Chapter 566 What I Wish For
Yao Xisheng suddenly opened his eyes, frowned, looked at the bright moon in the sky through the dilapidated window, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Escaping from the hands of 100,000 people and a man named Zhijing who was good at using bows and arrows, as well as evading pursuit all the way, exhausted Yao Xisheng's energy and internal strength.
After using various means, he finally arrived at the City God Temple, but his serious injuries made him sleep soundly.
Looking down at the hole in his shoulder, Yao Xisheng raised his arm slightly, and the severe pain immediately made him gasp.
Not daring to move any more, he took out the medicine he always carried with him and sprinkled some on it. After a simple treatment, he heard some movement outside and Yao Xisheng suddenly stood up and looked outside.
After finding out it was just a nightingale, Yao Xisheng breathed a sigh of relief and sat cross-legged again to regulate his breathing.
While regulating his breathing, his mind was thinking of the scene during the day when the fire-seeking soldiers from the Southern Territory and the Canglin Iron Cavalry from the Southern Territory arrived.
We had the advantage in numbers before.
Thirty or forty thousand people faced the Shen Ce Army of more than 10,000 people, who were unable to hold out alone. Even though they were later reinforced by more than ten thousand cavalry, they still had the advantage in numbers.
Not to mention that there are many very powerful people among our side.
But the sudden influx of 100,000 troops from the southern border was like a flood, it happened in a split second and was beyond human control.
Yao Xisheng already knew what the result would be at that time. After all, charging into the cavalry that outnumbered him by several times would be a dead end on such a plain.
So he planned to escape immediately.
But he didn't expect to be targeted by a white-haired old man holding a large bow.
If Yao Xisheng guessed correctly, the old man should be the Gandharva among the thirteen brave guards on the left and right.
One of them wrote the word "harmonious" on the room document and intelligence booklet, but added "the person who killed the most people among the Thirteen Guards" at the end. '
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Yao Xisheng opened his eyes and frowned.
Everything is subject to change.
But the question is how to change it.
If it was about the Queen's misfortune, Yao Xisheng would admit it. There were countless geniuses in the world, and he already knew that the Queen was a heretic among them, especially when he knew that she had fought in the Sword-Raising Conference.
Then killing Huang Chao wouldn't be considered a surprise.
Everything in the world is inseparable from the cause and effect of changes. Monsters emerge in endlessly from generation to generation. Yao Xisheng understands this truth.
He was defeated because he didn't expect the Queen to be defeated and he was not prepared enough. He took the blame for this.
Luo Changfeng’s incident can be considered an incident, but there are also doubts. However, it is nothing. Many things in this world cannot be explained.
But what Yao Xisheng couldn’t understand was where the troops from the southern border came from!
The Queen's heresy and Luo Changfeng's secrecy were all considered incidents.
But the only thing that can be explained is the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the southern border.
It is impossible that so many troops set out from the southern border without any news. Even if they set out from Luzhou, it should not be so quiet.
Unless you have been in Luzhou for a long time.
But even if he had been in Luzhou for a long time, there were so many spies in Luzhou that it was impossible for the prince not to have discovered it.
Yao Xisheng exhaled a breath of foul air, and the chaotic breath in his body calmed down.
He was not good at attacking, and many of his methods were means of escaping and protecting himself, so he was able to get rid of the old man.
At that moment, Yao Xisheng looked at the bright moon in the sky. There were only two ways to make 100,000 soldiers and horses go quietly. The emperor had extraordinary means and had used some unknown method to hide early. The second way was...
Thinking of this, Yao Xisheng was stunned. He immediately looked outside and stood up suddenly. There were no trees around the City God Temple here, so where did the Nightingale come from?
At this moment, Yao Xisheng turned his hand into a palm, and the internal energy surrounded him like a palm blade. He looked at the main entrance of the City God Temple with a vigilant look on his face.
It was at this time that Fang Wenhe appeared in Yao Xisheng's sight.
He was still wearing a white jade hairpin and a long blue robe, looking elegant and easy-going. When he saw Yao Xisheng, Fang Wenhe immediately bowed and said, "Mr. Yao."
As he spoke, Fang Wenhe noticed the injuries on Yao Xisheng's body and immediately walked quickly into the City God Temple.
When Yao Xisheng saw that it was Fang Wenhe, he was slightly startled, but the next moment, he took a step back. The energy in his hands did not decrease but increased, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Fang Wenhe showed that he had understood everything.
Fang Wenhe noticed Yao Xisheng's appearance, and immediately smiled and said, "I won't do anything to Mr. Yao, you can rest assured."
After that, Fang Wenhe added: "Besides, I am not good at attacking. You know this best, Mr. Yao."
Yao Xisheng listened to what Fang Wenhe said, but smiled, and then got straight to the point: "When did it start?"
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "It has never started, so how can it start?"
Yao Xisheng was stunned for a moment and looked carefully at Fang Wenhe who was standing there.
Fang Wenhe looked at the wound on Yao Xisheng's shoulder, frowned slightly, and took out a small bottle of medicine from his sleeve, but did not walk forward. Instead, he put it on the dusty and dilapidated altar, then stepped back a few steps and gestured to Yao Xisheng.
Not a word was said, and no further explanation was given.
Yao Xisheng glanced at the medicine without hesitation. He walked to the table and picked up the medicine and said, "Can it be understood that when you say it never started, you mean that you have never been loyal to the prince?"
As he spoke, Yao Xisheng opened the bottle and poured out a pill, but did not swallow it. Instead, he looked at Fang Wenhe.
Yao Xisheng knew that Fang Wenhe was a descendant of Yizixuan, but in the martial arts world, compared to his current senior brother, the Yizixuan sect master who was as wise as a demon, he had no reputation at all.
He got to know Fang Wenhe when he used his strategic skills to stir up civil strife among the thirty-six countries and tribes of all sizes in the Western Regions, as well as the Zoroastrianism that existed in all parts of the Western Regions. Then he received a letter from the prince, which mentioned Fang Wenhe.
When Yao Xisheng met Fang Wenhe for the first time, he had just come out of the Taoist temple, shed his scholarly appearance, and entered Taoism.
At the gate of the Taoist temple, Yao Xisheng saw a scholar buying books. The scholar accidentally wrinkled a Taoist scripture, which was not a big deal, but the scholar still spent money to buy the book, and then bowed to apologize to the stall owner.
When they arrived at the Shu King's Palace.
Yao Xisheng met the scholar again.
He stood at the gate of the palace, and the scholar stood inside the palace.
Look into each other's eyes.
The scholar came over first and bowed to him, then took out three books from his sleeves. Then the scholar looked at Yao Xisheng who had entered the Taoist sect in front of him and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to end up making things worse."
As he spoke, he took out the Taoist scripture from his sleeve.
There were four books in total. He handed them to Yao Xisheng with both hands and said, "I know that Mr. Yao loves reading the most, so I thought that giving books to scholars is the greatest courtesy in the world. But I didn't expect that Mr. Yao would become a Taoist. I just bought one today for a small matter. Please don't despise it."
A Taoist scripture, two miscellaneous books, and one Confucian study.
Yao Xisheng took the books and put the other three into his sleeves. However, he took a closer look at the Taoist scripture. Did he end up making things worse? Still intentional
However, Yao Xisheng did not think too much about it, and just smiled and said: "Yao really did not prepare a gift for you, Brother Fang."
As he said this, he bowed his head.
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "This is the gift I received."
When they met for the first time, they tested each other. This was the first meeting between Yao Xisheng, a disciple of the school of diplomacy, and Fang Wenhe, a disciple of Confucianism.
At the moment, Fang Wenhe watched that Yao Xisheng refused to take the pill, but he did not try to persuade him. After all, with Yao Xisheng's wisdom, he must have seen through many things the moment he appeared.
In this case, the two of them were enemies, so there was no need to say anything more. He just smiled and said, "Yes."
Since he was not the King of Shu's adviser from the beginning, there is no such thing as beginning, let alone when.
With a snap.
Yao Xisheng crushed the pill in his hand and stared at Fang Wenhe: "Are you the emperor's man!?"
After that, Yao Xisheng asked, "Thirteen Guards on the Left and Right?"
Fang Wenhe looked at the pill with some distress, and then said, "Don't worry, Mr. Yao, I am not the emperor's man, let alone the Thirteen Left and Right Guards."
Yao Xisheng frowned, not understanding what Fang Wenhe meant.
but.
I felt cheerful all of a sudden.
Why did something that was equally well arranged in the capital suddenly fail?
So he asked, "So you actually deliberately sent those masters around the prince to their deaths?"
Fang Wenhe shook his head: "It can't be considered intentional, because they wanted to go on their own, but I did help them come up with some strategies. After all, they can't hurt me, right? And they can't hurt the emperor either, so I am happy to come up with such a plan."
Upon hearing this, Yao Xisheng immediately asked, "All the people sent out by Bu Er Tang this time are your men. Are you willing to let them die?"
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "They are not my people. There are no my people in Bu Er Tang. They are all the prince's people. As for letting them die, are there people in Bu Er Tang who should not die?"
Yao Xisheng was a little slow to react.
All the people in Buertang are people who couldn't make it in the martial arts world of Daxia or the Western Regions, either because they have killed too many people and have too many enemies, or because they are not tolerated by the righteous path. They are indeed people who deserve to die.
But those people were obviously very loyal to Fang Wenhe, so Yao Xisheng hesitated to speak.
He just frowned and looked at the elegant scholar in front of him. He originally thought that he had a clear understanding of the person in front of him, but now he felt that he could not see through him.
But after thinking about it for a while, Yao Xisheng thought of something and said, "Your purpose should not be to kill the prince, otherwise you would have many opportunities."
Fang Wenhe shook his head and said, "Brother Yao, I have advised you to play chess slowly so that you can see clearly."
Yao Xisheng frowned.
Fang Wenhe continued, "But you are right about this. My goal is not to kill the prince, because the prince cannot die for the time being. If he dies, Tingyu will not be able to suppress the generals in Shu. Moreover, once the prince dies, Zhu Huang will come in. At that time, the people of Shu will suffer. I don't want to see it, and Tingyu doesn't want to see it either."
Fang Wenhe looked at Yao Xisheng: "But Tingyu's matter is another story, which has nothing to do with today, so I won't waste my words on it. If I were Mr. Yao, I would first ask why I, Fang Wenhe, am here today."
Yao Xisheng asked back: "Aren't you here to kill me? If you kill me, you will be the only one the prince can rely on."
Fang Wenhe shook his head: "I just said that I am not good at attacking, and if a fight really breaks out, even if you are in your current state, Mr. Yao, I may not be able to beat you. But I promised Mr. Yao, your teacher, that after you die, I will help him return your body to him."
Yao Xisheng looked puzzled: "You and my teacher"
Fang Wenhe nodded, "Mr. Zhang's chess skills are far better than mine. I admire him very much, so I went to visit him specially. But I really can't learn the chess skills of your Zongheng family, so I went to find Mr. Zhang Zi to ask if I can kill you. After all, if I kill you rashly, Mr. Zhang Zi might come out in anger. At that time, I will have to flee back to Yizixuan to find my master. The matter is not yet completed, I don't want to escape like this, so I came to visit him in person."
"Then I made an agreement with Mr. Zhang Zi that I can kill you, but I cannot use force, and I can only kill you on the chessboard. If you die, I need to send your body back to Mr. Zhang Zi. So, I came here today to collect your body."
Yao Xisheng had no idea about this and looked at Fang Wenhe in surprise.
Fang Wenhe continued, "As for why I want to kill you, it's not because you are a counselor to the King of Shu. In fact, I would not kill anyone who is a counselor to the King of Shu, but Mr. Yao, you shouldn't disturb the Western Regions."
At this point, Fang Wenhe glanced at the bright moon outside, then looked at Yao Xisheng: "When the Han people first opened up the Western Regions, there were 55 kings in the Western Regions. But with the efforts of the Han Dynasty at that time, we appointed lieutenants and protectorates to pacify them. If there were any who refused to obey, we would send troops to attack them. Over the years, we have achieved the obedience of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, the submission of all tribes, and the unimpeded trade routes in the Western Regions."
"Although Zoroastrianism emerged during this period and had a huge influence, affecting the prestige of our Han family, we did not dare to cross the border. Over the years, no matter what happened in the Western Regions, they all came to our Great Xia to pay tribute year after year. However, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, Great Xia was in civil strife, and the Western Regions took advantage of the situation and invaded, causing chaos in China, killing our Han people like killing pigs and dogs. There were also people from Mobei who went all the way south, cooking and killing our Han people, and causing chaos for our people. Fortunately, Great Xia had many generals at that time, and Emperor Xuanzong rectified the chaos in time. Later, Emperor Xuan, Emperor Yi and the previous emperor worked hard to govern the country, so that foreign races dared not despise Great Xia anymore! But the border of Great Xia is still uneasy."
"This road cannot be achieved by one or two generations, and I, Fang Wenhe, am just a small character in Yizixuan, but I know these things, I have learned many principles from books, and I have never thought about doing things for Daxia or a certain emperor. When I stood in Luoan, standing on that imperial road and looking at the Luoan city gate, I often thought of Daxia... No, or it should be said that it is my Han world, which makes all countries in the world fear, from the barbarian island countries in the east to the South China Sea in the south, from the Uighurs in the north of the desert to the West Sea in the west. All of them respect me, the Han people. Even if the Han world encounters chaos again, it is not a place where these foreign races can come to disturb!"
"So, Mr. Yao can understand it as."
When Fang Wenhe said this, he looked at Yao Xisheng with murderous intent in his eyes: "What I wish for is for the Han people to be feared by foreign races and for people all over the world to be feared! Wherever the Han people pass, foreign races should give way."
"In this case, we need a wise ruler. I was optimistic about the previous emperor, but God is jealous of talented people. Now, I am also optimistic about the empress and the queen, so I regard those who hurt them as those who want to hurt the Han people in the world!"
Fang Wenhe still had murderous intent, but a smile on his face: "Mr. Yao, although you didn't make it clear what you were doing in the Western Regions, you did let them take advantage of the King of Shu's sending out troops. Although I understand that your strategists have practiced the art of slaying dragons and coordinating dragons to make the world in chaos, but there is no place for strategists in the world today."
When Yao Xisheng heard this, his palm turned into a blade, but when he looked at Fang Wenhe, especially when he heard the last sentence, he inexplicably remembered what his master, the strategist Zhang Zi, said before he left: 'You should not go to a world where there is no place for you to stay. '
Fang Wenhe saw Yao Xisheng's palm transform into a blade, but he didn't move at all. Instead, he looked at Yao Xisheng and said, "The one who killed you is my senior brother, the master of Yizi Xuanyang chess, and the new member of the thirteen left and right guards [Bai Ze]."
After saying this, Fang Wenhe bowed deeply and said, "Fang Wenhe, the master of Yizixuan Yinqi, is here to see Mr. Zongheng Yao off."
Yao Xisheng was stunned and turned to look towards the entrance of the City God Temple.
Right there, a middle-aged man in black appeared, and behind him was a young man.
"You talk too much." The middle-aged man glanced at Fang Wenhe and said three words lightly.
And the next moment.
The man in black was already standing next to Yao Xisheng, and slapped Yao Xisheng on the temple with one hand.
When Yao Xisheng reacted.
Bang!
But Yao Xisheng had already collapsed on the ground with his eyes dull and lifeless, and he was already dead.
Fang Wenhe smiled and took out a dagger from his sleeve and handed it to the young man: "Uncle Master, I am afraid of seeing blood, so you go and stab him in the chest a few times."
(End of this chapter)
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