Chapter 52
When Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu were also confused when they heard Zhang Yuan chanting these two sentences without thinking.
"Murder in the court? And he also searched the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue? Marquis, have you made a mistake?"
Zhao Chuan's eyes were wide open. He now doubted whether he had hallucinations. He would kill the ministers in the court and rebelled?
Zhang Hu's expression was also very surprised, but he didn't think as much as Zhao Chuan. He just subconsciously asked, "Which King of Zizai, which one?"
Zhang Yuan also suspected that he had read it wrong, and re-translated the password twice, then confirmed that he had not made any mistakes. After a while, he let out a long sigh, "Which other one can be it? The former crown prince Mo Zizai, the former emperor passed away and his Majesty inherited the throne, and he was named King Zizai."
"Is it him?"
Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu were stunned for a moment, and then immediately exclaimed: "Has he gone to the capital to seize power?"
In just a short moment, Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu imagined a record of revenge for the former crown prince who seized the throne and was no less than one million words. The deposed crown prince was imprisoned and quietly accumulated strength, waiting for the time to be ripe, leading troops to attack, killing rebel ministers, and regaining the throne.
"Not to seize power."
Zhang Yuan knew what they were thinking, shook his head slightly to reject their guesses, and said slowly: "He and His Majesty are about to get married, so he should not have the intention to seize power."
"Big wedding?"
This is the first time Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu know about this. The impact of this news on them is no less than the news that Mo Zizai directly killed more than 20 ministers in the dynasty.
"How could they have a big marriage? His Majesty's throne was originally his. Can he swallow this?"
Zhao Chuan thought about the news that Zhang Yuan had just said that Mo Zizai had killed more than 20 ministers in that dynasty, and suddenly had a bad guess, "Is it possible that he was using His Majesty's power to directly disrupt the court?"
"Okay, stop guessing, it's not what you think."
Zhang Yuan shook his head slightly, stopped Zhao Chuan's continued speculation, and said, "Your Majesty appointed Mo Zizai as the head of the Yuzhisi. Those people in the court were unwilling to Yuzhisi to re-proposal, so they wanted to give him a loss, but they were killed by Mo Zizai in the court."
"As for Hu Xiaosheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Mo Zizai confiscated more than 10 million taels of silver from his house."
"More than ten thousand taels!!!"
Hearing this number, Zhao Chuan and Zhang Hu lost their minds instantly. Zhang Hu said angrily: "Well, kill! We even paid the military pay. This dog thief actually greedy for so much money. No wonder the national treasury has no money and is greedy for these dog thieves."
Zhao Chuan thought more, "Marty, with more than ten thousand taels, can the brothers pay the salary?"
"Well, the court has allocated four million taels as military supplies and has sent people to escort them."
Zhang Yuan nodded. Although the military pay problem was solved, his expression was not too happy, but instead looked worried.
"That's great. With this money, brothers have no worries when they fight."
Zhao Chuan looked very surprised and waved his fist hard. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Zhang Yuan's expression and couldn't help but ask, "Marty, is there anything wrong with it?"
"There is only money, no food, grass and soldiers. The court said it would raise food for disaster areas. Let us prepare food and recruit soldiers by ourselves."
Zhang Yuan rubbed his temples with his hands and said slowly: "The King of Zizai has offended all the officials from Jiangnan, and most of the grain merchants are Jiangnan people."
"In addition, most of the powerful people in Xunyang City have close ties with the Ministry of Revenue. If they secretly obstruct, we may not be able to buy food even if we have money."
"They dare!!!"
Zhang Hu was furious in an instant, "It would be fine if this group of dog thieves refuse to pay the food. If I dare to obstruct, I will be the first to confiscate their home!"
"Whose home you have raided will not obstruct them by themselves. Why should you raid the home without evidence?"
These powerful families are deeply rooted in the local area and do not need to come forward at all. They just need to release a little wind and no one dares to sell them food and grass.
Moreover, most of the children in their family have fame and fortune, and even the orders for recruitment during the war did not work for them. If they confiscate their homes, they would have to make a fuss.
"What should we do? We fight desperately, we can't be angry with them everywhere, right?"
After listening to Zhang Hu's words, Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment, his eyes flashing constantly, as if he was thinking about something important.
After a while, Zhang Yuan suddenly burst out, slapped the table in front of him into pieces with a palm, and then cursed fiercely, "Go to the big picture!"
When Zhang Yuan was young, his personality was quite irritable. However, as he grew older, his qi cultivation skills gradually improved, which made him appear so gentle.
But this does not mean that he is a good old man now. In his bones, Zhang Yuan, who was nicknamed the Husband of the Mountain.
The hungry tiger goes down the mountain, and all the beasts retreat.
"Zhang Hu, come with the pen and ink. I want to write a secret letter to His Majesty. After writing it, I will immediately take Xinying back to the capital."
Before, he had always been tolerant in order to take into account the overall situation, but judging from the situation in the court, the empress seemed to want to turn over the table. Although he didn't know whether it was the empress or Mo Zizai's meaning, he didn't care about that much.
Anyway, the country is not his family. He was able to come out to defend the East for three years at his age in his seventies, which is already very good at Dazhou, so he didn't want to think about the overall situation or something.
"Uncle, what are you writing?"
Zhang Hu quickly brought the paper and pen and brought a table again.
"Write whatever you have, tell me what you have, and then write down all the process of asking these aristocratic families these two times, as well as my guesses."
Zhang Yuan waved his bamboo pen and quickly finished writing the secret letter. After sealing the secret letter, he threw the pen directly, as if he had taken off a thousand pounds of weight, and his waist was much straightened. "If you want to lift this table, you can lift it, and if you don't want to lift it, you can decide for yourself."
"Anyway, I have tried my best, so I am too lazy to worry about so much."
After saying that, Zhang Yuan threw the sealed bamboo tube to Zhang Hu, and then went back to the inner hall to sleep.
"What's wrong with uncle?"
Looking at Zhang Yuan who seemed to have changed, Zhang Hu was a little confused.
Zhao Chuan could vaguely guess some of it. In the past three years, in addition to guarding the city every day, Zhang Yuan also worried about changes in the court every day. No matter what decision he made, he would consider the reaction of the court.
In this way, the battle is quite tiring.
So every time Zhao Chuan saw Zhang Yuan in the past, he felt like a heavy mountain was pressing on Zhang Yuan.
Chapter completed!