Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu has been with Zhang Suqing for a long time. Seeing him dealing with government affairs and weighing the pros and cons, he is roughly familiar with what is going on in the court. He naturally knew what it meant to kill the imperial envoy today, which meant that it was not as simple as the death of a young prison in the Execution Department, but was provoking the face of the entire court and even the emperor. The court would inevitably arrest this person by any means. The situation was so big. I'm afraid even a great master in the realm of heaven and man would be unable to escape.

But this is all the past.

The current imperial court is worried about internal and external troubles.

Let’s talk about internal worries first. Since Zhang Suqing’s death, the court has lost one person who can dominate the overall situation. Most of the governors and governors in various places were promoted by Zhang Suqing. Although these people may not be loyal to Zhang Suqing, after Zhang Suqing’s death, it is inevitable that the rabbit will die and the fox will be sad. , for fear that the court would implicate the major case on them, they all connected themselves to protect themselves.

The Empress Dowager had never thought about this, but she had another King of Jin in the court. The nobles in the court represented by the King of Jin could not compete with her own strength, so she first activated the Qingliu of the court. The leader Sun Songchan was appointed as the chief minister of the cabinet. At this time, the emperor was young and the empress dowager was one with the emperor. These Qingliu Baohuang were naturally the empress dowager. However, relying solely on the power of Qingliu, we cannot compete with the King of Jin. Therefore, the Empress Dowager adopted a pacification strategy for the governors of various places in exchange for the support of governors of various places. At the same time, she also deliberately provoked the conflicts between several governors and made them each other. Restriction.

However, as the emperor grew older, the Qingliu faction began to ask the empress dowager to return power to the emperor. At this time, there was a saying of the imperial party and the empress dowager. The two eunuchs in the Silijian tended to be the emperor and the empress dowager respectively. Inner court. In the outer court, the King of Jin still served as the regent, competing with the Empress Dowager, and often wooed the governors of various places, and supported many local tyrants such as Zhengyizong.

If the court is strong, it will inevitably be the court that influences the local government, but now it is the local governor and local tyrants that have begun to influence the court, which means the court is weak. If it weren't for the support of Empress Dowager Xie and King Jin, and there was only one small emperor, then the world would be in an instant. In the chaos, the governors and governors from all over the country became independent, just in line with the saying, "I don't know how many people proclaimed kings or emperors." Therefore, while the Empress Dowager and the King of Jin fought against each other, they also had to work together to guard against local governors, both to win over and to guard against each other. It can be said that you have me and I have you.

This is internal trouble and external trouble.

As early as the Wude period, Qinzhou and Liangzhou had fallen. Although they were temporarily recovered by Qin Xiang, as Qin Xiang was trapped, Qinzhou and Liangzhou were once again lost, and even another Shuzhou was added. As a result, the northwest was completely lost, and Jingzhou and Zhongzhou became the first to bear the brunt of the brunt, so the Governor of Qin and the Governor of Jingchu became increasingly important, which was also the reason why the court did not dare to touch several Governors lightly.

The three prefectures of Liaodong: Youzhou, Liaozhou and Fengzhou have not been destroyed, but the Jin Horde has raided food, property, men and women every year, burning, killing, looting, and all the soldiers and civilians have suffered greatly. Yanzhou and Jinzhou are barriers to imperial capital, and border defense must be strengthened. This alone requires spending 10 million taels of silver every year. At the same time, the imperial court had to add two governors here, one was the governor of Liaozhou and Feng. The governor of Liaodong in the state and other departments was the governor of Youzhou and Yanzhou. This arrangement was to prevent the governor of Liaodong from taking the opportunity to become a big shot and separatist, so the Youzhou, which is close to the imperial capital among the three prefectures of Liaodong, was separated separately. Let's open it to make checks and balances.

Even so, in the fourth year of Tianbao, the army of the Golden Horde once attacked the imperial capital, which shocked the court.

This is an external problem.

With such internal and external troubles, the authority of the court is no longer as good as before. Now I dare to do things that I dare to do now. The most straightforward manifestation is that the major local governors stubbornly disobey the imperial court's many decrees, as well as Zhengyizong and Qingwei The local tyrants such as Zong openly interfered in the government affairs and participated in party struggles, and the court was helpless about it, which shows the clues.

Li Xuandu even had a sense that although the Qin Xiang incident involved three governors this time, the three governors may not be the same as the court. If it is the same as the same, then what envoys in the Silijian will send? Obviously, there is The governor disagrees with the court on this matter.

I just don't know which governor it is.

The reason why Li Xuandu never took action when the two assassins, a man and a woman, and the tragic killer, took action was that Cui Shuofeng took action too quickly was because he weighed the pros and cons.

Considering this, the matter is very clear. If Li Xuan kills this so-called envoy, he will inevitably cause some trouble, but the trouble is not yet uncontrollable.

However, this imperial envoy is not that easy to kill. His cultivation level is around the Guizhen realm. Compared with Hong Chengqiu, who once suppressed Li Xuandu in Beimang County, there may be some gap, but it is not too big. In other words, it would not be a simple thing to defeat this young prison in the Secretariat of the Secretariat without using the "human world".

In this battle, Li Xuan did not want to use the "human world", because the sword energy of the "God-defying Tribulation" eroded his body spirit too seriously, and he had to spend a lot of pills to make up for it every time, although his body was different from that of ordinary people. , but it cannot be ruined like this, so he will not easily use the "human world" until the moment of life and death.

So Li Xuan only pulled out the "Leng Beauty", and at the same time he was inevitably a little regretful. Although "Leng Beauty" is a good knife, it is not a sword after all, and it cannot achieve a perfect fit with him. Perhaps this time he returns to the sect, he will still be We must create another sword for daily use.

Just when Li Xuandu was slightly distracted by these interests, Cui Shuofeng attacked instantly, his figure like a ghost.

In terms of attack speed alone, Li Xuandu was not as good as Cui Shuofeng, but the reason why Li Xuandu was a Purple Mansion Sword Immortal and was only slightly inferior to Geng Yuedu was because he had an extraordinary intuition when fighting with others. This intuition could be called "the cicada knows before the golden wind blows", or it could be a premonition trained again and again between life and death. In short, Li Xuandu had predicted where Cui Shuofeng would attack and blocked it with his sword first.

It was like two people racing on horses, one was a good horse with extremely fast speed, and the other was a bad horse with average speed. But the bad horse ran 90 miles first in a distance of 100 miles, and no matter how fast the good horse was, it could not catch up.

Cui Shuofeng's claws landed on Li Xuandu's blade, and a splash of blood immediately appeared. However, since he was a genuine master of the Return to the Realm, his body was naturally full of blood and strong bones, so this minor injury was nothing. He immediately changed his moves and turned into the "big and small grappling hands" of the Six Gates, while also integrating the strengths of the "Big Four Elephant Hands" of the Blue Luan Guard. Sometimes he opened and closed his hands in a big way, with steady moves, sharp and powerful, and sometimes he used delicate moves with many variations, making endless changes in a small space, constantly grabbing acupuncture points with wrists, elbows, fingers, knees, and tendon grabbing.

Although Li Xuandu had some experience in "big and small grappling hands" and "big four-elephant hands", he had his own specialty and his fundamental cultivation still had to be on the sword. At this time, facing Cui Shufeng in close combat, it was difficult for him to fully display the long sword in his hand. He simply shook his sleeves and controlled the "green dragon" and "purple phoenix" swords to attack Cui Shufeng from the left and right.

Like Zhou Shuning, Li Xuandu was best at distraction. At this time, he could not only use the "fiery prairie sword technique" in his hand, but also the two flying swords could be intertwined and stabbed according to the trajectory of the "Thirty-six Sword Techniques of the Big Dipper".

Liu Chen also stood up from the bench at this time, put his hands on the heads of the two scimitars on his waist, and looked at Li Xuandu.

She had seen a lot of the world, but she had never seen such a brilliant person.

For ordinary swordsmen, it was rare to be able to control a flying sword. Many people also needed to use the sword techniques in their hands. It was a rare genius to control two at the same time. Drawing a sword while controlling a flying sword? If it was just a sword, it would be fine, after all, the sword and the flying sword are from the same lineage, but drawing a sword is too much, it is simply to make ordinary swordsmen want to stop practicing swordsmanship.

No wonder he was called "Purple Mansion Guest" back then, but was given the title of "Purple Mansion Sword Immortal".

In the way of swordsmanship, he really deserves the word "Sword Immortal".

What Liu Chen didn't know was that Li Xuandu's master once said that Li Xuandu's swordsmanship talent was three feet higher than his third senior brother.

How long is three feet? It is said that a three-foot blue blade, a long sword is no more than three feet. If one sword is three feet higher than another sword, it is doubled.

This almost made Li Xuandu's senior brother, who was already a great swordsman, collapse.