Chapter 137: Liu Chengquan
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Five months have passed, and for more than five months, the Tilting Phoenix has been leading the Black Riders to cultivate in the protectorate of various countries.
However, because of the clear law, Tilting Huang and the others did not kill the monsters. Even after the monster was seriously injured, the tilting phoenix would take out the pill to prolong its life.
"Miss, it looks like we're going to change places again." Shen Ao put away his pair of sledgehammers. They had been in the protectorate of Zixiao Country for a month. Even the demonic beasts in the inner perimeter were scared by them, and now that they were walking in the forest, no demonic beasts dared to show up.
In the space of five months, the Tilting Phoenix has now been successfully promoted to the lower rank of the Xuanling King. In addition to cultivating, Tilting Phoenix would also refine in the space every night, and now Tilting Phoenix was already a fourth-order alchemist.
And Heiqi and the others have not eaten the pills refined by the Tilting Phoenix in the past few months, so now most of them have also arrived at the Xuanling Sect.
There are now fifty-three people in the Black Riders, and the new ones have volunteered to join since they met them in various countries during this period.
The new recruits have not been cultivating for a long time, and most of them are only the strength of the Xuan Ling Master now. However, except for the small number of black riders now, the others are enough to be comparable to the second-level sects.
Tilting Huang now has seven restaurants and seven green buildings under his command, all of which are the forces of Caiyue Pavilion and are scattered in the Seven Kingdoms. Because of the unique business experience of the Tilting Phoenix, in addition to finding out the news, these shops can also bring a lot of income to the Tilting Phoenix, plus the black rider will also go out to perform tasks, so the current Tilting Phoenix does not sell pills, and there is endless money in his hands.
"Miss, I've received a new mission." Cheng Xing took out his own transmission note, that's right, after these few months, Cheng Xing is already a third-level refiner, and he can already refine a simple transmission note.
However, because the level is not too high, and it is an ancient refining method, Cheng Xing still has some difficulty refining the transmission notes, so the number is not large, and there are only transmission notes in the hands of the leaders of the restaurants and Qinglou and the team leader of the black horse.
"Goal." Tilting Huang let go of a black panther who had just been beaten, and stood up and looked at Cheng Xing.
"Liu Chengquan of Zixiao Country, Prime Minister Liu." Cheng Xing replied truthfully, "The buyer paid a million taels of gold to buy his life." ”
"Yoo Sung-kwon." Every half a month, the intelligence agencies of various countries will arrange for people to meet with the Tilting Phoenix, and then show the Tilting Phoenix the extremely valuable information they have found. It can be said that she now knows something about the various forces on the continent and the most famous people among them.
This Liu Chengquan is the prime minister of Zixiao Kingdom, and the Liu family has been an official in the court for 100 years, and is one of the deep-rooted forces in Zixiao Kingdom.
Liu Chengquan's father worships the crown prince in the court, and he is also the mentor of Situ Sheng, the current monarch of Zixiao Kingdom, and his identity is also respected by everyone in the court; His mother is the county lord of the Qingping Palace, this Qingping King is Situ Sheng's imperial uncle, and the daughter of the Qingping King is also Situ Sheng's royal sister according to his generation.
Therefore, the identity of the Liu family is also the number one force in Zixiao Kingdom, and no one dares to mess with it.
In Liu Chengquan's generation, Liu Chengquan still has real talent and learning, so he removed his parents from paving the way in the court, and with his own knowledge, he rose all the way. Before Situ Sheng successfully ascended the throne from the crown prince as the emperor, Liu Chengquan had successfully become the prime minister.
It is said that Liu Chengquan has a very thorough view of the situation between the DPRK and China, otherwise he would not have pursued advantages and avoided disadvantages, which was appreciated by the first emperor, and made him a prime minister at a young age. But because he saw the situation very clearly, it made him even more fearless, the current Liu family is the dominant family in the court, Liu Chengquan is the prime minister, and his daughter Liu Siyu is in the harem.
The front and court of the harem are all in the hands of Liu Chengquan, so it is inevitable that he will be arrogant.
Situ Sheng had not succeeded to the throne at that time, and his foundation was unstable, and there were still many princes who were eyeing the throne. If it is said that Liu Chengquan's father has always served as the prince's concubine, then the Liu family should also be tied to the prince.
But when Liu Chengquan became prime minister, it was when the first emperor was seriously ill and the previous dynasty was turbulent. The power in Situ Sheng's hands is on a par with another prince, and if he really fights together, it will not be beneficial to anyone.
At that time, only Liu Chengquan was watching and refused to stand in line. If he is only loyal to the king, so he chooses neutrality. But he relied on the identity of the Liu family and began to choose the one who could be at his mercy among the two.
Situ Sheng's mother died for many years, and she was the first queen of the first emperor, Situ Sheng was the eldest son of the emperor and the emperor's concubine, so he was canonized as a prince on the day he was born, and the other prince was born by the new queen, and the maternal power was stronger than Situ Sheng, so Situ Sheng did not have much chance of winning at that time.
Because of this, Situ Sheng was easier to be controlled by Liu Chengquan than another prince, so he stood on Situ Sheng's side on the condition that Liu Siyu entered the palace.
With the help of the prime minister of one dynasty, coupled with Liu Chengquan's high strength, and the Qingping palace still standing behind him, Situ Sheng overwhelmed the prince and successfully became the new emperor after the death of the first emperor.
And Situ Sheng has been forbearant in the past few years and succumbed to Liu Chengquan's control, which also made Liu Chengquan more and more inflated, embezzled and took bribes, bullied others, and colluded with foreign enemies.
However, because of Situ Sheng's unstable foundation and Liu Chengquan's extreme caution, Situ Sheng has not been able to grasp the handle, and this time it has been nearly 20 years.
"Who's the buyer?" Qian Huang asked, Prime Minister Liu Cheng is a traitorous minister, there are many henchmen in the court, and the upright and loyal ministers are not suppressed by him, if it weren't for Situ Sheng's tough wrists, the court would have turned the sky upside down.
"Zixiao is headed by Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry of the People's Republic of China, and unites other ministers to raise funds." This million taels of gold should be nothing to Liu Chengquan, but Shangshu and others in the Ministry of Industry are all honest and good officials, and in addition to receiving some monthly salaries, they also earn some silver in a few small shops in their own homes, and it is not easy to come up with this money.
"Send the message back, and the task is over." Dumping Huang packed up his things and called the team to gather, "We will do this task ourselves." ”
Three days later, it will be the Alchemist Competition, and they are now in the Sunset Forest of Zixiao Country, and they will go to participate in the competition, and by the way, they will kill this Liu Chengquan, killing two birds with one stone.
If you want to say that the black knight only kills the big traitors and evil people, if Liu Chengquan only controls the corruption and bribery of the government, then he has the Zixiao monarch to suppress it, but he is the kind of person who can destroy the whole clan for a treasure.
At that time, the former prime minister of Zixiao Kingdom said goodbye to his hometown and returned to his hometown, and his son was not an official, so he left Kyoto together to buy a small mountain villa to spend the day of business. At the time of the sale, he accidentally obtained this Xuan-level exercise, and the former prime minister was also a loyal and patriotic person, and he wanted to dedicate it to Situ Sheng, but he was robbed by gangsters on the way. Three days later, the entire villa was slaughtered.
This matter Liu Chengquan did was extremely secretive, if it weren't for Liu Chengquan's second son lingering in the flowers all day long, he was fascinated in the green building of Zixiao Kingdom, and he inadvertently mentioned it when he was drunk, I am afraid that no one knows this secret so far.
killed more than 100 people in the village for this exercise, this Liu Chengquan is not worthy of continuing to live. And in addition to this incident, Liu Chengquan has also done many other things that hurt heaven and reason, so assassinating him is bound to win.
Now, in addition to some other people who are on a mission outside, there are a total of twenty-nine people who are training in the Sunset Deep Forest with the Tilting Phoenix. Tilting Phoenix shouted to them to assemble and prepare to leave the Sunset Forest.
"Rest here tonight, leave tomorrow morning, and go to the capital of Zixiao Kingdom."
"Yes!" They were very excited, they rarely went into the town in the past five months, and they followed the monsters every day, and they wanted to go out for a long time.
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The night passed, and early the next morning, the Tilting Phoenix took out the aircraft and sailed towards the Zixiao Imperial City, this Tilting Phoenix bought it with money, they ran around every day, and it was inevitable that they would have to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to perform the mission, and it was more convenient to buy a flying machine. In addition to the Tilt, each team and the person in charge has a small flying machine in their hands.
Half a day, the black knight and others arrived at the Zixiao Imperial City, got off the flying machine, and stood outside the city gate, everyone sighed with emotion, it is worthy of being the strongest Zixiao country among the seven countries, that is, the city gate is made of pure gold, which looks very majestic.
Because the Alchemist Contest was imminent, there were many alchemists and people watching the competition from all over the continent, and there were flying machines that had just landed in front of the city gate, so Tianhuang and the others did not attract much attention.
"Lao Liu, what do you want." Shen Ao stabbed the stunned person next to him.
Lao Liu wiped the non-existent saliva at the corner of his mouth, "This door, aren't you afraid of being stolen in the middle of the night?" ”
Shen Ao looked at him like a fool, not to mention that the guards of this Zixiao country are not vegetarians, that is, which country's city gate is not protected by heavy formations, and they want to steal the door? It's not that easy.
And those who can easily break the formation and defeat the guards are not short of money for this gate at all, okay...
Shen Ao no longer paid attention to Lao Liu, who had a golden star in his eyes, and quickly followed the tilting phoenix.
A few guards guarding the door looked at the black riders and pouted, none of them had ever seen the world, and besides, seeing that they were dirty, and some of their clothes were torn with several holes, what were they doing in Zixiao Country?
The alchemy competition is imminent, and the city is full of nobles, and if these people go in to disturb others, they will be the first to be punished. Therefore, except for the Tilting Phoenix, the Black Rider and others were all blocked out of the door.
There is space for the Tilt Phoenix, and it is clean in the space, and there is a lot of change of clothes. But except for the Dumping Phoenix, the rest of the people are rough men, although there are spare clothes, but they have been fighting in the forest for months, although the clothes are clean, but the dilapidated places really can't be repaired. They were now wearing the best-looking clothes.
"Where did you come from?" The chief guard guarding the door stopped Cheng Xing, looked at the people behind him and asked.
"We are from the country of a thousand bamboos. Come and watch the alchemy competition. Cheng Xing said truthfully, Miss is here to compete, they just came in to shop and cheer for Miss.
The gatekeeper also guessed that they were not alchemists, because the alchemists were so rich that they would not be as embarrassed as these people in front of them.