Su Boxiong smiled self-deprecatingly: "My father didn't plan to tell me, but I have been with his old man for more than ten years, what else do I not know?"

He turned to his brother and mentioned a seemingly unrelated matter: "Do you know how King Ninghua died?"

Su Zhongying was stunned for a moment, and almost didn't react: "How could the eldest brother suddenly mention him? Although this person claims to have died of illness, no one in the capital knows that he was given death by the emperor? Although it is not clear what he has committed, the emperor has always been wise, since he will give him an order to die, then he must deserve it." I don't know this person, but his younger brother Zhao Zhu is a gentleman with no virtue and no deeds, and if he wants to be an elder brother, he can't be any better, I'm afraid that he has done even more lawless things, right?"

Su Boxiong sneered: "Lawless? These four words are not enough to describe his ambition and stupidity!" He told his younger brother what he knew, of course, he and his father Zhenxi Hou did not know the specific plan of King Ninghua, only knew that King Ninghua was trying his best to pass his second son to the name of the prince of the East Palace as his heir, seeking the position of future crown prince, and for this reason, he had already won over many courtiers and powerful royal relatives. In addition, King Ninghua also formed an alliance with the family of the King of Shu, who was originally imprisoned, and obtained many of the property and property secretly hidden by the King of Shu, as well as the dead soldiers that the King of Shu had raised in the past, and planned to use these dead soldiers to do bad things in order to achieve his own goals. Moreover, King Ninghua was not satisfied with using peaceful means to pass his son to the crown prince, and planned to use the army to force the palace if the succession was not successful. He has attracted several generals with military power, Yun Shuai, Zhenxi Hou Mansion and Yunyang Hou Mansion are all his targets, among which the one that has been successfully won over is Zhenxi Hou Mansion.

Su Boxiong said to his younger brother: "Although King Ninghua didn't tell his father too much truth, he also knew that if he was just thinking about his stepson, the emperor would not have killed him. Most of him has done other great rebellious things, and even plotted to kill the prince, otherwise, what would he do if he wanted to die? Now that he and the king of Shu have been given death, it can be seen that the emperor already knows what good things they have done in collusion with each other. Among the several generals who were co-opted by him, Yun Shuai immediately ended his daughter-in-law, and the Marquis of Yunyang completely turned against King Ninghua after you destroyed Zhao Zhu's good deeds last time, and now only our father is left. ”

Su Zhongying was shocked when she heard this: "How can this be?!Father...... Father, how could he be so confused?!"

Su Boxiong smiled bitterly and continued: "Father and King Ninghua have known each other for a long time, and they have a tacit understanding, although the plan did not go well, they did form an alliance. Now I don't know how much the emperor knows about this matter, and whether he will be angry with his father. My father was afraid that our family would not be able to escape, thinking that you had let go of the business trip and married the queen's niece and nephew, if you left Beijing as soon as possible, the emperor would probably look at the queen's face and treat your husband and wife lightly, and it is not known. In this way, even if my father and I are both frustrated, we can still keep your vein, so as not to cut off the Su family's bloodline. ”

Su Zhongying was so shocked that she almost thought she was dreaming. The father, who has always been loyal to the court, complained twice at most for the temporary loss of power, but ...... Rebellion? Father can't do it!

Su Zhongying felt that the faith she had always believed was about to collapse, but she refused to accept the reality. He grabbed his brother's hand and asked, "Big brother, are you coaxing me, right? Why did my father do this? Which onion is King Ninghua? How many foundations can he have in the clan? Even compared with other county kings, he has many shortcomings, but he is just a person without talent and virtue. Even if my father wants to ally with someone, he should choose someone who is decent, why did he choose him?!"

Su Boxiong also felt indescribable: "Actually...... It wasn't him who first found us, but later, somehow it was just him. ”

Su Zhongying was a little confused: "What do you mean by this?"

Su Boxiong couldn't say it clearly for a while, his father was hiding this from him at the beginning, he only vaguely noticed some traces of spiders and worms, and felt that his father should have something to do with the Shu Palace. The southwest border army was transferred to Shu, and it is not surprising that the Marquis of Zhenxi had contact with the people of the Shu Wangfu. But with the increase in the wealth of unknown origin in the hands of Zhenxi Hou, Su Boxiong knew that things were not so simple.

At that time, the king of Shu and the youngest son of the king of Shu had been imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion in Beijing, and there were still the princes of the king of Shu left behind in Shu. The latter seemed to be an honest man, obediently handing over all the affairs in his hands to the people sent by the emperor, and then took his wife and children and followed the Qin to the capital. And the time of this handover is not short, the emperor issued an order, ordered Zhenxi Hou to lead troops into Shu, in order to prevent the prince of Shu from using the military power of the Shu Palace, rebelling against the imperial court, causing chaos. At the same time, the Marquis of Zhenxi also had to shoulder the task of assisting Qin Cha to raid the Shu Wangfu and annihilate all the dead soldiers raised by the Shu Wangfu. If he has interests with the people of the Shu Wangfu in private, it is tantamount to guarding and stealing himself. Under his concealment, how many of the property or personnel of the Shu Wangfu who escaped the inspection of the imperial court were there?

As soon as Su Boxiong found out about this fact, he immediately went to his father to ask for clarification. Zhenxihou did not deny his accusations, nor did he tell the specific truth, only told him to shut up and not to mention it to anyone. Su Boxiong knew that his father was on the wrong path, so he couldn't persuade him not to move, so he could only keep an eye on it secretly. During this period, he was sent out to a relatively remote place to run errands, and by the time he returned to the army, half a month had passed. At this time, he found that the clan that contacted his father was no longer from the Shu Wangfu, but King Ninghua and his brother King Guangchang from Fujian. They left their fiefdom without authorization, secretly infiltrated Shu, and accepted a large number of dead soldiers who successfully escaped from the Shu King's Mansion, as well as several mines and salt wells hidden by the Shu King. And his father, Zhenxi Hou, no longer mentioned how the Shu Wangfu was, and instead formed an alliance with the King of Ninghua.

What happened during this period, and why his father got involved with King Ninghua, Su Boxiong didn't know anything. He tried to ask his father, but he didn't get an answer, but he was scolded several times.

Since then, the income obtained by King Ninghua from those mines and salt wells has to be distributed to the southwest border army every year, which has become a stable financial source for the southwest border army. The southwestern frontier army had to ensure that for a day of garrison in Shu, it would protect this part of the industry for King Ninghua for one day, and provide him with all kinds of cover to avoid local officials from discovering what he was doing. The two sides have cooperated well and have been in peace with each other. With his prestige and power, the Marquis of Zhenxi helped King Ninghua stabilize the overall situation. He was suddenly recalled to Beijing, which can be said to have disrupted the calculations of both parties, and he felt extremely annoyed because of this.

At present, due to the short time, the prestige of Zhenxi Hou in the southwest border army is still there, and the deputy general takes over the military power, and is willing to obey the orders of Zhenxi Hou, but he can still stabilize the situation. But in the long run, the deputy general may not be born with different intentions. No matter how much he respects the Marquis of Zhenxi, he also knows that what he is doing now violates the laws of the imperial court, and he may not be willing to sacrifice his future and life for the sake of his boss.

There is no need to wait for the future now, there is already one thing that makes Su Boxiong clear how dangerous his father's situation is, that is, the illegal actions of Zhenxi Hou in the southwest and Shu, and the evidence of the crime is in the hands of King Ninghua and his group. The king of Ninghua has now been given death, and his accomplices have been exposed one after another, and there is no good end, and only the husband and wife of the king of Shu and their children have escaped their lives. In the hands of someone, Zhenxi Hou and Su Boxiong didn't know, so they could only wait silently for their fate.

Su Zhongying's face turned pale when he heard this, and he grabbed his brother's arm tightly: "How can this be?

What did Zhenxihou do? Su Boxiong himself couldn't tell. At first, it was probably just a matter of military spending. The military funds allocated by the imperial court to the southwest border army are insufficient, and I can't remember whether the imperial court was not generous in the first place, or whether someone was deducted by someone in the middle. At that time, the life of the southwest frontier army was difficult, and they had to fight with the people of the southwest frontier, with many casualties, and food and clothing could not be guaranteed. For the sake of his soldiers, Zhenxi Hou took the risk of doing something that he shouldn't do, pretending to be a bandit and ransacking several large local families, and using the looted money to feed the army, and finally survived that time.

Later, although the imperial court allocated military funds again, it was still a drop in the bucket in their eyes. As a result, the Southwest Frontier Army regarded this method of "robbing the rich and helping the poor" as a tradition, and they had to rob several times a year. For the sake of long-term consideration, they have to hide their identities every time they rob, and they will not rush to kill them all, so as not to scare the rich people away, and they have nowhere to loot.

Later, probably because there were more rich households looted, which caused the rich families to flee one after another, and all kinds of gossip circulated, which was not beneficial to the southwest border army, they turned their attention to those border people. The world is peaceful, and there has been no war on the northern border for decades, but the rebellions on the southwest border have never been quelled, so Zhenxi Hou has led troops to guard here for decades. But in the southwest, where are there so many unruly people? In fact, they surrendered and surrendered, and it was precisely because after surrendering, they were harassed and looted by the army, and suffered heavy casualties, that they rebelled again. The southwest has never been pacified, and the Marquis of Zhenxi stayed there to hold great power, and a lot of money, he can almost be regarded as the emperor of the soil.

Zhenxi Hou is not greedy for money, he wants so much money, firstly, to maintain the military expenses of the army, secondly, it is also for the veterans who once followed him, but later had to be disarmed and returned to the field due to disability and other factors, but could not find a livelihood, and thirdly, for the families of those fallen soldiers. It is not without reason that Zhenxihou will be loved by all the members of the Southwest Frontier Army. He raised the whole army, as well as the military dependents behind the army, and put in a lot of effort. But at the same time, because of the wrong approach, he got himself into the quagmire, threatened by others, and couldn't extricate himself.

Su Boxiong looked at his brother, sighed and sighed, and said solemnly: "Second brother, my father is indeed old and confused, and he has repeatedly made stupid mistakes, but his original purpose was just for the soldiers of our southwest border army. For the lack of military spending, my father has always had a grudge against the emperor and the court, and he has accumulated it over the years......" he paused, and the tone of his words changed, "However, both the king of Ninghua and the king of Shu may have been given death due to rebellion." Even if my father didn't do anything, it doesn't mean that he hasn't committed a taboo. It is not yet known what the emperor intends to do with him. At this time, my father asked you to go out of Beijing, but also for your sake, which is exactly my father's fatherly heart. You...... Do as he says. ”

Su Zhongying stood there for a long time, and he didn't wake up until his brother was gone for a long time.