Chapter 332 The Back of the Emperor

A few days later, Emperor Zhao Ji, who had defected from Hangzhou for several months, arrived in Luoyang. Along with him, there are also a group of civil servants and generals who followed him in Hangzhou. The fierce general Yang Zaixing was responsible for escorting them. Zhang Shuye and Shi Liai still stayed in Hangzhou to deal with the aftermath.

Zhao Ji, who has been the emperor for most of his life, is used to others kneel down and shouting long live to him. Today, he knelt on His Royal Highness Jinluan in Luoyang Palace, and the two battles are close to the ground.

Zhao Huan sat on the dragon chair and looked down at his father, whose temples were already white, with pity and hatred in his heart. Chu Tianya stood at the head of the courtiers. He looked at his nose and nose without squinting, and regarded Zhao Ji as a mass of air.

His Royal Highness Jinluan was silent, and no one dared to say a word.

How to deal with Zhao Ji has become an extremely difficult problem. As far as Yu Lifa is concerned, he rebelled in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is light for criminals to kill their heads without mercy. From another perspective, he is also the emperor, and at the last moment, he is also "reconciling the chaos" on the cliff. Otherwise, the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River will certainly not have subsided so quickly. In terms of moral standards, Zhao Ji's morality is really terrible. Before that, he took the lead in corrupting the country of the Song Dynasty. At the critical moment, he also "escaped" to Hangzhou with money. When the war in the Song Dynasty was tight, he deducted food and salary and stabbed a knife in the back, until he raised the rebel flag to really rebel. At the most critical time, he killed Zhao Gu, the king of Kang and saved his life.

Chu Tianya wanted to break the old man into pieces from the bottom of his heart to feed the dog. But after all, he has been in the world for decades, and he is also the biological father of today's saints. Although it is reasonable and legal to kill him, it is contrary to human relationship. Rumors will also be criticized by those scholars who have been taught by Confucian poetry. Therefore, Chu Tianya simply shut up. It's better to do more than less than to do. It depends on how the officials deal with it.

Although Zhao Huan hated Zhao Gu and Zhao Ji, who abandoned him at a critical moment and put him in a desperate situation, Zhao Gu was dead and Zhao Ji had lost power. From the bottom of his heart, Zhao Huan still doesn't want to kill Zhao Ji with his own hands, but he is a little worried about it if he wants to take advantage of him so easily. Therefore, Zhao Huan is also very contradictory.

"All of you, my love, how should I do it?" Zhao Huan showed his heart in the morning, and then sighed.

No one answered.

Zhao Ji knelt on the ground and shook more fiercely, sweating on the top of his head.

His Royal Highness Jin Luan fell into death again.

At this time, the imperial guard of the imperial army outside the palace came to report that Emperor Roufu knelt in front of the palace and was willing to beg for a visit.

Zhao Huan's eyes lit up and turned his inquiry eyes to Chu Tianya. Chu Tianya turned a blind eye and never moved his eyes.

"Xuan, Roufu Emperor Ji met!"

A moment later, Roufu Diji walked into the Jinluan Hall. Wen Wu of the Man Dynasty looked sideways at her. It is rare for royal ladies in the Song Dynasty to appear so openly in the court. Thanks to the fact that Roufu Diji is a woman in Chu Tianya, she can be summoned so openly today. Everyone knows this well.

Zhao Ji knelt on the ground and didn't dare to get up. He just secretly looked at Roufu Diji, and almost lamented her to beg for mercy.

After the salute, Zhao Huan asked directly, "Youfu, what do you want to rush into the hall?"

"My sister came specially to beg Your Majesty, and the Emperor Rao won't die!" Roufu Diji said bluntly.

"Do you know that he is deeply guilty?" Zhao Huan sang a double reed with her very cooperatively.

"I know." Roufu Diji knelt down and said, "I beg that your majesty can punish the emperor for any crime, but don't take his life. Even if he is demoted to a commoner or exiled for thousands of miles, I would like to follow my father and serve him for the rest of his life!"

As soon as this word came out, the whole dynasty was shocked. One word, "filial piety"!

Zhao Ji lay on the ground and cried, bursting into tears. He has more than 60 children. Has he really cared about which of them over the years? At this time, it is an inconspicuous daughter who came forward to ask for insurance for him and promised to die in retirement. And this daughter is still married to Chu Tianya, the biggest "enemy" of the Zhao family!

"Ji Xiao, the emperor of Roufu, is moved by the sky. Your Majesty, please allow it!" Two courtiers came out and asked for it together.

Then, more civil and military officials stood up and knelt down and begged.

Only Chu Tianya is still standing there, motionless. It seems that anything that happens in front of him has nothing to do with him.

Everyone turned their eyes to Chu Tianya. Because they knew that even if all the ministers and workers of the Manchu Dynasty came forward to guarantee, as long as Chu Tianya did not nod, the emperor's decision could not be made.

Emperor Roufu Ji knelt down in front of Chu Tianya on her knees and kowtowed three heads to him, "Bear concubine, dare to ask His Royal Highness the King of Wei for approval!"

"Roufu, get up!" Chu Tianya helped her up, sighed and said, "Do you know why I stand here and don't ask your majesty for kindness like them?"

"My concubine is ignorant and I don't know." Roufu Diji replied.

Chu Tianya said, "Over the years, I and countless brothers have been born and died. After a lot of hardships, I have finally saved Song from defeat. Over the years, countless relatives, brothers and friends have sacrificed their lives and left me in battles. Every night, as long as I close my eyes, I can hear their heroic souls talking to me in my ears. Every time I think of them, my heart is cut and indignant. Roufu, I ask you - if I also go against my conscience to plead for the culprit, how can I appease the many weeping souls?!"

The hall was quiet, and the expression of Roufu Diji was frozen in an instant. She looked at Chu Tianya in a daze, "So you... do you have to kill the emperor?"

Chu Tianya looked sideways at Zhao Ji, who was kneeling on the ground with his buttocks trembling, and said lightly, "In terms of selfishness, I really have to kill him, and I must tear him to pieces by myself!"

Everyone was scared. Zhao Ji was really scared and cried. Zhao Huan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, almost fell down.

"I beg you..." Roufu Diji stretched out her hand and gently grabbed Chu Tianya's sleeve. "He has been a remnant of years and has suffered the punishment he deserves. In the future, he can not be the emperor, but only as an ordinary ordinary old man, so that he can end well, okay?

"I promise you that I will be filial to you." Chu Tianya nodded gently, "But don't let me see him playing with power or luxury. Otherwise, indulgence is that I can ignore your face, and so many brave people can't spare him!"

"The King of Wei is still generous and wise!" Zhao Huan finally picked up a step and immediately took the opportunity to say, "Zhao Ji will be demoted as a commoner and expelled from the palace, and he will never participate in politics!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Emperor Roufu cried with joy and knelt down and kowtowed, "Father, thank me quickly!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Xie Wei Wang is generous!" Zhao Ji finally picked up a life, and his feelings were mixed with tears.

Roufu Diji came forward and helped him up, "Father, let's go..."

"Well, um..." Zhao Ji grasped Roufu Diji's hand tightly, as if he had grabbed his life-saving straw. At this moment, he is both gratified and ashamed, happy and regretful. Everyone in the court looked at him. In full view of the public, Zhao Ji took off his apricot yellow coat in public, took off the straight-legged official hat on his head, spread his hair, and walked out of the Jinluan Hall with the help of Roufu Diji.

The whole process lasted for a long time, and everyone was full of different thoughts and emotions; but from beginning to end, no one said one more word except for Roufu Diji. More than once, Zhao Ji summoned up the courage to look at Chu Tianya or talk to him, but he didn't dare after all. He felt that Chu Tianya, who had been standing in the corner of his eyes, was like a divine judge sent by heaven to arraign and punish him. With Chu Tianya's look, Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, who once ruled the world and held all over the world, can be smashed to pieces in an instant!

After walking out of the Jinluan Hall, Zhao Ji found that his limbs were soft and wet, and he couldn't help gasping. Roufu Diji couldn't help saying, "Father, you are hurting me."

"Ah?" Zhao Ji came to his senses and found that one of his hands was holding Roufu Diji's wrist tightly. When she let go, her wrist was about to be blue and purple.

"Princess forgiveness, princess forgiveness!" Zhao Ji hurriedly let go and made amends repeatedly.

"Father, you don't have to do this." Roufu Diji sighed gently, looked at Zhao Ji with red eyes, and said, "Do you think this scene in today's court is what the King of Wei arranged for me to do?"

Zhao Ji was stunned and didn't dare to talk. But he thought to himself, "Isn't it?" Take a worthless useless person like me to once again erect the kindness of the King of Wei and spread his reputation of loyalty and filial piety?

"If you think so, I will be very sad." Roufu Diji whispered, "Father, no matter how you are in the eyes of others, in my eyes, you are my father after all. I can tell you clearly that I didn't do all this for you, but for my mother. I don't want her to spend the rest of her life in loneliness and sadness. Can you understand?"

"I... can, I can." Zhao Ji nodded in a daze.

"My daughter is incompetent. The only thing I can do is to keep you alive, so that you don't have to worry about food and clothing in the future. Father, if you come out of Luoyang Palace today, you will never look back. You will never appear in the sight of the officials and ordinary people again. From then on, you will live in peace. Roufu Diji said, "Can you promise me?"

"Can, can." Zhao Ji replied mechanically.

Roufu Diji took Zhao Ji's hand and said, "Father, you will never understand the heart of King Wei. He is not angry with you, only public hatred. Since he pardoned your death in public in the court, he will never turn over your old debts again. But the premise is... you should be safe in the future and don't do anything out of the way. Otherwise, not only your daughter can't protect you, but your majesty will also be implicated.

"Yes, yes, I know." Zhao Ji nodded in panic and thought for a moment. He said, "Why don't I become a monk and become a Taoist priest in a place where no one knows me!" ...Your mother, it's up to you to be filial! I am an ominous person, and I don't know how to manage my life, let alone pity and love others. If she has been following me, she will be miserable for the rest of her life. Fortunately, she still has this sensible and filial baby daughter. I can feel at ease if I entrust her to you.

Roufu Diji was panicked and stunned, "Are you going to be a monk?"

"Uh-huh..." Zhao Ji nodded seriously and sighed, "When I came back from Hangzhou all the way, I was thinking that if I didn't die this disaster, I would be a monk. If I stay in the imperial city and stay in the world, even if I can calmly face everything I once had and all the people I once knew, it is difficult to protect other unfaithful people to use me. Fortunately, Your Majesty has demoted me to a commoner, and the King of Wei has also forgiven my sins. I can just start from scratch and continue my other life. Juan, please reply to His Royal Highness the King of Wei... Just say that Zhao Ji admires him and appreciates him. This is true for both public and private.

"Ap admire? Thank you?" Roufu Diji looked at Zhao Ji confusedly, "Father..."

"You are still young after all. You can't fully understand the things between men. Zhao Ji waved his hand and smiled bitterly, signaling that Emperor Roufu didn't have to go on. "After all, I have been in the world for decades, and I can understand the heart of the king of Wei more or less. I admit that I once hated him to the bone and was very jealous of him. But now, after all, there is only gratitude and admiration. As long as you walk out of this palace, the Taoist emperor Zhao Ji will no longer exist. Even if you stay with me, I have no face to live by your side. Your father has been confused and obscene for half his life. When he is old, he finally has a little shame. You don't have to think about it. I will live a good life. You take your mother's concubine to the Wei Palace to serve her well and let her take care of Tiannian, that's it.

"Yes, my daughter wrote it down..." Roufu Diji burst into tears.

"I'm leaving." Zhao Ji smiled with relief, picked up Roufu Diji's face in both hands, and stared, "I miss Zhao Ji for most of my life. The most gratifying thing is to have you as a good daughter. Among my sixty-seven sons and daughters, you are the only one who is the luckiest. Because you married the greatest man in the world... And take care of yourself and be a father!"

Zhao Ji strode away.

"Father! ..." Roufu Diji knelt behind Zhao Ji and cried at his back.

For a long time.

A pair of powerful hands helped Roufu Diji up from the ground. She looked up and saw that it was Chu Tianya.

"King of Wei!" Roufu Diji plunged into Chu Tianya's arms and cried loudly.

"Okay, it's okay. Let's go home!" Chu Tianya hugged her in his arms and comforted her softly. The civil and military officials avoided from afar, and none of them approached.

"Tianya..." Roufu Diji hugged him tightly and called his name in his arms.

"Some people live, but they are like dead; some people die, but they always live in the hearts of some people." Chu Tianya said, "Your father's choice is right. If he really lives by your side, he will only bring you and himself a lot of unbearableness and embarrassment. Let him leave in this way! At least you still have memories!"

"Hmm..." Roufu Diji sobbed.

"Let's go and pick up your mother!"

Chu Tianya took Roufu Diji's hand and walked down the dragon tail road of the palace step by step, facing the rising sun, and gradually disappeared into the sight of everyone.

At the same time, on the execution ground outside Luoyang Palace, nearly a hundred good people were cut down by the executioner with a knife. The onlookers, Luoyang Shishen, clapped their hands and cheered. They are the officials and generals who defected to Hangzhou together with Zhao Ji and Zhao Gu. Before they arrived in Luoyang, Chu Tianya had ordered a thorough investigation of their foundation. Regardless of abandoning from Hangzhou, anyone who has committed adultery or corrupted the law in the past will be severely punished - killing without amnesty!

A hundred hanging heads, a quietly leaving emperor's back, as if to inform the world of the Song Dynasty... One era is over; another era, begins!