Not long after he spoke, the first batch of disciples led by the black-clothed guards arrived at the border of Nanyue under the gaze of the major forces.

There were already soldiers and horses stationed in the city, how could they be allowed to enter the city?

During the negotiations between the two sides, there was a disagreement, and the Daomen side directly moved with the Daomen people sitting in the army.

The Daomen side was the early manpower, and the Lin side was also urgently mobilized nearby, and for a while, the two sides were evenly matched, and the fight was vigorous.

Seeing that he said to do it, he did it.

Immediately, the world was in an uproar, and when the Lin family learned about it, they were immediately furious.

Shuaifu.

After Lin Huayao received the news, he slapped it on the table, stood up with a thud, and roared: "Be bold, immediately order Xiao Weiming's department, and immediately take down all the people in the Ming Palace, and those who dare to resist will be killed!" ”

"Marshal, the soldiers and horses must not be moved lightly!" Chu Ruocai's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly persuaded: "Otherwise, once the situation becomes bigger, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up." ”

"King Ming is so bold, everyone in the world is looking at Ben Shuai, if he is allowed to be so presumptuous, with people and horses to step on my territory in Nanyue, what face does Ben Shuai have to rule the southern army?" Lin Huayao's face turned pale, and he shouted angrily.

"Once we send a large army to encircle and suppress, we will completely turn our faces into enemies with Daomen, and the dynasty will not be able to sit idly by, and we will definitely send troops to contain it, and take the opportunity to show grace to Daomen, so that it can only be cheapened, I am afraid that Emperor Dingwu is now looking forward to us sending troops." Chu Ruocai also said with an ugly face.

As soon as these words came out, Lin Huayao, who had just been rushing with blood in his head, had to calm down.

Chu Ruo knew him well, and knew that when he mentioned the dynasty and Emperor Dingwu, Lin Huayao would inevitably calm down.

I saw Lin Huayao sit down again, and suddenly looked up at Chu Ruocai: "How's the investigation over there?" ”

When Chu Ruocai heard this, his eyes lit up at the same time: "There is no result for the time being, and three shadows have been used in a row, but so far, there has been no response." ”

"What the hell is going on in the palace?" Lin Huayao's eyebrows furrowed, and he muttered: "It's been seven days in a row, and there has been no news in the palace, which is definitely not normal." ”

Hearing him say this, sure enough, Mo Bai's worry was not superfluous, although the palace was tightly sealed, the Lin clan and other warlords still noticed the abnormality.

After all, Lin Huayao was an important minister in the court in the past, although after he defected, the palace almost turned his power upside down and cleaned up a large number of them, but after all, there were still fish that slipped through the net.

After he re-emerged, it was much easier for him to arrange a shadow in the palace than for other warlords.

Some time ago, the princess was attacked while pregnant, which led to the collapse of the Huangting Mansion, how could the Lin family not investigate such a big matter?

After King Ming returned to Beijing and brought the princess into the palace, he activated the shadow here, wanting to find out the true situation of Lin Suyin.

But something went wrong, and the shadow, who has always been safe, actually lost contact this time.

Sensing something wrong, he activated another shadow, but there was no news.

At this moment, I became nervous here, and it was not a trivial matter that two shadows lost contact in a row.

After thinking about it, the shadows on different lines were activated one after another.

The palace has been completely blocked, and it is naturally impossible for any news to come out from the shadows.

The reaction of the Lin family did not hide it, and realized that it was not a certain shadow that had a problem, and it was impossible for the shadows on different lines to lose contact at the same time, I am afraid that there was a problem in the palace.

At this time, the Lin family didn't care about Lin Suyin's matter, they were more concerned about what was wrong in the palace?

Lin Huayao has many lurking forces in Beijing, and if he can't find out in the palace, he will start from outside the palace.

Soon all kinds of information were summarized and analyzed, and nothing was found, but if you want to say that it is abnormal, it is not nothing.

There are two people's names that fell into the eyes of the Lin family, King Mojiangqu of De and Qu Guochang, Duke of Qin.

"What about Qu Guochang? Is there a breakthrough? Lin Huayao frowned solemnly and asked in a deep voice.

Chu Ruo knew why Lin Huayao suddenly mentioned this name, and the intelligence analysts of the Lin clan noticed that there was no great court meeting in the palace during this time.

Dingwu rarely summoned courtiers, but King De and Qu Guochang frequently entered the palace and were summoned by Dingwu.

King De is the royal patriarch, except for the big court, he doesn't need to be on duty in the palace at all.

Qu Guochang is a military general Feng Guogong, because he is the national abbot, the identity of a relative, put down the military power, is on duty in the court, is a series of forces that support the Nine Emperors, because Concubine Lan is favored, so she is quite powerful in the court.

But Dingwu has always been very jealous of the party struggle between the DPRK and China, so Qu Guochang is not his confidant, and he rarely summoned this person alone in the past.

How could it be that all of a sudden, these two people began to be summoned frequently?

What's the point of summoning two unrelated people at the same time?

A relative, a royal family, they feel that they should be related to the prince.

There is only one thing related to these two people, and there is only Lichu.

Considering that Dingwu abolished the crown prince some time ago, and then attacked the forces of the DPRK and China, and hit the prince and the eldest prince hard, Lin Huayao felt that Dingwu should have taken a fancy to the Nine Emperors.

But even so, it's okay to summon King De, Qu Guochang is a relative, and Dingwu can discuss with him?

Chu Ruocai flashed these things in his mind, and said: "Sure enough, as the marshal expected, Qu Guochang has indeed had something abnormal recently, according to the inquiry, Qu Guochang has recently had more contact with some courtiers of the Nine Emperor Princes in the court, and even summoned his old generals in the army. ”

"Huh?" Lin Huayao raised his eyebrows: "Contact the ministers and summon the old army department, what does he want to do?" ”

"It's really weird, if it weren't for the fact that he was summoned by Dingwu one after another recently, doing so would seem to be a sign of wanting to rebel." A strange touch flashed in Chu Ruocai's eyes.

"Qu Guochang was born as a military general, but his military exploits are not outstanding, but he can stand in the court for many years by relying on the pillow wind. Lin Huayao shook his head, and could hear that he didn't have a high opinion of Qu Guochang.

"It's impossible to rebel, he should have been ordered by Emperor Dingwu, but we can't analyze the purpose of Emperor Dingwu asking him to contact his close ministers and the old department in the army." Chu Ruocai nodded.

Lin Huayao pondered silently for a moment, and said: "This matter must be boring, with my understanding of Dingwu, no matter what the purpose, it is impossible for him to take the initiative to let his courtiers form a party, let alone let his relatives take charge of the army, even if he takes 10,000 steps back and says, what is Dingwu really planning, how dare Qu Guochang take orders easily?" How dare you seriously form a party with the courtiers and regain the power of the monarch? ”

As the so-called king's heart is unpredictable, there are some things, even if the emperor asks you to do it, you can't do it.

Chu Ruocai agreed with Lin Huayao's point of view, but said: "But according to our investigation, Qu Guochang doesn't seem to be persecuted, and he doesn't seem to feel that a catastrophe is coming, and on the contrary, Qu Guochang has been quite energetic recently. ”

"Check, the palace is tightly sealed, and Qu Guochang's abnormal behavior shows that there must be a big event in the country, and we must find out what is going on with all our efforts." Lin Huayao ordered.

"Yes!" Chu Ruocai nodded, but said again: "But Dashuai, should we put this matter aside first, and now it is important to deal with the Ming Wangfu first." ”

Lin Huayao frowned slightly, and intuitively told him that the affairs in the palace were not trivial, and the sooner they found out, the better.

But Chu Ruocai mentioned King Ming, which made him feel upset again, and nodded: "Well, in your opinion, how should we deal with the current situation?" ”

"If the army can not move, it will not move, otherwise it will be really unfavorable for us to follow-up, even if we do not consider that the country is sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, now that the joint anti-barbarian treaty has been signed, the war will start soon, and at that time, we will still be able to use the Daomen, and now we are really completely enmity with them, it is really not worth it."

Chu Ruocai said this, was silent for a moment, and said: "According to the opinion of his subordinates, the two mountains and four gates, and the jade Qingzhen people who attacked my Lin clan this time may not be their original intention, they should also be coerced by King Ming." ”

"If it is coercion, they will at most send some people to deal with the form, but you can see, this time they not only openly stood up against us, but also almost exhausted their elite, and must not be neglected, you have to investigate this matter, and see what kind of means King Ming has used to make Yuqing and them dare to openly fight against us." Lin Huayao shook his head and said.

"Yes!" Chu Ruocai agreed with Lin Huayao's words, but he still insisted on his own opinion: "No matter what means King Ming uses, I always think that Yuqing and the others will not be willing to completely tear their faces with us in their hearts, but they are just coerced by King Ming." We can't use a large army, we can order Qingshan to send elites to intercept them, and control the scope of the battle to the Taoists first. ”

Lin Huayao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes." Even if Yuqing and the others are acting, it is impossible to block it with the power of the Qingshan family, otherwise they will not be able to explain to King Ming. ”

"If you can't stop it, let's say that Daomen dares to embarrass us, but it is because we rely on the fact that the war will open, and we can't do without their help, so we have such arrogance and dare to openly embarrass our southern army. Let's first use Shangqing Mountain to block it, strike a blow to the arrogance of the Daomen, let the Daomen understand, and let the forces of the world understand that our southern army is no longer what it used to be, and with the help of Shangqing Mountain, we already have the power of self-protection on the battlefield, and we don't have to count on one hundred and eight mountains. Chu Ruocai said.

"At that time, even if we lose, there will naturally be people who are afraid that we will really send out an army in a rage and greatly damage the vitality of the Daomen. We don't have to rely on one hundred and eight mountains, but several other forces, but we still have to rely on one hundred and eighty-three to help, they will naturally come out to mediate, and when they jump out to mediate, we will not be so passive. ”

After hearing this, Lin Huayao calculated it and felt that it was feasible, so he nodded and agreed.

But then, Lin Huayao had a headache: "Then even if it is the final negotiation, Lu Xunyi and the others, in your opinion, what should be done in the end." ”

Speaking of this, Chu Ruocai also smiled bitterly: "My subordinates really don't understand what King Ming thinks, if he wants to save Lu Xunyi and others, he can send someone to negotiate with us privately." Now that such a big scene has been made, he never thought that even if we originally wanted to release Lu Xunyi, we can't let it go easily, otherwise where is the majesty of the Southern Army? ”

"He's arrogant!" Lin Huayao said coldly.

"Dashuai, we have dealt with King Ming a lot, although this person is arrogant, but he is by no means a brave and unscrupulous person, it is absolutely impossible for him not to consider the consequences of doing so, but he still did it. The subordinates feel that compared with the actual problem of the Dao Gate attack now, we should pay more attention to the deep meaning behind King Ming's doing. Before Chu Ruocai left, he said solemnly.