Chapter 55: Tribute
Song Mofei muttered something in his mouth, but finally didn't say it. 【】
Maybe Song Li's reputation is too deep-rooted, so Song Mofei has a little contempt for him in his bones, and this contempt is difficult to change in a short time. Maybe only after suffering Song Li's losses a few times will he realize how difficult this opponent is.
Long Ziyan waved her hand, and the two princes said goodbye and left. For Long Ziyan, she didn't care what these two idiots thought. She also doesn't care much about Prince Zhong's current predicament, which has nothing to do with her.
On the contrary, it was Song Li's kid who made her feel more and more unfathomable. She knew exactly how violent the destructive power of the eruption of the fire in the center of the earth was. Even a great master of the Yuan Infant Stage like his father did not dare to face it head-on. Song Li is at most the peak of the cultivation period of the body refining period, and when he encounters the power of heaven and earth like the fire in the center of the earth, it is estimated that he will turn into ashes in an instant!
She also had the same confusion as the two princes, how did Song Li escape from Langya Cave......? He's not afraid of fire?
Long Ziyan carefully combed through the front and back of the matter, and found that there was only one possibility. At such a high temperature, even the rocks could melt, and Long Ziyan didn't think that there was any place in the Langya Cave that could escape the scorching heat. There is only one reason why he can live: he is not afraid of fire!
I heard my father say that if you cultivate the fire system exercises and reach the masters of the late Yuan Infant period, you are no longer afraid of flames. Even in extremely high temperatures, it can live comfortably. Song Li's realm can't be in the late Yuan Infant period, and his cultivation may not be a fire-based exercise, but there are countless miracles in the world, and Song Li may be one of them.
The only thing Long Ziyan was sure of was that Song Li must have some treasure on his body that could restrain the fire of the heart of the earth. Otherwise he would not have been able to escape from the erupting crater.
Thinking of this, Long Ziyan's heart moved, since he was not even afraid of the fire in the center of the earth, was it possible that he could also deal with the veins of "poisonous fire" in her body? The more she thought about it, the more she moved, Long Ziyan decided to find a time to meet this strange boy.
At the same time, in the song and dance hall of Prince Zhong's mansion.
Prince Zhong, King Jing, King Kang, no, it should be called King Kangjun now, the three of them sat in front of the low table, drinking while admiring the graceful posture of the dancing girls. However, the minds of the three people were obviously not on this, and their eyes were a little absent-minded.
The three secret service divisions had returned to the Holy Emperor's hands, and Prince Zhong knew that his mansion must be under the strict surveillance of the Inspectorate. In the past, they used the three major secret services to deal with the people of the Holy Emperor's family, but now this situation has been reversed, and they sigh when they think about it.
Political struggles are sometimes like this, the situation changes so quickly that no one knows what the next moment will bring.
The reason why Prince Zhong wanted to summon King Jing and King Kangjun to come and enjoy the song and dance was to show the Holy Emperor. Don't think that just because you have won a confrontation is going to hit us hard. Tell you, we don't care, dance and dance. That's basically what it means.
In fact, this defeat was really hard for them. Huang Tingxuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, has been imprisoned and has basically no chance of survival. They have one less effective spokesman and ally above the court, and it will not be so easy to meddle in the government in the future.
Fortunately, Prince Zhong had already prepared, and there were still his people among the five major scholars in the cabinet, but this person's power and influence were too much worse than Huang Tingxuan's, and he could only cultivate them slowly.
The most painful thing for Prince Zhong was the loss of control of the three secret services, which made them constrained in everything they did and kept under the watchful eye of the enemy. It's a really uncomfortable taste.
Thinking of this, Prince Zhong glared at Song Xingyun, the king of Kangjun, fiercely, and Song Xingyun's heart was weak for a while.
"Fifth brother, seventh brother, I really don't know what to say. You guys beat me up and get angry, or just kill me!" Song Xingyun's already pale face was now getting paler and paler, and the failure of this plan hit him harder than anyone else. He raised his glass and drank it down, his face flushed a little, and he choked on the strong wine and coughed.
"Lao Jiu, you drink slowly. King Jing Song Xingguang has a good relationship with Song Xingyun, and seeing Lao Jiu, who has always been calm and confident, so out of shape, his heart is filled with a little sympathy.
Prince Zhong frowned and did not speak.
"Seventh brother, my brother planted it this time, and it was a complete failure. Even the three major secret service divisions left to me by the emperor have been lost, what face do you have to survive the world?" Song Xingyun poured himself a glass of wine, tilted his neck and poured it again.
"That's enough!" Prince Zhong said in a deep voice: "Lao Jiu, there are so many pairs of eyes staring at us outside, don't be drunk here." Political struggle is like this, either you die or I live, the situation is treacherous and changeable, and no one can always be a winner. We are playing a big game of chess, and we don't care too much about the gains and losses of one city and one pool. It's a shame to lose control of the three secret services, but it's not the end of the world. Although the Holy Emperor had a slight upper hand with this victory, we were far from being discouraged. Don't forget that your seventh brother also has 100,000 heavy soldiers of the Imperial Capital City Defense Division in his hands, and these 100,000 soldiers and horses are right under the nose of the Holy Emperor, making it difficult for him to sleep and eat, and he can become a nail inserted into his heart at any time! Without Huang Tingxuan, we still have others, who have lost the three major special service divisions, you Song Xingyun is still Song Xingyun! Isn't there no three major special service divisions, you are not the 'poisonous snake Lao Jiu' that everyone is afraid of?"
In order to avoid being heard by the dancing girls outside, Prince Zhong deliberately lowered his voice. Although his voice was low, the pressure on Song Xingyun was not small at all. He shivered with excitement, and most of the alcohol disappeared. I thought to myself, what am I doing? Continuing like this will only make Prince Chung more alienated. It can even cause death.
He knew too much about Prince Zhong's secrets. If Prince Chung decides to abandon him as a counselor, will he still be spared? Sometimes, only the dead are the most loyal, because they never have the opportunity to betray.
He is now temporarily out of position, but he must not show weakness.
"Fifth brother, seventh brother, I'm sorry! I just lost my temper. Song Xingyun sat up straight, and said, "Don't worry, I've already adjusted." ”
Prince Zhong nodded, his eyes flashed with a bit of appreciation, and he said lightly: "This is the first time in your life that you have suffered a defeat, right? It doesn't matter, there are no winning generals in this world, no matter who they are, they will be defeated several times. The most important thing is to learn from your failures so that you can avoid the same mistakes in the future. This time, the Holy Emperor snatched the three major secret service divisions from us, and this is only temporary. Does he think that if he finds the sixth assistant, he will be able to sit back and relax? Hehe, I know the sixth person too well, and he is not this material at all. You say, will we sit back and watch the scenery of Lao Liuli and be his Ming prince?"
King Jing Song Xingguang pursed his lips disdainfully: "The sixth man is like a girl, if I roar, he will be scared and shrink." The Holy Emperor is afraid that this time he will look away, and find a cowardly and incompetent waste to check and balance us, it is simply a rush to the doctor. ”
Song Xingyun pondered for a moment and said happily: "What the fifth brother said is right. We must defeat the old six and take back the three major secret service divisions. He had fallen into a misunderstanding in his thinking before, Prince Zhong woke up the dreamer with a word, it doesn't matter if he fails temporarily, it's definitely not too late to make amends, as long as they find a way to get rid of the sixth and then take back the three major secret service divisions, isn't it?
Since the Holy Emperor could snatch the three major secret service divisions from them, why couldn't they take them back? Thinking about this, Song Xingyun swept away the previous haze, and his spirit and spirit were completely restored.
"With the lesson of this time, this matter needs to be considered in the long run, we have to wait for the right time, if we don't launch it, it will be enough, and as soon as it is launched, it will be thunderous, so that the Holy Emperor and his family will be caught off guard. Prince Zhong said in a low voice: "What we have to do now is to endure for some time, and when they are careless, they will definitely give us a chance." ”
Song Xingguang and Song Xingyun both nodded frequently, fully agreeing with Prince Zhong's words.
The three of them continued to drink and enjoy the dance, and after a while, Prince Zhong suddenly remembered something, and said: "Old Seven, next month, the King of Angzang in the Western Regions will send someone to send a tribute. Not only because the hundred-year-old snow mountain black mud stem is rare in the world, but the most important thing is that this thing is good for the little princess's body. ”
Song Xingguang said with a smile: "Don't worry, fifth brother, you can rest assured that I will do things." That, is the little princess's body still the same?"
Prince Zhong sighed: "She is a natural alien vein, and she can only suppress it for the time being, and she can't find a way to cure it radically." ”
Song Xingguang smiled and said: "Fifth brother, don't worry too much, it's a big deal that the little princess will live in your mansion for a lifetime, anyway, as long as you don't have to worry about your life, it's a great blessing." ”
Prince Zhong's cheek couldn't help twitching, and his heart said What do you know, if you knew her identity, you wouldn't say it so easily. Let this little ancestor live in the mansion, just like holding an irregular Jiao Lei in his hand, maybe it will explode at any time. In case there is a different pulse in her body, there are three long and two short, how can I explain it to the people of that family? Besides, where do I have a good friendship with other people? It's just a little affection for an elder in their clan.
If he didn't want to make a friendship with that behemoth, he might be able to take advantage of it in the future, how could he take such a big hot potato?
Seeing that Prince Zhong's face was not good, a smile appeared on the corner of Song Xingyun's mouth, and he complimented: "The fifth brother's reputation has spread all over the world, and the barbarians in the Western Regions only know that there is a fifth brother in the Holy Lion Empire but do not know that there is a holy emperor, and every time the tribute will only be sent to the prince's mansion instead of the palace, which is enough to prove the people's wishes." ”
This is certainly not the case. The Kingdom of Angzang is a vassal state of the Holy Lion Empire, and they have long wanted to become independent, but the Holy Emperor, who is bent on unifying the continent, will naturally not agree. So King Angzang and the loyal prince with ulterior motives eyebrows and hooked up with each other. Prince Chung promised the king of Aung Zang that he would allow the kingdom to become independent as long as he ascended the throne. And King Aung Zang also promised that if Prince Zhong did something, he would definitely send troops to help Prince Zhong. In order to show his sincerity, King Aung Zang would give Prince Chung a generous gift every year, called "tribute", but in fact, it was first sent to Prince Chung's mansion, and the important things Prince Chung left behind, and then sent those ordinary gifts to the palace.
Although everyone knows about this matter, but Song Xingyun's sycophant came over, Prince Zhong was very useful, and his face eased a lot, after all, the four-character comment of "the people's heart" is really too much for him.