The person who assassinated him came from the side of the Praetorian Guard, which surprised Zhang Heng a little.

Considering that he has been messing around here all this time, it is not surprising that there are big forces targeting him in advance to solve this trouble, but the Praetorian Guard's words......

The biggest suspicion is, of course, Clinde, after all, Clinder has a direct conflict of interest with Zhang Heng, Commoder is now favoring him, if he is recruited to do things by his side, it may undoubtedly affect Clinde's status, if he dies here, of course, it will be a good thing for Clinde.

Moreover, Clinder himself has a criminal record, and Pannonax, who was sent to make things difficult for him, came from the Praetorian Guard.

So this time it seems that Clinder saw that he had made the patrol better, and decided to simply get rid of him once and for all, and completely eliminate him as a threat.

However, Zhang Heng himself still has reservations about this point, although the method of assassination is the most simple and direct, but in the political struggle, no one will take this method until the stage when the net is broken, because once this is done, it means that there will be no death, and if the other party survives, he will bear the same risk.

Clint is a person, Zhang Heng has also profiled him after coming into contact with him, he is indeed full of jealousy and desire for power, once the situation develops to a certain extent, he may not refuse to use assassination methods, but before this he was still a relatively cautious and conservative politician.

This can also be seen from the way he dealt with Zhang Heng, he is more accustomed to hiding himself behind the scenes, using some means within the rules to carry out this game of power, assassination is not in line with his style of acting, and once this kind of thing is done, it is easy to leave a handle, in terms of Zhang Heng's current threat to him, it is not worth taking such a big risk.

And then Zhang Heng also got the portrait given by the Samaritan, and found that the person in the portrait was not Pannonax, but a guy he had never seen before.

At this point, there is no way to investigate the matter, Zhang Heng can only ask the Samaritan to pay attention to whether the other party will come to see him again, but Zhang Heng is actually not very hopeful about this line, no matter who the main messenger behind the scenes is, he obviously wants to try his best to clear up his relationship, and it is estimated that he will not contact the Samaritans again after discovering that the assassin has missed.

If you want to investigate, you can only wait for him to get to Commodus, and then he should have more opportunities to contact the Praetorian Guard.

Although the assassination did not bring any danger to Zhang Heng, it gave Zhang Heng a wake-up call, which means that it is likely that someone else is eyeing him, but this matter has not changed his next plan, and Zhang Heng's plan to integrate large and small forces is still steadily advancing.

After the low-level forces were all standing in line, Zhang Heng soon provoked a new round of war, this time under the pretext of investigating the fact that the members of the previous patrol team were beaten on the street, and directly led people to raid a medium-sized force.

Of course, Zhang Heng knew that it was not that force who did it, because the previous assassins had already confessed how they planned the assassination, and after the assassination failed, the helpers of the bakery also fled, and the members of the patrol team only had some flesh wounds, and there was nothing serious.

However, it would be a pity if this matter was not used, especially after Zhang Heng noticed that the identity of one of the accomplices belonged to that medium-sized force, he directly found the other party and planned the revenge drama later.

After the patrol team failed to ask for the surrender, it directly attacked the territory of the medium-sized force, and the latter was still thinking about how to figure out the situation at this time, but he did not expect that the patrol team on the other side had already hit the door.

The current patrol team is no longer the mascot of a month and a half ago, not only has basically everyone seen blood, but also has been recruiting troops, counting those who spend money to hire more than fifty people, and Zhang Heng takes the lead, and the combat effectiveness is quite strong.

And that medium-sized force has a lot of people, more than a hundred, but basically each has its own job, scattered everywhere, and it is difficult to gather everyone for a while.

At the same time, Zhang Heng had already stated that it was a grievance between the two parties, and there was no one who called the soap, so according to the rules, it was difficult for other forces outside to intervene, and in the end he could only watch the medium-sized force being defeated by the patrol, but fortunately, this time Zhang Heng did not go too far, leaving the other party's boss alive.

Even so, he was invited to go to a tavern in five days.

Zhang Heng couldn't refuse this invitation, because behind this was one of the top three forces in the nearby area, and Zhang Heng estimated that the other two forces were also there, which also meant that the opposite side's tolerance for him during this period of time had reached the limit, and if nothing else, it would be time to have a showdown with him tonight.

And whether or not it can pass this level means whether the patrol can continue to develop in the future.

Of course, strictly speaking, most of his current goal has been achieved, relying on the current patrol team and those small forces under his control, he can already cope with the assessment in two weeks, but he needs to do some other work to complete all his plans.

Zhang Heng went to visit Clint unexpectedly.

The two talked in Klinde's study for about an hour, which surprised Clinde's wife, because she rarely saw Clinde, who was known for his efficiency, chatting with a person for so long, and personally sent Zhang Heng to the door.

Then Clinder asked an old servant who had been serving the two men in the room, "What do you think about this?" ”

"Didn't you already decide to suppress him?" The old servant asked, "Why do you need to help him?" ”

"Because I'm just now realizing that he's such an interesting guy," Clint smiled, "and it's hard for me to say no to his chips." ”

"Why, isn't he asking you now?"

"Yes, but not quite, I'm sure he has a backup option." "Someone like him doesn't put all the chips on one person. ”

"But you suppressed him before, and that matter, aren't you worried that he will retaliate against you after he gains power, and you have always said how much His Majesty the Emperor values him, didn't you ask you about his current situation before?"

"There are no absolute friends in politics, and naturally there are no absolute enemies." Clint smiled, "I now start to feel that there is nothing bad about one more competitor, after all, we still have the same opponent - Otrus, the person Your Majesty trusts the most now is actually Otrus, and even gave his own ring to Otlus, my position is not easy to sit in in the past two years, instead of struggling to support, it is better to put in a new person and muddy the waters, he seems to be a smart person, he should know who his real opponent is." ”