Xu You understood that in the five years since He Wei returned to China, he has only done one thing, that is, to do everything possible to dig the corner of Anzi Road. Loosening the soil here, pulling weeds there, as the saying goes, as long as the hoe is waved well, there is no corner of the wall can not be dug down, He Wei has pretended to be a monk from the traveling side, a Taoist priest who has placed orders, a down-and-out scholar, and a child of an unknown inferior scholar, with these identities as a cover, agitation like a spring, with the help of various ways, through private or public opportunities, he has successfully approached several princes, visited some ministers, and even mixed into the Jiangzhou Thorn History Mansion as a subordinate for five months. With unparalleled intelligence and a plan to spare, even though he dances on the blade in shackles, walks with wolves and tigers every day, he can always turn danger into a safe one.

In the past five years, he provoked the rebellion of the Panliang Barbarians and Wushui Barbarians in Jing and Yongzhou, made the Ningzhou and Yizhou assassins attack each other, and also instigated the king of the South China Sea to levy heavy taxes and hard labor on the slang people in Guangzhou, and carried out cruel and bloody suppression after inspiring the popular uprising......

It seems that it is approaching success step by step, Jingyong is the military barrier of the Chu State, and once the barbarians are turbulent, it will inevitably affect the Huai River defense line. Ningzhou and Yizhou are located in the rear, the former is prosperous in maritime trade, and commercial taxes account for a large part of the annual national tax revenue, while Yizhou is the country of abundance, grain producing areas, and commerce is also very developed. Guangzhou's expropriation and bloody repression also subtly planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the people at the bottom. (Note: In the more than 170 years of the Southern Dynasties, there have been more than 40 barbarian uprisings recorded in the history books, and 18 times by slang. ）

But for He Wei, all this is still too slow, he is thirty-one years old, after the year of standing, many years of green lights are often accompanied, day and night of hard work, has already exhausted half of his vitality, full of vicissitudes, like withered, like forty years old. In the past few years of escaping back to Jiangdong, everything he has done is the duel between the most sinister human heart and the ugliest human nature.

He didn't know how long he would live, but he had a hunch that there should be little time left for him, maybe twenty years, maybe ten years!

And the people he approaches, lobbies, or assists are either content in a state and a county, or they are greedy for money and lust for fame and profit, or they are ambitious and talented, and they are empty and lacking in strength, or they are too shrewd to be wary of him, restricted everywhere, and unable to show what they have learned in their chests.

Really rely on these people, let alone ten or twenty years, even fifty years and a hundred years, and they may not be able to go to the end of this road!

But even if it is so unbearable, it is the candidate he has decided after careful calculation, detailed investigation and countless comparisons, and he is already the person who best meets his requirements at present or in the next three or five years!

"How many heroes are there in Jiangdong, haven't you met a satisfactory one?"

He Wei shook his head and said: "You must have a certain position of power, great ambition, enough ability to control everything, lack of loyalty and belonging to the An family, and have the courage to swing a sword and cut the white snake once the time comes, and most importantly, he must be able to accept my identity without any worries, obey my words, and be convinced......"

Xu You sighed: "Such a person may be too difficult to find." ”

"It's hard to find, but luckily, I've finally found it!"

Xu You narrowed his eyes and said, "Oh? Who was so lucky to get He Langjun's favor? ”

He Wei said lightly: "Naturally, it's you, Xu Shichilang!" ”

Zuo Yan stood aside, his brows furrowed, and he glanced at Xu You worriedly. He has been a subordinate of the Yuan family for so many years, and he is loyal to the Yuan family, not the Chu State, of course, he is loyal to the emperor of the Chu State, but he will not be much more than the merchants who sell comb grates in Jinling City, so what he is worried about at the moment is not that Xu You will be bewitched by He Wei to do that rebellious thing, but that he feels that this person is not very reliable in speaking, and he is really mixed with him, I am afraid that he will be burdened by him in the future.

Xu You laughed and said: "Thanks to He Langjun's wrong love, You is now a Qi people, no official or position, and I don't even know where to settle down tomorrow, and I am only followed by a maid brought from Yixing and a friend who cares for each other, neither power, nor ambition, nor any ability and courage." As for your identity, don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, He Gong and the ancestor are friends of life and death on the battlefield, and they died unjustly in prison, the world knows, I have always admired it in my heart, and I will not have any guilt against Lang Jun because of this. ”

He Wei seemed to expect Xu You to say such a thing, and said, "This is enough...... It's only recently that I've really figured out that everything else is just a secondary condition, and the most important thing is that it can accommodate me as a person and what I want to do! ”

Is this the rhythm of not marrying?

Xu You smiled, straightened his demeanor, and said: "This puzzles me, if Lang Jun came to me a few months ago, the Xu family's powerful family business was still there, and it could still be said in the past." But now, times have passed, and the present is not what it used to be, so what's the use of coming to me? ”

"A few months ago, Xu's Qilang was just a man of courage and a false name on the Nine Rank List, which was useless to me. If it is really a high level of martial arts can decide major events, wouldn't the three great masters of the north and south who are ranked among the top ranks not be the most powerful people in the world? He Wei said sarcastically: "And at that time, the Xu family was still loyal to An Zidao, if I say these rebellious words to you, I'm afraid I won't even be able to get out of the gate of your mansion." ”

His tone changed and said: "Only now that you have the same hatred of exterminating the clan as me, and have a complete hatred for the An clan, and you and I have the same purpose, there is the possibility of cooperation, this is one of them; Second, if I hadn't stumbled upon Shichirou that you are different from the rumored person, whether it is mental strategy or strain ingenuity, I would not have appeared in front of you today: Third......"

"Wait, you've only seen me from afar, how did you find out that I have a strategy?"

He Wei sighed a little helplessly, and was very dissatisfied with Xu You's still pretending to be at this moment, but he still replied: "Xu Qilang's temper is as famous as Xu's White Tiger Nine Strength, but he can endure the urge to kill the evil slave with one punch, and choose to reject it with the system of color uniforms, which does not damage Xu's face and avoids the further expansion of the situation, this is a contingency strategy; After that, he was able to put down the self-esteem of the family gatekeeper, accept the proposal of the Yuan family of Chen County to withdraw from the marriage, and leave Yixing under the pretense of the ship of the Yuan Mansion to avoid the pursuit of the Shen family, which is a plan of forbearance; With these two points, I have become more and more interested in Qilang, but in Hongye Nagisa, I witnessed a good show of borrowing a knife to kill people, in such a short period of time, using Yuan's troops, commanding Ruoding, forcing the four arrows out of the shadows, each breaking, killing one by one, this layout strategy, really let me have to praise it, this is the third; And that's not all, Qilang's series of performances when he arrived at Jinling let me know what it means to be a genius in the sky, born to know it......"

Xu You was already a little immune to the high notes he had to sing from time to time, but listening to him word by word, although the specific details were slightly different, the general direction was exactly the same, as if it was his own shadow, looking at everything that happened inch by inch, and said strangely: "The matter of Yixing, you are on the side, it is normal to be able to infer seven, seven, eighty, eight." The matter of Momiji Nagisa, there were dozens of boats at that time, and you must have been among them, and you knew it slightly, and you could analyze it clearly from the clues alone, and you could be regarded as smart. But all kinds of Yuan Mansion, how did you make it as if you were witnessing and being there? ”

"The first two places actually have to take some thought, but the Yuan Mansion is the easiest," He Wei snorted and said: "As long as you have enough money and certain conversation skills, in the two days you are in the Yuan Mansion, except for being alone with Yuan Jie, the rest of the time, I almost know what happened before and after!" ”

Money can make ghosts grind, don't deceive me!

Xu You didn't forget to clear himself at this time, and said, "Okay, what you said is right!" But there is one point, I am not consistent with your purpose, the disaster of the He family is the edict of the lord today, but the change of the Xu family is only the evil created by the prince and the Shen family! ”

He Wei sneered: "An Zidao is the lord, An Xiuming is the prince, and he is also the lord, is there a difference?" If you want to seek revenge on the prince, will An Zidao watch you do it in vain? ”

Xu You didn't plan to debate with him, because there is still a difference between the two, the prince is just the prince, after all, he is not the real lord, in all dynasties, the difficulty of changing a prince is much less difficult than changing an emperor.

Seeing that Xu You was silent, He Wei didn't know what he was thinking, but this was not the main contradiction at the moment, there was no need to compete with him, anyway, when things really advanced to that point, how to deal with An's was not one who could have the final say, and said: "So you see, I came to Qiantang thousands of miles away, not because I was blinded by lard for a while, nor was it a child's play, but after careful consideration, I made up my mind!" ”

Xu You smiled bitterly: "Even if you think that I am still a bit desirable, but as I said just now, I don't have anything now, if you want to follow me, it's better to do it alone!" ”

"If I could do it alone, would I have to wait until today? I am a cold-hearted and bad-tempered person, a little mean, unable to tolerate people, and difficult to convince the public, and the identity and origin are not easy to say. So at best, he can only be a qualified mastermind, strategizing behind the scenes, but he can't become a lord in the real sense. ”

Your self-awareness is quite profound, Xu You scolded and said, "Lang Jun is too modest......"

"It's not too modest, it's the truth. What I have to do, how difficult it is, even if I deceive the world, I can't deceive myself, if I don't have a clear understanding, I won't be able to go far, I will be defeated! He Wei said in a deep voice: "But Qilang is different, you are gentle, treat people sincerely, can tolerate people, and can also convince the public, what is even more rare is that there is a strange charm on your body, which can make people feel at ease and calm, otherwise Zuo Yan Zuo Junhou would not have just left Yuan's family, and he would have resolutely devoted himself to Qilang's door......"

Xu You was silent for a moment and sighed: "Having said so much, it's actually all nonsense, there is no foundation and strength, the road you said is too difficult and too far, rather than being tired halfway through, I still be an honest Qi Min and spend this life safely." ”

What kind of mind He Wei is, he instantly understood the meaning of Xu You's words, not really to be a do-it-nothing householder, but to hear the real plan from his mouth, his eyes were bright, and he said: "Although the Xu family was wiped out, and the power in the court and the army was also purged, after all, An Zidao was sympathetic to the Xu family, and under the interference of intentional or unintentional interference, the Xu family's troops in the army still exist more or less, and there are still many protégés in various states and counties, don't underestimate these people, as long as the time is ripe, They will exert power far beyond imagination in their respective positions. And,"

He paused, leaned forward slightly, and said in a low voice: "Although the Xu clan relatives were killed and injured in those three days and nights, don't forget, there is also a daughter who got married, and now she is the princess of Yidu Wang An Xiulin!" ”