Xu Shangfeng and Lin Qingtian.

The two can be said to have really intersected for many years, not to mention the time they have been together since they became giants, let's just say that when Lin Qingtian was still the mayor of Southwest City of the empire, Xu Shangfeng worked with him.

At that time, Lin Qingtian was the mayor of Southwest City, and Xu Shangfeng was the deputy secretary of Southwest City.

In the early days, when Lin Qingtian served as the deputy secretary of Southwest City, Xu Shangfeng was the organization minister of Southwest China, and the two worked together for more than ten years, which can be described as real old friends and colleagues.

Later, the Wang family and the southwest faction completely grudge, Lin Qingtian was transferred to Nanyue, serving as the provincial secretary of Nanyue, although he entered the decision-making bureau, he was forced to leave the base camp Southwest City, and since then he has been on the front line of fierce battles with Chen Hualou and the entire Wang family.

At that time, Xu Shangfeng, who was already a member of the Imperial Center, picked up Lin Qingtian's big advantage and became the mayor of the southwest city of the empire.

During that time, the conflict between the Wang faction and the southwest faction had just broken out, but the battle was extremely fierce, in order to hit each other's morale and prestige, many plans on both sides had not been carefully considered, and they had begun to be implemented, and in the autumn of the second year of the fierce struggle between the two sides, with the fall of a close comrade-in-arms of Lin Qingtian, the secretary of the Southwest City at that time, the entire Wang family established the advantage of attacking on all fronts.

It was an unusual time, but for the Southwestern faction, there were some people who were happy and some who were worried.

The happiest is undoubtedly Xu Shangfeng, who served as the mayor of the southwest, and the code on the top of his head had just been removed for more than a year, and with the support of several bigwigs in the southwest faction, he went one step further, and became the secretary of the southwest city, and was added as a member of the decision-making bureau in the autumn of the following year.

That is, since then, Southwest City has fallen into the hands of Xu Shangfeng's faction, and there are also two forces within the Southwest faction, just like today's Wang faction, Guo Tianlong and Zou Rente represent the older generation of the Wang family, while Chen Hualou and Ye Nianlun represent the younger generation of the Wang family.

There are factions within factions, this is a problem that any faction has to face, and sometimes, the struggle within the faction is even more fierce than the battle with other factions, and only when facing external threats, will they be unanimous with the outside world.

The Southwest faction was established much earlier than the Wang faction, and some internal conflicts and contradictions, the backlog was naturally extremely deep, taking advantage of Lin Qingtian's trip to Nanyue, and his close comrades-in-arms fell again, the conservative bigwigs of the Southwest faction directly took action and sent Xu Shangfeng to the position of secretary of Southwest City.

Starting from Xu Shangfeng, to the current member of the decision-making bureau, Zhao Yingfei, secretary of Southwest City, all of them are conservative figures, while the radicals represented by Lin Qingtian can only open up their territory in some places such as Northern City.

In fact, some contradictions have been triggered a long time ago, if it weren't for the fact that the threat of external enemies is too deadly, the contradictions within the southwest faction may be completely exposed from the moment Xu Shangfeng served as the secretary of the southwest city.

But because of the next fierce attack of the Wang faction, the southwest faction was temporarily united again, and it has been until today.

The cause of the incident was also because of the fallen secretary of Southwest City.

Southwest City is a municipality directly under the central government, and the secretary has always been a member of the high-level decision-making bureau, the identity of the leader of the empire, his fall, and the influence of all aspects can almost affect the overall situation.

Digging deep and investigating carefully, Li Donglei, the prime minister of the empire at the time, personally came forward to do the work within the faction, and joined forces with the southern faction to turn over all the things of the secretary, and successfully related to Xue Zhiguo, the leader of the southwest faction at that time.

Xue Zhiguo.

For many young people in the empire today, this is a somewhat unfamiliar name, but for some old and middle-aged people, this name is not unfamiliar at all.

In recent decades, the Shenzhou Empire is the first supreme head of the empire who has not been re-elected!

Xue Zhiguo, the former supreme head of the empire, retired directly due to health reasons after his first term of office expired.

This is undoubtedly a superficial result, and as for how much bloody rain there is inside, no one is clear if it is not the parties.

And this incident also completely demonstrated the strong combat effectiveness of the royal faction under the leadership of Li Donglei, and directly interrupted the perfect plan of the relay of the two leaders of the southwest faction in a row.

Xue Zhiguo was not re-elected, for the southwest faction, this is simply a catastrophe, the internal conflict that was about to break out in the southwest faction completely disappeared, at that time, whether Lin Southwest can succeed has become a problem, in the face of his own political life and future, Lin Qingtian personally came forward, integrated the voices of conservatives and radicals, and made extremely huge concessions to the conservatives, and finally let the southwest faction barely stabilize its position, after Xue Zhiguo retreated, he became a giant of the Standing Committee of the Decision-making Bureau without danger.

Then in order to accumulate his prestige and prestige, Lin Qingtian directly shot at the northern faction, a faction that could influence the overall situation of the empire collapsed, and the southwest faction made a lot of money at the same time, Lin Qingtian also completely unified the voice of the southwest faction, and won the high recognition of all the elders, casually he ascended to the position of the supreme head, and then led the southwest faction to fight with the royal faction, under the strong threat of the royal faction, the entire southwest faction has always been united, and all the contradictions have dragged on to this day.

The martial arts forces are just an introduction, and the various contradictions between the conservatives and radicals of the southwest faction over the years are the key to the gradual separation of Lin Qingtian and Xu Shangfeng.

And the reason why Xu Shangfeng did not recognize Lin Qingtian's continuous compromise and the entry of the major martial arts forces into the WTO was that the revenge of killing his father was a reason, and the identity of the sinners of those martial arts forces was also a reason, but the more important reason was that Xu Shangfeng vaguely felt that Lin Qingtian's continuous compromise was to leave a way out for himself and the Lin family in the southwest.

Yes, it is to leave a retreat for himself and the family under his control, not at all for the retreat of the Southwestern faction.

Fighting for the right to speak in the secret service system, with Lin Xuanyuan here, how difficult it is can be imagined, even if the southwest faction can get away with controlling half of the imperial secret service system?

It's enough to barely gain a foothold, but the counterattack in Lin Qingtian's mouth?

That's not realistic at all, at least for the next few decades, the Southwest faction can only survive at best, and don't even think about fighting back.

And Lin Qingtian is now the supreme head of the empire, leaving such a situation for the southwest faction after retirement, it is undoubtedly very unqualified, Xu Shangfeng questioned not only Lin Xuanyuan's political ability, but also his character.

Because they had worked together for many years, he knew Lin Qingtian well, so he thought his speculation was right.

This is the root cause of his opposition.

But now.

Lin Qingtian's gaze made Xu Shangfeng extremely unfamiliar.

There was a hint of temptation and exploration in his eyes, but there was no nervousness, but a kind of persistence and indifference that made Xu Shangfeng extremely moved.

The two looked at each other.

After a long time, Lin Qingtian laughed lightly and said softly, "What did you think of?"

Xu Shangfeng was still wondering, but with Lin Qingtian's words, it was as if he had directly solved a difficult problem, and everything in front of him suddenly became clear, but at the same time, his cold sweat also spread all over his body.

He understood.

Totally understood.

It wasn't until this moment that he really saw Lin Qingtian's consent clearly, and also understood the main reason why Lin Qingtian insisted on letting these martial arts forces enter the WTO.

In the same way, he also understood what the current compromise, the current layout, is for the future counterattack.

Today's compromises, today's concessions, and today's all-out layout are all illusions.

It's all fake!

What Lin Qingtian is planning is not half of the secret service system at all, but the entire secret service system, and even the foundation of the royal family in the future.

It took a few years to lay it out, and that's what he wanted.

Lin Qingtian can't control the martial arts forces?

That's not in control.

Those martial arts forces are suspected of treason?

Then it's good to be treasonous.

These are also what Lin Qingtian wants.

After everything in front of him suddenly became clear, Xu Shangfeng's heart was only full of palpitations.

Cold sweat continued to flow down his forehead, and for a while there was a sign that he couldn't stop.

He opened his eyes, looked at Lin Qingtian, and opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't speak at all.

"You understand?"

Lin Qingtian still looked at Xu Shangfeng, and asked in a gentle, indifferent, calm, and resolute tone.

"You... Are you ready to be ruined and stinking for thousands of years?"

Xu Shangfeng finally spoke, and asked with difficulty and dryness.

At this moment, all the sharp energy on his body seemed to disappear, and the tone of the whole person seemed to be moaning.