Fan Xian was stunned, lowered his head slightly, and said after a while, "I believe."
"Do you believe there is a god in the world?" The emperor looked at him calmly.
Fan Xian replied directly, "I believe."
He didn't know why the emperor asked this question, but he, Fan Xian, was able to be reincarnated in the land of Qing, and he had no doubts about miracles. The Fan Xian in this life was not the Fan Shen in his previous life. He is the most out-and-out idealist.
"You come with me."
Fan Xian was confused, and followed the mysterious emperor towards the temple hidden among the trees on the peak. The name of Dadongshan is widely spread throughout the world. At first it was the name of jade, and later it was the name of magic. I don’t know how many people who have no money for medical treatment. After offering sacrifices to the gods here, their condition has been greatly improved. They are holy places...
The problem is that before, Fan Xian always thought that this matter was just a trick of the Qing Temple, and fools and idiots regarded psychological comfort as a real therapeutic effect, but at this time the emperor's face looked so serious. Can one hear the will of heaven and get in touch with the legendary illusory temple
With countless doubts and slight excitement, Fan Xian followed the emperor around a quiet stone path, and came to a very old small temple behind the temple. The mountain wind here is quite strong, and the bells under the eaves of the temple are slightly moving, making a clear and meditative sound.
It seems that the priests at the foot of the mountain were not lying. The temples on the top of the mountain have obviously not been repaired for many years. It's just that the thousand-year mountain wind has blown the ancient small temple into ruins.
Looking at the architectural style of this small temple, looking at those black and forbidding colors, Fan Xian's heart moved. Suddenly there was a sense of awe, just like when he was going to enter the Qing Temple for the first time in Kyoto.
It's just that the emperor was in the Qing Temple at that time, and he himself was outside the Qing Temple, but today he followed the emperor to a place that seemed to be beyond the world. Everything in Dongshan is familiar.
Standing outside the small temple, the emperor said calmly: "Don't be curious, and don't be bored by listening... The reason is actually very simple. After meeting your mother in Danzhou, we certainly won't miss the scenery of Dadongshan. We used to be here stay for a while."
Although he didn't know how the emperor guessed his thoughts, Fan Xian's mood suddenly changed when he heard these words, and when he looked at the old buildings around him, there was kindness and longing in his eyes.
However, the emperor's next words immediately shattered Fan Xian's relaxed and happy mood.
"The Lord of Ten Thousand Chengs will not enter the unpredictable place." The emperor sneered, and repeated Fan Xian's words when he was admonished in Danzhou yesterday, and said, "I know what you are worried about these two days, and I come to ask you, if You are in Kyoto at this time, you are that woman, what would you do?"
Fan Xian didn't pretend to be panicked, but fell into deep thought. He had thought about this question countless times, but in the end he realized that if civil strife broke out in the Qing Kingdom, and if there was a problem in the capital, the eldest princess, who was imprisoned in another courtyard at this time, had only one way to go.
Maybe she will do many things, but the center of all things, the basis of all seizing the throne, as His Majesty said yesterday, there is only one—killing the emperor.
"First of all, I want to break away from the surveillance of the Overwatch Council and get in touch with my own power." Fan Xian said a little unconfidently, "But this matter must have started a few months ago. I don't think the Eldest Princess has this ability."
The emperor said indifferently: "Can you believe that two people can set a palace on fire? It was still in the early morning of a thunderstorm."
Fan Xian shook his head, not daring to show too much emotion. Through his own channels, he learned the inside story of the change in the imperial palace a few months ago, and knew that the fire in the eastern palace was the prince's action to save himself and alarm the queen mother. At that time, he only cared about admiring the actions of the prince brothers, but now he heard the emperor's words, and he remembered that there was something strange about this matter.
"I killed so many people, she didn't resist at all." The emperor said: "But I still have extra thoughts on the East Palace, helping the prince. My sister always acts in such a way that people can't understand. If you say She was able to avoid the surveillance of the Overwatch Council and contact her people, I wouldn't find it strange at all."
From this dialogue, it can be heard that the emperor experienced the betrayal of his sister and son... Wrong! It should be said that he self-righteously forced his sister and son to betray, or after the future betrayal, the whole person's temperament has changed very slightly, and Fan Xian, who was not with him since he was a child, has shown extraordinarily pure loyalty and filial piety after entering Beijing. His illegitimate son became the most trustworthy person.
However, this kind of trust made Fan Xian feel more stressed. He rubbed his astringent throat, glanced at His Majesty, and continued, "If the Eldest Princess had already contacted her people a few months ago, then she just We need to wait for an opportunity. But I think... it is the best time for His Majesty to stay away from the capital at this time."
"You just need to say what she will do, you don't need to remind me of it all the time."
"Yes... I thought that His Highness the Eldest Princess would use all her power that she hadn't managed in the past 20 years, in order to strike a thunderbolt in Dadongshan or on the way back to Beijing. Regardless of success or failure, she would block the news of His Majesty and pretend to be His Majesty to the world... It has been unfortunate. , to be succeeded by the crown prince or the second prince."
"Needless to say nonsense like success or failure, since she wants to do it, she will naturally want me to die."
Fan Xian's analysis is superficial and straightforward, but if the eldest princess Li Yunrui can really make it easy, she will definitely choose this way. The so-called conspiracy is ultimately a matter of life and death, victory or defeat. As long as life and death are determined and the victory or defeat is decided, she has the support of the princes in the capital, and the support of the Ye and Qin families. Throwing it on Xian's body... Who can't sit on that dragon chair? Unless Chen Pingping leads the pitiful five hundred black cavalry to rebel again.
He lowered his head and said, "Since Your Majesty is here, he is naturally confident."
The emperor glanced at him, and said quietly: "What power can Yunrui have? Junshan Society? Now I think I should have listened to Dean Chen and you last year, and wiped out that Laoshizipo Society."
"Junshan Society is just a loose organization." Fan Xian repeated his father-in-law's deduction, "The key is what kind of power the eldest princess can mobilize."
"Mount Dadong hangs alone by the sea and is deep within the border of the country. It is impossible to attack with a large army." The emperor sneered and said, "If someone dares to assassinate me, he must first have the ability to climb the sky."
Fan Xian lowered his head slightly, understanding what the emperor meant. The location of Dadongshan was very good, it was difficult to launch a large army to attack, and the chain of high mountains and cliffs in Danzhou to the north blocked the last trace of danger from the army.
Since there is no need to consider this point, if you want to assassinate the monarch of a country, even the monarch of the most powerful country in the world, you can only use assassins, and ordinary mediocre hands are meaningless at all, even the outermost defensive circle of the forbidden army cannot break through, let alone On the top of the mountain are more than a hundred fearsome tiger guard masters.
Those who come are not kind, and those who are kind do not come. If the eldest princess really intends to assassinate her, one can imagine the level of assassins.
"Ye Liuyun is the enshrinement of the Junshan Society." Fan Xian said silently: "The eldest princess does not have many masters. But after experiencing the incident of killing in the valley, I always thought that some people in the court were becoming more and more presumptuous now. Presumptuous People, no matter what they do, it’s not surprising.”
This is of course referring to the senior members of the military in the Qing Kingdom. If these people collectively stand against the emperor, what will happen
The emperor didn't answer Fan Xian's words, but said quietly: "This time I personally drove Dongshan, not only you were puzzled, but the two academicians also strongly opposed it, but I still want to come... First, naturally, it is because I am in the palace. After staying in the middle for a long time, I want to come out for a walk and see the places I passed by. Second, Chengqian hurt my heart, and if I want to abolish him, I will abolish him openly, and I can't give anyone the slightest excuse."
Fan Xian remembered that His Majesty next to him was probably the most diligent and eccentric emperor in history. Since he ascended the throne, especially after the big war ended, His Majesty has never left the capital again. The routine national tourism activities of those prosperous kings were not carried out.
Even His Majesty seldom goes out of the palace, Fan Xian only knows the one time he saw it outside the Taiping Courtyard.
The emperor suddenly paused, and said with a smile: "The third reason is very simple. I deliberately want to give Yun Rui a chance to see if the Junshan Society... can really delete me as the king."
Fan Xian shook his head and said, "It's still what I said, why take risks? Why come here? Your Majesty is the master of the world, if one order is followed, the remnants of the Junshan Society will collapse immediately, it is not worth mentioning at all. "
"Really? But where is Ye Liuyun?" The emperor smiled slightly, his brows gradually stretched.
Fan Xian was at a loss for words, and only now did he finally understand how confident His Majesty is. It turned out that he used himself as a bait, and it was none other than the enshrined Ye Liuyun of the Junshan Society!
Ye Liuyun, the great master of the Qing Dynasty! This unrestrained and strong man floating overseas was in the field, and His Majesty the Emperor was in court. The two checked and balanced each other and compromised, which created a relationship between the Ye family and the royal family that was both loyal and sparse. If the emperor could cut Ye Liuyun under the sword, there would be no power within the Qing Kingdom that could shake the foundation of his rule.
In other words, Ye Liuyun has always been a cancer in the emperor's heart, but today he came to Dadongshan to borrow the magic of Dadongshan to cut the tumor!
But Fan Xian still finds it extremely absurd. Even if you have more than a hundred tiger guards and a mysterious old monster like Eunuch Hong, if the eldest princess moves, there must be countless forces to cooperate with Ye Liuyun. Realm, why do you keep him
He had personally experienced Ye Liuyun's half-sword pouring into a building in Hangzhou, so he knew how terrifying Ye Liuyun's strength was—unless he used Qing Guo's cavalry battalion, coupled with continuous volleys of crossbow arrows, it might be possible to kill Ye Liuyun in the sky. On the wilderness, but at this time the emperor was in the lonely peak, Ye Liuyun came and went, and there was no chance for the tiger guards to encircle him.
As for the imperial army at the foot of the mountain, due to the terrain, they could not form a cavalry charge.
"How can you kill a great master?"
This was something Fan Xian had been thinking about for a whole year, and he came to many conclusions, the safest of which was, of course, taking a sniper that he hid privately like a precious son from 500 meters away, and sniped at it—but This kind of situation is not easy to create. The great masters can't see the end of the dragon, and the aura induction is too strong, so it is unlikely to stand there and give themselves too much time to aim.
How to kill a Grand Master? Fan Xian finally thought of the most reliable method, that is - use two great masters to kill one great master.
This is a very boring idea, a very useless way of thinking. Two children can definitely beat a child. Of course, two stones are heavier than one stone. The problem is that creatures like the Grand Master are not mass-produced products, but unborn. genius.
Who can find the two great masters
"That's why I have to come to Dadongshan, because I need someone, and this person will never leave Dadongshan to cater to my ideas."
The emperor looked at Fan Xian with a smile, and then pushed open the wooden door of the small ancient temple. The wooden door creaked, and Fan Xian's eyes drifted over, his heart suddenly shrank, and countless surprises and uncontrollable joy of reunion after a long absence flashed in his eyes.
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Yan Bingyun sat in the room of the Overwatch Council in a daze. He didn't sit in that secret room today because... the dean returned to the capital in a wheelchair and returned to his own room, and the power that Xiang Bingyun had obtained temporarily was also returned back naturally.
He is a host everywhere, and the room is also on the side facing the street. The windows were not covered with black cloth, and the outside sunlight came in directly, making the room bright. Standing at the window, one could clearly see the golden corners of the palace.
There is no master in the palace, so His Majesty's driver has arrived at Dongshan Road by this time, right? Yan Bingyun thought, since His Majesty left the capital, the people in the capital have become more honest and have not given too many problems to the Overwatch Council. At about this moment, everyone is afraid of being suspected by His Majesty who is far away from the capital.
However, the outside is loose and the inside is tight. Everyone knows what the main purpose of His Majesty's trip to worship the heavens is. Naturally, it is impossible for the prince to stay in the palace to supervise the country, so the queen mother lowered the curtain again, and the imperial army under the control of the first prince became more careful, and the Kyoto garrison also strengthened. inspection.
His Majesty left the most crucial move, of course, to summon Chen Pingping, the head of the Overwatch Council, to Beijing. The old cripple who grew up in Chenyuan finally returned to the gloomy courtyard at this time, looking at all the details of the capital indifferently, warning those who have evil intentions.