readx;? Time flies, tomorrow will be the day when the emperor and the Southwest Chamber of Commerce will feast on the fourteen city lords, and tonight the other thirteen city lords have also rushed to the West Imperial City one after another, they did not go directly to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce in order to avoid suspicion, nor did they stay in the West Imperial Mansion, but chose to live in the Tide Inn. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, until this moment, these city lords didn't really choose a good position, whether they were on Lu Yifan's side or Huang Xuan's side, most of them still wanted to follow everyone's choice in their hearts, after all, more people are easier to do!

It was precisely because each of them came with the attitude of seeing everyone's intentions before making a decision, so tonight was destined to be sleepless for these city lords.

Including Pang He, the lord of the Western Imperial City, a total of fourteen city lords gathered together in a guest room of the Tide Inn after dinner, and everyone secretly discussed countermeasures one after another.

"City Lord Fang, among our people, you are the oldest and the most senior, what should we do about this matter?"

Among these city lords, except for Fang Chengtian, the other thirteen city lords were all newly transferred by the emperor after the collapse of Louzong, so they didn't know as much about the situation in the southwest as Fang Chengtian, and Fang Chengtian naturally became the leader of these city lords.

Of course, not everyone is convinced by Fang Chengtian, at least Pang He is not convinced by Fang Chengtian. Don't look at Pang He who used to be an errand under Fang Chengtian, but Pang He has always thought that Fang Chengtian is a sycophancy who is greedy for life and afraid of death and only knows how to slap horses, so among these city lords here tonight, only one Pang He disdains to compliment Fang Chengtian.

"Yes!City Lord Fang, you should hurry up and get us an idea!" The other city lord also hurriedly echoed, "Are you going to Lu Yifan's banquet tomorrow?"

"Do you think these two people are deliberately making things difficult for us? We didn't choose so many days, but chose the same day, and they were both in the Western Imperial City, isn't this obviously forcing us to make a choice?" said Dong Gu, the lord of Lizhou City, with a snort.

Listening to the noisy sound of everyone, Fang Chengtian took a sip of tea lightly without hurrying, and then he cast his shrewd gaze straight at Pang He, the only one in the room who did not show a panicked look, and opened his mouth with a smile and said, "I don't know what Pang Cheng thinks about this matter?"

As soon as Fang Chengtian's words came out, everyone's eyes invariably turned to Pang He, who had been sitting next to him and closed his eyes to recuperate. And Pang He opened his eyes unhurriedly under the gaze of everyone, and said with a faint smile: "Pang Mou has been caught between the two tigers, you look at my ears, it is because I didn't handle the relationship between the emperor and the Southwest Chamber of Commerce that I lost it!" Saying that, Pang He also stretched out his hand and gently pointed to the root of his bare left ear, "Pang Mou is looking forward to the stars and the moon, and today I finally look forward to you, I also want you to come up with an idea quickly, so that Pang Mou can get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible." ”

The prevarication in Pang He's words was understood by everyone present, but no one was willing to expose him, after all, at this time, everyone wanted to be the first person to be the first to do peace, and no one wanted to be the first person to be the head, whether it was close to the emperor or close to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, whoever was the first to express his opinion would inevitably become the target of public criticism in the future. These city lords are all treacherous and cunning people, how can they be stupid enough to be the tree of the wind?

"This ......" for a moment the room fell into a treacherous stalemate, everyone had their own ghosts, everyone was carefully calculating their own little calculations, and it was all prevarication, but there was no useful word.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we continue to hesitate like this, I'm afraid that the sky will be dawn!" Dong Gu said and symbolically stretched out his finger and pointed out the window, "As soon as the day dawns, should we go to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce? or to the Western Emperor's Mansion?

"Alas, I don't want to go anywhere now!" a middle-aged city lord with an obese figure sighed helplessly, "You said that this southwest land should have been our territory, why are we now the fish on the board of Lu Yifan and Huang Xuan?"

As soon as these words came out, there was a helpless sigh in the room again.

"Let's think about it, is it the Emperor Sect that is terrible or the Southwest Chamber of Commerce is terrible?" Wei Ting frowned and opened his mouth to remind, "Who are you afraid of? Anyway, I'm more afraid of the Emperor Sect!"

Wei Ting's words were tantamount to opening a layer of knots in everyone's hearts, so various opinions came out one after another.

"I'm also afraid of the Imperial Sect!" a city lord nodded in agreement, "Don't you forget that the Sect Master of the Holy Realm is behind the Emperor's Sect, offending the Emperor Sect is equivalent to offending the Eastern Sect Master, can we still have a good life?"

"That's good!" the other city lord echoed one after another, "What's more, Lu Yifan is still the Qin prisoner who was ordered to be arrested by the emperor, although the authority of the emperor is no longer there, but after all, he is still the lord of the Holy Domain in name, and we are all ministers of the Holy Domain! If we help the Qin prisoners of the Emperor to fight against the Imperial Sect, wouldn't we have offended both the Sect Master of the Sacred Domain and the Emperor of the Holy Domain in the end?"

"Well! That's reasonable!" As soon as these remarks came out, everyone nodded in agreement.

"Everyone!" Seeing this, Fang Chengtian suddenly spoke, "Then have you ever thought about whether Lu Yifan and the group of outlaws under him will be able to let you live to invite merit in front of His Majesty the Emperor?" As soon as Fang Chengtian's words came out, the room became quiet again, and everyone listened thoughtfully to Fang Chengtian's words, "The Imperial Sect is a legitimate sect, but what is the Southwest Chamber of Commerce?" Please forgive the old man, I am blunt, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce is a group of outlaws who are not afraid of life and death in the eyes of the old man, and Lu Yifan is a ruthless character who never thinks about the importance of doing things! Back then, I met Lu Yifan because of the common confrontation against Lou Zong, and the old man didn't dare to say that he knew this person completely, but I was sure that Lu Yifan was definitely not as easy to deal with as you think! At that time, he was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old doll, and he was already able to deter the fourteen cities in the southwest, and finally succeeded in exterminating Lou Zong Lu Yifan, which is even greater, you think about it, a teenage doll already has the city government and scheming to destroy the entire Lou Zong, can such a person be easily offended?"

"What City Lord Fang said is good!" Dong Gu said with a solemn expression, "As far as I know, Lu Yifan later led the army to resist the beast army in Northern Xinjiang, and became the youngest general in the Sacred Domain Army in one fell swoop, it is said that he led a Lu Zi battalion of less than 2,000 people to kill the 10,000 Black Armor Army before and after, and the most powerful battle was that he once led a few people deep into the 10,000 miles of ice field to rescue the trapped Xi Chen's army, and finally not only rescued the Xi Chen army, but also a few of them all came back!" Do you know who the people who were born and died with him at that time?"

When Dong Gu asked this, all the city lords who were shocked shook their heads one after another.

"It's Liu Sandao, Xie Yun, and Ji Yuan in the Southwest Chamber of Commerce!" Dong Gu said word by word, "These people who followed Lu Yifan really crawled out of the pile of dead people, so I fully agree with the title that City Lord Fang gave them: a group of outlaws who are not afraid of life and death!"

"This ...... Isn't this just a group of villains?" Wei Ting said with an ugly face, "It is said that it is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain......

"If Lu Yifan is a villain, then what are Huang Xuan?" Dong Gu said sarcastically in a cold voice, "Compared to Huang Xuan, Lu Yifan is already very good to us! Have you forgotten how the Emperor Sect killed our relatives and took away our family wealth?"

"This ......"

"People!" Listening to everyone's noisy words, Pang He, who had never spoken, finally couldn't help laughing, "I don't think you are comparing Huang Xuan and Lu Yifan who is better for us now, but comparing who is more fierce to us! The more fierce we are, the more afraid we are, and the more afraid we are, the more compromised, so in the end, the one who is better to us will have to bear our collective betrayal, right?"

Although Pang He's words are hard to hear, but the words are not rough, he said a very realistic truth, that is, in the bones of people there are characteristics of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, often the person who is good to you will be hurt by you, and the person who is cruel to you You dare not provoke him, but also have to taboo him everywhere, hate to walk around if you can't walk!

This kind of human nature has nothing to do with being pitiful or not, in fact, it is the path chosen by oneself, so it is not unreasonable to see that poor people must have something to hate.

"City Lord Pang, aren't we also doing this to protect ourselves, why do you say such ugly words?" The fat city lord seemed to be a little unable to listen, and couldn't help but retort, "Since you can see clearly, then you should tell me which side we should stand on?"

"Self-preservation?" Pang He sneered disdainfully, "Do you think that your life can be saved if you want to?" Whether it is the Emperor Sect or the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, if they want to call you the third watch dead, then you will never be able to live to the fifth watch! Since you can't be honest with each other, then Pang Mou will take his leave first!" After saying that, Pang He wanted to get up and walk outside.

"City Lord Pang, slow down!" Fang Chengtian took the initiative to get up and block Pang He's way, only to see him say with a smile on his face, "Since we are colleagues, we must be honest with each other, if City Lord Pang just brushes his sleeves away, then I am afraid that I will not be able to live in your Western Imperial City!"

"That's it, Pang City Lord don't be impatient, we have to think about this matter in the long run!" The people next to him also hurriedly surrounded him to persuade peace.

"Since both ends are dead, then I'll take a gamble!" Wei Ting's face suddenly straightened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't care what you think of Lu Yifan, in my eyes he is just a stinky boy who has not dried up, relying on his own means, and a few loyal masters under his hands want to compete with other sects, I think it is simply beyond my strength!" Tomorrow I will go to the banquet of the Emperor Sect, currying favor with the Emperor Sect is equivalent to currying favor with the Eastern Sect Master, with the current situation in the Holy Domain, the Emperor can no longer protect us, we can only pin our hopes on the Eastern Sect Master, you think about it, even if Lu Yifan tried his best to eradicate the Lou Sect back then? It has only been less than two or three years, and the Emperor Sect has risen again. This is the truth, no matter how many sects we eradicate, there will always be new sects standing in the southwest, as long as there is an Eastern sect master, the southwest will never really become our own territory!"

"Yes, Lu Yifan is just a newborn calf after all, if you want to fight against Huang Xuan, I'm afraid it won't be enough!" Someone began to take the initiative to echo, "After all, Huang Xuan is the Lord of the Southwest personally appointed by the Eastern Sect Master, and he is much better than Lu Yifan in terms of background, and I don't believe that he Lu Yifan dares to attack our Southwest Fourteen Cities in a row? Even if he has that heart, I'm afraid he doesn't have that power! In the end, Lu Yifan and they are just scaring and scaring us, once they start to move, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce will not be able to become a climate at all!"

"Yes, that's good!"

"Lord Wei is right!"

"In the end, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce is still a trick played by children......"

For a while, everyone in the room seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, and they all nodded in agreement.

"City Lord Fang!" Facing the people who compromised one by one, Dong Gu could only put his last eyes on Fang Chengtian, Dong Gu's son died tragically at the hands of the Emperor, so he hated the Emperor to the core, and now he finally had a chance to choose again, of course he was not willing to give up easily, "Say something! Aren't you friends with Lu Yifan?"

Hearing Dong Gu's words, the corners of Fang Chengtian's eyes couldn't help twitching a few times, he held the teacup in his right hand, and his left hand circled the teacup lid several times, his eyes were also cloudy and cloudy, thinking about the pros and cons repeatedly, under the expectant gaze of everyone, Fang Chengtian pondered for a long time before he slowly spoke: "I won't say anything else, but with my relationship with Lu Yifan, once we have a feud with the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, Fang may only be able to reluctantly protect himself, as for everyone......" Fang Chengtian couldn't help but smile bitterly helplessly when he said this, "I can only ask for more blessings!"

"What does the lord of that side mean...... Have you agreed to stand on the Emperor's side with us?" Wei Ting said with an excited expression.

"I have to admit that Huang Xuan does have more means than Lu Yifan!" Fang Chengtian nodded with a wry smile, "He knew that we had handed over the tribute silver to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, but instead of settling accounts with us, he gave us a chance to choose again, such shrewd means are by no means comparable to Lu Yifan, Lu Yifan wanted to force the Emperor Sect to completely oppose us, but Huang Xuan broke Lu Yifan's plan that he thought was seamless!"

"That's right! If the Emperor Sect really settles accounts with us, then we will be completely forced to stand on Lu Yifan's side!" Wei Ting nodded in agreement.

Fang Chengtian nodded with a smile, and then set his eyes on Pang He again, the meaning of inquiry in his eyes was self-evident.

"Ahem!" Pang He coughed lightly a few times, and then said lightly, "Tomorrow's imperial banquet will be in my Hou Mansion, and Pang Mou can't hide from this matter if he wants to, since you have already made a decision, then Pang Mou will be waiting for you in the mansion tomorrow!"

With that, Pang He smiled and arched his hand at everyone, and then led the people out of the Tide Inn without looking back.

The big stone in the hearts of all the city lords has landed, and I can finally sleep soundly tonight!

"City Lord Dong!" Fang Chengtian looked at Dong Gu, who was standing at the window thoughtfully, and slowly stepped forward and said softly, "Could it be that you still hesitate?"

"I clearly promised Lu Yifan before, but now we are on the verge of defection, like this...... Is it really good?" Dong Gu said with a sigh, and after that, he couldn't help but have a look of contemplation in his eyes looking at the moonlight outside the window, "The more ruthless we are, the more we support whom, is it true that the world is so deceitful and afraid of evil?"

"Alas!"

There was a sigh in his mouth, a lot of helplessness in his eyes, and an endless sourness in his heart......

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