"Uncle Ma, it's not that I want to be enemies with those aristocratic families, but that the Tang Dynasty must completely dismantle these aristocratic families if they want to eliminate hidden dangers in the country, otherwise they will only leave endless troubles. And this time they provoked me first!" Li Xiu sighed at this time. Originally, he had no personal grudges with the aristocratic families, but after today's incident, he had already listed the aristocratic families as one of the targets to be destroyed.

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Ma Master couldn't help but remain silent for a moment. After a while, he sighed and said, "You are the head of the family now, and you have always been safe in your work. You must have your own reasons for doing things, so I won't say much, but I hope you will be careful in everything. After all, the power of the aristocratic family is too large. If they can't assassinate today, it's hard to guarantee that there will be a second time."

"Uncle Ma, don't worry, this time Pingyang led his troops into the city to demonstrate to those aristocratic families. In addition, Your Majesty also expressed his opinion. No matter how brave those aristocratic families are, they will not dare to touch me in a short period of time. What's more, I will be more careful in normal times and will never give them an opportunity to take advantage of it!" When Li Xiu said the last, his face couldn't help but show a firm look.

Speaking of which, Li Xiu was determined not to do much, but destroying the aristocratic families was one of them. Although this was very difficult for him, he had enough time and patience. After all, he was only in his thirties now. Even if he lived to be sixty, he still had more than twenty years old. He believed that even if he could not destroy the aristocratic families in more than twenty years, he could weaken their influence to the lowest level.

Ma Ye was most familiar with Li Xiu. Seeing the expression on his face, he immediately understood what he was thinking, so he didn't say anything. Li Xiu also changed the subject and asked about the physical condition of Ma Ye and Princess Guanghua. Although he often went to Ma Ye, they were old after all, and they might have some physical problems if they were not careful.

In the next few days, Li Xiu was also busy rebuilding the book printing company, and Empress Changsun’s funeral was completely handed over to Changsun Wuji. In addition, the court was also in full swing for the searches for those men in black.

However, with the development of the search for the man in black, the attack of Li Xiu was quickly spread. In fact, such a big thing could not be concealed at all. For a time, rumors were everywhere, and there were many speculations about the envoy behind the scenes. However, many people noticed that early on the morning of the second day after Li Xiu was attacked, Princess Pingyang led her army to slaughter the residences of thirteen officials from aristocratic families. Thinking of the rumors that Li Shimin had always wanted to limit the aristocratic families, the cause and effect of this matter gradually became clear.

Although the aristocratic families have a strong influence and even control the direction of public opinion, it is also true that they control the imperial examination and use their own influence to suppress poor scholars. Therefore, many people are also dissatisfied with the aristocratic family. Therefore, the matter related to the aristocratic family was soon spread. Some people even swear that Li Xiuyu attack was instructed by the aristocratic family.

Of course, the above rumors that are unfavorable to the aristocratic families can only be spread in secret. After all, the influence of the aristocratic families is too great, and spreading such rumors also takes considerable risks. However, even so, this rumors still have a great impact on the reputation of the aristocratic families. However, the influence of the aristocratic families has a timeliness. As time goes by, this influence will soon pass, and the reputation of the aristocratic families will recover.

However, just when Li Xiu encountered news about the aristocratic family fermented to a certain extent, a more explosive news suddenly came out, that is, the reason why Li Xiu entered the palace in the middle of the night was mainly because someone set up a burning of the bookmarks. Although the bookmarks were just a place to print books, it posed a serious threat to the aristocratic family. Some people did not want everyone to read books, so they burned the bookmarks. In order to completely eliminate the threat from the bookmarks to the aristocratic family, they set up an ambush on the way to assassinate Li Xiu, who was building a printing house. Fortunately, Li Xiu escaped.

As soon as the news above came out, although it was not explicitly said that the one who burned the printing bookstore was a noble family, anyone with a little brain could guess who the other party was. Therefore, the reputation of the noble family dropped to the lowest point for a time, especially some scholars from poor families, who hated the noble family even more deeply, and they were constantly criticizing the noble family for a while.

"Li Xiu's counterattack has begun. I'm summoning everyone today to ask everyone's opinions?" It was still the Cui family hall that last time discussed the matter. Cui Gan was the first to speak again. In just a few days, he seemed to have grown a lot older. Not only did his hair turn white, but his back was even more hunched.

"We must never let Li Xiu and the others spread this kind of news anymore, otherwise the reputation of our aristocratic family will be ruined sooner or later, and we must stop them!" At this time, an official from a aristocratic family stood up with annoyance and said loudly.

"Stop it must be stopped, but the key is how to stop it?" Cui Gan suppressed the urge to curse in his heart, looked at the other party indifferently and said, "He asked these people to discuss solutions, not to let them vent their anger."

As soon as Cui Gan said that, everyone present couldn't help but feel silent. Even the official who stood up just now slowly sat down, because they all knew that the circulating outside was not rumors, but the truth of the matter. Li Xiu released these news one by one just to attack them. Now they couldn't find a reason to argue.

"Maybe we can use poison to fight poison!" At this moment, Zheng Zhong stood up and said in a deep voice.

"How to fight poison with poison?" Cui Gan couldn't help but look at Zheng Zhong when he heard this. He used to attach great importance to the outstanding talents of this aristocratic family, but unfortunately the other party was too eager for quick success and instant benefits, so he did the stupid thing to assassinate Li Xiu. Now he wants the entire aristocratic family to wipe their butts.

"It's very simple. Rumors are true and false. Li Xiu can release rumors, and we can also release rumors. At that time, true and false rumors are mixed together. Who can tell the difference except for the real people in the game?" Zheng Zhong explained with a complacent look on his face.

"This method is good. With the influence of us, we can muddle this pool of water!" As soon as Zheng Zhong finished speaking, he immediately received the approval of others. Finally, even Cui Gan nodded in agreement. Although this method is not very clever, there is really no better method other than that.

Zheng Zhong and the others discussed the details again, but at this moment, Cui Gan suddenly cleared his throat again, then frowned and said, "In addition to the rumors, I have been watching Li Xiu's movements during this period, and I found something strange!"
Chapter completed!