Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

It was raining heavily, and Yang Shi headed outside with more than a dozen servants.

The street is very quiet, one is that it is raining too much now, most of the people are hiding in their homes and will not come out, and the other is that there has just been a mutiny a few days ago, many people have lingering fears and dare not come out now .

Yang Shi sat in the carriage, looking at the scenery outside, feeling excited.

He has a feeling that everything in the world is under his control, and he has a feeling that he is about to create history.

"God helped me. Emperor Jianyan was killed by Emperor Xuanwu, and Emperor Xuanwu himself was assassinated. God destined me, Yang Shi, to become the mainstay of the world and turn the tide. Even after a hundred years or a thousand years, I, Yang Shi, will still be remembered in history. Everyone knows! I, Yang Shi, want to carry forward my Confucianism, and even surpass my two mentors, and become the first person of Neo-Confucianism. From now on, I will enter the Confucian Temple and be worshiped and respected by others!" Thinking of this, Yang Shi trembled with excitement.

He sat in the carriage and walked for half an hour before arriving at the south of Lin'an City.

The south of the city is different from other places. It is a place where some poor people live.

After arriving here, Yang Shi couldn't help frowning. He was also born in a poor family, but later he lived a rich life. He disliked the poor scene in front of him very much.

After walking for a while, they came to an alley.

At the end of the alley, there is a dilapidated house.

At that moment, a servant helped Yang Shi down, and the rest of the servants had already held up the umbrella.

"Sir, this is it." A servant pointed to the house in front of him and said.

"Then Zhao Zicheng, a descendant of the great ancestor, actually lives in such a dilapidated place." Yang Shi said in surprise.

Although he knew that the descendants of Taizu had gradually declined, he did not expect that they had not fallen to such a point, it seemed that they were not as good as ordinary poor people.

The yard has no walls, but is only surrounded by branches and thorns. There are three dilapidated thatched huts in the yard, and the roof of one thatched hut is leaking. It was raining non-stop, and the thatched hut was uninhabitable at all.

Yang Shi stood there, and immediately a servant stepped forward and began to knock on the door.

After a while, a woman in her twenties came out from the middle room and opened the courtyard door.

This woman has fair skin and black hair, but her appearance is quite correct. It's just that her face was pale, and there was faint color on her face, and she didn't know how long she hadn't had a full meal. She was wearing the most common coarse cloth clothes, which were also extremely rough.

Seeing this woman, Yang Shi's eyes immediately revealed a lustful light, and saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth.

"I don't know who you are?" the woman asked with some doubts.

"Is this the residence of Mr. Zhao Zicheng?" A servant beside him had already asked.

"That's right!" The woman nodded. Seeing Yang Shi's bewitched eyes, she stepped back a few steps, feeling a little scared in her heart.

"We're here to look for Mr. Zhao Zicheng, so hurry up and ask him to come out," the servant said.

"My husband is not here." The woman said.

She didn't seem to have an umbrella at home, and she was a little wet at this moment. The weather was a bit cold, and she couldn't help shivering.

"Where is Mr. Zhao?" the servant asked.

"I don't know either." The woman said.

"Hurry up and find him!" Yang Shi shouted from the side.

"This..." A look of hesitation appeared on the woman's face.

Yang Shi winked, and the next servant took out a large piece of silver from his bosom, and handed it to the woman. When the woman saw this large piece of silver, the expression on her face was both surprise and hesitation. She was worried that the group of people in front of her came to collect debts, but now it seems that they are not. She had never seen such a large piece of silver in her life, and it was absolutely impossible for them to owe so much money to others. It's just that she didn't know whether to take it or not.

"Accept it! Go find your husband quickly, and tell him that we have important matters to look for him." Yang Shi said.

At that moment, the woman accepted the silver, and she ran out in the rain.

Looking at the woman's exquisite body, a wretched smile appeared on Yang Shi's face.

"My lord, let's go in first!" a servant said.

"Okay!" Yang Shi nodded.

They entered this dilapidated thatched hut, and there was actually a child in this room. Seeing Yang Shi coming, the child hurriedly saluted and asked them to sit down, which was quite polite.

This child is called Zhao Bocong, the only son of Zhao Zicheng, who is also the Song Xiaozong in history. Although he is young, he is generous and very different. In history, the number of descendants of Taizu is very large, and it is not without reason that Zhao Gou chose Zhao Bocong as his adopted son.

"This kid is not bad." Yang Shi secretly said.

But the other party was a child after all, so Yang Shi didn't bother to pay attention.

After about a quarter of an hour, a young man in his twenties finally broke into the house.

This young man is skinny and has a pale face, but he is dressed as a scholar.

"This old gentleman, Mr. Zhao is being polite!" The young man was Zhao Zicheng, who immediately bowed to salute after entering.

"Not bad, not bad!" Seeing that Zhao Zicheng knew how to be polite, Yang Shi nodded again.

"Mr. Gao, I don't know your last name?" Zhao Zicheng said.

"Old man Yang Shi!" Yang Shi said.

"Ah! You are Mr. Yang Shiyang, a great Confucian in the south of the Yangtze River? You once studied under the two sages of Chengmen? You used to be the deputy prime minister, a direct bachelor of Longtuge? Is it you?" Zhao Zicheng said with an unbelievable expression on his face .

"That's right, it's the old man." A smug expression appeared on Yang Shi's face.

"Mr. Yang came to the humble house, the humble house is really full of splendor!" Zhao Zicheng said.

Yang Shi saw that Zhao Zicheng acted like a scholar, and said, "You also know poetry and books? Have you taken the imperial examination? Are you a scholar or a scholar?"

"Ashamed, ashamed! Xiaosheng has achieved nothing, and now he is neither a scholar nor a scholar! It's not that Xiaosheng is not hardworking enough, but I am a descendant of the great ancestor, and no examiner dares to hire Xiaosheng!" Zhao Zicheng said.

"So that's it! Then what do you do for a living now?" Yang Shi said.

"The little student has no strength to tie a chicken, and makes some calligraphy and painting on the street, and exchanges some bits and pieces of silver. It's a very bitter cold." Zhao Zicheng said.

Yang Shi nodded, and after a while, he said, "Do you know why I'm here?"

Zhao Zicheng shook his head, very confused.

Yang Shi smiled, and immediately stated his purpose of coming, and said, "Do you know about the assassination of Emperor Xuanwu?"

Zhao Zicheng said, "I heard something."

Yang Shidao: "Emperor Xuanwu is dead!"

Zhao Zicheng exclaimed, and said, "Emperor Xuanwu is already dead? This...isn't there no king in Song Dynasty?"

Yang Shidao: "That's exactly the case, so we need to choose a new king to succeed!"

Zhao Zicheng was taken aback for a moment, and said, "The new king succeeds? What does this have to do with me? Why did the old man come here?"

Yang Shi smiled and said nothing, Zhao Zicheng reacted suddenly and stayed there, after a while his face showed an expression of ecstasy, then he rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.

"Ah!" Yang Shi was startled now.

"My lord, he was just overly surprised, so he fainted! Just slap him twice!" said the servant next to him.

At that moment Yang Shi stood up and came to Zhao Zicheng's side, he rolled up his sleeves, and slapped him fiercely, Zhao Zicheng woke up faintly.

"Sir, this is..." Zhao Zicheng was confused.

"You immediately take your wife to my residence, let's discuss important matters together!" Yang Shi laughed loudly.

Not long after, Yang Shi, Zhao Zicheng and others left here together and headed for the Yang Mansion.

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In Yuhang County, the rain here is also very heavy.

In a barren mountain east of Yuhang County, hundreds of soldiers are constantly looking for Zhao Chen's trace on the mountain.

A middle-aged man in armor was also looking, with an anxious expression on his face. After a while, a soldier came to him and reported the current situation.

"My lord, there is no sign of His Majesty for more than ten miles around here! It seems that no one has come here for a long time! There should be no His Majesty in Yuhang County!" the soldier said.

"How about Wang De's information?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Lord Wang said that it was the White Lotus Sect who assassinated His Majesty. He mobilized the intelligence department to investigate carefully during this time. It seems that the members of the White Lotus Sect have lost His Majesty's trace! His Majesty was rescued that day, and he should have gone east. ! The direction we are looking for is not wrong." The soldier said.

"Where is Mr. Wu Jie?" the middle-aged man said.

"Master Wu went to Jiaxing to look for His Majesty there," said the soldier.

"Let's keep going! There are still a few peaks ahead, let's look for them first." The middle-aged man said.

He continued to lead the soldiers to search forward. It was getting dark and the rain was still falling. None of these soldiers stopped.

The soldiers were very tired, and the middle-aged man ordered everyone to eat, and then continued the search at night.

The soldiers found temporary shelter from the rain and divided into several groups to eat in different places.

There were more than a dozen soldiers at the foot of the mountain. These soldiers were eating while looking ahead. At this moment, a figure appeared faintly in the rain ahead.

The dozen or so soldiers immediately became vigilant, and gradually the figure got closer and closer, and one could see that the man was dressed in black and seemed to be wearing a bamboo hat on his head.

"Who! Stop!" Immediately a soldier stood up and shouted.

In addition, soldiers went to inform other people that outsiders had broken in here.

"It's me!" The man in front got closer and closer, he took off his bamboo hat, and suddenly a young and heroic face appeared in front of the soldiers.

"Your Majesty!" A soldier exclaimed when he saw the man opposite him clearly.

"Your Majesty! It's Your Majesty! It's really him!" The second soldier exclaimed.

Gradually, all the soldiers exclaimed.

"See Your Majesty!" More than a dozen soldiers knelt down in the muddy water, and everyone was very excited.

"Who is the general here? Take me to see him!" Zhao Chen said.

"Lord Kang Ankang is two miles ahead! Your Majesty, please come with us." A soldier said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

Now Zhao Chen was walking forward with these dozen soldiers, and met other soldiers on the road, and the rest of the soldiers also bowed down one after another, very excited.