After Xu Minglang returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, he locked himself in the study and ordered no one to disturb him. It wasn't until the heads of the family came one after another that he came out of the study and discussed with them.

The matter of the Zhao family can be known, but it cannot be seen, and many heads of the family swaggered into the prime minister's mansion to conspire in this situation tonight, not to mention that they will give the emperor an excuse to attack the gate, and it will also displease the emperor.

As soon as he sat down, without waiting for the Zheng family and the Lu family head to speak, Xu Minglang took the lead and said:

"The Zhao family and the generals were able to find the key people in each case so quickly and accurately, so that we didn't even have a chance to extinguish the mouth, there could only be one reason: there was an inner ghost among us!"

When everyone heard this, their faces changed slightly, and they looked at each other a few times, and their eyes were full of suspicion and defensiveness. Even Zheng Zexian and others temporarily swallowed the words that had reached their mouths.

Xu Minglang's assertion, everyone was more or less skeptical when they thought about why the whole thing failed on the way here. If it weren't for the inner ghost, this operation would not have been a failure.

"Xu Xiang knows, who is this inner ghost?" Zheng Zexian asked impatiently. Among all the people, he and the head of the Lu family are the most unstable, because they are now leaking the most handles, and the family is already in danger.

Xu Minglang didn't answer, and before closing his eyes and contemplating, he glanced at Fan Zhongming intentionally or unintentionally.

The eyes of all the heads of the family fell on Fan Zhongming in the tail seat, and the latter's face suddenly darkened.

Fan Zhongming is not the head of the Paradigm family, but now he is also the Great Elder of the Paradigm, and when the head of the Paradigm family is old and not a director, he is the person who speaks for the Paradigm. So he's sitting here today.

After the Daizhou incident, although the paradigm was cleared of responsibility by Xu Minglang in the process of the triage of the three divisions, it caused Xu Minglang's great dissatisfaction because of his ineffective work. For half a year, the paradigm situation has been worse day by day.

Many paradigm officials who have good political performance and should have been promoted have not been promoted to knighthood, not to mention that they have been transferred out of their original positions of chief officials or real power, and have been appointed to official positions that are not tight, and some paradigm officials with poor political performance have been demoted.

The current paradigm family is stormy, and the middle of the family road is already visible to the naked eye.

If this situation continues, in a few years, the paradigm will completely withdraw from the power stage of the Great Qi Dynasty.

Because of this, this time the family joined forces to deal with the Zhao family, Fan Zhongming has always been very attentive, and he has been extraordinarily energetic, taking the initiative to do all kinds of dirty work, running around, and flattering and surviving attitude Everyone sees it.

Knock down the Zhao family, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue, continue to suppress the generals, there are too many interests in it, many of them are very angry, plus they thought that this battle would be won, in order to avoid the lack of benefits when the merit is rewarded afterwards, they are unwilling to give up the critical action to the paradigm.

In the end, Paradigm took on the role of running errands without much credit, contributing a lot of money and effort, but there was no chance to show his face.

It's like a guy who delivers food in a restaurant, he doesn't have any positive communication with customers, he doesn't have the opportunity to sell those very expensive good wines and dishes in the restaurant, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't cook or cook.

But the guy who delivers the food can not only know the situation in the kitchen, but also have access to the information in the lobby.

So the Paradigm people know a lot of things.

"Fan Zhongming, did you betray us? Did you reveal our actions to the Zhao family?!" Zheng Zexian called him by his name, and stood up and pointed at Fan Zhongming's nose and asked sharply. He was really anxious.

Fan Zhongming's face on the tail seat immediately turned red, and he was full of grief and indignation:

"Why does Zheng Gong have to spew blood? Who among you doesn't know that after the Daizhou incident, Paradigm and the Zhao clan have already sworn to be incompatible, and they will not die? At this time, how can Paradigm be in collusion with the Zhao clan!"

This is very reasonable, and Zheng Zexian can't refute it.

The head of the Lu family sneered and said aggressively:

"If it weren't for you, could there be someone else who couldn't do it? Your paradigm was originally a general, and you became a monk halfway through and entered the civil official sequence, I think you are in Cao Ying's heart in Han! The reason why the matter of Daizhou will fail is not because of you?

"If you want me to see, at that time, you were connected with the Zhao family, deliberately making the operation fail and exposing the news, so as to give the door an excuse to fight back and attack us!"

Fan Zhongming was so angry that one Buddha went out of his body and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and suddenly got up, staring at the head of the Lu family with blood-red eyes:

"If the paradigm doesn't leak the secret, what should Lu Gong do? Today, Fan Mou will bet with you with the head of the item, if the paradigm does not leak the news, will Lu Gong dare to give the head to Fan?!"

Fan Zhongming's attitude was so sad and tough that the head of the Lu family didn't know what to say for a while, after all, he couldn't really take out his head to gamble. Fan Zhongming's statement like this can somewhat confirm his heart.

But the head of the Lu family couldn't admit defeat, he lost his momentum, and said with his nostrils facing the sky: "If it is a matter of the world, you can ensure your innocence by using your head as a guarantee, then how is you and me different from a three-year-old child?"

The two quarreled for a while.

Zheng Zexian originally wanted to join in, but after all, he thought of the family's situation and didn't want to waste this energy. Even if the paradigm is a traitor, can it change the situation of the Zheng family now?

Thinking of this, Zheng Zexian looked at Xu Minglang, but saw that the latter was still closing his eyes and recuperating, and did not stop the argument, let the topic return to the topic, and solve the current dilemma.

Zheng Zexian suddenly moved, and contacted Xu Minglang's glance at Fan Zhongming, and he sighed in his heart, feeling bad.

What is Xu Minglang doing? Obviously, he deliberately threw out the paradigm as a bait for leakers to divert the topic of discussion!

What does this mean? It shows that Xu Minglang is diverting everyone's attention and attention, asking everyone to catch the mole and force the paradigm to pay the price!

Why did Xu Minglang do this?

There is only one reason.

The current dilemma faced by the door, Xu Minglang can't solve it at all!

As the person in charge of this operation, Xu Minglang couldn't deal with the failure of the mission, he didn't want to admit it and didn't want everyone to think that he was incompetent, so he put the fault on the "traitor" of Paradigm intentionally or unintentionally.

The weakest and incompetent "ex-convict" of the paradigm is undoubtedly the best person to be thrown out and take responsibility.

In this way, Xu Minglang not only found the person responsible for the failure of the operation, but also avoided the dilemma of losing his prestige! This ...... This is the usual trick of the superiors.

Zheng Zexian's face was like ashes, and most of his spirit and spirit dissipated at once, and he sat there dejectedly, with no master of the six gods.

Xu Minglang can't solve the current predicament, which means that Zheng's decline is irreversible and inevitable! Zheng's is really going to end......

Zheng Zexian was so desperate that he felt that the world was spinning.

......

In an ordinary wine shop under the name of Yipinlou, Zhao Ning sat at the table to eat.

Someone sat at the same table with him, but he didn't move his chopsticks.

Not only did he not move his chopsticks, but he also sat upright.

Sitting upright, it was not because he was afraid of Zhao Ning, but because of habit.

This is an ordinary-looking woman, with dignified facial features and a very slender figure, and she does not look weak or attract much attention.

If anything, she just needs to sit there and feel that she is a serious person.

This young woman is the most outstanding son of the younger generation of Paradigm, Fan Yi.

Zhao Ning didn't eat much today, and he could have eaten at the Duwei Mansion at noon, but Zhang Wenzheng broke in and ruined his good deeds, and in order to show his anger, he didn't eat for the rest of the time.

At this time, he can finally eat openly, Zhao Ning has no scruples, and the three dishes and one soup on the table are quickly swept away by him.

If Wei Wuxian was here, he would definitely give a thumbs up and say in admiration, "You can be even more ugly than me, it's really amazing." ”

Eating without saying a word, this is the basic etiquette of the nobles of the family, but Zhao Ning has no such scruples, in the past ten years of national war, he often needed to discuss the battle situation while eating dry food, and there was no time to give him a quiet meal.

"In this way, not all of the joint sects this time have taken the initiative to exert all their strength under the leadership of Xu Minglang?" Zhao Ning took a sip of soup and asked Fan Yi without raising his head.

During the autumn hunt last year, because of the secret assistance of Fan Yi and Chen Anzhi, Zhao Ning was finally able to successfully capture the flag. These times, Zhao's secret contact with the paradigm is mostly through the other party.

Zhao Ning is now very familiar with this paradigm.

"As the in-law family of the Xu family, the Pang family was quite cautious in this operation, which seemed a little abnormal, they were more on the surface, using the power of Jingzhao Mansion to cooperate, and did not deeply participate in the action. ”

Fan Yi's voice is very longing for reading, and she looks at each other, which makes her look like a literati with a quiet temperament, so as soon as she speaks, she has a different kind of charm.

Speaking of this, Fan Yi paused and added: "The following is my speculation: I think that Pang Zi may have other actions in private. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ning raised his eyebrows slightly, "Tell me about it." ”

In fact, Xu Minglang did not have a wrongful paradigm. The reason why Zhao Ning's actions were so thoroughly grasped this time was indeed because of the leakage of secrets from the paradigm. What Paradigm knows, Zhao Ning basically knows.

More than 40 cases have been planned by multiple families, the actions are huge, and there are too many characters involved.

It is with the help of the paradigm and the filling of gaps that Zhao Ning can accurately grasp all the cases.

Although the Pang family and the Xu family are in-law families, the Pang family is obviously unwilling to only be a Ponzi vassal, and also wants to strengthen itself. The Xu family has gained a lot because of Princess Beihu's annual enlistment, and the Liu family knows this, and the Pang family will not be unaware of it.

"Since the Xu clan can be so unscrupulous, why can't the Pang clan follow suit? I vaguely perceive that the Pang clan also has a secret force, which may take action against Yipinlou!

"They may be following the old path of the Liu family: controlling the underground forces in Jianghu and Yanping City. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ning not only did not feel shocked, but was also a little happy.

After Xu Minglang took away the military department from Jiangmen, although he installed a lot of people from his own family, in order to avoid uneven distribution of spoils and the emperor's jealousy, he still gave up most of his official positions.

He himself is already the prime minister, and it is not suitable for the clansmen to serve as the secretary of the military department, but this interest must not fall into the hands of ordinary families, so the current secretary of the military department is the head of the Pang family. Ponzi has a lot of control over the military department.

For the sake of the overall situation of the next war, Zhao Ning wants to help Jiangmen recapture the military headquarters, so he has to attack the Pang Clan.

As for Ponzi's secret power, Fan Yi didn't understand some situations because he knew very little, but Zhao Ning knew very well what Ponzi's so-called secret power was.