The heavens set sail from the courtyard

Li Chengqian finally left Wang's cloth shop. The price Wang Gang offered was too high. Killing Fan Xian would cost 10 million taels, and killing the second prince Li Chengze would cost three times as much. He didn't even dare to ask how much it would cost to kill Emperor Qing.

After seeing Li Chengqian off, Wang Gang came to the dark room under the cloth shop where the Black Scorpion and Iron Rat of the Thirteen Wings had been living.

"My lord, that Li Chengqian actually wants to kill his own father and brothers. He is worse than a beast." Black Scorpion personally handed the towel to Wang Gang.

Wang Gang touched his face with a towel, and the facial bones changed and restored his original appearance.

"The imperial family has been ruthless since ancient times. In order to consolidate the imperial power, Emperor Qing deliberately raised the status of the second prince Li Chengze and let him compete with the crown prince Li Chengqian to balance the power of both sides, thus completely eliminating the father-son relationship." Wang Gang snorted coldly.

Black Scorpion was puzzled and asked, "My Lord, why did you help Li Chengqian kill Qin Ye and let the Poison King do it? The Inspection Institute almost found out about it."

Wang Gang sneered and said: "I came to Kyoto this time to settle the grudges from sixteen years ago. Qin Ye was also involved in the Taiping Villa tragedy and indirectly killed my mother.

He's going to die anyway, so it's good to help Anhe make some money before he dies."

Tie Shu sighed, "If the master hadn't secretly run the Dark River Killer Organization and hadn't brought in a large amount of food and grass from Jiangnan over the years, I'm afraid that 30% of the people on the grassland would have died."

Wang Gang said: "Now that the Yuan and Mongolian states have been established, as long as we establish commercial relations with the Dongyi, we can exchange cattle and sheep furs for food and grass to solve the food crisis, and you won't have to risk killing people anymore."

It is a bitter and cold place deep in the grassland, where crops cannot be grown and the only way to live is by nomadic life. Although they are good at riding and shooting, and their cavalry is unrivaled in the world, food has always been a big problem.

Especially in the past two years, heavy snow has hit the grasslands, freezing many cattle and sheep to death, making the food crisis even more serious.

In the past, when faced with such food shortages, the grassland tribes’ solution was to launch wars, plunder weaker tribes, or even move eastward to plunder the border cities of Nanqing.

There are two advantages to this approach. One is that war consumes a large number of people, and food consumption will also decrease. There are even many small tribes that still retain the tradition of cannibalism, and the soldiers who died in battle are food.

Second, launching a war can gain more territory and expand strength. Many large tribes developed in this way.

Ten years ago, Wang Gang went deep into the grassland and created the first generation of Thirteen Wings. Starting from a small tribe, he gradually annexed the surrounding forces. Finally, three years ago, he defeated the largest forces in the grassland, the Western Hu and the Right Tent Royal Court, unified the grassland, and established the Yuan Meng.

Although Wang Gang created unprecedented achievements on the grassland, the newly established Yuan Meng had a host of problems. Coupled with a snowstorm that occurred once in a century, Yuan Meng encountered an unprecedented crisis just after its establishment.

In order to overcome the difficulties, Wang Gang has only two options.

The first is to launch wars in accordance with grassland traditions, consume population and fight for resources.

Because the grassland had been unified, there was no way to plunder small tribes anymore, so the only option was to use military force against the two big countries, Southern Qing and Northern Qi.

However, Wang Gang was worried that no matter whether he chose Southern Qing or Northern Qi, it would stimulate the alliance between the two countries. After all, the grasslands were considered barbaric in the eyes of Northern Qi and Southern Qing. Under huge external pressure, it would be easy to promote the alliance between the two countries and create an opportunity for Emperor Qing to unify the world.

Of course, Wang Gang couldn't let Emperor Qing get away with it, so he chose the second path. He established contact with Princess Li Yunrui of Nanqing and secretly purchased a large amount of food and fodder to supply the people of the grassland.

Li Yunrui controls the inner treasury, has complex ties with the richest forces in Jiangnan, and holds vast amounts of resources.

Wang Gang used the Thirteen Wings to establish the Dark River Killer Organization. While earning a large amount of gold and silver, he indeed attracted the attention of Li Yunrui.

The two parties hit it off immediately. One had money and the other had connections. Then Anhe became the sharpest knife in Li Yunrui's hand, helping her eliminate all enemies.

Unfortunately, although the Princess of Qing was known as the most beautiful woman in Southern Qing and had been playing around in the court for decades, she was a short-sighted woman.

She concealed the truth from Emperor Qing and not only emptied the inner treasury, but she also knew that cooperating with Wang Gang would nourish and expand the hostile grassland forces, but she did not care and got deeply involved.

Because the Dark River Killer was so easy to use, there was no one he couldn't kill as long as he was paid enough. Li Yunrui had plenty of money in her hands, so she naturally didn't care about those small things. By the time she realized something was wrong, she was already stuck in the mud and couldn't extricate herself.

The assassination of Qin Ye this time was carried out through the secret river that Li Yunrui introduced to Crown Prince Li Chengqian.

Originally, after the grassland food crisis was resolved, Wang Gang wanted to disband Anhe, but he didn't expect to get in touch with Li Chengqian by accident. In addition, he had already grown strong, so he wanted to settle the grudge from sixteen years ago.

So Wang Gang changed his mind and even went to Kyoto in person, disguised as Wang Han, and took the initiative to contact Li Chengqian, intending to disrupt the internal affairs of Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, he sent Akainu and Hakushika to Northern Qi and Dongyi to seek an alliance to deal with Southern Qing together.

"My lord, Fengying has sent news and wants to come and meet you." Tieshu said to Wang Gang.

"Don't meet for the time being." Wang Gang shook his head and said, "Every move of the delegation is under the surveillance of the Inspection Bureau. It would be easy to be exposed if we meet now.

Tell the Poison King to hide as well and not come over for the time being."

"My Lord, why don't we just charge into the palace and kill Emperor Qing?" Tie Shu suggested, "With the strength of our Thirteen Wings, even if there are Grandmasters in the Qing Palace, they can't stop us."

Wang Gang shook his head and said, "I am not worried about the Grand Master, but the temple."

Black Scorpion and Iron Rat were even more confused. The temple had never cared about worldly affairs, and the temple messenger was as elusive as a dragon. What on earth was the master worried about?
Wang Gang naturally could not tell his subordinates, as he was worried that if he dominated the world and stimulated world development, he would alert the supercomputer in the temple too early.

The world of Joy of Life is not ancient, but the future. It is a civilization that has been redeveloped after the last civilization was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. There are still products of the last civilization in the world, that is, the temple.

The temple is actually a military museum, which houses an intelligent computer that has developed autonomous intelligence.

The intelligent brain takes it as its own responsibility to protect the earth's civilization. It believes that the excessive development of mankind will only bring destruction. So it transforms itself into a temple and uses robots as temple messengers to spread the products of the previous civilization. At the same time, it restricts the rapid development of civilization and destroys all technological signs.

Wang Gang is fully capable of producing black gunpowder, and even using the grassland empire as a starting point to develop a capital monster, he could dominate the world and unify the Central Plains within ten years.

But doing so would inevitably attract the attention of the temple.

Wang Gang didn't know how many weapons from the previous civilization were stored in the museum, or even how many robots were stored in the temple.

Starting a war rashly will only bring the people of the Yuan Dynasty into an irretrievable situation.

Although he was not a good person, he did not want the business he had built to be easily destroyed by the temple.

So he chose to play it safe and use a more complicated method to resolve the grudge from sixteen years ago, while at the same time exploring the exact location of the temple.

Because in this world, there are only two people who have reached the temple and returned alive, and one of them is being imprisoned in the prison of the Inspection Institute.

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Crown Prince Li Chengqian secretly left Wang's cloth shop and did not return to the Eastern Palace immediately. Instead, he went to find his aunt Li Yunrui.

Li Yunrui did not live in the princess's mansion, but in the Guangxin Palace in the imperial palace.

The reason for this was that she was the adopted daughter of the Queen Mother and was deeply loved by her, so she had always lived in the palace.

As the crown prince, Li Chengqian could go anywhere in the palace except Emperor Qing's harem, and his aunt Li Yunrui's place was a place he often visited.

Li Yunrui has lived in seclusion in the deep palace for many years, controlling the power of the inner treasury and even maneuvering among court officials. Apart from his means, his most important reliance is his appearance.

She was known as the most beautiful woman in Nanqing. Although she had given birth to a daughter and was old, she had taken good care of herself. At the age of about 30, she had a pretty face of a 17 or 18-year-old.

Her youthful appearance and mature temperament make many men unable to stop.

When Li Chengqian entered the bedroom, he saw Li Yunrui leaning on the couch and taking a nap, with two maids fanning him to cool him down.

"You guys go down!" Li Chengqian sent away all the palace servants, picked up the fan himself and fanned Li Yunrui, and it took him a cup of tea to do it.

When Li Yunrui woke up slowly, she saw her nephew fanning her.

"Aunt, you're awake." Li Chengqian chuckled.

Li Yunrui stretched lazily, exuding a unique charm that made Li Chengqian stare at him.

"When will the prince arrive?" Li Yunrui stared at Li Chengqian with a pair of peach blossom eyes, full of charm.

"How can I let you do such a thing?"

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "I am willing to fan my aunt for the rest of my life."

"You are the crown prince, and your every word and action represents the reputation of Qing Kingdom." Li Yunrui stretched out her slender hand and took the fan from Li Chengqian.

"Have you met the leader of Dark River?" Li Yunrui asked.

"I have seen them." Li Chengqian said: "These desperate criminals are really powerful. They can assassinate a ninth-rank master."

Li Yunrui said dissatisfiedly: "You are the crown prince, how can you personally handle such a matter? You should let your subordinates do it."

"This is a serious matter, and I'm worried about other people." Li Chengqian sat beside Li Yunrui's bed, with no intention of moving.

"You too, why do you have to kill Qin Ye? If he dies, if Li Chengze plants someone in the Privy Council, it will be disadvantageous to you."

Li Chengqian said coldly: "Qin Ye is ungrateful. Even my aunt condescended to recruit him, but he remained unmoved. We cannot keep such a person."

"You!" Li Yunrui gently tapped Li Chengqian with his finger and said, "It doesn't matter if I suffer a little grievance."

Li Chengqian excitedly held Li Yunrui's hand and said, "Qin Ye can humiliate me, but he can't humiliate my aunt."

Li Yunrui's face flushed with red, like a beautiful flower, which made Li Chengqian's heart flutter. (End of this chapter)