Chapter 491 I often beat your son.
After Wei Zhao left the palace, Bao Pu drove the horse. The wheels rolled over the flooded streets, making a dull rumbling sound and splashing mud.
It was raining, and it was difficult to see pedestrians on the road.
Xiao Huaiyan lifted the curtain and looked out.
"It's not the way to your house." Wei
Zhao: "To Gu's house."
Xiao Huaiyan's expression paused slightly, and his amusement dissipated: "Has Lu Huaizhang arrived?"
Wei Zhao closed his eyes and said coldly: "He entered the city this morning."
When the carriage of Shunguo Mansion arrived at Guanxi Street, Gu Fuju received the news. Lu
Huaizhang, who was sitting opposite him, was wearing a faded dark blue satin round-collared robe. Although he was dusty, the cloud pattern embroidery on the collar and cuffs still revealed some of his former dignity.
Gu Fuju put the chess piece in his hand into the jade chess pot when he heard the words.
Lu Huaizhang saw him straighten his clothes.
"Fuju, what are you doing..."
He reacted quickly and made a look of understanding.
"I have not been involved in the government affairs these years, and rarely asked about the affairs of Shangjing. The only contact is you. But on the way here, I heard that the Wei family son has become your son-in-law."
He stroked his beard: "In the early years, you valued him very much. You always brought him by your side in the Imperial College and the school you founded. I joked that you had half a son."
"But I never thought that we really became a family."
"Now that he has become your son-in-law, it's okay for you, the father-in-law, to go out and greet him."
Gu Fuju listened coldly.
"I just want to see if he has any conscience."
Will he bring his Yaoyao with him.
Gu Fuju thought that he let Lu Huaizhang live in the Gu family, and his thoughts were very obvious.
He stood up: "Huaizhang, sit down first, I'll go and see."
"No need." Wei
Zhao was seen walking in the distance, with steady steps.
Wei Zhao gave the umbrella in his hand to the Gu family's entourage, and then entered the house: "Student knows the way."
Gu Fuju looked behind him.
Very good, there is only one Xiao Huaiyan.
It turns out to be a conscienceless bastard.
Lu Huaizhang looked at him carefully. The son of an old friend, he behaved like an old friend.
Wei Zhao bowed to him, the courtesy of a junior: "Lord Lu is not surprised to see me, it shows that the master has told you."
Lu Huaizhang: "He knows that I hate this imperial city, and he would not invite me to the capital if there is no important business."
He is a quick-witted person, and he also knows why Wei Zhao came to visit him when he just arrived at Gu's house.
Lu Huaizhang's eyes fell on Xiao Huaiyan. He
was dignified and upright at first glance.
He nodded: "Is this Xu Ran?"
Wei Zhao: ...
Gu Fu Ju: ...
Xiao Huaiyan: ???
No, why did you mistake him for He Xu Ran, the eternal second?
"Master Lu, have you forgotten?"
Xiao Huaiyan: "Once the Queen Mother held a banquet, I played with fire sticks and burned a hole in your official robe."
"You might be confused if I tell you, after all, I put the blame on Chu Liulang."
"Of course, you may also have forgotten who Chu Liulang is. After all, he is a jerk and not an important character."
Wei Zhao: ...
so jealous.
Xiao Huaiyan smiled and changed to the most understandable way of saying it.
"I used to beat your son often back then."
Lu Huaizhang: ...
now I remember which little bastard it was.
"You have changed a lot."
He suddenly felt annoyed.
After the few of them sat down.
Lu Huaizhang said directly: "My Lu family can be considered a family of aristocrats. My father worked for the late emperor back then."
He made a move.
There was a click.
"I am ashamed. My father is a profit-seeking person. He did a lot of evil things for the late emperor. When the Prince of Yan was exiled, it was my father who was ordered to read the imperial edict in the Prince of Yan's mansion."
"It is said that he was a confidant of the late emperor, but I think it is more appropriate to say that he was the knife in the hands of the late emperor. He made too many enemies." He
made another move.
"He was afraid that the late emperor would be moody and would punish him and silence him, so he also kept a backup plan. He had too many evidences of the royal family's crimes that were not destroyed. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he still supported him for many years and died of old age by relying on the old method."
Lu Huaizhang looked down on his father's style, and the two had never been close. Although he was born in a noble family, he was only a concubine's son. After marrying, he did not want to have anything to do with the Lu family, and separated from him early. The legitimate son
had the Lu family paving the way in the officialdom, but he was not as good as him.
"Perhaps he was disappointed that his son was incompetent."
"Or perhaps he knew that his son was not up to the task and that the Lu family was doomed to fail."
"Before my father died, he handed all the evidence to me."
Lu Huaizhang said to Wei Zhao, "According to my father, the late emperor loved the Prince of Yan the most."
But...
"The edict of succession is in triplicate."
"One copy is in the hands of your grandfather, Lord Wei, one copy is in the hands of the late emperor's trusted eunuch, and the other copy is hidden in the Yangxin Palace."
"After the late emperor wrote the edict and arranged everything, he did not sleep all night."
Xiao Huaiyan thought it was funny.
"Why didn't he pass on the throne to the Prince of Yan, who he loved the most? He set up such a big plan just to make the new emperor resentful. The first thing he did after ascending the throne was to put the Prince of Yan to death? To eliminate future troubles?"
The smoke from the incense burner curled and swirled up.
Lu Huaizhang put down another chess piece.
"Not only do you feel strange, I felt strange at the time too. But after Duke Shun died, I understood."
He looked at Wei Zhao.
"You should have an idea."
Wei Zhao lowered his eyes. In the thin smoke, it seemed that he could not see the emotions in his eyes. His voice was cold with a hint of irony.
"The late emperor was not a candidate for the crown prince that Emperor Taizu valued back then."
Xiao Huaiyan had also heard about this.
Emperor Taizu cared more about the prince of his beloved.
But that person was too kind and his methods were not cruel enough. Just like the King of Yan, he was also on good terms with the Wei family.
Wei Zhao talked about the matter objectively: "Not all people with the surname Ying are beasts. Emperor Kaizu was good, and the generations of kings after him were not bad either." He
was truly kind-hearted and good at accepting advice.
From the handwritten notes left by the ancestors of the Wei family, Wei Zhao could see that the Jin Dynasty at that time was truly a country of saintly rulers and virtuous ministers.
"But no matter how good the seedlings are, there will always be some that grow crooked."
The Wei family has produced many talents, which have surpassed the royal descendants. How could they not be a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh?
I don't know which emperor started to be dissatisfied with the situation.
Sitting high on the Panlong throne, he looked down on the so-called saintly monarchs and virtuous ministers, and only wanted to decide life and death in the world with one word.
With great ambition, he also had the idea of eliminating Shunguo Mansion.
But they couldn't do it at that time, so they could only plan slowly.
With this plan, several generations have to work hard.
"Emperor Taizu issued an edict to confer the prince the title of Xiaoyao King, and granted him a mansion in Nanyang, where he was not allowed to enter the capital without an imperial edict, which saved his life, and then gave the throne to the late emperor."
The late emperor was even more cruel than him.
"When the late emperor was dying, the empty imperial edict left for the Wei family became a death warrant."
He would not stop until he achieved his goal.
Even though he knew that this trip would definitely make Emperor Ying Qian kill the King of Yan.
Did the late emperor care about the King of Yan?
He should care.
But compared to eliminating the Wei family, the King of Yan was insignificant.
Wei Zhao said word by word, without emotion: "The removal of the King of Yan is also a proof that he chose the right person?"
It can be said that the Ying family can still produce good bamboo.
But they chose the bad bamboo shoots.
"Does Lord Lu know about the black shadow?"
Lu Huaizhang met his cold and indifferent eyes.
"You want to ask, why did the black shadow attack General Jingyuan?"
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