The capital of Great Xia, the imperial palace.

The Imperial Study.

Emperor Xia was reviewing the fold, and suddenly saw the fold submitted by Lu Chen.

He was stunned for a moment.

Except for the fact that Lu Chen handed over the fold to the court when the barbarians went south, Lu Chen usually would hardly hand over the fold to the court.

Especially after the Great Xia Imperial Court announced that it would no longer aid any materials to the Northern Kingdom in the future, Lu Chen did not submit a letter to the Imperial Court once later.

What did he submit this time for?

Out of curiosity, Emperor Xia opened Lu Chen's recital, and then looked at it seriously.

Seeing what was written in the fold, Emperor Xia's face became a little unsightly.

He sneered and said, "Swallow the entire Northland, it's such a big ambition, and I'm not afraid of being strung to death!" ”

"It seems that after Zhuge Chongguang went to the northern country, he became even more inflated."

"When the Jiangnan family is dealt with, it's time to solve this hidden danger."

Emperor Xia thought that even if Lu Chen had the support of a certain force behind him, the development of the northern kingdom would not be too fast, but as the reform of the northern kingdom continued to progress, he already vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The development of the northern country is too fast, and the displaced people absorbed by the northern country have not become a burden to the northern country, but have helped the northern country to increase a large number of laborers.

In addition, the Huanyu Academy publicly announced that it wanted to join the Northern Kingdom, which made Emperor Xia feel even more uneasy, and Emperor Xia even suspected that it was this Huanyu Academy that supported the Northern Kingdom in the first place.

When Lu Chen went to the northern country, he was just a waste prince, and he didn't have any support from anyone at that time, maybe it was the Huanyu Academy that took advantage of this loophole and took the opportunity to control Lu Chen.

The concept of Huanyu Academy has always been disgusted by the major dynasties, especially the royal families of the major dynasties, and Emperor Xia has reason to suspect that Zhuge Chongguang wants to bring the concept of Huanyu Academy to Great Xia, and the reason why the northern kingdom has made those strange reforms is that Huanyu Academy is behind it.

When Situ Ce came back from the northern country, he said that there was a trace of the great grandmaster in the northern country, and now that I think about it, I am afraid that the great grandmaster is most likely Zhuge Chongguang.

As soon as he thought of Zhuge Chongguang, Emperor Xia's face darkened, and he said to himself in a cold voice: "There should be no strong people in the realm of heaven and man in this world. ”

The realm of heaven and man above the great grandmaster, the great grandmasters on the rivers and lakes who have been pressing are breathless, over the years, whether it is the great grandmaster of that dynasty, they are relatively low-key, and if they can, they will definitely not make a move.

This is all due to the Heavenly and Human Realm powerhouses of Xuanyue Palace back then, and the Heavenly and Human Realm powerhouses of Xuanyue Palace have killed many great grandmasters, and they are the great grandmasters of various dynasties.

Later, after that person returned to the Xuanyue Palace for retreat, he never came out again, but decades have passed, and everything that the Heavenly and Human Realm powerhouse did back then still made the great masters feel very frightened.

What happened back then also made all the great grandmasters of the Great Xia royal family choose to retreat into the background, and they haven't come out for decades, and people basically only know that the national teacher Situ Ce is suspected of being a great grandmaster, and few people know that there is still a great grandmaster in the royal family.

A powerhouse of the Heavenly and Human Realm has already suppressed the great grandmasters of the major dynasties who dare not raise their heads, if another Heavenly and Human Realm appears, the great grandmasters will probably not dare to show their faces at all in the future.

The most important thing is that this great grandmaster who is about to break through to the realm of heaven and man actually came to the Great Xia Dynasty, which makes Emperor Xia even more restless, he can't sleep at night during this time, and always dreams of the scene when the great grandmaster of their royal family was killed by the powerhouse of the Heaven and Man Realm of Xuanyue Palace when he was a child.

Emperor Xia didn't want to have another sword hanging over his head after dealing with those families, the Great Xia Dynasty wanted to become stronger, and there could be no more powerful forces than the Great Xia royal family in the land of Great Xia.

At this time, Emperor Xia turned his head to look at the eunuch on the side, and directly handed the fold in his hand to the eunuch and said, "Send this fold to the national teacher to see." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After the eunuch took Lu Chen's fold away, a cold light flashed in Emperor Xia's eyes.

The family, the sect, the Huanyu Academy, all these forces will be wiped out from the land of Great Xia.

Even if it is the Oriental Family, for him, the Oriental Family is just a chess piece, and when he finishes using this chess piece, he will give it up.

Although the Oriental family is a business family, it is very different from the traditional family, but the fact that the Oriental family wants to put its hand into the court has touched the bottom line of Emperor Xia, although Emperor Xia agreed on the surface, but in his heart he absolutely does not allow the previous things to happen again in the court.

The more the Dongfang family wanted to put their hand into the court, the more it made Emperor Xia feel that their ambitions were too great, and there was no difference between them and those ancient families.

A family with such great ambitions, and a family that affects the economy of Great Xia, how could Emperor Xia let them stay.

Of course, now the Jiangnan family has not been destroyed, and other families are still in the court, so Emperor Xia will not move the Oriental family for the time being, at least until those ancient families in the court are not eliminated, Emperor Xia will not move the Oriental family.

……

Meanwhile.

Sufeng City.

The Wang family.

Today, the heads of the Jiangnan families have come to the Wang family, Lu Shuyun has been staying in the Wang family since he came to the south, and the reason why the heads of the major families in Jiangnan came to the Wang family is mainly because Lu Shuyun is in the Wang family.

In fact, some families feel a little uncomfortable with Lu Shuyun in the Wang family, although the Wang family is Lu Shuyun's mother's family, but it is not only the Wang family that supports him Lu Shuyun, why does Lu Shuyun want to live in the Wang family.

Lu Shuyun stayed in the Wang family, and suddenly raised the status of the Wang family to a new height, the status of the Wang family in the Jiangnan area was already high enough, and now Lu Shuyun stays in the Wang family every day, and the status of the Wang family has been further improved.

After Lu Shuyun raised troops in Jiangnan, most of the generals of those armies were from the Wang family.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, even if the Jiangnan family supports Lu Shuyun on the surface, they will be dissatisfied with Lu Shuyun's approach in their hearts, but now is a critical period to deal with the imperial court, and no one will say it at this time.

In the hall, Lu Shuyun sat in front of the gate, he glanced at the heads of the major families sitting on both sides, and then said: "All the heads of the family can stand on Lone's side at this critical moment, Lone is very happy. ”

"Looking for the heads of the family today, the main reason is that Lone has received a piece of information, Lone heard that the great master of the royal family has been released, and this news was sent by Zhao Xiang."

Hearing this, everyone in the hall immediately began to talk.

"Grand Master? Now it's in trouble. ”

"Our Jiangnan family shouldn't have a great grandmaster yet, right?"

"This is not necessarily, the Wang family pays so much attention to martial arts, maybe their family has a great master."

"You don't have to worry, our Qin family has a great grandmaster, even if the great grandmaster of the royal family really appears on the battlefield, there is no need to be afraid."

"I'm afraid you've forgotten the incident where a certain Heavenly and Human Realm powerhouse slaughtered the Grand Grandmaster of the Imperial Family a few decades ago? There has been no news from the great grandmaster of the royal family for all these years, just because he is afraid that the strong man of the Heavenly and Human Realm will appear again, even if the royal family sends the great grandmaster, the great grandmaster of the royal family does not dare to make a move at will, who knows if the strong man of the Heavenly and Human Realm will make another move. ”

"The Zhao family master is right, no matter how strong the Heavenly and Human Realm is, he has a lifespan of hundreds of years, it is impossible for him to die so quickly, if he hears that the great grandmaster of the royal family has made a move, it is very likely that he will appear again."

……

Over the years, one of the most important reasons why the major families have become more and more unscrupulous is that they know that the great grandmasters of the royal family generally do not make casual moves, to be precise, they dare not make easy moves, and they even suspect that the great grandmasters of the royal family have been killed by that powerhouse of the Heavenly and Human Realm decades ago.

Although they didn't know why the powerhouse of the Heavenly and Human Realm wanted to kill the great grandmaster of the royal family a few decades ago, they could see that the powerhouse of the Heavenly and Human Realm didn't want the royal family of Great Xia to become stronger.

As for Situ Ce, the national teacher, the families are even less afraid of him.

Situ Ce was not a relative of the imperial family, he was loyal to the Great Xia royal family at most, but he was not loyal to that emperor.

For Situ Ce, as long as it is the bloodline of the Lu family, as long as Great Xia has not been overthrown, it makes no difference whether the Lu family is the emperor, which can be seen from the fact that Situ Ce did not intervene in the battle for the succession of the first generation of princes.

In order to be the emperor back then, Lu Xingqiu secretly solved many of his brothers, Situ Ce was already a national teacher when the previous Xia Emperor was in power, if he wanted to take care of it, Lu Xingqiu might not be able to become the Xia Emperor.

Listening to the discussion of the heads of the major families in the hall, Lu Shuyun then said: "Everyone, now is the critical moment of the life and death of the Jiangnan family, if your family has a great master, don't hide it anymore." ”

"My father has already sent the Great Grandmaster to the south, if there is no Great Grandmaster on our side, I am afraid that these hundreds of thousands of soldiers will not be able to enter the capital at all, let alone the side of the Qing Monarch."

"Lone went south for you, if someone doesn't want to go all out at this time, and has other thoughts, once Lone knows, don't blame Lone for turning his face and not recognizing people."

Hearing this, Dongfang Yi, who was sitting in the hall, was unmoved.

The Dongfang family has a great grandmaster, but it is absolutely impossible for the great grandmaster of the Dongfang family to come out.

Whether they were on the side of Emperor Xia or on the side of King Bei, there was no need for them to let their family's grand master come out in this war.

At this moment, Lu Shuyun opened his mouth and asked: "Master of the Chu family, your family has always been the strongest in the Jiangnan family, I have heard that your family has even had conflicts with Xuanyue Palace, dare to argue with Xuanyue Palace, presumably there must be a great grandmaster in your family, right?" ”

Hearing Lu Shuyun's question, Chu Liang said with a smile: "This is natural, please rest assured, His Royal Highness the Prince, our Chu family has been on your side from the beginning, and we will definitely not be careful behind our backs, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince needs to use a great grandmaster, our Chu family will definitely send a great grandmaster to protect His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Hearing Chu Liang's answer, Lu Shuyun was very satisfied.

When he summoned these family masters, he secretly inquired about the possibility of having a great master in those families of the Jiangnan family, the Wang family must have a great master, and the Qin family also has a great master, and now the Chu family has also said that they will send a great master to help, so that they will have three great masters on their side.

If the great grandmasters of the royal family really appeared on the battlefield, with these three great grandmasters, the imperial army might not be able to get any benefits.

The most important thing is that they also have the Cloud Piercing Bow on their side, if the Great Grandmaster uses the Cloud Piercing Bow, they have a chance to kill the Grand Grandmaster of the royal family, and their advantage is very great.

Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Shuyun's mouth rose slightly, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: My good father, you will soon regret letting me leave the capital, I have been sitting in that position for so many years, and it is time to let me sit down.

After talking about the matter of the Great Grandmaster, Lu Shuyun then began to arrange the work.

Although they have gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, many of these hundreds of thousands of troops are family private soldiers, and these family private soldiers have not completely integrated together, and basically fight on their own.

Lu Shuyun didn't think about disrupting and reorganizing these soldiers, because once he did this, it would be tantamount to moving the interests of the family.

He still needs the help of these families to rebel, and he doesn't dare to move the interests of the families at this time.

Since it is impossible to disrupt and reorganize the private soldiers of these families, they can only be assigned tasks.

Subsequently, according to the current situation, Lu Shuyun arranged the family's private soldiers to some more important counties in the north to prevent the imperial army's army from coming.

At this time, Lu Shuyun turned his head to look at Dongfang Yi and said: "Dongfang family master, you have been in business for generations, there are a lot of merchant ships, and most of your family's private soldiers are also good at water warfare, so the defense of the southeast coastal area will be handed over to you, so as not to attack the imperial army's army from the sea." ”

Dongfang Yi immediately said: "Please rest assured, His Royal Highness the Prince, the Dongfang family will definitely guard the southeast coast and not let any imperial court soldiers come over from the sea." ”

After hearing Dongfang Yi's words, Lu Shuyun felt very satisfied, but he suddenly thought of something, and then said: "By the way, I heard that Haoyue ran to the north and never returned?" ”

Dongfang Yi sighed, showed a very helpless expression and said: "Your Highness, it's all because I didn't teach her well since I was a child, which made her develop such a willful character, I sent people to bring her back many times, but every time she ran away, she refused to go home, and asked His Highness to forgive her sins, and after the war is over, I will definitely send someone to tie her back and kowtow to His Highness to apologize." ”

Lu Shuyun said: "It's okay, now that there is a war in the south soon, it's good for her to stay in the north for the time being." ”

Lu Shuyun mentioned Dongfang Haoyue, mainly to remind Dongfang Yi that they had already married, so he wanted the Dongfang family to help him wholeheartedly.

At night.

Dongfang Yi returned home.

As soon as he arrived home, he heard that the core of the Dongfang family had come to the council hall to wait for him.

Dongfang Yi then went to the conference hall.

At this time, a white-haired old man was sitting in the direction of the gate, and after seeing Dongfang Yi come back, the old man said, "Yi'er, what are you going to do next?" ”

Hearing the old man's title, Dongfang Yi pursed his lips, feeling a little unhappy in his heart.

He is already so old, but he is still called "Yi'er" by the old man.

But these are small things, Dongfang Yi then spoke: "The prince plans to let our Dongfang family guard the southeast coast to prevent the imperial army's army from attacking from the sea, and I plan to take advantage of the defense of the southeast coast to let some clansmen take a merchant ship directly north and go to the north." ”

Although the Dongfang family is the internal response of Emperor Xia in the Jiangnan area, the variables of the war are very large, Dongfang Yi does not want to get involved, he plans to run away directly to the north to join the king of the north of the destiny of the son of destiny.

As for the war between the imperial court and the Jiangnan family, they don't have to interfere.

Their Dongfang family has helped the imperial court secretly transport a lot of elite soldiers in the southeast coastal area, if there is no big accident, after the war starts, the rebels will be attacked from both sides, and Lu Shuyun and they will most likely be defeated.

As for whether the great grandmaster of the Jiangnan family can turn the tide, it is impossible to say for sure, Emperor Xia has also been preparing for so long, it is impossible not to know that there are great grandmasters in the Jiangnan family, so Emperor Xia is estimated to have been prepared for a long time How to deal with the great masters of those families.

After listening to Dongfang Yi's words, the old man Dongfang Qi stroked his gray beard, and then said: "If the Son of Destiny has appeared today, we really shouldn't continue to get involved in the war between the court and the family. ”

The main reason why they chose to cooperate with Emperor Xia and stand on the side of the imperial court was because they had their own mission.

There is too much uncertainty in the rebellion, and if they want to survive, they have to bet on both sides.

Now that the children of destiny have appeared, they are in the north, so what are they doing and running away to the north, and what are they doing to serve the court and the Jiangnan family?

The Dongfang family is a business family, and the mission of the business family is to make money for the Son of Destiny, continue to stay in Sufeng City, and get involved in the war between the imperial court and the Jiangnan family, when will they be able to fulfill their family's mission.

Seeing that the old man said this, Dongfang Yi opened his mouth and said: "Since Dad, you have said so, then it has been decided, and then we will prepare, and when the war in front begins, we will directly take a merchant ship to the north from the sea." ”

This era is still the era of land power, people don't actually pay much attention to the sea, and only the Oriental family has built some large merchant ships, if they go to the north from the sea, the Jiangnan family will probably not be able to find it, unless the Jiangnan family has been sending people to keep an eye on them.

However, the Jinyiwei of the northern country has infiltrated the Jiangnan area, and the Dongfang family can basically detect any actions of those families through the Jinyiwei in advance, so there is no need to worry too much about being discovered by the Jiangnan family.

As for how to supply the merchant ships on the way north, this question is even less of a problem, their Dongfang family has reached a cooperation with the Xia Emperor, and their merchant ships can also stop at the docks managed by the imperial court when they go north.

Something is wrong with the body, so there may be a little little update recently, so please forgive me

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