God Weird Fairy

Chapter 383 0302.5 Watching from the Other Side

Back to the topic, after learning about the changes in the Ministry of Rites, Nan Yi speculated that this change might be a chain reaction caused by his killing of Kong Qian and Lin Du.

There is no doubt that Huagui Pavilion secretly facilitated the proposal of Emperor Li to select a concubine, and they must have had some plan for this, and they were definitely not just doing nothing.

However, at this critical juncture when the selection of concubines was still in progress, Nan Yi's killing of Kong Qian and Lin Du was equivalent to alerting the enemy, which was very likely to make Huagui Pavilion feel uneasy.

Nan Yi asked Su Guang to mobilize his connections and secretly pay attention to and investigate the selection of the imperial concubine.

Huagui Pavilion might not know about this, but they are not stupid. Even if they are not sure whether Nan Yi knows about the proposal of selecting a concubine, they will tend to be conservative and act cautiously.

Therefore, if Huagui Pavilion wants to cut off its tail, it would make sense for it to give up its plan for selecting a concubine and decisively stop losses and avoid risks.

However, if a candidate controlled or arranged by Huaguige suddenly wants to withdraw from the draft for no reason, it will definitely seem very abrupt.

Therefore, it is not impossible to kill Zhuang Chun, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites who was in charge of the selection of concubines, and thus withdraw from the selection in a natural way.

However, the Ministry of Rites itself was not willing to give up the selection of concubines.

Regardless of whether the nobleman who conspired with Huaguige was the Minister of Rites, it would not affect the Ministry of Rites' insistence on holding a beauty pageant to select a concubine.

Since the current Emperor Li ascended the throne, he not only has no children, but he doesn't even have concubines.

Now the Emperor Li finally gave in and agreed to the selection of a concubine. If he didn't seize the opportunity to make it a done deal, the Emperor Li might not want to choose a concubine next time.

Therefore, even if Huagui Pavilion gave up its plan on selecting a concubine, the Ministry of Rites would still insist on selecting a concubine.

This is Nan Yi’s analysis.

But Huagui Pavilion has been planning for many years. Can they just give up so easily?
It should be noted that, on the surface, Kong Qian only came to cause trouble for Nan Yi because of personal vengeance, but was killed in return.

According to common sense, Nan Yi actually had no idea that Huagui Pavilion had plans for Emperor Li's selection of a concubine.

In this case, even if Nan Yi killed Kong Qian and Lin Du, Huagui Pavilion would not have to stop and abandon the corresponding plan.

But between continuing to push forward the original plan and decisively abandoning years of planning, Huaguige almost without hesitation chose to cut losses and sacrifice the car to save the king.

This move was very decisive, but also too decisive, which made Nan Yi feel strange.

Or maybe Huagui Pavilion was very sure that their plan for the selection of concubines had been known to Nan Yi. In order to prevent being caught by Nan Yi and Su Guang, they did not hesitate to cut their losses and hide again.

Otherwise, Huagui Pavilion had other plans besides the imperial concubine selection. Because all the eggs were not put in one basket, Huagui Pavilion did not hesitate and decided to stop the imperial concubine selection plan and sacrifice the car to save the king.

Due to insufficient intelligence, Nan Yi still doesn’t know the exact situation.

Nan Yi was not even sure whether the Minister of Rites Sima Qianyuan was an accomplice of Huagui Pavilion.

Although he was wearing tinted glasses, he always felt that Sima Qianyuan's insistence on continuing the beauty pageant and selecting concubines was not pure in intention and he might have evil intentions.

But even if Nan Yi considered this kind of subjective conjecture without much evidence, he would not give it much emphasis.

In short, the current situation is that Nan Yi secretly asked Su Guang to pay attention to the investigation of Huagui Pavilion. As Huagui Pavilion abandoned the pawn to save the king, it is difficult to make further progress.

There is only one person left who is in the open. He can use himself as bait and come to Luofu Dan Pavilion in person to sell pills. He can also be used to test the attention paid by Huagui Pavilion to him.

This is like playing cards, the real attack and defense of the hidden cards, the end of the round, only one card is left for both sides to show their attitude, waiting to be revealed, just a formality. Nan Yi thought for a while, knowing that facing Huagui Pavilion, he was definitely not an opponent he could easily calculate, so he was not in a hurry.

He said to Su Guang, "Since Huagui Pavilion is hiding its intentions for the time being, we should remain unchanged in the face of all changes. We can just keep a simple watch and don't need to think about finding out anything specifically for the time being."

"No matter what, whether we are in the open or in the dark, we will not be the target of Huagui Pavilion's main calculations. They have been planning for many years, and they must be targeting Emperor Li and the court in the end."

"In this case, we don't need to rush. As long as we proceed step by step, even if we don't take any action, they will be the ones who will have concerns when we take action."

"So, relax and keep watching the show from the sidelines. Just be careful and make sure we can respond in time if something unexpected happens in the capital."

Nan Yi gave instructions.

Su Guang nodded and said, "That's true. In Mr. Huagui's big chess game, we may be variables, but we are not the opponents he planned from the beginning. There is no need to be too nervous."

She and Nan Yi had similar views and had no objections, so she changed the subject and said, "Since the Qigong martial arts won the title of traditional martial arts, the longevity Qi has spread throughout the capital in the past half month."

"There is even a doggerel saying: If you don't cultivate vitality in your life, you are unworthy of being a person living away from the capital."

Nan Yi nodded with a calm expression.

After Su Guang agreed to be a source warrior, she was responsible for spreading martial arts in the capital. This situation was already anticipated by Nan Yi.

After all, the favors that the noble families in Beijing owed Su Guang were not owed in vain.

Nan Yi was more concerned about Su Guang's other affairs.

"For the common people, the immortal qi has a hundred benefits and no harm, except for increasing their appetite. As long as we get the legal status and there is no obstacle to passing on martial arts, this situation is normal."

"Compared to the immortality qi, I am more concerned about your current situation."

Su Guang sighed, "Now that I have entered the Xuanhuang Daoist tradition, I am still getting familiar with the Xuanhuang magic power, and I am also polishing the Tianhua Qi. Whether it is passing on the martial arts Tianhua Qi or exploring the method of Zhenqi, it is still too early, so there is no rush."

"As for the Finance Department, because I gave up some of the right to speak on steam technology, many officials in the department were dissatisfied with me and were not very cooperative at work."

Nan Yi nodded: "The Tianhua Qi lineage has just been opened up and still needs to be polished and perfected. There is no need to rush. As for the Finance Department..."

Nan Yi paused for a moment, then continued, "When I have a clue about the follow-up, I will find some suitable ideas and give them to the Finance Department as compensation. But for now, I will have to inconvenience you to bear with me for a while."

Interest is the most widely used identifier.

Whether they are enemies or friends depends only on whether their interests conflict or coincide.

In order to resolve the joint resistance of the nine departments and hundreds of officials to the establishment of the Qigong martial arts project, Nan Yi had no choice but to sacrifice the interests of the Finance Department as a breakthrough point, to help Su Guang get rid of Lin Ye and forcefully suppress the dissent from the Finance Department.

But later on, in order to prevent the officials of the Ministry of Finance from feeling resentful, Nan Yi would definitely have to find a way to make some compensation.

For example, in the case of Su Guang, in order to make Su Guang more willing to agree to be a source warrior, Nan Yi even did not mind sending him the first draft of "Dream of Red Mansions" for Su Guang to polish and publish under his own name.

However, Nan Yi didn't have any good ideas for the time being as to how to compensate the Finance Department for its luck bonus, or legal interests, in gathering spirituality and collecting faith, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being.

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(End of this chapter)