In the palace of King Zhao, King Zhao originally wanted to hold a banquet, but fortunately Zhao Kuo dissuaded him, King Zhao decided to hold another banquet a day. He summoned the ministers in the country to discuss what had happened in the near future. When the ministers walked into the palace, King Zhao was holding Zhao Kuo's hand and asking him something. Everyone paid a visit to them, and then sat down. Zhao Kuo still did not hold any position in the country, but his status and respect for him were far above the prime minister and the false equal.

When Dong Chengzi arrived, he looked a little tired, gasping, his hair became thinner, and he sat roundly beside Zhao Kuo. Dong Chengzi heard what was happening outside the city and had many questions to ask Ma Fujun. After him, Pang Gong also came. There was no trace of worry on his face. He looked at everyone with a smile. Sitting beside Dong Chengzi, he began to laugh at Dong Chengzi who was panting.

"You are less than forty, why are you breathing like this?"

Dong Chengzi looked at Pang Nuan helplessly and said, "I'm not as healthy as you." Dong Chengzi came in a carriage. The reason why he was so tired was because he walked into the hall. From the entrance of the palace to the hall, there were many steps. Not to mention Dong Chengzi, even Yu Qing and Xu Li, they dared not say that they could walk into the hall without breathing. Well, Pang Gong was obviously OK.

Dong Chengzi was a little suspicious? Two young and strong strong men of Zhao State? They may not be able to beat this 79-year-old comrade, even if it was a sneak attack.

After that? Xu Li? Yu Qing, Zhao Hui? Lian Po, Lejian? Zheng Anping and others also walked in one after another? Sitting on both sides, after a long time, when everyone was almost here, King Zhao took the upper hand? Looking at everyone? He said seriously: "In Handan, someone framed Xinling Jun and wanted to alienate the king and his subjects... Although the rebellion was quelled by Ma Fujun, the traitor who planned all this was not found."

"Ma Fujun concluded that those people have a backer in the palace. I heard that? People cannot continue to live without faith. I treat all the ministers like those of my close relatives? But some people do not think about my kindness and violate my promise of loyalty? I disregard the righteousness? I want to murder me? I am very angry." King Zhao said, his eyes swept over the ministers before questioning: "What did I do wrong? Should I be treated like this?!"

King Zhao's anger obviously scared the ministers. Everyone looked at each other in surprise, but no one spoke.

Zhao Kuo frowned. He originally wanted to investigate this matter privately, and he didn't want it to have too much impact. However, he did not expect that King Zhao could not hold it back. Perhaps, for a person like him, the most intolerable thing is betrayal.

"Bring those people!" King Zhao ordered that after a while, the warriors escorted more than a dozen people into the hall. These people were all the initiators of this rebellion. At this moment, they were naked, their clothes were taken away, and they were tied up like slaves. They were pushed to everyone without dignity. They seemed to have suffered a lot, their noses were swollen, and there were many wounds on their bodies.

Zhao Kuo frowned, then turned around and said something to Han Fei, and Han Fei walked out.

King Zhao stared at them and ordered, "Let them raise their heads!" The warriors pulled their hair and raised their heads so that everyone could see their faces. They looked at everything around them in humiliation, their eyes full of resentment. However, their mouths were blocked after being dislocated, which made them speechless at all. The field of medicine is developing very slowly today, but humans are always advanced in punishing similar ones.

Looking at the humiliating faces, everyone frowned, as if they were identifying their identities. Lou Yan stared at them seriously, without any panic on his face. Instead, Zhao Bao was a little restless. He couldn't tell what it felt. It might affect the civil strife of the war to be pacified in time. Of course, he was happy, but these people... were related to Chang'an Jun.

He knew in his heart that King Zhao had tolerated Chang'an Jun many times. If Chang'an Jun was caught again this time, King Zhao, who had been tolerant for many times, might not protect him again. Chang'an Jun is likely to expel Zhao State, which made Zhao Bao very worried. With July's personality, if he had left Zhao State, could he really survive in other places? Zhao Bao sighed in his heart. He was a person who paid great attention to family affection.

The ones he made were also from the Zhao family. Even Zhao She was the first to become his friend because of his office. He always felt that King Zhao should use these people to govern the country. Xinling Jun, Yu Qing, and Dong Chengzi were not as reliable as Chang'an Jun. Although he is a little naughty now, he is the Zhao family after all, and Zhao is his family, and he will change in the future.

Why are these people still alive?

Zhao Bao looked at the people in front of him. Ma Fujun was right. These people must be spies from the Qin people. Chang'an Jun was deceived and he was also a victim. Zhao Bao thought again, should he just tell them out and clear Chang'an Jun directly?

At this moment, King Zhao suddenly asked, "If the two and three sons can tell who the person who sent you is, I can forgive your crimes and not kill you." The warrior took down the cloth strip from Ping's mouth, and helped him close his mouth. Ping looked at King Zhao coldly and cursed, "Mr. Xinling will avenge us!" King Zhao's face changed drastically, and he said, "I have seen through your plan of disagreement!"

"Haha, long live Xinling Jun!!"

Ping shouted.

Everyone in the court changed their faces, but Zhao Kuo was still calm. He shook his head and said, "Xinling Jun is now commanding an army of more than 100,000, but he sent you to attack Handan with thousands? Xinling Jun sent a letter to reveal your identity. You are a Qin native." Ping looked at Zhao Kuo and asked in confusion: "You are also a friend of Xinling Jun, why should you help his enemies to murder us?"

"Oh... your parents and family are in Qin?" Zhao Kuo just sighed and asked.

Ping's face changed, but he quickly reacted and said coldly: "These stupid people in the palace oppose reforms and randomly harm us officials who passed the assessment. You first proposed the reforms, but now you help them hurt us. You..." Ping was talking, but Han Fei brought people in. These people were Zhao Kuo's disciples, holding clothes in.

Zhao Kuo looked at these people and said, "Put them clothes to cover their shame." King Zhao was about to speak, but Zhao Kuo said to him again, "I will not object to you killing them and interrogating them, but they are all human beings after all, please don't humiliate them like this... Even if you die, please let them die like a person..." King Zhao did not speak anymore. Zhao Bao's face changed drastically, and he saw Zhao Kuo's thoughts.

Zhao Kuo obviously wanted to use the means of influence to induce these people to express the commander behind it.

Han Fei and the warriors put on clothes for these people, covering their naked bodies. Ping looked at the warriors untied the rope in a daze. Han Fei put on clothes for himself, tears fell helplessly. He didn't say anything more. His lips trembled and bowed towards Zhao Kuo, and then closed his eyes. Next, no matter what King Zhao asked, they stopped talking, and they didn't even say the lies like that just now.

King Zhao helplessly asked the warriors to take them down.

Zhao Bao grinned, haha, Zhao Kuo failed, he probably thought everyone would be impressed by his plan.

King Zhao then ordered, "Dong Chengzi, please take someone to interrogate them, send someone to identify them, and see who they contact on weekdays... It is best to send someone to inquire about their details according to their participation in the assessment..." King Zhao said, and a smile gradually appeared on Lou Yan's face, because, such investigations, the final evidence would fall on Chang'an Jun.

When he arrived in Zhao State, the people he brought with him had gone through layers of screening to avoid talking about it. But there was still some loyalty to Qin State, but he still didn't dare to be too confident. When Zhao Kuo asked Han Fei to put on their clothes, Lou Yan was startled, afraid that they would tell him directly. Fortunately... they still had to consider it for their family.

Zhao Bao seemed a little impatient. He thought for a moment, looked at Dong Chengzi who had accepted the order seriously, and listened to Dong Chengzi's conversation with Zhao Kuo to find out the person behind the scenes, and couldn't sit still. He was very worried that Dong Chengzi would find out that Chang'an Jun came, but if he confessed this matter directly, would Zhao Wang believe that Chang'an Jun was used and innocent? Zhao Bao pondered for a long time, and just when Zhao Kuo was teaching Dong Chengzi, he suddenly stood up.

"Shangjun...I know those people just now."

When Zhao Bao opened his mouth, everyone in the palace was stunned. Everyone stopped talking and looked at Zhao Bao with a strange look, especially King Zhao. His eyes looked at Zhao Bao in surprise and angry. Thinking about Zhao Bao's just now, King Zhao trembled all over, and he asked, "Do you know them?"

"That's right... They came to me before and said there was a way to deal with Xinlingjun, but I didn't agree... I didn't know they would do such a thing...I..."

"Why do you treat me like this?" Before Zhao Bao finished speaking, King Zhao jumped up and rushed towards Zhao Bao. Dong Chengzi, who was beside him, jumped up and hurriedly blocked the two of them. After all, Zhao Bao is the elder of King Zhao, and there is no fight in the palace. This is inappropriate... King Zhao stared at Zhao Bao tightly and cursed: "You actually want me to send someone to attack them, and you are protecting me?"

“Don’t you know what shame is?”

"Do you want to destroy Zhao State?!"

King Zhao's questioning made Zhao Bao feel a little embarrassed. He said calmly: "It's all my fault, but I can guarantee that I did not order them to do so. They must be spies from Qin."

"Hahaha~~", King Zhao laughed a little crazy. He pointed at Zhao Bao, his hands trembling constantly, but still didn't say what he wanted to say. Zhao Kuo stood up and said, "Shangjun, please don't be angry. King Pingyang must have been used by the Qin people... However, King Pingyang did not say these things earlier, and he was still guilty." King Zhao then calmed down, sat down, but never went to see Zhao Bao again.

The atmosphere in the palace was a little quiet.

Zheng Anping, who had just arrived, looked at all this in a daze. The people of Zhao were so good at playing? He still didn't understand. These people were spies from Qin, and then guests of Pingyang Jun. Later, they participated in the assessment and became Xinling Jun's disciples and launched a rebellion. What's this? Zheng Anping suddenly felt a little regretful. He should have stayed in Wei at the beginning and never went anywhere. If he returned to Wei, would it be too late?

King Zhao said coldly: "Find out their identities and find out the Qin spies hidden in Zhao... and... Pingyang Jun will not go out in the future. I know that you like to study, so I ask you to study in the mansion. I heard that you admire Confucianism. I will give you some Confucian classics that tell you trust, righteousness, integrity and shame. Please don't just read it, but also learn it appropriately." This is already a very serious word.

Zhao Bao did not defend himself. He was already very old... His health was getting worse day by day. It would be okay to use an old man who had not much time to protect a young hope. After all, there were not many royal families in Zhao State.

Pingyuan Jun's children died young, leaving only one of them, and were thin and sickly. There was only one Bu left in his son, who was honest and unrestrained. Some of the brothers of King Zhao died in the plague, some died as protons, and some died because of their same bad character as Chang'an Jun, leaving only one Chang'an Jun. What's terrible is that Zhao Dan had only one son.

If Zhao Dan's son ascends the throne in the future, there will be no royal family around him. Pingyuan Jun's sick son Zhao Wu seems to leave first before his father. His own son may be okay in war, but if he is used to govern the country...the most important thing is that they are not young either. When Zhao Dan's son grows up, they will be very old. There is only one Chang'an Jun left in the younger generation, but his character... This has always been the thing that makes Zhao Bao most worried.

How did the Zhao royal family, which was originally lush and the Zhao royal family, which had many talents, become like this?

"No rush...No rush to convict Pingyang Jun."

Suddenly someone spoke, and everyone looked at the voice, but they saw the old man talking in the corner.

Tian Dan, who was always silent, slowly stood up, his eyes sharply looked at Lou Yan.

"The spies who participated in the assessment, that is, those who had no father or mother and could not find the details, were twenty-six people together."

"If I remember correctly, there were twenty-six people who followed you to Zhao State?"

Tian Dan said, then looked at Zhao Kuo in the distance again. He said with some disdain, "Do you still remember?"

"I once told you... the enemy will definitely use the way you can't think of to deal with you. You trust others too easily, so you are exploited by others... If you don't find this cancer hiding in the palace, sooner or later, you will be sold to Zhao State, maybe with a piece of jade or a big county. If you don't want to become like goods, you should be more careful of the villains around you..."

"Lou Yan...Lou Changke is still healthy?"

Tian Dan asked.
Chapter completed!