Looking at Chen Baxian's leaving figure, a hint of murderous intent flashed deep in Cai Jing's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.
These people have become traitors twice. They betrayed Gongsun Xuanyuan and took refuge in Gongsun Shu, and betrayed Gongsun Shu and took refuge in Chen Baxian. Their reputations are already very bad.
Although Cai Jing does not care about reputation, he does care about his own life and the survival of his family. If he betrays his master for the third time, wouldn't they become slaves of the fourth surname?
Then which princes will dare to accept them in the future?
In addition to this point, the main reason why Cai Jing let Chen Baxian go was because he needed to resist the infamy of surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Since the beginning of the Troubled Times, although the Han Dynasty has quickly fallen apart and fallen into internal strife and frequent wars, it has never suffered a loss in the war against foreigners.
Qin Wen occupied Hetao, Liu Xiu conquered Jingnan Shanyue, Liu Ji and Liu Yu defeated the southern barbarian king Chi You, Li Shimin, Yang Guang, Ma Teng and Han Sui directly destroyed the Qiang people, and Qin Hao was even more awesome and directly killed the grassland overlord Yuan Emperor Temujin. .
So far, none of the princes has ever been intimidated in front of a foreign race, and they always fought head-on until they were convinced by the opponent.
If Chen Guo were to be the first prince to surrender to a foreign nation, it is conceivable that he would definitely be put on a rack of shame and spurned by the people who went there, thus being infamy for thousands of years.
In addition to Chen Baxian's own rejection of foreigners, it was precisely because he knew this that he strongly opposed surrendering to the Manchu Qing.
Cai Jing and others also knew this, so they needed a tool-man lord to resist the infamy of surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty on their behalf, so that it would have nothing to do with them.
The reason why Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Zhang Bangchang and others preferred to be traitors and determined to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty was mainly because of the Qin army's policy towards aristocratic families.
Although the aristocratic families in other states are also powerful, they are far from being able to control the local area. However, Chen State is different. The entire country is controlled by aristocratic families.
The land of Chen State has experienced four princes: Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Xuanyuan, Gongsun Shu, and Chen Baxian. The country's power is getting weaker and weaker, but the aristocratic family has become stronger.
Nowadays, the nine major families of Cai, Gao, Zhang, Zhao, Tong, Wang, Liang, Zhu, and Li basically control all aspects of Chen State's economy, land, and politics. They are completely the local emperors of Chen State.
Chen Baxian is clearly the king of Chen State, but he has no control over the local counties. He, the king of Chen, is just the product of a balanced operation of multiple parties, but more like an alliance leader.
Although the harshness of the Qin army's policies towards aristocratic families was far less harsh than that of Zhu Ming, it was still difficult to accept in the eyes of these nine major families.
Therefore, once the Qin army occupied Chen State, the local aristocratic families would not only lose tangible benefits such as land, tenant farmers, slaves, etc., but also gain more intangible power.
In short, what they stand to lose is far more than the Hebei Family.
And after losing these, what is the difference between these high-ranking aristocratic families and those lowly common people?
The Chen family was afraid that the Qin army would occupy Youzhou and harm their interests, but they were not able to shake the Qin army's military power.
At present, the Qin army is in full force in Hebei. Jizhou and Qingbei have all been occupied, and then it is Youzhou's turn.
With the local forces in Youzhou, even if they unite, they can resist the Qin army that controls several states. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is impossible.
Realizing that Youzhou would fall sooner or later, and that once the Qin army occupied Youzhou, their aristocratic families would also fall from the clouds into the mortal world, this made Chen Guo start to panic.
After enjoying a status like a Tu emperor, it was naturally difficult for the Chen family to accept the return to their original status. At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took the initiative to extend an olive branch to them.
In the view of the nine major families of the Chen State, neither Chen Baxian nor Liu Che could fight against the fierce Qin army, and only the powerful Manchu Qing Dynasty could maintain their existing interests.
In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not stingy. In order to win over the nine aristocratic families, they promised a lot of benefits, which made all the nine aristocratic families excited.
In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty valued the Han people who had defected to the past. Three generals, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong, have now become marquises after they took refuge.
Therefore, the nine major families of Chen State, without much thought, unanimously decided to sell Chen Baxian, join the Manchus, and then use the power of the Manchus to resist the Qin army in order to protect the interests of their own families, and Chen Baxian became the Marquis of Chen. The victim of a noble family.
"Brother Cai, it seems that Chen Baxian will not cooperate with us honestly, otherwise..."
As he spoke, a trace of murderous intent flashed in Gao Qiu's eyes, and he made a gesture of wiping his neck, which meant nothing more.
"If you kill Chen Baxian now, even fools will know that we did it. It's too obvious."
Cai Jing shook his head decisively, and then sneered: "Whether Chen Ba first accompanies us or not, what difference does it make to us? We just need him to help us resist the infamy."
Zhang Bangchang came over and said calmly: "Chen Baxian is not a simple person. He went to western Liaoning alone, dealt with major events, and finally took the position of King Chen. His methods are quite powerful, so we should be more cautious. , don’t capsize in the gutter.”
"Don't worry, I only have a backup plan."
Cai Jing smiled slightly and said confidently: "In this land of western Liaoning, even if Chen Baxian is a real dragon, he still can't fly against our family."
On the other side, after returning to the palace, Chen Baxian's face was extremely gloomy, and his eyes seemed to have a ball of fire.
"Damn Cai Jing, damn the family."
Chen Baxian gritted his teeth and said that he was really in trouble now. In order to gain the support of the family, he promised the family too much benefit, so that now he is completely unable to lose it.
"Do you think you can make me give in like this? It's a dream." Chen Baxian said to himself bitterly.
After all, Chen Baxian was not a mortal. After realizing that he had become the tool of the aristocratic family, he immediately thought about how to fight back.
Although the Chen Guo family has joined forces, evaded him, and imprisoned him, it is impossible to completely control the army so quickly.
Chen Baxian was not alone in the Chen State. He had an elite team that Wang Mang gave to him, and there were also many new soldiers from the Chen State who were his confidants.
Among Chen Guo's 50,000 troops, at least nearly half of the troops will still obey Chen Baxian's orders.
"Immediately send an order to General Chen Chao and General Tong Guan to come back as quickly as possible to kill the rebels." Chen Baxian coldly ordered to his confidants.
Chen Chao is Chen Baxian's younger brother, and Tong Guan is the first general who actively surrendered to Chen Baxian after he came to Youzhou. They have always been loyal to him, so in his opinion, these two people will never betray him.
"promise."
The man in black escaped into the night sky and soon disappeared.
Chen Ba waited quietly for the army led by Chen Chao and Tong Guan to return, Qingjun side, to save him from the fire and water, but what was waiting for him was not the army, but people from major aristocratic families such as Cai Jing.
Seeing that Tong Guan was also in the queue of the aristocratic family, Chen Baxian's face turned pale for a moment, he pointed at Tong Guan tremblingly and was so angry that he could not speak.
Tong Guan glanced at Chen Baxian indifferently, and then threw Chen Chao's head directly at Chen Baxian's feet. Obviously, the family won this invisible fight.
Cai Jing stood in the middle of the crowd, looking at Chen Baxian with a miserable face, and asked coldly: "Why did my lord rebel?"
