Perhaps infected by the other party's solemn expression, Yin Xinmei immediately stretched out his left hand with the same expression, clasped the other party's forearm, and the two shook it hard, as if they had signed some kind of contract.

"Let's be honest. After the two of them sat down again, the atmosphere of the contract made Yin Xinmei tell his true thoughts, "Originally, I wasn't sure, but now I feel that the emperor doesn't want to kill me at all." ”

"Why?" asked Lu Wande in surprise.

"If you study history," Yin Xinmei began to explain with the patience of the teacher to the elementary school students, "no matter which country or dynasty, have you ever heard of being executed for his meritorious service? ”

"I thought so at the time, but seeing how serious they were, I started to think it made sense. But," Lu Wande looked at her inquiringly, "why does Your Majesty let them not make a decision?"

"If you don't take into account other factors," she alluded to putting aside her identity as a hidden lotus, "there is no harm to the emperor in my life, but my death is very good for some courtiers, and it can also make the emperor have a reputation for being upright and killing innocents." That's why they grasped such a simple truth to make a big fuss and confuse the public. ”

"Makes sense, makes sense!

"Actually, to put it bluntly, there are not a few twists and turns, the emperor is arguing with them, on the one hand, he wants to see who makes the most trouble, after all, he himself said that he sees through people's hearts," Yin Xinmei remembered the scene in the basement, "On the one hand, it is likely to be boring, I think the current situation is that there are two possibilities." ”

"Yes, but," Lu Wande suddenly remembered, "did Your Majesty really tell you that he sees through people's hearts?"

"No, the Emperor said it to Captain Infant himself, and then Captain Infant told me. He especially admired the emperor's talent. Yin Xinmei said without changing his face.

"The captain admires Your Majesty a lot, but he didn't even mention it to me······ Lu Wande looked a little frustrated.

"Moreover, the Emperor knows that you and Captain Infant are both men of good character, and he does not need to tell you what he thinks, for he knows exactly what you will do next; ”

"Quite a deep insight!" Lu Wande looked at him with admiration, "you speak in a way that feels like you've known him for many years! No wonder he leaves the matter of purchasing ore and firearms to you alone." ”

"Oh, did the Emperor say that at the meeting?" she began to understand, "so it seems that it was after the meeting that His Majesty mentioned that you only knew about the caravan and the relatives of the toy dealers?"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"Of course not," Yin Xin waved his hand, quite cooperatively acting out the small theater of lies that began with himself and continued by the emperor, "I originally wanted to keep a low profile and complete the procurement, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to disobey my wishes." ”

"If something like this happens, it's impossible for you to be obscure, and now it seems that those people should be jealous. Lu Wande hit the right thing this time.

"Who are the descendants of those traitors we talked about earlier?" Hidden Eyebrows realized that they had been out of focus for too long.

"Descendants? Oh yes, that's right. They are indeed descendants of Jalal's former royal family. ”

"Did you slip through the net?"

"There is a very confidential matter that not many people know, although no one dared to mention it in the meeting, but I am sure that it is definitely related," Lu Wande said, stroking his chin with his index finger in a fake manner, "Do you know? When the first emperor first ascended the throne, the power of the Senate was still in full swing. ”

"So what?"

At that time, they forced the former emperor to promulgate the "Decree of Honor and Nobility" to strengthen the power of the Senate, and after hitting a big nail, they tried every means to depose the former emperor from the throne. ”

"Everyone knows this history, is there anything new?"

"What is new is that before the Mighty Coalition set out on the expedition, the former captain of the pigeon cage secretly arrested almost the entire Senate with the secret order of the Emperor, and less than ten of them escaped to the Gentiles after receiving the news in advance. ”

"Is the news conclusive?" Hidden eyebrows were shocked.

"Listen to me," Luvand said with the fervor of telling ghost stories around the campfire in the forest camp, "and the arrested senators are the true Vixion Cathes, pure-blooded Wisphers who never intermarry with other races. The Senate vetoed almost all the Emperor's wills, and in short, they could see that the Emperor would never compromise with them like the other kings, and it is said that every time he went to the Senate, the waters of the Rehe River would begin to turn into blood, and each time it became larger and larger. Therefore, when the first emperor first ascended the throne, the Senate wanted to control him and suppress him until one day he could be executed. ”

Yin Xinmei listened fascinated, which made Lu Wande quite satisfied, and this was the effect he wanted.

So, it was in this context that the Cage Guard was born. At that time, there were 15,000 guards, and the emperor relied on the power of the pigeon coop to wipe out the senate, because it was much easier to deal with their families, slaves, and civilian armies after a successful beheading operation. Although these people are numerous and spread over various territories, they are very scattered and unorganized, and as soon as they heard the bad news of their masters, they basically surrendered without a few sticks. ”

"At that time, the guards were not called pigeon cages, they were called guards. The guards drove the patriarchs and their servants, slaves and their families into the wilderness, surrounded them with a high iron fence, stripped them naked, stripped them of their flesh, sprinkled their wounds with delicious salt and spices, and enclosed them in the fence with domestic animals and poultry, and then let tigers, jackals, vultures, and other wild beasts and birds of prey on them, and set huge traps on the ground to hunt them like cattle. These poor men kept jumping up and down, crawling up and down the fence and wailing, blood and feathers splattering like a flock of pigeons in human skin, which is where the name of the pigeon cage guard comes from. ”

As for the senators who had fled to foreign countries, they leaked their secrets to the former royal family of Jalal, so by the time the mighty coalition surrounded the Golden City, the crown prince, his wife, and his son and daughter had already fled unnoticed. Therefore, the crown prince and the defecting senator colluded with each other abroad, and also had close contacts with the remaining hereditary nobles at home, and the Grand Duke of Douli, you know, is it said that he had a close personal relationship with the former crown prince, so he was instigated to use this old trick against him when His Majesty first ascended the throne, just as the Senate did with the former emperor, but his rank was too low, and he died before he appeared for ten minutes. ”

"So the hunger strike was just a lame rehearsal when Emperor Saiser first succeeded to the throne, and despite the terrible script and the dull and pompous performance, it tested the young emperor and cooked a series of appetizers containing evil intentions and intrigue, so the real feast has not yet begun?"

"Now you see, my material is fresh enough, isn't it?" Louvand triumphantly, enjoying all the joy of the storyteller as he climbs to the top of the plot and gains an all-round perspective.

"So the captain of the pigeon basket with the Emperor's secret order is—"

"Infant North, Captain Baby's father. ”