by Zhi Bai
Du Shoushou: "You sure speak so lightly … He wrote it while pretending to be Fang Zhiji. There must be a lot of people who have seen Fang Zhiji's handwriting, which simply won't work. "
"What handwriting?" "A message!"
An Zheng laughed: "Because this matter is very important, and because I am afraid that the imperial report would fall into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, Great General Fang Zhiji sent his trusted aide over with a message. The Great General said that Chen Zaiyan being framed was a scheme by the people of Youguo. The goal is to disrupt the rear of the great swallow, and let the great swallow's attacking army break on their own. "
Du Shoushou replied, "But the empress dowager might not believe it."
An Zheng said: "Who wants them to believe it? All he wanted was another voice to appear in the imperial court. This voice had to be loud, loud and clear. However, if it was a person without any weight who said this, shouting it out loud would be of no use. Therefore, this person could only be Fang Zhiji, even if it was our fake Fang Zhiji … Right now, on the empress dowager's side, Fang Zhiji was the only one that he was wary of. Right now, Fang Zhiji had an army of hundreds of thousands. With each and every word of his, the imperial government had to pay attention to him. Furthermore... The deaths of Principal Sang, Minister Hao, Prime Minister Ge, and the others didn't cause the situation they were hoping for. However, the various great families didn't dare to stand too close to the empress dowager. But the people from the various major families are all cowards and need a leader. When we bring out Fang Zhiji's name, naturally there will be people who will agree with us. "
Du Shoushou thought for a moment: "I understand, you are not going to solve this problem, you are going to delay it."
An Zheng nodded, "That's right, it is to delay. A message is not enough to change the result, but it will delay the result. If we delay Mu Changyan a little longer, he might be able to find a gap for us. But just Ma Ziwei alone is not enough, the empress dowager can totally turn hostile. "
Du Shoushou said: "But... Even if they pretended to be Fang Zhiji's trusted aides to bring back some messages, the empress dowager might not hold back. It might even speed up the empress dowager's movements, to the point that Swallow King has even less strength to fight back. "
An Zheng said: "Then I'll have to build up my momentum."
An Zheng looked outside the window: "If we only rely on the voices of those ministers who are loyal to the Swallow King, then this voice is so weak that practically no one will be able to hear it. Weak to the point of … The empress dowager could pretend that no one had spoken. But how could he make the court officials who were not on the side of the Swallow King suddenly change their direction and speak for the Swallow King? "This requires us to create a great momentum …"
Du Shoushou sighed: "What you said is too mysterious, I don't understand. Just tell me what to do, I'm stupid. "
An Zheng said: "Actually, the reason I want to do this, is not only to help Mu Changyan and Chen Zaiyan. More importantly, some of them have offended me. The Gao family held a large amount of information regarding court officials, so the empress dowager was always trying to win them over. The reason why the Gao family was so blatant was because they received the empress dowager's protection. "Therefore, this matter will eventually have to start from the Gao Clan."
Du Shoushou rubbed his brows, "What does this have to do with the Gao Family? Isn't it to protect Chen Zaiyan? "
An Zheng laughed: "Just now when you talked about how to get those officials who did not stand on Swallow King's side to speak up for him, the Gao Family became the breakthrough point. Speaking of which, why did His Majesty have so many supporters? Did those people really think that following His Majesty would give them a better future? Can you get any more benefits? Perhaps they chose to stand by the Empress Dowager's side. Part of the reason was that the empress dowager's side had great power. They were the fence-sitters, so they went astray. The other reason is that the Empress Mother has them in his hands and they have to be his lackeys. "
"The key here is the Gao Clan. The empress dowager had the Gao family in her hands, which was the equivalent of having a large number of officials in her grasp. Swallow people loved to gamble, especially the officials. They gambled even more. However, this gamble was just a cover. How could those officials wash clean the money they got from bribing and embezzling others? The best way would be to gamble and have the Gao Family set up a casino. They would win so many casinos that it would be easy for them to earn a ton of money. Of course, the money would go to waste. "
Du Shoushou smacked his forehead. "You mean to say, if we destroy the Gao Clan, those officials don't have to be controlled by the empress dowager."
An Zheng shook his head, "Destroying the Gao Family is not that easy. We don't have enough strength. This is what I meant when I said 'power is created' … You can contact Zhong Jiuge and have him create some fake evidence. This proved that the Gao Family had colluded with the Youguo. The Gao Family secretly channeled a large amount of silver from casinos into the Youguo in an attempt to subvert the situation in the great swallow. Of course, no one would believe that, but those officials would keenly smell the opportunity like dogs. We can't destroy the Gao family, but they can. "Think about it, those people have been taken advantage of by the Gao Family. Which one of them isn't sitting on pins and needles?"
Du Shoushou said: "But I don't understand, why all those officials lined up like this and went into the Gao Family's trap?"
An Zheng said: "Actually there's nothing that I don't understand. There's always a second one after the first one, the Gao Family doesn't even need to do any promotional work. As long as the first official cleared the Gao Family's casino of silver, he would not be able to accept any more money from the start. The others would automatically throw themselves at him, and then the Gao Family would begin to hold more and more things in their hands. "In the end, it also created a situation where almost all of the officials had a handle on the Gao family's side."
"With so many officials united, their strength is much greater than that of the Gao Family. We will only be responsible for making a beginning, and the rest will be left to the adults. If they smell the chance to kill the Gao Family, they will not show mercy. "
Du Shoushou asked: "But how can I let these officials have a chance to smell it?"
An Zheng laughed: "Simple, think of a way for Zhong Jiuge to impersonate Fang Zhiji's personal guard and say it in front of the entire imperial court. For example, General Fang Zhiji had sensed that a large amount of silver was flowing into the Youguo from the Gao Family's casino, and had become the Youguo's military asset. And the Gao Family, as the biggest trump card of the Youguo, in order to control the great swallow's imperial government, they created a large amount of false evidence, in an attempt to coerce the important officials of the great swallow. The purpose of the Gao Family is to control all of the court officials, and thus accomplish the goal of destroying the great swallow without even needing a single soldier. "
Du Shoushou was silent for a moment: "I still can't figure out what you're thinking, anyway I'll just tell Zhong Jiuge everything that you said."
An Zheng nodded: "This is for you... This was the mask that he had specifically asked Zhong Jiuge for a few days ago. Don't go through the back door in a while, just go out the front door. I will contact Mu Changyan's people and have them protect you from the shadows. Right now, Empress Dowager's attention isn't on me, but on how to quickly get out of Chen Zaiyan and find him. That's why you don't have to be too nervous. Right, don't you still have the black umbrella that Chen Shaobai gave us? With it, no one will be able to detect you. "
Du Shoushou nodded with all his might: "Alright, just wait for my news."
Du Shoushou thought about it carefully, but didn't leave anything out, and then turned around and left.
No one would have thought that a change in the situation in great swallow could actually start from An Zhe
ng, a small fry that they looked down upon. Using the experience he had accumulated when he was the leader of the Great Western Ming Fa Si, An Zheng was changing the trajectory of the State of Yan. Maybe this was not what An Zheng was good at, what he liked more was to take care of kindness and enmity, and get rid of evil at all costs. But this did not mean that he understood these strategies, did not know these means, and had a lot of experience in how to struggle in his head.
Some people say that a thousand miles of dike is destroyed by an ant's nest. This wasn't alarmist talk, it was similarly an experience story. The power embankment that the Empress Dowager Su had taken many years to build was being moved by An Zheng. And in her eyes, An Zheng was just an insignificant ant.
Chapter 210 - Your Side
In an inconspicuous small tavern, An Zheng lied on his bed and closed his eyes to rest. However, he knew that he was changing a country. He was just a youth that had just walked out of a land of evil in the mountains, so no one cared about him. It was precisely because he didn't care that he had already created many miracles. An Zheng was also enjoying the pleasure of not being noticed by others, because he knew that once he became someone who everyone cared about very much, no matter if it was a friend or an enemy, doing things again might not be as easy as they were now.
The door creaked open as someone pushed it open from the outside. An Zheng turned his head to look and realised it was Qu Liuxi.
The young girl's face was full of concern, but her eyes were filled with fake anger.
An Zheng laughed awkwardly: "Why are you here?"
Qu Liuxi looked around: "Is it more comfortable lying down here than lying at home?"
An Zheng shook his head, "Of course not!"
It looked like a mouse that had seen a cat.
good old man jumped up from An Zheng's side and into Qu Liuxi's embrace. Qu Liuxi sat down on the side of An Zheng's bed with good old man and stretched out his hand to pinch An Zheng's wrist. After a while, she became a little more loving and relaxed, "You ate a bunch of random things.
An Zheng said: "It's fine, I know what kind of medicine those are. Have you forgotten?
A pill was stuffed into his mouth by Qu Liuxi, and he did not say the rest of his words.
An Zheng swallowed the pill and made an expression that was hard to swallow: "How is it apple-flavored, you know I like strawberry flavored …"
Qu Liuxi glared at him: First remove all the messy medicine in your body, it'll hurt a bit later. After the time it takes to burn an incense stick, eat another one, and then come back with me. "
An Zheng shook his head, "I can't go back for now. As long as I don't leave this place, I won't be a threat to Xiao Qi Dao and the others. "But how did you know I was here? Could it be that traitor, Fatty?"
Qu Liuxi: "He first returned to the Heavenly Awakening Sect and gave me the black umbrella."
An Zheng sighed: "I knew he wouldn't be so obedient."
Qu Liuxi looked at the wound on An Zheng's body which was still oozing blood, and then lowered his head to look at the Blood Pearl Bracelet on his wrist. I really don't know how you got such a big heart, and how you're still in the mood to joke around at a time like this. "
An Zheng said: "Oldman Huo has said it before, I have great luck."
Qu Liuxi began to strip An Zheng's clothes, and An Zheng's face instantly flushed red. I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself! "
Qu Liuxi gave a cold snort, "I have already taken care of you once, so why have you suffered so few injuries? When you were still in Fantasy City, when you went deep in the mountains to pick Du Shoushou's herbs and came back injured in a mess, didn't you already say that I would help you to change your clothes everyday? "Look at you being so secretive, it's like I really don't care how much I look at you."
An Zheng's face reddened, as he laid there randomly.
Qu Liuxi swiftly cut the bandages off An Zheng's body, then took off the bloodstained clothes as well. But when she saw the frightening wound on An Zheng's body, even though she had mentally prepared herself long ago, her eyes still uncontrollably reddened.
"If something really does happen to you, I … What do we do? "
She carefully applied the medicine on An Zheng and then bandaged his wounds. Then, she took out a piece of An Zheng's clean clothes and put it on him. Perhaps she was the only one who was this meticulous and would not miss anything. After she had put on his clothes, An Zheng and her let out a long sigh of relief at the same time. Then the two of them looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
Qu Liuxi stood up and walked out: "I don't know if this inn is clean or not, forget it … "I'll cook it here."
Then, she took out the Purple-Rank Divine Artifact from the storage space she carried with her. That was Old Huo's most prideful work. The Old Huo could be an unprecedented master of artifacts. No one could be like him, and create two Purple-Rank Divine Artifact in his life. As for the Phoenix Cooking Pill Furnace s, their grade was even higher than that of the Heaven Defying Seal s that the Old Huo had spent thirty years of effort to create.
Even the Old Huo didn't understand why he could succeed on his first try. He attributed this all to An Zheng's great fortune.
Qu Liuxi placed the Phoenix Cooking Pill Furnace on her palm and a wave of gentle, light purple light radiated from it. The light made people feel especially comfortable when they saw it, as if they were listening to a faint and refreshing tune that made them feel joyful both physically and mentally.
"You want to concoct pills here?" "Hurry up and put it away!"
An Zheng immediately said.
However, Qu Liuxi completely ignored him. As if she was facing a great enemy, she solemnly took out some noodles from her storage space and placed it inside the Phoenix Cooking Pill Furnace. Then, she added eggs, vegetables and green onions …
An Zheng was stunned when he saw this: "You actually used Phoenix Cooking Pill Furnace to cook noodles... That is a high-grade divine tool capable of refining Purple-Rank pellets. If others were to find out, I wonder how they would scold you for recklessly wasting such a precious item. "
Qu Liuxi said calmly as she cooked: "Cooking noodles for you is more important than refining any kind of medicinal pellet. Even if it was a Purple-Rank Divine Artifact, it was only a pill furnace. But you are different … "You are …"
Before she could finish her words, her face had turned as red as a ripe apple.
Not long after, a bowl of steaming hot noodles was served. Qu Liuxi carried the noodles to the side of the bed and tried to sit up, but she was suppressed by Qu Liuxi's brutal gaze. Of course, that ruthlessness and brutality was merely because of An Zheng's fear of Qu Liuxi … For a little girl to cause the once almighty Ming Fa Si's head to be so afraid, it was really hard for people to understand what was going on.
Qu Liuxi put down the noodles and helped An Zheng sit up a little. An Zheng reached out to grab the noodles, but he retracted his hand under Qu Liuxi's gaze.
Qu Liuxi held the noodles in her hands and blew on it, before placing it on her alluring red lips and feeding it to An Zheng after ensuring that it was not scalding hot. An Zheng opened his mouth and sucked the noodles into his mouth, causing the soup to splash onto his face … Qu Liuxi used a handkerchief to wipe him clean, and then continued to feed him. Every time An Zheng took a bite of the noodles, she would use her lips to touch the noodles, afraid that it would make An Zheng uncomfortable.
An Zheng suddenly thought of something. He couldn't be considered to have kissed Qu Liuxi like this.
When he thought about this, An Zheng felt that he was somewhat detestable. He quickly cast away this thought, but his heart couldn't help but beat faster and faster.
Qu Liuxi's medical skills were extremely gifted, and of course, the first thing she noticed was An Zheng's change. She immediately put down her chopsticks and reached out to pinch An Zheng's wrist. "Where did you tell me it wasn't right?"
An Zheng lay there: "It's uncomfortable ever
ywhere."
Qu Liuxi panicked, and her expression turned serious.
An Zheng laughed and said: "Half fed, I'm not full yet, of course I'm not feeling well anywhere."
Qu Liuxi went blank for a moment, then fiercely glared at An Zheng, and continued to feed him.
"The last time I went to the Mount Cang Man to look for medicine, it was the same way you fed me when I returned."
An Zheng lamented: "In the blink of an eye, several years have passed. Even Fatty is already that old... "Hmm, that sounds a bit wrong, as if he's our child."
Qu Liuxi said: "Who is giving birth to your child … Uh, no, I had a baby with you, ah! No! I won't have children with you! "
She put down the bowl and ran to the wall.
An Zheng held the bowl in his hands, laughed foolishly and finished the noodles, "Finished … "I haven't eaten my fill …"
Qu Liuxi suddenly turned around, her face red as she mustered her courage to run to An Zheng's bedside and used both hands to hold An Zheng's face and push against his lips. That's right, it was not a kiss, but a clumsy push. But An Zheng felt his hair standing up, and for a moment, he felt like he was suffocating. This was the first time for Qu Liuxi, but wasn't it the same for An Zheng as well?
When he was in the Great Western Ming Fa Si, he had spent most of his time on investigation and cultivation, and he had no interest in relationships between men and women. Tian Haogong pursued him with such passion, but he was unable to accept it from the beginning to the end. Moreover, other than Xu Meidai, there were quite a few women who wanted to marry into the Ming Fa Si, even to the point of being willing to do so no matter what happened. In Du Shoushou's eyes, the first Ming Fa Si was a true hero, and it was the same for Da Xi Empire. Who wouldn't think that Fang Zheng was a hero?
An Zheng's hair stood on end, and his legs were on the verge of collapsing.
Those few seconds seemed like a very long time. After Qu Liuxi mustered up the courage to give him a kiss, she immediately turned around and looked out the window. Both of her hands went into her pockets, pretending to not care: "How is it, are you full now?"
