V2.Chapter 196

Zu'an's heart trembled, he never expected to have something to do with the former dynasty.

Zhang Zitong on the side also stared wide-eyed. She didn't know the reason for the murder of her parents and the extermination of the Zhang family. This was the first time she heard about it.

"Since you are a gold medal embroidered clothes, you should have heard of serving Zhong Dongfang Bai?" Zhang Jie asked.

Zu An nodded, there were 4 court attendants, among them Dongfang Bai was the head, his son Dongfang Han was the servant of Huangmen, and he had dealt with in the palace before.

It's just that there is no sense of existence. On the contrary, the more famous and powerful servant is Linhai Gong Pei Zheng, who is Da Manman's grandfather, but Da Manman is not the daughter of the first wife, and her father is only Pei Zheng's fifth son. , so the status in the family is not high.

Zhang Xie seemed to see what he was thinking: "Haven't you ever wondered why Dongfang Bai is the head of the four servants, but his sense of presence is so low?"

"? Why?" Zaan didn't care about this before, after all, the two sides had no intersection, but now it seems that the death of Zhang Zitong's parents is involved, and it is also related to the previous dynasty. He is not interested.

"Dongfang Bai's wife is the former Princess Qi, who is the daughter of Emperor Zhao of the former Dynasty." Zhang answered.

Zu'an knew about Emperor Meng Zhao. He could be regarded as the last emperor with real power in the Meng Dynasty. The subsequent emperors were all young, and the government was controlled by powerful officials. In the end, the Meng Dynasty was also replaced by the Zhou Dynasty.

"It's just that Dongfang Bai is not Princess Qi's first husband." Zhang explained with a sympathetic expression.

"Oh, who was her first husband?" When it comes to the matter of the previous dynasty, Za'an is not clear about these details, but it is not too surprising that she remarried. After all, you are a princess, and you can't always be a widow. Bar.

"At that time, he was the son of Qian Xuan, the secretary of the Meng Dynasty. At that time, Qian Xuan opposed Taizong of this dynasty and wanted to unite with his relatives to join the mutiny, but he was killed after leaking the secret. Later, she was arranged to marry Dongfang Bai." Zhang Jie talked about this past with a lot of embarrassment.

Zu'an knew that the Taizong he was talking about should still be a subject of the Meng Dynasty at that time. In fact, whether it was Taizu or Taizong, although he was actually the person in charge of the country, it was Zhao Hao who officially established the Zhou Dynasty.

The titles of Taizu and Taizong were both conferred by Zhao Hao afterwards.

"Just because he married the princess of the former dynasty, Dongfang Bai is not valued by this dynasty?" Zu'an was a little curious, and didn't understand what he said had anything to do with this matter.

"Of course it's not just because of this. You know that Zhen Xueyi is the emperor of this dynasty, right?" Zhang Xie continued. Zu'an nodded, Zongzheng was in charge of various affairs of the imperial clan, and speaking of it, he had dealt with him before.

At that time, because of some gossip about himself and the princess, in order to verify his innocence, people like Zongzheng and Jijiu came forward to interrogate him.

It's just that he doesn't have a deep impression of Zhen Xueyi, he only remembers that he is an old fox who is very good at throwing blame.

"In fact, his surname is not Zhen, but a member of Empress Huang of Emperor Meng Zhao. Because the Zhen family has no descendants, he was adopted to the Zhen family, but he is the blood of the Huang family and cannot be changed. His relationship with the previous dynasty is no better than that of Dongfang. Bai Shuyuan, but he is quite popular, what do you think is the reason?" Zhang Jie looked at him with a sneer.

Zaan shook his head, many matters related to the previous dynasty were banned, and he couldn't find out even if he wanted to.

Fortunately, some old people from the previous dynasty are still alive today, and some things can be passed on by word of mouth.

"Why do you think the great foundation of the Meng Dynasty was acquired by the Zhao family of this dynasty?" Zhang Xie didn't answer, but asked another question instead.

Zu'an thought for a while and replied: "It should be that the emperors of the Meng Dynasty did not live long, and the competition for the throne made the Meng Dynasty extremely guarded against suppressing the children of the royal family. An opportunity to take advantage of."

Hearing his answer, Zhang Xie was a little surprised: "You actually spoke so bluntly, instead of whitewashing the dynasty like other embroidered clothes envoys, and I don't know how you passed the relevant political review."

Zaan was taken aback. As a time traveler, he could naturally look at all this from a detached perspective, but he didn't expect to be a little different in the eyes of others.

"Okay, okay, you're rebellious, it seems that I'm not wrong to tell you this." Zhang Xie suddenly became happy.

Zaun frowned when he heard this: "You rambled so much and didn't say anything of great value. Are you deliberately delaying time? My patience is limited."

Zhang Xie laughed: "Don't be impatient, the reasons you just said are indeed very important, but there is another more important thing. Emperor Mengzhao's sons all died young, so he didn't have any adult sons to take over the country. We have to find some young sons of the clan to succeed us."

"It's not uncommon for a prince to die early, not to mention that Emperor Meng Zhao didn't live too long, which proves that he has some genetic problems." Zu'an replied.

"Gene?" Zhang Xie was taken aback, obviously he had never heard the word before, "It's true that premature death is not uncommon, but what if it's not an accident, but man-made?"

"Human?" Zaun was startled, "Who dares to do such a thing?"

"According to what you just said, whoever benefits is the most suspected." Zhang Jie sneered. "You mean the Taizu and Emperor Taizong of this dynasty?" Zhang Zitong, who had been listening all the time, couldn't help it. After all, it was related to the case of the extermination of the Zhang family.

"That's right." Zhang Xie was straightforward, "Strictly speaking, it was Emperor Taizu, and he was the only one who had this ability at that time."

"No, although the information is limited, Emperor Meng Zhao has a good reputation. He is a wise emperor. How dare the Taizu do such a thing?" Zu'an was a little puzzled. According to the records, when Emperor Meng Zhao was alive, the Taizu was still a The vice-loyal minister acted like a faction, and it wasn't until the next few little emperors came to power that his power completely got out of control.

"Taizu alone couldn't do it at that time, but what if Emperor Zhao's Huang Huanghou cooperated?" Zhang Xie sneered.

"Empress Huang?" Zu'an was a little confused, she was already a queen, how could she cheat her husband with the ministers?

But when he thought of the relationship between the queen in the palace and himself, his expression suddenly became weird.

"Empress Huang herself has no children and is very jealous. She doesn't want other concubines to have children. She and Taizu also had a good relationship at the time, so they hit it off." Zhang Jie said slowly, "In a few years, several princes of Emperor Zhao have been married. One after another died early, he thought it was because of his poor fortune, but he didn't suspect anything else."

"However, when dealing with the fourth prince, the imperial physician and eunuch who were in charge at that time were worried that the matter would be exposed, coupled with uneasy conscience, so they quietly sent the fourth prince out of the palace, and announced to the outside world that the prince died early. The imperial physician contacted the people outside the palace. My friend, that is, Zi Tong's father, Zhang Zhiquan, who has always been a man of integrity, so he generously helped and helped the fourth prince to take him out of the palace. Since then, although the fourth prince has lived among the people, he has somehow survived."

"At that time, everyone thought that one day the truth would be revealed, and the four princes could be sent back to the palace to be emperors. Not only were they incompetent, but they also made great achievements. It's just that Taizu Taizong was strong and successfully usurped the Meng Dynasty. Naturally, this matter ended without a problem. .”

"As for the fourth prince, I don't know if it was because of this reason that he died young, but he did leave a bloodline among the people, that is, the grandson I mentioned just now."

Talking about this past event, Zhang Xie sighed: "It's just that the paper couldn't cover the fire, and the Zhao family finally found out about it. Because it was so important, it was inconvenient to open the trial, so the gold medal seventh leader brought the relevant people to the court. Waiting for the door to be destroyed, and at the same time press to ask the emperor's grandson's whereabouts."

Zhang Zitong let out tears like rain, and after so many years finally knew the truth about the death of his parents.

Zu'an was also a little emotional. Before that, he suspected that the gold medal embroidered clothes would not execute a royal censor in this way, but if it involves a battle for the throne, it makes sense.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "What about the whereabouts of the emperor's grandson?"