"Your Majesty!" When they came to him, Yang Yizhong and Lu Yihao were both speechless. Lan Gui was the first to kowtow to the ground, weeping. "Your Majesty... The queen is gone! The two wives are gone too! Three of the five princesses (During the Jianyan period, the princesses were changed back to princesses) are gone too! Only two have returned!"

Zhao Jiu was confused for a moment. What queen? What princess? It was so confusing!

"Your Majesty." Lu Yihao's voice trembled, and he lost his composure and spoke incoherently. "Your Majesty... Just now, a Jin envoy came to Huazhou, bringing news on behalf of the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom, and sent back two princesses... It turned out that Queen Xing (Zhao Gou's original wife) and two wives, as well as three of the five princesses, had already died on the way during the Jingkang period. The two surviving little princesses were sent back by the Jin people this time, saying that since Your Majesty is so courageous, this should be the response... Your Majesty, I wish you all the best!"

"We are willing to die a thousand times." Yang Yi Zhong and Feng Yi knelt down together.

"We are willing to die." Even Hu Yin and Liu Yan had pale faces. One of them bowed and the other knelt down, then repeated it.

Zhao Jiu turned around and picked up the rabbit, thinking there for a long time, before he gradually figured it out. It seemed that he had won some honor in this battle, and then the Jin people had a little respect for him, so they sent back the news that the original owner of this body, that is, Zhao Gou's family, had died in the Jing Kang Movement that day, and by the way, sent back the two little girls who posed no threat as a gesture.

But then again, Zhao Gou knew that his wife and children had been taken away, but he still sought help from hundreds of laundry maids and tried to flee south alone. What kind of mental state did he have?

No wonder Zhao Jiu felt confused when he thought about it at this moment.

When Zhao Jiu thought of this, he laughed instead of getting angry: "Why are you dying? The descendants of the Zhao family are in such trouble. Isn't it the retribution for some people who ignored the people's livelihood and tried to get the Flower and Stone Gang, and then some people ignored the army approaching and only cared about destroying the Flower and Stone Gang?"

After saying this, the man threw the rabbit down, looked around, sighed, raised the bow and arrow again, and shot it hard at a moss-covered rockery in front of him.

As soon as the arrow was shot, it actually hit the crack in the stone.

The people below wanted to speak, but after seeing this situation, they were all speechless.

At this moment, several people came hurriedly with panic-stricken faces. They were the two ministers of the capital province, Lu Haowen and Xu Jingheng, and the deputy privy envoy Wang Boyan.

When Lu, Xu and Wang came up to him, they were just like Lu Yihao before, with pale faces, bowing with their hands clasped, and saying they were willing to die.

"I already know." Zhao Jiu said helplessly with mixed feelings. "It was the Second Saint's own ridiculous incompetence that brought about such retribution on the royal family. What does it have to do with you?"

"I am ashamed..." Lu Haowen raised his head, but his face was red again. "Regardless of the two emperors, Minister Li is also responsible for the protection of the emperor. He has already submitted a memorial with the news and requested a prisoner's carriage to be brought to the capital to be dealt with."

Zhao Jiu, Lu Yihao, Hu Yin, Lin Jingmo, Yang Yizhong, Liu Yan, Lan Gui, and Feng Yi all frowned.

"What does this have to do with Prime Minister Li?" Hu Yin was impatient for a moment.

"Of course it's Li Gongxiang's responsibility." Xu Jingheng stepped forward and answered seriously. "The emperor entrusted the queen mother and the heir to him. Now that the heir has passed away, how can he, as a minister, be exempted from the blame?"

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Jiu and everyone else were stunned. "Didn't the Jin people from Huazhou send an envoy?"

"Your Majesty!" Xu Jingheng finally reacted, panicking for a moment. "I don't know what the Jin people in Huazhou did. It's just that the Jiangning rebels heard that your Majesty sent Yue Fei south and that they were not allowed to recruit the main culprit. They knew it was inevitable, so they fought to the death and gathered troops to try to cross the river to Yangzhou to kidnap the empress dowager and the heir. Although they failed, they caused a riot in Yangzhou. The heir was ill and suffered a seizure, and then died two days later... The news was sent to the Privy Council. Prime Minister Lu was not there, so they found Prime Minister Wang, and Prime Minister Wang came to the capital to look for us two... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jiu picked up the rabbit again and stood there motionless for half a day with no expression on his face. When the others saw the official losing his composure, they lowered their heads even more. Only Lu Haowen, Xu Jingheng and Wang Boyan were suspicious and fearful and finally could not endure it any longer.

"Sir, what's going on in Huazhou?" Lu Haowen asked carefully.

Zhao Jiu did not answer after hearing this, but threw the rabbit down for the second time, turned around, and shot another arrow at the Genyue ruins: "You two damn saints, for this flower and stone gang and the Jingkang shame, if there is retribution, it should be on the Zhao family, why bother to implicate others and ruin my situation?! Will you be used as a bargaining chip and sent back to disgust me in the future? Why didn't you die earlier?"

The four ministers and other officials around were all stunned, but no one dared to refute Emperor Zhao's outrageous remarks.

PS: I kowtow to everyone and apologize. Can you count it as two chapters? Let me get enough sleep... so that I can digest what's in my stomach... so that I can keep my promise and gain weight.