Chapter 142 Back to square one

　　By the time Zhou Ge regained his composure, the sky had begun to dawn. After staying in the city for over a month, he had finally pieced together some of the information.　　Hongshu had four sons: Jiang Tao, the An Prince, with influence in the Moonlight Mountains; Jiang Feng, the Gui Prince, entrenched in Diancang Island; Jiang Ya, the Xi Prince, who had established the Fire Disaster Cult. And the Crown Prince, Jiang Huan, secretly bred fox hunters.　　Zhou Ge knew that moving against any of them would be an uphill task. Adding to his woes was the fact that the Fire Disaster Cult was backed by Bai Weiwei and Bai Liang, making the situation even more complicated.　　Chu Dapeng, not being good at comforting people, didn't know what to say.　　Suddenly, Zhou Ge inquired about Chu Dapeng's background, and Chu Dapeng told him the truth.　　It was revealed that besides the Crown Prince and the three Jiang princes, Hongshu had seven other noble families. The Jiang family had relied on these seven families to secure their throne.　　The previous emperor had decreed that as long as Hongshu remained a Jiang, the children of these seven