Just when Lin Mo and Tang Yunu were kissing in the guest hall, the atmosphere in Ansheng Palace was a little solemn, Empress Dowager Xuanshu closed her eyes and enjoyed Gong'e's massage, and Xuanyuan's face on the side was a little cloudy, and she couldn't see her joy or anger.

Leaving from the Lin Mansion, Xuanyuan hurried to Ansheng Palace, met with the Empress Dowager Xuanshu, and told his sister in detail about his conversation with Lin Mo in the Lin Mansion.

"Brother, do you think Jian Ying's death has anything to do with Lin Ziyong?" After listening to Xuanyuan's story, after thinking about it for a while, Empress Dowager Xuanshu really couldn't grasp Lin Mo's pulse, so she had to ask.

"It doesn't matter if it's closed or not, this is a good opportunity, we have to wait for King Rong to make a mistake. Xuanyuan took a sip of tea, slowly spit out, and just got off the teacup.

"Wrong?" Empress Dowager Xuanshu glanced at Xuanyuan, and said in a low tone: "King Rong is such a cautious person, and there are not a few wise people around him, how can he make a mistake? Brother, aren't you pleasing your sister?"

As far as the Empress Dowager Xuanshu knows, over the years, King Rong has mainly used grace, corporal etiquette and other means, and has summoned many capable people as his staff, laying a solid foundation for King Rong's party, confronting the court with himself, forming a situation of dividing the world.

When Xuan Yuan heard this, he smiled faintly: "Queen Mother, this is the cleverness of Lin Mo's methods, if King Rong wants to save Cao Yan's life, there is only one way to change prisoners, if he doesn't save him, then Cao Yuan is afraid that he will have a grudge against him, and even betray him." ”

"Eh, the younger brother's implication is that Jian Ying's business was done by Lin Mo? This is the great gift he gave to the mourning family. Although Xuanyuan didn't have a positive question and answer, the Empress Dowager Xuanshu had already heard what he meant.

Xuanyuan nodded, but immediately changed his words: "Queen Mother, since Lin Mo has sent this heavy gift, we have to be ready to take over the household department, or take over the two criminal households." ”

"Then what if King Rong removes Cao Yuan from the position of household doctor and abandons him? "Being able to sit in the position of the queen mother, Xuanshu is also a wise person, and naturally sees the Tao in it.

"Queen Mother, King Rong will not. Xuanyuan shook his head, and the corners of his lips hooked up with a smile that knew his heart: "Among the three paths, giving up Cao Yuan is undoubtedly the most stupid act, this will chill the hearts of his subordinates, and King Rong will definitely not choose this worst path." ”

Giving up Cao Yuan seems to be the least harmful, but in fact it is the greatest, if something happens, King Rong will give up his subordinates to protect the so-called overall situation, then I am afraid that the hearts of his subordinates will be cold, thinking that King Rong is a ruthless person, and his subordinates will leave a way back for themselves to do things.

This is the real self-destruction of the Great Wall, and it is the next choice!

Empress Dowager Xuanshu understood the meaning of Xuanyuan's words, and smiled slightly: "In that case, King Rong can only choose a strong man to break his wrist this time and give up his household?"

The strategy of changing prisoners is clear that they will fall into their own trap, which is tantamount to burying two criminal households at the same time, and now choosing to give up one household is undoubtedly the best and least lossy choice.

Xuanyuan still shook his head: "No, now King Rong has only one way to choose, that is, to gamble with the two criminal households, and the best decision is to exchange prisoners." ”

"Why is that? Empress Dowager Xuanshu was shocked, she didn't understand her brother's amazing words.

If the prisoner is changed, it is clear that he and others will be guarded and waited for, and the criminal department will be implicated, so how can it become the best policy? If Cao Yan is not saved, it will become the middle policy to abandon the household department? Empress Dowager Xuanshu couldn't figure it out.

Xuanyuan explained: "Although choosing to change prisoners will implicate the criminal household department, King Rong can get the hearts of his subordinates and show his virtue of affection and righteousness, and even if Cao Yuan and Meng Yan are not doctors of the criminal department, but King Rong still has a deep foundation in the two criminal households, we want to insert it, and we have to waste a lot of effort." ”

King Rong has been in control of the two criminal departments for many years, and he has already recruited many people in the two departments, and he chose to change prisoners, Meng Yan and Cao Yuan's subordinates will still be loyal to King Rong, and it will not be easy for the Hou Party to completely control the two departments.

"Since we are going to insert it, what kind of heavy gift is Lin Ziyong giving me?" Since it is very difficult to control the two criminal households, the Empress Dowager Xuanshu is immediately dissatisfied.

Xuanyuan smiled again and shook his head: "Queen Mother, you are really angry, you forgot that we have already arranged manpower in the household department, as long as our people become household doctors, it is only a matter of time before we master the household department." ”

Among the six departments, the two parties have their own people, and the decision on the ownership of the six departments has always been in the hands of the person who holds the position of doctor, as long as the person on this side ascends to the position of doctor, you can slowly eliminate the other party's people in various names, and then the other party begins to infiltrate, so that a cycle is formed.

"What about the Criminal Department?" asked Xuan Shu.

The Criminal Department is in charge of the criminal law, and a word can betray people to life and death, so King Rong attaches great importance to the Criminal Department, and even does not belong to the Ministry of Households, and most of the officials of the Criminal Department are promoted by King Rong, so King Rong's power in the Criminal Department is particularly stable, and the manpower of his own side is particularly weak in the Criminal Department, and only a few people are in some more important positions.

Xuan Yuan smiled heartily: "The Criminal Department is even simpler, once the prisoner is changed, if Meng Yan does it himself, then his subordinates will have the responsibility of supervising the officials who are not strict, and we can pull out Meng Yan and some of his forces in the Criminal Department in one fell swoop, and install our own people into it." ”

"If someone else does it, Meng Yan will also be guilty of laxity under the emperor, and there are still people below that person who are not strict with the supervision of the officials, so we can still take the opportunity to take the position of the doctor of the criminal department, pull out some of its forces, and finally slowly plan it and insert it into our hands. ”

In the Great Qian Empire, if an official makes a mistake, both his superiors and his subordinates are guilty, and his subordinates will be implicated for the crime of lax supervision of his superiors.

After listening to Xuanyuan's analysis, Empress Dowager Xuanshu immediately smiled: "Then it seems that this Lin Ziyong gave a heavy gift to the mourning family, 200,000 gold leaves bought two criminal households, it is worth it, haha——"

King Rong took out her Jiangzhou 50,000 troops a few days ago, it is estimated that he is happy, and now in a blink of an eye, Lin Mo has helped her win the extremely important two criminal households, and the Empress Dowager Xuanshu can not be happy.

Seeing that the two criminal households were about to arrive, and she was about to be able to master Lin Mo, the Empress Dowager Xuanshu was happy, but when she heard a piece of information from her subordinates, she immediately turned to joy and sorrow, and even became angry.

A man dressed in the armor of a forbidden soldier walked in under the leadership of Gong E, and after bowing to Xuanyuan and Xuanshu Empress Dowager successively, he said respectfully: "The Empress Dowager's operation failed, and all the others were killed except for the ministers." ”

The joy on Empress Dowager Xuanshu's face suddenly condensed, and she said slightly angrily: "How can you fail? How can you be a great swordsman, and you have brought several swordsmen and more than a dozen great swordsmen with you, how can you fail." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two, Xuanyuan looked dazed: "Queen Mother, what action? Why don't ministers know?"

Empress Dowager Xuanshu glanced at Xuanyuan, hesitated for a moment, and then glanced at the man, and motioned for him to tell Xuanyuan about the actions he had arranged.

On the official road outside Qiantian City, the group of black-clothed people who kidnapped Xiao Shuya were sent by the Empress Dowager Xuanshu, and she was ready to kidnap Xiao Shuya to threaten Lin Mo and let him really belong to her command, but in the end, Lin Mo was the first to go.

After listening to the man's story, Xuanyuan's face changed, and he sighed: "Queen Mother, you are confused! How do you want to fight Xiao Shuya's idea? Then Xiao Shuya returned to Pingzhou, how did Lin Ziyong do things, how could he not send a great cultivator with a powerful realm to protect her safety." ”

"The minister asserted that the reason why Xiao Shuya was so high-profile when she went out of the city, as well as her low-level cultivators, must have been deliberately released by Xiao Shuya and Lin Mo as a bait, the purpose of which was to lure out our people and kill them. ”

"Alas, since the incident has happened, my brother should think of a way!" Listening to Xuanyuan's sighing tone, Empress Dowager Xuanshu also sighed, but she didn't expect that this hijacking would not succeed, and she also lost four swordsmen and more than ten great swordsmen, which was really a loss of soldiers.

Compared with the cultivators, the Empress Dowager Xuanshu and King Rong and others are far from being able to Lin Mo, but the loss of these cultivators this time has also hurt a lot of the vitality of the Empress Dowager Xuanshu, especially the death of the four sword masters.

Xuanshu is his sister, but she is the queen mother of the great Qian, Xuanyuan didn't dare to speak too seriously, so he had to rely on the queen mother Xuanshu and began to think of ideas, at this time the man took out a letter from his arms and said: "Queen Mother, this is a letter found on Ah Hui, it is for you." ”

After taking the man's letter, seeing that the cover of the letter was written with four big characters of "The Queen Mother Personally Enlightened", the Empress Dowager Xuanshu was slightly startled, and then opened the letter and read it:

Chen Lin Ziyong visited the Empress Dowager, and now the minister has three things to enlighten the Empress Dowager: First, if you dare to touch the women around me in the future, the minister guarantees that you will have no cultivators available. Second, the heavy gift has been given, please accept it from the Queen Mother. Third, everything has a price, and we look forward to continuing to do business with you.

After reading the letter, Empress Dowager Xuanshu closed it and slapped it on the low table beside her, and said angrily: "This Lin Ziyong is so bold, he dares to threaten the mourning family in the letter, and he also wrote his name, so he is not afraid that the mourning family will inform King Rong?"

Xuanyuan got up and took the letter and took a quick look, then threw it into the charcoal furnace and burned it to ashes, Empress Dowager Xuanshu stretched out her hand to stop it, but it was too late, and immediately said urgently: "Brother, what are you doing, this is evidence that Lin Ziyong helped us take down the two criminal households, if it is handed over to King Rong, of course King Rong will not spare him." ”

Xuanyuan sat back in his place, shook his head and smiled: "It's useless, Queen Mother, this letter only mentions that I did business with you and gave you a gift, how can I mention that I helped you win the two criminal households? ”

Hearing Xuanyuan's words, Empress Dowager Xuanshu was angry again: "Could it be that we are being pressed by Lin Ziyong like this?

Thinking that although she is the empress dowager of a country with a dignified leader, she holds half of the power, but there are only a handful of cultivators with powerful realms who can be used under her hands, compared with Lin Mo's Mo Sect, it is like the light of the fireflies and the light of the bright moon, which is not worth mentioning at all, Empress Dowager Xuanshu is very angry.

Xuanyuan hurriedly smiled and said: "The Queen Mother, please rest assured, the minister has already contacted the people of Yuezong, and in a few days, the minister promises that you will give Lin Ziyong a dismount and kill his arrogance." ”

"Then about Lin Ziyong, the mourning family has a lot of worries about Brother Lao!" Thinking that the people of Yuezong had already come and were setting up a situation against Lin Mo, Empress Dowager Xuanshu finally showed a smile on her face.

After handing over Lin Mo's matter to Xuanyuan to deal with, Empress Dowager Xuanshu felt a burst of happiness in her heart, and suddenly thought of one more thing and immediately asked: "By the way, in a few days, it will be Princess Rena of the Western Regions to recruit relatives, and my brother is ready to be prepared?"

"The Queen Mother can rest assured that the ministers have already made preparations, and they will not let King Rong succeed. Xuanyuan gave a salute and showed a smile on his face, obviously very confident in the person he had prepared.

"By the way, the mourning family heard that Lin Ziyong is also going to participate in the recruitment of Princess Rena of the Western Regions, but is it true?"

When Empress Dowager Xuanshu received the information from her subordinates, she was also shocked in her heart, she didn't expect that Lin Mo, who was rumored to have never practiced or practiced martial arts, would also be involved.

Xuanyuan thought for a moment and said: "It should be true, that Lin Ziyong has always been romantic, it is estimated that he was fascinated by the princess of the Western Regions at Luan Ying's banquet, and he went on a whim, and it is possible that the emperor forced him to go." ”

Empress Dowager Xuanshu laughed loudly: "This Lin Ziyong is also a bitter life, and he doesn't even know martial arts, so he was forced to participate in the recruitment test, or not, Wu Xianshan met it, let his subordinates take the opportunity to teach him a lesson, but don't hurt him." ”

"Yes, the minister understands!" Xuan Yuan replied respectfully, and asked again: "Queen Mother, will the ministers and others secretly reveal the news that Lin Ziyong helped us to bring us down, and secretly reveal it to King Rong?"

"No!" Empress Dowager Xuanshu hurriedly waved her hand to stop it: "Now Lin Ziyong's position is unclear, this move will only force him to vote for King Rong, if he really votes for King Rong, I am afraid that he will attack us to make up for the loss of King Rong this time." ”

"Moreover, Lin Ziyong is an old man who has not left us evidence to help us, and King Rong is suspicious, even if we reveal this news to him, I'm afraid he won't, he will only think that we are deliberately confusing him, deliberately making him suspicious of Lin Mo, so that we can recruit Lin Mo. ”

"Yes, sure enough, the Queen Mother can see it through. ”

King Rong's mansion.

Looking at the departing think tank, King Rong's face was a little ugly, he glanced at Xu Qiuniang, who was making tea for himself, and asked slowly: "Qiu Niang, what do you think of the three strategies given by Lin Mo, which one should be chosen by this king?"

Xu Qiuniang used a bamboo clip to take out a purple sand teacup from the hot water, and replied: "Your Highness, just like those staff members said just now, Cao Yan, we must save it, if we don't save it, it will chill the hearts of others." ”

"Then how can we save it, so that the loss will be smaller?" If you don't save it, it will chill people's hearts, how can King Rong not understand this truth, at this moment, he just wants to minimize the loss.

Now, King Rong is in his heart, the idiot of Cao Yan scolded a bloody dog, just because that fool killed and used both, and he faced the possibility of losing the two criminal households.

Xu Qiuniang said: "Your Royal Highness, our current priority is not to consider how to save Cao Yan, the matter of saving Cao Yan must be arrested by the Queen Mother, Meng Yan and Cao Yan's position as a doctor is impossible to continue to serve, we are now trying to find a way to push our people to the position of doctor in the two criminal departments, and don't let the Queen Mother and Xuanyuan's people take advantage of the loopholes." ”

Taking the hot tea that Xu Qiuniang poured for herself, King Rong pulled her into his arms, was silent for a while, and said: "Or Qiu Niang has thought it through, we have to prepare for the two criminal households in advance, so Qiu Niang has already been selected?"

"The concubine body has already been thought of for Your Highness, is it ......" Xu Qiuniang nodded, and wanted to name the person she had chosen for the position of the Rank Torture Doctor, but at this time, the Great Sword Master Di Wu walked in.

Di Wu walked in, saluted the two, and said respectfully: "Your Highness Qiqi, according to the report from his spies, Xuanyuan quietly went to meet the people of the Chu State Mission two days ago, and it should be a joint venture with Yuezong to set up a situation for Lin Ziyong." ”

"Set up a bureau for Lin Ziyong?" King Rong took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, flicked his sleeves and said: "That's really interesting, this king can wait and see how Lin Ziyong breaks the game this time." ”

"Then should we remind Lin Ziyong?" Di Wu asked.

King Rong waved his hand and said with a faint smile: "No, if Lin Ziyong doesn't even have the ability to know this bit of news, then what else does King Ben want him to do, what else does he want to do." ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand!"

"Then you go down first. ”

Repatriated Di Wu, King Rong looked at the charming Xu Qiuniang in his arms, and asked with a smile: "By the way, Qiu Niang, this king heard that Lin Ziyong is also going to participate in Princess Rena of the Western Regions?"

Xu Qiuniang nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, at Luan Ying's banquet, Princess Rena tempted Lin Ziyong like that, and the concubine estimated that Lin Ziyong was mostly fascinated by sex and wanted to marry that beautiful girl back to the house." ”

"Haha——, I'm afraid Qiu Niang is wrong, but this king thinks that my royal brother forced Lin Mo to go. Thinking that Lin Mo, who had never practiced and didn't know martial arts, was going to see Zhaoqin, King Rong couldn't help but feel funny in his heart.

Xu Qiuniang also covered her mouth and smiled, but after laughing, she asked: "Your Highness, then we are going to recruit relatives to help Lin Ziyong and marry Princess Rena of the Western Regions?"

"Confused!" Listening to Xu Qiuniang's words, King Rong rebuked: "Princess Rena of the Western Regions is so special, it is naturally in the hands of our own people, and it is not in this way to recruit Lin Ziyong." ”

Listening to King Rong's reprimand, Xu Qiuniang's body twisted slightly, and said coquettishly: "I think it's clear that Your Highness, you want to take the opportunity to beat that Lin Ziyong." ”

"It's still Qiu Niang who understands the heart of this king. King Rong smiled, and then said slowly: "This Lin Ziyong is indeed too arrogant to enter the imperial capital, and no one will surrender, and helping this king is just out of trade, and this king is indeed beating him on the martial arts test field, so that he can see his identity clearly." ”

In the hands of a powerful person like King Rong, who has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, he still can't look down on Lin Mo, although he is afraid of the many cultivators in his hands, but King Rong is confident that those cultivators, under the sharp blade of his hundreds of thousands of troops, will still end up dead.

The cultivators and the many sects of their cultivators were in a very awkward position on the Zhongzhou Continent.

In the hearts of the common people, they are sacred and unattainable, and those powerful people are also trying their best to win them over, because they are powerful and can protect their own safety, but in their hearts, they look down on them, because most of the cultivators are just commoners.

Seeing that there was a hint of disdain for Lin Mo in King Rong's eyes, Xu Qiuniang sighed faintly: "Your Highness, the concubine body knows that in your heart, you may not be able to afford Lin Ziyong's identity as the sect master of the Mo Sect, but the concubine body wants to kindly remind you." ”

"What do you want to remind this king? Be careful of Lin Mo, be careful of Mozong?" was said by Xu Qiuniang, King Rong's heart moved, and he asked seriously, but there was still contempt in his words.

Xu Qiuniang said solemnly: "Your Highness, you must not underestimate cultivators, cultivators are really many times stronger and fierce than ordinary people, do you know what kind of existence the Mo Sect is in the hearts of those vassal lords?"

"What is it?" King Rong's heart was shocked, he had never taken those so-called cultivators in his eyes before, he only regarded them as highly skilled people, after Xu Qiuniang's reminder, it seemed that he had made a big mistake.

Xu Qiuniang said leisurely: "Your Highness, you must also know some things about cultivators, only people who have all the seven tricks of the Qi Sea and Snow Mountain can become cultivators, and such a person is only one out of ten in our Daqian." ”

"And in their cultivation world, there are also many sects, countless, this Mo Sect has only been established for a few years, but it can stand side by side with the Moon and Thunder Two Sects in such a short period of time, becoming one of the three peak sects, we must not underestimate the Mo Sect, let alone Lin Mo, who is said to sit on the position of the sect master. ”