"Uncle Ma, it's not that I want to be enemies of those families, but that if Datang wants to eliminate the hidden dangers in the country, these families must be completely disintegrated, otherwise it will only leave endless troubles, and this time they will provoke me first!" Li Xiu sighed at this time and said, originally he did not have any personal enmity with the family, but after today's incident, he had already listed the family as one of the targets that must be destroyed.

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Ma Ye couldn't help but be silent for a while, and after a while, he sighed and said: "You are now the head of the family, and you have always done things safely, and you must have your own reasons for doing things, so I won't say anything, but I hope you are careful in everything, after all, the power of the family is too huge, and they can't assassinate them today, so it's hard to guarantee that there will be a second time." ”

"Uncle Ma, don't worry, this time Pingyang led his troops into the city, just to demonstrate to those families, and His Majesty also expressed his attitude, even if those families have the courage to do so, they won't dare to touch me in a short time, not to mention that I will usually be more careful, and I will never let them have a chance!" When Li Xiu said the end, he couldn't help but show a resolute look on his face.

Speaking of which, there are not many things that Li Xiu is determined to do, but destroying the family is one of them, although this matter is also very difficult for him, but he has enough time and patience, after all, he is only in his thirties now, even if he lives to be sixty years old, there are still more than twenty years to go, he believes that even if he can't destroy the family in more than twenty years, he can weaken their influence to the minimum.

Ma Ye is the most familiar with Li Xiu, seeing the expression on his face, he immediately understood what he was thinking, so he didn't say anything more, and Li Xiu also took the opportunity to divert the topic and asked about the physical condition of Ma Ye and the county lord of Guanghua, although he also often went to Ma Ye, but they are old after all, and maybe there will be some physical problems if they are not careful.

In the next few days, Li Xiu has also been busy rebuilding the printing office, and the funeral of Empress Changsun is completely handed over to Changsun Wuji, and the search for those people in black is also in full swing.

However, with the development of the search for the man in black, the attack on Li Xiu also spread quickly, in fact, there is no way to hide such a big thing, and for a while rumors spread all over the sky, and there are many speculations about the mastermind behind the scenes, but many people have noticed that in the early morning of the second day of Li Xiu's attack, Princess Pingyang led the army to level the mansions of thirteen officials from a family, and then thought of the rumors that Li Shimin has always wanted to restrict the family's efforts, and the cause and effect of this incident slowly became clear.

Although the family has a strong influence and even controls the trend of public opinion, it is also a fact that they control the imperial examination and use their influence to suppress the poor scholars, so many people are also dissatisfied with the family, so the matter that Li Xiu's attack is related to the family soon spread, and some people even swear that Li Xiu's attack was instigated by the family.

Of course, the above rumors that are not good for the family can only be spread in secret, after all, the influence of the family is too great, and it is also quite risky to spread this rumor, but even so, this rumor still has a great impact on the prestige of the family, but the impact of the rumor has a timeliness, and with the passage of time, this influence will soon pass, and the prestige of the family will be restored.

However, when Li Xiu encountered the news related to the family to ferment to a certain point, there was suddenly a more exciting news, that is, the reason why Li Xiu entered the palace in the middle of the night was mainly because someone set fire to the printing office, and although the printing office was just a place to print books, it posed a serious threat to the family, and some people didn't want everyone to read the book, so they set fire to the printing office, and in order to completely eliminate the threat of the printing company to the family, he set up an ambush on the way to assassinate Li Xiu, who built the printing office. Fortunately, Li Xiu escaped.

As soon as the above news came out, although it was not explicitly said that it was the family that burned the book, as long as people with a little brain could guess who the other party was, so for a while, the prestige of the family fell to the minimum, especially some scholars from poor families, who hated the family even more, and for a time the voice of criticism of the family was endless.

"Li Xiu's counterattack has begun, I summoned everyone here today just to ask everyone's opinions?" It was still the hall of the Cui family that was discussed last time, Cui Gan was the first to speak again at this time, in just a few days, his whole person seemed to be many years old, not only his hair was all white, but even his back was hunched even worse.

"We must no longer allow Li Xiu and them to spread this kind of news, otherwise sooner or later it will ruin the prestige of our family, and we must stop them!" At this time, I saw a family official standing up with an annoyed face and saying loudly.

"Blocking must be stopped, but the key is how to stop it?" Cui Gan resisted the urge to curse in his heart at this time, glanced at the other party lightly and said, he asked these people to discuss methods, not to let them vent their anger.

As soon as Cui Gan's words came out, everyone present couldn't help but fall silent, and even the official who stood up just now slowly sat down, because they all knew that the rumors circulating in the outside world were not rumors at all, but the truth of the matter.

"Maybe we can fight poison with poison!" At this moment, I suddenly saw Zheng Zhong stand up and say in a deep voice.

"How to fight poison with poison?" Cui Gan couldn't help but look at Zheng Zhong when he heard this and asked, he used to attach great importance to this family's outstanding talents, but unfortunately the other party was still too eager for quick success, so he made the stupid thing of assassinating Li Xiu, and now he wants the entire family to wipe their butts.

"It's very simple, the rumors are true and false, Li Xiu can release the rumors, we can also release the rumors, and then the true and false rumors are mixed together, except for the real insiders, who can tell the difference?" Zheng Zhong explained with a smug face.

"This method is good, with the influence of our people, it is enough to muddy this puddle of water!" As soon as Zheng Zhong's words fell, he was immediately echoed by others, and finally even Cui Gan nodded in agreement, although this method is not very clever, but other than that, there is really no better way.

At that moment, Zheng Zhong and the others discussed the details again, but at this moment, they saw Cui Gan suddenly clear his throat again, and then frowned and said: "In addition to the rumors, I have also been keeping people staring at Li Xiu's movements during this time, and I found something strange!" ”