Among the generals who surrendered to Yunyang Kingdom, there were not only three generals under Hou Zhen, but also five generals under Chu Yu and Wei Biao. From this point of view, the fault is not entirely on Hou Zhen alone, but when he went to the court, all the mistakes and faults became the responsibility of Hou Zhen alone, and he was almost beheaded by the court.

Fortunately, more than one million soldiers and dozens of generals rescued by Hou Zhen jointly appeared to the imperial court, which saved Hou Zhen's life, cut off military power, and demoted to quartermaster.

After hearing this, Zhang Jun couldn't help but feel indignant for Hou Zhen to feel unfair, and even more indignant for the five major families to control the government.

"I know all about you, and I will investigate the ins and outs of this matter in detail, but don't worry, if the facts are clear, I will definitely administer justice for you, and I came to you today to talk to you about other things. ”

"Thank you Zhang Shuai for listening to me say these words, although I want you to help me avenge me in my heart. But I advise you to forget about it, and leave my business alone, so as not to get into trouble. ”

"I'm not afraid that you will be dissatisfied, to tell you the truth, although your current status is among the top three in the Red Blood Country, but in fact, the Red Blood Country has always been in power with the five major families, including the imperial lord, it is difficult to influence the government, if I guessed correctly, this time the imperial lord found that you are a rare talent, so he will take the risk of competing with the five major families, crown you king, and give real power. ”

"Oh, is there any secret in the court of the Red Blood Country?" Zhang Jun was a little puzzled, didn't the emperor already have the power to dominate the world, how could he still be afraid of the power of the five major families?

"Okay, if Meng Zhangshuai doesn't give up, I'll tell you the inside story and the situation in the court of the Red Blood Country. ”

"Since the founding of the Red Blood Country 10,000 years ago, there were six major families that conquered the world of the Red Blood Country, namely Zeng, Chu, Wei, Zhao, Han, and Qin, among which the Zeng family was the head. ”

"After the negotiation of the six major families, the Red Blood Country was established, and the six major families jointly governed and divided the interests of the Red Blood Country. At that time, the interest circle in the Red Blood country was mainly controlled by the six major families, and the ten major sects and the five first-class cities were divided into a small part. Until 2,400 years ago, there was an earth-shattering great man, who was said to be from the heavenly immortals, and he was the dean of Dongshan Academy, Xinyangjun,"

"The appearance of Xinyang Jun changed the face of the Red Blood Country, recruited a wide range of students, established an army, and changed the Red Blood Country from a third-class empire to the overlord of the Eastern Regions in a few decades, and it can even be said that it is the overlord of the Red Continent,"

"At that time, Emperor Zeng was Xinyangjun's best friend, so naturally the Zeng clan got the greatest benefits. The five major families who originally shared the benefits equally were not satisfied, but the result can be imagined, and they were almost wiped out by Xinyangjun and the Zeng family, and in desperation, they had to agree, and the interests in the court were divided into half of the interests of the five major families and the Zeng family, which ended this dispute."

However, since then, the five major families have formed an alliance with the Zeng royal family to form a court and political pattern of superficial cooperation and internal competition. ”

"For example, this time my grievances, with the wisdom of the emperor, how can I not know it? But my existence, compared to the interests of the five major families, is too small, it is impossible for me to have conflicts with the five major families,"

"That's why the emperor didn't distinguish between right and wrong and wanted to kill me, but fortunately, the generals kept the five families from being too arrogant, so they were demoted to quartermasters. However, the purpose of the five major families to weaken my military power and accept my most elite million soldiers has been achieved, and my life and death are irrelevant in their eyes, so I will survive for a long time. ”

"The above is the delicate relationship and historical origin of the five major families and the royal family, I am telling you about the current situation in the Red Blood Country,"

"In recent years, the government in the red-blooded country has become more and more unstable, and the five major families have begun to be dissatisfied with only half of the benefits, and gradually compete with the royal family for power,"

"In terms of the number of troops, the Red Blood Nation has a standing army of 50 million. Among them, about 20 million troops are controlled by the city lords of the major cities, and the remaining 30 million troops are controlled by the five major families and the royal family. ”

"But over the years, the garrisons of the major cities have been seized by the five major families in various names and controlled at least about 10 million, which has steadily suppressed the royal family in terms of the number of troops, for example, my one million elite soldiers were designed by the five major families. ”

"From the perspective of the government, it is even more serious, among the six ministries and ten ministers, more than half are people from the five major families, and more than half of the various taxes and business income go into the hands of the five major families, although the emperor tries his best to expand his influence in the court, but with little effect,"

"Zhang Shuai, what do you think is the most important thing about a country's power? First, whoever controls the right to speak in the army will have a hard waist, and second, whoever controls the lifeblood of wealth will speak with confidence. Third, whoever has more talents under his command will take a broader road, and fourth, whoever has the will of the people will be able to control the future of the world. ”

"It can be said that the current five major families have at least two major advantages in the army and financial resources, and the royal family can only start from the other two elements, the system shortcomings in the history of the Red Blood Country, the royal family cannot get the greatest support in terms of popular support, so the royal family has found another way, excavated talents everywhere, and formed the Huai Wang Palace to compete with the four major academies and the five major sects to compete for talents, and Emperor Zeng also secretly formed a powerful organization such as the Elite Knights. ”

"Now it can be said that the Red Blood Country is a time of internal and external troubles, there is a war in the Yunyang Kingdom outside, and there is a open and secret battle between the five major families inside,"

"But I have to say that Zhang Shuai definitely created a golden opportunity for Emperor Zeng this time, the tens of millions of troops of Yunyang Kingdom Toucheng completely fell into the hands of the royal family, and the imperial lord sent the armies of Chu Tian and Chu Yu to the Red Flame Pass to fight against the invasion of Yunyang Kingdom in order to avoid the benefits of the five major families."

"It's a good plan to kill four birds with one stone,"

Zhang Jun has been listening to Hou Zhen's analysis of current affairs, the more he listened, the more frightened he became, and the more he listened, the more he looked at Hou Zhen.

"Kill four birds with one stone?

"The first eagle is the huge benefits brought to the royal family by the tens of millions of troops of Yunyang Guotoucheng, so that the royal family can monopolize the benefits. ”

"The second eagle is to count the millions of troops of the five major families who were assigned by the royal family to the Red Flame City to fight against the Yunyang Kingdom, which blocked the frontal offensive posture of the Yunyang Kingdom and consumed the military strength of the five major families. ”

"I've seen this a long time ago, but I haven't thought of what the other two sculptures are?" Zhang Jun said.

"The third eagle is about you, the emperor accidentally discovered you, a peerless genius, and did not hesitate to compete with the five major families, so he gave you a high-ranking official and a generous gift, so that you can be grateful to Dade for becoming the emperor's henchman, and use your firearms to balance the armies of the five major families. ”

"You are right about this, the first time I conducted a thunder artillery experiment in front of Emperor Zeng, Emperor Zeng decided to form a firearms army, and I was the commander, I was a little strange, I did not contribute at all in the army, but Emperor Zeng helped me to the top of the sky in one step? Now I understand, he is not only optimistic about the power of thunder artillery, which is a threat to Yunyang Kingdom, but also optimistic about the ability of my firearms army to balance the five major families. Zhang Jun had to admire Emperor Zeng's resourcefulness, and his reaction was too fast.

"There is a more important fourth eagle, which is also about you," Hou Zhen said after sharing a drink with Zhang Jun.

"Oh, how do you say that? I really can't figure out what else can be used by Emperor Zeng."

"Hehe, listen to me, isn't that reasonable. The social system of the colorful field is a combination of two different systems: the clan system and the sect system. The power of the court of the Red Blood Country in the overall society is close to seventy percent, and thirty percent is under the management of the sect, and among the ten major sects of the Red Blood Country, four of them now support Zhang Shuai. In other words, Zhang Shuai, your rights now account for at least one percent of the Red Blood Country. ”

"So this time, Emperor Zeng sent you, not only to restrain the five major families and to fight against the war of the Yunyang Kingdom, but more importantly, to make good friends with the four major sects, so as to cultivate the development of your power and form a three-legged situation in the peak of the interests of the Red Blood Country,"

"This is of great benefit to Emperor Zeng, first of all, Emperor Zeng gave you all the rights, you must be friendly with Emperor Zeng, and reject the five major families. ”

"What's more important is that Emperor Zeng has helped the five major families find an opponent, and the five major families will transfer the target to you"

"Zhang Shuai, you and the five major families will definitely have conflicts in the end and form a competitive relationship. When the five great families see you Zhang Shuai as a threat. As the saying goes---- Sandpiper and clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman. This is the most powerful fourth eagle. ”

Hou Zhen's analysis Zhang Jun only saw two things on the surface, but the inner things were not something that Zhang Jun could figure out, this is politics, the politics of the Red Blood Country of Chiguoguo.

It's not that Zhang Jun is not smart enough, but Zhang Jun is still young, and he is too far behind Emperor Zeng who has been on the top for a long time in terms of scheming, and he is not an opponent of a magnitude at all.

In addition, Zhang Jun's life on earth has never been exposed to the extremely dark politics and the political situation with open guns and hidden arrows. That would have imagined that there would be so many layers of interest. He was just an insignificant scientific genius, a pawn in the hands of a politician, and with his position on Earth, he had no access to them.

These words made Zhang Jun fall into contemplation, originally full of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, couldn't help but calm down, it seems that want to create a world of their own, it is really not so easy, first of all, to figure out the interest chain of all people, it is a big problem, this interest chain also includes enemies and potential enemies.

"What should I do? Zhang Jun said after pondering for a moment.

"Zhang Shuai, in fact, I am very optimistic about your future, I often read books and classics, in my opinion, you are by no means a thing in the pool, you should have lofty ideals and goals. I guess you can summon me this time, not only to talk to me, but more importantly, my ability is favored by you, of course, I am more optimistic about you. ”

"I really admire you Hou Zhen, your intelligence doesn't match your appearance, you definitely belong to the kind of person who is wise and foolish, no wonder you can rise under the oppression of the five major families with your own strength. Become the commander in chief of a million-strong army. You guessed it, I'm not talking to you. ”