Chapter 1: Founding Emperor【07】

Chapter 1: Founding Emperor【07】

King Cheng felt that he could save ten years of life by talking to this kid Song Zhiyuan for a while. He had never seen such an unreasonable person!

However, he asked others, so he could only listen to Song Zhiyuan changing the subject with an awkward smile and delaying the alliance.

Until Song Zhiyuan left Cheng Wangfu, the alliance had not been discussed yet.

King Cheng summoned his aides to discuss the matter. The aides analyzed it. They all felt that the Song family did not want to form an alliance. If they did not plan to form an alliance, Song Zhiyuan would not come to Anping Mansion. It was just that the Song family wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, so Song Zhiyuan deliberately dragged it. .

At the end of the discussion, there was no result. When King Cheng went to bed with the princess in the main courtyard at night, he still fell into deep thought from time to time.

Seeing that Prince Cheng's expression was sometimes dignified and sometimes distressed, Princess Cheng asked thoughtfully, "Is there something to worry about, my lord? Why don't I say it and let my concubine share the worries as a lord!"

King Cheng still has no taboo on his women's political affairs, otherwise he would not have taken Yan Siqiu by his side as his staff before.

He said what happened today that Song Zhiyuan deliberately changed the subject to embarrass him: "...It's just hateful that this king is now being bullied by dogs. If it weren't for the threat of King An, why would this king have formed an alliance with a merchant!"

When Princess Cheng heard this, a thoughtful expression appeared on her beautiful face, and she said: "My lord, perhaps Concubine Yan Fang can help you! You probably don't know, Concubine Yan is from Shunyi Prefecture, and she is still Song Dynasty. The cousins ​​of the two brothers, it is said that Concubine Yan and her cousin are childhood sweethearts. They have no doubts about their relationship, and they almost got married. If you let Concubine Yan go out, you will be able to convince Song Zhiyuan. It's not too late to be punished."

The meaning of Princess Cheng's words is definitely not to help Yan Siqiu who has been banned from the foot, but to completely put Yan Siqiu into the cold palace.

She sent someone to Shunyi House to find out that the relationship between the Yan family and the Song family was not very good. It is said that Yan Siqiu's father could not even enter the gate of the Song family. Therefore, Yan Siqiu wanted to persuade Song Zhiyuan, but the possibility was extremely low.

Even if Yan Siqiu succeeds, it can only show that she really has a strong relationship with her cousin Song Zhiyuan, and she will only leave a knot in King Cheng's heart.

No man can endure that his woman has a strong relationship with cousin Zhuma.

The wickedness of Princess Cheng's remarks is evident.

But King Cheng didn't think at all that he thought that his princess was thinking for himself and would not affect his major affairs because of her private grievances with Yan Siqiu. She deserved to be his virtuous princess!

Although Princess Cheng said that Yan Siqiu and the Song brothers had a good relationship between cousins ​​and sisters, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but this little thing was not as important as his great cause, if a woman could exchange the full strength of Riyuelou behind the Song family Support, why not give Yan Siqiu to Song Zhiyuan!

The next day, King Cheng went to find Yan Siqiu.

Since the ban came, the people who set foot in her yard every day were other women who came to ridicule her. It was the first time that King Cheng set foot in her yard.

Yan Siqiu greeted her with great surprise: "My lord! The lord can come to see the concubine, the concubine is really..."

King Cheng interrupted Yan Siqiu's lyricism, "Sister Yan, this king heard that your hometown is from Shunyi Prefecture?"

Yan Siqiu's heart tightened, but he still didn't dare to hide: "Yes, my concubine's hometown is indeed Shunyi Prefecture, but it was unexpected that I couldn't stay in Shunyi Prefecture, so my family went to Jeju Prefecture..."

King Cheng was not interested in hearing about her cause and effect, and asked again, "Are you and the two brothers Song Yuanjia and Song Zhiyuan from the Song family in Shunyi Prefecture, cousins?"

Yan Siqiu's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Song family rejected the prince's solicitation, but now that the prince knew of her relationship with the Song family, he turned his anger on her?

She quickly put aside her relationship with the Song family: "The concubine's aunt is indeed the mother of Song Yuanjia and Song Zhiyuan, but her aunt has been dead for many years, and the concubine's father is also related to the Song family..."

"Since it is!" King Cheng interrupted her again, "The king will entertain Song Zhiyuan in a few days, and you will also attend with this king, but you have to persuade Song Zhiyuan to agree to form an alliance with this king to fight against the king! If you If you do your job well, this king will relieve you of your ban, and you will be rewarded a lot!"

Yan Siqiu, who originally wanted to say that he had a bad relationship with the Song family, immediately changed his words: "Don't worry, my lord, my father is Song Zhiyuan's uncle, and the concubine should be the prince to persuade the cousin of the Song family!"

After she boasted about Haikou, she realized with hindsight that Wang Ye had just asked her to persuade Song Zhiyuan to agree to form an alliance with him? Instead of persuading Song Zhiyuan to join King Cheng?

Forming an alliance and joining forces are two different things. The former means that the Song family has the right to be on an equal footing with the prince, while the latter is a superior-subordinate relationship!

After King Cheng explained Yan Siqiu, he left without staying any longer.

Yan Siqiu didn't have the opportunity to ask about the situation of the Song family, King Cheng, and could only speculate about the current situation of the Song family in his heart.

Judging from the cautious attitude of King Cheng, the Song family must be well developed now. Yan Siqiu felt that it was a little incredible. The Song family was a businessman and was qualified to form an alliance with King Cheng? !

Yan Siqiu's highest estimate for the Song family is that Song Zhiyuan will join King Cheng's command and become a prince in the future. She had already thought about it. When she became queen, she would let the Song family's title go to waste in order to vent her hatred.

As a result, the left and right did not wait for the Song family to join in, so Yan Siqiu took the initiative to recommend the Song family when King Cheng was worried that the logistics could not keep up with the consumption.

But now I didn't expect that the Song family was not under the command of King Cheng. It seemed that they had gotten along better than in the previous life, but King Cheng was much worse than the previous life. Could the change in it be caused by her rebirth?

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After Song Zhiyuan had been eating and drinking in Anping Mansion for half a month, he was willing to discuss with King Cheng about how to form an alliance.

King Cheng summoned his staff to discuss with Song Zhiyuan, and he would be a mascot by himself. Anyway, he didn't want to be angry with Song Zhiyuan anymore, he was afraid of short-lived.

Song Zhiyuan came to Prince Cheng's Mansion again. Today's Prince Cheng Mansion looks much more luxurious after being renovated and expanded than when he came last time.

King Cheng personally led someone to stand up to greet him, giving Song Zhiyuan enough face: "Master Song!"

Song Zhiyuan bowed back and said, "I have seen the prince!"

Prince Cheng stretched out his hand to quote: "Master Song, please! This king is hosting a banquet in the waterside pavilion, and I'm waiting for Master Song to come!"

Song Zhiyuan smiled slightly: "Thank you, my lord!"

A group of people walked towards the water pavilion. Song Zhi saw someone in the water pavilion from a distance. He thought it was the servant who was serving. After getting closer, he saw that there was an acquaintance in the water pavilion. The traced cousin Yan Siqiu.

Song Zhiyuan stopped, and King Cheng couldn't help but wonder, "Master Song, why are you not moving forward?"

After cultivating, Song Zhiyuan was no longer a **** who was powerless, and his eyesight surpassed that of ordinary people. Therefore, King Cheng and others never thought that Song Zhiyuan would see Yan Siqiu's face in the waterside pavilion from such a long distance.

Song Zhiyuan wanted to change the place, but he thought that Yan Siqiu had actually appeared in the Prince Cheng's mansion, which must have been found by the Prince of Cheng.

The rectangular waterside pavilion is not large, so apart from Song Zhiyuan and King Cheng who attended the banquet, as well as the three aides of King Cheng, there were not many servants to serve.

With the cool breeze, Song Zhiyuan walked into the waterside pavilion, his eyes swept across Yan Siqiu's body, but he ignored it directly.

Yan Siqiu took the initiative to step forward to Yingying and bowed: "Cousin has seen cousin! I haven't seen him for a few years, second cousin stay safe!"

Song Zhiyuan said in a low voice, "I can't be a cousin like Miss Yan!"

King Cheng originally thought that Yan Siqiu and Song Zhiyuan's cousins ​​should have a good relationship, but now it seems that the two are not just in love. Song Zhiyuan's attitude towards Yan Siqiu is not like his cousin's attitude towards his cousin.

Yan Siqiu saw King Cheng's face sank slightly, and quickly said to Song Zhiyuan: "Second cousin, everything in the past was delusional for my father, please don't worry about it! At today's banquet, my cousin will honor my cousin a few cups and make amends on behalf of my father!"

Yan Siqiu didn't hesitate to put everything on her father. Even if Song Zhiyuan didn't believe her words, she could convince King Cheng after the incident, so she took herself out first.

Under the influence of Yuan Jia, Song Zhiyuan had a deep prejudice against the Yan family, and Yan Siqiu could not wash it off with just a few words. In his opinion, Uncle Yan and Yan Siqiu's father and daughter were the same raccoon dog.

Just considering Yan Siqiu's unusual status in King Cheng's place, Song Zhiyuan didn't say much, just ignored it.

After Prince Cheng was seated, he let Yan Siqiu sit beside him, and introduced to Song Zhiyuan: "Yan is the concubine of this king, but I only knew that Yan was related to Song Gongzi, so I asked Yan to come to the table. Song Gongzi has an old grudge with Yan's father, so let Yan's toast Song Gongzi three glasses of apology!"

Yan Siqiu Su held a wine jug in her hand, filled up the wine glasses for King Cheng and others, and then poured herself a glass of wine, she raised the wine glass to Song Zhiyuan and said: "Second cousin, I toast you this glass of wine, and give it to you on behalf of my father. Apologize."

After she finished speaking, she drank it.

Then she poured another glass of wine: "This second cup, I respect the eldest cousin, my father's rumors brought trouble to the eldest cousin, but now my cousin I have married the prince, and my father has left Shunyi House. , I won't bring trouble to my cousin anymore."

After Wang Cheng waited for Yan Siqiu to finish the second glass of wine, he couldn't help but ask, "Sister Yan, what are you talking about?"

Yan Siqiu smiled reluctantly: "After my uncle and aunt died from the robbers, my father once wanted to help the two cousins ​​manage the Song family business..."

Her cheeks flushed ashamed and she lowered her head, unable to speak.

King Cheng and the three aides understood in seconds, this was seeing that his nephew lost his parents and wanted to take the opportunity to invade his nephew's property! No wonder Song Zhiyuan's attitude towards Yan Siqiu was not very good.

King Cheng immediately regretted bringing Yan Siqiu. This was not for Yan Siqiu to help bring the relationship closer, but because of one Yan Siqiu, Song Zhiyuan might be dissatisfied with him.

However, looking at Yan Siqiu's ashamed appearance, King Cheng thought about it, taking this opportunity to resolve the grievances between the two sides, so as not to let the two brothers of the Song family know that Yan Siqiu is his concubine in the future, and misunderstand that what the Yan family does is he is behind the scenes Instructing, isn't it wrong for him who doesn't know anything?

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After Yan Siqiu toasted three glasses of wine, Song Zhiyuan ignored her all the way through, making Yan Siqiu stiff and unable to come off the stage.

There was also hidden anger in King Cheng's heart, some against Yan Siqiu, and some against Song Zhiyuan for not giving him face.

But thinking of his own situation, King Cheng waved to Yan Siqiu: "You step back first!" Anyway, he didn't expect Yan Siqiu to help, it would be good if he didn't help.

Yan Siqiu saluted anxiously and withdrew.

As soon as Yan Siqiu left, a smile appeared on Song Zhiyuan's expressionless face: "My lord, I won't talk about anything else today, just talk about business!"

Then the two sides negotiated about the alliance, in which the distribution of interests is the top priority.

King Cheng looked down on the Song family of merchants, but he was afraid of the Riyuelou behind the Song family, and wanted to use strength to deal with King An and other coveted people.

Now that the Song family has the active advantage, they naturally have to take a bite from King Cheng to make up for their shortcomings.

Song Zhiyuan was resolutely unwilling to give in, and King Cheng was arrogant and unwilling to give in, so the two sides broke down this time.

Song Zhiyuan wasn't angry either, he just smiled and said to the gloomy King Cheng, "Then the lord will think about it carefully, and come back another day!"

Then on another day, the first wait was nearly a month. Song Zhiyuan was enjoying himself every day in Anping Mansion. Anyway, he couldn't see the urgency to form an alliance at all.

On the other hand, Prince Cheng was impatient. The spies he sent out to find out that Prince An had established himself in Jeju, and was currently reorganizing his army, and he was suspected of continuing to fight.

Although King An's army is likely to be ready to attack the capital or Yongzhou Prefecture, it is also possible that he wants to attack Anping Prefecture. Prince Cheng did not dare to take this risk, so he had to hurry up and reach a consensus with the Song family before Prince An started. .

In the end, King Cheng, who still wanted others, let go, gave up most of his interests, and agreed to a harsh alliance.

After Song Zhiyuan completed the task, he set off back to Yongzhou Mansion.

As soon as Song Zhiyuan left, King Cheng couldn't help but take Yan Siqiu's side concubine position.

Now Yan Siqiu is still under foot restraint, but in the past, she still had the position of concubine. on the head.

However, this is the result of her own hard planning...

No matter what punishment Yan Siqiu received from King Cheng, Song Zhiyuan was not very happy after meeting Yan Siqiu.

What a smart person he is, after seeing Yan Siqiu next to King Cheng, he naturally thinks of the matter that King Cheng sent someone to recruit the Song family, and he must have something to do with Yan Siqiu.

After Song Zhiyuan returned to Yongzhou Mansion, he told Yuan Jia that Yan Siqiu was the concubine of King Cheng: "Brother, Yan Siqiu does not know how to become the concubine of King Cheng. We have formed an alliance with King Cheng, will she provoke it? Separation?"

After listening to Song Zhiyuan talking about the detailed process of forming an alliance with King Cheng in Anping Mansion, Yuan Jia said indifferently: "It's okay, this alliance was originally fighting on its own and took the initiative to fall apart. Moreover, the first unlucky person might be Yan Siqiu! "

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For the next year, I fell into the calm before the storm, with undercurrents surging.

After King An took Jeju Mansion into his hands, he did not intend to take back Yongzhou Mansion. He should have thought that the man behind Yongzhou Mansion was King Cheng, so it would be worthwhile to exchange Jeju Mansion for Yongzhou Mansion.

The geographical location of Jeju Prefecture is much better than that of Yongju Prefecture, and it is also much more prosperous.

After assembling his army in Jeju Prefecture, King An prepared enough food and grass, and then attacked the capital again.

Long before this, the Empress Dowager Zhang had sent someone to order other vassal kings to deal with the rebellious King An, but unfortunately, each vassal king had his own little abacus, waiting for King An to capture the capital, and his oriole was behind! How could it be possible that when King An stayed in Jeju, he sent troops to fight with King An for the sake of the little emperor and the Queen Mother!

It is true that there are no vassal kings who are loyal to the little emperor, but loyal vassal kings do not dare to keep private armies in private, so what is the use of a thousand guards? The vassal kings who kept private armies were naturally ambitious.

This time, King An successfully captured the capital while the vassal kings were on the sidelines.

When the capital was breached, the wind was surging, and the forces of the major vassal kings entered the capital one after another, "King Qin escorts"!

Song Zhiyuan saw that other vassal kings were moving by the wind, so he came to Yuan Jia: "Brother, do we want to fish in troubled waters?"

Yuan Jia said, "Go ahead and prepare to send troops to Qizhou Prefecture!"

Qizhou Mansion is a large city close to Yongzhou Mansion. Qizhou Mansion is the territory of King Jin, but King Jin brought the main force of his subordinates to the capital to 'Guard King Qin'. good time.

Song Zhiyuan asked, "Brother, are we attacking Qizhou now? Why don't we go to the capital?"

The other vassal kings have all gone to the capital to gain benefits. If they don't go, will they fall behind?

Yuan Jia said with a smile: "The vassal king went to the capital because he wanted to occupy the capital and then rely on the emperor to make the princes and hold the righteousness. We are not the blood of the royal family, what are we going to do?"

The rebellion of the vassal king, in the final analysis, is the internal strife of the royal family. As long as they occupy the righteousness, it is easy to replace the blood of the current emperor.

And their Song family rebellion is the real overthrow of the dynasty and the change of the dynasty.

Therefore, Yuan Jia must play steadily, expand his territory step by step, and conquer the whole world.

Song Zhiyuan nodded thoughtfully, and immediately followed Yuan Jia's instructions to prepare the army's logistics.

After the Song family army dispatched troops, it would completely shock the world.

After the expansion, the 100,000 Song family army was like a torrent of black armor, and wherever they passed, they surrendered.

Qizhou Mansion, which had no resistance from the main army of King Jin, was easily captured by the Song army.

Afterwards, Yuan Jia swept through several smaller prefectures and counties near Yongzhou Prefecture, established a complete defensive circle, and then began a vigorous conscription within his sphere of influence.

Yuanjia's high treatment and high security for his officers and soldiers made many young soldiers actively participate in the conscription, take the initiative to join the army, and even take pride in it.

At this time, other forces also reacted with hindsight, what is the Song family is the chess piece pushed by Riyuelou and King Cheng on the bright side, the Song family is clearly the real behind-the-scenes messenger!

It's just that they all ignored the Song family and underestimated the Song family, thinking that the Song family was just a businessman and must be the money bag and chess piece of the behind-the-scenes power Riyuelou.

Never thought that the Song family had the ambition to compete in the world!

By the time they discovered this, the foundation of the Song family had already been established, and they could confront the vassal kings without any hesitation.

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"Damn it! Damn Song Yuanjia!" King Cheng smashed his study room angrily.

After King An captured the capital, he attracted the joint attack of the vassal kings, and he soon became cannon fodder for the king's precursor, and died in the chaos of the army.

King Cheng took the opportunity to retake Jeju Prefecture, and after regaining Jeju Prefecture, he was greedy and wanted to go to the capital to get a piece of the pie.

So King Cheng contacted the Song family, hoping that Riyuelou behind the Song family could send troops to help him, for which he paid a huge employment fee.

In the end, he did not expect that the Song family received the money, and turned around to attack Qizhou Prefecture, without sending a single soldier or **** to support him.

King Cheng lost money and lost his troops, so he led his army to retreat to Jeju Prefecture.

Before he could send a letter to question this unbelievable ally of the Song family, he learned that the Song family had been conscripting troops for the Song family within their sphere of influence.

Listen, Song Jiajun!

Those black-armored cavalry they thought were the Sun Moon Building forces were actually all Song family troops!

What Riyuelou is the mysterious force behind the Song family, what is the Song family spending money to hold on to Riyuelou's thigh, what is the Song family a chess piece that Riyuelou pushes to attract firepower on the bright side... What a nonsense! They are all deceitful people!

This is why Song Yuanjia, a black-hearted fellow, deceived these vassal kings with suspicion!

King Cheng thought of his stupid act of forming an alliance with the Riyuelou behind the Song family, so he could not wait to go back in time and slap that Shabi to wake him up.

King Cheng was furious, but he couldn't help deceiving his Song family, so he thought that there was still a cousin of the Song brothers locked up in his backyard, and immediately said angrily: "Come on! Put the Yan family in this king. Dungeon, interrogate well!"

This Yan Siqiu must be a detailed work sent by the Song brothers! It's a pity that he actually foolishly thought that Yan Siqiu was at odds with the Song family!

Therefore, Yan Siqiu, who was struggling to survive in the backyard of Prince Cheng's mansion, ushered in an innocent disaster. She was imprisoned in a dungeon, tortured and interrogated to see if she had done meticulous work.

Cheng Wang was suspicious, and felt that Yan Siqiu was suspicious everywhere. For example, with regard to Yan Siqiu's IQ, how did he analyze the situation so accurately before?

It must be Song Yuanjia who gave her advice behind his back and sent her to use this method to win his trust.

Maybe Yan Siqiu was the chess piece that Song Yuanjia sent to take his life.

King Cheng had lingering fears when he thought that if he had been believing in Yan Siqiu all the time, he would not be on guard against the people beside his pillow, and he would be strangled to death in his sleep one day.

Yan Siqiu cried and shouted injustice: "My lord, concubine has been wronged! Concubine has old grudges with the Song family, how can I harm the lord for meeting the Song family?"

King Cheng sneered: "Have you ever recommended Song Zhiyuan to this king before?"

Yan Siqiu really felt very wronged. She really had no kindness towards the Song family. Why would she be the kind of person who would sacrifice everything for the Song family in King Cheng's heart?

King Cheng felt that Yan Siqiu was trying to protect the Song family, so he ordered people to continue the torture. In the end, Yan Siqiu couldn't stand the torture, and in order to save his life, he told the shocking secret that he was a reborn!