"You see, there is a man sitting in the city lord's mansion."

Everyone looked from afar, and saw a figure swaying from side to side on the main seat in the center.

The smile that the old man Fang Sheng had just shown retracted again, and Bai Fengzhan on the side also said in a cold voice: "Mengzhou Mansion is so big, it allows so many of us to stand outside, I don't think this city lord's mansion will enter!" ”

At this time, Yang Qian and Chang Wenhua also came over with the Yang and Chang families, and Liu Wanxiu brushed his beard and raised his voice to the surrounding sergeants: "Except for the hundred families of Bai Shixiang, we and other families are all gathered, don't you let us in?" ”

"You've been waiting for a long time." A voice sounded from behind everyone in the family, and Meng Feng took Xue Mu and Qiao Zheng to the side of everyone.

"Huh? The person sitting in the city lord's mansion is not Mengzhou Mansion? Could it be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Everyone was a little confused.

Fang Sheng's eyes looked at the ground, and he said slowly: "Mengzhou Mansion, you have imprisoned us for many days, why did you gather us here today?" ”

Meng Feng knew that Fang Sheng and the other people from the family had great resentment in their hearts, and he smiled and said, "You can follow me into the hall, and everything will be known, please." Meng Feng made a gesture, and then took the lead in the forefront.

"This Mengzhou Mansion really doesn't know what to do! This time has offended all the families, it seems that he has done enough in Youzhou, the state capital! Bai Fengzhan and other elders who didn't know the truth said secretly in their hearts.

The old man Fang Sheng sighed, looking at it like this, what Song Cheng said is indeed right, Youzhou is really the opposite, now that the prince is unharmed, it is time to worry about the fate of his people: "Keep up." ”

Fang Sheng led people to walk behind Meng Feng and the others, looking at the two rows of seats in the aisle, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, at this time, how much he hoped that his family could sit at the back, but in this way, it would reveal that he knew the inside story in advance, and it would put the family in danger.

Compared with the previous banquets, the number of people this time was the largest, after all, it also included the people selected by various families from the literary meeting and the servants of the subordinates, and the entire hall was quickly overcrowded, and the people had no seats and had to stand at the end.

After everyone sat down, they quickly fell silent, because they found that it was not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sitting on the main seat in the center, but an old man who had never seen him before.

The old man's hair and beard were all white, he looked older than Fang Sheng, he was wearing a family clothes, his hair was scattered and draped over his shoulders, and two iron balls were rotating in his hands, making a sound of collision and friction from time to time.

Meng Feng, Xue Mu and Qiao Zheng walked in front of the old man, and then stood on the old man's left and right.

"Who the hell is this old man?" The crowd whispered again.

Liu Wanxiu said with a solemn gaze: "There were only a few officials of the former dynasty whose whereabouts were unknown, and judging from the age of this person, he was either the prime minister of the former dynasty or the secretary of the military department of the former dynasty. ”

Song Cheng said slowly: "It's Qiao Qi, the secretary of the military department." ”

"You know him?" Liu Wanxiu was a little surprised.

Song Cheng turned around and didn't find the prince who didn't know where to hide, and replied in a low voice: "It's what His Highness said." ”

Liu Wanxiu nodded suddenly, and then frowned again: "It stands to reason that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never seen Qiao Qi, why would he recognize it?" ”

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Qiao Qi sat on a high position, looking at the people of the family with different expressions below, a sense of pleasure of imminent revenge arose, it was these people who kept saying that they were the most loyal subjects of the previous dynasty, but now they have become the lackeys of the Dugu family.

The first thing Qiao Qi looked at was Bai Fengzhan, since the establishment of the empire of the Lin family, the Bai family is the most trusted family of the Lin dynasty, the two families of Lin and Bai have been married for generations, and from the court to the rivers and lakes, the royal family has given the Bai family all aspects of convenience, for the interests of the Bai family, the royal family even came forward to force the mother of Bai Jingxiao to death, which contributed to the rise of the hundred schools and made a big enemy for the Lin dynasty. The Lin dynasty was so kind to the Bai family, in the subsequent chaos of the empire, the Bai family did not play the slightest role, after the Dugu family broke through the imperial capital, the Bai family was the first family to surrender, because of the Bai family's surrender, the world's scholars did not make trouble, the Bai family actually became a hero who helped the Dugu family stabilize the situation, although in the next ten years, because of the rise of the Fang family, the Bai family's life was not good, but Qiao Qi still did not want to let go of this family.

After the Bai family is the Yang family, although the Yang family is not as favored as the Bai family, but it is also a family that is cared for by the Lin royal family, the Bai family is taking the official career, the Yang family is the army system, most of the forbidden army and city gate garrison generals of the empire are from the Yang family, the empire will hand over such an important place to the Yang family to guard, but the Yang family is intriguing in the army all day long, not thinking about training soldiers and horses, strengthening the garrison in the city, until the iron cavalry of the Dugu family came to attack, the Yang family generals could not even hold on for half a day, and finally led to the little emperor being cornered and self-immolated in the palace.

Qiao Qi's eyes then looked at Liu Wanxiu, the Liu family has more literati and officials, in the past hundred years, there have been eleven prime ministers in the family, becoming second only to the Bai family, in the last ten years of the previous dynasty, the power of the Liu family occupied half of the country in the court, but when the eunuchs were in power, these people all chose to protect themselves, retired to the grass hall, and let their teachers be isolated, and finally killed by the eunuch forces, which also made the eunuch power gradually grow, and it was out of control, so, in Qiao Qi's eyes, the fall of the Lin dynasty, The Liu family is the culprit.

And the Song family, Qiao Qi looked at Song Cheng below, squinted his eyes, the Song family is a family he has never understood, the people of this family, he only knows the Song family, and so far, the Song family has only shown its commercial strength to the world, the car dealers in various states back then were basically the industry of the Song family, but Qiao Qi knew that to become one of the four major families, the strength of the Song family does not only rely on business, he inexplicably has a feeling that the reason why the Lin dynasty fell so quickly is that there is the Song family secretly fueling the troubles.

As for the remaining Fang, Bai, Shen, and Chang families that rose later, they basically followed the Dugu family to oppose the Lin family's forces from the beginning, and the two sides were hostile from the root, which made Qiao Qi not have so much resentment.

was thinking back to these grievances back then, and a light cough brought Qiao Qi back to reality.

Qiao Qi came to his senses, looking at Xue Mu's gaze, Qiao Qi understood.

"Everyone, please be silent!"

Seeing that the hall was quiet, Xue Mu continued: "I came to invite everyone from the family to the banquet today, because we have a guest here, that is, the old man on the seat, I think many people are a little curious about the identity of this old man. ”