Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu also considered using himself as a chess piece. The advantage is that he has the cultivation of the immortal realm when he appears, and Song Zheng is not his opponent. The disadvantage is that Li Xuandu has no foundation at all, and everything has to start from scratch. In this case, he has only two choices. One choice is to prolong this chess game for more than 20 years, and the other choice is to take a risk and assassinate Song Zheng from the beginning.

However, Song Zheng will definitely be prepared for Li Xuandu's assassination. After all, there is a huge difference between Li Xuandu's soul turning into a chess piece and entering the chessboard directly. If he is just a chess piece, he can't do the feat of fighting the entire Wudao Sect alone. So after hesitating again and again, Li Xuandu gave up using himself as a chess piece.

In this way, he still has four choices left, namely Xu Wugui, Situ Xuance, Qin Qing, and Qin Su. The first one to be excluded is Xu Wugui. The reason is also very simple. It is difficult to turn back. The Wei court seems to have the largest power, but it is complicated and has the greatest resistance. Maybe someone can turn the situation around, but Li Xuandu asks himself if he can't. Li Xuandu believes that Xu Wugui in this world can't do it either. People are different. Even if they are the same person, they have different experiences, and their temperaments, abilities, insights, and ideas will be different. The geomancer that Li Xuandu knows has experienced the suppression of two generations of emperors and has been wandering in the world for many years. The geomancer in the world of the book obviously has no similar experience and has always been in the temple. The difference between the two is like the difference between the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal and Mr. Qingping.

As for Qin Qing and Situ Xuance, the two of them are not much different. They are both powerful people with sufficient foundations. Their own cultivation is not much different from Song Zheng. It seems to be a good choice, but the disadvantage is also obvious. They are too close to Xu Wugui who is in charge of the imperial capital, much closer than Song Zheng who is far away in Baidi City. Then it will become very difficult for Li Xuandu to take action. After all, how can others snore beside the couch?

Because of this, Li Xuandu finally chose Qin Su. Although Qin Su was also very close to Xu Wugui, there was Qin Qing above Qin Su as a cover. Xu Wugui would not pay special attention to a junior, especially a woman who was always indifferent. When Qin Su grew up to a high enough level, Xu Wugui had no time to pay attention to her, because Song Zheng must have made trouble at this time, and Song Zheng was his biggest worry.

Qin Su had met Situ Xuance twice. The first time was in the thirteenth year of Tianbao. At that time, Qin Su was still a junior in Situ Xuance's eyes. The second meeting was in the eighteenth year of Tianbao. At this time, Situ Xuance had regarded Qin Su as an equal ally. The intention of Liaodong and Qizhou to form an alliance this time was very obvious. It was a further step on the basis of the alliance in the thirteenth year of Tianbao, advancing and retreating together, or an offensive and defensive alliance. There are two key points to this alliance. One is that Qin Daofang served as the governor of Liaodong, and the other is that Situ Xuance served as the governor of Qizhou. Only when both sides truly grasp the military and political power, and are no longer just local tyrants, but real princes, will such an alliance be meaningful.

After meeting Situ Xuance, Qin Su returned to Liaodong and continued his hiding his strength.

At this time, the chessboard changed again. The people on the chessboard could not see it, but Li Xuandu, Song Zheng and the spectators could see it. It was a layer of light mist, which gathered and dispersed from time to time. Looking closely, you can see that these mists are actually countless tiny light points, gathering into a long river.

This light is the heart and spirit of one person. In the peaceful and prosperous times, people's hearts are in the right place, and the dynasty is prosperous. People's hearts and popularity gather into a real dragon surrounding the world, which is what the world calls dragon spirit and luck. In the real world, of course, there is no such thing, but this place is the world in the book after all, and it cannot be compared with the real world, so it condenses into dragon spirit, which has a more intuitive interpretation of the general trend of the world.

However, the dragon energy theory has its own reason. After all, heroes and talents are few in the world. Most people can only go with the flow in the rolling trend and hand over their lives and future to others. People's hearts are what they want, and their luck is formed, so there is the so-called people with great luck. Among these people with great luck, there are real dragons and pythons. Real dragons are not permanent. Floods, pythons and fish can also jump over the dragon gate and become real dragons.

Li Xuandu looked around and saw that several huge dragon energies generated in the world were entrenched in Jinling Prefecture, Xijing, Dijing, Beihai Prefecture, Chaoyang Prefecture, and the Golden Horde King's Court. Among them, the dragon energy in Dijing was the largest and could be called a real dragon, followed by Jinling Prefecture and the Golden Horde King's Court. The dragon energy in Beihai Prefecture, Chaoyang Prefecture, Xijing and other places, second only to the dragon energy in Dijing City, could be called a dragon. The dragon energy in Beihai Prefecture, Chaoyang Prefecture, Xijing and other places could only be giant pythons. Further down, there were fish and shrimps, which were scattered and had never taken shape, so there was no need to worry about them in the short term.

The so-called true dragon can be big or small, can rise or hide; when it is big, it can create clouds and mist, and when it is small, it can hide its shape; when it rises, it soars in the universe, and when it hides, it lurks in the waves, and it is the master of the world.

Although there are still true dragons in the imperial capital at this time, they are weak and can only lie dormant, like an old and confused person, struggling to support. It can be seen that the people of the world have been alienated from the Wei court, so the true dragon continues to weaken. Although it is still the master of the world, it is also in danger.

Corresponding to this are the eternal stars above the chessboard. Ziwei Star is the emperor star. At this time, it is dim and dim. Occasionally, it is just like a candle in the wind, which is not worth mentioning. It just corresponds to the saying "The emperor star is swaying and the Mars is high".

However, other stars were not like this. Li Xuandu, the chess player sitting high on the white clouds, looked up and saw the stars shining brightly in the sky, and the stars fell on the chessboard. At this time, he heard Song Zheng say: "The dragon vein and the earth's energy are also a barrier. The dragon energy is strong, and the real dragons are around the world. The evil stars cannot come to the world. At this time, the dragon energy is dormant, and the dragons are rising. It is the time when the sky is murderous, the stars are moving and changing, the earth is murderous, the dragons and snakes are on the land, and people are murderous. The world is changing, the heaven and the earth are together, and the foundation of all changes is established. Now the stars have come to the world, each fighting for its life and assisting its master."

As Song Zheng finished speaking, Li Xuandu turned his eyes to the direction of Jinling Mansion. As expected, he saw a purple gas with a faint blood light rising into the sky, flying out of the chessboard, and echoing with a star in the sky above. This star suddenly shone brightly, even approaching the Purple Wei Emperor Star, with a tendency to turn the world upside down and change the world.

This is the interaction between heaven and man, the star enters the destiny, and this star is Sirius, corresponding to Song Zheng who is sitting in Jinling Mansion on the chessboard.

The people watching the game were surprised again when they saw this scene.

Qin Qing stared at the chessboard for a long time, and said slowly: "I underestimated Song Zhengguan. He is going to use the big situation to crush Zifu."

Qin Su asked: "Dad, what do you mean?"

"Song Zheng knows that Zifu is hiding its strength and intends to strike back, but he does not deliberately suppress the development of Zifu, but chooses to strengthen himself." Qin Qing said, "As long as Song Zheng can take over the world before Zifu takes advantage of the situation, the real dragon will change its master, then the overall situation will be determined, and Zifu will not be able to use all kinds of skills. Song Zheng won this game of chess. From this point of view, Song Zheng still has the courage and pattern of a leader. He does not ignore the overall situation because of personal grudges, and he is not afraid of everything because he lost to Zifu in the competition. "

At this time, another mighty purple air rushed up to the sky, resonating with the stars in the sky. For a time, the stars were bright, as if a fierce beast was out of the cage, wanting to choose someone to devour.

This purple air corresponds to the Golden Tent Royal Court.

Li Xuandu knew that he and Song Zheng were not the only two chess players in the chess game. There were also chess players derived from the chess game. In addition to Xu Wugui, the Golden Tent should not be underestimated. If he was not careful, the fisherman would benefit from the fight between the clam and the crane. The Golden Tent would be the fisherman. When Song Zheng and Xu Wugui were both defeated and the Central Plains was empty, the Golden Tent army would take advantage of the situation and go south to the pass to seize the world. At that time, I am afraid that even the clothes would have to change.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuandu remembered Zhang Suqing's teaching that politics is not a competition with others, not a simple question of who is strong and who is weak. You must learn to divide, win over, and suppress, so that you have as many friends as possible and as few enemies as possible, and don't make enemies blindly. In the real world, Li Xuandu did this, so in this book world, Li Xuandu decided to do the same.

So Li Xuandu made a risky move and asked Qin Su to dress up as a man and go to the imperial capital to visit Xu Wugui, the regent of the book world, in the name of celebrating Xu Wugui's birthday.

If Xu Wugui didn't pay much attention to Qin Su before, then it would be a bit unreasonable for Xu Wugui to not know Qin Su today. Now Qin Qing is privately called "King of Liao", and Qin Su has also risen in status and got the title of Princess. Although she has not been canonized by the court, she has people, money and land, which is really true.

Xu Wugui personally met Qin Su, who had already prepared generous gifts and made his intention clear. Qin Su's intention was also very clear. First, Liaodong had made some progress in training new troops. After the winter, the Golden Horde had withdrawn its troops. Liaodong was willing to send more than 10,000 people as guest troops to help the court quell the rebellion. The second point was to ask the court to allow Liaodong to cultivate land. In fact, Qin Daofang and others had been carrying out the cultivation of land for a long time, but they were all in secret and there were many inconveniences. At this time, publicly requesting cultivation of land would make the matter public and legal. With the permission of the court, it could be carried out openly and then expand the army through the opportunity of cultivation of land.

Xu Wugui saw it clearly, but the court was in internal and external troubles. Even if he was an immortal, he felt powerless. In this situation, Song Zheng was the biggest concern. As long as Song Zheng was dealt with, Liaodong could slowly make plans. Moreover, Liaodong was still needed to resist the Golden Horde at this time, so Xu Wugui agreed to Qin Su's request.

Li Xuandu's intention of this move was very clear. He needed a shield to block Song Zheng for him. This shield was the court. No matter what, the court was still the real dragon at this time, and it was still the most powerful. As long as the court did not fall, Song Zheng could not do anything to Qin Su. Qin Su could continue to hide his strength and rely on the fertile land of the three states outside the pass to cultivate and train troops. When he was fully grown and the situation in the world changed, he would go south to the pass and even compete for the world. Therefore, Liaodong had to support the court from behind to resist Song Zheng.