The cold wind howled.

Facing Li Zhaoyuan's gaze, Xu Yuan said in a deep voice:

"Second Highness, this matter is not something we did."

Li Zhaoyuan frowned, revealing a hint of thought:

"The matter. Didn't you do it? ”

As he spoke, a smile of "I understand" appeared on the corner of his lips:

"Xiangguofu is for the country and the people, so naturally he will not do this kind of self-destruction of the city wall, I think it should be done by some chaotic ministers and thieves."

No matter what the purpose is, without tearing the skin, blowing up the ordnance of the battle is a big black cauldron, and whoever carries it will die.

If the Xiangguo Mansion carries it, it will have to pay the price.

Therefore, there is a high probability that this matter will be made into a headless unjust case.

Xu Yuan looked at Li Zhaoyuan's expression that seemed to be smiling, and the corners of his eyes twitched uncontrollably.

It's broken, it seems to be going to be a backstabber.

The Zongmen warehouse was bombed, who is the first beneficiary, then whose suspicion is the greatest, and it couldn't be simpler.

And now there are two biggest beneficiaries, the barbarians and the Great Yan court.

A morbid win-win, winning the Northern Sect twice.

And in between, can the barbarians plant spies into the northern blockade?

The answer is no.

The races were all different, and the barbarians covered in black spikes had to be beaten into a sieve before they could get close to ten miles.

In other words, the only people behind this matter are the Great Yan Imperial Court, that is, the imperial family and the Xiangguo Mansion.

Li Zhaoyuan knew that he hadn't done it here, so there would be only you Xiangguo Mansion left.

And here comes the crux of the matter,

As the actual person in charge of the Xiangguo Mansion in the north, Xu Yuan now fucking wants to know who did this?

Indeed, he really wanted to blow up, and even arranged for it to be implemented, but the time for the Black Scale Guard's people to do it was not tonight at all, and it was not on such a large scale as tonight.

Silence for a moment,

Xu Yuan turned his eyes to look at the fire that was gradually being controlled in the distance, and repeated again:

"Second Highness, this matter is really not something we did."

Li Zhaoyuan smiled but did not speak.

Xu Yuan took a deep breath, then smiled as well, and said in a low voice:

"It seems that His Royal Highness doesn't seem to believe my words."

While speaking, Xu Yuan took out a dossier from the Sumeru ring and handed it to Li Zhaoyuan casually:

"In that case, Your Highness, you might as well take a look at this dossier, which was given to me by Lou Ji before she left the city."

He needed to explain the matter.

Only by explaining clearly can Li Zhaoyuan and Li Qingyan realize that there are third-party forces in the city.

Li Zhaoyuan raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to take it, and said with interest:

"Chief Lou is really a clever plan to calm the world, even if he leaves the city, he can leave so many tricks for the third prince."

The joke was clearly suspicious of something.

But Xu Yuan didn't care about this.

It doesn't mean that you don't have a brain, and if you don't have a little knowledge when you grow up in a place like Xiangguo Mansion, it's strange.

And since he can cultivate, he is indeed at the age when he should take over the family affairs.

In this regard, all the families in the world are basically a template.

The third prince Li Yunqing was able to confirm his identity because of a series of coincidences before.

Therefore, Xu Yuan replied indifferently:

"Naturally, I need to know some things before I dare to continue to stay in this northern lockdown city."

Li Zhaoyuan smiled, didn't speak again, and lowered his eyes to browse the file in his hand.

The wind and snow at the top of the attic were still silent, and the fire in the distance was also under control during the conversation between the two of them and a cup of tea.

And with browsing,

Li Zhaoyuan's brows furrowed a little.

Xu Yuan said softly at this time:

"Second Highness, although the sect is bad, it is not stupid. The soldiers have not moved, the grain and grass go first, we understand this kind of thing, and they naturally understand it. ”

Li Zhaoyuan moved his gaze from the file and looked at Xu Yuan, with a solemn look in his gaze:

"So, it's really not you tonight?"

The dossier was a plan that Xu Yuan had submitted to Lou Ji before.

Codenamed Long Night, the plan to blow up the sect's inventory.

The reason for formulating the plan was not much different from what Li Zhaoyuan had said before, but it had not yet been implemented, because the sect was very well guarded, and they did not have enough time to prepare.

Xu Yuan's narrow eyes brought a touch of helplessness:

"Second Highness, the storage warehouse of the sect has always been a key place for them to take precautions, and it is completely difficult to detect the inventory and destroy it. The Black Scale Guard is not a wishing machine, make a wish, and it can directly cash in for you.

"We need time, it takes time to make decisions, it takes time to distribute to the grassroots level, and it takes time to prepare and implement."

Speaking of this, Xu Yuan spread his hands:

"There are factions within the Northern Sect, there are seven large warehouses and thirteen small ones, even if our Xiangguo Mansion wants to do this, it will be too late."

Li Zhaoyuan's brows furrowed even tighter, and he seemed to have reflected the cause and effect before and after.

It had only been seven or eight hours since the barbarians appeared in the south of the North Blockade City, and even the Black Scale Guards were almost impossible to cause such large-scale destruction at the same time in such a short period of time.

"Then the third son, who do you think did this?"

When Xu Yuan heard this question, he rolled his eyes: "You ask me, who do I ask?" ”

Speaking of which,

Xu Yuan was about to turn around and jump off the top of the attic to leave.

Seeing this, Li Zhaoyuan asked out loud:

"Third son, where are you going?"

Xu Yuan paused, looked back, and said as a matter of course:

"I'm sleepy, go back to my room and sleep."

Li Zhaoyuan was slightly stunned:

"In such a state of affairs, can the third prince sleep?"

Xu Yuan snorted at Li Zhaoyuan and grinned:

"Naturally, I can sleep, and there is a tall man on top of the sky when the sky falls, so these things should be left to Your Second Highness, a person like you, who governs the country."

With that, he jumped and disappeared into the night.

Zhou Chen, who was on the side, also left after saluting.

Watching the backs of the two disappear,

Li Zhaoyuan glanced at the file in his hand, and was about to put it away quietly, but unexpectedly, this file spontaneously combusted.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhaoyuan exhaled and scattered the ashes and disappeared in place

A few moves from high altitude to the ground,

Because of the wind and cold, Xu Yuan ran a few laps of the Blood Yuan Heart Technique, and wrapped the jacket on his body a lot before he felt that his body was much warmer.

Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Zhou Chen, a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, following up.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan paused and asked:

"Mr. Zhou, if you don't go down to rest, why are you following me?"

Zhou Chen smiled when he heard this:

"Third son, I'm afraid it will be very chaotic tonight, Zhou will guard the door for you and protect you."

Xu Yuan was dumbfounded, nodded and did not refuse.

Walking on the way back to the hospital,

Zhou Chen suddenly asked mysteriously:

"Third son, who do you think did tonight?"

Xu Yuan replied directly without thinking:

"It should be those sects."

"Zongmen? Those in the North and the South? Zhou Chen touched his chin.

Xu Yuan glanced at the south and chuckled:

"It's not the royal family, it's not us, it can't be the Northern Sect itself that blew it up, right?"

Zhou Chen showed a touch of abruptness, a touch of solemn respect on his face, and respectfully clenched his fists and arched his hands:

"The third prince can see it thoroughly."

The corners of Xu Yuan's mouth twitched and waved his hand:

"Okay, such a large-scale sabotage operation can't be planned overnight, according to the efficiency of our Black Scale Guard, to carry out such a large-scale sabotage mission, without leaving any traces, the planning time is at least in months. And with the situation a few months ago, if the Beifeng warehouse was destroyed, the imperial court could only be forced to retreat, which was also what those sects were happy to see. ”

Zhou Chen hesitated when he heard this, and said:

"Months? But your current plan."

Xu Yuan smiled slightly:

"It doesn't matter whether the current Northern Closure City is left or not, if this war can be won, it can be explained by the right to obey in a hurry, if it can't be won, everything doesn't matter, because the Northern Sect will no longer exist."

300,000 elites were buried in the snowfield, and the Northern Sect was basically an empty shell.

A dead man can't ask for an explanation.

Zhou Chen grinned, bowed again, and said solemnly:

"I didn't know at first sight, the third son is really a talent."

“.” Xu Yuan.

After a moment's pause, Zhou Chen suddenly said coldly:

"Third son, there is a sentence that Zhou doesn't know whether to say or not."

Xu Yuan glanced at him:

"Speak when you should speak, and don't talk when you don't speak."

Coughing lightly, Zhou Chen still said tentatively:

"Childe, with the current situation, if it is really the work of those sects in the south, it should be destroyed along with us and the imperial family's warehouse."

Xu Yuan chuckled and said:

"Only destroying the storage of the Northern Sect can still fasten this hat to us, if they destroy it all, then they are the target."

Zhou Chen asked quietly for a moment:

"Target, useful?"

Xu Yuan smiled and said:

"Nature is useful"

Before the words fell, Xu Yuan's voice stopped abruptly.

It happened suddenly, and he hadn't thought about it yet.

Do targets work?

Of course it works.

Due to the privilege of not paying taxes, the sects of the world have formed an intricate whole of interests.

Now that this interest as a whole is for the benefit of most people, it has directly sold the Northern Sect, and the imperial court has a lot of room to operate in it, at least it can be separated.

But now after thinking about it, Xu Yuan suddenly found that it seemed that there was no way to separate.

In other words, the effect of discord is not great.

The Great Yan Imperial Court wants to collect the immortal tax, and the sect is unwilling to pay it, which is the lowest and most direct contradiction.

If this cannot be resolved, even if the Northern Sect is trapped, it will only take revenge in other places, instead of cooperating with the imperial court.

empathy,

Judging from the information of the sect, if all the warehouses in the Northern Closure City are blown up, coupled with the current blizzard disaster, the Northern Closure City will inevitably be lost, and the 700,000 elites will inevitably be destroyed.

Next, the three continents in the north face the barbarian soldiers, and the elite of the sect are powerless to resist, no matter how you Xu Yinhe and Li Yaoxuan use the means to reach the sky, you have to deal with the barbarians for me first.

dragged until Li Yaoxuan died, and the situation would inevitably change dramatically.

Will the attitude of the next Son of Heaven of the Great Yan Dynasty be the same as Li Yaoxuan?

The sect of the world will not threaten the status of the Li family's surname, but the Xu Guild in the Xiangguo Mansion.

At this point,

Xu Yuan's blood-filled Danfeng eyes had a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

Why don't these people attack my imperial warehouse?

It's because . Can't install a spy?

There seems to be only one answer.

Tonight's events made Xu Yuan's judgment of the situation begin to blur.

In the silence, the wind and snow were shaking, the roar of the Nancheng sky was still there, and the bright pattern lamps were still exuding misty light on both sides of the stone road.

I don't know how long he stood in place, Xu Yuan suddenly glanced at the main hall.

Seeing this, Zhou Chen asked:

"What did the third prince think of?"

Xu Yuan frowned and pondered, and spit out a name.

Li Zhaoyuan.

When Zhou Chen heard the name of the second prince, he was stunned for a moment:

"Third Prince, what do you mean?"

Xu Yuan exhaled, but his tone was a little uncertain:

"This matter, maybe the second prince did it."

Zhou Chen's tone was puzzled:

"Second prince? Second Highness, he shouldn't have this kind of energy in his hands."

Xu Yuan continued to step forward, glanced at Zhou Chen, and said:

"He really doesn't have it in his hands, but didn't I say it just now, the Southern Sect has it."

Zhou Chen hissed, and asked cautiously:

"Third prince, do you mean that His Royal Highness fornicated with the sect? Why? ”

"For the sake of the heir."

Xu Yuan sighed and looked in the direction of the imperial capital: "Mr. Zhou, do you know how big the gap is between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Second Prince?" ”

"Cough, third son, this matter Zhou."

Zhou Chen coughed lightly, and his idle personality made him subconsciously want to avoid this topic.

This thing is too dangerous.

He is a third-rank great grandmaster, and he may die at any time without a place to be buried.

But halfway through the words, he paused, gritted his teeth, and changed the conversation:

Zhou really doesn't know, but it is rumored in the world that the temperament of the second prince is similar to that of the saint, and the situation of the saint may change now, right?"

With his current cultivation resources, he may only be able to stop at the third grade in this life.

Wealth is in danger, this is an opportunity to become the confidant of the third prince.

Seeing that Zhou Chen did not refuse, Xu Yuan smiled slightly and said:

"The gap between him and the crown prince has almost reached the point where the saint can't control it."

"The Holy One can't be swayed?" Zhou Chen licked his lips.

Xu Yuan smiled slightly:

"The saint has delegated too much power to the prince, the prince has been established as the prince for nearly thirty years, and it is impossible for these princelings to switch to the second prince after so many years.

Nearly 30 years of companionship has been a strong binding of life and death.

Even if Li Yaoxuan now seems to support Li Zhaoyuan to ascend to the throne, the people under the crown prince will not agree at all.

Once Li Zhaoyuan ascends the throne, these positions will inevitably be gradually replaced by his cronies, in other words, they will be liquidated.

Therefore, Li Yaoxuan has no time to support Li Zhaoyuan now.

After a moment's pause, Xu Yuan laughed in a low voice:

"Of course, if Li Zhaoyuan is willing to cooperate with our Xiangguo Mansion, it is still possible, but if he chooses so, he has no foundation, and the most likely result is to become a puppet and be integrated by our Xiangguo Mansion step by step to unify the royal forces."

"Mr. Zhou, do you think someone like Li Zhaoyuan would be willing to become a puppet emperor?"

Silence.

After Zhou Chen was for a while, he suddenly said in a low voice:

"So, if the second prince wants to ascend the throne, he can only seek support from the sect?"