The wind and snow were blowing outside, and Li Zhaoyuan was alone in the silent hall.
He suddenly found that his thoughts were in a mess, because a feeling of powerlessness that could not be solved despite racking his brains resurfaced in his mind.
A long-lost feeling.
What Xu Changtian said before made him once again realize the gap between himself and the imperial brother.
It's not a difference in ability, but a simple difference in origin.
The prince is a big mountain that weighs on the hearts of all princes.
Even if you try your best and exhaust all your mechanisms, it is still insurmountable.
After standing there for a long time, Li Zhaoyuan sighed, turned around and walked towards the desk.
And at this moment,
"I didn't expect you would show such an expression, Zhaoyuan."
A slender female voice suddenly broke the silence in the palace, with a hint of teasing, as if she was quite familiar with the second prince.
Li Zhaoyuan's eyes subconsciously showed a touch of tenderness when he heard the sound, but when he looked sideways, they were calm, even with a little disgust.
A woman wearing plain white snow clothes appeared at the entrance of the hall.
The snow-covered dress with beautiful nose and red lips falls to her elbows, her fragrant shoulders are half exposed, and her fair and delicate collarbones are clearly visible.
Beautiful and freezing.
The woman seemed to appear together with a piece of snow mist falling into the hall at the door.
Since she passed by, a layer of white frost has formed on the ground.
If Xu Yuan were still staying in the meeting hall at this moment and saw the characteristics of this woman's clothing, he would have recognized that this woman was one of the three kings of the Ancient Yuan Fox Clan.
After all, there are not many poor and generous characters in Cangyuan.
Snow Fox South Jinxi.
Not the heroine of Cangyuan, but a very special BOSS.
Although she was the third king of the Fox Clan, she was nowhere to be seen when Gu Yuan invaded Dayan.
In many timelines, she stayed in seclusion in a mountain forest inside Dayan.
It is considered a neutral BOSS.
Kill her to explode equipment and information.
If you don't kill, she will help you once in the later stage, but only against the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Hearing this joke, no emotion appeared on Li Zhaoyuan's face:
"I am also a human being, so I will naturally feel frustrated."
After a pause, he asked solemnly:
"Nan Jinxi, why are you here?"
Xuehu Nan Jinxi tilted her head and thought for a moment, then moved her slender figure forward and smiled softly:
"Xu Yinhe and your father made such a big noise in the north. It's hard for us to imagine. Some little beasts in the city told me that this government office has your aura, so they came to see you."
The demon clan is almost unrivaled in collecting intelligence.
Bloodline allows them to control some low-level monsters, and even ordinary beasts to provide them with information.
But this kind of control can also have flaws.
There is a faint connection between the source and energy of the accused monster, which a strong person like Lou Ji can easily sense, and then follow the clues.
Li Zhaoyuan glanced outside the hall:
"If you do this, you won't be afraid of staying in Beifeng City forever?"
"Is Zhaoyuan caring about me?"
Looking at the opponent's sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, Nan Jinxi bent his eyes and smiled:
"Don't worry, Lou Ji has left the city to go north. As long as I don't get too close to your imperial sister, no one in the city can find me."
While talking,
Dressed in thin plain clothes, she had already crossed the 100-meter hall and came to Li Zhaoyuan.
Li Zhaoyuan's face showed no emotion or anger, and he asked thoughtfully:
"Lou Ji left?"
Nan Jinxi raised her fair and smooth shoulders and said with a slightly playful smile:
"I don't dare to come out until that woman leaves. She seems to be going to give something important away."
While talking,
She gathered up her skirt and sat on the chair, raising her hand to get the file on the desk.
Unfortunately, Li Zhaoyuan, who was standing on the side of the desk, took the file in his hand first and smiled slightly:
"Are you so afraid of Lou Ji?"
"I can't beat you~"
Nanjin Xixi showed a pitiful look, reached out to pick up another file, and said with a smile:
"If that woman hadn't damaged her foundation for some unknown reason, she might have become a saint by now."
Li Zhaoyuan saw the other party's move and directly put all the files on the desk into Xumijie, his voice slightly cold:
"Okay, if you want to spy on information, go find someone else."
Nan Jinxi's blue eyes stared at Li Zhaoyuan and said:
"It's just a joke, you idiot. You really don't understand women at all."
Li Zhaoyuan's dark pupils looked down at the woman:
"Woman? Are you human?"
Nan Jinxi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then a hint of anger appeared in his beautiful eyes.
Li Zhaoyuan's dark eyes were deep and unmoved.
Staring at each other, silent.
a long time,
The sullenness in Nan Jinxi's eyes gradually disappeared, and he whispered quietly to himself:
"I know your identity cannot be connected to mine, but"
"okay."
Li Zhaoyuan interrupted and stood upright:
"Nan Jinxi, I did save you back then, but please don't play boring stories like the white fox repaying your kindness again."
Nan Jinxi's slender fingers suddenly exerted force:
"Li Zhaoyuan, why do you think I gave up my longevity to cultivate into a human form?"
Li Zhaoyuan was not moved at all, and even showed a hint of impatience:
"If you have anything to say, you can tell me directly. The war in Beifeng is urgent now. If you keep talking nonsense, I will start the battle."
There was silence in the hall,
The woman's frail and slender body trembled, and she whispered:
"I just came here to tell you to leave Beifeng City as soon as possible."
"leave?"
Li Zhaoyuan frowned slightly. She knew that the other party risked being killed and would most likely not lie.
After thinking for a moment, he uttered two words:
"reason."
There was a hint of hesitation in Nan Jinxi's eyes, but he still revealed:
"All the sect's grain, grass and ordnance inventories in Beifeng City will be blown up soon. You should know what this means."
This means that seventy-eight percent of the food and grass in the city were destroyed.
This means that half of the defensive equipment cannot be replenished.
One-third of the reserve source crystals representing and supplying the city defense array evaporated.
Thinking of this, Li Zhaoyuan immediately left to deal with it, but was stopped by Nan Jinxi. She said slowly:
"It's already too late. I know the news came a quarter of an hour ago. If you calculate the time, you should be able to hear the sound in less than a cup of tea."
Li Zhaoyuan was silent for a moment, frowned and said:
"Is it a sect?"
Nan Jinxi shook her head, indicating that she didn't know, but there was a hint of joking in her words:
"The resources in your territory of Dayan are really too rich. If the imperial court fights with the sects, the sects can also fight with the sects. If the city of Beifeng is lost, even if 700,000 troops are buried in the snow fields, people like Beifeng will be buried in the snow." You, Dayan, will definitely mobilize troops to recapture this important pass town in the coming year.
"The barbarians will not give up this opportunity to escape from the snowfield. The sect, the desert, and even our Gu Yuan will miss this opportunity to consume your Great Yan Court. We will support them. Even if your Great Yan Court can take it back, it will definitely lose its vitality. He is seriously injured and unable to take action against the sect again."
A few breaths of silence,
Li Zhaoyuan suddenly asked:
"Are you done?"
"Um?"
"Let's leave now. It's time for me to continue handling military affairs."
Xue Hu Nan Jinxi's eyes widened slightly, and her tone accelerated slightly:
"Li Zhaoyuan, didn't you understand what I said? This is Beifeng City."
"Of course I understand."
Li Zhaoyuan slowly stepped forward and pulled the woman up from the chair, sat down, leaned on the back of the chair, and said calmly:
"But the more dangerous the situation is, the more I can win the support of others. If I handle it properly, I may even be able to get the support of the imperial sister."
"You will die." Nan Jinxi stared at Li Zhaoyuan.
Li Zhaoyuan shook his head and stopped looking at her:
"If I fail, I will not be able to escape death."
For a moment, the hall fell into silence.
Li Zhaoyuan exhaled a breath of white mist:
"Let's go. If you are discovered, I can only launch a formation and kill you."
Nan Jinxi looked at him for a few breaths with a complicated expression, gritted his teeth, turned around and disappeared into a sheet of snow mist in the meeting hall.
What disappeared with her was the hoarfrost she brought up as she walked.
All traces disappeared, as if she had never been there.
Seeing the other party leaving, Li Zhaoyuan put the copy files that had just been collected by Xumijie on the desk one by one. However, when he was placing the file on the sect's inventory in Beifeng City, he suddenly raised his lips meaningfully. horn
The night is getting darker.
On a snowy night, the important town of Beifeng seemed empty and lonely.
Soldiers patrolling the streets from time to time, and animal carts rushing past escorting ordnance became the only sounds on the streets.
The horses in the stables were pacing uneasily because of the continuous roaring in the sky south of the city. Countless soldiers and civilians who were guarded by the formation huddled on the beds, enjoying a false sense of security in the warm and thick quilts.
And Xu Yuan is also one of them.
After bidding farewell to the second prince, he immediately went back to his room to rest.
No one made arrangements for him, so he just rested in his fiancée's house.
This is not in accordance with the etiquette of Great Yan, but the dandy does not care about etiquette.
Moreover, there are only three decent villas in the back hall. He can't sleep in the third prince's room, right?
The thick quilt made Xu Yuan sleep soundly, but unfortunately tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
Just when he was about to fall asleep, Xu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.
Xu Yuan rubbed his brows and sat up, his long untied hair hanging behind him.
Enduring the sleepiness in his heart, he stood up, picked up the jacket hanging on the back of the chair beside him, put it on his body, and walked out the door.
As soon as the door opened, the biting cold wind and blizzard cut into his cheek like a knife.
On the sky not far away, the red light of flames was mixed with black mist, and the sound of continuous explosions came one after another.
Looking at this scene, Xu Yuan frowned subconsciously.
Before he could think more, a figure had already landed on the ground, and Zhou Chen came over:
"Third Young Master."
Xu Yuan glanced at him and asked:
"what happens?"
Zhou Chen glanced at the direction of the flames and said hesitantly:
"That direction should be the border army's warehouse."
"hiss"
The corners of Xu Yuan's eyes twitched, and he completely woke up from his sleep. He started to run his skills and jumped to the height of the government office several times.
On a snowy night with low visibility, apart from the fire point near the government office, he could vaguely see the flames rising in several places in the city.
"Are those places the warehouses of the border army?"
Zhou Chen had been following Xu Yuan and immediately responded after hearing the words:
"Yes, the border army is in chaos. Each sect basically has its own warehouse to store supplies in Beifeng City."
Xu Yuan stood at a high place and looked at the few breaths before gently shaking his head:
"Being served in one pot, these sects really have a good appetite."
"Good appetite indeed."
The voice that answered was calm, not Zhou Chen, but Li Zhaoyuan.
He didn't know when he came to the highest attic in the government office. He looked at Xu Yuan, holding a file in his hand, and said calmly:
"It's just a pity that the information about the sect's warehouse that Third Young Master gave me earlier seems to be useless now."
As he spoke, a ball of blue flame ignited in Li Zhaoyuan's hand, instantly devouring the file and turning it into ashes.
Xu Yuan frowned and stared at Li Zhaoyuan:
"Your Highness, what you are saying is that you suspect that the military warehouse here was burned by our Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Li Zhaoyuan's gaze seemed to be able to see through people:
"Third Young Master, Blackscale Guards can even check the quantity of warehouses. It shouldn't be difficult to do some tricks in it. Moreover, the investigation result of blowing up the Arc de Triomphe in Nancheng is also the frame of your Tian'an Chamber of Commerce."
"." Xu Yuan didn't say anything or defend himself.
Li Zhaoyuan smiled when he saw the other party's expression:
"But given how much Mr. Xu loves you, Third Young Master, how can he put you in danger? I guess there are other people interfering with it. After all, if it was really your prime minister's office that did it, why would Third Young Master hand over the border army's warehouse information to you?" My king, why should I use the Tianan Chamber of Commerce’s bicycle frame? I speculate that someone is causing trouble and sowing discord.”
The wind and snow were very strong at the top of the attic, and the long hair that was not tied up was swaying in the wind.
Xu Yuan's eyes were burning with blood and he chuckled:
"Such a big thing has happened. Instead of sitting in command and controlling the fire, His Highness has the time to come and chat with me?"
Li Zhaoyuan's pair of deep black eyes brought a hint of smile:
"The destruction of the northern sect's warehouses is actually beneficial to the court, isn't it?"
"Bonus?" Xu Yuan thought thoughtfully.
"Third Young Master, I have seen three advantages. Please help me correct this."
Li Zhaoyuan glanced at Xu Yuan, then looked at Nancheng in the distance, as if he was sighing, as if he was amused:
"First, Beifeng City cannot be defended. These things will be blown up sooner or later. The supplies that are enough for an army of 300,000 people for half a year can only be thrown to the barbarians."
"Secondly, the biggest reason for the crisis in Beifeng City is not the shortage of supplies in the city, but the fact that the formations and gates of the Arc de Triomphe in the south of the city have been destroyed. The barbarians have gathered their totems to attack, so we need to use human lives to fill it. Now someone is willing to help us If you blow it up, the sect border troops in the city will have no supplies, so they will definitely seek help from us, and the imperial sister will make the resistance of these sect border troops rotate in the city defense much smaller."
"Thirdly, the distance between Houting County and Beifeng City is only three hundred miles. Even if high-level cultivators need to cover their auras, the round trip only takes one day. Every extra day of guarding Beifeng City, these supplies will be used by the sect's high-level cultivators. We will use the Sumeru Ring to transport part of it and keep it for ten days. Most of the supplies will be hoarded in Houting County. By then, the only people trapped in the snowfield will be the 300,000 troops of our imperial court in the Dali Mountain area."
Xu Yuan looked at the thoughtful second prince and suddenly grinned:
"So that's it. The destruction of the sect's warehouses has been of such benefit to our Great Yan court. His Highness's meticulous thinking is truly well-deserved."
Li Zhaoyuan shook his head:
"The Third Young Master praised me so much that it was only after thinking that he realized that the person who planned this matter in advance was really thoughtful."
Saying,
The wind and snow are dancing,
He stared at Xu Yuan and said with a smile every word:
"Are you right, Third Young Master?"
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