After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 405 Chapter Four Hundred and Four Chips
The news Zhou Yijun inquired about was compiled by Zhou Shigong from all aspects of intelligence and was basically credible.

It is said that Du Boqin learned that someone from the capital had taken over the position of General Thursday and also took over his case, thinking that he finally had a way out. He felt that his crime was not very serious, and he only needed to make up for the lost money. The lives involved were either his concubine or a small person, which could be easily dismissed. As for the betrayal of the Northwest Frontier Army, only the people of the Northwest Frontier Army would care. The Sun family wouldn't take it seriously, and the emperor was on the side of the Sun family. If the emperor hadn't been afraid of the Zhou family and disliked the northwest frontier army, the Sun family wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it and bribe him to lay out so many conspiracies in Chang'an.

When he saw Tu Rong, he knew that he was not from the same family as the Sun family, but a close associate of the emperor, so he did not panic and defended himself according to his own thoughts. As for the people who had been recruited by the Sun family around Chang'an, he always said that it was the government who tortured him, and that his own people revealed the truth. Anyway, he himself was very reluctant to confess. As for the record in the file, it was deliberately framed by the Zhenguo government in order to retaliate against him.

Anyway, he had no intention of betraying the emperor, and he had no choice but to betray the Sun family's information. However, he was of much greater use to the Sun family than those eyes and ears. He will do more things for the emperor and the Sun family in the future to make up for his previous "mistakes". There is no reason for the emperor and the Sun family not to let him go.

It's a pity that Tu Rong didn't take it to heart despite his eloquent tongue.

The emperor is no longer of the same mind as the Sun family. He would be wary of the Zhou family's military power, so how could he trust the Sun family who was trying to seize military power? Moreover, the Sun family has been holding him back and thwarting his plans over the years. If Sun Ge Lao's power had not been too huge and he had already become a symbol of the great reform he initiated, once he fell, it would be implicated in the failure of the reform. Mr. Sun Ge is about to be kicked out of the cabinet.

The Sun family's plan to seize military power in the northwest was against the will of the Holy Spirit. They can attack the Zhou family and weaken the power in the hands of the Zhou family, but they cannot interfere in military affairs themselves, let alone maliciously harm other northwest generals and their families who have the ability to take over the Zhou family's duties. Otherwise, once the Zhou family hands over the command seal and military power, who can take charge of the northwest frontier army? Could it be Sun Yonglu, the idiot general of the Sun family who was stupid and conceited and was taken advantage of by Hu spies? ! He has proven his incompetence and failed the emperor's expectations. The emperor can no longer use him!
The Sun family bribed the generals of the northwest frontier army, placed spies in Chang'an, and purchased large tracts of land and property in the surrounding areas. They seemed to want to move the family business to the northwest, which was a surprise to the emperor.

The emperor has spent decades but has not been able to weaken the influence of the Zhou family in the northwest. Is it necessary to raise another Sun family? If the Sun family established itself in the northwest and became increasingly powerful, what would be the difference between it and the Zhou family? After all, the Zhou family has made great contributions to protecting the family and the country, and they have actually sacrificed their own flesh and blood with their lives. However, the Sun family relied on the imperial power to make a fortune, but now they dare to use their power to violate the emperor's orders. They are not as good as the Zhou family!

Tu Rong directly told Du Boqin what the emperor meant and that it was impossible to spare his life. If he was truly loyal to the court, he should surrender directly to the emperor instead of becoming a pawn of the Sun family. Jinyiwei has also deployed manpower in Chang'an. Why don't you see Du Boqin working for Jinyiwei? And his participation in the Sun family's conspiracy to assassinate the Prince of Yingchuan has directly affected the stability of the Forbidden Army. If the emperor spares him, how will he explain to the loyal general of Yingchuan?
Du Boqin was greatly shocked by what Tu Rong said. Seeing that Tu Rong was about to directly decide his punishment, he had no hope of survival, so he had to desperately tell the secrets he knew in order to gain more chips for himself.

He first told Sun Yonglu's dark history of seizing military merit from others when he was in the Northwest Frontier Army, as well as the secret of embezzling military expenditures. He even kept the evidence and hid it. He worked for the Sun family, and also kept a hand, so that the Sun family would not cross the river and burn the bridge. After using him, he would kick him away. However, he could no longer gain a foothold in the northwest frontier army and his future was ruined. With these evidences, as long as Mr. Sun Ge does not want anything to happen to his nephew, he must protect him, respect him politely, and marry his daughter to him in the future, so that he can become a member of the Sun family. Rather than being a pawn that can be easily discarded.

He was willing to present the evidence he had hidden to the emperor. Whether the emperor plans to hide it or use it to deal with the Sun family, it can come in handy.

Tu Rong was slightly moved after hearing this, but the weight of the evidence was not enough. After all, Sun Yonglu now only relied on the power of the Sun family to find a casual position, and his status within the Sun family has long been inferior to what it used to be. Whether he is dead or alive, it will not affect the power of Mr. Sun Ge, and it is of little significance to the emperor. Du Boqin had no choice but to put more pressure on himself. He said that some of the evidence he had about Sun Yonglu's crime actually involved Sun Yongping and Sun Yongbai. These two people are the biological sons and nephews of Mr. Sun Ge, and they have high status within the Sun faction. If something happens to them, it will be a big blow to Mr. Sun Ge. After all, Mr. Sun Ge is already old, and he doesn't know how many years he can live. If he retires in the future, his successor will be either a mediocre biological son or a smart and capable nephew. The evidence in Du Boqin's hands is directly related to the future political life of the Sun family, and it will definitely have a restraining effect on Mr. Sun Ge.

Tu Rong was really moved. He asked for the address where the evidence was hidden and immediately sent someone to get it.

With this evidence, Tu Rong was willing to leave a way for Du Boqin to survive. Instead of sentencing him to death, he would only exile him to a border town and enter a death row camp. If there is a war, he can earn military merit and there is still hope of making a comeback. But if he is unlucky and dies on the battlefield, at least his ancestor's reputation can be preserved, and he can be buried as a fallen soldier instead of a criminal. Tu Rong thought this was a good path. Anyway, Du Boqin was originally from the frontier army, and it was in line with his duty to make a future on the battlefield.

But Du Boqin was still not satisfied. He wants to be acquitted, even if he is demoted for a misdemeanor! Go to the frontier to earn a living? What if you die? Besides, now that the war between Chu and Hu has ceased, he has gone to the border town. God knows how many years he will have to wait before he has the opportunity to participate in the war and make meritorious deeds? He had lived in comfort in Chang'an for many years, and he didn't think he could live well in a death row camp, endure hunger and starvation for several years, and still have the strength to go into battle and kill the enemy.

Du Boqin finally took out another bargaining chip at the bottom of the box.

This matter is actually information from the Sun family.

The Sun family used their title as bait to fish for Zhou Shuyi, the second wife of Zeng, the second wife of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, for many years. Their original intention was to use her hands to poach the Zhou family's wealth, but it was just a casual move. However, since Prince Ji's concubine Sun had a difficult childbirth and lost two lives, Mr. Sun Ge had no choice but to consider making his granddaughter the prince's stepmother. The original choice of son-in-law, Prince Yingchuan, seemed very unsightly. The Sun family planned to use Zhou Shuyi to secretly kill the Yingchuan Marquis Prince, and later sow discord between the Zhou family and the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion. But considering that Zhou Shuyi is easy to deceive, but her mother, Mrs. Ma, may not be easy to deceive, the Sun family prepared a back-up plan to let Du Boqin master a secret of Mrs. Ma.

More than ten years ago, a dead soldier of the Sun family accidentally caught a Hu spy in the capital. They did not send the person directly to the government, but hid the person and interrogated him carefully, trying to find something that could be used to frame him and attack the Zhou family. The Hu spy quickly opened his mouth under the coercion and inducement of the Sun family, and admitted that he came to Beijing through the guidance arranged by the mother of the third house of the Zhou family. It is said that Mrs. Ma has arranged several diversions for the same Hu people spies. This is a hidden line used by the old Hu people Khan King.

The Sun family took the road guide in the hands of the Hu spies and compared it with the records kept by the Chang'an government, so they could accuse Mrs. Ma of collaborating with the enemy. For Mrs. Ma, there is no more fatal thing than this.

(End of this chapter)