Chapter 632: The Imperial Capital (3)
The oppressive atmosphere of the imperial capital city at night made all the soldiers feel heavy pressure, and all the soldiers held the weapons in their hands tightly and looked around indifferently. The military order from above has come down, the imperial capital has enforced a curfew, and the shouts and killings from the palace have disappeared not long after, making the soldiers who were already very nervous even more nervous. The soldiers at the head of the city looked at the night of the black hole outside the city with the help of the dim torches beside them, and Liu Fan and the others chose a remote corner to wait for Zhao Gao to go out of the city to respond, and the black night sky could not hide the heavy murderous aura.
With the sound of the city gate pivoting, Zhao Gao walked out of the dark city gate under the escort of two sharp soldiers. Xiao Feng, who had been observing from a distance, saw this situation and immediately flashed in front of Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao saw a fine light flash in Xiao Feng's eyes, neither of them spoke, Zhao Gao followed behind Zhao Gao, and walked quickly towards the woods.
"Humble Zhao Gao see the lord!" When Liu Fan flashed out from behind a big tree, Zhao Gao hurriedly greeted him. has been sent by Liu Fan to Zhang Rang's side to be an undercover agent for six years, although Zhao Gao is not the most powerful in the world, but in the imperial capital, he is also a person who wants wind and rain, but in front of Liu Fan, Zhao Gao is still the same Zhao Gao.
"You've done a good job over the years, it's good, you've worked hard. Liu Fan didn't know what to say to Zhao Gao, after all, from the time Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian were summoned, Liu Fan was still very unwelcome, and the two of them were not like Zheng He. Although they are also eunuchs, after all, they have seven Western merits, and they are honest eunuchs. All that has been left in history is a good name. Now he is still serving in Liu Fan's navy. And in contrast. Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian are staggering, if it weren't for the conclusion that the two would not defect, Liu Fan wouldn't mind killing the two.
Liu Fan didn't expect the two of them to make any achievements from the beginning, and sent them to Zhang Rang's side, just wanting to use the identities of the two eunuchs to find out some information. Liu Fan didn't give them too many instructions, and he didn't even contact them, it was not like Zhang Wuji would sometimes send him some instructions, and with the help of his hands, he would clear some people that Liu Fan was inconvenient to clean up. Liu Fan sent the two to Zhao Gao's side. It is not true that the two of them have the intention of destroying themselves, but after a lapse of six years, Liu Fan now has to look at Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian with admiration, which is really not simple.
"It is a humble duty to serve the lord, and the lord should follow me into the city quickly, I am afraid that it will change later. Zhao Gao hurriedly said respectfully to Liu Fan, Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian understood very well that they were born with physical defects, and even if they made great contributions to Liu Fan, they would not be able to benefit their descendants after all. And they don't have so many ideas, they need to hand over this imperial capital to Liu Fan now.
"Good. We will enter Beijing immediately, and on the way, you will give me a detailed introduction to the situation in the imperial capital. Liu Fan nodded. followed behind Zhao Gao quickly. Zhao Gao explained the situation in the imperial capital in detail along the way, and what reassured Liu Fan was that the situation in the imperial capital was not very bad, at least in terms of the army, he still had an advantage, and the only thing to worry about was those people in the imperial capital.
Dijing, a place that those people in the rivers and lakes never dared to touch, has now become a paradise for these people. Zhang Rang wantonly recruited masters from the rivers and lakes, and at the same time allowed various sects to open sects in the imperial capital to recruit apprentices, making the solemn imperial capital one of the most chaotic cities in the empire. Even if there are not 100,000 people in the imperial capital now, there are at least 80,000 people, which is why everyone will be jealous of them, and this is also the reason why everyone must seek the support of those nobles in the imperial capital, the number of these people is too big, too terrifying.
"Stop coming, Dijing has already enforced a curfew, go home quickly, otherwise you will be killed!" Just as Liu Fan and the others were walking on the streets of Dijing, a patrol commander shouted loudly to Liu Fan and the others.
"Keep patrolling, I'll take care of this here. A division commander who came to meet him happened to rush over at this time, and hurriedly said to the commander, who said a promise, and continued to patrol the imperial capital with the soldiers under his command. Liu Fan couldn't help but nod when he saw this scene, the soldiers in the imperial capital really everyone tightened their nerves, this was the rhythm before the war, and now any slightest commotion could cause a large-scale civil strife.
"Wu Lin of the Last General Death Legion has seen the lord, please come with me. The military general hurriedly walked to Liu Fan's side, and hurriedly saluted Liu Fan, Liu Fan responded and hurriedly followed behind Wu Lin, and walked quickly towards the palace. This time he came to the imperial capital to support Liu Fan in secret, and even Liu Fan's wives and concubines didn't know that Liu Fan had come to the imperial capital. Wu Lin was sent by Zhao Gao to find Bai Qi in the military camp, and asked him to send someone to answer, and now the military power of the entire imperial capital is in Bai Qi's hands, with the cooperation of Bai Qi's officers, Liu Fan came to the headquarters of the Black Ice Platform in the palace without any inquiries along the way, and Wei Zhongxian, Zhang Wuji and Bai Qi are still dealing with important matters, and Zhao Gao alone in the Black Ice Platform is explaining the situation in the imperial capital to Liu Fan.
"Are you saying that the two kings don't agree to cooperate with us?" Liu Fan's brows furrowed instantly, the noble shili in the imperial capital is not the biggest, but it is definitely the shili that cannot be ignored. Liu Fan didn't have any doubts about winning the support of the nobles on the way here, and on the way, Zhao Gao didn't tell Liu Fan about the attitude of the nobles, until he arrived at the headquarters of the Black Ice Terrace, and Zhao Gao told Liu Fan in detail about his situation in the Pingnan Wangfu and the Pingxi Wangfu.
The two kings did not agree to cooperate, and instantly broke all of Liu Fan's jihua. They don't cooperate, at least three-quarters of the nobles in the imperial capital will not cooperate with them, and those who can stay in the imperial capital are the nobles who have made friends with these two kings, and they can survive in the imperial capital without the care of the two kings, they have long been eradicated by Zhang Rang. Liu Fan's brows were twisted into a Sichuan character, Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian must have told the two kings their identities when they found them, and their edicts had spread all over the world, if they still didn't agree to cooperate. There must be some special reason for that.
"Where is Wei Zhongxian now?" if the two kings did not agree to cooperate. The entire Jihua in the imperial capital has to make new deployments. Especially those people in the rivers and lakes cast a heavy shadow on Liu Fan's heart.
Without the support of the two kings, Wei Zhongxian had to focus all his attention on his own people, and he was currently sitting in the East Factory, looking for anything that could be used. Zhao Gao's face was also very ugly, thinking of Zhao Gaoping's North King, Huo Zhengying righteously rejected Zhao Gao's proposal for cooperation. Without the help of the nobles, the situation in the control of the imperial capital also cast a heavy shadow on Zhao Gao's heart, and the imperial capital is now an unstable bomb. The time for them to defuse the bomb is too short, if the time is enough, they can slowly drive these people out of the imperial capital, slowly transfer all the possible defective strength of the two out of the imperial capital, and then do it, at that time they have absolute certainty, but now they have to go up hard.
"Immediately look for all the liliang that can be used, let Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Wuji come to see me immediately, and send an order to Bai Qi, after the dragoon army and Jin Wuwei take control, the palace must be tightly sealed, and a part of the elite liliang will be transferred to cooperate with the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. The soldiers of the Guards stabilized the situation in the imperial capital. Zhao Gao immediately sent the most urgent 100,000 urgent telegrams to the headquarters of the quicksand in the dark night of Jianye City. How many masters who can be mobilized have left me to transfer to the imperial capital, and in addition, immediately contact Jing Ke, who is outside to carry out the order, and ask him to rush to the imperial capital to come to support. "Liu Fan's series of orders were issued, and now the only thing Liu Fan can rely on is Liliang in his own hands, fortunately, this time he has brought enough masters, and the dirty guards of the quicksand in the dark night come to support, and it will take three days at most to arrive, if the emperor is really in turmoil, it will not be possible to kill all these people in the rivers and lakes without ten days and half a month.
In addition, he sent an order to Yongzhou Yue Fei's department to stop the pace of expansion, and immediately let Guo Jing, Yang Guo, and Chen Jinnan come to support. Liu Fan thought about it, and decided to mobilize the people under the command of Yue Fei's subordinates, who were closest to here, Zhao Gao received the military order and hurriedly sent his henchmen to hand over all the orders to the intelligence officers of the Dark Night Quicksand to pass them on.
Time passed minute by minute, and Wei Zhongxian, who had a solemn face, hurried to the headquarters of the Black Ice Platform with a few guards, if it was a war, Wei Zhongxian did not need to be nervous at all. But the crux of the matter is that the coup d'Γ©tat in the imperial capital is not the so-called war and killing, but the elusive assassination of those people in the rivers and lakes, which makes Wei Zhongxian quite a headache. After receiving Liu Fan's order, Wei Zhongxian, who was assigning the Dongchang assassination team to start cleaning up the Jianghu people in the imperial capital, was also stunned, and hurriedly handed over the military affairs in his hands to Wei Zhong and Wei Ming, two henchmen, and hurriedly came to the palace with several cronies.
"The lowly Wei Xian knocked to see the lord. β
Liu Fan looked at Wei Zhongxian who was kneeling in front of him and nodded with satisfaction, it seemed that he had completely listened to what he said to him before Wei Zhongxian left the imperial capital. Liu Fan said to Wei Zhongxian with satisfaction: "Okay, get up." I've worked hard for you in the past few years, and from now on you will be called Wei Zhongxian and not Wei Xian. β
"Thank you, my lord, since then my lord has had another loyal hound named Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt on the ground, although he didn't know where Liu Fan's dissatisfaction with him came from, but Zhao Gao had been walking on thin ice all these years in order to be able to eliminate Liu Fan's wariness of him. He didn't get Zhang Rang's trust, and even climbed to today's position step by step in the case of being suspicious, Wei Zhongxian can't be said to have worked hard, and he has endured enough hardships, and now seeing Liu Fan's attitude towards himself, Wei Zhongxian feels that all this is worth it. If he had to make a choice, Wei Zhongxian would not hesitate to choose to continue to come back as an undercover agent and continue to work hard to change Liu Fan's attitude towards himself.
"You are a person, a person who has merit to me, I remember. Okay, don't talk about these false gifts now, tell me about the liliang that you can control at the moment. Liu Fan is very satisfied with Wei Zhongxian's performance, Wei Zhongxian's performance is far worse than Zhao Gao, this may be hundreds of years of feudal thinking imprisoned Wei Zhongxian, eunuchs have always been just royal slaves, even if they are powerful, as long as the emperor is unhappy, they may die at any time. This is also a famous dynasty of Weishenme, although the eunuchs continue to exercise power, but there has never been a eunuch power to the point of abolishing the emperor at will.
"Thank you, my lord. Wei Zhongxian knew that everything he had done had finally paid off, and Liu Fan was now completely relieved of him, and immediately said all the liliang and arrangements he could control: "My lord." The current state of affairs is very unfavorable to us. The information I got was that Zhang Bai and Yin Chengfeng had already connected with those Jianghu sects in the city. At present, they can control at least 20,000 warriors with high martial arts, and there are less than 5,000 people in our hands, and it is still difficult to deal with these people, and these 5,000 people are not completely loyal to the lord. β
Of course, Liu Fan understood what Wei Zhongxian meant by this, Wei Zhongxian and Zhao Gao's assassination team and Rui Shi Battalion were all masters of the rivers and lakes recruited, although everyone was loyal to Wei Zhongxian and Zhao Gao, but there was no guarantee that they would be able to work with the Liu family. Therefore, the current situation is still very critical, and Wei Zhongxian's solution is also very simple. Liu Fan didn't show up for the time being, and Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian continued to send their assassination team and the people of the Ruishi Battalion to intercept and kill those Jianghu people and squeeze them out of a trace of liliang. The same is true of Zhang Wuji's heroic army, without revealing Liu Fan's identity, scattering all these people into the imperial capital, and letting them continue to fight with these Jianghu people, which not only weakens the enemy, but also reduces the possibility of internal rebellion.
"Okay, you can do it. Immediately scatter all the liliang in your hand, and these people will die when they die. I also sent an order to Bai Qi and Zhang Wuji to fully cooperate with you. Liu Fan agreed to this jihua, no matter how hard Liu Fan worked all these years. When recruiting people from the rivers and lakes, there is always a passing checkpoint, and being chased by these people from time to time makes Liu Fan annoyed. When I arrived, Zuihou simply ordered the dirty guards of the quicksand in the dark night, if they could not be used by me, they would be killed, so as not to leave a scourge for themselves.
"Thank you, lord, I will immediately send all of them to the city, and all the Jianghu sects that have contact with Zhang Baiyin and Chengfeng will be killed!" Wei Zhongxian's eyes flashed with a thick murderous aura, these people are now playing lanterns in the toilet - looking for death. Since you want to die, Wei Zhongxian naturally won't be polite to you, and soon a team of members of the assassination team and the sharp soldiers of the Black Ice Platform rushed out of their respective assembly places, and soon disappeared into the thick night, and a battle began quietly. And those garrisons in the city immediately accompanied them to knock open the gates of the Jianghu sects one by one, killing the Jianghu people inside, and for a while, the entire imperial capital seemed even more chaotic.
"Lord, the situation in the imperial capital is not optimistic now, we must fight for the support of the nobles, I am afraid that only if the lord personally goes to negotiate with them, they may fall to us. Zhao Gao reminded on the side that without the support of the nobles, the situation in the imperial capital would not improve in the slightest. Zhao Gao's words made Liu Fan understand, even if Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian were both people in Liu Fan, they could only represent themselves and could not give them enough benefits. And Liu Fan is different, as long as Liu Fan goes to negotiate with them, the two sides can exchange certain interests, as long as there are enough interests, even if it is a father and an enemy, I am afraid it doesn't matter if you call your father.
"I see, you arrange it as soon as possible, so that no one can find out who I am. Liu Fan nodded heavily, Liu Fan must win the support of the nobles in this negotiation. Liu Fan's heart was constantly thinking about what benefits he could offer in exchange, and at the same time thinking about countermeasures. The four kings are all in the same breath no matter what time they are, and the reason why they still refuse to fall to themselves this time is because they are afraid that Liu Fan will settle accounts after he ascends the throne. The four families have enough interests in the imperial capital, this time Liu Fan must come up with enough things to impress them, and what this thing is, Liu Fan still can't figure it out, it seems that he can only improvise, and it is really not easy to impress them.
"Xiao Feng, you immediately contact the headquarters of the Dark Night Quicksand in the Imperial Capital, I need to get a detailed information about the two princes in the shortest possible time, the more the better. Xuzhu, Duan Yu, the two of you are now beginning to master the Liliang of the Dark Night Quicksand in the Imperial Capital, killing all possible threats. β
"In addition to Dian Wei and Xu Chu, a few of you immediately rushed to the army to find Bai Qi's army, and each selected a team of elite soldiers to be on standby at any time, I need you to be able to play the role of a sharp knife at the most critical time. Liu Fan said to several fierce generals under his command, before entering the city, Liu Fan found that he had a lot of liliang in his hand, and as soon as he entered the city, Liu Fan immediately found that his liliang was still not enough, if the emperor was really in turmoil, they were just a drop in the bucket.
"Zhao Gao, pass the order, the army must suppress the situation, and the imperial capital must not be chaotic!" Liu Fan said to everyone with a solemn face, the imperial capital is the capital of the Tianlong Empire, which is of great significance, if the emperor is in turmoil, then the entire empire will really be finished. The imperial capital can't be messed up, and it must not be messed up.
"No!"
"Okay, from now on, everyone must cheer me up, the enemy is strong, we must show our strong muscles to make the other party feel scared, and completely eradicate this cancer from the Empire!" (To be continued......)