Compared with the sharp edges and corners of other high-level officials, Granny Long has actually maintained the gentleness that has been inherited from her girlhood.

Compared with the clear distinction between conservatives and radicals in the prime minister's house, she has always followed the crowd.

It's not about ability, it's about character.

Lou Ji is to blame for this.

In the girlhood when the character of the dragon mind was formed, Lou Ji's company made her change from jumping to calm, but her silent behavior of helping her deal with all the dangers and trivial matters around her made the dragon mind become unassertive.

She is a good person, but fortunately, she seems to be a relational household who relies on Lou Ji to ascend to the top in the prime minister's mansion.

And that's where the problem lies.

If Granny Long really relied on Lou Ji's superiors, even if it was for Lou Ji's affection, Xu Yinhe would spare her life. But the reality is that Granny Long became a high-ranking member of the Prime Minister's Mansion because of the nobility of her bloodline.

Today, if you want to subdivide the great minister's government, it can actually be divided into five parties.

The upstart group that has been promoted in the past few decades, the original Jingjiang Xu family, the Jingcheng Feng family, the local family that has been subdued by various means, and the Dijing Long family.

The first three don't need to be mentioned, they are all firmly controlled by Xu Yinhe in his own hands, and the local families that are subdued are scattered all over the Great Yan, coupled with the deliberate differentiation of the Di'an Xiangfu, even if these families have the intention to form a collection of interests in the Xiangfu, it is difficult to merge and twist into a force, the only exception is the Di'an Long family.

The Prime Minister has experienced two periods of rapid expansion, both of which were built on the corpses of two thousand-year-old families.

The crown prince of the Feng family and the eldest daughter of the emperor took the lead in rebelling and seizing their father's power, and this power was in the hands of Xu Yuan's mother, but after Xu Yuan's mother passed away, because Feng Jiuxuan was the shopkeeper, this force was naturally handed over to Xu Yinhe.

The relationship between the Di'an Long family and the Xiangfu is actually very complicated, and the meaning of cooperation is far greater than annexation.

This was originally nothing to the Long family, as one of the few thousand-year-old families in the Great Yan Territory, they had experienced too many similar situations, and the family's background was enough for them to watch from the wall in this turmoil, but the head of the family at that time supported the prince of the former dynasty because of his personal relationship and the promise of the other party.

It is the holy elder brother who is very similar to Li Yunqing.

And the result is obvious, in that political catastrophe, not long after the death of the saint of the Long family, the head of the Long family also passed away with Li Yaoxuan's eldest brother of the crown prince.

The death of the two backbones, as well as a series of strategic decision-making mistakes, made the situation of the Long family precarious, and after the death of the head of the family, the internal infighting of the five family heirs directly caused the originally powerful Long family to be designed to be dismembered and divided almost overnight.

In this environment, Granny Long's brother got in touch with Xu Yinhe, who had already ascended to the position of prime minister of Dayan, through her relationship with Lou Ji.

Lang is affectionate, and concubines are intentional.

The collaboration was a natural one.

With Xu Yinhe's help, Granny Long's brother unsurprisingly won the battle in the Long family and became the only head of the Long family.

The Long family became a close partner of the Prime Minister's house.

It's just that no matter how close the cooperative relationship is, it will always change with time and interests.

In the tenth year of Granny Long's brother taking charge of the Long family, at the Xiangfu banquet that year, a violent conflict broke out between the head of the Long family and Xu Yinhe.

Soon after the unhappy parting, he suddenly fell ill, very sick, inexplicably ill.

As a semi-saint powerhouse, he died of that serious illness so quickly.

After that, a new round of infighting broke out in the Long family.

This infighting came without warning, it came extremely fiercely, and almost all the descendants of the Long family died in this infighting, which also made the behemoth of the Long family completely dismembered.

However, the strong inertia of the thousand-year-old family still made the power of the Long family dissolve, and in the past few decades, they gradually surrounded Long Xinxin, the only remaining daughter of the Long family.

It has nothing to do with cultivation, this is the nobility that comes from the bloodline.

Just like after the death of the ancient emperor in Xu Yuan's previous life, the following ministers will definitely find a side royal family to be the emperor.

“.”

A little snow fell on the purple tulle, and the look in Lou Ji's eyes was a little lonely:

"She actually didn't mean to restore the Long family, it was more that she was put in that position by those people without authorization, but her heirs have a few ambitious people, and they have already contacted many former ministers of the Long family."

As she spoke, Lou Ji's eyes lowered, and she seemed to be a little self-deprecating and said:

"But even so, she was able to survive."

Xu Yuan looked at her fair side face and asked in a low voice:

"Kill your own heirs to make a vote?"

Lou Ji shook her head:

"This is just one of the ways, your father's measure is very large, as long as he doesn't violate the bottom line problem, his tolerance for us is almost infinite."

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, and then understood the meaning behind Lou Ji's words.

That dad didn't rule out that his men had too much power.

Does Lou Ji have a lot of power?

When you think about it, the Blackscale Guard is already a little scary.

The Black Scale Guard is almost all over the Great Yan Territory, and its one-line connection organizational structure makes the Black Scale Guard almost independent of the power of the Prime Minister's Mansion, in addition, Lou Ji has a lot of channels to make money.

This is an organization similar to the Jinyiwei in the previous life, but the emperor in the previous life directly castrated him into a eunuch in order to control and eliminate the power of the Jinyiwei, but Xu Yinhe didn't care about this, and even the channels for making money in his private were just turning a blind eye.

That daddy never minded delegating power, but only if you have to hand in the vote.

The blood debt caused by the Black Scale Guard almost made the world's sects hateful, and this was Lou Ji's vote for Xu Yinhe.

Your dragon soul wants to restore the Long family, you can, but what about the name?

With a hint of helplessness, Lou Ji said in a low voice:

"My father has been waiting for a long time, but she has not responded, I am afraid that she will not understand, and even reminded her privately, but she still did not respond."

Xu Yuan's eyes were a little puzzled:

"Why?"

It's already an open-book exam, oh no, it's all a bit conservative, it's already putting the answers in front of you for you to copy.

Even if Granny Long can't bear to attack her own heirs, it is okay to attack the sect.

If Granny Long had this will, with her friendship with Lou Ji, Xu Yuan believed that even if it was inconvenient for this old lady to take action in person, she would let her Black Scale Guards provide her with intelligence convenience.

Lou Ji exhaled a breath of white mist that dissipated in an instant in the snowy night:

"Attacking the sect will implicate many old ministers of the Long family, and those old ministers are loyal to her."

"But isn't it all the same?"

Xu Yuan said in a low voice: "If she doesn't do it, the Prime Minister will do it after she dies." ”

"Because of her temperament, she can't do anything to her own people."

Lou Ji raised her eyes and looked at the sword light that had gradually dissipated in the sky, as if she saw the girl who was trembling timidly when she talked to her when she first met.

Biting her lip, Lou Ji clenched her fists slightly:

"If I had just been there at that time, let her handle those things on her own, and make her more cold-blooded, maybe the result would have been a little different now."

Granny Long, who died of mildness in temperament, died of "vain" attempts to restore the Long family.

Maybe it wasn't her, but she had to die.

After the words fell, Lou Ji didn't mean to speak for a while, and Xu Yuan accompanied her towards the outside of Xiangqin Xuan.

The female guest secretary in Lou Ji's line has already dealt with it, and the next thing is to go to Xingjingxuan, where the male guest secretary is located.

However, Lou Ji's mood adjusted quickly, and when the two came to Xingjingxuan, she chatted with Xu Yuan with a smile.

She talked to him about the female guest named Sister Lou Ji.

What made Xu Yuan a little ridiculous was that the reason why this old sister's former sister was ordered to die by his father was because of the love brain.

She has a husband, and this husband is a waste in everything except for her appearance and poetry.

He likes to make friends with some dignitaries and dignitaries, and likes to show off in front of those people.

Just as Xu Yuan once went to his father's study to steal internal information and sell it for money because of lack of money, Lou Jiyi's husband often leaked some confidential information because of those "friends".

But the difference between the two is that his wife is only a high-ranking member of the Black Scale Guard, while Xu Yuan's father is the master of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

If he does this, it will lead to very serious consequences, and if Xu Yuan does this, he can not bear any consequences - if being hung up and beaten by Xu Changge does not count the consequences.

Before tonight, Lou Ji warned the righteous sister who picked up in the black alley more than once, but the love brain is not saved, and she forgot about it after a few days, and continued to indulge her husband.

So she died tonight.

After coming to Xingjingxuan, the snow on the ground that had been dispersed by Feng Jiuxuan's sword had already accumulated again, and Xu Yuan accompanied Lou Ji to kill people while walking in Xingjingxuan.

They all roughly knew what they were committing, and some of them chose decency by themselves, while the other part achieved decency with the help of Lou Ji.

However, what made Xu Yuan a little helpless was that those undignified guest secretaries came at him without exception.

Like a great daddy wandering around with a flaw.

While Lou Ji was killing, she also told Xu Yuan the reason for killing these people.

Some people are directly betrayed, some are because of private compromise with the sect, and some are because they are unwilling to make progress after the power is stable.

In addition, Xu Yuan also met two old acquaintances on the way to accompany Lou Ji to kill.

Jiang He and Hua Hong, the two old men.

After the Prime Minister's Mansion Great Array is opened, people who don't have the soul key will fall into the chaotic Yin Array, unable to use their divine sense to probe the outside world.

The two old men, one with two black-robed men with bottomless breaths, knocked on the door one by one.

When he hesitated to say hello, the two old men had already snorted coldly and passed by the two.

It doesn't look like he's in a good mood.

If you kill your own descendants by yourself, you will naturally not be happy.

Xu Yuan felt that this was probably a kind of nomination.

Coming out of the last courtyard, Xu Yuan sighed lightly:

"It's a big purge"

Tonight, Xu Yuan accompanied Lou Ji and killed a total of eleven people.

After a rough calculation, one is suspected of being a mortal, three are suspected of being primordial, four are suspected of being a great grandmaster, and four are mortals.

If you count the people who Hua Hong, Jiang He and other people who are disposed of by the core of the Prime Minister's Mansion themselves, this number should increase several times.

And when the aftermath of this purge spreads outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, the number of people implicated will probably multiply by a hundredfold.

"Removing the sarcoma will be painful, but only then can you continue on the road."

Lou Ji disposed of the corpse with spirit powder, and said softly: "Don't worry, everyone you killed tonight, your father has prepared a plan, tonight is the beginning and the end, and there will be no major turmoil in the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Xu Yuan smiled slightly:

"I hope so."

Lou Ji's beautiful eyes bent, patted the remaining spirit powder on her hand, and said with a chuckle:

"It's all dealt with, will Changtian go back to the inner courtyard tonight, or stay to talk to my sister?"

Xu Yuan glanced at Lou Ji's smiling expression and shook his head slightly:

"I think you want to be quiet now more than talking."

Lou Ji raised her hand and touched Xu Yuan's head:

"Changtian, you really understand me."

Xu Yuan raised his hand to open Lou Ji's hand, turned around directly, and was about to walk in the direction of the inner courtyard:

"I'll go back first, so many things happened tonight, Xin Yao didn't know it, she was left alone in the inner courtyard, she should be very worried."

"I'll send you."

"No, you don't."

"Do you want to go under Ran Jianli's nose?"

“.”

"Squeak-"

When Xu Yuan returned to the inner courtyard and pushed open the door of the main courtyard, he unexpectedly saw the figure pacing back and forth in the lobby of the main hall where the family was dining.

The sky seemed to be the brilliant sword of the aurora and completely dispersed, the sky was dark, the wind and snow were shaking, and the inscription lamp illuminated the lobby transparently, reflecting the anxious look on the girl's face.

The moment she heard the movement at the door, a flash of surprise flashed in the girl's eyes, and she immediately hurried up to meet her, and asked eagerly:

"Third brother, what's going on outside?"

Xu Yuan smiled lightly at her, and said softly as he walked towards the lobby:

"Good news, bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Xu Xinyao was stunned when she heard this, and then stomped her foot with some anger:

"Brother! Don't sell it! ”

Walking into the lobby, Xu Yuan took out a chair and sat down, lifted Erlang's legs idly, looked at the fourth sister who was like a fart, and smiled slowly:

"The good news is that we've found the Void Stone."

"What?"

Xu Xinyao was slightly stunned, and then her reaction was very fast.

As a master of the formation, she knew too well the value of the Boundary Void Stone, an artifact that could engrave a teleportation array.

She asked tentatively:

"What's going on outside because of the Void Stone?"

"So to speak."

Xu Yuan nodded and said in a low voice: "But the bad news is that we failed, and the cooked Boundary Sky Stone flew away"

“.”

“.”

Xu Yuan didn't tell Xu Xinyao the whole picture of tonight, and briefly recounted tonight's events from head to tail, and was about to make some jokes to ease the atmosphere, but he suddenly caught a glimpse of an additional figure in the courtyard outside the main hall.

along, a figure with a head.

It was Feng Jiuxuan who came back.

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(End of chapter)