Chapter 968: Your disguise is not worth mentioning
Seeing that Yi Xiaotian just narrowed his eyes, Zhang Zhao was not anxious, shook his body, and began to say leisurely:
"There is something, I hope you won't be angry if you find out."
"It's just what you say, Mr. Ge."
Yi Xiaotian spread his hands, and Zhang Zhao showed a meaningful smile.
"Actually... a long time ago, well, really a long time ago, some of my intelligence officers throughout Jiangdong mentioned something to me. At that time... I didn't pay much attention to it."
"But... Later, something big happened in Jiangdong. I don't treat my little friend as an outsider. To show my sincerity, it doesn't hurt to tell you about this..."
He suddenly approached Yi Xiaotian in a dignified manner, showed his yellowish teeth, and whispered beside Yi Xiaotian in a hoarse voice:
"Princess of Soochow, Sun Shangxiang, sister of Marquis Wu, ran away from marriage..."
The syllables of the last three words in Zhang Zhao's words were stretched out very long.
It seemed that he had clearly determined that Yi Xiaotian definitely knew something about Sun Shangxiang's escape from marriage.
Of course Yi Xiaotian understood this, but he still acted as calm as usual——
"Well...it turns out that this is it. When I got up early in the morning and went out, I saw notices about this incident posted in the streets and alleys. I thought it was someone's bad taste, but if these words came out of Mr. Ge's mouth, I will
There is no reason not to believe it.”
"What did you say? What announcement?"
Zhang Zhao not only didn't see Yi Xiaotian's panic, nor did he say anything on the other person's face, but he also mentioned something that he was unaware of. What... was going on?
After a short pause, Zhang Zhao realized that now was not the best time to expose himself, so he hurriedly sat back.
"Ahem..."
"Well...it turns out that my little friend also knows about what happened in the morning. Then...it's my fault for talking too much about this matter."
"Except for these..."
But sure enough, Zhang Zhao did not give up his intention to continue the attack.
'I can't cure Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and others, so I can't cure you?'
With this thought in his mind, Zhang Zhao actually had a strong desire to suppress the young businessman named Zhantang in front of him.
Zhang Zhao had been planning for a long time regarding Sun Shangxiang's escape from marriage.
Yes... How can a very proud person like Zhang Zhao endure the days when he is idle at home and has no real power?
Ever since he was knocked down by Sun Quan in the name of defeat in the Battle of Hefei, not a day went by that Zhang Zhao didn't think about how to return to his position.
It took him nearly a year to calm down the anger of the nobles who had previously supported him... It can only be said that the fiasco in the first battle of Hefei was not the worst result for Zhang Zhao, because nearly all the noble families were ruined.
The resources that have been accumulated through hard work over the past twenty years, except for a very few families - such as the Lu family of the four nominal princes whose strength is not ranked at all, and a group of people such as the Zhou family, Qiao family, etc.
A family that has entered the upper class society of Soochow, but they dodged a disaster because they did not have the qualifications.
The Gu family and Zhang family who supported Zhang Zhao's side, as well as the civil servants and generals who followed the two families, all suffered disaster.
Yu Fan was also one of the people who suffered unreasonable disasters during this turmoil.
After the incident, Zhang Zhao was originally going to be held accountable by the wealthy families.
But...but the fact is that if their vitality is severely damaged, if they really abandon Zhang Zhao, the "Pavilion Elder" who has been entrenched in the court for decades, they will take various opportunities to return to the court to fight against Sun Quan.
, that would simply become an impossible task.
That's why it is said that Zhang Zhao was a blessing in disguise. Not only did he not suffer a real blow, he had kept a careful eye on him before the Battle of Hefei. Instead, he spread out his children to preserve the family's strength everywhere. Now...Zhang Zhao himself
The Zhang family actually has the potential to surpass the Zhang family in Wu County.
Under such circumstances, the news that Sun Shangxiang escaped from marriage gave Zhang Zhao a signal that he could not ignore.
——Sun Quan is unable to support himself alone.
This is a fact - after Sun Quan's two defeats in the Battle of Hefei, the entire Jiangdong operation for many years was almost destroyed.
The previous time could be said to be killing someone with a borrowed knife. Taking advantage of the defeat, he cleared up the problems he faced within Soochow.
But the subsequent defeat in the Battle of Hefei, which was personally commanded by Zhou Yu, completely devastated Soochow.
Don't you see that Jiangdong was defeated and starved to death, and hungry people often competed for cannibalism? If you only look at Wuhui and other prosperous places, you will naturally not see the so-called decline of Jiangdong.
Sun Quan didn't make any big moves for a whole year. When Liu Bei mobilized all his forces and continued to seek expansion and new development paths; when Cao Cao continued to strengthen and consolidate his rule base in the north, and gradually showed signs of changing the day - Sun Quan
I can only watch.
He is anxious.
The final result of being anxious was naturally the unreasonable sneak attack years ago, which also led to the internal decline of Soochow.
Sun Quan, who had no support from the nobles, was suddenly forced to the end by Liu Bei.
Maybe Liu Bei didn't even think about it at the time. Guan Yu just used a little force and beat the people of Soochow to the ground, and directly gave Jiangxia away.
Marriage and oaths, these are just manifestations of Sun Quan's embarrassing efforts to make amends.
In this stall, Sun Shangxiang's escape from marriage really gave Zhang Zhao a perfect opportunity.
——
"Besides these... there is one more thing, I don't know if you are clear about it."
Zhang Zhao felt that he had caught a real big fish.
I don’t know why the feeling is so strong, even though the performance of the opposite exhibition hall has been flawless from the beginning.
But once Zhang Zhao made the preconception, he was sure of a certain direction of suspicion, and no matter what the other party said, his feeling would become stronger and stronger.
'Catch this big fish...and I'll have a real chance of winning!'
Thinking like this, Zhang Zhao finally no longer concealed the killing intent in his words:
"Although it's just a rumor, but... I have also asked people in the General's Mansion - they said... In fact, the General's Mansion is looking for not only Princess Shangxiang, but also two men and one woman -"
Zhang Zhao's tone became very dangerous. Even though he had already sat back, Yunwei, when he spoke, the atmosphere in the whole room seemed to be rushing towards Yi Xiaotian.
Even though Yi Xiaotian was as still as a mountain, there was still a trace of heaviness in his eyes.
"Oh? I'm quite interested in this. I'd like to ask Mr. Ge to clarify my doubts."
Yi Xiaotian smiled slightly and met Zhang Zhao's dangerous tone.
Zhang Zhao snorted coldly - 'I asked you to pretend, you are definitely...'
There was no evidence, but by this time, Zhang Zhao had already made a complete bet.
"The identities of one of the men and one of the women are yet to be discussed, but for the other one of them, someone has heard his name."
"Lü Qinghou, it was this person who took Princess Shangxiang away and assisted her in escaping from marriage... This person was extremely vicious. Not only did he collude with Shanyue, he also broke out into conflicts with officers and soldiers near Yi County. The key is -"
"This person is just like my friend, a young businessman from out of town."
Zhang Zhao chuckled, picked up the black feather fan on the table, and shook it slightly in front of him. His eyes and posture seemed to say:
'Lü Qinghou, your disguise is nothing in front of me.'
