The Prime Minister's Mansion.
“Kill one person in ten steps and leave no trace in a thousand miles.”
Li Linfu stood in the study, wearing a red robe, with a lot of ice cubes placed around him to cool down, resisting the scorching heat outside. After his pen wandered around the dragon, he wrote The Journey of the Knight, the Poet Saint Li Taibai.
His hair is still disheveled, but he is no longer helpless as in the Xuanzheng Palace, but relaxed and relaxed.
"Mr. Duke, Your Highness the King of Qin is here."
As soon as Li Linfu put down his pen and admired what he had written, he heard the report from the steward outside.
"Please come in, Your Highness."
The second prince Xiao Ce, who had been drinking and having fun in the palace, actually walked out of the palace today and came to the palace of the prime minister.
It's really rare.
Xiao Ce cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Prime Minister, are you okay when you come in?"
Li Gongxiang stretched out his hand to signal Xiao Ce to sit aside, "The second prince came here and was happy and free. Why do you want to come to the prime minister's house now?"
Xiao Ce said: "The prince wanted to withdraw the Xiao Guards and violated the ancestral system, which caused a mutiny among the soldiers in the Xiao Guard camp. Now there is chaos inside and outside the city."
"I want to ask the Prime Minister to come forward to resolve this turmoil, so that peace can be restored to the capital."
Gongxiang Li asked: "How to resolve it?"
Xiao Ce replied: "Clear the emperor's side, stabilize the army's morale, stabilize the people, and protect the country."
"How confident are you, Your Highness, of what happened today?" Li Linfu asked calmly.
Xiao Ce looked at Li Linfu and said slowly: "Sixty percent."
Li Linfu looked down at the verses on the table and replied: "The prince wanted to build a royal guard to monitor the world and thoroughly investigate the Longyou Road. He refined a murderous knife, which made all the officials panic. He also violated the ancestral system and withdrew the heroic guards. A new army was established, so much so that Liu Guangshi, the general of the Xiaowei army, committed suicide in prison, causing a mutiny among the soldiers of the Xiaowei camp, but you say that you are only 60% sure?"
Xiao Ce replied honestly: "Mr. Prime Minister, it's because the prince is born with supernatural powers."
With a look of embarrassment and a hint of worry on his face, he clenched his hands into fists and explained: "The prince has been hiding for more than 20 years. We only thought that he just didn't want to die at our poisonous hands."
"Who would have thought that while we have people monitoring the entire East Palace, the prince can still be talented in literature and have natural powers?"
"How did he study, practice martial arts, and how did he not expose himself under our surveillance?"
"Mr. Minister, today's plan is still too urgent."
"I'm afraid it won't be that easy for a thousand dead men to kill the prince."
"If the prince does not die, An Zijun will follow the imperial edict and put down the mutiny in the Xiaowei camp, and then this matter will be suppressed quickly."
"This is where the difficulty lies."
Li Linfu nodded, with a hint of worry in his eyes, but it was well concealed and he remained very calm as he said: "If Jinyiwei succeeds, we will never have a chance again."
"The prince is a very human being!"
Xiao Ce also felt emotional. Ever since he was scolded by the prince in the council hall, he realized that the situation had reversed.
His reputation among scholars is pretty good. Over the years, he has been working hard to showcase his talents and gain recognition from civil servants.
He has always maintained the demeanor of a humble gentleman, and has always established an image of filial piety, benevolence, virtue, and wisdom.
But, that day.
All the officials in the meeting hall bowed their heads, letting him understand that after the prince gained the power to supervise the country, he would no longer be the cowardly prince he was before.
If he continues to resist, the prince will only focus on him, and what does he have?
There is only one Li Linfu to rely on.
However, Xiao Ce also understood that Li Linfu could not protect himself. If he resisted too hard, the prince would use all his strength to deal with it.
Li Linfu will definitely give up his car to save his commander-in-chief.
After all, he was not the only powerful prince, there was also the third prince, Xiao Zheng, and the five border guarding kings.
Therefore, he stayed in the palace drinking and having fun, as if he no longer cared about court affairs.
In fact, I am waiting for an opportunity.
An opportunity for Li Linfu and the prince to completely break up and start tit-for-tat confrontation.
And today.
When he heard what happened in the morning, he keenly sensed this opportunity.
He quickly followed the trend.
Xiao Ce said calmly: "I had someone use the divine arm crossbow, coupled with the divine arrow Wang Bodang and the poison that seals the throat at the sight of blood, the prince was brutally attacked and killed by thieves during the mutiny and riot of the soldiers of the Xiaowei camp. I The king and Mr. Li must bring order to the chaos, solve the mutiny in the Xiaowei camp, and avenge the prince."
It was as if Li Linfu was meeting Xiao Ce for the first time. When a person performs for a long time, he seems to have truly become a benevolent and righteous person.
He immediately smiled and said, "That's right."
Xiao Ce also smiled slightly. He had been preparing for today's murder for a long time and had been looking for the best assassin.
So what if you are infinitely powerful?
The god of arrows, Wang Bodang, makes perfect arrows.
Li Linfu said lightly: "If this happens, then the prime minister will unite all officials to recommend you to your majesty as the prince of the country!"
Xiao Ce said calmly: "It should be so."
"But if it doesn't work..."
Li Linfu spoke slowly: "Have you ever thought about the consequences?"
Xiao Ce nodded and replied: "I will continue to drink and have fun in the palace. When the disaster in Longyou Road is determined, I will directly report and request to go to the fiefdom and govern the area."
As for the assassin he was looking for, Wang Bodang, the god of arrows, he would not be found on his head. After the other party received the money, he had to do something. If the thing couldn't be done, he would naturally know what to do.
As for the outcome on Li Linfu's side, he naturally wouldn't know, because they were all working on their own.
As soon as Xiao Ce finished speaking, the secret guard strode in.
"master!"
"The prince has been fighting on the long street for about half an hour, wiping out a thousand officers and soldiers. Now he is leading his men to the Xiaowei camp outside the city!"
Li Linfu twitched his eyebrows.
So fast?
Those thousand people were the elite of his Zangnan Yamen Forbidden Army. Each one of them had fought in the frontier army and had experienced hundreds of battles.
The key is that their equipment is also the best.
If such a thousand elites were to fight with the guards of the East Palace, one would be worth a thousand.
However, the current result is that they were all wiped out in less than half an hour?
Moreover, there seems to be no news about the arrow god Wang Bodang arranged by Xiao Ce. What about his poisonous arrows?
Xiao Ce also asked quickly: "Is there any hidden arrow?"
The secret guard replied: "Yes, but His Highness the Prince dodged it and shot back an arrow. The person who secretly fired the arrow was killed by the Prince's arrow."
Li Linfu and Xiao Ce were both stunned for a moment. The prince's strength was too outrageous!
After waving his hand to let the secret guard go down, Li Linfu said to Xiao Ce: "It seems that God is on the side of the prince. If we can fail in such a good opportunity today, I'm afraid it will be difficult to come by again in the future."
Xiao Ce said unwillingly: "No, still, I can wait and endure. The same goes for the Duke and the Prime Minister. The more the Crown Prince shows his sharp edge, we must also avoid his sharp edge when necessary."
"Daqian and Beiyan will negotiate peace, and the third child can come back."
"Back then, he was high-spirited and ambitious. He asked his father to accept Yong'an County Prince as his teacher and learn the art of war and strategy."
"Since he has become the disciple of the God of War, how can he be willing to watch the prince sit in that position?"
Li Linfu nodded.
He had this plan originally. Today's murder was to take the opportunity to kill the prince, then support Xiao Ce to ascend to power, and at the same time, refuse Xiao Zheng to return to the capital.
As long as Xiao Ce came to power, he would have a way to get Dong Zhuo, the governor of Jiangdong, to raise troops, and then lead Xiao Zheng to attack Dong Zhuo, or Dong Zhuo to attack Xiao Ce.
After all, Xiao Yi has been assassinated and died. Even if Xiao Di supports Xiao Yi a hundred times, it will not help.
I can only hold my nose and admit it.
The second prince Xiao Ce was granted the title of Prince of the Supervisory State.
Xiao Ce thought for a moment and stood up immediately, saying: "It is inconvenient for me to stay here for a long time, so I will go back to my home now."
Li Linfu was speechless and waved his hand.
After leaving the study, under the leadership of the steward, he avoided the other people in the house, came out from a secret door in the backyard, entered the alley, and then entered a yard. He went out from the back door of the yard and got into a car. The carriage returned to the palace from the back door of the palace.
Xiao Ce looked in the direction of the East Palace and sighed.
It seems that it is time to leave the capital.
The long street outside the imperial city was filled with blood.
Xiao Yi had only been studying for more than a month, and he did not have many fighting skills. He relied entirely on his own strength to suppress the enemy.
At the same time, because of the warning of the golden elixir energy, he avoided the hidden arrow, directly reached out to grab it, turned the arrow around in its original trajectory, and threw it out.
Directly shot an assassin in the dark.
Lu Chong led people to drag out the body, and then confirmed the identity of this person. He was Wang Bodang, the god of arrows. When he was in the Huben Brigade, he killed the leader of the Liao bandits with one arrow. It can be said that the arrow was not missed.
Later, he quit the army for unknown reasons, returned to the capital, and became an ordinary citizen in the capital.
But he didn't expect that he would be hiding in the dark today, trying to assassinate the prince.
Xiao Yi's reflected arrow followed its original trajectory and hit his shoulder blade, getting stuck directly inside.
But this kind of arrow wound should not cause him to die quickly.
But looking at Wang Bodang's blackened face and the black blood on the wound, we knew that he must have died of poisoning.
In other words, the arrow is quenched with poison.
Xiao Yi said to Lu Chong in a deep voice: "Did you see it? Some people really hope that Gu will be assassinated and die."
"Obviously, I only want to stabilize the country and rejuvenate the country, but some people are trying every means to assassinate him because of their own selfish interests."
"It's not that they don't know the importance of being alone to Daqian."
"It's just because Gu blocked his way and may have threatened their life and death, so he was desperate."
"Can such an official manage Dagan well?"
Lu Chong shook his head.
"Your Highness, these thousand people are all dead soldiers, not one of them is alive, and Wang Bodang was poisoned to death by his own poisonous arrow. I'm afraid this matter will not be thoroughly investigated."
"But I think it's just those few people after all."
Xiao Yi nodded.
He said loudly: "Leave twenty people to guard these corpses and wait for the people from the front department to come and clean them up."
"The rest of the warriors, continue marching to the Xiaowei Army camp!"
