While the lakeside area of the Imperial City was silent, the prosperous Vientiane City was bustling with people, but there was no sound in a luxurious wing in the east of the city.
Lou Ji, who was wearing a black dress with green patterns, crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against a pillar nearby:
"This is the reason why my sister is leaving. The beginning of this year has been troubled."
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Xu Yuan did not say anything immediately and looked carefully at the latest "Grade A" internal reference that Lou Ji had just handed him.
With his current status, he shouldn't be able to see this level of internal reference, but who makes Lou Ji love him?
Just then, she suddenly came to him and told him that she was leaving. After asking a few questions about the reason, Lou Ji directly gave him the internal reference in front of her.
About the war in the north.
For a long time,
As a wisp of blood flames rose and the paper in his hand burned out, Xu Yuan frowned tightly.
Although the fighting was lively here in the Wanxing Mountains, not even a single war beast appeared, indicating that Gu Yuan was just routinely consuming the number of monsters in the mountains for testing this year. If the Wanxiang Sect had not had ulterior motives, Shengshan County would not have had much success. of casualties.
Today's northern border can be regarded as the only place in the Great Yan Dynasty that can truly be called a war.
Therefore, Xu Yuan of the Northern Territory has always paid close attention to that area.
People always like to pay attention to these things, especially when you can get real first-hand information.
When Xu Yuangang came to Vientiane City, he asked for similar information, and whether it was official reports or internal reports from the Prime Minister's Mansion, there were always good reports.
Either she killed two thousand barbarians in a certain mountain, or she surrounded the main force of a certain tribe of barbarians in a certain river, or even in the largest battle, Princess Wu Yuan directly slaughtered the opponent after defeating the main force of a large tribe. There are 70,000 to 80,000 people in the entire tribe, old and young.
It’s easy to guess what Princess Wu Yuan is thinking this time. Even if the barbarians cannot be exterminated, they will still beat you until you can’t breathe for twenty years.
But now the style of painting has changed.
The news of victory was gone, and the 40,000 Yulin Army led by Wu Yuan, together with 20,000 elite soldiers from various sects and families, were directly surrounded by the barbarian kings in Dali Mountain.
After a short silence, Xu Yuan stood up and walked around the room with a frown:
"The 40,000 defenders at the transportation thoroughfare such as Hejia Town were defeated, causing the main front army's land supplies and food routes to be cut off? And the two second-level powerhouses from Lingshui Palace who brought the Xumijie to transport military supplies and equipment He was directly intercepted and killed by the barbarians at Tianpu Cliff."
Xu Yuan felt a little ridiculous.
He still knows little about the war patterns in this world, but he knows that there are three ways to transport supplies.
In addition to conventional land transportation and air transportation, the strong ones quickly traveled with a few or even a dozen Sumeru Rings.
Most of the materials and equipment transported by the Prime Minister's Office to attack Vientiane City this time were through the latter.
This is also the reason why Xumijie is very rare. It is a strategic material in the true sense, a strategic material that can relieve the army from supply pressure.
It is understandable that the food route on the road was cut off. There can be many reasons for the classic loss of the street pavilion, but the fact that a high-level cultivator was intercepted and killed is a bit unreasonable.
Lou Ji had a look of helplessness on her lazy face and sighed:
"Chang Tian, these things happened together within two days."
This is somewhat suggestive.
Of course Xu Yuan could hear the hint.
The formation technology of Tianxun Yuanjing is currently only owned by the Prime Minister's Office, and the confidentiality of the information is classified as top secret in Class A.
In other words, even if someone conveyed information to Wu Yuan on the front line immediately after the incident, there would not be enough time.
This was the time for someone to not give Princess Wu Yuan any reaction at all.
Thinking of this,
Xu Yuan raised his eyes and looked at Lou Ji:
"Did the sect do it?"
The internal reference only states what happened objectively and does not annotate some speculative information.
Lou Ji spread her hands:
"I don't know, but it's most likely."
Xu Yuan felt a sense of absurdity in his heart:
"But the 40,000 troops guarding Hejia Town and the 20,000 elite troops beside Wu Yuan are all from the sect, not to mention the two Yuanchu strongmen."
Lou Ji walked closer, leaned down and patted Xu Yuan's shoulder gently, her eyes filled with meaning:
"Changtian, 60,000 people is a lot, but it's really not that many for the entire sect in the world. The same goes for the two Yuanchus."
silence.
Then,
Xu Yuan was a little confused: "Zongmen. What is this going to do?"
Lou Ji did not answer this question directly, but only added a piece of information:
"The Blackscale Guards exposed several details and gathered that when Wu Yuan went north, the supplies he escorted were not for 40,000 people, but a share of 100,000 people."
"One hundred thousand people" Xu Yuan had a strange expression: "You mean she is still hiding people?"
Lou Ji smiled and waved her fingers and said softly:
"There are 200,000 Northern Feng troops in the six towns of Wuchenghou. Because of some things a few years ago, the old man Li Yaoxuan sent Wuchenghou back to the capital and brought four towns to defend the capital. However, after Wu Yuan broke through the barbarians and went all the way, in Three of the four towns in the Imperial Capital have been secretly transferred, and it is estimated that they will reach Beifeng City in more than half a decade. I only found out about this a decade ago."
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Hearing this, Xu Yuan suddenly understood.
They are not the only ones who can secretly mobilize the army in this world.
The Great Yan Royal Family also has this strength, but it seems that the confidentiality work is not as good as their operation this time.
But the emperor secretly mobilized so many elites to go to the north
Xu Yuan rubbed his eyebrows:
"Then the emperor wants to take this opportunity to deal with the barbarians in the north at once?"
"should be."
Lou Ji nodded with satisfaction, with a hint of nostalgia in her tone, as if she was remembering the past:
"Li Yaoxuan is an ambitious monarch. He knows that his life is not long and he wants to eliminate some threats before his death. However, the sect hopes to maintain the status quo. It is a pity."
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Xu Yuan sat down on the heavy desk with a hint of sarcasm on his expression:
"Zongmen, does this count as knowing that one's lips are dead and one's teeth are cold?"
Lou Ji shrugged her fair shoulders in acquiescence.
Everything is clear.
There are many smart people in the sect.
Although both the Min Royal Family and the Prime Minister's Office are now smiling and asking for peace talks, the things that happened more than ten years ago are still there, and it is impossible without precautions.
It is possible to deal with the surrounding alien races, but it is not necessary because maintaining the status quo is in the best interest of the sect.
After all, who knows who’s turn will be next after your sect has dealt with the surrounding alien races?
The emperor knew what the clan was thinking.
If you can't come openly, then come secretly.
The layout started a few years ago.
The war in the northern border had an unsatisfactory start. They were restrained by each other and defeated all the way until Beifeng City was besieged. It was most likely that the emperor acquiesced.
Because the emperor knew that Beifeng City could not be lost, because the sect could not let the bottom line of Beifeng City be lost.
So acquiesce.
On the surface, the 40,000 Yulin army led by Wu Yuan took the lead in relieving Beifeng, coerced the clan to regain lost territory, and launched a retaliatory attack on the barbarians.
In fact, the grain, grass and supplies have already arrived. When the Beifeng army reaches the northern border, it will not be revenge, but real genocide.
The entire barbarian tribe was slaughtered to the point where they could not recover within a hundred years.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan exhaled and said the same:
“It’s a pity indeed”
He is not an animal protection organization. Even if the green-skinned and black-skinned barbarians are slaughtered, he has no objection at all.
If the emperor's plan succeeds, at least he won't have to worry about the barbarians going south to become the BOSS if they attack the sect in the future.
but
Xu Yuan looked at Lou Ji with helpless eyes:
"Sister, it seems that I still overestimate the bottom line of these sects."
There is no flaw in the plan to destroy you directly by cutting off your wrists, and there is no righteous reason to settle the score.
At most, it just launches a few targets for you to chop down.
Lou Ji was not surprised at all, and said with a sweet smile:
"Bottom line? What is that? Their very existence is stealing the country. In addition to stealing the country, is there anything strange about betraying the clan for their own interests?"
But at this point, she raised her hand and gave Xu Yuan a slap on the head, her eyes narrowed into two crescents, very dangerous:
"But Changtian, this plan is not over yet~"
Xu Yuan was startled when he heard this, and then he immediately reacted:
"Father also has a back-up plan?"
"It's not your father, it's Zong Qingsheng. He smelled it from the previous war and went to the north in advance."
Lou Ji's red lips curled up, her tone was a bit disdainful, but the look in her eyes was very appreciative: "I thought this big boss knew how to steal money from your sister and me at the end of the year, but now it seems that it has some effect. "
Xu Yuan thought for a moment and recalled this person.
They are all memories from the past life. There is almost no memory of this person in this life, because this person rarely comes to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Most likely to avoid suspicion, he controls the entire army of the Prime Minister's Palace. If he stays in the Prime Minister's Palace all the time, it is easy to meet other senior officials of the Prime Minister's Palace, especially Hua Hong, who controls the Tian'an Chamber of Commerce.
Now it seems that the political consciousness of the other party is very high.
However, in Cangyuan, Xu Yuan had a very deep impression of this person.
Zong Qingsheng, one of the senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office who learned about Xu Yinhe's life and death and was buried in Cangyuan.
A very powerful late boss.
"Mr. Zong brought the army there?"
"otherwise?"
Lou Ji took it for granted and smiled: "Old man Zong can't even beat the second level of his military formation skills. What's the use of him going alone? He brought 30,000 black scale army elites to a river near Dali Mountain. Nesting in the mountain col, waiting for news about your father."
"He brought the Tianxun Crystal?" Xu Yuan asked.
"right."
Lou Ji nodded, a trace of dissatisfaction appeared on her charming face when she talked about this, and she curled her lips: "The three Tianxun crystals currently in the experimental stage, one belongs to your father, one belongs to that boy Xu Changge, and finally One is right there with the old man, not even me, tsk tsk.”
Saying that, Lou Ji suddenly gave Xu Yuan a wink:
"Changtian, your brother has that Tianxun Crystal because he is the heir, and he will probably give it to you in the future."
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Xu Yuan rolled his eyes directly.
here we go again.
The old aunt started to ask for benefits from him without warning.
In less than a month after meeting, he paid him fifteen million taels of silver, along with two extinct precious charm flowers.
If Xu Yuan hadn't insisted on keeping the last enchantment flower for Su Suimo to study, he would have been fooled by this old aunt by now.
Lou Ji stepped forward and gently shook Xu Yuan's shoulders:
"Long sky."
"Do you want me to take the initiative to get Xu Changge's Tianxun Crystal?" Xu Yuan asked, turning to her.
"Uh-huh."
Lou Ji nodded, her movements were a bit large, and she swayed along.
Xu Yuan grinned and pointed at the tip of his nose:
"No, sister, why do you think that guy Xu Changge will give me something? Why do you think I will get beaten?"
"He dares?"
Lou Ji raised her eyebrows, and then said softly to Xu Yuan: "Sister, go with you. If he dares to beat you, sister will help you beat him."
Xu Yuan glanced at her, unmoved at all:
"Oh, why do I remember that when he hung me up and whipped me, the one who laughed the happiest was you, sister?"
Impossible, absolutely impossible. Xu Yuan has been coveting the Tianxun Yuanjing for a long, long time.
want to? nonexistent.
Lou Ji looked at Xu Yuan pitifully: "Sister, I really won't do it anymore."
"Let's talk about it later."
Xu Yuan waved his hand to interrupt, dragging his words, but suddenly he seemed to think of something, and immediately brought the topic back in a low voice:
"So my father is planning to cooperate with the emperor on this matter?"
Lou Ji knew there was no chance, so she snorted coldly, sat on the chair opposite, put her slender jade legs on the desk with a "thump", hugged her chest and reminded angrily:
"Changtian, although there is a gap between the Prime Minister's Palace and the Royal Family, they are more of a cooperation. If the Royal Family and our Prime Minister's Palace are completely opposed, unless a huge change occurs in the world in the future, the entire Great Yan can only be controlled step by step by those sects. He sucked blood to death and eventually split back to the sect world that existed thousands of years ago."
Hearing this reminder, Xu Yuan stared at the slender white jade legs and felt a little dumb in his heart.
Of course he understands this.
Through the cooperation of two powerful men from heaven, Xu Yinhe and the emperor, the combined strength of the royal family and the Prime Minister's Mansion was probably the closest to the world's sects since the Great Yan State Zuo in 1,300 years.
It is certainly impossible for a civil war among the same robes to break out first.
There are so many world lines in Cangyuan. From the turmoil to the middle stage, the royal family and the Prime Minister's Mansion always stood together in the early stages.
He asked what he said just now because if the Prime Minister's Office intervened to rescue the siege at this time, the barbarians would most likely send it directly.
This is not in line with the subsequent plot development at all. The barbarians have a low presence in Cangyuan because there is no heroine, but they are more or less present in every line.
Now that the barbarians are directly exterminated, the entire subsequent plot line will be messed up.
In other words, in Cangyuan, this father probably did not choose to cooperate with the royal family on this matter.
There must be something hidden in it.
Is it because of his existence?
Because the father thought there was a new heir, so he changed his choice temporarily?
There is also the so-called Ninth Princess Wu Yuan. This person has never appeared in Cangyuan. It is estimated that she died in the war with the barbarians.
Thinking about these things, Xu Yuan's thoughts began to gradually diverge.
"Long sky."
"Changtian."
"Changtian!!"
Lou Ji's voice suddenly called Xu Yuan back from his thoughts. She curled her lips and asked:
"What were you thinking about just now?"
Xu Yuan came back to his senses and smiled:
"Nothing, just thinking about my father's choice."
Lou Ji's eyes were a little suspicious, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just answered the question just now:
"Changtian, are you going to go to the north with me now, or are you going directly to the Imperial Capital?"
(End of chapter)
