Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 552 Cold War
In Wuyi Lane, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Standing at the entrance of the street and looking inward, the first thing you see is Langya Wang's majestic archway, Hengmen. Originally, there should be a gathering place for horses and horses, but now, many of the vehicles of the princes and ministers are gone, and they are replaced by stacked ones. soldier.

It is not inferior or even surpassed by the Danyang Princess Mansion further in the street. Although the gate of the Princess Mansion is not as grand as Wang's, there are only a lot more soldiers on display, and even the high walls Archery towers were built inside, and there were many armored soldiers going up and down.

The gates of these two mansions are closed, with a posture of not approaching strangers, which makes people shudder when they see them from a distance, and dare not stay in the vicinity for a long time, even if they have to pass by, they still have to bite the bullet Passing by in a hurry, lest I be affected by the tense atmosphere.

The vast majority of people in the capital didn't know about this at first, and the news was only circulated in small circles, and then spread outwards one by one.By the next day, the news spread almost throughout Jiankang City.It's just that everyone's circle is different, and the information they get is also different.

Although the news has spread, it is rare that no one talks about it outside.Probably because the amount of information contained in this matter is too large to be discussed lightly.Everyone who heard about this matter was inquiring in all directions, trying to learn as much as possible about the inside story.But they often hold their own opinions and cannot agree on what to do.

The most widely circulated version at the moment is that the Shen family was displeased with Wang Bin going south to Kuaiji to check and balance his family, so the Shen family's son-in-law sent someone to trap and kill Wang Bin's son in the capital.The second is that the Langya Wang family was self-professional in the countryside, and even the descendants of the direct descendants personally went into battle to bully the villagers, but they were violently counterattacked by the villagers, and then died in the village.

Although Shen Zhezi lived at home, he did not give up collecting information from the outside world. When these two completely different versions were placed on his desk, he couldn't help but smile wryly.

After Shen Zhezi got the news, he only notified the people close to him to buy him time to respond, but he didn't let anyone spread the news.He believes that the same is true for Director Wang, and he will never easily disclose more inside information without getting more feedback.

But the two theories that are currently on Shen Zhezi's desk are getting bigger and bigger in the spread, and all kinds of embellished theories have already been spread.For example, how Shen Zhezi selected the dead, and even told people when to dispatch; or how the Wang family blackmailed the villagers, and even prostitutes.

Although it's just all kinds of pervasive rumors, it can be seen from this that the situation is about to get out of control!
The death of one of Wang Xing was not just the death of a child of the Wang family, the two families involved, of course the Langya Wang family, Wu Xing and the Shen family also had a profound influence in the current situation.Because of the strong political attributes and factions of each of the two, no matter how simple things are, they will inevitably be over-interpreted either intentionally or unintentionally.

For Shen Zhezi, Wang Xingzhi's death was really an accident, and his handling method was also very different from the past, so it did not cause any greater changes.His reaction seemed violent, but in fact he had always been conservative. He was only enhancing his self-protection ability, and did not send any offensive signals.

This seems to be inconsistent with Shen Zhezi's old style of fearing that the world will not be chaotic, but in fact the reason is very simple. His family is ashore, and the stability of the situation is more conducive to his family's interests.Among other things, if there is a chaos, the manpower and material resources invested by a large number of Wuzhong villagers in Jiankang may be lost.

Wang Xingzhi's death did more harm than good to him, it was an unexpected accident that he did not expect.Especially in this sudden situation, he can't get any benefits at all, so he hopes to calm things down.

Even if it can be discovered in this incident that the Lei family, the Hu'er family, with the support of the Wang family, ran amok in the village, and the fish and meat villagers, and then poured the anger inspired by the slave hunting craze on the Langya Wang family.But one thing needs to be vigilant, no matter how violent this emotional wave is, Shen Zhezi cannot control it.Even if the Wang family was uprooted at this point, Shen Zhezi was not ready to occupy all the lost land of the Wang family.

Moreover, this kind of emotion is irrational, will not consider the consequences at all, and will expand the attack surface without a bottom line.Even if Shen Zhezi could use it for his own use, the best result would be that after the Wang family was wiped out, he brazenly launched the Northern Expedition without compromising national power, and went to Jiangbei to kill people time and time again in vain.Once his pace slows down a little, he will be abandoned by those fanatical people without mercy, and he will be swallowed by the wave he created.

This kind of foresight is not that Shen Zhezi is scaring himself.This has happened throughout the history of mankind, in periods of civilization as well as of barbarism, when the populace has fallen into complete fanaticism.Of course, this situation is not all bad things, sweeping away all the old order, and rebuilding the wasteland.

But the problem is that the Northland is now in the late period of Shi Le's rule, and a basic order has been established, and Jiangdong has no chance of winning.And even if Jiehu is wiped out, Di and Qiang who are entrenched in Guanzhong, and Xianbei who peeps from the south of Liaodi are enough to become the last straw that overwhelms the camel!At the end of the crossbow, the arrow cannot penetrate Lu Jin.In this world, the most indispensable thing is enemies, the crazier they are, the faster they will be defeated!

This was a situation that Shen Zhezi didn't want to happen. He concentrated his forces near the capital, and besides warning Director Wang, he was also guarding against this situation.He didn't want the flame he ignited to ignite untimely, and he could only burn himself that way.

Therefore, even though he had put on a tense posture right now, Shen Zhezi had been ordering his troops not to move rashly, not wanting the situation to get out of control.

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There is also a high pavilion in Wang's mansion, although it is not comparable to the Shenyuan Zhaixing Building on the Qinhuai River, but it is enough to overlook the entire Wuyi Lane.

Director Wang is wandering on the high pavilion right now, looking at the heavily guarded Princess Mansion not far away, his brows are full of sadness.

Knowing that King Langya is living in the Shen family as a guest, Director Wang immediately sent people into Jianping Garden to criticize in front of the Empress Dowager that Zong Wang, especially the direct relatives of kings like King Langya, should not live in the minister's house for a long time.But the Empress Dowager's reaction surprised him, she refused to see anyone, but it caused people to spread the word that King Langya was only visiting relatives, and warned the visitors not to interpret too much.

The empress dowager's reaction was too strange, and the attitude of defending the Shen family was obvious, which caught Wang Dao a little off guard.But before he had time to think about it, he had to face the ensuing troubles.

In the early morning, good friends came to the door one after another, including Zhuge Hui and Cai Mo who had an appointment yesterday. These people denounced Shen for being shameless, touched Wang's dignity again and again, and didn't take their Qingxu family seriously, it was unbearable!These people almost unanimously expressed their support for Director Wang, and hoped that Director Wang could take this opportunity to deal a head-on blow to the Wuzhong raccoons of the Shen family!
Although Director Wang was dealing with these people's pleasantries, he was smiling wryly in his heart.In this situation, he had already realized that Shen's was involved in Wang Xing's death.Because of this, he felt that this was a rare opportunity to unite the villagers and directly cut off the rising momentum of Shen's Wuzhong portal with the momentum of mourning soldiers.

As for how Wang Xingzhi died, the inside story is not important, since his death brought the situation back to normal, it is considered a well-deserved death.

However, due to the delay in the news and the miscalculation of the attitude of the Empress Dowager in Yuanzhong, Director Wang's situation suddenly became embarrassing.In the early morning, he even had his chariots and horses ready, and as soon as he received the imperial edict expressing his dissatisfaction with the Shen family, he immediately sent people to Jingzhou and Xuzhou to inform them that the Shen family had kidnapped King Langya.

But now, because there is no statement from the empress dowager, this big move is completely useless.He couldn't force Shen to hand over King Langya, and he didn't completely seal off Jiankang City. He couldn't stop Shen Zhezi at all. The other party could bring King Langya back to his hometown at any time, or even confront him for a long time in the capital!
The mood of the villagers has been mobilized, but Director Wang suddenly casts a trap and is weak in follow-up, which makes him feel anxious.At noon, as the emperor's teacher, he wanted to go to Jianping Garden to find out the attitude of the empress dowager carefully, but guests came to the door one after another, so there was no time to leave.

Later, the emperor sent someone to send a mourning post, but it was Wen Qiao who personally delivered it at the door, telling him to handle family affairs with peace of mind and not to rush back to Taiwan.

Taking advantage of the fact that some of the villagers left, Director Wang immediately withdrew, using his grief as an excuse to avoid seeing visitors, and he did not want to deal with the poverty of the villagers.He didn't know that the reason why the villagers were so enthusiastic was because of the death of his family's children, but because they wanted to use his family to eliminate the status and influence of the Shen family and even the Wu people in the capital, so that they could share their food.

But the best time is no more, because Director Wang did not occupy Dunan here, he then asked Zhao Yin to block Qingxi and occupy the Fuzhou Mountain vacated by King Qiao, but this move can only be used as a slight deterrent It's just some timid Wu people living here.

Looking across at the closed Princess Mansion, Wang Dao had a wry smile on his lips.In the past, the people who could push him to this point were important ministers like Diao Xie, who were supported by the emperor, or Yu Liang, a well-known emperor's uncle, but he didn't expect that he was forced to be hesitant by a junior this time. dilemma.

In fact, Wang Dao felt resentment toward Shen Zhezi at this time. A descendant of his direct line died in his family. It is reasonable to come to the door to say hello, right?But this kid is usually very respectful, and whenever something happens, he immediately turns his face, and doesn't even communicate with each other, it's really unreasonable!

Of course, Director Wang is also very clear that once Shen Zhezi comes to the door, he will have to face the question of how much to pay.This kid is too shameless, to be so tough, it is completely a posture of refusing to give.In this way, even if Director Wang does not complain about his family, but only considers the feelings of the villagers, he must not shrink back!
Now he just hopes that King Langya can leave the Shen family's right and wrong place as soon as possible, and then forcefully recruit Shen Zhezi to discuss a way to deal with the aftermath.

Of course, apart from Duzhong, Director Wang also wrote letters to Wang Shu and Wang Bin respectively, and Wang Shu's account was more detailed.Earlier, when Wang Bin entered Kuaiji, Shen Chong went directly to Chen Jiangzhou as a deterrent, but now Wang Shu can do the opposite, let's see if Shen Chong dares to stand on his own in the southeast!
As for Wang Bin, he was ashamed to speak out, and he didn't tell more details, just a brief notice.He didn't even say much about whether Wang Bin should return to the capital.But in fact, he hoped that Wang Bin could stay in Kuaiji and cooperate with Wang Shu, so as to tear Shen Chong's control over Kuaiji.And if Wang Bin returns to the capital, he may link up with the villagers, intensify the conflict, and make irrational actions.

Standing upstairs for a while, Director Wang slumped downstairs, and ordered his family to start preparing for the funeral, making preparations according to his eldest son Wang Yue's regulations.In addition to expressing my apology to Wang Bin, I also hope to make the scene bigger and show people's sorrow.

It's just unexpected that the Wuzhong clan, which originally lived in a small township in Wuzhong, has grown so much that his family has to hide and mourn in order to seize a little political opportunity.

(End of this chapter)