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In the darkroom of the Prince's Mansion in the north of the city, the expressions of the figures were solemn, and the atmosphere was so oppressive that it seemed to be frozen.

"King Yue and Princess Guanghua are here, and they seem to be staying in Taiyuan Mansion for a long time."

"The Nian Shi sent out during the day didn't come back. They must have been arrested by the Zhen Fusi. The three leaflet printing strongholds in the south of the city were also suppressed."

"Will it implicate us?"

"Probably not. Those people are not from the palace, but hired by other companies. They have nothing to do with us on the surface. The Zhenfu Department can't find any evidence to identify us. The same is true for the leaflets."

"I just said that the idea of ​​leaflets is terrible. What's the use of just inciting public opinion? Master Candle Sky can suppress it with a single hand. You don't even need Brother Candle Sky, hundreds of veterans can flatten it."

"Without the turbulent public opinion as a cover, should we let the Wang family charge forward? Fighting against the imperial court is not like this. Besides, it is the eve of the war. Emperor Li Yu wants to use the power of the family and weaken the status of the family. We all have to maintain a tacit understanding of fighting but not breaking."

"You want to fight without breaking, what does Li Ang think? Just wait, there will be a decree tomorrow to transfer my Wang family's children. How many nephews and grandchildren are we going to kill or hurt this time?"

"That has to be endured! This is the price you have to pay for being born in an aristocratic family."

The discussion in the secret room gradually turned into a quarrel, and the air also caused ripples due to the fluctuation of aura.

A group of insects.

Looking at the hesitant clan elders, Wang Bofan took a deep breath. One of his nephews and two illegitimate children died of the plague.

It happened shortly after the lockdown.

Couldn't these elders see that Emperor Li Yu was using Li Ang's knife and using the plague as an excuse to cut off the power of the Wang family?

Based on their experience and experience, they already understood it, but they just didn't want to admit it instinctively.

If you don't have the courage to burn jade and stone together, you will be cut by blunt knives like now.

The quarrels intensified, and the few companies that were still active all blamed each other on the channel, accusing the other party of not doing their job well. Only then will he bring the Wang family into the current field.

Wang Bofan looked at the clan elders who were accusing each other, and listened to the noisy voices, he slapped the table and stood up, "Enough."

The human voice in the secret room is silent,

Wang Bofan glanced around, looked into the eyes of the clan elders, and asked in a deep voice: "Think of me as the Taiyuan Wang family, inherited from Situ Wang Yun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and can be traced back to Ji Jin, the prince of King Ling of Zhou.

After thousands of years, it has experienced countless wars and regime changes, and it has always stood firm.

Even the academy is not as old as ours.

Looking back on the past, whenever the current situation changes drastically, the predicament encountered by our ancestors is far more terrible and difficult than ours.

For example, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, our Wang family faced the looting and looting of various warlords and sects. It was only because of the sacrifice of the monks in the clan and the warlord of the Li Yu clan that we survived. troubled times. "

Wang Bofan glanced at the elders of the family who screamed the most fiercely, and said in a concentrated voice: "Emperor Li Yu of all dynasties did not like the aristocratic family.

However, His Majesty now has the dream of being a sage king through the ages. In his dream, he wants to completely subdue the five surnames and seven kings, so as to pave the way for his descendants to take power and pave the way.

The reason why he agreed with Li Ang's mischief in Taiyuan Mansion is that he remained indifferent to the momentum we created in Chang'an.

It is to use Li Ang and use this plague from the sky to achieve the purpose of weakening the Wang family.

Calling the young children of the Wang family is just the beginning,

If we show more disobedience, Emperor Yu may even force Wang's generation to step on the battlefield with a single order.

At that time, it will no longer be a dozen or dozens of people who will die, but a whole generation of the Wang family. "

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The noise in the dark room gradually disappeared, and the clan elders looked complicated and remained silent.

It's one thing to be locked up in a city with the plague,

It is another thing to step onto the battlefield and face the worst monk war.

"Bofan, what do you think we should do?"

A clan elder stuck his cane and said with a gloomy face: "We said all the good things to that Li Ang at the beginning, and we also showed respect to Chang An, but we still couldn't get back our forgiveness.

They printed and distributed leaflets without permission to stir up public opinion, but they were easily suppressed.

Is it possible to be so trapped in the city, waiting for the young children to fall ill and die one by one? "

"No, King Yue and Princess Guanghua suddenly came to Taiyuan Mansion today, which has fully demonstrated His Majesty's will. He just wants to weaken the Wang family in one fell swoop."

Wang Bofan sneered and said: "People in the market say that Princess Guanghua brought her brother to Taiyuan Mansion because of her secret heart for Li Angfang.

How could it be so simple.

When the prince and princess travel, they are always under the observation and protection of the palace enshrined. If the emperor and empress of Chang'an hadn't nodded, how could the consecration make Princess Guanghua run around?

This is a declaration, the emperor will not let the Wang family go easily, and the Wang family will not want to get away easily.

Having figured this out, what we did before distributing leaflets and inciting the people to carry coffins and storm the city gates to target Li Ang was all wrong.

The opponent this time is not in Taiyuan Mansion, but in Chang'an Daming Palace.

And the way we survive"

He slowly took out a letter from his pocket and gently placed it on the table in the dark room.

The flickering candlelight illuminated the signature on the letter.

Zhaoming, Yushi.

"Zhaoming's letter?!"

Shouts of astonishment sounded in the dark room, and the expressions of several clan elders changed abruptly.

And more people looked puzzled, "What is Zhaoming?"

The five surnames and Qiwang belong to a thousand-year-old family, and they will exchange information and exchange information in private. Among all the information, the information about Zhaoming is the most confidential, only known to the minority elders of various families.

Now that the life and death of the family is at a critical moment, the elders in the know look at each other and tell Zhaoming's message.

From Jun Qianzi who defected from the school more than ten years ago, to the last Qixi Festival in Chang'an.

"Zhao Ming's main activities are not within the territory of Yu State, and his actions are secretive. Whether it is the Zhen Fusi or the various families, they know little about them. We only know that most of their members have Zhu Xiao's cultivation base."

The clan elder said in a condensed voice: "Including the Suzhou water poisoning a few years ago, it was also the work of the Gu master Situ Zhi in Zhaoming."

"That's right,"

Wang Bofan nodded and said, "Situ Zhi is notorious as a Gu master. It is likely that he could not stay in the Western Kingdom any longer, so he joined Zhaoming to protect himself. When Suzhou was poisoned, he was caught by Shen Tuyu, a priest of the palace, and imprisoned in Zhenfu. Prison.

Yu Shi, who sent this letter, claimed that he was Situ Zhi's disciple. "