Zhang Zhongjian sighed at this time: "Having said that, you have forgotten one thing: if King Zhou dies, then who will everyone support as the new master?" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone was stunned. Yu Wenming has several 'daughters', but they are all young, and the only son has just been born, just named Yu Wenfeng, and he is not yet a full moon. If he is in power, it does not hurt to have ministers and generals assist him in coming of age, and then he will take power. But now it is a 'chaotic' world, and it is competing for domination of the world. Is it possible to ask everyone to pledge allegiance to a newborn baby?

And Yuwen Yuqing's sister Yuwen Yuqing is also a 'female' generation and cannot inherit the throne, in this case, nine times out of ten, one of the other children of the Yuwen family will be selected as the new lord.

Hu Sizheng couldn't help but smile bitterly at this time: "General Zhang, do you mean that Pei Ju has already found an agent in Yuwen's family?" ”

"Yes! According to Pei Renji's plan, at this time, they will support Yu Wencheng, the cousin of the king of Zhou, as the new king of Zhou, and calm down the situation in Beiping City and other places. Then the generals and officials loyal to the king of Zhou were gradually removed and replaced with their people. ”

Zhang Zhongjian also said solemnly: "This plan was formulated by Pei Ju, and then after Hedong, Hebei, Shandong, Liaodong and other places calm down, he will come to the front from the backstage and announce that the Shandong Shi clan will support Gao Jian, a descendant of the former Northern Qi royal family, as the emperor." The country name was changed to Qi, and he Pei Ju was still the prime minister. ”

Everyone was stunned by Zhang Zhongjian's plan for Pei Ju at this time, if the plan formulated by Pei Ju was implemented by Pei Renji and the Shandong Shi clan, it was indeed very likely to succeed.

"I didn't expect this guy Yu Wencheng to be so 'bastard'! actually secretly took refuge in Pei Ju, and the vain husband was so good to him regardless of his previous suspicions! When the eldest grandson Wujian heard this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, she knew too well how Yu Wencheng treated Yu Wenming before.

"Forget it, innocent, don't be angry with yourself. It's not surprising that Yu Wencheng can do such a thing. Ever since I was a child, he always thought that I was an 'illegitimate child' and treated me with disdain, but when I gradually 'emerged', he changed his psychology and always wanted to overwhelm me. Now that the Yuwen family has decayed, I am developing better and better, he is originally a stingy person, and it is inevitable to repay virtue with grievances in anger! "Yu Wenming can see it.

"Having said that, this person's revenge is intolerable for me to wait as a wife! After this incident is settled, Yuwen Cheng must be cut with a thousand knives! Li Xiuning, Yang Luoqi, and Red Sleeves also said indignantly.

At this time, Song Jingang couldn't help it, got up and asked for help: "King Zhou, the last general is now willing to lead a group of troops to arrest a cadre of criminals and eliminate this rebellion in the bud!" ”

Yu Wenming looked very calm at the moment, he smiled slightly and said: "General Song doesn't need to worry, according to the king's opinion, we might as well come and make a plan and wipe them ......out."

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Seeing that the New Year is coming, but the city of Beiping is rumored to be noisy, a group of mountain rain 'want' to come, after the rumors that King Zhou wants to do something to the major families of the Shandong Shi clan, Pei, Cui, Lu, Zheng and other four major families have frequently come and go to discuss.

In the secret room of the Pei family, Pei Renji presided over the last meeting before the mutiny, but at the meeting, he did not agree to the proposal to launch it in advance. This was because there were less than a hundred dead men with him, and he had no confidence to win if he wanted to start early.

And if it was launched on Chinese New Year's Eve as originally planned, his son Pei Xingyan led a large number of dead soldiers to come, and the possibility of victory greatly increased.

Of course, the main reason why he was reluctant to launch in advance was that Pei Renji thought that Yu Wenming was unlikely to preemptively attack the Shandong Shi clan without conclusive evidence. Although this king of Zhou has such power, acting so hastily will chill everyone's hearts and discourage many people who want to come to defect. Therefore, for those rumors in the market, Pei Renji thinks that it is more likely that Yu Wenming wants to release it to test the reaction of the Shandong Shi clan. Therefore, under his persuasion, the heads of the family still unanimously decided to act according to the original plan.

The later development also proved the correctness of Pei Renji's judgment, although the Zhou army moved frequently, completed the change of guard of many troops, and strengthened the surveillance of the mansion of the Shandong scholars, but did not enter the palace to arrest people. The two sides are in a fragile state of peace.

While the military and people of the whole city were a little nervous, the Chinese New Year's Eve, which had been 14 years old, had finally arrived, and today, it was the first day of the first lunar month, ushering in a new year.

According to the practice of the Liaodong military and political fǔ era, as the supreme commander of the Zhou army, he will lead the middle and senior generals of the army to hold a ceremony to commemorate the fallen soldiers.

After the Zhou army entered Beiping, the memorial ceremony was set on Wanshou Mountain, fifteen miles north of the city.

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In the early morning, the genius 'Meng' and 'Meng' brightened, and the Zhou Wang's Mansion was already brightly lit, and people shouted and neighed. A large number of soldiers were already dressed in armor and armed with spears, and stood on both sides of the street.

At this time, the people in Beiping City had already changed into new clothes, like rushing to the market, to gather on both sides of the street leading to the 'gate' of the North City of the Zhou Palace, ready to participate in the commemoration of the martyrs of Wanshou Mountain.

Along the way, there are a lot of people, and there is an endless stream on both sides of the road, but it is orderly. It shows that since the Zhou army entered Beiping, this famous northern city has been revitalized, and its popularity and order are far better than the scene at the peak of the Great Sui.

Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong walked at the front of the convoy, leading 5,000 Lin Wei to open the way.

Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang commanded the city guards to maintain order along the way.

All the houses, city walls, hills, trees and other commanding heights that may sneak attack the memorial convoy are guarded by Yulin Guard soldiers and are heavily guarded.

If there are assassins, they can only succeed if they 'mingle' among the people and then unleash a thunderous strike in an instant.

Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Hu Sizheng, Xu Shiji and other ministers arrived in front of the Zhou Palace's mansion early and joined Yu Wenming. They also got into a carriage for civil officials, and followed behind the luxurious carriage with the flag of King Zhou 'inserted'.

There are a total of five luxury carriages like this, which are Yu Wenming, Yuwen Yuqing, Changsun Wuji, Li Xiuning and Red Sleeves. Yang Luoqi was supposed to participate, but because she was going to be confined, she had to be worshiped by her cousin Li Xiuning.

And not long after the convoy set off from King Zhou's mansion, a man in a man's shirt hiding in the crowd snorted coldly, and secretly said in his heart: "This Yu Wenming is really cautious, and 'get' five identical carriages to come out." If I hadn't witnessed the fourth carriage he got on, I'm afraid that the people in front of me would have attacked the first carriage. ”

Immediately, he 'pulled' out of the crowd, quickly entered the tailor's shop not far from the Zhou Wang's mansion, and then stuffed a small note with the words "The target is in the fourth car" to the old tailor.

And the tailor who has always been famous for his old dizzy 'flowers' on the whole street, at this time, suddenly 'shot' a trace of 'fine' light in his eyes. Then he called his apprentice and whispered a few words in his ear.

The apprentice understood, and immediately said, "I'll go and deliver the goods!" ”

Moments later, he vanished outside the store at breakneck speed.

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The Zhou army of the brigade had already left the city 'gate', and after leaving the city, they marched in the direction of Wanshou Mountain.

Hundreds of people cheered on both sides of the official road, expressing their support and love for Yu Wenming.

In the past few years, the newly established Great Zhou court has halved the original poll tax, and the commercial tax and land tax have also been greatly reduced, and at the same time, a large amount of ownerless land has been distributed to the peasants, basically realizing that the cultivators have their own land. Seeds and farming tools were also distributed to the displaced people. Naturally, it was unanimously supported by the common people, even if the area currently ruled by the Great Zhou was an area with very strong influence from the Shandong Shi clan. They also did not dare to have any criticism of Yu Wenming's policies.

Therefore, when Pei Ju was making a plan, he didn't dare to openly pull up the anti-flag, but only dared to let Pei Renji buy Yuwencheng over and let him come forward to clean up the mess after Yuwenming's death.

At this moment, the two generals Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong, who were at the forefront, were ordering Yu Linwei, who had more than 300 people, to lead the wolf dogs and conduct a carpet search in the woods and grass on both sides of the official road to prevent the enemy from hiding in the grass and woods and launching a sneak attack on King Zhou and Princess Zhou.

Guo Ziyi and Lin Zimo led a large number of personal guards, disguised as civilians, mixed in with the people, vigilantly monitoring the suspicious characters among the people along the way.

Five luxurious carriages, as well as more than a dozen ordinary carriages carrying civil ministers, were guarded by at least eight soldiers, all of whom held a one-man tall 'fine' steel shield in their left hand and a razor-sharp Damascus black steel knife in their right hand, and were impeccable in defense.

The security work can be said to be done to the extreme.

Looking at the cavalry of the Zhou army, which was clearly armored, tall and tall, and neatly looked at the army, the people along the way flashed to both sides of the road, knelt on the ground and bowed, and shouted Long live the Great Zhou.

Song Jingang, who maintained the order of the people, looked at such a tight defense, and couldn't help but sigh lightly: "King Zhou's arrangement is really an eye-opener for Song, such a defense, it is estimated that as many assassins will die as many as they come......"

Wei Chi Jingde was beside him at the moment, but after hearing this, he shook his head and said: "This is not careless, if it were someone else, I would have the same opinion as General Song, but this Pei Renji is one of the four famous generals of my Great Sui." Don't underestimate it, General Song must not be promoted because his surname is Pei, and he was promoted because of Pei Ju's light. The command and combat level of this person is by no means inferior to that of famous generals such as Zhang Xutuo, Qu Tutong, and Yujuluo. ”

Song Jingang said disapprovingly: "Even if Pei Renji is powerful, it is also a powerful war, assassination and war are completely different things, according to Song, is King Zhou going too far?" If I were Pei Renji, seeing this situation, I was afraid that I would also feel that I didn't know where to start, and I would retreat from the difficulty. ”

Wei Chi Jingde shook his head and said, "Probably not!" The enemy, however, has been planning for a long time, and has made so many deployments, that he should not retreat from this. After all, they are also afraid that we will uproot them with the power of thunder. Pei Renji should have a way to deal with it. We must not be careless! ”