The fat father-in-law took out a small leather bag from the package and said: "In it are various lock-picking tools that are indispensable for night thieves, and..." After a while, he took out a delicate mask as thin as cicada wings and said: "This is the least It is worth ten thousand taels of gold. It was made by Lu Miaozi's unparalleled skill. Kou Zhong used it to dress up as an ugly doctor. He later gave it to Dugu Clan's beauty Dugu Feng, who then gave it to Li Shimin. As long as you wear it, He will become the most ugly man in the world. Ha!"
After Longying took it, he couldn't put it down. He tried it on again and found that it turned ugly and matched perfectly with his real face.
The fat father-in-law took out Du Fuwei's Qiankun in his Sleeve from his bag and said, "This is the most suitable portable weapon for you. It would be a pity to leave it moldy in the treasury, which would be a waste of natural resources."
Long Ying had always missed these two things very much and hurriedly took them.
The fat father-in-law smiled and said: "That day when you fought against Duan Muling, if you had used these guys instead of table legs, you might have been able to take down the fairy. Ha! That's all. Don't let anyone know that you have so many. Good things, wealth should not be revealed in vain. The time is almost up, go and see what Wu Zhao has to say to you, and then report it to my father-in-law. I never thought that life could become so fun."
In the royal study room, Long Ying wrote quickly and wrote most of the article. Wu Zhaoshi came over, stood in front of his desk, and said in a deep voice: "Don't ask Chang and those gangsters if they have anything to do with Fa Ming?"
Long Ying continued to write, and when he met Wu Zhao's eyes, he recounted all the things that were inconvenient to disclose yesterday, and finally said: "Now that the "Supreme Wisdom Sutra" has fallen into Fa Ming's hands, as long as he finds it, The way to break my demonic seed will be to deal with me immediately."
Wu Zhao sneered and said: "How can a demon be so easy to defeat? But with your current demonic skills, you are more than capable of escaping, but you are still unable to kill him."
Longying smiled and said nothing.
Wu Zhao was surprised: "Do you have a way to deal with him?"
Long Ying said: "We'll have to wait and see."
Wu Zhao said displeasedly: "What are you thinking?"
Long Ying once again felt that the relationship with Wu Zhao was not as good as before. In the past, she would always show her feelings unconsciously. There was an indescribable kindness between the two, but now it was hard and cold. What happened?
In the past, if he could fly far away with Yasannu, he would not hesitate. Now, knowing that the great disaster in the Central Plains is imminent, he feels that he has no shirking the responsibility. He also knows that only he can deal with the Dajiang Alliance. He can even unite with Tibet to destroy the Turks and bring a good period to the Central Plains. Days later, his mind has completely changed.
Long Ying sighed: "Why is the Holy One dissatisfied with the common people?"
This may be the first time someone asked her directly like this, and spoke with this tone of voice. The wise and powerful empress was stunned for a long time, and said softly: "I love you more than anyone else, why are you loyal to me at the same time?" You are against me, but you are against the people of my martial arts family, and you have thoughts of restoring Li Tang, how can you teach me to trust you?"
Long Ying thought in his heart that the news about Wu Zhao should have come from Wu Chengsi, that is, from the assassin organization infiltrated by the Dajiang Alliance, which suddenly destroyed the relationship between him and Wu Zhao. Look at it this way. Wu Zhao indeed had the intention of making Wu Chengsi the crown prince, but he had guessed it all wrong before. He said proudly: "My thoughts are exactly the same as those of the elder Guo. Since His Majesty's trust in the Elder has never changed, why not What about trusting the common people? What I care about is the overall situation of the world of Zhou Dynasty. It makes no difference to me whether my surname is Wu Tianxia or Li surnamed Tianxia. I, Long Ying, am only loyal to one person, the Holy One, and I will take care of his mother in other matters."
Wu Zhao was surprisingly not angry. He pondered for a moment, then a smile escaped from the corner of his lips and said softly: "Yes! Why don't I care about the elder's support of Xian'er? But I am very indignant at Mr. Long's same attitude.
?Because I feel that my husband is my shadow, so he should be with me. Okay! I don’t blame you anymore, but for my sake, can you make peace and cooperate with my children of the Wu family?"
Long Ying smiled bitterly and said: "From the attack on the Hengkong Muye ship, we know that the imperial palace has been infiltrated by the enemy, and the political group most likely to hide the traitor is King Wei's group. If it is exposed by me, even if thousands of unscrupulous people are exposed, the Holy Emperor will
I'm willing, but at least I have to let go of King Wei's position, otherwise how can I convince the public? Under such circumstances, is it possible for King Wei and I to reconcile?"
Wu Zhao replied calmly and said calmly: "No one is guilty of ignorance. I want you to handle it carefully and try not to implicate King Wei."
Long Ying reluctantly agreed, knowing that it would be difficult to use this matter to bring down Wu Chengsi, so he had to accept it as a favor.
Wu Zhao said: "For the time being, we need to adopt a strategy of calming down the Dajiang Alliance. We will wait until Mochu's intention is clear before deciding on the policy."
He then said gently: "I understand that Mr. Long is extremely brave and fearless of anyone. He and Hengkong Makino have become brothers and friends with sincerity. However, it is precisely because the two most powerful foreign races, Tubo and Turks, restrain each other that peace can be maintained on the border."
.I have my own opinion in this regard, so you don’t need to worry about it sir. I still have something to do and have to go to Wucheng Palace. I’m afraid I won’t see you sir until tomorrow.”
Long Ying asked casually: "May I ask Your Majesty, will it be a problem if a commoner takes Renya to play outside the palace?"
Wu Zhao replied without thinking: "They are your people. You can take them wherever you like. I will never interfere."
After finishing the seventh chapter in the afternoon, Long Ying hurriedly left the palace, crossed the Tianjin Bridge, and headed south of the city. After making sure that no one was following him, he turned back to the southeast of the city and walked in a sparsely populated alley. If someone was still following him, he would not be able to hide it.
His demon seed.
When he arrived at Jianingfang, located east of Changxiamen and Yishui, he found the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Temple that Song Yanzhi, an undercover agent of Dajianglian, had mentioned. Then he carefully inspected dozens of century-old locust trees a hundred steps away from the temple. Sure enough,
A strange piece of bark about a foot square was found at the base of one of the old locust trees. After uncovering it, a secret message agreed between him and Song Yanzhi was revealed. After erasing it, it returned to its original appearance, and then he followed the instructions to create a tree in the nearby soil.
The wooden box contained a paper roll filled with densely written words. After reading it, I crushed it into powder and went to Di Renjie's Guolao Mansion to find Wan Renyu.
When the guard saw Long Ying, he led him straight to the palace without saying a word. Di Renjie was playing chess with Zhang Jian. Wan Renyu was watching the game. Seeing his arrival, Di Renjie was very happy and said with a smile: "I heard from Ren Yu that I am a good chess player."
Master, even Mengdie, that girl who can make all chess players vomit blood with anger, dare not take you lightly. Come and show me, who will win in this game of chess, me or Jianzhi?"
Seeing that he was in high spirits and relaxed, Long Ying admired him in his heart. He knew that he was not going to court because of his illness, but was just a winning strategy to put pressure on Wu Zhao. He looked at the chessboard and said blankly: "I can't believe that Mr. Zhang actually attacked with all his strength.
This is a chess strategy, but Guo Lao is on the defensive. In such a chess game, it is difficult for the gods to judge who has the upper hand before the halfway point."
Zhang Jianzhi laughed and said: "Brilliant! Indeed brilliant!"
Di Renjie said happily: "Brother Long is always amazing. What did the Holy One say just now?"
Long Ying picked out the most important thing and said: "I am afraid that the Holy One is determined to have his own way with regard to the reconciliation with the Turks."
Zhang Jianzhi snorted: "The current situation was caused by the Holy One. Not only did he not know how to reflect, he also wanted to flatter Wu Chengsi and asked this idiot to clean up the mess she made and repeat the same mistakes."
Seeing Long Ying's confused look, Di Renjie said, "Jianzhi, please explain clearly first, so that I can understand what you are complaining about."
Zhang Jianzhi leaned back on the chair and said: "Since Taizong captured and killed the Turkic Khan Jieli, the Turkic country has become weaker. More than 40 years ago, we even wiped out the Turks' Ashina chariot nose. In fact, the Turks have The country was subjugated and turned into small tribes divided and ruled on the prairie. The chiefs all surrendered to our Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Tiaolu 12 years ago, the Turkic chieftains Ashder Wenfu and Fengzhi rebelled and defeated our army. , but at this time, the Turkic troops were still insufficient. The Holy Emperor appointed Pei Xingjian as the general manager of the march to Dingxiang Road. He gathered 300,000 troops, defeated the Turks and captured them, which greatly promoted the power of the Tang Dynasty. Later, Pei Xingjian captured the new Turks. The rising chieftain Ashinafu thought of Astwenfu. Pei Xingjian had promised that if the two chieftains surrendered, they would be spared their lives. Little did they know that the emperor not only killed the two chieftains, but also failed to remember Pei Xingjian's contribution. This led to Pei Xingjian claiming to be ill and not serving in the official position. , and soon died of illness and anger."
Wan Renyu also learned about this matter for the first time, and wondered: "How can such a pillar of the country, with Wu Zhao's shrewdness, be loved and cherished, destroy the Great Wall by himself, so unwise?"
Di Renjie sighed sadly: "Because the Holy One only had one thing in mind at that time, which was how to ascend the throne of the emperor. Pei Xingjian would only be loyal to Li Tang, not to her. She then used this to attack Pei Xingjian and let him leave the army. This incident made The hatred between us and the Turks has deepened. Since the Celestial Empire can overturn its promises, of course they can do so. So no matter what promises the Turks make now, we cannot take them seriously. Humph! Thanks to Wu Chengsi, that fool thought he could make great achievements through this. No doubt it’s just a dream!”
Zhang and Cambodia said: "From then on, the Turks took the opportunity to establish a country and did not stay on the border. They killed many of our important ministers and generals, including Zhang Xingshi, Wang Demao, and Li Sijian, and became a serious problem to our north. Fortunately, General Zuo Wuwei, Cheng Wuting, comforted Shan Yudao. Ambassador, he repeatedly defeated the Turkic army and tried his best to protect the border. The emperor at that time was the current prince Li Dan. Pei Yan, the internal historian, urged the emperor to return Li Dan to power, but he was killed by the emperor. Cheng Wuting defended Pei Yan and was also granted by the emperor. Death. After the big tree fell, the Turks no longer had any scruples. The new leader Gu Duulu took advantage of the situation to expand his power and rebuild the Turkic Khanate with force. After Gu Duulu died of illness, his younger brother Mochu usurped his throne and established himself as khan. This was even more powerful. A great disaster. At present, there is only one general in our dynasty that the Turks are wary of, and that is the Baekje Youwuwei General Hete Changzhi. Without him, I am afraid that the Turks would have come to Luoyang long ago, and how could they pretend to be with us? Repaired?"
I don't know why, but Long Ying felt a very uncomfortable feeling in his heart, as if he vaguely felt something terrible, and wished he couldn't express it in detail.
Di Renjie analyzed: "After all, Mo Chu has just ascended the throne and needs to consolidate and accumulate strength. Therefore, the so-called repair is purely a delaying tactic. Cambodia's statement that the Holy One is repeating the same mistakes means that in the past, the Holy One ascended the throne and ignored the overall situation. Now because of She wanted to maintain her Wu family dynasty and replace Li Dan with Wu Chengsi, so she also took a chance and hoped that the Turks would really want to surrender again. This means that if you ask for something, you will lose something, and you can't understand the real situation."