Chapter 213 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
Seeing the second master of the Yu family crying so sincerely, Cao Jing couldn't help but hesitate. After all, if he were the head of the Yu family, he would definitely prioritize escaping from prison if he had the chance. If he could take another person with him, it would definitely be his heir. As for other family members, they were not as important as himself and his heir and could be abandoned.
And these abandoned members of the Yu family are, of course, not qualified to know too much.
But Cao Jing was still unwilling to give up. Even though he guessed that the remaining abandoned members of the Yu family probably knew nothing, he still tortured and interrogated them all. He was disappointed that he failed to extract much valuable information.
Cao Jiarong, who had been standing behind Cao Jing like a wooden stake and keeping silent, also listened to the interrogation of Yu's family. He was worried that Yu's family would say whatever they thought during the torture, and then tell about what happened to Wen Jiarong and expose his life experience.
After all, he was so obsessed with the idea that when Cao Jing asked him what his name was, he only changed his surname but not his given name. Although the name Jiarong was not uncommon, the coincidence might make Cao Jing suspicious of him.
The Yu family had a grandson named Wen Jiarong who became a eunuch and a slave in the palace because his father's family was confiscated. He entered the palace as a eunuch at the age of six and asked Cao Jing to give him the name Cao Jiarong. This coincidence is so similar that it is easy to associate it with something.
Fortunately, the head of the family also knew that his behavior of advocating to abandon his own nephew was too unkind, and he would be ashamed and escape, and ordered that the matter be kept secret. The only people who knew about this matter at that time were the long-deceased grandparents, uncle and aunt Yu.
Uncle Yu is the current head of the Yu family. He has been rescued from the imperial prison, and my aunt is the current head of the Yu family, Mrs. Zhang. After learning that her husband and eldest son had abandoned her and her two young sons and daughters and ran away, Zhang fell into a daze. Even after being tortured, she could not confess anything useful. It was obvious that she was too mentally stimulated and had lost some of her mind.
Other important members of the Yu family may have heard some news about the incident, but they did not understand it clearly, and they did not think about it at this critical moment.
Cao Jiarong, who had been worried for a long time, felt relieved when he saw that no one had exposed the Wen Jiarong incident. Then his murderous intent became even stronger.
These members of the Yu family cannot live anymore. Just because they haven’t given Wen Jiarong away now doesn’t mean they won’t remember this matter in the future. They must all be eliminated without fail.
In this way, the only person who knows his life experience in the future will be the mastermind who rescued the head of the Yu family and his son.
The mastermind behind this obviously wanted to negotiate with him. If there was room for negotiation, there would be a way to resolve the issue.
Without doubting his adopted son Cao Jiarong, Cao Jing still trusted Cao Jiarong very much, so Cao Jiarong just made some slanderous remarks to Cao Jing, and Cao Jing ordered the entire Yu family to be killed.
After Lin Shu received the news that all the members of the Yu family who were still in the imperial prison had died at the hands of Cao Jiarong, he sent someone to pass this news to the head of the Yu family and his son.
They must know how their family members died, and who their enemies are.
While the Yu family head and his son were crying for the tragic deaths of their family members, they also felt great resentment towards Cao Jing and Cao Jiarong.
At this time, they didn't know that Cao Jiarong was the Wen Jiarong of the past. Lin Shu held the father and son of the Yu family as pawns to threaten Cao Jiarong to do things for him. If Cao Jiarong didn't understand, he would tell the father and son of the Yu family the truth that Cao Jiarong was Wen Jiarong, and then let the father and son of the Yu family go.
Lin Shu doesn't need to arrange anything. In order to avenge their families, the father and son of the Yu family will take the initiative to expose Cao Jiarong's true life experience.
If Cao Jiarong was tactful and willing to work for him, then the Yu father and son would always be under his control, and would not know the truth that Cao Jiarong = Wen Jiarong for the time being. They would not be able to find a way to take revenge on Cao Jiarong.
No matter what, Lin Shu always sits firmly on the Diaoyutai.
Under the leadership of Lin Shu, the Lin family army marched steadily towards the capital city. All the forces they encountered along the way were no match for them.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Lin family army is so powerful that their chances of success in competing for supremacy in the world are the highest.
Therefore, those talented people who felt their talents were not appreciated or who could not stand the injustice of the world and lived in seclusion in the city or the mountains, all turned to Lin Shu, the wise leader who they believed had the highest success rate in conquering the world.
Lin Shu has been taught by Si Yuan for many years how to be a king. He is respectful to the wise and humble, and is open to advice, while still maintaining the demeanor of a wise ruler. Those talented people who come to him for help are quickly won over, and are willing to work diligently for him under his sweet words.
The lower class people work with their physical strength, the middle class people work with their brains, and the higher class people work with their people.
Lin Shu is now the boss who works hard for others. He holds the core power tightly in his own hands, but delegates all administrative work to his subordinates. He trusts his employees, makes the best use of resources, and makes the best use of people's talents, which makes everyone dare not disobey.
For a moment, Lin Shu forgot about Cao Jiarong, whom he had been thinking about before, until the spy he had planted in the capital to be in charge of this matter sent him a secret letter, and then he remembered this matter.
The plan was halfway done, and it would not be good to give up halfway, so Lin Shu arranged for a spy to contact Cao Jiarong.
Otherwise, if he didn't send someone to contact Cao Jiarong, Cao Jiarong would not be able to find the mastermind he thought was behind the incident even if he turned the entire capital upside down.
However, even if he sent someone to contact Cao Jiarong, Lin Shu had no intention of revealing his identity. What he wanted Cao Jiarong to do did not require revealing Lin Shu's own identity.
Cao Jiarong, who was always worried and felt that there was a guillotine hanging over his head, finally received another message from the mastermind. However, the person who came to see him was actually a young gardener who took care of flowers and plants in his house, and was not the real mastermind at all.
Cao Jiarong looked at the honest-looking gardener in front of him with an extremely unpleasant expression: "I never thought that there would be a traitor like you in my mansion!"
The gardener said innocently, "Eunuch Cao, you are joking. I am loyal to my master, how could I betray him?"
Cao Jiarong's face became even uglier, because he knew that the master the gardener was talking about was not him, but the master behind the scenes. Since the master the gardener was loyal to from the beginning was not him, Cao Jiarong, how could he be accused of betrayal?
Someone had planted a spy in his house, but he had to wait for the other party to show up before he found out. This was a great shame and humiliation.
After all, Cao Jiarong is the adopted son of Cao Jing, the head of Beichang. Beichang is best at planting spies to obtain secret information. He spends all day hunting geese, but he was actually pecked in the eye by a goose!
However, Cao Jiarong, who was holding a fatal handle, could not do anything to the gardener, and could only swallow his anger and ask: "What does your master behind you want?"
The gardener handed a secret letter sealed with beeswax to Cao Jiarong. Cao Jiarong peeled off the beeswax, opened the secret letter, and was immediately frightened.
The mastermind behind this actually wanted him to instigate the princes to fight for the throne!
The current emperor has been on the throne for many years, and his princes have all grown up. However, with smoke everywhere and chaos emerging, the emperor will never allow his princes to engage in a fight for the throne and waste the country's strength at this time.
So unlike the princes in the original plot who were fighting for the throne at this time, the princes today are all quite well behaved.
After all, they all knew that if the country was destroyed, they, the sons of the last emperor, would all have a bad ending. If they competed for the throne now, they might not be competing for an ordinary throne, but the position of the king of a destroyed country.
But Lin Shu did not want the emperor and the court to focus most of their energy and attention on him. Only when the court itself was in trouble would these people divert their attention.
And what chaos could be bigger than the chaos caused by the fight for the throne?
You only need to look at how chaotic the fight for the throne was during the current emperor's generation. It can be said that the large number of rebellious forces today is closely related to the fact that the fight for the throne in the previous generation consumed a lot of national strength.
After the current emperor won the battle for the throne, the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to eliminate dissidents. He found reasons to confiscate the property of all the court officials who had connections with his political enemies and brothers, and then placed his own people in their place.
The imperial power was indeed consolidated, but the national strength was also greatly consumed. This long-term turmoil made it difficult for the court to recover for many years.
What Lin Shu lacks most now is time to develop. It’s not that his army has not developed enough, but every time he captures a city, he has to arrange people to govern and appease it, and assimilate the new territory into his own, which takes time.
When he was managing domestic affairs, the imperial court always tried to take advantage of him, which was very troublesome. Then the imperial court would be busy and unable to take care of itself, so it would have no time to take care of him.
As for other rebel forces, to be honest, in Lin Shu's opinion, they are all chickens and dogs and not worth mentioning.
The imperial court is his biggest opponent. After all, even a rotten boat has three pounds of nails. It seems that the imperial court is not very effective in fighting any rebel force. But it should be noted that the imperial court is fighting on multiple fronts and has the largest territory. If the huge political machine is running at full capacity, Lin Shu will have to be wary.
However, Si Yuan and Lin Shu have analyzed that although the imperial court is the strongest, it is also the most bloated and weakest. With 100% of the strength, the imperial court may not be able to exert 10% because there are too many people who hold it back.
What Lin Shu has instructed Cao Jiarong to do now is to make the court have more people holding it back, so that the court cannot even exert its 10% strength.
When Cao Jiarong read the secret letter, he knew how vicious the mastermind behind it was, but although he was frightened, he still did as he was told.
After all, instigating infighting among the princes would not require him to take much risk. Moreover, he did harbor resentment towards the emperor in his heart, and he was quite happy to let the dog emperor's sons kill each other.
So Cao Jiarong secretly used Cao Jing's people to do this.
Cao Jing trusted his adopted son Cao Jiarong very much. The only precaution he took against Cao Jiarong was to forbid Cao Jiarong from showing courtesy to the emperor, in order to prevent Cao Jiarong from replacing his position in the emperor's heart. Apart from that, he did not guard against Cao Jiarong much.
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