Chapter 788: The Fool Who Digs His Own Grave
Xiahou Ling's face darkened upon hearing this: "What did they say?"
The servant lowered his head and said, "I don't know. At that time, the Khan dismissed his attendants and only recruited Song Jinxiu. No one knows what they talked about."
"Oh!"
Xiahou Ling sneered, "I should have known earlier that Song Jinxiu was no pushover."
"Wu Ya and Ji Rongqing thought they had really poached someone from the Imperial Master's Mansion to work with them. Little did they know that ungrateful person had turned his back on the Imperial Master's Mansion and was only using the Princess' Mansion as a stepping stone to climb the ladder."
He never took Song Jinxiu seriously, even though he personally sent him before the Khan, giving him some face and becoming the so-called "new noble" of Beiling, but in Xiahou Ling's heart, Song Jinxiu was still just a dog he picked up casually.
Xiahou Ling wanted to use him to attack the Princess Mansion and Ji Rongqing, but he didn't expect that he would dare to turn around and bite him.
Some of the people standing below did not dare to look at the gloomy face of their own national teacher, so they just lowered their voices.
"Grand Master, what should we do now? The Southern Qi incident has become a hot topic. The Princess's Mansion and the Zong Yu tribe are clearly trying to kill you. There are also several other tribes. You were so tolerant of them earlier, but they are actually taking advantage of your misfortune."
"King Khan has been deceived, and even your Imperial Master Seal has been taken back. If this continues, I'm afraid there will be no place for you in the Imperial Master's Mansion."
Xiahou Ling's expression grew even more gloomy.
"deceive?"
He sneered, "Do you really think he didn't think about what happened today?"
When Beiling was in civil strife and various tribes were fighting for the throne, Huyanmin took the initiative to find him and ask for his help. He helped him quell the civil strife, suppressed other tribes and pushed him to the throne. Huyanmin always regarded him as his father-in-law, and Beiling would exist as long as he was in his hands.
But in the following years, when his royal power gradually became more stable, people began to be wary of him.
In recent years, the Imperial Master's Mansion seems to be prosperous and glorious, and Huyan Min relies on it in everything. Almost all matters big and small in Beiling will go through the hands of the Imperial Master, and the decisions of the royal court must be approved by him before they can be implemented. The whole Beiling and even the various countries know that Xiahou Ling is powerful and unmatched in the court, but only Xiahou Ling himself knows it.
The actual power of the Imperial Preceptor's Office is not as much as the outside world knows, and it has even been secretly suppressed by Hu Yanmin.
Hu Yanmin pretended to value him and asked him about everything, but he withheld some important matters and never let him interfere. He even repeatedly suppressed the people under the Imperial Master's Office and suppressed their achievements to prevent them from being promoted.
Hu Yanmin held the Imperial Master Mansion in high esteem, using him as a target to suppress other tribes and deal with people like Wu Ya who had never given up their desire for royal power, but he was also worried that his power would be too great and overshadow the royal authority.
Now that he has finally found an opportunity to suppress the Imperial Master's Mansion with justification and without having to bear the reputation of being ungrateful, he will naturally not let it go.
Xiahou Ling sneered, "Song Jinxiu is plotting against the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion. Do you think he didn't see it? He's just going along with it and letting it happen."
"How come?"
The servant standing in the room was stunned. "The Imperial Master's Mansion belongs to the Khan. You have been assisting him all these years without any second thoughts. Why would the Khan help outsiders suppress you?"
"And the news coming out of the palace is that the Khan has been defending you throughout the court meetings. He was initially unwilling to agree to punish the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion, and he was furious because Princess Wuya and the others targeted you."
"It was only later that Ji Rongqing instigated the various tribes and instigated the elders to threaten war, forcing the Khan to issue those orders. However, even after the court meeting, he was still extremely furious..."
"Angry?"
Xiahou Ling sneered, "Do you think his anger is because of the Imperial Master's Mansion? He's just being stupid!"
"He thought he had the entire royal court under his control. He wanted to use the Southern Qi incident to weaken the Imperial Preceptorate and take back some of the power I held. However, he never imagined the situation would spiral out of control."
"From the beginning, Wu Ya and the Zong Yu tribe weren't just targeting the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion. He was unable to resist, and the tribes seized the opportunity to threaten him."
Hu Yanmin has never been very smart, but he is self-righteous.
He thought that the royal power was stable over the years and he had suppressed the people of various tribes. Even if there were occasional disrespectful people, he had the ability to suppress them. However, he forgot that it was always the National Master's Office that stood in the front and bore the troubles of the various tribes for him over the years, and even the Zongyan tribe hid behind the National Master's Office.
In the eyes of outsiders, the National Master's Mansion is the most powerful sword in his hand, and the foundation for him to suppress the royal court and tame the various tribes.
The Imperial Master's Office took power and became the Khan.
The power of the Imperial Master's Office is also the confidence behind the Khan.
As long as the National Master's Mansion collapsed, the Zongyan tribe and he would definitely be severely damaged, but Huyan Min did not realize this at all. Not only did he not protect the National Master's Mansion and nip up all the signs of people wanting to deal with him, but he knew that he was being plotted against, and he took advantage of the situation to push the National Master's Mansion away.
Hu Yanmin thought that he was in control of the power and could weaken the power of the Imperial Master's Mansion as he wished, and return the things taken back from the Imperial Master's Mansion to the Zongyan tribe. However, he did not expect that Wu Ya and the others would not do what he expected.
During the court meeting, the pressure was so great that the Imperial Master's Office was suppressed. Even the Zongyan tribe and Wang Quan were affected. The situation was so out of control that he could not keep it steady.
Xiahou Ling's eyes were filled with frost: "Hu Yanmin, that idiot, is so self-righteous. He's digging his own grave and yet he's still gloating over it."
"He forgot that he and the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion have always been tied to the same rope. Now that I'm trapped in the mansion and have lost my power to interfere in the military, how can he and the Zong Yan tribe be any better off?"
"Without me planning for him, does he really think he can rely on that ungrateful bastard Song Jinxiu to resist the ambitions of the various tribes?"
His words were full of sarcasm.
"Just wait and see. Within three days, he will come to beg me."
Wu Ya has never been a pushover, and Ji Rongqing is even more treacherous. They will not let go of this opportunity.
And after this incident, Xiahou Ling actually believed that Ji Rongqing was the missing Lu family member mentioned by Song Jinxiu.
After all, this method of scheming against people's hearts, stirring up the power of the court, winning over various tribes and stirring up their ambitions to serve his own purposes is indeed something that only the aristocratic families of the Wei Dynasty could cultivate.
If one has never been involved in court power and has never received guidance from anyone, unless one is truly gifted and born with knowledge, it would be impossible for him to be as comfortable as Ji Rongqing.
Xiahou Ling narrowed his eyes for a moment and said in a deep voice to the person in front of him:
"Send a message to Mingke, telling him not to worry about the affairs of Emperor Wei and Southern Qi, but to find Lu Jiuan's whereabouts. Then have the spies in Luoyan Pass find out for me how Song Jinxiu got to the border town in the first place."
The servant was surprised and suspicious: "Is the Imperial Master suspicious that someone set up a trap for Song Jinxiu?"
Xiahou Ling sneered, "How else could a stray dog like him know the news in the Wei Dynasty?"
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