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The news of Jiang Di's suicide made most of Wanzhou's wealthy businessmen applaud. They had been trying to move the boulder that was weighing on their heads for a long time, and Jiang's financial industry was pumping capital from their industries while also extracting their profits. In the entire Wanzhou, only Jiang Di can stop the industry but still make money every day, and he has already become a public enemy of the merchants. Before Jiang Di committed suicide, the wealthy businessmen had decided that they could not let this financial giant go unwanted in Wanzhou. They guessed that the owners of the silver estate, led by the Jiang family, were extremely nervous because they could not recover their loans to the imperial capital, so they ran on them in large quantities in an attempt to oppress the Jiang family. Unknown small merchants and citizens also joined the run, and crowds of people surged day and night in front of Jiang's house. The subordinates of the wealthy merchants crowded into the crowd and quietly spread rumors that were unfavorable to the Jiang family. Jiang Di finally chose to commit suicide in front of everyone, and he also had his own considerations. The message he wanted to convey to the wealthy merchants was that he was indeed dead, and that the Jiang clan would no longer be their enemies. Secondly, the real downfall of the Jiang family is not good for the wealthy merchants, after all, these people have also saved a huge amount of gold baht in the Jiang family's silver village, and the Jiang family has fallen, and the gold baht on the books can no longer be redeemed. The wealthy businessmen are so run, to a certain extent, they believe that Jiang Di will not go bankrupt easily, Jiang Di is too powerful, since he led the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, he has always been able to skillfully cross one crisis after another, plain and calm. The wealthy businessmen trust Jiang Di, but they are hostile to him, which is a very subtle psychology.
However, now that Jiang Di is dead, the wealthy businessmen have found out that Jiang Di is actually going to die, and if the Jiang family follows Jiang Di to fall, then their money will be gone. After clapping their hands for a while, the wealthy businessmen suddenly became nervous. The people blocking the run in front of Jiang's Silver Village have not dispersed, and the people are becoming more and more nervous because of Jiang Di's death, and the run is even more crazy. Jiang Di has no wife and only a minor child. The Jiang family has a huge industry and strong hands, but no one can lead everyone and support the overall situation of the Jiang family. The wealthy businessmen could only scold themselves for being pigs' heads, and at the same time, one after another big cars drove to Jiang's silver village, just like Jiang Di did when he helped Zhou Qing, each big car was full of gold baht. These carts came to the silver treasury of the proud merchants, and at this time, as long as Jiang Di's son signed the IOU, these gold baht could be at his disposal, and the people who ran on it saw with their own eyes that boxes of gold baht were side by side, and they could be exchanged at will, and the rumors about the imminent fall of the Jiang family finally disappeared.
The wealthy businessmen forced Jiang Di to a dead end, Jiang Di forced the wealthy businessmen to a dead end, the wealthy businessmen had to turn back to save their enemies, and the power of the entire Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce helped the Jiang family come back to life. Jiang Di proved one thing with his death, whether it is life or death, he is the absolute leader of Wanzhou finance, and there is a whole generation gap between other people's insights and him. Chu Wuji, one of the giants of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, said with emotion: "Although Jiang Di is dead, he is still a living dragon. But Jiang Di is dead after all, and for more than 50 years, the Jiang family has been regarded as a family in decline. The businessmen no longer pay attention to this family, and no longer regard the Jiang family as an opponent or enemy, after all, Jiang Di is only a minor child, ignorant and ignorant, this family with only orphans and no widows needs to do their best to support such a large industry, not to mention external expansion?
However, contrary to the expectations of the merchants, Jiang Di's son was no less than his father, although his abilities and personality were in no way different from his father's. Jiang Di's son Jiang Yuyun was only six years old that year, Jiang Yuyun's son was Jiang Jingyuan, and Jiang Jingyuan's daughter was Jiang Ziyu. The three generations of this family blatantly surpassed Jiang Di, and decades later, with the help of King Kui, completely overthrew the rule of the Zhou Dynasty and established a new era. Jiang's status in the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce once again returned to the pinnacle of glory, making all wealthy businessmen bow down. This kind of situation of successive generations of talents between a family is extremely rare in history, no wonder some people suspect that Jiang Di's soul is transmitting the heroic will of the Zhou Wu era in the dark.
When the news of Jiang Di's death reached Su Jin's hands, he had already led a large army to land in Bizhigang. This was the first news he got after he went ashore, he realized that the situation was even more serious than he imagined, if Jiang Di couldn't steal his life, then the imperial party had already been defeated on all fronts, and everyone had turned their backs on them at this time, if the ancestral party wanted to be wiped out, it didn't seem that there was no chance at all. However, Su Jin had lost the opportunity to resist, and the legions of the various vassal states were immediately split and cut off from each other, and Su Jin was removed from command and taken over by the envoys of the princes. Wen Fuming promised that he would keep his promise to Su Jin no matter what, and Su Jin was disarmed and sent to the imperial capital.
The ancestral party finally returned to the peak of power, but Zhou Chun had to start thinking about the next step immediately. It seems that now the imperial party has collapsed on all fronts, but the emperor is not dead, Baili Yu is not dead, there are still a large number of elites of the imperial party alive, and some high-ranking officers who strongly supported the Northern Expedition were dispersed to various vassal states with the disbandment of the Zhou Wutie Brigade. But they still hold the actual military power, which Zhou Chun can't help but worry about. The name "Holy Hall" jumped into Zhou Chun's mind at this time, making him feel terrified and unable to sleep. The activities of the Templar Order, a mysterious organization with a strong atmosphere, were not drastic in the Zhou Wu Dynasty, and they were far less than the weekend era when King Xie Yulie was founded as the Grand Patriarch of the Templars. However, as the Templar's Sect Master, Ye Wang still had the support of a considerable number of Templars, who played an important role in the Northern Expedition. The Northern Expedition was seen by some Templars as an opportunity to end the war and establish a unified nation "for all", although some Templars took the opposite attitude. These Templars who supported the Northern Expedition joined the army (many of whom were originally mid- and high-ranking officers in the army, according to some sources), and became an important part of the Imperial Party. And what made Zhou Chun feel threatened was that he didn't quite understand what the motives of these Templars were. A secular warrior, Zhou Chun can entrap him with a comfortable life, power, and wealth, and can threaten him with his family to control him. But the Sanctuary was different, these people seemed to be some desperate idealists, and Zhou Chun had no idea where to start.
Zhou Chun believed that there was an undiscovered religious force behind the Templar Order, secretly supporting the Emperor, and that the Eastern Continent would not be at peace until this force was eliminated. At this time, a fortuitous event prompted Zhou Chun to make a decision, and the Ming Praetorian Guard general Su Changlong, who led the people to capture Ye Wang, was killed, and it was a young Templar who killed him. Regarding Su Changlong, the record of this person in history is only a few words, and there is no way to understand his life history. So he was killed because he led the crowd to capture Ye Wang. A soldier obeys an order to arrest a traitor, and it is said that there is nothing to fault in Li Changlong's behavior. However, it is speculated that the Lichanglong himself is likely to be a Templar. He captured Ye Wang, who was the sect leader of the Holy Church, which was a betrayal of the organization and was punished by the organization. During Zhou Qing's reign, the Templars were allowed to reveal their identities and obey various laws, but this incident made Zhou Chun keenly aware that the priority of these Templars was not government and military orders, but some kind of internal rules of the Templars.
In other words, it was the law of the Templars. Zhou Chun was an outstanding ruler of power, and he deeply understood that if there were two laws in the Eastern Continent, there would inevitably be turmoil. Zhou Chun decided to clear the Holy Church, along with all the senior officers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who had not yet been effectively loyal to the ancestral hall. This was a big killing, and it was not easy for Zhou Chun to make this decision. But he's the kind of guy who doesn't relent once he's made a decision. He sent letters to the various vassal states and circled the list of the first batch of "party rebels". The so-called "party rebellion" means that the erroneous northern expedition was proposed by the group of officers who formed the party, and the emperor was bewitched, so the party members should be held responsible. Wen Fuming also warned Su Jin about this.
The work of eliminating "party rebellion" was carried out quietly, and the princes were very cooperative. They even volunteered to submit a list to Zhou Chun, indicating that those in their army might be radical imperialists and should be punished. The officers of the Zhou Qing Dynasty under the banner of the Zhou Wuzhan were now the hearts of the princes, who desperately needed to regain control of their own army. The way to clear is very straightforward - assassination. Zhou Chun's choice of assassination as a means was actually a good intention, and he only wanted to purge the most dangerous people, especially the Templars, with precision. He did not want a public trial and a direct decree, which would lead to an indefinite purge and the princes would put anyone they wanted to get rid of on the list of "party rebels," which was not Zhou's intention. He just wants to cut off the most dangerous tumor from the body of the emperor. But the bloodshed will excite some people, especially the heads of the princely families who once had to bow to the imperial party, they are now in power, and they want to see the heads of the samurai who disobey them and let their majesty be swept to the ground, and they want these samurai to know that the Eastern Continent has never been the world of martial arts, and that the people in power here should always be a noble family of ministers.
It turned out that Zhou Chun had mastered a group of very elite killers, and these killers were likely to come from the secret underground organization "Tianluo". This group of killers who once rampaged in Tian Yuan City had been silent for many years, and now they had once again proved that no one could surpass them in their killing skills. People are killed every day, some in the streets, some in the barracks while strolling with their families, some in military tents for some reason, some in liquor shops just because they asked for a glass of liquor to relieve their sorrows, and some people are even taken off their heads while waiting for the face king outside the palace. This period of time is very short, but the cruelty and tragedy of the assassination are almost close to the dark and beautiful "Great Zhou Dynasty". The power apparatus of the imperial capital was running at great speed, and every few days a new assassination list was drawn up and quickly communicated to the various vassal states. The princes who had already expressed their allegiance to the ancestral party respectfully waited in their palaces for the envoy of the imperial capital, "Ti Wei". This secret army, originally created in the Great Zhou Dynasty, was originally a pure killer force, but it was impeached by the minister because of its unrestrained way of acting and was eventually canceled, and when Zhou Chun urgently restored this force, he didn't even consider changing a name. He didn't need to hide it, he sent "Ti Wei", that is, to tell the princes that these messengers were tasked with killing people. When the bloody storm raged from the imperial capital in all directions, someone finally couldn't help it.
This person is - Su Jin. He was the only one among the elite of the Imperial Party who did not go to prison because he chose to give in. He was deprived of all military rights and placed under house arrest. But he has more freedom than Emperor Zhou Qingdu, and the terminally ill Zhou Qing can't step out of the Taiqing Palace, while Su Jin can still walk the streets, but he has to be under the heavy "protection" of Ti Wei. Nominally, he was also the supreme commander of the royal army. The news of the elimination of "party rebellion" in various places also reached his ears, but he had no choice but to keep writing letters to his ministers to try to rescue his former subordinates. But he didn't get a chance to meet these ministers in person, and although he wasn't dead, he was no different from a wasted man.
An unexpected incident shook Su Jin. Qu Zihan, a Ming governor, was assassinated at the end of the assassination, and his son pleaded with no way, cut off his father's head, and quietly infiltrated the imperial capital with him. The young man's wishful thinking that the endless assassinations were the work of Duke Ao Yichuan of Ming, he hoped that he would have the opportunity to speak directly to the imperial ministers. But this young man has no connections in the emperor, so naturally he can't see any high-ranking officials of the royal family. He wandered the streets and found Su Jin, who was neatly laid, strolling there. The young man realized that there was a high-ranking royal official standing in front of him, so he rushed into the queue of Ti Wei desperately and complained to Su Jin in a loud voice. After he was stopped, he threw his father's head in the burden towards Su Jin. This reckless act of course ended with the killing of the young man, and anyone can imagine the heartache that Su Jin suffered at that time.
According to history, on the night of November 11 in the winter of the seventeenth year of Emperor Wu of Zhou, Su Jin went out of Ji Palace with a sword. No Ti Wei could stop him, these people who made a living from assassination probably never thought about why Su Jin rarely charged into battle, it seems that this general who broke the army is not good at martial arts. The real reason is that Su Jin is really not good at battlefield martial arts, and he has learned assassination martial arts since he was a child. The imperial capital Su clan, this is from the Tianluo family, Su Jin can't be like Ye Wang to ride a horse and there is no one in the palace, but with a single sword, he can make the opponent angry when he is the first to shine. At this time, the leaders of the ancestral hall party were discussing at Wen Fuming's home, which was the Xie family's old residence "Zhou Ye City". The defense of this old mansion is almost the strongest among the mansions in Tian Yuan City, it has a twelve-foot high wall, surrounded by a water canal, and the walkway in it is extremely complicated, many houses surround the main building in the middle, this main building is decorated with a lot of iron products, extremely tall and majestic, in the shape of a tower, called "Iron Tower" by the people in Tian Yuan City. The people on the "Iron Tower" can easily catch all the disturbances below, and there is only one way to the tower, which is tightly guarded by the guards. The ancestral hall party chose such a place to hold a meeting, and naturally there were reasons for it. However, Su Jin broke through all defenses and broke into the venue when the ancestral hall party was in session, carrying a bloodstained sword. In the manner of assassins and dead soldiers, the Breaker put his sword on the conference table, and put his own life there calmly, for the lives of his comrades. In the end, he got it.