And if Sun's mother and others don't come back, it will prove that they did this, and they are guilty and dare not come back. In that case, he will let the prefect of the capital fabricate some evidence to show that it is related to the Sun family's eldest house, and then group them together. Catch everyone.
In other words, it is impossible for the people in the Sun family's main house to hide at the border and not come back.
Sun's father and Aunt Cao listened to the emperor's analysis conveyed by Sun Qiaoyun. Coincidentally, Sun's father actually felt that this matter seemed to be related to Dafang. After all, there were so many rich families in Beijing, why did they keep stealing from their own homes? It was unreasonable and why? Yes, and now he has stolen the emperor's internal funds. It is obvious that he is not dealing with them, and the people who are not dealing with them are the big family members, aren't they?
Seeing that the emperor confirmed his guess, Sun's father couldn't help but get angry. He thought, he didn't care much about Sun's mother and others, so why did he send someone to steal his money?
He felt heartbroken at the loss of more than 200,000 yuan.
So he immediately listened to the emperor's instructions and asked someone to send a letter to Sun Mu and others, asking Sun Mu and others to come back.
As for Linlang, she is already married, so she definitely won't be able to call her back, but don't worry, if this is Linlang's fault, if her mother and her brother are brought back, they can still deal with her indirectly.
A month later, grandson's mother and brother grandson received a letter from grandson's father and came to Linlang to discuss the matter.
Linlang read the letter and said: "Don't worry about him, let him go. ... However, we can come up with a delaying strategy first. Don't say you won't go back, just say that the weather is bad now and you can wait until spring starts before going back."
It's only around October now, but the weather in the North is already very cold. When spring comes, several more months will have passed. By then, the Third Prince will probably be almost ready and ready to take action.
Sun’s mother and Brother Sun thought this was a good suggestion, so they immediately responded to the letter.
Now Mrs. Zhang and her family are at the border, and my grandma is with her parents, so naturally she doesn't feel much homesickness.
Even if Brother Sun and his family miss the prosperity of the capital, they don't dare to go back when they think that the new emperor has been cleaning up people and sending many people to the frontier. After all, no matter how good the capital is, they still have to live to enjoy it, so everyone If you are together, prepare to stay here.
So Brother Sun followed Linlang's instructions and sent a letter like this back.
When Sun's father saw that Brother Sun said he would come back after spring, he naturally disagreed. He didn't notice the delaying plan of Linlang and others, so he immediately sent a letter asking him to come back immediately. He also scolded Brother Sun for being unfilial, saying that he was sick and they didn't come back to serve him. disease.
But, this time came and went, and by the time Brother Sun and others received the letter, it was already the end of the year.
At this time, the soldiers and horses of the Third Prince, Linlang and others had swept through Mozhou and Huangzhou, killing countless Hu people, and even killed the Hu people's royal court, and finally occupied the Hu people's territory.
By this time, the generals and officials in Mozhou and Huangzhou had discovered that something was wrong.
However, when they wanted to do something, it was already too late - some of them had been replaced by the Third Prince's people. Seeing the rest, these people realized that something was wrong, and immediately controlled these people, allowing the Third Prince to go smoothly. Obtained the territory of Mozhou and Huangzhou.
Now, the third prince already owns the vast territory of the three border states, and also owns the territory of the Hu people. Even the states adjacent to the three states, the third prince's power is slowly replacing the governors and generals with his own people. .
In other words, when spring comes next year, the power of the third prince will become even greater.
It is estimated that the third prince will keep asking the military and political leaders of various places to be replaced by his own people. It is not until the fourth prince realizes that something is wrong and sends a large army to attack him that he will fight back with force. After all, in the future, he will rule the common people. If he can avoid fighting, the third prince will naturally Don't want to fight.
And after owning so many places, the third prince's caravan business was very successful and he made countless money. After all, the desert caravan was no longer in danger, and the spices, gold, etc. transported from the desert were still making money. .
With this money, the third prince is now developing his power and hardly needs the support of his previous powers.
Because these things were all done in secret, the fourth prince did not realize that the power of many states in the north under his rule did not belong to him, but to the third prince.
There was no way, the military and political leaders in various places had been replaced by the third prince's people, and all the news he sent to him was false. How could the emperor know?
In addition, the third prince also asked the three border states to send some letters that there was progress in killing the Hu people, and asked the court to allocate more money so that the three border states could continue to encircle and suppress the Hu people.
Relying on this, I collected a lot of money from the imperial court.
Let's put it this way, the fourth prince wants to beat the third prince from now on, but he doesn't even have money, so how can he do it? After all, the three armies have not moved, and food and grass go first. If you don't have money to buy food, grass, weapons, etc., how can you still fight the war?
This was done intentionally by the third prince, just to drain the fourth prince's treasury and make him have no money and not be able to fight even if he wanted to.
Of course, he can also increase taxes, but this will inevitably make it difficult for the people to survive and lead to uprisings.
When the time comes, he will have to deal with himself and the rebels at the same time. Whether he can withstand it or not is not certain.
After the Chinese New Year, Sun's mother and others had not come back, the fourth prince became impatient. After all, the thief had not been caught since the theft in September last year. It has been almost half a year now. Sun's mother and others had not come back yet. When the people still didn't come back, the Fourth Prince decided that they were guilty and didn't dare to come back, so when the weather got warmer and the weather at the border would get better and it wasn't freezing and snowy anymore, he sent someone to "invite" Sun Mu and others back.
Because there are more people "inviting", there are also more people from the Fourth Prince's faction.
But when they got here, they were wiped out by Linlang's private armed forces.
Linlang had been paying attention to what was going on in the capital, so she naturally knew that the emperor had sent someone over.
So they packed up everyone.
It just so happened that these people were sent by the emperor himself and had quite good equipment, which made Linlang make a lot of money.
In order to let the emperor see the tough folk customs on the border, Linlang did not kill everyone, but also left one person for the other party to go back to deliver the message - of course, if this person did not give up and wanted to go to the border, he would If Sun's mother and others take them back, they will probably have no choice but to chop them down. After all, they can't let the other party discover the situation at the border.
However, the other party was obviously frightened by the tough thieves on the border - Linlang's people pretending to be thieves - so he didn't dare to go forward, so he went back and told the emperor about it.
When the fourth prince heard that hundreds of people he had sent were killed by thieves from the neighboring state of Shazhou before they even reached Shazhou, he couldn't help but became furious and immediately ordered the general of that state to lead his troops to kill the thieves. Packed up.
The other party said that the thieves here are very powerful and would be difficult to deal with.
The emperor gave him a lot of money and asked him to clean it up, thinking that there would be brave men under the heavy reward.
