Chapter 123: The Actions of the Aristocratic Family
While Guo Hao was searching for talented people in Yingchuan, the aristocratic families in Luoyang had already started taking action.
Due to a series of issues, the aristocratic families gathered again, and this secret gathering of the aristocratic families was directly equivalent to the meeting of the heads of the Luoyang aristocratic families.
Unfortunately, the rebellion began just as the meeting began. All the heads of the noble families who had not made their choices were stunned after hearing the noise outside the house, and then they understood the Yuan family's plan.
"Yuan Huai, what do you mean?" The old patriarch of the Chen family looked at Yuan Huai who was sitting in the main seat and said angrily. At this time he still didn't understand what the other party wanted to do, so he was not worthy of being the patriarch of the Chen family.
"Hehe, people always have to make a lot of choices, and I'm just giving you a little help." Yuan Huai said with a smile, not taking the Chen family head's rebuke to heart at all.
"Are all the noble families in Guanzhong involved?" Wei Xian, the head of the Hedong Wei family, looked at Yang Biao, who was sitting on the Diaoyutai, in some disbelief.
"No, only my Yang family was involved!" Yang Biao shook his head and denied Wei Xian's speculation.
He really wanted to mobilize the Guanzhong noble families, but there were too many people and too many mouths. This kind of thing still had to be kept secret.
"Okay, those family heads who are willing to participate, please stand up!" Yuan Huai said, looking at the people in front of him with different expressions.
Soon, the noble families present were divided into two parts.
As much as 70% of the Luoyang noble families were involved in Yuan Huai's plan.
"You want to hold my family's private soldiers hostage? With so many families helping each other, is that enough?" Wei Xian said with a sneer. Yuan Huai would never kill anyone, so he didn't dare to open the door.
If Yuan Huai dares to set this precedent today, then his Yuan family will have to suffer the consequences in the future.
"It's just a precaution. Please hand over your family head tokens. If we take Luoyang today, we can put your minds at ease."
Yuan Huai replied with a few words and said no more. He still had things to do tonight.
It is indeed inconvenient that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are not around. The other children of the Yuan family are more or less lacking in something. If he doesn't keep an eye on them, big trouble might arise.
“I’m sorry, not only did I forget to bring the patriarch’s token, I didn’t bring anything with me.” Cui Yi, the patriarch of the Cui family, stepped forward, completely fearless.
"Hmph, you don't know the current situation." Yuan Huai snorted coldly but said nothing.
After all, the aristocratic families are united, and he absolutely cannot take action just because of differences in opinion. If he does that, it will turn a party struggle, and the situation will be even worse.
Cui Yi casually found a chair and sat down, looking nonchalant. If he died, he died. When facing life and death, the noble family could sacrifice anyone, just a family head.
"With Ji Gui here, my Cui family has nothing to worry about!" Thinking of Cui Yan's reminder, he not only awakened his spiritual talent, but also noticed everything early on.
This made him, who had not figured it out before, couldn't help but sigh that he was getting old. With his age, even his brain had become stiff and he couldn't even understand such a simple trick of luring the snake out of its hole.
Cui Yi felt sad when he saw the group of family heads who had already begun planning to divide up the future harvest. If it weren't for Cui Yan, his Cui family would probably be in the same situation, not even realizing it until their death was imminent.
Cui Yi looked at the family heads who were fighting on the same front with him: the Chen family, Sima family, Deng family, Wang family, Li family, Zhang family... a total of ten family heads.
"It seems that there are capable people in the family. It's a smart move to send the general abroad. No, that's not right. It should be said that it's Jia Wen and Gao Ming." Cui Yi couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine when he thought of Jia Xu, who had no sense of existence but was left by Guo Hao to coordinate the overall situation.
Chen Shang, the old patriarch of the Chen family, silently turned his head and closed his eyes, as if he was taking a nap.
But his heart had already turned cold. After today, it was really unknown how many of the family heads present would survive.
If Chen Qun's analysis hadn't awakened him, he would not have realized that he had been set up.
"Who is it? How could he deceive so many people?" Chen Shang murmured to himself in his heart, feeling chilled by the enemy hiding in the dark and without any trace.
The people before them were the patriarchs of the Luoyang families, basically the most elite men of the Han Dynasty. How could they be so easily designed to die?
After Yuan Huai and others left, the head of the Wang family asked with a smile.
"It seems that everyone has discovered the problem?"
"Just wait and you'll know in the morning. I never thought that someone would have such means. It seems that there are Qilins in every family of yours." said the head of the Li family.
"Shan, wait a bit. I've figured it out. It's time for us old guys to step down. We don't even have spiritual talent. Sooner or later, we will be killed by others." The patriarch of the Zhang family held his head in his hands, despairing to the point of exploding with despair about the world.
How could the person who could become the head of a family be an ordinary person? If he hadn't been blessed by Zhou Yu's talent of lowering his intelligence, how could he have failed to notice Jia Xu's obvious plan?
But when Qilinzi in the family spoke, they deeply felt the gap between them.
"The dividing line between second-rate and first-rate, spiritual talent?" Chen Shang sighed. He originally thought that his family was already one step ahead of everyone else because he had Chen Qun, but he didn't expect there were so many dark horses. The Li family, the Zhang family, the Deng family, and the Wang family, these families are not considered the top families.
"Forget it, after today I'm afraid only the Guo family and the Liu family can be called top families," Chen Shang thought optimistically.
What’s the use of a family’s accumulation of thousands of years? How can one not be sad when being surpassed by someone in one day?
Fortunately, the aristocratic family is immortal.
If you lose today, you lose. Try again after several years.
What's more, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. From now on, they and the general will be one family.
"It seems that we need to move around more often in the future."
"good"
"Just wait, the results will probably be out tomorrow."
The night after curfew should have been quiet, but Luoyang became extremely noisy once again. Experienced Luoyang residents locked their doors and windows, stayed at home, and did not go out to join in the fun.
The private soldiers of the major families were mobilized together. The chaotic scene caused many small families to stay indoors. Even Yuan Huai's people could not stop knocking on the doors.
Although sometimes not doing it is wrong, this time not doing it is the best answer.
The grassroots generals under Yuan Huai did not dare to attack the many aristocratic families. The order Yuan Huai gave them was to mobilize the private soldiers of the aristocratic families. They really did not have the courage to take advantage of the chaos to launch a forceful attack.
Soon a huge army was gathered, and the retainers and private soldiers of many noble families merged together and marched towards the Government Affairs Hall.
Jia Xu looked at the movement in the distance, then looked at the information in his hand, and couldn't help but snorted coldly.
"I really underestimated these noble families."
"It turns out that there are over 10,000 of them. It's a bit more than I thought."
Zhao Yun, who was standing aside, was holding a corpse in his hand and casually threw it into the corner, where several assassins were lying in a mess.
The family was well prepared, but unfortunately it was meaningless when facing Zhao Yun.
