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Chapter 260: Court Upheaval!

About half a month after returning to Penzes City, Ling Xiao has always lived in seclusion, every day he either goes to talk to the patriarch of the wind about the ancient culture, or talks to a few girls to enhance their feelings, Ling Xiao has begun to gradually change from passive to active, this change really makes several girls feel happy. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But Isha and Huang Puyue are about to go to the imperial capital, because over there, a new Ling's auction house has been opened.

As the economic and political center of the Blue Moon Empire, the imperial capital Yalan is already an ancient city that has experienced more than a thousand years of wind and rain, and its cultural heritage and rich aristocrats are not comparable to the important southern town of Penzes.

Moreover, opening the auction house in the imperial capital, to a certain extent, is also equivalent to appeasing the heart of His Majesty the old king, and now the one thing His Majesty is most afraid of is probably that the Ling family will move out of the imperial capital, once the Ling family makes such a move, I am afraid it will also mean that the Blue Moon Empire is going to change!

Fortunately, the Ling clan announced the opening of an additional auction house in the imperial capital, and gradually increased the supply of Yangyan Pill in the future, and when they got this news, the happiest people were not those noble ladies who were looking forward to it, but His Majesty the old king.

Although someone has been sent to ask for help from the Li family in the Western Regions behind the royal family, His Majesty the King has always had no bottom in his heart, and finally, Ling Xiao's move has, to a certain extent, dispelled the suspicion that the Ling family had a rebellious heart.

In the palace, the old marshal Qiu Chen sat opposite His Majesty the King, and the two chuckled and talked.

His Majesty the King did not have the slightest shelf of a national ruler in front of the old marshal Qiu Chen, with a modest smile on his face, and he was also wearing a black casual dress, on which the pattern of the Flame Lion King was hand-embroidered with gold thread.

"Dashuai, I really let you say it right, that kid of the Ling family, it seems that he really doesn't have any rebellious heart, alas, in the final analysis, this matter is indeed what I did wrong, and I am ashamed of others!

His Majesty sighed softly, and the fragrant tea in front of him for a short time closed his eyes and felt it for a while, and then said: "In the past two years, with the birth of the Ling family boy, those hidden family sects have also begun to become restless, just like cats that have smelled a fishy smell, they are all ready to move. Alas...... We puppets, have been doing it for more than a thousand years, Dashuai, when do you say that it is the head? These hidden families, even including the Li family in the Western Regions behind the royal family, have always been above the imperial power, and I really feel very uncomfortable in my heart! Hmph, I now hope that this pool of water can be a little more muddy, so that the Ling family kid can completely destroy those hidden family sects! Their existence makes it impossible for the imperial power to be truly concentrated!

Qiu Chen already knew what kind of person His Majesty the King was, although the old king was not too good in terms of strength, but this ambition, since he was young, has always been very ambitious!

Otherwise, it would not be possible to fight step by step from a third-rate small country to a super empire on a par with the Zichuan Empire in the Eastern Continent! Speaking of which, the only role played by the Li family in the Western Regions behind the royal family in the territorial expansion of the Blue Moon Empire was probably to deter other hidden families.

The so-called things in the secular world are solved by the secular world itself, but if there is no strong hidden family behind it as support, there is no hope of ruling a big country safely. Therefore, the old king did not deny the meaning of the Li family in the Western Regions behind the royal family, but one thing is obvious, if there were no powerful hidden families, with his ability, he could create more brilliant achievements and lay a larger territory!

Achieve immortal feats and achieve eternal hegemony!

It's a pity that because of the existence of those hidden families, this idea of the old king can only be regarded as a complaint.

"Your Majesty, speaking of which, the child of the Ling family, I have always admired it, and, as an old man who has lived for so many years, I believe in my own vision, that child, easily, will never give birth to a rebellious heart, unless Your Majesty is forced to provoke him by hard work. ”

Qiu Chen said, laughed a few times, and then said: "Your Majesty obviously doesn't like to hear what the old minister says, because this Ling Xiao, although he is not a member of the hidden family, doesn't His Majesty feel that the current strength of the third son of the Ling family is ...... Isn't it worse than those hidden families?"

His Majesty sighed softly, his hand that had been a little dry, lightly tapped twice on the table, and said with a slightly bitter face: "This, of course, I know very well, so the purpose of my coming to you today is also this, Dashuai, how do you say that this matter should be solved in order to prevent future troubles forever? After all, the third son of the Ling family has no antipathy, it does not mean that his descendants are not antipathetic either." ”

"Unless, like treating those hidden families, you can assign it to the Ling family forever. Qiu Chen's eyes flickered, and he said softly: "However, in this way, it will definitely affect the forces of the Second Highness." ”

The old king suddenly raised his head, and the two somewhat cloudy old eyes raised their heads to look at Qiu Chen, and after a while, he smiled and said: "In this country, I'm afraid that only you will say such straightforward words in front of me, but, speaking of which, it is a good idea for you to treat them as a hidden family, then, this time the hidden family exchange conference held in the East China Sea, presumably Ling Xiao will also go, I should ask my family to propose, absorb the Ling family into the hidden family......! Then elect an alliance leader of the hidden family sect to come out, haha, that will be more perfect!"

Qiu Chen looked at the old king a little helplessly and shook his head, and said in his heart It seems that as long as he reigns for one day, he will never be able to extinguish all the hidden family sects, how to use the contradictions between them to let those hidden family sects fight on their own is one thing that His Majesty the King often discussed with Qiu Chen when he was young.

However, those people from the hidden family sect, after all, are not people without intelligence, how could they make such low-level mistakes, and there are also various checks and balances between them.

However, Qiu Chen felt that the suggestion put forward by His Majesty the Old King this time was indeed insidious enough!

Gather those super family gates, and then suggest that they elect an alliance leader, if this suggestion is really adopted, then, for hundreds of years, none of these hidden family sects will want to live a peaceful life, and in the end, it will be impossible to stop arguing with each other without exhausting all their strength.

This alliance leader is like the emperor in the secular world, just ask, who doesn't want to be it?

Moreover, the difference between the high-ranking hidden family sect and the secular world is that when you become the leader of all the family sects, the kind of benefits can be described as great!

Crystal nucleus, sword skills, exercises...... Also, all kinds of pills, as well as all kinds of hand scrolls, alchemy, and alchemy in those ancient ruins...... And so on and so forth.

Becoming the leader of this alliance means that you can mobilize all kinds of resources and manpower at will. It can be said that he has almost become the overlord of the entire continent!

Let's ask, as long as there is a little bit of ambition, who doesn't want to be the leader of this alliance?

Qiu Chen nodded lightly and exclaimed, "If this suggestion is adopted, then the royal families of various countries on the continent should really thank you, Your Majesty!"

His Majesty the Old King laughed twice, with a smug look on his face, and then snorted and said: "Those people always think that strength represents everything, and that they can override the imperial power if they are strong...... Therefore, if I were to choose, I would rather let them all be destroyed! I would rather let this kind of family that is so perverted that it affects the balance of the world continue to exist! I have always been a little puzzled why the Holy Domain accepts the strong people above the Sword Saint, those Sword Sects, Sword Emperors, and Sword Venerables! None of them should exist in this world! Their existence is simply equivalent to a sharp sword hanging over the head of the imperial power! Let me ...... There is no rest day and night. ”

Qiu Chen nodded lightly, no matter what, his friendship with the old king was a friendship that had been born and died together for decades, as long as His Majesty the King didn't think about how to deal with Ling Xiao, his heart was still thinking about the old king!

At this time, a guard suddenly came in outside, looking very frightened, and glanced at Qiu Chen in embarrassment, the old marshal Qiu Chen stood up and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, on the Ling family's side, I will also repair a book, to the third son of the Ling family, I believe that he will sell the old minister a face!"

The old king nodded, this guard was his confidant, and his arrival made the old king feel a little uneasy, looked at Qiu Chen and smiled: "Then thank you old man!"

Qiu Chen had a smile on his face, remembering the scene when the two of them fought side by side on the battlefield, and bowed slightly: "The old minister is not old, if Your Majesty needs it, the old minister will still dance with a knife and gun and kill the enemy!"

The old king's heart warmed, and he said: "I hope that you and I, the monarch and the minister, will have the opportunity to kill the enemy side by side!"

Sending Qiu Chen away, the old king's face became gloomy, and he looked at the guards and said, "What's wrong?"

The guard gritted his teeth, knelt directly on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Despicable capital crime! Just now, just now I saw ...... Seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, from ...... From the queen's bedchamber, he escaped in a panic in disheveled clothes......"

"What!" His Majesty the Old King was furious, his face suddenly turned pale, his eyes were about to pop out, his lips trembled, he pointed at the guards who were kneeling in front of him and did not dare to come out, and gritted his teeth and said, "You say it again...... It happened...... What's the matter?"

"An hour ago, I saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and went to the queen's bedroom, and I didn't take it seriously, after all, after all, it was a matter of course for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to visit the queen's mother, and the queen mother had just given birth to the third prince, so His Royal Highness the prince should have nothing to do and went to visit, so he didn't have much heart. Who knows...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince left an hour later, and when he left, his clothes seemed to be a little untidy, and his expression was a little flustered, and he was still ......"

"Say no more!"

The old king gasped, his face was very pale, and he suddenly felt a shock and weakness, he leaned back in his chair, and his voice suddenly became extremely hoarse: "How many people have seen this?"

"That is, a few girls around the queen's mother, and ...... There are also several guards, including...... Humble office. The guard knelt on the ground, his body trembling a little, he knew very well what kind of ending he would have after this matter was spoken, but as His Majesty's confidant, he would not hide anything from His Majesty.

After a long time, His Majesty the old king breathed a sigh of relief, and then stood up with extremely firm eyes, and said: "Your eldest son will be a hereditary baron, and I will find a rich fief for him! Your family will always enjoy the preferential treatment of the empire! The empire will not fall for a day, and your family will be a nobleman for a day!"

"Humble ...... Thank you, Your Majesty!" the guard choked in a choked voice, a little sharp, and with red eyes, he drew a sharp knife from his waist, and with a pop, stabbed it into his chest, and immediately became breathless.

"This ...... Brute!" The old king looked back at the guard who had died, and squeezed out these cold words from between his teeth, since the queen mother took the Zhuyan Pill, she had recovered from a drooping old woman like a miracle to a twenty-eight beauty, which really shocked countless people.

And the young and beautiful queen also made His Majesty the old king feel like a second spring, working hard day by day, and even the old clam gave birth to a third son again!

In the face of this third prince, His Majesty the old king's favor for him is simply incomprehensible, just after he was born, these three princes were named princes, it can be said that even if they do not inherit this throne in the future, the status of the three princes in the Blue Moon Empire is absolutely supreme!

Unexpectedly, the queen became young and beautiful, which actually aroused the peeping heart of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Can...... But that was his own mother! The old king felt his heart jump out, his veins were pounding, and the veins on his forehead were bursting up.

After a long time, barely calming down his mood, His Majesty the Old King let out a long breath, then stood up, asked people to pull out the suicidal guard to deal with it, and quietly instructed his henchmen to secretly dispose of all the palace maids and guards around the queen mother within a few days.

After giving these instructions, His Majesty stood up and said with a flat face, "I am going to the queen's bedchamber." ”

When His Majesty the King and a group of people came to the queen's bedroom, he found that many palace maids looked at him with flickering eyes, as if with great fear. The body inside the old king's robe trembled slightly, and he barely controlled his emotions.

After entering the queen's bedroom, he saw the three princes in swaddling clothes at a glance, and when he saw his young son, His Majesty's face looked a lot better, and he teased him a few times, and then said lightly to the palace maid who served the queen: "You go out." ”

The palace maid bowed her head and retreated, and His Majesty the King came to the queen's collapse, looked at the young and gorgeous face of the queen lying in the quilt, sat next to her, held the queen's hand and said, "How are you?

In the closed eyes of the queen mother, two lines of tears flowed, the two have been married for decades, and they know each other too well, and they don't even need to say anything, they can understand each other's minds with one look. How could she not see the old king's strange appearance?

"Your Majesty, you know this is a trap, why...... Still jumping in?"

"You and I have been husband and wife for so many years, and we often hate different lives, if we can die together, there will be no regrets in my heart. The old king had a calm smile on his face, and as soon as he walked in, he understood that all this today was a scam, a scam against him!

Even, even his own suicidal henchman may have been bought by the prince. The queen mother has long been under house arrest, and there is no news at all!

"Your Majesty, my life is not important, but you and our children, I don't understand, for the sake of a throne, the boss is ...... Why can he be so ruthless, killing his father and mother...... He didn't even let go of his own brother, he was still so young......" The queen's tears kept flowing.

At this time, a large number of footsteps began to be heard outside, and several short screams were heard at the same time, and the guards brought by His Majesty were killed in an instant!

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was dressed in armor, fully armed and surrounded by a large number of people, and beside him, there was a person standing, it was the night owl!

At this moment, the prince whispered to the night owl, "Are all the people over there in place?"

The night owl chuckled and said: "Your Highness, rest assured, Second Highness's side is currently in the period of emptiness, our people have already gained his trust, the time has come, they will do it themselves, Second Highness has no thoughts of life! It's just that we didn't find that Li Tianluo, and that kid is not in the Imperial Academy now......"

"If you can't find it, forget it! It's just a child, and he can't afford any trouble!"

With a faint smile on his face, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stretched out his hand and patted the night owl's shoulder: "It's you, for so many years, you have been working hard and complaining, you can rest assured, as long as the big thing is done, you can't run away as a grand duke!

The night owl bowed down excitedly and said: "Your Highness, humiliation has always been His Highness's confidant, it was, is, and will be! Nothing can shake the mind of humiliation! Besides, instead of feeling inferior in that hidden family, it is better to enjoy happiness in this secular world!"

"Haha, that's good!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince smiled, and then said: "Speaking of which, you went to Penzes City a few days ago, did Ling Xiao insist on refusing to join our camp?"

The night owl nodded: "That kid doesn't enter the oil and salt, Your Highness, do you want to ...... Take advantage of today's opportunity to ......" said and made a downward cutting motion.