On this day, Wang Xu put aside other affairs for the time being, concentrated on accompanying his family, and talked about some anecdotes and easy topics of customs, which made the elderly in the family a lot happy. He also personally looked at his mother's eyes, and only after confirming that they could be cured did he put his mind at ease, and told him to cooperate with the treatment of Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing and others in the future.

In addition, for Yan Ming and Sun Shangxiang, who were new to the door, several elders were very satisfied, and praised them from time to time.

A large family gathered together, enjoyed the joy of family, and it was not until late at night that Wang Xu returned to the general's mansion with his daughters and three children.

In the next ten days, he did not rush to convene the ministers to discuss the matter, but hid and did not show up, and refused to petition everyone, if it were not for Xu Sheng and others to guarantee that Wang Xu had indeed returned with their lives, all the civil ministers and generals would probably think that it was fake news again.

The ten days of calm are not as simple as they seem, Wang Xu did not move in the Inner Mansion, but the spy and shadow department was fully dispatched, not to investigate others, but to pay attention to Xiangyang, especially the actions of high, middle and low officials at all levels of the General's Mansion.

Because those who have ghosts in their hearts or have weak hearts, after knowing that he is back, they have to move around frequently to contact him, trying to find a solution.

A person with a clear conscience will inevitably guard the general's palace every day, ready to deal with the busy work that will inevitably arise after his return.

Those who do not care about themselves and are wise enough to protect themselves will continue to do so without change.

Perhaps these circumstances are not absolute, but the approximate scope can be clarified, and with the investigation information of the spy earlier, we can distinguish the civil strife in Jingzhou at the beginning. Who are the core instigators.

Although the main cause of that civil strife was the loss of leaders. Thus creating a factional power struggle. But if there weren't hyperactive people stirring up the cracks, it wouldn't have been like that.

After all, the highest echelons of the General's Mansion are all people who have followed him for a long time and whose character and personality have been tested, and even if there are contradictions between them, they will try to restrain themselves, and it is impossible to fight to the point of splitting and acting recklessly, so someone must be obstructed from it. There are many misunderstandings and contradictions between the top leaders.

At the beginning, Xu Shu implemented Guo Jia's construction and initially stabilized the situation, but he used strong means to suppress the contradictions, and did not solve them at the source.

Guo Jia only caught some people who were instigated to show up, and the real core instigators did not investigate deeply.

Because Wang Xu was not there at that time, no one could really comprehensively suppress all parties, and the middle and high-level civil and military forces in Jingzhou, who were not arrogant. Do you have a skill?

Who will check and how. Finding out who is going to be a big problem, and if one is not good, it will inevitably intensify the contradictions, lead to factional splits, and each does its own thing.

In Guo Jia's mind at that time, he was also planning with two hands.

If Wang Xu can come back, of course, it can be solved quickly, if Wang Xu really can't come back, then Xu Shu will be the regent temporarily, suppress the contradictions, stay past that hurdle, and then secretly look for the troublemaker, and deal with it under other pretexts.

But now that Wang Xu has returned safely, of course it is impossible to drag it out like that, so the first thing he does is to find out the most active provocateurs during the civil strife.

Ten days was not a long time, and it passed in a hurry, and the seemingly calm General's Mansion was not calm, and one after another investigation information was transmitted to Wang Xu's hands.

His face also deteriorated day by day, because the result was worse than expected.

Based on the evidence before and after, most of the core planners are officials from the General's Mansion, and these people are the earliest initiators of the incident, as many as twenty or thirty people, and more importantly, these people also colluded with his relatives, that is, many distant relatives of the Wang family who migrated back then, as well as the local wealthy families in Jingzhou at present.

The goal of these people is not to subvert the Jingzhou forces, but to seize power and seize the greatest rights and interests.

It was precisely because these people were obstructing and sowing discord that more people were involved in it, until it finally spread to the highest level of Jingzhou power, and the contradictions between the factions intensified, and they were suspicious of each other and lost trust.

Nowadays, it is difficult to do, there are many important ministers in Jingzhou who have been dragged into the water by these people, and they have fallen into a deep position unconsciously, if they insist on finding out, the implication is too wide, and even he does not dare to move lightly.

For example, Zhao Yun's own brother Zhao Feng inadvertently fell into it, and then implicated Zhao Yun for a while, and some local families in Jingzhou wanted to conspire to rebel, so he privately brought troops to control the situation.

But in fact, I'm afraid Zhao Yun doesn't know until now, he was used as a gunman at that time, but whether he knows it or not, if this matter is fully exposed, his guilt will be settled, and how to deal with it at that time.

Kill? How is that possible? Wang Xu would never kill this loyal and unparalleled general.

If you don't kill, then how can this thing be carried out?

Such a situation is not one or two, but one, the most ridiculous thing is that Wang Xu once saw such a paragraph in an investigation report.

It was Zhao Yun and Nanjun Taishou Wang Mastiff who led the troops to confront each other, Wang Mastiff scolded Zhao Yun for trying to seize power and rebel, and Zhao Yun also thought that Wang Mastiff had bad intentions.

Fortunately, the two of them were not stupid, they felt suspicious, and they didn't really do it in the end, but even so, this is also a big joke in the world, the two die-hard generals under their own accounts were so suspicious of each other that they fought against each other, but fortunately they didn't fight, if they really fought, the consequences would be unimaginable.

This can't be blamed on them, in the situation of large-scale chaos at that time, there was an extreme lack of trust between each other, and there were many contradictions, who could tell who from whom? The reason for this is that those people are sowing discord, dividing the dots, lying about the news, falsifying perjury, deceiving the superiors and subordinates, and muddying the waters, which is really hateful......

As more and more detailed information was introduced, Wang Xu's mood was terrible, and he even felt a little clueless.

On the tenth day, he was still thinking to no avail, looking at the mountains of evidence in his study, stunned.

"Squeak!" Ling Wanqing opened the door and Shi Shiran walked in. "Husband, are you still worried about civil strife?"

"Hey!" Wang Xu sighed and said with a wry smile: "Wanqing, you also know the situation, I really don't know what to do!" ”

"Actually, the slave came here because she suddenly thought of someone. Maybe it can relieve your husband's worries! Ling Wanqing said with a smile.

"Who?" Wang Xu suddenly turned his head to look at her.

"The general's mansion thief Cao Peng. Liu Yi! Ling Wanqing said word by word.

"Liu Yi?"

"Not bad!" Ling Wanqing nodded: "I'm afraid there is more evidence in his old man's hands than a spy shadow." During the period of Emperor Heng and Ling, he was a general in the court, and he should be very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing. ”

"yes, how did I forget about his old man." Wang Xu had an epiphany, and then remembered that there was a master of handling cases under him. "Quick, hurry up and pass on Liu Yi!"

Ling Wanqing glanced at him gently, and didn't say anything more. Quietly departed.

Half an hour later, Liu Yi came in a hurry, but now he is nearly seventy years old, although he is still in good spirits, he is still a little old, he entered the study and immediately bowed. "Lord!"

"Elder Liu doesn't need to be polite, please take a seat!" Wang Xu waved his hand.

Liu Yi smiled and sat aside calmly.

"My lord. Call your subordinates to come today, but you want to ask about dealing with civil strife? ”

"Huh? Wanqing has already sued you? Wang Xu asked strangely.

"Commander Ling didn't tell me." Liu Yi shook his head.

"And how do you know?" Wang Xu looked over in surprise.

"The lord will come back for ten days. If you don't assemble and don't see your ministers, you obviously want to get rid of the interference of your ministers, so what can make the lord act like this except for civil strife? Liu Yi said with a smile.

Wang Xu smiled and sighed: "After all, I still can't hide it from Liu Lao!" Yes, I came here today for the civil strife, and now the evidence is complete, but I don't know where to start, so I ask Liu Lao for advice! “

are all people who understand, Liu Yi doesn't play dumb riddles, and decisively continued: "The lord is worried that the implication is too wide, and it is difficult to implement the mastermind's responsibility?" ”

"Exactly!" Wang Xu nodded.

"The evidence in the lord's hand is meaningless." Liu Yi said with certainty.

"Meaningless?"

"Yes!"

Liu Yi calmly looked at Wang Xu and said bluntly: "The evidence in the hands of the lord should be all the behaviors of officials and generals during the civil strife, but those evidences are intricate and closely related to each other, and many people have committed the crime of killing for some reason, are they all convicted?" Isn't that self-destructive? ”

"That's what I'm worried about!" Wang Xu immediately nodded in agreement.

Liu Yi saw that he understood, but he didn't say much about the severity of the matter, and said: "Because of this, the evidence in the hands of the lord cannot be used to convict, just select the mastermind who the lord is determined to execute among the people referred to by the evidence." ”

Wang Xu was puzzled: "This core mastermind is easy to find, but if you check them, it will also implicate other people's capital crimes, so what?" ”

Liu Yi smiled, and his smile was a little incomprehensible: "Lord, my subordinates didn't say that they wanted to be convicted by those evidences!" ”

At this moment, Wang Xu was really a little confused, and he couldn't help but ask: "Please also ask Liu Lao for advice!" ”

"Lord!" Liu Yi suddenly lowered his voice and said meaningfully: "During the civil strife, although his subordinates were thieves, they were really powerless to control anyone, but although they couldn't control it, they asked the spy commander to help, and together they found out the evidence that many people were corrupt and bent the law, disregarded people's lives, and committed favoritism!" ”

"You mean......" Wang Xu's eyes widened instantly.

"Not bad!" Liu Yi nodded. "The lord only wants to cure the capital crime of the few who have ill intentions, stir up trouble, and intensify strife, so why use the evidence of the period of civil strife? These people are obsessed with human rights, and they all have the courage to conspire to do such a big thing, completely ignoring their own responsibilities and the overall situation, how can they be clean? Other crimes such as perverting the law for bribes, twisting the law for personal gain, and disregarding human life are enough to put him to death! ”

"When the independent prince returned to Xiangyang, his subordinates have carefully checked it in the past ten days, if there is no accident, those who provoked during the civil strife all have other evidence to cause their death, so there is no mistake."

Ginger, it's really still old and spicy!

After hearing these words, Wang Xu really breathed a sigh of relief, and finally let go of the big things in his heart, but after thinking about it carefully, he was not particularly satisfied, and couldn't help asking: "But in this way, everyone will not know that they died because of provoking civil strife, and the civil strife has not been made public, isn't there no deterrent and vigilant effect." ”

"My lord, when the eunuchs were in power, they could find excuses by fabricating facts, how could there be no way to justify it at this moment?" Liu Yi said disapprerovingly: "All the evidence of civil strife can be read out in public, so that everyone can understand the cause and effect, and let everyone know what is wrong, but the lord only needs to say a word of integrity and employment after reading it out, and he will not pursue it for the time being, and hope that everyone will learn from the pain and make up for it in the future." ”

Subsequently, he immediately put aside the matter and arrested those core provocateurs, and instead pronounced a sentence for other crimes. In this way, these people not only have nothing to say, but also do not need to implicate too much, but also let all the civilian, military and intelligent people understand what is the so-called matter, which can also serve as a deterrent and alert, and the matter can also be closed. ”

As Liu Yi's words fell, Wang Xu had no doubts, and was sincerely impressed by his methods, and couldn't help but praise loudly: "Old Liu, this time I will definitely make a great contribution to you" (to be continued............