The secret guards of the Yan family should probably be called the Anbu - an army that is independent of the Yan family army in Western Xinjiang, hidden in the shadows, and belongs exclusively to the Yan family.

The secret guards are just a small branch of the secret service, mainly responsible for ensuring the safety of the Yan family, as well as handling some assassinations, messaging and other matters.

The biggest thing among the entire ANBU is its intelligence network that covers almost the entire Wu An Kingdom.

Yan Qing had only heard about these things before he took over the ANBU forces under his father and brother.

When he truly got a glimpse of the power of this force, Yan Qing understood why Yan Qi, the strongest among the new batch of secret guards, did not follow his brother.

Although Yan Qi is strong, he has an upright temperament and can manage the entire ANBU subordinates well, but it is difficult for the ANBU to continue to expand under its existing scale.

Although the one who followed his brother was not as strong as Yan Qi, he more than doubled his intelligence spies in just one year.

The essence of ANBU's existence is to have the ability to spy on the world's affairs.

Therefore, the more important quality of an ANBU leader than strength is the ability to develop and update the intelligence network.

Yan Qi is slightly weaker at this point.

In fact, when Yan Qing first learned about the existence of ANBU, he always had a question.

The Yan family has been loyal to the royal family for generations and has guarded the western frontier. They have never exceeded the rules. What is the use of having such a power to spy on the world?

Yan Qing still doesn't know this question until now.

But thanks to ANBU, no matter in her past life or in this life, she can often anticipate the enemy's opportunities.

But such a force with a huge intelligence network could not find any clues about the person who was cooperating with Wen Zhemao behind the scenes.

This can only show that this person also has an unknown force under him, which may even be stronger than the Yan family's Anbu.

There are not many people with such power, but they are not few either.

At least, the three families of Guo, Li, and Xu, who are a century-old family like the Yan family, and the Wen family, who sit high in the imperial court, should have their own power secretly.

As for how strong the power they have is, no one knows the outcome until they face it head-on.

However, the rebellion of the Li family gave Yan Qing the opportunity to investigate the power of the Li family.

Unexpectedly, after Li Dingshan's death, the Li family was like a mountain suddenly collapsing, without any centipede, dead but not stiff.

It gives the impression that the Li family is just a big family that suddenly became rich, without any foundation behind it. So with just a slight touch, the entire Li family was uprooted.

Some people say that each generation of the Li family is not as good as the last, and everything in the middle has been eaten away, leaving only the superficial glamor. Now that the superficial glamor has been peeled away, an empty belly is revealed.

Most of the feedback received from ANBU also means this.

But as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the Li family's belly is empty and only a shiny shell is left, there should still be a frame to support the shell.

The Li family was uprooted so simply. Except for the apparent Southern Xinjiang forces, there is no trace of the Li family anywhere else.

Withdraw the manpower from the capital to southern Xinjiang, and then, with all the information coming from Wen Zhemao, send a large number of troops back to the capital to start a military rebellion.

This is not what a ambitious ambitious man who wants to rebel and become emperor would do.

Because this is tantamount to poking oneself in the eyes before the war.

Excluding Li Dingshan's self-destructive behavior, and excluding the possibility of the Li family's foundation being completely corrupted, the only thing left is - incorporation, or should I say, annexation.

At the moment when the Li family collapsed, someone swallowed up all the Li family's power in Beijing.

This requires many years of management and planning to achieve this without leaving any trace.

The capital is owned by the Xu and Wen families.

The fact that the Li family was completely devoured in an instant sounded the alarm for Yan Qing.

This is one of the reasons why Yan Qing decided to withdraw his men from Beijing.

The strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake, and the Yan family is now in a situation of success and failure. Naturally, we must try our best to avoid the losses that can be avoided.

Yan Qing sat in his chair, closing his eyes and concentrating, but various thoughts kept flashing through his mind.

The situation in Wu'an State, the future of the Yan family, and the intertwining of various memories from past and present lives are all tangled together.

It seems like a dream but not a dream, making it impossible to fall asleep or wake up.

The more he studied in this life, the more Yan Qing discovered that he was trapped in a huge web.

In her previous life, she was a fish caught in a trap, being manipulated and slaughtered without knowing it.

She was still struggling in this life, thinking that by overthrowing Wen Zhemao, she had escaped the fate of her previous life, but unexpectedly she bumped into the Internet, only to realize that she was still trapped in it.

In this way, can she understand that all the tragedies she experienced in her previous life were just some small calculations in this big net?

If this big net is not broken, everything will happen again.

The complicated memories are woven into a web, and the hoods come down layer by layer, blocking the sky and the sun. There is no way to break free or escape.

Despair grew from her limbs and bones, dragging her down into the abyss.

She struggled upwards desperately, but to no avail.

Desperation as slippery and sticky as water pulled at her, gradually spreading over her chest and abdomen, neck, mouth, and nose... a strong sense of suffocation, causing people to faint.

"Knock knock knock!"

"Knock knock knock!"

A series of rapid knocks on the door suddenly woke Yan Qing up.

Yan Qing sat up in shock and gasped for air. His frightened and dazed eyes regained some clarity after touching the sketch still on the table.

The feeling of suffocation subsided, and Yan Qing felt cold all over his body, only to realize that he had broken out in a cold sweat.

She accidentally fell asleep and was haunted by nightmares.

"Knock knock knock!"

The knock on the door rang again, this time accompanied by a human voice, "Little general? Little general!"

Yan Qing wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, swallowed saliva to moisten his dry throat, calmed down slightly, and said: "Come in!"

The door was pushed open in an instant, and Zeng Chengwen came in from the outside wearing plain clothes, with the dusk behind him.

Yan Qing suddenly realized that she had slept directly from noon to dusk.

"What's the matter?"

Yan Qing asked slightly tiredly while holding his forehead.

"Earlier, you asked your brothers to go to the city to inquire about the price of grain, and they all found out clearly. Now the price per kilogram of rice is the usual price, which is one-third more than usual."

Zeng Chengwen replied, seeing Yan Qing's poor expression, he asked with some concern, "Little General, are you feeling unwell? Your face is as pale as gold paper! I just knocked on Lao Bantian's door, and you are also

Without any response."

Although he asked this question, Zeng Chengwen was already convinced that Yan Qing was not feeling well.

I think he has been following Yan Qing for four or five years. His little general has always been a vigilant person.

Normally, she would have known it when she got to the door, let alone the way she was banging on the door today!
Chapter completed!