When Yang Cheng heard that Jiang Xuerou had come to see him, he was slightly stunned.
Han Jin, that old eunuch, is courting his own demise, and the day when the Zhu Lou (a type of government building) collapses is not far off. Therefore, Yang Cheng is thinking about how to add fuel to the fire and maximize his own interests.
Just then, someone came to report that Jiang Xuerou had come looking for him. Could this girl from the Heavenly Sword Sect be here to cause him trouble?
"Let her in."
Yang Cheng gave an order and had someone bring Jiang Xuerou in.
Stepping into Yang Cheng's side hall, Jiang Xuerou felt extremely uncomfortable.
Yin Wuxie, Chen Da, and some of Yang Cheng's other subordinates all looked at her with strange eyes.
There was also a glaring woman staring at her with wide eyes, full of hostility.
"Miss Jiang, what brings you to my place?"
Yang Cheng gestured to Jiang Xuerou to sit down.
Jiang Xuerou took a deep breath and said, "Yang Cheng, I have something important to discuss with you privately. Could you ask your people to leave first?"
Ye Meiniang sneered, "Hey, you girl from the Heavenly Sword Sect, what shameful things do you want to tell my master? Can't we even hear them?"
"You wouldn't be planning something bad for my family, would you?"
Yang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Stop fooling around, everyone get out first."
After everyone else had left, Jiang Xuerou said in a deep voice, "Lord Yang, I came to see you today just to talk about something."
Grand Secretary Zhang and Grand Tutor Cai are preparing to take action against Han Jin. The two sides have joined forces with hundreds of officials to impeach Han Jin. I hope you can stand up and help us to defeat Han Jin from within.
You proposed the Book of Impermanence, but Han Jin seized it for himself, effectively sidelining you and preventing you from gaining any power over the Imperial Guard.
"Join us to get rid of Han Jin, and from now on, no one in the Guardian Division will be able to suppress you."
Yang Cheng looked at Jiang Xuerou with slight surprise. Why did this scene feel somewhat familiar?
He never imagined that one day someone would come to his door and use persuasive tactics to form alliances and convince him.
After a moment's thought, Yang Cheng smiled and said slowly, "Miss Jiang, do you know that Eunuch Han is my superior and mentor?"
Jiang Xuerou was about to say that Han Jin was only using her and that he was actually mean-spirited and ungrateful, etc.
But Yang Cheng suddenly sat up straight, tapped the table, and said righteously, "We need to pay more."
Jiang Xuerou nearly choked on those three words, and after a long while, she finally said, "What else do you want?"
Yang Cheng leaned back in his chair and said casually, "Your Heavenly Sword Sect is a major sect in the martial arts world, so you must have a lot of top-notch pills, right?"
I don't need much, just two bottles of the top-grade pills will do.
Jiang Xuerou frowned and said, "The most top-grade pill of our Heavenly Sword Sect is the Sword Pill, which is a divine pill that is made by combining the sharpness of thousands of swordsmen as the foundation and the broken swords of a hundred battles as the fuel."
After ingestion, sword energy enters the body, tempering the meridians and forming an acquired sword body.
My Heavenly Sword Sect doesn't even have ten of these sword pellets in total. They are only bestowed upon disciples whose cultivation and physical strength have reached a certain level and who have made great contributions. Even my senior brother isn't qualified to have one.
"You come in asking for two bottles right away? In the thousands of years of history of my Heavenly Sword Sect, we probably couldn't even gather two bottles."
Yang Cheng hadn't expected that the thing the Heavenly Sword Sect had forged would be so rare.
He wasn't greedy and simply said, "One will do."
Jiang Xuerou shook her head and said, "I can't make the decision on even one. I need to go back and discuss it with my elders in the sect. And I'll have to give it to you afterward."
Yang Cheng said calmly, "No problem, I still believe in you and the credibility of the scholar Zhang behind you."
Moreover, I won't take this sword pellet for free. To put it bluntly, whether it's Zhang Xiren or Cai Yan, they're good at political maneuvering, but when it comes to palace intrigue, these two guys are too amateurish and take things too lightly.
They thought that with hundreds of officials submitting memorials together, plus me, the mole, producing some evidence, they could make Han Jin's life a living hell? No way.
Han Jin is His Majesty's retainer and servant. When a servant makes a mistake, the master can punish him, but it is not up to outsiders to coerce or interfere.
Furthermore, His Majesty is magnanimous and still cherishes old friendships, so the best outcome would only be Han Jin losing his official position, but he might be reinstated at any time.
"What should we do then?"
Yang Cheng stood up and said to Jiang Xuerou, "Go back and say two words to Zhang Xiren and he will understand, Empress Dowager."
Their focus was always on the outside of the palace, while they neglected the inside.
Zhang Xiren and Cai Yan's plan can proceed as scheduled; leave the rest to me.
"Of course, that's on the condition that you promise to give me a sword pellet."
Jiang Xuerou still didn't understand what the Empress Dowager had to do with this matter, but she nodded and went back to report.
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