Zhang Guifen obviously misunderstood, thinking that Li Hao was promising Empress Cao some conditions.

Seeing this, Li Hao hurriedly said, "Don't think about it, this time Empress Cao asked me to go, and it was really just to ask me not to interfere in the affairs of Lichu.

I really didn't mean to help each other, so there's nothing wrong with that."

Zhang Guifen breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and then continued: "If it's just like this, then it's okay, but how did Empress Cao figure it out, could it be that she already has other plans."

Regarding more detailed matters, Li Hao didn't want to talk to Zhang Guifen more, so as not to worry about her.

He just said, "Let it blow and rain and let me stand still, as long as we don't mess around, we'll be fine."

You can take care of your home now, and I'll take care of the outside."

After hearing this, Zhang Guifen also nodded and agreed: "Okay, you are outside the Lord and I am inside, you don't have to worry about things at home."

After confirming this, Zhang Guifen planned to leave.

However, before leaving, Li Hao said, "By the way, I called Gu Tingye, Yang Wenyuan, and Yuan Wenshao to come over today, and I have something to discuss.

When they arrive, remember to arrange for someone to bring them directly to the study, but no one will be waiting here, and a few trusted people will be arranged outside to take care of them."

Regarding Li Hao's request, Zhang Guifen agreed: "Okay, I'll arrange this matter, and as for the caretaker, I will arrange for the government to bring it out, what do you think."

Li Hao had no opinion on this arrangement, so he let Zhang Guifen leave.

Not long after, when Gu Tingye and the others arrived, Zhang Guifen took his subordinates to serve some tea and fruits, and after arranging it, he exchanged a few words with Gu Tingye, Zhang Wen, and Yuan Wenshao.

After all, after marrying Li Hao, she became familiar with Minglan with Wei, and by the way, she was also familiar with Hualan and Pinlan.

I often get together with them on weekdays, and even with Gu Tingye, they are more familiar with each other.

However, Zhang Guifen knew that Li Hao was going to talk about business, so he quickly withdrew with someone.

After everyone else left, Gu Tingye and the others looked at Li Hao noisily, waiting for Li Hao to tell him why he came to them.

Li Hao said, "At noon today, Empress Cao summoned me into the palace and told me her request.

This time, she is not asking us to support Zhao Zonghan's accession to the throne, but she just needs us to remain neutral and try our best to restrain the military horses of the western suburbs.

I agreed to this request in the palace, but if you have different opinions, you can say it directly."

When Yang Wenyuan heard this, he was very surprised by Empress Cao's reaction, and immediately asked, "Why did Empress Cao take the initiative to back down so much, is she absolutely sure that she has taken control of the situation."

Li Hao replied, "I think it should be, after all, in Empress Cao's opinion, the defense of the palace is in the hands of Zeng Chaosheng and Bi Zhongyou, and these two are their own people.

Now that the situation in the palace has been controlled, as long as the camp in the western suburbs can hold its ground, then Empress Cao may think that she will not lose."

After hearing this statement, everyone agreed with it, this is the same as the original Yanwang.

It's just that King Yan was unlucky enough to meet Li Hao at the beginning, and he was mobilized to mobilize the men and horses of the camp in the western suburbs, and he fell short.

Then Gu Tingye answered and asked, "I think this is very good, now is not more than the beginning, we need to protect more things now, it is not good to take risks."

Zhang Wen and Yuan Wenshao couldn't help nodding their heads when they said this, after all, these two people are now both wives and children, and they really don't want to take any more risks.

On Yang Wenyuan's side, Ling Guogong also gave him three orders, hoping that he would not interfere in the battle for the crown prince, and this time after listening to Li Hao's words, he felt even more relieved.

Just when everyone was in a reverie, Zhang Wen suddenly said, "That

Empress Cao's side has made up her mind, but Zhao Zongquan's side, do you want to show your attitude."

Zhang Wen asked a really question, after all, this matter is related to both sides at the same time, only to talk to Queen Cao's side, who knows what Zhao Zongquan's side will think.

However, in this regard, Li Hao has already made a draft.

He replied, "It's not appropriate for us to take the initiative to talk about it.

It's better to release some rumors first, let Zhao Zongquan come to us, and then talk about this matter, maybe it's more appropriate."

Although Li Hao's method is a bit old-fashioned, the effect should be good, so no one else has any opinions.

Seeing that the opinions were unified, Li Hao began to assign tasks, and also said to Gu Tingye, "Okay, since this is the case, I will personally handle the matter of delivering the news.

There are many cronies of the former Marquis Ning Yuan in the camp in the western suburbs, and how to appease them is up to you."

Hearing this, Gu Tingye agreed, "Okay, I generally know about my father's old department, and I'll contact you when I go back."

It's just that you also know the situation in my family, my fourth and fifth uncles are not fuel-efficient lamps.

A few years ago, when my father was here, they relied on my father's connivance and kept in touch with some people, so I can't say what happened to them."

The situation in the Marquis of Ningyuan's Mansion is understood by everyone here, and they naturally know that the two families are not successful enough and have more than enough failures.

Originally, there were no fundamental interests involved, and everyone didn't care, but now they can't ignore it.

Li Hao then spoke, "The current situation is not the time for them to mess around.

At the beginning of the Yanwang Rebellion, the people in these two rooms of your family were involved, if it weren't for the death of the eldest lady of the two families in the palace, I am afraid that a catastrophe would come at that time.

This time, whether it's for your father's sake, or for the sake of the two eldest ladies, we can't let them get into trouble again, you say."

The meaning of Li Hao's words is very clear, that is, to support Gu Tingye to do it directly and clean up the two directly.

Anyway, now the Marquis of Ningyuan has been inherited by Gu Tingye, and he has real power in the court.

Now that Gu Tingyu and Xiao Qin's eldest lady are dead, the Hou Mansion is now headed by Gu Tingye and his wife.

I believe that as long as it is not too outrageous, the elders of the Gu family will not choose to support the people in the fourth and fifth rooms to oppose Gu Tingye.

Especially now that the court is in crisis, those old and refined guys among the elders of the Gu family will not be able to see it, and I believe they will also support Gu Tingye in this matter.

Then Yang Wenyuan also said, "Yes, at such a time, there must be no chaos in the family.

You are now the lord of the Gu family, and you should shoulder the burden of putting the family in order."

Seeing that Li Hao and Yang Wenyuan both spoke out in support, Gu Tingye felt confident in his heart.

To be honest, Gu Tingye has long been unaccustomed to the people in his fourth and fifth rooms.

also sent some people to check, and it was at this time that they accidentally discovered that they had crossed paths with Zhao Zongquan.

At that time, Gu Tingye didn't deal with it, firstly, because the timing was not right, and he was afraid that he would alarm Zhao Zongquan because of this.

On the other hand, it was also because they finally showed their faces in the Yanwang Rebellion, and later because of Gu Tingdi and Gu Tingbing's affairs, they were also registered in Zhao Zhen.

To move them, whether internally or externally, Gu Tingye needs to have sufficient reasons, of course, the most important thing is not to disrupt Li Hao's plan.

Now that Li Hao has already spoken, Gu Tingye doesn't plan to keep them.

This matter was just a trivial matter, and Li Hao was never worried that Gu Tingye would not be able to solve them.

After mentioning it, he continued to switch to the question of how to get Zhao Zongquan to come to the door.

After listening to what he said, Yuan Wenshao proposed, "Speaking of which, the Marquis of Zhongjing's Mansion and Zhao Zongquan are still in-laws, do you want to contact them through them?"

It stands to reason that this method is really good, especially after confirming that Zhao Zongquan may know Zeng Chaosheng's true identity, Li Hao thinks that the relationship between the two families is okay

It's not as cold as I thought before.

But Yang Wenyuan said: "The Marquis of Zhongjing has always been very strict in governing the family, and he has always been reluctant to let the children of the family participate in party struggles.

Therefore, the relationship between his family and Zhao Zongquan is not so good, and it is useless to contact Zhao Zongquan from his family."

Seeing that Yang Wenyuan was so sure that there should be some inside information, Li Hao asked his doubts: "Where did you hear about this, is it reliable?"

Yang Wenyuan said, "This is what my father told me personally, and he worked with the Marquis of Zhongjing.

He said that the Marquis of Zhongjing was fast-fashioned and upright, and he would never support Zhao Zongquan for the sake of his in-laws.

And now the situation of the Shen lady in the Zhongjing Marquis Mansion is not good, I heard that it is because of something that angered the Zheng family.

Although he didn't suffer much harsh criticism, he has been separated from General Xiao Zheng for a long time, and this is not like a harmonious relationship between the two families."

If it is really according to what Yang Wenyuan said, it proves that on Zhao Zongquan's side, there may still be an old nobleman hidden, otherwise Zeng Chaosheng's identity will never be so easy to expose.

It's just that Li Hao has now decided not to help each other, so there is no urgency to know the truth in this matter, just follow the fate.

Overturned the way of contacting the Marquis of Zhongjing, and then a few people discussed it again, but they still felt that it would be better to wait for work, and not to show a deliberate attitude.

Anyway, Zhao Ceying has been very active among the nobles recently, as long as he finds a way to spread some news, I believe he will come to the door soon.

After confirming the matter, Gu Tingye and the others left directly to do things without staying long.

The first to do it was Gu Tingye, this guy really looked at the people in the two rooms early.

After returning home, he began to arrange and collect evidence of the two rooms interfering in the dispute between the crown prince.

Of course, judging from the IQ gap between the two sides, Gu Tingye's collection was extremely smooth, not only to find out how many people they contacted with the names of the Marquis of Ningyuan, but also to find out where their correspondence was.

At this time, Gu Tingye was really polite, and took advantage of the absence of the people in the fourth and fifth rooms to directly send someone to sneak in and verify the authenticity of the letter.

After confirming that there was no problem, Gu Tingye rushed in directly with someone and detained all the letters of communication.

Then Gu Tingye sent people to each family to inform the elders of the family and let them come to the ancestral hall to discuss.

Just as Li Hao was waiting for the clan elders, Gu Tingbing and Gu Tingdi came back together and were about to go back to their courtyard.

Gu Tingye directly asked the stone to bring people over, and pressed the people to the ancestral hall and knelt.

At first, Shi's action was really scary, but it frightened the two of them.

After all, this guy was not good to Gu Tingye at the beginning, and now he is afraid that Gu Tingye intends to retaliate.

After entering the Gu family's ancestral hall directly, the two of them were shaking again, because they knew that it was impossible for Gu Tingye to abuse lynching in the ancestral hall.

Of course, it's right to think so, after entering the ancestral hall, Gu Tingye just asked people to press them and kneel under the ancestral hall, and he didn't mean to do anything.

This also made the two even more arrogant, until Gu Tingye's fourth and fifth uncles, that is, the masters of the fourth and fifth rooms of the Gu family, came back.

I heard that my son was pressed to the ancestral hall and knelt, so I immediately found it.

yelled at Gu Tingye, "What are you going to do, what did Ting Bing and Ting Di do wrong, and they should be punished like this."

Gu Tingye said, "Don't worry, I have already sent someone to invite the clan elders, and when they arrive, we will talk about it specifically."

Hearing this, Gu Tingye's fourth and fifth uncles were immediately stunned, knowing that if there was no major incident, even the patriarch could not invite the elders without authorization.

After speaking, Gu Tingye didn't stay here for long, leaving the space to Ting Bing and Ting Di to their father.

When Gu Tingye walked away and realized the seriousness of the problem, the fourth elder of the Gu family also hurriedly asked his son: "Tingdi, what did you do to let Gu Tingye invite the elders of the clan to discuss."

Gu Tingdi: this

Shi was also a little scared, and immediately said, "No, I've been the same as before recently, and I haven't done ......anything else."

As he was talking, Gu Tingdi suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly motioned to the fourth master to bow his head and whisper in his ear: "You go to my courtyard now, in a cabinet next to the bed in my room, there are some stacks of letters, you can help me put them away."

Seeing this, Gu Tingbing also said, "I also have it, and I have to help me put it away."

Hearing this, how could the old men in the fourth and fifth rooms still not understand that the root cause of this trouble should be in these letters.

In order to make peace for their son, the two tacitly turned around and prepared to go back and take the letter away.

But before he could get out of the ancestral hall, he was stopped by a stone and said, "Master Hou has an order, in order to prevent the matter from leaking and causing unnecessary trouble to the Gu family.

No one who has entered the ancestral hall will be allowed to leave until the elders have consulted together."

For this, the two naturally didn't recognize it, and they had to go out, which made the scene very embarrassing for a while.

Seeing that it was useless to say by mouth, the stone simply started directly and pulled out the knife.

Then the old man in the fourth and fifth rooms immediately coaxed himself and obediently returned to the house to sit.

Next, the elders of the Gu family arrived one after another, and after everyone arrived, Gu Tingye slowly returned to the ancestral hall.

As a result, at the stall where Gu Tingye had not arrived, in front of these clan elders, the fourth- and fifth-room people called Qu first.

said, "Gu Tingye is too arrogant, he didn't say anything, and he pressed the people in my fourth and fifth rooms to the ancestral hall.

He can do this to my two sons today, and if he doesn't manage them well, he may dare to do this to us tomorrow."

What he said was indeed very obvious, and the faces of some clan elders were obviously a little wrong.