the smell of blood still lingering in his nose after walking a long distance.

Three days later, the news of Taishi Zhao's execution was sent back to Xia Mansion, and he died after suffering [-] knives.During the period, some of the dead warriors he raised came to rob the execution ground, but of course they were all killed by the well-prepared Xiaoqi Battalion.As for his whole family, they were all beheaded one step earlier than him. I don't know if he looked at the heads of his children and grandchildren on the ground, did he regret it?

For Zhao Taishi's death, all the officials and common people in Beijing applauded.Afterwards, a large number of officials who were involved with Grand Master Zhao were put to death, causing blood to flow in the western court for a month.

But these have nothing to do with Lin Yun and Xia Han, they bid farewell to everyone in the Xia family, and set foot on the road to leave Beijing again at the end of summer when the heat was still hot.

Everyone in the Xia family failed to persuade them to stay, because the young couple was in a hurry to return to Xinzhou and hold another wedding!