If we were to say that the most noble son of the Tang Dynasty, it must be Xia Houning, the Marquis of Anxing.

Today's nephew, the eldest son of the country, the marquis of the king of the country, and the dragon scale guard who serves as the dragon scale guard. From the moment he was born, he was shining and has countless people who had extravagant people.

 The Prime Minister has two sons. Compared with his younger brother, Xiahou Ning obviously has high hopes in the Xiahou family.

Since he was a child, he knew that sooner or later he would be responsible for the rise and fall of the Xiahou family, so Xiahou Ning practiced literature and martial arts since he was a child. He had very strict requirements for himself. He did not have the extravagance of ordinary playboys, but because of his extraordinary background, his temperament

Having a high self-esteem is always aloof and never cares about the feelings of others.

The Xiahou family has been fighting with Princess Sheyue in the court for nearly ten years. Of course, Xiahou Ning also knows the situation of the Xiahou family.

Although the civil and military officials of the whole dynasty shouted long live, no one in the world has ever really lived ten thousand years. Today's saints seek Taoism and immortality, which seems extremely ridiculous to Xia Houning. Throughout the ages, many kings have wanted to live forever, but in the end, none of them have

He can stay on the throne for hundreds of years.

 The saint is already half a hundred years old. Even if he takes elixirs regularly and takes good care of himself, he will eventually die.

 The saint has no prince. After her death, the succession to the throne will be the most important thing in the empire.

No one in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty dared to mention this, but many people thought about it.

 The Xiahou family, who is involved in this, must of course prepare for a rainy day.

Xiahou Ning knew very well that once She Yue inherited the throne, the Xiahou family would face disaster. This was a sharp sword hanging over the Xiahou family. Therefore, the Xiahou family had suppressed She Yue in these years, certainly to fight for power.

, but more for the future of the Xiahou family.

 Back then, the Xiahou family supported the current saint to ascend the throne. From that day on, the Xiahou family had no way out.

 No one knows what the saint’s thoughts are like.

It is of course possible that she will pass the throne to her biological daughter, but if she considers the life and death of the Xiahou family, she may not make another choice.

In the mind of the Prime Minister, the best choice is for the saint to adopt Xiahou Ning as his adopted son and change Xiahou Ning's surname to Li. In this way, Xiahou Ning, who has changed his ancestry, will become a member of the Li royal family in name. This means

the possibility of inheriting the throne.

 But Xiahou Ning always believed that the fate of the Xiahou family must be in his own hands.

The biggest threat to the Xiahou family comes from She Yue. Although the Xiahou family has been suppressing She Yue's power over the years, She Yue, relying on Jiangnan as its backing, has always had the strength to compete with the Xiahou family, and the Xiahou family knows it very well.

, to completely defeat She Yue, we must destroy the foundation of She Yue, which is Jiangnan.

The Xiahou family has been thinking about controlling Jiangnan all these years, but the Jiangnan family is extremely supportive of She Yue. The Xiahou family has spent countless efforts, but they have never been able to extend their tentacles to Jiangnan. Jiangnan has become a forbidden area that the Xiahou family cannot enter. .

 This time the chaos in Jiangnan is a golden opportunity for the Xiahou family.

Xiahou Ning knew very well that as long as he controlled Jiangnan and the empire's treasury, She Yue was no match for the Xiahou family. Even if the saint really died one day and passed the throne to She Yue, the Xiahou family would still have the power to control the government and the public. .

  What if She Yue becomes the queen? She is just a puppet of the Xiahou family.

The purge of Hangzhou was planned by Xiahou Ning. Although the Prime Minister did not tell him exactly how to do it, he had his own idea in his heart. He wanted to wipe out all the forces in Hangzhou that were originally loyal to She Yue and use blood to intimidate him. After the Jiangnan clans have eliminated the old clans in Hangzhou, the Xiahou family is fully capable of supporting the new clans on this land.

Everything seems to be going according to plan. The powerful families in Hangzhou are already in prison. Those families that were once die-hard supporters of She Yue, such as the Lin family in Hangzhou, have also been destroyed.

She Yue couldn't escape in Suzhou, and even if she rushed over now, it would be too late.

 But he did not expect that She Yue would send Qin Xiao.

Xia Houning had met Qin Xiao once and was still very impressed by him, but of course An Xinghou, who was arrogant by nature, could not take down a mere young minister from Dali Temple in his eyes.

But after Qin Xiao arrived in Hangzhou, he first captured the troops he sent to Jiaxing to arrest the Wei clan, and even killed General Lang Shen Du, and then simply took control of the Hangzhou camp. These two things, No matter which one was involved, it was all against Tai Sui. Looking at the civil and military forces of the Tang Dynasty and Manchu Dynasty, I am afraid that no one dared to tease the tiger's beard like this, but that Lord Shaoqing did it.

If he were an impulsive noble son, he would probably lead the Shence Army to kill him directly.

 But Xia Houning is not a reckless man.

Qin Xiao did these two things that other officials did not dare to do, which only proved that Qin Xiao was confident, and he quickly thought of Qin Xiao's identity as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

 Dali Temple Shaoqing, if it were in the past, even ordinary officials in Kyoto would not take him seriously, let alone Anxing Hou Xiahou Ning.

But now Xia Houning has keenly felt that something is wrong.

He knew that She Yue would never sit idly by after learning about the situation in Hangzhou, but Xiahou Ning was confident. He brought the Shence Army to suppress the rebellion, and used the Hangzhou prefecture's Yamen to clean up the Hangzhou aristocratic families, all of which were to quell the rebellion.

In the name of She Yue, even if She Yue comes to stop it in person, he will not be afraid.

 But he didn't expect that it would be Qin Xiao who came over.

 There is no doubt that She Yue clearly wanted to come to Hangzhou to overturn the case as the Shaoqing of Qin Xiao Dali Temple.

Although no one can stop the Shence Army from arresting the rebels, the Shence Army had the final say before about whether they arrested the rebels. But now that Qin Xiao is here, it is no longer the Shence Army's decision.

What made Xiahou Ning even more angry was that as soon as Qin Xiao arrived, Fan Yang, the governor of Hangzhou who had previously pretended to be dead, immediately came to life.

Not only that, Chang Shi Sha Deyu and Magistrate Mao Yizhi, who had already knelt at their feet, immediately changed their faces and quickly hugged Fan Yang.

By this time, Xia Houning had realized that it was not as easy to hold the land of Hangzhou in his hands as he thought.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Xiahou family has never penetrated into Jiangnan. On the contrary, it was because the Zhao family of Duke Cheng was executed and the household department was controlled by the prime minister, which directly caused the entire Jiangnan family to be hostile to the Xiahou family. In addition, on behalf of Jiangnan

She Yue, who had family interests, was at odds with the Xiahou clan, so the whole Jiangnan was filled with hatred for the Xiahou clan.

　　Earlier, he went on a killing spree in Hangzhou. Under the military power, the officials and gentry in Hangzhou remained silent, and no one dared to stand up and resist.

Because of this, the entire Shence Army vanguard camp, including Xia Houning, had the illusion that the Hangzhou officials and gentry were just a bunch of lambs to be slaughtered, to be killed and taken.

After all, he is the most noble son in the empire. After all, he is the military commander guarding Kyoto. Who among the officials and gentry in Hangzhou dares to step out?

But before Qin Xiao entered the city, officials led by Fan Yang, the governor of Hangzhou, had already begun to fight back. This made Xiahou Ning immediately understand that the previous group of officials looked like sheep, but it was just an illusion.

 The district magistrate Mao Yizhi dared to send a large number of case files to the governor's office, and the three giants in Hangzhou's official circles also joined forces and set up a tit-for-tat stance with the Shence Army.

Xia Houning didn’t pay much attention to those case files at first.

 And in his plan, he had already made plans from the beginning.

Mao Yizhi recorded every case into files. This was his duty. Xia Houning naturally knew that if those files were really investigated, they would not stand up to scrutiny. But who in Hangzhou would dare to examine them carefully? Wait until the crackdown

The plan came to an end, and someone was sent to sneak into the prefect's Yamen and burn all the case files with a fire. In this way, the convicted cases had no case files, and naturally they could not go through the case files to commit crimes again. Mao Yi was unable to protect the case files, and was either exempted or killed.

Then it depends on your mood.

 This plan can be said to be impeccable.

 But he missed Qin Xiao.

 The appearance of Qin Xiao caused a fatal flaw in this plan.

He wanted to send someone to burn the files, but it was too late. He wanted to snatch the files, but Mao Yizhi sent them to the governor's office first.

Xiahou Ning knew that even if he had a prominent status, the Tang Dynasty had national laws. If he acted unscrupulously and ignored the national laws, She Yue would find an excuse and would definitely use it to make trouble, so he went directly to the governor's office to snatch the case files.

It is absolutely impossible. After all, Fan Yang is a feudal official. If he breaks into the governor's office without any reason, he will inevitably be heavily impeached, and it will also make the governors of various states in the Tang Dynasty suspicious of the Xiahou family.

  Carefully planned the assassin's assassination, sent people to the governor's mansion to capture the assassin, and took the opportunity to search for the case file. However, Chen Xi suddenly broke out of the purple prison and asked Qiao Ruixin to bring back the assassin's body that did not exist at all. The carefully designed plan was immediately ruined.

This Anxing Houjing suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Except for She Yue, no one could make him feel like this. But now because of a young minister from Dali Temple whom he didn't like at all, that sense of crisis hit him again.

 It was almost dawn, but Anxinghou and several of his generals had not slept all night.

"Master Marquis, do you want to send someone to sneak into the governor's house and steal the case files?" General Lang Qi Shen saw An Xinghou's solemn expression and couldn't help but ask softly.

Xiahou Ning not only commands thousands of elite soldiers of the Shence Army, but also has four bodyguards around him to ensure his absolute safety. These four personal bodyguards are certainly not ordinary people. They are three fourth-level masters and even a fifth-level practitioner.

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Qiao Ruixin frowned and said: "The Governor's Mansion is already on alert. It will not be easy to send people in again. Moreover, Chen Xi from the Ziyi Prison is now in the Governor's Mansion. In addition to him, he also has people from the Ziyi Prison following him. How many people are there?

It is still unclear who the person is. To send someone now is to throw yourself into a trap." Xiang Xiahou Ning said: "Master Hou, even if Qin Xiao really relies on those case files to reverse the case and find out the flaws in it, Mao Yizhi will be primarily responsible.

In every case, the evidence is first handed over to Mao Yizhi, and only after Mao Yizhi agrees, we send people to arrest him together, so the matter will not implicate the Marquis."

Xia Houning's angular face was terrifyingly indifferent. He glanced at Qiao Ruixin and said coldly: "Are I worried about implicating myself? If Qin Xiao really overturns the case, the plan to eliminate the Hangzhou family will be in vain. Even if Mao Yi is cured,

So what if he is punished with death?"

Qi Shen's heart was filled with fury.
Chapter completed!