Qin Hui and Zhao Ding have been in Funing Hall for many days. They have been detained here and cannot go out.

However, their living conditions are much better than half a month ago.

When they were detained by the soldiers of the Jiangnan Imperial Camp, they ate the leftovers of the soldiers of the Jiangnan Imperial Camp every day, and they often had no full meals. Now they have fish and meat every meal, so they can eat enough.

In addition to fish and meat, they can also ask for some pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and read and write in Funing Hall.

The sun was very bright in the morning, and Zhao Ding was standing at the door of Funing Hall to watch the scene outside.

"I wonder how our family is doing now?" Zhao Ding said leisurely.

"I don't know, I hope they are safe and sound." Qin Hui said.

At this moment, Qin Hui was sitting in front of a table, writing.

His handwriting is very well written.

In the early years, when Song Huizong was in power, Qin Hui was the left censor of the Censorate. He found that the fonts of official documents were different across the country, so he used his leisure to study various fonts. Later, he created a unique font based on the thin gold style of Song Huizong Zhao Ji. This font was neat and uniform, simple and easy to learn. He used this font to write memorials for Song Huizong. After seeing this, Song Huizong praised it very much, so he ordered Qin Hui to send his writing model to all parts of the country, requiring officials from all parts of the country to write official documents and memorials in the model font. This font is the famous "Song style" in later generations, and was invented by Qin Hui.

At this moment, Qin Hui was writing in Song font, and after a while he stopped.

Zhao Ding came to Qin Hui, looked at the words on the table, and showed a sneer on his face.

"I was born to be useful, and I will come back after all my money is gone! Lord Qin, you have such ambition! We are imprisoned here, you still have such ambitions! I admire you! I admire you!" Zhao Ding said.

"When Emperor Jianyan was alive, the world was divided and I had many major things not done. Now Emperor Jianyan is dead, Emperor Xuanwu will unify the world. From now on, my strength in the Song Dynasty has increased greatly, and I can also show my ambitions. It's really good to think about it." Qin Hui said with a smile.

"Loyal ministers do not serve the second masters! We are both ministers of Emperor Jianyan. Now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, even if we don't die to sacrifice our tribute, we must never do anything for Emperor Xuanwu." Zhao Ding said.

"Mr. Zhao, I don't agree with you! Emperor Xuanwu was originally the crown prince granted by the Supreme Emperor, and he also had the imperial seal in his hand. It was natural for him to ascend the throne! On the contrary, Emperor Jianyan was just usurping the throne! I escaped from the Jin Kingdom and fled to Jiangnan, and had no choice but to do something for Emperor Jianyan. In fact, I have always wanted to go to Guanshan and surrender to Emperor Xuanwu." Qin Hui said.

"You are shameless!" Zhao Ding said angrily.

Qin Hui smiled. He was about to argue, but at this moment his face suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ding said in surprise.

"Listen!" Qin Hui pointed outside and said.

Zhao Ding listened with his ears, and after a while, his face changed slightly.

There were countless sounds of bowstrings outside, and they kept whizzing. In the end, the Funing Hall was filled with such sounds, and almost no other sound could be heard.

"What happened?" After a while, the vibrating sound of Gongxian stopped, and Qin Hui said with a pale face.

"I don't know." Zhao Ding's face was also pale and he shook his head.

After a while, waves of blood came from outside.

"What a strong smell of blood, how many people will die?" Qin Hui said.

"Why did Emperor Xuanwu kill someone?" Zhao Ding murmured.

Both of them were restless at this moment, and Qin Hui strode to the door of the palace and was immediately stopped by two soldiers.

Qin Hui took out a piece of silver from his arms and handed it to the soldier. He smiled and said, "This hero, do you have any questions to ask for advice?"

However, before he finished speaking, the soldier had already stuffed the silver into his hands again, and the soldier's face became cold.

"This..." Qin Hui was stunned.

"We are a soldier in the Song Dynasty and will never accept bribes from others! If you dare to do this again, I will be polite to you!" the soldier said coldly.

"Ah! It's like this! Warrior, I just tried you just to see how the military discipline of the soldiers under Emperor Xuanwu is! Now it seems that the military discipline is as good as a mountain! Qin admires, admires! King Kang, the rebel thief, his military discipline is chaotic, and is far inferior to you." Qin Hui said with a smile.

"This is naturally. How could King Kang's subordinates compare with us?" The soldier's face turned better and he smiled.

"I wonder what happened outside?" Qin Hui said again.

"General Wu has an order, I can't tell you anything outside." The soldier shook his head and said.

Qin Hui asked a few more questions, and the soldier simply shut up and said nothing. Qin Hui had no choice but to return.

After returning, Qin Hui praised: "Emperor Xuanwu's soldiers are indeed extraordinary. Look at them standing there, motionless. It has been almost two hours since morning. No one under King Kang's subordinates can do this!"

Zhao Ding said coldly: "Mr. Qin, Emperor Jianyan was our lord before, so don't say that to him!"

Qin Hui smiled and said no more.

The whole morning, the bloody smell became stronger and stronger.

In the afternoon, the bloodiness became stronger and both of them looked less and less beautiful.

*******

The sky was getting darker, and candles had been lit in Funing Hall.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside.

"See Your Majesty!" The soldiers at the door had already knelt down one after another. Qin Hui and Zhao Ding hurriedly looked outside, and saw Zhao Chen coming here in a group of generals and soldiers.

After not seeing each other for many days, Zhao Chen has not changed much. He still looks heroic, as if he is always full of vitality and energy.

"Let's just flat!" Zhao Chen said casually.

The soldiers at the door stood up and Zhao Chen had already entered the Funing Hall.

"I am the queen Qin Hui, please see Your Majesty!" Qin Hui had already knelt down and said.

Zhao Ding was just stunned, and did not kneel down, and stood there all the time.

"Qin Aiqing, please calm down! Zhao Ding, why don't you kneel down when you see me coming in?" Zhao Chen looked at Zhao Ding and said.

Qin Hui was overjoyed when he heard the three words "Qin Aiqing". He immediately stood up and showed a respectful expression on his face. As for Zhao Ding, he looked at Zhao Chen with a complicated expression.

"I, Zhao Ding, is a minister of Emperor Jianyan, not your minister, so I will not kneel down!" After a while, Zhao Ding said.

Zhao Chen smiled. He didn't care about Zhao Ding's failure to kneel down. He found a chair and sat down by himself, pointed to the rest of the chairs in Funing Hall, and said, "You guys find a chair to sit down by yourself!"

"Where is the seat of a minister in front of Your Majesty?" Qin Hui said hurriedly.

"I'll let you sit down, you'll sit down!" Zhao Chen shouted lightly.

"Your Majesty is a kind king for all ages!" Qin Hui sat down.

"Emperor Xuanwu, I want to know what happened today?" Zhao Ding was still standing there, thinking about the bloody smell that he smelled today, and he couldn't help but say.

"It's not a big deal. In Lin'an City, someone actually tried to appoint a new king, usurp the throne and rebel, and was killed by me!" Zhao Chen said.

"What?" Qin Hui and Zhao Ding were all there.

"How is it possible? Your Majesty, your army of 100,000 is in Lin'an City, and there is still someone who dares to enthrone the new king? How could there be such a confused person?" Zhao Ding said in disbelief.

"There are such a confused person in this world! That day I was assassinated in West Lake. Yang Shi, Li Tong and others actually thought I was dead. They actually found a person among the descendants of Taizu and appointed that person as the new king! This morning, they took that person to Taimiao, and then they actually brought that person to the palace! Among the six ministers of the Jiangnan court, many people followed this group of clowns to make a fuss and appointed a new king." Zhao Chen sneered.

"Is there such a thing? I understand. Your Majesty, you deliberately pretended to be assassinated, right? You are so despicable!" Zhao Ding said.

"I did not pretend to be assassinated! My assassination was true, and I did not make people say that I was dead. They thought I was dead, so they wanted to be appointed as a new king!" Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Your Majesty, how are you going to deal with these people who have enthroned the new king?" Zhao Ding said.

"Qin Hui, what do you think should we deal with them?" Zhao Chen said.

"They are so ruthless that they should naturally kill the nine clans!" Qin Hui said.

"Yes! That's what I did! Yang Shi, Li Tong, Luo Congyan and others all killed nine clans! All six tribes who obeyed the rebels killed nine clans!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, how can you... do such a thing? Mr. Yang and others are all well-known scholars in the world. Shouldn't you do this?" Zhao Ding said.

"Scholars pay attention to loyalty and righteousness. They plotted against usurped the throne and were not loyal and unfaithful. Shouldn't they be killed?" Zhao Chen said.

"They were just confused for a moment! They just thought that His Majesty would die and the country would not be without a king for a day, so they wanted to enthrone the emperor! Your Majesty should spare them! They are all great scholars. If you kill them, aren't you afraid that all scholars in the world will rise up and oppose you? Are you not afraid that scholars will rebel?" Zhao Ding said.

"The scholar rebelled?" Zhao Chen was stunned at first, then laughed.

"What is Your Majesty laughing at?" Zhao Ding said.

"I once heard a poem that said, "The ashes were not cold, Shandong was in chaos, and Liu Xiang did not study.' Qin Shihuang unified the world and was most vigilant about scholars. He thought scholars could cholera the world, so he burned books and buryed scholars. Who knew that the ashes of the ashes of the conspiracy of scholars had not cooled down, and the world began to be in chaos. None of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, who led the rebellion, were scholars. Since ancient times, there has been no reason for scholars to rebel." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Since ancient times, there has been no reason for scholars to rebel? Your Majesty looks down on scholars all over the world, right?" Zhao Ding said coldly.

"I don't look down on scholars. I'm just telling a fact! Since ancient times, there have always been only two types of rebellion. One is the poor people who cannot survive, such as Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and Liu Bang, and the other is the noble and powerful ministers, such as Xiang Yu, Cao Cao, Li Yuan, Li Shimin and others. Zhao Ding, you have extensive knowledge, please find me an example of rebellion by scholars and let me listen to it." Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding was stunned and couldn't speak.

"Today, I listen to Your Majesty's words is better than reading a book for ten years!" Qin Hui was already praising him a lot.

"I came here today to ask, you are all important officials in Jiangnan. Now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, I am unifying the Song Dynasty, are you willing to serve me?" Zhao Chen stopped talking about this topic and said at the moment.

"I am naturally willing to be loyal to Your Majesty! Your Majesty is the orthodox of my Song Dynasty. King Kang usurped the throne back then, and I was forced to do things for King Kang back then! In fact, I have always been in Cao's camp and the heart is in Han, and I have always wanted to surrender to Your Majesty!" Qin Hui spoke immediately.

"Okay!" Zhao Chen nodded.

Although Qin Hui was the most treacherous minister in history, he had outstanding talents. He passed the imperial examination in his early twenties, was favored by Wang Gui, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, and betrothed his granddaughter to Qin Hui. Later, Qin Hui became the chief of the Taixue Academy at the age of 25, and became the chief censor of the Song Dynasty at the age of 30. Before the Jurchen invasion, his actions were remarkable and he had political achievements. Only after the Jurchens returned, he changed a lot. Zhao Chen now came to Jiangnan, and only talent was promoted. Whether it was a treacherous minister or a loyal minister, the first thing he valued was talent. As long as he was talented, as long as he was willing to surrender to Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen could use it. Zhao Chen had generals and soldiers in his hands, and since ancient times, he was not afraid of these people having other ideas. In the future, he would naturally use systems to completely introduce the talents of these people to the right track.

Moreover, in this era, Qin Hui did not have the bad deeds of killing Yue Fei. It was the decision of the entire Jiangnan court, especially the wishes of Zhao Gou, the emperor, were not something that Qin Hui could decide alone, so Qin Hui had no reason to kill him.

Qin Hui was overjoyed when he heard that Zhao Chen was willing to use him.

Zhao Ding was standing there at this moment, looking at the side without saying a word.

"Zhao Ding, are you willing to do things for me?" Zhao Chen smiled and said.

"Loyal ministers will not serve the second master!" Zhao Ding said coldly.

"Loyal minister? There are big loyalty and little loyalty. I wonder if you, Zhao Ding, are big loyalty or little loyalty?" Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

"Oh? What is Dazhong? What is Xiaozhong?" Zhao Ding said curiously.

"When the country is in danger, stand up, shed blood, sweat, or even sacrifice for the country, this is called great loyalty! The sage once said that the people are the most important, the king is the least, the country is the second, and the country is the most important, and this is great loyalty! The so-called small loyalty is also called foolish loyalty. No matter whether an emperor is right or wrong, he is loyal to this emperor. Even if this emperor harms the people and colludes with foreign tribes, he must be loyal to the emperor. After the emperor dies, the people applaud, but he wants to keep his pride for the emperor. For example, King Zhou of Shang, who was tyrannical and harms the people, King Wu of Zhou urging the people to punish the people, Boyi and Shuqi actually dissuaded King Wu of Zhou with the saying of the king and father, regardless of the safety of the people in the world, this is small loyalty." Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding was stunned.

"Since the Jurchen invasion, the people of the world have been poisoned! Now I have come to Jiangnan and unify the Song Dynasty. It is the time to need talents! You do things for me on the surface, but in fact you do things for the people of the world! Zhao Ding, the Song Dynasty gave birth to you, and the people took out their harvests and became taxes. These taxes are offered to you and become your salary! The Song Dynasty, the people are kind to you, and you have all your talents. Now the Song Dynasty, the people need you, but you are unwilling to come out to do things. This is called ungratefulness." Zhao Chen said again.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding's expression became more complicated.

"Zhao Ding, I have another sentence to tell you, 'Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country'. I think you are not as good as a man." Zhao Chen said coldly.

"I..." Zhao Ding opened his mouth, trying to defend himself, but he couldn't speak.

"Think about it carefully! I am here today and I will discuss with you the strategies to stabilize Jiangnan! Qin Aiqing, what are your good ideas?" Zhao Chen looked at Qin Hui and said.
Chapter completed!