The soldiers came to the city, and the whole city was panicked. In particular, those refugees who had fled to the city of Zifu found that Zifu had been rehabilitated and had not achieved good results, so they were worried and began to flee again. However, refugees are refugees, and there are always some characteristics of refugees. They are already away from their homeland, uprooted from their homeland, and now they can't settle down in every other place, and resentment will arise in their hearts, so the extreme among them also began to destroy intentionally or unintentionally. All of a sudden, around the city of Zifu, including in the city, there were all kinds of robbery, rape, theft, murder and other cases, and the security of Zifu reached a very bad point.

There are strong enemies outside, and there are cases inside, and the managers of the Purple Mansion are also having a headache. In order to fight against external enemies, it is necessary to have a stable internal environment, so the Council of Elders decided to calm down the internal law and order first, and for all cases that arise, no one is missed, and all are investigated and punished.

However, those people were already mobile people, so how could they be so easy to investigate? The city of Zifu dispatched 3,000 internal guards, captured 300 criminals of various kinds in two days, and directly beheaded 92 people, but it did not change the status quo. The frequency of crimes remains high, but the managers of the Purple Mansion have been charged with violent suppression regardless of the people's suffering, and the situation has become more complicated.

"What do you think of the current situation?" Wan Peng is not qualified to participate in the internal management of the Purple Mansion, so he can only discuss with Liyang. Liyang replied with great certainty, "Well, I think, everything seems to be organized. In particular, although these refugee wanderers said that their crimes were scattered, they beheaded nearly 100 people in one day, and the deterrent effect was not obvious enough. ”

Liyang continued, "They are just ordinary people at the bottom of the management, who fled here to survive. The Purple Mansion gave them basic guarantees, and in this era of war and chaos, they had enough reasons to be quiet while the Purple Mansion was punishing crimes. But the reality is that they are not afraid. They are not afraid, it can only show that at least these people who committed crimes do not care about losing the life guarantee provided to them by the Purple Mansion. ”

Wan Peng immediately realized, "You mean, these people have backstage support?"

Liyang nodded, "That's right, not only do they have backstage support, but it seems that what can be given to them is more abundant than that of Zifu." Perhaps, some of these refugees are mixed in and come to look for trouble. ”

Wan Peng said, "However, although the rebel army is fierce, after all, it has not been formed for a long time, if it only has some prestige in one place, there may still be a reason, but if there are people in the whole Purple Mansion to support them, it doesn't seem too reasonable." ”

Liyang said, "That's right, so this rebel army is not simple. Perhaps, it was not they who took the king captive, but they were the ones who were kings themselves. ”

"The king's people?" Wan Peng muttered, "you mean, they found out that the king was in captivity, so they rushed to meet them?, and their basis was that the cities could reach an agreement with them, and then deliberately defeated? But in that case, the city of Zifu, at least the Council of Elders should know about it." ”

Liyang said, "Then have you thought about it, if the Council of Elders is not of the same mind as the king? If the Council of Elders itself is too powerful to influence and interfere with the king's behavior, the king will definitely regard the Council of Elders as a thorn in his side." And the king's personal guards, or latent forces, will definitely overthrow the Council of Elders under the guise of the king. As soon as the Council of Elders is removed, the king will reappear, and perhaps, he will no longer form a new Council of Elders and implement a dictatorship. By that time, the two non-biological princes had died, and the king was in dictatorship, and only one son was left when he sat down, which could guarantee the downward transfer of the throne. ”

Wan Peng nodded slowly, "What you said makes sense. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that it is now a game set up by the king. The king set up a plot to kill the two princes and threatened the third prince of Lan Jia at the same time, making people think that those people were threatening the royal family. At the same time, since we are outsiders and are too close to the third prince, they want to get rid of us. Moreover, he himself made a situation of exile, and no matter what happened at that time, it had nothing to do with him, and even said that after the elders were removed, he could have told the matter about the conspiracy of the elders. If that were the case, the king would be a conspirator. Then we will be hindered from looking for him to go to Jinxiao. ”

"If he is sure that we have no influence or threat to him, maybe he will want to send us away. Liyang sneered, "Just wait to see the good show, and see how this king appeared." ”

"Hmm. Wan Peng nodded, "I'll go to the casino and find out what's new today." ”

At this time, the casino is not much less crowded, although some people are in a hurry to flee for their lives, but there are still a large number of gamblers gathered here. Especially for some people, anyway, their homes are gone, their land is gone, they simply gamble, and their wives and children may become their bargaining chips.

And here, Wan Peng got some of the latest news.

The rebels are in the next city!

For the latest war, there are people in the casino who are dedicated to giving speeches like storytellers. Of course, most of them also use the war as a background, talk about topics or overlapping events that people are interested in, and when it comes to the critical moment, they close their mouths, wait for people to give money, and then continue to talk. After changing two places, Wan Peng got two new messages.

The first news, Zifu sent 20,000 vanguard troops, ready to go out of the city to fight against the rebel vanguard, the two sides met a hundred miles away from the main city of Zifu, after a big battle, the Zifu army was defeated.

Was it because the troops of Zifu were vulnerable, or were those troops too strong? No one came to any conclusion, because the defeated troops, before they had returned to the city, encountered a powerful ambush and raid, and scattered in all directions.

The second news, in the other direction of the Purple Mansion, suddenly appeared another force of about 10,000 people, also rushing towards the Purple Mansion. Whether it is friend or foe is unknown.

This made Wan Peng even more interested. At this time, this kind of army appeared, either taking advantage of the fire to loot, or the rebels came to the rescue. However, after all, this is the territory ruled by the Purple Mansion, and the original society is managed in an orderly manner, and it seems impossible for two rebels to appear at the same time. If the two forces are really in a group, and they are both going to rebel, then they should be exposed at the same time. Therefore, it is more likely that this is a rebel army.

If it is a rebel army, whose rebel army will it be? At this time, the rebel army appeared, obviously to save the city, and there will be two kinds of people who will save the city. One is the king himself, the king will not allow the city of Zifu to be harmed, and he may indeed secretly set up 10,000 troops around the city of Zifu to prevent all kinds of accidents. The second is the Presbyterian Church. The Council of Elders also has real power, and if the Council of Elders has any scruples, or has the intention of rebellion, it is natural for them to ambush troops outside the city.

Wan Peng left the casino and ascended to a place very high above the main city of Zifu. The view here is wide, but due to the weather and terrain, what you can see is only a few dozen miles outside the city, and you can't see it clearly any farther. After hesitating for a moment, he released a few fire thunderbirds to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance for him.

At present, the rebels are two hundred miles outside the city, and the other force is a hundred miles outside the city. The rising troops changed the direction of their march towards Zifu and marched rapidly towards the rebels.

This rebel army marched faster than ordinary teams. Judging from the feedback from the Fire Thunderbird, the training level of this unit is extremely high, and it can be regarded as an elite unit.

A few hours later, the two armies met. On the first contact, the "rebels" broke the rebel front and won the first victory of any unit against the rebels since their appearance!

When the news came back, the Purple Mansion was naturally surprised. The Council of Elders even sent three important officials to the rebel army to negotiate with it, the meaning was obvious, even if this rebel army had other ideas, it would be used by the Purple Mansion as much as possible.

The outcome of the negotiation was also very satisfactory. The original intention of this rebel army was to protect the Purple Mansion and maintain the rule of the Purple Mansion!

The news was quickly made public by the Presbyterian Church. Surprisingly, the refugees' criminal acts came to an abrupt end as if they had been ordered. In the city of Zifu, including the surroundings of Zifu, under the current atmosphere, a momentum of common hatred and hatred has been formed, and there is a surprising unity. Some of them became propagandists on their own, and at the enlistment office, a large number of young people signed up to join the army.

The rebel army marched straight in, and in half a day, it had already captured a city from the rebels! Other troops in Zifu took advantage of the situation and launched a general attack on the rebels with this rebel army as the vanguard.

Zifu was rejoicing, but in the eyes of Wan Peng and Liyang, there were many doubts. Obviously, this rebel army could not have been from the Council of Elders, and it was even said that the Council of Elders had no idea of the existence of this force earlier. And if this army was cultivated by the king, then, from the current point of view, there is a conflict between the rebels and the rebels, and the rebels are not the king's strength. This is contrary to the previous inferences of the two of them.

Moreover, this does not correspond to the strength of the rebels. The rebel army that can go straight down to several cities must have an extraordinary strength, or have other backgrounds, how can it be so like an egg and a stone? Could it be that other forces have appeared in Zifu? In this way, the power behind this rebel army will have a huge impact on the future of Zifu.

It is impossible for the Council of Elders not to foresee such obvious reasoning. If the Council of Elders can accept this influence, then it shows from another aspect that perhaps this rebel army has a closer relationship with the king.

All kinds of inferences, all kinds of clues, were listed by Wan Peng and Liyang one by one, but they were quite far from the truth of the matter. Eventually, the two agreed to continue observing. When the king appears, maybe the truth will be revealed.

The focus of all the contradictions in the Purple Mansion now is all on the king alone!