The imperial city of the Wu Dynasty was located within the inner city of Guanyun City.
It is rough and grand in scale, and is more solemn and imposing than the imperial city of Nanjing in the Yu Dynasty.
Fu Xiaoguan followed Eunuch Xiaolin through the imperial city. He looked around and saw a huge palace.
"This is the Juhua Palace. I can only take you here. Please come in, Master Fu."
"Thank you, Master Xiaolin!"
The two exchanged glances, and Fu Xiaoguan turned and stepped onto the steps leading to the Juhua Palace. Eunuch Xiaolin stared at Fu Xiaoguan's back for ten breaths, then suddenly smiled sinisterly and turned to walk towards the Inner Factory Office.
One hundred thousand taels of silver to buy the news about the Martial Saint Bei Wangchuan... I think the factory owner is willing to earn this money.
He was happy in his heart, but he didn't know that Fu Xiaoguan was much happier than him.
During the attack on the border town, Senior Brother Su Jue crippled a skilled warrior. Amidst the warrior's desperate cries, Fu Xiaoguan obtained the information he sought: Bei Wangchuan was invited by Zhuo Yi, the Right Prime Minister of the Wu Dynasty!
However, in order to cooperate with Bei Wangchuan's operation, Eunuch Gao sent these killers including Jianlin's senior brother Zuo Henshui.
The question now is, who gave Eunuch Gao the order to do this?
Fu Xiaoguan absolutely did not believe that Eunuch Gao wanted to kill him - the person that the Fourth Prince of the Yu Dynasty could be colluding with could only be Zhuo Yixing, because having Zhuo Yixing to cooperate with him was enough, and there was no need to insert another eunuch.
So when he met Gao Yanei, the adopted son of Eunuch Gao, last evening, he decided to provoke Gao Yanei but did not kill him.
He wanted to let Eunuch Gao know that he had the capital to talk to him, and he also wanted to let Eunuch Gao know that there was no hatred between him and him.
As for spending ten thousand taels of silver to let Eunuch Xiao Lin bring this news to Eunuch Gao, he wanted to let Eunuch Gao know that he knew a lot of things, and that the relationship between him and Bei Wangchuan was a fight to the death!
He firmly believed that after learning the news, Eunuch Gao would take some action - such as looking for someone, or confronting him directly.
Unless Eunuch Gao plays the turtle, if he dares to play the turtle, Fu Xiaoguan smiled in his heart and said, I will turn his son into a eunuch too!
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The scale of Juhua Hall is even larger than Chengtian Hall of the Yu Dynasty!
When Fu Xiaoguan entered the Juhua Hall, he saw a large group of Wu Dynasty civil and military officials. He still stood quietly behind the crowd, but not at the door like in the Chengtian Hall, but inside this hall.
Emperor Wen was sitting upright on the dragon throne at this moment. An old eunuch beside him seemed to see Fu Xiaoguan and whispered something to Emperor Wen. Then Emperor Wen's gaze passed over the ministers and fell on Fu Xiaoguan's face.
They looked at each other with gentle gazes, and Fu Xiaoguan actually saw Emperor Wen's barely perceptible smile.
This emperor was quite handsome, and he did not show the harshness of Emperor Wen that Deng Xiu had described to him. Instead, he was quite friendly.
Of course, Fu Xiaoguan understood that this was his first contact with Emperor Wen, and he would not form a certain opinion about Emperor Wen based on this glance.
Fu Xiaoguan arrived relatively late, and the grand court meeting seemed to be drawing to a close. He heard Emperor Wen say, "This Hanling Temple Literary Gathering is an idea I devised, modeled after the Yu Dynasty's Lanting Literary Gathering. Remember, I attach great importance to this gathering, so I will not allow any accidents to happen to students from various countries during this period..."
"I heard that someone went to the Yu Dynasty embassy yesterday to provoke trouble. Tang Zhuguo, your grandson Tang Qianjun was one of the organizers. Remember this, this matter is over. I will let it go, but I will never allow it to happen again!"
Emperor Wen spoke these last words with great severity. Fu Xiaoguan then saw a burly, white-haired old man walk out. He bowed to Emperor Wen and said sternly, "I have confined Tang Qianjun to his house. I guarantee he won't have another chance."
Emperor Wen suddenly smiled and shook his head. "It's not that I'm confining him. I actually want to ask, Tang Qianjun became Shui Yunjian's disciple, so how did he lose to Fu Xiaoguan?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Fu Xiaoguan did not see Tang Zhuguo's old face turn red, but he heard whispers.
Many people didn’t know that Fu Xiaoguan was standing behind them. Even if they knew that there was an extra person behind them, because of Fu Xiaoguan’s unfamiliar face, they didn’t know that the young man was Fu Xiaoguan.
"It must be Tang Qianjun who showed mercy. Fu Xiaoguan is just a scholar, while Tang Qianjun is about to enter the ranks of second-rate masters."
"Of course, Tang Zhuguo has laid a solid foundation for Tang Qianjun. Even if Tang Qianjun has only been apprenticing to Master Shui for a year, he is still not someone Fu Xiaoguan can defeat."
"Everyone, I've heard that Fu Xiaoguan is full of schemes and tricks. Could it be that... he's cheating?"
"That's possible. Our Wu Dynasty values martial arts and does everything openly. The Yu Dynasty is different. I heard they are particularly good at conspiracy and intrigue."
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Fu Xiaoguan laughed. He was looking at the backs of the ministers one by one and did not notice that Emperor Wen was also looking at him meaningfully at this moment.
Tang Zhuguo spoke.
"Your Majesty, I have also asked my grandson this question."
"Oh...what did Tang Qianjun say?"
"Your Majesty, my grandson said...he accepted his defeat wholeheartedly!"
As soon as the great Tang Zhuguo said this, the whole room fell silent and everyone was shocked!
Tang Qianjun actually accepted his defeat with conviction?
So, Fu Xiaoguan's martial arts skills are better than Tang Qianjun's?
Therefore, many people turned their attention to Lord Zhou of Qianji Pavilion, with doubts in their eyes very clear - as the most powerful intelligence department of Wu Dynasty, your Qianji Pavilion actually got such important news wrong that Fu Xiaoguan was a martial artist and was at least a second-rate martial artist!
Lord Zhou is indeed old!
Lord Zhou is also innocent. Almost every detail of Fu Xiaoguan has been dug out clearly by the spies of Qianji Pavilion. This kid doesn't know any martial arts at all. Who would have thought that he would suddenly become so powerful after coming to Guanyun City!
How do you explain this?
The only explanation is that Fu Xiaoguan concealed his incompetence and pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger, so that all the spies he had planted in the Yu Dynasty were deceived by him. If this is true, it shows that Fu Xiaoguan is incredibly cunning, and secondly... of course it also shows that his Qianji Pavilion is ineffective.
He walked out, but before he could explain, Tang Zhuguo spoke again, "It's true that the Qianji Pavilion's intelligence was wrong, but my grandson said that Fu Xiaoguan used an extremely magical martial art to defeat him. He said that Fu Xiaoguan was indeed only third-rate, and it looked like he had just entered the third-rate level. However, his martial art, called Tai Chi, can use the opponent's force to counter the opponent's force. My grandson said that no matter how much internal energy he used, Fu Xiaoguan used Tai Chi to return it to him twice as much."
Emperor Wen suddenly asked, "Does this mean that Tang Qianjun was defeated by himself?"
"You can say that, but I've never heard of Tai Chi. I'd like to ask Lord Zhou to investigate it in detail."
At this moment, a heart-wrenching cry came from outside the Juhua Palace: "I want to enter the palace and file a complaint with the emperor! I want to sue Fu Xiaoguan, he has bullied my Wu Dynasty too much!"
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