The reason why Fan Yi suspected that Pangzi had other intentions was because Pangzi did not allow them to get close to his sphere of influence while Paradigm was running errands. This resulted in Paradigm having almost no idea what Pangzi was doing.

Although Ponzi looked down on Paradigm and disdained to associate with them, no matter how you look at it, this kind of behavior seems to be trying to cover up.

As an in-law family of the Xu family, in the eyes of ordinary people, the Pang family should follow Xu Minglang's lead. However, family marriage is a combination of interests, and it is difficult to be completely united.

As the in-law family of the Zhao family, the Yang family had a conflict with the Zhao family before due to the matter of being demoted.

If Zhao Ning hadn't shown extraordinary strength in Qiu Hunt, which made Yang suspect that Zhao Xuanji had a big plan in mind, he wouldn't have cleared up his suspicions so quickly.

After Zhao Ning and Fan Yi briefly discussed the matter and arranged some next actions, Fan Yi left the wine shop through the back door. With the help of Pinlou's staff, she didn't have to worry about her whereabouts being exposed.

As soon as Fan Yi stepped forward, Wei Wuxian stepped into the threshold with his back foot. He sat down in front of Zhao Ning. Seeing that Zhao Ning had almost finished eating and drinking, he quickly called for the waiter to serve food and meat.

He still had a lot of things to do tonight, and he couldn't drink. This made him quite uncomfortable and he smacked his lips several times.

"How is the situation?" Zhao Ning asked while eating.

"not simple."

Wei Wuxian said rather solemnly, "Their strength is not weak, much stronger than we expected before, and all of them are experienced elites.

"Not to mention the Jianghu organization like Yipinlou, which is currently unable to be dealt with. I took the scouts and elite spies selected from the army and personally watched them for so long. I finally discovered some of their flaws, and I was almost discovered.

"Right now is our busiest time. A lot of people from all parties have been mobilized, and there are more loopholes than usual. They chose to take action at this time, which can be said to be very cunning.

"If Yanping hadn't been our capital city and we had deep roots here, otherwise I wouldn't have been sure - no, it's not that I wasn't sure, it's absolutely impossible to do this. Maybe I would get involved myself!"

Zhao Ning nodded. Since Wei Wuxian said this, it meant that things were done according to the previous plan and there were no mistakes. He only needed to know this most critical point right now.

After a large bowl of Yangchun noodles was served, Wei Wuxian picked up his chopsticks, but didn't move them for a while, and finally sighed:

"Brother Ning, I never thought before that these people could be so bold and so difficult to deal with! Great Qi has been at peace for too long. Both the princes in the court and the elite soldiers in the army have been too lazy. This is very embarrassing.

Danger!"

Zhao Ning said nothing.

He had witnessed too many such facts in his previous life, and there was no need to comment.

...

Zi Shi.

Emperor Song Zhi received several reports from Dali Temple and had real-time understanding of the situation of Zhao's case.

"Although each case has not been fully investigated, and it cannot be concluded early today or tomorrow, based on the current situation, the most likely result is that today's cases against Zhao are basically based on family background.

Conspiracy and frame-up.”

Song Zhi stood under the eaves of the Fengxue Pavilion, looking at the dimly lit Yanping City with his hands behind his hands. His back was straight, and his whole person was like a sword in a sheath, with a noble and restrained demeanor.

He continued: "Judging from the more than ten cases that have been investigated so far, the Zheng family, Lu family and other families will have to pay a heavy price afterwards, and will probably make the same mistakes as the Liu family.

"The rest of the scholar family will not decline, but they will be challenged by the generals to some extent. This time, the Zhao family and the generals won very cleanly."

When he said these words, his voice was calm, without any emotion, and he could not distinguish between likes and dislikes.

The Ouchi manager who was accompanying him, Jing Xinmo, leaned over and whispered:

"I didn't expect that the family's actions would be so big this time and expose so many tricks! If they win, they can kill the Zhao family directly, but if they lose now, the loss will be too heavy."

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Song Zhi's mouth, "What do you mean by the big companion, I should keep my family status?"

Jing Xinmo said calmly: "National matters are decided by His Majesty, how dare I say anything?

"The old slave just thinks that it's okay if the Zheng family and the Lu family fall. If the family status is damaged too much, I'm afraid the Jiangmen's power will completely come back. At that time, the Jiangmen will bully the family in the court, and the court will be in trouble again.

Messy.

"Only when the strength of both sides is balanced, and no one can do anything to the other, can the court be quieter, which is beneficial to the country and the country."

Song Zhi nodded slightly, "My eldest companion is right."

He didn't have many words, so Jing Xinmo couldn't guess what he was thinking in his heart, so he could only stand aside quietly.

As a confidant of the emperor, if you want to maintain your status, you must of course share the emperor's worries, so if there are things that are not convenient for the emperor to say, Jing Xinmo will help the emperor to say them.

But now that the emperor was unpredictable, he did not dare to say anything easily, for fear that what he said would not be in line with the emperor's wishes.

"Send an order to the Minister of Dali Temple to pay attention to the discretion when examining cases. Don't worry about the Zheng family and the Lu family. Cases involving other families should not be investigated so clearly." The emperor finally made a decision.

"yes."

This is how you should bow your body in respect of new things.

The emperor's intention was very clear, and Zhao and Jiangmen could not be allowed to gain too much power.

When Jing Xinmo went down to arrange things, Song Zhi stared at the magnificent and magnificent Imperial City and the boundless and orderly Yanping City, and murmured in a voice that only he could hear:

"Things must be done step by step. The bigger the task, the more slowly you need to do it. If you take big steps, it will be easy to expose your flaws and let others notice your intentions... This is not what Mingzhu did."

...

It was late at night and no one was quiet. Pang Pang, who was wearing an official robe, came out of the side door of Jingzhao Mansion and saw an elegant carriage waiting on the street. The body was engraved with a deer pattern, which was the totem of the Pang family.

After entering the carriage, Pang Xiu knelt down and saluted the middle-aged man in front of him, "Father, why did you come here in person?"

Pang Qi looked at Pang Xiang and saw that there were bruises on the bridge of his nose, and couldn't help but look slightly gloomy. Today, Pang Xiu took the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen servant to the dock, but was knocked unconscious by Zhao Ning in public. Pang Qi knew that

.

"How's the injury?"

"It's no longer a problem."

"Do what you do tonight well. As long as it's done, this boy Zhao Ning will become a prisoner, and you will have plenty of opportunities for revenge."

"Father, don't worry, your son knows what he should do."

Pang Qi nodded, "As long as this is done, we will all get unimaginable benefits, and precious cultivation resources will be at our fingertips. As our cultivation improves, it won't take long for us to become powerful figures in the family."

Speaking of this, Pang Qi's eyes flashed, and he said loudly: "Even if you are the next head of the family, you can't compete for it!" Pang Qi's heart moved, and he couldn't help but secretly clenched his fists.

If he had heard Pang Qi say this five years ago, he would have thought that the other party was joking, and he might have even murmured in his heart that he was wishful thinking.

They are not direct descendants of the Pang family, just side branches.

Although Pang Qi is a brother to the current head of the Pang family, he was only born to the maid of the previous head of the family. He was a product of drunkenness. When the maid died in childbirth, she was not even recognized as a concubine.

Pang Qi was a marginal figure in the Pang family, and was just a hair away from being qualified to stay in the Pang family's mansion in the capital. If he didn't have a decent level of cultivation, he would have to travel outside and leave the Pang family's center of power.

Because of this, there are too many people with higher status than them in Pang's mansion. Five years ago, Pang Qi was just an ordinary manager of Pang's, with almost no power in his hands. He was just a busy worker who was ordered around.

life.

If nothing unexpected happens, Pang Qi will never become an elder of the Pang family until his death. As for Pang Ni, when he becomes an adult, he will definitely be sent to the Pang family's local property, and he will not even be qualified to serve as an official.

Of course Pang Qi was not willing to give in, and even harbored resentment. No matter how he was the brother of the head of the family, he still had to salute the head's legitimate son, which was really painful. Moreover, Pang Qi was ambitious and wanted to get ahead.

Pang Zhen knew this very clearly.

Pang Zhen remembered that things took a turn for the better five years ago.

Pang Qi, who was in the middle stage of the Yuanshen Realm, suddenly improved his cultivation speed greatly, and soon became a person in the late stage of the Yuanshen Realm. This made him one of the few masters in the family, and his status immediately became different.

After that, Pang Zhen was continuously given various cultivation elixirs secretly by Pang Qi, each of which was of extraordinary value, far exceeding the wealth that Pang Qi could get from Pang's.

With this, Pang Zhen gradually became a leader among the younger generation of the Pang family. He was valued by the family and trained with all his efforts, and his importance rose again and again.

Compared with Zhao Ning, his realm is inferior, but at the age of sixteen, how many in the entire Da Qi Dynasty are in the late Qi Control realm?

Pang Zhen asked Pang Qi where those cultivation resources came from, but the latter just told him not to ask any more questions and to just practice hard.

"This is the black rhinoceros armor. You will put it on later. Although you will not participate in the fighting tonight, you still have to be prepared."

Pang Qi handed Pang Yan a small and exquisite talisman, "It's getting late, go back and prepare. When the time comes, he will take the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen out."

Hearing the three words "Black Rhinoceros Armor", Pang Xuan was shocked. This is a second-grade talisman armor, which is extremely rare even in aristocratic families! With this talisman armor in his possession, practitioners below the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm will be able to

You can't kill him with one blow.

After Pang Zhen got off the bus, Pang Qi took the carriage back to Pang's mansion, closing his eyes and meditating all the way.

Since receiving the favor from those people five years ago, his cultivation has been promoted to the late stage of Yuanshen Realm, and he has jumped from a peripheral figure in the Pang family to a powerful elder in the family. Over the years, he has been receiving many benefits from them, and he has almost never been short of money.

Correspondingly, he is also constantly revealing the information the other party wants to the other party and helping the other party do things.

Some of these information were Pang's secrets, some were about the family status of other scholars, and some were even the secrets about the affairs of the court that he learned from Pang Qingde, and the overall situation of the dispute between the family and the generals.

Over the years, the other party wanted more and more things. Sometimes, in order to discover some secrets and cooperate with the other party's caravan to make profits, Pang Qi had to take certain risks.

Until this big action tonight.
Chapter completed!