Chapter 698 Xie Zhan Must Die

Chang'an, Sang Mansion

Sang Baiqing, the Minister of the Imperial Secretariat, was born in a small family. He was receiving several important guests at the moment.

These guests were all the heads or young masters of famous families today.

In addition to Li Jing, the head of the Zhaojun Li family, and Wang Yuan, the head of the Taiyuan Wang family, there were also Wang Yun, the young master of the Langya Wang family, who came from far away, Pei Zheng, the young master of the Hedong Pei family, and Liu Shaojun, the young master of the Liu family.

The Pei family, the Liu family, and the Xue family are collectively known as the three famous families in Hedong.

When everyone saw each other, they greeted each other and then sat down.

Li Jing was the oldest. He looked around and asked Sang Baiqing, "The Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Zhuozhou, and the Zheng family of Xingyang didn't come?"

Sang Baiqing nodded, "Yes."

Wang Yuan and Li Jing were of the same age and replied, "It's not surprising. Xingyang is far away in Yuzhou and is far from being involved in the war."

"Zhuozhou and Qinghe are now occupied by Pingzhou. The two major families are facing the danger of being incorporated. It is not known how Pingzhou will treat them. They are currently mediating with the Pingzhou government."

Among the famous families of the time, there was originally a Xie family, but the Xie family was perverse and was boycotted by the aristocratic families and excluded.

Pei Zheng said with a wry smile, "Unlike the three families, we are all in a desperate situation and have to gather together to seek a solution."

Liu Shaojun, who is also from the Hedong family, also smiled bitterly, "Hedong is already in danger, and my father had to let me come to Chang'an to see if there is any good plan."

The Xianbei are currently attacking Hexi, and their Hedong is just south of Hexi, which is no different from being in a desperate situation.

Wang Yuan, the head of the Taiyuan Wang family, also sighed, "Who said it wasn't? We can't even stay in our hometown of Taiyuan."

Now that most of Taiyuan is occupied by the Xianbei, their Wang family really fled in embarrassment.

Li Jing, the head of the Zhaojun Li family, also sighed, and their Zhao family is the same.

Wang Yun, the young master of the Wang family of Langya, also said, "The army led by Qin Zhao and Sun Congyi is already attacking Qingzhou. Langya is in the southwest of Qingzhou, and the situation is urgent now."

At this point, the heads and young masters of these noble families couldn't help but sigh that the situation changed too quickly.

Li Jing and Wang Yuan looked at each other. In fact, they wanted to wait and see how Pingzhou treated the Cui family of Qinghe and the Lu family of Zhuozhou, so as to have a reference, but now the treatment of these two families in Pingzhou has not been determined.

But their family is big and powerful, so for the sake of safety, they decided to move most of the clansmen out first and wait and see.

After sighing, they had to put their eyes back on the current situation.

"The current situation is one against two, Pingzhou is sending troops to attack Xianbei and Dali at the same time."

"For now, Pingzhou has strong soldiers and horses, and because they have harvested Dali and Xianbei before, their food and grass are much more sufficient than these two."

"Secondly, Dali has implemented a new tax law, so the food in the treasury is relatively abundant."

When this was mentioned, the faces of the people present were not very good, mainly because they contributed a lot to the money and food in the treasury.

But they are all capable people, and they quickly suppressed this dissatisfaction.

"Since Xianbei's base was not as good as Dali's, they also experienced Pingzhou's currency harvesting war, and they had the least food and grass."

"Before, Pingzhou used a strategy of sowing discord and dividing to break up the implicit cooperation alliance between Dali and Xianbei."

"Then, Pingzhou used the strategy of driving away the wolf and swallowing the tiger against Xianbei."

"For Dali, they also found a reason to send troops to launch a full-scale attack."

"Obviously, Pingzhou is the leader of this battle. The purpose is naturally land and population."

"Indeed, Pingzhou is becoming more and more powerful. It currently has a population of more than 6 million and is in great need of territory!"

The people present analyzed this one by one, and there was a moment of silence.

Sang Baiqing couldn't help but sigh, "Pingzhou's chain of events is really high, I wonder who came up with it?"

Wang Yuan knew the situation in Pingzhou quite well, and replied, "It's probably a strategy that was thought up by brainstorming. Now there are three famous military advisors in Pingzhou."

Pei Zheng said at this time, "But as far as I know, Pingzhou Governor Lu Songli is very good at planning, and is good at general trends and internal affairs."

After this, the scene was silent again. Their current dilemma was not because they underestimated Lu Songli.

"It has only been three years since the Pingzhou uprising, right?" Wang Yun said faintly.

This made many people present feel regretful. Before, they looked down on the Pingzhou forces nestling in the northeast, but they didn't expect that they would become so powerful so quickly.

Looking back on the major events that happened in the past few years, it was also their fault for not having vision.

At that time, the Qin and Lu families in Pingzhou and Xie Zhan in the south started the uprising at the same time.

They looked more at Xie Zhan.

Compared with Xie Zhan, who came from an aristocratic family, the Qin and Lu families pushed out the female head of the family, Lu Songli, as soon as they started the rebellion, which made them not optimistic.

The Xie family is also an aristocratic family, and their confidence in Xie Zhan is higher than that of Pingzhou.

In theory, their aristocratic families will basically not take the lead in rebellion.

They themselves do not want to be the leader, but prefer to invest in multiple forces, or push a leader out to avoid the highest risk.

After all, it is not easy to be a leader. If you win, you can certainly get the country, but if you lose, you will lose your whole family.

But investment is different. If the investment fails, at most you will be an accomplice. The whole family of the mastermind such as the leader will not be able to escape, but the accomplice may be able to save the family.

Wasn't it the situation that forced the Xie family to rebel?

Who made them act carelessly? A marriage was broken, and the entire family was directly calculated by Lv Songli and the emperor. The accumulated wealth over the years was wiped out overnight, at least the wealth and power on the surface were wiped out.

If you want to return to your original class, it is understandable that you take the lead in rebellion.

In the fourth year of Tianhe, Pingzhou rebelled, Nandi rebelled, King Cheng rebelled, and King Jin rebelled.

These noble families were just trying to see how to bet.

Unexpectedly, facing the encirclement and suppression of Dali, Xie Zhan secretly united with the emperor to deal with King Cheng, King Jin and the three forces of Pingzhou. In the end, he stepped on the shoulders of King Cheng and King Jin, and became the military commander of Dali again, leading the Xie family to make a comeback.

The situation changed very quickly that year. In just half a year, three of the four rebel forces were gone, leaving only Pingzhou.

The situation that the emperor and Xie Zhan made together was too shocking, and their skills were superb.

The people present were even less optimistic about Pingzhou, which was ruled by a woman. They felt that Pingzhou was in turmoil and might be suppressed by Dali at any time.

However, it was unexpected that Pingzhou had been silent all along, but with this battle, everyone saw its strength. It had become a trend.

Looking at Pingzhou now, they needed to treat it seriously.

This meeting lasted for more than an hour, mainly to exchange the information in everyone's hands and to spy on each other's views on Pingzhou.

Through the exchange, the people present did not gain nothing. At least they had a clearer understanding of the strength of Pingzhou.

As for the solution to the dilemma, it was definitely impossible to discuss it.

There was also competition between the aristocratic families. They would stick together and guard against each other.

But everyone also reached a consensus that Xie Zhan was guilty.

Whether it was as a token of surrender to Pingzhou or to avenge a personal grudge, Xie Zhan must die.

Xie Zhan deserved it. The new tax law he had introduced before not only required the land to be remeasured, but also required a population check. It was all to undermine the family's roots!

If there was no chance, it would be fine. Now that such a good opportunity was here, the family would definitely deal with him.