No one cared about Liu Zhang's grievances, and the struggle between the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou faction broke out for the second time after Zhao Wei's death.

In this battle, in fact, Liu Zhang's opinion is very important.

After all, he is the king of Hanzhong, the king, and the leader, everyone has their own little Jiujiu, but Liu Zhang is not a puppet, when the two factions fight, Liu Zhang's opinion is quite important.

Pang Xi originally had military prestige and military power, but this Northern Expedition was delayed, and the army was not completely without complaints, and Pang Xi was greatly criticized.

That's why he was eager to find the culprit from the locals in Yizhou to make up for his shortcomings.

But it's not easy.

Wang Shang didn't let go, Liu Zhang couldn't lose the support of the Dongzhou people, and of course he wouldn't allow Wang Shang to speak, Wang Shang himself knew that he couldn't speak, so he didn't say anything.

Fa Zheng wanted to use torture to extract a confession, but Zhang Su intervened, and Zhang Su's intervention prevented Fa Zheng from giving full play to his full potential, and he was unable to make progress for a long time.

As a result, the contradictions between the Yizhou people and the Dongzhou people became more intense, and the officials and generals on both sides were full of gunpowder when they met, and the situation in Hanzhong was very bad.

Both sides began to work Liu Zhang, looking for a breakthrough in Liu Zhang, hoping that Liu Zhang could give them a little help and push the other party's power to the bottom in one go.

As far as Liu Zhang is concerned, when facing the people of Dongzhou, his heart is still a little empty.

Because of the failure of this Northern Expedition, in essence, he nodded and did something.

Pang Xi's posture of biting to death and not letting go made Liu Zhang, who wanted to pass this matter like this, felt very uncomfortable, he always felt that Pang Xi was targeting him, and when he got rid of the people of Yizhou, he also thought about getting rid of him, and even had plans to be the next Zhao Wei.

If you want to say that Liu Zhang is also a thief with a weak heart and has done bad things, for fear of being known, he is afraid that Wang Shang will not be able to keep the secret, so he will tell it in one bite, making him faceless.

Feeling that it was very bad to have a handle in his hand, Liu Zhang felt that he had to do something to keep this secret, otherwise his position would not be kept.

Wang Shang must die, and those who know about this must also die.

Feeling uneasy, Liu Zhang made such a decision.

So at the beginning of the first month of the sixth year of Xingping, Liu Zhang held a banquet in Hanzhong to feast the ministers, and when everyone didn't notice, he sent someone to the prison to secretly strangle Wang Shang to death, and then put on the illusion of hanging himself.

On the second day after the banquet, after everyone regained consciousness, they noticed that Wang Shang was dead and hanged.

The Yizhou scholars were inexplicably sad and angry, and pointed the finger at Fa Zheng and Pang Xi, saying that they tortured Wang Shang to death, and now they want to deceive everyone that Wang Shang hanged himself.

Of course, Fa Zheng and Pang Xi denied that they did it, they still wanted to ask the truth from Wang Shang's mouth, so as to expand the scope of the struggle, and get rid of the forces of the Yizhou faction in one go, how could they kill Wang Shang?

But the Yizhou scholars ran to Liu Zhang's group crying, Liu Zhang's heart was secretly happy, and then Liu Zhang immediately complied with the people's will, regardless of 3721, and directly removed Fazheng's position.

He ordered Fa Zheng to be thrown into the prison for interrogation, and he must find out the truth about Wang Shang's death, and ordered Pang Xi not to leave the house, and to stay at home to reflect on his mistakes.

The situation has changed, from the trial of Wang Shang to the arrest and trial of Fa Zheng, it has only been a little more than a month, and the wind of this political struggle has gradually changed.

Losing Fa Zheng's plan, Pang Xi was very uneasy.

At this time, there were some other scholars around him, such as Cheng Ji, so Pang Xi asked Cheng Ji what he should do in this situation.

Cheng Yi persuaded Pang Xi to admit his mistake to Liu Zhang, saying that what Pang Xi had done before was really a bit excessive, judging from his action of drawing a knife to kill Wang Shang, his suspicion was indeed the greatest, and Cheng Xi also doubted whether Pang Xi really sent someone to do it in private.

Pang Xi's eyes widened, and his face was innocent, saying that this was really not done by himself.

"I also want to ask Wang Shang from his mouth that his accomplices will be severely punished, how can he kill Wang Shang? If Zhang Su hadn't been obstructing, I would have let Xiaozhi torture a long time ago, but those Yizhou people always blocked me, which is very hateful, at this time, why did Ji Ran still doubt me? It doesn't do me any good that Wang Shang died before he was convicted. ”

Cheng Yi said that it was not that he wanted to suspect Pang Xi, but that Pang Xi was too suspicious.

Pang Xi was even more uneasy in his heart, feeling that it was not okay to continue like this, Cheng Ji just asked him to write to Liu Zhang and admit his mistake to Liu Zhang, but he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.

"If I really did something wrong, I just admit it, but what did I do wrong?"

"The general should admit his mistake about the loss of honor in front of the palace, so as to make the king happy, and then justify that he did not do anything to murder Wang Shang, saying that he will definitely find out the matter and return his innocence, so that the situation can be reversed."

Pang Xi felt that what Cheng Yi said made sense, so he wrote to Liu Zhang, confessed his mistake to Liu Zhang, and then expressed his intentions.

Liu Zhang felt quite happy when he saw the mistake in the first half, and took a look at the back to find out about Wang Shang's death, and his face suddenly collapsed.

How does this work?

If he really finds out that the murderer is me, then how should I deal with myself?

A ruler plots to kill his own generals and courtiers?

Liu Zhang realized that he had done something stupid before, and now in order to make up for this stupid thing, he must do more things to make up for it, and these things are getting bigger and bigger, and if he doesn't show his feet, he will probably not be able to clean up.

But if you don't do it, you won't even have a chance to clean up.

Liu Zhang began to feel that Pang Xi was very annoying to bite all kinds of things, and he was very uneasy, so he wrote back to Pang Xi.

said that he was very satisfied with Pang Xi's attitude of admitting his mistakes, and for Wang Shang's matter, he hoped that Pang Xi would not participate anymore, now that there was a dead man, it had caused discord among the ministers, did Pang Xi continue to do this?

Pang Xi felt very strange after receiving the reply, so he wrote to Liu Zhang, telling Liu Zhang that this matter was too important.

If the mastermind behind the scenes is not found out and severely punished, these people will stand up and drag their feet back during the Northern Expedition in the future, and there will be no possibility for Liu Zhang to go to Chang'an to be the emperor.

Be a ghost emperor?

Liu Zhang is now uncomfortable physically and mentally, and he is afraid that what he has done will be discovered, for fear that his current status as the king of Hanzhong will be threatened, and he will be a ghost emperor!

He even felt that he shouldn't have come to Hanzhong, and letting Pang Xi enter Hanzhong was a huge mistake, a big mistake!

How good it is to stay in Shu honestly, and let Zhang Lu resist Guo Peng and give himself a disaster!

Why bother to come here to be the king of Hanzhong of this Laoshizi!

Liu Zhang regretted that he was blinded by lard at that time, and he actually wanted to go further.

But now the situation has reached this point, and it is difficult to recover the water, Liu Zhang feels uneasy after thinking about it, and feels that there is only one way to use it.

He found his brother Liu Mao's wife's brother, Wu Yi.

Wu Yi was a native of Chenliu County, Yanzhou, and his uncle Wu Kuang was a subordinate officer of the general He Jin.

When Liu Yan moved to Yizhou as the pastor, Wu Yi took the whole family to enter Shu with Liu Yan because his father had a good relationship with him, and was one of the representatives of the Dongzhou faction who followed Liu Yan as his basic plate to enter Shu.

However, Wu Yi is low-key, although the Wu family has a very high status under Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, but Wu Yi himself does not compete with Pang Xi, so Pang Xi's status and power have always been above Wu Yi.

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