Chapter 50 Brothers are against the wall, what can I do!
Another two weeks have passed.
The four of them have learned almost everything about Tianluo Killer's various weapons, equipment and tactics.
To a large extent, this is of course due to brain development, which has almost unparalleled improvements in memory.
However, it is one thing to be familiar with it, and another thing to use it flexibly. Although brain development can simulate the actual combat environment, even if you have been in actual combat for a week, Princess Sister dare not say that you are already qualified Tianluo killers.
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Time is, after all, too little.
Although Cheng Jinyang had already thought about how to deal with the big demon Su Lili, in his subsequent dreams every night, Xiao Li seemed to have evaporated and never appeared again.
Fortunately, through Miss Wang's intervention, the nature of the safe house was retained and solidified in the old house. Cheng Jinyang also asked her "if she built a firewall that can filter out the big monsters", which received a blank look from Wang Wanrou.
"If she really wants to come to you, who can stop her in this dream?" This is Wang Wanrou's answer, and Cheng Jinyang began to lose his mind again.
You have to be suspicious when you are here, and worry about gains and losses after you leave. Oh, how cheap.
So he could only turn his grief and anger into leveling up, and finally reached the eighth level on this day, and Qiong Biluo finally mastered it.
Logically speaking, one should be happy and excited, but at this time, Cheng Jinyang was neither sad nor happy.
Until the Cheng family from the capital city gave him a rare call and told him to go to Zhongbentang for a meeting.
Ah, what happened to the family again?
After saying goodbye to the girls, Cheng Jinyang hurried to the Zhongben Hall where the core members of the family were meeting. He saw his grandfather Cheng Benhe, his three uncles, and the heirs of their respective houses: Cheng Yizhou, Cheng Yuexian, and Cheng Huaiyan, all gathered here.
All of them have expressionless faces.
"Sorry, I'm late." Cheng Jinyang apologized, and saw the grandfather sitting in the main seat showing a tired smile and waving his hand to express that it was okay.
Cheng Huaiyan closed the door of Zhongbentang, and Cheng Yuexian turned on the equipment to ensure that the electromagnetic shielding could not transmit signals to the outside world. Thus, a standard secret room isolated from the outside world was formed, and then the family secret meeting would begin.
"Jingzhou has been in secret contact with us recently." Grandpa Cheng Benhe said.
The so-called Jingzhou was the important military town occupied by Wang Chuzhong's Longxiang Army, and was the next biggest enemy of the Jiankang court.
"Do you want us to surrender?" asked the second uncle Cheng Qingyuan, stroking his beard.
"If Wang Chuzhong was really 100% sure, he wouldn't have played such a trick." Third Uncle Cheng Qingping said coldly.
"In any case, it is a fact that the Long Xiang Army has a strategic advantage in the short term. We should consider defeat before we think about victory. We must also be prepared for both." Chief Cheng Qingxin said.
With both hands prepared, does the uncle want to ride on the wall? Cheng Jinyang thought to himself.
What about the political team? Isn’t it the most taboo to sit on the fence? No matter which side wins, the Cheng family in the capital of God will not be able to benefit. How could the uncle come up with such a ridiculous idea?
"You mean, split the clan?" Grandpa Cheng Benhe said suddenly.
The expressions of the second uncle and the third uncle changed at the same time.
"Yes? Split the clan." The patriarch Cheng Qingxin said, "Political positions are like betting in a casino. One side is life? The other side is death. The risk of making a desperate move is too great, and our family cannot bear the consequences of losing the bet."
"Why not split the Cheng family in the divine capital into two? Will one lineage still support the imperial court? One lineage will rebel and join the Jingzhou Longxiang army. In this way, no matter who wins or loses, the Cheng family's bloodline will be preserved and continued, and they will not be killed because of the wrong side.
Completely extinct."
In other words, no matter which side wins? The lineage standing on that side can be preserved... Cheng Jinyang was suddenly shocked. Wait? Doesn't that mean that there will definitely be a lineage that will be liquidated and destroyed after the defeat?
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This, this is too cruel!
"Who are the other families that have been confirmed to split into clans?" Grandpa Cheng Benhe asked expressionlessly.
"The Xing family in Hejian will join our family in 'splitting the civil war', and the rebel line will join together to defect to Jingzhou." Cheng Qingxin said in a low voice. "The Zhu family in Sanchuan is still considering it, but they are more inclined to directly defect to Long.
Xiangjun? So even if we decide not to divide the clan, we will not report the matter to the court."
"In addition, the secret meeting with Long Xiangjun has been widely circulated in the circle of the fifth-rank family. Everyone knows it tacitly, and some people have already reported it to the court. Yu Yuangui originally wanted to launch a political purge, but Wang Maohong stopped it.
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"After all, the current Jiankang court cannot withstand any turmoil at all. Even if one-tenth of the fifth-grade families are killed in the turmoil, Long Xiang's army, which is about to arrive in Gushu, will not miss this opportunity and will definitely
Taking advantage of the civil strife in Jiankang to launch an all-out attack, both Your Majesty and Wang Maohong understand the dangers involved."
The implication is that the law does not punish the public. In order to prevent some aristocratic families from directly rebelling against the imperial court, we would rather acquiesce in allowing them to secretly defect to Longxiang's army? Is the imperial court already so weak?
For a time, Cheng Jinyang had a very sad understanding of the so-called decline of imperial power.
The so-called political prestige is nothing more than the emperor's words being spoken and the world obeying them. Is it the emperor who everyone fears and obeys? No, it is the prestige of the imperial power. If you do not obey the imperial power, you will be beaten to death by the forces that obey the imperial power.
However, once the imperial power lost its prestige and the tacit agreement between the major forces to obey the imperial power was broken, no one took the emperor seriously.
The better ones, like the major aristocratic families in Jiankang City, openly obeyed the emperor and the court, but secretly flirted with Long Xiang's army.
Even worse, like Wang Chuzhong of the Longxiang Army, who began to plot to seize the imperial power and replace him. It is not easy to say that Wang Chuzhong's rebellion is bad. It can only be said that the current situation is such that even if Wang Chuzhong is killed, there will be consequences in the future.
Su Chuzhong, Liu Chuzhong and other careerists came out to cause trouble.
"Let's discuss this later." Grandpa Cheng Benhe finally said. He still wanted to think about it for a few days.
After leaving Chongbentang, cousin Cheng Yuexian deliberately lagged a few steps behind and then stopped Cheng Jinyang.
"Although grandpa wants to consider it, he has no other choice. The strategy of dividing sects is a foregone conclusion." When he came to a corner where no one was around, Cheng Yuexian said worriedly, "Whoever goes to Jiankang and who goes to Wuchang will definitely be determined by each other.
Fang’s own opinion takes precedence.”
"As the proposer, my uncle is probably determined to defect to the Longxiang Army. In this way, even if you inherit the lineage that stayed in Jiankang, Cheng Yizhou can also inherit the lineage that defected to the Longxiang Army."
"However, due to political issues, only one of these two lines will survive in the end. Cousin, you are so smart, you should understand what I mean, right?"
Cheng Jinyang pondered for a moment and asked:
"Cousin, do you want me to try to save Cheng Yizhou's life if my side wins?"
"That's right." Seeing Cheng Jinyang's clarity, Cheng Yuexian smiled and said, "I also understand that it was your uncle who suppressed you in the first place. Although Cheng Yizhou once made rude remarks to you, he did not participate in the suppression of you. You brothers.
There is absolutely no need to kill each other over this."
"I have already communicated with Cheng Yizhou. If Long Xiang's army wins in the end, he is willing to find someone to secretly die for you to save your life. If you also agree to save his life, then no matter whether the world belongs to the Wang family of Taiyuan in the end
, still remains in the hands of the Sima family, at least our Cheng family’s eldest family and fourth family will not have one lineage extinct because of this."
Cheng Jinyang pondered slightly.
As my cousin said, it was the uncle Cheng Qingxin who marginalized his father in the clan, and this hatred should not be extended to his children.
From a personal impression, he didn't have much dislike for Cheng Yizhou, his cousin - it was just that he had dealt with him on the day of the product selection meeting, and subsequently he was designated as the family heir by his grandfather. After the dispute of interests with Cheng Yizhou, both parties basically
There hasn’t been much contact since then.
"Okay, if the Jiankang court wins in the end, I will try my best to save my cousin from death." He finally nodded and agreed.