When it came to business, Gu Jialuo gradually put aside the shame and inexplicable palpitations in his heart, and said solemnly: "Uncle, the robbers of Wufeng Mountain and the 'Yicheng' group we met on the road are all that person's subordinates?" ”

Qi Jinzhi nodded slowly, "That's right, it's a private soldier raised by the King of Annan hundreds of miles away." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

was intercepted and killed on the way, Qi Jinzhi interrogated several clues from the mouth of the deliberately left 'tongue', although he could not directly prove the main messenger behind it, but he also had a suspicious target.

After thinking about it, Qi Jinzhi secretly contacted the eyeliner cultivated by the Qi family in the southwest, handed over these clues to them, and asked them to find out the truth as soon as possible.

The Qi family has been operating in the southwest for decades, and its achievements are not only a large battalion in the southwest, as well as dozens of middle-level generals, but also secret agents and eyeliners scattered all over the southwest.

These people are all orphans adopted by the Qi family, brainwashed since childhood, received strict training, and have the ability and loyalty.

They are usually like ordinary people, but they prefer to 'listen to stories' more than ordinary people, and when the master has an order, they will not hesitate to receive the order, no matter how difficult or unbelievable the task they receive.

The saint and many veteran nobles were secretly speculating, suspecting that Qi Ziru, the ancestor of the Qi family, had left hole cards for future generations.

That's right, Qi Ziru did leave a very rich 'legacy' to his descendants, and the secret agent was just one of them.

Qi Jinzhi's order was issued, and more than a dozen spies living in the southeast of Yunnan were all mobilized, each showing their abilities, and within a few days, conclusive news was transmitted.

"The king of Annam has more than 1,500 private soldiers, and he has colluded with the wealthy clans in the three counties under the rule of Wumeng, and he also has dealings with Liang Yi......"

Excluding his parents and relatives, Gu Jialuo is Qi Jinzhi's closest person, and her words, completely dispelled Qi Jinzhi's disgust, dissatisfaction and suspicion of her because of the dream.

And Gu Jialuo's words also prove a fact: Gu Jialuo is not an ignorant and weak woman who has no knowledge, but a person with courage, vision, and even some political acumen.

When an ordinary woman heard that her pillow had cut off more than 200 heads, and she ordered someone to build a Jingguan and place it at the gate of her house, even if she understood it in her heart, she couldn't help but be afraid.

Gu Jialuo is different, she calmly grasped the key - to govern the troubled times, you must use heavy codes! As for murder, first, those who deserve it should be killed; Second, it is also a means of deterrence.

…… This is Qi Jinzhi's most needed and favorite wife!

Inexplicably, Qi Jinzhi actually had a feeling of confidant to Gu Jialuo, and he didn't hide much from her, and briefly told the results of the secret agent's investigation.

Of course, due to Zu Xun (except for the head of the Qi family and the heir, the third person must not be informed of the hole cards), Qi Jinzhi hid the secret agent and said that he had found an old colleague from the southwest camp to help.

Gu Jialuo didn't care about this, she was attracted by what Qi Jinzhi said, "It's really him." What is he trying to do? Could it be him, he really thought-"

A pair of eyebrows frowned, Gu Jialuo's fingers lightly buckled the tabletop, and his lushy little face was full of puzzlement.

In fact, Gu Jialuo, who is familiar with history, knows very well that the king of Annan, who was not in the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty, and the nephew of the waste clan in the eyes of the sage, actually had the courage to rebel.

"But why? From the Gaozu Dynasty to the present, the successive kings of Annan have been favored by the saints, and the royal family has taken a lot of care of the Annan Palace," Gu Jialuo had a clear heart, but he still pretended not to know anything, and muttered to himself in confusion.

The king of Nan'an's surname is Xiao, but he is not of the same clan as the royal family of Daqi.

The first king of Annan was named Xiao Yan, who was a small official in the previous dynasty, and met Qi Gaozu by chance, and occasionally had a conversation, he was deeply impressed by the domineering spirit of this hidden dragon, and willingly became the little brother of Qi Gaozu.

It just so happened that the two had the same surname, and Qi Gaozu wanted to connect with Xiao Xiaodi.

Xiao Yan is only a few years younger than Qi Gaozu, and it stands to reason that they should be brothers to each other.

But I don't know where to talk about the generation, Xiao Yan actually became the nephew of Grandpa Gao, and in the end, like Qi Ziru, he was recognized as a righteous son by Gaozu and became one of the twenty-eight famous tiger generals in the future.

However, compared with other friends, Xiao Yan seems to be luckier and more trusted by Qi Gaozu.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, Qi Gaozu was crowned a meritorious hero, and the twenty-eight tigers received their own rewards according to their respective contribution values, of which four people had great merit and were able to be crowned kings, becoming the only four kings with different surnames in the history of Great Qi.

There was no Xiao Yan among the four kings, and at that time Xiao Yan only got the title of Marquis of Annan and guarded Annan.

In the later period of Gaozu, the late emperor carried out a great purge, and more than half of the twenty-eight tiger generals fell-

Clever and lucky, he barely kept his title;

The clever but unlucky were taken back from the Danshu iron coupon and demoted;

There are also those who are neither smart nor unlucky, either exiled with their families, or simply exterminated by their families.

There is only one exception, not only was he not cooked by the cold-blooded old emperor, but he was also promoted to the title, from a marquis to a prince, although he was only a county king, but he was also hereditary.

It's not without reason.

In the month of that year, Xiao Yan entered Beijing to congratulate Zhengdan as customary, and entered the palace to receive a banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The New Year was originally a festive event, but in the past two years, the old emperor raised the butcher's knife, making the capital bloody.

For a while, the vegetable market was cutting people every day.

The entire capital was filled with a lingering smell of blood.

Whether it is the common people or civil and military officials, everyone is in danger and silent, and the most prosperous and lively city in the world has become like a dead city.

Even on Chinese New Year's Eve, there was not much laughter.

At the palace banquet, the nobles and courtiers who came to the banquet suppressed the fear in their hearts and forced their faces to laugh, and the scene was very deserted.

Xiao Yan is a straightforward (or coarse) person, he has not been to the capital for a long time, he does not know the current situation in Beijing in the past two years, and he is still like the past, with a smile on his face, he comes to the 'father-in-law' to toast and tell jokes.

Xiao Yan was clumsy, and the jokes he told were not funny at all, but Gao Zu liked his simple temperament very much, and he actually laughed very face-saving.

Xiao Yan was greatly encouraged when he saw that his father-in-law was happy, and racked his brains to think of a joke.

In order to strengthen the laughing fruit, he also deliberately used his hands and feet to make a gesture, which fell in the eyes of Gao Zu, this cheap son was as silly and cute as a clumsy bear.

At this moment, the palace maid brought the newly hot water and wine, Xiao Yan waved his hand violently, accidentally knocked over the tray, and the wine spilled all over the ground.

The palace maid suddenly turned pale with fright, her legs were weak, and she knelt on the ground and shouted 'spare her life'.

This is not normal!

Although the palace maid did make a mistake, she would also be punished according to the palace rules. But the main responsibility is still Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan has already apologized to Grandpa Gao, Grandpa Gao is in a very good mood at this time, so he did not severely punish a palace maid.

But this palace maid seemed to be so frightened that she lost her soul and continued to kowtow to ask for sin.

Qi Gaozu was suspicious, and immediately discovered that something was wrong. Check, drag this down and torture me for a good time, I will definitely find out!

The Golden Scale Guard immediately dispatched, and it didn't take half an hour to ask for the result.

It turned out that the wine that the palace maid had just sent was mixed with poison.

Qi Gaozu's bloody purge really provoked a backlash from some founding veterans.

In order not to let themselves become the next 'unjust ghost', several veterans got together and talked secretly, trying to get a strange poison in the Western Regions, smellless and colorless, and extremely poisonous, bought several chamberlains and palace maids in the palace, and wanted to take advantage of the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet to end the tyrant with a glass of wine.

The plan went very smoothly, but there was an accident with Xiao Yan, a fool.

The next day, Gao Zu didn't care that it was a good day on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so he insisted that Jin Liangwei raided the homes of those veterans and severely interrogated the 'comrades'.

Some people were tortured, but they dragged some people indiscriminately, and Gao Zu did not hesitate, and directly ordered Jin Liangwei to arrest people according to the list on the confession.

One after another, this case was investigated from Zhengdan to the end of February, and I don't know how many people were implicated, and the ditch at the entrance of the vegetable market was dyed red.

Xiao Yan has made a great contribution, Qi Gaozu originally liked this 'heartless' stupid son, and now he is even more pleasing to the eye.

After being stingy all his life, Grandpa Gao was rarely generous, and directly made Xiao Yan the king of the county, and ordered him and his descendants to live in Annan.

Xiao Yan's genes are very strong, and his eldest son, the second king of Annan, is also an 'innocent' person.

I don't study, I don't practice martial arts, I eat, drink, play and play all day long, and I have lived a life without heart and lungs.

Even a suspicious and conceited person like the first emperor also liked this 'stupid big fat' nephew, and the Annan royal palace passed the treacherous first emperor dynasty smoothly.

The current king of Annan, Xiao Rugui, is the fourth, 20 years old this year, but the degree of 'silly' is quite a bit of a 'blue out of the blue and better than the blue'.

In any case, Xiao Yan and his son, although their nerves are coarse, their reactions are slow, and their brains are still tendoned, they are not really stupid, and fools can't be the founding heroes.

But Xiao Rugui is really stupid, mentally like a five or six-year-old child, he is obese, and his feet are still a little inflexible.

It's just that Xiao Rugui is an only son, or a posthumous son, his father, the third king of Annan died because of the first emperor, and the royal family wants to be embarrassed, no matter what, he can't treat Xiao Rugui, a poor stupid child.

Besides, Annan is located in a remote area, and it was only incorporated into the Chinese territory in the previous dynasty, and the Great Qi Emperor did not attach importance to this area, even if Xiao Rugui was so stupid that Annan was gone, the emperor was not distressed.

Even the officials of the court didn't take this matter to heart.

However, no one thought that such a 'foolish prince' would actually raise an army to rebel, collude with King Xiaoliang to swallow Yunnan and occupy Guizhou, and also scourge most of the Shu land, stirring up the entire southwest!

Gu Jialuo pretended to be puzzled, and at the same time recalled this history carefully.

She seemed to remember that it was mentioned in a history book that the reason why Xiao Rugui rebelled was still a little related to the Qi family.

"Speaking of which, King Annan still has something to do with our family, to be precise, it was the aunt next door who caused the trouble......" Qi Jinzhi pondered for a long time and told the secret of the Qi family. (To be continued.) )