Xiao Yu was silent, his handsome and resolute face showed a dignified look, but his body sitting behind the red sandalwood case was calm and strong, giving people a feeling of being like a mountain, as if no matter how difficult the choice he faced, he would not be crushed, and the strong and powerful shoulder and back arc also revealed a rigid momentum.

Ren Xun and Gu Di's eyes flashed.

Guogong's gesture......

I heard Xiao Yu's deep and powerful voice say: "The next policy, of course you can't choose!" ”

Really.

The two of them said in their hearts.

Liang Guogong obviously doesn't look down on the King of Qi, or rather, he is not optimistic about the power of the King of Qi's side, or rather, it is "different from each other" with the King of Qi's side - that's why there is this kind of decisiveness and rigidity of "not choosing the King of Qi".

Xiao Yu raised his hand and saluted: "Thank you two gentlemen for analyzing and deciding the plan." The stakes are big, and a certain thing should be thought through. ”

Ren Gu and the others naturally understood that this matter could not be decided by Liang Guogong alone, and it had to be decided by the inner circle of the Xiao family. However, Liang Guogong decisively vetoed the next policy, which obviously means that not cooperating with King Qi is Xiao's opinion, which is intriguing.

The two of them got up in amusement, bowed and withdrew, glanced at each other, and knew in their hearts: this matter will have a result in less than three days, but looking at Xiao's choice of the two strategies in the upper middle and the middle can further confirm their guess.

Xiao Yu listened to the footsteps of the two of them moving away, looked at Xiao Cong, who was contemplative, and said with a sense of comparison: "Mr. Ren's three strategies, what do you think?" ”

Xiao Cong didn't answer directly, raised his eyes and looked at his father and said, "Yesterday, Du Yuanjun came to visit his father, if the child guessed correctly, he should be a lobbyist for King Qi, right?" ”

"Du Zhijun" is surnamed Du Mingyun, and he is the current assassin of Hezhou. Hezhou, as the Daozhi Prefecture of Hexi Province, has always been the official of the Assassin History has always shouldered the mission of monitoring the movements of the Governor of Hexi and the Xiao family, and the successive Assassin Historians have maintained a distance from the Xiao family, except for official exchanges and gatherings for banquets, they rarely go to private exchanges, but Du Yun came to visit at this time, thinking that it was not to drink tea and talk about Fengyue - as the younger brother of the head of the Jingzhao Du family, it must represent the intention of the family.

And the Jingzhao Du clan was one of the families surnamed A who supported King Qi earlier.

Xiao Yu's deep and dark eyes made people feel undetectable, stroked his beard and smiled, with an unpredictable meaning, and said: "Jun Songmao brought the king of Qi Kounuo - the matter is done, the Xiao family is the king, and Hexi is the country." ”

Hexi Seal ......

Xiao Cong's eyebrows raised.

Even though he heard that what King Qi promised was the goal of the Xiao family's struggle for more than a hundred years, his heart was like a calm lake, without waves, and his voice was calm and calm, "I think my father is vain and wronged." ”

"Haha!" Xiao Yu smiled, quite satisfied with his son's reaction, as soon as the laughter stopped, his expression became cold, his eyes were sharp, and his authority was immediately visible, "I want to get Xiao's support with an empty vernacular, who does he think he is?" Gao Wu? The voice was contemptuous.

In that year, Emperor Gao Zongwu edicted Xiao Cheng, the ancestor of the Xiao family, as the Duke of Liang, hereditary replacement - the only hereditary replacement title of the Tang Dynasty, and promised that "Hexi does not live up to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty does not live up to Hexi", so that the ancestors let go of Hexi, and do not worry about the suspicion of the court after Hexi is rich and strong...... Since then, no matter what measures the Xiao family has taken in Hexi, how much turmoil it has caused in the DPRK and China, and how many impeachments it has attracted from the officials, Gaozong has trusted the two generations of Liang Guogong, and has never failed to make promises in his life.

But how many such sons of heaven are there?

Since Sejong, the imperial court has begun to suppress the Xiao family, although it is not to "negative Hexi", but it has been acting secretly, on the one hand, to curb the Xiao family, and on the other hand, to curb Hexi Zhan. Shaw's "self-reliance" heart was born from this. If you don't resist, you die!

"There is only one Gao Wu in the world." Xiao Cong followed his father's words and made it clear that he didn't believe King Qi, "Regardless of whether King Qi will fulfill his promise after the matter is completed, just participating in the war - if there is really a congenital battle, you have to guard against stabbing a knife in the back!" ”

His voice was as calm as a cold spring, but there was a compelling chill inside, and his handsome and gentle face was also cold at this time, "I think that King Qi is really a traitor and a villain." Some time ago, he assassinated Ah Yan, and when he turned around, he talked about forming an alliance with our Xiao family. Although there is no eternal enemy under the interests, the king of Qi did not mention or express this in the slightest, which shows that there is no sincerity. Cooperation and alliance are not credible! ”

He has always been a humble gentleman, polite and polite, even if he doesn't like someone, he rarely adds bad words, but because Xiao Yan was assassinated, he hated King Qi deeply, and his words revealed it all.

Xiao Yan lowered his eyebrows, stared at his son sharply, and admonished in a deep voice: "You and Ah Yan have a deep brotherhood, this is very good." However, interests are linked, and personal likes and dislikes are secondary. You are Ah Yan's elder brother, and you are the son of the Xiao family, you must take on the whole family, you must not be emotional, and you must not act with personal likes and dislikes. ”

"Yes." Xiao Cong lowered his eyebrows.

Xiao Yu returned to the topic, "The King of Qi did not mention the assassination of the Seventeenth, not because of a lack of sincerity, but because our Xiao clan wants to form an alliance with the King of Qi, we must give up Ah Yan." ”

Xiao Cong raised his eyes in surprise, his expression was extremely shocked, "Father, why is this?" This...... What does it have to do with Ayan? ”

"The saint is in the next game of chess, taking the world as the game, and the Mojia Sword Pavilion, Daomen, and Buddhism are all involved." Xiao Yu's eyes were gloomy, like unfathomable seawater, "Ah Yan is one of the key chess pieces." She was born and was already in the game. The Venerable One of Momen, is he too idle to take care of the children? He snorted coldly, hiding the calculated anger, and there was a touch of sadness in the depths of his heart.

When Xiao Cong heard the secret, his heart was shocked for a while, and his mind boomed for a while before he forcibly calmed down, and asked in a dry voice: "That...... Ah Yan, is it a chess piece that is opposed to King Qi? …… Yan, do you know? "I guess I don't know. If you know, your birth is a calculation, and Mozun's upbringing and teaching are also calculations...... How sad does she have to be? Xiao Cong felt for a while that his sister was really pitiful. For a while, he was empowered: No wonder King Shen wanted to introduce Ah Yan to Tiance Academy, not because of the saint's love for Princess Changle Jiaqing, but because of the righteousness of the bureau. A chill also ran through his heart.

"Your sister doesn't know." Xiao Yu said with a calm gaze, "It's not the time yet, knowing too early is not good for her." The most important thing is to improve the strength. With strength, you can be abundant in advance, and you can protect yourself when you retreat. His body was handsome and majestic, and sitting there gave people a sense of stability in the mountains, Xiao Cong's heart couldn't help but settle, and he listened to his father continue, "You know this matter in your heart. Ah Yan, don't mention it. ”

"Yes, father."

……

The next day, the Shaw family held a meeting.

The clan discussion is a discussion between the sect master and the elders, and its status is above the clan discussion, only the head of the family, the innate grandmaster in the clan and some of the Cave True Realm grandmasters participate, and the discussion is all related to the future development of the Xiao family, as well as major matters of life and death.

The Zonghui was held in secret in Xiaoshan.

In the Mansion of the Duke of Liang, except for Xiao Yu and Xiao Cong's father and son, no one knew that a major meeting was being held on Xiaoshan to decide the future of the Xiao clan in Lanling, and even affect the future of the Tang Empire.

A few days later, the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Office suddenly dispatched troops and horses, sealed the Hexi Polo Club and the Jockey Club, and imprisoned the main persons in charge of the two Jockey Clubs on the grounds that "the Jockey Club privately spread tabloids and rumors confuse the army's heart". The next day, the "prisoner" was handed over to the criminal prison of the Hexi Provincial Criminal Division, and a note was sent to the Hexi Branch of the Jing'an Division, asking the Criminal Investigation Division and the Hexi Bureau to take over the interrogation.

At the same time, the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Office also posted notices: first, it copied the disaster report of the imperial court in black and white, clarifying the disaster situation of cholera and the Guangzhou earthquake; The second is to put up a notice in black and red letters, warning the people not to spread rumors, and violators will be punished for confusing the army's morale and endangering Hexi'an.

The two measures of the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion show that the Hezhou Assassin's Mansion has perfunctory and negligent of the imperial court's edict.

Previously, after the nursery rhymes and prophecies spread, the imperial court immediately compiled a report on the disaster situation and sent it to all provinces and prefectures, so that the prefecture and county yamen were conspicuously posted and publicized to clarify the facts and quell the rumors. Because there is no administrative observer envoy in Hexi Province, only the inspector who is responsible for supervising the administration, the edicts and official documents of the imperial court to Hexi Province have always been given to the inspector and the Hezhou Assassin History, which was copied and forwarded to the Hexi Prefectures by the Assassin History Office.

Of course, the Hezhou Assassin's Mansion complied with the decree of the Political Affairs Hall and copied and forwarded the newspaper, but it was only a copy, and there was no note from the Assassin's Mansion to remind the states to pay attention to this matter. Within two days, it rained in the city, and the ink of the notice was blurred, and the poster was not replaced, and there was no propaganda or anti-rumor measures.

If there is no comparison of the actions of the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the measures of the Hezhou Assassin's Mansion are at most "perfunctory and ineffective", but with this comparison, especially the action of arresting the "human criminals", the Assassin's Mansion will be erected on the fire pit.

The two horse clubs in various places have family and local tycoon participation in the shares, the Hexi two horse clubs are the Xiao family accounts for the majority of the shares, Du Yun has been in Hezhou for five or six years to do the history of assassination, and he has to stretch out his hand to the two horse clubs to manage his own forces. And Xiao Yu suddenly dispatched soldiers and horses to arrest the "criminals" of the Two Jockey Clubs, including the person in charge of the Xiao Club in the Jockey Club, all of them were arrested, so they whitewashed the Xiao family and pitted Du Yun.

Even if the person in charge of the Xiao family in the Two Horse Clubs has the responsibility of secretly promoting "privately printing and banning newspapers and spreading rumors", but as soon as Xiao Yu is caught like this, the responsibility of the Xiao family will be lighter, and at most they will be sentenced to "poor supervision", and they can be released after a few days in prison, and they will be fined tens of thousands of dollars at most, without hurting their muscles and bones. And Hezhou Thorn Shi, who is in charge of banning rumors, did nothing, either "working together" or "taking bribes and covering up", depending on whether Jing'an Division re-handled it or lightly-of course, behind it is the meaning of the saint. No matter how heavy it is, Du Yun's Hezhou assassination history has been done.

The actions of the Metropolitan Governor's Office were a weather vane in Hexi, and soon all the prefectures in Hexi vigorously "banned newspapers and rumors", and the disaster was quickly clarified and the rumors subsided.

And after Du Yun was sent to Chang'an together by the Criminal Division and the Jing'an Division, the disposition of the imperial court also came down