The more chaotic the world is, the more chaotic the rivers and lakes will be, and the more chaotic the rivers and lakes, the more they will not pay attention to the rules of the rivers and lakes, and kill people at every turn.

Li Xuandu, who had been watching coldly, looked at the palace official.

This Xuan Shengji of the Lady Sect covered her mouth with a splendid folding fan and chuckled, "One is a powerful man in the rivers and lakes who is expected to reach the top of the martial arts master, and the other is a famous man in Jiangnan who is expected to become an official, one died here, and the other died there, interesting, interesting." ”

You Shuang put away the blood-stained dagger in his hand and stood respectfully.

Li Xuandu opened his mouth and asked, "This Lady Long is also your person?"

The palace official did not deny it, and instructed You Shuang: "You step back first, go to see Qing Huiji, and follow her arrangement." ”

You Shuang respectfully agreed, ignoring the blood stained on her dress, and slowly retreated outside the hall.

In this way, in this main hall, except for one dead person, there are only two living people left, Li Xuandu and the palace official.

Only then did the palace official put away the folding fan and asked, "Does Zifu still remember the scene when he saved me?"

Li Xuandu nodded.

The palace official pursed his lips and smiled: "Long Yuyun was also present at that time, but at that time, he was just a small person, and he may not be able to enter the eyes of the Purple Mansion, but I made an oath at that time, and one day I will let him repay it a hundred times." ”

Li Xuandu is not a stupid person, and he immediately understood many meanings in the palace official's words that had not been completely pointed out, and his face was a little unsightly, because he found that he had saved the palace official, which indirectly led to the fate of the Long family today, just as he saved Chen Guhong, causing the He family to be robbed of half of the family business.

Li Xuandu was silent for a while, and then said: "Words must be done, deeds must be fruitful, and he is worthy of being the next sect master of the Maiden Sect." ”

The palace official didn't mind the sarcasm in Li Xuandu's words, and still shared with him the big drama he had carefully planned," In the third year of Tianbao, I returned to the Lady Sect from the imperial capital, and since then I began to deliberately target the layout of the Long Clan, and then I found that there is not harmony between Long Roaring Cloud's wife You Shuang and Long Roaring Cloud, so I chose to start with this Dragon Lady, the specific process is much simpler than I imagined, it only took about less than a year, that is, when Tianbao was four years old, she has become a disciple of our Lady Sect, but at this time, I was not in a hurry, but let her first pull Sun Hui, who has a thief's heart and no thief's guts, into the water, and in the next two years, she will be between these two men。 ”

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "Sure enough, it is the means of the Maiden Sect." ”

The palace official smiled: "It's not that we women are ruthless, but you men are too greedy." Long Yuyun may not know about You Shuang and Sun Hui, but he wants to use this matter to drive the Sun family out of Ping'an County after he sets foot in the realm of returning to the truth, and Sun Hui is not sincere, he just wants to use You Shuang to devour the Long family's property, the two of them calculated with each other, but in the end they ended up in general, who is to blame?"

Li Xuan was noncommittal, and instead asked, "Then why did you choose to get rid of the Long Clan at this time?"

The palace official gently pinched the end of the folding fan and said: "Our Maiden Sect acts, pay attention to planning and moving, I have already completed the layout of the Long family's affairs, when to move him depends on my mind, the reason why I chose this time is because of the Purple Mansion." ”

"Me?" Li Xuandu asked, "If you have something to say, please speak directly." ”

The palace official smiled and said eloquently: "I like to open the skylight and say bright words." Since Zifu asked, then I'll start from the beginning. The root cause of this matter can be traced back to before and after the First World War of the Imperial Palace, at that time, the Purple Mansion was at its peak, in the rivers and lakes, known as the first of the four little masters, and the first person on the list of Shaoxuan, and at that time, I had not yet set foot in the realm of returning to the truth, so naturally it could not be compared with the Purple Mansion, plus most of the people who participated in the First Battle of the Imperial Capital were people from the Twelve Sects of the Righteous Path, so I did not participate in this battle. As far as I know, Zifu is involved in the whole process, and I should know a lot about this kind of details. ”

Li Xuan didn't have any words, so he was silent and acquiesced.

The palace official continued: "To put it bluntly, the root of the battle in the imperial capital is actually the redistribution of power in the temple after the death of the emperor, after all, the new monarch is too small, and the temple always has to decide a person who can really make the final decision, so there is this big war that shakes the world." This battle involved three major forces, namely: the Queen Mother, the Four Ministers, and the Clan. ”

"The Queen Mother doesn't need to say much, it's Xie Pheasant, when Wude entered the palace in the second year, she was just a little beauty, and in just five years, from a beauty to a nobleman, from a noble person to Jieyu, and then from Jieyu to Zhaoyi. In the seventh year of Wude, she was already ranked as the ninth concubine, in the eighth year of Wude, she was promoted to a concubine, in the ninth year of Wude, she was promoted to a noble concubine, and in the tenth year of Wude, she was canonized as the queen. Then in the eleventh year of Wude, Emperor Muzong died, and left an edict before his death to let her take charge of the six seals of the Son of Heaven; the following year in the first year of Tianbao, she changed from the queen to the queen mother, and after the change of the emperor in the second year of Tianbao, she already held the power of listening to the government in the court, counting carefully, but only eleven years. ”

"The four ministers are headed by Zhang Suqing, in the Muzong period, the four of them are cabinet ministers, Zhang Suqing is the first assistant of the cabinet, in charge of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the most powerful, the most respectful status, plus Zhang Suqing is upright, dare to speak out about the fault of the Son of Heaven, so at that time someone said: 'I don't see Suqing, I don't know the respect', which can be seen. After Zhang Suqing joined forces with the other three ministers, including the six ministries, the general political envoys, and the inspection yuan were all in their hands, and they used Qin Xiang as a general to control the power of military attachés, which can be said to be a moment of power. It's just that after Mu Zong's death, no matter how powerful they are, they are still courtiers after all, and in the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, they have to be subservient to Xie Pheasant, who has become the queen mother. Zhang Suqing and others were tired of their reputation in later generations, even if they knew that the Queen Mother had bad intentions towards them, even if they had foreign aid from Qin Xiang's army in their hands, they couldn't make up their minds to strike first, and finally ended up being the last to strike at others. ”

"Then there is the clan, headed by King Jin, the brother of Emperor Muzong's compatriots. During the reign of the four ministers, the clan was vigorously excluded, so that the clan did not have half of the real power, and the clan therefore had a deep resentment towards the four ministers, so during the change of the imperial capital, the clan headed by the King of Jin chose to form an alliance with the Empress Dowager Xie and attack the four ministers who controlled the government. ”

"After the battle of the imperial capital, the four ministers were all killed, and the clan and the queen mother were jointly in charge of the government, so there is a scene of the regent and the queen mother training together. ”

The palace official looked at Li Xuandu and asked, "Am I right?"

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "That's roughly the case." ”

The palace official gently patted his palm with a folding fan, "Actually, I've always been curious, the four ministers are obviously in control, even if they take care of their reputation and then control others, they can completely turn defeat into victory, just with a queen mother with an unstable foundation and a group of false names who have no power for many years, how can they fight for power? It's a big deal to let Qin Xiang lead the army into Beijing, but why did they lose in the end?"

She tilted her head and asked, "Zifu, do you know?"

Li Xuandu said calmly: "It's not a secret, from the time I left the Prime Minister's Mansion to the time I fled from the Imperial Capital City, I was always involuntarily, I didn't know how to win, and I didn't know why I lost." ”

"That's the article. The palace official chuckled and said, "But the Purple Mansion is also too modest, maybe you really don't know how to win, but you may not know why you lost." The article here is nothing more than that, in addition to you on the surface of the True Realm masters, there are also those masters of the Heavenly and Human Realms, and even the old immortals on the Lao Xuan List who are involved in this matter, but I don't know what happened in it, it actually caused the four sects headed by the Qing Weizong and the four ministers who were in power to lose a lot. ”

Li Xuandu, who had always had a calm expression, raised his head suddenly and looked at the palace official.

The palace official seemed to be unable to stand Li Xuandu's "hot" gaze, and opened the folding fan in his hand with a snap, covering most of his face, revealing only a pair of crescent-like eyebrows, and a soft voice came from behind the fan, "Why did the Taiping Sect and the Jing Zen Sect choose to close the mountain before and after the change in the imperial capital? Is it just because they don't want to participate in this matter? Or is it that their move to close the mountain is to cover people's eyes, in fact, they have already been secretly involved in this matter? Or is it that they actually made a wrong bet and had to close the mountain?"

The palace official looked at Li Xuandu and lowered his voice slightly, "Zifu, what do you say?"