I defeated Emperor Chongzhen at the beginning!

Chapter 30 "Killing people must be famous, even if the emperor wants to kill, he must pay attention to the righteousness of the name!
a few days later.

Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Hong Chengchou walked in a hurry, holding an envelope and hurried into the palace to have an audience.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent military report from the front line!"

While speaking, Hong Chengchou handed the envelope in his arms to Zhu Youjian.

He recognized the person who came to deliver the letter to him, he was Yuan Chonghuan's most trusted subordinate, and he was able to send this person to deliver the letter, and it was sent to Hong Chengchou instead of directly to the emperor, his intention was extremely obvious.

Yuan Chonghuan just wanted to bypass the aristocratic family's eyeliner and pass the news to them quietly.

"General Yuan's army was attacked by a large number of dead soldiers in the south of Liaodong!"

"Dead man?"

Zhu Youjian stood up from the chair, took two steps with his hands behind his back, then sneered and said, "Oh, is it the family's fault again?"

Looking at the whole country, except for these aristocratic families who have nothing to do all day long and have money and power in their hands, it is not difficult to raise a dead man.

Hong Chengchou gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, do you still need me to investigate? I think that there is no need to investigate. No one has the ability to support so many dead men except the top family of the country! Just investigate The Lan, Li, Zhang, and Liu families will definitely come to a conclusion!"

"The dead man must come from among them, but there may be more than one. Therefore, I want you to find out the relationship between each family and the other three families and their views on each other. I need to know everything!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

After Hong Chengchou answered, he hesitated for a while, looked at Zhu Youjian with some doubts, and asked: "Besides, I have something to say, I don't know if I should say it or not."

"speak."

"The aristocratic family spent so much time and manpower just to prove the strength of our army's weapons. What exactly do they want?"

Zhu Youjian stopped, his eyes sharpened instantly, but soon returned to normal.

He patted Hong Chengchou on the shoulder, with an intriguing smile on his lips.

"Aiqing is so smart, you probably don't understand it. This supreme power and brilliance, no one should be tempted."

So the family wants to seek power!Usurper!

After so many years of silence, so many years of peace, I finally couldn't bear it!

Although there was already such a guess, and this was something that Hong Chengchou had already tacitly agreed to in his mind, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be shocked by the reconfirmation from Zhu Youjian's mouth.

"How dare they..."

"They already dare to send dead soldiers to attack my army at night, what else do they dare not do?"

The further Zhu Youjian went on, the colder his eyes became.

"I have already given them the opportunity. Since they don't know how to cherish it and want to replace me, then I will let them see who is the king of this world!"

……

Zhang family.

The family advocated that Xu burn the death letter and throw it into the incense burner.

He looked at the ashes in the furnace, lost in thought.

Five thousand dead soldiers, all of whom have been rigorously trained.

"Father, what should we do next?"

Zhang Yang also saw the contents of that letter just now, and he was completely shocked, even his voice was a little erratic and trembling.

"Is the Guochao army already so powerful?"

They sent so many dead soldiers and suffered such a great loss, but what they got was a suffocating result.

"Yang'er, it's not what we should do, but what the emperor wants us to do!

Up to now, it is no longer up to us to decide how we will take the next road and which direction we will go. "

For this matter, Zhang Xu actually made a big bet. He bet that Guochao's army would not be so strong, and he bet that all the dead servants he photographed would be returned.

But he was wrong, out of five thousand dead men, less than five hundred returned.

"Father, did we do something wrong? If we hadn't tried it, would the emperor have thought of us as a family and let us go?"

Zhang Xu's face was heavy, he shook his head, and said weakly: "Because we are a family, the emperor will not let us go. If not, why would my father take such a risk to try it out!"

From the time of Emperor Yu to the present, the conflict between the royal family and the aristocratic family has always existed.With the progress of the times, such contradictions became more and more obvious.

"But Your Majesty just appointed Liu Yi, the son of the Liu family, as the Yudu Yushi! That is a high-ranking official! Isn't this a gift from the emperor to the family?"

Zhang Xu patted Zhang Yang on the shoulder and sighed: "My silly son! This is not a gift to the family, it is clearly to provoke a struggle between the families!

Your Majesty is above the imperial court, although he also promoted you, but your position was trampled underfoot by the son of the Liu family, why?Didn't you just let you, an impulsive person, offend the Liu family!

In this way, the Liu family has a reason to target you, and you will continue to target the Liu family in turn. Isn't this the beginning of the struggle between the Zhang and Liu families? "

Zhang Yang was not deeply involved in the world and had always been well protected. Naturally, he could not see through the emperor's clever thoughts.

But Zhang Xu is different.

Ever since the news came from the palace, Zhang Xu knew that the emperor was going to attack the family.

"Father, our family has been passed down from Emperor Yu to the present. The emperors of all dynasties have never made trouble against my Liu family. Why now..."

Zhang Yang couldn't continue, and he didn't dare to continue.

"That's because my aristocratic family has a deep foundation, and the imperial power has no power to contend with it. That's why the aristocratic family has been allowed to develop to this day. Now, the emperor has the power to destroy the aristocratic family. What do you think he will do?"

kill!

Naturally kill!

"Father! Then shouldn't we communicate with Houjin quickly, and should we go directly to Houjin now?"

Zhang Yang was obviously in a hurry.

These days, their Zhang family has been secretly contacting the Houjian Jin envoy He Lian in the underground gambling house.

They have reached an agreement that when Houjin wants to attack Daming, the Zhang family can contribute money, troops and strength, and even cooperate with the outside world.

The condition is that in the future when Jin occupies Daming, he will make their Zhang family the largest family in the country and bestow it with supreme glory.

To put it bluntly, it is betraying the country and seeking glory!

Zhang Xu tapped on the table, shook his head and said: "No, if you escape at this time, it will be the reason why my Zhang family colluded with the enemy. Besides, it is still unknown whether Houjin can take Daming in one fell swoop. If Dajin loses , Aren’t we also defeated?”

"But now the emperor has already moved to kill the family! Why bother to stay in this imperial city like a dragon pool and a tiger's den?"

After all, he is not deeply involved in the world. When encountering something, the first thing he thinks of is to avoid it, and show all the panic on his face.

On the contrary, Zhang Xu and his son are two extremes. He is obviously the kind of person who will remain calm even if the mountain collapses.

This is also the arrogance passed down by the family for many years.

"Killing people must be famous, even if the emperor wants to kill, he must pay attention to the righteousness of the name!"

Otherwise, Zhu Youjian would not endure until now.

(End of this chapter)