Better to live forever [Rebirth]

The conversation between Zhu Dingbei and the Li family revealed too many conclusions that Ning Heng had never inquired about before, and that Zhu Dingbei had never heard of.

——The Xiongnu royal family cooperating with the Li family is the Queen Mother Hu Erduo who has retreated behind the scenes.

——The remnants of the Li family are not only the remnants of the Li family who have absconded, but also the civil servants in the court.

——The hidden people behind the Li family are the masterminds behind the Youyin incident, and they are planning to eradicate the Ning family.

——The silver in the national inventory should be among the royal family of the Huns, and the King of the Huns sent troops to Wusun this time, which may be related to this.

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There are still many secrets, maybe it was just Zhu Dingbei's guess before this, but Ning Heng still feels a little disappointed: Changsheng still has deep reservations about him.

"That batch of silver deposits should be in the Huns now," Zhu Dingbei said in a very soft voice: "In my opinion, the King of the Huns sent troops to Wusun this time without even saying hello, because he wanted to take advantage of this war to stir up this war." money."

After the national treasury silver was stolen and exchanged, the emperor and the Ning family never let up in the investigation of the movement of the deposit silver in the past few years. They locked their eyes on the foreign nationals but not on the Xiongnu, because the money has not been moved. There is no indication of who it will go to.After the fall of Wusun, it was logical for the Xiongnu to use the money.

One is the origin: Wusun is rich in gold and silver.

The second is to have a place to go: fighting is the most expensive, and most of the Huns' warriors also reward the brave men under their ranks.

What Zhu Dingbei couldn't figure out was why the Xiongnu chose to provoke trouble at this opportunity.In the previous three years, Dajing had been suffering from floods, sweats and frosts in successive years. Although there was support from the treasury to survive, the days were much worse than previous years, and they were not peaceful.Although the northern border was also hurt by the climate, after all, the territory is not as vast as Dajing and there are not so many drags, so it is not without the power to fight.And they have lived in peace for three years, and they finally survived the arrogance of God, so they should work hard to recuperate like Dajing. Why didn't they harass Dajing's border to grab food, instead of attacking Wusun?

After all, apart from minerals, Wusun has no food or livestock worth the Huns to plunder.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the Xiongnu robbed the money, Dajing banned business with the Xiongnu, then they would inevitably trade cattle and sheep with the Qiang as before, but now they are doing the opposite, because the Wusun War and the Qiang Great War Hit the hand.

Ning Heng's mind was full of confusion. Hearing Zhu Dingbei's words, he let go of other thoughts in his mind, followed what he said and thought, and meditated: "The herds of the Huns and Qiang have suffered heavy casualties during the three years of natural disasters. , The Ning family has verified their situation in Xianbei's dark line. There are no cattle and sheep, no crops, and people's hearts are fluctuating. "

"The battle is not over yet, and I don't know what the hell the Huns are up to..."

Zhu Dingbei rolled his eyes, put aside the topic, leaned into Ning Heng's ear and said, "Is it true or not that Li Yi said that Empress Dowager Zhao is...?"

Ning Heng pursed his lips and said, "This is also the first time I've heard of it."

Zhu Dingbei took a breath.

Impressive!

The secrets revealed in Li Yi's words are too big!

Empress Dowager Zhao is a man, and the descendants of the Ning family are not the real blood relatives of Empress Dowager Ning.

No matter which one is, it is appalling, let alone the combination of the two.

Well, maybe the empress's tolerant attitude towards male and female wives is because of... Stop, don't make wild guesses about such ambiguous things!The Empress Dowager Zhao, who is praised by everyone, grew up listening to the legend of the heroine of the other female middle school. He really didn't want to ruin his good memory of her old man because of the villain's words.

However, at the same time, Zhu Dingbei also believed that it was not groundless that Li Yi framed the Sima clan, and there must be a reason for the Li family's deep attachment to the throne.Zhu Dingbei did not believe a word of what he said that King Li should have been the ruler of the world. With Wang's ability, it is impossible for the Zhu family not to have left a legacy—but the grievances and entanglements between the Li family, the Sima family, and the Ning family expressed in it can be heard.

It is difficult for posterity to comment on the right and wrong between the founding emperor and the founding heroes, and it is impossible to investigate what happened at that time.But if he can figure out what the unknown grievances between King Li and the Empress are, it may be beneficial for him to understand the Li family better and find out the Li family's accomplices.

Zhu Dingbei was secretly thinking about going back to Beijing to find out if there is any secret about this in the clan with his grandfather, so he heard Ning Heng say: "According to the records in the Queen Mother Zhao's handbook, it is King Li and Queen Mother Zhao who knew each other. first."

"Oh?"

He immediately became interested.

Ning Heng led him to speed up, and the two of them returned to the house to send the hidden guards who were following far away, and then continued: "The Empress Dowager Zhao is from Yulin, Guangzhou, and her family is also a nobleman, but the previous court At the end of the war, the southern border was devastated, the family’s property was lost, and the family’s children died in the war. She fled to Nanhai County alone at the age of 15. She and Li Wang met on the way to escape, and later supported the family business all the way, and joined the Taizu Huang's subordinates are helping each other in great affairs."

"So... Could it be that King Li didn't want to serve the Emperor Taizu at that time, but only compromised because of the Empress Dowager Zhao?"

Zhu Dingbei originally wanted to ask whether King Li had an old love affair with Queen Mother Zhao before, so that King Li had a heart knot with Emperor Taizu, but such speculation was disrespectful to his ancestors, so he swallowed it back.

Ning Heng: "Empress Dowager Zhao's early letters were lost. These were all mentioned in her memoirs later by the old man, but she did not elaborate. But according to Empress Dowager Zhao, King Li always hoped to serve in the army and not in business. As a career, he has a deep-seated heart, and he also admires Taizu Huang's lineage very much. At first, he was the one who took refuge in the Sima clan."

"That's strange." Zhu Dingbei clicked his tongue, "Li Wang has no family background, military power, military power, and money. He doesn't have the means of Queen Mother Zhao. If it weren't for the Taizu emperor who knew people and was good at appreciating and promoting him, he would It's hard to make achievements in troubled times. How come these bastards say that the throne should belong to King Li."

Ning Heng shook his head and said that he didn't know where he got the words, "From the emperor's legacy, they have a lot of trust in King Li. At least, they didn't find that King Li had any dissent."

Zhu Dingbei rubbed his chin, "Even there is no record of your family, it seems that there should be no useful news about my family."

He heard his grandfather talk about some things about Wang Li with a different surname, and there was admiration for Li Wang and regret for the descendants of the Li family in his tone, and he could probably see the attitude of the ancestors of the Zhu family towards Li Wang. .However, he still wanted to confirm whether there was any inside story that he did not know.

He was thinking about it secretly, and suddenly heard Ning Heng ask him: "You Yin...you want to investigate the matter of that family by yourself?"

While Li Jia and Li Yi were angered by Zhu Dingbei, they also acquiesced to many secret things that Zhu Dingbei deliberately said.The more Ning Heng thought about it, the more terrifying he felt. He had always been aware of the Li family's ambitions, but he didn't know that the Li family's operations in the Dajing government had reached a level beyond his imagination and prediction.

Not to mention other things, just the fact that they are capable of stealing and exchanging the national treasury silver and doing it impeccably is enough to show how many people they buried in the Dajing Dynasty, and how many of them hold real power and even hold high positions.

What's even more frightening is that their cooperation with the Huns has a long history.

He had considered the direction of things before, so it seemed that he was not on the right track.

And Zhu Dingbei concealed from him the speculation about the inferior silver thief and the Li family, and accompanied them to search for the past few years, which also showed that Zhu Dingbei did not want the royal family—the Ning family, who was entrusted by the royal family— —In order to track down the contacts buried by the Li family in the court.

Zhu Dingbei was startled when he heard the words, and said truthfully: "I just don't want the emperor to startle the snake."

Of course, he was not so conceited that he thought that he could find out all these people by himself. He had been cultivating his own power and never gave up on the investigation of this matter, but after all, there were not many people who could be used, and he had never He intends to abandon Ning Heng's shortcut and take a detour.As for why he didn't bring it up with Ning Heng before, it was because he knew that the emperor would always ask the Ning family to investigate the bad bank matter, and he didn't want Ning Heng to investigate for him before that would alarm the emperor and disrupt his plan.

Hearing what he said, Ning Heng's expression relaxed.

He smiled slightly, patted his head and said, "I'll look for it with you, okay?"

"Of course, if you don't help me, I may almost die after killing them."

Zhu Dingbei's unscrupulous words made Ning Heng stare, "This matter needs a long-term plan. I will investigate slowly, and I will not hide any results from you. As for those two people..."

"Keep it."

Zhu Dingbei said, he said before to create a threatening and oppressive atmosphere to expose their true nature, but what he said was not false.

He had long regretted that the Li family seemed too happy, and now that the descendants of the Li family could watch the Li family come to an end little by little in his hands, he naturally didn't mind them living a few more days in this world.

Besides, one must always know whether these two people came back with the Ning family in such a "docile" manner, other than making sure that the person who dealt with the Li family was the Ning family, and whether the other party had other intentions.

Zhu Dingbei lowered his eyes, and said in a low voice: "I always feel that it may be of great use to keep these two people."

Ning Heng thought for a while, and said, "Then I will send more people to the Xiongnu side to investigate carefully. There are three fugitives from the Li family left, so you don't have to worry."

Zhu Dingbei smiled knowingly: "Of course I don't worry if you go out. Oh, by the way, if you can capture that old hag, Hu Erdu, that would be a great achievement!" After Li Ping was indeed working with the old woman Hu Erdu, Zhu Dingbei wanted to kill her.

In the past, he still wanted to keep this person so that the Xiongnu would not be chaotic and the northern border would maintain a balanced situation, but now that the young master of the Xiongnu is acting resolutely, it is meaningless whether Hu Erdu, the queen mother behind the scenes, is alive or not.

Then, it's time to ask Dad to pay more attention.

It depends on whether Ning Heng's people found the Queen Mother of the Huns first, or the Zhu family sent this person back to hell first.