Chapter 3: Mortals Want to Capture Immortals
Time seemed to have pressed the accelerator key.
Li Fan implemented his plan in an orderly and step-by-step manner.
With the experience of two lifetimes, everything went smoothly as if it were a natural process.
He still took the imperial examination.
However, this time, with decades of experience in power, the articles he wrote were naturally far better than those in his previous life. He ranked first in the provincial examination, the metropolitan examination, and the palace examination, and won the top three prizes in a row, making him famous all over the world!
Later, he applied to be an official in another place on the grounds that he was young and had more experience, and his destination was naturally Wen County.
Although there were many confusions and regrets in the court, his request was still approved.
So after three years of anchoring, he came to Wen County again.
This time, it was much better than the last life. Because of his great fame and his understanding of the temperaments of officials in the county, he managed to keep everyone in Wen County in line without much effort.
Then, he began to promote and train his confidants from his previous life, and continued to expand his power.
At the same time, he drew a blueprint of the flintlock rifle, ordered the craftsmen to produce it according to the blueprint, and told them all the difficulties in production. After that, he ordered people to privately recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country, striving to develop more advanced guns.
The mining of minerals in the mountains was not idle either. Li Fan swept all the bandits in the mountains near Wen County and took them all to mine. Relying on the mining area, he built many workshops in the deep mountains to mass-produce handicrafts and ironware. At the same time, he secretly organized caravans to travel around and sell goods to accumulate funds.
After four years of searching, Li Fan finally found the double of Emperor Xuan Jing. It was the existence of this double that almost caused his assassination plan in the previous life to fail. Fortunately, he was always cautious and had many back-ups to avoid failure. Li Fan personally trained the double, and after half a year, there were almost no flaws.
Five years later, a drought hits the south of the Yangtze River. Li Fan orders his confidants to pretend to be refugees and attack the Langya Palace. Li Fan leads the crowd to pretend to rescue them, but actually kills the Langya King and his family in secret. At the same time, he lets his double appear.
From then on, Li Fan took over the palace and secretly controlled the Langya Palace.
The news that the Langya King's family was killed and only the Langya King himself survived shocked the court and the public. The emperor was furious and sent troops to suppress the refugees. Li Fan was rewarded with merit and was promoted to the governor of Jianghuai Prefecture.
Li Fan's power expanded further. However, he became more cautious after that. He did not continue to expand outward, but instead kept a low profile in climbing up the technology and developing productivity.
Seven years later, the locust plague arrived as expected. Li Fan had been prepared, so Jianghuai Prefecture was not affected. He also applied to the court to open the warehouses to release grain to help the victims. The court agreed.
With this opportunity, Li Fan gained a large population. Afterwards, these disaster victims settled down under Li Fan's rule, and Li Fan's strength also grew explosively.
Nine years later, the wedding of the Prince of Langya and the granddaughter of the chief academician was held as scheduled. That night, Li Fan broke into the bridal chamber and frightened the Princess of Langya half to death. After learning that Li Fan had killed the Prince of Langya and used a substitute to take over the throne, she angrily denounced Li Fan as a traitor. Li Fan did not take it seriously, but laughed and asked her to write down the horrifying incident in a letter.
Li Fan took the letter, disguised as a messenger of the King of Langya, and secretly entered the capital to meet the Chief Grand Secretary.
Li Fan looked calm and told the whole story of how he was now in control of the entire Langya Palace. He also claimed that he and the granddaughter of the Grand Secretary had been married on the night of the wedding banquet. The Grand Secretary was shocked but not flustered, and asked Li Fan what he wanted to do.
Li Fan said frankly that the Grand Secretary had been in power for many years and had made too many enemies. His sons were all useless, and after the Grand Secretary passed away, it would be difficult for him to protect the family. As long as the Grand Secretary could lend a helping hand when necessary, he would definitely ensure that the Grand Secretary's family would be rich and prosperous for a hundred years.
The Grand Secretary pondered for a long time, then slowly asked what was going on. Li Fan smiled, saying that he would know the answer in the future, and then he left.
Ten years later, Princess Langya gave birth to a son. Obviously, this was Li Fan's child. Li Fan wrote a letter and went to the Grand Secretary's Mansion to announce the good news.
After 15 years, the emperor finally became seriously ill. After receiving the decree of succession, Li Fan, along with his confidants, rushed to Beijing at full speed.
After the substitute of the King of Langya succeeded to the throne, Li Fan, under the Emperor's order, arranged many of his confidants in the court. At the same time, with the secret cooperation of the Grand Secretary, he was able to control the situation without causing any disturbance.
After 16 years of anchoring, rebellions broke out in various places. Li Fan took the opportunity to place his confidants in the army, and then promoted them by taking advantage of their military merits in suppressing the rebellion. However, within three or four years, the army was also firmly controlled by Li Fan.
Anchored 20 years later, the world gradually recovered from the turmoil of the emperor's succession. At this time, Li Fan decisively poisoned the fake Emperor Kangning, strangling the last possible threat in the cradle.
After supporting his son to become emperor, Li Fan appointed himself as Grand Tutor, stepped out from behind the scenes and once again dominated the world.
After this, the gears of Daxuan Kingdom's development not only did not stagnate, but instead ran at a faster speed because of Li Fan's will!
Anchored for 35 years, Taishi Mansion.
Li Fan looked at the secret letter handed over by his subordinate, read it carefully for a moment, and couldn't help but frowned.
"So, the fog over the abyss will dissipate for half a day every fifteen years?"
"Reporting to the Grand Master, that's right. We, the Immortal Visiting Camp, were ordered to stay beside the abyss and observe day and night. Finally, we made some progress a few days ago." The Immortal Visiting Officer, kneeling on the ground, recalled the scene at that time, with a look of shock still on his face. "After the fog dissipated, there was a faint light shining from the bottom of the abyss. We used a telescope to observe and found all kinds of inverted scenes."
"Although everyone sees something different, there are hundreds of thousands of rolling mountains with magnificent buildings hidden among them, which can be vaguely seen; there are towering cities standing on the plains, with prosperous fireworks and a population of no less than one million; there is also a sky city surrounded by rays of light, with all kinds of rare birds and animals flying in it, it is really..." The immortal official paused before expressing his feelings. "It is really incredible."
"It really is from Xuyuan." Although he had known this news for a long time, Li Fan was still a little excited after getting his subordinates' personal confirmation. However, his years of experience had already made him unable to show his emotions.
He asked calmly, "Have you found a way to get to the bottom of the abyss?"
The visiting immortal official's breathing stagnated, and then his face turned pale. He kowtowed and apologized, "I am incompetent. We tried various methods, but as soon as we got down to a certain depth, we were cut to pieces by the sudden strong wind. The strong wind was so strong that even our strongest armor could not resist it for a moment."
When Li Fan heard this, he didn't look disappointed at all.
After waving his hand and letting the immortal official leave, Li Fan said to himself: "It seems that I still have to wait for you."
…
Anchored for 50 years, the Great Xuan Kingdom, Xuanjing.
The once bustling Xuanjing City is now eerily quiet.
Most of the people of Xuanjing were forced to migrate to surrounding cities a month ago under the order of the current Grand Tutor, saying that it was to avoid disasters. Some people did not believe this ridiculous excuse. However, the Grand Tutor did not go all the way. Those who really did not want to leave were not forced to leave. He only suggested that they dig a basement at home to hide. These people just laughed at it.
After receiving the report, Li Fan did not do anything about it. He had done his best.
Today, in the streets and alleys of Xuanjing City, there are ambushes of the special forces that he has carefully prepared over the years to deal with the two immortals.
Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing!
At night, with the moon high in the sky, the two immortal cultivators arrived as expected!
"Dao Xuanzi! Don't go too far!"
Kou Hong's angry roar spread throughout Xuanjing City.
“Da da da da…”
Countless tongues of fire suddenly lit up, and tens of thousands of bullets, like a waterfall, bombarded the two immortals at the same time!
(End of this chapter)
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