After I lost my job, I started to get rich from plane trading.

Soon after, Emperor Xi Chu received a battle report from the front line and learned that Li Shouyuan and Xiao Yin's troops launched a general attack on Feng Lan. Feng Lan was defeated. Li Shouyuan ignored the obstruction and insisted on pursuing with his own guards. In panic, he was shot by a stray arrow. The arrow was smeared with poison, and he eventually died.

Emperor Xi Chu was cautious this time and did not read the battle report during the morning court. Otherwise, he would probably have laughed out loud.

After his death and the Li family's series of scandalous actions, people were more grateful to him than they were before, and his reputation got better.

Emperor Xi Chu had to show his appreciation for Li Shouyuan at this time, otherwise the people's spit would drown him.

If nothing else goes wrong, when he announces the news in the morning tomorrow, he will have to posthumously confer Li Shouyuan.

Although this was a disgusting thing for Emperor Xichu who hated Li Shouyuan to a certain extent, it didn't matter. The man was dead anyway, so what if he was given a false name?

Besides, he had made it clear to the people at Tianqi earlier, asking them to ensure that Li Shouyuan's body would be in pieces.

In this way, it can be regarded as a different kind of "dismemberment by five horses", which can relieve his hatred.

In the next step, his people can take over the soldiers brought out by Li Shouyuan, and he can take back the military power.

And those Li family members, hey, without Li Shouyuan, they are nothing.

The next day, during the morning court, Emperor Western Chu announced the news of Li Shouyuan's death "sadly", and the courtiers below had different expressions.

Who can still live in this court after such a long time, who can't guess the thoughts of Emperor Xi Chu?

I'm afraid their Majesty is laughing so hard in his heart, right?

When Li Shouyuan was here, they hated and feared him. Now that they know his fate, and think about what Li Shouyuan did for Emperor Xi Chu's ascension to the throne in the past, it is a bit sad to end up like this.

Some of Emperor Xi Chu's close ministers knew more than others, such as Mr. Liu who facilitated the cooperation between Xi Chu and Tianqi. Although he participated in and promoted this matter, now that it has really succeeded, he still has it in his heart. Some chills.

If one day he stands in Li Shouyuan's position, will he end up with the same fate?

Mr. Liu didn't know, he only knew that his official career might not go very far - Emperor Xi Chu would not keep people like them who were holding his "scandal" in the court.

Every time they appeared, they would remind him that he had been so miserably suppressed by a courtier that he could only obtain those rights through some despicable means.

How could Emperor Xi Chu endure this?

Mr. Liu knew that after Emperor Xichu had dealt with the Li family and gained power, it would be time for him to leave the court.

His official position has come to an end, but it doesn't matter. He still has a son and a nephew. Thanks to the son-in-law of Jing Zhaoyin, the dignitaries and important ministers of Western Chu gave up cultivating sons-in-law, and those who did not have sons cultivated themselves. His nephew and a descendant of the same clan.

If the son-in-law is really capable, there is no need for them to fish for it. If the son-in-law is incompetent, they don't mind raising it. Anyway, their status is there. As the backer of the married daughter, as long as they have the rights, the daughter can stand upright outside.

Mr. Liu decided to push his son up before he retreated.

He had one wife and three concubines, who gave him six sons and three daughters in total. All of his daughters were married, so he didn't need to worry about them.

Sons……

The eldest son passed the exam a few years ago and was transferred somewhere to sharpen his resume. Now that he is transferred back, it may be difficult to take over in a short time. The other sons... he has to go back and take a look.

In his heart, he prefers his legitimate sons. For some reason, those concubines who give birth to sons are always a bit petty.

His second son is still in the Imperial College, and although he usually handles things with him, the situation in Kyoto is complicated now, and the previous things alone are not enough to deal with it. It seems that he has to take him with him to teach him personally.

If the other concubines were capable, he would support them. If they were not capable, sharing some of the family property would be considered his father's kindness.

Mr. Liu made up his mind and decided to go back to discuss with his second son after the court.

When the storm is over and the son has established a firm foothold in the capital, it will be time for the eldest son to be transferred back.

Mr. Liu was calculating in his mind, but he did not delay expressing his deep condolences for Li Shouyuan's death.

After the morning court, Emperor Xi Chu kept all the original group of people as expected.

Mr. Liu listened for a while, and the content was probably "thief Li is dead", "I am very happy"...

Listening to the king sharing his joy regardless of image, Mr. Liu suddenly felt a little sad.

He came into contact with Xiao Yin in Tianqi and contacted his people for several days. If nothing else happened, those people would become Xiao Yin's most capable assistants.

Although the Apocalypse he saw was still in ruins, everyone had hope in their hearts. Xiao Yin was what the people wanted, and the people under his command had their own abilities and were loyal to him.

This all indicates that Tianqi will become Xichu's strong enemy in the future. This is something that Mr. Liu does not want to see, but he has no other choice but to accept Xichu's current situation.

The many complex emotions in Mr. Liu's heart cannot be explained to outsiders. At least Emperor Xi Chu is now full of joy.

Soon, he will be able to take back his military power, concentrate power in his hands, and become a true monarch with the power of life and death.

According to the news from the supervisory army he sent to Li Shouyuan - his people have successfully taken over the military power and will set off back to Xichu soon.

But what Emperor Xichu didn't know was that the sender of the messages he received was not from him, but... Xiao Zhong.

"Second brother, how are you?" Xiao Yuan estimated the time and ran over to ask Xiao Zhong.

As early as when the army set off from the border of Xi Chu, he found out who was sent by Emperor Xi Chu, and directly found a reason to throw them into the Xiao family's dungeon and handed them over to Xiao Zhong.

I don't know what method Xiao Zhong used. It didn't take long to figure out their method of delivering the news, and then tried to use those methods to deliver the news to Xi Chu.

As a result, it is obvious that Emperor Xichu did not notice any problem at all.

After asking for the information they wanted to obtain, they decisively killed these people to avoid leaving any traces.

In fact, most of the messages received by Emperor Xichu were sent by Xiao Zhong.

As for why it wasn't someone else from the Intelligence Department who posted it...

In Xiao Zhong's original words, he is: "He is an emperor after all, so let him be the leader and give him some respect. Besides, the little brat below is neither serious nor serious. If something goes wrong, no one can take responsibility."

Xiao Yuan said that this guy didn't train him well, otherwise why wouldn't he dare to explain the matter?

What do you mean by respect? He doesn't believe it!

When he reported the news to Emperor Xi Chu, he was the one who laughed the loudest!

So he didn't believe a word Xiao Zhong said.

After calculating that it was almost time for Emperor Xichu to get back the news, he hurried over.

"Why are you so anxious? How long has it been? Do you think it's our intelligence department?" Xiao Zhong rolled his eyes.

"It stands to reason that it's almost time! You were so decisive when you ordered to kill me, but you still hesitate to go back." Xiao Yuan cursed.

He was talking about Emperor Xichu. In addition to reporting that he had "died" as planned, Xiao Zhong also asked Emperor Xichu if he could take people back directly.

As soon as Emperor Xichu said he could go back, he planned to take people back directly.

Now the people in Xichu just didn't change their flags. In fact, they have been completely taken over by Xiao Yin.

It can be said that Xiao Yin did what Emperor Xi Chu wanted to do but failed to do.

"I can't tell, what if His Majesty has other plans?" Xiao Zhong said with a smile.