Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Fox II
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Mentioning the cause of Zheng Kuan's death is a cautionary tale. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The bald fox is a very cautious person, but he still has to be a hundred times more careful. Zheng Kuan did not die because of a woman, but because of revenge. Only a very few people know the truth about the assassination of former national craftsman Qiu De in the Seven Sons Hall, and the old and new in the cabinet are not shared, whether it is himself, Xun Zhou or Pei Yong, they are all standing outside the door of the truth. If this had always been the case, then Zheng Kuan would not have died suddenly. But herein lies the most subtlety: although he knows who the killer is, he cannot bring him to justice. The relationship between the leader of the Golden Needle Society and the national teacher is still a secret, and few people know about it.
"I regret Lord Zheng's affairs, but this is the fate that the dragon god arranged for him, and it cannot be changed. This is exactly what happened to the situation: when an old minister dies and a new one takes over, it is like a river of spears flowing into an immaculate sea, stretching endlessly, never retrograde. The round hard-boiled egg shook slightly, and said a bewildering word: "About the secret, the adults said it really well, and Yi completely agrees." The best part of the secret is that we share it with each other, and I'd love to be there for you. When the wonderful seed is in the ground, it must be cared for together. In this way, on the road side by side, the river of friendship flows forward and stretches endlessly. ”
If you trade Zheng Kuan's secret as a bargaining chip, then one day it will be my turn. Maybe it was a mistake to come here, but there are some things that I don't have a choice even if I knew they would be like this. Without that, I will not have peace for the rest of my life. Xia Quan sighed in his heart.
"I believe they have left safely, and I hope they will be safer than Zheng Kuan in the future. "The entire dragon, now only Yi Fei has the opportunity to do this. The people of the royal capital said in private: Your Majesty rules the Dragon City, and Yi Fei takes care of the Dragon Bite Bay. That's true. The bald fox's energy in the docklands is growing stronger day by day, and the only way to get the two doomed people alive from the dragon is through the Abundance Chamber of Commerce.
Wenmo, Wucui, I hope you all are well. I owe you a debt and I have to pay it back with this life.
"That's inevitable, what the adults entrust, Yi someone will do his best, and there will never be a mistake. The fact that the adult is willing to hand over this matter to someone Yi to do shows his trust in someone Yi, who is a person who is grateful for the newspaper. The sincerity of the adults must be reciprocated. The Abundance Chamber of Commerce also has some small skills, and can get some special information from some special channels, some of which are very valuable to adults. Yi Fei's voice was like a gentle drizzle, and the smile on his face was very sincere, "I believe the adults know a lot about the recent affairs of Jinju Province." But there are also some news that comes with the cold wind and weighs under the slush that I don't want to be known. ”
"I want to hear about it. "The Harvest Chamber of Commerce also has a branch in Jinju, and the business is very large, and it maintains a very good relationship with the owners of Jinbao and many cities. If the bald fox can get some inside information, it is also reasonable.
"My lord, bad news is coming in the wind and whistling away. For most people, bad news is bad news, but for some, bad news is good news. Yi Fei took a shallow sip of the new tea and exclaimed: "Everyone says that Yulong Green Soup is good, but after the improvement of the tea ceremony experts of this association, it has such an extreme taste." Fresh and tranquil, between the lips and teeth, the aftertaste is endless. There are 13 steps in this process, and the process is cumbersome, if you don't have enough patience and are willing to invest enough time, you can't get such a good tea. ”
Those who were more patient than me were subservient in the black cell. Xia Quan listened to the next words with great interest, which would be extremely important information to him. He guessed right.
"Qin Wei's eldest son, Qin Ming, retired from the former eldest princess and married the daughter of Zhao Liancheng of Guangming Harbor, from Farmer's Wharf, Black Rock Town to Dragon City, in every town and village along the Immaculate Sea, people are talking about the Zhao family's ambitions. They are not satisfied with just becoming the masters of Bright Harbor, they also want to earn a place in the halls of power of the Golden Castle. The common people are half right. What Zhao Liancheng did was a rut on the snow, and everyone could see the traces. But under the rut is the slush, which hides other things that Zhao Liancheng does, and this is his secret. ”
A secret is a secret because few people know it. The bald fox undoubtedly dug up the slush.
"Zhao Liancheng spared no effort to support Qin Ming, his daughter became the young lady of Jinbao, one of his sons was the new captain of Jinbao's guard, and the other son was serving Qin Ming as a personal attendant, the size of Guangminggang's army has now tripled, they can have sixty thousand soldiers, but in fact there is more than that. Zhao Liancheng had recently expanded his fleet at sea, and he had built a hundred new warships, which were not to be found in Pearl Bay, but were hidden in some secret place. Yi Fei looked sad and sighed slowly, "No one will forget the revenge of killing their mother." My lord, it is not only Guangming Harbor that is expanding war preparations, many places in Jinju Province are in full swing, but they are all confidential and few people know about it. Do you feel it, after the cold of the snow season, it will be like a burning heat, and it will be a raging fire of revenge. The seeds of fire have been planted in the earth and will sprout in the coming year. Alas, that's not something exciting!"
Jin Ju is preparing for the battle. This is very, very important information. If the country is at the crossroads of war, so is he. He was standing at the intersection of the ventilated sides of the road, with more than one path to choose from, some to the Land of Peace, others to the Land of Perdition. Which path to choose was the question before him. In any case, the Xia family must live well. Whether it was Xia Lao, His Majesty Long Jun, or the raging fire of revenge, they could not stop the existence and development of the Xia family.
Some of the pictures of the future are in full view. The people still don't know, and they shouldn't know, the secret about Xun Zhou, the terrifying and terrifying identity of the person who opened the door. It's a secret, and very few people know about it. But it could be made public at any time. If the bald fox longs for a war, or if he wants the kingdom to change, sooner or later the secret will be exposed in broad daylight and spread in the taverns and inns of every town, and the bards and storytellers will add to it in countless details and render it into a drama. Once that happens, the prestige of Dragon City and the Dragon Cult, as well as the prestige of His Majesty the Dragon Monarch, will fall to the bottom.
There is no doubt that Qin Ming's fire of revenge will definitely burn the shell of this secret, and he will reveal all the facts that are unfavorable to His Majesty the Dragon Monarch, thus launching a righteous battle of revenge. If he wants to attack the Dragon family, he must be famous, and defending the Dragon God is the most righteous and blameless motive.
It may not only be the rule that will collapse, but also the faith. The Worship of the Dragons is about to enter the darkest abyss in a thousand years of history.
He had no doubt that the bald fox was using Zheng Kuan's death to create panic and suspicion, leading the royal capital into a chaotic situation, and the whole country was boiling in a boiling pot. The matter of Xunzhou made the fire even stronger. The dead cabinet of two extremely human ministers is becoming a pawn in the hands of a fox.
And he Xia Quan may be becoming the third.
In the arena of power, everyone is acting. Makeup is removed, and no one's face will be clean. If His Majesty Long Jun knew about Wenmo and Wucui, not only would his purple gauze hat not be protected, but the human head under the purple gauze hat would also fall off.
The bald fox's tentacles stretched far away, not just Chen Da. Chen Da is just a chess piece, a bridge, he leads to Weis. Lord Sito, like his close friend Taku-sama Dazai, has always been a grass-walled man, and if there is a fight, Lord Wei and Taku-sama will be on the side of the victor.
It's not easy to stand your ground.
He remembered Yan Ji, nicknamed "Stone Lion". After Yu Jian's incident, the unlucky second guard of the Dragon Army ran into Long Dailan and escaped from prison, as Yu Jian's former close comrade-in-arms, he was regarded as a major suspect and is now being tortured in the dark room of the dungeon. There are many kinds of punishments in the Torture Pavilion, and each one is painful.
Xia Quan knew very well that all this had nothing to do with Yan Ji, but since this was what His Majesty Long Jun meant, he had to do it. He had to take out a valuable word from Yan Ji's mouth. How he wished that the stubborn stone lion would confess his crimes, so why should he suffer in vain?
It is better to end a hopeless prison life with death as soon as possible. What about hopeless interrogations?
However, Yan Ji bleeds and never sheds tears. This stone lion is imprisoned in a dungeon, and has long since lost any title, and there is no hope of getting out of prison alive in this life. But he prayed to the dragon god as usual every morning and evening, and the jailers listened to his prayers, not praying that he would escape, but praying that the sinners who murdered the crown prince Long Zixing and the former king Long Xingtian would be punished as soon as possible, and that he had not fulfilled his due responsibilities as the dragon monarch's guard, which made him feel more painful than any punishment.
Yan Ji's stubbornness gave Xia Quan a deep headache. Yan Ji's persistence made him jealous. Yan Ji will die standing one day, and that is the fate he deserves, the fate of glory.
All kinds of thoughts were chaotic in Xia Quan's mind, and Yi Fei continued to speak softly and endlessly. The bald fox especially praised You Hao's attendant Zhu Yan, a well-known figure in the province who had been richly rewarded by His Majesty the Dragon Monarch, and You Hao was ordered to hand over the income and control of the four cities of Chishan to Zhu Yan, but the faithful attendant only kept Fort Fortitude, the poorest city in Chishan and closest to the Sudara Plateau, and the rest of the territory was returned to his master.
Before the stove time arrived, Xia Quan declined the bald fox's invitation to dinner, and left the Seven Star Tower under the pretext that he wanted to discuss the aftermath of the national teacher. This is not a lie, His Majesty Long Jun forbids the public to announce the matter of the national teacher, the national teacher will be said to have died of natural illness in adulthood, and there will be no successor, and the cabinet will once again vacate the post of national teacher. The final part of these matters will be agreed upon in the Shogun's palace at the end of the month.
I will continue to lie. What is the current situation of the Dragon Worship Sect is a secret to most people, and the fact that the great elders of the three major sect temples are no longer in the mortal realm is no less than the absence of the Dragon God on the day of the Dragon Face. The only thing to be thankful for is that this has so far remained a secret, and very few people know about it.
The fox can talk freely, talk about the secrets of the royal cabinet, listen to the gossip and anecdotes in the streets with great interest, and in everything his tail is wagging but his shadow is not seen in everything. A fox is a fox, and he knows what he should know. However, Xia Quan couldn't be so easy.
Nightmares still haunt every night.
The chaise longue that Xia Yang loved before his death was still there, and sometimes at night, Xia Quan seemed to hear the chair shaking, and his father was lying on it, muttering: "The gods have eyes, the gods have eyes......
He would wake up from his nightmare every time he was sweaty. Even if His Majesty Dragon Monarch hinted to him that he had a good chance of becoming the next state minister, he could not wave away the fear in his heart. He prayed to the dragon god longer and more often than ever before, and he used the Tranquility Sutra as a pillow and accompanied him to sleep every night.
But tranquility grew farther and farther away from him, like two trajectories that would never intersect. Even if conscience stops evil thoughts at the last moment and saves the lives of old friends, father and daughter, peace will not return to his heart. Again and again he asked himself if there had ever been true peace in his heart, and the answer made him perplexed. He knows his own sins, and so does the dragon god. Everyone has their own destiny, which is arranged by the dragon god and cannot be changed. Everything will be temporary, and only accept it with emotion.
What can he do even if he becomes the prime minister? War in the kingdom is already on the verge of breaking out. The nomadic tide had just receded, and the invasion of giants in Chishan Province, which had not appeared for many years, began again. Greyscale, the king of the swamp people in the Deep Plains, is still causing problems for the royal court, and Greyscale's son, Gaize, is not at all as easy to deal with as he seems at first. Not to mention that the Worship of the Dragons is already crumbling like a building leaning in a storm......
A bad debt, a country is a bad thing.