Zheng Fei guessed right. The person who helped Zhao Huan achieve this series of shocking reversals behind the scenes was nothing else, but Li Gang!

Then why did Li Gang help Zhao Huan? How did he help Zhao Huan? This matter starts two months ago...

Li Gang was a Jinshi in Zhenghe in the second year. It should be noted that the imperial examination system of the Song Dynasty will be announced after the palace examination. The final ranking will be announced. First-class Jinshi, second-class Jinshi, and third-class Jinshi, so it is quite amazing to be ranked in the Jinshi. Li Gang does have extraordinary talents and strategies and courage, but his shortcomings are also very obvious. This is that this person is very upright and hates evil, and says whatever he has, and dares to say that this upright personality is a virtue, but in the intrigues and deceitful places in the court officialdom, this personality is particularly easy to suffer losses and is particularly easy to offend people, which becomes a disadvantage. Especially since he is still the censor. The people he offended for so many years have gone, but he does not agree with it and still firmly believes in his creed of being a human and an official.

Later, Zheng Fei raised an army and the world was in chaos. The officials in the court only dared to report good news to Emperor Zhao Ji but not bad news. Only Li Gang still dared to express his truth. Not only did he report bad news, but he also wrote to the emperor to complain about the current problems and sharply exposed the government's faults. This angered Zhao Ji and wanted to punish him. If it weren't for the national training of the Song Dynasty, the scholar-officials who were not allowed to commit rumors, he would be afraid that his life would be difficult to protect, but he would have been dismissed and thrown into Sha County, Jianzhou to become a small tax official.

Later, when Zhao Huan came to power in the coup, Zhao Huan recalled some officials who had a good reputation for retaliation by his father, Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others, either to restore office or promote and reuse, including Zhang Shuye and Li Gang. However, Li Gang was not discovered by Zhao Huan at this time.

Later, Zhao Huan secretly contacted Liao and Xia countries, and asked for reinforcements on the condition of cede land was exposed by Zheng Fei. The whole country was in an uproar, but the uproar was in an uproar. Zhao Huan had just caught Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others and their accomplices, killing all the officials of the court all silently. No one dared to provoke Zhao Huan, for fear of causing the murder of the family and the wife and children, but there were still people who were not afraid of death. That person was no one else, but Li Gang!

Li Gang wrote a letter to the court in anger, denying this shameless act of cede land and selling the country, and his words were extremely sharp and unpleasant. It is said that when Li Gang finished writing this memorial, he also wrote the suicide note, which clearly made up his mind to give advice to death!

Zhao Huan was already very angry because of the leak of the news and the condemnation of the whole country. When he saw this memorial, he was even more angry and aggrieved. At that time, he was about to be furious and punished Li Gang, but he happened to be stopped by his wife, the Crown Princess Zhu Lian, who came to see him. Zhu Lian told Zhao Huan that Li Gang was a tough guy and was not afraid of death at all. Moreover, both inside and outside the court knew that he was an upright gentleman and a minister. If he was punished, the world would have a deeper misunderstanding of you. Therefore, instead of punishing his crime, it would be better to summon him to the palace and tell him the truth. He would inevitably be moved by the sacrifices you made for enduring humiliation for the Song Dynasty. Not only would you not blame you anymore, but you would also help you. Just imagine, even an upright minister like Li Gang agrees with you, who in the court will have any objections? And the whole world will see the virtues of not killing scholars and officials, why not do it?

When Zhao Huan heard this, he immediately summoned Li Gang to meet him.

After receiving the news, Li Gang thought that he would have to die. He was not afraid. He just told the funeral and said goodbye to his crying family, and went to see Zhao Huan without hesitation. However, Zhao Huan not only did not cure him, but also told him a shocking secret. It was Li Gang's turn to be stunned. After he realized that, although he still did not agree with Zhao Huan's risky behavior of attracting wolves into the house, he was indeed extremely moved by Zhao Huan as the Crown Princess said, and was very happy. At least from this matter, he launched the political situation.

The change of Zhao Huan seemed to be much stronger than the old emperor Zhao Ji, who was on the verge of eating, drinking, having fun, and appointing treacherous ministers. Now, the old emperor Zhao Ji, who is on the verge of extermination, is much stronger. Although Li Gang is upright, he is not pedantic. He is loyal to the country. As for whom he becomes the emperor, he doesn't care. As long as he is still from the people of the Old Zhao family and can govern the country well, he is willing to be loyal to him. Didn't the Zhenguan rule of the Tang Dynasty in history begin after Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident and forced his father to abdicate and became the emperor?

As things progressed to this point, Zhao Huan's goal was also achieved. After he told Li Gang to keep the matter secret, he was about to let Li Gang go back. Unexpectedly, Li Gang, who had already regarded him as the "Zhongxing King", actually began a passionate speech, and expressed his views on the current situation and suggestions on how to help the Song Dynasty get out of the predicament. Now it was Zhao Huan's turn to be stunned. Zhao Huan knew that these suggestions were indeed good strategies to save the Song Dynasty. He was surprised at the moment. He didn't expect that Li Gang, who was scared, worried, and hated in the court, had such talent!

The two talked from morning to noon, and from noon to evening. They had a great time. At the end, Zhao Huan couldn't help but have a bold idea. What he lacked most now is to prepare to overthrow Zheng Juzhong, but lacked people to trust. The Li Gang in front of him not only has amazing talents, but also has a very clean foundation. He is definitely not from Zheng Juzhong. Isn't this person a gift from God to him?

Zhao Huan immediately decided to take Li Gang completely for his own use. In this way, when Li Gang finished his plan to save the country, Zhao Huan pretended to agree very much, but sighed with a dim face.

Li Gang couldn't help but be very surprised when he saw this. The prince was so happy just now, why did he suddenly become so virtuous again? He asked Zhao Huan, "Crown Prince, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Huan sighed and said, "Oh, what else can it be? I agree with what you said and want to implement it very much, but now it is not my final say. Zheng Juzhong and the Zheng family have actually undermined me. The reason why he agreed with my plan was that I gave the position of commander of the front-line army to his son Zheng Xiunian as the first time. You think, Zheng Xiunian was a scholar who had never led troops to fight at all. It would be very risky to hand over military power to him. Of course, I don't want to, but there is no way. The reason why Zheng Juzhong did this is to control the government and also hold the military power in his hands. Now he has achieved his wish, I am afraid that it will not take long before he will usurp the power. You have told me so many good strategies but I have no chance to implement them. I can only watch the fall of the Song Dynasty. Do you think I can't feel sorry?"

Zheng Juzhong is now at its peak, with his followers all over the court. These people are of varying quality and have indeed done some domineering things, which has long caused Li Gang to be dissatisfied. When he heard Zhao Huan's words, Li Gang was furious. He finally found a king of Zhongxing and was willing to use his own strategy to save the country. How could he miss it like this? He immediately said, "Crown Prince, if Zheng Juzhong dares to rebel, I will help the prince get rid of him!"

Zhao Huan was waiting for the words of Zheng Juzhong. He was secretly happy and pretended to be moved and turned Li Gang into his own person. Zhao Huan ordered him to continue hiding in the darkness of the court and prepare for his final actions.

Li Gang agreed and helped Zhao Huan improve the plan further without any mistakes.

In this way, since two months ago, Li Gang has secretly helped Zhao Huan lay out a net of heaven and earth to deal with the Zheng family and its followers in the court. Although Li Gang has a bad personality, he has no ability. He is ready to do everything!

According to Zhao Huan and Li Gang's original plan, they had to wait until Yao Gu took control of the army before attacking the Zheng family. Unexpectedly, Zheng Xiunian was suddenly captured. As soon as the news reached Tokyo, Li Gang was keenly aware that the situation would change and had to attack the Zheng family immediately, because Zheng Juzhong was so cunning. Faced with the strangely captured Zheng Xiunian, the commander of the three armies, he would definitely suspect that someone in the Song army betrayed Zheng Xiunian, and then suspected that it was the prince who did it, but he was afraid that he would take the initiative first!

When Zhao Huan heard that this was true, he even doubted whether Zheng Xiunian's capture was done by Yao Gu? Because the time was so coincidental. Calculate the time, Zhang Shuye should have arrived at the front line, and Yao Gu should have received a secret edict. Then another opportunity happened to appear. In order to seize the opportunity, Yao Gu betrayed Zheng Xiunian.

Zhao Huan immediately agreed to Li Gang's suggestion and decided to take action immediately, but Li Gang also said that based on his investigation over the past few days, a phenomenon was discovered, that no matter what the court did, the bandits could always take action first. He suspected that there must be the bandits' eyewitness in the court, constantly informing the bandits. With the bandits' always cunning and cunning, once they learned from Zheng Xiunian's mouth, your true plan will be used, which is not good for the Song Dynasty. Therefore, from now on, all our actions, including the actions against the Zheng family, must be kept as confidential as possible, and the bandits cannot take advantage of the opportunity!

Zhao Huan deeply agreed and completely handed over the command of the action to Li Gang. Li Gang did not disappoint Zhao Huan's trust. Under his command, one night, Zhao Huan's people successfully and neatly captured the Zheng family and their followers. Sure enough, the news was not leaked at all.

Coincidentally, on the night of the action, Zheng Juzhong had just received a letter from Zheng Xiunian. However, before he could react, Zhao Huan's people had already come to the door, and the letter also fell into Zhao Huan's hands.

After seeing this, Zhao Huan was sweating profusely and shouted for luck. It can be said that if Li Gang had not decided to act early, even if it was just a moment later, it would not be Zheng Juzhong who fell to the ground, but Zhao Huan!

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