The dispute that occurred in Longteng Camp ended with Sun Fudu being detained for imprisonment and Zu Qing being beaten with a cane and a salary cut.

Such punishment seems to be both sides blamed, but there is only a difference of severity. However, it is true that Sun Fudu was taken away from his post, so the Jie Lord immediately replaced Sun Fudu with the Xiongnu general Hu Yansheng to take charge of the military. After Zu Qing was beaten, his actions were almost unaffected and he continued to take charge of the defense of Shangguiyuan. As for the so-called salary cuts, the ministers of Jie Kingdom had not known what the salary was for a long time.

The reason why Shi Hu was so generous to one and the other was not that he was more intimate and trusting Zu Qing. In fact, in his heart, veteran Sun Fudu had proved his loyalty through his years of war performance, and was also an important helper that Shi Hu had prepared for Shi Bin, who was about to return to the country to take charge of the Sixth Army.

But because of this, Shi Hu became even more angry at Sun Fudu's act of provoking Zu Qing. He used the assassination of the Longteng Camp as an excuse to purify the six internal armies and strengthen control. Now that the storm has not yet completely passed, the promoted generals have exposed disputes, which is tantamount to challenging his authority!

What's more, although Sun Fudu is loyal, brave and reliable, he is much worse than the role that Zu Qing can play now. Even though the Jie Kingdom is in danger, there are also many brave generals. As for Zu Qing, the rising upstart, it was carefully selected by Shi Hu and the key figure who can connect with several forces. His importance is naturally far from comparable to a reckless man like Sun Fudu.

After this episode, Zu Qing's prestige in the army was even greater. Even before the new general Hu Yansheng joined the army to perform his duties, several central army commanders who were originally under Sun Fudu's troops came to show their favor, for fear of being regarded as Sun Fudu's gangsters and being suppressed by Zu Qing, the upstart in the country who was Wang Junzhenglong.

Even Zhang Chai, who rushed to Longteng Camp to welcome him later, took the initiative to find Zu Qing to praise him: "A real man should do this, and a meal will be rewarded, and a grudge will be repaid! Sun Fudu is just a Hu Zhong Lao Gu, and he dares to ignore the dignity of my father-in-law and son-in-law. He really wants to die!"

It is not worth Zhang Chai's excitement to be so excited. What really made him happy was to see the struggle and loss of control between these so-called confidant central military generals. If the previous contact with Zu Qing in the house and the house had to doubt whether the main commander was instructed, then this time the conflict between Zu Qing and Sun Fudu would never be caused by independent instruction.

Zhang Chai was happy to see that his son-in-law could show strong autonomy, which means that Zu Qing had his own demands and ideas, rather than just the puppet in the hands of the owner.

Moreover, when Zu Qing had a head-on conflict, he was able to completely suppress the veteran Sun Fudu, and the more he was in the Central Army, the greater the role he could play if he could pull him to his own camp.

However, Zhang Chai later expressed his opinion that in order to avoid excessive or excessive, the original plan to kick off another general of the central army, Shi Cheng, was not feasible, otherwise it would inevitably lead to greater disgust from the master.

Zu Qing did not show any disappointment or dissatisfaction with this. Now he can be said to have entered the highest level of power struggle in Jie Kingdom. He has a more comprehensive and profound understanding of Jie Lord Shi Hu or veterans like Zhang Chai. He had previously attacked Sun Fudu, but the result also proved that he had a correct understanding of Jie Kingdom's power ecology. This gain undoubtedly made him more confident.

Zhang Chai's retreat at the moment was nothing more than a kind of harshness on the inside. During the previous storm, he was already suppressed by Shi Hu's series of actions and was afraid of his courage and arrogance as he had intercepted and killed Ma Qiu. At the same time, it also shows that he was still full of distrust of Zu Qing and was unwilling to pay any price or bear any risks for Zu Qing to compete for power.

Zu Qing is very satisfied with his current situation. Although he is still a chess piece in the hands of a powerful person, he can get the opportunity to observe nearby. He can see that these big figures who are still famous in the country are actually far less powerful than their appearance. They each have weaknesses in their human nature. Moreover, because they are in a high position, once these weaknesses are captured and exploited, they will be even more powerless to resist.

For example, when Shi Hu came out of the tent and scolded Sun Fudu, he was unintentionally showing his physical weakness. However, Zu Qing did not intend to share this information with Zhang Chai. One thing was just a clue and there was no conclusive evidence. The other thing was that he had not yet thought about what goal he could achieve through this matter.

On the way back to the garden, Shi Hu first entered the Fawang Temple of Huguo and personally worshiped the remains of the great monk Fo Tucheng, and planned to pray for seven days, and held a New Year celebration here. During the prayer, he also sent the central military guards to summon Zhaoyi and Liu and his young son Shi Shi to Huguo Temple together to pray.

In this way, it was a clear signal, and then the orders of all sizes revealed Shi Hu's intentions even more clearly.

In the past few days, the Jin clan forces in Xindu were severely suppressed. In particular, most of the senior officials from the imperial court, almost none of them were spared from the Jin clan, or were killed or detained from their posts. Corresponding to the severe weakening of the Jin power, the Huns' massacres were rekindled.

Putting aside the previous replacing Sun Fudu, Hu Yansheng, the Central Army General Hun, and other close officials from various powerful families, appeared, such as Liu Qi, a Hun, who served as Minister of Personnel and Shizhong, and Jin Guo, a Hun, served as General of the Sixth Army Military Guard. If these powerful families can echo and unite with each other, they will have become a new force in the country.

Under this trend of slaughtering the remaining remnants of the remnants, there was another edict mixed with that, that is, Prince Shi Zun finally received some favor after being neglected and was named King Gaoyi.

However, when King Zhangwu Shi Bin is now awarded the title of General and Prince Shi Shi was awarded the title of King of Zhongshan, no one would think that Prince Shi Zun could turn over.

Even though Shi Hu divided some areas such as Changshan, Zhaojun and Julu, Zhongshan into Xingzhou, and was appointed as the governor of Xingzhou, it was obvious that Shi Zun still did not have the possibility of being involved in the military power or even the throne of the country, so naturally he did not receive any attention.

On the New Year, the Jie Lord Shi Hu feasted the ministers at Huguo Temple. Although Zhang Ju, the governor of Youzhou, was still on the way, and a group of senior officials from Jin were suppressed and absent, including Zhang Chai and other senior citizens in the country, and a group of senior citizens in the royal family, slaughtered the upstarts, the celebration was still vivid and lively.

Of course, the expected reward ceremony will not be available again, but no one dares to raise this topic now.

The ministers and officials at the meeting each received small promotions. The most important reward was that King Shi Shi of Zhongshan was appointed as the Minister of Shangshu Ling, Da Shanyu, Governor of Jizhou, King Shi Bin of Zhang Wu was promoted to King Yan, General, and Governor of Youzhou Zhang Jujin was appointed as the Grand Marshal, General of Wuyi Shi Jian was transferred to King Hejian, Governor of Youzhou, General of the Army, Zhang Chai and the Grand Tutor of the Grand Marshal, and General of the Central Army, Zhang Chai and the Grand Tutor of the Shangshu. Li Nong of Sima was appointed as the Grand Sima and the Governor of Bingzhou.

After New Year's Day, in addition to the important officials who were still on the way or were ordered by the town from afar, the rest were rewarded and all the ministers gathered in Huguo Temple to bow to thank them.

The Fawang Temple of the Kingdom of Hunting is still larger than the forbidden garden that has not been built yet. In addition to the ceremony of enshrining the golden body of the great monk Buddha, there are also the Dongtai Sutra Pavilion, the West Hall Buddhist Hall, the front and back pagodas, and the precepts courtyard. It covers a vast area and has many buildings. Even if the ministers gather here, they are still not cramped.

The guards in Huguo Temple were responsible for the guards of the Central Army, Wuwei, Longxiang and other three armies. Zu Qing, the upstart of the country, was the second only to the royal family Shi Cheng, and was mainly in the Dongtai area. Here, they mainly housed concubines and children of the Lord Shangshang Shihu, who had been promoted to imperial concubines and kings of Zhongshan, followed the Lord Shangshang Shihu to live in the West Hall.

Other important officials in the country may have attracted most of the attention by many imperial edicts and changes in their power. As the general of the guards of the central army, Zu Qing naturally knew more about the secrets of the palace.

In fact, before New Year's Day, Zu Qing noticed a strange sign. Originally, in Longteng Camp, the central army was ordered to return to the Forbidden Garden to stay, but half of the soldiers under Zu Qing had entered the garden, but suddenly received an order to return to the Protective Kingdom Temple.

Of course, according to the usual style of Jiezhu Shihu's worship of Buddha and fairy tale, it is impossible to conclude that there is a secret in this order. However, when Jiezhu Shihu arrived at Huguo Temple, the central army received several orders to return to the forbidden garden, but often there were new orders and notices on standby.

This is the third one, so Zu Qing had to be suspicious. Unfortunately, it was probably because there was a conflict with Sun Fudu in Longteng Camp before. Although Shi Hu did not severely punish him, he seemed to be wary and no longer let him follow him.

During the period when Shi Hu lived in Huguo Temple, he was always responsible for the police in the West Palace. Although Zu Qing was also a general in charge of the Central Army, he was not allowed to enter without reason.

Therefore, although Zu Qing was also a general of the Central Army Guard, in fact, except for the ceremony on New Year's Day, he had no chance to be with him. He could not follow him, so he had no way to see the details. Although he had already had some guesses in his heart, he was suffering from no evidence.

Unable to grasp the actual evidence, Zu Qing was lucky enough to survive the assassination of Longteng Camp. He had a deep understanding of Shi Hu's cunning and sinister nature, so he naturally did not dare to act rashly, for fear of revealing his strange ambitions.

However, although he was too conspicuous, he also secretly complained to his confidant family members about this doubt and asked them to investigate carefully in private. That night, Zu Qing returned to the residence at the patrol camp and just waited to fall asleep, a confidant family general hurriedly knocked in and entered.

After the family was about to enter, they took out a bunch of cloth from their arms, and after they opened it layer by layer, Zu Qing found that it was a ball of dark soil: "Is this?"

"There are many new colors under the foundation stone of the pagoda on the north side of the west hall. The servant secretly formed a military officer and went in to dig in the night..."
Chapter completed!