Let's turn our gaze back to Xinjiang. There was a doctor named "Liang Ying" in the Jin State Office, who was a descendant of Liang Wu. After the demise of the Yangyu clan, Liang Ying succeeded the Yangyu Tiger as the Taifu. Liang Ying has extraordinary abilities and has a close personal relationship with Zhizhen. After Shi Ying's death, Zhong Xingyin was the most promising to be promoted to the general of the Chinese army; But after Liang Ying showed his magical powers, the laurels of the Chinese generals finally fell to Zhizhen's head. Therefore, Zhisong is particularly important to Liang Ying, and he once promised Liang Ying in private: "If there is a vacant position in the office, I will recommend the master to the prince!" ”

For the Zhi clan, the biggest enemy of the family is the Zhongxing clan of the same clan. The grievances between the two families have to start from the era of "Bank of China - Zhiying".

It turned out that Zhigang's son Zhishuo died before his father, and Zhigang made Zhishuo's sister-in-law Zhiying as the heir. Zhiying had not yet held a coming-of-age ceremony when he inherited the family business, so he could not hold a military position. Later, Jin Mourning Gong canceled the establishment of the new army and reduced the fourth army to the third army, and Zhiying went from the hope of being promoted to secretary. If the young Zhiying wants to survive among the wolf-like ministers, he can only rely on Zhongxingyan.

Bank of China also "did not hesitate" to take on the responsibility of "taking care" of the Zhi family. There are various means of care, such as moving the heirlooms of the Zhi family to their own homes to protect them from "being snatched by lawbreakers"; Or set aside a few places to help Zhi's planting, etc. The list goes on and on.

Seeing that the uncle of the same clan of "my family and the family of people" almost hollowed out his family in a short period of time, Zhiying was powerless to stop it; He held his breath and wanted to wait until his wings were full to regain what he had lost. But creation made people, Zhiying died young, and when he died, he was not as old as his father; The sister-in-law he left behind, Zhisong, was not as big as when he inherited the family business when he ascended the throne.

As a result, the way of heaven was reincarnated, and Zhisong had to continue to endure the "care" of Bank of China Wu, and experienced the humiliation suffered by his father again. It was not until after the death of Bank of China Wu that the Zhi family achieved family independence; Zhisong checked the property account books and found that the family had suffered a serious loss of property and high debts, and had fallen to the brink of bankruptcy.

Based on the above two points, Zhisong is desperate to destroy the Zhongxing clan, reclaim the family fortune and fulfill the promise he made to Liangying. But Fan and BOC are one, and he must attack both parties at the same time to realize his wishes. However, it not only takes great courage to expel the two major families at once, but also requires strong strength to back it up. If Zhisong wants to achieve his goal, he must draw Han and Wei into the alliance, but he can't figure out what the two are thinking, and he doesn't want to reveal his intentions too early, so he has to wait and see.

Unexpected joy always comes when you don't expect it—Han Buxin and Wei Mando soon come together to meet him.

It turns out that the Han family and the Zhao family have an unbreakable traditional friendship; Wei also established a close relationship with Han (when Han Qi was promoted to a general, the family was so poor that he did not even have a decent Yi weapon to entertain guests; Thanks to Wei Jiang's generosity and lending him a full set of Zhongle Yi utensils, Han Qi did not make a fool of himself in public when he feasted Dr. Qing). Han Buxin had a deep holiday with BOC; Wei Manduo resented Fan for lowering his father's funeral specifications. Therefore, these people have a reason to expel the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan.

It can be seen from this that the relationship between the major clans of the Jin State is intertwined and extremely complex; Any dispute between two families, even if it is a small family, will eventually expand to other families, forming a butterfly effect like a flood of beasts.

The initiator of the motion to expel Erqing was Han Buxin, who first approached Wei Manduo, and the two hit it off; Then they went to see Zhisong together.

Zhisong was overjoyed, and he proposed to bring Liang Ying in; Han Buxin proposed to bring Shi Gaoyi in. So the six formed an anti-Erqing group and formulated an expulsion plan on the same day.

At that time, the military operation to attack Jinyang was not going smoothly, and Shi Jishu and Zhong Xingyin tossed and turned and fidgeted all day long. Soon, Shi Jishu gathered another heavy army and prepared to personally lead the army to reinforce the Jinyang front.

Shi Gaoyi said: "Father can't leave easily, Xinjiang needs his father to sit together with the Zhongxing clan, otherwise he won't be able to suppress those three old guys." Leave the task of increasing the number of troops to me! I will definitely deliver Jinyang to my father within a month! Shi Ji nodded in agreement. So Shi Gaoyi led the army to Jinyang. The departure of this army greatly weakened the strength of the Fan family.

After Shi Gaoyi came to Jinyang, Zhongxingwu immediately assigned him a combat mission. The task was to uproot a fortress at the foot of the hill west of the city, and the defenders of the original fortress often ran out to attack the soldiers and miscellaneous servants who were harvesting trees, and sometimes even attacked the military camp, which made Zhongxingwu very troubled.

The combat mission was arduous and important, and Shi Gaoyi made a difficulty: it turned out that he came here to weaken the Fan family's forces in Xinjiang, not to make a feud with the Zhao family. Shi Gaoyi asked for two days to recuperate, as they had a hard march and were unfamiliar with the battlefield.

And Zhongxingwu inherited the strictness and old-fashioned of his grandfather Zhongxing Wu, and was a man of the same word, he didn't care about Shi Gaoyi's identity at all, and even summoned Sima of the lower army and ordered him to inform Shi Gaoyi of the consequences of disobeying military orders.

Shi Gaoyi was completely out of line, he squinted at Shi Dongchen and found that his brother was gloating at him. Shi Dongchen not only hated his brother, but also suspected that Shi Gaoyi was secretly hooking up with Zhao Ying; He and Zhongxingwu formulated this poisonous plan, so that Shi Gaoyi and Zhao "cannibalism" - no matter what the outcome, his relationship with Zhao Ying will definitely be over.

Shi Gaoyi scolded the two of them for being "shameless" in his heart, so he had to lead the team to attack; As a result, he accidentally captured the fortress, and even captured the commander Mail Wuxian.

On the Xinjiang side, Zhi, Han, and Wei began to prepare for action. Zhisong is not the kind of coarse man who can only fight to the end, he thinks that this crusade will not succeed if Jin Dinggong is not brought in; If Jin Dinggong was snatched away by his political enemies again, the plan would have completely failed.

Zhisong went to see Jin Dinggong and said: "Jin has a permanent law: 'Death to the one who started the trouble!'" 'The book has been proclaimed to the people of heaven and earth, and has entered the Yellow River. Now the three ministers are in turmoil at the same time, but they only expelled the Zhao family, which is to deceive the river god, and the heavens will surely bring disaster to Sheji. The three kings are not punished for the same crime, and there will be many people who will break the law in the future. If this law could not be enforced, it would have been better not to enact it in the first place. Now that the Zhao clan had been punished, the minister thought that the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan should also be expelled from the Jin state. ”

The Duke of Jin Ding wished that the ministers would fight as fiercely and die as much as possible, so he smiled and happily approved the request on the spot.

Since the expulsion operation required the mobilization of a large number of troops, the large-scale mobilization action made by the three secretaries quickly aroused the vigilance of Fan and the Bank of China. Now, the outbreak of a full-scale civil war has become inevitable, and the second secretary has simply begun to openly assemble the clan armor and prepare to fight the opponent.

At that time, all the ministers and doctors built palaces in the suburbs for leisure and refuge; The palaces of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan were not far apart, and the two families mobilized the clan armor around the palace and built several lines of defense. Due to the complex topography and changeable terrain in the area, there were not too many soldiers arranged, and the two put the rest of the troops on standby at a distance.