The old man rested the wooden spoon in his hand on the stone next to the vegetable bed, and then sat down slowly with his waist up, looking a little struggling.

It had just snowed, the weather was cold, and the vegetable patch was full of snow and sludge, where could there be vegetable leaves, and where did he need to be watered? But tonight, he subconsciously picked up a wooden spoon again and poured it on the ground with clean water, as if he wanted to wash away something.

The old man is very old, and after the death of Sean and Zhuang Mohan, he has become the only person who has the privilege of seeing the Gyeongguo National Ceremony with his own eyes, and fifty years later, the deep wrinkles on his face and those more and more conspicuous yellow spots tell his own history and the history of this country.

The patriarchs of the Three Dynasties are more than that. How many emperors did he serve? The old man couldn't think clearly, but when the first emperor ascended the throne, he undoubtedly chose a correct path, so he sought an irreplaceable position in the military for his family, and now this majesty xià ...... There is no doubt that the old man has experienced the monarch the most admired one of them over the years, three northern expeditions, south and west expeditions, although he has been sitting in Kyoto with the authority of the military ministers, for His Majesty to stabilize the rear, but those military nephews in the clan are with His Majesty Xià went, some sleep in a foreign country, and some return to their hometowns.

Qingguo was shot out on a horse with a gun, a knife, and a crossbow. The old man has also been dealing with these weapons all his life, he doesn't know how many people he has killed in his life, how many tribes around Qingguo have been destroyed, and tens of millions of people have died in front of him.

Such a history cannot be washed away with a few spoonfuls of water.

In this long history, I don't know how many famous generals and good ministers, Grandmaster Mingjun are shining with their own unique light, but what impresses the old man is actually just a very young and beautiful girl.

Every time he thinks of that girl, the old man's heart begins to tremble, no matter how outstanding the characters are, they can only try to change the direction of history, and that girl, it seems that from the beginning, she is ready to overturn the foundation of Qingguo, and then overturn the whole world.

The old man never knew whether that attempt was likely to succeed, he was just keenly aware that if the situation at that time was allowed to develop, the entire princes and nobles of Qingguo would be swept away by an undercurrent, and as everyone knows, the aristocracy of Qingguo provided the most powerful manpower support for the military of Qingguo.

He is afraid of this kind of turmoil, this kind of turmoil that seems to make Qingguo strong, but makes Qingguo less like Qingguo.

The old man is a soldier, a soldier loyal to Qingguo, for him, it is the supreme and noble mission to continue the existence of Qingguo, so he participated in a secret and has kept this secret to this day.

The girl, or the enchantress, died.

At least Qingguo is still strong, and this Qingguo is still the same Qingguo of the year, nothing has changed, and the death of one person is exchanged for the peace of the whole country, and the old man has never regretted that decision back then.

............ The old man sat silently on the stone, looking at the sewage in the vegetable field, and did not speak for a long time. He had heard of the matter before the Privy Council this afternoon, two hundred heads...... His Majesty treats himself well, and he has been the Privy Councillor for thirty years, which is also an honor that has not been seen in the history books.

But the number one man in the military still sees himself as an ordinary member of the military as he did many years ago, and sees those sons and daughters in the army as his brothers, and as he grows older, he sees them as his descendants.

Although his face is cold and kind-hearted, this old man's prestige in the army is not comparable to ordinary people.

And the two hundred heroes in the army are the old man's most trusted private army, which has been secretly trained in the Kunshan Chongli, which was originally used to attack the Northern Qi Dynasty after rì, but now they had to be sent out in advance, and used in the sniper plan of the imperial court.

The old man has never paid much attention to the political affairs in the court, but this time...... He had to pay attention to the fact that he had to kill the young man, whether it was for the survival of his family or for the sake of the future of Qingguo.

But...... Didn't kill each other!

The old man coughed, not knowing whether it was the coldness of the stone under his buttocks that soaked into his padded jacket, or the chill in his heart.

Two hundred.

The old man's face became older and older, and there was a faint sadness, they were all his own children, and they should all be the bright future of Qingguo, but he died like this, and he was not at peace after death, and his name could never be left, but he would be recorded in the history books and scolded, becoming the first rebel army in Qingguo for decades.

The old man's heart hurts and his heart is cold.

............ 陛xià is too affectionate, too chilling, let that young man stay in Kyoto, and rìrì weighted, look at that trend, how can there be a stop. Even if the young man couldn't move when he was alive, what about the queen? After both himself and his majesty died, wouldn't that young man turn over old accounts?

participated in the shocking murder of Ye Qingmei, do you expect her son not to turn over old accounts?

Since a few years ago, the young man in Lanzhou was summoned to Kyoto by His Majesty, and the old man's heart felt a little chill. Except for Chen Pingping and Fan Jian, no one thought that the old man had long known Fan Xian's life experience.

It's just that the old man is silent, even more silent than in previous years, so in the past few years, the Qin family was actually quiet in the court.

Because that young man is the flesh and blood of His Majesty, it is impossible for the old man to do anything in advance, he is just watching, watching how His Majesty will arrange this young man.

At the beginning, the old man was very relieved, because the young man seemed to be just a gentleman, Cheng Rì and King Jing's prince stayed in the village, fighting for the wind and jealousy, boxing in the dark, and there was nothing special about it.

Then, the old man was slightly worried, because the young man was going to marry the lord of Chen, and he was ready to take over the inner treasury, and he had three hundred poems in one night in the palace, which moved the world, but he immediately put his mind at ease, because in the eyes of the military leaders, no matter how powerful the wealth is, the enemy is no more than swords and guns, and no matter how amazing the poems are, he can't help but burst with horses' hooves.

But gradually, the development of things made the old man Jǐng, who had been watching coldly, upset, because ...... It was only at this time that he didn't know that His Majesty had secretly let this young man have the Supervisory Yuan's Tisi waist card.

As the first powerful figure in the military, the old man doesn't know how many times he has cooperated with the Supervision Yuan over the years, of course, he knows best the terrifying strength of Chen Pingping and the Supervision Yuan, so he felt a little uneasy, so he chose to express his position for the first time - to make a statement to His Majesty and let Fan Xian send an envoy to Northern Qi.

He knew that this mission was definitely not as easy as it seemed, because with Sean, there were still many difficulties. After the old man spoke, he fell silent again, and he secretly prayed that it was better for the young man to stay in Northern Qi forever and never come back.

But the development of events disappointed him again, and Fan Xian returned to Qingguo with more power and fame.

............ The old man was silent again, he looked at the young man quietly and calmly, watched him fight with the second prince in Kyoto, looked at Taixue, looked at the Hanging Temple, looked at the palace, and found that this young man was indeed as he expected, ruthless, smart, and holding grudges at any cost.

Powerful.

The old man felt a trace of fear, although Fan Xian at this time was still far from enough to make him afraid, but every time he thought of the woman back then, thought that Fan Xian was her son, and saw that Fan Xian seemed to be walking the exact same path as that woman, and gained great power in a very short time, and was more ruthless and vicious than that woman...... He was a little frightened, and he didn't know what His Majesty was thinking, so he began to try to find a gentle way out of silence.

He was gambling, betting that Fan Xian would never know the relationship between the old Qin family and back then.

So the old man chose to back down, ignoring it, and even after His Majesty was angry because of Fan Xian's matter, and beat the Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Inspectorate, the old man directly chose not to call the court sick, nor did he go to the Privy Council to see things, but just quietly stayed at home to care for the elderly.

His Majesty was helping Fan Xian, and the old man had to back down and back down to the end, so as to avoid the old things of the year being turned over.

The old man knew that His Majesty had this kind of ruthlessness.

This is not to be angry with His Majesty, but to express his peace to His Majesty, and he is also subconsciously, not wanting to deal with Fan Xian in the court. On the other hand, the old man arranged for his son to make friends with Fan Xian, and invited Fan Xian to the house to talk about it and observe it up close for a long time.

............ If things continue to develop like this, maybe the old man can still treat Fan Xian as a junior worthy of respect, and the door of the Qin family can be open to Fan Xian forever, but everyone knows that the plan will never be as rapid and overwhelming as the changes come from.

The Ming family has the shares of the old man, and in the Qin family's army, it is much more inconvenient to get cash than those ministers in the court, so many years ago, when the eldest princess sent someone to respectfully take a hundred percent of the dry shares to the Qin Mansion, the old man nodded very reservedly, he always thought that the eldest princess was a rare smart person in the royal family.

Even if Fan Xian checked Jiangnan, the Qin family was not afraid, but he just had a cadre stock among the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan, how could His Majesty punish the number one high-ranking man in the army who had always been loyal because of such a trivial matter?

However, there is something happening on the island of the East China Sea.

Privately transfer the army and slaughter the island, what a shocking thing, the old man, as the chief envoy of the Privy Council, is of course the only few people in the court who know about this matter.

So the old man was silent again, and fell into deep thought.

Jiaozhou Admiral Chang Kun.

Just as when he was in Jiangnan, Deng Ziyue of the Supervision Yuan reported to Fan Xianyu that this Yipin Admiral had a good relationship with the Ye family, but he was born in the Qin family!

The old man did not give Chang Kun instructions, what Chang Kun did, the Qin family did not interfere, it should be the meaning of the eldest princess, after all, everyone has too much interest in Jiangnan.

But the old man knows better, and His Majesty clearly knows that Chang Kun is a member of his old Qin family!

Chang Kun is dead, and the Jiaozhou Sailor has also been purged, although the old man still has a few generals left in the Jiaozhou Sailor, and his nephew has gone to take over the post of Admiral, so he doesn't understand more and more, what is His Majesty thinking?

The case in Jiaozhou was found out by Fan Xian.

............ But even so, it was not enough for the old man to make up his mind and strike a thunderous blow at Fan Xian, because he knew that if the assassination of a minister and a de facto prince leaked out afterwards, he would also give himself a cup of poisoned wine if he thought that His Majesty would also give him a cup of poisonous wine, and the family would definitely wither.

The last straw that really crushed the old man's heart defense was a news from the Supervision Yuan.

Qing ** side and the Supervision Yuan have cooperated for decades, and have already infiltrated a part of each other, especially the Supervision Yuan to recruit officials, the first choice is the candidates and retired generals of the military who have not been promoted in various places, and decades have passed, I don't know how many retired military officers and generals have become real power figures in the Supervision Yuan.

And the old man, as the first person in the military, of course would not stupidly give up these opportunities, and had already arranged for his own people to enter the Supervision Yuan.

The Supervision Yuan naturally has a fine line in the military, which is something that both sides know well, but no one will expose it, and His Majesty also tacitly allows his two hands to monitor each other.

It was also the old man's most powerful person in the Supervision Courtyard who sent a somewhat strange news to the Qin Mansion.

The Inspectorate has a force above the Eight Divisions, and is secretly investigating some things from twenty years ago, although those things investigated seem to be unrelated, the conversion of Kyoto's defenses, the logistics supply during the Western Expedition, and the defense of the palace, and even some trivial matters such as the transfer of grain and grass, fragmented and not systematic at all.

But because of the jǐng ti for so many years, the old man smelled a hint of danger. When he looked at the dossier, he couldn't help frowning, these trivial things, if someone weaves them carefully, I am afraid that in the end, they will gradually point to the truth of the bloody case in the Taiping Courtyard back then, the bloody truth. At that time, the Qin family, who was in Kyoto and was responsible for stabilizing the rear of the Imperial Majesty, played a disgraceful role in this matter, will also be revealed to the world!

That force investigated very carefully, for fear of alarming someone, but it was extremely clever, and I was afraid that it would not take long for it to tear through the layers of camouflage and touch the real history.

Who is looking into the events of that year?

Who is the power in the courtyard that can override the eight major places?

The return of the people in the courtyard and the judgment of the old man pointed that force to the Qi Nian group led by Fan Xian.

The last straw was pressed.

The old man gave the order to kill Fan Xian.

He was confident that he would hide the truth of the sniper from the world for the time being, but he didn't want to face Fan Xian, who would frantically avenge the woman once he knew the truth, so he chose the simplest, rough, and direct ...... Kill.

Perhaps he miscalculated Fan Xian's interest in revenge.

However, this mistake cannot be changed.

............ Tonight, hearing the news of the failure, hearing the news of the tragic death of the two hundred sons, the first person in the Qing party, the Privy Council is making the old man Qin seem to have suddenly aged by more than ten years, he rubbed his cheeks like old bark, but gradually calmed down.

Twenty years of faint worry, a trace of fear for that woman's ghost, made the old man of the Qin family make the most direct decision under pressure.

However, after the failure of the matter, this veteran soldier who has been on the battlefield for half a hundred years and has never retired from the court finally noticed a trace of a problem.

The person who can use so much power to find the clues of twenty years ago and surpass the Supervision Yuan is not only Fan Xian, but also Chen Pingping's old black dog.

Let Chang Kun slaughter the island, it seems that it is for the sake of Jiangnan, but in fact, he dragged his old Qin family into this mess by turning eighteen corners, which is the favorite method of the crazy woman of the eldest princess.

Old Man Qin sat on the big stone and coughed twice, and finally thought clearly about the cause and effect of this matter, this matter has nothing to do with Fan Xian, has nothing to do with His Majesty, and has nothing to do with the East Palace, but there are two people for different purposes, and they both want to let their old Qin family get involved in this matter.

Chen Pingping, president of the Supervision Yuan, and Li Yunrui, the eldest princess.

Qingguo, and even the two people in the whole world who are the best at weaving yīn schemes, for different reasons, for a common purpose, skillfully hand-woven for more than half a year, finally achieved the effect they wanted.

In the face of the unintentional cooperation of these two people, even if it is a big man like Old Man Qin, what can he do?

............ "Father, it's cold, let's go back to the room." ”

The second son of the Qin family, Qin Heng, who is now a garrison in Kyoto, came behind the old man, put a coat on the old man's body, and respectfully asked for instructions.

Old Man Qin glanced back at his son, and a sour feeling suddenly surged in his heart, he was already so old, but his son was only in his thirties, once he died, could he still maintain the dignity and status of the Qin family?

"If only Da'er hadn't died. ”

Old Man Qin thought sourly, thinking of the eldest son who was a little impulsive back then, if his love was not so violent, he would not have been picked by a military officer taking advantage of the chaos, if he was still alive...... Why do you have to work so hard?