Chapter 364 Putting Down the Rebellion
Prince Yan's actions left Empress Dowager Cao somewhat confused.

But as I said before, between two evils, choose the lesser one. As long as we can quell the current rebellion, we can at least extend the life of the Song Dynasty for a few more years.

As for the problem of King Yan, we can only find a way to solve it in the future!
The five ministers standing not far from Lin Hao trembled all over when they heard Lin Hao say that he wanted to let the new Jinshi take up local positions.

Because they thought of one thing. Previously, the King of Yan had asked the five of them to temporarily suppress the issue of the allocation of new Jinshi, but they did not dare to make it public!

Doesn’t that mean...!
Queen Mother Cao, who had figured out everything by this time, took a deep breath and said:
Since King Yan already has a complete plan, then~!

"Then I agree!"

Upon hearing this, Duke Qi became flustered and then shouted excitedly:

"You can't do that, Queen Mother!"

"The Prince of Yan's son harbors evil intentions. If we let him succeed today, he will surely rebel someday..."

"Come here, take him away!" Lin Hao said lightly.

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After the court meeting ended, Lin Hao led his men to ransack the homes of Zhao Zongquan, Duke Qi, and Liang Han, and all the family members within their three clans were also arrested.

Afterwards, they provided a one-stop service and sent them all away. Of course, Lin Hao also kept a few women he liked!

Of course there were also men, such as the Gu family at this time, where Lin Hao talked to Gu Tingyu alone for a long time.

"You came!"

"I am coming!"

Then Lin Hao sat in front of Gu Tingyu and asked, "How is the investigation going?"

"Cough, cough, cough~!" After Gu Tingyu coughed violently for a while, he said, "It is indeed as Your Highness said, it was Xiao Qin who gave me a chronic poison!"

Then Gu Tingyu stood up first, then bowed respectfully to Lin Hao, and finally knelt on one knee and said:
"If I were healthy, I would definitely repay your kindness, but unfortunately I am already terminally ill, and the poison has penetrated deep into my internal organs. I am afraid I cannot repay your kindness, Prince Yan!"

However, Lin Hao did not help him up, but said:

"Gu Tingye betrayed our alliance and joined Zhao Zongquan. You should know what this means!"

Of course Gu Tingyu knew what this meant. It meant that the Gu family’s influence in the military would also side with Zhao Zongquan. It also meant that Prince Yan’s foundation in the military would be shaken!

At this time, Lin Hao grabbed Gu Tingyu's hand, and then used his skills to give him one year of life.

Then Gu Tingyu, who was kneeling on the ground, was surprised to feel a stream of life energy rapidly nourishing his rotten wood-like body.

"Your Highness~!"

Lin Hao patted Gu Tingyu on the shoulder and said:
"You should know that the emperor suddenly became younger and gave birth to a child!"

Gu Tingyu nodded and said, "I've heard that someone has found a panacea that can restore youth or something!"

Then Gu Tingyu reacted and asked incredulously:
"Could it be that the late emperor was like His Highness today?"

"If you are loyal to me, I will certainly not stand by and watch you die. Besides, you and your wife can both have children, and you will have your own son sooner or later!"

"Now let's see whether you will choose to be a loyal minister to the Song Dynasty and continue to be a marquis, or follow me and gain a longer life?"

At this time, Gu Tingyu felt his body gradually recovering, and he felt like he was alive again. What else was there to choose? What could be more important than having his own offspring!
So Gu Tingyu said to Lin Hao without hesitation:
"In this life, I, Gu Tingyu, will follow your Highness' lead and will never betray you! If I break this oath, I will be punished by heaven and struck by lightning!"

"I've left a team of people for you. I'll leave the people in Gu Houfu to you!" Lin Hao took out a piece of paper with an address on it and handed it to Gu Tingyu, saying:

"Gu Tingye is in Shangqiu, you can handle all these by yourself!"

Watching Lin Hao gradually going away, Gu Tingyu looked at the people who were imprisoned in the mansion, including Xiao Qin and his younger brother Gu Tingwei.

Then Gu Tingyu picked up the pistol on the altar...!
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Lin Hao returned to the Duke of England's Mansion and went straight back to the backyard.

At this time, Minglan was staring blankly at the property catalog of the Duke of England's mansion, and did not notice Lin Hao's arrival. She was still muttering to herself:

“How come there are so many industries?”

"Soap, soap, ironware, grain, tea, salt, sugar, treasure house..."

When Xiaotao and Danju saw Lin Hao coming and were about to bow and greet him, they were stopped by Lin Hao with a look.

Then Lin Hao came quietly behind Minglan and hugged her from behind.

"Yeah~"

Minglan was startled and was about to call for help, but when she saw Danju and Xiaotao shyly turning their heads away, she immediately knew who the person was.

After all, this is the Duke of Ying's Mansion. Apart from her husband, Prince Yan, anyone who dares to come to the Duke's Mansion to tease her must be tired of living!
"My lord, stop! These two girls are still looking at us!" Minglan was extremely shy being held in Lin Hao's arms in public, especially since Lin Hao's hands were extremely dishonest.

Seeing Minglan's shy look, Lin Hao glared at Xiaotao and Danju, then said:

"It's like this, and you two can still watch it!"

Xiao Tao immediately covered her eyes with her hands, but her big eyes looked at Lin Hao through her wide-open fingers and said:
"My Lord, I can't see anything!"

Lin Hao has been with this kind of thing for a long time, so she and Danju have long been immune to it. Hugging and cuddling is nothing, and anything that Bai Rixuan does is just a piece of cake!
Danju, who was standing aside, covered her forehead with her hands with a red face, defeated by Xiaotao's "innocence", so she pulled Xiaotao out the door.

"You, you big bad guy... Uh-huh~!"

After Minglan recovered, her little fists rained down on Lin Hao.

She kept complaining, but after just a few words Minglan suddenly groaned, then bit her lip and kept silent.

And his expression became strange.

There was panic, shyness, a hint of guilt and an indescribable look. Minglan's eyes kept looking towards the door, as if she was trying hard to hide something.

When Xiaotao and Danju closed the door, they faintly heard Minglan's scream from inside.

Danju was a little worried when he saw his daughter's appearance, so he said to Xiaotao:
"Xiao Tao, with that girl's small body, I'm afraid she'll be torn apart!"

"Sister Danju, you don't want to..."

Although Lin Hao heard the two girls whispering with his superhuman hearing, he didn't care much.

Afterwards, Lin Hao and Minglan had another in-depth exchange, which ended with Minglan suffering a crushing defeat.

After the clouds cleared and the rain stopped, Lin Hao looked at the lazy Minglan and said:
"Girl, I'm leaving Bianjing in the next two days. You have to take good care of yourself in the next period of time, okay?"

When Minglan heard that Lin Hao was leaving, she trembled suddenly, then hugged Lin Hao's waist reluctantly, and then looked at Lin Hao pitifully.

"Is it dangerous? Otherwise you wouldn't be so serious!" Minglan lay on Lin Hao and asked, "Also, how long will it take?" Lin Hao gently stroked Minglan's smooth jade back:
"Don't worry, everything is under control. You should have seen something about the power of our Zhang family from the Zhang family's property catalog just now."

"In fact, our family has people all over the Song Dynasty. As long as I am willing, this rebellion can be suppressed at any time. You don't have to worry about your husband's safety!"

"Besides, you forgot that we two are very close in comprehension!"

Hearing this, Minglan also thought of this and felt sweet in her heart. After all, it is so happy to marry someone who loves her and can understand her!

"Hmm~!"

At this time, Lin Hao thought about it and continued:
"By the way, now that the two pillars of the Zhang family have left home, mother not only has to worry about the safety of her husband, but also the safety of her son, me. You should spend more time with mother on weekdays!"

"Yes! I will listen to you! In fact, even if you don't tell me, I will go to accompany my mother every day. My mother is very nice to me on weekdays!"

At this point, Minglan smiled and said:
"As good to me as my grandmother!"

Then he seemed to have thought of something, and then said to Lin Hao:

"Sir, why don't you bring Sister Xiaodie, Rong Shuangyue, and Wei Yuner here! After all, they have been your women for several years, and now they don't even have a name!"

"What do you want to say?" Lin Hao asked curiously.

Minglan knew that Lin Hao was doing this for her own good, but she knew that Lin Hao was actually enduring it very hard, so she said:

"I want them to serve you together tonight. I want to leave you a successor no matter what. There is still time!"

"Silly girl, you don't have to be so wronged. I promised you that I would let them in after our son is born!"

"I know, actually, actually~!"

"Oh! I just can't handle you, and I want someone to help me share the burden. Do I have to say it?"

"Hahahaha! Hearing you say that makes me feel very proud!"

Minglan had said this, so Lin Hao naturally didn't say anything polite. You know, he hasn't had a good time during this period.

Since Minglan took the initiative to bring it up, there was nothing to hesitate about. Lin Hao then went to call Rong Shuangyue, Wei Yuner, and Xiaodie over!

“It feels so good~!”

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morning!

Lin Hao left the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion refreshed, then came to the military camp, assembled 10,000 cavalrymen, and finally set off directly with a group of scholars who had passed the imperial examination!
Afterwards, Lin Hao went straight to Yuzhou where Zhao Zongquan was. When approaching Yuzhou, many soldiers wearing imperial guard uniforms nearby silently joined Lin Hao's team.

Lin Hao was not surprised at all. In fact, most of these soldiers who joined were from Zhao Zongquan's army, or from several major camps in Bian Jing.

When Lin Hao arrived in Yuzhou, he did not directly take out the Queen Mother's order, but met with Zhao Zongquan first.

Afterwards, while Lin Hao was controlling Zhao Zongquan, all the soldiers in Zhao Zongquan's camp, except for the 20,000 to 30,000 people he brought with him as the militia commander, defected at the same time!

The number of troops under Lin Hao's command increased dramatically from 10,000 to 90,000!
At this time, Hu Zi came in and reported to Lin Hao:

"Your Majesty, those 30,000 people have been dealt with! What should we do next?"

Only then did Zhao Zongquan react, and then he scolded with a flickering look in his eyes:

"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this? You and I are both princes, why are you arresting me?"

Afterwards, Lin Hao read out the Queen Mother's order, and then Lin Hao said to Zhao Zongquan:

"Now you understand! You have been abandoned by them and are of no use to them, so you can go die!"

Then Hu Zi stabbed Zhao Zongquan with a knife, and before Zhao Zongquan closed his eyes, Lin Hao said slowly:
"By the way, your princess tastes pretty good!"

At this time, Zhao Zongquan widened his eyes and stared at Lin Hao with anger, looking like he wanted to say something, but he didn't utter a word until he died!
Then Lin Hao said to Hu Zi:
"How is the cleansing of officials in Yuzhou going?"

Hu Zi shook his head and said, "This is Zhao Zongquan's lair. It has been run like an iron barrel for a long time. Our people have not been able to deal with the officials here!"

Then Hu Zi came up with a bad idea: "How about I bring someone to pretend to be him~!"

"Haha, you forgot that we have an imperial decree. Since they dare to falsely report a rebellion, they must be in cahoots with Zhao Zongquan. I can arrest them directly~!"

"However, instead of arresting one or two main culprits, I think it is better to catch them all at once. Once we leave Yuzhou, let our people start to act!"

Then Lin Hao said word by word: "All officials, leave no one alive!"

"I understand!" After saying that, Hu Zi went downstairs to arrange the follow-up actions.

Afterwards, Lin Hao led 90,000 soldiers and began to suppress the rebellion along the way. Then he arranged the scholars and officials he had trained, as well as the scholars who had surrendered to him in this special examination, to serve as prefects and judges in various places!
And disperse all the people in your hands and place them in these places!
In this way, Lin Hao came to Xinyang slowly. When Lin Hao arrived in Xinyang, he quickly subdued the nearby imperial guards and rebels.

Of course, this was only the statement made to the outside world. The government troops brought by Liang Han and the local rebels were mostly Lin Hao's men.

Then he repeated the previous method in Xinyang.

After dealing with these miscellaneous matters, Lin Hao also met Liang Han. In fact, Liang Han had been imprisoned by Lin Hao's men after his defeat in the army.

This is also the reason why Lin Hao was not in a hurry along the way.

"My Lord, I didn't betray you!" Liang Han quickly begged for mercy:

"I was just eager to make achievements. I wanted to fight in the war to earn merit and upgrade my title to Marquis. I really never betrayed you!"

"Tsk~!" Lin Hao came in front of Liang Han and said disdainfully: "You want to marry Princess Pu and Shen Congxin's sister Xiao Shen, right~!"

"When Zhao Zongquan ascends the throne, you will not only have a title of king, but also become a royal relative, right!"

At this moment, Liang Han's thoughts were exposed, and he said listlessly, like a deflated ball:
"So you already knew everything. In fact, I should have thought of it earlier, should have thought of it earlier..."

Afterwards, Lin Hao no longer cared about Liang Han, but turned to look at Gu Tingyu. Lin Hao had already received the news that Gu Tingyu had killed Gu Tingye in Shangqiu.

So Lin Hao said to Gu Tingyu:

"Now you are the only one left in the Gu family, so let's start over from the beginning!"

As he spoke, Lin Hao handed the sword to Gu Tingyu, who took the sword from Lin Hao without hesitation and said:
"Thank you, Your Highness. From now on, there will be no more Gu Hou Gu Tingyu, only Gu Tingyu in White!"

As he said that, he pulled Liang Han's neck!
"Pfft~!"

Liang Han looked at Gu Tingyu in disbelief, and then blood gushed out from the wound on his neck!

Looking at Liang Han who had fallen to the ground, Lin Hao said with emotion:
"The rebellion has finally been put down!"

(End of this chapter)