The disgraced official I took care of was actually Zhu Houcong's childhood friend.

Chapter 338

After being imprisoned, Wang Changshan felt increasingly uneasy.

These people were separated and imprisoned, but Zhou Chu only gave a few spots to save their lives. So no one could guarantee that the others wouldn't betray them in order to save their own lives.

If you knew what they had done, any one of those things could be enough to lead to their families being wiped out. Who doesn't know the truth about each other?

Once someone else speaks first, they have no chance.

Wang Changshan's mind was getting increasingly troubled. He was almost certain that someone had already betrayed him, and if he made a decision any later, he and the Wang family would be completely finished.

"I need to see Lord Zhou; I have something to tell him."

Having figured out the key points, Wang Changshan dared not hesitate any longer and hurriedly knocked on the door of the room where he was being held.

There was no response from outside the door, which made Wang Changshan's heart sink to the bottom.

"Open the door quickly, I have something important to tell Lord Zhou."

Wang Changshan became increasingly frantic, banging on the door wildly.

“Master Wang, there’s no need to knock anymore. The master said that Master Wang is different from the others, and the master doesn’t want to hear anything from Master Wang.”

The Imperial Guards on duty at the gate, fed up with the questioning, finally spoke up.

Upon hearing this, Wang Changshan was filled with disbelief. His mind was a complete blank, and he couldn't understand why Zhou Chu was acting this way.

His first reaction was that the Imperial Guards on duty outside the door were lying.

"You're lying. Didn't Lord Zhou say that I could see him as long as I had something to say?"

Wang Changshan became increasingly frantic.

"The master said that in order to control the wolf pack, the alpha wolf must be killed."

The Imperial Guard was thoroughly annoyed by his constant chatter and said impatiently.

Upon hearing this, Wang Changshan collapsed to the ground.

"It's over! Utterly over! The Wang family is finished, and so am I!"

At this moment, Wang Changshan was no longer behaving like the old Master Wang; he sat on the ground like a madman, muttering to himself.

Wang Changshan's prediction was correct. Because of the prisoner's dilemma set up by Zhou Chu, no one dared to gamble. For them, all they needed to do was to provide enough information to Zhou Chu, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, before they could survive.

Conversely, if others seize the initiative, they will become bargaining chips for others to survive and be sacrificed.

Nobody dares to gamble.

Zhou Chu didn't even wait a quarter of an hour before his Imperial Guards came to report that several people wanted to see him.

"Come one by one."

At this moment, Zhou Chu was not in a hurry at all. Whoever had more information, especially more information about the location of the Mongol tribes, would survive.

Betraying others was merely a pledge of loyalty that Zhou Chu wanted them to make. Zhou Chu wanted to cut off their escape routes so that he could use them with relative peace of mind.

Of course, this was only a relative relief. These people would definitely try to outsmart him if given the chance, so even when they went to find the Mongols, Zhou Chu would have them closely monitored.

"This humble man, Li Jian, greets Your Excellency."

The first person to see Zhou Chu was Li Jian. He came up to Zhou Chu with a fawning expression.

"Tell me, what do you know? The more you know, the greater your chances of survival. There are many people behind you in line."

Zhou Chu looked at Li Jian in front of him and said with a hint of teasing.

Upon hearing this, Li Jian's heart skipped a beat. He looked outside and found that there were other people waiting at the door. Originally, he had only planned to give some unimportant instructions to get by, but now it seemed that this would not work at all.

"Sir, that old scoundrel Wang Changshan is colluding with the Mongols and selling salt and iron to them."

Li Jian gritted his teeth and blurted out a bombshell.

Zhou Chu was not surprised to hear this and nodded in satisfaction.

"Any more?"

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With Li Jian and others rushing to confess, things became much easier. Those whose homes should be confiscated were confiscated, and those whose entire families should be executed were executed.

After all, colluding with the Mongols is tantamount to treason, and the execution of the entire family is not an exaggeration.