Qi State, the capital.
Hengwang Mansion.
Zhao Zheng paced back and forth in the hall, with a gloomy expression on his face, and complained: "What the hell is Father thinking, are you confused? Let me supervise the country, why do you need Zhao Yi to supervise it? Let him and his fellow party members try their best to find trouble for the king all day long, and make the king lose face in front of the courtiers!"
"Why should His Royal Highness care about this?" Behind him, a young man smiled and said: "As long as His Highness is the Crown Prince for a day, he will be more respected than the third prince. His Majesty asked him to supervise him, and it was just to supervise His Highness means that His Highness is a knife, Zhao Yi is just a whetstone, if not, then the third prince, not His Highness, will be in charge of the country."
"Until the last moment, no one knows what Emperor Father is thinking!" Zhao Zheng looked bored, and suddenly looked at the young man behind him, and said, "Fang Hufa, I know that your mother has great powers, as long as you can help me fight for it!" If you get the throne, this king can promise you that after this king ascends the throne, he will support the holy religion as the state religion!"
Fang Yu's eyes flashed brightly, but he did not rush to agree, but smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, between the Third Prince and Your Highness, since the Empress has chosen His Highness, she will definitely help you..."
Zhao Zheng looked at him and said, "It's not about doing your best, but about making sure. Does Fang Hufa understand what this king means?"
Fang Yu was silent for a moment, then said: "I still need to discuss this matter with my empress..."
"His Royal Highness, Fang Mou bids farewell..."
"I still have some things to do, so I won't send Fang Protector away..."
…
After Fang Yu left, an old man came out from the back of the hall, walked up to Zhao Zheng, bowed and saluted, and asked suspiciously, "Your Highness, are those people really so powerful?"
"Don't underestimate them." Zhao Zheng looked outside the hall, and said slowly: "The power of this holy religion is far beyond our imagination. This king suspects that there are people hiding in the palace, and they are my king's." In the palace, not all people belong to this king..."
The old man pondered for a moment, and said: "Your Highness, please forgive me for talking too much, this Holy Cult is so powerful, there must be a plan for doing this, and join hands with them, Your Highness must be extremely careful..."
"This king knows." Zhao Zheng nodded and said, "No matter what their plan is, the most important thing now is to get to that position first. As for the others, it will not be too late to settle it later..."
In the hall, the voice of the conversation gradually decreased.
Fang Yu came out of Hengwang Mansion, and the two men in purple were already waiting outside, and the three of them passed through several streets and alleys. After turning around, he just came to a small courtyard. He gently knocked on the door and waited for a while. Son, just opened the door and entered.
Walking through the yard, I came to a room with the door open. Fang Yu walked in. The middle-aged Taoist nun was meditating on the bed.
He looked at the middle-aged Taoist nun, and tentatively asked: "Madam, Zhao Zheng is getting a little impatient, are we..."
The Taoist girl opened her eyes, as if she could see through his thoughts, Fang Yu's heart felt cold when she saw it.
After a long time, she finally said, "It's not our goal to help Zhao Zheng to the top. How did you go about doing what you were asked to do?"
Fang Yu lowered his head and said, "Over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of several purple-clothed envoys, 30% of the officials around Zhao Zheng have penetrated."
"Thirty percent?" Taoist nun repeated with a calm expression.
Fang Yu paused, then said with difficulty: "Two, twenty percent..."
"Only 20%..." The nun closed her eyes and said, "I told you a long time ago, don't be impatient when things happen. Do you still remember what our ultimate goal is?"
"I know." Fang Yu nodded, and said: "Empty King Heng, help him to the throne, and secretly control Qi. When the time is right, let him send troops to Jingguo to avenge our Fang family..."
His face was calm, but his eyes were shining brightly.
In the battle for the throne in Qi State, the reason why they chose Zhao Zheng instead of the third prince who had more advantages was because he was the crown prince and had great righteousness, and the second was because he was stupid.
Compared to the extremely intelligent third prince Zhao Yi, Zhao Zheng is more suitable to be a puppet emperor.
It is a very fulfilling thing to support a emptied puppet emperor and be the secret controller of Qi.
However, supporting a puppet emperor, how can you feel as fulfilled as being an emperor yourself
Compared to being the secret controller of Qi, it seems better to be the one in the open, right
Jingguo is so powerful now, and Qi and Zhao countries are not their enemies together. In the past, the king of Shu was their ray of hope. Now the king of Shu was arrested because of carelessness. It is not easy to overthrow Jingguo.
If he can ascend to a high position and stand above tens of thousands of people, what does it matter if the Fang family's revenge is not avenged
Of course, he can only hide these thoughts in his heart, and cannot be known by his aunt, the Empress of the Holy Church.
"It's good that you know." The middle-aged nun looked at him and said, "When the officials around Zhao Zheng infiltrate to 50%, the emperor should die..."
Fang Yu bowed and said, "This subordinate understands."
The Taoist nun nodded, "Go down..."
"Your subordinate will leave!" Fang Yu bowed and left.
…
Fang Yu let out a long sigh of relief when he walked out the door, across the courtyard, and outside.
A purple-clothed man stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Guardian, I just heard the news that the believers in Liuzhou have been unable to be contacted..."
"What!" Fang Yu's complexion changed drastically, and he said angrily, "Another state!"
After a while, listen to the envoy in purple finishing what happened.
"It must be her, it must be her!" Fang Yu's face was furious, and he even looked a little crazy.
The believers of the Holy Cult are spread all over the state of Qi, and they send various news to the capital every month, but since the beginning of the year, they have lost contact with more than a dozen states one after another.
The battle for the throne between Zhao Zheng and the third prince has reached the most critical moment. The empress cannot go out. He sent envoys in yellow clothes and envoys in blue one after another. .
This made him dare not send purple-clothed envoys there. Every purple-clothed envoy was cultivated with great difficulty, and every missing one would be a great loss to them.
However, the consequence of this is that every half a month, he will receive news that a certain state has lost contact... By now, there are already more than a dozen states.
This situation is exactly the same as when they were in Shuzhou.
It was only later that he discovered that not only Shuzhou, but also the entire Jingguo believers could not be contacted.
Who else could do this besides another "mother" of the Holy Cult
Since they started to publicize that there are two empresses in the Holy Cult, this matter has been overwhelmed. At the beginning, no one, including the empresses, thought that this unintentional move was actually the source of the division of the Holy Cult today!
The other party not only has a "Queen of Heaven", but also an envoy from the left. If they continue to ignore this, their foundation in Qi will be destroyed...
Fang Yu turned around and said in a deep voice, "I'll go and tell your mother, please make a decision!"
Inside the room, the middle-aged nun who was meditating cross-legged opened her eyes again, pondered for a moment, and said, "He's here..."
…
In Liuzhou, outside the city gate, several carriages drove in slowly.
Xu Zheng and the others had already come to Liuzhou a month ago to take over the Shengjiao branch here. In the past few months, whenever they went to a place, the first thing they did was to take over the Shengjiao believers in this state. Although there will be some people who admit death and are unreasonable, but as soon as Lao Fang punched down, they began to try to reason.
If it wasn't for the Taoist nun, they could even use this method to reunify the holy religion.
However, half a month ago, Ruoqing found out that she was pregnant, so they could only slow down their trip and find a place to rest first.
Lao Fang sat outside the carriage, turned around and said, "Young master, we will be in the city of Liuzhou in front of us."
Outside the city, Li Yi got out of the carriage, took a few steps forward, and extended his hand to the woman who was waiting outside the city.
"haven't seen you for a long time."