Dong Xu, like Zhou Ao, was deployed by Chen Zhi in the past, and he followed Chen Zhi from the time when Chen Zhi was Taile Ling.

Later, Chen Zhi was promoted from Taile Ling to the secretary and supervisor of the secretary province, and this Dong Xu also accompanied Zhou Ao, and now he is still serving as the secretary of the secretary province.

In the past, whether it was Su Liao's entry into Beijing, or Chen Zhi's desire to inquire about the news and intelligence of the capital, Dong Xu was a key point in it, and often sent important information to Chen Zhi.

However, in private, Dong Xu still kept in touch with Zhou Ao, and the correspondence between the two sides was more frequent, because when Zhou Ao left, he also asked Dong Xu to help take care of the family.

On the other hand, Dong Xu's letters often mentioned some news, which he heard from the princes who visited the secretary's province by taking advantage of his position.

Generally speaking, when it comes to news about Beidi and Chen Zhi, Dong Xu will send it directly to Chen Zhi, and if it has little to do with Chen Zhi, when it comes to issues such as the cold door policy, he will only tell Zhou Ao, which has almost become a common practice.

But this time it's a little different.

"Is it possible for Taishou to become a thorn? Isn't this a promotion? This is a good thing, why did Dong Xu deliberately mark it to inform me? This matter is related to Taishou, why don't you report it to me, but send it to me, and specially ask the family who sent the heart to hide it on the road, so as not to be searched, until it is personally handed over to my steward or my hands. ”

With frowning brows, Zhou Ao realized that there was a lot of trouble involved, and there must be something strange behind it.

The Taishou of the New Han Dynasty, of course, has a lot of authority, and the frontier Taishou even has the power to lead the troops, the military and political affairs can not be said to grasp it, but at least they have the majority of it, and the power is very great, such as Liu Kun, who is resisting in the territory of the state, is actually a party Taishou, but relying on the resources and connections he accumulated when he was too punctual, after the Xiongnu rebelled and annexed the state, it was enough to pull up a team and resist until now.

However, no matter how great Taishou's authority is, it is not as great as the assassination.

The history of assassination, in the bureaucratic system of the New Han Dynasty, can be regarded as a watershed,

An intuitive comparison is that when he was in Xuzhou, Zhang Chu, the assassin of Xuzhou, because of his personal likes and dislikes, and considering the elements of natural and man-made disasters, he could directly suggest that the administrative office of a state be relocated from the north to the south.

Of course, there is a reason for the origin of Zhang Chu's family, but it is also a manifestation of the authority of the assassin history, not to mention the assassin Wang Jun of Youzhou.

In the frontier land, the county guard still has the right to lead the army, not to mention Youzhou, which has been operated by Wang Jun, coupled with the wars in Jizhou, Qingzhou and other places, and the connection between Luoyang has become weaker and weaker, and then counting the influence of the Hu people outside the Saiwai, Yanran has become a semi-independent kingdom.

Even, Wang Jun also took Youzhou as the foundation, expanded the territory, and finally opened up and concurrently served as the assassin of Pingzhou, just looking at these, it is enough to know how powerful and influential this assassin history, especially the Youzhou assassin history!

"If there is really someone in the court who wants Taishou to be the assassin of Youzhou, isn't this a great thing? Isn't Taishou still worried that Wang Jun, the assassin of Youzhou, will turn against him after the war and put Daijun in trouble? If it becomes a history of Youzhou Thorn, then what do you have to worry about? Not to mention Dai County, several other counties are also under control, so where do you need to worry about Wang Jun's retaliation and suppression? ”

Zhou Ao thought like this, he couldn't help but be eager to try, he was Chen Zhi's henchman, followed Chen Zhi all the way, and gradually gained some influence in Daijun, if Chen Zhi can go to the next level, of course he is also a rising tide, one of the most profitable people.

However, Zhou Ao has been mixed in the capital in the end, and he knows that one thing cannot only look at the benefits, but also see the resistance, as well as how many forces are offended and how many people's interests are affected.

"Well, Wang Jun will definitely not give up easily, this is a direct conflict with him, but as long as the court is willing to support Taishou, it will be easy to do, no matter how arrogant Wang Jun is, doesn't he have to rely on the border war as an excuse to bargain with the court, and at the same time deceive the princes of the court, in order to fight for space to move around? As long as the imperial court, huh? ”

Thinking about it, he continued to look down, and was taken aback, and finally understood why Dong Xu was so mysterious, and told himself in private.

"This idea of wanting Taishou to be a stabbing history was actually put forward by that Zhang Ying, in order to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and by the way, the Taifu and the Yang family were also involved, and wanted to make the two families and Wang Jun consume each other, so the court will not provide any help, but will only give Taishou a name! This is simply going to be roasted on the fire! ”

The grievances between Zhang Ying and Chen Zhi do not need to be repeated, the first few things after this person took power were the fact that Chen Zhi was spent, and Chen Zhi left the capital and went north to this place to guard the county, so there was a relationship with this person.

"It turned out that the emperor and the king of Guanghan were going back to the capital, and the king of Jiangdu rushed to threaten, so he wanted to do something, but Zhang Ying caught his mind, and took the war in the north as an opportunity, and contacted Wang Jun to be powerful, and there were many taboos in the court, so he mentioned this matter, it can be said that let Taishou be the assassin of the history, just one of the links, in addition, there are many other proposals."

Just looking at Dong Xu's brief description, Zhou Ao could detect the reason.

"This Shang Shuling, who sits in the central government and is in charge of yin and yang, is really powerful, between three words, it can not only be political, but also suppress political enemies, their discussion was carried out in the Dongyuan Library, so Dong Xu made a discovery, and the reason why Dong Xu told me first, and then let me think about it, and then decide whether to inform Taishou, it means that Dong Xu also feels that Taishou has encountered a crisis this time, and may not be able to survive, is not optimistic about Taishou?"

Putting Dong Xu's letter away, Zhou Ao fell into deep thought, and it was really difficult to decide whether to tell Chen Zhi or not, in terms of reason, he should have said this, but even if he said it, it didn't seem to change much at the moment.

"Taishou has a good relationship with the emperor, but listen to the meaning of this letter, the king of Jiangdu is planning to settle this matter before the emperor returns to the palace, even if it is not sent for the time being, it is only a matter of time, I want to really control the government of the king of Guanghan, or will give the king of Jiangdu this face, Taishou is thinking of the emperor's suggestion, this matter has been suppressed, but it will always be known by Wang Jun, when Wang Jun is worried that Taishou is plotting to seize his throne, and Taishou has no justifiable court order, maybe the situation is worse!"

Thinking about it, he became more and more distressed, and opened another letter.

This letter was written by his friend, who is now an official in Jiangnan, and heard that he will be transferred to the capital soon, and although the correspondence with Zhou Ao in the past is not frequent, it is not endless.

The letter was opened, first reminiscing, and then the conversation changed, mentioning that he was going to the capital as an official, and there were one or two suggested places, if necessary, he could help Zhou Ao transfer back.

The more Zhou Ao looked, the tighter his brows tightened, and what was written on the letter was straightforward-

"Chen Taishou has a great reputation in the past, the world knows, I have heard in Jiangnan, but the world has changed, and now he offended the dynasty, and because of the Buddha's comment, he did not like the king of Jiangdu, Zhou Jun then went north, he wanted to accomplish a feat, and then returned to the court, but there is Wang Jun's dictatorship in the north, there are Xiongnu covetous, and now there is Xianbei war, the county is tired, not a place to act, I see Uncle Jun, get his trust, for the king to re-seek errands in the capital, it is not as good as the past, but it is better than in the frontier Dynasty is not safe, I hope that Zhou Jun thinks about it, in order to answer."

To put it bluntly, his friend is not optimistic about Chen Zhi's current situation.

This is also normal, the so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, maybe Chen Zhi survived, it is another situation, but there are a few people who can joke about their future, especially Zhou Ao, who finally recovered and had a little hope, but because of Chen Zhi, he stayed away from the capital, if the future was bleak in the end, it would really be a slump.

"But if I hadn't guarded it too much, I would have been just a fool of people waiting for death, wasting my time in the yamen, and finally sinking, and that's it."

Shaking his head, Zhou Ao opened another letter from a friend, but this person is not an official, but a wealthy party, with many fertile fields under his name, this letter is written simply to reminisce about the past, but between the lines, the meaning of persuasion can still be seen, but it is to persuade him to resign and return home, and also be a rich man, away from the political whirlpool.

His friend's home is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the letter mentioned that there is also turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a family view of the rebellion in the north and Shu, and he is dissatisfied with the imperial court's wanton taxation of Jiangnan to subsidize the north and southwest.

Zhou Ao looked at it, but he smiled bitterly, and couldn't help shaking his head and said: "Gong Bao is confused, if it is really a change in Jiangnan and chaos in the court, let alone cultivating in one place like him, even if he goes to the ends of the earth, how can he be alone?" I don't do it! ”

Thinking so, he opened the last letter, which was written by Ji Fa.

Ji Fa's letter, Zhou Ao was the most unexpected, his relationship with this family was not close, at most he had contacts and contacts on official business, I don't know why this person wrote to himself, but also to avoid Chen Zhi, let the family bring it directly.

However, after taking a few looks, Zhou Ao's eyelids couldn't help jumping.

"Ji Fa actually asked me to persuade Taishou, take the initiative to retreat, resign and go into hiding for a period of time, to avoid trouble!"

It turned out that Ji Fa also knew about Zhang Ying and others' plans from his own channels, and he knew more comprehensively than Dong Xu, according to him, there were more than a group of people in the capital who wanted to instigate Chen Zhi to compete with Wang Jun, and they took advantage of the fisherman.

In this, some people want to borrow a knife to kill people and use Wang Jun to suppress Chen Zhi, while others value Chen Zhi's background, and they are worried that Wang Jun will be completely difficult to treat after he grows through the battle of Xianbei, so they want to use Chen Zhi as a chess piece to pry the general trend in the north, weaken Wang Jun, and prepare for the next step to eradicate this northern disaster.

"Okay, in the end, he said that he was going to recruit me, when did I become a fragrant bun!"

Seeing the end, Zhou Ao's heart became more and more entangled.