Whether it is the extermination of the local wealthy clans in the east of the river, see that their fields are distributed to the poor tenant people.

Or Zhou Shichang was exterminated, and all the local wealthy families involved in it were punished, the land was confiscated, and it was also distributed to the tenant people.

This behavior has caused all major families in Kyoto to feel the crisis.

If the crown prince is allowed to do this, the court will once again establish its prestige, and their families will decline.

So on this night, the eight major families in Kyoto gathered, and their ancestors once conspired to support the Jiang family's upper throne.

This is also the place where the ancestors of the eight families set the meeting place of the eight families.

So when they met, they weren't afraid of shadow guards.

Because this tradition of gatherings has been formed since the beginning of the country.

This time, except for the Li family, who only came to the Great Elder Li Hu, the others were all the heads of the family.

After each of them sat down, Lu Yuan, the head of the Lu family, glanced at the elder of the Li family, and said in a strange manner: "It seems that the Li family doesn't look down on me and the other seven families, and even such an important gathering just sends an insignificant person to come." ”

Li Hu, the elder of the Li family, has always been scheming, not to mention that he has endured it in the Li family for most of his life, and he has already formed immunity to this kind of ridicule, he will not refute it on the spot, but keep it in his heart.

just smiled kindly at Lu Yuan, and continued to drink tea by himself.

punched the cotton, which made Lu Yuan a little unhappy.

This made him look at Zheng Huai, the head of the Zheng family, who organized this gathering: "Brother Zheng, if the head of the Li family doesn't come, is it necessary to continue this gathering?" ”

Zheng Huai knew that this was Lu Yuan deliberately finding a reason to vent his dissatisfaction with the Li family's defection to the emperor.

So he smiled and said: "If Li Zhong doesn't come, there is a need to continue, and it's not good to come, after all, he violated the rules set by the ancestors back then and became the emperor's eagle dog." ”

"I summoned everyone this time, in fact, there are two things to discuss with you."

When Zheng Huai said this, everyone looked at him in unison.

Only then did he speak unhurriedly: "The first thing is that the emperor and Li Zhong, the crown prince and Li Xing, they already have a careful plan to dig up the foundation of our scholar clan, so we can't let it go any longer and sit still." ”

"Second, Li Zhong can no longer serve as the head of the Li family, and he can't let the royal family split our eight families from the inside."

Zheng Huai said these two things.

Except for the Great Elder of the Li Family, who had known some news for a long time, everyone else was in thought.

They were thinking carefully about the feasibility of the two things that Zheng Huai said.

Of course, there are pros and cons to doing so.

If you make a statement too early, you will fall into passivity and even affect the family.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zheng Huai sneered and looked at Zhou Fu: "Brother Zhou, in this game, your Zhou family has suffered heavy losses, so you plan to endure it like this?" ”

Zhou Fu didn't get angry because of this, but laughed out loud: "Haha, Brother Zheng, you're just fifty steps and a hundred steps, your Zheng family wants to control Li Zhong, but what is the result?" He still arranged his concubine to the prince's side, and the daughter of your Zheng family and the son born to her are now marginal. ”

"Okay, people who are dozens of years old, don't quarrel, I'm here today to discuss countermeasures."

Cui Yan, the head of the Cui family, saw that Zheng Huai was going to fight-for-tat, so he hurriedly spoke out to stop it.

Who knew that the two didn't appreciate it at all, Zhou Fu glanced at him meaningfully and didn't speak.

Zheng Huai directly ridiculed him: "Cui Yan, don't pretend to be a good person here, Li Xing was able to open the situation so smoothly, and your Cui family contributed a lot." ”

"Zheng Huai, did you take the wrong medicine today? Catch who bites whom? Since you are here to quarrel, I, Cui Yanshu, will not accompany you and say goodbye. ”

Cui Yan got up and wanted to leave.

An, the director of the Ren family, got up at this time and grabbed Cui Yan.

"Brother Zheng said angry words, why should Brother Cui take it seriously."

"Brother Ren, are you pulling a bias?"

Cui Yan looked at Ren An very unhappily and asked.

Among these families, Ren's power is not strong, but his family history is very long.

It's not like the other seven.

Even they suspect that the Ren family can develop inconspicuously to this day, and there should be a lot of hole cards in the family.

Otherwise, in the long river of history, why did those top families in ancient times only have the Ren lineage to continue.

It is precisely because of these scruples that Ren An persuaded him, even if it was Cui Yan, he would only question, and would not leave immediately without giving face.

"Brother Cui, don't misunderstand."

When Ren An spoke, he didn't forget to glance at Zheng Huai.

Zheng Huai immediately understood.

He just did this, in fact, he wanted to give Cui Yan a dismissal and get the support of others, but he didn't expect that others would look on coldly.

Cui Yan had to leave the table.

This is going to let Cui Yan leave, and if he wants to get together again next time, I'm afraid there will be more estrangement.

So he immediately made a decision, put down his face, got up and saluted Cui Yan and said: "Brother Cui, just now the old man was impulsive and didn't choose what to say, please forgive me, now that the prince and Li Xing are digging the foundation of our clan, we must deal with it as soon as possible." ”

With this step.

Wang Xiu, the head of the Wang family, also lost no time in speaking: "Yes, how to deal with the prince and Li Xing now is the top priority, by the way, the head of the Li family, will the great elder serve in the future?" ”

Zhao Jian, the head of the Zhao family, never spoke, but watched coldly.

No one knows what they're thinking about.

However, after Wang Xiu asked, he also looked at Li Hu with the crowd.

Because who the head of the Li family is in the future is related to the position of all of them and their attitude towards the Li family.

Great Elder Li Hu came into contact with everyone's eyes, but shook his head and said: "Li Hu's ability is limited, he will not covet the position of the head of the family, and after Li Zhong passes, he will assist the young master Li Shao to take over the position of the head of the family." ”

Li Hu's words actually revealed two meanings.

One is that Li Zhong will die soon.

There is also a layer of meaning, that is, the Zheng family and the Li family have reached some kind of agreement.

So they will choose to support Li Zhongzheng's wife, the eldest son of the Zheng family, to take over the position of head of the family.

Everyone understands as soon as they hear it.

So they all looked at Zheng Huai, and said in their hearts, the Zheng family's good means have reached such a point in infiltrating the Li family.

Zhao Jian, the head of the Zhao family, also showed shock on his face.

But they were sneering in their hearts, these people's self-congratulatory skills were too powerful, and they didn't know that Li Zhong could become the head of the Li family.

Want to kill Li Zhong?

I'm afraid it's even harder than killing the emperor!

Of course, some people began to quietly warn the Zheng family.

Among them are Ren An and Wang Xiu, if the Zheng family can kill Li Zhong, then what about them?