In the Qiyi Pavilion in the east city of Jinling City, all the elders of Zongzheng Temple sat in their respective positions.

"The reason for calling everyone together urgently tonight must be clear to everyone, right?"

Mu Xiayan, who was sitting in the main seat, said with a cold face.

"Hmph, everyone already knows about this! The royal family is really ruthless this time, they are trying to wipe out all of us vassal kings! ”

Old Huainan Wang Mu Zhantu said viciously.

As the orthodox of the Beiyu royal family, he has always had great resentment towards the Nanyu lineage.

"Yes, this time Sheng Heng also used the grassland army to attack us, which is really shameless!"

Mu Zhanping, the old Cai Wang, who also belongs to the Beiyu lineage, also said indignantly.

"We thought that this time Emperor Shengheng just wanted to use the grassland army to beat us a little, but now what Mu Dehua has done has made us thoroughly understand that this bastard Shengheng wants to completely kill us!"

Although Mu Dexian, the king of old Xing, was also in the Nanyu lineage, he was also very angry at what Emperor Shengheng had done.

"Since Mudification is mentioned, I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on how we should deal with him?"

Just when everyone was gritting their teeth, Mu Xiayan, who was sitting on the main seat, suddenly spoke.

As soon as he said this, all the Zongzheng Temple elders present fell silent.

Although they knew that the old Jin King Mu Dehua was the uncle of Emperor Shengheng, his position would definitely be biased towards Emperor Shengheng.

But what everyone didn't expect was that he actually participated in the plan of the Dao Saint Heng Emperor in person regardless of his own interests.

And he also willingly became a knife in the hands of Emperor Shengheng.

This somewhat surprised everyone here.

After all, after all, he was also a vassal king, and although he had an uncle-nephew relationship with Emperor Shengheng, it was impossible for his descendants to always maintain a relationship with the royal family.

As the saying goes, "One generation is two representatives, and the third and fourth generations will be pulled down." ”

Their Jin kingdom will always be more and more distant from the royal family like other vassal kings.

Therefore, this kind of behavior of the old Jin King who harms others and himself is really incomprehensible.

However, although the old Jin King has completely become a sword in the hands of Emperor Shengheng this time, the vassal kings still have concerns about how to treat him.

After all, as one of the great elders of Zongzheng Temple, Mu Dehua can be said to represent all the vassal kings of the Nanyu lineage.

If they rashly kill the old Jin King now, then the other vassal kings of the Nanyu lineage will inevitably have a sense of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.

Maybe in the end, he will secretly stand on the opposite side of Soshoji Temple.

"Mu Dezhang, as the uncle of Mu Dehua's younger brother Emperor Shengheng, what do you think we should do with Mu Dehua?"

Mu Zhantu saw that everyone was silent at this time, so he immediately kicked the problem to Mu Dezhang.

As soon as Mu Zhantu's words fell, the other elders quickly turned their eyes to Mu Dezhang's body.

Mu Dezhang saw that everyone was staring at him, and he couldn't help but scold Mu Zhantu in his heart.

"This matter, I think it's better for everyone to discuss it together, our Zongzheng Temple has always consulted with each other to make decisions, and everyone can't say anything!"

Mu Dezhang is also a cunning old fox, and he kicked the ball back to everyone.

"Alas! Everyone can't make up their minds about this matter now, and I want to hear your opinion! ”

Mu Xiayan also spoke slowly at this time.

Mu Dezhang's brows jumped when he heard this.

He instantly understood the hidden meaning of Mu Xiayan's words.

Where are they asking for their own opinions, this is clearly testing their own attitude!

Now that he has understood the true intentions of the other party, Mu Dezhang is no longer ambiguous.

"This act of Mudehua is equivalent to betraying the ancestors and betraying all our vassal kings, so I think we must destroy them and abolish their hereditary Jin kingship."

Looking at Mu Dezhang's gritted teeth, the corners of everyone's mouths turned up slightly.

"Hey! As the saying goes, one person does things, one person does, although Mu Dehua betrayed the ancestors and betrayed everyone, but it was all his personal doing, and it had little to do with the Jin State, and it was not appropriate to destroy the Jin State! ”

Mu Xiayan raised his hand and signaled Mu Dezhang not to be too excited.

"Si Zheng is wrong to say, although what Mu Dehua did is his personal behavior, but he will definitely be the old Jin king, and those people under him are also from the Jin Kingdom."

Mu Dezhang originally wanted to follow Mu Xiayan's words.

But when he heard Mu Xiayan say that this matter had little to do with the Jin Kingdom, he knew that Mu Xiayan's implication was that although this matter had little to do with the Jin Kingdom, it was still related.

Therefore, he could only immediately put on a tough attitude and insisted on destroying the Jin Kingdom.

"Mu Dezhang, your heart is ruthless enough! Old Huainan Wang Mu Zhantu said with disdain. ”

In his opinion, Mu Dehua and he Mu Dezhang are brothers, although they were not born to the same mother, but they are still the same father after all.

But he didn't care about his family affection at all to make such a dead hand to the Jin Kingdom, which was really despicable.

"Ruthless? What does this mean? That Mu Dehua didn't care about the life or death of our vassal kings, and only knew how to kneel and lick Shengheng, did he ever have a soft heart? Moreover, they allowed the grassland barbarians to come to our Dayu Longxing Land and trample on them wantonly, regardless of the face of their ancestors, how could they ever be soft-hearted? ”

Mu Dezhang was shooting the case at this time, and his words were resolute.

As soon as he said this, the kings of the Nanyu Domain, who originally complained about him, lowered their heads.

Although Mu Dezhang's actions seem to be ruthless in front of him.

But what he said made a lot of sense.

If you still want to be affectionate with a person who has betrayed his ancestors and abandoned his ancestors, then this person is either stupid or bad.

"It's not time for Dezhang to talk about whether to deal with the Jin Kingdom, we have to see how to wipe out the power of Mu Dehua in Jinling City."

Mu Xiayan then waved his hand again and motioned for Mu Dezhang to sit down.

"Yes! This Mudhua is really cunning, he actually used those people in the city to cause chaos everywhere, and he also waited for the opportunity to provoke the contradiction between the Yaowu army and the city guard battalion, so that the two armies could not quell the rebellion in the city in time. ”

Mu Zhanping sighed.

"Someone came to report that there were two people on the side of Yaowu Army and the Chengwei Battalion who suddenly broke in, and the conspiracy of Mudehua was exposed, and the two armies also eliminated dozens of Jin Wang's personal guards, and now Yaowu Army and Chengwei Battalion have stopped fighting privately, and both sides are investigating the ghosts!"

Mu Xiayan told the news he had just received.

"So, then immediately the city guard battalion and the Yaowu army can send troops to extinguish the riots in the city?"

Mu Dezhang's face changed, and then asked.

"Not so fast, this time the Yaowu Army and the City Guard Battalion have discovered that there are many internal ghosts among them. If you don't find it out, you will act rashly, and there is a high probability that there will be a mutiny! ”

Mu Xiayan shook his head and said.

"How could these two armies be infiltrated to such an extent?"

Mu Zhanping said incredulously.

Although everyone at the scene knew that whether it was the Yaowu Army or the soldiers in the city guard camp, the relationship was complicated.

Moreover, they have planted people in the two armies, but at most they have arranged some cronies to inquire about the news.

But the old Jin King Mu Dehua is completely different, and he may have been planning for a long time to arrange manpower.

And his purpose is also to use these people to subvert the leadership of Zongzheng Temple over these two armies.

So that at a critical time, Li Dai Taozhuang gave Zongzheng Temple a backstab.

"Although it is not clear who helped us at a critical time, the quarrel between those two people directly destroyed the Mudhua scheme!"

Mu Xiayan said this, but he showed a satisfied smile.

"Then are we going to mobilize our respective guard battalions now to put out the chaos in the city?"

When Mu Dehua heard that the two armies of Yaowu and the city guard camp were not yet able to send large-scale troops to quell the chaos in the city, he proposed that the vassal kings should send their own guard battalions to quell the chaos.

As soon as his proposal came out, the faces of all the vassal kings present became very abnormal.

Obviously, everyone has a lot of opinions about his proposal.

If they had sent a part of their own guards in normal times, they might not have any opinions.

But now the situation is so chaotic, there are many shadows planted by Emperor Shengheng, and there are all kinds of overt and hidden threats in the city, which have been Mudeized.

And outside the city, there is still a threat from the 20,000 steppe army.

Therefore, these current vassal kings wish that they could have ten times more guards, how could they be willing to lend out the already small number of guards!

"Zhantu, it's not that we don't want to hand over our subordinate guards, it's just that the situation is unstable now, and Shengheng's goal is to destroy our Zongzheng Temple, maybe he will come to a beheading operation, and then we old guys will die, Zongzheng Temple will be completely finished!"

An old man with a gray beard said tremblingly.

"That's right! Now, at this time, if one or two of us suddenly die violently, I am afraid that the rest of us will be in danger, and then who will dare to show up to command and fight against the grassland army? ”

Another old man with a full face and beard said angrily.

"That's right! Now we must first ensure our own safety in order to stabilize the situation in Jinling City. ”

"That's right, the chaos in the city is just a disease of scabies, and the grassland army outside the city is the biggest problem, so it's not time for us to make a move."

"That's it, it's ......"

All of a sudden, many vassal kings in the Yi Pavilion spoke out to stop them.

"I said, you guys are really short-sighted, if we let the chaos in the city go on and cause the people to change, then we want to use the people in the city to defend the city, it will be very difficult."

Mu Zhanping suddenly scolded loudly at the slap table.

His rebuke made the chattering vassal kings shut their mouths one after another.

But everyone stopped talking, but they all began to remain silent.

Mu Zhantu looked at everyone with a disapproving look, he could only sigh, and then shook his head with a wry smile.

"Sure enough, it's a lack of vertical power and conspiracy!"

He cursed in his heart.

"Well, what everyone said is not unreasonable. Since everyone can't draw their own guards, then this matter will wait for the Yaowu Army and the city guard camp to stabilize. ”

Mu Xiayan looked around for a while and then spoke.

"But the temple is doing this urgently......"

Mu Zhanping got up again and said under Mu Zhantu's gaze.

"Actually, the most urgent thing right now is not this one!"

Mu Xiayan waved his hand and signaled Mu Zhanping not to get excited.

"What could be more urgent?"

Mu Zhantu asked with a puzzled frown.

"A few days ago, I received a report from the people below that more than 1,000 people escaped from Sizhou County, but then more than 1,000 people went to Beicheng under the arrangement of Mudehua!"

Mu Xiayan said slowly.

"I know about this, I heard that there is a complete Sizhou County City Guard Camp among those people!"

When he mentioned this, Mu Zhanping immediately remembered the news he had found a few days ago.

"A complete city guard camp?"

The surrounding vassal kings all frowned when they heard this.

"Although the soldiers of the city guard battalion in Sizhou County are not as many as those in our Jinling City, there are nearly a thousand of them, and so many people are very useful for us to resist the grassland army!"

Mu Dezhang already had a little greed on his face at this moment.

"However, if we want to come to Mudhua to get these people to the north of the city, we don't want these people to be used by us."

The old Elder of Zongzheng Temple said slowly.

"But this is probably a trap set by Mudhua!"

Compared with others, Mu Zhantu is much calmer.

Although he looks rough on the outside, as a commander who once led the army against the steppe army in the northern frontier, he knows the truth that the army is not tired of deception and falsehood.

"Even if there are traps, it's worth it, after all, a thousand well-trained city guard soldiers are too important to us."

Another thin Zongzheng Temple elder said with sharp eyes.

"But everyone said just now, now everyone can't draw up manpower, even if everyone has the heart to save more than 1,000 people, I'm afraid it's powerless, right?"

Mu Zhantu saw that everyone had changed the silent state just now, and he immediately said sarcastically.

"This ......"

When everyone heard this, their faces turned red and they fell silent.

"Zhantu is good, the key problem now is that there is no one to save more than 1,000 people!"

Mu Xiayan also pretended to be sorry and said.

"The temple is not as good as this, since everyone does not have the strength to save more than a thousand people, it is better for me to do this matter, but there is a condition that the temple is allowed!"

Mu Zhantu saw that everyone was not talking, so he got up and spoke.

"Oh! What do you ask for, but it doesn't hurt to say. ”

Mu Xiayan then spoke.

"Sizheng, you also know that I have to take a big risk to save more than 1,000 people, so in order to compensate, I also ask Sizheng to hand over the command of these more than 1,000 people to me after the matter is completed!"

Mu Zhantu looked at everyone playfully and said word by word.

"No!"

"Nonsense!"

"Absolutely not!"

“……”

All of a sudden, there was a lot of opposition.

"Oh! Why not? ”

Mu Zhantu looked at everyone and asked with a smile.

"The more than 1,000 people in this Sizhou county town play an important role in our defense of the grassland army, how can you let you command it personally!"

In the crowd, a vassal king of the Nanyu lineage stood up and said sharply.

"I'm taking such a big risk to save these people, why can't I ask for a command when the time comes?"

Mu Zhantu then asked with a smile.

"No is no way, who knows what kind of things you will do if you master more than 1,000 people!"

The man still said unrelentingly.

As a vassal king of the Nanyu lineage, he was well aware of the contradictions between the Southern and Northern Yu.

If Mu Zhantu really let him master these more than 1,000 troops, maybe he would find an excuse to do something to them, the kings of the Nanyu Domain, who had always been at odds with him.

"If you think it's inappropriate, you can also send troops to save people yourself, and the command of the more than 1,000 people after the matter is completed belongs to you and me!"

Seeing that the man was already showing some signs of hysteria, Mu Zhantu immediately raised the corners of his mouth and then pretended to be angry.

"I'll go, I'll go! Who's afraid of whom! ”

The man said without thinking.

But as soon as he said this, he regretted it.

But his own arrogance has come out, and he wants to repent, but he really can't afford to lose this person.

So he could only grit his teeth and admit it.