Chapter 172: Unexpected

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In Anping County, Boling County, Hebei Province, when Lu Hao started the last exam, Wang Ce had already come to the lair of the Boling Cui clan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When I entered the city, it was already late at night, and the four city walls of Anping County were full of people with weapons in hand.

The Cui family has its own hidden news channels, and as soon as something happened to the other garden in Chang'an, the Cui family's secret pile in Chang'an City had already sent the news to Boling.

In this regard, not to mention that Xu Chen and others, who still have a shallow foundation in Chang'an City, cannot stop it, even the crown prince Li Heng, who has been in business for more than ten years, and even Li Linfu, who has been in power for many years, cannot block the news channel of the Cui family.

The other six families with the same seven sects and five surnames can do this, but when they know that the imperial court is going to be ruthless to the Cui family, it is already the best result to keep them silent, how can they expect more?

Wang Ce never thought of surprise, he had made full preparations before coming, and the princelings, Li Party, Xu Party and other Korean and Chinese giants were also in full swing to fill the hole, constantly scrutinizing the details of any possible actions of the Cui family, and trying their best to be foolproof.

This can only be a dignified war of annihilation, and there is no room for luck.

The garrison of Hebei Province is still gathering in Weizhou, the seat of governance, and the forbidden army and the prince's personal guard, who are really the main force to eliminate the Cui family, are still in Chang'an at this moment.

Wang Ce came in advance, in order to prevent the Cui family from having the possibility of secretly Chen Cang.

"Three shopkeepers, go from this side!" Peng Ze, who had come to Anping one step earlier, pulled Wang Ce up from a remote corner of the city wall.

Wang Ce stood on the city wall and looked left and right, but saw those people with weapons in hand, as if he didn't see a few of them.

"Yes, I didn't expect to be able to do this!"

Peng Zehan said with a smile: "If so much money is smashed, if it has no effect, Lao Peng will have no face to see the shopkeeper!"

"This is not the place to talk, let's enter the city first!"

Peng Ze handed over the hanging rope, and several people went down the city wall one after another along the rope and got into a carriage that had been prepared.

The ancestral house of the Boling Cui clan is in the north of Anping County, and the area is equivalent to half of Anping County.

When the Han Dynasty first set up Boling County, the Cui family was only a medium-sized family in the south of Anping County, and in the following hundreds of years, wars broke out frequently, and the wealthy families in the past were blown away by the rain and wind, but the original medium-sized families became bigger and bigger.

The war destroyed Anping County, and the new county seat slowly expanded to its current point based on Cui's ancestral home.

Looking from the south to the north, you can still see the row of fang walls that are even twice as tall as the city wall, which is the fortress built by the Cui family in the troubled times.

In addition to the wider door, there seems to be a smell of gunsmoke from the high walls.

"It's hard to fight!"

Peng Zexuan's residence was facing the Cui family's ancestral house, and after Wang Ce took a look, he put down the binoculars in his hand.

Just spied for a moment, but Wang Ce clearly felt several vigilant gazes.

"There should be more than one Grandmaster Realm master in it, and as for the private army, I'm afraid there are at least two thousand ......" Peng Ze, who came first, quickly reported the news that came in.

"Storm and wait until Li Heng's people come before starting, what we have to do now is to compete with the Cui family for the hearts of the people of Anping County, if the army comes, the people of Anping County are still on the Cui family's side, we will face a fortified city garrisoned by 200,000 people, and it is impossible to break through it with the prince's personal guards and more than 10,000 forbidden troops. ”

"Then we just need to make sure they don't run now?"

"They shouldn't transfer their manpower until they reach the end of the mountain, after all, if they do, they have to send a grandmaster to protect them......

The situation was similar to what Wang Ce expected.

At this moment, in the ancestral hall of the Cui family, there were thirty-seven white-haired old men gathered together.

These are all highly respected old men from all branches of the Cui family, and the clan conference will only be held when the family is facing a critical moment of life and death, but every year to worship the ancestors, you can't see so many old men appearing.

The atmosphere in the ancestral hall was very depressing, although the upper echelons of the Cui family suppressed the news from Chang'an, but the haze that shrouded the Cui family's mansion had made every Cui family member breathless.

"What did I say at the beginning? The position of the head of the family should not be passed on between father and son, but what about you? You have to covet his little favor, now it's okay, the whole family is going to die!"

"I have long been Cui Chengfeng, this kid can't become a big weapon, his eyes are low, and he is tyrannical and cruel, since he was ten years old, when is he not allowed to kill a few maids and maids in his yard?"

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"What's the use of talking about this now? Everyone has been killed at the doorstep, and if there is no response, all of us will have no way to live!"

"It's a war or a surrender, or let's get a charter!"

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This time, it's not just the emperor who wants to attack me, but several big mountains in the court are staring at our Cui family's fat meat, and even several other families...... When the time comes, who can guarantee that they will be on our side?"

"Almost all the children who are close have received the news, and they should be on the way back at this moment, but those who are far away from home as officials...... I'm afraid I'm going to be served by them!"

In the Cui family, the power of the head of the family is the strongest, although the clan assembly has the power to remove the head of the family, but this kind of non-permanent body is almost non-existent, and it really comes to the critical moment when the clan assembly needs to discuss the survival of the family, and the clan assembly does not have a strong leadership body.

In the past few times, almost all of them were dominated by the head of the clan assembly, but this time, even the head of the clan is dead, and now the clan assembly of the Cui family does not know whether to deal with the crisis first or elect a successor head first.

"The snake can't be headless, in my opinion, let's choose a successor first!"

This proposal has been thought about by many people present, but in the current situation, what is needed is a hero who can turn the tide, and the Cui family, who has been peaceful for a long time, really can't choose the right person.

At least few of the old people present were willing to push their sons into this fire pit.

"What's the matter? The dignified Boling Cui family, can't even choose a family master now?" The old man who just moved is one of the few people in the Cui family who can still think normally.

Seeing that everyone still didn't react, this person laughed back angrily: "Okay, I grabbed my head a few days ago, and now I don't even dare to stand up and say a word?"

"I think it's called Thirteen Lang!"

There are tens of millions of children in the Cui family, even if there are hundreds of people in the same generation, but only a few descendants can be ranked by these old people.

But the thirteen lang in this mouth made everyone confused.

"Didn't the old thirteen die twenty years ago?"

"It's not the one in the third room!" the man shook his head and said: "It's the third boy of the old seven families in Nancheng, the one who roamed the Western Regions alone a few years ago and started a good business from scratch!"

"He, they have already come out of five suits more than two hundred years ago, and they chose him as the head of the house, which is not in accordance with the rules!"

"When is it now?" the man shouted, "If you talk about the rules again, the Cui family will really be finished!"

"The three boys of the old seven families are really good, no one can rely on anyone, and they can take on a big responsibility by creating a great business in a wild place like the Western Regions!"

"Supporting the building to fall and turning the tide to the top, what our Cui family wants now is this kind of capable person to be the head of the house! I approve!"

"I'm for it too!"

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No matter what you think in your heart, this kind of situation is not the time to fight for power and profit, so let's help this kid up first, and then talk about it, everything is focused on getting through the current crisis.

This Thirteen Lang, who was far away from the Cui family's main house, actually just went back to his hometown this time to prepare to take his parents to the Western Regions, but the old people were unable to leave their homeland, so in order to persuade their parents, they stayed for a few more days, but they didn't want the position of the head of the family that he couldn't think of just falling from the sky and smashing down.

In Anping County, the situation is still in the making, most of the ordinary people don't know that something happened to the Cui family, and the people on the city wall are only a routine drill every year, although last year's drill has only passed for a long time, and there are obviously many more well-trained soldiers on the city wall this time......

Ordinary people would not and did not dare to guess that the Cui family, which had stood in Anping for thousands of years, would have any turmoil.

However, in the distant city of Chang'an, the condemnation of the Boling Cui family has developed to the point of heat.

With the completion of the last round of the scientific examination, the students who had endured for three days finally burst out with the vitality of young people.

All kinds of texts will be replaced by speeches condemning the Cui family, and students will no longer discuss the test questions of the past three days of exams, but will often question the family and the wealthy family.

Calls for fairness, the abolition of privileges, the abolition of discrimination, etc., these ideas are appealing to slogans or taking action, and such thoughts linger in the minds of students after the big exam.

Perhaps even the initiators did not expect that the atmosphere in Chang'an would intensify to such a point.

At the beginning, the Xu Party only wanted to use public opinion to put pressure on the seven sects and five surnames, forcing them to remain as silent as possible in the upcoming anti-Cui operation.

However, this kind of public opinion rendering against the wealthy family happened to meet the scientific examination, and every year's scientific examination, there are only a few dozen Jinshi and the first, among which the poor students are even rarer.

This time, it was rumored that the imperial court would admit ten times the number of places in previous years, but this did not alleviate the worries of poor students.

Even if the number of admissions is large, it is often the practice of the year, and the wealthy and the top will be only a handful.

This kind of result is not what many poor students want.

If it is in the past, it will be enough, after all, compared with previous years, there are more opportunities this year, but now that there is such a major event as the Cui family's rebellion, there is a wave of public opinion in Chang'an City to denounce the wealthy family.

The unwilling poor students will inevitably take the opportunity to vent this unwillingness.

When this emotion became more and more uncontrollable, the unwillingness gave rise to longing, and in the strong desire, the anger at the past injustice also exploded irrepressibly.

The situation has reached the verge of being very dangerous, and the children of wealthy families have closed their mouths of rebuttal, and even hid back at home, not daring to go out to face the poor students who are already going crazy.

And Xu Fan, the leader of the Xu Party, who learned of this change, couldn't say whether he was happy or worried about such a situation.