Along the way, Liu Mei'er instructed the officers and soldiers to inform the leaders of the small tribes they encountered, saying that she had captured the lord of Dahua County, which might lead to a war and make everyone move closer to the royal capital.

At night, when the Iron Knights were setting up their tents, Xu Zhilan came over to visit Lan Keqing and the others.

"County Lord, why don't you catch Liu Mei'er and run away?" Lan Keqing asked.

Xu Zhilan shook his head and said: "Liu Mei'er can put down her identity as the county lord and go to the Dahua Empire to lurk in person, and she is not greedy for life and afraid of death, and if she catches her, she will not be able to threaten the soldiers of Jingyang Kingdom." I have wronged you for some time, and when I arrived in the capital of the king of Jingyang, the lord of this county found an opportunity to seize the iron horse khan, and we returned to Dahua in style. ”

Lan Keqing's three people were lethal, they were seen to death, and they were still wearing shackles and handcuffs, so they couldn't help much, so they could only wait with peace of mind. They can also understand that now that Xu Zhilan is exposed, he is just surviving, and other than that, there is no benefit. If you catch the Khan of Jingyang Kingdom and return to Dahua, then your prestige will be high!

After the big tent was set up, Liu Meier invited Xu Zhilan to go in to bake the fire and drink, which was regarded as picking up the wind and washing the dust for him.

"You don't seem to be afraid?" Liu Mei'er smiled and raised her wine glass to Xu Zhilan.

"If I'm afraid that it will make you feel pity and let me go back to the clouds, I don't mind pretending to be one!" Xu Zhilan smiled and toasted.

After eating a piece of roast mutton, Xu Zhilan sighed and said, "Looking at today's shelf, it seems that you have already prepared." I killed Xu Man in Dahua, and I sent a sea fishing document to arrest you, it stands to reason that you should hate me very much, but you don't allow the soldiers to hurt me, and you still salute me along the way! Why? ”

Liu Mei'er smiled and asked, "Guess?" ”

Xu Zhilan shook his head and said: "You were the first person to analyze that I was Xu Zhao and chose to be a role model for women to participate in politics, but now that I have become the governor of the Supervision Yuan and the general of the forbidden army, I have almost done the role model." In other words, I'm almost at the end of my use on the Ochimen side, and it's not much use for you to catch me! Not only is it useless, but it has also become an excuse for Dahua to attack your Jingyang Kingdom, which seems to be not very cost-effective. Moreover, I am investigating Princess Ziyang's cousin, and she wishes I could die outside; Princess Jinyang is against me everywhere and hates me to the bone. I really can't figure it out, smart as you, what's the use of arresting me? ”

"No, for Xu Zhao, your becoming the Governor of the Supervisory Yuan and the General of the Forbidden Army is just the beginning of his second step to use you. He gives you military power, and gives you the power to supervise civil and military officials, not because of how good he is to you, but because he needs you to set an example and be a whetstone for the princesses until he chooses a satisfactory princess. In the third step, he will use you to support the new empress, and after the new empress sits on the throne, you, a powerful minister who is extremely powerful and a threat to the empress, should abdicate. ”

"Abdication, it should be a place to die!" Xu Zhilan smiled bitterly and took a sip of wine.

Liu Mei'er was stunned for two seconds and said, "You must have thought of it earlier, right?" Otherwise, you won't be on the lookout for signs all these years and want to live on the grassland. ”

What Xu Zhilan wanted was to escape, but he didn't think about how Xu Zhao would deal with him if things continued to develop, he had read a lot of history books in his previous life, and after listening to Liu Meier's analysis, the first thing that came to mind was that the rabbit died and the dog cooked, and the bird was hidden.

"Then what's the use of you arresting me?" Xu Zhilan didn't know what Liu Mei'er was planning to arrest him?

Liu Mei'er smiled and said, "I want you to be the princess of my starling, help my starling develop his power, and eventually become the next Khan!" ”

"What if I don't say yes?"

"The so-called arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent. When you marry my starling, can you still watch your husband being suppressed by his prince? Aren't you all wives and husbands and husbands singing with their wives? This kind of traditional thinking is very difficult to change, and I have this confidence! I can guarantee that my starling will only marry you and make you the Kedun of my Jingyang Kingdom. ”

Xu Zhilan is so depressed that he is married! He smiled and said, "Actually, you did a wrong deal!" Maybe you see that my Yangtao County is developing well, and you think that I am good at governance, but you are wrong! I was born and raised in Dahua, and I understand the environment and habits of Dahua, so I can govern Yangtao County well, but it does not mean that I can make achievements in the grassland. ”

"You say that in the hope that I will let you go back?" Liu Mei'er showed a sly look in her eyes and asked with a smile.

Xu Zhilan shook his head and drank another glass of wine before saying, "Actually, if you had revealed your identity to me earlier, maybe we would be sitting in a wine shop in Jinling now, instead of drinking in this cold broken tent." ”

"I want to hear about it!" Liu Mei'er also drank a cup, her red flashed, and she was very charming.

"I am the county lord of Hualan Country, and so is Lan Keqing, you should know this. If the Dahua Forbidden Army is in my hands today, and the power to supervise civil and military officials is also in my hands, there is great hope for the restoration of Hualan Kingdom to win over the hearts of the people, eliminate dissidents, and restore the Hualan Kingdom. If you had said that you were the county lord of Jingyang Kingdom, we would have cooperated, and Keqing and I'd have a restoration plan that could be at least 10 years in advance! ”

Liu Mei'er was stunned and said, "But why did you give Lan Keqing's jade petals to Xu Zhao?" ”

"Can't you guess if you're so smart? When Lan Keyi and Lan Maoqiong committed suicide, they handed over the jade petals to the Lou family father and son, and the two fools hid and hid them from me. Later, Lan Keqing saw that I was powerful, attached to me, and conspired with me to do great things. At this time, I learned that Lan Keyi and Lan Maosheng Qiong were my orchid sisters. Hu Jun, you know, right? He is a spy of the Xuzhao faction by my side, I really dare not guarantee that Lou Qingshan is not a spy. Lan Keyi's death, Lou Qingshan said that he did it. Later, Lan Maoqiong committed suicide, and jade petals were also found on her body. I suspect that Lou Qingshan took Lan Keyi's jade petals, and Lan Maoqiong's piece was missing. As the chief officer of operations, if Lou Qingshan secretly handed over a piece to Xu Zhao, in Xu Zhao's opinion, the other piece would definitely be on me, and if I didn't hand over a piece, I would be suspected by Xu Zhao. As a sign of loyalty, I handed over Lan Keqing's one to Xu Zhao. ”

Liu Mei'er recognized this explanation, and she asked: "Because you suspect Xu San, you sent someone to follow me, so as to find out about my meeting with the Lou family's father and son?" But how do you know that Chu County Ling has jade petals on his body? What if I kill the wrong one? ”

Indeed, it was a great mistake to mobilize troops to kill the officials of the imperial court.

"It's strange that the father and son of the Lou family ran to the water gate to kill me, so that Lan Keqing saw the flaw. We analyzed that you wanted to pretend to be my orchid sister and had a bad plan, so I moved to kill. I didn't think that Chu Xianling would have jade petals on his body, but I just thought that you must have the one that belongs to Lan Keqing. We don't need too much, it's enough to have a proof that you're an orchid remnant, isn't it? Later, you ran away, but you accidentally found three pieces on Chu County's body. Otherwise, I really can't explain it to Xu Zhao. ”