Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 636: Wanyan Xiaji: He is truly a god descended to earth
Nangong family.

After considering it for a while, Nangong Jin said, "Continue to send people, but this time we need to send people who can be trusted."

He had personally experienced the effect of the fairy fruit, which directly allowed him to step into the third-grade supernatural power realm from the fourth-grade realm. If he could obtain a few more fairy fruits, or get the saplings of fairy fruits, the Nangong family would not only be limited to Chaoping County, but also to Chuanhai in the future.

The Nangong family will have a broader world.

Zhang Feng was not surprised by his brother-in-law's answer. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger. The huge benefits brought by the fairy fruit were enough to make people ignore the fairy's warning.

Zhang Feng nodded, and then asked about the domestic situation during the time he was away.

Hearing this, Nangong Jin said in a deep voice: "Prince Huai, Prince Chong, and Lu Sheng were all destroyed by Chen Mo, and even Prince Anping sided with Chen Mo. Chen Mo took this opportunity to be named Prince Wei. Now he is the only one in power in the world. Some time ago, he even summoned princes and officials from all over the world to Beijing to submit to him. In my opinion, once the world is stable, it will be time to change the dynasty."

"Brother Feng, your brother-in-law was also granted the title of Marquis of Chaoping County by the imperial court." Zhang also said something.

"what?!"

Zhang Feng was somewhat stunned upon hearing this, and said in disbelief: "Even Lu Sheng was destroyed?"

Even though Chen Mo had already become well-established and unified the entire north when he went out to sea, his power was overwhelming. However, Lu Sheng was holding the emperor hostage to control the princes and was suspected to be a second-rank official, so he was not someone to be trifled with.

In addition, what puzzled Zhang Feng was that, wasn’t it apparent that Lu Sheng and Chen Mo had a good relationship?

Zhang Feng asked in confusion: "Why did Lu Sheng fight with Chen Mo?"

"I don't know the specific situation yet. I only know that Lu Sheng joined forces with Prince Chong, Prince Huai, and the Luo family to raid Chen Mo's Huaizhou and Fengzhou. In the end, Chen Mo eliminated them all in the name of serving the king and labeled them as traitors." A trace of regret flashed in Nangong Jin's eyes.

He never expected that Chen Mo could grow to this point. If he had known this, he would not have given Nangong Ruxu to Chen Mo, but to the legitimate daughter of the Nangong family.

"How can it be!"

Zhang Feng was even more shocked. What kind of method was this to deal with Lu Sheng, Prince Huai, and Prince Chong at the same time? He immediately asked in surprise, "Could it be that Chen Mo has already entered the second-grade divine transformation realm?"

“This is the only explanation. Luo Qingyang, Gongsun Yan, and Liang Mu, who are at the supernatural power realm, couldn’t even catch one of his arrows. This is definitely not something that warriors at the same realm can do.” Nangong Jin said.

"I get angry when I talk about this. People say that a daughter who is married off is like spilled water. Not only is Ru'er a traitor, but she also doesn't know anything about Nangong Xian. Your brother-in-law wrote to her several times, but she rarely replied. Occasionally, he replied, but the letter was full of perfunctory and polite words, without any useful information." Zhang said angrily.

No matter what, Nangong Xian is also a member of the Nangong family. As a member of the family, he does not consider the interests of the family and has no respect for the clan leader.

"They have such a powerful backer, how could they look down on our small family and business?" Nangong Jin also complained.

Zhang Feng said: "Sister, brother-in-law, it's okay. Anyway, we have already opened up overseas and don't need to rely on Chen Mo anymore. We should just keep our distance from him from now on."

"I would like to, but I'm afraid they won't agree." Nangong Jin took out a secret letter from his bosom and gave it to Zhang Feng, saying, "This is the news from Tianchuan yesterday. The princes who came to Beijing were all deprived of their military power by Chen Mo and were sent to Huaizhou and Linzhou for confinement.

I took sick leave and did not go to Beijing. Who knows if he will use this as an excuse to attack the Nangong family."

After all, no one can allow outsiders to have troops on their own territory.

"That can't be. Even if the Nangong family has no merits for him, they have worked hard. Besides, brother-in-law, you sent Nangong Wen to help him build warships. Last time he detained our navy, we didn't say anything." Zhang Feng frowned.

“Hmph.” Nangong Jin said coldly, “It’s hard to say. The higher you stand, the more ungrateful you become. And because he detained our navy, we haven’t gotten close to him in the past two years. It’s inevitable that he will hold a grudge against us.”

It was for this reason that he took sick leave and did not go to Beijing. He has now entered the upper third grade and has a promising future. If he is detained by Chen Mo on his way to Beijing, who can he go to for justice?

"So what does my brother-in-law plan to do?" Zhang Feng asked.

"There is a phrase in military books called showing weakness to the enemy. I plan to transfer the private army of my clan to the country of Boliu, and then publicly announce its disbandment. In addition, I will also distribute some of the land under the clan's account. After all, he and we are relatives. We have come this far, so he should give us some face."

"Brother-in-law is wise."

……

Jin Xia.

Kyoto.

In Wanyan Xiaji's mansion, there was a loud explosion in the alchemy room. The sound was not loud, but not small either. However, the guards outside the alchemy room seemed to be used to it and were not surprised. They just asked as usual: "Master, are you okay?"

"Why? Why on earth? Why did it fail again? What's wrong? Ahhhh." A roaring voice followed by a red fever came from the alchemy room.

The guards outside all had strange expressions on their faces.

In the alchemy room, a Taoist with a dark face and disheveled, greasy hair as if he hadn't washed it for a month, looked at the mess in front of him and knelt on the ground with a plop.

After so many days, he has imitated Chen Junzhong's "strange thunder", but he doesn't know where he went wrong. The strange thunder he imitated can never reach the power of Chen Junzhong's strange thunder, and is not even one tenth of Chen Junzhong's strange thunder.

During this period of time, he had tried thousands of methods, consulted a large number of ancient books and various books on saltpeter and sulfur, and tried again and again the proportions of the "strange thunder" materials, but still had no clue.

Not only him, but also the "Weird Thunder Workshop" that Wanyan Xiaji supported him to build secretly ended in failure.

This made Yue Puzi feel very incompetent.

In order to push himself, he locked himself in the alchemy room for a month without going out, and he ate, drank, defecated and urinated in there.

However, no means no.

The power of the imitated strange thunder has never met his expectations.

The guard outside noticed that there had been no movement in the alchemy room for a long time and thought something had happened. When he was about to go in to check, he saw a dark figure walking out.

The guards were all stunned, and some even poked their heads into the alchemy room. It was not until the figure spoke that they recognized that the figure was Yue Puzi.

"Go tell the general that I have failed again. There must be some material that I have overlooked. Unless I can get a complete strange thunder, the power of the imitation can only reach this level." Yue Puzi sighed.

"promise."

……

The Khan's bedroom.

The court meeting had just ended, and Tuoba Hui, the Great Khan of Jinxia, ​​had Wanyan Xiaji called to his bedroom.

"Your Highness greets the Khan." Wanyan Xiaji saluted Tuoba Hui.

"General Xia Ji is here." Tuoba Hui raised his hand and asked the eunuchs serving beside him to give Wanyan Xia Ji a seat, and then said in a gentle voice: "No need to be polite."

Tuoba and Wanyan were close friends, and Wanyan Xiaji was the pillar of Jinxia, ​​so Tuoba Hui respected him very much.

"Thank you, Great Khan." Wanyan Xiaji sat down. After Tuoba Hui dismissed the others in the bedroom, Wanyan Xiaji asked, "What does the Great Khan want to see me for?"

Tuoba Hui came to a table, picked up the letter on the table, handed it to Wanyan Xiaji, and said: "This is a secret letter from the Beidi tribe."

Upon hearing this, Wanyan Xiaji was stunned. When he saw the contents of the secret letter, he was suddenly shocked, with a trace of shock and doubt on his face: "Khan, this... this, the Northern Di tribe is rebelling, this can't be true?"

Although the Northern Di did pretend to obey Tuoba's rule, they were generally submissive to him. After all, with the strength of the Northern Di tribes, it was difficult for them to resist Tuoba, and rebellion was undoubtedly like hitting a rock with an egg.

Unless the leader of the Beidi tribe has been kicked in the head by a donkey, he would not rebel.

"When I first saw this secret letter, I was also shocked. I treated the Northern Di well, but they treated me like this." Tuoba Hui said with great sorrow.

"Great Khan, is there any hidden secret in this? Should we send people to the Beidi tribe to investigate? Otherwise, summon the Beidi leader to the capital for a confrontation. I think the Beidi tribe definitely does not have the courage to rebel."

"No need."

Before Wanyan Xiaji could finish his words, Tuoba Hui raised his hand to interrupt him and said, "I have decided to appoint you, General Xiaji, as the commander-in-chief and lead 10,000 troops to Beidi to quell the rebellion."

Upon hearing this, Wanyan Xiaji was shocked.

He understood that this was not a rebellion by the Northern Di, but that the Khan could no longer tolerate the Northern Di. The country had just been stabilized after two years of recuperation, but the Khan was ready to take action.

But he also understood why the Khan made this decision.

After all, if the Beidi tribe had not been hesitant in sending more troops last time, Haiyan Pass might not have been captured by Chen’s army.

Which monarch can tolerate such an "unstable factor"?

"Yes." Wanyan Xiaji said.

Tuoba Hui glanced at Wanyan Xiaji, fearing that he might have wild thoughts, and said what he had said behind closed doors: "I don't want to attack the Northern Di either, but the news just came from the Song Dynasty that Chen Mo, the Duke of Anguo of the Song Dynasty who destroyed our Eastern Route Army, has succeeded in serving the king and eliminated Prime Minister Lu Sheng, Chong Wang Chu Yan, and Huai Wang Chu Yi, and was promoted to King of Wei.

Now, he is the only one in power in the Song Dynasty. It won't be long before the Song Dynasty can completely put an end to the civil strife. And when the civil strife is quelled, given the temper of the Song people, they will definitely retaliate against us.

If by that time, Jin Xia is still like it is now, how can we resist the Song Dynasty?"

After hearing Tuoba Hui's words, Wanyan Xiaji was stunned and took a long time to recover, as if he had heard something unbelievable.

In Wanyan Xiaji's opinion, the Song Dynasty was already in a state of irreversible decline and could not be cured. Although Chen Mo temporarily repelled their invasion, the situation in their country would not improve for another seven or eight years. During this time, Jin Xia could heal the Eastern Army's injuries.

But he didn't expect that only a short time had passed.

What he didn't expect was that the one who "quelled the riot" was actually Chen Mo.

How could he be a match for Lu Sheng?
Before attacking the Song Dynasty, they investigated the Song Dynasty.

Xu Guozhong and Lu Sheng are both suspected to be of the second rank.

Wanyan Xiaji also knew that Tuoba Hui would not lie to him about this, so this matter could only be true. In this case, Chen Mo might also be a second-grade person.

"No wonder the Eastern Army was defeated so quickly." Wanyan Xiaji felt that Chen Mo was already a second-rank official at that time.

At this time, he fully supported Tuoba Hui's plan to destroy the Beidi tribe.

Before fighting the outside world, you must first make peace with the inside.

In order to deal with the Song Dynasty's imminent revenge, the unstable factor of Beidi must be eliminated first.

"But how old is Chen Mo?" Thinking about it, Wanyan Xiaji thought of Chen Mo again. He still couldn't accept it in his heart. In the end, he even said, "Could he really be a god who has descended to earth?"

The fact that the people of the Song Dynasty believed that Chen Mo was a god who had descended to earth naturally spread to Jinxia.

This is so convincing that when Wanyan Xiaji thought about this series of events, even he began to believe it.

"He was born in February. If you don't count his age, he is already 24 years old," said Tuoba Hui.

"Only 24 years old." Wanyan Xiaji murmured, "Only immortals and gods can have such talent."

……

the end of April.

Great Song.

Tianchuan.

Just before departure, Geng Songfu found Chen Mo and told him an important matter, asking for Chen Mo's consent.

“The treasury is empty.”

Chen Mo already knew about this when he was in Luonan.

The more than three million taels that were confiscated have been used up.

But the court is still waiting for money, and it needs a lot more.

The revenue from the four states and Fuze Restaurant alone is not enough to make up the loss.

After all, the imperial court has to deal with the whole world, not just four states.

Moreover, the four states also had to provide food and fodder supplies to the northern border troops, and the soldiers' wages, so they could not provide much support to the court.

"Does Prime Minister Geng have any solution?" Chen Mo knew that since Geng Songfu had proposed the problem, there must be a solution.

"Open the sea." Geng Songfu said firmly.

"Open sea?" Chen Mo raised his eyebrows.

"Your Highness, when I was sorting out the royal treasury recently, I found an account book. This account book records the income from overseas trade during the reign of Emperor Ling. The income from that one voyage alone was more than 13 million taels." Geng Songfu said.

Chen Mo was stunned. "More than 10 million taels, so much? But if I remember correctly, during the reign of Emperor Ling, we lost money every time we went to sea, which also led to the treasury being empty. The civil and military officials at that time wrote to the emperor one after another, asking them to stop going to sea, saying that it was a move that harmed the country. After the late emperor ascended the throne, the officials still did not stop writing to the emperor, and under pressure, the late emperor had no choice but to order a stop."

Emperor Ling, the father of the late emperor, was the previous emperor of the Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness, you may not know that the sea voyages during the reign of Emperor Ling were a loss for the imperial court, but a profit for the royal family, a huge profit. This is because the money earned from sea trade was not deposited into the national treasury, but was deposited into the emperor's inner treasury. However, all the expenses required for the sea voyages were paid by the national treasury. With only outflows and no income, isn't it a loss? Moreover, the expenses for each voyage were huge," said Geng Songfu.

(End of this chapter)