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Chapter 367 - 367 Weakness
Chapter 367 - 367 Weakness
367 Weakness
Just like the Zhou family, the Song family was in chaos.
However, unlike Zhou Hengchang, who had the ability to convince his family, Song Minghui clearly didn’t have the ability to control the overall situation. Therefore, his method was different from Zhou Henchang’s. He immediately thought of using external help and got Wei Qing to help him.
Wei Qing was very cooperative. When it was about time, he brought people over.
The Song family had already suffered a huge blow during the previous incident, but most of the people involved this time were from the Song family’s side family. Because of the previous incident in the ministry, the main family was in decline and the side family was even more willful now. The ones in the wrong were those greedy side family members, but now, they were acting as if Song Minghui and the others would be committing a heinous crime if they didn’t help.
Therefore, when Wei Qing came over, the entire meeting hall was in chaos.
“What’s going on?” Wei Qing waved the whip in his hand. Just a casual glance from Wei Qing at the door made the man who was closest to him fall back into his seat in fear.
“I’m here to bring people back for questioning.” Wei Qing couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath. After he nodded at Song Minghui, who was sitting at the head of the table, he raised his hand. Then, the guards rushed in from outside and tied up all the men. They dragged them out of the door amidst wails and curses and took them away.
After all of this was settled, Wei Qing turned around and looked at Marquis Beining, who was sitting at the head of the table. “Since the criminals have been taken away, I won’t disturb you anymore.”
After saying that, Wei Qing turned around and followed the guards as they came.
When all of this was over, Marquis Beining looked at Song Minghui, who was drinking tea in a leisurely manner. “Are you really not going to ask?”
“How do you want me to ask?” Song Minghui stared at the teacup in his hand as he said in a low voice without even looking up, “The Gu family and the Du family have no way out this time. Although the people who were just taken away have the surname Song, that’s their only tie to the Song family.
All these years, they’ve relied on the power of the ministry to do whatever they wanted in the north.
However, these greedy people don’t know what restraint is. The more we gave them, the greedier they became!
Now, they want to replace us!
If we don’t hurry up and eradicate such a branch family, should we wait for them to devour us instead?”
Marquis Beining’s expression changed slightly. He wasn’t an unassertive person, but the passage of time had dwindled his courage and wisdom, making him become timider and timider.
It was also because of this that his worries increased and he was uneasy all the time.
For example, he knew that those people weren’t good people, but for some reason, he felt pity for them. However, he had forgotten that his son, who had always supported the ministry and had been mistreated, was the person he should pity the most in this world.
“But they’re our relatives after all. If we really abandon them, it’ll be detrimental to our reputation in the future.” Marquis Beining deliberated for a long time before persuading his son, who had clearly made up his mind. “And the Gu family is your mother’s maiden family after all.
Your mother has already fainted from crying a few times because of the Gu family.”
“What do you think I can do?” Song Minghui put down the teacup and turned to look at Marquis Beining, who was sitting at the head of the table, with a smile. “Use the future of our Marquisdom to fill these two big holes that can’t be filled no matter what?
Marquis, do you think I can make Mr. Pei agree to leave a way out for this group of scumbags who slaughtered commoners and fraudulently claimed military merits?
I remembered that when Mr. Pei came to Cloud Mountain City, I had warned you, my uncle, and the others. I said that Mr. Peis isn’t like General Gao, who colluded with them.
He’s not easy to fool. If things go wrong, entire families can get wiped out!
But did any one of you listen to my warning?
Why did you guys do it in the first place if you regret it so much now?”
Song Minghui sighed as he shook his head regretfully, but his tone was filled with schadenfreude. “Father, you should come to your senses. The northern region has changed ever since Mr. Pei came to Cloud Mountain City!”
“Where’s the fourth prince? Don’t forget that your uncle and the others sent a letter of allegiance to the fourth prince!” Even at this point, Marquis Beining didn’t give up and thought of the last trump card he could use.
“Isn’t Mr. Pei weakening the fourth prince’s power by attacking his own people?”
“You’re really naive.” After hearing his father’s words, not only was Song Minghui not angry, but he even laughed out loud as he stared at Marquis Beining in contempt.
“Who is Mr. Pei? Can the Gu family and the Lin family be compared to him?
Besides, with the fourth prince’s status and his schemes, even if the Gu family and the Lin family risked their lives to serve the fourth prince, they would have to see if the other party was willing to accept their service!
To the fourth prince, be it the Gu and Lin families or the Song family’s side families who had just been taken away, they were just useless soldiers!
There are so many outstanding and powerful people who can swear loyalty to him, so why would he choose such incompetent people?
Do you think he’s that crazy?!”
As if he didn’t want to listen to Marquis Beining’s nonsense anymore, Song Minghui stood up as he stared at Beining Hou, who appeared to be stunned by his words, and continued, “This is a very critical period. Even if you don’t care about the future of the ministry, you have to think about it for your own sake.
After all, if the ministry is still around, you can still be the Marquis and enjoy endless wealth in the future. However, if you’re really stripped of your title because of what happened previously, do you think you can still enjoy your life as you do now?”