"PS: I changed the ending of the previous chapter after thinking about it. I think it is written more smoothly this way. Book friends may wish to go back and read it."
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Zhao Hongrun: "..."
Wei Jiao: "..."
Gao Kuo: "..."
In the study room of Prince Su's Mansion, Zhao Hongrun was holding a tea cup and staring intently at Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, while Wei Jiao and Gao Kuo also opened their eyes in horror.
The three of them all looked like they had seen a ghost.
After a long time, Zhao Hongrun finally came back to his senses, wiped the tea stains at the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and asked in a somewhat frightened tone: "What did you just say...? You said you were..."
"Formerly, under the command of the Marquis of Nan Yan, the soldiers of the Nan Yan Army Wei Shan, His Royal Highness King Su." Sima Song answered candidly.
Zhao Hongrun, Wei Jiao, and Gao Kuo looked at each other and secretly took a breath.
In Wei State, there were two Southern Yan armies in modern times, one was the second generation Nan Yan Army commanded by General Wei Mu, and the other was the first generation Nan Yan Army commanded by the late Nan Yan Marquis Xiao Boyuan.
They are the same, but their political stances are completely different.
And Sima Song mentioned the Marquis of Nan Yan, so he must be referring to the first generation Nan Yan Army, that is, the Xiao army with "loyalty" as its slogan.
"You...are not actually Quliang Hou Sima Song?" Zhao Hongrun asked in horror.
"Yes, His Highness King Su, I am called Wei Shan here. He was once a soldier. He was ordered by Xiao Luan to pretend to be Sima Song for nearly twenty years..." Sima Song said frankly: "I wonder if Your Highness will listen.
I have said that nearly twenty years ago, Sima Chen of Quliang suffered an accident, and both Sima Heng and Sima Dun died at the hands of thieves... That accident was caused by Xiao Luan."
"..."
Listening to Sima Song slowly describing the events that happened to the Sima family in Quliang, Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth in shock and was speechless for a long time.
You know, although he once suspected that there must be some people among the nobles in the country who were secretly protecting the remnants of the Xiao family, he never expected that the methods of the remnants of the Xiao family would be so exaggerated. They were not sheltering from the nobles, but directly using graft and graft.
It replaced the status and family fortune of some nobles.
This is too exaggerated!
But if you think about it carefully, this is indeed in line with the style of the remaining members of the Xiao family: instead of trying every means to make you one of ours, it would be better to replace you with one of ours.
This way the profits are greater and more concealed.
And the fake Sima Song in front of him was probably the secret chess piece carefully selected by Xiao Luan at that time. Who would have thought that the descendant of the famous Wei general "Qu Lianghou Sima Fang" would actually be a remnant of the Xiao family?
After thinking for a while, Zhao Hongrun asked in a deep voice: "Is there anyone else who is an impostor like you? As far as you know, is there anyone else?"
Sima Song shook his head and said: "I don't know about this. The people Xiao Luan sent to contact me will never mention other people in front of me..." As he said that, he seemed to have thought of something, and added: "But
When I fell out with that Gong Zheng, he once said something like this, "Don't think that the young master only has a secret chess like you." I think there should be other people like me."
"Why did you fall out with Gong Zheng?" Zhao Hongrun asked calmly.
Sima Song was silent for a moment and whispered: "A year ago, when Gong Zheng came to contact me at the mansion, he didn't want his wife to become suspicious of him, so he sent a maid to eavesdrop on my conversation with Gong Zheng.
A maid had been killed by someone close to Gong Zheng, but Gong Zheng still asked me... asked me to kill my wife to avoid complications. I tried my best to delay it for more than a year. He mentioned it again a while ago. I was afraid that he would be cruel.
Killer, so..."
"I can't tell that he is still kind and caring..."
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Sima Song and continued to ask: "Gong Zheng? That's the so-called "Mr. Gong", right?"
"Exactly." Sima Song nodded and said: "I have no impression of this person. He is probably not one of our Nanyan soldiers. Maybe he was recruited by Xiao Luan over the years, or maybe he is... the descendants of the Nanyan family who were lucky enough to escape.
, in short, this person seems to be highly valued by Xiao Luan."
"...Isn't it the "dead soul" that my father originally called?"
After squinting his eyes and thinking for a moment, Zhao Hongrun asked: "What does he do? Is he really a wealthy businessman in Qi?"
Sima Song said with a smile: "A wealthy businessman may not necessarily be a wealthy businessman. Xiao Luan has been very short of money in recent years. In the past two years, he has been asking me to raise money for him. A while ago, I just managed to transfer a batch of copper coins worth fifty thousand gold with
The people he sent delivered the goods, and money worth 250,000 gold is still being raised... As for the palace official, judging from what he said when he contacted me, he should be in charge of Nanyan and Weiguo.
Party members."
"Weiguo?" Zhao Hongrun frowned.
"Yes, Your Highness Prince Su... Your Highness, please don't forget that the Xiao family of Nan Yan also had a marriage relationship with Weiguo, and when King Jing... well, after His Majesty killed the Xiao family of Nan Yan, those surviving descendants of the married families,
So he fled abroad, mainly to Korea and Wei... At that time, I also fled to Wei. Later, I secretly learned that Xiao Luan was recruiting troops, so I went to join him..."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Hongrun took a deep look at Sima Song and asked: "Then why are you willing to reveal these secrets today? Is it because the remaining members of the Xiao family regard you as an abandoned son?"
Sima Song was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "This is one, and the other is that I really wish I could draw a clear line with the Xiao family as soon as possible..."
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Sima Song and didn't find it strange.
A pawn in the Nanyan Army back then turned into Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang. He had lived a prosperous life for nearly twenty years and had his own family. How could he be so willing to leave these behind and continue to work for Xiao Luan?
In his opinion, this fake Sima Song was probably concerned about his true identity and was afraid of losing everything he had, so he made a false promise with the rest of the Xiao family.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Hongrun said in a deep voice: "Write down everything you know about Xiao Ni, without hiding anything. I can keep your family safe."
"A family?" Sima Song looked at Zhao Hongrun with some surprise.
As if guessing Sima Song's thoughts, Zhao Hongrun said calmly: "Whether you are the real Sima Song or a fake Sima Song, it has nothing to do with me. What's more, 'Sima Song, Marquis of Quliang' has died in Feng."
Qiu, this king will not care even more... So, do you understand?"
"I understand." Sima Song nodded.
The implication is to ask him to change his name.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun said again: "In the past two days, you will stay in my palace and write down what you know about Xiao Ni. In a few days, I will arrange for you to go to my fiefdom.
Go... don't worry, I will ensure that your family is prosperous."
"Thank you, His Highness Prince Su!"
Sima Song kowtowed gratefully.
After instructing Gao Kuo to temporarily settle Sima Song's family in the Xiyuan of the palace, Zhao Hongrun said to Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, after Sima Song writes down what he knows, you contact Shen Yu and ask Shen Yu to send
The four members of his family were taken to Shangshui County, and the Qingya people were asked to protect him closely, so as not to cause any harm... This man will be of great use to me in the future!"
"Yes." Wei Jiao responded with a serious face.
Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, no, it should be said to be Wei Shan, the henchman of the remnant of the Xiao family. This is the first betrayer or living betrayer of Xiao Ni so far.
Is the value of this person just as simple as knowing some secrets of the remaining members of the Xiao family?
If it works well, this is a chess piece that can turn Xiao Luan away from his family!
Picking up the tea cup and taking a sip, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but think that there was probably no such secret chess game of the Xiao family in China such as "Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang". But the problem was that there were so many nobles, big and small, in the country. How could this happen?
Where to start?
Should we send someone to the clan to conduct a thorough investigation of the "noble status" of the nobles preserved in the clan?
Not to mention that this move is too suspicious, the fact itself is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack.
Fortunately, the threat of these "dark chess" is not great. Maybe among these people, there are also members of the original Xiao family's remnants of the party, like Sima Song, who hope to get rid of Xiao Ni's control.
The problem is how to find these people quietly, convince them, and then put a long line to fish out Xiao Luan's evil shark.
At the same time, the disheveled and embarrassed eunuch Qi Gui, after combing his clothes in a deserted place, returned to Fengyi Palace in the palace and met the great eunuch Feng Lu.
When he told Feng Lu with difficulty that he had lost nearly 250 guards during this trip, the face of the eunuch Feng Lu suddenly turned dark, and he pointed at Qi Gui and was so angry that he could not speak.
Are you kidding?!
There were nearly two hundred and fifty guards. How could he explain the mysterious deaths of these guards to the outside world?
At this moment, he finally understood what His Highness Prince Su meant when he said "I hope" that day.
However, most of those imperial guards died when they were chasing to Xiaohuang County, and were killed by King Su's black crows. Therefore, Feng Lu could not pursue anything, so he could only admit his bad luck secretly and try to deal with the aftermath.
.
The so-called aftermath is to immediately find ways to replenish the imperial guards and modify the palace registrations of the two hundred and fifty imperial guards who died unexpectedly.
However, the imperial guards are not county soldiers and can be supplemented casually. Therefore, this matter alone is enough to give Feng Lu a headache for a while.
In the evening of that day, Liang Xu, the chief of the imperial clan of King Xiang Hongjing, came to His Highness's study.
He said to Xiang Wang Hongjing: "Your Highness, I have found out that I have found out that one of the imperial guards in the palace has indeed been transferred from outside, but I don't know where exactly he was transferred to... In addition, I also learned about something. Someone is here today.
I saw a palace eunuch named "Qi Gui" returning from the palace alone, in ragged clothes, and quite embarrassed..."
"Qi Gui? Who is that?" Xiang Wang Hongjing asked doubtfully.
"I have investigated the humble position and found out that Qi Guinai is the eunuch of the internal eunuch "Western Eunuch" and a subordinate of the great eunuch Feng Lu." Liang Xu said in a low voice.
"Is she one of Queen Wang's people?" A strange color flashed in the eyes of King Xiang Hongjing, and he said with a half-smile: "Let me guess a thing or two, well, this Qi Gui, under the order of Queen Wang, took that one with him
Qu's imperial guards left the city and went to Fengqiu to kill Sima Song, the Marquis of Qu Liang. However, something happened on the way. The imperial guards were all killed, and only Qi Gui escaped back in despair..."
It has to be said that although his guess is somewhat inconsistent with the facts, it is not far from the truth.
After knocking on the desk and pondering for a moment, Prince Xiang Hongjing said with a smile but not a smile: "Sure enough, there is something fishy about this..."
After that, he stood up and said in a deep voice: "Liang Xu, follow me to visit the "Liu Shang"."