A man's thirst for power is never satisfied, whether he is an emperor or a commoner. However, among all living beings, there is always only one person who can climb to the highest point of power.

Li Qiu, who was sitting in the mansion, always felt restless these days, and always seemed to feel that something was going to happen. Ever since Bai Ruolan was stabbed to death, the whole of Kefield has entered an indescribably strange atmosphere. In particular, Li Qiu, because he has been in charge of intelligence work for a long time, has cultivated a sixth sense of danger that is different from ordinary people.

A few days earlier, Bai Ruolan had died on the outskirts of Kefield, followed by the fall of Bai Tengqi. Just when Li Qiu thought that the Bai family would not escape the fate of destruction this time, he didn't see any movement from the head of the family. And since returning to the palace that day, none of the "homeland" generals have seen the head of the family again, except for the chief Xu Ruoyu.

Thinking of Xu Ruoyu, this kid who is now popular in front of the head of the family, and thinking of this guy who is younger than his own son, is in the position of "under one person, above ten thousand" in the entire "homeland", Li Qiu's heart is quite uncomfortable.

"Bang!"

The teacup in Li Qiu's hand shattered piece by piece because it couldn't withstand the huge force.

The "homeland" was originally supposed to be the army of the Li family, but now the situation is changing little by little, and these changes have made Li Qiu, as an elder, quite dissatisfied.

Several elders who originally served as the Li family died in an inexplicable fire, and now the only elder of the Li family is Li Yuxuan's father, his brother, Li Xia. However, looking at the attitude of his brother, he is basically preparing to make Li Yuxuan the dictator of the entire Li family and the "homeland".

Although Li Qiu also roughly guessed that the elders had made sacrifices for the benefit of the entire family, he didn't understand the real reason for this after all. Therefore, not long after, Li Qiu began to doubt what role Li Yuxuan's father and son should play, which led to the current situation where the Li family is in charge of the power alone. Regarding Li Yuxuan's reuse of some generals and people who are not descendants of the Li family in the "homeland", Li Qiu is quite dissatisfied in his heart.

For Li Fang, he can still tolerate it, after all, Li Fang was originally a retainer of the Li family, and since he received the training of the "Black Dragon Knights", he has indeed trained an invincible "iron cavalry" for the Li family. But for other people such as Zheng Jing, who basically have nothing to do with the Li family, they hold important positions in the entire "homeland". From the lieutenant general to the commander, he basically controls the eight layers of the entire "homeland" force, and the people who really belong to the Li family's lineage are only himself and Li Yuyang, if Li Fang is counted, Lang Zhong is only from the "Black Dragon Knights", there are only four people, in fact, Li Fang and Lang Zhong are only Li Yuxuan's descendants, and most of the rest are holding some grassroots command positions, and it is impossible to participate in the decision-making level of the entire "homeland".

It is precisely because of these reasons that Li Qiu feels that Li Yuxuan is not to strengthen the Li family, but to satisfy his political ambitions. I believe that in the empire established in the future, the titles of my father and son will definitely not be higher than Xu Ruoyu, Zheng Yi and others, at most at the same level as the army commanders like Bai Yunqi and Xu Zhixin. Whenever he thought of this, Li Qiu would feel that his nephew was deliberately suppressing the Li family, and finally completely broke away from the Li family and established his unique position.

When Li Qiu was faced with this trend, he also thought about re-establishing the family elder system, but now there are few people in the Li family who can be qualified to serve as elders. Those who have enough seniority are now enjoying the benefits of the expansion of the "homeland" territory, and they have no intention of interfering with family affairs at all. And those who are interested in family affairs are mostly the younger generation, and they do not have this qualification at all. And the reason why they pay attention to family affairs is just to use this way to enter the "homeland", and if they want to establish a meritorious career, they will eventually rely entirely on Li Yuxuan.

"Tell your lordship, the emergency military situation is four hundred miles from the front line of Fallen Leaf City!" one of the guards shouted outside the hall.

"Four hundred miles of emergency military situation!" Li Qiu suddenly stood up from his chair and accidentally stepped on the fragment of the teacup that had just shattered and fallen on the ground.

The dissatisfaction in his heart, coupled with the sudden arrival of such an emergency military situation, Li Qiu's anger finally broke out, and he scolded loudly: "Let him wait for me in the study, and clean up this place for me!

Leaving the living room angrily, Li Qiu strode towards the study. In this not long journey, Li Qiu gradually calmed down the anger in his heart, and the whole person began to calm down, which is also a necessary condition for being an intelligence leader.

Urgent military situation on the part of Deciduous City.

In the course of these few short steps, Li Qiu went through all the information he had seen before about Fallen Leaf City and Basil in his mind.

Why is it Basil again, is that old fox really unable to hold back and want to do it?

Bai Ruolan's matter has been investigated very clearly, and it is Bas's uncle Wang who helped the Bai family contact Yunwu Mountain, known as Linghu Yurui, and this time it is about Bas'er's emergency military situation.

Li Yuxuan's abnormal performance had already made Li Qiu anxious (at this time, Li Qiu had not yet known the news of Li Yuxuan's disappearance), especially the heavy atmosphere, which made Li Qiu feel inexplicably uneasy. Now the internal matter has not been resolved, and such an urgent military situation has come out again.

Turn around a corridor, and the study is already close in front of you. Although it was just an ordinary room from the outside, anyone who tried to approach the room without Li Qiu's permission would only end up dying under the swords of the two members of the "Night Without a Trace". Except for some information related to the fate of the entire "homeland", which is managed by the head of the family himself, all other information is basically concentrated in this room.

At this moment, a scout-like soldier was standing outside the door, looking around the corner of the cloister, obviously quite anxious. But the soldier who sent him here had instructed him that he must not enter the study without permission until Li Qiu came. For this reason, he had to wait there.

As soon as he saw Li Qiu appear, the scout saluted a standard military salute from a distance, and his eyes moved with the movement of Li Qiu's figure.

Pushing the door into the study, Li Qiu said softly, "Come in." ”

As soon as he heard this, the scout quickly lowered his head and followed the study, and at the same time reflexively closed the door of the study.

Li Qiu seemed quite satisfied with the proper behavior of this Ming scout, and sat down behind the desk where he got started, nodded and said, "Just say what you have!"

"I would like to inform you that Deciduous City was under the full control of the Basr Kingdom three days ago, and at this time the passage to the Basr Kingdom has been completely blocked. The original Duke of Leaf Fall, the lord of Fallen Leaf City, was placed under house arrest and his whereabouts are still unknown. ”

As soon as he heard the news, Li Qiu's first feeling was that Baser wanted to do it.

"Is there any military movement on the Fallen Leaf side?"

"So far, there is no intelligence on this. ”

"Okay, you go down first!