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

Chapter 930 To save or not?

After listening to Cao Gengyun's words, Lu Bainian couldn't utter a word for a long time, and his face was wooden.

Cao Gengyun could understand his feelings at the moment and sighed, "You can't imagine it, can you? The Lu family can actually do something even more stupid! Things have come to this point, and it is no longer something that can be solved by a few old friends discussing it privately. Your family may really be in trouble this time. The question now is, is there any hope for your branch to be saved, and how many can be saved?"

Lu Bainian raised his hand to wipe his face and took a deep breath. "Lao Cao, I really haven't heard about this. Thank you for coming back to tell me. I really didn't expect it... I thought they abandoned me and were only interested in relying on the Sun family for wealth and fame. If it is for the benefit of the family, sacrificing me is nothing. Even if I am wronged, Sun Ge Lao is a treacherous minister who is in power, but it can't stop the Sun family from being so powerful. The family has no choice but to rely on the treacherous minister due to the situation. I will feel resentful, but I can also understand the choice of the head of the family.

"But... I really don't understand. After the crown prince was appointed, the Sun family's decline was obvious, not to mention that the late emperor also asked Sun Ge Lao to retire. The Sun family had no successor, and it was obvious that their good days would not last long. Why did the Lu family insist on going all the way and go against the court?! The other Sun faction members are all thinking about getting away, but they are loyal to the Sun family. I didn't know before that my cousin was such a stubborn person?!"

Lu Bainian was in mixed emotions, not knowing whether to sigh or scold: "He is stubborn, so why should he drag the whole family to hell?!" Although the family treated him badly, there are still ignorant children in the family, as well as idle people and the elderly, women and children who don't care about government affairs. Why should they be innocent? !

Seeing his old friend in such pain, Cao Gengyun felt sorry for him and comforted him, "It won't be that bad. If something like this happens, your cousin, the head of the family, will definitely not be able to escape, and those who know the truth will definitely be punished, but the others should be fine... At most, the glory of this official family will be gone, but as long as there are scholars among the descendants, your Lu family will be able to recover in a few decades. You don't have to be too discouraged."

Lu Bainian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Sun family committed the crime of treason! Helping the criminals of treason to escape is no different from treason. Even if the side branches or children can escape, they will be labeled as criminals and their future prospects are uncertain. Even if there are scholars among the descendants of the future generations, which great Confucian scholar is willing to take them in to teach? Without the guidance of a famous teacher, how many people can pass the exam relying only on their own intelligence and ancestral books? Even if one or two scholars or juren are born by chance, they will be dismissed by the examiners when they reach the imperial examination. The world only thinks that they are not knowledgeable enough, but how can they know that it is the legacy of their ancestors' crimes?! In this way, decades have passed, and when no one in the world remembers what the Lu family has done, the Lu family has long been forgotten by the crowd."

Cao Gengyun scratched his hair. "The Sun family committed the crime of treason... Is there any real evidence? I feel that if the palace really had evidence, they would have arrested the Sun family long ago. How could they still be surrounded and undecided? I suspect that the palace has not made up its mind. Although the Empress Dowager and the new emperor... and the Empress Dowager, all hate the Sun family, the cabinet may not be willing to kill all the Sun family members."

Sun Ge Lao has been in power for too long. Even if the officials in high positions in the court are not his followers, few of them have a mortal enemy with him. Unless it is absolutely necessary, many cabinet officials are unwilling to kill his family. Most people think that he is old and retired at home. Even the late emperor left a will, asking the new emperor to treat old ministers well, so why should he do it to the extreme? Anyway, his son is a useless person, and the capable nephews have been imprisoned. The incompetent ones have to rely on family protection to become officials. As long as they cannot make further progress in the officialdom, he will have no successors, and the Sun family will naturally disappear from the power arena. The benefits left by the Sun family can still be divided up by others, so there is really no need to take risks.

The Wumen students hate the Sun family, but they have not yet climbed to a high position to hold power. Although Tao Ge Lao is also a student of Wu Wen'an, he has always valued his status as a relative since he was young. He has always kept a low profile in the government office and has not participated in the disputes in the court. If it weren't for his good friends among the first batch of Wumen students who were framed and exiled by the Sun family, he would not have taken them under his wing and made them his own power. But because he had done a favor to the Wumen students first, the latter lacked confidence in front of him. Even if he hated Sun Ge Lao deeply, it was not easy to force him to deal with the Sun family.

Most of the time, Lord Tao acted according to his own wishes and the will of the late emperor, and was not influenced by the old people from Wumen.

The other Minister of Rites was not a native of Wumen, except that his brother was born in Wumen. He was more of a bookworm who insisted on following rules and regulations in everything. As for the Sun family, his opinion was that the will of the late emperor was the most important, and nothing could be done that was not in line with the will. Because the late emperor had a will requiring the new emperor to treat Sun Ge Lao and Sun Meiren well, even if Sun Meiren made a big mistake, the Minister of Rites still felt that he had to act according to the imperial edict, unless there was clear evidence that the Sun family had indeed committed the crime of treason.

Unfortunately, due to the refusal of Prince Ji to cooperate, the evidence to prove that the Sun family was involved in the palace turmoil is not sufficient.

However, Cao Gengyun believes that the Sun family will eventually fall: "No one knows that they have planted so many people in the imperial guards. This time, only 30% to 40% of them jumped out. What if there are still diehards among the remaining people? The imperial guards are related to the safety of all the royal family members. No matter whether it is the Empress Dowager, Consort Xu or the new emperor, they can't take risks. This time, they will never tolerate Sun Ge Lao and his son to continue to live in peace in the capital. They may collude with civil and military officials to cause trouble at any time. The only question is who will die. The late emperor asked the new emperor to treat the old ministers well, but he didn't say that the old ministers' children and grandchildren must also be treated well!"

If all of Lord Sun's descendants and relatives died, leaving him alone as an old man, what could he accomplish?
Even Concubine Sun in the palace, if she herself refused to die, couldn't she just get sick? If the ladies in the palace really made up their minds and wanted her to die, it wouldn't be difficult.

The fate of the Sun family was already doomed. Originally, the secret passage that his family had dug had not been discovered, and a few young people might have escaped. But now that the secret passage has been exposed, his family has no way to retreat. The whole family is surrounded by soldiers and has no way to escape. Life and death depends on the new king. The new king is young, and the people who make the decision for him are the Empress Dowager and Consort Xu, who have new and old grudges against the Sun family.

The Sun family will definitely not have a good ending!

Cao Gengyun looked up at Lu Bainian with a serious expression: "We have some friendship with Tao Nanshan, and we have taught Jin Jiashu for a few years. If we can meet Jiashu, it is not impossible to ask him to plead with Madam Xu. But... this is the only dignity we have. Old Lu, you have to think about it. If there is such an opportunity, will you come forward to save people? How many people do you plan to save? After saving them, can you still live a peaceful life like now?!"