Almighty Nongmen Phoenix

Chapter 675; Investigation

Hearing Qiu Yu's words, Qiu Shuang nodded in agreement. She also felt that when life and death were really at stake, what could she not do?

Maybe the two might actually join forces.

However, Lu Yaoyao smiled.

"Maybe there is such a possibility, but you have forgotten one person."

"Ok?"

Both of them showed doubts on their faces.

Lu Yaoyao pointed to it and said, "It is impossible for the emperor to give the two of them a chance to work together."

The purpose of Emperor Hongwen's letting go of Zhen Guogong was to use his strength to fight against Prince Li's Shuanghu. How could it be possible to join forces?

She felt that as long as the two had a tendency to join forces, Emperor Hongwen would do something to sabotage it.

It was even said that as long as he left the capital, Emperor Hongwen might arrange someone to make the two directly form a death feud.

Her guess is really not random.

Not two days later, the soldiers and horses searched almost the entire capital, but they did not find any clues, and the same was true for the imperial army who blocked the four gates.

Immediately, someone in the court said that Lord Zhen Guo might really be dead, and advised Emperor Hongwen not to fight any more. In just two days, the entire capital was in panic.

If this continues, I'm afraid there will be big problems.

Emperor Hongwen had no choice but to give up, and sent people to prepare for the funeral of Zhen Guogong, and at the same time recalled the imperial army and soldiers and horses.

As soon as the capital relaxed, Lord Zhen Guo and his party left the capital in disguise that day.

"Duke Zhen, according to the agreement we have already done it, shouldn't you hand over the things?"

After leaving the capital, Xiao Cheng immediately asked Duke Zhen for something.

All that they've done will not be in vain until the thing is in their hands.

However, Lord Zhen just glanced at him lightly, and said, "When I get to the Northland, I will give you the things."

"I'll give it to you now, I'm afraid that my country's father will die in the north."

Xiao Cheng was furious, and said coldly; "When you get to the Northland, I'm afraid you won't hand over your things."

Just kidding, Beidi is the old lair of your Lord Zhen, who knows how many people are hiding there.

"Isn't your elder brother in charge of the army in the North? You have two or three million soldiers in your hands, why are you so afraid?"

Zhen Guogong showed contempt on his face.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Cheng wished he could immediately summon someone to take down the bastard, and then directly torture him.

Sensing the momentary change in him, Duke Zhen smiled lightly and said, "I advise you not to act rashly, otherwise the Duke of this country doesn't mind letting you die."

As soon as he finished speaking, more than ten soldiers pretending to be dead appeared all around.

"you"

As his voice fell, more than a dozen masters from Prince Li's Mansion also appeared around, and the two sides confronted each other with swords facing each other.

"Escort my country's father to the Northland well, and when he arrives in the Northland, things will be given to you."

"We have a common enemy. Our country doesn't want to confront you and let others take advantage of you."

After Zhen Guogong finished speaking, he waved his hand, and his people immediately withdrew.

Seeing this, Xiao Cheng thought for a while, nodded slowly, and let his own people back down.

"You're right, we don't need to match up."

He is not a fool either, he knows the meaning of Lord Zhen Guo, their target is Emperor Hongwen, if they match up at this time, wouldn't that just let Emperor Hongwen reap the benefits?

Besides, Lord Zhen also brought a lot of people, so he really didn't have the confidence to take him down directly.

This wave of confrontation between the two sides was clearly seen by the people hidden behind.

Seeing the sudden stop of both sides, the leader, Tian Ziwei, pondered for a moment, and whispered a few words to a colleague beside him.

Soon an emperor guard returned to the capital.

"Since they don't want to do it, let's help them and remember to clean it up."

Emperor Hongwen's voice was very soft and cold.

The emperor's guard stepped back.

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Zhen really still has hidden power in his hands. He wants to go to the Northland so much, so is there more hidden power over there?"

"There must be. After all, it is his lair. In the past few years, he alone has the final say."

Back then, when Lord Zhen Guo suppressed Dongzhou, Beidi was actually his territory.

Even the officials in the Northland are all appointed by Lord Zhen Guo.

If he uses some means to raise a group of private troops, it will be a breeze.

In addition, when the Duke of Zhen was taken down earlier, it was too smooth. This abnormal smoothness also made Emperor Hongwen always on guard against him.

Why didn't he beheaded directly later?
Do you really think it's because King Jin wants to investigate what happened back then?
This is only a small part of the reasons. The real reason is that he wants to keep Lord Zhen Guogong, and wants to dig out all the hidden strength behind him.

After all, it is easy to kill Duke Zhen if it is the case, but if he can follow to the capital in a big way, isn't he afraid of being killed?
It is obviously impossible, so it must be some hidden means.

He even said that as long as he really died in the capital, the stability of Dongzhou might not be easy to maintain.

Now he finally saw a little bit of Duke Zhen's hidden power, and confirmed that he had indeed hidden a lot. Emperor Hongwen was quite satisfied with this.

"How is the investigation on the situation in the capital?"

"Who are those people secretly related to Duke Zhen?"

If Duke Zhen is under house arrest, he can still communicate freely with the outside world, so there must be someone inside to help.

These are all to be investigated one by one and cleaned up.

"Commander Huo Di has been investigating, and a few have been found so far."

With that said, Wang De also presented a secret document.

Emperor Hongwen took it and unfolded it, and saw that there were four names written on it, and under these four names, they also recorded their relationship with Duke Zhen and what they had done for Duke Zhen.

"They are all civil servants, but I underestimate him."

For a long time, he felt that the power in Duke Zhen's hands was all about the generals.

As for the civil servants, when Lord Zhen Guo was still powerful in the past, he was often impeached by the civil servants.

He even took care of many civil servants. It can be said that many civil servants hated Zhen Guogong to the bone, but they dared not speak out.

I never thought that there were people in the civil servant camp.

Emperor Hongwen still had some impressions of the four people on the secret booklet. They had all impeached Duke Zhen, and were suppressed by Duke Zhen.

In this situation, no one would have thought that these four people were actually under the family of Lord Zhen Guo.

"However, with just these four people, I'm afraid they can't do it, right?"

"That's true, and Commander Huo Di thinks so too, but those guys are hiding too deeply, and it takes time to investigate one by one."

Emperor Hongwen nodded and said, "Then hurry up and investigate. As for these four people, we will arrange people to watch them first, and we will deal with them together at that time."

(End of this chapter)