The news that Zhou Yijun heard was compiled by Zhou Shigong from all aspects of intelligence, and it was basically credible.

It is said that Du Boqin learned that someone from the capital had taken over the position of General Thursday and also took over his case, thinking that he finally had a way to live. He felt that his crime was not very serious, as long as the shortfall money was made up, and the lives involved were either his own concubines or small people, and they were easy to deal with. As for the betrayal of the Northwest Frontier Army, only the people of the Northwest Frontier Army will care. The Sun family will not take it to heart, and the emperor is also on the side of the Sun family. If it weren't for the emperor's jealousy of the Zhou family and his dislike of the Northwest Frontier Army, the Sun family would not have been able to take advantage of the loopholes and bribe him to arrange so many conspiracies in Chang'an.

Seeing Tu Rong, he knew that the other party and the Sun family were not all the way, but the emperor's cronies, but he didn't panic, and defended himself according to what he thought. As for the eyes and ears that the Sun family had arranged around Chang'an, he invariably deduced that it was tortured by the Zhenguo Mansion, and that it was his subordinates who had recruited the truth, anyway, he himself was very reluctant to confess. As for the record in the dossier, it was deliberately done by the Zhenguo Mansion in order to retaliate against him.

Anyway, he didn't plan to betray the emperor, and betraying the Sun family's intelligence was a last resort. However, he was of much greater use to the Sun family than those eyes and ears. He will do more for the emperor and the Sun family in the future to make up for his previous "mistakes", and the emperor and the Sun family have no reason not to let him go.

It's a pity that Rao is so clever that Tu Rong doesn't take it to heart.

The emperor is not of the same mind with the Sun family now. He would be jealous of the Zhou family's military power, how could he trust the Sun family who tried to seize military power? Moreover, the Sun family has been dragging him back all these years, plotting against him, if it weren't for the fact that Sun Gelao's power was too huge, and he would have already become a symbol of the great cause of the law change he proposed, once it fell, it would have failed to change the law, and he would have kicked Sun Ge Lao out of the cabinet a long time ago.

The Sun family's plot to seize military power in the northwest is against the holy will. They can attack the Zhou family and weaken the power in the hands of the Zhou family, but they cannot meddle in military affairs themselves, let alone maliciously harm other northwest generals and their families who have the ability to take over the Zhou family. Otherwise, once the Zhou family hands over the handsome seal and military power, who can the Northwest Frontier Army be handed over to be in charge? Could it be the stupid and conceited straw bag general Sun Yonglu of the Sun family who was used by the Hu people's spies?! He has proven his incompetence and lived up to the expectations of the emperor, and the emperor will no longer be able to use him!

And the Sun family bribed the generals of the Northwest Frontier Army, arranged the ears and eyes in Chang'an, and purchased a large area of land and industry in the surrounding areas, with a posture of moving the family business to the northwest, which was a thunder point for the emperor.

It took decades for the emperor to weaken the influence of the Zhou family in the northwest, so did he have to raise another Sun family? If the Sun family is entrenched in the northwest and grows bigger and bigger, what is the difference between it and the Zhou family? Anyway, the Zhou family still has the merit of protecting the family and defending the country, and they really fought for the blood and sweat of their own flesh and blood, and the Sun family relied on the imperial power to make a fortune, but now they dare to disobey the emperor's order, it is not as good as the Zhou family!

Tu Rong directly told Du Boqin what the emperor meant, and it was impossible to spare his life. If he was really loyal to the imperial court, he should have surrendered directly to the emperor, instead of becoming a minion of the Sun family. Jinyiwei also arranged manpower in Chang'an, why didn't he see Du Boqin doing things for Jinyiwei? And his participation in the Sun family's conspiracy to assassinate the Marquis of Yingchuan directly affected the stability of the forbidden army, if the emperor spared him, how would he explain to the Marquis of Yingchuan, a loyal general?

Du Boqin was devastated by Tu Rong's words, seeing that Tu Rong was about to directly set his own punishment, he didn't even have any hope of survival, so he had to desperately tell the secrets he knew, so as to fight for more bargaining chips for himself.

He first told Sun Yonglu about the black history of seizing other people's military exploits when he was in the Northwest Frontier Army, as well as the secret of embezzling military funds, and he even kept the evidence and hid it. He did things for the Sun family, and he also kept a hand, lest the Sun family cross the river and demolish the bridge, and kick him away after using him, but he was already in the northwest border army and could not gain a foothold, and his future was ruined. With these evidences, as long as Sun Ge doesn't want his nephew to have an accident, he must protect him, respect him politely, and marry the daughter of the family to him in the future, so that he can completely become his own person of the Sun family, rather than a pawn who can be easily abandoned.

He was willing to present the evidence he had hidden to the emperor. Whether the emperor intends to hide it or use it against the Sun family, it can come in handy.

Tu Rong listened and was a little moved, but the weight of these evidences was not enough. After all, Sun Yonglu is only relying on the power of the Sun family to find an idle position, and his status within the Sun family has long been much worse than before. Whether he is dead or alive cannot affect Sun Ge Lao's power, and it has little significance to the emperor.

Du Boqin had to add more weight to himself. He said that the evidence of Sun Yonglu's crime in his hands was actually involved in Sun Yongping and Sun Yongbai. These two people are Sun Ge Lao's own sons and nephews, and they have a high status within the Sun faction. If something happens to them, it will be a big blow to Sun Ge Lao. After all, Sun Ge is also old, I don't know how many years he can live, he will retire in the future, and the successor is either a mediocre biological son or a shrewd and capable nephew. The evidence in Du Boqin's hands is directly related to the future political life of the Sun family, and it will definitely play a role in restraining Sun Gelao.

Tu Rong was really moved, asked for the address where the evidence was hidden, and immediately sent someone to pick it up.

With this evidence, Tu Rong was willing to leave Du Boqin a way to live, and did not sentence him to death, but only exiled him to a border city and put him on death row. If he encounters a big war, he will earn military merits, and there is hope for a comeback. But if he is unlucky and dies on the battlefield, then at least he can keep his ancestor's reputation, and he can be buried as a fallen soldier rather than a sinner. Tu Rong thinks that this is a good road, anyway, Du Boqin was born in the border army, and it is in line with his duty to earn a future on the battlefield.

But Du Boqin was still not satisfied. He wants to be acquitted, even if it is a misdemeanor demotion! Go to the frontier to earn your life? What if I die? Besides, now that the war between Chu and Hu has cedered and he has gone to the border city, God knows how many years he will have to wait before he has the opportunity to participate in the war and make meritorious contributions? He has been pampered in Chang'an for many years, and he doesn't think that he can live well in a death row camp, and he has been starving for a few years, and he still has the strength to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Du Boqin finally took out another chip to press the bottom of the box.

This matter is actually information from the Sun family.

The Sun family used the title as bait to fish for Zhou Shuyi, the second wife of the second wife of the Marquis of Yingchuan, for many years, and the original intention was just to use her hand to hollow out the wealth of the Zhou family, which was just an idle move. But since the fight against the concubine of King Ji, the concubine Sun, had a difficult birth, one corpse and two lives, Sun Ge Lao had to consider letting his little granddaughter become the stepfamily of King Ji's son-in-law, and the original little grandson-in-law chose the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan, which was very eye-catching. The Sun family planned to use Zhou Shuyi to secretly poison the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan, and later provoke the relationship between the Zhou family and the Hou Mansion of Yingchuan. But considering that Zhou Shuyi is easy to fool, but her mother Madame Ma may not be easy to deceive, the Sun family prepared a backhand, so that Du Boqin could grasp a secret of Madame Ma.

More than ten years ago, the dead soldier raised by the Sun family once inadvertently caught a Hu spy in the capital. They did not send people directly to the government, but hid them and interrogated them carefully, trying to find a place that could be used to frame and attack the Zhou family. The Hu spy quickly opened his mouth under the coercion and temptation of the Sun family, and confessed that he relied on the road guide arranged by the mother of the third house of the Zhou family to enter Beijing. It is said that Mrs. Ma has arranged several routes for the same Hu spies, which is a secret line used by the old Khan of the Hu people.

The Sun family took the road guide in the hands of the Hu people's spies and compared it with the records left by the Chang'an official mansion, and they could accuse Mrs. Ma of collaborating with the enemy. For Mrs. Ma, there is no more deadly handle than this.

(End of chapter)