Reincarnation of the powerful minister

North Zhili Guangping Mansion, Yongnian City.

Pushing open the huge stone gate engraved with the dragon's son Yazi, Mr. He and the battalion master walked into the main hall of Mingtang, where the players were sitting on high thrones waiting for their return.

"...How?" From behind the smoky gray curtain hanging down from the wide-brimmed hat, the player's voice came faintly.

Mr. He bowed his hand to the other party: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. Yu has persuaded Altan, the Holy Khan of the Northern Desert, to join forces to deal with Mingting. It is just that the other party has three demands. First, he wants us to show our strength and let him see the Central Plains change. second, he wants us to write the promised land into the covenant, and both parties sign it in black and white; Start with it first."

After a moment of silence, the player sneered, "Which of these three conditions do you think is the easiest to achieve?"

Mr. He smiled and said, "In my humble opinion, it should be the third point."

"Oh, why?"

"Of course it's because of the Seven Killers next to me." Mr. He gracefully raised his sleeves towards the red-robed man who was two feet away from him, "After all, you and I will never forget that Mr. Shen has taken refuge in us." The original intention was because the king seized the minister's wife."

Moreover, there are two generations of kings successively, as expected of father and son in the same line, even the taste is so consistent.Originally, Mr. He only suspected that the relationship between Zhu Jinkui and Su Yan was unclear, but it wasn't until the "gatekeeper" came back to report that he described the scene of Shen Qi and Su Yan breaking up on the stone bridge on a rainy night, and then heard that Shen Qi personally identified Zhu Helin He also had plans for Su Yan, which made him feel hopeless in this life, so he made up his mind to rebel against the imperial court, just to have enough power to protect his loved one from being touched by others after the dynasty changed.

Mr. He said that Shen Qi "is not only an unscrupulous careerist, but also the world's number one lover". In his heart, he is impeccable with his careerist side, but he does not take seriously his lover's side.However, it is also thanks to Shen Qi having such a soft spot that can be manipulated, so that he can use it for me, and the great career of the chess player is thus multiplied with half the effort.

If Shen Qi can always be loyal to Yi Zhe, and Su Yan is not in the way in this competition, Mr. He thinks Yi Zhe might let them go in the end... maybe not.After the success is complete, the covenant with Bei Mo will inevitably be broken, and at that time Shen Qi will have to use Shen Qi to deal with Al Tan.And Su Yan is the best bargaining chip, which is quite important to both Shen Qi and Al Tan.

Mr. He was full of thoughts, but his face was calm and elegant, and he continued: "Since we have agreed to Mr. Shen not to move Su Qinghe, then the third condition of Altan is just to push the boat along with the flow, and it is the easiest."

The player was noncommittal, turned around and asked, "What does the camp owner think? Which of these three conditions is the easiest to achieve?"

Shen Qi's voice came out from under the mask dully: "The second one."

"Oh, why?"

"Sign a shitty covenant, and then tear up the covenant when necessary, and stab your opponent in the back by surprise—isn't this easy for the two of you?"

The player laughed, as if he took this sentence as a compliment.After the laughter stopped, he asked back: "Do you all think that the first one is the hardest?"

How can it not be difficult for such a huge dynasty to change its situation?Mr. He and Shen Qi didn't say a word, and Yi Zhe said to himself: "Today is the twentieth day of the first lunar month... Soon, it's almost time for the dragon to raise its head."

On February [-], the dragon raised its head.Shen Qi suddenly realized that this was a special day -

Three years ago, the big explosion in Baizhifang happened on this day. That night, explosions occurred in several state capitals at the same time to confirm the prophecy that "the red lotus is alive".

The enthronement ceremony of the new emperor a year ago was also in February, followed by the Yaoshu case, and the rumors that Zhu Jinkai's father and son were not from the blood of the emperor Xianzu began to spread from the beginning of February.

What special meaning does this day have for Mr. Crane and the players?

On February [-] this year, what were they doing secretly?

Since Shen Qi took refuge, she has always acted indifferently and took orders, but at this moment she suddenly said: "This year's dragon raises its head, I'm afraid it will fall on Su Xiaojing!"

Since Su Xiaojing learned of his true identity from Zai Yi Zhe and Mr. He, he has a heart of gratitude and awe towards them.After Shen Qi knew that Su Xiaojing had obtained the Tianhuang Jade Document, she used the name of "Son of King Xin" to wander among several feudal princes who were dissatisfied with Zhu Jinkui and Zhu Helin's father and son, intending to instigate the princes to rebel.

He also knew that until now, the most arrogant Huguang Liao King died strangely, the scheming Shaanxi Wei King stopped with silence, the mediocre Shandong Gu King was at a loss, the most gentleman Henan Ning King was dying, and the other vassals who clamped their tails tightly... Wang couldn't make waves.Rather than counting on these uncles to vindicate her father, Su Xiaojing might as well count on the rebellion of the Wang brothers!

After thinking up to this point, it was like enlightenment, Shen Qi's heart suddenly became clear - isn't the "Left General and Right Prime Minister" of the troubled "True Dragon Son of Heaven" the Wang brothers?

His eyes emitted a faint light from the gap in the bronze mask, he raised his head to look at the chess player, and said without any scruples: "This year's dragon raises its head, I'm afraid it will fall on Su Xiaojing!"

The player did not refute his guess, but patiently corrected the details: "It's Zhu Xian, not Su Xiaojing."

"Stand up to help... the virtuous?"

Wang Chen looked at Shi Sui, a scholar military adviser, who wrote four large characters dripping with ink on one side of the flag, and couldn't help frowning and asked, "Who is 'Xian', me and my brother?"

Shi Sui was about forty years old, and he was a slender, ordinary country gentleman. When he was young, he really passed the examination of scholar, and later became the preacher of the Vacuum Sect, and devoted himself to serving as a military adviser under the command of Liao Crazy in Henan.

Although he is not very good at commanding and fighting, he is well versed in psychological tactics, not a dog-headed military division.Earlier, I persuaded Liao Crazy to strictly enforce military discipline, win the hearts of the people, prohibit his subordinates from burning, looting and slaughtering after capturing prefectures and counties, and give preferential treatment to officials and Confucian scholars who surrendered. the difference."

Crazy Liao developed an arrogant temperament because of playing around with the court guards all the year round, he listened to half of what the scholar military adviser said, and did not listen to half of it.And "falling into Qi Jingtang's trick of pretending to be defeated to lure the enemy" happened to fall on the half who didn't listen, so he lost his head.He also sent Ma Ping, who had tens of thousands of people under his command, to Wang Wu and Wang Chen, the "right-hand men" for nothing, which is really a model of making wedding dresses for others.

The Wang brothers not only have the ambition, arrogance, grass-roots rise of the grassroots, and the appeal to attract the poor, but also have the shrewdness, prudence, and "manly spirit" and indispensable luck that he does not have.

Even if Shi Sui hadn't been ordered by Mr. He, he was more optimistic about the twin brothers, so he became their counselor after Madzi Liao's death.

At this time, facing the situation where Wang's rebel army moved to many places, conquered dozens of counties, and burned nearly a thousand imperial court grain ships, so that they were chased and intercepted by the imperial army, Shi Sui believed that the former "do justice for the sky" The slogan was too general and had no clear goal, so a new slogan was proposed: Li Dynasty Fuxian.

This is to tell the whole world blatantly that Lao Tzu is going to rebel, to overthrow Zhu Helin on the dragon chair, and establish a new dynasty.But Lao Tzu doesn't want to be the emperor himself, but wants to support the real and wise real dragon emperor.Laozi is Zhou Gong, not Wang Mang!

Facing Wang Chen's question, Shi Sui answered gently: "No, it's not. This 'virtuous' is a sage who is wise, and also a sage who believes in the king's son Zhu Xian."

As soon as Wang Chen heard this, he quit immediately and complained: "I won't do the stupid thing of making a wedding dress for someone else! I'm not crazy about Liao."

The elder brother Wang Wu has always been more scheming than his younger brother, and slowly pondered: "This 'virtuous' is actually just an excuse, right? It is better to learn from a famous teacher."

Shi Sui nodded: "That's true. Regardless of whether the world's officials and gentry or the common people, they actually value the word 'orthodox'. Unless it is a troubled time for the people, they will not easily accept the change of the entire dynasty. Therefore, we can only step by step. Come, draw it slowly."

"Orthodox?" Wang Chen sneered, "I have indeed heard a lot of rumors, saying that Emperor Jinglong and King Yu who died of illness were born illegitimately by their mothers, not showing their ancestral blood. Nest, the real dragon species should be the eldest son of the emperor, King Xin. Now, Zhu Xian, who claims to be the "Son of King Xin", suddenly appeared. Why, is this what the leader meant? He uses our brothers as pawns?"

Shi Sui persuaded him patiently: "If you want to talk about chess pieces, it should be the 'Zhu Xian'."

Wang Wu asked sharply: "What is Mr. He planning? As the leader of vacuum, he is a monk who doesn't recite scriptures well, why is he willing to cooperate with my brothers, so painstakingly trying to drag the dog emperor off the dragon chair? He also promised to drag us Brothers push up?"

During the time spent together day and night, Shi Sui found out the two brothers' desire to emulate Taizu, and he said sharply: "Back then, Master Wenxiang assisted Ming Taizu to ascend the throne, but he was cooked by a dead dog, and the ideal of spreading the vacuum religion to the world also followed suit. Now, Mr. He has inherited the will of Master Wenxiang, but he is more discerning than the patriarch, and he has fallen in love with you brothers. He thinks that you have the luck of the great ancestor, but not the despicableness of the great ancestor, so I wish I will entrust you with your ideals and help you seize the great treasure. Brother Wang Wu, brother Wang Chen, you can just say this with your conscience—it will become a great cause in the future, will the Vacuum Sect become the state religion?"

Wang Wu and Wang Chen don't care about state religion at all. Buddhism and Taoism are all monks who chant scriptures. They just set up one at random like King Kong, what's wrong with it?As long as you submit to your superiors, how you preach to your inferiors, anyway, aren’t the common people worshiping those true kings and Bodhisattvas?

Wang Chen then said: "It should be." Wang Wu thought for a while, and said: "Just make the Vacuum Sect the state religion, and make the leader the Great Master of Protecting the Country, why not?"

Shi Sui laughed: "That's it, Taoists are conspiring together. The leader is unparalleled, so let's put Zhu Xian on the top first, let him be a puppet emperor, and after a year or two, we will give him the seat of Zen, and everyone in the world will It's easy to accept."

Wang Wu is not convinced of the prospect he outlined, but with the current situation, this is also the path of least resistance for their brothers. After thinking about it, he came up with a desperate mentality of doing big things, and said ruthlessly: "Okay, just do it." Play this banner!"

On the other side, Mingwei General Qi Jingtang, who was ordered to supervise military affairs and wipe out Wang's rebellious army, received a secret order sent by the emperor's Jin Yiwei urgently, asking him to report the military situation immediately.Jin Yiwei, who heard the letter, said that Mr. Su Ge had just returned to Beijing and was about to return to the cabinet to take charge of the overall situation. Qi Jingtang was overjoyed, and patted his chest and issued a military order: "Qi has received the kindness of the emperor and Mr. Su, and he will be smashed to repay it. I will never return to Beijing until I defeat the bandit army!"

After finishing speaking, he wrote a detailed military report and attached the next battle plan, asking Jin Yiwei to bring it back to the capital.

Not long after Jin Yiwei left, Qi Jingtang's soldiers came over and complained: "General, the soldiers in the local guards are really shameless. How to save your life. This is too difficult to command, why not our Dengzhou garrison team! How about asking the emperor to transfer the Dengzhou soldiers?"

Qi Jingtang said: "It's not enough to transfer all of them here. The Wang brothers have 13 soldiers, but only a few thousand Dengzhou soldiers?"

The soldiers curled their lips again and said, "It's better to be King Yu! His newly built Jingbei Army is all elite cavalry selected from several large army towns in the frontier army. The armor and weapons must be as sophisticated as possible. Our general If there is such a source of troops and equipment, let alone the five kings and the six kings, even the king of 500 million and the king of 600 million can chop melons and vegetables for him!"

Qi Jingtang lowered his face and stared at him sharply: "What bastards are you talking about! Do you only train elite soldiers in training? They are already elite soldiers, so why do you need to train generals! The art of training soldiers is turning decay into magic. Besides What is the identity of His Royal Highness King Yu? Can I compare him to him? The Northwest is his old territory, the Tiangongyuan is his firearms storehouse, the household department is his money bag, and the one sitting on the dragon chair is his own nephew. What do I have? Just this pair of sword-holding hands, a heart to serve the country, and a head that was spared by Su Xiangcai! Even if the imperial court assigns me old, weak, sick and disabled, I have to train them into invincible soldiers!"

The soldiers were so scolded that they didn't dare to look up, but they still murmured unwillingly and distressedly: "Can't the general write a letter to Mr. Su Ge privately, asking for more military expenses and weapons and equipment... We are also a stepmother. Raised."

Qi Jingtang wanted to whip his relatives with the horsewhip, but in the end he was reluctant to do so, and sighed: "Forget it, I will have the cheek to beg from Prime Minister Su...bring three more bottles of the newly arrived Huichun Pill from Penglai."