Zheng Yunda stood in the valley where the fire was not extinguished, looking at the Zheng family manor, which had been burned to white ground and only some embers left, looking at the underground armored yard that had nowhere to exist, gritted his teeth and secretly added another debt to these damn thieves in his heart. Several Zheng family servants walked into the fire, pulled down the ruins, and pulled out the burned corpses from it. The burned corpses were found and lined up in front of him, clearly. Although it was not burned into a human form, some of them directly turned into coke, he still roughly judged that these corpses were the guards who were originally guarding the armored yard here. But at this time, these guards all turned into a pile of black charcoal.

"Only these were found, one hundred and thirty-eight burnt corpses." Zheng Duo frowned. He was tall and mighty, and he was not like the scribes of most people in the Zheng family. His skin was dark and his beard was hard to describe him. "There are 150 guards here, and there are still twelve. I was still caught. I ran away or were caught.

"Zheng Yunda asked. This workshop was run under the fourth bedroom Donglin House. Every Zheng family in Xingyang has a large business, with scattered expenses and a large population. However, since Zhou and Sui Dynasty, the most prosperous one was the fourth bedroom Donglin House. Although the fourth bedroom has no more top officials in the court after the death of the head of the family Zheng Yi a few years ago, it is still the strongest among the rooms. Zheng Yunda is not the fourth bedroom, but he is the manager of the military yard appointed by the Fourth Room. He usually lives here, but yesterday he went back to Xingyang home to prepare for delivery. Unexpectedly, he escaped a disaster.

"It seems that the twelve people never escaped here. They probably just buried in the fire and couldn't tell them." Zheng Duo is a Hu race. He is not popular among the clan, and he cannot get the family to teach the classics, and he is even more unlikely to become an official. However, he has learned good skills and good martial arts. After only checking the situation in the fire several times, he has already made a preliminary judgment that the people raiding here are definitely experts. "There are not many people coming, less than a hundred of them are all cavalry. They raided in the second half of the night, and first used crossbows to clear the sentry outside quietly, and then broke into the village in one fell swoop. They acted quickly and had harsh means. Most of the more than one hundred guards were killed in the melee, and some were executed after being captured."

"Are you sure if there are less than a hundred people?" Zheng Yunda's face turned pale.

"One hundred is just a conservative estimate. If you have a bold guess, I guess there are only about fifty or sixty riders coming."

Zheng Yunda took a breath of air conditioning, and he had already thought of an extremely bad possibility: "Can they be from the court?"

Just a few days ago, a convoy of more than 100 people from the Zheng family was attacked in the Baima in Huazhou, and none survived. The official explanation from Huazhou was that they encountered a group of horse thieves who blocked the road and robbed. However, the Zheng family went to collect the people who had the aftermath and reported that the convoy was unlikely to be horse thieves, because almost all of them died of crossbow arrows, and although most of them were caught, they died of poison. Horse thieves robbed and were unlikely to run to the Baima slope, which is very close to Baima City to rob, and most of the robbers were for wealth. Even if they were robbed, there were murders, and they would not use crossbow arrows to use ** to keep them.

The matters there have not been clarified yet, and in a blink of an eye, something happened to the workshop here again.

"If the court wants to investigate the workshop, it will not act in secret." Zheng Duo shook his head.

"The craftsmen and apprentices were taken away, and our batch of made-up equipment was taken away. Even the tools and materials in our workshop were taken away." Zheng Yi reported another discovery of his own.

Now Zheng Yunda was even more confused. Could it be that the other party was just a group of robbers? He was attracted by their batch of weapons? But if so, why did they take away the craftsmen, and even the materials?

"We may have met our colleagues!" Zheng Duo sighed. He was able to quickly attack the place, take away thousands of people, and even take away their armory workshops in almost packing them, which was definitely not something that dozens of cavalry could do. There were more people behind him.

"Maybe, they did not come for our Zheng family, but for the one behind us." Zheng Yunda said coldly. He was just a manager of the Zheng family, but he also knew a lot of secret matters in the clan. Although the Zheng family has fallen a lot, there are still more than a dozen Chinese dukes and dukes in the family, and nearly a hundred people hold official positions at all levels. However, this is not the entire trump card of the top Zheng family. The biggest trump card of the Zheng family is actually the marriage with major clans, such as the top power figure in the court today, Shangshu Youpushe Yang Su, his wife Zheng family,

It comes from the Zheng family of Xingyang. Although it is not the current clan leader, it is the younger sister of the former head Zheng Yi, and the aunt of the current head Zheng Yuan, the Duke of Pei Guo. In addition, Zheng Yuan, the cousin of Wude County, Zheng Shanguo, his mother Cui family, is from the Cui family of Qinghe. Moreover, his father Cui Yanmu is the governor of Xiangzhou of the Great Sui Dynasty, in charge of the military affairs of the six prefectures, the general, the Duke of Dongjun, and Cui's cousin is the mother of the current queen Dugu family. Zheng Shanguo's mother is the queen's cousin, and Zheng Shanguo and the queen are cousins. Zheng Yuan, therefore, can also be regarded as the queen's cousin.

The top family of the Zheng family relied on their family fame to marry various high families, and even married the powerful people in the court, forming a huge network of interests. This is the reason why the Zheng family has been declining but never collapsed. Originally, relatives like Yang Su were prime ministers in the court, so the Zheng family could live a better life. Unfortunately, Yang Su and his wife Zheng did not have a good relationship.

Zheng was born into a top family like Zheng in Xingyang, so he has a very tough personality. Yang Su once quarreled with his wife and said, "If I become the emperor, I will not be able to be the queen." He was just angry, but Zheng sued the emperor directly to Emperor Yang Jian, which made Yang Jian very unhappy. If you become the emperor in the future, what should I do in the future? Therefore, he directly removed Yang Su from his post and let Yang Su sit on the bench that had been on the bench for a long time. Although he was still used later, he finally made it straight to the top, becoming the general and prime minister, and becoming the current deputy prime minister. But Yang Su had no good face to Zheng, and he was even more unhappy about Zheng's family.

For this reason, not only did the Zheng family not get help from Yang Su, but they were often suppressed. They had no choice but to leave the queen's relatives and finally put all the chips on the prince Yang Yong. They even risked their risk of making private weapons for the prince!

The Zheng family is actually very good at speculation. Zheng Yi bet on the prince Yuwen, and later Yuwen died, bet on Yang Jian. The Zheng family was so glorious in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the early stages of the Great Sui Dynasty, which was the best bets these few times. Now the Zheng family wants to turn around, so they bet on the prince Yang Yong again.

Zheng Yunda was just a small person in the Zheng family, but he often heard outside saying that the prince was not favored by the emperor, while the King of Jin was the most famous.

"Maybe it's the King of Jin!" Zheng Yunda said guessing.

Zheng Yi's face couldn't help but look ugly. If it were really the King of Jin, it would be in line with the current situation. Everything would be right. King of Jin ambushed the Zheng family's convoy in front of Baimapo, and used some elite private troops or even crossbows. With the ability of King of Jin, he attacked Zheng's workshop and looted the place, there would be no problem. As for why he did this, isn't it obvious.

"The Zheng family is involved in the battle between the prince and the King of Jin, and I am afraid that there will be trouble." Zheng Yi sighed. Yang Guang might not be able to deal with the prince directly, but it is easier for him to deal with the Zheng family just like him.

Zheng Yunda did not say a word, jumped onto the horse with a whip, kicked the horse's belly and rushed towards Xingyang. He felt the chill was bone-chilling and his whole body was filled with fear. If the King of Jin really took action, then the ambush in front of the Baima Slope would warn the Zheng family with more than a hundred people. The looting here is a more severe warning. This place is not far from Xingyang City. Since he can rob and burn it quietly, it would not be difficult to deal with the Zheng family. "A bunch of idiots, go shit."

"He cursed while slapped the horse, and didn't know whether he was scolding the guards or the current head of the Zheng family. The royal family is not so easy to interfere in. The Zheng family is not the Gao family, and no one is as good as Gao? He has more than ten years of government affairs. Although the hometown leader Zheng Yi was better than Gao? He still had power and was favored by the emperor, it was all about the year of the monkey. Now the Zheng family is in decline. If the King of Jin wants to kill the chicken for the monkey to see, the Zheng family will be the most suitable chicken.

Zheng Yunda rushed back to Xingyang City and reported the matter of the military yard to his home as soon as possible.

The contemporary head of the Zheng family was Zheng Yuan, the legitimate son of Zheng Yi. He inherited the throne of Duke of Pei, but Zheng Yuan was in the capital. At this time, the real person in charge of the Xingyang side was his brother Zheng Shanyuan. He had a throne of Duke of Guichang County, but he had no actual duties and was in charge of tribe affairs in Xingyang.

"The workshop was burned, and the craftsmen, the well-made ordnances and even the workshop tools and materials were taken away?" Zheng Shanyuan said this with depression, and his hands were already clenched into fists. "What about those 150 guards? Are they not as good as a dog? Even if they are dogs, they will scream a few times when they encounter thieves!"

Zheng Yunda felt the anger of the acting head rising, and he lowered his head and said softly: "All the guards were killed in the village." Then he hesitated for a moment, and still expressed his guess: "Zheng Duo said that only fifty or sixty cavalry attacked the manor, but they were all elite cavalry, not like horse thieves, but more like army. I think, I think that the attackers and the white horses attacked the convoys in the tribe were the same group of people, and it was..."

“What is it?”

"Those people are likely to be the men of King Jin. They are not for our Zheng family, but for the prince!"

Zheng Yunda raised his voice and tried to hide the horror in his voice, "If the King of Jin really wants to attack us because we support the prince, then we must report to His Highness the Prince immediately and ask him to help him."

If it was really Yang Guang's move, then they could only ask the prince to fight against each other immediately. This is the only way. The Zheng family alone cannot fight against the King of Jin.
Chapter completed!