Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 441 Attack (two in one)

"Ah, you are going to say this..." Gu Xun shook his head immediately after hearing this, "I know this, I have already seen her."

"It turns out that the Moon God Protector has also met you, my lord!" Gui Shanyan added.

Gu Xun immediately discovered the key point, "Yeah? Who else has she seen?"

"Well...according to what my spies know, the new Prime Minister, Guo Kai, should have met the Moon God Protector today. In addition, she should also have met other people, but it's hard to say whether it was just adults. ”

"Ha!" Gu Xun couldn't help but smile, "She still has some contact with Guo Kai? This is... interesting."

"How do you know? If the Moon Goddess intends to avoid you, given the strength of your men, I am afraid that they will not be able to follow her?"

"It was Guo Kai who revealed it to us." Guichou gave the answer. "He has a close cooperative relationship with our Luo Wen. This time he attacked Li Mu partly because of Luo Wen's encouragement."

"Yeah." Gu Xun nodded and didn't pay much attention. When Yue Shen met Guo Kai, he probably wanted to take advantage of this guy. After all, as Zhao Wangqian's favorite minister, he asked him to investigate the copper coins that were closely related to the royal family. Box is most suitable.

After using it, they will probably just pick it up and pay themselves.

So why did Guichou come here to tell him this information?
  "Sir, do you need us to keep an eye on the Yin Yang family's movements?" At this time, Guichou asked in a timely manner.

"Why do you say that the Yin Yang family is also considered a member of Da Qin? From what you say, it seems that you want to deal with them?" Gu Xun put a hand on the table and supported his head and asked with a smile.

"This... I don't know, sir. The Yin Yang Family and Luo Sheng have never dealt with each other very well. There have been minor frictions between the two sides before. As a national master, you happen to be more powerful than the protector Moon God. Your subordinates are also worried about each other. What bad thoughts will come out of you.”

"Luo Wang is at odds with the Yin Yang family? It's interesting, please elaborate." Gu Xun ignored the useless nonsense and asked what he was concerned about.

"My subordinates have a low status, and I don't know much about it. I only know that the Yin Yang family seems to have some disagreements with the top management of Luowang, and they have secretly fought for certain things and formed a dispute." In the end, Guichou is just a small intelligence agent, but he is not the best. People at the character level naturally don’t know much.

But after hearing this vague answer, I roughly knew what was going on.

Therefore, Luo Wang also collected things related to Canglong Qisu in the past. Given its strength, this is normal... I just don't know if it has harvested anything. If so, whose hands are its harvests now...

After quickly going over the information in his mind, Gu Xun raised his eyes and said to Guichou:

"You should try your best to keep an eye on the people of the Yin Yang family, but it is unlikely to gain anything. They have at least one protector and two elders, and there should not be many ordinary disciples."

"I obey," Guichou bowed and accepted the order before continuing, "Furthermore, Guo Kai also said that he will really take action against Li Mu soon."

"Hmm...how does he plan to attack Li Mu?" Gu Xun inquired.

Of course, Gu Xun was just asking temporarily and had no intention of interfering with Luo Wang's actions. This was a normal operation of the Qin-Zhao dispute. He should not and did not need to intervene forcefully as a national advisor.

Although he has intervened, Guo Kai, an important partner in Luowang, may not survive for long, but this is what Gu Xun did, not the Qin State's national adviser. He will not deliberately sabotage and interfere with Qin's plans, but he will not As for giving in to everything.

"He didn't say this clearly." Guichou shook his head, and then guessed, "But from the perspective of his subordinates, his first move must be to find a reason to impeach Li Mu and take the opportunity to weaken the other party's power."

"Li Mu doesn't have much power in Handan... He wants to reduce Li Mu's power in the North?"

"This is inevitable." Guichou nodded and affirmed, "For Guo Kai, what he has to do is to force Li Mu step by step. If he forces the other party to have to fight back, it will be done."

"As for Li Mu, he has to be patient. Facing Guo Kai's attack, he cannot make too big a move to fight back, otherwise he may completely offend Zhao Wangqian, and then everything will really be over. "

Even if Guo Kai is the Prime Minister and a favorite minister, it is unrealistic to deal with Li Mu, a famous general, in a short time. His actions on the surface are slow to bear fruit, and his small actions in the dark... he can't defeat a large number of martial arts masters who follow him. Li Mu.

Only by finding a way to make Zhao Wangqian determined to deal with Li Mu can this be done.

"Do you think Guo Kai has any hope of succeeding?" Gu Xun pondered for a while and then asked Guichou's opinion on this.

"Sir..." Guichou cupped his fists, thought for a moment and then replied, "In my opinion, Guo Kai's success rate should be high."

"Li Mu is completely passive at this time and is in a state of being beaten. It is even inconvenient for him to fight back. Even the Northland Military God with unrivaled military strategy will find it difficult to do anything."

"Coupled with the fact that Zhao Wangqian... can be called fatuous, Li Mu may not be able to escape this time."

"Heh, maybe." Gu Xun curled his lips and smiled, then let the matter go without further discussion.

"Hmm...are there any big moves by other forces in the city?"

"In this regard..." Guichou pondered for a moment, organized his words and then replied, "The people from the Armored Sect of Wei State are still hiding, so there should be nothing unusual."

"As for the Mo family, we have basically confirmed that their giant Six-fingered Black Man is already in Handan City, and there must be some hidden moves in the dark. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find out the other party's specific purpose."

"The farmer has transferred more ordinary disciples, probably to monitor your whereabouts, sir, but there are still no big shots here, so there is nothing to worry about."

"Are you sure that there are no other forces in Handan City at this time?" Gu Xun asked again.

"This...to be honest, I am not sure. The number of Jianghu people who have poured into Handan City during this period is huge, and their identities are difficult to determine. In addition...you also know that Luowang lost a large number of people not long ago, my subordinates. We have also lost a lot of capable men, and now our strength is not enough." Guichou half-knelt on the ground with fear in his voice, and answered and explained.

Gu Xun naturally had no interest in helping Luo Wang clean up the inside. It didn't matter to him whether Guichou was incompetent or not. If he had information, he would know more, and if he didn't, he would know less.

"Okay, what happened to the information I asked you to collect?" Gu Xun waved his hand, flipping over the article, and asked about what he had asked Guichou to do last time.

"My subordinates have already collected a lot of them and are still collecting them. Such classics and materials are rare and hard to find, so it is not easy to find them." When talking about this, Guichou breathed a sigh of relief and replied calmly, returning the money by the way. He expressed that this job was not easy to do and tried to highlight his own contribution.

"Sir, do you need me to give you the part I've collected now? I'll be looking for the rest slowly."

"Well, bring it over. I'll keep an eye on it first, and you can just keep looking." Gu Xun nodded, quite satisfied with this, and then added, "Remember, it's better to stay hidden." "This matter Don’t tell anyone, don’t leave any file records, just treat it as if it never existed, do you understand?”

"Well...if something goes wrong, there must be something wrong with you. You can imagine the consequences yourself."

"I understand, I understand!" Guichou quickly bowed his head and obeyed the order.

Gu Xun's instructions were actually a bit over the top. Logically speaking, Guichou should leave files and records for everything he did, but... he didn't dare to say no.

Although Gu Xun's words were light and airy, when they passed his ears, they carried a cold and cold killing intent, pure and awe-inspiring, which made Guichou, an old man who was used to seeing killing and death, couldn't help but tremble all over, and his heart be terrified.

He was so slick and worldly, and he was greedy for life and body, so he naturally didn't dare not agree.

Anyway, it was Gu Xun's order. He was a superior official, so I didn't dare to disobey him. If someone really found out in the future, they would have excuses... Guichou could only comfort himself in this way.

"Go." Seeing that he understood the situation, Gu Xun smiled with satisfaction, and then waved his hand to indicate that the other party could get out.

As for the issue of yin and yang, Gu Xun is not very worried. Anyway, he has said what he said. If he doesn't do it well and is discovered by himself, he will not be able to blame others.

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In the morning of the next day, Guo Kai really started to attack Li Mu and proposed impeachment. He mentioned many crimes, such as excessive military expenditure in the North, too much power of Li Mu's shogunate, and blind defense of the Wolf clan without any military achievements. Kind of nonsense.

Among them, the most serious one is the accusation that Li Mu provided too favorable conditions to the northern frontier army. Not only was the military salary extremely high, but all logistical materials such as military equipment and food were oversupplied, far exceeding the required amount. It was said that Li Mu was Buying off the morale of the military and plotting against evil.

In other words, Guo Kai said that Li Mu wanted to rebel.

Li Mu naturally responded point by point - favorable conditions are a must. The northern land is bitterly cold and often attacked by wolves. The life of a soldier is miserable. How can he die in service if he is not allowed to make huge profits? Moreover, I have never publicized in the army that these conditions were given by myself. They all say that they are gifts from the king, so how can I talk about buying the morale of the army?
  Therefore, it is inevitable that military expenditures will be too high.

As for the fact that his shogunate has too much power, this is also necessary. The northern border is far away from the capital, and the wolf clan often harasses and plunders. If everything waits for the central court to decide, how can we deal with the wolf clan?

In the end, Li Mu simply ignored the nonsense about military exploits.

During the reign of King Xiaocheng, a large group of courtiers took issue with this. Even King Xiaocheng was persuaded and abolished Li Mu for a period of time. Later, he found that it was not possible without Li Mu. The border was in a state of devastation due to the intrusion of the wolf tribe, so he had to do it again. go back.

Li Mu was worried that someone would say such things in the future, so... he made a plan to deliberately show weakness to the enemy, deceive the wolf clan into taking the initiative to attack, and take the opportunity to defeat the wolf clan, killing tens of thousands of people, and surrendered Lin Hu. The Donghu was crippled and the wolf clan's vitality was severely damaged. They did not dare to invade the border for many years.

Since then, no one dared to use this argument to cause trouble. Unexpectedly, Guo Kai brought it up again... You can't find a crime in your free time, right?
  A court dispute broke out, and naturally it was not only Guo Kai and Li Mu who suffered the consequences.

The courtiers who were attached to Guo Kai naturally attacked Li Muqun, holding on to trivial matters.

Although Li Mu did not form a party in the court for personal gain or recruit comrades, there were always some sensible people who knew his importance and were speaking for him, and some were simply targeting Guo Kai.

There were rumors in the market that the two sides in the court were so quarrelsome that they almost rolled up their sleeves and started fighting.

Of course, the content that people talk about after dinner is somewhat exaggerated.

All in all, in this court meeting, Zhao Wangqian did not punish Li Mu in the end, but he did not completely stop the impeachment actions of Guo Kai and others. He just suppressed it for the time being, and then... officially announced the impeachment of Gongzi Jia. punishment, and his placement.

As the prince of Zhao State, he was mourning the death of King Xiang. He could not claim the throne, but he also had to receive rewards. So Zhao Wangqian followed the advice of Guo Kai, the Prime Minister of the State, and arranged a minor official job for Prince Jia in Handan City. He also granted him a food fief of 300 households around Handan City.

The scale of this fiefdom... among all the people in Zhao State who have fiefdoms, there are almost none smaller than him. It should be said that it is very chilling.

However, because of Prince Jiashan's behavior in leaving the capital, Zhao Wangqian was willing to be lenient and not severely punish him. This was the limit. The Zhao clan could not say anything more about these rewards and had to accept them.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that although Zhao Wangqian has not yet shown his intention to attack Li Mu, his connivance with Guo Kai already means that Li Mu's situation is not good.

After the court meeting, these news quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Handan City, causing an uproar in both the government and the public.

Li Mu's popularity was so high that many people could not accept Guo Kai's slander and frame-up of him. For a while, people were talking about it and the sky was full of anger.

Although almost everyone is supporting Li Mu, but... this is not necessarily a good thing.

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boom!
  A muffled sound exploded in the room, and the tall and burly Qin Wuyang withdrew his fist from the table, then paced back and forth beside the table.

"Hmph!" He snorted coldly and said in an indignant voice, "This Guo Kai actually attacked General Li Mu. Doesn't he care about the safety of the Northland border!?"

On the other side, the six-fingered black man was still wearing a black and white cloak, sitting calmly at the top. Jing Ke was sitting opposite Qin Wuyang. Although his face was a little heavy, he was not as restless as the other person.

"Brother Wuyang, don't be so anxious. At the moment, Guo Kai is just casually framed General Li Mu. There is no evidence, and King Zhao has not punished General Li Mu."

"However, Zhao Wangqian is clearly condoning Guo Kai's behavior, and he will take action sooner or later. Now the whole city knows it!" Qin Wuyang responded with an anxious voice.

Jing Ke was actually quite smart, and he had figured this out, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it at the moment, so he could only look at the six-fingered black man who was looking up.

"Jing Ke is right, Wuyang, don't mess up your position." The six-fingered black man first comforted Qin Wuyang, and then continued to order, "Now, the first thing is, you quickly arrange for our disciples to quell the rumors in the city. Stop spreading rumors about General Li Mu.

"Why?" Qin Wuyang asked in confusion when he heard this, "This is not a message, it is a fact. General Li will be better off with the support of the people, right?"

"Do as you say." Jing Ke understood quickly and sighed softly, "Oh... this is not a good thing for General Li Mu. It is a life-threatening talisman!"

　I have become a third-level author. Hmm...it feels weird.
  　　
  　
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