Huang Zhifu's heart suddenly sank.

There is nothing wrong with Zhen Guogong's words, but after thinking about it, the words "clan magnates" are full of deep meaning.

"Powerful" not to mention, "clan" is the point, right? Royal blood, to be exact.

The Sun family now strongly supports the return of King Ji's son to the throne, but the emperor is inclined to be succeeded by the eighth prince. What if the Sun family can't beat the emperor anymore, what if they turn their hearts to the eighth prince and make a black hand to the eighth prince? Even if the eighth prince successfully ascends the throne in the future, he is still young, and before he grows up to be in power and has children in a big marriage, if there is any "accident", there is no successor, and the prince of King Ji, who has the closest bloodline, is still the most likely candidate for the new monarch.

The nephews and nephews of the Sun family, from Sun Guifei to Sun Ge Lao, have never had a good reputation in this regard, otherwise how did Empress Wu and the third prince die? How did Wu Wen'an's family get into trouble? Who can guarantee that they won't do it again to the Eighth Prince? Even if the eighth prince is still young now, he will always grow up one day. How could you not learn to ride a horse as a prince? If you don't ride a horse, you can ride a car, and "accidents" or something, are they not possible at any time?

Huang Zhifu had a cold war, and he made up his mind more and more, and he was determined to explain the importance of the matter to the emperor! The emperor really can't continue to indulge the Sun family anymore! Even if the emperor remembers the love of the concubine for many years, he should restrain the rest of the Sun family, and not let them behave indiscriminately and threaten the entire Great Chu River!

Governor Huang made up his mind, discussed what he wanted to do next with the Duke of Zhenguo, and hurriedly left.

General Saturday of the Zhenguo Mansion and the old military division left with the Huang Governor's Mansion. They will watch as Governor Huang continues to interrogate Wang Lao Liu to see if he can reveal more inside information.

Zhen Guogong also asked General Thursday to take the guards of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division to assist the officials of the government to come forward to arrest people. Du Boqin and the Sun family had to arrest the spies and eyes of the guards and yamen in Chang'an in advance, as well as the spies and eyes that each family had planted in the doors, so that they would not receive the news and jump over the wall in a hurry to do something irreparable.

Of course, in the process, the general on Thursday will also bring the news to the generals. The information that Wang Lao Liu can know is limited, and no one knows whether Du Boqin still has hidden manpower, and he has never let the dead soldiers sent by the Sun family know. Even if the government government and the Zhenguo government take away those spies who have been confessed, each family needs to beware that there are still secret children hiding in their own homes, which will be unfavorable to the main family at any time.

In this way, the truth about the collusion between Du Boqin and the Sun family, as well as the big plan they planned, is naturally known to everyone in the major generals in Chang'an. Both those who knew him well, those who had been friends with him, and those who had not dealt with him much, were shocked. Some people couldn't believe this fact, felt that they had a good relationship with him, and wanted to come to the door to question, but they were stopped by General Thursday and his family.

Everyone agrees that it is best not to startle the snake at the moment. Whether it is Du Boqin's crimes confessed by Wang Laoliu or the conspiracy of the Sun family confessed by Zhang Pinggui, Du Boqin should not be known. He himself is still in Chang'an, and he can't escape, and the victims will have a face-to-face time to ask him for clarification sooner or later, so there is no need to rush at all. Let him live a few days in a state of panic and wandering around like a blind fly. If he is innocent, this concealment will not hurt him anything; If he deserves it, this little punishment can only be regarded as an appetizer.

The guards of each family temporarily suppressed their tempers and focused their attention on strictly investigating their own family members. Although Wang Lao Liu only gave a few names, behind these names, many people were implicated, pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, revealing a dense network of relationships.

I'm afraid that as early as when the Sun family was just tempted by the military power in the northwest and sent Sun Yonglu over to take up the post, this relationship network began to be formed, and now it has developed into a big network, with hundreds of related people connected to it, not everyone knows that they are doing things for the Sun family, and some people may have recognized the wrong master, but for their own selfish interests, they don't care about these at all. The news and information about Chang'an City and the northwest region were continuously gathered from various families and families through this network, and then quickly passed on to Sun Yongbai in the capital by a horse team disguised as a merchant.

Most of this information is trivial and of little use, at most it can only be used by the Sun family to woo, intimidate, and frame a certain military general or his family, and take the other party for their own use. But once this network of relationships is formed, it will not be difficult for Du Boqin and the Sun family to use it to hurt anyone or spread some slanderous rumors to sow discord.

If it weren't for the Zhou family catching Zhang Pinggui and the Huang Governor's Mansion forcing Wang Lao Liu to open his mouth, these people who were bribed to install spy eyes and ears and leaked information without knowing it didn't know what day they would have to wait until they would know that they had a thunder buried in their home!

In the winter of the thirty-second year of Deguang, throughout the month of Layue, Chang'an City was filled with a noisy and restless atmosphere.

The generals of all families, whether they are stationed outside or returning to Chang'an on vacation, seem to be thoroughly investigating the servants and guards in their homes, and even the dependent relatives, nephews, and generals of the pro-army are not omitted. After checking, it seems that each family sent henchmen to escort some people to Zhuangzi in a remote area on the side of the mountain on the outskirts of the city, and imprisoned them.

One by one, the carriages drove out of the city, and the relatives and friends of the various families and the neighbors felt a little uneasy when they saw this movement, and they went to inquire what was going on, but no one got an answer. Some families simply and rudely serve tea to guests, while others are more tactful and kind, explaining that they just found that there was a small problem at home when they were in charge of the New Year's accounts and were dealing with housework.

Others are dealing with household chores, what can outsiders say? I can only say goodbye with humor.

While eliminating their own spies, the generals and families of each family also increased the number of times they walked around each other. It is not only for the purpose of exchanging information and eradicating spies, but also to discuss countermeasures together.

In the past, they watched the Sun family calculate the Zhou family, some felt the same and were angry, some felt that it was none of their business, and some people disliked the Zhou family for offending the emperor and the magnates, and even the entire border army was deducted from military expenses and food. Although each prefecture can form caravans and be self-sufficient, not all of them are good at running them. can't make money, so you can only count on the allocation of funds from the Zhenguo Mansion, but because the other party is very knowledgeable, you can't do anything, and some generals will inevitably be resentful.

But now, everyone is enraged by the Sun family's calculations. Past grievances and grievances are no longer important, everyone is a part of the Northwest Frontier Army, and naturally they must work together to fight against foreign enemies. If the Sun family is really put on the throne and becomes everyone's top boss, can everyone still have a good life? The Zhou family has military merits, what does the Sun family have? A notorious traitor?!

The movements in Chang'an City naturally can't be hidden from Du Boqin. Although no one gave him a message, he noticed that the generals and officials who had been good friends with him in the past suddenly changed their attitudes towards him. They weren't just distancing themselves from him, they were more hostile, looking at him with anger in their eyes.

When he found out that the spies planted by the Sun family in Chang'an City were missing, he was even more determined.

Something must have happened.

He thought of the killers who had been arrested earlier, as well as the dead soldiers of the Sun family who had been caught in his Zhuangzi, and felt that he could no longer sit still and wait to be killed. He immediately wrote a secret letter and sent his henchmen to the capital, asking the Sun family to send an order to the military department as soon as possible and get him to the capital.

But he didn't know that the personal soldiers he sent with his handwritten letter fell into the hands of the Zhou family before they left Chang'an City.

(End of chapter)