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King Liang touched his broken leg, his expression becoming more and more gloomy. He had tried so hard, why was it still not working?

Wasn't it all good at the beginning? Things had been going smoothly. As long as Su Jijing and the others died, he could find an opportunity to take out the disaster relief money and reap both fame and fortune without even showing up. So when did things start to go wrong?

It seemed to have started when Su Jijing and his men were carrying out the execution and discovered that Zhao Kuo and his men had been replaced.

He now deeply regretted rescuing Zhao Kuo and the others. At that time, he thought that they were all working for him. If he didn't care about their lives when something happened, it would make those who followed him feel disheartened. But now, not only did he fail to rescue them, but more people were also lost. Even he lost his life but did not get the desired result.

How could he know that all this was part of Su Qin's plan. When he fell off the horse, Su Qin knew what he was going to do. Therefore, when she sent the Xu family away, she asked them to guide the people to pay more attention to things that concern them, such as how much silver they can get after returning home, how big a house they can build, and whether the land will be redistributed.

As for the common people, what they care about most is their livelihood. They may gossip when there is nothing important to do, but once their own interests are involved, who cares whether a prince is hurt, who is the emperor in the court, and whoever gives them the most money becomes the emperor.

King Liang did not expect that the huge price he paid was resolved by Su Qin's few words.

King Liang was now so angry that he wanted to kill someone, but he had to endure it. He had to maintain his good image of being humble and wise.

In the end, he swallowed his anger and sent the messenger away. Then he asked another person, "How is Zhao Liangchen's investigation going?"

He just reviewed the whole thing and found that the biggest problem lies with Zhao Liangchen. He won over the Zhao family and let the Zhao family do things for him, but because of Zhao Liangchen's background, Zhao Jian and his wife did not like him, so he did not take him seriously and allowed Zhao Jian to conceal and deceive Zhao Liangchen.

Now think about it, if he had won Zhao Liangchen over to his side at the beginning and told him all the truth, he could have helped him to frame Su Jijing, and he wouldn't have exposed his past just because he knew nothing.

How could he have imagined that Zhao Liangchen was so capable that he could take Tong Zhongqian directly to the Imperial Guards camp to capture people.

This is all Zhao Jian's fault. He gave me the wrong information and made me think that Zhao Liangchen was stupid and easy to manipulate.

Normally, he would definitely get rid of anyone who ruined his plans, but he was reluctant to do so with Zhao Liangchen. There were not many young people as smart and courageous as him, and he was much more useful than Zhao Jian.

The person being questioned replied, "Your Highness, he's been busy trying to build relationships in order to compete for the position of deputy commander. Apart from the last time he selected many rewards from the palace and gave them to Zeng Xianren's granddaughter, he also went to the Ministry of Justice to pick up the escaped slaves of the Zhao family. However, there are two strange things. Since his visit to the Ministry of Justice, the families of those imperial guards have disappeared after being released from prison. The same is true for the Zhao family's slaves. Originally, Zhao Jian sold them to low-class brothels and mines, but my subordinates investigated and found that they were all bought by someone and are nowhere to be found."

King Liang looked at the man and asked, "Are you saying that those people were rescued by Zhao Liangchen?"

The man replied, "I don't know either, but the Zhao family's servants didn't say anything. It's possible that Zhao Liangchen saw the families of the imperial guards for the last time. I heard that Zhao Liangchen carried a lot of food boxes to see Wu Bin and the others off that day."

King Liang sneered, "I never thought that cold-blooded Zhao Jian could give birth to such a loyal son. Zhao Jian can't even manage his own servants. I think it would be better for Zhao Liangchen to manage that family."

The person being questioned did not dare to answer. Zhao Jian, like them, had followed King Liang for many years. If Zhao Jian was not capable enough, he would be replaced. He was afraid that the day would come for him too.

King Liang was just speaking in anger. He wanted to win over Zhao Jian not because of Zhao Jian himself, but because of his family. Besides, there was also his wife's family. The strength of these two families could not be matched by Zhao Liangchen no matter how capable he was.

Prince Liang thought for a moment and ordered, "Go and investigate the whereabouts of those people. Don't worry too much about the Zhao family's servants. Focus on the families of the imperial guards. If they are really involved with Zhao Liangchen, then keep an eye on them secretly. If you find anything wrong, then Zhao Liangchen will not have to stay. If not, then help him with the position of deputy commander."

"Yes."

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Zhao Liangchen was indeed very busy. Although he guessed that King Liang wanted to win him over, he could not rely entirely on him. He had to fight for his own affairs before he could have a say.

He did not ask other officials for help. He himself held a low official position and was a military general, so he had no say among the civil officials. Most officials did not even know him.

He was looking for his brothers in the Imperial Guards. He was a righteous man and had a good reputation in the Imperial Guards before. Although he captured people in the Imperial Guards and found disaster relief money this time, which implicated many people and many people wanted to kill him, there were still more people who were grateful to him.

After all, everyone joins the Imperial Guards to live a good life. Who would give up a good life and do something like executing the entire family? If you don't do it yourself, but someone around you does, you will end up losing your life as well.

Now that the matter has been exposed, if we clean out the bad apples in the Imperial Guards, everyone else will be safe.

In the past few days, Zhao Liangchen has been asking the generals in the imperial guards who have similar official positions to him for support every day. He also asked Jin Tong twice, but Jin Tong thought that he was a person who would do anything to climb up and directly refused him.

King Liang's men went to check on the families of the imperial guards and learned from the gatekeepers that those people had left the city one after another and disappeared after leaving. Zhao Liangchen had no contact with them, so they guessed that those people had mixed in with the disaster victims and wanted to pretend to be disaster victims and settle down in Chanzhou together.

So many people died there, and many villages were deserted. They could just find some dead people's identities and pretend to be locals to settle down there. If they really settled down in Chanzhou, it would be difficult to find them later. King Liang didn't want such a hidden danger to exist, so he sent more people to look for these people among the victims, hoping to find them before they settled down.

But what he didn't expect was that except for Wu Qian, who was still in the group of disaster victims, the others scattered to different towns and counties as soon as they left the scope of Shangjing City. If he went in the wrong direction, he would definitely not be able to find anyone.

Later, when King Liang's men couldn't find anyone, they thought they had settled in Chanzhou, so they temporarily put the matter aside. There was no need to waste too much energy on people who had not yet become a threat.

King Liang did not know at this time how much he would regret his decision later, and how much trouble these people would cause him.

The Zhao family's servants were also found. They discovered that it was Zhao Liangchen who used Qi Lusheng to buy the people. This was not difficult to find out because Qi Lusheng did not do it behind anyone's back and he kept the people on his family's farm.

Zhao Liangchen didn't have time to arrange these people. Qi Lusheng thought that these people were unfaithful and had not been trained well, so he was worried about letting them work for Zhao Liangchen. Therefore, he took the initiative to undertake the task of training these people.

After King Liang learned about this, he thought that Zhao Liangchen redeemed these people because he was soft-hearted.

He likes kind-hearted people because kind-hearted people are easier to control. There are too many people and things that can threaten them.

Therefore, he felt more confident in Zhao Liangchen and asked someone to put in a lot of effort in the position of deputy commander.

Zhao Liangchen went to see Su Qin six days later. Su Qin was making winter clothes for Mr. Zeng at home. She also made one for Zhao Liangchen to thank him for all the gifts he had given her.