Lin Quan, the Imperial Palace.

Above the court, the early dynasty was carried out as always.

Compared with yesterday's Feng Xun's deliberate belatedness and deliberate embarrassment of Lin Jiming, today's Feng Xun did not do so, and entered the scene early, looking at the other party's radiant appearance, as if there was something urgent to report.

Yesterday, there was no clear discussion about the army's interference in the Jianghu Martial Arts Alliance, but Lin Jiming rarely didn't say anything, as if yesterday's incident had never happened, and he didn't say a word.

Halfway through the early dynasty, Lin Jiming still picked a few places that were not light or heavy, and deliberately avoided Feng Xun's management power.

Poor Feng Xun couldn't say a word if he wanted to say something, so he just stood like this, like a wooden man.

Above the court, Lin Jiming had just finished asking a minister about the need for funding relief for a small town's flood relief, and then pointed to another minister to inquire about the recent imperial examination champion and a number of newly promoted officials.

Lin Jiming held a booklet in his hand, and asked while flipping through it: "Where did this year's champion in the imperial examination come from?"

One of the ministers in charge of the imperial examination replied: "Your Majesty, this person is from Hesong County and is a student from a poor family. ”

As soon as he heard that Lin Jiming, who was from a poor family, was interested, he looked at the ministers and praised: "Born in sorrow and died in peace, our students in the imperial city have the best resources and the best educational conditions, but there has not been a champion for many years, which is really embarrassing!"

I am afraid that only those who have experienced great disasters and great difficulties can understand what it feels like to be able to grasp an opportunity and see the light of hope.

It's like a person in the desert who has a dry mouth and is in a desperate situation, and he heard that he can drink a sip of sweet spring water in front of him, and he will come to the end of his life.

On the other hand, these rich and noble family disciples are because they have left too many back roads for themselves, and they feel that even if they fail in the imperial examination, they will not have nothing, and without the will to break the kettle, it is like going to the battlefield to charge into battle, without that fighting spirit, once they suffer setbacks, they will be like a plate of scattered sand, and they will not be able to form an army.

Feng Xun was left out in the cold for a long time, as if he was a little impatient, he opened his mouth to remind: "Your Majesty, let's continue to talk about the ...... that we didn't discuss yesterday."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Jiming interrupted him and continued to ask the minister: "Then compared with previous years, has the number of poor children increased this year?"

Feng Xun was not used to Lin Jiming, and immediately said again: "Your Majesty!

Lin Jiming turned his head suddenly, looked at Feng Xun with a vicious look, and said loudly: "I am talking to this Aiqing about national affairs, can Prime Minister Feng be patient!?"

The audience was quiet, the sunlight shone directly into the hall, and the bright dust slowly floated, time seemed to stand still, only the majestic momentum exuded by Lin Jiming's whole body was still pouring into everyone's hearts!

His voice was so powerful that even the ministers who had always been accustomed to Lin Jiming's weakness were frightened, and Feng Xun was even more shocked by the other party's vicious eyes, and he was in a trance for a while, speechless for a long time!

At that moment, all the ministers who were not waiting to see Lin Jiming before suddenly realized a truth, the tiger father has no dog!

On Lin Jiming's body, they really wanted to see the shadow of the old emperor, the burly man who sat on the dragon chair and didn't say much, and no one dared to speak first.

After all, they still admitted one thing, this Jiangshan Sex Forest, not Feng.

After a long time, Lin Jiming looked at the official department and continued: "The matter of the imperial examination is related to the fortune of the country and the people, and it is the most important thing, Aiqing, you continue." ”

The minister was not a fool, of course he saw that His Majesty the Emperor in front of him was deliberately snubbing Feng Xun, his heart was numb, and he didn't know how to choose for a while, and complained in his heart: "You two guys have a conflict, looking for me to be a gunman, I am just a petty official who doesn't have much real power, at most I just bully and bully those juniors, how can I withstand such a toss." ”

One is a high-ranking prime minister, who has the support of half of the people in the court, and the other is the master of this country, supreme, and the two of them are casually people who can secretly erase him thousands of times, and he is not answering now, nor is he answering if he does not.

He hesitated for a long time and then said hesitantly: "In recent years, the imperial court has increased its support for poor students, and compared with previous years, the proportion of poor children on the imperial examination has increased greatly. ”

Lin Jiming nodded, "It's so good, the poor children are on the list, which can drive the development of their hometown, and I believe that in the future, Lin Quanguo will eventually appear, and everyone will be healthy and prosperous." Aiqing still needs to work harder on this matter, and I am very relieved to hand over this matter to you. ”

The official Shangshu bent down and saluted: "Weichen will live up to His Majesty's high expectations!"

After finishing speaking, he returned to his queue, and after a long time, Lin Jiming looked at Feng Xun and said, "Okay, let's talk about the Linquan Jianghu that Prime Minister Feng Cheng has in mind." ”

When he said this, he seemed very frivolous and didn't care, his attitude towards Feng Xun could be described as extremely sluggish, Feng Xun's face was gloomy, his heart was unhappy, he didn't speak, and none of the ministers wanted to be the first bird, so they were silent.

Lin Jiming's eyes were strange, he looked at these ministers, and asked: "What's the matter with you, when I was asking about other things just now, they all looked eager to try, and they interrupted me several times to talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and now they have all become yellow flower girls?

Lin Jiming said that it was you, but in fact, there was only one person who interrupted him several times before, from beginning to end, and the insult had risen to the peak.

Feng Xun's face was pale, he gritted his teeth with anger, the green tendons on his forehead jumped violently, he took a long breath, and stepped out in one step: "Since Your Majesty wants to hear opinions, then Weichen will recommend himself and talk about his opinions." ”

Lin Jiming nodded and said, "Prime Minister Feng, you say, I just listen." ”

He beckoned a maid beside him, attached it to the other person's ear, and explained, "I'm a little thirsty, go get me some grapes." ”

Although on the surface he was whispering, in fact, his voice was deliberately undisguised, so that all the ministers could hear it clearly.

He just wants to let the minister in front of him understand that in his eyes, the other party is nothing!

Feng Xun snorted coldly in his heart and said: "The minister thinks that if you want to clean up the rivers and lakes, it is far from enough to suppress it by force, not only is it easy to startle the snake, but it is also very likely to cause our side to suffer heavy losses that outweigh the losses." The most unfortunate thing is that the Jianghu sect should press the territory for our army and keep resisting foreigners, so it is really a disaster, so I think it is ......"

The voice stopped abruptly, Feng Xun suddenly stopped speaking, he looked at Lin Jiming with an angry face, the anger in his eyes was burning, and people didn't dare to look directly!

It turned out that Lin Jiming was wholeheartedly playing with his plate of crystal clear grapes, and he didn't care about his words at all.

Lin Jiming deliberately pretended to find that the other party was no longer talking, he spit out a grape skin, and looked at Feng Xun with an indifferent expression, "The prime minister continued, I listened." ”

Feng Xun held back his anger, shook his clothes, and continued: "So Weichen thinks that instead of fighting them to the death, it is better to find an ally and support a puppet martial arts alliance leader, so as to achieve the role of indirectly controlling the chaos and thieves in the rivers and lakes. ”

Lin Jiming asked, "So what? Have you chosen the prime minister, and which sect are you going to cooperate with?"

In fact, he has long considered this in his heart, and the so-called inquiry is just a plan to cover up.

Feng Xun didn't know much about Lin Jiming's secret actions, and he replied: "Wei Chen secretly contacted a sect, and he can definitely be called an excellent ally! That is the White Dragon Temple!"

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar, and everyone was frightened by Feng Xun's words.

Although Bailongguan is an extremely powerful gang, it is definitely an excellent existence as an ally, but the grievances between Bailongguan and the royal family cannot be easily resolved.

Feng Xun secretly contacted Bailongguan without anyone knowing, which is tantamount to slapping the face of the royal family, you must know that now that the negotiation can be said to be a connection, if you are not careful, it is difficult to say that it is collusion with foreign countries, and which emperor is to be put in the dismal ending of the nine clans.

Everyone was paying attention to Lin Jiming's expression, originally according to the usual situation, this group of people definitely responded to Feng Xun's decision, and then looked at the young emperor's deflated expression, and secretly ridiculed the other party's young age and ignorance of many matters in the court.

But nowadays, no one thinks that way anymore.

For two days in a row, Lin Jiming was like a different person, and his courage became a lot, even Feng Xun dared to humiliate openly, this young emperor was like practicing "Emperor's Heart Technique" overnight to the fullest, showing his bloodthirsty fangs, and playing with people's hearts was not only easy, but also full of confidence.

Their group of courtiers no longer dared to underestimate this prince, but they were vigilant in their hearts, for fear that they would be the next person to be publicly humiliated.

However, there are always accidents, Feng Xun has dominated the court for many years, and there are always so many courtiers who are willing to spill their blood for him, which is not in the court After being silent for a long time, an official dressed in a big red peacock patch walked out slowly.

The other party said calmly: "As the saying goes, there are no permanent friends, only eternal interests, although Bailongguan once had old grievances with our country, but that is the past, the most important thing at the moment is to win the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, Bailongguan is the best decision, and it is also a great opportunity for both of us to release our previous suspicions, and I think this method is feasible." ”

There are one and two, and another minister walked out of the queue and added: "Bailongguan has a friendship with our country for hundreds of years, I think as long as you are willing to soften it a little, the other party can also understand our attitude, and our country can also go one step further and go to the next level." ”

"I think that the White Dragon Temple was the state affair of our dynasty back then, where did so many things happen in the rivers and lakes, I believe that if we are friendly again, the world will eventually return to order!"

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In the face of such a large group of people's betrayal of him, Lin Jiming not only did not feel embarrassed at all, but even annoyed, but it seemed natural and expected.

He gently stuffed a grape into his mouth and said slowly: "It's hard for you Aiqing to think so much about me, I am deeply grateful, I have already made a decision about what Prime Minister Feng said about finding an ally, and I very much agree with Prime Minister Feng's idea." ”

Feng Xun squinted, not knowing what this guy was talking about, he originally expected that His Majesty the Emperor would definitely be angry and annoyed when he heard that he had secretly contacted Bailongguan, and even had a good conversation, but the other party actually agreed.

This is very different from what he had in mind at the beginning.

But at this moment, he couldn't think of what this guy was relying on, he replied loudly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your success! Weichen must do his best for Lin Quan......"

"But!" Lin Jiming raised his voice again and interrupted his words, Feng Xun didn't remember how many times he had been interrupted by the other party, as if he had not been taken seriously by the other party from the beginning, it was like child's play.

Lin Jiming looked directly at Feng Xun seriously for the first time without a trace of anger, he slowly spoke: "However, regarding the matter of allies, I have never considered the White Dragon Concept, but there are other candidates!"

Feng Xun chuckled in his heart, as if he thought of an extremely unfavorable result, his eyes began to become foggy.

Lin Jiming knew that the other party still guessed the probability, and replied: "That's right! It's the Blackwater Villa that checks and balances with the White Dragon Temple!"

Compared with the White Dragon Temple, the individual strength of the Black Water Villa is indeed slightly inferior, but the Black Water Villa is good at forming gangs, and it is more than one step ahead of the White Dragon View in terms of allies.

This creates a delicate balancing act.

Feng Xun immediately objected: "It's ridiculous! Blackwater Villa was originally just a gang of bandits, I'm afraid it's really inappropriate to cooperate with him!"

At the beginning, Blackwater Villa was a small gang of bandits, and it only by growing that it achieved today's great achievements, a person of the imperial court, cooperating with bandits, it is really a loss of face.

Lin Jiming didn't panic at all, "What kind of face does the Jianghu sect have to pay attention to, but it is the White Dragon View or the Black Water Villa, who is more noble?" Obviously, they are all a group of dwarves, if you have to say three, six, nine, etc., don't humiliate yourself." My willingness to cooperate with them is already enough for the other party, and in the end, it is up to me to decide who I cooperate with. ”

The words made the White Dragon View and the Blackwater Villa equally unbearable, which was simply extremely ironic.

However, Lin Jiming's words are unmistakable, for these people above the temple, they are just gangsters who are mixed in the rivers and lakes, and it is ridiculous to talk about being superior.

Will they look at you twice because you toad has a few pimples on its back?

Not only for these people in the rivers and lakes, but also for all those who practice martial arts.

Everything is inferior, but reading is high. In the eyes of these scholars who rely on the imperial examination, what martial arts alliance leader is just a product of competition between a group of uncivilized barbarians, vulgar and unbearable!

Feng Xun listened to Lin Jiming's words, and suddenly realized that he had secretly connected with Heishui Villa, no wonder he had been talking a lot more arrogantly recently, but it was interesting.

However, if you want to rely on the mere Blackwater Villa to show off your power in the court, it is too ridiculous.

He, Feng Xun, let this guy understand who is the real master of this country, and who controls the most army in this country!

And he, the emperor who has been cowering for many years, still obediently sits on his dragon chair and is the wooden man who doesn't need to speak, waiting for the end of fate.

Feng Xun said with a smile: "Weichen still thinks that it is better to cooperate with Bailongguan, if His Majesty insists on going his own way, I'm afraid Weichen can only withdraw his troops and wait until the time is ripe to make plans." ”

Once the troops are withdrawn, any extravagant hope of cleaning up the rivers and lakes is, unless the emperor is willing to use his own private army, but does he dare? As long as he is not afraid that he has just sent an army out of the royal city, he will be killed into the palace with thousands of troops and horses in the next moment, he can try!

This is also the reason why he, Feng Xun, can have no fear, he expected that the emperor Lao'er would not dare to act rashly.

Lin Jiming pretended to be melancholy and said, "That's really difficult." But it doesn't matter, since Prime Minister Feng Cheng feels that it is too tiring to lead troops to fight, it is better to do this, how about you hand over the army to me, I will help you take care of it!"

This time it was to take away Feng Xun's power of soldiers and horses, of course Feng Xun disagreed, he shook his sleeves and shouted angrily: "Your Majesty, do you really think that I, Feng someone, am easy to bully?"

Since the beginning of his entry into the court, he has been pretending to ignore him, and has looked down on and humiliated him several times, and now he is even depriving him of the power of soldiers and horses, Feng Xun can't bear it anymore after all, and his emotions explode!

"Presumptuous!" Lin Jiming's voice was even more terrifying, completely overshadowing Feng Xun's voice, he shouted loudly, "Above the court, how can you be allowed to shout and scream alone! To say that it is ugly, this world is my world after all, and it is already a heinous crime for the prime minister to hide his clumsy soldiers and horses, and now he dares to threaten me with this! What crime should you be guilty of?"

Feng Xun sneered, "What kind of crime should I be guilty of? Ridiculous! Lin family child, you have humiliated me several times, if it weren't for the old love of the first emperor, I would have thrown my sleeves and quit!"

Now that the words have been said for this part, Feng Xun is too lazy to do any more conspiracy and trickery, which is equivalent to directly picking out the relationship with Lin Jiming, just to see that you are unhappy, but to look down on you!

The rest of the ministers were all panicked in their hearts, and for Feng Xun's remarks that were enough to punish the Nine Clans, for a while, even the guys who originally followed Feng Xunhu's fake tiger power did not dare to stand in line and intervene easily.

Some things, looking at the excitement and non-separation, absolutely nothing matter, but when the real catastrophe comes, the nature of the matter is completely different, in the final analysis, they do not have a hard backstage behind them, they do not have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, just a group of people holding pens above the court, verbally scaring people.

Lin Jiming was furious, "It's the other way around! Feng Xun, you are not ashamed to say it, come here! Arrest him for me! Execute him on the spot!"

But at the end of these words, no one in the entire court made a move, and everyone was silent, some were powerless, and some did not dare to move at all.

Lin Jiming pointed at this group of guys and scolded: "A group of rice buckets, how do you raise you on weekdays, and now you really need you and none of them are useful!"

Lin Jiming glanced at it again, and the prince beside him said fairly: "You go and get his head!"

Feng Xun sneered at this time: "I advise Your Majesty not to play this kind of cleverness, if the prince leaves His Majesty by half a step, Weichen dares to guarantee that His Majesty's head will also fall together!"

The prince in charge of the inner house, who is strong in martial arts, is said to have already entered the Tengyun Realm, Feng Xu dared to say such a thing, and he didn't know where he got the confidence.

Feng Xun clapped his hands and said, "Come in!"

At this time, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and holding a handle of floating dust slowly walked into the main hall, saying that it was slow, but in fact, the speed was extremely fast, and he came to Feng Xun's side in a few moments.

The Taoist priest had a white brocade belt wrapped around his waist, and he was windless and automatic, and the fairy spirit was lucky.

Feng Xun introduced: "This is the Great Heavenly Master of the White Dragon Temple, and he is also a Tengyun Realm. ”

When he said this, he didn't look at Lin Jiming, but at the prince behind him, as if to warn the other party not to act rashly.

Lin Jiming pointed at Feng Xun and scolded, "Rebel ministers and thieves, you actually brought this kind of person into the palace, I didn't expect you to have this idea a long time ago! Traitor, you will eventually be punished!"

The rest of the ministers saw that the two sides had reached the point of inseparability, and fled one after another, fearing that once the time came, they would become cannon fodder on both sides.

Feng Xun smiled, he turned around, looked at the people fleeing in all directions, opened his hands, as if embracing the world, he enjoyed it, after all, he said the words that he had always wanted to say, but he hadn't said for a long time, "This world is my Feng Xun's after all!hahaha~!"

His laughter was arrogant, like a thunderclap, shaking the heavens and the earth!

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, all the lights in the hall shook, and even the glass lamps decorated on the roof were violently turbulent, ping-pong!

Feng Xun originally thought that it was the prince who couldn't help but make a move after all, and sneered in his heart, this Great Heavenly Master of the White Dragon Temple would help block the attack.

But the next moment, a black shadow flashed in front of him, and before Feng Xun could react, he was punched on the forehead, like an upside-down onion, and fell to the ground with a bang!

His face was smashed into the ground entirely, and in an instant, his ears buzzed, and he only felt a splitting headache and blood!

The man carried him by the neck like a fowl that had been weak from the wind, and lifted his feet off the ground.

Feng Xun opened his eyes slightly, and then he saw the appearance of this person, wearing a green shirt, with a playful smile on his face, looking at him, and quipped: "Prime Minister Feng Cheng is so powerful, he can't bear it so soon, and wants to sit on that dragon chair?"

He looked to the side, this matter The Great Heavenly Master was fighting with the prince and the prince in a hot battle, and it was difficult to protect himself for a while.