"Theseus, you're fast."

With Qingxing Lantern and Lian, he came to a corner outside an inner city gate, where there was a carriage, and when Su Yuan and the three approached, an old man with white hair and a robe poked out of the carriage.

"Of course it's faster, after all, it's for the Empire." The old man didn't smile, and looked at the two people behind Su Yuan with a serious face, "Who are they?" ”

"After all, I'm going to meet the general, so I have to be prepared." Su Yuan smiled lightly, "Otherwise, I'm afraid that if I can't talk about it, the general will kill me." ”

Xius nodded noncommittally, "Then come up, I'll take you into the palace." ”

"Thank you." Su Yuan smiled and got into the carriage with Qingxingdeng and Love.

Driving the carriage, without saying a word, the imposing and capable looking guard drove the carriage with a blank face and slowly walked towards the inner city gate.

Inside the carriage.

"By the way, what happened to those two people who were discussing the sale and purchase of military positions?" Xiu Si looked at Su Yuan with old but wise eyes and asked, "That kind of guy is so rampant that he dares to discuss such a big rebellious thing in the tavern!" ”

Su Yuan smiled lightly, lifted the small curtain in the carriage slightly, looked out, and said: "That woman is not simple, it is estimated that she is not a so-called official seller, nor is she a simple liar, as for that stupid boy, a dumpling from the countryside." ”

"Don't worry about them, after all, the root of the empire's decay is the minister."

"The old man does know that the minister is the root of evil, but ......" Theseus shook his head, his face was indifferent, but his eyes were full of anger.

"After talking to the general, maybe there is a way." Su Yuan looked out the window, where there was an execution ground, and more than a dozen corpses were tied to high wooden stakes, intimidating people coming and going.

"Who are those corpses?" Qingxingdeng also saw this scene and couldn't help but be curious.

Xius closed his eyes slightly, even if he didn't see the scene outside the window, he knew what Qing Xing Lantern was asking.

"Revolutionary armies, spies of different races, and some officials of the Empire."

"Officials of the Empire......" Su Yuan raised his eyebrows, "don't tell me, they were really corrupt and were executed." ”

In this empire, not being corrupt is the biggest sin, right?

"It's not." Hughes shook his head, "They were executed for treason. ”

"Treason?" Su Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"That's right, treason." Xiusi nodded slightly, "They are all very capable and talented national elites, but they have come into contact with the revolutionary army and want to join the revolutionary army and overthrow the empire." ”

Su Yuan nodded lightly and did not speak.

Qing Xing Deng glanced at Xiusi, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, a group of imperial moths under the minister's command with uneven talents, but they are all the minister's minions, a group of people who are loyal to the empire, have a conscience, but have uneven talents, plus a group of people who are worried about the country and the people, can be top-notch, loyal to the empire, have a strong personality, and do not stand in line with the minister, and finally, a group of people who have talent and conscience, but are less loyal to the empire than sympathy for the people and anger against the world......

Crunch.

"Lord Hughes, it's here."

The carriage stopped, and the voice of the guards driving the horses came from outside, which meant that Su Yuan and the three of them had arrived at their destination.

"Go ahead, General Bud is waiting for you in the front courtyard." Xiusi looked straight at Su Yuan with his eyes, "The old man is waiting for you here, Su Yuan, let the old man see if you can convince the general." ”

"Let the old man see if you can save the empire."

Su Yuan didn't reply, just smiled in a low voice, and walked out of the carriage with Qingxing Lantern and Love.

The palace is worthy of being a royal palace, even though it is relatively remote, but the degree of luxury in the construction is extraordinary, of course, not only luxury, the environment here is harmonious, beautiful and harmonious......

To achieve this effect, it is not only possible to build it with expensive and beautiful materials, but without the help of a skilled designer, it will only end up with a palace full of nouveau riche atmosphere.

"The courtyard in front ......" Su Yuan felt what seemed to be a powerful aura in a garden in front of him, and couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth, "Let's go, let's go and see one of the strongest in the empire." ”

"Hmm." Love nodded.

Qing Xing Deng smiled slightly, "The concubine is very curious about him." ”

Soon, the three of them met one of the strongest in the empire, General Bude, who guarded the palace.

With short blonde hair, a burly figure, and a black armor that enveloped his body, and a cloak behind him, he sat down at a table made of a complete jade stone that had been carefully carved, and looked at the three people who walked into the garden with sharp eyes like knives.

The momentum was compelling, but Su Yuan and the three of them were not weak, they ignored their fierce gaze and walked up freely.

"I've seen General Bude, my name is Su Yuan." Su Yuan smiled and bowed slightly, "We are travelers from the East, they are Qingxing Lantern and Love, my companions." ”

The fierceness in General Bude's eyes faded, looked at the three of them, and said slowly: "It is rumored that the East is an uncivilized land, but I didn't expect there to be a strong man like you." ”

"The world is so big, who knows everything." Su Yuan smiled lightly, and then naturally sat opposite Bude, and Lian and Qingxinglan also sat unceremoniously on the stools on both sides of the two.

Click, Lian was calmly nibbling on potato chips, and Qingxinglan was smiling, looking at two people looking at each other.

"You're interesting." General Bude looked at Su Yuan's eyes and said lightly.

"You're boring." With a smile on his face, Su Yuan spoke almost at the same time.

It is true that General Bude is very boring, according to the information obtained and the supplement of Xiusi, plus seeing the other party with his own eyes, Su Yuan synthesized the information and analyzed the other party's personality concept, which is very simple and boring.

Bude was expressionless, and he was not angry because of Su Yuan's evaluation, or that he would not be angry about such a trivial matter that he thought was a trivial matter.

"Hughes said you could save the Empire, and if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have found time to see you." Bud said in a deep voice, "Tell General Ben, how are you going to save the empire?" ”

"Huh."

Su Yuan's eyes lowered and he smiled slightly, "In our east, there is a very interesting game called Go ......."

Dili was transformed into earth attributes, and then energy was transformed into matter, Su Yuan stretched out his hand and gently wiped it on the jade table in front of him, and a pale yellow chessboard condensed out.

"Nineteen ...... on the chessboard"

The chessboard silently outlines vertical and horizontal lines, and between them are a large number of small grids.

"There are three hundred and sixty chess pieces, half of which are black and half are white......"

The power of light condensed into chess pieces, Su Yuan gently pushed, and a small pile of white chess pieces fell in front of Bude, Bude glanced at it slightly, and then continued to look at Su Yuan.

The dark power condensed into a chess piece and landed in front of Su Yuan himself.

"Next is the rule ......"

After introducing the rules of Go in a smooth and clear tone, Su Yuan looked at the general, stretched out his hand and pointed slightly on the chessboard, "General Bude, would you like to play a game with me?" In the middle of the game, I tell you, how do I save the empire? ”

“…… Good. Bude stared at Su Yuan, nodded, and spat out a word sonorously and forcefully.

The attributes of both of them are beyond ordinary people, even if the rules of Go are more cumbersome, but they can be used by remembering, coupled with the thinking speed of the intelligence bonus, even if they are not as good as the top chess players, but they are only inferior in experience and routines.

And the reason why Su Yuan can play chess is because the old man taught him, but Su Yuan just remembered how to play chess.

"The empire has been weakening year by year for thousands of years, and now it is on the verge of collapse, and now the root cause lies in the minister." Su Yuan dropped a sunspot and said lightly, "Maybe the emperor who listens to the minister and trusts the minister incomparably also has one." ”

"It's all the minister's mistake." Bude dropped a white son and attacked Su Yuan with a fierce momentum.

"You have status, power, and force, and you have ......" Su Yuan smiled, and the sunspot fell lightly, blocking Bude's attack, "Why don't you clear the monarch's side and save the empire?" ”

"The family has been taught by the ancestors for generations, and military attaches are not allowed to interfere in politics!" Bud landed hard, and his tone was sonorous and powerful.

Su Yuan smiled slightly, and said as he fell: "And compared to officialdom, you are not the opponent of the minister, and the people you shelter are one or even several levels lower than the minister after all, plus the emperor's blind obedience, if you want to fight against the minister, it is just to send it to death." ”

"So you can only watch as the empire gets weaker and weaker, the enemy gets stronger and stronger, and the alien peoples around you are ready to move, and the rebel armies in the border areas abound." Su Yuan's successive drops forced Bude into a predicament.

"But the empire will not fall." Bud said with a blank face, and at the same time landed on the chessboard, as if he did not see that he was in a predicament at all.

Su Yuan knocked on the jade table with a sunspot in his hand, looked at the chess game, and after a while, he said, "That is to say, you have the confidence to solve external worries first, and then deal with internal troubles?" That's right, the ability of the founding emperor is rare through the ages, and he will naturally leave some powerful hole cards for his descendants. ”

"But are you sure the minister doesn't have hole cards?" Su Yuan smiled lightly.

Bud said as he fell: "The minister must have hole cards, and he will not be weak." ”

"In addition, the emperor is obedient to him...... Su Yuan hooked the corners of his mouth, "The hole cards left by the founding emperor may become something that the minister uses to clear the obstacles in front of him." ”

"......" Bude was silent, and fell again and again, and the suppressed Baizi burst out with a desperate momentum.

"The military attache died a martyrdom and died a ......well-deserved death," Su Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Are you already desperate?" ”

"I never despair." Bude was expressionless, and played a few seconds in a row, and Baizi began to turn passive into active, pressing the general trend and fighting against Kuroko, there were signs of turning defeat into victory, "Guarding the palace, guarding the empire, and guarding the emperor, this is the mission of our clan." ”

"But you are a military attaché, above board, and upright, so you can't win the minister, and you can't save the empire."

Su Yuan's eyes were lowered, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he gently dropped a son, when Baizi and Heizi were fighting against each other, an inconspicuous place, this falling sunspot instantly blocked Baizi's momentum,

Insidious, inconspicuous or brilliant trick.

"If you want to save the empire, you need not only light, but also darkness."

Bud looked at the chessboard where the big picture had been decided, and threw in the towel.