The emperor's hand holding the vegetables paused, raised his head, and looked at Qin Tianjiao.

Qin Tianjiao took a sip of the medicinal wine in front of him, frowned slightly, and subconsciously shook his head, the medicinal aroma of the medicinal wine is strong, but the bitterness of Chinese medicine is not something that anyone can bear, with the status of the emperor, sitting here in the middle of the night to accompany him to endure hardships is indeed heartfelt, Qin Tianjiao was moved in his heart, but he was not ready to compromise anything.

The emperor looked at him, and he was also looking at the emperor, his eyes calm.

"You've been hiding from me for so many days, and now I'm taking the initiative to come to the door, and you're going to give me such an answer?"

The Emperor suddenly smiled and broke the delicate atmosphere in the room.

"Why? It seems like we're going to see each other a lot without that. ”

Qin Tianjiao smiled freely, pondered with a wine glass, and continued: "I insist on my attitude, this matter, I have to ask Linglong's meaning, young people, they all have their own ideas, your idea is to marry Xuanyuan, my idea is naturally to let Linglong marry him, this kind of thing, we can't talk about it, it depends on whose daughter can persuade who to take a step back, it's useless for you to fight." ”

"But what will Xuanyuan do in the future? He must be close to us in the days to come, and there is no room for suspicion for others. ”

The Emperor frowned.

Regarding this matter, Qin Tianjiao was also helpless and silent.

The emperor's sentence just now hid from him for so many days, although it was a joke, but if it was really serious, it was not impossible.

Qin Tianjiao has been recuperating from his injuries during this time, adapting to his new powers, and living in seclusion, but also partly because he does not intend to face the emperor.

Although he lived in seclusion in Kunlun, he was still very clear about the general trend of the empire, the fall of the Qin family back then, it was the main figures of the older generation who were destroyed, but at that time, Qin Tianjiao had been recognized by some core figures of the Qin family, and now although he has lived in Kunlun for a long time, there are still some high-ranking officials who often keep in touch with Qin Tianjiao.

The Qin family has only disappeared for twenty years, and it has not experienced any situation where the wall has fallen and everyone pushes it, and its influence is still there, so Qin Tianjiao knows much more about the empire, even most of the things, than others.

He knew that Lin Qingtian, the supreme head of the empire, had already begun to prepare to recruit a few martial arts forces into Kyushu City to fill the combat power of the empire's secret service system, no, he was not already preparing, but had already done so.

Qin Tianjiao even knew that at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Decision-making Bureau, those giants voted in favor of this proposal, and which giants voted against this proposal, and he knew very well the opinions of the leaders at the level of decision-making bureau members.

So Qin Tianjiao also knew the result.

It is a foregone conclusion that the elites of several major martial arts forces will enter Beijing and enter the imperial secret service system, Wang Tianxiong's retirement will also be a foregone conclusion, and Lin Xuanyuan's control of the imperial secret service system will also be a foregone conclusion.

And this is definitely just Lin Qingtian's first step.

Naturally, what he wants is not just to grasp a few martial arts forces in his hands, that can't solve the problem at all, more than a year later, Lin Qingtian will completely retreat, and the influence of the military and political circles of the southwest faction will be greatly reduced, and life will be more difficult, and they are now paying a lot of attention to expanding the discourse power of the special service system, trying to stabilize their position in this field, and then stabilize the entire faction, to deal with the game with the Wang family in the next ten or even twenty years or even longer.

A few elites of a few martial arts forces obviously can't support the right to speak in the entire secret service system.

Even if they can be in a high position.

The status is high, but it is not the highest, there is Lin Xuanyuan above, and there is the team accumulated by Ye Chunqiu and Wang Tianxiong over the years, and the elite of several martial arts forces are hung in the air, and even if they do something, they are limited.

So from the very beginning, Lin Qingtian's plan was not only these few martial arts forces, but all the martial arts forces in the empire, as well as all the combat-effective personnel, he wanted to completely grasp these people in his hands, and complete a rough layout within more than a year of his retirement.

First of all, there are several high-level places in the Shenzhou Guardian, and he must get a piece of the pie.

Then there are the middle-level quotas and grass-roots leadership quotas of the Shenzhou Guardian, which will be stuffed into some of the backbone combat power of those martial arts forces.

At this stage, among the five major special service theaters, in addition to the northern special service theater, the southwest faction has very little say in the other four special service theaters, let alone occupy a dominant position, Lin Qingtian's next request is to expand his voice in the five war zones, and it is best to be able to win the dominant position in one more war zone.

And secondly, the secret service agencies and intelligence agencies scattered in various parts of the empire, Lin Qingtian is bound to intervene.

In addition, he also has to fight for some civil forces under the leadership of Shenzhou Guardian, whether bright or dark.

There are also some secret military-industrial departments, military projects, experimental projects, and he will take as much as he can.

It seems that there are only a few hundred people inside the Shenzhou Guardian, but they are just combatants, and under the leadership of the Shenzhou Guardian, there are several secret state-owned military companies that have never been announced to the public but have always operated, and almost all the top-secret scientific research projects and experimental projects are also under the leadership of the Shenzhou Guardian, and some families across the country that can be called local wealthy families have also been more or less supported by the Shenzhou Guardian, as well as a large number of intelligence agencies and secret service agencies, as well as the five major special service theaters.

In general, it seems that the Divine State Guardian with only a few hundred people is a real behemoth, and its structure is only complex, even far superior to the military council of the empire, this is not a realm at all, but a completely new world.

In the past many years, Wang Tianxiong has always led the rapid development of the world.

And now Lin Qingtian has stepped in and appointed his own talents in various positions, which is definitely a huge project.

Fortunately, the secret service system is a place that advocates absolute strength, rather than seniority, and the major martial arts forces, the world-shaking supreme and X-level masters may not be said to be as many, but SSS-level, SSS+ has never lacked, and arranging such masters in a suitable position is enough to support the voice of the southwest faction, at least it can compete with the royal family in this special service world.

If what Lin Qingtian planned had been accomplished, in the next few years, they only needed to develop the foundation of the secret service system, and no one would be able to pose a deadly threat to them.

Therefore, in the next year or so, Lin Qingtian will be very busy, and even he will be busy all the time with the layout of the Southwest faction in the Imperial Special Service System, at least there must be a rough prototype, so as to ensure that after he retreats, the Southwest Faction will thrive in the Imperial Special Service System.

Lin Qingtian will always be busy with this, so some other major events in the empire, military and political, people's livelihood, personnel, diplomacy, economy, and a series of other things, will inevitably be handed over to Ye Nianlun.

What this means, goes without saying.

Even to make it clear, all of Lin Qingtian's next actions in the secret service system were acquiesced by the Ye family.

In other words, this was originally a deal between Lin Qingtian and the Ye family.