There was a moment of silence in the swaying carriage.
After a long time, Li Xuan finally let out a sigh: "The situation now is not just the land of Wu Yue, the whole world is like this, Wu Yue is just a microcosm."
"That's true." Wei Gong glanced at his son Wei Heng, and then continued: "I went to Chang'an many years ago. Seven families with five surnames, four surnames in Guanzhong, four surnames in Hedong, Shannan in Hebei, and Longyou in central Sichuan are all like this. , connect with each other, help each other, and control the entire world."
Having said this, Wei Gong smiled bitterly and said: "In this land of Wu and Yue, only the four surnames of Wuzhong are noticed by the people in the world. If we really go to Chang'an, we will not recognize anyone. We can only rely on ourselves, or rather Money in hand.”
A poor family, the Wei family is only one step away from becoming a poor family.
What they are doing now is struggling for the future of their family.
In addition to rights, money is the best help for them to change their destiny.
No wonder everyone in this land of Wu and Yue is greedy for profit.
"There is one more thing that I don't know." Li Xuan's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he asked in a serious tone: "With Wei Weng's opportunity, it is impossible not to know that the Wuzhou Incident is about to happen. So, why do we still invest a lot of money in Wuzhou? Money and manpower?”
"The prince is saying that Mr. Qi is sending benefits to the Tianyin Sect?" Wei Gong reacted immediately, waved his hands and firmly denied it: "Young Master Qi is the nephew of the governor of Yuan, so it will not be like this. As for the crisis in Wuyue, the prince is joking , with sixteen families like me here, what kind of storms can Tianyin rebels create."
Wei Gong's last words were very confident and full of confidence.
If Li Xuan hadn't known that the Tianyin Sect's three thousand elites had infiltrated various places, he might have really thought so.
However, the Wuyue Sixteenth Family also had the same visual blind spots as the big bosses in the court center. There were some places that they simply would not think about or think about.
The Tianyin Sect took advantage of these blind spots to tear apart the network that the world's aristocratic families thought was extremely tight, arbitrarily and unreasonably.
"I know that there are silk weaving guilds in various places in Wuyue. What I want to know is, among the sixteen families under the control of such guilds, which family is most likely to be connected with the Tianyin Sect and who will be involved in it? Betray the imperial court at a critical moment, cooperate with Tianyin Sect internally and externally, and turmoil the entire southeast?" Li Xuan's words were extremely sinister and full of murderous intent.
"There can't be such a family." Wei Gong immediately denied it categorically.
"You denied it too quickly, Wei Gong, so I said it was true." Li Xuan's words made Wei Gong feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his whole body was filled with chills.
Li Xuan turned his head and looked to the side, who was still thinking. Hearing what Li Xuan said, Wei Heng looked shocked, and said expressionlessly: "Kai Weng, you see Brother Wei's reaction is normal. At least he has to think about it. Think about it, think about it, who is the right one? After all, there is not only one family with similar suspicions, but there are only a few one or two who dare to take action at all costs. Who is this family? "
Who doesn't have the idea of subverting the world in their hearts? It's just that due to the heavy pressure and constraints of reality, they suppress the desires in their hearts.
But there are always people who can no longer survive under the pressure of reality, and taking risks becomes their last resort.
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"Every family has outstanding talents, and there are also scum that have fallen into decline, especially those who are almost on the verge of despair, with their future cut off and no other choice."
Li Xuan said in a faint voice: "I don't think anyone would want to conspire with the traitor from the beginning. They just want to gain benefits by colluding with the traitor, and even betray the traitor at a critical moment. There are people like this who have established meritorious deeds, so, Wei Weng, in your eyes, who is this person?"
Tianyin Sect can cultivate three thousand elites, which is not just as simple as weapons and equipment.
The food consumed, the cloth used, and even the medicine consumed were a number too huge to be ignored.
If it were in other places, it would be easily ignored, but in this land of Wuyue, everyone is careful.
The Wuyue Sixteenth Family's control over the local area has reached an extremely strict level. If there is no one as an internal response, the Tianyin Sect will not develop to this point anyway.
Now that Li Xuan had given him a step up, Wei Gong was finally moved and couldn't help but raise his head.
"The Sixteenth House of Wu Yue and the Wei House have reached the edge of decline. They even have to cooperate with figures like Mr. Qi, but we always retain a bottom line." Wei Heng suddenly spoke, glanced at his father, and then looked at Li Xuan: "Your Highness, everyone has their own secrets. Please forgive the Wei family for not being able to explain it to the Prince. However, the Prince can ask Mr. Qi. This life-saving straw of Mr. Qi is not only useful to my family, but also to other families."
"Heng'er!" Wei Gong looked at Wei Heng in shock and anger. Although he didn't say this clearly, the actual words were exactly the same as what he said.
Li Xuan suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly: "Weng Wei, you know too little about this world. Your Majesty is in the south of the Yangtze River. Not only does he have the governor of Yuezhou, the governor of Wuzhou, the governor of Shezhou, and the governor of Changzhou Shen, there is even a Yuan of Hangzhou. The governors are extremely difficult to deal with, and now that I have been sent to the southeast, what is your Majesty thinking, Wei Weng, don’t you know?”
After Li Xuan said these words, there was silence in the entire carriage.
The Sixteenth House of Wu and Yue used various means to try to bind the governor of the DPRK. Did the emperor really know nothing about it?
The Sixteenth Wuyue Family, have they really achieved their goal?
"Take Yuan Jishi of Hangzhou as an example. Although Mr. Qi is his nephew, he is just the nephew of a concubine. As long as he divorces the concubine casually, then there will be no relationship between him and Mr. Qi. It's related, and maybe, Governor Yuan is already doing it now." Li Xuan's eyes lightly swept over Kui Gong, then turned to look in the direction of the Governor's Mansion.
Wei Heng, who was on the side, had already widened his eyes in great surprise, but although Wei Gong's face was embarrassed, he was much calmer.
This is the magnanimity that a family leader should have.
"Brother Wei has said everything he can. After I return, I will naturally credit Brother Wei with a contribution. But whether this contribution is candied fruit, arsenic, sweet orange, or gold mountain, it all depends on what the Wei family will do next. .
After all, Brother Wei is your son, Weng Wei. Without the help of the family, even if he gets meritorious service, he will be greatly reduced and even be hated by others. Wei Weng naturally understands how to measure it, so I probably don’t need to say anything more. "
After speaking, Li Xuan leaned back slightly and began to close her eyes.
When Wei Heng said that he was in a family that was related to Mr. Qi, a family name automatically popped up in Li Xuan's mind.
The Xia family, Yuhang Xia family, comes from the Xia family of the ancient Xia Dynasty.
After Xia was destroyed by Shang, some of the descendants of the Xia Dynasty moved to Yuhang, and soon they became prominent families in Yuhang.
Xia Qin, the prefect of Lingling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xia Gong, a scholar in the East China Sea, Xia Zhan, a painter in the Jin Dynasty, Xia Chisong, a famous chess player in the Southern Dynasty and Song Dynasty, etc.
In the former Sui Dynasty, someone from the Xia family once served as a county magistrate, but now only Xia Yan in Huzhou serves as a county magistrate. The decline of the Xia family can be imagined.
Li Xuan thought about it carefully and found that there were no children of the Xia family present at the banquet today.
Either the people of the Xia family were extra cautious, and they immediately distanced themselves from Young Master Qi after he had an entanglement with Li Xuan yesterday.
Or, they already knew in advance that an assassination would happen tonight.
Even the connection between them and the Tianyin Sect is far deeper than people imagine.
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"Your Majesty, we are here." Qiu Zhenmu's voice suddenly came from outside the car, and the carriage completely slowed down at this moment, and finally stopped completely.
"If the three of you don't mind, let's go out together and take a look. The strangulation of the rebels tonight has just begun when we get here." Li Xuan directly lifted the curtain of the carriage, and then jumped out of the carriage.
At the same time, Li Xuan reached back and pulled out a long sword from under his seat.
This is an extremely strong eight-sided dragon-patterned Han sword, not a soft sword that only seeks to be sharp.
When the long sword is unsheathed, the soft sword becomes even more weird and unpredictable. If you look at the right opportunity, you can rush in with one sword and kill someone. However, the Eight-sided Han Sword is a completely different way of fighting.
The long sword is extremely tough. It moves the sword widely, but it is also horizontal and vertical. It kills decisively and has great rules.
Li Xuan took out another long iron rod from under the seat on the other side, and then combined it with the long sword.
The iron rod has been directly twisted together with the Eight-sided Han Sword, turning into an extremely sharp sword.
It's just that the blade is slightly longer than the usual sword.
Under the moonlight, the bright sword blade flashed with sharp sword light, reflecting Leng Yue's killing intent.
Faintly, a clear sound of swords could be heard, cheering.
A warm smile appeared on Li Xuan's face, and she clenched her hands tightly with one hand. With a soft "bang" sound, Li Xuan leaned heavily on the rock at her feet.
The rock immediately split into countless cracks, spreading in all directions from Li Xuan's feet to several meters away.
All of a sudden, the eyes of Wei Gong, Wei Heng, Su Yu, Du Liu, Gao Xiang and others were all focused on Li Xuan, with a hint of shock.
Li Xuan pointed down the mountain with her left hand, pointing at a rapidly moving black figure somewhere on the mountain road on the side of the mountain, and said coldly: "Did you see that person running away quickly? That is the other person who assassinated me today. A killer, look at the manor she is heading to in the distance, that is where the Tianyin rebels are hiding, Wei Weng, can you tell Xiao Wang whose house is there?"
Wei Gong took a deep look at the manor down the mountain, then frowned slightly and said: "Although I have been in Hangzhou for a long time, I don't know all the places well. This seems to be in Jiuli Mountain, where I am I visited this place once a few decades ago and haven’t been here since.”
"Brother Wei, do you know whose manor this is?" Li Xuan looked at Wei Heng with doubts in her eyes.
"It's the manor of a relative of City Gate Colonel Jin Ji's family." Wei Gong looked at the manors around him with some surprise, and then explained briefly: "Xiaguan was once invited by Jin Ji to visit here, so he knows something about it. Inside story.”
City Gate School Captain.
Wei Gong, Su Yu, and Du Liu were all shocked at the same time, and a chill instantly filled their hearts.
Xia family...
"That's good." Li Xuan nodded expressionlessly, his eyes falling on the mountain road on one side, staring at Zong Ling who was escaping quickly.
