After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 344 Alertness

Hai Jiao began to feel nervous.

The situation Haitang mentioned is very likely to happen.

Although my cousin Xie Wenzai had feelings for Emperor Deguang, he did not think that he was a hopeless and foolish emperor. He was just disappointed and saddened by his blind favor of Concubine Sun and Elder Sun. Therefore, Xie Wenzaihui believed that the emperor sent his confidants to Chang'an, and it was impossible to mess up the northwest frontier army in order to seize power. That would only make the border unstable and the country turbulent. Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation, the emperor should just send people to monitor. As long as the Zhou family is loyal to the court, he will not do anything.

The emperor has been on the throne for more than thirty years. No matter how bad his relationship with the Zhou family was in the past, he never really dealt harshly with the Zhou family. Now that he is old, weak and sick, he has reconciled with the Queen Mother Zhou. The only prince who can establish a heir apparent is related to the Zhou family, and there is no reason to be disadvantageous to the Zhou family. Then even if someone coming from the capital might cause a little trouble to the Zhou family, it wouldn't be a big deal, and it wouldn't matter if they tolerated it for a while.

Xie Wenzai also respected and trusted Marshal Zhou, the Duke of Zhenguo, and believed that he could deal with all the troublesome people from Beijing and maintain the stability of the border army.

Hai Jiao originally felt the same as Xie Wenzai, but now that his little sister reminded him, he realized that he had ignored the confidant sent by the emperor.

The emperor will take into account the overall situation and maintain the stability of the country.

The Duke of Zhen Guo will also consider the overall situation and will not offend the emperor because of temporary gains and losses.

So will the confidants sent by the emperor faithfully follow the emperor's wishes?

At the moment, Hai Jiao doesn't know this person's identity or his own position, so it's really hard to make a judgment. Sun Ge's family is also the emperor's confidant. Who dares to guarantee that the generals sent by the emperor to Chang'an will not be Sun Ge's allies?

If such a person openly said that he was acting under the emperor's orders, but secretly made small moves with the intention of harming the Zhou family, would the emperor believe him or the Zhou family?

Hai Jiao couldn't help but pace back and forth in the room: "If that person is too messy, the emperor won't believe it, right?"

Haitang sat down by the kang: "Didn't anyone mess around in the last life? Does the emperor believe it?"

Haijiao stopped and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In the previous life, some of the sons of Duke Zhen who were capable of commanding the border troops were tortured to death, injured, and crippled by the Sun family. As soon as Duke Zhen died, the Sun family encouraged the emperor to directly seize military power and hand over the northwest frontier army to the idiot Sun Yonglu. What kind of chaos? !

But what did the emperor say from beginning to end?

If Sun Yonglu hadn't lost on the battlefield, offended his original military commanders and allies, and been pulled off his horse, the northwest frontier army would have suffered huge losses at the hands of this idiot!

How many outstanding generals like Zhou Sujun were innocently killed by him? Why did the emperor ever care?

Hai Jiao sighed and sat down on the edge of the kang, speechless with his sister.

He couldn't trust the emperor too much and couldn't be led by his cousin Xie Wenzai.

Xie Wenzai had only seen the Zhou family in charge of the northwest frontier army in his life, and had never seen the Zhou family lose power, so he blindly believed that the Zhou family would survive this crisis safely. But I have seen the reef before. He knew how selfish the Sun family could be, regardless of the life and death of the soldiers and civilians in the northwest, how cold and ruthless the emperor was, and how naive and undefended the Zhou family could be. How could he be influenced by the people around him and completely forget his experiences in his previous life? Things that the Zhou family couldn't think of, things that my cousin couldn't think of, he should have thought of them!

In his previous life, even Sun Yonglu had received the handsome seal! The emperor could allow this kind of thing to happen. Who dares to say that he would not be cruel to the Zhou family because of false accusations from his confidants?

Besides, now that the northwest border is at peace, he doesn't have to worry about who will lead the troops in the war!

Hai Jiao gritted his teeth: "Sometimes I actually don't understand why the emperor would allow his treacherous ministers to torment the northwest soldiers in order to fight for power?! What benefit does the Sun family gain from gaining military power? Doesn't he worry about his country being invaded by foreign enemies? !”

Haitang sighed: "The northwest border city is too far away from the capital. The Hu people have never reached the Central Plains in this dynasty. They can't even cross Chang'an. They are thousands of miles away from the capital. What does the emperor have to worry about?"

Haijiao closed his eyes. He knew what the little sister said was right. When he was in the capital in his previous life, he could often feel that the people around him didn't pay much attention to the situation in the northwest frontier because it was too far away. Some people even think that there is no population there, only sand. Rather than risking human lives to prevent the invasion of the barbarians, it is better to give those wastelands to the barbarians and let the two countries do business in peace and harmony. Wouldn't it be great?

Because he had lived in Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Guazhou for many years since he was a child, he was very familiar with and missed everything there. He always paid attention to the news about the northwest frontier army and loved to refute those ridiculous remarks, but he seemed very unsociable. Only a young military attaché of the Jin Yiwei who had been stationed in Chang'an could understand his thoughts, but he was from the capital, and his mood was different from that of a native border soldier like him.

Haijiao was silent for a while and then said: "I don't know who Emperor Deguang will send. If he expects someone to come to seize the power of the border army, then he has to find someone who has experience in leading troops and has military merits who can convince the crowd. . But there are really too few such generals in the court, and it is impossible for the few to abandon their original errands and come to the northwest to be inferior to others. However, Emperor Deguang sent people here, if it was just for surveillance And investigating the Zhou family, there are several candidates."

Although he had only been a small spy under the Jin Yiwei in his previous life, he still knew the capable generals under Emperor Deguang because he had experienced the change of command of the Jin Yiwei and several political turmoils in the capital. In particular, at least half of the senior military attachés in the Jinyiwei are good at surveillance and investigation. They are skilled in prisons and can also do infiltration investigations. If these people come, Haijiao's memories from his previous life can be of some help. He can know who is fair in dealing with things, who is a die-hard loyalist of the Sun family, who is greedy for money, lustful and easy to bribe, and who is good at using underhanded tactics to deceive people.

With this information, he can figure out the personality and preferences of the visitor in advance and come up with targeted countermeasures.

After listening to his brother's words, Haitang felt that the current information was still insufficient, but it was better than being blind and not knowing anything.

She said to her brother: "Brother, I will go to Sister Wenjun a few more times and try to find out who is going to replace General Zhou. If he is someone you are familiar with, when he arrives in Chang'an, you must try to find out as soon as possible. Be clear about his position and remind your cousin and the people in the Duke’s Mansion.”

Hai Jiao nodded: "I will also go to Yijun to inquire. He is now highly valued by the elders, and he must know more information than Miss Wenjun."

Speaking of Zhou Yijun, Haitang remembered something: "General is going to Beijing to take up a post on Thursday, will Zhou Yijun go with him?"

Hai Jiao shook his head: "Mrs. Zhou Yijun will follow to take office, but Zhou Yijun's brothers and sisters will stay in Chang'an City. We will wait until General Zhou and his wife settle down in the capital before deciding whether to take their children over. But Zhou Yijun is almost here. The young man of the family is old enough to join the army for training. Even if others go to the capital, he will probably stay in the northwest. The Zhenguo Association has arranged for him to join the army. If he goes to the capital, what can he do? He can't Maybe I am going to study for the imperial examination, but am I going to join the imperial army and live my life? I am afraid that if I stay in a prosperous place like the capital for a long time, I will become useless."

When Hai Jiao heard that Zhou Yijun was not leaving, he thought he could get along with his new friend for a few more years, but now he knew that it was just a delusion. If Zhou Yijun doesn't go to the capital, it doesn't mean that the president will stay in Chang'an. He may go to a border town to practice at any time, possibly in Ningxia or Suzhou. As for Haijiao himself, if he leaves Chang'an in a few years, he will only go in the direction of Zhili.

One goes west and the other goes east, and they will only get farther and farther away from each other.

The life of a descendant of a family of generals in the northwest is inherently different from the life of a grandson of an ordinary civilian official in the military.

(End of this chapter)