People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 257 The Ancient Xia Clan, Captain of the City Gate

There was a moment of silence in the swaying carriage.

After a long time, Li Xuan finally expressed emotion: "Now the situation is not only in Wuyue's land, but the whole world is like this, Wuyue is just a microcosm."

"That's true." Kai Gong glanced at his son Kai Heng, and then continued: "I went to Chang'an many years ago, with five surnames and seven families, four surnames in Guanzhong, four surnames in Hedong, Shannan in Hebei, and Longyou in central Sichuan. , connect with each other, help each other, and control the whole world."

Speaking of this, Wei Gong smiled bitterly, and said: "In this land of Wuyue, only the four surnames in Wuzhong are recognized by the people of the world. Wait, I really went to Chang'an, no one would recognize it, and I could only rely on myself. money in hand."

A poor family, the Kai family is only one step away, and it will be reduced to a poor family.

What they are doing now is struggling for the future of the family.

In addition to power, money is the best help for them to change their destiny.

It's no wonder that in this land of Wuyue, everyone is greedy for profit.

"There is one more thing that I don't understand." Li Xuan's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he asked in a serious tone: "It is impossible to know that the incident in Wuzhou is imminent due to the opportunity of Kaiweng, so why invest a lot of money in Wuzhou?" Money and manpower?"

"My lord is saying that Mr. Qi is sending benefits to the Tianyin Sect?" Kui Gong reacted immediately, and then he waved his hands and firmly denied: "Mr. Qi is the nephew of Yuan Shishi, so it must not be like this. As for the dangerous situation in Wuyue, the lord is joking." , with me and sixteen families around, what kind of storms can be caused by the rebels in the sky."

Kui Gong said the last sentence very confidently, looking forward to Feiyang.

If Li Xuan didn't know that the three thousand elites of Tianyin Sect had sneaked into various places, she might really think so.

However, the sixteen families of Wuyue also have the same visual blind spots as the bosses in the center of the court. In some places, they don't even think about it.

Tianyin sect took advantage of these blind spots, tearing apart the network that the world's aristocratic families thought to be extremely strict, arbitrarily and unreasonably.

"This king knows that there are silk weaving guilds in various places in Wuyue. What this king wants to know is, among the sixteen guilds controlled by each other, which one is most likely to be associated with the Tianyin Sect Betray the imperial court at a critical moment, cooperate with the Tianyin Sect internally and externally, and disrupt the entire southeast?" Li Xuan's words were incomparably fierce and murderous.

"There will be no such family." Kui Gong immediately denied it categorically.

"You denied it too quickly, Wei Weng, so you have it." Li Xuan's words made Kai Gong feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his whole body was completely cold.

Li Xuan turned his head, looked to the side and was still thinking, when he heard what Li Xuan said, Kai Heng, who was stunned, said blankly: "Kai Weng, you can see that Brother Kai's reaction is normal, at least think about it for a while. Think, think about it, who is the right one. After all, there are not only one family with similar suspicions, but only a few one or two who dare to act recklessly, who is this family?"

Who doesn't have the idea of ​​overturning the world in their hearts, but due to the heavy pressure and constraints of reality, all the desires in their hearts are firmly suppressed.

But there are always people who can no longer survive under the pressure of reality, and taking risks has become their last way.

"Every family has outstanding talents, but there are also fallen scum, especially those who are almost on the verge of extinction, whose future is cut off, and there is no other choice." Li Xuan said in a low voice: "This king thinks No one would think of rebelling with the rebels from the very beginning. They just want to gain benefits by colluding with the rebels, and even turn against the rebels at critical moments to make meritorious deeds. There are such people, so , Wei Weng, in your eyes, who would such a person be?"

The ability of Tianyin Sect to train three thousand elites is not just as simple as arming with weapons.

The food consumed, the cloth used, and even the medicine consumed are too huge to be ignored.

If it is in other places, it is easy to be ignored, but in this land of Wuyue, everyone is careful.

The control of the Wuyue sixteenth family on the local area has reached an extremely strict level. If there is no one to act as an internal support, the Tianyin Sect will never develop to this point anyway.

Now that Li Xuan gave him a step, Kui Gong was finally moved, and couldn't help raising his head.

"Wu Yue's sixteen families, the Wei family has reached the brink of decline, and even had to cooperate with someone like Mr. Qi, but we always keep a bottom line." Kai Heng said suddenly, glanced at his father, and then at Li Xuan: "My lord, everyone has inside stories. Please forgive the Wei family for not being able to tell the lord. But the lord can ask Mr. Qi. Mr. Qi's life-saving straw is not only useful to my family, it is also useful to other families."

"Heng'er!" Kai Gong looked at Kai Heng in surprise and anger, although he didn't say what he said clearly, but the reality is not the same as what he said clearly.

Li Xuan suddenly laughed at himself: "Kai Weng, you know too little about this world. Your Majesty is in the south of the Yangtze River. There are not only Duan Governor of Yuezhou, Governor of Wuzhou King, Governor of Shezhou King, Governor Shen of Changzhou, and even a Yuan of Hangzhou. The governor is extremely difficult to deal with, and now that I have been sent to the southeast, what is your majesty thinking, Wei Weng, don't you know how to count?"

After Li Xuan said these words, the entire carriage was silent.

The sixteen families of Wuyue tried to bind the governor of the court by various means, did the emperor really know nothing about it?

Sixteen families of Wuyue, have they really achieved their goal?

"Take the governor of Hangzhou Yuan as an example. Although Mr. Qi is his nephew, he is only the nephew of a concubine. As long as he divorces the concubine casually, then there will be no relationship between him and Mr. Qi." Connection, maybe even, Governor Yuan is already doing it now." Li Xuan glanced lightly over Kui Gong, and turned to look in the direction of Governor's Mansion.

Kai Heng on the side had already widened his eyes in astonishment, but although Kai Gong's face was embarrassed, it was much calmer.

This is the bearing a patriarch should have.

"Brother Wei has said everything he can say. After the king returns, he will naturally give credit to Brother Wei. But whether the credit is candied fruit, arsenic, sweet orange, or Jinshan depends on what the Kai family will do next. Well, after all, Brother Wei is your son, Weng Kai. Without the support of his family, even if he gains meritorious service, he will be reduced a lot, and even be hated by others. Naturally, Weng Kui knows how to measure it, and I don’t think I need to say more What."

After speaking, Li Xuan leaned back slightly and began to close her eyes.

When Kai Heng said that he was in a family connected with Mr. Qi, a family name automatically popped up in Li Xuan's mind.

The Xia Family, Yuhang Xia Family, came from the Xia Family of the ancient Xia Dynasty.

After Xia was destroyed by Shang Dynasty, some descendants of Xia Dynasty moved to Yuhang, and soon they became a famous family in Yuhang.

Xia Qin, governor of Lingling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xia Gong, a scholar in the East China Sea, Xia Zhan, a painter in the Jin Dynasty, Xia Chisong, a famous chess player in the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty, and so on.

In the former Sui Dynasty, someone from the Xia family once served as the prefect of a county, but now only Xia Yan in Huzhou is the county magistrate. The decline of the Xia family can be imagined.

Li Xuan thought about it carefully, and none of the Xia family's children appeared at the banquet today.

Either the members of the Xia family were extra cautious, and after Mr. Qi had entanglements with Li Xuan yesterday, they immediately opened the distance between them and Mr. Qi.

Or, they already knew in advance that there would be an assassination tonight.

Even the connection between them and Tianyin Sect is much deeper than people imagined.

……

"My lord, we are here." Qiu Zhenmu's voice suddenly came from outside the carriage, and the carriage also slowed down completely at this moment, and finally stopped completely.

"If the three of you don't mind, let's go out and have a look together. The strangling of the rebels tonight has only just begun here." Li Xuan directly lifted the curtain of the carriage, and then lightly jumped out of the carriage.

At the same time, Li Xuan stretched out his hand to wipe back, and he had pulled out a long sword from under the seat.

This is an incomparably strong eight-sided dragon-patterned Han sword, not a soft sword that only wants to be sharp.

The long sword is out of its sheath, and the soft sword is even more weird and unpredictable. If you see the right opportunity, you can pierce with a sword and kill people. However, the Eight-faced Han Sword is a completely different way of fighting.

The long sword is incomparably tough, the sword moves wide and wide, but it is horizontal and vertical, killing and cutting decisively, with great discipline.

Another long iron rod was taken out by Li Xuan from under the seat on the other side, and then combined with the long sword one-on-one.

The iron rod has been directly twisted together with the Eight-faced Han Sword, forming an extremely sharp long lance.

It's just that the blade is a little longer than the usual long lance.

Under the moonlight, the bright blade of the sword flashed with sharp light, reflecting Leng Yue's killing intent.

Faintly, one could hear a crisp sword cry, cheering.

There was a warm smile on Li Xuan's face, he clenched his hands tightly, and with a soft "bang", Li Xuan leaned heavily on the rock under his feet.

The rock immediately cracked countless cracks, spreading in all directions from Li Xuan's feet, reaching several meters away.

All of a sudden, Kui Gong, Kui Heng, Su Yu, Du Liu, Gao Xiang and others all focused on Li Xuan for a moment, slightly shocked.

Li Xuan pointed down the mountain with his left hand, pointing at a fast-moving black figure on the side of the mountain, and said in a cold voice: "Did you see that person running away quickly, that is the other person who assassinated this king today?" A killer, look at the manor she is about to go to in the distance, that's where the Tianyin traitor hides, Kui Weng, can you tell Xiao Wang, whose house is there?"

Kui Gong took a deep look at the manor at the foot of the mountain, then frowned slightly and said: "Although I have spent a lot of time in Hangzhou, I don't know all the places well. It seems that I am in Jiuli Mountain. Been here once decades ago and haven't been back since."

"Brother Kai, do you know whose manor this is?" Li Xuan looked at Kai Heng with doubts in his eyes.

"It's the manor of a relative in the Chengmen school lieutenant Jin Ji's family." Kui Gong looked at the manor on all sides in surprise, and then explained a little: "Xiaguan was once invited by Jin Ji to visit here, so I know something about it. inside story."

Captain of the city gate.

Kui Gong, Su Yu, and Du Liu were shocked at the same time, and a chill came to their hearts instantly.

Xia family...

"That's good." Li Xuan nodded expressionlessly, her eyes fell on the mountain road on one side, and she fixed her eyes on Zong Ling who was fleeing fast.

(End of this chapter)