"Xun Zhong, now tell me how you planned?"

Hearing the doctor's question, Xun Zhong didn't dare to hide it, and told his plan one by one.

It turns out that today's majesty not only wants to centralize power, but also wants to revive the old system and set up a prince, but His Majesty is very jealous of the strength of the four major families, especially the Qin family.

The reason for this starts from the time of the founding of the Juhua Empire.

Before the establishment of the Juhua Empire, the Zhuhua Continent was divided into seven countries.

At that time, the seven clans of Qihua were Qinghua, Chihua, Xuanhua, Baihua, Lanhua, Huanghua and Zihua.

Each clan relied on its own strength to divide one side, which also led to a century-long Qihua melee on the Zhuhua Continent.

In the end, Qihua could not bear this long war, so he negotiated in Yinglong City.

Initially, the negotiations focused on the ceasefire, with separate starting prices.

However, each clan has different languages, scripts, currencies, cultures, etc., and it is not uncommon for quarrels to occur during negotiations over these aspects.

In this way, after more than 30 days of negotiations, the four clans of Qinghua, Chihua, Xuanhua and Baihua were finally merged, and Qinghua, Zihua and Huanghua chose to withdraw because they were not satisfied with many matters after the merger.

In this way, with the efforts of the four clans, the Juhua Empire was officially established, and the four clans also became the current four major families, each managing different matters.

The Chihua Su family was responsible for business and controlled the country's economy; the Xuanhua Xun family was responsible for administration and the governance of the country; the Baihua royal family was responsible for the military and controlled the country's army; and the Qin family in Qinghua was responsible for supervising the state and supervising the emperor's behavior.

As for the emperor, the four major clans also made extremely strict regulations.

The emperor of the Juhua Empire could not pass the throne to his heirs without authorization, and each emperor had to be chosen through the royal selection ceremony.

The so-called royal selection ceremony is that the four major families each send three respected elders other than the head of the family, and the current emperor or the emperor's representative, a total of thirteen people to form an audit team.

All young people between the ages of 15 and 25 from the four major families can register for the assessment.

The judging panel will examine their respective knowledge, force, strategy, beliefs, etiquette, appearance and other aspects, and finally select 16 candidates.

The 16 candidates will be evaluated in front of the public for three days at the Kaiyun Square, and at the end of the jury, a winning candidate will be selected to inherit the throne.

After the emperor ascended the throne, he would make a partiality decision because of the identity of the original family, and each king would not be included in the genealogy of the original family for the rest of his life.

And the emperor can't do whatever he wants, because once the emperor has bad conduct, poor ability, poor etiquette, and poor health, the Qin family, as a prisoner, can initiate impeachment against the emperor, and as long as the other two of the other three support impeachment, the current emperor can be abolished and the royal election ceremony can be held immediately.

It is precisely because of these rights possessed by the four great families that they also led to their transcendent position in the Juhua Empire.

Even so, in the more than 2,000 years of history of the Juhua Empire, there has never been a dictatorship of the four major families.

Even in order to dilute their influence in the court, every once in a while, the four major families will collectively withdraw from the court.

But the actual effect is minimal, as long as they come back again, they will immediately become the weather vane in the court again.

And today's Your Majesty, it is Qin Wen, the youngest of the three Qin brothers.

Since Qin Wendao succeeded to the throne, he had a deep understanding of what the four great families were like in the empire.

Qin, who is well aware of history, understands that centralization of power is only the recovery of rights in the situation, and will not have any substantial changes to the current situation.

Therefore, Qin Wendao intends to restore the old system and reset the crown prince, and only in this way will the throne become more and more stable, and the right can be regarded as a real return to the imperial power.

But resetting the crown prince is already considered to be against the rules of the ancestors, and when the time comes, Qin Wentian will definitely be the first to stand up against it, or even directly impeach him.

So Qin Wendao found Xun Zhong, the person he trusted the most, and the courtier who supported him the most, to plan.

Xun Zhong's initial plan was to force Qin Wentian to rebel.

Once Qin Wentian rebelled, then he would definitely choose to quit the family and leave the imperial city.

And Xun Zhong had already ambushed trap arrays at the gates of various exiting cities, these arrays might not be able to hurt Qin Wentian, but the child in his arms would definitely die here.

The death of Sun Tzu will inevitably cause Qin Wentian to retaliate against Xun Zhong, and when the time comes, Xun Zhong will unite a group of masters to kill Qin Wentian on the spot.

The Wang family and the Su family will definitely ask Xun Zhong Xingshi for their crimes, and when the time comes, they will make a big deal about it, even if Xun Zhong dies because of this, the fact that these three families helped Qin Wentian to rebel can be regarded as solid.

At that time, according to the ancestral system, Qin Dao can wantonly suppress the four major families.

As long as the power of the four major families is weakened in ten years, the old system can be restored and the crown prince can be reset.

Xun Zhong's face was full of composure when he said all this, and the previous panic and anger had long since disappeared.

The doctor opposite him just listened quietly with his eyes closed, and from time to time stroked his beard with his hand to show that he was still listening.

When he heard Xun Zhong finish speaking, the doctor opened his eyes and looked at Xun Zhong and said, "Well, the idea is good, but the result doesn't seem to be the same." ”

"Yes, I misestimated Qin Wentian's strength and failed to kill him to provoke the anger of the Wang and Su families. ”

Hearing Xun Zhong's words, the doctor slowly stood up, walked to the counter in the store, and said slowly, "You don't complain if you lose, because you even made a mistake in your opponent." ”

"Teacher, what do you mean?" Xun Zhong asked puzzled.

"Mu Yunfei was invited by you?"

Xun Zhong was stunned by his teacher's question, then reacted, shook his head and said, "No, since I want to kill Senior Brother Qin, I naturally won't invite Mu Lao out to help him." ”

After hearing this, the doctor smiled and said, "Then who invited Mu Lao?"

Xun Zhong thought about it as he said, "Senior Brother Qin, as a prisoner, usually pays attention to the relationship with the nobles, didn't he invite him?"

"Since Qin Wentian is leaving, then he naturally wouldn't expect that he would turn back again or be unable to escape, so why would he ask Mu Yunfei to come out to help him?" the doctor asked rhetorically.

"Could it be Su Jiumei?" Xun Zhong said uncertainly.

"The Ninth Sister family is in business, and although she is familiar with the nobles, she and the Mu family are only general friends, and it may be a little difficult to invite Mu Yunfei. The doctor retorted.

"Could it be ......" Xun Zhong looked at the doctor in surprise, because he couldn't believe the answer in his heart.

The doctor saw that he had already thought of the answer, nodded and said, "That's right, it was invited by Xiaomo, and the subordinates of the Xiaomo family have been in frequent contact with the subordinates of the Qin family in the past few days, especially the maidservant of Mrs. Qin Yuxuan." ”

The doctor looked at Xun Zhong, who was full of shock, and continued, "In addition, Lou Xing of the Xiaomo family went to Su Mansion last night, and the ninth sister took the Seven Star Guard out of the south gate early this morning. ”

"South Gate?, Ninth Sister went to South Gate?" Xun Zhong asked in disbelief.

"Yes, your trap formation should be 'Earth-born Red Lotus', right?" the doctor asked.

Xun Zhong nodded, indicating affirmation.

The doctor got Xun Zhong's answer and continued, "Maybe your formation can hide from the sky, but it definitely can't hide from the ninth sister who is familiar with flames, so do you know who your opponent is now?"

All the information was constantly integrated in Xun Zhong's head.

Qin Ran's arrival, Mu Yunfei's appearance, Su Jiumei's teleportation array, everything seemed to be arranged.

The name Wang Xiaomo kept echoing in Xun Zhong's mind.

Looking at Xun Zhong's shocked expression, the doctor smiled and comforted, "You always thought that Xiao Mo was only good at force, but you didn't notice that his sycophant kung fu is also very powerful, every time, even if you know that it is flattery, it will still make you feel extremely comfortable." ”

The doctor said, looking at the small wooden stick that had just beaten Wang Xiaomo, and said, "Such a person who is good at figuring out other people's thoughts, do you think he will guess your plan?"

After speaking, the doctor patted Xun Zhong's shoulder, lifted his foot and walked out of the store.

"Wang Xiaomo, it turns out that you have been pretending to be stupid in front of me....." Xun Zhong clenched his fists tightly.

At this time, the doctor who had already walked out of the store turned back to Xun Zhong and said, "Xun Zhong, although I have looked down on life and death as a teacher, I still don't want my disciple to die, next time you should take your life more seriously, including your own life." ”

After speaking, the doctor walked away without looking back, leaving Xun Zhong alone.

Xun Zhong bowed deeply to the doctor's back and said, "The disciple has been taught." ”

Three days later, martial law was officially lifted in the city.

During the three days of martial law, not to mention people in the city, even a bird over five inches wanted to fly out of the city and was required to be shot.

This also made the families completely lose Qin Wentian's whereabouts, and the last time they saw Qin Wentian's information was only that there was a trace of Qin Wentian suspected of Qin Wentian in Harbor City, but the specific whereabouts were unknown, such vague information.

During the martial law period, the biggest news was nothing more than the collective resignation of Wang Xiaomo's faction.

On the third day after the incident, Wang Xiaomo asked the emperor to resign on the grounds of his advanced age.

Subsequently, a group of generals promoted by Wang Xiaomo and the clansmen who entered the court resigned together.

Seeing this, Qin Wendao rejected Wang Xiaomo three times in a row before he could be regarded as stopping Wang Xiaomo's resignation.

However, for others, His Majesty did not make too many reservations, some of them symbolically refused, and some did not even refuse, and directly agreed to resign.

In the end, in the entire court, in addition to himself, only his son Wang Shihu was with him in Wang Xiaomo's faction.

On the other side, the Su family.

On the fifth day after the incident, the Su family decided to open the market, ceding a part of the market share originally monopolized by the Su family, and the Su family bore all the costs of repair and compensation in this incident.

As for Xun Zhong, he was business as usual, as if nothing had happened.

It's just that every time he meets Wang Xiaomo, he will look at him for a long time, and Wang Xiaomo thinks that he has some strange habits since this incident.

Although this battle has ended, its effects have not dissipated, and this stop was later known as the Battle of Dragon City.