In the back garden, the remnants of the flowers will be defeated, the autumn is bleak, the weather is not too cold, but Du Mingyu ordered people to surround the thick cloth curtains, and the four corners lit the fire plate, decorating the lake pavilion with warmth like spring.

His injuries are not healed yet!

Although he couldn't see it on the surface, Xu You's heart was like a mirror, killing Zhu Fayan made Du Mingyu pay a great price, and it may have improved compared to the last time they met, but it was still not completely healed, so he was so afraid of cold and wind.

"I heard Liu Yan say, you made a bet with him?"

"It's a small gamble, it's okay to be idle anyway!"

Du Mingyu's eyes were quite playful, and he said: "Seventy million yuan plus an article that is enough to make you unable to gain a foothold in the Chu State, in exchange for the life of a little girl in Su Tang, you have lost a lot of money!" ”

"Money is nothing but external things, I made 70 million in a year, and I can earn this amount again in a year. As for the text, this is the Holy Lord, and you can understand my last resort! ”

"Holy Lord?"

Du Mingyu raised his head and laughed, and said, "Qilang, Qilang, you have always refused to cooperate with me happily, do you still resent the prince in your heart?" ”

Xu You said lightly: "The prince is the king, the thunder and rain are all the king's grace, but there is only one Qi people in the next, and I dare not hold grudges!" ”

"There's nothing to dare to, a man was born between heaven and earth, and his family feud is like the sea, so he can't help but revenge!" Du Mingyu pressed his hands on the stone table, leaned forward, his eyes were blazing, he looked directly at Xu You, and said: "However, there is a debtor and a debtor, you have to take revenge, but don't make the wrong object!" ”

Xu You raised his eyebrows, did not speak, and waited for Du Mingyu's next words.

"Qilang never thought that it is true that the prince and the Yixing Xu family have a feud, but most of those disputes are for state affairs, why would he risk the world and resolutely send troops to exterminate your Xu family?"

Xu You lowered his head, staring at the wine in the jade cup, the reflected handsome face couldn't see the joy and anger, and said, "The world knows what the prince's temperament is. There are many ministers who have died in his hands over the years, not to mention that the Xu family has offended him in death, and has always refused to bend down and obey, it is not surprising that there is such an end! ”

A history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, especially involving the royal family of the surnames, all kinds of absurd and strange things emerge in endlessly, if you interpret it according to ordinary logic and habitual cognition, you will only be confused and do not know what to do. What imperial tricks, what trade-offs, what royal domineering, all have been replaced by simple and brutal killing and blood, so that I think I have read a fake history.

Character determines fate, it is by no means an empty word, the prince is violent and impulsive, and his measurement is narrow, what does he dare not do? In the eyes of the prince, he may think that if he exterminated the Xu family, at most he would summon the emperor to reprimand, but it could make other local wealthy families fearful, suppress those who had the same objections to him as the Xu family, show his personal prestige, and achieve the purpose of stabilizing the position of the prince.

These reasons are very likely, before Xu You was reborn, the owner of this body was obsessed with martial arts and was not enthusiastic about family affairs, plus he was still young, and the elders in the clan rarely let him participate in any important matter, so he knew very little about the inside stories before and after the Yixing Change, but he could always guess a rough idea.

"I don't deny that the prince wants to destroy the Xu family and then hurry up, it is said that there are three names written in the secret room of the East Palace, and the first one is Xu Zhan! But the crown prince can wait until he ascends the throne before making a move on the Xu family, why do he choose now, choose this not a good time? ”

Du Mingyu's voice was calm and calm, full of trusting persuasiveness, and said: "You are a smart person, haven't you ever thought about why An Zidao happened to leave Jingxi Hunting in those days, and let the crown prince supervise the prime minister of the country for the first time?" How did Wu Xing Shen's private soldiers hide from the court officials and post guards along the way and arrived near Yixing, why did Tianshi Dao not be afraid of the emperor's suspicion and go to Yixing to congratulate your grandfather on his birthday? Why did you miss the appointment on the occasion of your birthday?"

On the night of Yixing's bloodshed, the reason why he was able to neatly wipe out the important people of the Xu family was because the Heavenly Master Sun Guan promised to come to Yixing to celebrate the birthday of Xu You's grandfather Xu Zhan. In order to welcome Sun Guanfa, the Xu family recalled almost all the children who were outside to Yixing to show respect for the Heavenly Master, but they were served by the Shen family, and only Xu You escaped.

Xu You's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly raised his head and said, "You mean?" ”

"Not bad!"

Du Mingyu said word by word: "Such a big matter, without An Zidao's nod and consent, no matter how violent and impulsive the prince is, it is impossible for him to be so resolute, and he will join forces with the Shen family and the Heavenly Master Dao to make a move against the Xu family in ten days!" ”

"Lord...... But why did the Lord do this? It doesn't make sense...... If it is because of the proximity to the Heavenly Master Dao, the relationship between the Shen clan and the Heavenly Master Dao is closer; If the Xu family offended the crown prince, wouldn't the lord just be able to mediate in the middle, check and balance each other, and not let the two sides dominate? ”

"You really don't know why?"

Xu You fell into deep thought, and after a while, he asked, "Should I know?" ”

"An Zidao naturally has his reasons for doing this!" Du Mingyu smiled, Xu You's previous reputation was very bad, presumably his status in the family was not high, and he had very few secrets, since the night of bloodshed, he first raised his injuries for a few months, and then was exiled to Qiantang, and he had no chance to contact someone who knew the insider, he paused and said: "The Xu family intends to rebel!" ”

Xu You didn't think about it, and said categorically: "There is no such thing!" ”

After An Zidao inherited the treasure, Xu Zhan gradually lost power, and was reprimanded for many crimes, angry and begging bones, although he was given a special gift, but there were still many complaints, which had already caused An Zidao to be unhappy. However, he is an old minister of the humerus, and his children are all over the army, especially the marquis of Qilang, who is the general of Zhengbei and holds the military power, while the Xu family has lived in Jiangzuo for a long time, with deep roots and thick leaves, and it is not easy to deal with, so An Zidao endured it. ”

Du Mingyu raised his glass and drank a glass of wine with Xu You, Xu You didn't know the taste of food, and the wine was sad, and he seemed even more preoccupied. Du Mingyu smiled in his eyes and said: "Who would have expected that in the middle of last year, An Zidao received a secret report from Sili Mansion, which made the ancestor Xu Zhan and the former Xuzhou Assassin Wang Tao exchange letters, in which he talked about the lord and the court, and the words were disrespectful and conspiracy. An Zidao ordered Xiao Xunqi to be personally responsible for the investigation, and the yellow-eared dog of the Crouching Tiger Division searched out the letter from Wang Tao's mansion and sent it to Jinling, and the letter really contained the words 'not my father, who only knows how to slaughter cattle, steal donkeys, and sell salt, win the world', and An Zidao hated it. ”

The founding emperor of the Chu State was humble when he was younger, and he once slaughtered cattle and stole donkeys for a living, and later became rich because of selling salt, bought off officials, stole titles, and mixed into the scholar clan. When the Xiongnu army invaded south, An Shiyue was already the Zuozhong Army of the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion to join the army, led the people to resist the enemy, and finally achieved a great cause. During this period, Xu You's great-grandfather, that is, Xu Zhan's father, Xu Jun, made immortal contributions to the Dingjiang East of the Chu State, so Xu Zhan complained in the letter, "If you are not my father, you only know how to win the world by slaughtering cattle, stealing donkeys, and selling salt."

It can't be said that this is all bragging, but in the ears of An Zidao, it is undoubtedly more damaging than the real rebellion. No emperor likes his subordinates to always talk about the past credits, which not only shows that the lord is incompetent, but also that his subordinates have resentment. Many times, the rise and fall of a person or even a family is in the thought of the master, from the time An Zidao saw this sentence, the fate of the Xu family was actually doomed!

Xu You smiled bitterly in his heart, his grandfather was irritable, far from the wisdom of his great-grandfather, he often beat and scolded the soldiers when he led the troops, and he often quarreled with his colleagues in the court, he didn't know how to change and compromise, and he was unwilling to be lonely after returning to his hometown, and he was very likely to complain and vent his dissatisfaction in the correspondence with his friends.

Du Mingyu shouldn't have lied!

"However, after getting the letter, An Zidao did not immediately punish Xu Zhan, but first transferred Wang Tao from Xuzhou back to Jinling, and reappointed him as the middle of the imperial history. Du Mingyu said coldly: "On the other hand, he sent his ministers to Yixing to comfort Xu Zhan, and gave him a number of horses, brocade, and gold and jade. Ling Zushang thought that the emperor had changed his mind and dreamed of returning to the center, but what was the result? ”

Wang Tao and Xu are in-laws, Xu You's eleventh uncle, Tiger Leaping General Xu Zi married Wang Tao's daughter, and Xu Zhan has known each other for decades and has a good relationship. Because of this, Xu Zhan complained to him openly, presumably Wang Tao also echoed and said some rebellious words, and was cut off by An Zidao for an excuse.

"If the lord wants to ask for guilt, a piece of edict can punish the Xu family, why bother to let the prince use private soldiers and make the city full of storms?"

An Zidao, it's just that he doesn't want to bear the notoriety of slaughtering heroes, or he doesn't want to offend the local wealthy families in Jiangdong because of the Xu family. Although he had already planned to solve the gate lord clan, it was not yet time to make a move, and he didn't want to arouse the vigilance of the surnames and mess up the rules. So he secretly metaphorized the prince, making him think that he understood the emperor's intentions, and then pretended to hunt in the west, entrusted the state government, and let the prince do it. The prince has been jealous of the Xu family for many years, and when he gets such an opportunity, he can not only vent his old anger, but also win the emperor's favor, then he will think carefully about the pros and cons, and he can't listen to anyone's persuasion, so he immediately joined forces with the Shen family and the Heavenly Master Dao to destroy the Xu family! ”

Xu You was silent for a long time, and many of the previous ignorant questions would be answered. An Zidao This is a plan to kill three birds with one stone, first borrowed the prince's hand to destroy the Xu family, and then took advantage of the Xu family's tragedy to discuss the right and wrong, and took the opportunity to suppress the prince, and then dragged the Heavenly Master Dao into the quagmire, shaking its foundation in the Jiangdong clan, quietly, or extinguishing or pressing or dragging, removing the three major troubles, such a powerful means, I think it should be inseparable from the black-clothed prime minister Zhu Dao.

Du Mingyu sighed: "The prince thinks that this matter is done decisively and neatly, even if he will bear some infamy and lose the hearts of some scholars, but as long as An Zidao is satisfied, these are not big problems." But he never thought that the blood that Yixing had just killed was like a river, but An Zidao returned to Luan halfway, and ordered the prince not to use swords and soldiers in vain, and strictly protect the children of the Xu family - of course, Shen's knife is too fast, kill for three days, and only you are left alive. ”

"After that, I think you must also know that An Zidao made one attack after another, the second rate of the East Palace was abolished, and the power of the prince shrank sharply, and it was almost precarious for a few months, if it weren't for the Heavenly Master's additional tax on renting rice money, and using all the resources and connections of the entire Heavenly Master Dao Ming and secretly to protect it, I'm afraid that the East Palace has changed hands now!"

Bang!

The jade cup in Xu You's hand suddenly shattered, and his usually silent face faintly revealed a bit of hideousness. Du Mingyu saw it in his eyes, knowing that he had completely persuaded him, and said: "Although the prince is at fault, but it is just An Zidao's butcher's knife, in the final analysis, the blood feud of the Xu family should be asked for by the emperor!" Today, since the prince is determined to replace him, since he is the world's heroes to help, the dragon and phoenix in the Qilang people, if you are willing to take refuge, I dare to vouch for the head, the prince is willing to ignore the past suspicions, entrust the important task, and wait for the throne, and then repeat the name for Xu Shiping. In this way, Qilang can not only take revenge, but also allow the Xu family to re-enter Shilin, so that the ancestor Lingzun Jiuquan should be blinded! ”

Xu You's expression was gloomy, and he lost his original calmness and composure, and after a while, he said dejectedly: "The prince is a noble man and has a big mind, of course I believe in the promise of sacrificial wine." But Shen Muzhi is not a person who easily forgives his opponent, I am afraid that I will sacrifice wine with good intentions, but in the end I will fulfill the wishes of others! ”

"Regarding the Shen family, Shichiro doesn't have to worry!" Du Mingyu showed disdain for the Shen family, and said: "Shen Muzhi is flying and domineering, the prince has endured him for a long time, including those of us under the prince, most of them are also dissatisfied with him. I said something that shouldn't be said, it is precisely because of Shen Mu's presence that Qilang can be reused, and the prince still has to rely on us, so that Shen Mu's heart is jealous and does not dare to act recklessly......"

These words are reasonable and have no loopholes, if the subordinates are huddled together, how can the superior sleep? If Xu You were an ordinary person, he would definitely be confused by Du Mingyu's words, he sneered in his belly, and his face was still devastated, and said: "All the sacrificial wine, I am in a big mess, and I can't give you an answer for a while, please be tolerant for two days, wait for me to think clearly, and then discuss it with the sacrificial wine in detail?" ”

Du Mingyu smiled and said, "Okay! ”

Xu You got up to say goodbye, Du Mingyu looked at his crumbling back, and a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Liu Yan is right, although Xu You has extremely outstanding advantages, but the disadvantages are also obvious, he really looked up to him too high before, and he wanted to come for five days to protect this son, not the selfishness of his children, or there are other reasons, but he has not figured it out for the time being.

Putting aside his suspicions and worries about Xu You, Du Mingyu called Liu Yan and led people to patrol the defense of the city at night, no matter how big or small, and did it himself, after all, the goal that everyone was fighting for was in this turmoil that swept Yangzhou.

Qiantang must not be lost, or rather, must not be lost when the Chinese army has not left Jinling!