"Ji Jian, please stay."

Ji Yifa escorted the scout named Li Hao into the Meng Mansion, and happened to be seen by the eldest prince Meng Zong.

The eldest prince looked at Ji Yifa suspiciously, but Ji Yifa didn't see it, and continued to walk with his head bored. Now he is working for the patriarch Meng Danqing, and everyone knows that now Ji Yifa is the righteous son of Meng Danqing who is about to be included in the door, and the righteous son and the eldest son Meng Zong are on an equal footing, but there is no need to deliberately greet them.

Seeing that Ji Yifa had no intention of stopping, Meng Zong said with a smile: "Ji Jian has worked hard and made a great contribution." ”

Meng Zong spoke, Ji pretended to be confused again, hugged his fists and said: "The eldest prince has won the award." ”

"Who is this man?" Meng Zong pointed at Li Hao and said, "It looks like he is a person in the army, and his waist card is still from our Flying Tiger Army." ”

This type of waist card was designed by Meng Zong himself, and of course he could recognize the origin of the waist card at a glance.

Meng Zong didn't know Li Hao, but Li Hao recognized Meng Zong at a glance, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "The eldest prince spares his life, the little one has recruited everything, the eldest prince spares his life, it is Huo Zizhen who went to find the Queen Mother's mother to cooperate with the Meng family, let Tang Zhen be the prime minister, and Huo Zizhen will be the big Sima." ”

"What!?"

Meng Zong was puzzled and said: "What nonsense are you talking about, Huo Zizhen is a general I have cultivated for many years, and he has always been loyal to me, how can he betray me!" Oh, you say this, don't someone have ulterior motives and want to use Huo Zizhen to bring me down, right? Who is this person! ”

As he spoke, Meng Zong's gaze unconsciously fell into the crowd, and he actually saw Meng Yin.

Meng Yin is the son of Meng Qingqing, the elder of the Meng family, and Meng Yang's younger brother, who usually acts very low-key, but of course Meng Zong knows that this guy is actually a dangerous character.

He has been serving as an intelligence hub for his father for many years, he knows a lot of information, and the family status is very high, but he is so low-key and never shows it.

Including when they came back this time, he actually walked behind Ji Yifa, which shouldn't be.

Even if Ji Yifa will be the patriarch's righteous son in the future, and the Meng family attaches great importance to the righteous son, the Meng family has an unwritten rule that people with different surnames generally have to walk behind the son surnamed Meng.

In the end, the blood relationship is closer, symbolizing the law of the Meng family.

"Big brother is angry, this matter is not what you think, I can guarantee that this matter has nothing to do with big brother in the slightest. This is completely Huo Zizhen's decision, and it has nothing to do with the eldest prince. Meng Yin said.

Meng Zong was disdainful: "Now you say this to me, but when you get in front of your father in a while, I'm afraid you have to change your rhetoric, right?" Huo Zizhen has followed me for nearly 20 years, and now that he wants to rebel, how can he have nothing to do with me?

However, I can assure you that I will never be involved in this, because there is no point in opposing me! ”

The so-called rebellion refers to the rebellion of the Meng family, not the rebellion of the Liang Dynasty.

On the contrary, Huo Zizhen's defection to the Queen Mother is to take refuge in the imperial power, in a sense, it still increases the unity of the imperial power, not only is it not a rebellion, but a consolidation.

But this is something that Meng Zong cannot accept.

Originally, he also hoped that after Huo Zizhen took the sixteen states of Yanyun, the garrison would not come back there, and in the name of resisting Youlu, he would retain an army of 80,000 people, and make it the strongest army of the Meng family.

But now, hearing that Huo Zizhen was plotting a rebellion, Meng Zong was almost angry.

"Conspiracy, this must be a conspiracy!"

Meng Zong was on fire, and the servants around him immediately surrounded him, surrounding everyone including Ji Yifa.

Ji Yifa didn't dare to draw his sword against the eldest prince, but he still guarded Meng Yin and scout Li Hao, and did not allow Meng Zong to approach.

"The eldest prince, this is Meng Xiang's order, we dare not disobey, and please don't embarrass us." Ji Yifa said.

Meng Zong raised his head, calmly and calmly, waved his hand, and motioned for the servants to step back, "Ji Yifa, I know that you are loyal to our Meng family, and I also know that you have a deep affection for the invincible Meng Du, but don't make a mistake about one thing."

I, Meng Zong, also do things for my father and the Meng family, we are the people in the same boat.

Even if I wanted to stop this man, how could I still let him go?

Now that my father is old, I should also share more for him.

You don't have to panic, take him to my house first, and I'll interrogate him first, and then pick out the key points and report them to my father. ”

Meng Zong's words make sense, he is the eldest son of the Meng family, the first heir to the patriarch, and the strongest one. Now that Meng Du is dead, falling out with Meng Zong is not good for Ji Yifa.

Ji Yifa glanced at Meng Yin.

Meng Yin nodded and said: "The eldest brother personally interrogated, of course we are relieved, since this is the case, then Meng Yin will retire first." ”

"Hey, don't go." Meng Zong finally showed some smiles: "You all stay, accompany me to interrogate him, and then let's go to see my father together." We are all family, so why bother to divide you and me. You say, don't you? ”

Meng Zong said this, for Ji Yifa and Meng Yin, it was the best result.

can not only send people to Meng Danqing's hands, but also not offend Meng Zong.

So I readily agreed.

When he came to Meng Zong's secret room, he asked straight to the point: "When did Huo Zizhen take refuge in the Queen Mother?" ”

Li Hao said: "It started three years ago. ”

"Three years ago?" Meng Zong thought for a while: "At that time, the first emperor had just died, could it be that the first emperor rebelled?" ”

Li Hao said: "No, that's what the Queen Mother meant." It was only after the death of the first emperor that it began to operate. We heard the contact person mention that the Empress Dowager Cao had long persuaded the first emperor to take over the military power of the gate lords, but the first emperor had been fighting and couldn't spare time. Later, the first emperor died, and although the Liang army suffered heavy losses when the army withdrew, after that, King Sangla also sent envoys to negotiate peace, and at that time, the male Jia people were still fighting against the Buyeo people, so the Liang side was idle. Empress Dowager Cao wanted to take this opportunity to rebel against Huo Zizhen. ”

"Then later, Qi Dongyang led his troops to quell the rebellion, why didn't Empress Dowager Cao send Huo Zizhen?" Meng Zong asked.

"Originally, I planned to send Huo Shuai there, but the result was that Meng Xiang and Ximen Yushi worked together to push Qi Dongyang of the Tang family up." Li Hao said.

"Of course I know this, but if the Queen Mother insists on letting Huo Zizhen go, in fact, the prime minister and the imperial doctor have no problem." Meng Zong clenched his fists: "Could it be that Empress Dowager Cao had long expected that there would be today?" ”。

No one in the room spoke.

After a long time, Meng Yin said: "I think so, when Qi Dongyang 50,000 against 150,000, Meng Xiang couldn't stand it and wanted to send reinforcements, but Empress Dowager Cao refused for various reasons. It seems that there may be some ulterior motives in this. ”