The king behind the empress

Chapter 408 A Foolproof Strategy
The East Factory Guards led by Chen Ying are all in a group of 50 people, and one-third of the warriors in a group are in the Soul Realm. To deal with these sects, it is easy to catch.

Tao Yuran had just rushed to the other courtyard where the disciples of the sect were, and before he started to arrange anything, he immediately saw a brilliant firework exploding in the sky above his head, and before he could react, Dozens of Dongchang Guards wearing flying fish suits rushed in.

After this group of people came in, they basically killed anyone they saw, without any intention of showing mercy.

Although Tao Yuran was terrified in his heart, he didn't dare to run away without authorization, and he didn't even dare to fight back. He had to find a corner and kneel there honestly, waiting for the chaos to end.

Thirty people from Dongchangwei entered the other courtyard, and the remaining 20 people guarded the various exits of the other courtyard, surrounding the entire Taofu courtyard tightly.

Dongchangwei, who murdered people and ransacked homes all the year round, was very proficient in his business. With just a cup of tea, there was no one who dared to resist in the entire Tao Mansion. They all knelt on the ground and were gathered in the open space in the courtyard by Dongchangwei.

"Patriarch Tao, what a coincidence."

Chen Ying came out from the East Factory Guard, looked at Tao Yuran who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile, "We meet again."

"Chen...Master Chen..."

Tao Yuran, who was kneeling on the ground, looked up at Chen Ying who came out, with a dazed expression, "Why are you here, what's going on?"

"Sorry, Patriarch Tao."

Chen Ying shrugged his shoulders, and said in an unapologetic tone: "My lord has ordered that those who destroy the railroad track for adultery and hiding will be treated as the same crime and will be shot to death."

"So, Patriarch Tao, there is nothing our family can do."

"What... what?"

When Tao Yuran heard what Chen Ying said, his face paled instantly. He looked at Chen Ying with some horror, and said, "Master Chen, that's not what you said just now!"

"Didn't you promise me that as long as the clues of these people are revealed, the previous things will be forgotten."

"Master Chen, you can't count your words!!!"

"But these people's clues are not given to our family by you."

Chen Ying spread his hands and said with a smile on his face: "Our family found these people by our own ability. What does it have to do with Patriarch Tao?"

"What's more, even if there is a relationship, so what?"

Chen Ying knelt down and looked at Tao Yuran, and whispered in his ear: "My lord said that anyone who colludes with those thieves will be shot to death. What's the use of our family saying let it go?"

"you you……"

At this moment, how could Tao Yuran not know that Chen Ying had no intention of letting him go from the very beginning, "You're going to die!!!"

Tao Yuran opened his mouth suddenly, wanting to bite Chen Ying's ear, but Chen Ying is now a warrior in the Soul Realm, how could he be bitten so easily.

Chen Ying tilted his head slightly to avoid Tao Yuran's attack, and then slapped Tao Yuran directly on the face with his backhand, knocking out all his teeth in an instant.

"Bad bones."

Chen Ying stood up and looked condescendingly at Tao Yuran who was lying on the ground, and said coldly: "If you dare to collude with those people, you should know what will happen to you."

"My lord gave you a way to survive. If you don't leave, you have to find your own death. Who can you blame?"

After finishing speaking, Chen Ying turned around and ordered to his subordinates: "Later, I will go to the county government to borrow some manpower, and directly confiscate the Tao family. I will leave one-tenth of the property to the county government, and give the rest to the county government." into the local bank and exchange it for banknotes."

When Chen Ying said this, he seemed to have thought of something and said: "The prince is not a stingy person. He will definitely reward you after you finish the work at this time, so I hope that after you see the money, don't do anything that you shouldn't do." Move your mind, otherwise, the Heavenly King and I will not be able to keep you, understand?"

"Here!"

Dongchangwei responded, and then left half of the people here to deal with the prisoners, while the other half went straight to the county government.

Seeing that Chen Ying decided the fate of his family with a few words, Tao Yuran, who collapsed on the ground, hurriedly crawled towards Chen Ying, "Li... Li... oh, what to do..."

Tao Yuran was knocked out, and his speech was slurred at this moment, but he didn't care about it anymore, and crawled over to plead for his family.

"No, I can do that."

At this time, Chen Ying put away the smile on his face, and said in a calm tone: "And it's not just you, the entire Yuanling County, and all those who colluded with the family alliance will end up like this."

"My lord said, those who want to kill you don't dare to show a little bit of betrayal, but I happen to be good at killing people."

After Chen Ying finished speaking, he took a deep look at Tao Yuran, and then said, "You guys are just the beginning."

After finishing speaking, Chen Ying ignored Tao Yuran and turned around to leave.

And Chen Ying's approach was also happening in other towns in Yuanling County, but the methods of the East Factory Guards were relatively mild, not as cruel as Chen Ying's.

But those aristocratic families who colluded with the South all ended up in the same way, basically they were all the result of being ransacked.

These aristocratic families, which were so easily preserved in Yang Yanzhang's previous purge, lost more than half of them in an instant after such a purge.

……

Just when Dongchangwei started the big cleanup in Yuanling County, Bai Changqiu finally rushed to the northern border after a few days of eating and sleeping.

"This damn weather, it's really cold."

Although Bai Changqiu knew that the weather in the northern region was extremely cold before coming here, it was the first time Bai Changqiu experienced the coldness in the north, and he was still a little uncomfortable. I felt a burst of cold.

"That's how it is in the north. If you came two months earlier, it would be even colder here."

Different from Bai Changqiu, who was not used to it, Lao Qiao looked at the environment in the northern border, with a look of nostalgia on his face. Back then, he and the Patriarch stayed here for more than [-] years, until the Patriarch and the old general After breaking up, he and the Patriarch returned to the south.

At this time, when he revisited the old place, many scenes from that year suddenly appeared in Lao Qiao's mind.

"I don't know how the people here adapt."

Bai Changqiu rubbed his hands together, and then asked: "Old Qiao, it's not too late to see King Bei'an, let's find a place to stay first, and see him tomorrow after resting, what do you think?"

"It's fine for the young master to make a decision about this kind of thing."

Old Qiao said with a very respectful attitude: "I'll come with you, and I'm only responsible for protecting the young master's safety. As for the rest, the young master doesn't need to ask me."

"Old woodcutter is being polite."

Bai Changqiu shook his head, and didn't take Lao Qiao's words seriously. After all, Lao Qiao and his teacher had been friends for decades, so how could he not take him seriously, "But since you have no objection, let's find someone else first. Stay at the inn."

Bai Changqiu didn't show any more politeness with Mr. Qiao, he directly found an inn to stay, and then sent someone to deliver his name card to Bei'an Palace.

After all, he didn't come here secretly this time, but was on an official mission, so if he wanted to visit King Bei'an, he had to inform him in advance.

In Bei'an Palace, Mo Yuanji was a little surprised when he received Bai Changqiu's name card.

"The imperial court is about to fight with these aristocratic alliances. If Situ Yao's students don't stay there to fight, what are they doing here?"

Holding the name card in his hand, Mo Yuanji looked up at Jia Yu in the study, and asked, "Jia Yu, what do you think at this time?"

"It's still worth thinking about. It's probably because they want us to send troops."

At this time, Mo Yuanji and Jia Yu were in the study. Hearing Mo Yuanji's question, Jia Yu said bluntly: "Situ Yao is a bad old man. He took the initiative to come out of the mountain this time, and he will let us watch the fire from the other side." No wonder."

"Situ Yao is indeed not an easy person."

Listening to Jia Yu talking about Situ Yao, Mo Yuanji's face couldn't help but become a bit dignified. The reason why the famous Tianmen Army in the northern border fell apart was entirely caused by Situ Yao. He even said bluntly that Mo Yuanji could In addition to Mo Yuanji's good opportunity to take charge of the northern border, it has a lot to do with Situ Yao.

At that time, Situ Yao was regarded as the second in command of the Tianmen Army, but he was too ambitious and wanted to turn the Tianmen Army into his own private army, which directly touched the bottom line of the coach Kou Yi. After the conflict, Situ Yao, who failed to seize power, was directly expelled from the Tianmen Army by Kou Yi.

But after this person left, instead of restraining himself, he intensified. He used his original influence to infiltrate the Tianmen Army.

It's just that, this time, he learned the lesson of his previous failure to seize power, and adopted a subtle and silent method of moistening things. When Kou Yi found out, a small half of the upper and middle generals of the Tianmen Army had already fallen to Situ Yao.

Faced with this situation, Kou Yi became very helpless. These generals were all his old brothers who had followed him for many years, and they had followed him through life and death for countless times. If there were only a few of them, he would have killed them all cruelly, so forget it.

But now a small half of the people have problems, not to mention their previous relationship, just the influence of these people, if they are all killed at once, the army will mutiny.

Therefore, Kou Yi, who was tied up, had no choice but to find Mo Yuanji, trying to use his status to slowly replace these generals.

As a result, Jia Yu had just joined Mo Yuanji at that time, and after learning about this, he immediately asked Mo Yuanji to agree to Kou Yi's conditions. In this way, the two of them joined forces, and under the condition of Situ Yao's remote command, they were able to cope. Situ Yao was suppressed, and the general power was regained.

But before Jia Yu cooperated with the old marshal, he had already tricked the old marshal, so although the military power was regained, most of it fell into Mo Yuanji's hands.

Under such circumstances, unless Kou Yi directly mobilized troops to initiate a civil war, it would be very difficult for him to regain the military power of the Tianmen Army from Mo Yuanji.

After these two blows, Old Marshal Kou was completely disheartened. He would definitely not launch a civil war. After all, he brought out the Tianmen Army by himself, and he couldn't bear to let them kill each other.

But let him just hand over all the military power of the Tianmen Army to Mo Yuanji, he was a little annoyed, and finally retired directly.

Anyway, Mo Yuanji was also surnamed Mo, and he was a member of the royal family, so he simply let them go. They could make trouble however they wanted, and Kou Yi simply didn't care.

It was also because of this incident that Mo Yuanji was so impressed with Situ Yao that he didn't dare to underestimate him at all.

"However, isn't it inappropriate to send troops at this time?"

"There are advantages and disadvantages to sending troops."

Jia Yu gently rubbed his wine gourd with his hands, and after thinking for a while, he said, "First of all, if we don't send troops, we can naturally avoid the battle damage to the greatest extent. After the loss of both sides, we will come forward to clean up the mess, which is undoubtedly the best result."

"But this is just the most optimistic estimate. Let alone the fact that we are by our side, will Situ Yao try his best to fight the court?"

"Even if he fights with the imperial court with all his strength, we will lose both sides when the time comes, and it will be difficult for us who are far away in the north to pick up any bargains."

"After all, we are still a few counties away from Yuanling County. It is estimated that when our soldiers and horses arrive at Yuanling County, they will have finished fighting and recuperating long ago. Even if we arrive, we may not be able to take advantage of it."

"But if you send troops at this time, I'm afraid it won't take advantage of it."

Mo Yuanji pondered for a moment, and then said: "There are still [-] Yulin troops in the capital at this time, and these are all elites. Do you think we can take down the capital?"

"Of course not."

Jia Yu shook his head without hesitation, and said in a very decisive tone: "There are [-] Yulin troops guarding the capital, even if we push down [-] frontier troops, we can't open the gates of the capital within a few months. "

"..."

Hearing what Jia Yu said, Mo Yuanji's face darkened in an instant. You can't speak so vigorously, making me think there is hope.

Looking at Mo Yuanchang's disappointed face, Jia Yu couldn't help but smiled, "Don't worry, my lord. I just said that the capital cannot be won, and I didn't say that there is no hope of winning the capital."

Seeing Mo Yuanji's puzzled expression, Jia Yu didn't explain, but instead asked a question, "My lord, do you think Mo Zizai will go to Yuanling County to join the battle this time?"

"It should be."

Mo Yuanji thought for a while, then nodded again, and said with some certainty: "It's likely to be a meeting. He was there every time there was a fight before. With his character, he will definitely not be absent this time."

"When the time comes, if the imperial army is defeated and Yuanling County falls, what will you say, my lord, the one in the capital?"

"The one from the capital?"

Mo Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and then he realized in an instant, "You mean, she will bring the Habayashi Army to meet Mo Zizai?"

"That's right." Jia Yu nodded with a chuckle, and said, "Based on my analysis, if something happens to King Zizai, the person in the capital won't care about the throne, and she will definitely send an army to take over King Zizai first. At that time, our chance will come.”

"Of course, this is just my conjecture, and we cannot pin all our hopes on this possibility."

Jia Yu continued to add: "So what I mean is, when we first send troops, don't move too much. After taking Dingzhou down, don't move any more. Then just hold back and don't move."

Dingzhou is the throat of the northern border. If Dingzhou is defended, King Bei'an's army can be firmly stuck in the northern border. Similarly, if Dingzhou can be captured, the northern border will be like a tiger. Entering the plains, there is no problem in attacking anywhere.

After Jia Yu finished speaking, he opened his mouth to explain: "In this way, I will not be too provocative to the court, and I can sit back and watch the changes in the situation in Dazhou."

"If there is a real chance, we can send troops to the capital at any time, which can be described as a foolproof strategy."

(End of this chapter)