Cultivation of the Empress of Comprehensive Martial Arts

In an instant, the eyes of the four people changed at the same time.Even Yan Song himself did not expect that Lu Qing would come to this hand, which was beyond his expectation.At the same time, he secretly lamented that the people who can be sent down this time are not simple roles.

But having said that, he couldn't take it back.

"It's all for the sake of the Holy One. Don't dare to say anything serious. Even if it's more serious, I still have to bear it. The big deal, I'll leave my old bones here. Then I'll go to the disaster relief later. The three of you will be fully responsible for the investigation." Yan Song said for the time being Give in and don't forcefully conflict with the other party.There are two on the opposite side, and he only has one, so the conflict is not dominant.

He was going to contact the local cabinet forces first, and then see what they could do.

"Okay! That's it." Lu Qing made a decision directly, without giving the other party a chance to object.

Zhao Ze in the audience had a wry smile on his face. Originally, Yan Song thought he had something to play and didn't need to be kicked off. Now it seems that it is still the same.

Chapter 280

In the afternoon, in front of the lake, at the invitation of Xiao Luan, the people from the other three families who secretly dealt with the matter had also arrived.Originally, there were conflicts among the four families, but this matter was related to all four families, and they gathered here for their own interests.

Even if they didn't see the emperor's intentions, the rest of the family had already seen it.They had already passed on the news, so the emperor's purpose this time was already obvious.It is precisely because of this that they gather here.

At the table in the private room, there was a jade plate with delicacies, but the four of them did not move their chopsticks. The four of them looked at each other, secretly guessing the intention of each other's trip.Xiao Luan started and talked about the recent disrepair of the river embankment, and then everyone started to really get into the topic.

"Isn't it just corruption. Who is not corrupt when an official? Is there anyone who is an official these days to plead for the people? A joke! Why do people who are not corrupt come to be officials? The salary of a few hundred taels can last for a few days. If we want to really investigate, we must first send everyone in the court to the wild, especially Song Daoren himself. Then we will see who can support it." Zhao Gou said with a face of sarcasm.

This time his family is also involved. Of course, if we really want to investigate, not only this place, but also other places.All along, they have a tacit understanding with the emperor, four or six, four of them, six of the emperor.

Now the emperor said to investigate some corruption cases.This is simply a ridiculous joke. If you want to talk about greed, he, Daoist Song, is the first one.

"Some things are just three or two things if you don't investigate them, but if you really investigate them, they will be overwhelming." Cai Xingzong responded lightly.

"Song Daochang is Xiang Zhuang dancing sword this time. Who doesn't know that he wants to play Yuntang's tricks. Even if it doesn't happen this time, there will be a next time. We can't avoid it. It's better to think about how to solve it. You were in the past Bai Jian wanted to divert attention, but it's a pity that Tianjian Wuming is neglected." Chen Xu directly explained the purpose of their trip.

"If it wasn't for that Wuming who came out of nowhere, at least Zhu Tiedan could get out of here this time." Zhao Gou continued.

Originally, they planned to make a big news nearby, and then asked the officials on the spot to hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment for handling. At that time, the people in the court would make another move, so that at least Zhu Tiedan would not pay attention to this matter.It can even divert the emperor's attention.

But unfortunately, it failed, and now their Zhao family's reputation in the world has plummeted.Of course, they didn't care too much.

"One Zhu Tiedan can't affect the overall situation, but what you do has a great impact." Chen Xu said lightly.

"Okay, we're not here to talk about these things." Seeing that there seemed to be some lightning sparks on both sides, Cai Xingzong pulled back his words.

"Damn it! Which bastard came up with such an insidious method? I'm going to chop him up." Zhao Gou thought of something, and his mood was extremely bad.

"Isn't it the seventh princess of Yuntang?" Chen Xu smiled lightly.

"I heard that there is a behind-the-scenes chess player behind the Seventh Princess, who seems to be a woman. This is all her handwriting." Cai Xingzong said the information he got.

"Isn't she going to marry a man? It seems to be called Xue... What is Xue?" Zhao Gou was taken aback when he heard this.

"Xue Qianye, Xuehai's favorite student. However, the princess in front of me has nothing to do with us." Xiao Luan said a certain person's name.

"We have to settle the matter in front of us." Chen Xu also reminded at the right time.

how to say.Let's not say that the four of them are not yet united. Even if they are united, the officialdom has its own set of rules, and they are the beneficiaries of the rules.It is precisely because of this set of rules that they can rule Shengming.

So they all play the game within the rules.No one dares to break this rule. It is fine externally, but internally flipping the table is an enemy of all players within the rules.They can't afford it.Not to mention, who knows if the person sitting opposite will stab a knife in the back.

Unite for the benefit, then betrayal for the greater good is a matter of course.

Although the people sitting here are all Second Young Masters, their family power is almost equal to that of the First Young Master.As for why the eldest sons didn't come here, those eldest sons have long been officials in the court, unless they are members of the investigation team, it is naturally impossible to put down their official positions and come here.

"That's why I invited the three of you here." Xiao Luan said at the right time.

"What? You want to disobey?" Chen Xu couldn't help laughing.

"Don't dare! What we have been doing all along is nothing more than obedience and disobedience. Disobedience is tantamount to giving your head to Daoist Song."

Obedience to the public and disobedience to the yin, this is exactly what aristocratic families have been doing.After all, no matter how strong the emperor is, there is only one person. If one person might kill them all, but one person cannot govern the world.Once others are asked to participate, they can secretly lay hands on it.

So although the emperor wanted to kill them all, he still had to cooperate with them.

"Tell me! What's your idea?" Zhao Gou asked impatiently.

"Guys, it's clear now that the emperor is determined to promote Yuntang's strategy. This time it won't work, and there will be another time. We are not so lucky every time we only encounter such trivial things." Xiao Luan continued to narrate current situation.

"so what?"

"So, I don't know if you are interested in playing big games."

The moment Xiao Luan spoke, the expressions on other people's faces changed.

"Big one?" Cai Xingzong frowned.

This big has many meanings.

"Do you have a plan?" Chen Xu asked with interest.

"The present may not be an opportunity for us. One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. Daoist Song has kept his two sons stable before, and they have never had a chance to compete. But right now, the two have sent one person to this place. This means that What, everyone will understand." Xiao Luan said lightly about the current opportunity.

"Throne!" Chen Xu reacted instantly.

"Exactly. My idea is very simple. Help the new king to take the position. On this condition, let the new king promise not to follow the strategy of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, this country still belongs to the Song family, and the power of the vassal king and the royal family will not be the same. We are dead and broken. If the emperor is changed, we are still us. It may even go a step further. After all, not everyone has the ability of Daoist Song."

That's right!For them, the biggest opportunity is the two princes.The royal family has its own power, which is why they dare not overthrow each other openly.Those people don't care which son Song Daochang passes on to, but they care whether this country is still in the hands of the Song family.

"The eldest prince is very close to the vassal king. If we do this, we should secretly support the second prince." Zhao Gou also reacted at this time.

"Good idea. But I'm afraid the emperor will change his mind because of our joining. He has always been afraid that the prince will mix with us. The two princes must have people from Jinyiwei next to them, so there is no need to think about it." Chen Xu immediately said what was in front of him. problem lies in.

The emperor kept a close eye on these big families.Once that prince mixed up with them, it would definitely have nothing to do with the throne.Of course, they have also tried to use this method to pull people off their horses, but it is a pity that the emperor is not easy to deceive.Their chess pieces are also lost in vain.

"You don't need to pass on a message, just push him up secretly. He is bound to be on fire with the First Prince, and will naturally need external force at that time." Xiao Luan said confidently.

"Two tigers compete for food." Chen Xu asked immediately.

Chapter 281

In the afternoon, on the official road of Jiancang, a group of officers and soldiers were fighting with a group of robbers who came out of nowhere.This time the robbers seemed to be naked, but all of them were very skilled. Li Chen had previously asked them why they attacked the convoy.The other party's answer was only two words.

food!

On the surface, this person seemed to be a refugee nearby, who ran over to grab food because he had nothing to eat.But Li Chen felt wrong again.It's normal for refugees to grab food.I can't survive anymore.Who cares if it's the government's convoy.

But if we talk about refugees, there are too many masters here.Although it is said that there is martial arts in this world, Sheng Ming's study of Buddhism and Taoism is prevalent, so it should not be so abundant in martial arts.Moreover, he had already explained to the other party that his food was for disaster relief, but unfortunately the people on the other side did not believe it.

Li Chen regretted that he didn't bring out the master sent to him by the second prince.Originally, he thought it was not a big deal this time. He was worried about something wrong with the granary, so he left the other party there, but it didn't seem so peaceful here.

"They can't hold on anymore, the food will be available soon. Kill!" The headed strong man waved the nine-ringed sword in his hand and shouted to the younger brother beside him.

For a moment, the little brothers rushed towards the government as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.These people are desperadoes. Compared with the life that may be killed in the future, the food in front of them is the most important thing.

"Damn it! Hold on, I've already sent people to rescue, and the army will be here soon." Li Chen said to the soldiers beside him.As for why not the leader.

The middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears ran away in the name of reporting the letter when the other party's attack started.Li Chen was worried, and sent another team to report the letter.He believed that reinforcements would arrive soon.

And these grains cannot be thrown away.Otherwise it is his dereliction of duty.It is a small matter to lose an official, but if the victims lack food and there is some kind of riot, that is a serious crime.Moreover, compared to the court blaming him, he did not want to see victims of the disaster starve to death.Even riots.

In the shadow of swords and swords, hundreds of officers and soldiers were surrounded by hundreds of people, and their defense circle was compressed layer by layer. Just when they were about to fail, suddenly, a zither sounded.

The sound of the piano spread, and in an instant, wherever it passed, the trees shook.Dozens of people in the bandit's outer circle were killed by the explosion, and before they had time to react, they vomited blood and fell to the ground on the spot.There were bursts of screams, and the bandit army immediately looked at the woods behind them at the same time.

"Well! There are masters!" The bandit leader Wu An immediately gave up on the prey in front of him.His eyes quickly looked back.

The green leaves are floating, and the shade of the trees is mottled, but a figure is seen walking out of the forest.

"Crafting a coir cape to pretend to be a fisherman and woodcutter for a hundred years, the past and the present, the case is clear. Rubbing the silk and picking the withers, those who come and go are free from the law." During the words, Xue Qianye's figure slowly walked out of the forest.

"Kill!" The little boss in the lead yelled immediately.

Seeing this, all the robbers in front of them looked at each other, and quickly drew their swords to charge Xue Qianye.Although everyone didn't know who the person in front of them was, it didn't matter to them.However, the moment the crowd rushed to Xue Qianye's side, strings of strings spread from Xue Qianye's body.

Wherever the energy passed, it cut the robber into pieces like a sharp knife.Amidst the screams, blood flowed all over the ground for a while.

After more than a dozen people died in battle, the miscellaneous soldiers behind who wanted to rush froze in place for an instant. Their footsteps stopped and they subconsciously began to retreat.Xue Qianye's figure didn't stop at all, and continued to move forward. Everywhere he passed along the way, people and horses were overturned.

"Hey, you're still a Lianjiazi. Let me come and meet you." The bandit leader saw this and pushed away the miscellaneous soldiers around him.

The long knife crossed, rolling up gusts of wind.Wu An resolutely gave up his previous goal and strode towards Xiaoyao.With light work and luck, within a few steps, the distance between the two has been shortened.

"You meddlesome guy, die to the uncle! Look at my Tiangang Disha knife." Wu Anfei jumped up, and the sword fell in the air.

The light of Gu's huge knife splits gold and breaks rocks. Before the blade reaches, the surrounding trees have been pushed down.However, the moment the blade fell, Xue Qianye slowly raised his right hand.Crystals emerged, and the blade quickly retracted and was absorbed.

Wu An felt the vibrations coming from the big knife in his hand, and suddenly felt bad.Before he could react, the crystal in Xue Qianye's hand shone brightly again.A saber energy was instantly reflected from the palm of his hand, and it swept across Wu An's body with a sharper momentum.

The saber energy penetrated Wu An's body, and affected more than a dozen younger brothers behind him at the same time.

The knife flashed, and in an instant, their time seemed to be frozen.Everyone is abbot in the moment when the knife light passes through the body.

As Xue Qianye withdrew his hand, there was a burst of explosion in the body of the dozen or so people in front of him, and the moment the saber air sprayed out, the corpses of the people were divided into two parts, and fell to the ground with blood flying all over the sky.The rest of the robbers were completely stunned seeing this, they never thought that their boss would be killed just like that.

There was a dead silence at the scene, and then someone said something.

"Run!"

In an instant, the remaining miscellaneous soldiers turned into birds and beasts, disappeared and fled in all directions.After Mo Ming was rescued, Li Chen and the rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay.They didn't know whether the person in front of them was an enemy or a friend, so they dared not speak out.

In the end, everyone's eyes could not help but look at Li Chen.

"Thank you, sir. If it wasn't for the master's action, we would have almost ruined a major event. Our death is a small matter, but the people's life is a major matter." Li Chen stepped forward and said respectfully.

"You're welcome! I'm also being chased and killed. Seeing what happened here, I feel a sense of sympathy with each other. It's just a matter of effort." Xue Qianye calmly responded.

"Sir is also being hunted down? Who dares to be so arrogant?"

"The Xiao family."

"What?" The moment Li Chen heard the name, he almost thought he heard it wrong.

"They wanted to ask me for a ledger, but I couldn't get it out. So they sent people to hunt me down. However, now they seem to understand that the ledger is not with me. So they gave up chasing and killing, and even took the initiative to resolve it. This grievance." Xue Qianye said with a smile.During the speech, some things were deliberately revealed.

"Ledger?" Li Chen quickly noticed the key.

"Yes, it seems to be an account book related to Chen Ba. Unfortunately, I was unlucky. Just the day before Chen Ba's death, I had a conflict with him. So the Xiao family suspected that I killed someone, and at the same time took Ledger. In fact, they could not have done this. With the current situation, this move is suspected of deception. Otherwise, others may not be able to find out how many things were burned in the fire." Seeing the person in front of him In response, Xue Qianye nodded secretly, and continued to speak.

"Sir, they said they didn't find the account book, so they set fire on purpose." Li Chen reacted again.

He thought that everything had been burned by the fire before, but now it seems that this is not the case.If the books were not burned, the fire would be even more suspicious.

"I didn't say anything." Xue Qianye smiled and left here.

Chapter 282 Infighting

Li Chen's first wave of disaster relief went very smoothly. He distributed food to the victims in the name of the government, and the disaster situation in the five counties gradually calmed down.Yan Song on the one side saw everything in his eyes, he didn't say anything, and let this behavior go.He even took the initiative to ventilate to the officials below, telling them not to hold back, and said that Mr. Li is a member of the second prince.

With Yan Song's secret support, for a while, the second prince's reputation rose among the people because of the disaster relief.

Then, soon, this trick of flattering and killing played a role.Lu Qing, who was still investigating the Jiangdi case, immediately realized that the situation was wrong, especially when he also heard a key piece of news from the officers and soldiers on the spot, that is, Li Chen knew the inside story called the black ledger.

Before coming here, this was something even he didn't know.He only knew that there was an inside story about the fire, and thought that everything had been burned, but he didn't expect that the most important things were still there.In an instant, he immediately went to Shunjin County to question Li Chen in person.

It was night in the county mansion, and the candles were flickering.

"Why didn't you tell me about the account book. You should know what the purpose of our trip is?" Lu Qing questioned his colleagues in a strong tone.

"I have been doing disaster relief, but I haven't had time to report it. Moreover, I just found out that this ledger exists. I don't even know where it is." Li Chen responded calmly.

His current mood was not with the person in front of him at all, but with the victims.It is not enough to just provide food, but also to arrange accommodation, and there are a series of problems that make him feel dizzy.As for the account book, he originally planned to report it after going back.

but now……

"These days, you've done a good job. Disaster relief, you want to gain fame for the master behind you. You knew about the ledger but didn't tell me, and let the only person who knew the news go away. You didn't Take His Majesty's matter to heart." Lu Qing continued on the matter of disaster relief.As soon as you open your mouth, you buckle your hat.

"If that's all you want to say, then you don't need to say it. There are still countless disaster victims waiting for my arrangements, and I'm not in the mood to listen to your nonsense here. Farewell!" Hearing this, Li Chen was instantly furious.

In his opinion, it's fine if these guys don't come to help stabilize the disaster, and they are still talking nonsense here.Ledger?I also want to know where is the ledger?That person at that time obviously didn't know the location of the ledger, otherwise the Xiao family would let him go?

This is an obvious reason.So he didn't ask at all.

"You! Disaster relief!" After Li Chen left, Lu Qing looked sternly in the direction he left.

He thought it would be a good idea to get rid of Li Chen, but now it seems that it was a wrong decision.

He has been investigating for a few days now, but he has found nothing, in case he returns without success.And Li Chen's reputation has soared, and the eldest prince will definitely feel that he is incompetent.Thinking of this, he immediately secretly found Yan Song.

"Suppress the food? Master Lu, this matter is related to people's livelihood, and the responsibility is heavy. Once there is a change, it will endanger the people at least, and move mountains at worst. This... I'm afraid." Yan Song looked at the lord in front of him with a strange expression.

Because Yan Song is a member of the cabinet, and the cabinet is also the faction that has the deepest entanglement with the local government, followed by the vassal king, and then the emperor's supervisor of ceremonies.Therefore, he himself is responsible for the food adjustment this time.

But now, this lord wants him to suppress the food temporarily?this……

"Master Yan. In the future, the eldest prince will be king. Although Lord Yan is a member of the cabinet, he is not a member of the four nobles. You must think about your own future. Besides, it is not because you will stir up civil uprisings if you don't provide disaster relief. In a few days, I am going to concentrate on handling the corruption case and disaster relief at the same time." Lu Qing came to face Yan Song and threatened him.

On the surface, Yan Song is a person trusted by the cabinet bosses, but the cabinet has always only had people with the surnames of Sigui, Zhu and Song.Others couldn't squeeze in at all.The lack of Yan Song in the family is nothing to them, but to Yan Song himself, it is a big deal.

And it didn't make him betray the cabinet behind him.

On the one hand, he is keeping the other party from making progress, and on the other hand, he wants to find out everything related to the ledger as soon as possible.As long as he gets the ledger, he can win.As for what will happen to the people?That's none of his business.It's good that he can get promoted.

"I understand." After thinking for a long time, Yan Song finally gave in.