The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 459 The Difference Between a King and a Man of the Rivers and Lakes
On the stone steps, Xu Fengnian held the handle of the Beiliang knife at his waist upside down with his left hand, walked out of the mountain gate with a gloomy expression, and stopped outside the mountain gate.

He tilted his head slightly, and said in a cold voice: "Xu Fengnian will remember today's gift, just wait, one day, I will return to Qingcheng."

Wei Shuyang and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, listening to Shizi's meaning, could it be that they are at a disadvantage?
But he was clean from head to toe, and he didn't have any injuries, and he didn't look like he had ever done anything. It seemed that he was still being threatened by the other party as a hostage.

Even their own people think so, let alone others.

With a sullen face, Zheng Zha jumped onto the back of his white horse and said loudly, "Let's go."

The carriage turned around and went downhill along the mountain road. After going out for less than a mile, turning a few turns, and out of the sight of Qingyang Palace, everyone saw Zheng Zha standing with a gorgeous sword box in his hand. Waiting on the side of the road.

The team stopped beside Zheng Zha, Xu Fengnian got off his horse, Zheng Zha returned the sword box to him, and then asked, "How do we go next?"

Xu Fengnian pondered for a while, then looked towards the east and said, "After crossing Qingcheng Mountain, we will take a boat and go down the river to Qingzhou."

Zheng Zha nodded and said, "That's a good idea. It's easier and less troublesome to go by water than by land."

Xu Fengnian nodded to him, and then shouted to the carriage: "Jiang Ni, come out."

"Why?" Jiang Ni reluctantly got out of the carriage, she was about to start practicing.

Li Chungang saw the sword box in Xu Fengnian's hand from the car window, his eyes flashed brightly, and he praised: "Good sword, is this your mother's Great Liang Dragon Sparrow?"

Xu Fengnian was surprised and said, "You can see that too?"

Looking at the two sentences engraved on the surface of the sword box, Li Chungang sighed: "This sword heals the injustices of the world, and this sword is worthy of all the shameful people in the world."

"Nianniang is an amazing woman. She has sacrificed too much in her life for Xu Xiao, Beiliang, and even the whole world."

"Only your mother can engrave these two sentences on the Great Liang Longque, and only your mother is qualified to say these two sentences."

After hearing Li Chungang's words, Xu Fengnian's eyes became hot, he stroked the sword case very gently, and said slowly: "It is my mother's sword, and it is also my mother's betrothal gift for my future daughter-in-law."

While talking, Jiang Ni just walked in front of him. Hearing this sentence, she said with a strange expression: "Using a sword as a bride price? It's a bit dangerous."

Xu Fengnian took a deep breath, temporarily suppressed thousands of thoughts, then handed the sword box to Jiang Ni, and said, "Take it."

Caught off guard by this, Jiang Ni turned pale with shock, took a step back and said in a panic, "You...what are you doing?"

All eyes around her were fixed on her, which made her at a loss, her heart beating like a drum, and even breathing became difficult.

However, she is not the only one who is at a loss, there are others who are more at a loss than her.

Wei Shuyang was a little flustered. The prince had just finished saying that this was a betrothal gift for his future wife, and then handed it to Jiang Ni. What does this mean?
The selection of a concubine by the son of Beiliang is a major event concerning the whole of Beiliang. How is this move of the son of Beiliang different from a private appointment for life?This is too capricious.

The key is that Xu Fengnian will be fine when the prince knows about it. If he insists on making Jiang Ni the princess, Xu Xiao will definitely not be able to hold him back. Jiang Ni will most likely be fine.

But the accompanying people, especially him Wei Shuyang, will be in serious trouble.

Xu Fengnian's words and actions made the atmosphere in the whole team subtle, but he didn't notice it.

He sent the sword box forward again, and said in a confident voice: "What are you doing? You are my maid, you don't hold the sword for me, you want me to hold it myself?"

Jiang Ni was startled when he heard the words, and said in astonishment: "Is that what you mean?"

A smile flashed across Xu Fengnian's eyes, but he had a puzzled expression on his face, and asked, "Otherwise?"

Jiang Ni hugged the sword box and said in a loud voice, "No way."

After speaking, he turned and returned to the carriage.

"puff"

In the carriage, Luoli couldn't help but let out a chuckle, which embarrassed Jiang Ni.

Wei Shuyang breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the son still knows the seriousness.

Xu Fengnian and Zheng Zha looked at each other and smiled, then mounted their horses.

"Set off."

……

After crossing Qingcheng Mountain, there is a Yanzi River less than [-] miles away. Xu Fengnian hired four large boats to go down the Yanzi River.

Different from the original plot, in the original plot, Ning Emei led a group of soldiers from the Fengzi Battalion, and took the bow of the first ship to open the way.

In the end, Wu Liuding, the contemporary sword champion of the Wu Family Jianzhong, overturned the boat with a bamboo pole.

This time it was the boat that Xu Fengnian and his party took, and they were at the forefront. Ning Emei and Wei Shuyang objected to no avail, so they had to let it go.

On the bow, Xu Fengnian and Zheng Zha stood side by side. For some reason, Shu Hui and the others noticed that the two of them seemed to have a sense of killing.

"It was the Liyang royal family who wanted to kill my mother."

Zheng Zha pretended to be surprised and said, "Isn't there no direct evidence?"

Xu Fengnian said with a gloomy face: "Some things don't need direct evidence. The clues my aunt gave me recorded the specific time when my mother came to Beijing. There are two key points in this time period."

"First, she was pregnant with me just now, and second, the capital was about to crown Xu Xiao king at that time."

Zheng Zha was silent for a few breaths, and then said with a look of sudden realization: "Uncle wiped out the six kingdoms, and his achievements are unrivaled. Not being crowned king is not enough to reward his achievements. It will chill the hearts of all those who are loyal to Liyang."

"It is really helpless for the Liyang Dynasty to crown uncle the king, but the Liyang royal family absolutely does not want the Beiliang Army to have successors."

Xu Fengnian nodded lightly, and continued: "So my mother's pregnancy is something that the Liyang royal family fears the most."

Zheng Zha condensedly said: "That's why the Liyang royal family ambushed and killed Auntie, wanting to kill the young master of Beiliang in the bud."

"Although the ambush back then was unsuccessful, you were still born smoothly, but your aunt suffered irreversible serious injuries because of this, and finally passed away after giving birth to Huang Man'er."

"It's no wonder that a man in red armor appeared to assassinate you before. The red armor of Fu Jiang is in the hands of the royal family. I think this assassination is also the work of the royal family."

"So, your big enemy is the Liyang royal family, why doesn't uncle turn against his mother?"

Xu Fengnian raised his head, closed his eyes, and sighed: "If Beiliang is rebellious, the world will fall apart, and the hard-won peace will come to naught. I don't know how many people will die in this world."

Zheng Zha shook his head and sighed: "This is the difference between the king and the people of the rivers and lakes. The hatred of parents is irreconcilable. If it were me, I don't care how many people he will die. If he kills my mother, I will definitely destroy Liyang." Burial with the royal family."

Speaking of this, he looked at Xu Fengnian, and asked in a deep voice: "What are your plans, is it just for the aunt's revenge?"

Xu Fengnian unconsciously clenched his hands into fists, and said in a low voice, "Of course it's impossible to forget it. As you said, the hatred between parents is irreconcilable, and the hatred must be avenged, but the world should not be used as a bargaining chip."

Zheng Zha turned his head to look at the ever-flowing river, and said softly: "It makes sense, since that's the case, then let's change the way of revenge."

Xu Fengnian turned to look at him in surprise, and asked, "What method should I change?"

A ruthless look appeared on Zheng Zha's face, and he said fiercely, "Don't dare to rebel, use absolute force to directly enter the palace, and kill the dog emperor and all the people who laid hands on Auntie."

"If an old emperor dies, then a puppet will be helped to sit on the throne. In this way, revenge will be avenged, and the world will not be in chaos."

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said: "You think too simply, even if we have that level of military power, once the old emperor dies, the vassal kings from all over the country will inevitably attack Beiliang, and it will also be the result of chaos in the world."

"The person who did it back then can be killed, but the dog emperor can't die, especially not in our hands."

The succession of the throne was originally accompanied by bloody storms, but before the old emperor died, he would definitely pave the way for his successor to ensure a smooth succession.

Without a reasonable reason, the vassal kings of various places will never succeed even if they rebel. Instead, they will become the target of public criticism.

If they really rushed into the palace to kill the old emperor, it would mean that they had given the reason for raising troops to the hands of the feudal lord.

The corners of Zheng Zha's mouth curled up, and he said, "That's easy. We can't do it ourselves. It's okay to borrow a knife to kill someone. As long as the old emperor dies because of our plan, it can be regarded as revenge for my aunt."

Xu Fengnian became interested now, he asked with great interest: "Where do you want to borrow this knife?"

Zheng Zha talked eloquently: "There is a person who has assassinated no less than 20 important ministers in Liyang since his country's subjugation.

"This person entered Tai'an City three times, entered the imperial palace forcefully, faced the emperors of two dynasties successively, and slaughtered hundreds of palace guards. The last time he was only fifty steps away from the current emperor Zhao Chun."

"If someone Mao Han Diaosi hadn't escorted him, maybe he would have taken off the most noble head in the world among thousands of troops."

Following Zheng Zha's narration, Xu Fengnian's eyes became brighter and brighter.

When Zheng Zha said this, he interjected: "This person once said with a smile to the dog emperor that if the emperor is angry, he can make the Spring and Autumn Kingdoms lay down millions of corpses, but if I am angry, how about it?"

"As long as there are Tsing Yi in the world, I will teach you to win the world but not be safe."

Seeing that Xu Fengnian already knew who he was talking about, Zheng Zha smiled slightly and said no more.

Xu Fengnian's eyes flashed rapidly, and he pondered: "Cao Qingyi is indeed a useful knife, but how can I borrow this knife?"

Zheng Zha lowered his eyelids and said calmly, "I'm afraid this is the reason why Uncle insisted on letting Jiang Ni go out with the team."

Xu Fengnian's face changed, and his high spirits sank again.

He said with a blank face: "There is no need to mention this matter again, I will not exchange ginger mud for a knife."

Zheng Zha shook his head, and said meaningfully: "It's not an exchange, as long as you don't want to let go, no one can take Jiang Ni away."

"What I mean is, you can use Jiang Ni to master this knife. Anyway, sooner or later, it's a family. Isn't her knife your knife?"

Xu Fengnian pondered for a long time, then looked at Zheng Zha solemnly, and asked, "Are you sure?"

Zheng Zha smiled and said, "If I'm not sure, I wouldn't say that. When things come to that, everything will be known."

Seeing Zheng Zha's confident appearance, Xu Fengnian nodded and said, "Okay, I believe you, then after the death of the old emperor, who of the five princes should we support to succeed?"

Zheng Zha asked back, "Have you heard of one thing?"

"what's up?"

"The old emperor also has an illegitimate child."

Xu Fengnian's heart moved, and he said: "You mean the mysterious sixth prince? This person has no foundation and is not welcomed by the royal family. I didn't think of him at the first time."

"However, because he has no foundation, he is very easy to control, but this sixth prince has always been hiding very deeply. Many people have heard of him, but very few have seen him. Where should we find him?"

Zheng Zha smiled mysteriously, and said: "We don't need to look for him, he will come to the door by himself, let me keep it a secret, and you will understand when he appears."

Xu Fengnian trusted Zheng Zha, so he didn't ask any more questions after hearing the words, but kept calculating various possibilities in his mind.

……

Qingzhou, Jing'an Palace.

Perhaps because of many years of chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha, King Jing'an has a somewhat benevolent demeanor, and the words that often hang on his lips are "Kind of kindness in heart and compassion in mind".

He was wearing a bright yellow cloak, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand at all times, and lightly clasping his thumbs, so that the beads kept turning in his hand.

But whoever really thinks that he is a merciful and kind person, then the end of the Lin family will be a role model.

"My lord, please come Mr. Li."

Suddenly there was an announcement from outside the door, King Jing'an opened his eyes, and said slowly, "Please come in."

The door was pushed open, Li Mu walked into the room, bowed slightly to King Jing'an, and said, "I have seen the prince."

A slight smile appeared on King Jing'an's face, he stretched out his hand to the seat on the left, and said softly, "You don't have to be polite, just sit down."

"Thank you, my lord." Li Mu thanked him, sat down on the chair calmly, and then asked, "I don't know if my lord called me here, what's your order?"

King Jing'an looked at Li Mu and said, "Taibai, Xu Fengnian, son of Northern Liang, is about to arrive in Qingzhou. What do you think about this?"

Taibai is Li Mu's nickname for himself, which belongs to a kind of evil taste. Anyway, there is no such poet fairy in this world, so it is better for him to let this nickname be passed down through the ages.

Li Mu immediately frowned when he heard this, pretending to be in deep thought, King Jing'an didn't urge him, but just twirled the beads while quietly waiting for his reply.

Although Li Mu is not the person King Jing'an trusts the most, he can be said to be the person he relies on the most, and it is not an exaggeration to call him his right-hand man.

Because Li Mu is not only unfathomable in martial arts, but also extremely resourceful and strategic.

In the past two years since he came to Qingzhou, he has made suggestions from time to time, which not only greatly increased the combat power of the Qingzhou navy, but also made Qingzhou's financial revenue more and more year after year.

With Li Mu's assistance, Qingzhou was governed by him with a strong army and ample money and food, which can be described as thriving.

Although the establishment of the Qingzhou Navy under his command is only 10 people, the [-] soldiers and horses are by no means inferior to the Beiliang Iron Cavalry in terms of elite speed.

Besides, the official staff given by the imperial court is only 10 people, so why can't he secretly raise private soldiers?

Now, King Jing'an wants money and food, and he needs tens of thousands of private soldiers, so there is no pressure at all.

There are many new gangs and sects that have emerged in Qingzhou in the past two years, and even bandits and bandits on the mountain. There are more than 5 people in total.

Those bandits and bandits didn't go to rob houses, cut paths and rob roads, so they didn't attract anyone's attention. They just hid in the mountains and practiced secretly.

The sect of the gang has the support of King Jing'an, and it is also standing firmly in the Qingzhou Jianghu.

Once there is a need, they only need to be issued with weapons and armor, and after a little reorganization and training, they will have an elite army of [-].

Although there is still a huge gap between 15 soldiers and horses and 35 Beiliang iron cavalry, Qingzhou is full of water, and it is the world of the navy.

The Beiliang iron cavalry, who are kings on land, are a group of iron kings when they arrive in Qingzhou.

(End of this chapter)