Because sixteen years was too far away for a young powerful minister like Xu Zhenyan who had not been on the throne for a long time, he didn't know that those True Dragon Guards wearing golden True Dragon Armor were the most powerful cultivators who followed Emperor Yun Qin, but he knew very well that those imperial court worships were all Saint Masters without exception, and none of them were Saint Masters with ordinary combat power.

Some suspicions and the faint connection of more and more evidence were completely different from Xu Zhenyan's psychological pressure, but he quickly calmed himself down and looked up at Wen Xuanshu, "How to deal with Zhang Qiuxuan?"

"I'm very happy with what you've done so far. ”

Wen Xuanshu didn't directly answer Xu Zhenyan's words, but just glanced at him lightly and said, "The Jiang family didn't know that you also told me the whereabouts of some of the weapons that Wenren Cangyue tortured out, so the Jiang family and the Holy Lord were also very satisfied with your performance. ”

Xu Zhenyan waited indifferently, he didn't speak, because he knew that he didn't need to speak at the moment.

"A small person like the treasurer of the Hanlin Academy is like a weed, which can be pulled out at will, but the more high-ranking the big person, the more deeply rooted the tree, if you want to pull it out in a simple way like pulling weeds, you will only stone yourself to death. ”

Wen Xuanshu looked at the banana tree under the eaves, his calm and majestic eyes flashed with a faint light, and said slowly: "Whether it is to deal with Zhang Qiuxuan or to deal with the Holy Lord, it needs a good opportunity, and at this moment, the Yunqin Empire is in a storm, this is a good opportunity." ”

Xu Zhenyan's eyes flickered coldly, and said, "Thank you Lord Shoufu for your advice, what do you mean... Let Yun Qin's army be defeated more ruthlessly?"

"You're still too young after all. ”

Wen Xuanshu sneered slightly: "I asked you not to underestimate those old people, don't think about things too simply, but you still think too simply... Except for the Huang family, the Wen family, the Leng family, and the Hu family, the rest of the families, each of them will not have the strength below me. If I want to do anything directly, I'll be knocked down. If you want to directly intervene in something like obstructing the delivery of food and grass, ordnance or even revealing military information, that is simply the most stupid and suicidal means, how can it be called an opportunity?"

"The student is dull, please admonish the adult. Xu Zhenyan lowered his head and said respectfully.

"Yun Qin has arrived today, and the Holy Lord wants to suppress Qingluan Academy, suppress the Nine Elders, and is eager to expand his strength. The battle situation is so tense, and the large amount of ordnance hidden in Biluo Tomb by Wenren Cangyue is a good opportunity for Yun Qin to accumulate under the general trend for decades. Wen Xuanshu looked at Xu Zhenyan and said calmly: "If the Holy Lord wants to get the strongest weapon among them, he must choose the person he is closest and most trusted to go to Biluo Mausoleum, so if I want to arrange for Zhang Qiuxuan to go, there will be no problem." ”

Xu Zhenyan was silent, nodded again, and bowed slightly.

"Take this incident as a guide, and pull out the Jiang family first. It's not impossible. Wen Xuanshu said indifferently: "As for the saint... The opportunity lies in Qingluan College and Lin Xi. Lin Xi is an enemy to you?"

Xu Zhenyan didn't think about it, and said, "Yes." ”

"Qingluan Academy has just undergone a great change, if you want to deal with the Saint, you don't have such an ability, but a person like Lin Xi is an opportunity to deal with the Saint, and although this person's momentum at the moment is also included in the fact that I deliberately helped him build momentum, he has done much stronger than I imagined, and it feels too dangerous for me. Wen Xuanshu glanced at Xu Zhenyan and said sarcastically: "Fortunately, the saint has always disliked him, and it can even be said that he hates him, the monarch and the minister are not in harmony, now that Lin Xi can endure the saint, I will take a look, make him even more angry, can he bear it then?"

"Go with the flow... Following the momentum of all these big people, this is the way to stand, and it is the real highest power. Xu Zhenyan's voice was slightly astringent: "The student understands." ”

Wen Xuanshu nodded, looked at him lightly, and said: "Because what you did before, the Jiang family and the saint are also very satisfied, and now the treasury is tight, and the trend of corrupt officials and corrupt officials has not stopped for many years, so my advice of strict governance, confiscation of the property of corrupt officials, and military salaries has been supported by the vast majority of people." Therefore, in addition to the various divisions of Yunqin soon, a separate imperial capital department will be set up, and the responsibility is to supervise the eight divisions, although it does not care about the rest of the affairs of the court, but it is specialized in supervising the officials of the court, under my arrangement, this actual power will be very great, and the manpower I have placed will make this department have a lot of combat power. And you will be slowly arranged to become the head of this department. ”

Xu Zhenyan breathed slightly, and his hands trembled slightly: "Thank you Lord Shoufu for your promotion." ”

Looking at the change in Xu Zhenyan's expression, Wen Xuanshu knew that the other party knew very well what kind of power and status he was throwing, but there was a mocking look between his eyebrows, and he asked with a smile: "Xu Zhenyan, do you know why I like to use you young people?"

Xu Zhenyan's heart suddenly chilled, he knew that he still didn't have to answer, just hung his head and waited.

"It's because you have enough ambition and guts. Wen Xuanshu said sarcastically: "That's why you dare to do things for me that others don't dare to do, but you are also a smart person, you should understand that everything you have is given to you by me... So you're just a dog I raised. The owner of the dog will look at the dog, and if the ambition and courage of the dog will one day make the owner feel threatened, the owner will naturally not hesitate to slaughter the dog. You should know that there are limits to everything. ”

Xu Zhenyan hung his head, and his body stiffened.

After a while, he slowly bowed down, knelt down in front of Wen Xuanshu, kowtowed to Wen Xuanshu, and said calmly: "I understand, Lord Shoufu... I'm one of your dogs. ”

Wen Xuanshu's face did not change in the slightest, he didn't say anything for a while, Xu Zhenyan kept kneeling, as if kissing the floor tiles in his room.

"Go ahead. ”

There was silence in this room for a long time before Wen Xuanshu's flat voice sounded.

Xu Zhenyan got up slowly, bowed out of the room, opened a black umbrella under the rain curtain, covered his face, and walked into the dense rain line.

"Your Excellency. ”

Shortly after his figure was swallowed up by the torrential rain, a white-clothed scribe who had been waiting outside Wen Xuanshu's room walked up to Wen Xuanshu's head and bowed to Wen Xuanshu.

Say. Wen Xuanshu was obviously very familiar with this handsome and elegant white-clothed scribe, but he said a word gently and simply.

The white-clothed scribe was not restrained, smiled slightly, and said: "If you want to raise a fierce dog and not let the fierce dog get upset, the best way is to find a similar fierce dog and put it in a circle with him, so that the two fierce dogs will always bite each other and suppress each other." ”

"Not bad. Wen Xuanshu also smiled slightly, and said: "It's hard to find a fierce dog after all, and it's a pity to kill it, do you have a good candidate?"

"Di Chou Fei. ”

The white-clothed scribe smiled and nodded, "This son is a person who is supported by the military of Xianyi Academy, but he was too impatient in the battle of the Great Wilderness in the past, which angered Qingluan Academy, and he didn't please Gu Yunjing, so he was thrown into the cave of the Dragon Snake Mountain Range by Gu Yunjing, and now Gu Yunjing has pulled a lot of generals from Qingluan to go to Dragon Snake, and it is even more impossible for him to have a bright future, a talent who used to have a good future, but now when the war is tense and there is a shortage of cultivators and generals, he seems to have been forgotten by the huge empire." Adults can use him, not only to deal with Lin Xi with him, but also to clamp down on Xu Zhenyan, a fierce dog that is even better than his father. ”

Wen Xuanshu muttered: "He is indeed a good candidate, you can arrange this matter, the Zhongzhou Army itself also lacks capable generals." ”

The white-clothed scribe smiled and nodded, and was about to retreat, but he remembered something again, paused, and asked softly, "Childe, do you want him to know some of your arrangements?"

Wen Xuanshu shook his head and said with a slight sigh: "I taught my son too well, he won't accept my arrangements, but I'm very satisfied with the way he looks now, so I should never let him know about these things." ”

The white-clothed scribe bowed his head earnestly, then said no more, exited the room, and soon held up a butter-paper umbrella and disappeared into the rain curtain.

Wen Xuanshu's gaze still calmly fell on the banana leaves under the rain eaves.

"What kind of secrets are hidden in the True Dragon Mountain?"

"The eldest grandson Jinse... What kind of opportunity can be the last straw that breaks the camel's back?"

He whispered to himself, frowning slowly in thought.

His white jade-like hands reached out from his black silk sleeves.

His right hand was playing with a white and shiny thing, but it was a small white jade elephant carved with a very simple carving, only a few knives, but it was carved with great charm.

......

The rain washed over the Imperial City, and some muddy and icy water poured into the water dungeon along the gutter.

The water level in the dungeon was higher than usual, and the water was murkier and colder than usual.

Xu Zhenyan squatted on the steps of a water prison, and in front of him was a prisoner bound to a pillar with water on his chest.

There were many criss-crossing wounds on the prisoner's body, and what Xu Zhenyan was doing now was to put some leeches that had been specially selected to make the prisoner itch when sucking blood.

This prisoner in his forties was very arrogant, looking at the leeches crawling on his body, he laughed again and again: "If there is any means, even if you use it on me, one day, General Wen will kill you dog minions!"

Xu Zhenyan's forehead still had the mark of kneeling at Wen Xuanshu's feet, but when he heard the word dog slave, his face and eyes were very calm.

"What's wrong with a dog? As long as you know how to behave as a dog, you may be able to get longer than your owner, because any owner needs a dog. At any time, a dog under one person and above ten thousand people is much stronger than those who can't climb up. ”

He just said this coldly, as if to himself, and whispered this, and then directly threw a thick leech into the eyes of the prisoner in front of him.