Ten years ago, Gu Jinxian served as the deputy minister of the cabinet, and Zhuang Feng also participated in it;

If nothing else, it's just that the Gu family where Gu Jinxian is located only got the position of the second prime minister in the competition, which makes Gu Jinxian a little dissatisfied; however, the agreement has been reached, and Gu Jinxian cannot change it; or the Gu family is satisfied with the position of the second minister, and does not want to start a fight again to compete for the position of the prime minister;

With Gu Jinxian's ability alone, he can't resist the family's decision; or that is the wrestling between families, Gu Jinxian is just a front-stage figure in the family; the family's decision has been made, if Gu Jinxian is dissatisfied, then the family is just a change of obedient person;

In order to obtain the power of the prime minister, Gu Jinxian reached an agreement with the various families, and with the support of the various families, the prime minister was overthrown, and he actually controlled the supreme power of the Jinguo as the second minister;

Since it was an agreement reached, Gu Jinxian naturally had to reciprocate; Gu Jinxian's reward was to ensure that he would not use his power to weaken and attack the existing forces of the various families; after all, the military strength of the Jinguo still had an overwhelming advantage over the various families, but each had its own scruples so that the Jindu could not use military force on a large scale; and the so-called scruples were actually to maintain the peace and prosperity of the Jinguo;

Of course, such a guarantee is just empty white teeth; at the same time as Gu Jinxian's guarantee, it also allows each family to expand on its own, as long as it does not tear up this peaceful and prosperous world, each family can do whatever it likes, and he Gu Jinxian will not interfere;

Empty words, anyone can say this, the families did not take Gu Jinxian's guarantee too seriously, but since there was such a guarantee, then the families had nothing to be polite;

Among them, Zhuang Feng moved the fastest, and immediately annexed Shaozhou after reaching an agreement with Gu Jinxian;

Zhuang Feng's behavior, Gu Jinxian maintained the guarantee he gave, did not interfere with any behavior, and even covered up Zhuang Feng's behavior, helping Zhuang Feng to do those matters to explain to the public;

Gu Jinxian's performance also made all families begin to believe in him, and they all began to fulfill their agreements and support Gu Jinxian;

With the support of various families, Gu Jinxian successfully became the deputy prime minister, and in just half a year, with the support of various families, he completely controlled the power of the cabinet there, and the prime minister became an ornament;

Until Zhuang Feng went crazy and swallowed the five southwestern states in one gulp, at this time, Gu Jinxian also reacted, but instead of maintaining the agreement, he sent a force to storm the Zhuang compound and capture Zhuang Feng;

It's just that Gu Jinxian underestimated Zhuang Feng; although Gu Jinxian successfully stormed the Zhuang compound and captured Zhuang Feng in his hands, but before he left Jiangzhou, Gu Jinxian was blocked by Zhuang's people and almost strangled Zhuang Feng to death with his own hands;

Not many people know about this matter, that is, Zhuang Feng once asked Fu Xiang or Wu Jinwen about the scar on Gu Jinxian's neck;

Gu Jinxian attacked Zhuang Feng, this Zhuang Feng is understandable;

The promise Gu Jinxian made at the beginning, from Gu Jinxian's point of view, was a matter of killing two birds with one stone;

With the support of the family, he can actually control the cabinet, and at the same time allow the families to expand on their own, so that the families can fight each other to fight to the death, and he Gu Jinxian will watch with Jindu, when the families weaken themselves in the disputes, and then sweep away the power of the families since the Jinguo, so that the Gu family can get greater and benefits;

Gu Jinxian's thoughts, in fact, are understood by all families; but the family also has its own interests; the agreement that seems to be beneficial and harmless to the family, in the eyes of the family, as long as he can expand his strength, then Jindu will not be able to do anything to them; and even when the time comes, it is not Jindu who will do it to their family, but these families will go to or fight for the world of this Jinguo;

There are risks and benefits, and the agreement between the family and Gujin Ken was reached;

Zhuang Feng's behavior made Gu Jinxian feel fear, if the Zhuang family owned the entire five states in the southwest, then the growth of its strength would be a little terrifying, if it was operated with heart for another ten years, then the secession of the Jinguo country would also be formed;

This is only the Zhuang family, and there are other families that are also as strong as Zhuang Feng's expansion, and there will be no peace and prosperity at that time;

For this reason, Gu Jinxian tore up the agreement with the there in advance and decided to get rid of Zhuang Feng, but at that time, Zhuang Feng was only the ability of the hairy young man who had just taken over the family, so Gu Jinxian miscalculated, not only did not slaughter Zhuang Feng, but also almost strangled Zhuang Feng to death;

Not many people know about this matter, but after experiencing the Zhuang Feng incident, Gu Jinxian also continued to maintain the agreement with the various families;

After Zhuang Feng experienced this incident, in addition to being emotionally hit by the loss of the dealer too much, Zhuang Feng also figured out a lot;

The so-called Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and the Zhuang wind is expanding too fast, so that Gu Jinxian can't accept it, and at the same time, other families will not be able to accept it;

Originally, the families also occupied the land of one state, the weaker ones did not even have the land of one state, and the stronger ones only had the land of two states, and Zhuang Feng swallowed the five southwestern states in one go, which was the strength of the Jinguo country in three parts of the world;

Gu Jinxian felt fear of such a growth in strength, and all families would also feel fear; in this way, Zhuang Feng would become the target of everyone; perhaps it was because of this that Zhuang Feng disappeared, and this disappearance was ten years;

The disappearance of Zhuang Feng relieved Gu Jinxian, and also relieved the various families, and then Gu Jinxian continued to maintain the agreement with the various families, and disputes began to arise between the various families, and the expansion of strength with them one after another;

Ten years passed under such an agreement, and many of the weaker families were annexed, and the stronger ones became stronger;

Ten years have passed, a new era has arrived, and Gu Jinxian is about to retire;

What kind of attitude the new cabinet has towards the various families makes Zhuang Feng Zhou Jian or others a little hesitant;

Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian both looked at the end of the congressional election on the news, and looked at the list of new cabinet members, and they were a little confused for a while;

"Maybe we think too much, as long as the strength is enough, let him storm and rain, I will stand on my own;" Zhuang Feng said quite calmly after that silence;

"Perhaps;" Zhou Jian answered;

"After experiencing Yang Yue's tyranny and Zhou Xizong's soft knife, haven't the various families survived to this day?" Zhuang Feng is still so calm;

"Yes, it's better to do your own thing first;" Zhou Jian agreed with Zhuang Feng's words;

Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian finished chatting with them while boiling tea and chatting with them, and then they also ended the discussion about the new cabinet and continued the affairs in front of them;

Zhou Jian continued to hand over the affairs of Qiaozhou, summoned relevant personnel there, began to draw the strength of Qiaozhou, and also explained the difference between giving up Qiaozhou;

Fortunately, Zhuang Feng killed all the people of the Zhou family back then, so that since Zhou Jian became the master of the house, no one dared to quarrel with there, and there were no old qualified elders and retainers who talked nonsense there;

Of course, it is also a little troublesome to deal with such a major matter as giving up the land of a state, but this is not about Zhuang Feng, Zhuang Feng has already slipped away when Zhou Jian was doing things, and went to play with Xiao Zhouquan;

Zhou Jian is dealing with the affairs related to Qizhou, and Zhuang Feng is in charge of Tang Guiyi; Zhuang Feng is happy to be idle, and he messes around with Xiao Zhou all day long;

Zhou Jian and Tang Guiyi were busy handing over the affairs of Qiaozhou, and the New Year was approaching, according to custom, Zhou Jian took Xiao Zhou to sweep the grave with Zhou Jian's deceased wife;

Maybe it was influenced by it, Zhou Jian didn't continue to do things there after he came back, but pulled Zhuang Feng to make tea with him;

"How long have you not been back?" Zhou Jian said as he made tea;

"It's been a long time;" Zhuang Feng also said with some sadness;

"Haven't you thought about finding someone else?" Zhou Jian asked;

"Aren't you the same?" Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian and said casually;

"It's time to find someone, you see that the three of us have no atmosphere for dinner;" Zhou Jian said at the same time as he shared the tea with justice;

Zhuang Feng listened to Zhou Jian's words, and felt that Zhou Jian seemed to be a little strange, and it felt as if Zhou Jian had someone, but he was afraid of something, so Zhuang Feng asked out loud there, "Who?"

Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng with some doubts, as if he didn't understand Zhuang Feng's words;

Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian's puzzled look, not like he was pretending to be crazy, maybe Zhuang Feng thought too much about it, and said there: "It's okay;"

"You kid will be foolish, how can a person like us just miss your sister-in-law a little;" Seeing Zhuang Feng's somewhat complicated expression, Zhou Jian also reacted to what Zhuang Feng was saying, so he said there;

Zhuang Feng also understood that Zhou Jian was just feeling, and there was no special meaning;

Zhuang Feng picked up the tea that Zhou Jian had distributed and tasted it there, and at this moment, Zhou Jian's guard came over with a post;

"Caijia's post has arrived;" the guard said aloud when he handed the post to Zhou Jian;

Zhou Jian took the post, flipped through it casually, nodded at the same time, and then the guard also left interestingly;

Zhou Jian flipped through the post, looked at the businesslike thing on it, and didn't say anything;

Zhuang Feng took the post and looked at it casually;

"It's in a hurry;" Zhuang Feng flipped through the post in his hand and said there;

"It is customary that those who died a few years ago must be buried within the year, and cannot be delayed until the New Year;" Zhou Jian continued;

"Respect for customs is a virtue, I am ready to prepare, and I will go over tomorrow;" Zhuang Feng listened to Zhou Jian's words and said calmly there;

"In such a hurry?" Zhou Jian asked;

"No matter what, I can be regarded as the great-grandson and son-in-law of the old man, so I have to go over early;" Zhuang Feng smiled and said there;

Zhou Jian listened to Zhuang Feng's joking words, and there was a burst of sweat, and he said angrily: "Get out;"

With Zhou Jian's angry appearance, Zhuang Feng still laughed there; Zhou Jian didn't pay attention to Zhuang Feng, but called the guards and gave a few orders there;

"I can't go with you, let Uncle Zuo accompany you;" Zhou Jian said to Zhuang Feng after ordering the guards there;

"I know, you're a dead man;" Zhuang Feng said jokingly;

Zhou Jian has been dead for ten years, and this matter is known to all families, and as for the information that Zhou Jian is still alive now, only Zhuang Feng knows;

On the bright side, Tingzhou is Zuo Fuliang's territory, and it is also Zhou Jian's leading figure to the outside world, that is, Uncle Zuo in Zhou Jian's mouth;

Zuo Fuliang was Zhou Jian's father's guard, and it was this Zuo Fuliang who hid the dying Zhou Jian back then, so that Zhou Jian could survive;

Zhou Jian naturally can't come forward because he Zhou Jian is a dead man now, and there is no Zhou Jian in the list of various families, and the post sent by the Cai family is also sent to Zuo Fuliang;

"Get out, I'm sitting in front of you alive, what do you mean by saying you're a dead man?" Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng's joking appearance and said quite angrily;

"Live well, that's what it means;" Zhuang Feng was still the same joke;

With Zhuang Feng's words, Zhou Jian laughed with him;

When Zhou Jian and Zhuang Feng were joking, Zuo Fuliang also came over under the summons of the guards;

"Zhuang Shao, young master;" Zuo Fuliang approached, looked at Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian, and said loudly;

Zhuang Feng nodded with a smile and didn't say anything;

"Uncle Zuo, I have to bother you to go to the Cai family;" Zhou Jian and Zuo Fuliang said;

"Yes;" Zuo Fuliang responded;

"Zhuang Shao is in charge of everything this time, Uncle Zuo has no opinion, right?" Zhou Jian continued to ask;

"Follow the young master's arrangement;" Zuo Fuliang still said calmly;

"Okay, get ready, and go to Caijia with Zhuang Feng tomorrow;" Zhou Jian said;

"Yes;" Zuo Fuliang said;

Zhou Jian nodded, and Zuo Fuliang also left;

Zuo Fuliang, as the elder guard of the Zhou family, naturally obeys Zhou Jian's affairs; although he looks at Zuo Fuliang as the controller of this court, Zuo Fuliang understands the actual affairs very well, he Zuo Fuliang is a brand, and Zhou Jian is the one who holds the sign;

Therefore, Zuo Fuliang will never have objections to Zhou Jian's order; as for Zhuang Feng, this Zuo Fuliang does not dare to say anything; or the matter between Zhou Jian and Zhuang Feng, it is not his turn to make a statement;

"It's so good;" Zhuang Feng watched Zuo Fuliang leave, and said something inexplicably there;

"Older generation, that's the case;" Zhou Jian understood Zhuang Feng's words, and said out loud;

Zhuang said that it was just Zuo Fuliang's unconditional obedience, which was also mixed with love for juniors;

With Zhou Jian's words, Zhuang Feng seemed to remember something and didn't speak again;

In the early morning, Zhuang Feng said goodbye to Zhou Jian and set off for Pingzhou with Zuo Fuliang;

Tingzhou is not too far from Pingzhou, Zhuang Feng and Zuo Fuliang arrived at Pingzhou City at noon;

Regarding Cai Xingmiao's death, the Cai family is very low-key, or the family is hidden behind the scenes, and there is no news related there, and Pingzhou City is the same as usual, and it has not changed because of the death of Cai Xingmiao, the actual controller of Pingzhou;

Of course, this is only for the common people, and as for the high-level circles of the Pingzhou class, there is a relevant reaction;

For example, the Metropolitan Police Department's patrols have been strengthened more than usual, of course, on the surface because the New Year is approaching, and it is just a routine business, but this so-called routine has the usual patrols of the military and police also appear on some traffic arteries;

Looking at the patrolling military police, Zhuang Feng couldn't help but think to him, that Cai Xingmiao is not a long-standing old person, and his control over Pingzhou is really high enough, this person is dead, and even the military and police are mobilized to prevent accidents;

When Zhuang Feng was thinking about it, Zuo Fuliang was accustomed to it, and he didn't say too much, just told Zhuang Feng about some things about the Cai family: "The old man Cai has a total of nine sons and four daughters;

"Many sons and many blessings;" Zhuang Feng said jokingly;

Zuo Fuliang didn't take Zhuang Feng's words, because the age of this old man Cai is longer than that of Jinguo, and in the chaotic years before Jinguo, a big family like Caijia naturally has a group of wives and concubines, and many sons and blessings;

Zhuang Feng seems to be joking, but he also knows these things, just sigh that the old man Cai was still quite capable when he was young, otherwise he would not have given birth to so many children;

"As for the grandchildren of the old man, there are even more, if you count the grandchildren, there are seventy-two in total;" Zuo Fuliang continued;

Zhuang Feng was not surprised by the situation mentioned by Zuo Fuliang; according to the time, the birth time of Cai Xingmiao's grandchildren was in the early stage of the founding of the Jinguo Kingdom, which was the stage of recuperation after the war, and the war led to a sharp decline in the population.

Cai Xingmiao has more than a dozen children, and this has more than 70 grandchildren, which is also considered a normal category;

"Your information is quite detailed;" Although Zhuang Feng was not surprised by the population of the Cai family, he was surprised by the detail of Zuo Fuliang's information;

In terms of detailed information like Zuo Fuliang, the manpower and material resources spent are too great, but Zhuang Feng also reacted after being surprised, Zhou Jian had already planned to annex Pingzhou, and with such detailed information as Caijia, it was expected;

"The situation of the great-grandchildren is not very clear, as for the great-grandchildren, there are only four;" Zuo Fuliang continued;

Listening to Zuo Fuliang's words, Zhuang Feng also understood why he didn't have much information about his great-grandchildren;

Just the grandchildren here are huge enough, and after the death of the star seedlings, those who are qualified to fight for the control of the family are the grandchildren of the star seedlings, as for the great-grandchildren, they are still a little less qualified, and in the case of a huge number of grandchildren as a base, the great-grandchildren are really complicated enough;

And then there is the so-called distinction between the concubines, the descendants of the more distant concubines, and the situation with the Cai family is that they just have the same surname, which can only be regarded as a family five hundred years ago, and it has nothing to do with the Cai family;

The competition for the Cai family is mainly concentrated between the so-called families of the concubine;

"Cai Yongzhuo is the eldest grandson of Old Man Cai, and he is also the designated heir;" Zuo Fuliang continued;

"How many sons does Cai Lao Jiu have?" Zhuang Feng asked;

Zhuang Feng's words, Zuo Fuliang naturally understood;

Now that Cai Xingmiao is dead, Cai Dong'an is the one with the highest generation in the Cai family;

"Cai Lao Jiu has three sons and two daughters, but they are not very successful, and Cai Yongqian is still a character;" Zuo Fuliang responded to Zhuang Feng;

"What about the others?" Zhuang Feng continued;

"There are also a few other people, such as Cai Yonghe who is in charge of the trading company, Cai Yongxing, the gangster of the rivers and lakes, Cai Yonghe of the private road, Cai Yonghui of the logistics department, Cai Yongzhou of the security office, Cai Yongping of the guard office, Cai Yongqiu, the financial officer, Cai Yongjing of the outreach, and Cai Yongqian of the confidential department;" Zuo Fuliang said familiarly;

Zuo Fuliang said that the characters of the Cai family were not very surprised, after all, Zhou Jian had been plotting against Pingzhou for a long time, it was not strange to have such information, if not, it would be strange;

Zhuang Feng was only a little amazed at Zuo Fuliang's ability, and even the controller of the Caijia Logistics Office knew that this Caijia's logistics office was actually Zhuang Feng's West Courtyard, responsible for intelligence-related affairs, and was on the dark side;

Zuo Fuliang got such an intelligence report, which made Zhuang Feng a little surprised, so he asked there: "You all know the logistics office?"

Regarding Zhuang Feng's question, Zuo Fuliang smiled and did not speak;

Seeing that Zuo Fuliang didn't answer, this Zhuang Feng didn't continue to ask, this was just Zhuang Feng's momentary curiosity, and at the same time, it was impossible for Zuo Fuliang's intelligence source to be revealed to Zhuang Feng;

Zhuang Feng didn't ask, but continued to ask: "Cai Yongqian is in charge of the confidential office?"

"Yes, the confidential office of the Cai family is mainly in charge of the officials in Pingzhou;" With Zhuang Feng's question, Zuo Fuliang naturally replied;

"Didn't Cai Yongzhuo do anything?" Zhuang Feng asked with some puzzlement;

"Cai Yongzhuo is the identity of the heir, there is no specific affairs, and he is in charge of all affairs, but Cai Yongping and Cai Yongzhuo in the guard office are brothers of the same mother;" Zuo Fuliang answered Zhuang Feng's question;

Zhuang Feng listened to Zuo Fuliang's answer and said there: "No wonder;"

"Yes, Cai Yongzhuo is a continuator, but he does not grasp the real power in his hands, and he has no heirs; if there is no external help, even if the old man Cai dies naturally, the Cai family will have a situation;" Zuo Fuliang continued to say to Zhuang Feng's words;

Zhuang Feng listened to Zuo Fuliang's words, and sighed a little there, because Zhuang Feng was in a similar situation at the beginning;

Today's Cai Yongzhuo and Zhuang Feng's situation is somewhat similar, that is, they are both the continuation of the family, and at the same time, they have no specific power in their hands;

The difference is that Zhuang Feng has not taken over the specific affairs because of his age at that time; according to the arrangement of the old man Zhuang, Zhuang Feng will be in charge of the guard office after the New Year's Festival, but the old man Zhuang died in the summer, and Zhuang Feng was not asked to wait until the next year;

Cai Yongzhuo, who is nearly fifty years old, can also be regarded as an old lady, and he has not yet been in charge of specific affairs, which makes Zhuang Feng can't help but think a little blindly about Cai Xingmiao, and his mind about Cai Xingmiao seems to be a little narrow-minded;

At such a hundred years old, he is not even at ease with giving the heir some specific power, which is also cautious enough; it is no wonder that Cai Yongzhuo wants to hook up with outsiders there, if it is Zhuang Feng himself, I am afraid that Zhuang Feng will do the same thing as Cai Yongzhuo, and hook up with outsiders to protect himself;