A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

Wei An cursed Wei Xian in his heart.

You've gotten all the limelight, but he's the one taking all the blame.

To dispel the rumors, Wei An personally knelt at the Temple of King Zhongwu for three days and three nights, bringing out the oath made by King Zhongwu and Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang.

The Wei family will never claim the title of king!

This finally stopped these ministers from having the desire to follow the emperor.

However, such repression is not good for the unity of the forces.

To compensate for the loss of these people who could not become loyal ministers, Wei An made them access to many books left behind by Wei Ping, Wei Shou, and others.

Among them are some methods for body training, and prescriptions left by Wei Shou for conditioning the body and strengthening the body.

Each of these books was a family heirloom, which Wei An gave to these people as compensation.

This incident once again demonstrated the loyalty of the Wei family to the entire world, and even the cold-blooded Emperor Ping of Han felt a pang of guilt for a few seconds.

After a few seconds of guilt, he began to ponder what this matter could bring him.

This will clearly solidify his position as emperor.

Since the Wei family is so loyal, could he find a way to win them over?

He had always thought that the Wei family had impure intentions, but now that he had confirmed their loyalty and purity, Emperor Ping attributed the Wei family's bad attitude towards him to Emperor Huang and Emperor Ai.

It must be that these two emperors hurt the Wei family's feelings, which is why the Wei family has a bad impression of the emperor.

These are all minor matters. As long as he can win over the Wei family, he is willing to humble himself and apologize to them, and give them a great reward.

They could even offer their own face, self-respect, and the self-respect of the late emperor and the current emperor to be trampled on.

These things are things you can't take with you when you die, so using them to win back the Wei family's allegiance is absolutely worthwhile.

Once he gains the power of the Wei family, it won't matter if this plan fails.

Compared to the power of the Wei family, the mere rebel army is insignificant.

How could I compare the rebels to the Wei family?

This is disrespectful to the Wei family; it must be corrected.

Emperor Ping of Han came to the Shiqu Pavilion, where the daily records of emperors of past dynasties were kept, recording every major and minor event in their lives.

He wanted to find out from this what the previous emperors had done to wrong the Wei family, and find a way to make amends.

Emperor Ping of Han was surprised to find that things were not quite as he had imagined.

This matter did not originate with the Desolate Emperor or the previous emperor, but began during the reign of Emperor Xuan.

Towards the end of Emperor Xuan's reign, feeling that he had become too powerful, Emperor Xuan began to take action against the Wei family's influence.

They intend to directly eliminate the Wei family's stronghold, the Grand Minister of Agriculture.

It turned out that most of the court was on the side of the Wei family, and without the Wei family's approval, the emperor's orders could not be carried out at all.

The rift between the Wei family and the Han emperors began from this point.

During the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, he allowed eunuchs to seize power. Some foolish people offended the Wei family, and Emperor Jing even tried to side with them.

The situation became even more outrageous during the reign of Emperor Huang of Han. He couldn't even control the government, yet he wanted to emulate Emperor Xuan of Han and directly eliminate the Grand Minister of Agriculture from the Wei family.

Even more outrageous, they also falsely accused the then-head of the Wei family of embezzlement and bribery, and ordered the three judicial departments to conduct a joint trial and investigation of the Wei family.

Given the Wei family's status and position, why would they need to embezzle, especially since it was the head of the family who embezzled the funds himself?

What was wrong with Emperor Huangdi of Han's brain?

As for the late emperor, it was mainly due to his personal morality.

At that time, the head of the Wei family also held the position of Grand Tutor, making him the emperor's nominal teacher.

However, the emperor at the time was one who could strangle his own child with his own hands. As the emperor's nominal teacher, the head of the Wei family suddenly found himself burdened with a huge accusation.

The kind that's super, super big, could cause his reputation in history books to drop by more than one level.

This led to the entire Wei family leaving the imperial court.

Emperor Ping of Han was speechless. "You people have some self-awareness, don't you? Is this how you handle things—so simple and crude?"

He did not object to these emperors taking action against the Wei family, because he would do the same when he truly came to power.

He simply felt that these emperors acted too simplistically and brutally, showing no understanding of political compromise.

This kind of thing should definitely be handled by white gloves. If it fails, just throw those white gloves away.

They actually got involved themselves—how foolish!

Moreover, the performance of these emperors deteriorated further with each passing year, leaving him with a mess.

Putting everything else aside, the late emperor's infamous reputation alone made his scalp tingle.

The head of the Wei family back then was the current head of the Wei family's biological father. You've ruined his reputation so badly, no wonder people don't like me, the new emperor.

It's a good thing I'm not your biological child, otherwise it wouldn't just be that I don't like you, we'd probably become enemies.

Given this deep-seated hatred and resentment, Emperor Ping of Han couldn't think of a way to win him over.

Oh well, it seems the rebels are still useful after all.

Emperor Ping of Han issued an edict to Ma Wu, ordering him to quell the rebellion as soon as possible. At the same time, he secretly ordered Wang Kuang and Wang Feng to find a way to surrender and hand over the rebel army to Ma Wu intact as much as possible.

Emperor Ping of Han, who was high above the throne, was indeed a man of extraordinary political skills and exceptional abilities.

However, he had a common problem among emperors in the inner palace: he didn't treat ordinary people as human beings.

In his view, after Wang Kuang and Wang Feng surrendered, these lowly people would naturally surrender as well.

They didn't consider what the common people wanted at all; they just arrogantly assumed that these lowly people would only follow their orders, and how could they dare to disobey them?!

After receiving the order from Emperor Ping of Han, Ma Wu's military strategy immediately changed and became more aggressive.

At the same time, Ma Wu began sending people to communicate with Wang Kuang to discuss subsequent war plans.

During this period, the prestige of Liu Xiu and his brother rose too quickly, and since both brothers were members of the Han imperial family, they easily gained the trust of Emperor Ping of Han.

If Emperor Ping of Han had a general from his own family whom he trusted more, his position would naturally be greatly weakened.

Not only him, but also Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, who will return in the future, are the same.

They didn't want this to happen.

So Ma Wu sent Liu Xiu and his brother with 30,000 troops to contain Wang Feng, who had an army of 400,000. He also sent Wang Kuang to write a letter to Wang Feng and kill the two of them on the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Wang Feng, under constant attack, had unknowingly arrived at a city called Kunyang.

With Wang Kuang's cooperation, they won several consecutive battles.

Wang Kuang, as if he had lost his mind, abandoned the Green Forest Mountain, which he had cultivated for several years and which was as solid as an ironclad fortress.

He led his 15-strong army out of the easily defensible Green Forest Mountain and engaged in open battle with the imperial army.

His army was only good at fighting ordinary civilians and local troops; it was no match for the imperial court's elite troops in open field battles.

Even though the imperial army now numbered less than 7, they still easily defeated the rebels.

Wang Kuang died in battle, killed by a man named Zhang Yin with a scarred face in the Han army.

If you put these two people together, you will be surprised to find that if you remove the scars on their faces, Zhang Yin and Wang Kuang look extremely similar.

They are not exactly the same, but rather very similar.