After the Li family and the Fang family lost Li Dao, the behind-the-scenes helmsman, they became even less opponents of the Song family. During the period of Li Wei's disappearance, several of their families suffered heavy losses. In his previous friendship, Song Jiannian only destroyed their business, and did not kill all of them. However, they still didn't know how to help the prince and them fight with His Royal Highness King Jing, so they would die next.

The Fang family and the Li family discussed for a long time, and felt that there was no need to completely sacrifice their family for the sake of the prince and the prince of Zhenguo who were far away in the capital.

They sacrificed so much for the prince and the prince of Zhenguo, not only did they not get the prince's appeasement, but they were complained that it was useless, saying that they couldn't deal with the Song family when they joined forces, and also said that they were not merciful and did not deal with the Song family ruthlessly.

The Song family cared about the old feelings and did not kill them all. They will naturally take into account their friendship with the Song family, and they will not be completely ruthless.

These days, the Fang family and the Li family have fought with the Song family, but in fact, both sides have room for survival.

Seeing that the prince and the prince of Zhenguo blamed them for their bad deeds, the Fang family and their families were cold and didn't want to help the prince anymore.

So, they sent Fang Zhimiao to talk to Song Qingyun.

At this time, Fang Zhimiao was at the Song family, talking about peace with Song Qingyun.

"I thought you would continue to be stupid and fight to the end for the prince and the prince of Zhenguo."

Fang Zhimiao ignored Song Qingyun's yin and yang strange tone. He looked at Song Qingyun and asked in a very serious tone, "Brother Yun, you tell me the truth, did you arrest Qingyuan?" "Qingyuan is Li Dao's word.

When Song Qingyun heard this, he frowned slightly dissatisfied, "I told you before, I didn't catch Qingyuan. ”

"Where's King Jing?"

"King Jing didn't either." Song Qingyun said, "King Jing can't look down on Qingyuan. ”

Fang Zhimiao knew in his heart that Song Qingyun didn't need to lie to him, which made him even more puzzled in his heart: "Who was Qingyuan arrested?" ”

"I sent someone to look for Qingyuan, but I didn't find it." Although their families were hostile before, Qingyuan was his brother who grew up together, and Qingyuan disappeared, so he was naturally very worried and anxious, and immediately sent someone to look for it, but after looking for so long, let alone finding no one, he didn't even find any clues.

Fang Zhimiao furrowed his brows, and said with a solemn expression: "We have searched all over Jinling and there is no trace of Qingyuan, this is too strange, who was he arrested?" ”

"I don't know." This is also where Song Qingyun is puzzled.

Fang Zhimiao thought of the King of Chu, and his face changed greatly: "It can't be that the people of the King of Chu have captured Qingyuan, right?" ”

"Impossible, the King of Chu is not in Jinling."

"Are you sure that the King of Chu did not install people in Jinling?"

Song Qingyun said in a firm tone: "I'm sure." ”

"It's not the King of Chu, who is that, and who else has the ability to kidnap Qingyuan without knowing it?" It has been a while since Li Dao disappeared, and Fang Zhimiao is very worried about his safety. "I don't know if Qingyuan is alive or dead now?"

Song Qingyun did not speak. According to his guess, Qingyuan was only afraid of being murderous.

"Alas...... I hope Qingyuan is okay. Fang Zhimiao didn't talk about Li Dao anymore, and returned to the topic to talk about their families. Brother Yun, we will not help the crown prince and the prince of Zhenguo in the future, please show mercy to the Song family and His Royal Highness King Jing. ”

Song Qingyun shook his head and said: "I advised you not to do anything for the prince and the prince of Zhenguo anymore, but you didn't listen, you had to go against us, and the result was reduced to the current state, why bother." ”

Fang Zhimiao heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Yun, you also know how much effort we have put into cooperating with the crown prince and them, how willing we are when you asked us to give up." ”

Song Qingyun glanced at Fang Zhimiao, and said with a smile: "You think that you can deal with my Song family by joining forces, but I didn't expect that you guys are not my Song family's opponents." If it weren't for the mercy of my Song family, how many of you would ......" Speaking of this, he deliberately paused, and then laughed sarcastically twice, "Hehe, you don't have a chance to stand in front of me now." ”

Fang Zhimiao hugged his fist at Song Qingyun and thanked him: "Thank you, Brother Yun, for your mercy." ”

Song Qingyun stood up and pressed Zhimiao's hands below, "You didn't come to me today just to thank me, right?" ”

Fang Zhimiao sat back down opposite Song Qingyun, "Brother Yun, can you tell me what His Royal Highness King Jing's true purpose is?" ”

Song Qingyun didn't answer, but asked rhetorically, "What do you think?" ”

"Brother Yun, His Royal Highness King Jing's purpose is not just to sabotage our cooperation with the crown prince." Fang Zhimiao looked directly into Song Qingyun's eyes and said, "Brother Yun, we Mingren don't say secret words, His Royal Highness King Jing's ultimate goal is to bring down the crown prince and the prince of Zhenguo, right?" ”

Song Qingyun bowed slightly: "That's right." ”

After hearing this, Fang Zhimiao said in his heart: Sure enough.

"His Royal Highness King Jing wants evidence of what we and the crown prince have done before, right?"

"Yes." The Song family has already collected a lot.

"Brother Yun, the things we did for the prince and the prince of Zhenguo are all big crimes, if we tell the court what we have done, we will not end well."

When Song Qingyun heard this, he knew what Fang Zhimiao's purpose was when he came to him today.

"You mean that you won't help the prince and Zhenguo Gong anymore, but you won't shake out what you did for the prince and them before?"

Fang Zhimiao nodded and said, "That's right." Once we let the court know what we have done for the crown prince, the court will never let us go. "The things they did before, no matter which one of them were brought out, was a great sin.

"Qing Xiu, do you think that if you don't say it, the imperial court won't know what you did for the prince before?" Qing Xiu is the word of Fang Zhimiao.

When Fang Zhimiao heard this, his brows furrowed, "What do you mean?" ”

"What you did for the crown prince and them, including what our Song family did for the prince of Zhenguo before, the court is clear."

"Impossible!" Fang Zhimiao loudly denied, "How could the imperial court know? "The things they do are extremely secretive, and it is impossible for the eyes and ears of the court to find out.

Song Qingyun looked at Fang Zhimiao, and his tone was unprecedentedly serious: "Qing Xiu, whether it is you or our Song family, the imperial court knows everything we do for the crown prince. ”

Fang Zhimiao was frightened by Song Qingyun's words, he only felt a chill surging from the bottom of his heart, and then the whole person seemed to fall into an ice cellar. Still, he didn't want to believe it.

"Impossible, how could the imperial court know?"

"I'll go and ask His Royal Highness King Jing." Song Qingyun stood up and went out and left for a while.

Fang Zhimiao picked up the teacup, but his right hand was trembling, and the shaking tea splashed on the back of his hand. At this time, his heart was very panicked. He hurriedly lowered his head and drank tea, and after drinking a whole cup of tea, his heart calmed down a little.

The door was opened again, Fang Zhimiao looked over, and saw His Royal Highness King Jing walking in, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"The grass people have seen His Royal Highness King Jing."

King Jing glanced at him and said in a salty tone, "Get up." ”

"His Royal Highness King Xie Jing."

After King Jing sat down, he motioned for Song Qingyun and Fang Zhimiao to sit down as well.

"This king heard Qingyun say that you don't want to say what you did for the prince before, right?"

Fang Zhimiao stabilized his mind and calmed himself down.

"His Royal Highness King Jing, what we did for the crown prince and them before will anger the imperial court, and the imperial court will never let us go when they learn about it."

After hearing this, King Jing let out a sneer: "Do you think the imperial court is unaware of the things you have done? ”

"If the imperial court had already found out, why didn't it do anything to us?" If the court knew, it would not have tolerated them.

"The court has not dealt with you for the time being, because the time has not yet come, not because it does not know." King Jing glanced at Fang Zhimiao, who was pretending to be calm, with disdain, "Do you think that my father sent this king to Jinling just to be responsible for presiding over the imperial examination?" ”

Fang Zhimiao didn't quite understand what King Jing meant, his face was dazed, and he thought to himself, isn't that the case?

King Jing looked at Fang Zhimiao as if he didn't know anything, and frowned with some disgust.

"The main purpose of my father sending this king to Jinling is to search for evidence of your collusion with the crown prince." King Jing always knew in his heart that the emperor sent him to Jinling, not only to hold the imperial examination, but also to let him take the initiative to collect the unsightly things that the prince had done in Jinling.

The emperor knew that King Jing wanted the position of the crown prince, and he also knew that King Jing had long been dissatisfied with the prince, and he also knew that King Jing would do his best to collect evidence of the prince's and Zhenguogong's misdeeds in Jinling, so the emperor "fulfilled" King Jing.

Fang Zhimiao looked surprised.

"Do you really think that this king does not have evidence that you are in cahoots with the crown prince?" King Jing glanced at Fang Zhimiao coldly, "This king is looking at Song Qingyun's face and giving you a chance to make meritorious contributions, but I didn't expect you to be unappreciative." ”

Song Qingyun echoed King Jing's words and said, "Qing Xiu, as long as you take the initiative to provide evidence, His Royal Highness King Jing will help you intercede at that time, and the court will not punish you severely at that time." ”

Fang Zhimiao still didn't believe it, and said suspiciously: "Does the imperial court really know?" ”

"You Jiangnan scholars really have eyes on the top of your head, and you really underestimate my father." Although King Jing had long known that this group of people in Jiangnan was stupid, he didn't expect to be so stupid. "Do you really think you can compete with the court? Do you really think that the emperor is far away, and what he does can be hidden from the court? ”

Fang Zhimiao was silent. Because that's what they really think.

"When my father exterminated the rebel army in Jiangnan, he let go of your group of people, not because he was afraid of you, but because you were not afraid." King Jing said, "Of course, the most important thing is that you are still useful, so my father left you." ”

Fang Zhimiao didn't think so in his heart. However, he did not open his mouth to refute King Jing.

"Your family has gone through hundreds of years, and you have also experienced the Chen and Xia dynasties, and you think you are more powerful than the royal family, so why did you linger when the previous dynasty was in turmoil?" Whether it is the family in the capital or the scholar clan in the south of the Yangtze River, they all think that they can survive the troubled times of the previous dynasty by themselves.

When Fang Zhimiao heard this, he couldn't listen anymore.

"His Royal Highness King Jing, do you want to tell me that our family was able to survive the troubled times of the previous dynasty because of the emperor?"

Looking at Fang Zhimiao's disapproving look, King Jing sneered: "You go back and ask your elders, if it wasn't for my father and emperor who came to Jiangnan to suppress bandits, would your family still be able to survive?" As far as this king knows, before my father came to Jiangnan to exterminate the rebel army, your family was humiliated and tortured by the rebel army in every way, and your clansmen were about to be killed. ”

In the troubled times of the previous dynasty, the rebels were very cruel, not only killing the people, but also abusing and killing the scholars. Many families with good strength were exterminated by the families that were killed. The families that have survived now, first, were very strong back then, and after being abused by the rebels, they still retained some bloodline and power. The second is that they were inconspicuous back then, and they were not very in the eyes of the rebel army.

Nowadays, most of the families that survived in the troubled times of the past are some third- and fourth-rate families in those years.

"When my father cleared the rebellious army in Jiangnan, he saved you and saved you from being exterminated." In the troubled times of the previous dynasty, those rebellious armies liked to humiliate and torture the children of the family the most. "At the beginning, many soldiers who followed my father persuaded my father not to let you go and took the opportunity to destroy you in one fell swoop, but my father didn't, because your family was useful for restoring Jiangnan."

"If the emperor exterminated us at that time, how is it different from the rebellious army?"

King Jing's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his tone was cold: "In the troubled times of the previous dynasty, you families took advantage of the fire to rob, regardless of the lives of the people, and even did a lot of things that hurt heaven and reason, just with these, my father and emperor can kill you." Otherwise, why do you think the soldiers around your father would kill you? ”

Fang Zhimiao didn't know what happened back then, but he knew that King Jing's words were not lying to him. Because he knew in his heart that it was really possible for them to do these things.

King Jing didn't bother to explain to Fang Zhimiao again. He said with a cold face and a somewhat impatient tone: "This king is giving you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Since you don't care about it, you will bear the consequences. With that, he departed.

Song Qingyun hurriedly sent King Jing out.

King Jing stopped, glanced back at Song Qingyun, and said in a very unhappy tone: "This king is willing to give them a chance for the sake of your Song family's face." Since they are so ignorant, don't blame this king for being ruthless. ”

"Your Highness, I will persuade them again." The Song family didn't want the Fang family and the Li family to have an accident. Their decline did not do the Song family any good.

"This king will give you another three days, if after three days, they are still stubborn, and then the Daluo Immortals will not be able to save them." King Jing planned to send the evidence of what the prince and the prince of Zhenguo had done in Jinling back to the capital in a few days.

He originally planned to wait for the king of Chu to investigate the truth about Pengcheng's copper theft, and then present the evidence collected from Jinling to his father, but the king of Chu's current whereabouts are unknown, and it is not known whether he has found the whereabouts of the stolen copper.

The king of Chu is currently unreliable, so he can only shake out the matter on Jinling's side first. Although the prince can't be pulled down, it can make the prince walk around without eating. After the king of Chu returns to Beijing, he will give the prince a fatal blow, and the prince will likely be deposed at that time. Even if the crown prince is not deposed, he is of no use.

With the means of his father, he will definitely force the prince and the prince of Zhenguo to rebel, and then justifiably depose the prince and kill the prince of Zhenguo.

"Your Highness."

King Jing didn't say anything more, turned around and went back to his room.

Song Qingyun said something to Fang Zhimiao again, and Fang Zhimiao was persuaded by him.

Before leaving, Fang Zhimiao told Song Qingyun that he would convey what they said tonight to the elders as it was. It is impossible for the elders to agree right away and give them some time to think about it. Song Qingyun said they only had three days to think about it. If they don't reply after three days, he really won't be able to save them by then.

After returning home, Fang Zhimiao told the elders of several families what Song Qingyun and King Jing said.

After hearing this, several elders were frightened, and their faces were very ugly. However, instead of agreeing immediately, they decided to think about it during these three days.

They knew in their hearts that there were only two paths before them. One way is not to listen to King Jing's words, and he ends up with a broken family. The other way is to listen to King Jing's words, make meritorious contributions, and keep the foundation of the family.

All along, they thought that everything was under their control, but they didn't expect that it was they who were being played.

It was they who underestimated the emperor! Gao looked at the prince of Zhenguo and the prince!

After Fang Zhimiao went back, he asked the elders about the emperor's coming to Jiangnan to clear the rebellious army, which reminded the elders of the emperor's methods, and they recalled their original fear.

Over the years, they have completely forgotten the events of that year, thinking that the emperor is easy to deceive. Now it seems that they are all clever on their own. No, it's their ambition that blinds them.

They said that they should think carefully, but in fact, they did not give up, and wanted to find a third way to preserve their glory, wealth and power. However, they thought about it, and there was no third way for them to go. They could only listen to King Jing's words.

The Fang family and the Li family didn't really think about it for three days, and two days later they went to see His Royal Highness King Jing. This time, it was several family heads who went to see King Jing in person, not Fang Zhimiao's junior.

Several heads of families decided to "abandon the dark and turn to the light", they abandoned the prince and the prince of Zhenguo, and switched to King Jing. It means that they will not only provide King Jing with evidence of what the prince has done, but also help King Jing win the throne.

Only by helping King Jing win the throne and helping King Jing ascend the throne, then these few families will have the merit of being a dragon, and then they will be able to become the most powerful families in Jiangnan.

Fang Zhimiao and Song Qingyun drank tea in the pavilion in the courtyard.

"Brother Yun, your Song family is really prescient."

"You're taunting me?"

"No, when King Jing came to Jinling, none of us took him seriously, but your Song family immediately changed their position and supported King Jing." Fang Zhimiao thinks back now and feels that the Song family is really powerful. "Your Song family didn't have any hesitation to support King Jing at that time."

When Song Qingyun heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart. Their Song family didn't look down on King Jing at that time, but because of the token in King Jing's hand, they had to support King Jing. Now it seems that they did nothing wrong, and King Jing not only did not disappoint them, but surprised them very much.

"Although I only had contact with His Royal Highness King Jing that night, I can see that King Jing has more scheming means than the crown prince." Fang Zhimiao thought of hearing the rumors about King Jing before, and felt very funny, "It is rumored that King Jing is an embroidered pillow, obviously a concubine, but he is not reused by the emperor, nor is he valued by the Duke of Zhenguo, and now it seems that the rumors are really not credible." ”

Song Qingyun thought so: "A few princes are stupid. ”

"That's true, but I don't have a clue." Fang Zhimiao said with a puzzled face, "Although the current queen is the successor, she is the daughter of the Zhenguo Mansion, and the sister of the Zhenguo Gong's mother, Zhenguo Gong does not support his own nephew, but supports a prince who is far inferior to King Jing in scheming and means, what do you think of Zhenguo Gong?" "Although the prince is also the nephew of Zhenguo Gong, compared with King Jing, the prince is separated from Zhenguo Gong by blood after all. If it were him, he would support King Jing, the nephew who was closest to him by blood.

"One is that King Jing is younger than the prince, and when King Jing was not born, the prince was already the prince." Song Qingyun glanced at the pond not far away, and happened to see the scene of the fish jumping out of the water and biting the lotus, "The second is that King Jing is smarter than the prince is not a good thing, because smart people are not easy to handle, Zhen Guogong can't handle King Jing, and the prince relies on Zhen Guogong for everything, and listens to Zhen Guogong everywhere." In other words, do you want someone who listens to you in everything, or do you want someone who has their own ideas? ”

Hearing Song Qingyun say this, Fang Zhimiao instantly understood why Zhenguo Gong supported the not very smart prince.

"Zhen Guogong didn't support King Jing, but he didn't expect to be killed by King Jing instead, and when he found out, he didn't know if he regretted it."

"With the temperament of Zhenguo Gong, I will only regret that I didn't get rid of King Jing's nephew as soon as possible."

"Brother Yun, do you think King Jing will be able to fight King Chu in the future?" They are now forced to board the boat of King Jing. Although King Jing is very good at city government means, King Chu is also very good.

Song Qingyun, who asked this question, was stunned. After a long time, he replied: "As long as we fully support King Jing, King Jing will be able to fight against King Chu." ”

Fang Zhimiao understood what Song Qingyun meant, and sighed slightly: "Yes, we can only do our best to help King Jing win the throne. ”

Several heads of families didn't know how to discuss with King Jing. When they came out, they were all smiling, and it seemed that the result of the negotiation with King Jing was very good.

King Jing moved very quickly, and sent the incriminating evidence he had collected before, as well as the evidence provided by the Fang family and several others, back to the capital together. He didn't send his own cronies to send it, because he knew that if he sent his henchmen to deliver the letter, there would only be one result, that is, he would be cut off by the crown prince and the people of Zhenguogong.

He mixed the evidence into the examination papers of the Jinling County Examination and sent them back to the capital by the forbidden army.

The emperor had previously decreed that after the imperial examinations in each place were over, the local officials should send the examination papers of the students who passed the examination back to the capital, and he would check them.

The examination papers of students who are in the examination will be sealed before being sent back to the capital, and no one can open them. King Jing sealed the evidence with the examination papers, so that it could be sent to the emperor smoothly.

After Zhao Yao learned about this, he told Li Wei as soon as possible.

When Li Dao learned about it, he almost fainted. Before he was arrested, he kept emphasizing that he couldn't cooperate with King Jing, and once he joined forces with King Jing, they would only have a dead end.

"Your Highness, it's you, right?" Li Wei stared at Zhao Yao deadly, his face gloomy and terrifying.

Li Wei's words had no beginning or end, but Zhao Yao understood what he wanted to say. He smiled brightly at Li Wei and generously admitted, "Yes, it's me." ”

Zhao Yao arrested Li Dao, on the one hand, because he wanted to settle accounts with Li Dao, and on the other hand, he asked the Fang family and the Li family to cooperate with King Jing obediently.

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