Chapter 0035 Let Go

Qu Yunmie didn't understand what Xiao Rong meant. He was about to ask when footsteps were heard outside. Yu Shaocheng had left and returned.

He came back with the results of his inquiries. It was just as Qu Yunmie said. The man who presented the sword was named Huang Keji, but the strange thing was that he did not hold any position beside Huang Yanjiong.

Xiao Rong was a little surprised, but then he thought that there was no problem. After all, Huang Keji was only sixteen years old. As Huang Keji's uncle, if Huang Yanjiong said that he was not mature enough and could not take on any official position, outsiders could not say anything.

Besides, Huang Yanjiong is only a governor at present. He can't give his subordinates higher positions even if he wants to. Most of the people who follow him are in this awkward situation. They don't have any official positions and are nameless when they go out. ...

After figuring out all the details, Xiao Rong asked Yu Shaocheng who that scholar was.

Yu Shaocheng replied: "That man is Zhou Liang, and he is an aide to Huang Yanjiong."

Xiao Rong reacted silently for a second, then suddenly stood up: "Zhou Liang?! A Mu and a Jing Liang???"

Yu Shaocheng was stunned. He didn't expect Xiao Rong to ask this, so he didn't ask about such details. For a moment, he didn't know which character of Zhou Liang's "Liu" was. However, he had been in the officialdom of Nanyong, so he knew that he couldn't just answer with "I don't know". That would give his superiors the impression that he was a waste. So he lowered his head and talked about something else: "I haven't found out these, but I know that this person is from Dongmu County and comes from a poor family."... There was no doubt about it. It was that Zhou Liang.

Xiao Rong sat back in a daze. Qu Yunmie looked at his expression and felt very strange: "How come you know everyone?"

Xiao Rong answered absentmindedly: "I don't know Zhou Liang, but I have heard of him before."

Qu Yunmie said "oh" and then changed the topic to ask: "How come everyone has heard of it?"

Xiao Rong: “…………”

Because I have a good memory.

Xiao Rong was shocked, not because of Zhou Liang himself, but because in his memory, Zhou Liang was clearly the person of Dongyang King He Tingzhi. They had a very good relationship. Later, Dongyang King even married Zhou Liang's daughter, and that daughter became the famous Queen Zhou in history.

History is very interesting. The identity of a person when she dies will determine her title in history. The reason why this woman is called Queen Zhou instead of Queen Mother Zhou is naturally because she died before He Ting.

Moreover, she died in a very miserable way. He Tingzhi believed that Queen Zhou was unlucky for him and that all the natural disasters during his reign were caused by Queen Zhou. He had to make Queen Zhou suffer, and the more suffering she suffered, the more stable He Tingzhi's throne would be. So he locked Queen Zhou in a room near the second main gate of the palace and ordered people to torture her day and night. It is said that her screams could be heard even by the people outside the palace, and the people who heard them would have nightmares and high fevers, and several of them were frightened crazy.

He Tingzhi and Queen Zhou were an old husband and a young wife. They were very affectionate at the beginning, and there were many good stories about He Tingzhi in the first few years after he ascended the throne. But no one knew when things changed, and the two began to confront each other. Queen Zhou intervened in the previous dynasty and brought her father and her brother with her. The Zhou family was originally a poor family, but after He Tingzhi ascended the throne, the Zhou family entered the ranks of aristocratic families. Zhou Liang was a powerful man, and for a while, their Zhou family was in the limelight, and they might be able to kick He Tingzhi off the throne one day.

At this time, Han Liangru appeared. Although he turned He Tingzhi into a puppet in the last five years, he had actually been by He Tingzhi's side very early. It's just that he never participated in political affairs before, and the incident of Queen Zhou was his first involvement. He convinced He Tingzhi to believe in himself, stripped He Tingzhi of his trust in Zhou Liang and his reluctance to part with Queen Zhou, and made He Tingzhi determined to arrest all the people of the Zhou family at once. Overnight, the Zhou family disappeared, leaving only Queen Zhou lingering in the palace.

What is the most ironic thing? At the beginning, the court was grateful to Han Liangru because the Zhou family was so troublesome and many people hated them, but unfortunately they could not persuade the emperor to take action against the Zhou family. Later, they found that the emperor was so cruel, and they realized that the development of this matter was out of their control. The history books recorded that although Han Liangru harmed the Zhou family, he also pleaded for Queen Zhou, but He Tingzhi firmly believed that she was his nemesis who would kill him in the future, so he resolutely refused to let her go. Han Liangru sighed and left, and the palace people still thought he was really kind.

The specific circumstances of the matter are probably only known by the parties involved. As Han Liangru was associated with too many myths, he was demonized by later generations, saying that the Zhou family's attempt to rebel was secretly manipulated by Han Liangru, and that the deterioration of the relationship between the emperor and the empress was also driven step by step by him, just to get rid of this family in the end and make He Tingzhi deserted by everyone and only able to rely on Han Liangru.

Xiao Rong didn't know whether this was true or not, but he knew that Zhou Liang was definitely He Tingzhi's man.

Did he miss it? Before coming to He Tingzhi, Zhou Liang worked under Huang Yanjiong? It was not impossible. After all, no matter how careful he was, he would not read every detail of the life of Zhou Liang, whose most famous identity was the Queen's father.

As for the fact that Zhou Liang was a spy planted by He Tingzhi next to Huang Yanjiong...

Xiao Rong was so scared that he broke out in a sweat, and then he suddenly realized that this was impossible.

First of all, Huang Yanjiong is not that powerful. Except for Xiao Rong who thinks highly of him, everyone else thinks he is just a small governor. Being obscure is his best protective color. No one would make such a big fuss and spend several years to deal with him.

Secondly, He Tingzhi was also short of people under his command. Zhou Liang's abilities were obvious to all. He later served as prime minister, minister of ceremonies, and prime minister, all of which were the highest-ranking officials. He was He Tingzhi's right-hand man. Even if He Tingzhi wanted to deal with one person, he would not send Zhou Liang out.

So this is just a coincidence. Zhou Liang should have worked under Huang Yanjiong first, but then someone unknown happened. Maybe he found that Huang Yanjiong and he had different ideas, or maybe he offended Huang Yanjiong, so he left. Later, by chance, he met He Tingzhi and started working for him again.

Xiao Rong fell silent.

Regardless of how high an official Zhou Liang would become in the future, or the extent to which he and He Tingzhi had turned against each other, what Xiao Rong cared about was that Zhou Liang was a complete villain.

He was petty and extremely insidious. If someone offended him, he would keep a record of it and would retaliate tenfold or a hundredfold. He was cruel not only to his enemies but also to his own people. One of He Tingzhi's generals was forced to death by him.

Originally, Xiao Rong thought that the idea of ​​killing three birds with one stone was thought up by Huang Yanjiong himself, but now it seems that is not entirely true. It is most likely that it was proposed by Zhou Liang.

Xiao Rong's expression suddenly became serious. Qu Yunmie was surprised and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Xiao Rong paused for a moment, then said calmly, "I'm thinking that Sen Wan should not keep this person."

Qu Yunmie's eyebrows immediately rose: "Can't stay means——"

Xiao Rong looked at him speechlessly, he knew that Qu Yunmie would have this reaction.

But it’s okay to let him feel proud occasionally, and the dog trainer will interact with the trainees when he has nothing to do.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Rong smiled and said, "That's what the king meant."

Every day he listened to Xiao Rong emphasizing to him that he must not kill, and suddenly Xiao Rong told him that he could kill. Qu Yunmie immediately felt particularly refreshed, and the air seemed to have become much fresher.