My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

"How dare you! How dare you disrespect the princess and the third master? Get out of here immediately!" The leader of the cavalry, Zheng Yangyu, shouted.

The besieged crowd reacted quickly, adjusting their formation with their backs to each other to deal with the sudden situation of being attacked from both sides, and waited for Qin Hongyi's instructions.

Qin Hongyi was shocked. He had carefully selected this ambush site. Logically speaking, it was impossible for the reinforcements to arrive so quickly.

A feeling of being out of control exploded in my mind, and cold sweat instantly broke out on my back.

But it is absolutely impossible for him to just surrender like that.

As a general who had experienced many battles, he replied calmly: "General Zheng, I am clearing out the poison within my family. What are you doing here?"

"If we talk about harmful influence, you should be the first one! Our ancestor accepted you into the Qin family, not to let you fight for power with his descendants and repay kindness with enmity! Ask yourself, are you worthy of our ancestor's kindness in raising and cultivating you?" Zheng Yangyu questioned repeatedly.

When mentioning his ancestors, Qin Hongyi's face suddenly darkened.

His loyalty to his ancestors was absolutely unconditional. That is why, before his ancestors passed away, he wrote him and two other people into the Qin family tree, making them members of the Qin family.

However, just as the saying goes “a new emperor appoints his own ministers”, the former prince had his own trusted confidants and also adopted a large number of adopted sons.

These adopted sons of their ancestors were all transferred from their original positions, one by one, to serve as pioneers in wartime and perform the most difficult tasks, and to be closely monitored in their spare time for fear that they would rebel.

Even though he became a member of the Qin clan and had the amulet given by his ancestors, it was just a false title and his actual situation was no different from that of other people.

Faced with such a predicament, a good brother who was also adopted by the ancestor and grew up with him wanted to protect himself and return to the countryside, but his petition was rejected by the late king and he ended up dying on the battlefield in the subsequent battle.

Even if the late prince did not deliberately harm him, it was still related to his transfer order and his making things difficult for him.

The long-accumulated resentment and resentment underwent a qualitative change and turned into an intense hatred burning in the heart.

Qin Hongyi has both ability and courage. He is both wise and brave.

He finally stood out from the many adopted sons of his ancestor, experienced countless life-and-death crises, and made great military achievements. He won the arrangement of his ancestor before his death to be included in the family as a branch. He was not willing to return to the starting point and become a lamb to be slaughtered. Sooner or later, he would follow in his brother's footsteps.

Faced with the huge disparity in power, Qin Hongyi appeared calm on the surface, but secretly he was like a beast lurking in the bushes, waiting for an opportunity to strike, striving to make a fatal blow.

However, he failed to find a suitable opportunity when the former prince was alive. After the former prince died, Qin Junyi was ordered to fight against the invading Northern Di army.

He thought the time had come, but before any signs showed up, Qin Junyi sensed the undercurrents and appointed Qin Mu as the head of the family, in charge of dispatching military supplies and stationed in the rear.

Qin Mu used clan rules as a weapon to severely suppress the clan members' families, and firmly controlled the dispatch of military supplies, leaving him no chance of winning.

Qin Junyi, who was better than his teacher, defeated Beidi and became famous.

Later, the new emperor launched a rebellion, and the Qin family was demoted to commoners and exiled to Youzhou.

He had no better place to go, so he had to go along.

Qin Junyi was different from his father. Not only did he not intend to use these unrelated clansmen to death, he also gave them the status and respect they deserved.

What is even more rare is that Qin Junyi also makes use of their sons, allowing them to achieve their ambitions and accomplish their goals.

Qin Hongyi knew very well that Qin Junyi was definitely not a soft-hearted person, and this move must have a deep meaning.

He could vaguely feel that Qin Junyi was playing a big game of chess, but he couldn't see the specific positions of the pieces on the board.

After racking his brains for many days, Qin Hongyi finally blamed Qin Junyi for secretly using their son.

Use the son's spear to attack the father's shield.

Seeing the Qin family rising day by day and becoming a behemoth ruling the three northeastern states, Qin Hongyi became more and more restless.

Once Qin Junyi ascends the throne and becomes emperor one day, he will have no chance of turning things around.

Qin Junyi is currently on an expedition to Beidi, and his eldest son is temporarily appointed by Qin Mu to be in charge of the transportation of military supplies. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

As long as the eldest son secretly manipulated the situation and prevented the military supplies from being delivered to the front line, Qin Junyi, who was alone and deep in the Northern Di Kingdom, would lack food and grass supplies from the rear and would surely be encircled and suppressed by the Northern Di army.

If Qin Junyi's army was completely wiped out, he, who had already secretly united with other branches and old subordinates, could launch a mutiny at any time, establish himself as king and compete for the Central Plains.

And if Qin Junyi returns with his remnants of the defeated army, he can also firmly control the rear and become a constraint on Qin Junyi.

An accident happened at the banquet a few days ago. Qin Hongyi ordered his wife and daughter to fan the flames of the rumors, and wrote to Qin Ershu and Qin Junxian, instigating them to suspect Qin Mu and Su Yunwan, so that he could reap the benefits.

But the uncle and nephew were as solid as a rock and remained unmoved. They even asked Qin Mu to investigate the deeper meaning behind the rumors.

Once you lose the initiative, your chance of winning is gone.

Qin Hongyi and his son, the heads of the other two branches, and the leaders of his old subordinates, a total of seven people, gathered together under the cover of night to discuss countermeasures.

In the end, everyone reached a consensus: on the Qingming Festival, they would attack Qin Mu on suspicion of shielding the princess.

Now that the truth has been revealed, no matter how grateful Qin Hongyi is to his ancestors, he can't just stop there.

Faced with the aggressive cavalry, Qin Hongyi did not retreat.

He did not respond to Qin Hongyi's questioning, but directly fired a loud sword sound to let his own reinforcements appear.

However, the signal that should have responded has not appeared yet.

Qin Hongyi: !!!

His pupils trembled violently. He knew that the situation was hopeless, and he made a final struggle: "Qin Mu, do you still want to deliver the supplies for the expedition against Beidi to the prince smoothly?"